Paul Craig Roberts

Divisions are already appearing in MAGA ranks. President-elect Trump and Elon Musk have aligned with the H-1B work visas  that allow foreigners to be brought in to fill American jobs.  This disappoints the Trump working class that believed making America great again meant they were going to get their jobs back.

American corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations like H-1B work visas for a variety of reasons.  A H-1B visa recipient is an indentured  servant. He or she is paid substantially less but cannot leave the employer for higher pay as the visa is tied to the specific employer. This also has the result of denying the indentured servant employment or protest rights as the indentured servant’s presence in the US is tied to the visa that is tied to the employer. For example, a H-1B visa holder cannot file a discrimination complaint.

As Senator Bernie Sanders puts it:

“The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest,’ but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.” https://www.rt.com/news/610400-bernie-sanders-elon-musk-visas/   

The case for H-1B visas is fraudulent. The claim is that America’s huge numbers of universities are incapable of producing enough American graduates to meet America’s need for “highly educated individuals with skills critical to our country’s economic future,” to use the words of Todd Schulte, president of an immigrant advocacy organization with ties to big tech.  Or as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disguised the scam, “American businesses rely on the H-1B visa program for the recruitment of highly-skilled talent, benefitting communities across the country.”

Imagine, the United States relies on the Third World, not on its many world prestigious universities,  to supply its need for “highly-skilled talent.”  The communities are not benefitting.  The American residents are losing the jobs.  Wages and salaries are being paid to foreigners who have displaced Americans.  The difference between the US wage and the H-1B wage goes to corporate profits and executive “performance bonuses.”

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It is a fairy tale told by shills to enhance corporate profits and executive bonuses that Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, University of California, University of Chicago,  and the large numbers of private and state universities cannot turn out enough educated people to fill the economy’s needs.

If Americans are not studying for careers in high tech it is because they know the jobs will be given to foreigners on visas. Moreover, Americans who prepare for these careers are hit again by the offshoring of many of the jobs.

During the early years of the 21st century when the “skills shortage” was being concocted to serve corporate profits, Business Week reported a 12.7% decline in computer science pay, a 12%decline in computer engineering pay, a 10.2% decline in electrical engineering pay.  Professor Norm Matloff at the University of California, Davis, found that between 2001 and 2005 starting pay for master degrees in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering fell 6.6%, 13.7%, and 9.4% respectively.

As I wrote at the time, “Obviously, if these skills were in short supply, as corporations [and their economist shills] allege, the shortage would result in rising salaries as employers bid for scarce human resources.” How can economics account for a shortage of skills and a fall in pay?

H-1B visas have a statutory cap of 85,000 annually. The number consists of 65,000 visas plus 20,000 for foreigners who have an advanced degree from a US university.  Over ten years, that comes to 850,000 foreigners brought into the US to take Americans’ jobs.  These visas are sought by foreign students studying in America, because it is a way of staying in the country. At the end of the visa, H-1B holders can apply for a green card or permanent residence.

As few of the 85,000 per year return home to their countries, the obvious consequence is that some American occupations are being de-Americanized.  This is also true of university faculties where H-1B visas are used to meet DEI quotas while large numbers of Americans with Ph.D. degrees are denied an academic career“`.  Recently the Biden regime expanded or removed the limit on H-1B visas for universities and non-profits. Soon a student will be able to have the same professors at Harvard as he would have if he went to university in India. What does Harvard care? It trades on its name.

In addition to H-1B visas there are L-1 visas that allow multinational companies to bring foreign employees to the US for “training.” With extensions the visa can be good for seven years.  Between 1997 and 2019 the US Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 1.5 million L-1 visas, according to Wikipedia. Citizens of India are the largest recipients of L-1 visas.

Allegedly, the H-1B visas were not to be used to replace US workers and are supposed to be paid the same amount as an American employee. But there are easy ways around these restrictions. Law firms are employed to advertise job openings in ways that disqualify Americans. You can read about that in my book. In 2007 the law firm, Cohen & Grigsby explained in a marketing video how the firm evades the restrictions for its clients. The firm’s marketing manager, Lawrence Lebowitz said, “our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested US worker.”

There are many ways around the various “restrictions” on the visas. During the bank bailout Congress forbade banks that received bailout money from hiring foreigners to replace Americans, but the H-1B lobby had a loophole inserted into the legislation.  The loophole let banks hire contractors to supply “contract labor.” Consequently, the banks paid the contractor, and the contractor, not the banks, hired and paid the foreign workers. In 2009 Computerworld reported that the H-1B visas were becoming the property of Indian contract labor firms.

The American Immigration Council, a lobby for H-1B visas, alleges that multiple studies have found that bringing in foreign workers on H-1B visas increases the employment opportunities for American workers. I exposed the fraudulent nature of these “studies” when they came out.

Matthew J. Slaughter, a member of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, mistakenly found an increase in American employment in an increase in multinational corporation employment that resulted from the multinational corporations’ purchases of smaller firms. Multinational corporation employment rose from the purchases of existing firms, not from jobs offshoring and H-1B visas causing more Americans to be employed.

Harvard professor Michael Porter concluded that America’s lead in GDP per capita, household wealth, and falling poverty rates were proof that the US was benefitting from jobs offshoring and all other foreign employment practices associated with globalism. What Porter did was to use a 20-year period so that the deterioration from globalism was softened by the stronger performance from earlier times.

My exposure of the fraudulent claims had no effect on policy. My voice was no match for the power of campaign contributions and the lobby groups. American corporations and “the people’s representatives” could not care less about the fate of Americans. The American corporations want profits and their executives want their “performance” bonuses.  Congress wants campaign contributions and friends to look after them if they lose an election.

There is no one to look after the American worker, not even Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Trump and Musk think of greatness in terms of profits. If profits are great, the country is. Thus their policy will continue the shift in the distribution of income from the working class to the one percent.  Really it is the one-tenth of one percent that benefits while all the rest lose.

The question America needs to face is how is there unity and a nation when economic prospects are limited to one-tenth of one percent of the population, when democracy represents only the elite and never the people, when the people’s protections guaranteed by the US Constitution are discarded by law schools, the US Department of Justice (sic), bar associations, and by judges themselves, when racial, gender, and sexual preference privileges overturn the Constitution’s requirement of equality under the law, when the Constitution’s requirements of due process, free speech, the right of assembly and protest are suspended because of false claims of “terrorism” and “misinformation.”

Terrorism and misinformation are Washington’s products.  Terrorism originates not from Russia, China, Iran, Arabs; it originates from Washington. Just ask the Palestinians, the Libyans, Syrians, Iraqis. Misinformation comes from a domestic intellectual class that hates America. Misinformation is a domestic product from self-serving agendas and presstitutes that support the agendas. Official misinformation keeps Americans in a muddle so that they lack realization of their dispossession  of their rights.

Tell me, how can a country in which the people have no voice be made great again.

Trump’s supporters believe that his election has solved the problem. They could not be more wrong. Indeed, when it comes to American employment, it looks like Trump is part of the problem.

If Trump demoralizes his supporters, the result will be a demoralized population. Where will the resistance to tyranny come from?

Andrew Anglin claims ( https://www.unz.com/aanglin/pyramid-schemer-patrick-bet-david-continues-deluge-of-shit-campaign-with-fraudulent-statistics/ ) that the statutory cap on H-1B visas is not enforced and that the US government “issues hundreds of thousands of exemptions” that resulted in 755,020 H-1B visas in 2023, 72.3% of them going to citizens of India. He attributes the data to the Department of Homeland Security but does not provide the source or URL.  

My opinion based on what I know at this time is that Anglin was misled by reports on H-1B visa approvals and concluded that all of the annual approvals were for new H-1B visas, which would be a number in violation of law.  As I understand it, the visas are good for six or seven years and must be annually approved to continue. If we take the annual approval for continuation of, say, 6 years of visas, it would come to 85,000 times 6 which comes to 510,000 visa approvals + the 85,000 newly approved visas for a total of 595,000. In other words, not all H-1B visa approvals are annual approvals of new visas. Most are continuations of the old. The articles are not clear about this, and I think misled Anglin.

There are other approvals associated with the visas. I forget what they all are, but perhaps for example a visa holder needs to go home for reasons, say, the death of a parent, and wants to return; a visa holder wants at the end of his six years to apply for a green card; a holder wants his visa extended to 7 years. I am confident that if the government was breaking the cap of H-1B visa issuance, H-1B opponents would have brought a law suit.

The H-1B legislation does not provide the executive branch with authority to override the law limiting the visas. If the US government is actually issuing almost 9 times the number of H-1B visas permitted by law, it would seem to be strong grounds for H-1B opponents to bring a law suit.  I also wonder why Congress would stand aside while the government ignores the law. Is Congress that unconcerned with its authority? It is not characteristic of Washington for people to piss away their power. If Congress wants to make 755,020 H-1B visas annually available, it can do so and collect more campaign contributions as its price.  The caps have been adjusted over the years reaching 195,000 annually during the presidency of George W. Bush, 2.3 times higher than under the open borders Biden regime.

The issue is the existence of the H-1B visa, not its numbers.  The case for the visa is fraudulent.  The visas benefit corporate executives and shareholders at the expense of the prospects of native-born American citizens and change the country’s cultural and racial character.  H-1B visas are helping to transform the United States into a Tower of Babel with an economy dependent on cheap foreign labor for its profits.

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Via https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/05/where-is-trump-when-working-americans-need-him/

Sputnik International

TEHRAN – US threats to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities are a gross violation of international norms, the UN Security Council must hold the US accountable internationally, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei said.

Three days earlier, US media reported, citing three informed sources, that incumbent US President Joe Biden had discussed with his team, in particular with White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, plans to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. Biden ultimately made no final decision on the issue. The discussion was not prompted by new intelligence, but was aimed at working out possible scenarios, the publication’s sources noted.

“This issue has been raised repeatedly. From the point of view of international law, threats to use force by any country are a gross violation of international law and the UN Charter. This issue is doubly a violation of international agreements,” Baghaei said.

This US threat is a threat against the country’s peaceful nuclear infrastructure, he stressed.

“The UN Security Council should intervene and hold the United States internationally accountable for these statements,” Baghaei added.

On January 4, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the Iranian authorities were ready to immediately enter into constructive negotiations with Western countries on their nuclear program if they lead to a new agreement. According to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi, a new round of consultations between Iran and Europe on the nuclear deal will take place on January 13.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20250107/iran-accuses-us-of-violating-un-charter-over-nuclear-facilities-strike-discussions-1121375656.html

By Dmitry Orlov

Trump’s presidential entourage (the term “cabinet” seems rather limited in scope) includes quite an assemblage of billionaires. The list includes Elon Musk ($363 billion), Donald Himself ($6.3 billion), Warren Stephens ($3.4 billion), Linda McMahon ($3 billion), Jared Isaacman ($1.7 billion), Howard Lutnick ($1.5 billion), Doug Burgum ($1.1 billion), Vivek Ramaswamy ($1 billion), Steven Witkoff ($1 billion) and Scott Bessent (fortune unknown, assumed huge). This assemblage of very wealthy individuals seeing political appointments is completely unprecedented in the annals of US presidential administrations.

Musk is the obvious outlier, since he is wealthier than all of the rest combined by a huge margin, but it is notable that they are all billionaires. Why are giant overstuffed bags of money drawn to Trump like moths to the flame? What might motivate them to pick up the fallen flag of government service and march forth? What do they hope to gain? What do they fear to lose?

But first we must answer an even simpler question: Who are these people? Answer: they are filthy rich bastards. Why bastards? That’s simple too: they gained their fortunes over the course of this century — a century during which the US has continuously lost ground. So far over the course of the 21st century China’s industrial production has increased by a factor of 10, along with the fortunes of the Chinese population as a whole, while US industrial production has increased by a factor of 1, growing by a fraction of a percent. If we exclude from consideration the top 1% of Americans (by wealth and income) as an uncharacteristic aberration (they are a country within a country, if you will), the US has grown significantly poorer.

This becomes immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who flies into the US from one of the modern, glittering megalopolises such as Beijing, Moscow or Dubai. The place is old — simply outdated and unfashionable, rather than antique or classic, having been cheaply and hastily put together to start with. It is run down and dirty. The people are cheaply and carelessly dressed and are vulgar, slovenly, often pushy and rude, quick to anger and violence and generally abusive. The food that is widely available to them is too low-quality even for the pig trough. Unsurprisingly, many of them look ill: sallow or pasty-faced and obese to an astounding extent.

Obscenities fly about in public places whether or not there are children present. The children are a special case. They are not like normal children — curious, full of wonder at the amazing world around them and eager to explore it and to make contact with anyone they meet. Rather, they are fearful of strangers, estranged even from their own parents whose parenting often seems half-hearted and disingenuous, and sunk into the meaningless abyss of some digital device that has been thrust into their hands practically from birth as a sort of electronic pacifier. They are poised to remain blinkered, infantile and digitally addicted for the rest of their sad little lives.

And then there are the actual addicts, flopped out inside tents that stretch for many kilometers along major roads, stumbling zombie-like along the sidewalks in search of their next dose of fentanyl or standing slouched over, flopped over on the sidewalk or stumbling about some more once they find it. They are the living dead of American society — people for whom that society no longer finds a purpose except as fodder for government corruption. The government keeps the borders open, giving the drug cartels free reign. The government also prints and hands out money to the addicts which filters back to the drug cartels. The drug cartels then bribe government officials to keep the scheme in operation. The victims of this scheme are not missed: according to government statistics, they barely exist. They are not even unemployed, you see; they are a different category altogether called “not in labor force” and there is over 100 million of these — an entire third of the US population!

Lost Kingdoms of Africa – The Zulu Kingdom

BBC (2013)

Film Review

King Malendela founded the Zulu dynasty in the 17th century. He named his son Zulu (heaven), and their subjects became known as Aman Zulu or people of heaven. Historicaly KwaZulu-Natal, the historical home to the Zulu nation, was a rich grasslands, ideal for pasturing cattle and raising cultivated crops. With the arrival of Europeans, they became heavily involved in trade with the Portuguese, which greatly increased their wealth and power. For the most part they traded ivory and captured slaves for copper, brass, textiles and beads.

Shaka, the 19th century Zulu nation founder, transformed a small network of chieftains into a massive military force. Born in 1780 the oldest son of a Zulu chief, he was sent to a neighboring chiefdom as a child to be trained in statecraft and soldiering.

When inter tribal conflict erupted in the early 1800s, he returned to his family’s tribe, seized the chieftaincy and unified the Zulu tribes. He then enacted compulsory conscription for all males at age 14. At 35, they were allowed to marry as a reward for a successful military career. Zulu society was patriarchal and polygamous.

Under Shaka, the Zulu invented “horns of the buffalo” formation they used to surround their enemies and substituted throwing spoons (daggers), which were more suited for hand to hand contact, for their longer spears. During four years of aggressive regional expansion, the Zulus drove many neighboring tribes off their land. Those who chose not to join the Zulu nation fled to the foothills.

By 1816, Shaka had expanded the area of the Zulu nation from 10 to 12,000 square miles and its population from 3,000 to 250,000. By 1824, the British had settled Durban, the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal and traded textiles and metals for Zulu hides and ivory. In 1828, Shaka was  assassinated by his half-brothers, one of whom (Dingane) seized the throne. In 1836 Dingane and his men clubbed 100 Boer settlers to death for stealing cattle. In the Battle of Blood River,  420 armed Boers retaliated and defeated 25,000-30,000 Zulus. The latter’s short daggers were no match for the Boers’ firearms.

In 1867, the discovery of diamonds and gold in southern African created an insatiable need for labor. Heavy recruitment of Zulus to work in Kimberly’s diamond mines was devastating to their traditional way of life. Driven off their land by Dutch and British settlers, many Zulu natives were forced to leave their families to live in miners barracks 800 miles away.

The Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 was the first major Anglo-Zula military encounter. After invading Zulu territory without consent of the British government, their High Commissioner for Southern Africa suffered a humiliating defeat when the Zulu successfully employed a horn of the buffalo formation to destroy the British camp and kill 1200 troops. Despite having only a few archaic firearms, the Zulu used their superior numbers to overwhelm the British before they could mount a defense.

At their second encounter, the Battle of Rourke’s Drift, 25,000 British troops returned to Zulu territory, where they used a block formation similar to that used by the Boers in the Battle of Blood River. This time 1500 Zulus died, with only 13 British losses. The British supported rivals of the Zulu king, leading to civil war and his capture.

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Jim Hoft

Amish farmer Amos Miller of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been authorized to continue his farming operations following a protracted legal battle with state and federal authorities over the sale of raw milk and other unpasteurized dairy products.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) initiated legal action against Miller, alleging violations of state food safety laws due to the sale of raw milk without the requisite permits.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this year that several government officials stormed into a building on Amos Miller’s Lancaster County organic farm and conducted an illegal hours-long raid without notice, eventually leaving with multiple coolers containing the Amish farmer’s property.

The Lancaster Patriot reported the ‘search’ was performed by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture employees with three Pennsylvania State policemen aiding them.

PDA claimed in the affidavit that Miller failed to file applications from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture “for registration, licensing, or permitting under the pertinent Retail Food Facility Safety Act, Food Safety Act, or Milk Sanitation Laws.”

The Lancaster Patriot obtained footage of the officials executing the search at Miller’s organic farm. In the first video, a Patriot reporter is confronted by a cop and pushed outside once they learn he is a media member.

BREAKING: Footage of search warrant being executed on Amos Miller’s organic farm operations in Lancaster County, PA. (For more info on the ongoing saga, visit: https://t.co/uB5pbpnlhS) pic.twitter.com/U64ft05x0F

— The Lancaster Patriot (@TheLanPatriot) January 4, 2024

Exclusive footage of state agents leaving Amos Miller’s organic farm store, carrying off some of his products. pic.twitter.com/yVAHSmr1WH

— The Lancaster Patriot (@TheLanPatriot) January 4, 2024

A report of seized property provided to Miller revealed the officials seized 37 types of foods, including sour cream, chocolate milk, ice cream, and eggnog. They also took food from a walk-in cooler door, which contains hundreds of items and represents a significant portion of Miller’s products.

In March 2024, Judge Thomas Sponaugle of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas issued an injunction prohibiting Miller from selling raw milk products to the public without a permit.

In October 2024, Amos Miller’s attorney, Robert Barnes, argued in Commonwealth Court in Pittsburgh that the Pennsylvania farmer should be permitted to sell raw milk to out-of-state customers while facing legal action from the state.

Barnes contended that Pennsylvania’s milk regulations are designed to safeguard in-state consumers, and applying these laws to out-of-state sales raises constitutional concerns.

On Friday, Barnes announced on X that the court has allowed Miller to sell his raw milk products to out-of-state customers.

“Big win today for Food Freedom as Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed the trial court decision allowing Amish farmer Amos Miller to continue to make his wonderful food available to customers outside the state. Thank you to everyone who spoke out for Amos!” he wrote.

Big win today for #FoodFreedom as Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania affirmed the trial court decision allowing #Amish farmer #AmosMiller to continue to make his wonderful food available to customers outside the state. Thank you to everyone who spoke out for Amos!

— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) January 4, 2025

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/pennsylvania-court-rules-amish-farmer-amos-miller-can/

Chris Morrison

Last month a small but powerful cyclone named Chido made landfall in Mayotte before sweeping into Mozambique, causing considerable damage and leading to the loss of around 100 lives. Days after the tragedy, the Green Blob-funded Carbon Brief noted that scientists have “long suggested” that climate change is making cyclones worse in the region, while Blob-funded World Weather Attribution (WWA) at Imperial College London made a near-instant and curiously precise estimate that a Chido-like cyclone was about 40% more likely to happen in 2024 than during the pre-industrial age. Not to be outdone, Green Blob-funded cheerleader the Guardian chipped in with the obligatory “cyclones are getting worse because of the climate emergency”. Almost unnoticed, it seems, among all the Net Zero dooming and grooming was a science paper published during December by Nature that found no increase in the destructive power of cyclones – the generic term for typhoons and hurricanes – in any ocean basin over the last 30 years. In the South Indian basin, the location of cyclone Chido, there was a dramatic decrease in both frequency and duration in recent times.

Reality rarely gets much of a look-in these days when fanatical Net Zero activism is afoot, but the paper, written by a group of Chinese meteorologists, makes its case by considering the facts and the data. The scientists apply a “power dissipation index” (PDI) which they consider superior to single measure indicators since it combines storm intensity, duration and frequency. The graphs below show the cumulative index for tropical cyclones across all ocean basins along with a global indication.

Downward trends in the cumulative PDI can be seen in a number of Pacific regions, while the trend holds steady in the North Atlantic. The southern Indian ocean downward trend is particularly pronounced while the overall global line is also heading in a similar direction.

So why does all this scientific twaddle get written by the  green activists in mainstream media? Much of it arises from the new pseudoscience that claims it can tie individual weather events to human-caused climate change. Press releases peddling climate Armageddon are issued days after a natural disaster and are eagerly reprinted by activist journalists promoting the Net Zero fantasy. The distinguished science writer Roger Pielke Jr. is a fierce critic of this new pseudoscience, which he calls weather attribution alchemy. In a recent Substack post in the aftermath of Chido, he noted that the WWA at Imperial College simply assumes the conclusion that it seeks to prove by accepting that every storm is made stronger because of warmer oceans. Using this explanation, continues Pielke, it is straightforward to conclude that the storm was made more likely due to climate change. Or as Imperial states: “The difference in the storm intensity and likelihood of this storm intensity between the counterfactual climate and today’s climate can be attributed to climate change.”

As the new Chinese paper shows, the matter is not quite so simple. Pielke notes that tropical storms encounter numerous environmental influences such as vertical wind shear and storm-induced ocean surface cooling, even when they remain over warmer waters. “Such complexities mean that simple storyline attribution – warmer oceans predictably mean stronger storms – is inappropriate when used to characterise the behaviour of individual storms,” he argues. Pielke also comes down hard on the statistical evidence backing the WWA claims. Even if storms such as Chido were more likely in the future, it would take a very long time to detect a significant change using the threshold 90% confidence set down by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And by very long time, he means thousands of years.

“Perhaps that is why assumptions are favoured over evidence,” suggests Pielke.

There were plenty of assumptions on display in a now routine end-of-year weather report from the BBC headed: ‘A year of extreme weather that challenged billions.‘ Written by Esme Stallard, it claims that record-breaking heat brought extreme weather including hurricanes and month-long droughts. Pride of place is given to Dr. Friederike Otto, lead of WWA and Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at Imperial, who claimed: “We are living in a dangerous new era – extreme weather caused unrelenting suffering.” “The impacts of fossil fuel warming has never been clear or more devastating than in 2024,” she added.

The redoubtable Paul Homewood is unimpressed with Stallard’s opening line about increasing extreme weather and has filed a complaint with the BBC. Stallard goes on to list a handful of random events, “but fails to provide any evidence that these are anything other than natural events which happen all the time”, states Homewood. “Nor is any evidence provided that such events have been getting more frequent or extreme over time,” he adds.

The BBC story highlighted typhoons in the Philippines as well as hurricane Beryl and stated that such events may be increasing in intensity due to climate change. Official data do not show any evidence of them becoming more powerful over time, notes Homewood. Much play was made of a recent drought in the Amazon, but Homewood points out that the World Bank Climate Portal reveals that rainfall has increased in the area by 5% over the last 30 years. Throughout the report, observes Homewood, the BBC bases its claims on weather attribution computer models. “However, computer models are not evidence, and can be manipulated to provide whatever results are desired. That is why they are widely derided by the wider scientific community,” he states.

For Roger Pielke, extreme weather attributions are “puzzling”. The most charitable explanation for their proliferation is that there is a demand for them, including from many in the media. The demand will be filled by someone, he concludes. “A less charitable explanation is that there is a systematic effort underway to contest and undermine actual climate science, including the assessments of the IPCC, in order to present a picture of reality that is simply false in support of climate advocacy. We might call that pseudo-scientific gaslighting,” he suggests.

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Via https://dailysceptic.org/2025/01/04/climate-bombshell-new-evidence-reveals-30-year-global-drop-in-hurricane-frequency-and-power/

Paul Sarran

It’s no wonder the failed German coalition led by outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz is such a train wreck: at the same time that they want to lecture the world on their failed Globalist policies and prejudices, they wanted to jump the gun and be one of the first states to send top-level officials to engage with the ‘moderate’ new Islamist Syrian rulers – and they sent a woman to try to do the job, FM Annalena Baerbock..

Rarely was a disaster so predictable.

BILD reported (translated from German):

“Annalena Baerbock’s visit to Syria on Friday has another aftermath: In Damascus, the new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa did not shake hands with the Federal Foreign Minister at first – unlike her male companions.

Now comes the next discrimination: Islamist news channels from the environment of the new rulers spread photos of Baerbock’s visit – and censor the German politician in the process!”

Baerbock then met new Syrian ruler Ahmad al-Sharaa also did not shake hands with the Minister.

But things were about to get even worse:

“The news channel Almharar distributed photos on Telegram in which the Federal Foreign Minister was made unrecognizable by obfuscation.”

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/moderate-new-islamist-rulers-syria-publicly-humiliate-german/

The Peoples Voice

Bill Gates has announced plans to mass vaccinate anti-vaxxers using flying mosquitoes carrying the new bird flu mRNA vaccine.

The Gates initiative is being conducted by researchers at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands.  The goal is to mass vaccinate the planet by using these mosquitoes to administer vaccines “with or without public consent.”

Expose-news.com reports: Critics have raised concerns about safety, informed consent and unintended ecological impacts.

In November 2024 a study by Leiden University Medical Center  (“LUMC”) was published in the New England Journal of Medicine which concluded that mosquitoes could be used as “flying vaccinators.”

According to the paper, the study was “supported by a donation from the Bontius Foundation.” This doesn’t tell us very much as the Bontius Foundation, also known as Bontius Stichting LUMC Research Foundation, funds and supports finding additional funding for scientific research at LUMC.

However, for years the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has supported LUMC’s research.  The Foundation granted LUMC   $1,578,317 in September 2023  and another $2,287,871 in November 2024 for its malaria programme.

In LUMC’s study, 43 adults aged 19 to 35 with no prior malaria history were divided into three groups. Each group received bites from mosquitoes carrying either the GA2 parasite, the GA1 parasite or no parasite (placebo).

The participants underwent three rounds of vaccination by mosquito, spaced 28 days apart. Three weeks after the final round, all participants were exposed to malaria through bites from infected mosquitoes. The results showed that eight out of nine participants in the GA2 group were successfully protected against malaria, compared to only one out of eight in the GA1 group and none in the placebo group.

The Dutch researchers now seek to replicate their results in a larger human trial.

While it is claimed this method shows promise in combating malaria, it has raised ethical concerns regarding informed consent and medical safety. Critics argue that bypassing traditional vaccination methods and consent procedures could be ethically unacceptable and set a dangerous precedent.

The concept of using mosquitoes as “flying vaccinators” is not new. In 2010, Japanese researcher Shigeto Yoshida modified mosquito saliva to deliver leishmania vaccines to mice, noting that vaccination by insect could be painless and cost-effective. However, Yoshida also acknowledged that medical safety issues and concerns about informed consent mitigate the use of this method for vaccine delivery.

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