Students Strike for Climate Action

'No other way': Student climate activist Greta Thunberg's strike call

This was the heading of a news article in the Brisbane Times of March 13th 2019. The article goes on to state:

Students have no choice but to close their books and walk out on their classes to make their demands for serious climate action heard, says Greta Thunberg, the Swedish student who has started a global movement. 

On Friday, as many as 55 separate protests are expected in Australia by about 40,000 students as part of the School Strike 4 Climate campaign. That number is about twice that of a similar action in November, with about 100 nations likely to take part this time around. 

In comments to the Herald ahead of this week's event, Ms Thunberg said she would be staging her now customary Friday strike, bringing the number of days she has boycotted classes to 42 since she began last year. 

"The plan was to school strike for three weeks [in the run up to Swedish elections]," she said in an email. "But at the end of that I wanted to go on. So then I started Fridays For Future ... The emissions are still going up so nothing has been achieved really."

A master stroke on the part of the Global Elite, who are behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) alarmism, is to get the youth of the world to support the cause. Little Greta Thunberg is doubtless well-intentioned but an unwitting dupe nonetheless.

Figure 1: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

AGW alarmism is a clever way to pressure nations to conform to global standards that will rein in greenhouse gas emissions and promote the use of "green" energy alternatives. How could any reasonable country not agree to cooperate in the battle to combat the threat of man-made global warming? It's the same with "free trade" agreements that do nothing to foster free trade but instead force countries to adhere to policies that favour multinational corporations, even to their own detriment. The common agenda is to diminish the power of individual nations even further so that the reality of a world government can be realised.

The world already has a world banking system which provides a huge restraint on what individual nations can and can't do but a global political system has not yet been realised. The latter is the goal of the Global Elite who are determined to achieve it by fair means or foul. With control over the world's finances by this elite, a global financial crisis and the bankrupting of nations may well be engineered to hasten the process. Predictively, the banksters, politicians and mainstream media will be supportive but disturbingly, the children of the world may also be on side as they embrace what they see as a New World Order. The Old World Order, dominated by nation states, delivered only:

• endless conflict and refugee crises
• trades wars that caused financial instability
• failure in combatting the catastrophe of man-made global warming
• lack of protection to minorities (religious, ethnic, sexual etc.)
• dictators who eschewed the democratic process
• travel restrictions
• unemployment and underemployment

The promise of a world free of all this is alluring to a generation who sees only a dystopian past and is blind to an even more dystopian future. The same forces that produced the former and busy building the latter. The problem comes down to the failure of the educational system to promote an awareness of how perceptions are manipulated. In the case of global warming, every heat wave and every record high temperature is highlighted in the media whereas every big freeze and every record low is either ignored or, when it's too blatant to ignore, explained away as an anomaly. This propaganda, waged daily over the years, forges a perception that the world is becoming a hot box.

Figure 2: Are You Being Manipulated?

In school, children are not taught that the news they receive is filtered by policies put in place by the media owners. For example, news articles in general will be supportive of vaccinations, Israel, man-made global warming and gender diversity. News that is not supportive will simply be ignored. Propaganda is defined as information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicise a particular political cause or point of view. Why on Earth should they trust what the media and politicians tell them? The latest episode of James Corbett's Propaganda Watch mentions Greta Thunberg and the indoctrination of children regarding a climate apocalypse:

A very detailed analysis of what is really going on behind climate alarmism can be found here: THE MANUFACTURING OF GRETA THUNBERG – A DECADE OF SOCIAL MANIPULATION FOR THE CORPORATE CAPTURE OF NATURE [ACT VI – CRESCENDO]. To quote from the conclusion to Act VI of this article:

The final act of this series is dedicated to Greta Thunberg and the youth she has inspired across our fragile planet. The upper echelons of power have every intention to capture and channel this energy – and use it to maintain the current power structures. They are already in the process. 

We have reached the Brave New Moment where there is no longer a distinction between our “movements” and the corporate forces that have been created to further our oppression and servitude – all in compliance to economic growth and capitalism for the world’s ruling class. All of this to be achieved on the backs of the most vulnerable – our youth. Hegemonic forces are salivating over the global waves of youth mobilisation demanding action on climate change. 

The paradox is this – the youth are their vehicle. Their resistance sequestered and redirected directly back into the very system that will destroy the same future they march to save. When children from even the wealthiest of families (monetary wealth being the epitome of “success” in the West) are part and parcel of an epidemic of depression in our society – we need to question why we would do anything that would prop-up a failing system that benefits so few – at the expense of so much.

The author of this article, Cory Morningstar, is a climate activist with the following bio:

Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on "Wrong Kind of Green", "The Art of Annihilation and Counterpunch". Her writing has also been published by Bolivia Rising and Cambio, the official newspaper of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. You can support her independent journalism via Patreon.

I was surprised to discover that she appears to be a believer in man-made global warming and that the world is heading toward climate catastrophe. Having realised that the power elite are firmly behind and in control of the environmental movements, she doesn't take the extra step and question whether global warming is a media-driven psyop: psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behaviour of governments, organisations, groups, and individuals. Nonetheless, she has at least seen through the NGO-ization of the climate change activism and its focus on profits and the continued exploitation of the planet.

Smart Cities

This article in the March 9th 2019 online edition of The Guardian is titled How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms begins by stating that:

Across the midwest, the rise of factory farming is destroying rural communities. And the massive corporations behind this devastation are now eyeing a post-Brexit UK market.

This article comes hot on the heels of another Guardian article that I read titled Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic from March 7th 2019. It seems that this MSM site is putting out some reasonable content from time to time. The article goes on to describe the rise of concentrated animal feeding operations or Cafos as they are known. To quote:

 “They are vertically integrated, from animal genetics to grocery store. What they charge isn’t based upon what it costs to produce, and it’s not based on supply and demand, because they know what they need to make a profit. What they have done, through government support and taxpayer support, is to intentionally overproduce so that the price stays low, sometimes below the cost of production. That kicks their competition out of the market. Then they become the only player in town. 

“Over time, it has extracted wealth and power from communities. We can see how that has impacted rural main streets. You can see the boarded-up storefronts. You can see the lack of economic opportunity.”

Gibbons says that corporations game the system by obtaining low-interest, federally guaranteed loans to build Cafos that then overproduce. But they know the government will buy up the surplus to stabilise prices. 

“The system has been set up for the benefit of the factory farm corporations and their shareholders at the expense of family farmers, the real people, our environment, our food system,” he adds. 

“The thing that is really pervasive about it is that they control the rules of the game because they control the democratic process. It’s a blueprint. We’re paying for our own demise. 

“It would be a different argument if it was just based upon inevitability or based on competition. But it’s not based upon competition: it’s based upon squelching competition.”

Here is a blog that explains more about what cafos are all about. These types of operations mean that more people are moving to the cities as they simply can't earn a living in the countryside. Once the farms are abandoned:

“Investors buy the land, and they have tractors and combines that you can run by computer,” she said. “They’ll hire somebody to sit in a little office somewhere and run that stuff off the computer and farm the land that way. Now what you’ve done is you have lost the innate knowledge of how to grow food and raise animals. You’ve lost a whole generation of it, probably two. Now we are going to rely on a few corporations to decide who is going to eat and who isn’t. We’re one generation away from that picture right now.” 

In Williams, Schutt says he’s seeing a community of owners becoming workers: “It’s going to be like Russia with serfs. If you want to work on a farm, you’ll have to work for them. We’ll give you a job, but you’re going to be working on our terms. We control everything. Small farms can’t survive.” 

The phrase I've highlighted is quite telling: you have lost the innate knowledge of how to grow food and raise animals. Already urban dwellers are totally reliant on the local supermarket for their food but some still have some idea of how to grow their own. This will change as the urban populations swell and the percentage of those living outside the cities decline. Lack of services such as hospitals and schools and increased taxation on those living outside of cities will ensure that this trend is sustained. Urban dwellers will huddle in their smart city apartment blocks, their every move tracked by ubiquitous surveillance technology and their every purchase scrutinised in a society that has gone cashless.

The Internet will be sanitised and free of fake news. Citizens will be rewarded with credit points for positive and constructive social media comments, points will be deducted for espousing views outside the mainstream and re-education classes may be required for persistent offenders. Mandatory vaccinations with contents unknown (as now) to recipients will reinforce compliance via chemical means. Education will distort history beyond recognition and shape students to feel a sense of connection only with their benevolent overlords.

Large study again confirms MMR vaccine doesn't cause autism

ANOTHER BOGUS VACCINE STUDY

Via AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Washington on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 at 09:08 pm, the following statement appeared in an article in The Jakarta Post:

The study, which followed all Danish children born between 1999 and 2010 until 2013, compared the number of vaccinated and unvaccinated kids who were diagnosed with autism, and found no difference.

This sort of study, comparing a vaccinated group of children with an unvaccinated group, is exactly what those suspicious of vaccines have been demanding and now here is one such study, which followed more than 650,000 Danish children for over a decade. However, all is not as it seems. To quote directly from the paper itself:

A general criticism of observational vaccine effect studies is that they do not include a completely unvaccinated group of children. The number of children completely unvaccinated throughout childhood will be low in a country such as Denmark. We evaluated the association between MMR and autism in children with no DTaP-IPV/Hib vaccinations in the first year of life; we found no support for an association in this vaccine-naive subpopulation.

This is indeed strange. DTaP-IPV/Hib stands for:

• Diphtheria
• Tetanus
• Pertussis
• Hepatitis B
• Polio
• Haemophilus influenzae Type b 

So what is being said here? Were the unvaccinated children in the study, vaccinated against MMR but not against DTaP-IPV/Hib? It's by no means clear. How low were the numbers of "completely unvaccinated" children in the study. It's not stated as far as I can see. In a blog titled j.b.handley blog, the author makes six point in criticism of this study:

1. We’ve still only studied a single vaccine. Even though children receive 11 vaccines, and MMR isn’t given until 12 months old, long after many other vaccines.
2. The most compelling data in the study will never get covered: why is the autism rate in this study only 1 in 100? 
3. They abuse the word “unvaccinated” and the media will, too.
4. This doesn’t tell us anything about aluminum adjuvant as a trigger for immune activation events
5. The national register in Denmark is unreliable, according to published science.
6. Finally, and this is actually the most important point but also the most confusing: the study doesn’t take into account “Healthy User Bias”

It's well worth going to this blog and reading the full details regarding each of these points. Here is a brief biography regarding J.B. Handley:

J.B. Handley is the proud father of a child with Autism. He and his wife co-founded Generation Rescue, a national autism charity, in 2005. He spent his career in the private equity industry and received his undergraduate degree with honors from Stanford University. His first book, How to End the Autism Epidemic, was published in September 2018 by Chelsea Green Publishing. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies, was an NPD Bookscan and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller, broke the Top 40 on Amazon, and has more than 400 Five-star reviews: Paperback, Kindle, and Audible available  on Amazon.

Such a "massive study" as was carried out would require some hefty funding and it seems to have come from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for the most part, although the Danish Government is also mentioned as contributing. Of course, even if this flawed study had found a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, the results would never have been published. How could they be? It would destroy trust in vaccines overnight and a multi-billion industry would collapse. Before this study even got underway, there could be only one outcome but the perception has been created that this was a fair, massive, unbiassed, scientifically objective study comparing the vaccinated to the unvaccinated. The study will be referenced of course for decades to come and that was the point of carrying it out.

if one vaccine domino falls, they all fall

it's gone too far to turn back now

the dogma that must be believed is

that all vaccines are safe

no matter how many you receive or how often

it's proven Science if there is any doubt

An Orwellian Week

It's been an Orwellian sort of week. For starters, poor David Icke was barred from entering Australia and embarking on a long-planned speaking tour. Despite having been granted a visa last September, it was revoked a few hours prior to his planned departure from Los Angeles. Venues had been booked and tickets sold. This article from The Sydney Morning Herald tells the MSM story:

The Australian government has banned notorious English conspiracy theorist David Icke from entering the country next month for a planned speaking tour. 

Among the bizarre claims made by Icke, a former footballer and BBC sports presenter, are that the world is controlled by a cabal of giant shape-shifting reptiles, many of them Jewish, and that a group of elite Jews bankrolled Adolf Hitler and started several wars. 

He also tells audiences the September 11 attacks were an inside job organised by "a network that works through government agencies, through organisations like the CIA". 

Icke, 66, was due to tour Australia in March, but the government has now cancelled his visa, banning him from entry. It is understood the decision was made within the past 24 hours. 

Immigration Minister David Coleman declined to comment. 

In a statement, Icke said he was "shocked and appalled to have received the news earlier today that my visa had been revoked just hours before boarding a flight to Australia". 

"I have been a victim of a smear campaign from politicians who have been listening to special interest groups attempting to discredit my beliefs, my views and my character by spreading lies," Icke said. 

"This knee-jerk reaction to accommodate the people behind this smear campaign has left a sinister mark on Australians, compromising freedom of speech and ideas. This goes further than just me today, but sets a dangerous precedent for citizens who have differing views and are willing to openly express these." 

The government has banned a number of controversial people from entering the country in recent years, including WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning and Gavin McInnes, the leader of the far right Proud Boys group. 

Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation Commission had lobbied Mr Coleman to cancel Icke's visa. The organisation's chairman, Dvir Abramovich, congratulated the minister "for heeding our call and declaring in a loud voice that anti-semites and Holocaust deniers will never find a home in Australia". He called it a "defining moment for who we are as a nation". 

Icke was due to speak to audiences in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney next month in a presentation billed as "four hours that will change your life". 

In his statement, Icke said Mr Coleman had cited his views on vaccinations and climate change among the reasons his visa had been revoked. He also accused Mr Coleman of caving to pressure from a "libellous" article in The Australian newspaper published on Wednesday. 

"This is the creation of a blatantly Orwellian totalitarian state," Icke said. 

Josh Burns, Labor's candidate for the federal seat of Macnamara, also lobbied Mr Coleman and said the minister had finally "made the right call and succumbed to pressure". 

"Given it is barely a month since we had far-right and neo-Nazi rallies in St Kilda, importing more of this sort of hate is something Australia cannot afford," Mr Burns said. 

The Liberal candidate for Macnamara, Kate Ashmor, said she had been "quietly lobbying" Mr Coleman to cancel Icke's visa as his "abhorrent views have no place in Australia". She said the decision was "welcome, and affirms the government's steadfast support for Australia's Jewish community". 

The seat of Macnamara, formerly known as Melbourne Ports, is currently held by outgoing Labor MP Michael Danby and has a large Jewish population. It will be a highly contested three-cornered race with the Greens at the May election.

It's understandable that the Liberal and Labor candidates for the seat of Macnamara would wish to woo the Jewish vote in the upcoming elections by earning "combat anti-semitism" credit points. I'm sure that the majority of the Jewish residents would be indifferent to David Icke's tour of Australia but of course the impetus came from outside the electorate in the form of the Anti-Defamation Commission. This is a pro-Israel lobby group and it was its influence that caused the Immigration Minister David Coleman to cave in and cancel David Icke's visa. With the likely change of government, there will be a new Immigration Minister shortly but it's unlikely that David Icke will ever be allowed into Australia again.

David Icke is predictably conflated by Josh Burns, the Labor candidate, with the "far-right and neo-Nazi rallies in St. Kilda" of a month ago and, he goes on, "importing more of this sort of hate is something Australia cannot afford". The Immigration Minister, according to David Icke, also mentioned his views on vaccinations and climate change as reasons for the revocation of his visa. In the future, it is likely that high profile foreigners will be denied visas to Australia if they criticise Israel, question vaccinations or express doubts about man-made global warming. Further taboo topics will be added shortly. There's no problem obviously with Professor Dina Porat's visa whose visit is being promoted on the Anti-Defamation Commission's website.

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The pro-Israel lobby would ideally like to make any criticism of the Israeli Government illegal. It would seem that it will soon succeed in achieving that in France. The French President, Immanuel Macron has stated that "France is to recognise anti-Zionism, the denial of the state of Israel, as a form of anti-Semitism". That is quite an achievement. There's more to read about it here.

Creepy: Macron and Bibi clasping a glowing globe.

The photo of Macron and Bibi appears in an article dated 7th June, 2018 that states:

Orb memes and supernatural conspiracies are back with a vengeance after Benjamin Netanyahu and Emmanuel Macron were pictured grasping a strange glowing sphere between them. The bizarre moment comes a year after an uncannily similar photo, featuring US President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, sparked witchcraft conspiracies across social media. Netanyahu was in Paris to meet French President Macron for discussions about the Iran deal among other issues when he attended a gala in honour of 70 years of the State of Israel. The function, held at the Grand Palais, marked the opening of the Israel-France Cross-Cultural Season and, inexplicably, included a glowing orb-like object which the leaders just had to get their hands on. Unsurprisingly the image of Netanyahu and Macron clasping the orb and staring into its depths has captured the imagination of the Twitterati who appear to be on the lookout for these mystical spheres. It has also revived the earlier popular orb memes and once again aroused conspiracy theories concerning evil forces and demonic rituals. One potential cause of the leaders’ strange stance has already been struck out. The Church of Satan previously clarified that the act of standing around an orb is not actually a “satanic ritual.”

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The two smiling psychopaths in this photo appeared in the following article:

Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’’s crown prince, on Friday defended China’s use of concentration camps for Muslims, saying it was Beijing’s “right”. "China has the right to carry out anti-terrorism and de-extremisation work for its national security,” Prince Mohammed, who has been in China signing multi-million trade deals much to the annoyance of his Western allies, was quoted as saying on Chinese state television. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, told the crown prince the two countries must strengthen international cooperation on de-radicalisation to “prevent the infiltration and spread of extremist thinking”. China has detained an estimated one million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps, where they are undergoing re-education programmes allegedly intended to combat extremism. The Uighur are an ethnic Turkic group that practices Islam and lives in Western China and parts of Central Asia. Beijing has accused the minority in its Western Xinjiang region of supporting terrorism and implemented a surveillance regime. Uighur groups had appealed to Saudi’s powerful young prince to take up their cause, as the ultraconservative kingdom has traditionally been a defender of the rights of Muslims worldwide. But Muslim leaders have so far not broached the issue with China, which has in recent years become an important trading partner with the Middle East.

The Uighurs cannot expect any help from MBS who clearly has other priorities. 

The Global Population Control Agenda

There are some who say there is an agenda on the part of the Global Elite to reduce the population of the planet to about half a billion. If this were true how would the elite go about achieving this, while ensuring that its own members were not culled in the same proportion as the general population? If the unwashed masses have on average fewer than 2.1 babies, then simple demographics kicks in to gradually reduce the population. Once babies are born, an insane assault on their immune systems via relentless vaccinations ensures they will be impaired in one way or another, whether through allergies, autism, asthma, auto-immune diseases, ADHD or whatever. This makes parenting a nightmare. Try it once (making a baby) and you probably won't want to try it again. Mandatory childhood vaccinations are not far off and most aware couples, faced with the prospect of watching helplessly as their babies are abused by forced vaccinations, will choose not to have any. Zero (babies) works especially well in reducing the population.

Same sex couples also work well in that respect and hence the aggressive push for LGBT "rights". I certainly don't want to see individuals who identify as LGBT persecuted or discriminated against but it's clear that the movement has been hijacked by hidden forces with the social engineering agenda of promoting the LGBT lifestyle as normal and natural. Challenging this agenda ensures you will be branded "homophobic" just as challenging the vaccine agenda earns you the sobriquet of "anti-vaxxer". There is no middle ground where LGBT rights are concerned just as with vaccinations. You have to take a side. Any hesitation or equivocation puts you on the other side. With the imminent roll-out of 5G, it is likely that male fertility rates will decline even more, so that even heterosexual couples who decide to have a baby may find that they are unable to do so.

Of course, populations are already declining in many developed countries while those in developing countries are still increasing. This population imbalance ensures increased immigration from developing to developing countries. Migrant intakes help to reduce the sense of identification with the host nation and predispose towards a sense of being a global citizen. Hasn't identification with nation states only led to endless warfare? Identifying as a global citizen will put an end to all of that supposedly. The Global Elite's agenda and propaganda are subtle but relentless, aiming always to erode the connections that individuals have with their sex, country, ethnicity, religion and more.

The long game is being played, for now at least, and meanwhile the children of the Global Elite will not be receiving the same vaccinations as the masses. They may not be receiving any vaccinations at all or maybe just placebos. They will not eat the same polluted food and water as the masses. They will be the first to receive the benefits of advances in medical technology. They will thrive and become our new genomic overlords just as their parents and grandparents are already our economic overlords. Of course, plans may well be in place to accelerate the depopulation process. An earlier blog post explores one possible way in which this could be achieved. In this I said:

This was the first I had heard of such a virus. If it is effective, then the implications are chilling if one believes the global elite are intent on reducing the population of the planet to around 500 million people. If a similar virus targeting humans was engineered, it could be easily added to the aggressively promoted annual flu vaccinations that many people receive.

The message keeps getting repeated: there are just too many people and there are not enough resources to support them. There is so much human activity that it is warming the planet, leading us toward a climate apocalypse. The propaganda is relentless and quite effective.

Madagascar and Measles

The heading of The Sydney Morning Herald article screamed:

More than 900 dead in Madagascar measles epidemic

Geneva: At least 922 people have died in a measles outbreak in Madagascar, the majority of them children, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

I haven't even read the article yet but I thought it would be an interesting article to dissect as its clearly sending a message, namely that measles is a very dangerous disease and you'd better make sure your children are protected against this threat. The actual article is very short and continues:

Since the beginning of the outbreak in September, more than 66,000 people in the African island nation have been infected with the highly contagious virus, the WHO said. Measles is easily preventable through vaccination. The WHO has launched a campaign in collaboration with local authorities to vaccinate more than 6 million children in Madagascar. The campaign also includes efforts to educate the population and counter negative perceptions about vaccinations.

In a report released last week, the WHO wrote that the outbreak was "unprecedented" and "occurred in a context of poor performance of routine vaccination." That report listed 300 deaths and 53,000 infections. The dramatic increase in such a short time is due to a more complete collection of data in Madagascar, a spokesman said on Friday.

There were 229,000 reported measles cases worldwide in 2018 - double the number of the previous year, according to preliminary WHO figures. WHO experts say the actual number of cases is likely to be many times higher. The former French colony of Madagascar has a population of about 25 million and is one of the 30 poorest nations in the world, according to the United Nations.

In a slightly lengthier article from Reuters, there is an inadvertent allusion to the real reason behind the deaths:

Madagascar has Africa’s highest children’s malnutrition rate, at 47 percent. The condition can increase the risk of serious complications and death from measles infection, the WHO says. 

Malnourished children are what made measles such a killer in the 19th century and that is the real killer here. Once the poverty, poor sanitation and crowded living conditions are reduced, a measles infection is easily shrugged off by a healthy immune system. The statistics quoted in the article are largely meaningless because they don't differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. The assumption is that everybody who was infected was unvaccinated and this assumption is not justified. Measles outbreaks can occur in vaccinated populations. The impact of the vaccination on the already compromised immune systems of these malnourished children is also not taken into account. The money spent by governments in Madagascar and elsewhere would be far more profitably spent in improving public health infrastructure but of course this doesn't generate any money for the pharmaceutical companies.

Meanwhile, the headlines and hysteria continue. For example, this editorial from The Sydney Morning Herald warns:

NSW must not drop its guard against measles

It's not worth the space in this blog post to quote from the nonsense contained in this editorial but it's just one of many examples of the unrelenting media message to the masses: vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate! Movies and television series about pathogen-induced zombie apocalypses reinforce this further and possibly more deeply. A worldview is being promoted of a planet full of potentially lethal pathogens that its human inhabitants need to protect themselves against. How? By regular vaccinations of course. If the vaccinations sometimes prove ineffective as children become adults, then this indicates a need for booster jabs at regular intervals throughout adulthood.

Perhaps every age has been an Age of Propaganda but it seems that the propaganda is intensifying in terms of us getting us to accept that vaccinations are good for us. When persuasion fails there is always legislation like preventing unvaccinated children from entering schools and kindergartens and withholding child support payments from parents who don't vaccinate their children. In the Australian state of New South Wales, the following describes the flu vaccine schedule for children under five:

To develop strong protection, children who are aged from six months to under five years are recommended to have two vaccine doses in the first year they receive a flu vaccine, with at least four weeks between doses. Children who have been immunised against flu previously will only require one dose each year. Source

These shots are free so if this schedule is followed by responsible parents, the child will have six flu shots (all containing Mercury of course) by the time she or he turns five years old. This is in addition to all the other vaccinations containing aluminium and all sorts of other additives. There is a nice synergy in the toxic effects of mercury and aluminium.

The Cost of Renewable Energy

The Jerusalem Post is proving an interesting source of information about is going on in Israel and how that country is reacting to what is going on in the world. However, in today's online edition, the following advertisement caught my eye:

Advertisement in The Jerusalem Post (online edition)
on Friday, February 8th 2019.

What is being advertised is a book, Dumb Energy by Norman Rogers, available on Amazon at only A$6.79. There is a free summary available and that's what I had a look at. A couple of paragraphs in particular caught my attention:

For certain scientific groups, green ideas and global warming alarmism are the geese that lay golden eggs. The golden eggs are not just money, but also prestige. Scientists, particularly climate scientists, benefit from global warming alarmism. They are reluctant, individually or as a group, to express skepticism or to critically examine the theories behind global warming alarmism. Peer pressure to conform is so great, that to contradict the group think is heresy, and likely professional suicide. Global warming has transformed climate scientists, formerly nerdy grinds toiling in an obscure corner of academia, into celebrity scientists. The pull of stardom and money has corrupted the scientific work. The statements that all climate scientists agree, or that predictions of global warming are absolutely solid – those things are propaganda.

I couldn't agree more with that statement but later I came across the following:

Renewable energy and its companion global warming alarmism have become a religion. There is a great danger that it will become an established religion forced on the people by the government and an elite establishment. Important believers include dignitaries such as Jerry Brown, the governor of California and Michael Bloomberg, billionaire and former mayor of New York. This is not a quiet religion. The believers don’t meditate. This is an angry religion.  

This got this me thinking. Previously, I had tended to regard the push for renewable energy sources as basically positive, not fully realising how closely this push is linked to its "companion", global warming alarmism. This led me to investigate a possible link between the rise of renewable energy sources and the rising price of electricity. I came across an article in THE CONVERSATION from January 2nd 2018 titled: A high price for policy failure: the ten-year story of spiralling electricity bills. The article looked at the rising cost of electricity bills in Australia. The following section I found particularly relevant:

Up until the late 2000s the market kept chugging along. Then two things happened. First, consumers started using less electricity. And second, the Renewable Energy Target (RET) was ramped up, pushing more supply into the market. 

Demand down and supply up meant even more oversupply, and continued low prices. But the combination of low prices and low demand put pressure on the finances of existing fossil fuel generators. Old generators were being asked to produce less electricity than before, for lower prices. Smaller power stations began to be mothballed or retired. 

Something had to give, and it did when both Alinta and Engie decided it was no longer financially viable to keep their power stations running. Far from being oversupplied, the market is now struggling to meet demand on hot days when people use the most electricity. The result is very high prices. 

A tight demand and supply balance with less coal-fired generation has meant that Australia increasingly relies on gas-fired generation, at a time when gas prices are astronomical, leading to accusations of price-gouging. 

Put simply, Australia has failed to build enough new generation over recent years to reliably replace ageing coal plants when they leave the market. 

Is it renewable energy’s fault that coal-fired power stations have closed? Yes, but this is what needs to happen if we are to reduce greenhouse emissions. Is it renewables’ fault that replacement generation has not been built? No. It’s the government’s fault for failing to provide the right environment for new investment.

The rising prices are a complex issue and the article does a good job of analysing the various components that make up an electricity bill have risen over the previous years. Nonetheless, it's clear that renewable energy initiatives have played a significant part in driving up prices. Of course, it's taken as a given that coal-fired power stations must be closed and that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced.

Getting back to the Dumb Energy summary, the author makes an interesting point when he notes:

The propagandists for wind and solar use fake photography to give the impression that smokestacks of conventional fossil fuel plants are belching toxic black smoke. This outright fakery says a lot about the ethics of the Sierra Club and similar organisations. The picture is an example that appeared on the Sierra Club website. The smokestack is actually belching harmless water vapour. When the water vapour or steam hits the cool air, it condenses into a white cloud. By photographing with the sun behind the smoke stack, the white cloud of water droplets can be made to appear black. It is revealing that, in the photo, there is no “smoke” immediately above the stack before the water vapour has mixed with the cool air sufficiently to condense. 

I don't know if that's true or not but its clear that the propaganda regarding man-made global warming and the need to develop renewable energy sources is driving up the price of electricity. There are few government's in the world that would challenge the core tenets of The Church of Climatology. The Trump administration has done so but that may prove more helpful in the long run to the global warming alarmists who can now put global warming deniers and Trump together in the same basket.

If it's true that carbon dioxide emissions are causing the planet to overheat, then of course a reduction in our dependance on fossil fuels makes sense. It's worth paying more for electricity in order to save our planet from possible catastrophe. If it's not true then why are we being led to believe that it is? Is there a hidden agenda? Cui bono? It's easy to suspect a profit motive because there is big money involved in alternative energy but, as with global elite initiative, the key issue is control. To quote from Natural Climate Change:

So where does the passion in support of the man-made global warming hoax originate? Freedom First Society believes that the best explanation for the widespread propaganda is that the “crisis” hoax supports an immense power grab. High-level internationalist insiders have selected the global warming scare as one pretext to help them drive forward their revolutionary “new world order.” In particular, they seek to persuade independent nations to submit to world government, cleverly controlled by an elite few from behind the scenes.

Incidentally, my research showed up an interesting site that curates news articles about climate change: TWTW (The Week That Was). I've signed up to receive their newsletter.

Screenshot from climate change change curation site:
http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm

One thing that this archive has already brought to my attention is that environmental degradation and man-made global warming are quite distinct. No one would deny that human activity has caused widespread environmental degradation. The mining, transportation and burning of fossil fuels have certainly damaged the environment but this does not mean that the use of fossil fuels needs to be totally abandoned. Any human activity has an impact on the environment.