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02 Dec 03:16

A Treacherous Global Pandemic Treaty. Resist Tyrannical WHO While You Can: A Final Project for 2022

by Helen Tindall

It is becoming beyond urgent to understand and resist one particular strand of all that is imminent. In fact, the move by world governments to sign up to the WHO global pandemic treaty is the principal mechanism, all outwardly very warm and fuzzy, by which our remaining freedoms could completely disappear.

Our country and many others will be completely beholden to WHO’s definitions of what constitutions a health emergency, and the dictates it compels against the people. The digital apparatus to enable a health passport easily integrates digital currency and financial controls, track and trace of cases etc. We have written on all this before. 

Mike Adams of Natural News interviews Francis Boyle, a recognised expert on pandemic treaties and bioweapons who has drafted much international legislation himself. Early in 2020 he was calling out Covid-19 as a bioweapon released from Wuhan Institute of Virology before anyone else, a view now generally accepted as being absolutely correct. 

Here is Mike’s article on the pandemic treaty, which contains the interview, which is also available separately here.

In the article Mike refers to James Roguski, who has laid out what the current pandemic treaty entails for the many countries tied to the WHO agenda – tied, as we now know to such illustrious ‘humanitarian’ organisations as the CCP, WEF, GAVI, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Penalty clauses for countries that refuse to enact overbearing controls on their citizens for the pandemic du jour, allow for UN troops to enter the country to enforce compliance. 

Don’t think it can happen here?  Why do we think we were taught history, then? As a warning of what some psychopathic people are capable of. What parts of the last 3 years did we ever imagine we would see in our lifetimes, here in ‘free’ New Zealand?

Forced experimentation on pregnant women and children; lockups; forced face coverings against all scientific evidence; business closures with fines for disobedience; travel restrictions; border controls; widespread deaths and injuries with resulting cover-ups and press silence; literal sabotage of our ability to refine our own oil; radical attacks on water, the health system, farming, and race relations. 

The move to firmly equate global health with the climate by bodies like WHO, WEF and UN is for one reason only – to justify further terrible impositions, that they hope we have gotten used to, on whatever freedoms we have left. All in the guise of saving the planet. But for whom is it being saved for?

Truly dark times are being planned. It is the only explanation for everything we are seeing. Complain to your MP and demand they pull us from the global “governance” structures that are only about power and control. Reassert your own. Join a freedom group, or sign up to NZRising.co.nz.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Then use the fear to do what is right.

Approach Your MP and Demand Withdrawal from the Pandemic Treaty

Complain to your MP and demand they pull us from the global “governance” structures that are only about one thing – power and control.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Then use the fear to do what is right.

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17 Aug 22:55

Challenging UN, Study Finds Sun—not CO2—May Be Behind Global Warming – New peer-reviewed paper finds systemic bias by UN to support climate narrative

by Admin
  https://www.theepochtimes.com/challenging-un-study-finds-sun-not-co2-may-be-behind-global-warming_3950089.html?utm_campaign=socialshare_twitter&utm_source=twitter.com By Alex Newman The sun and not human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) may be the main cause of warmer temperatures in recent decades, according to a new study with findings that sharply contradict the conclusions of the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The peer-reviewed paper, produced by a team of almost […]
07 Apr 22:53

Former Pfizer VP: Covid Vax could be massive depopulation tool

by tapnewswire.com
Image: Twitter America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) spoke to former Pfizer Vice President and Chief Science Officer Dr. Mike Yeadon about his views on the COVID-19 vaccine, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, the regulatory authorities, and more. At the outset, Dr. Yeadon said “I’m well aware of the global crimes against humanity being perpetrated against a large proportion of the worlds […]
03 Nov 22:02

They are Desperate to Steal the Election from Trump as Europe Goes 100% into the Great Reset

by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Dear Mr. Amstrong,

Even in The Netherlands, the agenda is out in the open. This article states that only another COVID-19 lockdown makes it possible to reach some of those 2020 climate goals. What a coincidence: a few days later they are telling us the partial lockdown is expanded and extended, probably for the rest of the year.

These politicians are puppets of Schwab, Gates and Soros. In the end they will kill more people then Hitler and Stalin did. At least those dictators of the past did it out in the open so everyone could see they are evil.

Kind regards

S

REPLY: They are extremely well funded. They have infiltrated everywhere in the West. Soros is forcing his open society which is really a one-world government, Gates is getting his climate change and population reduction by restricting the food supply, and Schwab is getting his new communist world order he has been pushing as stakeholder economics and the entire lot is being sold as the Great Reset.

Elected politicians are moving into the authoritarian mode, they will suspend elections killing democracy, we are the great unwashed, too stupid to understand what is best for us. Boris Johnson has implemented Guaranteed Basic Income for Britain. Everyone will get 80% of their wages and he has suspended all mortgage payments for 6 months. This is the end of banking, it is the end of capitalism, freedom, and the West has fully embraced Marxism.

Boris knows what he is doing. He is deliberately destroying small businesses because they employ 70% of the civil workforce. He is handing out welfare (Guaranteed Basic Income). suspending all debts which undermined the entire banking system. By sheer force, he is creating a communist revolution and the police are so stupid, they are carrying out his orders destroying their own family’s future.

In the United States, they are pulling out all the stops to ensure they steal this election from Trump. They caught a guy in Florida registering dead people for Biden. The same is taking place around the country.

I fear that the only outcome will be a Civil War at this point. While Trump should win, I deeply fear this election will be so corrupt that they will steal it from him to subjugate the United States as they are doing in Europe and then use the military might threatening China and Russia to comply with their new one-world government centered in the United Nations to comply with Climate Change demands. They are destroying everything for this Great Reset ending fossil fuels and controlling population growth.

17 Aug 20:36

Study: ‘No Change’ In Global Temperatures for 100 Years

by Kenneth Richard
In the early 1900s, the globally-averaged distribution of calculated surface temperature estimates ranged between 14°C (57.2F) and 15°C (59F). For 1991-2018, HadCRUT, Berkeley, and NASA GISS also estimate today’s global temperature is about 14.5°C (58.1°F). Scientists estimating Earth’s surface temperature has been an ongoing pursuit since the early 19th century. A new study (Kramm et […]
26 Jun 00:24

Runner hit by car during Last Annual Heart of the South road race

by Ben Snider-McGrath

Kim McCoy suffered multiple serious injuries after being struck by a car during the Alabama portion of the race

The post Runner hit by car during Last Annual Heart of the South road race appeared first on Canadian Running Magazine.

15 May 21:36

Jacinda Ardern Creates a Totalitarian Regime on the Back of a Cold Virus

by Guest Post

Barbara McKenzie
stovouno.org

“the most dangerous bill that’s ever been placed in Parliament“, 

Brian Tamaki, Destiny Church

“This Bill places unprecedented limits on rights and freedoms of association and movement” 

Nicola Willis, MP, speaking to the Bill.

“This is a great failure of our democratic process. The new legislation [..] will result in sweeping police powers unseen in this country for many years” 

 Paul Hunt, Chief Human Rights Commissioner

“We are witnessing a totalitarian takeover of the world in real time, yet there are some people who still think this is about a virus” 

Tony Heller@Tony__Heller

“This is a Bill that gives one person enormous power”

Simon O’Connor, MP, speaking to the Bill

“Congratulations New Zealand. We are officially a police state” 

Winston Smith@saltyreign

New Zealand will effectively be in a state of emergency for up to two Years

Under New Zealand law a state of emergency is something that must be reassessed week by week.  With the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 the government has created, in fact, if not in name, a state of emergency that will last at least three months, with provision to be extended a number of times, up to a maximum period of two years (the original Bill specified a default period of two years). Furthermore, Jacinda Ardern has already flagged that the country may return to the even more draconian restrictions of Level 3, entailing, for example, virtual house arrest for most of the population, if the number of cases (no matter how mild) rises again.

The original Bill specified a default period of two years unless a conscious decision was made to shorten it through an Order in Council: this was only altered after amendments from the National and Act Parties. Jacinda Ardern has already granted herself special powers with regard to immigration, to be in force for 12 months.

Jacinda Ardern has passed a bill that gives the government, the police and ‘authorised persons’ undreamed of powers to control the lives of New Zealand citizens, for up to two years.  All this is on the back of a disease that the New Zealand experience and a vast body of research show to be no different from any other seasonal virus, and milder than many.

“The purpose of the Act is to support a public health response to COVID-19”

There is nothing in the Act that indicates why such a response is necessary – it is taken as read.

Bypassing due process

The government had seven weeks to prepare its measures for ‘coming out of the lockdown’. However, it has continued the precedent it set with the gun legislation of choosing without justification to fast-track highly controversial legislation, with no select committee and no consultation with the public. Furthermore, no regulatory impact assessment has been carried out – the government has suspended regulatory impact assessments for all ‘COVID-19 responses’ by decree of Cabinet (not parliament) until 31 August 2020.

The Act  gives the government extraordinary powers

The government can now legally make orders that limit freedom of association and of movement, require quarantining, require intrusive testing – even though there is no known reliable test for Covid-19 – and make decisions based on that unreliable testing.

An order may be made by the Minister or Director-General of Health to require a person to:

(i) stay in any specified place or refrain from going to any specifiedplace:(ii) refrain from associating with specified persons:(iii) stay physically distant from any persons in any specified way:(iv) refrain from travelling to or from any specified area:(v) refrain from carrying out specified activities (for example, businessactivities involving close personal contact) or require specifiedactivities to be carried out only in any specified way or incompliance with specified measures:(vi) be isolated or quarantined in any specified place or in any specifiedway:

(vii) refrain from participating in gatherings of any specified kind, inany specified place, or in specified circumstances:(viii) report for medical examination or testing in any specified way orin any specified circumstances:(ix) provide, in specified circumstances or in any specified way, anyinformation necessary for the purpose of contact tracing: (Section 11)

These powers also can be applied to ‘different classes of persons’ (section 12). An example of this would be permanently quarantining all those over 70 years of age ‘until a vaccine is available’, as mooted in the UK.

The Act can be easily amended to impose mandatory vaccination – Jacinda Ardern and her advisers constantly refer to a vaccine as the only solution to the “COVID crisis”. Coronavirus vaccines have been described as both unnecessary and dangerous. The vaccine against the so-called swine flu of 2009, led to severe neurological damage and lawsuits in the millions. For this reason, Bill Gates, who sponsors the pandemic project and has extensive vaccine interests, is demanding indemnity for any Covid19 vaccine.

The Act gives the police, health officers and ‘authorised persons’ extraordinary powers, including powers of entry

‘State-sanctioned vigilantes’

“The Director-General may authorise a suitably qualified and trained person […] to carry out any functions and powers of an enforcement officer under this Act.”  In his speech to the Bill, Simon O’Connor MP referred to such authorised persons as “state-sanctioned vigilantes [..]. They will have the power, not only to watch and report on what you do, but to shut you down“.

Any enforcement officer can enter place or vehicle without a warrant, with the exception of private dwellings, if they have “reasonable grounds”

“An enforcement officer [ie a police officer, an employee of the health department, or any authorised person] may enter, without a warrant, any land, building, craft,vehicle, place, or thing if they have reasonable grounds to believe that a personis failing to comply with any aspect of a section 11 order.

Police officers, but not other enforcement officers, can make a forced entry into private dwellings without a warrant (section 20).

“(3) A constable may enter a private dwellinghouse without warrant only if they have reasonable grounds to believe that people have gathered there in contravention of a section 11 order and entry is necessary for the purpose of giving a direction under section 21.‘(4) A constable exercising a power of entry under this section may use reasonable force in order to effect entry into or onto the land, building, craft, vehicle, place, or thing if, following a request, a person present refuses entry or does not allow entry within a reasonable time.”

Power to give directions to stop or carry out activity

“An enforcement officer may direct a person to stop any activity that is contravening or likely to contravene the order or to take an action that ensures compliance with section 11”

(section 21)

Power to close roads and public places (section 22)

If a section 11 order provides, “a constable or an enforcement officer acting under the authority of the constable may totally or partially prohibit or restrict public access, with or without vehicles, to any road or public place in that area”.

‘Enforcement officers’ have the power to demand identifying information (section 23)

Non-compliance

Non-compliance renders the culprit liable to a fine or imprisonment, e.g.

“A person commits an offence if the person intentionally fails to comply with a section 11 order.(2) A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to—(a) imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months; or(b) a fine not exceeding $4,000.”

The government knows it’s a cold virus

Numerous eminent professors of virology, epidemiology, pulmonology etc have said from the beginning that this is just another seasonal virus; that the best strategy is to allow the healthy to develop natural immunity and protect the vulnerable – i.e. do what we’ve always done.  The response of Prof Alexander Kekulé, chair of Medical Microbiology and Virology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, is typical – “Infect the young and protect others at risk’”

Assessments of the virus have continued to downgrade its lethality over the months as more information has come to light. A new antibody study with Danish blood donors shows a very low COVID-19 lethality (IFR) of 0.08% for persons under 70 years of age: a  new antibody study from Iran also shows lethality of 0.08% to 0.12%.

The early conclusion that the virus attacks people who are both old and ill, and that children are immune still holds good – there has not been a single reported instance of a child under 10 transmitting the virus, even in contact tracing carried out by WHO.

The New Zealand government has made it very clear that it is aware of the true nature of COVID-19.  At the regular press briefings we are told (repeatedly):

Ashley Bloomfield (Director-General of Health) ‘As we have seen around the world, Covid-19 CAN be a deadly disease – particularly for older people, and those with underlying pre-existing health issues.’ (Bloomfield’s emphasis)

Jacinda Ardern (Prime Minister): ‘our older NZers, and those with underlying health issues, are BY FAR at the most risk.  It is critical that we all stay at home to give our older NZers as much protection as we possibly can.’ […] (Ardern’s emphasis)

Caroline McElnay (Director of Public Health): “As we have said previously, this can be a very serious disease, particularly for elderly people and also for those with underlying health conditions”.

So no more than a seasonal flu, which can be dangerous for those who are highly immune-compromised, who should be protected.

Considerable license is applied when it comes to determining whether a death is from COVID-19. This report given by Ashley Bloomfield at a ‘Daily COVID-19 media conference’ is typical (4:00 mins):

“Sadly today, I have another Covid-19 related [sic] death to report. […] The person who passed away […] had underlying health conditions and was considered a probable case of Covid-19 due to her clinical presentation and past exposure history, despite testing negative.”

The New Zealand experience of COVID-19 confirms the scientific assessment: the average age of the deceased is 80; all had serious underlying health issues; many had advanced Alzheimers. No caregiver has died from COVID-19, nor any international traveller. (International flights from Auckland, for example, are more than half of what they were a year ago – a traveller on an international Air New Zealand flight has reported that no social distancing is applied at all.)

The Hamburg experience has been similar to that of New Zealand: again, the average age is 80, and the deceased had multiple comorbidities. Klaus Püschel, head of forensic medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, and his team have been autopsying all the people who died in Hamburg in connection with the coronavirus. He has concluded that the hysteria over the coronavirus is ‘completely exaggerated’  as all fatalities he examined had serious previous illnesses which would have soon resulted in death with or without the virus.  There is no killer virus.

It has been known for months that the sensational reports of mass numbers of deaths overseas have been grossly exaggerated. Administrations in countries such as Italythe US, and the UK have had policies of declaring deaths to be COVID-19 in case of any doubt – sometimes on the flimsiest basis. Media reports have ignored local factors, such as Northern Italy’s high pollution rate (the highest in Europe), its problem with pulmonary disease, and its antibiotic resistance rate (again the highest in Europe) – data from the Italian authorities show that around 80% of the deceased were treated with antibiotics, indicating bacterial superinfections (the deaths would still be recorded as being due to coronavirus).

There is doubt whether anyone has died from COVID-19. Jacinda Ardern has declared what amounts to a two-year state of emergency for something she knows to be nothing more than a seasonal virus.

The World Health Organisation is now hinting that COVID-19 may not be eradicated, and that ‘countries may have to learn how to live with the virus even if a vaccine is developed’.   This will give Jacinda Ardern the justification, should she be re-elected, for continuing and further entrenching her totalitarian regime for as long as she remains in power.

See also:

Facts about Covid-19, which monitors and reports all new research and developments relating to the Covid19 project.

If You Want to Create a Totally False Panic About A Totally False Pandemic – Pick a Coronavirus

HR 6666: The Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act. Towards a Totalitarian State?

Faulty Coronavirus Kits Suspected as Goat and Fruit Test Positive in Tanzania

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02 Apr 20:26

UN Wants Global Power to Tax 10% for the Coronavirus

by Martin Armstrong

Anyone who thinks for one second that I am exaggerating by calling this a global coup does not know me very well. I do not buy into conspiracy theories. I rely upon qualified sources – not rumor or conjecture. I have WARNED that we are facing a leftist coup of major proportions. I have warned that this virus was not a real threat from the beginning. It was not a biological weapon spliced with aids or a leak. This has been an intentional misrepresentation. My sources suggest it existed in the previous flu season in China.

The United Nations, and their World Health Organization, is behind this coup as well. The death toll is far less than the annual flu (about 10%) but the press is so happy to support this Marxist agenda. The journalists who are following orders from their managing editors are sealing their own future and that of their families and children. They used this virus for there is no vaccine but there are plenty of independent sources saying the medicine to treat malaria have been working with no deaths in France and elsewhere.

The United Nations has now produced a 26-page report outlining an action plan to address the various socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 and the DESTRUCTION of the world economy that has been intentionally carried out by the left. The United Nations has been using Climate Change to try to create a one-world government order, but they have run into way too much resistance. Climate Change is now dead. They have moved on to something that allows them to threaten that people will die IMMEDIATELY unless they surrender all their freedoms. The agenda of the Climate Change was to seize industry and effectively nationalize them. They will do that now by virtually bankrupting them and the state will just take them over. This is the scheme that was even talked about in Germany to nationalize companies since they cannot bail them out.

 

This is the oldest trick in the book. The United Nations is seeking the power to IMPOSE a 10% global tax on everyone for what they are describing as a “global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations.” This is because they conspired to create one out of a hyped up virus. You would think this is at the level of the Black Death.

Everything we have ever believed were our human rights are no longer valid. The left was trying to shut down all gun sales. Trump called gun shops essential for protection in light of rising civil unrest. This is the left moving AGGRESSIVELY to force their failed agenda to the ultimate power grab. The pension system is collapsing. All the promises they have made since World War II are crumbling to dust. This is why they have been so intent upon getting rid of Trump and were fighting against BREXIT. They want no opposition. This is why I have tried to document everything and made this report only $9.95. This is our future on the line.

13 Oct 21:51

Michael Mann “Hockey Stick” Update: Now Definitively Established To Be Fraud

by Francis Menton
  The Michael Mann “Hockey Stick” is suddenly back in the news. It’s been so long since we have heard from it, do you even remember what it is? The “Hockey Stick” is the graph that took the world of climate science by storm back in 1998. That’s when Mann and co-authors Raymond Bradley and […]
11 Dec 03:57

Think socialism is a great idea? Read this

by Bill Federer
Ross Nixon

Warning about socialism.

socialism

Rasputin, described as “The Holy Devil,” moved to St. Petersburg in 1906 and began to gain access to the royal family of Tsar Nicholas II. Posing as a mystic, Rasputin was known for strange prophecies, claims of superstitious healing powers, and sexual excesses. As the Tsar and his family came under Rasputin’s spell, the monarch’s credibility suffered, his authority was undermined, and public distrust spread.

At this time, Tsar Nicholas escalated his father’s policy of restricting Jews and implementing a full anti-Jewish “pogrom” of cruel persecution. More then 2 millions Jews fled, many to the United States. It was a tragedy, which, in a way, spared them from future Russian tragedies.

World War I started in 1914. Fighting raged from Europe to the Middle East.

The Tsar sent three million Russian soldiers west to fight Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II. Unprepared to face German heavy artillery, over 78,000 Russians were killed or wounded and over 90,000 captured at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 26-30, 1914. Within a year, over 1.4 million Russian soldiers were killed and nearly a million captured.

Russian General Denikin described: “The German heavy artillery swept away whole lines of trenches, and their defenders with them. We hardly replied. There was nothing with which we could reply. Our regiments, although completely exhausted, were beating off one attack after another by bayonet. … Blood flowed unendingly, the ranks became thinner and thinner and thinner. The number of graves multiplied.”

Russia’s disillusionment with the Tsar grew. This, together with severe cold weather and food shortages, allowed Vladimir Lenin’s community organizers to agitate and fan unrest, leading to the Bolshevik Revolution – Red October of 1917.

Lenin distributed propaganda, incited class warfare, provoked strikes, staged bank robberies, attacked police and ordered assassinations. Embracing Karl Marx’s socialism, Lenin forced the Tsar from power, seized control of the government, then proceeded to arrest, imprison and execute tens of thousands of Russians in a Red Terror. Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed.

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Because there were relatively few revolutionaries, they used terror as a tactic to coerce people to hurriedly surrender their freedoms to a totalitarian government.

Lenin wrote: “It is necessary – secretly and urgently – to prepare the terror.”

To his revolutionaries in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Lenin ordered in a telegram: “to introduce mass terror.”

Lenin instructed on how to treat “kulak” farmers: “Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. … You must make example of these people. Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. Publish their names. Seize all their grain. Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday’s telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so. … Yours, Lenin. P.S. Find tougher people.”

The policy of “dekulakization” – the killing off of millions of independent “kulak” farmers – removed those who could challenge Lenin’s power. It also had the unanticipated consequence of devastating food production, resulting in the horrendous national famine of 1921-22, where an estimated 5 million died.

Bolsheviks replaced the Christian religion with a materialistic atheism. Church property was confiscated or destroyed. Free speech and free press were prohibited. Private property was abolished.

Centralizing power, Vladimir Lenin explained: “The goal of socialism is communism.”

In 1924, as Lenin lay dying, suffering from incessant headaches, Joseph Stalin usurped power, even circulating a fake photo doctored to have him sitting next to Lenin. Stalin then ruled as an absolute dictator of the Soviet Union.

Franklin Roosevelt told the American Youth Congress, Feb. 10, 1940: “The Soviet Union … is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.”

Stalin’s “Great Purge of 1936-38” executed an estimated 1.2 million Communist Party members, government officials, military leaders and peasants who were accused of being disloyal.

Simply a rumor of holding politically incorrect views or associating with “enemies of the people,” could result in someone losing their job, being arrested and executed, or being one of the 4.5 million sentenced to “gulag” labor camps.

One of those arrested was Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was born in Russia on Dec. 11, 1918. Solzhenitsyn was detained for writing a letter criticizing Joseph Stalin. He spent 11 years in “gulag” labor camps.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn began secretly compiling horror stories of life in the gulags. For several years of his imprisonment, 1947-52, he was denied pen and paper, so he composed and memorized chapters as poems. He put these accounts into his book “The First Circle,” 1968, and then “The Gulag Archipelago.”

An “archipelago” is a chain of islands in the ocean. Solzhenitsyn used this metaphor to describe a chain of FEMA-style citizen detention camps across Russia.

Similar camps were used in the U.S. as part of Democrat President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830, in which some 13,000 Cherokee were forced off their lands into camps before being marched to Oklahoma.

In 1942, Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 forcibly relocated an estimated 120,000 to Japanese internment camps.

FDR also drove thousands off their lands to establish the Great Smokey Mountain National Park in 1934, condemning and evicting entire communities, forcing them to abandon generational homes, farm buildings, mills, schools and churches.

Accounts of these federal evictions are in Wayne Caldwell’s “Requiem by Fire” (Random House, 2009) and memorialized in Carol Elizabeth Jones’s ballad, “Leaving Cataloochee.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s writings were smuggled out of the Soviet Union and translated. They quickly became internationally popular, leading him to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Solzhenitsyn wrote: “During all the years until 1961, not only was I convinced I should never see a single line of mine in print in my lifetime, but, also, I scarcely dared allow any of my close acquaintances to read anything I had written because I feared this would become known.”

International pressure led to Solzhenitsyn being expelled from Russia on Feb. 12, 1974.

Wanting to warn the naive youth of America of horrible realities of socialism, Alexander Solzhenitsyn stated in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975: “In pre-revolutionary Russia … there were attempts on the Tsar’s life. … During these years about 17 persons a year were executed. … The Cheka (Lenin’s Communist Secret Police) … in 1918 and 1919 … executed, without trial, more than a thousand persons a month! … At the height of Stalin’s terror in 1937-38 … more than 40,000 persons were shot per month! Here are the figures: 17 a year … 1,000 a month, more than 40,000 a month!”

Solzhenitsyn wrote in “The Gulag Archipelago” (1973): “A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”

Solzhenitsyn continued: “Roosevelt, in Tehran, during one of his toasts, said … ‘I do not doubt that the three of us’ (meaning Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin) ‘lead our peoples in accordance with their desires.’ … We were astonished. We thought, ‘when we reach Europe, we will meet the Americans, and we will tell them.'”

Solzhenitsyn continued: “I was among the troops that were marching towards the Elbe (River). … A little bit more and I would have … shaken the hands of your American soldiers. But just before that … I was taken off to prison and my meeting did not take place. … After a delay of 30 years, my Elbe is here today. I am here to tell you … what … we wanted to tell you then.”

Stalin used a tactic called “psychological projection” or blame-shifting, where a politician publicly accuses his opponents of what he himself is privately guilty of.

In “Communism – A History” (Random House, 2001) author Richard Pipes described how Stalin used a government fabricated crisis – which he blamed on his opponents – as an excuse for the government to seize more power: “Stalin’s regime needed another crisis … as Fidel Castro, the leader of Communist Cuba, would explain … ‘The revolution needs the enemy. .. The revolution needs for its development its antithesis.’ … And if enemies were lacking, they had to be fabricated. …”

Pipes continued: “In 1934, a prominent Bolshevik, Sergei Kirov, the party boss of Lenningrad, was assassinated under mysterious conditions … evidence points to Stalin. … Kirov was gaining too much popularity in party ranks for Stalin’s comfort. His assassination brought Stalin two advantages: it rid him of a potential rival and provided a rationale for instigating a vast campaign against alleged anti-Soviet conspirators. …”

Pipes concluded: “Purges of the 1930s were a terror campaign that in indiscriminate ferocity and number of victims had no parallel in world history. … Authorities … beat them until they confess to their crimes they have not committed.”

Solzhenitsyn warned Americans not to trust mainstream media, June 30, 1975: “There is a … Russian proverb: ‘The yes-man is your enemy, but your friend will argue with you.’ … I am the friend. … I have come to tell you. … One of your leading newspapers, after the end of Vietnam, had a full headline: ‘The Blessed Silence.’ I would not wish that kind of ‘blessed silence’ on my worst enemy. … I spent 11 years in the Archipelago (labor camps). …”

As to trusting government, Solzhenitsyn was quoted in the Observer, Dec. 29, 1974, as stating: “In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”

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Solzhenitsyn explained how government-run healthcare provided a cover for Stalin’s political opponents to be “diagnosed” with psychiatric problems and given compulsory “treatment”: “It is not detente (a lessening of tension) if we here … can spend our time agreeably while over there people are groaning and dying and in psychiatric hospitals. Doctors are making their evening rounds … injecting people with drugs which destroy their brain. … There are tens of thousands of political prisoners in our country … under compulsory psychiatric treatment.”

This is similar to the U.S. government’s 40-year-long Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where black men infected with syphilis were allowed to die, all the while being regularly examined by government health-care workers who documented how the disease progressed.

Solzhenitsyn went on: “You know the words from the Bible: ‘Build not on sand, but on rock.’ … Lenin’s teachings are that anyone is considered to be a fool who doesn’t take what’s lying in front of him. If you can take it, take it. If you can attack, attack. But if there’s a wall, then go back. … Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt and laugh at persons who continually give in to them. …”

This is similar to the Islamic concept of “hudna,” namely, when you are strong, attack; when you are weak, make treaties until you get strong enough to attack.

Solzhenitsyn concluded his speech in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975, with a warning about the “social justice” movement: “I … call upon America to be more careful with its trust. … Prevent those … who are attempting to establish even finer … legal shades of equality – because of their distorted outlook … short-sightedness and … self-interest – from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road. … They are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat – one that has never been seen before in the history of the world. … I call upon you: ordinary working men of America … do not let yourselves become weak.”

Solzhenitsyn stated: “If we don’t know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again.”

Solzhenitsyn wrote in “The Gulag Archipelago” (1973): “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

Solzhenitsyn stated n an interview with Joseph Pearce (St. Austin Review 2 no. 2, Feb. 2003): “Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.”

In 1983, Solzhenitsyn received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, stating: “We can only reach with determination for the warm hand of God, which we have so rashly and self-confidently pushed away.”

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27 Nov 21:51

Fault Line Wakes Up: New Zealand Could Be DESTROYED By Massive 9.0 Earthquake

by Mac Slavo

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A 2016 earthquake has awoken a fault line that was thought to be dormant. Now that it’s becoming active, fears have arisen that New Zealand could be destroyed by a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

The devastating Kaikura earthquake in 2016 has resurrected the Hikurangi subduction zone where two tectonic plates clash and one is pushed down. Geologists are now warning that this trench could cause a massive earthquake on the ocean floor, and could trigger other 9.0 magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis that will reach the western coast of the islands in just seven minutes.

The Australian plate is heading north while the Pacific plate is heading west, and the combination of these motions means that the Pacific plate, which includes much of the South Island, is moving relative to the Australian plate at a rate of about 40millimeterss each year in a southwesterly direction.

Ursula Cochran, from the science firm GNS, told The Marlborough Express: “We need to think Japan 2011 basically, because if our whole plate boundary ruptured it would be a magnitude-9 earthquake.” The Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunami smashed through the country’s north-eastern coast killing almost 16,000 people and destroying the lives of thousands more. It also triggered a major ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

“One of the biggest hazards of that kind of earthquake is the tsunami that is triggered by a fault rupture offshore.,” Cochran added. “We know from tsunami modeling from a hypothetical earthquake from the Hikurangi subduction zone that the travel times could be very short to the coast, so seven minutes for some of the south Wairarapa coast.”

One year after it struck, scientists are also warning that the Kaikoura quake was not the “big one” for the Hikurangi subduction zone. The quake on the Hikurangi subduction zone was devastating. The magnitude 7.8 that destroyed houses, lifted the Kaikoura seabed by 2m, tore apart farmland, and wrecked kilometers of State Highway 1, may be minor compared to what could come, Cochran said.

“One thing about reflecting on from the Kaikoura earthquake is we don’t want people to think this is the big one.” An international team hopes to drill boreholes into the subduction zone and place monitoring equipment there to act as an early warning system.

30 Oct 00:54

Why The Anti-Trump “Resistance” Is So Relentless

by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Lloyd Marcus

I revisited election night videos on youtube of Leftists’ tearful meltdowns in response to Trump defeating Hillary. http://bit.ly/2xo0l5f Their panic, outrage and hatred for Trump was over-the-top; truly amazing. I questioned, why was it so intense?

I am a black Christian conservative. Trump is not ideological. Still, I thought Trump leaned more in Leftists’ camp than in mine. I viewed Trump as a businessman, busy pursuing his American dream, not concerned with the war between liberals and conservatives. Trump simply saw Obama making bad deals for America and knew he could do better. Trump was not overly concerned with social issues, but knew it was weird that Americans were no longer permitted to say, “Merry Christmas!” http://bit.ly/2kMeuqT So Trump decided to get into the presidential race. Political elites and fake news media thought the idea of Donald J. Trump in the White House was the joke of the century.

And where on earth did Trump come up with his cornball, obviously un-poll tested, campaign phrase, “Make America great again”? Due to public schools teaching distortions and lies about American history, Leftists are obsessed with bringing down our country from her throne as the world power. http://bit.ly/1UnBVz3 This is why Trump proclaiming his desire to “make America great again” repulsed and enraged Leftists. Leftists have flooded fake news media with their absurd despicable lie that “make America great again” is code for white supremacy, social injustice, cops free to murder blacks, destroying the planet and so on.

Dethroning America is Leftists’ number one priority. The second most important thing in the world to Leftists appears to be sex and transforming America into a culture in which anything goes sexually. Leftists have been using government to force sexual deviancy down our throats. You cannot turn on TV without being slapped in the face with various forms of sexual deviancy. We have been trained not to complain about it if we know what is good for us.

Third on Leftists’ list of priorities is having as many Americans as possible kill their babies to save the planet. http://ind.pn/2sQCed0

Obama championed Leftists’ sexual transformation of America. Under Obama, some states made homosexual conversion therapy illegal. Pedophilia is deemed a sexual orientation, thereby making therapy to cure it illegal. Ponder that, folks. Leftists are making it illegal for a therapist to attempt to cure their patient of being sexually attracted to children. http://ind.pn/1MT1VC3

Guys who wake up feeling like a woman are legally permitted to use women restrooms. Anyone who objects to this insanity is gang assaulted by Leftists, branded a hater. Recently, a man dressed as a woman was sentenced to 70 years in jail for molesting a 10 year old girl in a restroom. http://fxn.ws/2yAlAUc During Obama’s reign, elementary public school teachers were ordered to no longer address students as boys and girls because gender distinctions are bigoted and insensitive to transgenders. http://fxn.ws/2aSCFyy

Obama lit the White House in rainbow colored lights in celebration of government forced dismantling of marriage. http://bit.ly/2gGUZLF This opened the flood gates for whatever conceivable arrangement to be legally deemed marriage. Fathers are marrying their daughters; people are marrying animals, marrying themselves http://bit.ly/2ySqlqO and marrying inanimate objects. Welcome to Leftists’ new politically protected wild wild west of American sexuality.

Celebrating in the streets, Leftists knew their sexual transformation of America was on a roll making tremendous headway. Polls said Hillary would win in a landslide. Leftists gleefully anticipated Hillary continuing to implement their no-sexual-holds-barred America.

To Leftists’ shock and horror, Trump won!

Upon Trump winning the election, Leftists immediately launched their narrative (lie) that Trump is Hitler reborn? Is Leftists’ insane rage over Americans awarding Trump the key to the Oval Office mostly about sex? Absolutely.

I believe at the core of Leftists’ sexual idolatry is a spirit of anti-Christ. In a nutshell, Leftists hate Jesus for proclaiming himself the only way to heaven. This is why Obama led Leftists’ war on Christianity. http://bit.ly/2plTsy0

Now before you call me paranoid for claiming Leftists have a gerbil up their derrieres against Christians, please answer this question. Leftists are obsessed with promoting homosexuality. So why are Leftists such passionate defenders of Islam which calls for executing homosexuals? Christians tell homosexuals that they love them, but cannot approve of their lifestyle. Isn’t it logical that Leftists would demonize Muslims rather than Christians?

Another thing that has me scratching my head is Leftist women like Kim Kardashian, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna who defend Islam while trashing Christianity. Muslims suppress women; rapes, beatings and executions for disobedience. http://nyp.st/2q3Dt7s

Leftist female celebs who praise Islam could not be who they are, flashing their derrieres all over the place, if Sharia became the law of the land in America. And yet, these Hollywood and media women love Islam and hate Christians.

Trump’s vow to restore religious liberty has Leftists petrified that he will put the brakes on and roll back their government forced sexual transformation of America. In essence, Leftists have put a political contract on Trump’s head. He must be stopped at any and all cost.

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Author: “Confessions of a Black Conservative: How the Left has shattered the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black America.”
Singer/Songwriter and Conservative Activist
http://LloydMarcus.com

16 Jul 20:39

Haiti Official Who Exposed The Clinton Foundation Is Found Dead

by Mac Slavo

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The mainstream media’s silence over Klaus Eberwein’s death is deafening. Eberwein was a former Haitian government official who was expected to expose the extent of Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice next week. He has been found dead in Miami at the age of 50.

The circumstances surrounding Eberwein’s death are also nothing less than unpalatable. According to Miami-Dade’s medical examiner records supervisor, the official cause of death is “gunshot to the head.“ Eberwein’s death has been registered as “suicide” by the government. But not long before his death, he acknowledged that his life was in danger because he was outspoken on the criminal activities of the Clinton Foundation. 

Eberwein was a fierce critic of the Clinton Foundation’s activities in the Caribbean island, where he served as director general of the government’s economic development agency, Fonds d’assistance économique et social, for three years. “The Clinton Foundation, they are criminals, they are thieves, they are liars, they are a disgrace,Eberwein said at a protest outside the Clinton Foundation headquarters in Manhattan last year. Eberwein was due to appear on Tuesday before the Haitian Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission where he was widely expected to testify that the Clinton Foundation misappropriated Haiti earthquake donations from international donors. But this “suicide” gets even more disturbing…

Eberwein was only 50-years-old and reportedly told acquaintances he feared for his life because of his fierce criticism of the Clinton Foundation.  His close friends and business partners were taken aback by the idea he may have committed suicide. “It’s really shocking,” said friend Gilbert Bailly. “We grew up together; he was like family.”

During and after his government tenure, Eberwein faced allegations of fraud and corruption on how the agency he headed administered funds. Among the issues was FAES’ oversight of the shoddy construction of several schools built after Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake.  But, according to Eberwein, it was the Clinton Foundation who was deeply in the wrong – and he intended to testify and prove it on Tuesday.

According to Eberwein, a paltry 0.6 percent of donations granted by international donors to the Clinton Foundation with the express purpose of directly assisting Haitians actually ended up in the hands of Haitian organizations. A further 9.6 percent ended up with the Haitian government. The remaining 89.8 percent – or $5.4 billion – was funneled to non-Haitian organizations. –WND

Eberwein was expected to testify against the Clinton Foundation in court and ends up committing suicide shortly before.  Where have we heard this before?  Untimely deaths seem to follow the Clinton’s around, and this one especially is probably something – considering since the mainstream media is silent about this death.

11 Jul 00:28

Watch: Clueless Anti-Trump Protesters Applaud Speech That Consists Of Nothing But Hitler Quotes

by Daniel Lang

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Everyone in the so called “resistance” movement against Donald Trump thinks that they’re fighting a rising tide of fascism in America. What they don’t realize however, is that they are the biggest authoritarians of all. They’re the ones who love big government, and have a habit of shutting down everyone they disagree with. They’re the ones who have been responsible for the most political violence over the past year. Inside their social echo chambers it’s easy for them to view themselves as heroes, but it’s obvious to everyone else that the far-left is the most tyrannical force in America today.

In fact, Leftists are so unaware of how authoritarian they are that they’ll applaud the words of history’s most famous dictator, because his rhetoric is shockingly similar to theirs. We know this, because last week a Trump supporter managed to infiltrate a leftist protest in Chicago, where he was given an opportunity to speak to the crowd. He proceeded to read off several quotes from Adolph Hitler that were derived from his speeches and Mein Kampf. All he did, was replace words like “jews” or “bankers” with “Donald Trump,” among other words that made the quotes relevant to modern ears.

At the end of the speech the crowd applauded him, and one of the organizers was so impressed that he tried to recruit the Trump supporter.

Of course, you probably couldn’t expect them to recognize these Hitler quotes. Despite how famous and hated Hitler is, very few people in America are actually familiar with his speeches. What’s most alarming and humorous about this incident, isn’t that these leftists had no idea that they were listening to Hitler quotes. It’s that they agreed with the content of these quotes, and thought they were profound. It just goes to show that modern socialists aren’t that different from the socialists of the 20th century, which includes both Communists and Nazis.

16 May 20:08

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01 Apr 20:33

Windscribe voucher: free VPN with 50GB traffic included

by Martin Brinkmann
Ross Nixon

Looks great!

The VPN service Windscribe runs a promotion right now that bumps the monthly bandwidth of free users from 10 Gigabytes to 50 Gigabytes.

Windscribe offers a free (called limited) and paid accounts. The main differences between free and paid accounts are the following ones:

  • Free account has a traffic limit. Default is 10 Gigabytes per month, but you get 50 Gigabytes instead with the voucher.
  • The free account may be used on only once device (at a time).
  • Servers in eight countries are available for selection to free users, paying customers get servers in more than 45 countries.
  • Pro accounts get faster upper speed limits (free up to 100 Mbps, pro up to 480Mbps)
  • The Linux client and Android client is only available for paying customers.

As far as other features are concerned, they are identical between free and paid accounts. The service has a strict no logging policy -- including VPN usage, connection logs, IP addresses -- and session data is discarded three minutes after termination of the session.

The service supports P2P traffic, offers ad-blocking functionality built-in to its clients, and a firewall on top of that. The free version does not offer OpenVPN configurations on the other hand.

Windscribe offers clients for Windows and Mac (also Linux for paying customers), for the Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers, an iOS app (Android only for Pro customers), and configuration tutorials for routers.

Grab your 50 Gigabyte free Windscribe account

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To sign up for a 50 Gigabyte free account on Windscribe, do the following:

  1. Visit the main website of the service here: https://windscribe.com/
  2. Click on the "sign up" link in the top right corner of the page.
  3. Select the "use for free" option on the next page.
  4. Fill out your desired username and password. Email is optional, but you will only get 2GB per month if you don't add one.
  5. Click on "have a voucher" on the sign up page.
  6. Add the voucher 50GBFREE.
  7. Complete the sign-up process

The new account has five times the regular bandwidth limit of 10 Gigabytes per month now if things worked well.

Next step is to download one of the available clients to start using the service, or configure your router if it supports it.

Windscribe's offer is excellent, especially with the bump to 50 Gigabytes of traffic. That should be sufficient for all but the most demanding web applications such as video streaming or heavy P2P usage.

Since it is free, it is excellent as a backup VPN even if you use a VPN service already.

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07 Feb 19:31

Fukushima Radiation “Spikes To Unimaginable Levels” As Continued Leak Decimates Food Chain

by Contributing Author
Ross Nixon

Terrible and extremely dangerous for the future.

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This article was written by Michael Snyder and originally published at his End of the American Dream blog.

Editor’s Comment: The gift that keeps on giving. An endless ocean of radioactive water, spilling into the Pacific Ocean at an astounding rate, every single day. The effects of this nuclear waste, particularly in the form of cesium 137 and strontium 90, are epidemic – they are being hidden by a refusal to report on the disaster, and by the diffuse global web of biology. 

Though consumers of news, or groceries, don’t see it happening, these radioactive materials are curbing population numbers, and contamination is bio-accumulating up the food chain. A cow in California, for instance, may have only been exposed to a very minute amount of this radiation, but likely ate from an entire field of contaminated grass, and every tiny bit adds up. For humans, eating from many sources at the top of the food chain, this accumulates into greater exposure than direct measurements can account for.

There is no end in sight, and no one who has yet managed to grab back the public’s attention and get across how important this issue continues to be.

Northern Hemisphere Potentially In Great Danger As Fukushima Radiation Spikes To ‘Unimaginable’ Levels

by Michael Snyder

Radiation inside one of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power facility has reached an “unimaginable” level according to experts. Because so much nuclear material from Fukushima escaped into the Pacific Ocean, there are many scientists that believe that it was the worst environmental disaster in human history, but most people in the general population seem to think that since the mainstream media really doesn’t talk about it anymore that everything must be under control. Unfortunately, that is not true at all. In fact, PBS reported just last year that “it is incorrect to say that Fukushima is under control when levels of radioactivity in the ocean indicate ongoing leaks“. And now we have just learned that the radiation level inside reactor 2 is so high that no human could possibly survive being exposed to it.

According to the Japan Times, the level of radiation inside the containment vessel of reactor 2 is now estimated to be “530 sieverts per hour”…

The radiation level in the containment vessel of reactor 2 at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant has reached a maximum of 530 sieverts per hour, the highest since the triple core meltdown in March 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. said.

Tepco said on Thursday that the blazing radiation reading was taken near the entrance to the space just below the pressure vessel, which contains the reactor core.

The high figure indicates that some of the melted fuel that escaped the pressure vessel is nearby.

It is hard to find the words to convey how serious this is.

If you were exposed to a radiation level of just 10 sieverts per hour, that would mean almost certain death. So 530 sieverts per hour is simply off the charts. According to the Guardian, this recent measurement is being described by scientists as “unimaginable”…

The recent reading, described by some experts as “unimaginable”, is far higher than the previous record of 73 sieverts an hour in that part of the reactor.

A single dose of one sievert is enough to cause radiation sickness and nausea; 5 sieverts would kill half those exposed to it within a month, and a single dose of 10 sieverts would prove fatal within weeks.

And the really bad news is that there appears to be a 2 meter hole that was created by melted nuclear fuel “in the metal grating under the pressure vessel in the reactor’s primary containment vessel”. The following comes from Bloomberg

New photographs show what may be melted nuclear fuel sitting under one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima reactors, a potential milestone in the search and retrieval of the fuel almost six years after it was lost in one of the worst atomic disasters in history.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc., Japan’s biggest utility, released images on Monday showing a grate under the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 2 reactor covered in black residue. The company, better known as Tepco, may send in a scorpion-like robot as soon as February to determine the temperature and radioactivity of the residue.

If that isn’t frightening enough, one Japanese news source is reporting that this melted nuclear fuel “has since come in contact with underground water flowing from the mountain side”…

The melted fuel has since come in contact with underground water flowing from the mountain side, generating radioactively contaminated water every day. In order to dismantle the reactor, it is necessary to take out the melted fuel, but high radiation levels inside the reactor had hampered work to locate the melted debris.

If this disaster was just limited to Japan, the entire northern hemisphere would not be at risk.

But that is not the case.

Most of the nuclear contamination from Fukushima ended up in the Pacific Ocean, and from there it was literally taken around the rest of the planet. The following was reported by PBS

More than 80 percent of the radioactivity from the damaged reactors ended up in the Pacific — far more than reached the ocean from Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. Of this, a small fraction is currently on the seafloor — the rest was swept up by the Kuroshio current, a western Pacific version of the Gulf Stream, and carried out to sea where it mixed with (and was diluted by) the vast volume of the North Pacific.

We don’t know if there is a connection, but it is extremely interesting to note that fisheries up and down the west coast of the United States are failing because of a dramatic decrease in fish populations. Just check out the following excerpt from a story that was posted on January 18th

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today determined there are commercial fishery failures for nine salmon and crab fisheries in Alaska, California and Washington.

In recent years, each of these fisheries experienced sudden and unexpected large decreases in fish stock biomass or loss of access due to unusual ocean and climate conditions. This decision enables fishing communities to seek disaster relief assistance from Congress.

Things are particularly bad up in Alaska, and biologists are “stumped” as to why this could be happening…

In 2016, the pink salmon harvests in Kodiak, Prince William Sounds, Chignik and lower Cook Inlet came in woefully under forecast and stumped biologists as to why.

The estimated value of Kodiak’s 2016 haul was $2.21 million, compared to a five-year average of $14.64 million, and in Prince William Sound the ex-vessel value was $6.6 million, far less that the $44 million five-year average. The total state harvest was the smallest since the late 1970s.

Although state biologists weren’t ready to declare a cause for the poor pink salmon performance, the Commerce Department press release attributed the disasters to “unusual ocean and climate conditions.”

Further south, it was being reported last month that millions of dead sardines are washing up on the shores of Chile.

I could go on and on with a lot more examples like this, but hopefully you get the point.

Something really strange is happening in the Pacific, and a lot of people believe that there is a link to Fukushima.

Not too long ago, I wrote about how the elite of Silicon Valley are “feverishly prepping“, but the truth is that all of us should be. If you need some tips on how to get started, you can find my prepping book right here. Our planet is becoming increasingly unstable, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster is just one piece of the puzzle.

But it is definitely a very important piece. The nuclear material from Fukushima is continuously entering the food chain, and once that nuclear material gets into our bodies it will slowly irradiate our organs for years to come. The following is an excerpt from an absolutely outstanding opinion piece by Helen Caldicott that was published in the Guardian

Internal radiation, on the other hand, emanates from radioactive elements which enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption. Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and other isotopes currently being released in the sea and air around Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains (for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans). After they enter the body, these elements – called internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, where they continuously irradiate small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years, can induce uncontrolled cell replication – that is, cancer. Further, many of the nuclides remain radioactive in the environment for generations, and ultimately will cause increased incidences of cancer and genetic diseases over time.

Are you starting to understand the gravity of the situation?

Sadly, this crisis is going to be with us for a very, very long time.

According to Bloomberg, they are not even going to start removing melted nuclear fuel from these reactors until 2021, and it is being projected that the overall cleanup “may take as long as 40 years”…

Decommissioning the reactors will cost 8 trillion yen ($70.4 billion), according to an estimate in December from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Removing the fuel is one of the most important steps in a cleanup that may take as long as 40 years.

The unprecedented nature of the Fukushima disaster means that Tepco is pinning its efforts on technology not yet invented to get the melted fuel out of the reactors.

The company aims to decide on a fuel removal procedure for the first reactor during the fiscal year ending March 2019, and to begin removing fuel in 2021.

A lot of people that end up dying as a result of this crisis may never even know that it was Fukushima that caused their deaths.

Personally, I am convinced that this is the greatest environmental crisis that humanity has ever experienced, and if the latest reading from reactor 2 is any indication, things just took a very serious turn for the worse.

This article was written by Michael Snyder and originally published at his End of the American Dream blog.

03 Feb 20:07

pCloud Drive vs. Dropbox Smart Sync

by Vanina Ivanova

Dropbox finally launched Smart Sync, its desktop app functionality for accessing files stored in the cloud. We were not impressed and compared it with pCloud Drive.

A few months ago Dropbox announced its Project Infinite and we thought, “Meh”. For those of you who didn’t follow that topic, Project Infinite was going to be a “revolutionary” functionality that would let you keep your files in the cloud but access them on your computer as if they were stored locally.

Sounds familiar? It should, as this is exactly what pCloud Drive does – and has been doing for three years already.

A few months later, Dropbox did indeed unveil this new functionality, but in the process, they decided to change its name from Project Infinite to Smart Sync. We took a look at it and decided to compare it to the good old pCloud Drive you know and love.

pCloud Drive vs. Dropbox Smart Sync | The pCloud Blog

Availability: pCloud Drive is for everyone, Dropbox Smart Sync – for business clients only

Dropbox’s Smart Sync is available to Business clients only. Free users can’t take advantage of this functionality; neither can paying individual users. The only way to benefit from this functionality is to be a member of a Dropbox Business team.

pCloud Drive, on the other hand, is available to all of our users – Free, Premium or Business plan users. Anyone who signs up with us, can simply download our desktop app and extend the hard disk on their computer by the amount of space they have in their pCloud account according to their plan. Free users have 20 GB, Premium plans come with 500 GB, Premium Plus – 2 TB and Business users – 1 TB for every user in the Business account.

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Pricing: pCloud Drive starting at $0.00, Dropbox Smart Sync – at $50/month

Technically, users don’t pay for pCloud Drive or for Dropbox Smart Sync on their own. However, you can’t use Smart Sync unless you are a paid subscriber so we figured it’s worth looking into this here.

As we said, pCloud Drive is available for both free users and for people with paid subscriptions.

Dropbox’s business plans at $10 per user per month with a minimum requirement for 5 users. In other words, to use Smart Sync, you need to pay at least $50/month.

Even if you decide you are willing to pay for the service, it’s better to go with pCloud. Here is why.

The cheapest possible Dropbox Business plan will cost you a minimum of $50 a month and with it, you get 2 TB of storage space for the entire account (all 5 users). If you opt in for a pCloud Business account, you’d still be paying $49.95/month for 5 users but you’ll be getting 5 TB of space instead.

If you only need 2 TB, and you don’t have a team, you can get a pCloud Premium Plus plan instead and it will cost you $7.99/month with an annual subscription instead of the 50 bucks that Dropbox will charge you for the same storage.

Storage space management: pCloud with an edge over Dropbox

pCloud Drive doesn’t take up any space on your local hard disk. Period. Nothing more to add here.

In theory, Dropbox Smart Sync should deliver the same service, only we’re not so sure. Take a look at their promotional materials:

pCloud Drive vs. Dropbox Smart Sync | The pCloud BlogpCloud Drive vs. Dropbox Smart Sync | The pCloud Blog(Highlighting by us)

We don’t know about you, but we think that files that don’t take any space on your computer trump “practically no space” and “very little space” are a much, much better idea.

Plus, Dropbox’s statements are quite vague and don’t really indicate how much space you would need to spare on your local HDD. We actually got in touch with one of their representatives but unfortunately, they couldn’t say either.

Here’s the thing, though. The Smart Sync help section reads that when you double click a file that has been marked for keeping in the cloud only, the file gets automatically downloaded locally – so we’re guessing that the space you need to have on your computer hard drive should match the size of the file you’re opening. This probably wouldn’t be an issue if we’re talking about a smaller file – a JPG, PDF or text file example. But as you know, we often wor with larger files…

File use: Dropbox downloads locally, pCloud keeps it in the cloud

File use in pCloud Drive is pretty straight-forward. You open the file with any program or application you want, you work on the file, you save your changes and close it. The file never leaves the cloud unless you specifically download/sync it. A temporary cache is created when you add files to our desktop app, however, it doesn’t stop the process – it just delays it slightly.

Using your online-only files in Dropbox is more complicated. As we said in the previous paragraph, double clicking on a file that’s kept online only in a Dropbox account downloads the file. This is inconvenient for 2 reasons.

First off, you would need to mark the file for cloud use only again when you finish working on it. This is annoying and takes up time you could spend on something useful like – we don’t know – working?

Then, imagine you’re a motion graphics designer or a video producer who needs to access and use a very large file – but you don’t have much space on your local disk (after all, this is why you decided to give the service a try). It can’t be downloaded because you don’t have enough space. This puts you in a situation of the Catch 22 variety. It also cancels the idea of Smart Sync altogether…

Speed: pCloud Drive is up to 6 times faster than Dropbox

The download and upload speed makes a real difference when working with files that are kept in the cloud only, as it determines how quickly you access the file and save its changes.

We won’t go into too much detail here as we have previously compared the speed at which files are uploaded and downloaded to pCloud and to Dropbox, watch the two video comparisons here:

Download speed test: pCloud vs. Dropbox

Upload speed test: pCloud vs. Dropbox

Encryption: pCloud Crypto vs. nothing

Last but not least, we want to take a look at that extra layer of security you have with pCloud Drive. We’re talking about pCloud Crypto. You can add this service to your plan at any time and take advantage of the highest possible level of online protection. The client-side encryption of the service has been tested before and remains unbreakable to this day.

Dropbox doesn’t really offer any similar service so you would need to keep your important, security-sensitive and confidential files in together with the pictures of your cat, for example. We’re not saying that the picture of your cat are not important, but having these hacked and leaked on the internet wouldn’t really make the news.

Conclusion

Dropbox took their sweet time coming up with Smart Sync but it seems the service needs some tweaking still. If you are shopping for a real virtual hard drive and a way to expand the memory of your computer, sign up for pCloud and download our desktop app. You won’t be sorry.

Install pCloud Drive

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25 Jan 00:06

How To Predict The Behavior Of Globalists: “You Have To Go To Some Ugly Places In Your Own Mind”

by Contributing Author

This article was originally published by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market and first appeared at Personal Liberty.

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In my last article, ‘How Globalists Predict Your Behavior’, I outlined the primary method globalists use to measure public consent, or, public dissent. The use of macro-analytics and the hyper-monitoring of web traffic is a powerful tool at the disposal of the establishment for gauging shifts in public consciousness in real time.

For example, in early 2016 the elites were entirely aware of the rise of conservative and sovereignty movements in the U.S. and Europe. In fact, the dangers of growing “populism” were all that elitists and their publications talked about for the first six months of the year. At first, this notion seemed a little odd to me. Generally, when globalists are attempting to manage public opinion, they are careful not to reveal the slightest hint that conservative movements exist beyond an “extremist fringe”. They certainly never suggest that there is a massive undercurrent of nationalism ready to topple the globalist structure.

In fact, whenever such movements do arise the establishment is swift to obstruct them or co-opt them. I witnessed this first hand during the Ron Paul campaign in 2008 and 2012 – the mainstream deliberately refused to acknowledge Ron Paul’s existence, because attacking him repeatedly would have been a zero sum strategy that would have given him greater public attention and free publicity.

I saw it during the Neo-con co-option of the Tea Party, a movement that I was involved in long before Fox News latched onto it and long before mainstream RINO Republicans not only jumped on the bandwagon but hijacked the horse. In a matter of months the Tea Party became a defunct entity, a shell of its former self. Luckily, most liberty activists simply left it behind and started their own separate groups and projects rather than being absorbed into the Neo-con fold.

I also saw establishment interference on a local and state level during elections in Montana. An associate of mine was running for state office on a liberty platform and was doing rather well in the polls. He was approached by a contingent of political elites running as Republicans who told him in no uncertain terms that he could run on any platform and use any rhetoric he wanted, but if he won, he would be required to follow THEIR direction. They even encouraged him to continue arguing for constitutional government in his speeches and debates, because they felt this was the best way to “sell” his candidacy. But when all was said and done, he was supposed to stab his constituency in the back and take orders from the party leadership.

The point is, the elites dominate the political system. Nothing happens within it without their say. So, for those same elites to suddenly and openly suggest that “populist movements” were threatening to overtake the world and destroy the global economy was suspicious, to say the least.

In order to predict the behavior of globalists and the outcome of future economic and political events, it is important to understand certain dynamics. As just described, the establishment has a stranglehold on the political system. Party politics are a sham built around the false left/right paradigm. However, certain new dynamics are developing, and you must be able to track them.

The best way to do this is to watch what globalists say within their own publications. They often reveal their intentions directly or indirectly. In many cases I think in their arrogance they assume that the masses are too stupid to read these publications and grasp what is being said.

The most important element of predicting globalist actions is to know what they ultimately want; to know their ultimate goals. If you know the specifics of what any group or individual desperately wants, those people become highly predictable, because there are only so many useful paths to get to any goal.

I have used this method to great effect over the years, so I am not merely presenting a theory, I have concrete successes to back my position.

For example, just in the past couple of years I correctly predicted the Federal Reserve taper of QE, I predicted the inclusion of China in the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights years in advance, I predicted the exact timing of the first Fed rate hike, I predicted the success of the Brexit referendum when most of the world and the liberty movement said it was never going to happen, I predicted that the Saudi 9/11 bill would pass, that Barack Obama would veto it and that congress would override his veto, I predicted that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic candidate and that Donald Trump would be the Republican candidate for president of the U.S. and, I predicted that Donald Trump would win the 2016 election.

Except for the China SDR inclusion, I predicted all of these events many months in advance and received a heavy amount of criticism each time from people in the mainstream and even from people in the liberty movement. Hilariously, as soon as these predictions proved true, some of the same people that were fervently opposed came quickly out of the woodwork to claim they “saw it coming all along”. I suppose this is human nature, but it is a problem because it keeps people from learning how to better gauge globalist behavior and come to correct conclusions.

My goal in this article is to make EVERY liberty activist adept at predicting globalist driven events. So, here is a good place to start:

Learn To Play Chess

The elites are obsessed with chess and chess symbolism. Many of their strategies develop much like a game of chess develops. If you don’t know how to play chess, I suggest you learn. You don’t have to master the game, but you do need to understand the basic concepts of winning the game.

For example, if you know the target that your opponent is really pursuing, you can easily obstruct his efforts because all his movements will become predictable. If his goal is to take your Queen, and you know this, then he should never be able to take your queen. This is why the elites go to great lengths to distract their opponents (meaning us) from their true target. They want you to think they are going straight for your King, or your Knight; they want you focused elsewhere. They will use feints often.

Another core strategy of chess is the “forced sacrifice”. That is to say, the best chess players are very good at positioning one of their pieces so that it threatens two or more of your pieces. This forces you to sacrifice one piece for the sake of the others. If they do this often enough, before you know it you have sacrificed your way into defeat. The globalists ALWAYS have a primary target and a secondary target. There is always more than one move developing at any given time.

Knowing chess is key to knowing how the globalists think.

Get In Touch With Your Darker Side

Going by their behavior and their rhetoric when they are unguarded, most globalists display highly narcissistic character traits as well as sociopathy and psychopathy. It is not enough to research these traits in a clinical fashion, you have to tap into the darker side of your own psyche, and think as they think. This means being willing to entertain evil and malicious concepts. You must be willing to ask yourself – “If I were them, how would I go about getting what I want?”

Understanding devious and aberrant psychopathic intent goes a long way in making the globalists predictable. Remember, many psychopaths are actually highly intelligent and intuitive. They don’t have a moral compass and have lost the voice of conscience, but in order to adapt they have learned how to fake it. They are chameleons.

ALL people are inherently capable of evil actions, just as they are inherently capable of great good. You don’t have to become like the elites, but you do have to go to some ugly places in your own mind. An elitist is basically a person who went to those places and discovered that he liked it there.

Read Globalist Publications

As noted above, the globalists have their own media outlets in which they publish their “views”, such as Foreign Policy Magazine, The Economist, Bloomberg, Reuters, etc. Sometimes these views are honest and sometimes they are calculated propaganda. Again, if you know exactly what the elitist targets are, then you can better discern if what they are saying is legitimate or a feint to distract you.

I predicted the success of the Brexit and the Trump win based on the knowledge that:

1) The globalists need a large scale crisis in order to drastically change public perceptions on society and governance. That is to say, they need to create a crisis so terrifying that people will be willing to accept a fully centralized global economic system and global governance as a solution.

2) The globalists have already set in motion an economic crisis that cannot be reversed. It is a crisis that they must avoid blame for at all costs once it accelerates.

3) Conservative and sovereignty principles are the primary threat to the dominance of globalism. As long as ideas of individualism, national sovereignty and decentralization exist, globalism can never truly prevail. Therefore, obstructing movements based on these principles is not enough. The globalists must also destroy any positive perceptions of our principles for generations to come.

4) As stated in the section on chess, the globalists like to use the strategy of forced sacrifice, in which they threaten two targets simultaneously, or kill two birds with one stone. I realized at the beginning of 2016 that all the rhetoric by globalists in their own publications on the “rise of populism” was staging the groundwork for the success of the Brexit and the success of Trump. What better strategy for the establishment than to allow conservative movements to take the helm of the political and economic ship just as that ship is about to sink? In this way, the globalists can have the crisis they need, while at the same time scapegoating conservatives and avoiding blame, and, destroying the image of conservative ideals, perhaps forever.

Have No Sacred Cows

This is a hard one for many people. We all have certain biases and these biases can blind us to reality. The overreaching bias within the liberty movement is a desire for heroic leadership. We have grown up on stories of heroes from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson – grand statesmen and military giants that crushed tyranny. The problem is, while men like Washington and Jefferson were indeed instrumental, they were nothing without the hundreds of thousands of unsung patriots working tirelessly for freedom on their own.

The founding fathers were not considered the founding fathers until long after the American Revolution was over. At the time, they were not thought of necessarily as heroes or even great leaders. They were just men, like many other men, gambling life and liberty on a cause that was uncertain at best.

Activists need to STOP looking around for mighty leaders and start taking leadership themselves in their own way. If we do end up with another Washington or Jefferson or Paine or Madison, etc., we will not know who they are until the fight is over and the history books are written.

The globalists take full advantage of the movement’s weakness in seeking out and artificially elevating heroes. Also, when people have this bias, they end up with blinders when examining such heroes with any skepticism. Obviously I am referring to Donald Trump, here.

Sacred cows prevent accurate predictions of major events because a person will refuse to consider them as a potential negative factor.

Moving Beyond Predictions

It is one thing to be able to predict the outcome of social and political events; it is another matter to do something about them. In my next article I will outline solutions liberty activists can pursue on their own and in groups to counter globalist activity. Predicting their tactics is essential, but acting to disrupt those tactics should be the ultimate goal.

The globalists believe that even if some of us do manage to decipher their activities and methods, we will have no means to do anything about them. They see themselves as the “history makers”, as the men who act. They see us as the “history watchers”, or the meaningless masses wafting about with geopolitical tides, helpless and incapable of determining our own destinies. I believe we will become history makers in due course. One weakness of the globalists that will sabotage them is their own hubris. They see people as pawns – but what happens when a piece walks off the chess board completely and acts in an unpredictable way? It is this potential alone that will destroy the globalists in the end.

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24 Jan 23:51

The left’s war on science

by David Farrar
Ross Nixon

The evil, anti-science leftists.

John Tierney writes at City Journal:

My liberal friends sometimes ask me why I don’t devote more of my science journalism to the sins of the Right. It’s fine to expose pseudoscience on the left, they say, but why aren’t you an equal-opportunity debunker? Why not write about conservatives’ threat to science?

My friends don’t like my answer: because there isn’t much to write about. Conservatives just don’t have that much impact on science. I know that sounds strange to Democrats who decry Republican creationists and call themselves the “party of science.” But I’ve done my homework. I’ve read the Left’s indictments, including Chris Mooney’s bestseller, The Republican War on Science. I finished it with the same question about this war that I had at the outset: Where are the casualties?

Where are the scientists who lost their jobs or their funding? What vital research has been corrupted or suppressed? What scientific debate has been silenced? Yes, the book reveals that Republican creationists exist, but they don’t affect the biologists or anthropologists studying evolution. Yes, George W. Bush refused federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, but that hardly put a stop to it (and not much changed after Barack Obama reversed the policy). Mooney rails at scientists and politicians who oppose government policies favored by progressives like himself, but if you’re looking for serious damage to the enterprise of science, he offers only three examples.

All three are in his first chapter, during Mooney’s brief acknowledgment that leftists “here and there” have been guilty of “science abuse.” First, there’s the Left’s opposition to genetically modified foods, which stifled research into what could have been a second Green Revolution to feed Africa. Second, there’s the campaign by animal-rights activists against medical researchers, whose work has already been hampered and would be devastated if the activists succeeded in banning animal experimentation. Third, there’s the resistance in academia to studying the genetic underpinnings of human behavior, which has cut off many social scientists from the recent revolutions in genetics and neuroscience. Each of these abuses is far more significant than anything done by conservatives, and there are plenty of others. The only successful war on science is the one waged by the Left.

I strongly recommend reading the full article. It is lengthy but worth it.

But two huge threats to science are peculiar to the Left—and they’re getting worse.

The first threat is confirmation bias, the well-documented tendency of people to seek out and accept information that confirms their beliefs and prejudices. In a classic study of peer review, 75 psychologists were asked to referee a paper about the mental health of left-wing student activists. Some referees saw a version of the paper showing that the student activists’ mental health was above normal; others saw different data, showing it to be below normal. Sure enough, the more liberal referees were more likely to recommend publishing the paper favorable to the left-wing activists. When the conclusion went the other way, they quickly found problems with its methodology.

Scientists try to avoid confirmation bias by exposing their work to peer review by critics with different views, but it’s increasingly difficult for liberals to find such critics. Academics have traditionally leaned left politically, and many fields have essentially become monocultures, especially in the social sciences, where Democrats now outnumber Republicans by at least 8 to 1. (In sociology, where the ratio is 44 to 1, a student is much likelier to be taught by a Marxist than by a Republican.)

Peer review means a lot less today than it once did.

And that brings us to the second great threat from the Left: its long tradition of mixing science and politics. To conservatives, the fundamental problem with the Left is what Friedrich Hayek called the fatal conceit: the delusion that experts are wise enough to redesign society. Conservatives distrust central planners, preferring to rely on traditional institutions that protect individuals’ “natural rights” against the power of the state. Leftists have much more confidence in experts and the state. Engels argued for “scientific socialism,” a redesign of society supposedly based on the scientific method. Communist intellectuals planned to mold the New Soviet Man. Progressives yearned for a society guided by impartial agencies unconstrained by old-fashioned politics and religion. Herbert Croly, founder of the New Republic and a leading light of progressivism, predicted that a “better future would derive from the beneficent activities of expert social engineers who would bring to the service of social ideals all the technical resources which research could discover.”

This was all very flattering to scientists, one reason that so many of them leaned left. The Right cited scientific work when useful, but it didn’t enlist science to remake society—it still preferred guidance from traditional moralists and clerics. The Left saw scientists as the new high priests, offering them prestige, money, and power. The power too often corrupted. Over and over, scientists yielded to the temptation to exaggerate their expertise and moral authority, sometimes for horrendous purposes.

Drawing on research into genetics and animal breeding from scientists at Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and other leading universities, the eugenics movement of the 1920s made plans for improving the human population. Professors taught eugenics to their students and worked with Croly and other progressives eager to breed a smarter society, including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Margaret Sanger. Eventually, other scientists—notably, in England—exposed the shoddy research and assumptions of the eugenicists, but not before the involuntary sterilization or castration of more than 35,000 Americans. Even after Hitler used eugenics to justify killing millions, the Left didn’t lose its interest in controlling human breeding.

Eugenicist thinking was revived by scientists convinced that the human species had exceeded the “carrying capacity” of its ecosystem. The most prominent was Paul Ehrlich, whose scientific specialty was the study of butterflies. Undeterred by his ignorance of agriculture and economics, he published confident predictions of imminent global famine in The Population Bomb (1968). Agricultural economists dismissed his ideas, but the press reverently quoted Ehrlich and other academics who claimed to have scientifically determined that the Earth was “overpopulated.” In the journal Science, ecologist Garrett Hardin argued that “freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.” Ehrlich, who, at one point, advocated supplying American helicopters and doctors to a proposed program of compulsory sterilization in India, joined with physicist John Holdren in arguing that the U.S. Constitution would permit population control, including limits on family size and forced abortions. Ehrlich and Holdren calmly analyzed the merits of various technologies, such as adding sterilants to public drinking water, and called for a “planetary regime” to control population and natural resources around the world.

Their ideas went nowhere in the United States, but they inspired one of the worst human rights violations of the twentieth century, in China: the one-child policy, resulting in coerced abortion and female infanticide. China struggles today with a dangerously small number of workers to support its aging population. The intellectual godfathers of this atrocity, had they been conservatives, surely would have been ostracized. But even after his predictions turned out to be wildly wrong, Ehrlich went on collecting honors.

And Ehrlich still insists he was right on pretty much everything, when in fact he has been proven wrong on almost everything. He predicted the death of sea life by 1980, the UK would face starvation by 2000, India could not support more than 200 million people, a billion death toll from starvation etc etc. For being wrong on pretty much everything he has been given no less than 17 honours and awards.

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14 Nov 06:13

Solving The Global Warming Crisis

by tonyheller

President Trump can solve the global warming crisis overnight, by simply replacing NASA’s Gavin Schmidt with a competent scientist like John Christy or Roy Spencer.

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Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

23 Sep 05:11

NOAA’s Namibia Fraud

by tonyheller

Yesterday I covered NOAA’s Angola fraud, where NOAA claimed Angola had their hottest month ever, despite not having any thermometer data to back it up.  Namibia is just south of Angola and is quite a bit larger than Texas. NOAA also claimed August was the hottest ever in Namibia, despite having no thermometer data in Namibia.

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NOAA has no coverage on about half of the land surface of this planet.

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Satellites on the other hand cover almost the entire earth, including all of Namibia. RSS TLT satellite data showed August was 11th warmest since 1978 in Namibia, behind 1995, 1992, 1993, 1988, 2013, 1980, 2001, 1981, 1990 and 1985. Namibia was 0.54C cooler in August than August 1995.

As with Angola, NOAA is committing blatant fraud. There is no reason to be using imaginary, politically motivated, surface data, when we have actual satellite data which shows no warming this century.

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02 Jul 04:19

BREXIT – Reader Sent This One In

by Martin Armstrong
Ross Nixon

Heh!

EU Brexit

29 Nov 19:57

"Friend & Ally" Or "Barbaric Death Cult" - You Decide

by Tyler Durden

With a record 151 beheadings this year (and 55 more looming for sedition, poetry, and 'terrorist crimes') arguably "under the guise of counter-terrorism to settle political scores" US' friend and ally Saudi Arabia bears a striking resemblence to another Sharia law-abiding 'state'. As Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger explains, while ISIS has actively sought exposure for their brutal punishments, Saudi Arabia has worked to keep evidence of their actions within the conservative kingdom.

Just yesterday, we published an article highlighting the latest deranged idea floated by Saudi Arabia’s monarchs to sue Twitter users comparing the barbaric kingdom to ISIS.

 

Today, we present to you a power graphic courtesy of Middle East Eye, which demonstrates precisely why the Saudis are so sensitive about the topic. Namely, because the accusations are true.

From Middle East Eye:

The Islamic State (IS) and Saudi Arabia prescribe near-identical punishments for a host of crimes, according to documents circulated by the militant group.

 

IS published a list of crimes and their punishments on 16 December 2014 to serve “as an explanation and as a warning” to those living in territory under their control in large parts of Iraq and Syria.

 

The document lists hadd crimes, which are considered to be “against the rights of God,” and includes fixed punishments for theft, adultery, slander and banditry.

 

Crimes deemed hadd and their punishments are derived from the Quran and the hadith, the collected teachings and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. However, with the exception of Saudi Arabia, and IS-controlled areas, they are rarely applied.

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Any questions?

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Finally, as MiddleEastEye concludes, rather ironically...

the West could – at some point in the future – have diplomatic relations with IS “simply because they [IS] are sitting on oil and are happy to sell it”.

 

“It might happen given the pragmatism of the West and how willing it is to compromise on human rights,” she added.










29 Oct 21:50

Fix and repair Windows 10 issues with FixWin 10

by Martin Brinkmann
Ross Nixon

Looks very useful.

FixWin 10 is an update to the popular FixWin application that introduces several Windows 10 specific repair options to the application.

We have reviewed FixWin back in 2010 when it was released to the public and came to the conclusion that it is a useful troubleshooting tool for devices running Windows.

The update delivers more of the same include a setting reserved solely for Microsoft's latest operating system.

The program requires the Microsoft .Net Framework 4 but no installation. The interface itself has been updated slightly with a modern look. Information about the underlying system are displayed on start.

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There you find fixes for common issues listed as well, for instance to register all store apps again to make sure they are available again on the system and functioning properly.

If you have removed an app accidentally for instance, it can be helpful to regain access to it.

A click on Windows 10 opens all repair options for fixes for the operating system. The following options are provided:

  1. Repair the Windows Component Store using Deployment Imaging and Servicing Management (DISM).
  2. Reset the Settings app. Useful if it does not open anymore or crashes.
  3. Disable OneDrive file synchronization.
  4. Repair the Windows Start Menu. Handy if it does not work properly or does not open at all.
  5. Repair WiFi if it is not working.
  6. Fix Windows Update stuck downloading updates after upgrading to Windows 10.
  7. Clear and reset the Store cache to resolve issues downloading applications from the Windows Store.
  8. Fix "The Application wasn't installed" in Windows Store, Error Code: 0x8024001e.
  9. Fix Windows Store apps not opening. Registers all apps anew.

The remaining options appear to be more or less identical to those provided in the previous version of FixWin.

One great feature of FixWin 10 is that you get instructions to run the fix manually as well. All you have to do is click on the help icon next to each fix to display information on what it does in detail, and instructions to run it manually.

manual troubleshooting

The manual approach usually comes down to one or multiple commands that you need to run from the command line or PowerShell. To make things easier, it is possible to double-click on the manual instructions to copy them.

I like this option a lot since it allows me to check the fix before it is applied. I always have a hard time trusting applications when they don't reveal what they do in the background to fix an issue. Since FixWin details that, I find it much easier to trust it in this regard.

Closing Words

If you run into one of the issues that FixWin 10 can repair, then you may want to give it a go as it may fix the issue for you in that case.

It is up to you to run the fix from within the interface or manually. The manual approach may take longer but it has the added advantage that you know what to do next time without running the program at all.

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27 Aug 05:31

The Genesis Flood and Noah's Ark

Ross Nixon

An excellent summary

Evidence for the Genesis Flood and Noah's Ark is crucial to understanding the world's history.
18 Apr 21:22

This Technical Signaled The Last Two Market Crashes And It Just Happened

by Tyler Durden
Ross Nixon

Might be time to sell my shares.

Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com,

So the fundamental case for a 20 year bull run as BMO is calling for and  certainly many other banks seem to be onboard with that is not looking great YTD.  In fact, most perma bulls have shy’d away from even mentioning fundamentals other than to say that generally they aren’t looking great but don’t worry the Fed is still engaged.   And so I feel its a worthwhile exercise to have a look at the technicals.  Thing about the technicals is that you can cherry pick any baseline point to really make any case, good or bad.  But if we take a look at a time period that encompasses several cycles we negate our ability to cherry pick the baseline and we can be much more confident in our overall analysis.

So what I’ve done is taken a two decade period of S&P pricing which encompasses several cycles.  Mid 1990′s was a market mid cycle having recovered from the short recession of the early 1990′s but before things really began heating up in the late 1990′s.  If we just have a gentle look at the chart we see we’ve had a couple large cycles with fairly extreme booms and subsequent busts.  Currently we are in the midst of the third boom which has taken us to new all time highs.  Now even a 5 year old can look at the chart and say at some point this thing has a large down turn, same as it always does.  That’s easy to see and not many will argue it.  But as so many bulls remind us we could have said the same thing about this chart a year ago and we’d have missed out on significant returns.  Very true.  So the key is then figuring out where the down turn begins.  I know I know that’s the kind of stuff you have to go to biz school for eh.  Ok so let’s first have a look at the easy chart.

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So pretty simple.  Two full cycles and into the third which doesn’t tell us much.  Let’s add some markers to see if we can’t pick up on some technical cues.

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So what we’ve done is run a 2.5 standard deviation Bollinger Band (BB) using a 100 period moving average looking at monthly returns because we are interested long cycle technical cues.  We’ve also run Relative Strength Indicator (RSI) using 20 periods.  What we find is actually quite notable.  During the tech bubble cycle we saw the S&P rise to the upper BB where it tracked the upper band for some time.   During that same period we saw the RSI move above 70.  Now as the market peaked we saw the S&P move below the upper BB and we also saw a decline in RSI.  What is very interesting is that the point where RSI dropped below 70 is the point the tech bubble burst and sent S&P into a free fall.  The market continued to sell until the RSI dropped below 30 at which point the market stabilized and reversed higher.

This took us into the start of the credit bubble cycle.  Here the RSI move up very quickly and plateaued just below 70 for several years during which time the S&P moved up but never quite made it to the upper BB.  Then in 2007 the RSI moved above 70 but then quickly reversed back down below the upper band.  Interestingly again the RSI dropping below the upper band seemed to trigger the bursting of the credit bubble as we saw S&P again move into free fall.  Then here too we saw the market stabilize as the RSI moved through the bottom band.

And again this brought us into the latest Fed bubble.  Now during this latest cycle the RSI moved up but bounced off the upper band a few times without actually breaking through 70.  At the same time the S&P moved higher but with quite heavy volatility.  Eventually we saw the RSI move up and break through the upper limit.  It was about the same time that the S&P traded higher to the upper BB where it tracked for some time.  However, at the end of November 2014 the S&P started to dislocate and moving down below the upper BB.  And then ominously January of this year we saw the RSI also move below the upper RSI band.

Remember this technical signaled the popping of the past two bubble cycles.  Now February saw the RSI move back above the upper band but March moved back down below.  I would watch this very carefully now.  I would venture to say if April remains below the upper RSI band we could very well have moved into the latest and perhaps greatest period of wealth destruction. It is time to protect those assets.








27 Feb 21:35

Ghacks is dying and needs your help

by Martin Brinkmann
Ross Nixon

This is one of my favourite tech sites. I hope it survives.

When I started ghacks.net in 2005 I never imagined what a ride it would be. The site became popular quickly and allowed me to quit my day job to become a full time blogger.

This worked well for the first years and Ghacks went from one high to the next.

I have always operated Ghacks on my own. When the site took off, I was able to hire others to add different perspectives to the site. Jack Wallen for instance who ran the Linux section here on this site and contributed more than 900 articles to it.

But 2011 changed that.

Google introduced new algorithms that turned the world upside down. Popular great sites such as Freeware Genius or Raymond.cc fell victim to that as well and many others are suffering up until this very day from what Google introduced back then while some don't even exist anymore.

Ghacks felt the change as well and traffic dropped since then by more than 60%. This was also the time when it became clear that the site could not sustain multiple writers anymore.

It felt undeserved seeing great sites being affected by algorithms that use a definition of quality that feels far off from reality at times, especially since massive networks and sites that cover every imaginable topic thrived even more than before.

I tried a lot to increase the perceived quality of the site. Removed some advertisement, rewrote hundreds of articles, installed a new theme, removed more than 10,000 tags and a dozen other things but none brought the desired result (a reversal of the process).

In addition to that, ad blockers and script blockers became increasingly popular. Since advertisement is what keeps this site alive, a yearly increase between 5 and 10% in ad-block usage is not something that you can endure for long especially if it goes hand in hand with a decline in traffic.

Currently, between 42% and 44% of all users use blockers when they visit the site and if the trend continues, more than 50% might before the end of the year.

ads-blocked

If you take these two factors together, it is only a matter of time before ad revenue won't be sufficient to pay for the site's upkeep anymore.

Advertisement is dying in its current form. While I could make a quick buck throwing popups, auto-playing videos or other nasty stuff at you, I'd never do that.

Heck, those are the things that make people use ad-blockers in the first place and as much as I like this site to survive, I like to protect the integrity of this site and you from these diabolical monetization methods even more.

Advertisement won't be sufficient to keep this site up and there is not really much out there that I could implement or try instead to make sure this site is not taken off the Internet in the next year.

I could sell blog posts, and believe me I get enough offers for those, but never ever sold a single blog post here on this site.

The Solution

Don't get me wrong, I won't give up easily. I thought about possible solutions and there is one that I think could work. In fact, it is the only viable solution that I think might work as it makes this site independent of advertisement and traffic.

Patreon is a relatively new service where people support content creators by giving money directly to them.

It starts as low as $1 per month and gets as high as you want it to be. This money is independent of advertisement revenue or search engine traffic.

If 5% of all visitors of this site would give $1 per month, we won't have this conversation ever again and Ghacks will be there until I'm too old to write articles for it.

This link takes you to the Ghacks Patreon page

Update: If you prefer to make a one-time payment feel free to send money using PayPal. The ID is martin@mysega.de

I understand that this is not for everyone and that is fine.

But if you like this site and would like to see it be there for you in the future, then this is probably the best option to ensure that.

I don't know if this will work at all, if enough of you are willing to support me to keep this site alive but I will do my best to ensure that you will never regret it if you decide to do so.

Other options

Patreon is certainly not an option for all visitors of this site. If you don't want to become a member there then there is still something that you could do to help this site out.

  1. If you are running an ad-blocker or script-blocker, you could whitelist ghacks.net. This site has never run annoying ads: no popups, popunders, audio or video ads that play automatically, full page ads, overlay ads and god knows what else there is that annoys Internet users. Whitelisting helps as many ads pay per cpm. Even if you never click on those ads, it helps pay the bills of this site.
  2. Spread the word about this site. Tell friends, colleagues and family about it if you think it is a good fit. Share it if you are active on social media sites and don't mind doing that.

Both of these options help out tremendously as well.

Closing Words

I had a great time running this site and met lots of great knowledgeable people, and for that I'm forever thankful. I'm not only talking about the authors who wrote for this site throughout the years but also each and every reader who left a comment on this blog, via email or social media sites.

While I have not responded to each individually, I read them all and will continue to do so.

Ghacks needs you. You can find out how to support us here or support the site directly by becoming a Patreon. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader.

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15 Feb 04:33

Nuclear Specter Returns: "Threat of War Is Higher Than In The Cold War"

by Tyler Durden
Ross Nixon

That is a WORRY!

Authored by Markus Becker via Der Spiegel,

The Ukraine crisis has dramatically worsened relations between NATO and Russia. With cooperation on nuclear security now suspended and the lack of a "red telephone," experts at the Munich Security Conference warn any escalation in tensions could grow deadly.

The scientists had no idea that their experiment could spell the end of civilization. On Jan. 25, 1995, Norwegian and American researchers fired a rocket into the skies of northwestern Norway to study the Northern Lights. But the four-stage rocket flew directly through the same corridor that American Minuteman III missiles, equipped with nuclear warheads, would use to travel from the United States to Moscow.

The rocket's speed and flight pattern very closely matched what the Russians expected from a Trident missile that would be fired from a US submarine and detonated at high altitude, with the aim of blinding the Russian early-warning system to prepare for a large-scale nuclear attack by the United States. The Russian military was placed on high alert, and then President Boris Yeltsin activated the keys to launch nuclear weapons. He had less than 10 minutes to decide whether to issue the order to fire.

Yeltsin left the Russian missiles in their silos, probably in part because relations between Russian and the United States were relatively trusting in 1995. But if a similar incident occurred today, as US arms expert Theodore Postol warned recently, it could quite possibly lead to nuclear catastrophe.

Deep Mistrust

"Five or six minutes can be enough time, if you have trust, if you have communication and if you can put this machinery immediately to work," former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on the sidelines of last weekend's Munich Security Conference. Unfortunately, he argued, this machinery works very poorly today, and there is great mistrust.

When asked what would happen today if the 1995 missile incident happened again, Ivanov responded, "I cannot be sure if the right decision would be taken."

Deep mistrust has developed between the West and Russia, and it is having a massive effect on cooperation on security matters.

In November 2014, the Russians announced that they would boycott the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in the United States. In December, the US Congress voted, for the first time in 25 years, not to approve funding to safeguard nuclear materials in the Russian Federation. A few days later, the Russians terminated cooperation in almost all aspects of nuclear security. The two sides had cooperated successfully for almost two decades. But that is now a thing of the past.

Instead, Russia and the United States are investing giant sums of money to modernize their nuclear arsenals, and NATO recently announced that it was rethinking its nuclear strategy. At the same time, risky encounters between Eastern and Western troops, especially in the air, are becoming more and more common, a report by the European Leadership Network (ELN) recently concluded.

"Civilian pilots don't know how to deal with this," explains ELN Chair Des Browne, a former British defense minister. "One of these incidents could easily escalate. We need to find a mechanism in which we can talk at the highest level."

Brown, together with Ivanov and former US Senator Sam Nunn, the grandfather of international disarmament policy, published an analysis last week. The trio recommends "that reliable communication channels exist in the event of serious incidents." In other words, these channels currently do not exist. Recently Philip Breedlove, the head of NATO Allied Command Operations in Europe, even called for a new "red telephone," alluding to the direct teletype connection established in 1963 between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Cuban missile crisis. A direct line had been set up between NATO and the Russian military's general staff in February 2013, but it was cut as a result of the Ukraine crisis.

'A Very Dangerous Situation'

"Trust has been eroded to the point of almost being destroyed," said Nunn. "You got a war going on right in the middle of Europe. You got a breakdown of the conventional forces treaty, you got the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) treaty under great strain, you got tactical nuclear weapons all over Europe. It's a very dangerous situation."

In late January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its "Doomsday Clock" to three minutes to midnight. The last time it was set to that time was in 1983, "when US-Soviet relations were at their iciest point," as the group of scientists explained. The only other time when the situation was even worse was in 1953, when the clock was set to two minutes to midnight. Unchecked climate change and the "nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals" pose "extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," the group's statement read.

The current rhetoric coming from the rivals in the East and West seems poorly suited to reducing the threat. "The Russian aggression is a direct threat to NATO," British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said at the Munich Security Conference.

The situation is made more complicated by the fact that Russia's actions in Ukraine are difficult to define. With camouflage, trickery and deception, the Russians are applying the full arsenal of so-called hybrid warfare, from propaganda to cyber warfare and funding the separatists right up to clandestine military operations.

In Munich, Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide demanded that Russia's aggression should be clearly identified as such. "And it goes without saying," she said, "that Article 5 of the NATO Treaty applies to such aggression." This means that if Russia were to attack a NATO member, in the way it is now intervening in Ukraine, all other member states would be required to enter the war to defend that country.

Higher Risks with Hybrid Warfare

"It (hybrid warfare) makes everything more dangerous," said Nunn, "It makes tactical nuclear weapons more dangerous, and it makes weapons material more dangerous." It is common knowledge that some of these weapons are also stationed in Germany. Up to 20 B61 aerial bombs, now being updated at great expense, are stored at the Büchel Air Base in the Eifel region of western Germany. They are under US command, but German Tornado fighter jets would drop the bombs in the event of a war.

When asked if hybrid warfare could raise the danger of nuclear weapons being used, US diplomat Richard Burt -- who, in his role as chief negotiator, helped put together the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, between the United States and the Soviet Union -- answered in the affirmative. "The simple answer is yes. Both American and Russian nuclear arms are essentially on a kind of hair-trigger alert. Both sides have a nuclear posture where land-based missiles could be authorized for use in less than 15 minutes." In the situation of hybrid warfare, he warns, "that is a dangerous state of play."

"In the Cold War, we created mechanisms of security. A huge number of treaties and documents helped us to avoid a big and serious military crash," says former Foreign Minister Ivanov. "Now the threat of a war is higher than during the Cold War."








15 Jan 01:29

A Biblical Creationist Cosmogony

Ross Nixon

I've got a lot of time for John Hartnett's hypotheses.

The cosmogony proposed is consistent with all creationist understandings of the biblical texts and has no light-travel time problem.