Author: Californiacontrarian

I would suppose that if I said that the possible upcoming collapse of the banking system is the fault of President Biden, you would just refer to me as a partisan yokel. Nonetheless, just follow my logical thinking, and then tell me what you think.

First, we all are probably aware that in the last few months there has been the collapse of three banks (Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank). Those in the know are projecting that other banks will potentially follow suit.

From Breitbart Business Digest:

After the demise of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March, a study on the fragility of the U.S. banking system found that 186 more banks are at risk of failure.Banks are failing because the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes to tamp down inflation have eroded the value of bank assets such as government bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and other interest-rate-sensitive assets.

Okay, so basically the banks are failing because of the Fed’s aggressive interest rate increases that are being made in order to attempt to control inflation. I will surmise that there are very few among us that have not felt the ravages of the current bout of inflation. I doubt whether President Joe has suffered the pain that is part and parcel of severe inflation, and I also am pretty sure that President Joe does not have a clue that he and his policies have been major factors in causing this inflation. “Build Back Better” has added trillions in government spending, and anyone who has even a passing knowledge of economics is aware what how this type of spending can lead to inflation.

But even before “Build Back Better” … in fact on President Joe’s first day in office, he stared the inflation ball rolling by canceling the Keystone Pipeline, and he followed up with his various policies to limit the our supply of energy. Again, Econ 101 … when you limit the supply of something, the price of that thing goes up. As the price of oil and gas went up, just about the price of everything went up, and when the price of everything goes up … tah-dah we have uncontrolled inflation.

OMG! By using simple logic, I have just proven that President Joe is the cause of the potential upcoming collapse of our banking system.

Furthermore there are rumblings that there will be more of  this banking collapse.

From Epoch Times:

Weiss Ratings is now warning that 4,243 U.S. banks and credit unions are vulnerable to fail. Weiss Ratings—the nation’s only independent ratings agency that assesses the safety and risks of U.S. banks and credit unions—has now issued a red warning flag for 1,210 institutions that are at risk for imminent failure. In addition, 3,043 were issued a yellow warning flag; in total, 45 percent of all banks and credit unions in the United States have been deemed vulnerable.

Biden has to be hoping that there are no further bank failures before the next election … remember that logically speaking the whole mess is his fault!

7/15/23

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I have three daughters, and seven granddaughters. Although none have been superstars in various sports, they have all played sports while growing up. At this point none have been forced to compete against men or boys, and rightfully so.

Men can pretend to be women and women can pretend to be men … no me importa! As far as I am concerned anyone can pretend to be whichever gender they choose, but do not drag me into this fantasy world.

At this point an XY can pretend to be an XX and compete in a women’s sport. He might come in first, and stand on the podium, but in reality all rational XYs and all  XXs know that he is non campos mentis to some degree. He might have finished ahead of the genetic XXs, but he is not an XX. 

When will this insanity end?

Finally, a competitive organization has stepped forward, and stated what we all know, namely that XYs and XXs should not be competing against each other in competitive sports. 

The Belgian Waffle Ride (BWR) is a cycling competition that describes itself as being “created in homage to the great one-day classics of Europe with their cobblestone sectors … long, hard, multi-terrain races that test the best of the best.”

Often hosting events across North America, the organization held a race in Hendersonville, North Carolina, on June 10, 2023. However, the “BWR N. Carolina” saw a man win the “Women Overall” category. A man named Austin Killips took first place in the women’s competition with a finishing time of 8h 28m 07.47s. Comparatively, had Killips competed against men, he would have finished in 22nd place with the same time.

In other words, an XY was declared the winner of an XX race. However the BWR subsequently made some changes to insure that an XY would not win an XX BWR race in the future.

On July 9, 2023, BWR announced on Instagram that it would be moving forward with a third category, open to anyone. The classifications were listed as follows:

• “Female: In the interest of protecting the parity of sports between women and men, racers who were born female may compete in the classification.
• Male: Racers who were born and/or identify as male may compete in this classification.
• Open: All racers, regardless of gender identification, may compete in this classification.”

Finally, sanity!

Can we learn anything from BWR?

7/14/23

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Am I surprised? No, not really!

Let me explain.

When something is put up on the website of a magazine, and then taken down within twenty-four hours, something is obviously amiss. When this happens with a paper in a medical journal … hmmm! 

From the Epoch Times:

The paper, a pre-print that had yet to undergo any part of the peer-review process, was uploaded to Lancet’s website on July 6. 

According to Dr. McCullough, the paper’s leading author, the reason he and other co-authors went for a pre-print is that they wanted to get their findings out as quickly as possible, “Pre-print servers go through a check to make sure all the elements of the paper are there, but it is not peer-reviewed by external doctors. And the preprint server simply offers people a chance to look at the data themselves and decide. I think that’s perfectly fair to look at the tables, look at the figures.”

Dr. McCullough continued: “The government narrative is still that people do not die after COVID-19 vaccination. Now we have the largest series of autopsies, and the autopsies really are incontrovertible,”

The paper in question is a review of autopsy data of over 300 post-COVID-19 vaccination deaths and it would certainly challenge the mainstream narrative on the safety of the shots. As noted above, it was removed within 24 hours of the initial submission. 

Still from the Epoch Times:

For the study, the researchers looked at 678 papers and narrowed down 44 that contained 325 autopsy cases. They then performed what is called a “blind adjudication” by having three physicians independently review all deaths and determine whether COVID-19 vaccination caused or contributed significantly to them.

“We use the standard called PRISMA, where we searched for every paper possible. We sorted through hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts because deaths can be reported as different clinical syndromes are coming out after the vaccine,” Dr. McCullough said, noting that they took out cases that obviously had nothing to do with vaccination.

A total of 240 deaths (73.9 percent) were identified as directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.

The most implicated organ system in COVID-19 vaccine-associated death was the cardiovascular system (53 percent), followed by the hematological system (17 percent), the respiratory system (8 percent), and multiple organ systems (7 percent), according to the paper. The mean time from vaccination to death was 14.3 days, with most deaths occurring within a week from the most recent jab.

 Now, let’s be clear. I have not read the pre-print … as it is gone from the Lancet’s website.

Dr. McCullough has long been a vaccine skeptic, and because this is not the first time that the Lancet has been accused of playing political futbol, as I said that I am not surprised. But why was it accepted as a pre-print in the first place? 

To me this pre-print got somebody’s dander up! After all going against the pre-set narrative of vaccine safety is a no-no … at least to the higher-ups at the Lancet.

Hmmm! 

7/13/23

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Who is he? Why do I not read about him in my local “newspaper?”

From Google:

To start Gal Luft is the executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS). A former Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces with rich combat experience, he has published numerous articles and studies on international security affairs.

He certainly sounds like a “good” guy.

 From Wikipedia:

The US government has issued a warrant for missing Israeli academic Gal Luft, who disappeared on Tuesday, April 25. The Jerusalem Post reports that Luft was detained at Cyprus’ Larnaca International Airport after being accused of smuggling weapons into China and Libya.

Here he certainly sounds like a “bad” guy!

Which is it?

From C&C:

The story of Gal Luft began to surface last week, when the Israeli professor with a murky covert intelligence background uploaded a viral 12-minute video claiming he was being “hunted” because he was prepared to testify before Congress that Joe Biden is a dirty, rotten traitor and bribe taker who has sold the U.S. out to the Chinese.

So as Gal Luft is a new whistleblower, he is being “Trumped,” which is now a neologism alluding to that process in which the political party presently in charge bring phony charges against someone who they cannot stop or silence. 

FYI: I listened to Luft’s entire twelve minute video on YouTube, and found him to be quite believable. I further found what he was saying to be credible, despite the fact that he tossed around the names of many multi-lettered organizations, which I found somewhat confusing.

Is Gal Luft an arms dealer (“bad guy”) or is he a credible whistleblower (“good guy”) whose testimony is a big threat to the Biden’s as well as to the credibility of various government organizations?

Good guy or bad guy? … listen to the video yourself and decide.

7/12/23

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On 1/18/23 there was an interesting article in American Thinker entitled “IPCC Climate Models Grossly Exaggerate ‘Global Warming,’ which begins:

“Several recently published studies have provided methodological objections to alarmist IPCC global climate models that predict catastrophic global warming will result from anthropogenic CO2 atmospheric concentrations from burning hydrocarbon fuels. These studies indicate that a more accurate reading of the earth’s surface temperatures suggests global climate warming over the next few decades will be moderate. The studies further indicate that more precise surface temperature readings would seriously dampen the hysterical mass media demand for radical public policies requiring radical decarbonization to achieve Net Zero Emissions (NZE) as quickly as possible.

Okay I thought, another anti-global warming article … Ho-hum! However, while reading through this piece, what caught my attention was that three different scientists with different backgrounds, from two different countries were saying basically the same thing.

First, in November 2022, meteorologist Roy Spencer, Ph.D., a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, published a ground-breaking study demonstrating that 36 climate models used to guide national policy may have exaggerated “global warming” over the last 50 years by as much as 50 percent

Spencer’s research shows that increased urbanization, not increased CO2, is responsible for exaggerating the temperature measurements recorded in the NOAA homogenized surface temperature dataset. In other words, Spencer’s point is that observed increases in temperature result from the greater heat urbanization generates, not from increased CO2 concentrations generated in the atmosphere by burning hydrocarbon fuels.

Second, August 2022, meteorologist Anthony Watts found that 96 percent of the temperature stations in the United States used to measure global warming and climate change did not “meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be ‘acceptable,’ uncorrupted placement.”

To reach this conclusion, Watts “compiled satellite and in-person visits to NOAA weather stations” that provide “official” temperature data. His visits revealed that these stations are corrupted by localized effects of urbanization—producing heat-bias because of their close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects.”

There’s more … In August 2022, Nicola Scafetta, at the Department of Earth Sciences, Environment and Georesources, University of Naples, Italy stressed that if the UAH (UAH satellite developed at the University of Alabama, Huntsville) MSU (Microwave Sounding Unit radiation measurement) record is accurate, “surface warming from 1980 to 2021 may have been around 0.40°C (or less), that is up to about 30 percent less than what is reported by the surface-based temperature models.” Scafetta concluded that correcting IPCC over-estimating global surface temperatures suggests “the projected global climate warming over the next few decades could be moderate and probably not particularly alarming.”

So here we have three different scientists basically saying that the surface temperature measurements upon which global warming is based are exaggerated, and very possibly due to urbanization.

7/11/23

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I find it interesting that a solution to two of our nation’s biggest problems cannot be cross-linked in such a way that both of these issues can benefit. In fact when one comes right down to it, isn’t that what politicians are supposed to do … intercede to fix problems for the good of the citizens of this country? Where are they? … an issue for another day!

Two of our major problems are “student loan debt,”and “crumbling infrastructure.” 

First, how many more reports of trains derailing and bridges collapsing do we need to hear about before we realize that neither politicians nor their plans are building anything, and certainly not “building back better!”

Second, despite the fact that the President, Joe Biden, keeps prostituting himself with different ways to forgive student loans, in order to secure votes. Be that as it may, I do have a small soft spot for those that owe money on these loans. As a consequence of these loans, typically the lives of these individual debtors are being put on hold. Many cannot afford to have children, and many may never be able to afford a house. I am cognizant of the arguments against loan forgiveness. I do agree that it is not fair that the rest of us should essentially pay for these ne’er-do-wells. However, should we as a nation punish stupidity? … and realistically, those that borrowed money to study things which will never provide enough income to pay off those loans are stupid!

So why doesn’t the government come up with a way that these loans can be worked off? … and here I emphasize WORKED OFF.

Why not provide access to construction jobs for those bewildered indebted individuals? THe money earned by these individuals by would be immediately divided in half. Half would immediately go to paying off the student loan, and the other half would be used for living expenses. The details of this plan can certainly be worked out, but at this point the concept is more important. 

Come on, you politicians, do your job!

7/10/23

One of my Sunday habits is to write about someone who is praiseworthy and deserves our respect. Sgt. Jonathan Allen is such an individual. He is a law-enforcement officer in Colorado. We are all aware of law-enforcement officers fighting bad guys, and in today’s world the public magnifying glass is constantly on the police every time something questionable occurs. What we do not see in the newspapers is when any law-enforcement individual goes out of his/her way to be kind and gentle, and thus this Jonathan Allen story hit home to me.

From Epoch Times:

He has worked for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for 24 years, spending the first 20 years as a K9 handler. On June 15 at 10:55 a.m., Sgt. Allen and his partner were called on to investigate an unaccompanied child.

“Our agency received a call from a citizen named Robert, who was out mowing his lawn,” Sgt. Allen told The Epoch Times. “He saw this little girl walking by in his neighborhood, and she was lost. She was tired, thirsty, hungry, and barefoot, and said she was looking for her aunt’s house.”

The little girl claimed her dad and his girlfriend had been “sleeping since yesterday,” Sgt. Allen said. A neighbor brought the child a coloring book while Sgt. Allen began scouring the police database for reported missing children. Then he offered her a snack.

“I said, ‘Have you had breakfast?’ and she goes, ‘No, but it’s lunchtime.’ I said, ‘Sweetie, you’re right,’” Sgt. Allen said. After checking whether the child had any allergies, Sgt. Allen gave her a mandarin orange from his own lunchbox, claiming she was “really excited.” She ate all of it. However, she was still hungry, and then said, “Why don’t you have any donuts?”

Sgt. Allen said. “Just like Santa Claus has reindeer, she thought all cops have donuts. It was just one of those hilarious funny moments. … I said, ‘No, we don’t always eat donuts. … We have to stay in good shape to catch bad guys!’”

Sgt. Allen and his partner were shortly able to trace the little girl’s address and took her and her 4-year-old sister, who was also outdoors but had not wandered so far, to the care of relatives.

“Total time she was out was probably about an hour and a half,” Sgt. Allen said. “Just a wonderful, adorable kid. I hope for the best for her all through life, and I’m glad that I was able to help her get back home.”

Basically, I guess one might say that Jonathan Allen is merely a good cop doing his job. However, because all we ever hear these days is how unthoughtful, uncaring, and rigid our policemen are, I was happy to read about this caring Jefferson County, Colorado law-enforcement officer.

Thank you, Jonathan Allen, for all you do.

7/9/23

The latest young individual reported to have died suddenly is professional basketball player Óscar Cabrera Adames, who died last week during a stress test at a health center in the Dominican Republic. 

From a Defender headline on 6/26/23:

“28-Year-Old Pro Basketball Player Dies of Heart Attack — Less Than 2 Years After Telling Fans Pfizer Shots Led Him to Develop Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis”

Again from the Defender:

“Professional basketball player Óscar Cabrera Adames died last week at a health center in the Dominican Republic after an apparent heart attack, Fox News reported.

Sports commentator Héctor Gómez first broke the news on Instagram that the 28-year-old Dominican player, who plays in the Spanish professional league, had been undergoing a stress test when he died.

Cabrera Adames previously was hospitalized after collapsing on the court during a December 2021 game. At the time, he blamed his collapse on COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis, posting on social media:

“I got a damn Myocarditis from taking a f—ing vaccine. (I got 2 doses of Pfizer) And I knew it! Many people warned me.”

Cabrera Adames wrote that he was required to get the vaccine in order to continue playing professionally.”

There is nothing in this Defender article to suggest that Cabrera Adames

had a defibrillator placed after his 2021 episode.

This sad story is eerily similar to that of Damar Hamlin, who collapsed during an NFL Football game. Hamlin is 25 years old, and his heart stopped beating (ventricular fibrillation) after he made a routine tackle during an NFL game on 1/2/23. There has been no substantiated report of the different tests that Hamlin underwent or the results of said tests. The party line is that he had “commodio cortis,” which in reality, is impossible to prove or disprove. And there has been no report that Hamlin had a defibrillator placed.

Without question Hamlin has had stress tests, and will continue no have further stress tests performed. We should all cross our fingers and pray that what happened to Cabrera Adames does not happen to Damar Hamlin.

7/8/23

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This was written and posted on my blog back in 2021. It is a reminder of how authoritarian (and eventually proven wrong) California’s astute governor was and still is!

Daniel … Who? 

Another of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s tyrannical lockdown orders was struck down in court last week after a year-long legal battle.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Newsom’s 2020 order, stopping all in-person learning in both public and private schools in 32 counties, was deemed unconstitutional.

Recall that about one month ago a similar ruling came down against Governor Newsom, concerning his closing of churches, while leaving Costco an similar stores open for business. That Newsom fiasco cost the state millions in taxpayers dollars. How much will this latest court victory siding with freedom cost the state?

From Freedom Wire:

“California’s forced closure of their private schools implicates a right that has long been considered fundamental under the applicable caselaw — the right of parents to control their children’s education and to choose their children’s educational forum,” The judge said Friday.

“Because California’s ban on in-person schooling abridges a fundamental liberty of these five Plaintiffs that is protected by the Due Process Clause, that prohibition can be upheld only if it withstands strict scrutiny,” the judge continued.

The Center for American Liberty filed the lawsuit against Newsom in July 2020 representing 20 plaintiffs who challenged Newsom’s order. The plaintiffs argued that Newsom overstepped his authority by unconstitutionally denying parents to have control over their children’s education.”

FYI: This judge was appointed in 2019 by President Trump.

FYI: This appointment of this judge to the ninth circuit was opposed by      

         both of California’s US Senators at that time, Dianne Feinstein and 

         Kamala Harris.

FYI: The judge’s name is Daniel … (what is his last name?) … oh yeah,    

        Daniel Collins

7/8/23

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Although the following is longer than usual, I think that the time invested in reading it will be well worth it.

I have now read about the following Danish study on two different sites, and so I have to believe that what I am going to discuss is indeed true. Initially, I found this story to be so incredible, that I assumed that it was some sort of “fake news,” but it seems that it is not fake, but true!.

While what I am going to spell out is from a Danish study, and one has to wonder if anything at all similar occurred in the U.S.

Most of the following is taken from Epoch News, but, to repeat, this is the second time I have seen this info:

A recent Danish study showed enormous variation in the adverse events associated with different batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or BNT162b2 per its scientific codename. 

In an impressive and easy to understand graph, the batches used in Denmark essentially break down into three groups. As is apparent from the color coded graphic display, these three different group batches are dramatically different as they are each graphically displayed versus side effects. (For ease of understanding these groups are blue, green, and yellow.)

The graphed line that represents the green batch is the batch that was used the most in Denmark. The green batch of vaccine represented about 60+% of the total number of doses, and the total number of individuals who received the green batch was huge.

The point on that graphed green line furthest to the right represents somewhat over 800,000 doses that were administered. These 800,000 doses are associated with around 2,000 suspected adverse events, which gives a reporting rate of one suspected adverse event per approximately 400 doses. As a noted German scientist, Gerald Dyker, put it when speaking about adverse effects, “That’s not a small amount if we compare to what we know otherwise from influenza vaccines.” 

There are then the “blue batches” clustered around the blue line on the graphic display. These blue batches are associated with an extraordinarily high level of adverse events. As Dyker notes, no more than 80,000 doses of any of the blue batches were administered in Denmark—suggesting that these especially bad batches may perhaps have been quietly pulled from the market by public health authorities.

Nonetheless, these batches had as many as 8,000 suspected adverse events associated with them. Eight thousand out of 80,000 doses would give a reporting rate of one suspected adverse event for every ten doses—and Dyker notes that some of the blue batches are indeed associated with a reporting rate of as high as one suspected adverse event for every six doses!

On Dyker’s calculation, the blue batches represent less than 5 percent of the total number of doses included in the Danish study. Nonetheless, they are associated with nearly 50 percent of the 579 deaths recorded in the sample.

Finally, we have the “yellow batches” clustered around the yellow line on the graph. Each yellow dot on the graph represents from 100,00 – 500,000 vaccine doses. The yellow batches represent around 30 percent of the total, and are associated with literally zero suspected adverse events.

As Dyker puts it, “malicious” observers might note that “this is how placebos would look.”

And malicious observers might be right. For professors Dyker and Matysik compared the batch numbers contained in the Danish study with publicly available information on the batches approved for release, and they made the startling discovery that almost none of the harmless yellow batches, unlike the very-bad blue batches, and not-so-bad green batches, appear to have been subject to any quality-control testing at all.

In short, to paraphrase the German scientists’ findings on the variability of the Pfizer-BioNTech batches, it would appear that the good was bad, the bad was very bad, and the very good was saline solution.

To me the findings in this Danish study are not only amazing but frightening! Being the inquisitive contrarian that I am, I have to wonder if any similar study of batch variations was done in the U.S. … and if not, why not?

7/7/23

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