Getting Unelected Bureaucrats Out Of Our Lives

by jordan roberts - 2022-10-17 23:14:35 ( in education, research) [php version] rebuild

Queensland parliament on APHRA

https://fb.watch/gaX0ttSnsi/

EU opens probe into vaccine deals

https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/eu-opens-probe-into-vaccine-deals/

The European Union prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the bloc's procurement of ions of covid-19 vaccine doses, amid allegations of corruption and secret backroom dealings from several members of parliament. EU officials announced the probe in a brief statement on Friday, confirming an 'ongoing investigation into the acquisition of covid-19 vaccines in the European Union.'

They added that the case follows 'extremely high public interest' around the issue, though declined to share any other details. While prosecutors were tight-lipped about the exact nature of the probe, the announcement follows allegations from MEPs that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen conducted vaccine negotiations with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in secret.

Despite requests from journalists, lawmakers and an EU watchdog, von der Leyen's office has failed to produce personal text messages sent to Bourla during talks for nearly 2 billion vaccine doses, prompting accusations of corruption. Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic noted the new investigation later on Friday, saying the decision was made thanks to pressure from lawmakers. Though he was unable to shed additional light on the probe, Kolakusic has been highly critical of the EU's vaccine procurement process, claiming deals for ions of doses were marred by 'corruption' and secrecy.

'Today, 10 of us MEPs asked [von der Leyen] the following question: when will she present to us... the communication she had with Pfizer during the procurement of 4.5 billion doses of vaccines at a time when there was absolutely no proof of the effectiveness, and especially not of the harmfulness, of that product?' he said in a tweet earlier this week, calling the issue the 'biggest corruption scandal in the history of mankind.' Last month, the European Court of Auditors said that it has asked the commission to provide information on 'preliminary negotiations' for the EU's largest Pfizer purchase " including 'scientific experts consulted and advice received, timing of the talks, records of the discussions, and details of the agreed terms and conditions' " but added that 'none was forthcoming.' The European Commission still has yet to make the information public, fueling corruption allegations from MEPs.

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We're coming for you

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/were-coming-for-you/

Have you noticed, as the election looms, the Party of Chaos trips deeper into its own self-created chaos? Turns out that the effort to make Ukraine the fifty-first state is not going over so well with the voters. Nor is the campaign to convince children to switch sexes. Or the crusade to sell ever more mRNA 'vaccines' that the CDC knows good-and-goshdarn-well are killing and maiming credulous citizens by the millions. Or the program for importing limitless alien 'vibrance' across the open border with Mexico.... As the venerable Rolling Stones sang more than a half century ago: 'Rape... murder... it's just a shot away!' This is the kind of country that the Party of Chaos has been grooming you up for.

It's not working. We are coming for you: leaders, mesmerized minions, and obliging tools of this Satanic faction that seized the levers of power in America and turned them into wrecking bars. After the nervous hiatus from November to January, we're coming for you in 2023. You are going to answer for the decisions you took and the rules you made that drove our country to its knees and half out of its mind. We are storming you in your Kafka's Castle of lies and malice, and we are going to drag you out of there kicking and screaming. Preserving your decorum will not be our first consideration, Rochelle Walensky, Tony Fauci, Alejandro Mayorkas, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and the people who work for you.

There's a lot of loose talk about some as-yet-unknown Party of Chaos's ploy to stave off the November 8th reckoning " say, drag out the vote count for weeks and confabulate the results... declare some emergency to shut down in-person voting... or somehow postpone the vote altogether.

Nothing like that will go over successfully this time around. The lamp-posts in the WalMart parking lots could be decorated with dangling local election officials who get caught churning phony ballots, tweaking Dominion machines, and taping-up the polling places' windows with cardboard.

You're getting no help, meantime, from the folks who run the maundering flunkey you installed as president. They just flipped-off Sergey Lavrov's invitation to negotiate some reasonable end to your $60-plus billion orchestrated fiasco in Ukraine. These are the people that party apostate Tulsi Gabbard identified lately as 'an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.' She got that exactly right, and at exactly the right moment in history, too.

Did you actually propose, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, that the purpose of our misadventure in Ukraine was 'to weaken Russia?' How's that working out? I'll tell you: Russia is fixing to wipe up the floor with its Nazi antagonists in Kiev (and their NATO helpers). Russia is proceeding with prudence and determination to neutralize our country's foolish provocations, even despite 'Joe Biden's' admission that 'Armageddon' is an option. Here's some news for you, Party of Chaos: Russia is not insane, but you surely are. You, Lloyd Austin, are busy destroying the American military with your deranged sexual boundary bamboozle, and your sinister 'vaccine' policies that have led, among other disasters, to a tripling of cancer rates in the ranks. What, exactly, have you succeeded in weakening?

Do you think the American people have failed to notice this? How are those financial sanctions working against Russia, Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, and Susan Rice? Here's how: they energized trade relations and financial settlements between Russia and the 70-percent of the economic world that is outside the orbit of Western Civ. Meanwhile, they drove the birthplace of Western Civ (Europe) to its knees, upon which it is sliding headlong back to the Twelfth Century. Who told you to do that? George Soros? Klaus Schwab? (Oh, by the way, we're coming for the two of them also, if they're still alive in 2023 " are you listening Gates?)

We've also had enough, Party of Chaos, of your 'Green New Deal' and climate change bullshit. The former is a sheer shuck-and-jive. You propose to mandate the end of gasoline-powered cars in favor of electric cars that charge off of fossil fuel fired power plants? That's rich. Ironically, though, the whole mass-motoring matrix is failing not on the basis of whatever powers a car but on the simple fact that a sinking middle-class, whose destruction you engineered, can't afford to buy any kind of car anymore, whatever way it's powered.

As for your climate change hysteria, consider that human culture has gone through scores of climate swings since the Age of the Pharaohs; the main ones being the Bronze Age warming, the Hellenic cooling, the Roman warming, the Dark Age cooling, the medieval warming, the 'Little Ice Age' cooling, and now the present-day warming " with evidence that we are slipping back into another cooling.

The truth is that it has always been difficult for civilizations to adapt to these events, but it's especially difficult for us with our super-complex, mutually-dependent, hyper-tech systems of daily life, not to mention the giant scale of it all, which pretty much guarantees a hard landing for us. We're not going to run Wal-Mart, Walt Disney World, and the suburbs on any combination of wind, solar, and recycled fry-max oil, so stop pretending, and quit making everything worse than it has to be. We've got to make other arrangements for sure, and that will be hard enough " but no thank you on that transhumanist robot utopia you're trying to sell.

Well, of course, you'd never quit trying. You just have to be defeated. And that's exactly what's going to happen. And after you're defeated, we're going to come for you, and stuff your asses into those witness chairs, and compel you to come clean on why you worked so hard to destroy the USA. Maybe you'll apologize. You should be the first to know, though, that it won't matter. When did anyone's apology ever induce in you something besides the demonic lust to inflict more pain on your victims?

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"-///"-Legal implications..?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1580308698290757632

I'm not a lawyer, so@Barnes_Law please correct me if I'm wrong here" but did the Alex Jones case just open the door for the people to now sue Rachel Maddow for billions of dollars since she pushed a conspiracy theory that lead to injury and death in some cases?

"-///"-"it's not about you, it's about me!"

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/its-not-about-you-its-about-me3Dprofile&3Dreader2

(Don't miss the short video linked above.)

how false ascription of "your mask/vaccine/distancing protects me" inverted the morality of covid and broke the world.

'your mask protects me!'

'you need to get vaccinated to stop the spread and make society safe!'

'stay home, save lives!'

these were the endless refrains of the moralizing mandates of coviddom.

this was grade A prime propaganda whose purpose was simple:

to invert the morality of personal health choices and induce people to do things that they did not believe to serve their best interest by framing them as the collective good and therefore an ethical duty.

it's not about you. making your own cost benefit decision is selfish and anti-social. it's potent stuff. if there were a nobel prize for propaganda, this would be a shoe in.

tellingly, much of this framing finds its roots in behavioral economics (BE) pioneered by folks like khaneman and thaler for which multiple nobels were, in fact, awarded. it's about nudge and prospect theory and anchoring bias. this precise branch of

economics was weaponized during covid.

the UK had a whole group of BE's dedicated to it, many of whom are now disgusted with what happened. given the US purchase of grass roots psyoppery, it's difficult to imagine that we did not have the same.

the problem is that it was all unmitigated bunk. it was fabrication, assumption, and outright lies told because we 'hoped it was true' to quote chief disaster architect deborah birx.

they flat out told you that you jab protects everyone, stops transmission, and 'makes you a dead end for the virus.' it was the centerpiece of the pitch. and contrary to current claims, we have receipts on this that look like they came from the supermarket check out before thanksgiving dinner.

yes, the vaccines were supposed to stop covid spread. yes, the "experts" told us so.

the revisionist history around vaccines is getting pretty extreme. let's be VERY clear: yes, they were promised to stop spread, contagion, and provide herd immunity. yes, those promises were made by t...

but this was entirely made up.

watch the video above as member of euro parliament rob roos questions a pfizer director on this topic.

she (the director) flat out tells us that this fact was not in evidence when the vaccines were released because they were in a hurry and 'moving at the speed of science.'

this entirely erroneous assumption about the disease sterilizing nature of these products was just accepted and promulgated uncritically. the folks that should have known better said nothing and the folks who relied on them ran riot on a moral crusade rooted in false premises.

then, when they rapidly realized how wrong they were, they did not recant but pivoted to 'it was never supposed to be that, it's supposed to prevent severity' (also an increasingly iffy claim especially when you weight outcomes for the greater chance of contracting and therefore spreading covid) and therefore save hospital capacity that was never taxed in nearly all locations outside a few perennial basket cases like italy and NYC.

this was the moment they went from being victims of untruth to co-conspirators in its contagion.

for a politician to be fooled by a health official is not terribly surprising. they are not subject matter experts. but to have such a big, cornerstone claim be immediately revealed to be not only false but likely inverted as the vaccinated turned into superspreaders and vaccine evasion incubators, well, that should have caused pause.

the fact that even after it was clear that 'your vaccine does not protect me and might well be putting me at risk' these agents and agencies went full bore on mandates to 'stop the spread and protect the public' as though this was not a choice you could make for yourself but a choice you needed to be forced to make to 'protect the vulnerable' and somehow put society on a standing of collective guilt and responsibility for the most anxious and at risk and unable to make choices out of self interest was ethical fraud.

even in the case of a mitigation that works as advertised, such mandates constitute a dangerous departure from the idea of individual agency and rights, but in the case of one that not only does not protect others but may actually put them at greater risk in both the short and especially the long run,then forcing a product with negative expected personal value upon a society becomes an abomination, especially if you then go to great lengths to deny, hide, or fail to collect the side effect data.

it is pure and simply reprehensible behavior and those who did it are either morally repugnant if they did it knowingly or so dangerously incompetent as to have no business wielding such power if they did it sans comprehension.

masks were much the same.

masks never worked, were known not to work, and yet became the go to pivot because they were visible, lower cost than lockdowns, and got framed as a social obligation.

'your mask protects me' made for great media, but it was the antithesis of science.

the data could not be more wrong

'2 weeks to flatten the curve' was just as bad.

more social duty framing, hysterical fear mongering, and another core of pure pseudoscientific twaddle.

the evidence of failure was near instant and the fact that it would fail was known and knowable.

but the messaging was an absolutely relentless, hectoring assault.

'it's your job to obey and save us!' then morphed into 'this failed because you did not obey hard enough!'

this is what abusive relationships look like.

the whole thing got so surreal that honestly i'm not even sure if this is real or parody. (score one for poe)

and again, '2 weeks to flatten the curve' was brilliant propaganda. it's vintage behavioral economics. birx has outright admitted that she always intended it to be longer. she just needed to get the ball rolling. you start with a small seeming ask.

just 2 weeks. then, when it ends, you extend and claim 'just a bit more. you've already sacrificed, let's be sure it's worth it!' this is what economists call a 'sunk cost fallacy.'

you start to ascribe value to past sacrifice or expenditure and so the more you spend, the more you want to spend in the future to 'make it worth it.' it's one of the first traits you need to beat out of an investor.

throwing good money after bad is the road to bankruptcy. well, your life and liberty work the same way. how did you like the lesson?

this whole barrage was calculated. whether it was planful or emerged from the infallible A/B message testing crucible of social media or whatever combination of the two, it worked.

they inverted morality and took away your right to make the choices that suited you by subsuming them into a notion of collective good underpinned by dodgy, self serving, and often bespoke scientific nonsense.

now rotate the shape in your head.

where else might they be doing this to you?

hint: 'everywhere.'

this is the new normal.

from climate change to preferential social justice policy to safety policies to education to your recreational choices, it's all 'do not do what you want, do as society needs' where that need just happens to always (conveniently) be known to (and only to) the anointed philosopher royals of expertdom.

let them eat bugs!

there is no morality or science here. it's just self serving storytime weaponizing tall tales and social pressure to manipulate you away from making good choices.

this trend is well past its sell by date and fully rancid.

but now you know how the trick is done.

don't be fooled again.

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'Great opportunities' if Australia can decarbonise its beef production: Plibersek going down the same road as the Netherlands

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/great-opportunities-if-australia-can-decarbonise-its-beef-production-plibersek/video/80052f71b990b5251c2d0610731e50bc

Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek says there are 'great opportunities' if Australia can decarbonise its beef production.

This comes after Agriculture Minister Murray Watt revealed Australia may join Joe Biden's methane reduction pledge, raising questions over how it would impact farmers and consumers.

'Meat and Livestock Corporation ... have got their own plans to decarbonise their operations,' she told Sky News Australia.

'The National Farmers' Federation are supportive of our efforts broadly on climate change to reduce carbon pollution and " of course, we are working with them on these additional pledges around methane and so on.

'We've got great opportunities " you know, if Australia can decarbonise its beef production, European markets ... throw open the doors to Australian beef.'