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Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.

Elite Fly 400 Private Jets to COP27, Sponsored by Largest Plastic Polluter in World, To Lecture YOU About Climate

By Matt Agorist

Free Thought Project

“The world is literally burning because of you,” according to the world’s elite who produce more pollution in a few hours than most people make all year.

Currently in Egypt, the world’s elite are meeting at the international climate summit, COP27. Political leaders and billionaires from around the planet are gathering at the luxurious beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to pat themselves on the back for “fighting climate change.” In true elitist fashion, the hypocrisy at the event is palpable and on full display.

The same folks who take to their podiums and constantly play the role of Chicken Little to blame humanity for the destruction of the planet are flying hundreds of private jets across the world to do so. A source with the Egyptian aviation authorities told AFP that “more than 400 private jets landed in the past few days in Egypt.”

“There was a meeting ahead of COP27, and officials were expecting those jets and made some arrangements in Sharm el-Sheikh airport to welcome those planes,” the source said.

The average private jet emits roughly 2 metric tons of carbon for every 60 minutes of flight. To put this into perspective, these same people flying on these jets want you to leave only a 2-metric ton carbon footprint for the entire year. Given that these folks likely spent many hours in the air to make it to the summit, they single-handedly emitted more carbon in 24 hours than many folks will emit in the next decade.

And they did so — to lecture you about how you are making the world “literally burn.”

But that’s not all. These elite hypocrites also invited the largest plastic polluter in the world to sponsor the summit. Coca-Cola, as the NY Times points out, “was named the world’s leading polluter of plastics in 2021, and has increased its use of new plastics since 2019 by 3 percent to 3.2 million tons, according to an annual report issued this month by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.”

Talking about this sort of issue is not acceptable according to the elite. This is why Climate Action Against Disinformation came out ahead of the jet story and used a straw man of a fake post in Spanish using an image of private jets in Vegas to discredit the hypocrisy. Though it was not effective, the information wars continue.

Earlier this year, the private executives at Google partnered up with the intergovernmental organization, the United Nations, in order to control the flow of information on the internet. This partnership was designed to guide users to “authoritative information” when they look up “climate change.”

“We are happy to collaborate with Google to ensure that factual, trustworthy content about climate change is available to as wide a global audience as possible,” said Melissa Fleming, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications. “Misinformation is so widespread these days that it threatens progress and understanding on many critical issues, including climate. The need for accurate, science-based information on a subject like climate change to rise to the top of searches has therefore never been greater.”

There is no shortage of misinformation on climate change out there on the internet but who is Google to decide what we can and cannot see? But maybe that’s the point. Maybe Google doesn’t want you to look behind the curtain at the world’s largest polluters — who happen to be major climate activists, like Google.

Last year, Google launched a climate initiative to help us lowly peasant class reduce our carbon footprint. Inaccurately laying the blame for carbon pollution on the individual, Google is engaging in a disingenuous practice that is common among elite mega-corporations like the one sponsoring COP27.

Though collectively, individual humans certainly add to pollution, the individual is statistically blameless. A single person’s carbon footprint is essentially non-existent compared to the likes of massive corporations and even single elite individuals who own private jets and fly around the planet to scold us about pollution.

This is an extremely inconvenient truth for those who stand at their pulpits and demean the common folks for causing global warming — while they literally create more carbon in just hours than most people do in an entire year. Lest we forget, these are the same people telling us to eat bugs.

It is important to note that the Free Thought Project is not advocating for or against climate change — we are not climate scientists. However, we most certainly think that it is a topic worthy of discussion and research but never government force and undoubtedly ripe for exposing hypocrisy.

Via https://thefreethoughtproject.com/be-the-change/elite-fly-400-private-jets-to-cop27-sponsored-by-largest-plastic-polluter-in-world-to-lecture-you-about-climate

Twitter Blue Most Effective Anti-Capitalist Tool Ever … A Hilarious Disaster

 

@BradBlank on 15th Nov 2022 via thefreeonline

Elon Musk’s takeover has been a hilarious disaster

Tons of impersonators posed as prominent public figures. We saw the fake accounts of George W. Bush and Tony Blair lament that they miss killing Iraqis; meanwhile, someone pretending to be OJ Simpson admitted to murder. Twitter was stormed by imposters pretending to be Blair and Bush after blue tick change Fake PM and President cheered Iraq War while other users opened accounts as Fred West and the company Nintendo

If you’re anything like me then you hate billionaires. In fact, more than that, you also really, really hate the corporations that dominate our day-to-day life.

The ongoing controversy surrounding social media platform Twitter, particularly its now-defunct ‘Blue’ paid verification scheme, is embarrassing the world’s richest man and causing large multinationals to lose tens of billions in market capitalization.

At the end of October, billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk completed a $44-million deal to take over Twitter. He immediately cut thousands of jobs, including many in the communications department and from high-ranking positions in charge of trust and safety.

Then Twitter Blue, a service that provides official verification for an $8-per-month fee, was rolled out. Chaos ensued after that and the service was suspended.

To be specific, tons of impersonators posed as prominent public figures.

We saw the fake accounts of George W. Bush and Tony Blair lament that they miss killing Iraqis; meanwhile, someone pretending to be OJ Simpson admitted to murder.

But what was more consequential was the fact that large brands were impersonated.

For instance, an account claiming to be pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co said the company was giving away free insulin and immediately plunged its stocks. An account supposedly representing Lockheed Martin also said it was halting weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US pending human-rights investigations. The weapons contractor also saw its stocks crater in response to these tweets.

The list goes on. Companies like Chiquita, American Girl, Roblox, BP and Tesla, as well as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) were impersonated by Twitter users and made controversial statements.

These ranged from praising apartheid in Israel to saying that a fruit company had overthrown Brazil’s government.

For its part, Twitter is in hot water over this situation. That’s obviously why it suspended its verification system, and, at the same time, Elon Musk has said the company could face bankruptcy in the near future.

There’s no doubt that the social media platform has lost significant value since the Tesla CEO’s takeover, probably to the tune of several billion. The roll-out of Twitter Blue was a predictable disaster that posed serious challenges to advertisers, clearly, which is why they’ve bounced from the social media platform.

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Via https://thefreeonline.com/2022/11/15/twitter-blue-was-the-most-effective-anti-capitalist-tool-ever/

America: Broken By Digital Hallucinogens

A look at the vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines – Boston 25 News

Dr Naomi Wolf

On An Election-Count Night, A Once-Great Nation is Spun by the Same Digital Tricksters Who Brought Us “The Pandemic”

This is the eve after a broken election, as broken machines count broken vote tallies, and as broken media “calls” outcomes. Everyone in legacy media is waiting “for AP to call the outcome,” which is sadly hilarious, given that AP has a Memorandum of Understanding that it won’t disclose fully to our Congress, with the news agency Xinhua, the CCP’s chief propaganda arm.

Treasonous media call a treasonous election process. [https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-response-to-questions-about-recent-xinhua-meeting]

In my own state, New York, the opposition candidate conceded, to my disgust, when there were still 1.4 million uncounted votes. [https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/lee-zeldin-to-concede-to-kathy-hochul-in-2022-ny-gov-race-campaign/] Why? Well, “NBC called” it – the day before. [https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/lee-zeldin-to-concede-to-kathy-hochul-in-2022-ny-gov-race-campaign/]

All those voters were disenfranchised.

The Statue of Liberty holds up her torch in the dark harbor, disregarded. It’s pretty much Moscow on the Hudson here.

CNN calls people who try to count the vote, as our forefathers intended, “election deniers” and worse. A Presidential candidate who has already made history once, is teasing a new announcement tonight as I write, and most of our legacy digital press has already consigned him to the trash bin of history before he has opened his mouth to speak. Facebook has already called him “off limits.” [https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/facebook-fact-check-donald-trump/index.html]

I may not like the former President, myself, but I know that that is not how our system is supposed to work. I want to hear what he has to say. He is a former American President. When former or current American Presidents are consigned to the trash bin of history by the digital press, the digital press is also spitting on and trampling, essentially, the American flag, as they are are thus befouling the will of half of the people.

All of this corruption and nasty trashing of our cherished ideals and symbols as Americans during an election, is taking place in a techie echo chamber in which human physical verifiable choice has been abandoned.

We have been here before, I shall argue.

Electronic “vote totals,” via electronic machines, with no underlying physical correlates “irl” (in real life), ping-pong their way to digital media announcements, which in turn are also taking place without any “irl” correlates. The physical reporters have not observed the physical vote; it’s all digital hearsay. These news stories (or “conjectures”) in turn bounce back again to inform those waiting for the mountingly dramatic announcements, which are being made periodically, by unaccountable election officials.

These guys in turn come forward to talk to the digital press, but they emerge out of dark centralized facilities from which media observers have been excluded.

But…

Where are the totals? How do we check them? How does the reporter transcribing the announcement from Arizona, from Nevada, check them? How do we know that any of this is true?

As I explained in my essay about how electronic machines can cheat so, so very easily, we can’t check the vote — not without the code and our own developers — and the reporters there also cannot check the vote [https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/proposed-the-optional-end-to-the].

The reporters, if they are not technical, do not even know what to ask.

The people who voted can’t check the votes. The judges, if it ever came to a lawsuit, scarcely understand how to ask to check the totals.

The painstaking counting of paper ballots in the light of public scrutiny, by diligent middle aged ladies (for the most part) in sweaters and glasses, all of this observed in turn by diligent citizens, that I remember so vividly from 2000, and indeed from every election up until a decade ago, is no more.

The officials, the machines and the media are asking us all, voters as well as media, to take their word for what they have to say.

It’s all meta.

Added to the metaphysical nature of digital voting software and the utterly unverifiable nature of statements from election officials in a digital environment, we also have psycho new forms of gaslighting and spin. I watched, appalled, for the past few days, clicking around on news sites, trying to find out — “Who won the House?” “Who won the Senate?”

Google was having a field day. And the answers were in the hands of — Google.

Local newspapers have been killed off, over the past decade, intentionally, by digital consortia, who use local news as a proxy to harvest digital data for advertising. The death of the real, physical Detroit Free Press or the real, physical Bangor Daily News — to be replaced by digital versions of these brands, relying on digital wire services — means that citizens’ access to information as basic as “Who won?” “Who won the election? Who won my state? Who won my county?” is dependent on the very people — the Tech Bros — who (as we saw in the America First Legal FOIAs [https://aflegal.org/afl-lawsuit-reveals-damning-cdc-documents-proving-government-collusion-with-big-tech-to-censor-free-speech-and-promote-biden-administration-propaganda-2/] and the Judicial Watch FOIAs and the lawsuits by the ACRU https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/white-house-big-tech-colluded-to-censor-misinformation-lawsuit/https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/white-house-big-tech-colluded-to-censor-misinformation-lawsuit/), have corrupt and illegally collusive relationships with – gosh; the party of the incumbents.

These are the same folks who fooled you massively, once already in recent history.

So as you, poor citizen, are just trying to find out who is now running your precinct or county or state or nation, Google will show you authoritative digital “electoral” maps of red and blue — see above — the exact same kinds of digital “live update” maps with which Google and Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg lied and lied from 2020-2022 (and may now be lying still) about COVID infection levels and deaths. [https://datastudio.google.com/embed/reporting/1IGJbq6g0dTvhzF-njOKHb9giasP7SaFv/page/KecHB]

These electoral maps that Google offers as “authoritative”, like the COVID maps of 2020-2022 that deluded us into murdering our economy and abusing our kids, are not authoritative at all.

The Google electoral maps are not government data, for a starter.

If you look at the fine print (and if you know for what to look), you see that these are third party, highly corrupted data streams.

The Google electoral maps identify the source of their information as “Associated Press”.

And if you look more closely at the AP “calls”, you will see that AP will call a state when barely half the votes are in. And — as with the COVID maps of recent debacles — you cannot see the underlying datasets.

And as Google and AP do this — “call” elections with no verifiable proof to voters — the poor candidate who has been designated by Google and AP and the tech bros, though with zero actual physical evidence for voters to check for themselves, as the “loser,” faces endless calls from donors and media and party hacks, to concede.

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Via https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/america-broken-by-digital-hallucinogens

Chaotic scenes in southern Chinese city as Covid curbs fuel unrest

The Guardian

According to videos widely shared on Twitter, hundreds cheered as they charged through the streets in Haizhu district in chaotic scenes in southwestern Guangzhou on Monday night. In one piece of footage, protesters overturned a police car.

Local police declined to comment when contacted by the Guardian. “I cannot answer your question,” a staff member at the Datang police station in Haizhu district said on Tuesday.

Guangzhou, home to nearly 19 million people, has been the centre of Covid outbreaks in China, with the number of cases surging in recent days. Daily infections of Covid-19 in the city have topped 5,000 for the first time, leading to speculation that localised lockdowns could widen.

Tensions had been mounting in Haizhu district – home to dozens of wholesale textile markets and thousands of small businesses that employ tens of thousands of migrant workers from elsewhere in China – after the authorities placed it under lockdown this month. The restrictions came as workers scrambled to meet production goals to guarantee supplies for an online shopping festival on 11 November.

Before public anger boiled over on Monday night, residents and business owners had been skirting government curbs by venturing outside their locked down districts and smuggling their goods out, according to an official at the Guangzhou health commission early this month, who denounced the illegal activities.

Radio Free Asia reported that disgruntled workers also protested in several nearby industrial hubs, including Kangle, also in Haizhu district, and Tangxia, in Tianhe district.

A number of posts on China’s social media platform Weibo blamed the protesters, who were mainly migrant workers from Hubei province, for the “rioting”, but one user noted that the arbitrary lockdowns of residences and the barring of migrant workers from returning home in the protracted Covid restrictions over almost three years were “driving people mad” and said some workers had killed themselves.

Last month, a Covid outbreak at a Foxconn factory that makes Apple iPhones in Zhengzhou, central China, prompted a large number of workers to flee and slowed iPhone production.

On Tuesday, China reported 17,772 new local Covid-19 infections for 14 November, up from 16,072 a day earlier and the most since April. The Guangzhou health commission reported 5,124 Covid-19 cases as of Monday, of which 4,977 were asymptomatic. Officials also said on Tuesday that they plan more temporary hospitals in addition to the six that have been built that have 20,000 beds, mainly for observation of infected people without symptoms.

The chaos in Guangzhou was the latest outburst of frustration over restrictions that have involved frequent lockdowns and enforced quarantines under China’s “dynamic zero Covid” policy, which the authorities say has saved lives. Many cities have scaled back routine testing after the government announced measures last Friday to lift some of the rules to alleviate economic pressures and cool public discontent.

[…]

Via https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/15/covid-curbs-fuel-unrest-in-southern-chinese-city-video-shows

Australian Health Officials Reject Third Booster for All Ages

Australian health officials today said they will not make any changes to their existing recommendations for COVID-19 boosters — meaning they won’t recommend a third booster (fifth dose) for any age group, despite rising case and hospitalization numbers.

 

Australian health officials today said they will not make any changes to their existing recommendations for COVID-19 boosters — meaning they won’t recommend a third booster (fifth dose) for any age group, despite rising case and hospitalization numbers.

In a press conference today, Health Minister Mark Butler said the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (ATAGI) largely based its decision on evidence from a recent COVID-19 wave in Singapore, where severe disease and death were rare among people who received at least two vaccine doses.

Butler noted that cases in Australia have risen 47% in the last week, but remain 85% below the previous peak in July. He added that “any reduction in transmission by adding a fifth dose to the system would, in their [ATAGI’s] words, likely be minimal.”

ATAGI Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly supported the decision, stating the Singapore case suggested the current wave would peak quickly and then cases would drop off.

But according to Dr. Robert W. Malone, Australian health officials failed to mention the extensive data demonstrating that recovery of unvaccinated patients following COVID-19 infection “confers superior, long-lasting protection from disease and death,” making it likely that those with “natural immunity” will also continue to be protected.

Australian health officials also didn’t address data showing that recipients of multiple mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccines account for the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths associated with COVID-19 infections, Malone said.

Malone told The Defender:

“A reasonable conclusion from all of this is that, despite widespread promotion of COVID fearporn by corporate media, the currently circulating Omicron variants are not a major public health threat based on recent data from Singapore’s experience with these variants, and the side effect risks of additional boosting overwhelmingly outweigh the disease risks of the currently circulating variants.”

Also today, ATAGI approved the Pfizer bivalent vaccine for use as an alternative to any existing mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for people ages 18 and up.

Does the recommendation indicate a shifting strategy?

Dr. Lucas de Toca, head of the federal Department of Health’s primary care response to COVID-19, said in a Senate estimates hearing last week that although ATAGI continues to review evidence and trends related to vaccine approval, the technical advisory group is focusing on increasing vaccine coverage among groups eligible for existing boosters.

ATAGI member Allen Cheng, Ph.D., also acknowledged that the risk of myocarditis and the lack of benefit from additional boosters meant that the recommended vaccine schedule for younger people is unlikely to change.

“Vaccinations are beneficial and protective even for younger people but the more doses you get the less benefit you derive from them and then we start to worry about causing side effects,” Cheng said.

Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/australia-rejects-3rd-covid-vaccine-booster/

Coincidence? Zelensky Calls for Peace Just Days After FTX Is Caught Funneling Millions of Ukrainian Aide Dollars to US Democrats

Blogging Hounds

The CEO of now-bankrupt FTX admitted that FTX was nothing more than a laundromat for the Ukrainian government.

TGP previously reported that the now-bankrupt FTX was transferring international funding to FTX and then laundering money back from Ukraine to the Democrat Party.

On Sunday The Gateway Pundit posted an interview where Bankman-Fried admitted that FTX was laundering money for the Ukrainian government.

(Video)

Bankman-Fried was the second largest donor for Democrats this last election cycle, only behind megadonor George Soros. Bankman Fried gave at least $38 million to $40 million to Democrats, leftist causes, PACs, and candidates, Fox News reported.

Bankman-Fried floated the idea of spending upwards of $1 billion in the 2024 presidential election if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.

The billions of dollars that the US sent to Ukraine over the past two decades need to be audited and investigated. 

And, just like that… On Monday Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky called for peace with Russia.

President Zelensky: “We are ready for peace, peace for our entire country.”

(Video)

Probably just a coincidence?

It’s time for peace.

(Video)

[…]

Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2022/11/14/coincidence-zelensky-calls-for-peace-just-days-after-ftx-is-caught-funneling-millions-of-ukrainian-aide-dollars-to-us-democrats/

US Medical System Collapsing after Mass Exodus of Doctors and Nurses

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by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

I’m a practicing ER nurse of 25 years. The amount of blood clots, strokes, cardiac events like myocarditis/pericarditis, Bell’s Palsy, shingles, etc. that I’ve seen since the vaccine rollout is more than I’ve ever seen in the previous 23.5 years combined.

I don’t know how anyone can’t be frightened by what we are seeing. When I try to discuss this with my coworkers, they turn their heads and look downcast, but will rarely speak.

I think it’s because like me, they feel betrayed for following the narrative, but unlike me they won’t open their eyes and speak out (they’re afraid for their careers and also are scared to death that their bodies are ticking time bombs). It’s easier to ignore than to acknowledge. – Susan Pace, Medscape

The fact that there is a crisis in the U.S. medical system is not in dispute, as even the corporate media has been covering this since 2021, as many hospital Emergency Rooms across the U.S. have either closed down completely, or reduced their hours, due to lack of staffing.

One of the most recent closings happened at Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center in Southwest Atlanta, a predominantly Black community. (Source.)

Earlier this month (November 2022) a group of medical organizations that include the American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association warned President Biden that hospital emergency departments were reaching a “breaking point” as they deal with influxes of patients seeking beds that are not available.

“Our nation’s safety net is on the verge of breaking beyond repair; EDs are gridlocked and overwhelmed with patients waiting — waiting to be seen; waiting for admission to an inpatient bed in the hospital; waiting to be transferred to psychiatric, skilled nursing, or other specialized facilities; or, waiting simply to return to their nursing home,” the groups said in their letter to Biden. (Source.)

A report from commercial intelligence company Definitive Healthcare earlier this month stated that 334,000 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other clinicians left the workforce in 2021.

Physicians experienced the largest loss, with 117,000 professionals leaving the workforce in 2021, followed by nurse practitioners, with 53,295 departures, and physician assistants, with 22,704 departures. About 22,000 physical therapists also left the healthcare workforce and 15,500 licensed clinical social workers, according to a report from commercial intelligence company Definitive Healthcare.

Among physician specialties, the biggest declines were seen within internal medicine, family practice and emergency medicine fields. “Like clinicians and registered nurses, providers in these three specialties frequently worked on the frontlines during the pandemic, risking exposure and facing many of the same pressures and stressors as described earlier,” the report authors wrote.

In 2021, 15,000 internal medicine doctors left the workforce, followed by 13,015 providers who left family practice and 10,874 who left clinical psychology.

Definitive Healthcare’s report leverages data from more than 2 million physicians and nurses, 9,200 hospitals and IDNs and 128,000 physician groups. (Source.)

While statistics for 2022 are not available yet as the year has not yet finished, a survey conducted back in March this year revealed that one third of the nation’s nurses were planning on leaving their jobs in 2022. (Source.)

Becker Hospital Review reported today that cash reserves, an important indicator of financial stability, are dropping for hospitals and health systems across the U.S. (Source.) Fewer staff to treat patients equals less customers which leads to lost revenue.

These are facts that nobody is disputing.

However, when we look at the reasons why these medical staff have left their jobs, there appear to be certain reasons that are not allowed to be mentioned or discussed in the corporate news media. The usual reasons that corporate news media give, which are heavily funded by Big Pharma, are: “retirement, burnout and pandemic-related stressors.”

What is never addressed, however, is how many of these medical professionals, most of whom were mandated to take the experimental COVID-19 vaccines, have died or were disabled following the COVID-19 shots.

As we have previously reported, sources in Canada have already found over 80 doctors who have died following the COVID-19 shots. See:

80 Canadian Doctors DEAD Following COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates as Death Toll Continues to Rise

The other reason that is never reported in the corporate news, is the emotional and mental state of medical professionals who still work in the system, and who have come to realize what these deadly shots actually do, but are too afraid to speak out.

Fortunately, some have dared to speak out, such as nurse Susan Pace who I quoted at the beginning of this article from a forum for medical professionals on Medscape. This forum is a rare place on the Internet where medical professionals have spoken out on the injuries and deaths following the COVID-19 shots, as medical professionals were among the first to be injected with these experimental “vaccines,” and many have gone there to look for help in overcoming their injuries.

We covered many of their testimonies in June of last year:

Censored in the Corporate Media Hundreds of Medical Professionals Speak Out on Medscape Forum Warning about Dangers of COVID Injections

The Conejo Guardian, an independent news organization in Ventura County, California, has also given a voice to some of these medial professionals who have spoken out regarding the injuries they have seen following

California Nurses Blow Whistle on “Overwhelming” Numbers of Heart Attacks, Clotting, Strokes as Doctors Refuse to Blame Vaccines for Fear of Losing Their Medical License

California Nurse: “I Want People to Know What I Lost to this Vaccine – I am Living a Nightmare, It’s Not Worth it.”

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/the-u-s-medical-system-is-collapsing-after-mass-exodus-of-doctors-and-nurses/

The Ming Empire and the Defeat of the Mongols

Hongwu Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life & Achievements

Hongwu

Episode 35: The Rise of the Ming

Foundations of Eastern Civilization

Dr Craig Benjamin (2013)

Film Review

Manchu* leader Hongwu, who led led the successful uprising against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, became the first Ming emperor in 1368. One of only three peasants to become emperor, Hongwu endeavored to obliterate all evidence of Yuan rule. Under his influence, the Chinese nobility gave up Yuan names and supported a renewed emphasis on classical (Zhou Dynasty) history and Confucianism. The Ming emperors also rebuilt the Great Wall (to thwart further nomad incursions), which fell into disrepair during the Southern Song Dynasty (see The Industrial Revolution of the Song Dynasty).

There was a steady decline in China’s military and naval prowess under the Ming. During the 1440s the Mongols returned to decimate several Ming armies, and in 1445, they capture the Ming emperor.

Led astray by powerful and corrupt eunuchs, it was typical for Ming emperor to withdraw into the Forbidden City, where all his daily activities were carefully choreographed with much pomp and ceremony. There he enjoyed hundreds of concubines while thousands of eunuchs ran the country.

Under the Ming, no commoners were allowed to wear clothing similar to the emperor’s or even use the written characters in his name. Commoners had to kowtoi (kneeling three times with nine successive head knockings) in his presence, and flogging and other harsh legalist** punishments were common.

Civil unrest increased greatly during the 17th century, when the Ming government proved too inept to organize food relief during several severe famines. Eventually Manchu nomads from Manchuria joined forces with civilian dissidents. In 1644 ruling eunuchs failed to inform the last Ming emperor Zhu Youjian of the approach of the rebel army’s approach until it was too late for Zhu to rally his military forces. After killing most of his family, Youjian hanged himself.


*The Manchu were a nomadic East Asian ethnic group originating in Manchuria. In modern China, they are an officially recognized minority ethnic group.

**See Great Ideas of the Zhou: Legalism

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5808608/5808683

Abolish Electronic Voting Equipment

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Ashe in America

As Americans fixated on election malfeasance this week, the Department of Justice quietly dropped the charges against alleged Chinese spy and US election company CEO Eugene Yu.

Demand Congress Abolish Electronic Voting Equipment!

As a reminder, the exact language in the criminal complaint filed by Los Angeles County encapsulates the severity of the matter:

“On or about October 10, 2019, through October 4, 2022, Eugene Yu and other employees at Konnech, Inc. were providing these services to Los Angeles County using third-party contractors based in China…Konnech employees known and unknown sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with creating and fixing Konnech’s internal ‘PollChief’ software.”

True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were arrested prior to the midterms for their refusal to disclose a confidential informant which, they contend, would violate their agreement with the federal government.

During Tuesday’s midterm, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and even Texas experienced “glitches” with their electronic voting equipment that impacted Election Day turnout. While the polls were open, videos and reports of local election officials assuring voters that their votes would count – despite the numerous issues – were circulated across these states.

Emergency lawsuits to address these issues were quickly and unceremoniously dismissed. Maricopa is still counting the votes and slow-rolling updates to the public.

As results came in across the nation, familiar algorithmic controls showed the margins maintained, from batch to batch. In the Pennsylvania Senate Race and the New Mexico gubernatorial race, vote totals inexplicably went down in several batches. It remains unclear – since 2020 – how batch totals can go down on election night. This is just ignored since the establishment has no way of explaining it.

While everyone is exhausted, now is the time to press for answers on all the fraud that looks like fraud but “totally isn’t fraud.” Answers other than, “Because we said so, election denier!”

We must abolish electronic voting equipment and return to local control of our elections. Voting in person, on election day, showing ID with paper ballots and precinct-level counting is how we restore election integrity.

Demand Congress Abolish Electronic Voting Equipment!


Here is today’s letter to Congress.

ATTENTION CONGRESS:

The results of the 2022 midterm defy logic. They are literally unbelievable. We don’t believe them.

When Congress passed the “Help America Vote Act” (HAVA) of 2002, you paved the way for the creation of a massive industry focused on “helping” our elections. What predictably resulted is that American elections are now a for profit enterprise – and it’s completely outsourced, even to our foreign adversaries. That’s how you helped America vote.

You still gaslight us that it’s safe and secure, efficient and accurate. You want us to trust you. We don’t. You have to prove you’re trustworthy. You have to try and rebuild our trust.

This is the moment when you stand in the gap for the American people and demand machine-free elections – or you step aside.

Elections belong to the People.

DEMAND FOR REMEDY: Abolish Electronic Voting Equipment

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”

Remember Your Oath.

Demand Congress Abolish Electronic Voting Equipment!

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Via https://asheinamerica.com/2022/11/13/abolish-electronic-voting-equipment/

So, Ukraine was a money laundering operation all along?

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Via https://talesfromtheloublog.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/so-ukraine-was-a-money-laundering-operation-all-along/