For some time I had been struggling with a conundrum: Why is it that Covid breaks down, more or less precisely into an ideological divide? This had been clear for a while in a kind of white-of-the-eye way before I began really to focus on it. Then it struck me: Had a ‘pandemic’ occurred when I was a feature writer and reporter with Irish newspapers about 20 years ago, I could not imagine attending editorial conferences in which the matter would be discussed as though implicitly a left-right question, or that the attitude towards it of those assembled for daily or weekly conferences would be predictable on that basis.  Yet, this is more or less what has emerged.

From reports all over the world, it seems an almost universal principle that ‘conservative’ and ‘right wing’ interests, groupings and individuals are opposed to lockdown, and ‘left-wingers’ in favour of it.  And this means that lefties are Covid believers, whereas conservatives tend more to be sceptics. In the United States, the pro-lockdown governors and mayors have all but invariably been Dems. The sceptics tend to be Republicans or ‘alt-right’ (whatever that is) bloggers and vloggers. Likewise, across Europe, the governments locking their peoples down most viciously and for long periods are those led by socialist parties, whereas the more relaxed countries — Sweden, a special case, aside —  tend to be led by parties of the populist right.  We have come to take this situation for granted, as though the reasons for it are self-evident. But, actually, there are not in the least clear. If Covid is, as many authorities insist, a health issue, why would it automatically break down in this manner? Why is the attitude of your neighbour predictable on political grounds? Why does someone’s attitude to Covid predict so much else about him?

In part, I believe, it is because from the start there was this strong undercurrent that Covid was about something other than health. Almost nobody was — is, even — quite certain what the subtext is, but for some unaccountable reason almost everyone senses that it has something to do with the way the world has been breaking open in recent times, especially in the past five years or so, in ways that have been variously and exhaustively described and parsed, but really seem to boil down to a divide between people who have their showers in the evening and people who have them in the morning.

It may also, as with so many things these days, have something to do with Donald Trump. Although he moved with alacrity at the end of January to close down access to America from China, he was from the beginning a sceptic of the lockdown idea, repeatedly warning that the cure should not be ‘worse than the disease.’  This seems to have imposed a cleavage on American life, roughly dividing the country in half.

There was an interesting counter to this perspective.  Around the time Trump began doing his nightly televised White House briefing sessions in early April, it was clear that the worst five US states for case numbers and deaths were all Democrat-run, and together accounted for two-thirds of  total national Covid deaths. Of the worst ten states for fatalities, Democratic states accounted for in the region of 13 times the number of deaths as Republican-led states. On the percentage front (deaths as a percentage of cases — a statistically pointless but still revelatory metric) the top five states were all Democrat-run, with New York on top, followed by Louisiana, New Jersey, Michigan and Washington. After that, the figures began to shrink, falling into fairly level pegging between Democrat and Republican states. An American friend to whom I put these stats at the time offered this explanation: ‘Globalists tend to be Democrats. Globalists tend to live in global hub cities. Global hub cities are nodes of virus transmission. It’s where they jump from continent to continent. Thus concentration of cases in Democrat run states. (Louisiana is the outlier in this explanation.)’

Seven months later, the latest ‘case’ data indicate a more balanced league sequence and coloration pattern — California at the top, followed by Texas, Florida, Illinois and Georgia. The pattern with up-to-date deaths is interestingly slightly different, with Texas at the top, followed by California, Florida, New York and Illinois.  The patterns of April have not maintained themselves, but perhaps those early figures created an impression of some kind that caused Covid to be seen in America as a tribal issue, with this interpretation rapidly being exported to the rest of the world.

There has been for a while a view abroad that Covid is and was essentially — from a timing viewpoint at least — directed at bringing an end to the Trump presidency. Although the list of alternative conspiracies is long, with many inter-connections, this view of things still has much to recommend it. I have three different and constantly shifting theories about Trump and the virus: 1. that he’s bought into it as much as anyone;  2. that he’s been captured by his medical team and cannot escape until re-election is under his belt; 3. that he has a cunning plan that he’s about to spring at any moment.  I’m leaning towards 3. at the moment. I think the prize of the second term is so vital to him and his cause that he cannot jeopardize it by calling our Fauci, Birx etc., who have clearly been trying from the start to slyly manage the virus in a manner designed to unseat President Trump. He knows it; they know he knows it; he knows they know he knows it, but he dare not rock the boat while things are as volatile as they are. There are some worrying things in some of his public statements about vaccines, but we will have to wait about ten days for the picture to become clearer.

For a time, the ‘pandemic’ did put Trump under pressure, even looking like it might indeed unseat the president, though that moment appears to have passed. The world’s legacy media, which appear to despise Trump almost to the last journaliar, have taken to Covid like ducks to watermelon rind, lying through their face masks at every opportunity and in effect imposing on their audiences a form of mass entrancement impervious to truth, fact or stat.

Still, the truth comes tumbling out. As the figures for excess deaths in 2020 become solidified, it is emerging that this has been in no sense an exceptional year for fatalities almost anywhere, which means that there is no additional burden of death arising from Covid.

We also now know that more than 50% of deaths worldwide have occurred in care homes, and that most of these deaths were not caused by Covid but most likely arose from psychological stress due to media-generated panic among people nearing the end of their lives. (Those who doubt this explanation should read the studies and watch the videos of Canadian scientist Denis Rancourt.) There are also numerous as yet to be investigated concerns about the untested admission of people who subsequently emerged as infected into care homes during March. New York exhibited the most marked of such patterns, with the NY state governor Andrew Cuomo issuing on March 25 an order permitting nursing homes to readmit sick patients without testing them for Covid-19. Facing allegations regarding the underestimation of fatalities, Cuomo resisted pressure for more stringent reporting of Covid nursing home deaths, and also, in his annual budget, introduced a measure indemnifying New York hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities against liability for Covid-related deaths.

From the Covid-unrelated death in late May of George Floyd, the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests — again incongruously — seemed to jell as an intrinsic element of the Covid narrative. On its face, the idea made no sense, but the controversy concerning the differing attitudes of various authorities to BLM protests as against anti-lockdown demos effected an underscoring of the ideological pattern. Police officers who had been enthusiastically truncheoning Covid sceptics just the week before were to be seen taking the knee in public in tribute to America’s latest and most dubious hero, and governors who had been coming down like hailstorms on Covid dissenters turned a blind eye to breaches by the masses of Woke warriors who took to the streets for the summer.

Even though it makes just a limited amount of sense, it does at this stage appear that, in some odd and irrational way, Covid is actually a left-wing phenomenon. This undoubtedly has to do with authority, indeed with the authoritarian tic that seems to afflict many leftists. It is not unreasonable to observe that, in general, when you scratch a progressive you uncover a fascist underneath, and this discovery is in no way discredited by the fact that said progressive will be calling you a fascist.

Covid, as has been seen everywhere, is an intensely authoritarian phenomenon. The first measures introduced by governments practically everywhere were directed not at protecting pubic health but awarding powers to themselves to restrict and coerce their citizens and impose draconian penalties for breaches or dissent. This kind of thing suits leftists just fine and dandy. Not only do they enjoy seeing the  boots of the regime on the face of fellow citizens, but they themselves seem to enjoy, like masochists under the whip of the master, the lick of leather on their own hides.

There is, moreover, something fundamentally neurotic about the latest incarnation of the leftist in culture. Your average Cultural Marxist tends to be overanxious, ill-educated, resentful, hung-up and irrational. He or she, after all, believes in an ideology that makes little sense unless you behold the world in an intensely neurotic fashion, seeing everything as the culmination of a history that spent every waking moment trying to stitch up everything for patriarchs and Christians. The ends simply refuse to tie together, and your fellow human beings appear to be utterly oblivious to the things you learned for four years at college. Clearly, then, state coercion is essential to bringing the world to order and everyone else around to your view of things.

At a basic human level, the kinds of people who gravitate to left or right tend to divide also, generally speaking, in terms of physique, occupation, and mentality. Leftists, shall we say, tend less towards muscularity, work generally in offices, salons or cubicles, and think the world owes them a living, an expectation the world generally speaking appears to honour and come up, as it were, trumps on. They also consider themselves better educated, but in reality this means that they spent more time than others being indoctrinated with the virus that now afflicts their brains. I find it interesting that working class/blue collar people seem to see through Covid in a flash, whereas the average college graduate goes around in what appears a terrified trance thinking he’s going to meet his death around every corner.

Covid has emerged, in one aspect of its operation, as an accelerant on all things the average Cultural Marxist holds dear: restrictions on practice of religion and public assembly, cycle lanes and other green stuff, compulsory face masks which make everyone as unattractive as the average blue-tinted Cultural Marxist, disincentives to voting in person, and so forth. It emphasizes the ‘common good’, which somehow reveals itself (who knew?) as extending to the state the right to restrict citizens as though self-evidently some kind of criminals on the mere possibility that they might be ‘infected’ with a non lethal disease.  It has no regard for charter, proclamation or constitution. It does not care for family, nation of God — is, in fact, the enemy of all three.

On the other hand, Covid has none of what might be called ‘right wing’ characteristics. It seeks not to make America, or anywhere else, ‘great again’, but to destroy everything before it and grate on everyone’s nerves until they surrender to the New World Order.

12.

Biden’s Invasion Ignorance

What really happened in Europe and why it matters.

Fri Oct 30, 2020

“Having a good relationship with leaders of other countries is a good thing,” said President Trump last week, when the subject of North Korea emerged in the final debate.  “That’s like saying we had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe,” countered Joe Biden, who rightly took heat for the claim.

As Conrad Black notes, U.S. relations with Hitler were frosty from the start in 1933, and President Roosevelt withdrew the American ambassador after the infamous “Kristallnacht” pogroms in November of 1938. What could use more attention is Biden’s claim that Hitler “in fact invaded Europe.” Here’s what really happened.

On August 23, 1939, Adolf Hitler of National Socialist (Nazi) Germany signed a pact with Communist dictator Josef Stalin of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The pact provided cooperation on trade, military technology, cultural exchange, and contained secret protocols that divided up swaths of Europe.

On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, effectively starting World War II. On September 17, 1939, Stalin invaded Poland, and on September 29, Hitler and Stalin divided up Poland, and the pact handed the Baltic States to Stalin. In June of 1940, Stalin invaded Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Behind the scenes, the two dictators were collaborating in more sinister ways.

Barely a month after signing the pact, Stalin began deporting anti-fascist and Communist refugees back to Nazi Germany, handing hundreds of Jews directly to the Gestapo. Such deportations continued throughout the pact. There was nothing Stalin wouldn’t do for his ally, and that extended to the national Communist Parties controlled by the Comintern.

The American Communist Party had opposed Hitler’s National Socialist regime but that all changed after the Stalin-Hitler pact.  The Communists went along 100 percent, and even picketed the White House, demanding that President Roosevelt stay out of a “foreign war.” Stalin and Hitler took full advantage.

On November 30, 1939, Stalin invaded Finland and on December 14 the League of Nations expelled the USSR. The outgunned Finns duly turned back the Red Army but Stalin continued to support his Nazi ally. On April 9, 1940, Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway. Sweden remained neutral and during the war supplied Hitler with iron ore for the Nazi war machine.

On May 10, 1940, Hitler invaded France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, with full approval of the USSR. Then on June 22, 1941, Hitler turned the tables and invaded his Communist ally.

Stalin was completely unprepared for the betrayal, and Nazi forces advanced deep into the USSR. This effectively ended the Stalin-Hitler Pact, which gets little attention from those who readily invoke Hitler in contemporary political discussions.

The United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. That gave hope to those suffering under Nazi tyranny, but victory was not a done deal.

On June 6, 1944, in the largest invasion in history, British, Canadian, American, Polish and Australian troops stormed the beaches at Normandy. Many of those brave soldiers met their end that day, but the Allies went on to take down the National Socialist regime and liberate western Europe.

On April 12, 1945, the “B” Squadron of the 8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment liberated the Westerbork transit camp in Holland.  From that outpost, the Nazis deported 97,776 Jews,  54,930 to Auschwitz, 34,313 to Sobibor, 4,771 to the Theresienstadt ghetto and 3,762 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Westerbork, the Canadians forced the Nazis to flee and  saved 876 inmates from certain death.

In recent years, some have attempted to place Soviet troops among the D-Day forces but a ballpark figure for their number is zero. Their first invasion was of Poland, in September of 1940, and they backed all Hitler’s invasions until June of 1941.

After the war, Stalin retained control of Eastern Europe, including the Baltic States that were part of the Stalin-Hitler pact. Stalin also backed Kim Il Sung’s invasion of South Korea in 1950. According to I.F. Stone, author of The Hidden History of the Korean War, the United States started the conflict, a typical leftist inversion of reality. Stone, a faithful recycler of Communist propaganda, had little to say about Stalinist repression in North Korea.

Kim Il sung gave way to Kim Jong-il and North Korea remains a Stalinist dictatorship under Kim Jong-un. Democrats were predicting war if Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. When Kim Jong-un ramped up missile tests, Trump raised the prospect of massive retaliation if the dictator threatened the United States or its allies.

No war occurred, and when North Korea came up in the debate, Trump said “having a good relationship with leaders of other countries is a good thing,” Joe Biden countered that the USA had good relations with Hitler before “Hitler invaded Europe.”

If anybody thought Joe Biden had no clue what actually happened it would be hard to blame them. Meanwhile, like the English Socialists in George Orwell’s 1984, Democrats now proclaim that ignorance is strength.

13. 

50 Things a Biden Presidency Would Mean for America

Worse than the zombie apocalypse?

Thu Oct 29, 2020

Don Feder

 

Below are The Top 50 Reasons Why a Biden Presidency Would Be Worse Than The Zombie Apocalypse:

1. Another lockdown – Which will Kevorkian what’s left of the economy.
2. Amnesties and other incentives for illegal immigration – Joe promised another amnesty bill in his first 100 days to satisfy the urgent need for more Democrat voters. No border wall, ICE defunded, sanctuary cities subsidized.
3. Back to the era of bad trade deals – Give away the store to get it done. Joe understands trade, based on his vast business experience.
4. Biden Care – “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” – not. Six-month delays for routine tests. Why should Canadians have all the fun?
5. Black Lives Matter — in charge of combating white privilege and institutional racism with quotas, reparations and looting.
6. Biden’s Cabinet — Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of State Illhan Omar, Secretary of Commerce Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Secretary of the Treasury Bernie Sanders.
7. Celebrity gloating – Hollywood would spend the next 12 months crowing about its victory over flyover country. Amy Schumer will gain another 50 lbs. celebrating with cake and ice cream.
8. Chinese asset in the White House – Biden consistently opposed tariffs on China. Son Hunter was in business with a Chinese oil company. The Big Guy spent his career outsourcing our jobs to the People’s Republic.
9. The Clintons and Obamas back in power – Someone has to deal with us deplorables and bitter-clingers.
10. Crazy Kamala – Rated the most far-left member of the Senate, and Kavanaugh’s grand inquisitor, as president-in-waiting.
11. D.C. and Puerto Rico Statehood – Senate-packing, giving Democrats a permanent majority. What’s next – Guam, American Samoa, and Portland, Oregon?
12. Enemies List – FOX News, The New York Post, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Diamond and Silk, Herschel Walker, Kristie Alley, Hunter’s former business partners, etc.
13. Energy prices will soar – No fracking, drilling on public lands, or tax-breaks for energy development. Get ready for $20-a-gallon gas. Russia’s oil industry will thrive.
14. Facemask Nation – Biden says he wants them mandated nationally for the duration, as determined by Surgeon General Fauci.
15. For sale sign prominently displayed outside the White House — Just be sure 10% is set aside for the Big Guy.
16. Green New Deal – Repeal the Industrial Revolution, millions of jobs and trillions of dollars sacrificed for a myth.
17. George Soros — Awarded the Presidential Freedom Medal.
18. Gretchen Whitmer — The Michigan dominatrix as COVID Czar.
19. Gun Confiscation – Beto O’Rourke running the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
20. Homeless encampments everywhere – The Biden condominium: a shipping crate.
21. Hunter Biden – First Perv and national security risk extraordinaire will help to shape drug policy.
22. Indigenous Peoples Day Replaces Columbus Day – No more celebrating the white “occupation” of America. Presidents Day, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day also on the chopping block.
23. Industry flees overseas – Taxes and regulations will make it impossible to operate here.
24. Infanticide – Several Democrat Governors are on record supporting it. Biden opposes a born-alive bill.
25. IRS — Unleashed against conservative organizations as it was during the Clinton and Obama years.
26. Islamophobia combated– Classes promoting tolerance (by getting school children to celebrate Muslim holidays) taught in schools. No Christmas trees, but prayer rugs aplenty. Get ready for “A Charlie Brown Ramadan.”
27. Little Sisters of the Poor — Sent to Devil’s Island.
28. Mainstream media – Will be transformed from an attack machine into an Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
29. Middle class taxes go up – by $6,500 for the median family. But that’s just the start. Tax hikes on “corporations and the rich” are sucker’s bait to snare middle-class voters.
30. Military put on a starvation diet – Democrats believe we have no foreign enemies. Much of the military budget will be transferred to social spending.
31. National Debt will soar. The Bureau of Printing and Engraving will work around the clock.
32. National Rifle Association – Will be designated a domestic terrorist group.
33. Permanent recession – Between taxes and regulations, lack of investment and business failures, we’ll never recover from COVID, which is what the left wants. Socialist regimes don’t grow out of prosperity.
34. Politically correct language will be mandatory – Riots are peaceful protests. Illegal aliens are undocumented workers and socialists are progressives.
35. Repeal of the First Amendment – Snowflakes need protection from hurtful speech.
36. Return of the Deep State – Adam Schiff as FBI Director.
37. Re-writing history – The 1619 project. Priscilla Alden brought slavery to the New World. Every president on Mount Rushmore was a racist. The Plains Indians were all pacifists and environmentalists who did nothing to provoke the genocidal U.S. Cavalry.
38. Sexual harassment inquisitions – A la the Kavanaugh hearings. “Believe women,” except those who say Joe molested them or Hunter was in bed with them when they were underage.
39. Supreme Court Packing – An expanded, activist Court becomes a rubber stamp for a pinata view of the Constitution.
40. Simplified 1040 form — What did you earn? What’s the least you can to live on? Send us the rest.
41. Social media censorship — Of conservative views will continue unchecked. With Silicon Valley a bastion of Biden support, Big Tech will have a free hand to crush free speech.
42. 25^th Amendment – After a decent interval, Biden will be removed for mental incapacity and Kamala installed. On the campaign trail, Harris’s husband said he was “married to the next president of the United States.”
43. Top 1%  brutalized — Unless they made their money through a Biden business venture, they’ll be punished for being productive.
44. Unisex bathrooms – To accommodate the gender-confused at the price of the safety and modesty of women and girls.
45. Urban centers turned into ghost towns – Businesses over-taxed, open to the depredations of rioters and looters, the homeless treating sidewalks as latrines, stores will close forever or relocate to South Dakota.
46. Venezuela – Will send its bureaucrats here for training.
47. Voting Age lowered to 12 – Ignorance is an investment in the future of the Democrat Party.
48. War on the police will escalate – Biden will put social workers in patrol cars. In life-threatening situations, cops will be taught to shoot armed suspects in the leg or just point an imaginary gun and go “bang-bang.”
49. White House schedule — Will conclude at 9:15 am each day to allow for plenty of presidential naptime.
50. Zombies avoid D.C. – After 4 years of Biden, they won’t find any brains to eat there. By 2024, we’ll be getting foreign aid from Mozambique, millions will apply to Costa Rica for refugee status, weeds will grow up through the sidewalks of our cities and patriots will be holding wakes for America.

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15. 

Science Nazis Demand Obedience To Their Political Agenda

We’ve seen this before.

Thu Oct 29, 2020

Michael Cutler

Whether the issue is “Climate Change” or ways of dealing with COVID-19 the Radical Left ridicules anyone who would dare to question their positions on critical issues.  They accuse those who question them or their claims of not believing in science.

Consider the Yahoo News report that AOL posted on October 26, 2020, Bill Gates slams Trump’s COVID-19 adviser as  ‘pseudo-expert’ who’s ‘off-the-rails’ which began with this excerpt:

In a new interview, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates sharply criticized the Trump administration for muzzling experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) while instead listening to White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, whom Gates calls a “pseudo-expert” who’s “off-the-rails.”

Atlas, a member of the administration’s coronavirus task force who formerly appeared as a commentator for Fox News, reportedly opposes an expansion of COVID testing and earlier this month posted a tweet falsely downplaying the effectiveness of masks. Twitter later removed the post from Atlas, a Stanford University professor with a medical degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

“We now have a pseudo-expert advising the president,” Gates, the former Microsoft (MSFT) CEO and a leading backer of global public health initiatives, told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in an interview that aired on Monday as part of the the news organization’s All Markets Summit.

After the interview, taped on Oct. 15, Gates confirmed that he had made the comments in reference to Atlas, who has opposed lockdowns and co-authored an op-ed in The Hill called “The COVID-19 shutdowns will cost Americans millions of years of lives.”

This article is important for a number of reasons.  First of all, Gates demonstrated colossal chutzpah to insult a medical doctor who graduated from a highly respected medical school and serves as a professor at Stanford University, while Gates, himself, never attended any medical school.

In fact, Gates has no degree of any kind!

What then, could possibly qualify Gates to pass judgement on the credibility of a medical doctor especially one with the clear credentials of Dr. Scott Atlas even as he castigated President Trump for challenging the contradictory and morphing advice of Dr. Fauci.

The AOL/Yahoo article stated that Twitter had removed what they claimed was a tweet posted by Dr. Atlas that they claim falsely downplayed the effectiveness of masks.

It is more than a bit disturbing that Twitter censored Dr. Atlas and, in so doing, prevented the general public from benefitting from his perspectives.  This should alarm everyone.

About 20 years ago I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.  The surgeon who examined me and told me of my situation was the chief of urology at a major New York Hospital and chaired the department of urology at a major medical school.

However, while he told me that he believed that he could save my life, he urged me to seek out at least one additional opinion so that I would be confident that I was making the proper decision.

I did seek out that second opinion and my medical insurance policy covered that second opinion, because this notion of seeking additional opinions is considered the standard way for people to make certain that they are making proper life and death decisions.

Needless to say, my surgeon saved my life- this a good thing because I have not aggravated my quota yet!

Where science and the Radical Left are concerned, however, not blindly following what their anointed experts proclaim, is an act of heresy.

This flies in the face of commonsense and threatens the First Amendment and all of our freedoms.

In doing a bit of research I found a similar situation that existed in a different country many years ago.

That country was Germany as the Third Reich began taking control of Germany and its population, Jews came under vicious attack.  No less a scientist that Albert Einstein was attacked for his work.  Scientific America on February 13, 2015 published an important article about the lunacy that transpired at that time, How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s “Jewish Science” [Excerpt].

The article discussed the mass book burnings carried out on college campuses, not unlike the way that Antifa operates today.  Books authored by Albert Einstein were incinerated.  Here is an important paragraph from this article:

It would be absurd, of course, to suppose that most of the book-burners had given these questions a moment’s thought. The simple fact was that Einstein was a prominent Jew, and his thoughts therefore fit for the bonfire. But Einstein’s theory was attacked on racial grounds. This assault came not by asinine ideologues in the party whose knowledge of science extended no further than a belief in fairy tales about “cosmic ice,” nor from individuals on the scientific fringe seeking official approval and support. It was orchestrated by two Nobel laureates in physics, who devised a full-blown thesis (it can’t be dignified by calling it a theory) on how stereotypical racial features are exhibited in scientific thinking. They were Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, and they wanted to become the new Führers of German physics.

Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and his concept of Space-Time were mocked and ridiculed by two Nazi Nobel laureates.

Of course nearly all of Einstein’s brilliant theories have been validated in recent years by scientists and physicists who now have the technological tools to conduct appropriate experiments.

Understandably fearing for his life,  Einstein fled Nazi Germany and came to America where, ironically, he helped America defeat Fascism in Germany and Japan and, in so doing, safeguarded freedom for people across the globe.

Today the Radical Left demands obedience to theories about climate change that support their demands for the “New Green Deal” even as some scientists question the validity of the notion that human actions have climatological consequences that must be stopped at all costs.

They seek nothing short of a fundamental transformation in the way that we live and work and these demands can only be justified by claiming that catastrophic climate change can only be averted if we adopt draconian changes.

Science has always been about challenges beliefs and devising experiments to seek the truth.

To cite an interesting example of how highly respected scientists may come to diametrically opposed conclusions consider a pair of articles that ran on the same website (Space.com) on two consecutive days.

On October 19, 2020, that website posted, What’s Happening with Betelgeuse? Astronomers Propose a Specialized Telescope to Watch the Star Every Night.

The very next day, October 20, the website published, Wow, Betelgeuse Might Be 25% Closer than Previously Believed.

The physicists who wrote the first article postulated that because Betelgeuse is so huge and pulsating, it is likely to explode within our lifetimes.  They estimated that that star is 700 light-years from earth.  This is why they proposed the construction of a special telescope to keep an astronomical eye on that star.

However, if the physicists who published the second article are right, Betelgeuse is 548 light years away.  This would mean that the star is not nearly as large or bright as the other physicists believe.  This would mean that Betelgeuse is not likely to become a super nova any time soon- at least not for another 100,000 years by their estimates.

This may not seem important to us on our beleaguered planet, but the lessons to be learned is very important.

Experts can and do disagree.  The process of questioning is behind all of our achievements. Scientists who serve a political agenda are the scientists who must not be trusted.

Science is supposed to be the tireless search for universal truths and must be unencumbered by political agendas.

Scientists who yield to the political elite betray their professions and should be ignored as the science-fascists that they are.

Voltaire sagely observed that you could determine the intelligence of a person by considering the questions that they ask, the same questions that today will earn you scorn and ridicule by the Radical Left.

16. Με την δική σου ανόητη… λογική ρε φιλαράκο, αφού ο εγκεφαλικά άρρωστος Μπάϊντεν (έχει σε γρήγορη εξέλιξη Αλτσχάϊμερ), “δεν τα πάει καλά” με τον ΡΤΕ, όπως έγραψες, τότε οι πιθανότητες να μας “την πέσουν” οι Τούρκοι, που τόσο φοβάσαι(!), είναι περισσότερες, απ’ το να βγει ο Τραμπ, που όπως λένε οι… συστημικοί στην χώρα μας και… εσύ, είναι φίλος με τον ΤΡΑΜΠ, ο οποίος όμως φαίνεται να τον συγκρατεί, αφού είναι φίλος του!..

Αυτή η συλλογιστική και όχι ασφαλώς… λογική, είναι κατώτερη και απ’ αυτήν ακόμα που “συναντά” κανείς στα Καφενεία και συγκεκριμένα στους τροφίμους τους!..

17. Κε Υπουργέ Οικονομικών, Κε Σταϊκούρα!

“Προχθές” ήλθε η Εφορία στην Αγίου Μελετίου και μπόρεσε να “δει” 2 μαγαζιά, αφού μόλις έφυγε από το 1ο, ειδοποιήθηκαν όλοι οι Αλβανοί, Πακιστανοί, Βούλγαροι, Αφρικανοί, Κινέζοι, κλπ, μαγαζάτορες και στην Αγίου Μελετίου και στην Μ. Βόδα, όπως και στην Αχαρνών (το όμορο “κομμάτι”), άπαντες οι αναφερθέντες έκλεισαν αμέσως τα μαγαζιά τους! Μόνον κάποιοι… “μαλ…ες” Έλληνες, καταλαβαίνεις, παρέμειναν “ανοικτοί”!..

“Τί γίνεται” Κε Υπουργέ;