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25.01.2022 As the coronavirus pandemic tightens its grip across the world, is the reaction a fiasco in the making? Stanford University professor Dr John Ioannidis (Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Population Health) lifts the lid on our worrying lack of reliable data. https://youtu.be/QUvWaxuurzQ?t=351... The entire video is 10 minutes well spent but the entry point here speaks directly to the point of Mass Hysteria. Former Supreme Court Justice, Jonathan Sumption, QC, warned this week that we are in danger of becoming a police state. He was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 World at One on Monday, and it is worth reflecting on some of his comments. Lord Sumption explained that the lesson of history is that freedoms are lost in exchange for protection from a threat. The real problem is that when human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom in return for protection against some external threat. And the threat is usually a real threat but usually exaggerated. That’s what I fear we are seeing now. The pressure on politicians has come from the public. They want action. They don’t pause to ask whether the action will work. They don’t ask themselves whether the cost will be worth paying. They want action anyway. And anyone who has studied history will recognise here the classic symptoms of collective hysteria. Hysteria is infectious. We are working ourselves up into a lather in which we exaggerate the threat and stop asking ourselves whether the cure may be worse than the disease. Lord Sumption does not deny that the threat from Covid-19 is serious, but questions whether the measures are appropriate: So yes this is serious and yes it’s understandable that people cry out to the government. But the real question is: is this serious enough to warrant putting most of our population into house imprisonment, wrecking our economy for an indefinite period, destroying businesses that honest and hardworking people have taken years to build up, saddling future generations with debt, depression, stress, heart attacks, suicides and unbelievable distress inflicted on millions of people who are not especially vulnerable and will suffer only mild symptoms or none at all, like the Health Secretary and the Prime Minister.
24.01.2022 The Billionaires for Billionaires Club... Keeping YOU safe from News THEY don't like....
23.01.2022 "Last Saturday, Verkhoyansk claimed a new record: the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, with an observation of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheitthe same temperature was recorded that day in Las Vegas. Miami has only hit a hundred degrees once since 1896." Permafrost inside the arctic circle is evaporating at an alarming rate, with record temperatures accelerating massive CO2 emissions not imagined ten year ago... https://www.newyorker.com//a-disastrous-summer-in-the-arct
22.01.2022 A groundbreaking analysis of the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine//16/silent-spring-part-1
22.01.2022 We must refocus our attention on the state of our Forests in Australia... The surface impact of these CSG wells is killing the forests and entire ecosystems.... Keep sharing - and do what you can, when you can, to stop the desertification of our continent...
21.01.2022 The Narribri Gas Project represents a Cabal of self-interested businesses who made a terrible, billion dollar investment without considering the broad, environmental or community impacts. Shut it down... https://www.macrobusiness.com.au//nsw-citizens-should-rio/
17.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/706517433211095/
17.01.2022 The destruction of these sacred sites, is not just the destruction of sites significant to local aboriginal people. It is the destruction of an irreplaceable part of our human story which we all share.
17.01.2022 For a sustainable civilization for all life on earth.. in our lifetimes...
17.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//australian-summers-gettin/12013978
16.01.2022 We live in treacherously perilous times.... 28 people have died of this Corona Flu in Australia since it began. The youngest fatality to date in Australia is 68 years old. To put this in context this is well within trend, with the national average of flu-related fatalities in 2018, during which over 3000 died from the flu.... The federal government has responded by reducing the allowable size of public gathering to just two people (who don’t live together), which has come down from 500 to 100, and then 10 over a little more than a fortnight. The NSW government lists 16 reasonable excuses for a person to be outside their home. Leaving home without a reasonable excuse can now attract an $11,000 fine, or six month’s jail. This has now been made law in NSW, Australia. https://gazette.legislation.nsw.gov.au/so/download.w3p I am of the opinion this is insane, disproportionate and criminal action by the Australian government, who are unnecessarily manipulating, blackmailing, terrorizing and traumatizing the entire population. They appear to be working in concert with Deep State Actors to execute a range of covert activities, including the implementation of total surveillance, total police state that may lead to forced vaccinations, deeper incursions into freedoms of speech, freedoms of action, and other activities that are robbing the Australian people of their essential sovereignty.
14.01.2022 When it comes to the Corona Virus, this may be the only measure that impacts the natural world... https://www.esa.int///COVID-19_nitrogen_dioxide_over_China
13.01.2022 Over 3 million died of respiratory conditions in 2016... https://www.who.int//fac/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death This will likely be the case this year too... except this year people will take notice, because, well, they are taking notice... and using these statistics to implement all manner of social controls. The true impact of Corona Virus may be measured by the combined increase in fatalities against statistical norms. ... According to: https://www.worldatlas.com//leading-causes-of-death-in-ind in Indonesia in 2012: 81,100 Deaths: Lower Respiratory Infections 66,700 Deaths: Tuberculosis 48,100 Deaths: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Any of these may be attributed to the rather common group of Viruses called Corona, in so much as the virus may be present if tested using the mickey mouse tests being distributed world wide at the moment. Back then, they weren't tested. This year they may well be, adding to the fear and the hype. Another context may be viewed here: https://www.worldometers.info/
13.01.2022 Amazing essential watching to understand the single post important environmental concern facing NSW, and its interconnected was to many critical environmental impacts. Thanks so much to the Production team for getting this out there #gamilmeansno #waterislife #smartupstart
13.01.2022 Water management in NSW is one of the worst cases of government failure in the state’s history. Billions of dollars have been squandered, ecosystems are near co...llapse, and during this drought some communities have been forced to truck in drinking water for months on end. For years, governments have over-allocated water from the Upper Darling to benefit a few rich irrigators, some of whom have even resorted to water theft on an industrial scale. Something has to change. Fixing our inland rivers is the major theme of the Nature Conservation Council’s Regional Conference this year, which is being co-hosted by the Central West Environment Council and will be conducted online using Zoom due to COVID-19. The conference brings together experts and stakeholders from across the west of the state to share their knowledge and experiences and to help plot a course to a more sustainable system of water management. See more
10.01.2022 Just in case you haven't seen it already... Juicemedia turning up the heat... https://youtu.be/6BmbvTvFQ3g
10.01.2022 I will not be watching the Australian Open this year for their poor choice of Sponsor. Santos is trying to get Australians on board to support the wanton damage of Australia's largest inland Forest and The Great Artesian Basin. Australian Open Management have just declared an open ignorance and contempt for the future health of this continent. Shame
10.01.2022 "At the proposed gas prices assumed under the Covid plan, more than half of the gas reserves in Australia would be uneconomic, according to energy experts. The plan simply doesn’t stack up without massive government intervention and huge taxpayer subsidies. Energy experts describe it variously as nuts and an outrage, destined to saddle the country with higher costs, higher emissions and stranded assets. "... https://reneweconomy.com.au/gas-lobby-seizes-covid-moment-/
10.01.2022 Putting the N back in Cuts... https://youtu.be/8qj83LE2Mpw
09.01.2022 https://theconversation.com/arent-we-in-a-drought-the-austr
06.01.2022 Globally since the coronavirus pandemic, there’s been a permanent shift down in demand and the world is swimming in gas and oil. How will this investment get us out of the hole? It is not a government's role to pick winners. It is definitely not a government's role to pick proven losing industries to shower taxpayer dollars on. The government is making big decisions about our future right now. We need a new normal, not going back to the old ways of a reliance on emissions-...intensive gas, which is both a fossil fuel and a loss-making industry. Gas is not the industry of the future. We have the choice now. We can do things differently going forward. Bruce Robertson - Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis https://reneweconomy.com.au/no-green-new-deal-for-australi/
06.01.2022 From July 20-24 the people of Narrabri will confront Santos in a public hearing with questions and comments on Santos’ exocidal Plan to dice up the Pilliga with 850 gas wells, damage and depressurize the aquifers, and bring 422,000 tonnes of heavy metal salts to the surface in an area prone to desertification. https://nwprotectionadvocacy.com/livestreaming-the-santos-/
04.01.2022 This law got passed on the quiet yesterday allowing the harvesting and retention of the DNA of anyone who does a COVID-19 test. No mention on main stream media...
04.01.2022 Has your turnover declined by 30% or more in Australia? If so, you may be eligible for the COVID-19 STIMULUS JOBKEEPER PAYMENT. Learn more at:... https://www.bdo.com.au//c2fe4/Presentation-Slides.pdf.aspx See more
02.01.2022 Happening now... Some powerful insights and alternative points of view.. the distillation of some of the world's leading experts presenting powerful, valuable points of view on Covid, the Global Shutdown, and dangerous violations of civil liberties, health sovereignty and freedom of speech... 3.5 hours with many presenters sharing wisdom, knowledge and insights...... https://reclaimyourlives.com/ the replay will run over the next week... park some time, grab a coffee and a snack and take it in...
01.01.2022 Environmental ‘offsets’ are criminal. It’s where you have two beautiful irreplaceable bits of nature and governments give miners or developers permission to destroy one if they ‘save’ the other. Time to bin the whole idea. - David Shoebridge https://www.theguardian.com//its-an-ecological-wasteland-o
