Month: December 2022

In George Orwell’s 1984 those in charge were actively trying to change history. Anything that went contrary to what they were pushing was erased … expunged from any available records. Is what the FDA is now saying a modern version of the same thing that transpired in Orwell’s book?

Remember my old friend Ivermectin, which for whatever reason, the FDA strongly frowned upon. 

On their website the FDA stated that Ivermectin “can interact with other drugs, like blood thinners.” ( As can multiple other drugs!)

The FDA also said, “you can also overdose on Ivermectin.” ( Basically, one can overdose on just about any drug.) 

Back in August, 2021 the FDA tweeted: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” ( Could it be that the FDA was not aware that it is not suggested that a human take a drug in a dose that is recommended for animals!) 

In Texas Boyden Gray & Associates filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of three doctors who allege that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) illegally interfered with their doctor–patient relationships, resulting in harm. They also claim that the FDA broke the law when the agency issued statements prohibiting the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

In response to the lawsuit, lawyers for the FDA claimed that its guidance for people to “stop” taking ivermectin for COVID-19 was informal and just a recommendation; as such, they weren’t mandating against it.

From the Epoch Times:

In an interview that aired on NTD’s “Newsmakers” on Nov. 23, Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, confirmed that the FDA did, indeed, take an “unprecedented” approach against ivermectin and said that their defense amounts to the FDA trying to rewrite COVID-19 history.

Orwellian ? Hmmm!

When asked why the FDA was attempting to rewrite history by stating that its guidance against ivermectin was a recommendation only, Atlas said that the rewrite on ivermectin is just the beginning.

“What we’re seeing is a complete Orwellian rewrite of all kinds of things during this pandemic,” Atlas told NTD. “Many colleagues of mine were always saying the truth will prevail. And once the truth comes out, that some of these drugs were either useful or safe …  there’s a lot of ‘cover your behind.’”

Further, Atlas said, there’s an overall “Orwellian rewrite of what the advice was on a bigger picture.”

He pointed out that Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House COVID-19 response coordinator, claims that she opposed lockdowns, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, claims he opposed school closings.

The difference between what happened in Orwell’s 1984 and what is being attempted now in 2022 is that now the Internet and YouTube record just about everything that one says and does. This makes it impossible to actually manipulate/change/expunge what the FDA, etcetera said and did during the Covid pandemic.

12/14/22

This week I am going to continue to repeat actual science about “global warming,” taken from a long piece in Rip’s Newsletter by Terry M. Campbell. To continue:

“All major temperature variances are caused by the following physical cycles, each cycle containing all of the previous cycles: 1st cycle (24-hour or one-day-cycle – rotating): This first weather cycle is determined by the earth rotating on its axis; hence we have the temperature variance between cooler nights and warmer days.   Absence of sun’s energy versus direct exposure to the sun’s energy. 2nd cycle (365 ¼ day or one-year cycle – orbital):  This second cycle is determined by the earth’s rotation around the sun, which is manifested by the weather changes we refer to as the four seasons (summer, fall, winter, and spring).  These weather changes occur because of the earth’s axis tilt in its position in its orbit around the sun.  It is warmer in the northern hemisphere while it is cooler in the southern hemisphere and vice versa (axis tilt). 3rd cycle (an 11 year with a sliding variable beginning cycle – sunspots): This cycle is another natural factor that has a large short-term effect on our weather.  It is the variance in the energy released by the sun.  This variance in the energy from the sun, some people refer to this as sunspots or no sun spots, causes the temperature to rise or fall.  The more sunspots the warmer the temperature and the fewer sunspots the cooler the weather.   Most of the sunspots are around the equator of our spinning sun that we are orbiting around in the same direction.  The current surface of the sun facing the earth has very few sunspots, therefore this is one of the reasons the temperature is slightly cooling and has been for the past thirty years, with some exceptions.  Heavy sunspot activity is credited for slight global warming in the 1980s, what there was of it.  In the highly publicized global warming swindle, they never mention sunspots.  Records of solar activity have been kept quite accurately for hundreds of years. It’s also amazing that the sunspot activity mirrors the short-term (years to tens of years) temperature as it rises and falls. Could it be that that big fireball in the sky has something to do with the temperature here on earth?  One of the side effects of sunspots is the disruption in our communication system, mainly satellite interference. 4th cycle (26,000-year-cycle – axis wobble):  The next predictable cycle is determined by the variance in the earth’s rotation on its axis (earth’s wobble on its axis).  The current tilt on the earth’s axis is causing the summers to be warmer and cooler in the winter in the northern hemisphere and the opposite in the southern hemisphere.  This tilt is the reason for thirteen thousand (13,000) successive years of overall gradually warmer weather followed by thirteen thousand (13,000) successive years of gradually cooler weather in the northern hemisphere. This also causes the north to get warmer as the south to get colder and vice versa depending on the tilt of the earth on its axis.  The ice in Antarctica, a continent larger than North America, is getting thicker in many places.  The summer ice in artic is decreasing.  This balance of nature is keeping the sea levels constant.  This is due to the current tilt in the earth’s axis, nothing to do with so-called man-made global warming.  The North is currently getting warmer because it is closer to the sun.  The South is getting colder since it is pointing more away from the sun. 5th cycle (hundred thousand year-cycle – expanding/contracting orbit):  This cycle is the variation in earth’s orbit around the sun. This expansion/contraction is caused by the variances in the gravitational forces from the planets and other gravitational forces as we move through space.  Currently, the earth’s orbit around the sun is slowly lengthening.   Therefore, the entire earth is gradually cooling, because it is gradually moving farther from the sun.  This is the longest period weather cycle.  This variance has caused the many ice ages and long periods of extreme heat that formed most of our deserts over the last few hundred thousand years.  The longest period, that we have data on, goes back a little less than six hundred thousand (>600,000) years.  During this period, there have been five (5) major ice ages, spaced a hundred thousand (100,000) years apart.  Each ice age lasted only a few hundred years, almost eliminating all life on this planet.  But there were thousands of years of major warming periods between each, with no fossil fuels being used, when life flourished.  The last major ice age ended ten thousand (10,000) years ago and there has been gradual warming ever since, with minor fluctuations up and down. “These are the physical things that cause most of the temperatures on earth to constantly change.  The climate (temperature) is never stagnating, it is continually changing because the earth is never standing still in reference to our spinning sun, our heat source.  Bottom line: “Most major climate changes are the direct result of the earth’s axis wobble, orbital eccentricities of Earth, and variations in the sun’s energy output.”  Climate change is a natural phenomenon, not something that can be altered by us mere mortals.  There is one more physical entity that affects the weather of the various hemispheres, but not globally.  This is the ocean currents.  Their temperature, volume, direction, and speed have a large effect on local weather but are globally neutral.”

12/13/22

A few years back my wife and I traveled to New Zealand. I found the country to be quite beautiful, but what I remember the most was how nice and how polite the New Zealanders were. However in contrast as many of you may recall, New Zealanders had a devil of a time during Covid with overbearing authoritarian mandates and leadership. (The ‘we know best’ crowd was in charge.) Well now even though Covid is for the most part over, apparently authoritarianism is still alive and well in New Zealand. 

As best I understand the situation involves a six month old baby that needs non-emergent heart surgery. 

While the open-heart surgery is said to be lifesaving, the father stated, “We don’t want blood that is tainted by vaccination.”

“We’re fine with anything else doctors want to do,” said the parent of the baby.

Okay, I get it. If someone … anyone, has chosen not to receive a Covid vaccination, so be it, as it is his/her own choice. From my point of view, it doesn’t matter what the reason is, as one should be able to control what goes into their own body. Likewise, if parents choose not to have their children receive the Covid vaccine, I feel that similarly it is their choice. One of the questions in this New Zealand situation, is whether or not the parents have the right to demand that their six month old not receive any blood from a vaccinated donor. 

Is anybody certain that there will not be any long term adverse consequences from this new mRNA vaccine? Obviously the answer is, “no, no one can be certain.” Likewise can anyone be certain that there will not be any long term adverse consequences from receiving blood from a vaccinated individual? Obviously, the answer again is, “no, no one can be certain.”

To me, the solution here is quite simple. Use “donor-specific blood. Here in the U.S., for a small fee, one can request that “donor-specific blood” be collected and saved to be used specifically for a certain individual.

(Blood is donated by X, to be used specifically for Y.) If Y requires a blood transfusion, then the collected “donor-specific blood will be preferentially be used. If Y does not need the collected “donor-specific blood,” then after a relatively short period of time, that blood is released for use in the general population. It is not wasted.

As New Zealand is not a medical wasteland, the solution is quite simple … use donor specific blood. However what do you think is happening in New Zealand? 

According to BlazeMedia:

“New Zealand health officials take custody of baby whose parents refused ‘vaccinated blood’ transfusion.”

This despite the fact that the parents have already found hundreds citizens with non-mRNA vaccinated blood, who are ready and willing to donate blood to be used, if needed, by the six month old during his upcoming surgery. 

“Outlandish!” you say. “Could never happen here.”

My warning: “Be very careful, America, as this movie could be coming soon to a theater near you!”

12/12/22

As is my modus operandi on Sunday the following is about someone we can all admire. Lieutenant Colonel Bradley Miller is certainly such an individual. A true man of principle. Perhaps I should rightly refer to him as former Lieutenant Colonel Bradley Miller. What did Bradley Miller do to warrant his dismissal from the army after 19 years? Presumably, something horrendous. … Err, not really, as his egregious offense was refusing to get the Covid vaccine.

“I was a hard refusal, not because I do not have extreme religious objections to these injections. I do,” said Miller. “But in my mind, having a religious objection … would almost be to concede that the shots are safe or to concede that the shots are effective, neither of which I’m willing to concede.  So for me, it was not just a matter of the research or the development that went into the production of the shots. But I also just won’t concede that they’re safe or effective.”

From the Epoch Times:

“With the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates still in effect for U.S. military personnel, although evidence that the shots do not stop transmission and reports of adverse effects are mounting, many service members are making the decision to resign, giving up their livelihoods and retirement funds.

Many times in the past I have pointed out that there is often a fine line between courage and foolishness … for example, Evel Knievel. Can there also be a fine line between adherence to principle and foolishness? … e.g. in the case of Bradley Miller. From his picture Bradley Miller appears to be age forty or less. This means that his adherence to principle will most likely cost him at least 20 years of a deserved military pension in addition to other benefits.

Speaking during a Nov. 21 interview with NTD’s Capitol Report, former Lieutenant Colonel Bradley Miller said he chose to give up his material benefits to preserve his integrity.

“I gave up my command; I gave up my career; I gave up my retirement pension. But I still think I came out a winner because, after 19 years of service, I left the army with my integrity intact, and my oath to the Constitution unbroken,” Miller said.

Truly Bradley Miller is an individual that we can all admire, whereas I am not so sure that I can say the same for those who are still mandating a marginally effective, and at best a temporary Covid vaccine.

12/11/22

I just read an interesting summary a study led by a John’s Hopkins researcher dealing with a “what if.” … “What if aggressive use of vitamin D had been used to prevent and to treat Covid instead of, or in addition to, what the government encouraged, pushed and sponsored.

During Covid, in addition to Zinc, I took 4000 units of Vitamin D each day. This was despite the FDA, the CDC, the WHO, and Dr. Fauci essentially telling everyone to only do what they said … and Vitamin D was not included in their recommendations. Eventually, I did get Covid (15 days after getting my first, and only, booster), felt crappy for 4-5 days, and then back to normal. What if I wasn’t taking Vitamin D?

A study of American veterans suggests that nationwide distribution of vitamin D supplements could have prevented over 110,000 COVID-19 deaths and millions more infections from the virus.

The study, published earlier this month in Scientific Reports, a sub-journal of Nature, looks into the relationship between vitamin D2 and D3 supplementation and the risk of dying from COVID-19 within 30 days following infection.

Using data provided by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), the research team conducted an analysis of 199,498 veterans who were treated with vitamin D3 and 33,216 veterans treated with D2 between the pre-pandemic period from Jan. 1, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2020, and during the pandemic from March 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020. Each patient was matched one-on-one with an untreated VA patient as control.

According to researchers, vitamin D2 and D3 supplementation during the pandemic reduced the probability of COVID-19 infection by 20 and 28 percent, respectively. There was a 49 percent reduction in COVID-19 infection in patients who had lower-than-normal vitamin D blood levels.

The study also found that vitamin D3 supplementation was related to a 33 percent lower risk of dying within 30 days of COVID-19 infection, although vitamin D2 treatment didn’t produce statistically significant results in that regard.

Now that Covid has basically gone by the wayside, I haven’t heard Fauci et al comment on this recent “what if” Vitamin D study. Nonetheless, with RSV still around, I have decreased my Vitamin D intake to 2,000  u per day.

12/10/22

As many of you are already aware I do not like Joe Biden, and I hope that I have said anything which would lead anyone to think otherwise. Without going through the litany of his many poor decisions, suffice it to say that many times he has demonstrated that he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Often I have thought that he could not say or do anything more tawdry, and many times I have been wrong, as he consistently just sinks lower and lower. However, his latest non-action may be the most reprehensible and shameful yet.

On 12/6/22, Biden flew to Arizona to celebrate the CHIPS and Science Act. Before his departure, he was asked why his trip to Arizona would exclude visiting the border, where a migrant crisis remains ongoing. Note that he was in Phoenix which is only about one-hundred miles from the border.

“There are more important things going on,” Biden responded. … OMG! (Perhaps he was referring to another plan to forgive more student loans, or figuring out another non-Catholic way for a catholic to promote abortion!)

From Issues & Insights:

“‘More important things’ than millions of undocumented people, including some affiliated with terror groups, crossing our border? More important than the hundreds of migrants who died on the journey, or were sold into virtual slavery by human traffickers?

More important than the thousands of Americans who will die from overdoses of fentanyl that had been carried across the border by members of Mexico’s vicious drug cartels, which now also control the illegal immigration business, pocketing billions of dollars?

More important than the decimated communities on the border that Biden didn’t deign to visit, which are now suffering from soaring crime and other costs due to the gush of illegals, now at record levels?”

But in order to make this insult complete, when a Border Patrol agent was killed less than twenty-four hours later, Joe Biden did not even acknowledge his passing. 

What or Who is diametrically opposed to a “class act?” If you answered ‘Joe Biden’, you’d win the grand prize!

12/9/22

I fly Southwest Airlines (SWA) a fair amount mainly because they fly where I mostly want to go, and, in addition, their prices have always been reasonable. Also their policy of “bags fly free” is a major benefit for those of us who have a difficult time lifting luggage up into the storage compartments above the seats. For the most part when I fly on SWA, there are few, if any, empty seats … so I ask, “why is it that the SWA stock is significantly down?”

This morning I read a piece from BlazeMedia on how they treated Charlene Carter, and thought that perhaps this could partly explain the stock price dilemma. In general if the modus operandi of SWA is to treat their employees like they treated Charlene Carter, well “Houston, we have a problem!”

Briefly, Southwest Airlines fired former flight attendant Charlene Carter from her “dream job” for expressing pro-life views. Carter fought the airline and Transport Workers Union Local 556 for nearly six years and won in July.

From the Epoch Times:

“A Texas federal judge has ordered Southwest Airlines to reinstate Charlene Carter, the flight attendant who made headlines after a jury ruled that she was unlawfully fired for expressing pro-life views and for criticizing her union.

Judge Brantley Starr granted Carter $300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages from Southwest; $300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages from the flight attendants’ union, Transport Workers Union of America Local 556; $150,000 in back pay, and $60,180.82 in prejudgment interest.

In a decision filed on Dec. 5, five months after a jury decided in Carter’s favor, Judge Starr remarked, “Bags fly free with Southwest. But free speech didn’t fly at all with Southwest in this case.”

12/8/22

I try not to pay any attention to the “he said, she said” accusations that are typically made against politicians for things that supposedly occurred many years back. I did not spend one iota of my time with the Kavanaugh accusations. Likewise, back in 2020, I did not spend any time or energy on the accusations leveled by Tara Reade against Joe Biden for something he purportedly did back in 2013. 

Que sera, sera … no me importa.

However the Tara Reade story took an unusual twist. … Coincidence ?

From the Daily Wire::

Several months after former Senate staffer Tara Reade accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a subpoena to Twitter demanding personal information on her accounts, including credit card or bank account numbers.

The subpoena was only recently revealed by the Daily Caller, which obtained emails and documents relating to the incident showing the DOJ asked Twitter to testify in front of a grand jury on December 16, 2020, to provide “all subscriber information” for Reade’s accounts. The information was requested of the two accounts belonging to Reade, including @ReadeAlexandra and @TaraMcCabe.

The DOJ requested the following information from the accounts, according to the Daily Caller:

• Subscriber name;
• Address;
• Records of session times and durations, to include attempted/failed/unauthenticated logins;
• Length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized;
• Telephone or instrument number or other subscriber number or identity, including any temporarily assigned network address; and
• Means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number)”

Again, I have to ask, “Coincidence?” Why credit card and bank account numbers?

I do not recall reading that the DOJ subpoenaed Twitter for similar info on the Brett Kavanaugh accuser. Is this an example of the accuser of a conservative being treated differently than the accuser of a liberal by the DOJ? … or is this merely a coincidence!

Hmmm!

12/7/22

I recently read a long article on Rip’s Newsletter about global warming written by Terry M. Campbell. “Who’s he?” You might ask. Like you, I had never heard of him, but his background is uber impressive, with “multiple engineering, science, and legal University degrees.  He has spent 30 years designing computers for International Business Machines (IBM), therefore knows a lot about computer simulation, having designed the hardware on which these simulations run. He has designed, programmed, implemented, and run thousands of simulations of many kinds.”

He notes that he wrote this original white paper in October of 2009 to vent and let off steam from the UN IPCC claiming to be scientists and giving all real scientists a bad name by association. He has updated this paper several times as “politics changed, but the science has remained constant.” (His last revision of this paper was on 10/24/22.)

I do not profess to be a global warming or anti-global warming guru, however his piece had more factual information than I have ever seen on the subject of global warming, and I plan to repeat this info piecemeal over the course of a few weeks.

From Campbell’s most recent update:

“Below all of the lower-numbered weather cycles are embedded in each of the higher-numbered weather cycles.1st cycle – 24-hour or one-day cycle – rotation cycle2nd cycle – 365¼ day or one-year cycle – orbital cycle3rd cycle – 11-year cycle with sliding variable beginning–sunspot cycle4th cycle – 26,000-year cycle – axis wobble cycle5th cycle – 100,000-year cycle – expanding/contracting orbit cycle We are slightly past the middle of the 100,000-year 5th cycle (about the mean average distance from the sun). We are currently leaving the warming trend and entering into the cooling phase of the predictable 4th cycle (26,000-year cycle–axis wobble). The current tilt on the earth’s axis is causing the warmer summers and cooler winters in the northern hemisphere.  This is all normal, we humans have absolutely nothing to do with the climate. The ice in Antarctica, a continent larger than North America, is getting thicker and the summer ice in Artic is decreasing, thereby maintaining the balance of nature keeping the global sea levels constant.

“Global Warming” was a convenient and real misnomer.  Plus, the earth has been cooling for the past thirty years, not warming.  Now the uninformed environmentalists have changed their mantra to “Climate Change”, but should be referred to as “Weather Cycles”.  The temperature of the earth’s atmosphere is continuously changing. It is never stagnating, and is a naturally occurring weather phenomenon.  That is why most intelligent people referred to the everchanging climate as weather cycles.  Simple thermodynamics of the Sun’s energy output, the earth’s distance from the sun, and the earth’s direct or indirect exposure to the Sun’s energy easily explain the temperature variances on the surface of our planet.  There are cycles within cycles within cycles.  Each longer cycle includes all the shorter cycles within it. The shorter weather cycles are nested within all of the longer cycles.  All major temperature variances are caused by the following physical cycles, each cycle containing all of the previous cycles

Enough for one week. Next week I plan to go into more detail about these various “weather cycles.”

12/6/22

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk did as he promised and revealed on 12/2/22 a trove of emails detailing the internal debate at Twitter over the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.

Musk tweeted an announcement about the emails, and after a delay, the “Twitter files” were released in a lengthy tweet thread by journalist Matt Taibbi.

“The ‘Twitter Files’ tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer,” Taibbi wrote, summarizing the documents.

One email showed that members of the Biden administration were reaching out to the Twitter team and asking them to “review” tweets which were later deleted by the company.

One of the many things Taibbi tweeted:

“By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another:  ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled.’”

One of the insights Musk shared via investigative reporter Matt Taibbi was that the Democratic National Committee demanded that Twitter censor 75-year-old conservative actor James Woods, among others.

With his suspicions confirmed and the truth finally brought to light, Woods announced on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that he would be “suing the Democratic National Committee no matter what.”

If what Taibbi is tweeting is true, it confirms my feeling that the DNC is truly demonic and evil.

12/5/22