tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11113513587789902702024-03-06T00:21:30.554-08:00UNDIEPUNDIT.COM"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." (Pls note: This is a comedy site and I am a comedian, so don't take anything here seriously. It's all in jest, haha. For entertainment purposes only!) Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger624125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-88372662443018998412024-01-23T10:37:00.000-08:002024-01-23T10:37:37.387-08:00Fact Check: Why is the Border Wide Open? <p>It's no secret that since Joe Biden took office about 10 million illegals have flooded into the U.S. That's a larger population than 40 of our states! This mass of humanity was invited here by the Democrats and paid to make the journey with promises of free healthcare, housing, education, food, jobs, citizenship, smartphones, and much more. </p><p>But, what's in it for the Democrats? Why would they encourage an invasion of our country? Why would they dilute our citizenry? Why would they deliberately hurt our ability to provide services to our own people? Watch as Barack Obama, one of the key architects of this strategy, explains the plan to one of his immigrant supporters:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rx2qLf_92LI" width="320" youtube-src-id="Rx2qLf_92LI"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-38098984377310833022024-01-03T11:54:00.000-08:002024-01-03T11:54:21.751-08:00Bill Ackman: Why Exposing Harvard's President was a Step in the Right Direction (verbatim from X)<div class="css-175oi2r r-18u37iz" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-175oi2r r-18kxxzh r-1b7u577 r-onrtq4 r-1awozwy" style="align-items: center; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.
I first became concerned about </span><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Harvard" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">@Harvard</a></span></div><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"> when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military actions in Gaza, came out publicly in support of Hamas, a globally recognized terrorist organization, holding Israel ‘solely responsible’ for Hamas’ barbaric and heinous acts.
How could this be? I wondered.
When I saw President Gay’s initial statement about the massacre, it provided more context (!) for the student groups’ statement of support for terrorism. The protests began as pro-Palestine and then became anti-Israel. Shortly, thereafter, antisemitism exploded on campus as protesters who violated Harvard’s own codes of conduct were emboldened by the lack of enforcement of Harvard’s rules, and kept testing the limits on how aggressive, intimidating, and disruptive they could be to Jewish and Israeli students, and the student body at large. Sadly, antisemitism remains a simmering source of hate even at our best universities among a subset of students.
A few weeks later, I went up to campus to see things with my own eyes, and listen and learn from students and faculty. I met with 15 or so members of the faculty and a few hundred students in small and large settings, and a clearer picture began to emerge.
I ultimately concluded that antisemitism was not the core of the problem, it was simply a troubling warning sign – it was the “canary in the coal mine” – despite how destructive it was in impacting student life and learning on campus.
I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment.
Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large. I came to understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant.
I have always believed that diversity is an important feature of a successful organization, but by diversity I mean diversity in its broadest form: diversity of viewpoints, politics, ethnicity, race, age, religion, experience, socioeconomic background, sexual identity, gender, one’s upbringing, and more.
What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form, but rather DEI was a political advocacy movement on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under DEI’s own methodology.
Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this ideology which is the philosophical underpinning of DEI as advanced by Ibram X. Kendi and others, one is either an anti-racist or a racist. There is no such thing as being “not racist.”
Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy, (and even climate change due its disparate impact on geographies and the people that live there), etc. that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist.
As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist, or in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organization which has or generates outcomes for different races that are at variance with the proportion these different races represent in the population at large is by definition racist under DEI’s ideology.
In order to be deemed anti-racist, one must personally take action to reverse any unequal outcomes in society. The DEI movement, which has permeated many universities, corporations, and state, local and federal governments, is designed to be the anti-racist engine to transform society from its currently structurally racist state to an anti-racist one.
After the death of George Floyd, the already burgeoning DEI movement took off without any real challenge to its problematic ideology. Why, you might ask, was there so little pushback? The answer is that anyone who dared to raise a question which challenged DEI was deemed a racist, a label which could severely impact one’s employment, social status, reputation and more. Being called a racist got people cancelled, so those concerned about DEI and its societal and legal implications had no choice but to keep quiet in this new climate of fear.
The techniques that DEI has used to squelch the opposition are found in the Red Scares and McCarthyism of decades past. If you challenge DEI, “justice” will be swift, and you may find yourself unemployed, shunned by colleagues, cancelled, and/or you will otherwise put your career and acceptance in society at risk.
The DEI movement has also taken control of speech. Certain speech is no longer permitted. So-called “microaggressions” are treated like hate speech. “Trigger warnings” are required to protect students. “Safe spaces” are necessary to protect students from the trauma inflicted by words that are challenging to the students’ newly-acquired world views. Campus speakers and faculty with unapproved views are shouted down, shunned, and cancelled.
These speech codes have led to self-censorship by students and faculty of views privately held, but no longer shared. There is no commitment to free expression at Harvard other than for DEI-approved views. This has led to the quashing of conservative and other viewpoints from the Harvard campus and faculty, and contributed to Harvard’s having the lowest free speech ranking of 248 universities assessed by the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression.
When one examines DEI and its ideological heritage, it does not take long to understand that the movement is inherently inconsistent with basic American values. Our country since its founding has been about creating and building a democracy with equality of opportunity for all. Millions of people have left behind socialism and communism to come to America to start again, as they have seen the destruction leveled by an equality of outcome society.
<span class="r-b88u0q" style="font-weight: 700;">The E for “equity” in DEI is about equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.</span>
DEI is racist because reverse racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that I even need to point this out). Racism against white people has become considered acceptable by many not to be racism, or alternatively, it is deemed acceptable racism. While this is, of course, absurd, it has become the prevailing view in many universities around the country.
You can say things about white people today in universities, in business or otherwise, that if you switched the word ‘white’ to ‘black,’ the consequences to you would be costly and severe.
To state what should otherwise be self-evident, whether or not a statement is racist should not depend upon whether the target of the racism is a group who currently represents a majority or minority of the country or those who have a lighter or darker skin color. Racism against whites is as reprehensible as it is against groups with darker skin colors.
Martin Luther King’s most famous words are instructive:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
But here we are in 2024, being asked and in some cases required to use skin color to effect outcomes in admissions (recently deemed illegal by the Supreme Court), in business (likely illegal yet it happens nonetheless) and in government (also I believe in most cases to be illegal, except apparently in government contracting), rather than the content of one’s character. As such, a meritocracy is an anathema to the DEI movement. DEI is inherently a racist and illegal movement in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed.
And DEI’s definition of oppressed is fundamentally flawed.
I have always believed that the most fortunate should help the least fortunate, and that our system should be designed in such a way as to maximize the size of the overall pie so that it will enable us to provide an economic system which can offer quality of life, education, housing, and healthcare for all.
America is a rich country and we have made massive progress over the decades toward achieving this goal, but we obviously have much more work to do. Steps taken on the path to socialism – another word for an equality of outcome system – will reverse this progress and ultimately impoverish us all. We have seen this movie many times.
Having a darker skin color, a less common sexual identity, and/or being a woman doesn’t make one necessarily oppressed or even disadvantaged. While slavery remains a permanent stain on our country’s history – a fact which is used by DEI to label white people as oppressors – it doesn’t therefore hold that all white people generations after the abolishment of slavery should be held responsible for its evils. Similarly, the fact that Columbus discovered America doesn’t make all modern-day Italians colonialists.
An ideology that portrays a bicameral world of oppressors and the oppressed based principally on race or sexual identity is a fundamentally racist ideology that will likely lead to more racism rather than less. A system where one obtains advantages by virtue of one’s skin color is a racist system, and one that will generate resentment and anger among the un-advantaged who will direct their anger at the favored groups.
The country has seen burgeoning resentment and anger grow materially over the last few years, and the DEI movement is an important contributor to our growing divisiveness. Resentment is one of the most important drivers of racism. And it is the lack of equity, i.e, fairness, in how DEI operates, that contributes to this resentment.
I was accused of being a racist from the President of the NAACP among others when I posted on </span><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/X" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">@X</a></span></div><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"> that I had learned that the Harvard President search process excluded candidates that did not meet the DEI criteria. I didn’t say that former President Gay was hired because she was a black woman. I simply said that I had heard that the search process by its design excluded a large percentage of potential candidates due to the DEI limitations. My statement was not a racist one. It was simply the empirical truth about the Harvard search process that led to Gay’s hiring.
When former President Gay was hired, I knew little about her, but I was instinctually happy for Harvard and the black community. Every minority community likes to see their representatives recognized in important leadership positions, and it is therefore an important moment for celebration. I too celebrated this achievement. I am inspired and moved by others’ success, and I thought of Gay’s hiring at the pinnacle leadership position at perhaps our most important and iconic university as an important and significant milestone for the black community.
I have spent the majority of my life advocating on behalf of and supporting members of disadvantaged communities including by investing several hundreds of millions of dollars of philanthropic assets to help communities in need with economic development, sensible criminal justice reform, poverty reduction, healthcare, education, workforce housing, charter schools, and more.
I have done the same at Pershing Square Capital Management when, for example, we completed one of the largest IPOs ever with the substantive assistance of a number of minority-owned, women-owned, and Veteran-owned investment banks. Prior to the Pershing Square Tontine, Ltd. IPO, it was standard practice for big corporations occasionally to name a few minority-owned banks in their equity and bond offerings, have these banks do no work and sell only a de minimis amount of stock or bonds, and allocate to them only 1% or less of the underwriting fees so that the issuers could virtue signal that they were helping minority communities.
In our IPO, we invited the smaller banks into the deal from the beginning of the process so they could add real value. As a result, the Tontine IPO was one of the largest and most successful IPOs in history with $12 billion of demand for a $4 billion deal by the second day of the IPO, when we closed the books. The small banks earned their 20% share of the fees for delivering real and substantive value and for selling their share of the stock.
Compare this approach to the traditional one where the small banks do effectively nothing to earn their fees – they aren’t given that opportunity – yet, they get a cut of the deal, albeit a tiny one. The traditional approach does not create value for anyone. It only creates resentment, and an uncomfortable feeling from the small banks who get a tiny piece of the deal in a particularly bad form of affirmative action.
While I don’t think our approach to working with the smaller banks has yet achieved the significant traction it deserves, it will hopefully happen eventually as the smaller banks build their competencies and continue to earn their fees, and other issuers see the merit of this approach. We are going to need assistance with a large IPO soon so we are looking forward to working with our favored smaller banks.
I have always believed in giving disadvantaged groups a helping hand. I signed the Giving Pledge for this reason. My life plan by the time I was 18 was to be successful and then return the favor to those less fortunate. This always seemed to the right thing to do, in particular, for someone as fortunate as I am.
All of the above said, it is one thing to give disadvantaged people the opportunities and resources so that they can help themselves. It is another to select a candidate for admission or for a leadership role when they are not qualified to serve in that role.
This appears to have been the case with former President Gay’s selection. She did not possess the leadership skills to serve as Harvard’s president, putting aside any questions about her academic credentials. This became apparent shortly after October 7th, but there were many signs before then when she was Dean of the faculty.
The result was a disaster for Harvard and for Claudine Gay.
The Harvard board should not have run a search process which had a predetermined objective of only hiring a DEI-approved candidate. In any case, there are many incredibly talented black men and women who could have been selected by Harvard to serve as its president so why did the Harvard Corporation board choose Gay?
One can only speculate without knowing all of the facts, but it appears Gay’s leadership in the creation of Harvard’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and the penetration of the DEI ideology into the Corporation board room perhaps made Gay the favored candidate. The search was also done at a time when many other top universities had similar DEI-favored candidate searches underway for their presidents, reducing the number of potential candidates available in light of the increased competition for talent.
Unrelated to the DEI issue, as a side note, I would suggest that universities should broaden their searches to include capable business people for the role of president, as a university president requires more business skills than can be gleaned from even the most successful academic career with its hundreds of peer reviewed papers and many books. Universities have a Dean of the Faculty and a bureaucracy to oversee the faculty and academic environment of the university. It therefore does not make sense that the university president has to come through the ranks of academia, with a skill set unprepared for university management.
The president’s job – managing thousands of employees, overseeing a $50 billion endowment, raising money, managing expenses, capital allocation, real estate acquisition, disposition, and construction, and reputation management – are responsibilities that few career academics are capable of executing. Broadening the recruitment of candidates to include top business executives would also create more opportunities for diverse talent for the office of the university president.
Furthermore, Harvard is a massive business that has been mismanaged for a long time. The cost structure of the University is out of control due in large part to the fact that the administration has grown without bounds. Revenues are below what they should be because the endowment has generated a 4.5% annualized return for the last decade in one of the greatest bull markets in history, and that low return is not due to the endowment taking lower risks as the substantial majority of its assets are invested in illiquid and other high-risk assets.
The price of the product, a Harvard education, has risen at a rate well in excess of inflation for decades, (I believe it has grown about 7-8% per annum) and it is now about $320,000 for four years of a liberal arts education at Harvard College. As a result, the only students who can now afford Harvard come from rich families and poor ones. The middle class can’t get enough financial aid other than by borrowing a lot of money, and it is hard to make the economics work in life after college when you graduate with large loan balances, particularly if you also attend graduate school.
The best companies in the world grow at high rates over many decades. Harvard has grown at a <span class="r-36ujnk" style="font-style: italic;">de minimis</span> rate. Since I graduated 35 years ago, the number of students in the Harvard class has grown by less than 20%. What other successful business do you know that has grown the number of customers it serves by less than 20% in 35 years, and where nearly all revenue growth has come from raising prices?
In summary, there is a lot more work to be done to fix Harvard than just replacing its president. That said, the selection of Harvard’s next president is a critically important task, and the individuals principally responsible for that decision do not have a good track record for doing so based on their recent history, nor have they done a good job managing the other problems which I have identified above.
The Corporation board led by Penny Pritzker selected the wrong president and did inadequate due diligence about her academic record despite Gay being in leadership roles at the University since 2015 when she became dean of the Social Studies department.
The Board failed to create a discrimination-free environment on campus exposing the University to tremendous reputational damage, to large legal and financial liabilities, Congressional investigations and scrutiny, and to the potential loss of Federal funding, all while damaging the learning environment for all students.
And when concerns were raised about plagiarism in Gay’s research, the Board said these claims were “demonstrably false” and it threatened the NY Post with “immense” liability if it published a story raising these issues.
It was only after getting the story cancelled that the Board secretly launched a cursory, short-form investigation outside of the proper process for evaluating a member of the faculty’s potential plagiarism. When the Board finally publicly acknowledged some of Gay’s plagiarism, it characterized the plagiarism as “unintentional” and invented new euphemisms, i.e., “duplicative language” to describe plagiarism, a belittling of academic integrity that has caused grave damage to Harvard’s academic standards and credibility.
The Board’s three-person panel of “political scientist experts” that to this day remain unnamed who evaluated Gay’s work failed to identify many examples of her plagiarism, leading to even greater reputational damage to the University and its reputation for academic integrity as the whistleblower and the media continued to identify additional problems with Gay’s work in the days and weeks thereafter.
According to the NY Post, the Board also apparently sought to identify the whistleblower and seek retribution against him or her in contravention to the University’s whistleblower protection policies.
Despite all of the above, the Board “unanimously” gave its full support for Gay during this nearly four-month crisis, until eventually being forced to accept her resignation earlier today, a grave and continuing reputational disaster to Harvard and to the Board.
In a normal corporate context with the above set of facts, the full board would resign immediately to be replaced by a group nominated by shareholders. In the case of Harvard, however, the Board nominates itself and its new members. There is no shareholder vote mechanism to replace them.
So what should happen?
The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them to obtain their seats.
The Board Chair, Penny Pritzker, should resign along with the other members of the board who led the campaign to keep Claudine Gay, orchestrated the strategy to threaten the media, bypassed the process for evaluating plagiarism, and otherwise greatly contributed to the damage that has been done. Then new Corporation board members should be identified who bring true diversity, viewpoint and otherwise, to the board.
The Board should not be principally comprised of individuals who share the same politics and views about DEI. The new board members should be chosen in a transparent process with the assistance of the 30-person Board of Overseers. There is no reason the Harvard board of 12 independent trustees cannot be comprised of the most impressive, high integrity, intellectually and politically diverse members of our country and globe. We have plenty of remarkable people to choose from, and the job of being a director just got much more interesting and important. It is no longer, nor should it ever have been, an honorary and highly political sinecure.
The ODEIB should be shut down, and the staff should be terminated. The ODEIB has already taken down much of the ideology and strategies that were on its website when I and others raised concerns about how the office operates and who it does and does not represent. Taking down portions of the website does not address the fundamentally flawed and racist ideology of this office, and calls into further question the ODEIB’s legitimacy.
Why would the ODEIB take down portions of its website when an alum questioned its legitimacy unless the office was doing something fundamentally wrong or indefensible?
Harvard must once again become a meritocratic institution which does not discriminate for or against faculty or students based on their skin color, and where diversity is understood in its broadest form so that students can learn in an environment which welcomes diverse viewpoints from faculty and students from truly diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Harvard must create an academic environment with real academic freedom and free speech, where self-censoring, speech codes, and cancel culture are forever banished from campus.
Harvard should become an environment where all students of all persuasions feel comfortable expressing their views and being themselves. In the business world, we call this creating a great corporate culture, which begins with new leadership and the right tone at the top. It does not require the creation of a massive administrative bureaucracy.
These are the minimum changes necessary to begin to repair the damage that has been done.
A number of faculty at the University of Pennsylvania have proposed a new constitution which can be found at </span><a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/Vggm1eomnI" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">http://</span>pennforward.com</a><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">, which has been signed by more than 1,200 faculty from Penn, Harvard, and other universities. Harvard would do well to adopt Penn’s proposed new constitution or a similar one before seeking to hire its next president.
A condition of employment of the new Harvard president should be the requirement that the new president agrees to strictly abide by the new constitution. He or she should take an oath to that effect.
Today was an important step forward for the University. It is time we restore Veritas to Harvard and again be an exemplar that graduates well-informed, highly-educated leaders of exemplary moral standing and good judgment who can help bring our country together, advance our democracy, and identify the important new discoveries that will help save us from ourselves.
We have a lot more work to do. Let’s get at it.</span></div></div></div><div class="css-175oi2r" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></div><div class="css-175oi2r" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></div><div class="css-175oi2r r-1r5su4o" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 16px 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-175oi2r r-k4xj1c r-18u37iz r-1wtj0ep" style="align-items: start; 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inset: 0px; list-style: none; margin: -8px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow; z-index: 0;"></div><svg aria-hidden="true" class="r-4qtqp9 r-yyyyoo r-dnmrzs r-bnwqim r-1plcrui r-lrvibr r-50lct3 r-1srniue" viewbox="0 0 24 24"><g></g></svg><span style="color: black;"><path d="M4 4.5C4 3.12 5.119 2 6.5 2h11C18.881 2 20 3.12 20 4.5v18.44l-8-5.71-8 5.71V4.5zM6.5 4c-.276 0-.5.22-.5.5v14.56l6-4.29 6 4.29V4.5c0-.28-.224-.5-.5-.5h-11z"></path></span></div><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5 r-1udh08x" style="align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span data-testid="app-text-transition-container" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrZmQNE6f_8jzFsPkHeOJE_zlHeI2p7A1ZXnfKv4GmG1dFsdbQUSHtabmG6M3ySgp7OfFKkOY7ZsBcm15UT5GHgKbkn6b9u1YjXQkgy0bublpaGRWnIL8yL5rUd4DZPZ_lPUIY0DifaR1-8byuSftHZ4dQXTNm2NNH-aBLE63fjwyjjUmGRxRNkPnqJM/s900/Al-Shifa.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnrZmQNE6f_8jzFsPkHeOJE_zlHeI2p7A1ZXnfKv4GmG1dFsdbQUSHtabmG6M3ySgp7OfFKkOY7ZsBcm15UT5GHgKbkn6b9u1YjXQkgy0bublpaGRWnIL8yL5rUd4DZPZ_lPUIY0DifaR1-8byuSftHZ4dQXTNm2NNH-aBLE63fjwyjjUmGRxRNkPnqJM/w441-h441/Al-Shifa.jpeg" width="441" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="color: #0a2e47;">(The following is an Op Ed by Ted Cruz written 9 years ago about the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which has been much in the news since Israel was attacked by Gaza on Oct 7th this year.) </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0a2e47;">________________________________________________________________________ </span></p><p><span style="color: #0a2e47; font-family: Vollkorn, serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700;">Israel saves its enemies; Hamas endangers its friends</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">From </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/30/cruz-a-tale-of-two-hospitals/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #c54b38; cursor: pointer; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: rgb(197, 75, 56); vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Washington Times</em></a><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">:</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">If you want to judge a nation, look at how it treats its most vulnerable civilians. Hospitals are a good place to start.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, is housed in a converted British army barracks. Some 126 miles north is Israel’s Ziv Medical Center in Zefat.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">Hamas, which controls Gaza, is using the civilian population as human shields. The terrorist group has placed its missiles in schools and mosques and, even more deplorably, burrowed its command center underneath the al-Shifa hospital.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">Hamas‘ activities are taking place in plain sight. Just two weeks ago, The Washington Post described al-Shifa as “a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders.” These terrorist facilities are of course well known not only to the foreign journalists who interview Hamas fighters there, but also to the Israelis, who would by necessity consider such a location a legitimate target for any action against Hamas. However, the terrorist group has tried to immunize their headquarters by digging it under a hospital, leaving Israel no option but to target al-Shifa if they want to get rid of the Hamas terrorist leadership.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">Hamas sees no downside in this arrangement. Knowing that Israel prioritizes protecting civilians, the terrorists can be reasonably confident that al-Shifa will not be targeted, and they can continue their murderous activities undisturbed. If the Israelis finally decide that these activities are intolerable and that to destroy Hamas they must target their headquarters, Hamas will have pictures of the quintessentially innocent martyrs — hospital patients unable to flee — to plaster across international media in their ongoing propaganda war to demonize the Jewish state.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">The medical care and even survival of the Gazan people are of no concern to these terrorists, for whom casualties are not an unintended consequence of war, but rather a deliberate objective. Like the rest of the population stationed around the many civilian institutions militarized by Hamas, they must either make do with a substandard medical facility being exploited by a terrorist organization, or die in the service of that organization’s savage campaign to destroy Israel.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">Meanwhile in Israel, Ziv is a center for pediatric and orthopedic medicine. Given its proximity to Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Syria, Ziv has seen its share of violence, but despite taking direct rocket fire during the 2006 Lebanon war, it has remained in continuous operation.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">During the past three years of the Syrian civil war, Ziv has treated more than 1,000 Syrians injured in that conflict — all free of charge.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">In a visit to Ziv this spring, I met the social worker whose job it is to explain to the patients who wake up grievously injured and surrounded by Israelis that they are not in hell, but that the people who they have been told from birth are the devil are, in fact, working very hard to heal them.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">I met a Syrian child who had lost three limbs but has been fitted with revolutionary prosthetics and will, God willing, walk again.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">All of this means that many of Ziv’s hospital beds and a substantial portion of its funding are not available for Israelis, but the staff has concluded it is worth it if their work can start to reverse the intractable hate that has been relentlessly leveled at Israel by its neighbors.</span></p><p><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0a2e47; font-size: 18.1912px; font-weight: inherit;">The contrast in this tale of two hospitals could not be more clear: Hamas exploits their medical facilities as a human shield to launch terrorist operations against Israel, while Israel uses theirs to provide cutting-edge medical care to people whose government’s avowed goal is to destroy the Jewish state. Hamas‘ actions are a war crime. Israel’s are one of the great, unsung humanitarian missions on the planet.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-86375478709818311062023-11-05T00:16:00.001-07:002023-11-05T00:16:22.366-07:00Fact Check: Are Jews Occupying Israel? <p>At some point after 3000 years we can stop calling it an occupation, right? </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZrEkKouv9W5knNNc_eJsI5je-m6Zzew8LT0PgXVyFfikcIidaSmyrH_8W-HxqhSNHTB_Urzk47hSp-E0rOg554WdVCRWjOIxHgag0HQs7ED4INJJvD8Pj6awZW7ZSQa7V8muy8Pvb0nxKvGvHjWq8ogPI583H2wfD91aOYZZSMs3JgYJifG2rgJRgiY/s960/Israel%20Krauthammer%20meme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="960" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZrEkKouv9W5knNNc_eJsI5je-m6Zzew8LT0PgXVyFfikcIidaSmyrH_8W-HxqhSNHTB_Urzk47hSp-E0rOg554WdVCRWjOIxHgag0HQs7ED4INJJvD8Pj6awZW7ZSQa7V8muy8Pvb0nxKvGvHjWq8ogPI583H2wfD91aOYZZSMs3JgYJifG2rgJRgiY/w443-h440/Israel%20Krauthammer%20meme.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-15943756176019145802023-10-20T11:19:00.002-07:002023-10-20T11:19:35.048-07:00Fact Check: Why are Marines called Leathernecks?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4tHC8u2BMCrjHOr3TD0D0k-NAZlWyscRMRK0uixBZ5qA8Hm8ZVHZg4vQ2994RL0CrgdS7yX0iWwuj-x9ct2Tr6OtTgdG0EtKO1nTFojuF65sKmxhSJcqQXbdii83WMnT4jpCMG7QYqU5G7ULSUc5vQseaq_gpoFcXvC1FFVGlQmTy5l4ccHfaRyaM91M/s1024/Jefferson_Adams_Meme.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4tHC8u2BMCrjHOr3TD0D0k-NAZlWyscRMRK0uixBZ5qA8Hm8ZVHZg4vQ2994RL0CrgdS7yX0iWwuj-x9ct2Tr6OtTgdG0EtKO1nTFojuF65sKmxhSJcqQXbdii83WMnT4jpCMG7QYqU5G7ULSUc5vQseaq_gpoFcXvC1FFVGlQmTy5l4ccHfaRyaM91M/w511-h383/Jefferson_Adams_Meme.png" width="511" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Marines are called Leathernecks because they wore leather cuffs around their necks to keep from being beheaded by Muslim pirates. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There will never be peace with Islam. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Aggression is part of the religion and is written in their book. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Peace is an illusion. Yes, it's a proper goal, but it is impossible in the long run. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The only way to end this violence is to end Islam. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The people are not the problem, if they can be separated from Islam. Or if Islam can be reformed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Good luck with that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-22802210894910866172023-10-19T08:07:00.000-07:002023-10-19T08:07:16.011-07:00Fact Check: Could there be another Holocaust? <div>Watch this compelling speech by Columbia Professor Shai Davidai. Yes, there are Nazis among us, but they no longer organize in beer halls:</div><div> </div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="267" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uo7fdxrjMlc" width="321" youtube-src-id="uo7fdxrjMlc"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-35533925098752052582023-10-08T09:49:00.001-07:002023-10-08T09:49:27.610-07:00Fact Check: The Hamas Attack on Israel 10/7/23 was Barack Hussein Obama's Dream Come True <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">[REPOSTED FROM 5/1/18 TO REMIND EVERYONE WHY IRAN AND HAMAS ARE KILLING ISRAELIS WITH IMPUNITY ON 10/7/23]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4uOBnZs2PZfG2mrT-j4AlIQkxXxmnESuXhyphenhyphenCCa87p1nQxlder_mHTBkUPyu1yoyFHpFjCCWecOOs4b-3UQnOhNmbcSGV69TIh0T6eVgDjcWTdHjloPyrWUw4F9pOjd2Dut5XmJFOO9M8/s1600/Obomba_meme.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4uOBnZs2PZfG2mrT-j4AlIQkxXxmnESuXhyphenhyphenCCa87p1nQxlder_mHTBkUPyu1yoyFHpFjCCWecOOs4b-3UQnOhNmbcSGV69TIh0T6eVgDjcWTdHjloPyrWUw4F9pOjd2Dut5XmJFOO9M8/s640/Obomba_meme.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>Now that Israel has obtained Iran's secret nuke plans and <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-confirms-authenticity-secret-iran-nuclear-docs-officials-see-game-deal/" target="_blank">U.S. intelligence has confirmed their legitimacy</a>, we know with certainty that Barack Obama's fake "nuke deal" with Iran was an atomic bomb of deception and duplicity.</p>Remember this was the deal where Barack Obama plus five other countries, which desperately wanted to resume trade with Iran, lifted sanctions on Iran, flew billions of dollars in cash on secret planes to Tehran, all in return for Iran's vague promise to put off their nuclear weapons program for... a whole decade.<br /><br />Here's what I wrote at the time on, <a href="http://ibdst.blogspot.com/2015/04/barack-obama-magician.html" target="_blank">4/2/15</a>: <p></p><h2 style="text-align: center;">__________________________________________________</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;">"Great liars are also great magicians." </h2><p><br />Barack Obama wants you to believe he is negotiating with Iran about nukes. Pick up a paper, watch a news show, listen to the radio, wherever you are in the world, you will be told about an historic negotiation going on with the P5+1 talks, and it's all about Iran's nuclear program.<br /><br />Truth is, these talks are nothing more than cover for lifting sanctions on Iran, many of which were preemptively lifted before the talks started. The talks are Kabuki theatre, a magic trick, to distract you from seeing what's really going on. This is a trade deal with the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism - a rogue nation bent on bringing about nuclear armageddon, wiping Israel off the map, and achieving regional Shiite hegemony.<br /><br />If you have any doubts about whether or not this is about nukes, I advise you to read Dan Henninger's piece in The Wall Street Journal, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/dan-henninger-why-the-iran-deal-is-irrelevant-1427930123" target="_blank">"Why the Iran Deal is Irrelevant"</a> from 4/2. Mr Henninger chronicles the parallels between North Korea and Iran and the pursuit of nukes. Iran cannot be stopped by talking. Everyone knows this. Talking had zero effect on North Korea over three presidencies. Sanctions, and the perception that force is an option, are the only way to prevent a rogue nation from acquiring nukes.<br /><br />Not only has Obama lifted sanctions and taken the threat of force off the table, he is guaranteeing Iran the right to spin centrifuges, enrich uranium, and follow through on their promise to nuke Israel off the map. This trade deal does nothing but make Iran richer and accelerate their ability to achieve these goals.<br /><br />Barack Hussein Obama, peace be upon him, apparently shares these goals.<br /><br />(Incidentally, the quote at the top is often credited to Adolf Hitler.) <br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-8841864913311861332023-07-28T09:38:00.007-07:002023-07-31T09:08:04.380-07:00Fact Check: The Truth About Global Warming [UPDATED]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijnu0HRtbZyY4rcOS9hOJKZ1o95v5-RsvCNl4F1vnikwBdSZZc5VFOYrMrL6f1fIEuH3-eG3UId-J2fqro4Ebpm2VsWnloyP3_DNoX6Omed3IdiCUs3aBcjC0EAPoKpCvHp0coPaaZUt4/s1600/global-warming-burning-earth-burning.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="640" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijnu0HRtbZyY4rcOS9hOJKZ1o95v5-RsvCNl4F1vnikwBdSZZc5VFOYrMrL6f1fIEuH3-eG3UId-J2fqro4Ebpm2VsWnloyP3_DNoX6Omed3IdiCUs3aBcjC0EAPoKpCvHp0coPaaZUt4/s640/global-warming-burning-earth-burning.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /><br /></p><h3>A Socratic Guide To The Burning Question Of Our Time</h3><p><br />Intro I<br /><br />There's an old Jewish joke that goes something like this:<br /><br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq">No matter what Shlomo did in bed, his wife could never achieve an orgasm. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Since by Jewish law a wife is entitled to sexual pleasure, they decide to consult their Rabbi. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Rabbi listens to their story, strokes his beard, and makes the following suggestion: "Hire a strapping young man. While the two of you are making love, have the young man wave a towel over you. That will get God's attention and he will provide an orgasm."<br /><br />They go home and follow the Rabbi's advice. They hire a handsome young man and he waves a towel over them as they make love. It does not help and the wife is still unsatisfied. Perplexed, they go back to the Rabbi.<br /><br />"Okay,' he says to the husband, "Try it reversed. Have the young man make love to your wife and you wave the towel over them."<br /><br />Once again, they follow the Rabbi's advice. They go home and hire the same strapping young man.<br /><br />The young man gets into bed with the wife and the husband waves the towel. The young man gets to work with great enthusiasm and soon she has an enormous, room-shaking, ear-splitting, screaming orgasm.<br /><br />The husband smiles, looks at the young man and says to him triumphantly, "See that, you schmuck? THAT'S how you wave a towel!"</blockquote><p>_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Intro II<br /><br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq">Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world.<br /><br />In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.</blockquote><p><br />Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park", "Andromeda Strain", "Westworld", and numerous other works of fiction and non-fiction. Crichton also held a medical degree from Harvard.<br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></p><h4>A Brief History of the Theory of Global Warming (aka Climate Change)</h4><div><br /></div><div>It all began back in the 1700s when some rock stars - no, not that kind of rock star, geologists actually - were traipsing around Europe and noticed that some of the boulders in the valleys matched the rocks on distant peaks. The only plausible explanation for how those boulders traveled so far was that they must have been carried by ice. This idea was fleshed-out a few decades later by a scientist studying skeletons and frozen remains of large mammals in Siberia. Thus was born the idea of The Great Ice Age. But that opened up a whole new can-o-worms; if ice once covered the Earth, what melted the ice?<br /><br />In 1824, around the same time these ideas were percolating, a scientist named Joseph Fourier figured out that Earth would be much colder without its atmosphere. Air was trapping heat from the sun and keeping us warm, he said. Fourier had discovered the greenhouse effect.<br /><br />Building on Fourier's work, other scientists found that about 70% of the greenhouse effect was due to water vapor, 20% was due to carbon dioxide (CO2), and the final 10% was due to methane, ozone, and other gasses. A theory developed that maybe changes in the atmosphere had ended The Great Ice Age.<br /><br />Water vapor was dismissed as a cause because excess water condenses and falls-out as precipitation. CO2, methane, and ozone do not cycle as quickly, so the theory of melting ice focused primarily on CO2, which while only .04% of the atmosphere, accounts for 20% of the warming effect.</div><div><br />Two things were going on at the same time as all this. One was the industrial revolution and the burning of coal in newly invented steam engines. The other was the observation that the existing glaciers were continuing to melt! Could they be related and tied back to changes in CO2?<br /><br />Along came a Swedish scientist named <span style="font-family: inherit;">Svante Arrhenius, who in 1898 calculated the hypothetical climate change that would result if atmospheric CO2 was cut in half. He calculated that the Earth would be glaciated...as it was during The Great Ice Age! He also calculated that if CO2 doubled, we'd have melting ice and ...global warming! So, the "modern" CO2 theory of global warming dates back to the calculations Arrhenius did 120 years ago in an attempt to explain the onset and demise of The Great Ice Age. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, we've been burning progressively more carbon fuels like coal, oil, and gas in the last 120 years. Finally, i</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">n 1960, an American scientist named David Keeling began measuring CO2 levels at an observatory in Hawaii. What he discovered was that CO2 was trending up at an alarming rate! </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So with Keeling showing CO2 skyrocketing, Arrhenius' saying we are going to fry if CO2 rises, and glaciers continuing to melt, that eventually leads to Al Gore, Kyoto, Paris, The UN IPCC, and a scientific "consensus" saying global warming is an "existential threat". (Meaning, the end is nigh!)</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2009, the U.S. government under Barack Obama officially declared that CO2 emissions endangered life on Earth. Whole generations now believe we are doomed. Some have even stopped having children thinking there is no future. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">All from a gas that humans exhale, that plants inhale, that makes up only .04% of our atmosphere, and that formed the basis of a theory developed in the 1800s to try and explain the The Great Ice Age!</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p>_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop Quiz:<br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq">So, what really ended The Great Ice Age?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. CO2</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. Mr. Milankovitch</blockquote><p>Since this whole CO2 inquiry began as an attempt to explain The Great Ice Age, one of the first questions to ask is, was the premise right? Have we learned anything new since Fourier, Arrhenius, Keeling, et al? Do we now know what caused and ended The Great Ice Age?<br /><br />You are probably certain it was CO2. After all, you've been told for years that CO2 drives climate. Since the 1800s and Arrhenius we've believed that changes in CO2 can have dramatic effects. We still believe CO2 is melting glaciers today. It's "settled science" after all.<br /><br />Except, that's not what happened. It turns out, Mr. Milankovitch did it. (Yup, our climate has been hacked by the Russians! Actually, he was Serbian, just sounds Russian.) Milutin Milankovitch was a scientist who figured out in the 1920s that the Earth has a cyclical relationship to the sun. It tilts. It wobbles. It's orbit changes. Some cycles take 100,000 years to complete. Some take 41,000 years. Some take 23,000 years. The effect of all this is rather dramatic... ta da... climate change!<br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;">MILANKOVITCH CYCLES</div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizo0G3YWrJ52snCouj-x4534LlGm1UdKFM7gvwpAAeK82Y5mefx4EEbau33TV9oEKF5KBfe2v-XkWfGrEUnhrPqvdhEjdGKwtuJ7lWUiYloVVtDkb9ri7kVsWIBGngN0hy-zbae7XDINs/s1600/milankovitch.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="640" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizo0G3YWrJ52snCouj-x4534LlGm1UdKFM7gvwpAAeK82Y5mefx4EEbau33TV9oEKF5KBfe2v-XkWfGrEUnhrPqvdhEjdGKwtuJ7lWUiYloVVtDkb9ri7kVsWIBGngN0hy-zbae7XDINs/s400/milankovitch.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><br />Of course, Milankovitch was instantly dismissed as a kook. Even today as I'm typing this, his name is unrecognized by the spell-check gremlins in my computer. Fourier, Arrhenius, and Keeling, however, are spell-check VIPs.<br /><br />Until 1998, Milankovitch got no respect. But then a funny thing happened down in Antarctica. Scientists drilled an ice core at a place called Vostok (more Russians!) that gave them a 420,000 year climate history, and voila, there were major ice ages and warmings every 100,000 years. There were also shorter cycles in between. Milankovitch could no longer be dismissed, except of course by spell-check.<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUK5qNmZVBea53m6UbxZQKFUs78a5iSA7CVzCwGY-nOIA6xJfgDhg3HVyZtS7XRbS0zTIIvpYZ6Kiuqohtz8B2XMNsS1kOKumoTyQts-X3O41kPNr71uZAsy2_7LQb1vvLJf2AEW4cXuE/s1600/Vostok-temps.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="509" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUK5qNmZVBea53m6UbxZQKFUs78a5iSA7CVzCwGY-nOIA6xJfgDhg3HVyZtS7XRbS0zTIIvpYZ6Kiuqohtz8B2XMNsS1kOKumoTyQts-X3O41kPNr71uZAsy2_7LQb1vvLJf2AEW4cXuE/s640/Vostok-temps.png" width="640" /></a><br /></p><div><br /></div><p><br />Then in 2000 another Antarctic ice core was obtained at Dome C that goes back 800,000 years. Again it confirmed Milankovitch. The Great Ice Age now had a plausible explanation. The Earth's relationship to the sun caused major climate change - global coolings and global warmings - going back as far as we can see.<br /></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;">Dome C Temperature Estimates</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrxjtVwmaHFthpFaPIjy68tZyCZ_sCR1hcP7WClckrNjO753J3u0yaEd0qhBkk43RQOi6992raquBLrxqX39wWn4bN4IOMPaDP0kCeF4ex1OtGJgn-pdEM-S3eHhbU-kg-yI4IBUFaFM/s1600/DomeC-temperature-only.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="1600" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrxjtVwmaHFthpFaPIjy68tZyCZ_sCR1hcP7WClckrNjO753J3u0yaEd0qhBkk43RQOi6992raquBLrxqX39wWn4bN4IOMPaDP0kCeF4ex1OtGJgn-pdEM-S3eHhbU-kg-yI4IBUFaFM/s640/DomeC-temperature-only.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />If major climate change happens at least every 100,000 years, as Milankovitch theorized, and the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, then there have been 45,000 of those alone. The Great Ice Age was just the latest in a countless series of coolings and warmings!<br /><br />Another name that should get mentioned at this point is Eddy, as in John A. Eddy. Eddy was one of the most recent astronomers to study the cyclical output of the sun. He published a groundbreaking study in 1976 and named the most recent solar minimums and maximums. While Milankovitch cycles play out over tens of thousands of years, solar cycles can be as short as 11 years. They are also closely correlated with...ta da...climate change!<br /><br />Here are some of the solar minimums and maximums from recent Earth history that resulted in major global warmings and mini-ice ages:<br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsAE34speJPxpNCPab0hnUHfaBTijv3laxw2lXN1fqOQgvVXofGwnCVgI9Qoa8GmV6MQQSqabeFch8qpZwWSGHUMO0x6tOe4f2DoBQ_k6kjE62kz-DOd02WinIBelnAXzH3VW_WtIWaA/s1600/Solar+Activity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="898" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsAE34speJPxpNCPab0hnUHfaBTijv3laxw2lXN1fqOQgvVXofGwnCVgI9Qoa8GmV6MQQSqabeFch8qpZwWSGHUMO0x6tOe4f2DoBQ_k6kjE62kz-DOd02WinIBelnAXzH3VW_WtIWaA/s640/Solar+Activity.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />You can see why glaciers are melting today by looking at the right side of the solar activity graph. We are also near a peak in the Milankovitch cycle. Something would be horribly wrong if glaciers were NOT melting today!<br /><br />So between Milankovitch's orbital cycles and Eddy's solar cycles, these are the bases for ice ages and their demise. These are the bases for perpetual climate change. In addition, one-time events like volcanoes and asteroids can also produce dramatic and sudden climate swings.</p><p>[UPDATE 7/31/23: In addition to volcanoes and asteroids, undersea volcanoes and exothermic releases must be considered. We are currently experiencing a dramatic and sudden rise in ocean temps which largely occurred over a 4 week period beginning in March, 2023. The theory is that heat from the Earth's core did this. An ocean cannot be rapidly heated from above due to marginally hotter air. But an exothermic release from the Earth's core (as hot as the surface of the sun!) could do that. This theory has been brilliantly fleshed-out over a few years in a post on theethicalskeptic.com website. <a href="https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/" target="_blank">https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/</a> </p><p>Moreover, in January, 2022, the largest undersea volcano ever recorded erupted and sent unprecedented amounts of water vapor into the stratosphere. As we know, 70% of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapor, and the amount from this undersea release is expected to take years if not decades to cycle through. Unknown is the thermal footprint this had on deep Pacific Ocean temps because our measurements are largely based on surface temps. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere" target="_blank">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere</a> ]</p><p><br />So, CO2 did not cause either The Great Ice Age or any of the many tens of thousands of cyclical coolings and warmings that preceded it. It's the fluctuating sun and our wonky orbit that cause climate change.<br /><br />(A newer ice core at Allan Hills, Antarctica claims to go back over 1.2 million years, and it also confirms Milankovitch.)<br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></p><div>Pop quiz:</div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, within the Milankovitch and Eddy cycles, we know that:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. CO2 drives climate change </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. Climate drives CO2 change</blockquote>Just because Arrhenius et al were wrong about The Great Ice Age doesn't mean they are also wrong about what will happen if we add massive amounts of CO2 to our atmosphere. According to the CO2 theory of global warming, as CO2 increases, so will temperatures.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote><ol></ol>That's why you are probably certain that CO2 still drives climate change. A consensus of scientists, academics, politicians, and celebrities have been telling you for years that higher CO2 concentrations will cause the Earth to get hotter. As we burn more and more fossil fuels, that releases more CO2 into the air. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, ergo the Earth gets hotter. It's simple.<br /><br />Except, that's not what happens. Along with temperature records going back 800,000 years, we also got CO2 records for the same time span.<br /><br />Here's the CO2 and temperature record from the Dome C ice core: </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dome C Temperature and CO2 for 800,000 Years (Red = CO2, Blue = Temps)</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_S94HWFN8ioGJUWziQ7WWmmmFVi32_kEu2ziicoU58c6ILeH8CjYlnzDyRjXeaceYRBnY6tVLB5Yt55bZcO6ZN9RH6JhI9fedDYXXTcVo18eJHbpIaeMfH9QJ_H6xT3FqJkWSbTc3hg/s1600/800000yr+Dome+C+graph.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="1600" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_S94HWFN8ioGJUWziQ7WWmmmFVi32_kEu2ziicoU58c6ILeH8CjYlnzDyRjXeaceYRBnY6tVLB5Yt55bZcO6ZN9RH6JhI9fedDYXXTcVo18eJHbpIaeMfH9QJ_H6xT3FqJkWSbTc3hg/s640/800000yr+Dome+C+graph.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At first glance temperature and CO2 appear to be closely correlated. One might even conclude that Arrhenius was right and that CO2 caused the ice ages. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But when zooming in on this graph, something interesting is revealed; CO2 trails temperature by 1200 years, + or - 700 years! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Climate Change (blue) precedes CO2 Change by 1200, + or - 700 Years</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3KeD27HfJK7Jjv6Ss0bsQE-3zLMqbJrO3vlf0-JJmLDG9ER7xrbb6bFG96NFBcJBXRz2qZSCsJpKoONyvD0wO5vDOFu9XYW3sSB3YqZcqFfxUSqKzZzjsmQLVT4nFaewpP4BFuTHNlU/s1600/800000yr+Dome+C+zoom.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="143" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3KeD27HfJK7Jjv6Ss0bsQE-3zLMqbJrO3vlf0-JJmLDG9ER7xrbb6bFG96NFBcJBXRz2qZSCsJpKoONyvD0wO5vDOFu9XYW3sSB3YqZcqFfxUSqKzZzjsmQLVT4nFaewpP4BFuTHNlU/s400/800000yr+Dome+C+zoom.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CO2 and the other atmospheric gasses behave somewhat like water vapor, except over a longer timeframe. We know that hotter air can retain water vapor in greater concentrations than colder air. There is also a water cycle that is constantly moving water from vapor, to precipitation, to ground, to sea, and then back to vapor. CO2 has a similar cycle, just not as quick. (See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%27s_law" target="_blank">Henry's Law</a>) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A number of datasets from ice and sediment cores confirm this finding. The hotter it gets on Earth, the more CO2 can be found in the atmosphere. Contrary to what you've been told, CO2 does not drive climate. Climate drives CO2! The alleged cause is actually an effect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">_________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pop Quiz:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="clear: both;">Still, pumping CO2 into the atmosphere is a new thing, and that's what makes this an existential threat!</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. True</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. False </blockquote>As everyone since Keeling knows, CO2 levels are in-fact rising. And who can forget Al Gore on the scissor lift in his movie showing CO2 going literally off the chart? And as everyone knows since Arrhenius, more CO2 makes Earth hotter, right?<br /><br />Except, that's not what's happening. Yes, we are in a warm period due to both Milankovitch and Eddy, and accordingly, CO2 is rising. That's to be expected. But the question remains: is this time different because we are burning fossil fuels? Can CO2 work both ways? Can it both be driven by temperature and also drive temperatures up?<br /><br />If greenhouse gasses both increase as temperatures go up, and then cause even more warming, why is the greenhouse effect not a runaway reaction? According to Arrhenius and modern global warming theory, the greenhouse effect should create a feedback loop. Why isn't that visible in the ice core data? <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The answer has to do with the light spectrum and each gasses' role in trapping radiation in the troposphere. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuNud_doExLjZUlfmpAYDxQti3faopaJMhyPDUcfG0i-zPP-RX8hqWqKyG27P0tSOCNXDyO5JEx979JzqQedEFLUewfN1X90M1wd59-Q8RVFhAzP8CF5NpjcZ6Dl1Z2xt2PsJTdvgMQY/s1600/Atmospheric_Transmission.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="850" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuNud_doExLjZUlfmpAYDxQti3faopaJMhyPDUcfG0i-zPP-RX8hqWqKyG27P0tSOCNXDyO5JEx979JzqQedEFLUewfN1X90M1wd59-Q8RVFhAzP8CF5NpjcZ6Dl1Z2xt2PsJTdvgMQY/s640/Atmospheric_Transmission.png" width="633" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">At the affected upgoing wavelengths, which are the ones involved in global warming, CO2 is already absorbing 100% of the radiation it is capable of absorbing. Adding more CO2 into the atmosphere can not trap more than 100% of the affected radiation! This is why the greenhouse effect is not a runaway reaction or a feedback loop. It's a self-limiting reaction.<br /><br />In the 1800s, when Arrhenius was doing his calculations, the instruments for measuring the light spectrum this accurately did not exist. (Then again, neither did antibiotics, airplanes, Model T Fords, transistors...)<br /><br />Additionally, as CO2 increases, the CO2 cycle speeds up. Here's an example of how the biosphere absorbs CO2 at faster rates:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDBO40IzOi1YiGV7QldKOvEH7Wya5OJ7ABJGuMGc3rONK8wqSexKshYFLgQKyt95GRRiUAxCTwwVeLxyvOPHbg1F4W4tDxaLtgK98xBsUNwqT87irV5TzOhETaqEsmwyShuEr3p7lzZA/s1600/CO2-pineGrowth100120_white_bg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1540" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDBO40IzOi1YiGV7QldKOvEH7Wya5OJ7ABJGuMGc3rONK8wqSexKshYFLgQKyt95GRRiUAxCTwwVeLxyvOPHbg1F4W4tDxaLtgK98xBsUNwqT87irV5TzOhETaqEsmwyShuEr3p7lzZA/s640/CO2-pineGrowth100120_white_bg.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="clear: both;"><br /><br />So, adding more CO2 into the atmosphere will not effect climate, and any CO2 increases will just grow the biosphere. </div><div style="clear: both;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop Quiz:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, there is a scientific consensus that says CO2 is uniquely warming our planet, and no one can prove otherwise. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. True</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. False</blockquote><br />Anyone who's taken a middle school science class knows the value of a control group. Luckily, scientists have the ability to track temperature and CO2 on some of the other bodies around Earth. Venus, Mars, and the Moon are particularly close to us and have yielded some interesting data. If global warming theory is right, temperatures on those bodies should be un-correlated to Earth temps because they are free from the effects of industrialization!<br /><br />Except, that's not what's happening. In an odd coincidence both <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/31/mars-also-undergoing-climate-change-ice-age-retrea/">Mars</a> and the <a href="https://www.space.com/40875-apollo-astronauts-caused-moon-warming.html">Moon</a> are warming! (Of course, it's still <a href="https://www.space.com/40875-apollo-astronauts-caused-moon-warming.html">man's fault</a>!) Milankovitch is particularly relevant to the Moon, because as goes the Earth, so goes the Moon. Eddy is particularly relevant to Mars, because as goes the Sun, so goes Mars.<br /><br />But there's more.<br /><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">In our solar system, only Venus, Earth, and Mars have atmospheres with CO2. Of the three, Venus is closest to the sun, has a dense atmosphere, is very hot, and has about 200,000 times the CO2 concentration of Earth. Mars is furthest from the sun, has a very light atmosphere, is quite cold, and still has about 14 times the CO2 concentration of Earth! It appears that distance from the sun is what primarily drives climate on these three planets, not CO2. _________________________________________________________________________________</div></div><p><br />Pop Quiz:<br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, we know that global warming is true because all the predictions have been right!</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. True</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. False</blockquote><p>Real science can accurately predict the future. If a cannon ball with a known mass, is fired from a cannon with a known amount of force, at a known trajectory, etc., science can predict exactly where it will land. That's how science works.<br /><br />If global warming science is real and quantifiable, scientists would be able to similarly predict the future of climate.<br /><br />Except that's not what has happened. In fact, every single dire prediction has been proven wrong. 100% wrong. Here's a brief summary of what the experts have predicted:<br /><br /></p><ul><li>Global famine by the year 2000 - Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Nobel Prize recipient, Professor </li><li>Entire nations wiped out by 1999 - Noel Brown, U.N. Environmental Director</li><li>Ice caps will melt away and oceans will rise causing massive flooding by 2014 - Al Gore, VPOTUS, global warming evangelist</li><li>End of snow in England by 2015 - Dr. David Viner, climate scientist at The University of East Anglia</li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Increased tornadoes and hurricanes - James Hanson, professor of climate at Columbia University & the high priest of global warming, and The U.N. IPCC</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Ice Age in Europe - Dr. Paul Ehrlich</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sub-Saharan Africa drying up - U.N. and World Bank</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Massive flooding in China and India - </span>Asian Development Bank and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research</li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Polar Bear extinction - National Geographic, The New York Times, Guardian, among many.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Drastic Temperature Increases - James Hanson</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Earth will be in a “True Planetary Emergency” by 2016 unless greenhouse gasses are reduced - Al Gore</span></li></ul><ul></ul><div>None of those predictions came true. Not one. And that is just a tiny sampling. </div><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">And here are some of the bad predictions from</span><a href="https://www.thegwpf.com/top-12-debunked-climate-scares-of-2018/" style="background-color: transparent;"> just this past year</a>!</div><p>_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop Quiz:<br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, we are under an existential threat because the Earth is progressively getting:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A: Hotter </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B: Colder </blockquote><div>You are probably certain that the Earth is getting hotter. The name global warming itself describes the danger. You are probably familiar with the apocryphal "hockey stick" graph featured in "An Inconvenient Truth":<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg063_b1CwkVFsHV4pMSl8wpxDk_B7LJPJFPyeGnQVC6PIp12hk67DJW_snyu3_U4OQCt9IsKpB4tUwtF82chGvwDuiihPVJzaCRdHk8amqJiUr1LFo3NhYbOwYpkjp6pNrfgVCOzqu518/s1600/hockey_stick_visual.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="636" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg063_b1CwkVFsHV4pMSl8wpxDk_B7LJPJFPyeGnQVC6PIp12hk67DJW_snyu3_U4OQCt9IsKpB4tUwtF82chGvwDuiihPVJzaCRdHk8amqJiUr1LFo3NhYbOwYpkjp6pNrfgVCOzqu518/s640/hockey_stick_visual.png" width="640" /></a></div><div></div><div><br />Except, that's not what's happening in the long run:<br /> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLzB45YtJKxCCsUc2OERWR5RGktVTmnC_H9HgzU3trInBcv9sHtXQrAZg4okjuyMkMyB7nNLc33AxN7oBEHhetUlUfszSlvk5Okxc4P4pkxtOP5b8w_Gvmw3gdl4bhayohdyHbQ53eeU/s1600/2000px-Five_Myr_Climate_Change.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1600" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLzB45YtJKxCCsUc2OERWR5RGktVTmnC_H9HgzU3trInBcv9sHtXQrAZg4okjuyMkMyB7nNLc33AxN7oBEHhetUlUfszSlvk5Okxc4P4pkxtOP5b8w_Gvmw3gdl4bhayohdyHbQ53eeU/s640/2000px-Five_Myr_Climate_Change.svg.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Earth is actually getting cooler! </div><div><br /></div><div>Five million years is not much when you consider the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. That would take 900 - five million year graphs! So, here's another graph estimating 65 million years of global climate change, still only a fraction of Earth's life. Again, it clearly shows Earth is cooling. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj39_1nVCKUfmbSMHTdN0W7v_9J7dtmeB7pFPhCUWPHtRDJ1AA7sonsj7AF6_HmAItNA2gf_ZSTw9Q-iT0qCrsL3h9JrVXgwEdJSNo13i7PjZusxaYgpNCDkOpxqJ3qY5hDRra0mmG4tGs/s1600/300px-65_Myr_Climate_Change.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="300" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj39_1nVCKUfmbSMHTdN0W7v_9J7dtmeB7pFPhCUWPHtRDJ1AA7sonsj7AF6_HmAItNA2gf_ZSTw9Q-iT0qCrsL3h9JrVXgwEdJSNo13i7PjZusxaYgpNCDkOpxqJ3qY5hDRra0mmG4tGs/s400/300px-65_Myr_Climate_Change.png" width="400" /></a></div><div> </div><div>The existential threat is that we will eventually freeze, not bake!<br /><br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop quiz:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, in the 200,000 year history of mankind:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. It has never been this hot</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. It's been much hotter before </blockquote><br />No doubt you are sure it's never been this hot. It says so on the "hockey stick" graph. And just consider the melting glaciers!<br /><br />Yet, we know that 1100 years ago, when the Vikings first went to Iceland, there were no glaciers there. Today, glaciers cover much of Iceland. Similarly, Vikings settled on Greenland around the same time and successfully farmed there for 500 years. But they abandoned Greenland in the mid 15th century, presumably because it got too cold. Those two events are known as the Medieval Warm Period and The Little Ice Age. Curiously, you won't find either of those events on Al Gore's graph.<br /><br />Here's a graph that shows 10,000 years of climate change from ice cores on Greenland:<br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lt0ZeY1oyCNXyKgYFzVejI1V5DkHRq08bCr4fWqArIfUClCVbSm1CyyPNrT5vMOQRoTHP8ImpBn28zH2t203DfEs7ZgmIq-49jm9RltuPK7Xm2A1q5O8qKH3TqNIzJBOKOJ6hsHt8vw/s1600/10000-year-temperatures-chart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="530" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lt0ZeY1oyCNXyKgYFzVejI1V5DkHRq08bCr4fWqArIfUClCVbSm1CyyPNrT5vMOQRoTHP8ImpBn28zH2t203DfEs7ZgmIq-49jm9RltuPK7Xm2A1q5O8qKH3TqNIzJBOKOJ6hsHt8vw/s400/10000-year-temperatures-chart.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />And here's a map of glacial retreat in Glacier Bay, Alaska going back 2 1/2 centuries. As you can see, glaciers have been in retreat since long before your SUV!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj140KSpHHqj_rlmTZyPTrv-YKPmZYX2HVXeaznQ28Ny3kT_13ezghBPlb2ld2eFL8CzGO3vCp6nvgC7BPz9z_piLNgEORmLpKhWa2igo5WNLqlo4ekv4rWTV8kvF4zWbQMm6ZFtLqcdfc/s1600/glacierbaymap_thumb_thumb.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj140KSpHHqj_rlmTZyPTrv-YKPmZYX2HVXeaznQ28Ny3kT_13ezghBPlb2ld2eFL8CzGO3vCp6nvgC7BPz9z_piLNgEORmLpKhWa2igo5WNLqlo4ekv4rWTV8kvF4zWbQMm6ZFtLqcdfc/s640/glacierbaymap_thumb_thumb.gif" width="585" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />We have enough data to know that this warm period is nothing new. It's been hotter than this many times before, even in man's brief 200,000 year history.<br /><br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></div><div>You are still free to believe in the CO2 theory of global warming. Heck, you are free to believe in anything you want, including Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy! But any serious person who looks into global warming must reflect long and hard before blindly waving a towel for the consensus.<br /><br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />I was the founder of Kindzone.com, one of the first companies to test market retail carbon credits. I've been closely following the science and consensus of global warming for over 20 years.<br /><br />Ron Reich </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-82971116730260996592023-05-21T06:11:00.000-07:002023-05-21T06:11:42.967-07:00Fact Check: Durham Was a Coverup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtlbR6-nXDPKIvjUvxyQB_h6yDdHnSaT73u8fdJoyn1EWwwOwwv30bRNriCLKEBC7iP5zEchtG-qqX2_j0LBxs2mk9ElSR91-qaLQ15Ass-LNsED4rGpHqm46IZyoRcpPv-_jmHBUYBs/s1600/CoupClucksClan.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtlbR6-nXDPKIvjUvxyQB_h6yDdHnSaT73u8fdJoyn1EWwwOwwv30bRNriCLKEBC7iP5zEchtG-qqX2_j0LBxs2mk9ElSR91-qaLQ15Ass-LNsED4rGpHqm46IZyoRcpPv-_jmHBUYBs/s640/CoupClucksClan.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Durham Report dropped last week, conveniently AFTER the statute of limitations expired on any crimes committed by the Democrat perpetrators. The perps include Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and just about every member of the IC in the Obama and Biden administrations. None can be charged, indicted, or held accountable due to the 5 year statute. This was the purpose of the Durham affair; to run out the clock and tie it all up in an "investigation". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wrote about this Coup d'Etat 6 years ago and tied it back to Perkins Coie, the preferred Democrat lawfare front. Here's what I wrote in October of 2017. (Note the last 3 items on the list. The Russia/Ukraine war was part of the plan!): </div><div>_____________________________________________________________________________________</div><div><br /><i>11/25/17</i></div><div><i>Almost everything that has happened in the last two years to damage Donald Trump stemmed from the infamous "dossier". You remember, the one that triggered the whole Trump/Russia/Collusion meme? Now we know it was a Hillary Clinton / DNC concoction. According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/25/the-clinton-camp-and-the-dnc-helped-pay-for-that-trump-russia-dossier-heres-what-it-means/?utm_term=.8b6bcdb6eca9" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a>, Marc Elias, counsel to the Clinton's and the DNC, paid for the "dossier". It was then used as the basis for the investigations of the Trump campaign and transition by Barack Obama and his entire intelligence apparatus. Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, et al all used a phony concocted dossier as their basis for wiretapping, unmasking, investigating, and sabotaging the Trump campaign and administration.<br /><br />It was a conspiracy and a full-blown coup d'etat led by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Here's a partial list of the events that have stemmed from the dirty "dossier":<br /><br />The whole Russia/Collusion/Trump meme<br />FISA warrants for Trump associates<br />Massive (illegal) unmasking of private citizens<br />Firing of Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, and others<br />Recusal of Jeff Sessions<br />The firing of James Comey<br />Appointment of Independent Counsel Robert Mueller by Rod Rosenstein<br />Buy-in from Obama's entire Intelligence Community, CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.<br />Ongoing Senate and House investigations<br />Stalling of the Trump agenda in Congress<br />Calls for Trump's impeachment<br />Calls for war on Russia<br />Expelling of Russian diplomats<br />U.S. Troops deployed near Russia by Obama<br /><br />The other part of all this, of course, was the assessment that the DNC and John Podesta email hacks were the work of the Russians and Vladimir Putin himself. This assessment came from none other than the Obama FBI under James Comey. But the FBI famously didn't do their own assessment because the DNC refused them access to their servers. The assessment came instead from a private company called Crowdstrike. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/06/dnc-russian-hacking-conclusion-comes-google-linked-firm/" target="_blank">Crowdstrike is a Google funded company</a>, and Google parent chairman Eric Schmidt was a key player on the Hillary Clinton campaign<br /><br />Andrew McCarthy at National Review notes that the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453092/scandals-collide-dossier-dnc-server-perkins-coie" target="_blank">same law firm </a>that funded the dossier also retained Crowdstrike. And all of it was conveniently done behind a wall of attorney client privilege. What are the odds this same firm is involved in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452972/uranium-one-deal-obama-administration-doj-hillary-clinton-racketeering" target="_blank">Uranium One</a>? <br /><br />This all looks like corruption and abuse of power unprecedented in our lifetimes. Not funny. <br /><br />[UPDATE] As suspected, Perkins Coie, the law firm involved in the dossier and Crowdstrike, is also involved in Uranium One. At a minimum, Uranium One's trademark was handled by <a href="https://trademarks.corporationwiki.com/marks/uranium-one/77046807/" target="_blank">Perkins Coie</a>. <br /><br />This is who is listed as "Correspondent" for the trademark:<br /><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">PATCHEN M. HAGGERTY </span><br /><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">PERKINS COIE LLP </span><br /><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">1201 3RD AVE STE 4900 </span><br /><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">SEATTLE WA 98101-3099</span><br /><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">Indeed, all roads lead to Perkins Coie when it comes to Clinton/Obama/Democrat/Russia collusion. </span> </span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-26233356810216588622023-03-17T20:27:00.003-07:002023-04-01T20:26:11.078-07:00Fact Check: Why Are Whales Beaching in NJ? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5UwXlBTiFCmZsdHwcIVTuo8vxZk3wtL9YhvZcHOD0eVtuQe26MfnBJh6lrY2HUM6m---MjSnYqhLmt5lqs6UMKMLzPve1AOgr541l5UtxxnnZV0XfjyIaBNoEUSJ7xW3p_lNANcJKCYu-w_xyLUlUzrzybLlDbw1KUBoajdMM4Wd3WRFcS4yMDeY/s1000/Beached%20Whale.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="1000" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5UwXlBTiFCmZsdHwcIVTuo8vxZk3wtL9YhvZcHOD0eVtuQe26MfnBJh6lrY2HUM6m---MjSnYqhLmt5lqs6UMKMLzPve1AOgr541l5UtxxnnZV0XfjyIaBNoEUSJ7xW3p_lNANcJKCYu-w_xyLUlUzrzybLlDbw1KUBoajdMM4Wd3WRFcS4yMDeY/w521-h234/Beached%20Whale.jpg" width="521" /></a></div><br /><div>As you may have heard, several whales have recently beached themselves in and around NJ. Experts are baffled by this trend. We like whales. They're awesome. So we want to know why this is happening.</div><div><br /></div><div>One theory is that this is related to wind farm construction. The claim is that high tech sonar is being used to prepare for large scale proposed wind farms off the NJ coast. According to this theory, sonar is disorienting the whales and they are beaching themselves, or surfacing and getting hit by ships. <br /><br /></div><div>This makes a certain amount of sense since whales are known to use a type of sonar to "see" in deep water, find prey, and communicate. They are also known to flee from some kinds of manmade sonar. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>On the other hand, beached whales have been happening for all of recorded history! Sometimes they occur for observable reasons: disease, starvation, injury, old age. But mostly the reasons are unknown. </div><div><br /></div><div>The question is, are these recent strandings (beachings) part of the normal background, are they possibly due to sonar, or are they spiking because of something else? </div><div><br /></div><div>I believe it's the sun!</div><div><br /></div><div>No, I'm not suggesting whales are sunning themselves on the beaches of NJ. I am, however, suggesting that whales are being disoriented due to solar magnetic activity and geomagnetic storms.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the gist of it: Whales use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate long distances. At least that's the current thinking. Meanwhile, the sun has a powerful and dynamic influence on Earth's magnetic field. There seems to be a correlation between solar magnetic influence and whale strandings. </div><div><br /></div><div>There are two times in the roughly 11 year solar cycle (technically half cycle) when this correlation appears to be strongest; around both solar minimums and solar maximums. Solar minimums are when the sun's magnetic field is at its strongest and that seems to correlate with more beached whales. Then, around solar maximums, the sun's magnetic field weakens, but solar flares and giant explosions (Coronal Mass Ejections, CMEs), etc. create powerful geomagnetic storms that again correlate with beached whales. </div><div><br /></div><div>The correlation can be seen in the following graphs: </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOf8YcS6OtdlqXjM0T7PtwY4i_qBnLozdxquO_rV8OYnT0YsFxf-YeCNNGZ_PxsK1nFb2CB7KkxT3RF9C62027EVj_moSaGsyfW3FoLEa4MXVePN-Y_AvBE4m9ri10RkkCpBe6hEaTr8wtEjCfO2Lc5R4JQzCqQiEhExFlNYf5mFf_Qu3QuL4yB-0O/s890/East%20Coast%20Humpback%20Whale%20strandings.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="890" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOf8YcS6OtdlqXjM0T7PtwY4i_qBnLozdxquO_rV8OYnT0YsFxf-YeCNNGZ_PxsK1nFb2CB7KkxT3RF9C62027EVj_moSaGsyfW3FoLEa4MXVePN-Y_AvBE4m9ri10RkkCpBe6hEaTr8wtEjCfO2Lc5R4JQzCqQiEhExFlNYf5mFf_Qu3QuL4yB-0O/w465-h324/East%20Coast%20Humpback%20Whale%20strandings.png" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The above graph shows two things worth noting:</div><div> </div><div>1. The solar minimum occurred in 2019. Around the minimum is roughly the period when whale strandings peak on this graph. </div><div><br /></div><div>2. We are very early in 2023 and are on pace to exceed the other years, which is to be expected since we just had a very active solar period and are heading into a solar maximum. </div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile on the West coast, a similar dynamic is playing out: </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuDjVknov7Abc8bFlx_J7j5g-GirNNBvF7pfz1yt5QfKPmzIkevd_S52KdOTs_OE6KuT9NOblUAddQeJMSkeYOLVrhKsuKb7IaQpxkqDPKVk61UX7Mg-GCktc9hwXwGQwjHFGHCMgzNPE1viST4VA1UiwdqJ6hCZmvU-i_GA8oNhAaw2eg6wWOXty/s878/UME%20incl%202000.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="878" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuDjVknov7Abc8bFlx_J7j5g-GirNNBvF7pfz1yt5QfKPmzIkevd_S52KdOTs_OE6KuT9NOblUAddQeJMSkeYOLVrhKsuKb7IaQpxkqDPKVk61UX7Mg-GCktc9hwXwGQwjHFGHCMgzNPE1viST4VA1UiwdqJ6hCZmvU-i_GA8oNhAaw2eg6wWOXty/w528-h353/UME%20incl%202000.png" width="528" /></a></div><br /> The above graph again shows two things worth noting: </div><div><br /></div><div>1. A similar pattern to the East Coast centered around the time of solar minimum. (this graph shows both months and years, highlighting the seasonality of whale migration.) </div><div><br /></div><div>2. This graph includes UMEs from 1999 and 2000 (UMEs are Unusual Mortality Events) Both years were heading into solar maximums during active cycles.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Both graphs are c/o NOAA Fisheries: </div><div>East Coast: <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2016-2023-humpback-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-atlantic-coast">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2016-2023-humpback-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-atlantic-coast</a></div><div>West Coast: <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2019-2023-gray-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-west-coast-and">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2019-2023-gray-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-west-coast-and</a> )</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's what happens with the sun's overall magnetic field during minimums and maximums: </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqNKEQjVCMQee5JqFauJ6HQrv84PBGoNgbx0P5_kXSoeaavnkVwqXkRYCjhXzyDkPX7QYspQyLWoY7t0R6dzGClBbq2C-Jwk7sDL3Qv6NEM8P1F1SV6siuTDBd4pPLcqxii8CIgvHhjKbMKWp6qm9eXFxdZ3qRg5QULdQXiYGMEkQ1XSNs3B4wu9l/s782/solar%20cycles%20and%20polar%20field%20strength%20edited.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="782" height="437" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqNKEQjVCMQee5JqFauJ6HQrv84PBGoNgbx0P5_kXSoeaavnkVwqXkRYCjhXzyDkPX7QYspQyLWoY7t0R6dzGClBbq2C-Jwk7sDL3Qv6NEM8P1F1SV6siuTDBd4pPLcqxii8CIgvHhjKbMKWp6qm9eXFxdZ3qRg5QULdQXiYGMEkQ1XSNs3B4wu9l/w437-h437/solar%20cycles%20and%20polar%20field%20strength%20edited.png" width="437" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div>In the above graph, the A panel and the C panel show the inverse relationship between solar cycles and magnetic field strength. When the A panel (solar activity) is at minimum, the C panel (magnetic strength) is at maximum, and vice versa. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Graph is C/O <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.886670/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.886670/full</a> <span style="background-color: white;">"<span style="color: #282828;">Deciphering Solar Magnetic Activity: The Solar Cycle Clock" ) </span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #282828;"><br /></span></div><div>Speaking of solar maximums, the largest solar geomagnetic storm in recorded history happened in 1859 and is known as the Carrington Event. It occurred just as we were heading into a solar maximum. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, were visible as far south as Hawaii and Mexico. The drawing at the top is of a beached whale in Long Island, NY, 1859. Hmm. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now, if you're one of those, "correlation is not causation" types, I get it. I'm one too. To be clear, I'm not presenting this as the be-all, end-all on this subject. It's just some correlations and a theory.</div><div> </div><div>That said, there are other solar/whale experts who also point to solar involvement, though they seem to be focused on geomagnetic storms. My addition to this theory is that there is also a correlation with solar minimums when the sun's magnetic field strength is at its highest.</div><div><br /></div><div>To recap: there are two times in the roughly 11 year solar cycle that correspond to spikes in whale beachings. The first is at minimum when the solar magnetic field is strongest, and the second is around the solar maximum when sun spots, solar flares, and CMEs create geomagnetic storms. </div><div><br /></div><div>So you may be asking, why is a blogger who writes mostly about politics and the economy writing about whales and the sun?</div><div><br /></div><div>I became an amateur sun watcher after writing about global warming in 2019. That piece is the most read thing on this blog. If you're interested you can read it here: <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2019/04/fact-check-truth-about-global-warming.html" target="_blank">Fact Check: The Truth About Global Warming</a></div><div><br /></div><div>What I learned during my climate research is that the sun and stars are truly the most amazing objects around. And we are just in the early stages of understanding them. The first satellite devoted to the sun went up in the late 1970s. Prior to satellites, we were limited in what we could observe from Earth's surface and from balloons. Now we have dozens of satellites looking at all sorts of solar phenomena. </div><div><br /></div><div>And there's a lot to look at. The sun is constantly spewing out atomic mass, radiation, protons, electrons, x-rays, charged plasma, magnetic fields, light, energy, heat, and on and on. </div><div><br /></div><div>And the sun is by no means constant. It is incredibly dynamic, temperamental, and alive. It's hard to overstate its impact. It is the source of all life. It is likely the source of all things non-living too. If there's a God, the first item on the agenda had to be to create the sun and stars, for without them, nothing else could exist.</div><div><br /></div><div>When the sun sneezes, the Earth catches cold. Here's some fun facts about the scale of it all: If the sun was a basketball on first base in Fenway Park, the Earth would be a tiny pea on home plate. That basketball is so massive and powerful it is responsible for everything that happens in the entire Boston area. The nearest star would be another basketball... in Honolulu. The sun amounts to 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system. Yeah, those giant planets Jupiter and Saturn combined with all the small ones like Earth together amount to a measly .0014 of the total mass in our solar system! </div><div><br /></div><div>In conclusion: Could the sun mess with whales and cause them to beach in NJ? I argue, yes. Is this correlation proof? No. Could sonar still be the cause? Possibly, but I see no evidence for that at all. </div><div><br /></div><div>(For the record, I'm not a fan of offshore wind farms. Not because of what they might do to marine life, but because I've lived on the coast long enough to know that salt water and electricity make a bad combo. That, plus the dubious economics.) </div><div><br /></div><div>P.S. If you want to become an amateur sun watcher, here are some good sites to help you get started:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.spaceweatherlive.com">www.spaceweatherlive.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.spaceweather.com">www.spaceweather.com</a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-67161354375644840782022-11-08T10:41:00.005-08:002022-11-09T10:11:09.031-08:00Fact Check: Predictions are Hard. Especially about the Future.<p>As the sun rises on election day 2022, here are some bold predictions. And some explanations:</p><p>Yes, there will be a red wave in the House. Nothing can stop that from happening. But the Senate is another story. Statewide races are much easier to steal, and that's what will happen. There's just too much at stake. And the cost of stealing elections is zero. </p><p>No one is in prison for election fraud in America. Several hundred, however, are in prison for pointing it out. Two of the most prominent voices, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, just spent a week in solitary confinement for making a movie, "2000 Mules", about one small piece of the election fraud in 2020. They were finally released after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found no basis for their imprisonment.</p><p>Anytime the upside of cheating is measured in trillion$ and the downside is measured in zero$, there will be fraud. But it goes much deeper. A Republican Senate would mean that the entire corrupt Democrat machine could be exposed. Not that a Democrat DOJ will do anything about it, but public hearings will be embarrassing. The Biden family corruption, the lab-leak cover-up, the election fraud in 2020, the vaccine fraud, the early treatment hoaxes, the spying on Trump, CIA and FBI corruption, Jeffrey Epstein's codefendants, etc., all of it will be center stage. And impeachments are tried in the Senate. </p><p>Then there is the Supreme Court. Democrats have shown repeatedly they will resort to depraved measures to keep control of the high court. Why would stealing elections be off the table if publicly smearing Brett Kavanaugh as a serial rapist was not? The path to the Court goes through the Senate. Sure, let the people have the House, but the Senate must stay with The Party. This is not negotiable.</p><p>I predict there will be a huge discrepancy between the House red wave momentum and the Senate's. This will come from the same Democrat strongholds that went statistically whacko for Biden in 2020. The reasons will be the same: ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting, software anomalies, mysterious delays, no voter ID, no signature verification, one-party ballot adjudication, no chain of custody, no citizenship requirement, no ability to audit, no way to reconcile envelopes and ballots, no bi-partisan observers, courts unwilling to get involved, and massive intimidation by the civil rights division of the politicized DOJ.</p><p>By the way, you can always tell who the election fraud phonies are. When they win, it's always the cleanest election in history. But when they lose it's crooked from top to bottom. As for me, I've been writing about election fraud for several cycles, both win and lose. (see links at the end) </p><p>One other prediction: if Democrats fail to steal the Senate, there will be riots.</p><p>Now for some explanations: </p><p>The first thing to know about politics in America is that Calvin Coolidge is dead; the business of America is...government. We crossed the rubicon about a half century ago. Government is now so big it essentially elects itself. </p><p>In 1910, Total Govt Spending was under 10% of National Income. Today it is well over 100%. That's only possible through massive borrowing and printing, and it's why we have such high inflation. Government has taken over. (Total Govt Spending includes federal, state, local, and The Federal Reserve)</p><p>So what, who cares if government takes over? It's a Democracy and that's what the people want, right? The problem is, we have become a one party country. Yes, I know it doesn't seem like it, but it's true. The Democrats, aka the party of government, have ruled Washington for the last 112 years. Yes, there have been Republican presidents and congresses, but the last time the GOP had a super majority in the senate was 1910. You need a super majority in the senate to be in full control. Democrats have had super majorities for about 15 of the last 112 years. But the way it works in the senate, things lean even more to the Democrats. For the entirety of that 112 year span, Democrats have had the power to blast the Republican agenda to bits through the filibuster! </p><p>The result of Democrat control in Washington has been the unchecked growth of government in the last 112 years. Government is now so big it self-perpetuates. </p><p>So how can this election be leaning GOP? The answer is that people vote according to their sensitivity to incompetent government. When times are good people feel insulated from reckless government, and will trade freedom for perceived security. When times are bad, they feel the trade is no longer worth it. The more exposed you are to bad government, the more you will vote with the party of limited government. </p><p>To be clear; Republicans as a group are no better at governing than Democrats, but they do adhere more to our founding principles of limited government. In bad times, with incompetent government, less is better.</p><p>And there are several issues currently signaling bad times: food, energy, crime, education, and war. Food and energy are tied in with inflation which is squeezing American budgets and raising interest rates. Crime is unchecked in Democrat strongholds where the police have been sidelined and the courts neutered. We are fighting a futile and deadly proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. And education is a mess since many governors and teachers unions closed schools and forced kids to stay home.</p><p>These issues have flipped many suburban women who turned out for Joe Biden. They're also flipping minority voters who have always voted for the party of big government.</p><p>And if you want to know why election fraud is all of a sudden a big issue in America, it's because Democrats used the courts to change the way we do elections. This was largely illegal because it bypassed the state legislatures that are constitutionally in charge of elections. And, this effort preceded the pandemic by years. It had nothing to do with covid! But it got a huge boost when members of both parties got cold feet over in-person voting. </p><p>Here's a summary of what happened in the lead-up to 2020: </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FZjGyrK0taQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="FZjGyrK0taQ"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>And here're some older pieces of mine on election fraud in reverse chronological order:</p><p><a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2020/12/fact-check-whose-job-is-it-to-prove.html" target="_blank">We've Got Voter Fraud All Wrong</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2016/12/voter-fraud-is-so-massive-you-can-see.html" target="_blank">You Can See Voter Fraud From Space</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2016/11/guess-whos-openly-encouraging-voter.html" target="_blank">Obama Urges Illegals to Vote</a><br /></p><p><a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-fifty-year-plan.html" target="_blank">Obama's 50 Year Plan</a></p><p><a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2009/10/corruption-in-new-jersey.html" target="_blank">Corruption in NJ - 2009</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Hat tip to Yogi Berra for the title of this piece.)</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-489220148310690982022-08-02T07:10:00.005-07:002022-08-02T07:12:21.791-07:00Fact Check: Did Joe Biden Kill Zawahiri?<p>Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that a U.S. counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan killed Al Qaeda #1 Ayman al-Zawahiri. That's great news.</p><p>But something in his announcement seemed reminiscent of Barack Obama's 2001 announcement when a U.S. counterterrorism operation in Pakistan killed Osama bin-Laden. </p><p>Here is my reaction to that earlier announcement. I think it applies to today as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ri7sWPij8Gg" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ri7sWPij8Gg"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-45023419227510566292022-06-10T08:05:00.002-07:002022-06-14T10:12:22.812-07:00Fact Check: The Truth About January 6th<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FZjGyrK0taQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="FZjGyrK0taQ"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>If you want to really know why there was a protest at the Capital 1/6/21, watch video above. And if you really want to know why the protest turned into a riot, read this <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2017/08/bird-dogging-cultural-revolution.html" target="_blank">piece I wrote about Charlottesville</a>. Same play, same playbook, same result.</p><p>The first law of elections is: </p><p></p><blockquote>"It is not the citizen's job to prove election fraud, rather it is the state's job to prove a clean and auditable election." </blockquote>The reason there was a protest that turned ugly on 1/6/21 was because the states failed miserably and broke the first law of elections. Without that you don't have elections, and without elections you don't have a democratic republic.<p></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-61295803018367712322022-05-24T18:19:00.006-07:002022-05-27T16:38:10.752-07:00Fact Check: The Truth About School Shootings [UPDATED]<div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: postoniwide, bodoni 72, bodoni mt, didot, didot lt std, hoefler text, garamond, georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 56px; word-spacing: -1.12px;"><b>19 Children, 3 Adults Killed in School Shooting in Uvalde, TX</b></span></span></div><span style="color: #2a2a2a; word-spacing: -1.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">(Headline today)</span></span><br /><br />Insanity is often defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. That pretty much describes our approach to mass shootings. How's it working so far?<br /><br />Here’s a radical but eminently logical proposal to finally stop the kind of mass shootings that just happened in Texas: Vote Republican!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I know. I know. You think Republicans ARE the problem!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heck, they’re the NRA party, right? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can Republicans possibly fix this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And don't Republicans run Texas, where this happened? </span>Bear with me and I’ll explain...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The first thing to know is that Democrats have had either <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2019/02/fact-check-our-two-party-system.html">total control, filibuster control, or veto proof control of the federal government for the last 110 years</a>. That's right. Despite what you've heard, this has been a one party country for over a century. The last time Republicans had the Presidency, the House, and a super majority in the Senate was in 1909... when Theodore Roosevelt was President! Democrats have had complete control or filibuster control for the entirety of that time. For about 25 years they had complete control, and for the remaining 85 years they had filibuster or veto control. The last time Democrats had absolute complete control was waaay, waaay, back during the ...Obama Administration! What did they do to stop mass shootings in 110 years? Nothing. At least nothing effective.<br /><br />A fair question would be, OK, what if Republicans could get the kind of control Democrats have had, what would they do differently? Here's a hint, and then some specifics:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Democrat voting coalition is made-up largely of groups who are on some level dependent on the federal government. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among them are the poor, minorities, the sick, the oligarchs, union members, government employees, social liberals, and single parent families. These groups look to the Federal Government for protection and money, and therefore Democrats accrue power by maximizing their numbers. Democrats want you poor, vulnerable, dependent, and afraid; they have NO interest in solving problems that would prevent this. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Republican voting coalition is largely made-up of individuals who seek independence from the federal government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among them are people of faith, much of the middle class, small and mid-sized business people, social conservatives, and nuclear families. These groups look to the federal government for freedom and independence, and therefore Republicans accrue power by maximizing their numbers. Republicans want you prosperous, secure, independent, and unafraid; they have EVERY interest in solving problems to promote this. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now, who do you suppose wants people to live in fear of someone getting into a school, or mall, or concert, and committing mass murder?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could that be why Democrats did nothing when they had the power for 25 of the last 110 years? Could that be why an <a href="https://www.nraila.org/articles/20070623/nics-improvement-amendments-act-not-g" target="_blank">NRA supported bill since 2007</a> that would prevent dangerous homicidal maniacs from obtaining guns has never been passed? Could that be why every time there is legislation to screen these people, Democrats insert a poison pill to kill it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Could that be why <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/28/wapo-senate-dems-torpedoing-gun-bill/">Democrats torpedoed their own "Fix NICS" bill</a> in 2018? (NICS is the database of gun purchases and background checks) Could that be why Democrats have done nothing to find the <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2018/02/drug-reactions-and-mass-shootings.html">SSRI, drug, gaming, and mental health connection between young people and mass shootings</a>? (SSRIs are the Prozac type drugs that treat mental illness and correlate with mass shootings) And who do you think passed <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2018/02/parkland-leading-road-to-hell.html">the laws that allowed Nikolas Cruz</a> and so many others to escape the criminal justice system entirely? Why do you suppose <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/09/mass-killings-failures-hold-law-enforcement-accountable-column/497285002/">no one is ever held accountable for the failures</a> when murderers are red-flagged, but not stopped?</span><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">But the biggest factor connecting all gun violence, black and white, is the breakdown of the family. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/02/27/of_27_deadliest_mass_shooters_26_of_them_were_fatherless_435596.html">Of the 27 worst mass shootings in America, 26 of them were committed by men who grew up without fathers</a>. The same holds true for the weekly violence in the inner cities across America. Democrat policies since 1909 have <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2019/02/fact-check-our-two-party-system.html">grown the government ten fold</a>, made people dependent, and shrunk the family accordingly. The most effective buy-back program to stop this madness would be a buy-back program for fathers not guns! </span><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />Democrats have one solution: gut the Bill of Rights. But would that solve anything? According to Democrats themselves, banning assault weapons for a decade did nothing. They ended their own ban under Bill Clinton. Mass shootings happen all the time in countries without a 2nd amendment. Some countries just use bombs and vehicles for mass murder. The problem is not the tool, but the conditions that breed mass murderers. And we are breeding them. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">There was a time in America when every household had a gun, every kid could shoot, dynamite was sold in general stores, fathers were common, and mass murders were rare.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Democrats will never fix this problem because the incentives are for them to keep people afraid, vulnerable, and dependent. Give Republicans the Presidency, the House, and over sixty votes in the Senate for the first time in 110 years and this problem gets fixed pronto, along with many others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, keep voting Democrat and watch more innocent people die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">[UPDATE: And here's Ted Cruz confronting Democrats who filibustered his gun bill, Grassley/Cruz, which would have prevented almost every one of these recent mass shootings:]</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g26nKMueWK4" width="320" youtube-src-id="g26nKMueWK4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-84490479912529690072022-05-12T14:12:00.009-07:002022-05-27T16:38:41.515-07:00Fact Check: The Truth About Baby Formula [UPDATED]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6C1uK12-v8QukV5zhfZN25XW473dwWXL4JZoayfXOubbba7RihDV8GnAguXWhKcZKW84OH3s3MvSmwz2k3hfKxP_tw_sz4L87FCQpRSYy6xY1Wt-40FIsGW9hCLSYqMa1AGJX-wn1muz5MX1QPxM4gaTP3W-sR2pVZGdJcaqojCaqEzehOgkPMZsQ/s1300/similac.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="1300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6C1uK12-v8QukV5zhfZN25XW473dwWXL4JZoayfXOubbba7RihDV8GnAguXWhKcZKW84OH3s3MvSmwz2k3hfKxP_tw_sz4L87FCQpRSYy6xY1Wt-40FIsGW9hCLSYqMa1AGJX-wn1muz5MX1QPxM4gaTP3W-sR2pVZGdJcaqojCaqEzehOgkPMZsQ/s320/similac.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>There's a lot of news about the baby formula shortage, but very little information as to "why". I think I know why, and if I'm right, it's also why you're not hearing about it.</p><p>I have no special insight into the baby formula industry, but I've seen this movie before. This exact movie. </p><p>You see, <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-does-obama-hate-j-toyota-and-gibson.html" target="_blank">in 2014 I wrote a piece</a> tying together several seemingly unrelated odd events at notable companies: There was a SWAT style raid at a guitar factory, a large OTC painkiller plant was raided and shuttered, a fully built airplane factory was not allowed to open, and the U.S. government blocked the world's largest car manufacturer from selling certain models. </p><p>I traced all those cases to labor unions, or rather the conspicuous lack thereof.</p><p>It looked to me like Barack Obama was weaponizing the U.S. government to advance his pro-union agenda. These companies were standing in his way, if not literally, symbolically.</p><p>I believe this is why moms can't feed their babies. It has nothing to do with supply chains, covid, Ukraine, etc. It's all about punishing a company that prefers to work directly with its employees rather than through an adversarial third party.</p><p>For background, here's an excerpt from my 2014 piece:</p><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div></div></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 23px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">Labor unions are Obama’s largest support system. Unions supplied billions in the last three election cycles, practically all of it to Democrats. More importantly, unions supplied the boots-on-the-ground and the muscle for Obama’s vaunted ground-game. The labor union agenda is Obama’s agenda according to Obama himself. The most frequent visitors to the oval office are labor union bosses and labor union lobbyists... </div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 23px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 23px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">These corporate/union bullying cases are similar to the IRS scandal in that government agencies were selectively targeting opponents of Obama’s political agenda. But, there are significant differences too. The IRS scandals broke because the targeted parties, non-profits and individuals, made a big stink. In these corporate cases, the targets are for-profit corporations who will never make a stink. Unlike individuals and non-profit groups, corporations have a huge incentive to keep quiet when being targeted by their government. Corporations answer to their shareholders, and shareholders care about one thing only - share value. Confronting abusive government is never a shareholder priority. Corporations are also easily painted as villains. When corporations get unjustly targeted by governments, they usually suck it up, pay the fines, settle the lawsuits, and quietly get back to work. </div></div></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 23px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div></div></div><p>Now back to the baby formula case today:</p><p>About 3 months ago, the U.S. FDA shuttered the largest baby formula plant in the country, an Abbott Labs plant in Sturgis, MI. The reasons for the plant closure was that there was a whistleblower who alleged sloppy hygiene at the plant, and subsequently there were a pair of fatalities from bacterial contamination allegedly tied to the plant. </p><p>Scary stuff indeed! But further investigation revealed no such contaminants in samples of formula at the plant. And none were found in any of the formula recalled from store shelves. In fact, The FDA did not find any bacteria that were an exact match anywhere at the site. If those children were killed by bacteria, there is no evidence whatsoever tying it to Abbott Labs.</p><p>Yet, the plant remains closed as of today. </p><p>All of this seemed familiar to me. In fact, not just familiar, but exactly like what had happened with Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol plants.</p><p>Again, I'll direct you to <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-does-obama-hate-j-toyota-and-gibson.html" target="_blank">the piece I wrote in 2014</a> which has all the details, but here's a brief summary:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1980s - 7 people die from cyanide tainted Tylenol. </li><li>All products are recalled, the plant is shut, and J&J has a devastating PR nightmare on its hands.</li><li>None of the recalled product is contaminated, and no cyanide is ever found at the plant.</li><li>The case remains unsolved, but the contamination was traced to the Tylenol distribution network around Chicage, IL.</li><li>At the time The Teamsters ran all distribution for Tylenol in Chicago, while J&J was known to prefer non-union employees. </li><li>After the deaths, J&J took all distribution in-house and away from the Teamsters.</li></ul>Fast forward to 2011:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The U.S. govt, under Barack Obama, raids 3 J&J/McNeil/Tylenol plants, shuts one down, and forces several recalls claiming faulty products, bad hygiene, bacteria, odors, etc.</li><li>No one has been sickened, injured, or killed by any of these allegedly faulty products. </li><li>J&J loses billions, gets heavily fined, undergoes a management shakeup, and the nation goes through a protracted shortage of brand name Tylenol. </li></ul>This is a mirror image of the events that have led to the baby formula shortage today. And just like J&J, Abbott Labs is considered one of the country's best employers. This usually means a preference for treating employees as individuals, which is anathema to unions. <p></p><p>Please read the <a href="https://ibdst.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-does-obama-hate-j-toyota-and-gibson.html" target="_blank">full story</a> from 2014. This all has the unmistakable odor of an Obama/Democrat/Union operation. </p><p>(You might be saying, "Hey Undiepundit, are you implying that unions killed two babies to hurt Abbott Labs?" No, I would never say that without verification. In fact I tried very hard to get a statement from union headquarters, but unfortunately Jimmy Hoffa has yet to return my call.)</p><p>As if the union hit wasn't enough, Democrats also hate Abbott Labs for their deal with Donald Trump. Recall that Abbott Labs was featured at a White House press conference in the middle of the pandemic where the President unveiled Abbott's new rapid test machine. He then went ahead and contracted with Abbott for $750,000,000 worth of the machines which rocketed Abbott's stock. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rXyHqMe8JgY" width="320" youtube-src-id="rXyHqMe8JgY"></iframe></div><br /> (Notice how ABC mistakes Trump's FDA commissioner for his Treasury Secy. LOL) <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-62370854071684755812022-04-11T08:11:00.006-07:002022-05-27T16:40:09.859-07:00Fact Check: The Truth About The 2020 Election <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiynUBGcQp3IGAY71SqbVu11OvP2k_pDTcE8DAUZk2asc173uJu5RW73ADc5QjoeKlm9sbOlyk_xhzeG2sJpvbFl5h_MysI-BuUDeaOMHmvRiS3_iD6DiwunkGoIOUhhXH20Q2ZZuVMauSEsPn9AcAfCMdGV8YB2Twc3zuVZcLfNCazCX1Rz5ajGbuF/s678/kirk-catherine-gregg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="678" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiynUBGcQp3IGAY71SqbVu11OvP2k_pDTcE8DAUZk2asc173uJu5RW73ADc5QjoeKlm9sbOlyk_xhzeG2sJpvbFl5h_MysI-BuUDeaOMHmvRiS3_iD6DiwunkGoIOUhhXH20Q2ZZuVMauSEsPn9AcAfCMdGV8YB2Twc3zuVZcLfNCazCX1Rz5ajGbuF/w400-h255/kirk-catherine-gregg.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p>Watch Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips on Charlie Kirk talking about the work they have done proving the coordinated election fraud in 2020/21. This is the story Dinesh D'Souza will be telling in his movie, "2000 Mules", due to drop soon. </p><p>Again, I'll repeat what I have said about election fraud all along: It is not the citizen's job to prove election fraud, rather it is the states job to prove they ran a clean and auditable election. The burden of proof is always on the state. Watch this video and judge for yourself if the states can prove they ran clean elections. </p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v10ajh2-how-the-did-it-true-the-votes-catherine-engelbrecht-and-gregg-phillips-on-t.html" target="_blank">Watch on Rumble: </a></p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v10ajh2-how-the-did-it-true-the-votes-catherine-engelbrecht-and-gregg-phillips-on-t.html" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/v10ajh2-how-the-did-it-true-the-votes-catherine-engelbrecht-and-gregg-phillips-on-t.html</a></p><p>___________________________________________________________________________________</p><p>[UPDATE] And as a reminder, here's how the Democrats pulled it off:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="367" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FZjGyrK0taQ" width="442" youtube-src-id="FZjGyrK0taQ"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-5884668210637784902022-02-01T10:48:00.001-08:002022-02-02T13:32:09.269-08:00Fact Check: Israel - What Happened After The 4th Jab? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqwx8kw4uGD3s6HojOW18qdct-FJYjNKlIMXEo0-vv7fNi6rDA89mjbZWLRxS1gWO6U0UW1Vf22uqZKSjG36IbC5sZTWvdTLwakyGPmxs1PuhY9P_fm8gGYAPvlTw5V6qYmOV_yxtuUDQiDVYlapgBFKWIaiAJzovJdKSC2kRIHhbJxFQc9Kyt7hHN=s1486" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1486" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqwx8kw4uGD3s6HojOW18qdct-FJYjNKlIMXEo0-vv7fNi6rDA89mjbZWLRxS1gWO6U0UW1Vf22uqZKSjG36IbC5sZTWvdTLwakyGPmxs1PuhY9P_fm8gGYAPvlTw5V6qYmOV_yxtuUDQiDVYlapgBFKWIaiAJzovJdKSC2kRIHhbJxFQc9Kyt7hHN=w640-h404" width="640" /></a></div><p>(Graph from Worldometer as of 2/1/2022)</p><p>Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you the most vaccinated and boosted country in the world - Israel. A place with more Nobel Prize winners per capita than anywhere else, but they sold their soul to Pfizer in a tragic bid to be first in line.</p><p>As you can see from the above graph, Israel just blew past their pandemic record of deaths/day from Covid. And this was during the "milder" omicron variant outbreak. Moreover, all-cause mortality is up in Israel compared to pre-pandemic and pre-vaccination periods. </p><p>P.S. Of note, also up big are Pfizer's profits, stock price, and market capitalization. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-87409737838593812412022-01-07T14:11:00.007-08:002022-05-27T16:41:20.168-07:00Fact Check: The Truth About Florida's Covid Response [UPDATED]<div>Stop me if you've heard these: </div><div><br /></div>"It's a Pandemic of the unvaccinated!"<div><br /></div><div>"And the unvaccinated are all the GOP Trumpers!"</div><div><br /></div><div>"And no place has more of them than Florida, with their Governor Ron DeathSantis!"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>HERE'S THE REALITY CHECK: Florida has had the LOWEST death rate from C19 in the country for months thanks to Ron DeSantis' unique monoclonal antibody program started in mid August. Only in Florida can anyone walk into a mAbs clinic and receive monoclonal antibodies without a prescription. It has worked miracles at slowing serious cases, hospitalizations, and death.</div><div><br /></div><div>[UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Biden administration has cut-off the supply of these life saving therapies and shuttered Florida's mAbs program as of mid January, 2022. If Biden was actively trying to kill Floridians, what would he do differently?] </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghq6jxqezYIQN51Q-bGHfQJIWoTSnZHhGAL7otU1VdNn-k_2r9I4MEHlvh8GT609vTfDc6RdWmWkjeAcAZecCAtZxaHs2KkjGnLgCoPnNa7SvsifjA7gB-UlqdmyYKAn76Ba2Yttw5vDsnz3z2Ch2NW8RG3g-T8hZnjKNY8nBcuoNT68LJGVM1_eSJ=s1444" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1444" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghq6jxqezYIQN51Q-bGHfQJIWoTSnZHhGAL7otU1VdNn-k_2r9I4MEHlvh8GT609vTfDc6RdWmWkjeAcAZecCAtZxaHs2KkjGnLgCoPnNa7SvsifjA7gB-UlqdmyYKAn76Ba2Yttw5vDsnz3z2Ch2NW8RG3g-T8hZnjKNY8nBcuoNT68LJGVM1_eSJ=w640-h402" width="640" /></a></div>(Graph from Worldometer as of 1/7/22)<br /> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-65763699628571970052021-12-30T08:19:00.007-08:002021-12-30T08:19:59.085-08:00Fact Check: Watch This If You Want True Informed Consent<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHLwGoWeCi3VH_ReFqLCZkIrMpDIuopOnLBRS1B13NjBKzrOvIx5cLpRPsLJ1Pmf4xYsxPkBWrXolrvYfG8kNPLxSP81MF86ZzcsTKha2076Q6Zuh0cFmWYH0BU7dntmEMy62fLVI2D-w6jWm-1AROoJJ_6ck9n1ztPYAI3D1fy7N4o90AncvtN3Ab=s724" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="724" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHLwGoWeCi3VH_ReFqLCZkIrMpDIuopOnLBRS1B13NjBKzrOvIx5cLpRPsLJ1Pmf4xYsxPkBWrXolrvYfG8kNPLxSP81MF86ZzcsTKha2076Q6Zuh0cFmWYH0BU7dntmEMy62fLVI2D-w6jWm-1AROoJJ_6ck9n1ztPYAI3D1fy7N4o90AncvtN3Ab=w394-h208" width="394" /></a></div><p>Until there is informed consent, true informed consent, not manufactured propaganda, the Covid jabs should be illegal. Everything you've been told about Covid "vaccines" by the U.S. government, the pharmaceutical industry, the media, Dr. Fauci, etc. is manufactured propaganda. It's all lies. </p><p>Here is a distillation of informed consent from a Canadian doctors group called <a href="https://rumble.com/user/CanadianCovidCareAlliance">the Canadian Covid Care Alliance</a>. Until you watch this video, or one of the many presentations by counter-propaganda doctors I've posted here, you have not been given informed consent. </p><p>Any person who takes an experimental gene therapy that involves injecting a Chinese made bio-weapon into their body without informed consent is suicidal. Giving this to a child is unconscionable. Forcing this on a population is genocide. </p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/vqx3kb-the-pfizer-inoculations-do-more-harm-than-good.html">Watch the Canadian Covid Care Alliance video here.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-59653641581726325172021-12-21T10:03:00.003-08:002021-12-21T10:09:28.859-08:00Fact Check: This Video is a One-Stop-Shop for Covid Truth<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPUrGTgkD46JJXZUVYsFUNQQBYSeWbovvI3O0eZsLfwwSGkxDZF3Jk_oAYxCFg8U-EAtBwqry1iZe4KLYWjVRyisUEdez22EBNCLP77_ed8I8uGsLpd0oj1PcsXaRHuWH9UfZFvdQuyKEU3ksNBmhDZSuf77IGvzOge3v0TQjH90B6iFwggbF94Fy9=s1644" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1644" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPUrGTgkD46JJXZUVYsFUNQQBYSeWbovvI3O0eZsLfwwSGkxDZF3Jk_oAYxCFg8U-EAtBwqry1iZe4KLYWjVRyisUEdez22EBNCLP77_ed8I8uGsLpd0oj1PcsXaRHuWH9UfZFvdQuyKEU3ksNBmhDZSuf77IGvzOge3v0TQjH90B6iFwggbF94Fy9=w446-h251" width="446" /></a></div><p><a href="https://rumble.com/vr10fp-scientists-and-doctors-with-a-critical-view-on-the-corona-crisis.html">This video is a one-stop-shop for Covid truth. Watch the whole thing.</a> </p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/vr10fp-scientists-and-doctors-with-a-critical-view-on-the-corona-crisis.html">Use LINK to watch video on Rumble.</a> (The screenshot above will not play. It's just a picture.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-84499179253856247312021-12-11T15:49:00.004-08:002021-12-11T15:49:56.018-08:00Fact Check: Is Dr. Harvey Risch Another Medical Hero? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Watch the Epoch Times interview and see for yourself if Harvey Risch is a medical hero: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlq0MLqwUVC0ohdLIyDBUySljygpLwEDKme8VtKaBxfYqnGPpKOAablUC0fcC32zUifE877M8zrfD01CVH9lcxzz5OUmbKN6XUxpUNyieyVx9dutcLakCS-BebD3eGIyOFLwU1BBYhnEEvr3A0ShN8k0v-7XH3QLVkeErmFCslujEBgMMA3C70KZDZ=s2518" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="2518" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlq0MLqwUVC0ohdLIyDBUySljygpLwEDKme8VtKaBxfYqnGPpKOAablUC0fcC32zUifE877M8zrfD01CVH9lcxzz5OUmbKN6XUxpUNyieyVx9dutcLakCS-BebD3eGIyOFLwU1BBYhnEEvr3A0ShN8k0v-7XH3QLVkeErmFCslujEBgMMA3C70KZDZ=w476-h223" width="476" /></a></div><p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/dr-harvey-risch-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-and-other-therapeutics-highly-effective-in-early-covid-treatment_4131804.html?utm_source=share-btn-copylink" target="_blank">Use this link to watch the Harvey Risch interview.</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-72838008766856673332021-12-03T16:44:00.005-08:002021-12-10T08:10:21.366-08:00Fact Check: Why Does It Seem Like Everyone's Gone Mad?<p>If you're one of the people who's been thinking nothing makes sense lately, you need to hear Psychology Professor Mattias Desmet from The <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px;">University of Ghent in Belgium.</span> </p><p>If you're wondering how it could be that Anthony Fauci is still in charge when we know he funded the experiments in Wuhan that created the virus, you need to hear Professor Desmet.</p><p>If you're further wondering how he could still be in charge after blocking anyone from getting early outpatient treatment thus sending hundreds of thousands to an early grave, you need to hear Professor Desmet.</p><p>If you're wondering why everyone has been forced to take an experimental gene therapy that neither stops transmission nor disease, you need to hear Professor Desmet.</p><p>If you're wondering why we are forcing children, who are at no risk from the virus, to get these incredibly dangerous gene therapies, you need to hear Professor Desmet.</p><p>If you're wondering how it is that this madness we see here is also an international phenomenon, you need to hear Professor Desmet.</p><p>Hint: It's called "mass formation" (aka mass psychosis) and it has led to some very trying times in human history and resulted in unspeakable atrocities:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CRo-ieBEw-8" width="506" youtube-src-id="CRo-ieBEw-8"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-20982600673402357672021-12-02T09:35:00.003-08:002021-12-04T12:31:17.091-08:00Fact Check: Why Are Athletes Suddenly Collapsing & Dying? [UPDATED]<div style="background-color: #fbfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-family: Heebo; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 33.6px; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">(From an Israeli publication called Real-Time News. Translated from Hebrew using Google Translate. Published 11/13/21)</span></div><div style="background-color: #fbfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 33.6px; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-family: Heebo; letter-spacing: 0.7px; vertical-align: inherit;">[UPDATE 12/4/21- </span></div><div style="background-color: #fbfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 33.6px; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-family: Heebo; letter-spacing: 0.7px; vertical-align: inherit;">Japan Warns of Heart Risk from Vaccines: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; letter-spacing: 0.7px;"><span style="color: #07385c; font-family: Heebo;"><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/japan_warns_of_cardiac_health_risks_from_covid_vaccines.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/japan_warns_of_cardiac_health_risks_from_covid_vaccines.html</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fbfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 33.6px; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-align: left;">And, UK Dr.s Worried about of Increase in Heart Health Emergencies: <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/04/uk-physicians-worried-about-large-numbers-of-cardiac-health-emergencies/">https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/04/uk-physicians-worried-about-large-numbers-of-cardiac-health-emergencies/</a> ]</div><div style="background-color: #fbfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 33.6px; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #07385c; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: 0.7px;">The epidemic of athletes</span></div><div class="uk-margin" id="social" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e4a4f; float: right; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="uk-child-width-auto uk-grid-small uk-grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; list-style: none; 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vertical-align: inherit;">Some of the athletes, such as football stars Sergio Aguero and Christian Eriksen, collapsed in the middle of a game, in front of the spectators. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The main cause: Cardiac problems - myo / pericarditis, cardiac arrest and heart attacks. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">What causes the sudden epidemic? </span></span></p></div><div class="uk-position-relative uk-margin-medium uk-margin-remove-bottom" id="template-HKAzz0si#0-0-0-6" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; bottom: 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e4a4f; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 30px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="el-image" data-height="400" data-sizes="(min-width: 706px) 706px" data-src="/templates/yootheme/cache/WhatsApp_Image_2021-11-24_at_11.21.47-3371506d.jpeg" data-srcset="/templates/yootheme/cache/WhatsApp_Image_2021-11-24_at_11.21.47-3371506d.jpeg 706w" data-width="706" sizes="(min-width: 706px) 706px" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/templates/yootheme/cache/WhatsApp_Image_2021-11-24_at_11.21.47-3371506d.jpeg" srcset="/templates/yootheme/cache/WhatsApp_Image_2021-11-24_at_11.21.47-3371506d.jpeg 706w" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" uk-img="" /></div><div class="nodisplay uk-position-relative uk-margin-small uk-margin-remove-top uk-margin-remove-bottom" id="template-HKAzz0si#0-0-0-7" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; bottom: 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e4a4f; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"></div><div id="single-article" style="background-color: #fbfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e4a4f; font-family: Heebo; font-size: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> The Kyrie Irving saga and its refusal to vaccinate Corona never ceases to stir the NBA and the sports world. The Brooklyn Nets star did not back down from the decision even after the team announced that Irving would not be allowed to attend games or train with his teammates until he was vaccinated, a decision that resulted in him being reportedly likely to lose $ 17 million. "This is my life," he said last Thursday as part of Live on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">his </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32397602/kyrie-irving-says-decision-remain-unvaccinated-being-true-feels-good-me" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Instagram</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> account </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, which garnered a view of about 100,000 followers. "It's my body. And you tell me what to do with my body ... I'm stuck with what I believe in. It's that simple. It's not about being anti-Wax or being on one side or the other. It's just being true to what "That I feel is right for me ... if I'm going to be slandered because I have more questions and I take the time to make decisions with my life, then that's what it is ... I'm aware of the implications of my decisions for my life."</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="400" src="https://rumble.com/embed/vmjjzx/?pub=tstu7" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706"></iframe></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"> </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">But Irving is not the only one who refuses the NBA's unequivocal demand to be vaccinated as a condition of ability to play. The press mockingly calls them "vaccine refusers." The NBA has already gone from threats to action, and yet, according to </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/brooklyn-nets-kyrie-irving-vaccination-kevin-durant-james-harden-1232827/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Rolling Stone magazine</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , about 50-60 players in the NBA have not been vaccinated against Corona. "I'm going to continue to do what I believe in ... what's right for one person is not right for another. It's not your business," Golden State Warriors player </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/stephen-curry-warriors-teammates-react-to-andrew-wiggins-vaccination-decision-looming-over-start-of-season/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Andrew Wiggins</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> said recently </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, while Washington Wizards star </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/27/bradley-beal-not-vaccinated/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Bradley Bill</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> explicitly expressed skepticism in an interview with the Washington Post. Corona vaccines. "I would like an explanation. Why are vaccinated people still infected with corona? If it's something we're supposed to be very protected from, it's funny that it only reduces your chances of going to the hospital. It does not prevent anyone from contracting corona, does it?" </span></p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><blockquote style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 15px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Golden State Warriors Andrew Wiggins: "It's my body. And you tell me what to do with my body ... I'm stuck with what I believe in. It's that simple. It's not about being anti-vaccine or being on that side. "It's just being true to what I feel is right for me."</span></p></blockquote><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">It turns out that this trend is far from marginal. The British press </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/58731216" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> that unlike what is happening in the NBA, most of the Premier League players are unwilling to get vaccinated against Corona, including most of the players from Manchester United, the big and influential football club. They are joined by a host of football, tennis, golf and football players who have not been vaccinated either, and some, like Irving Wiggins, have even come out openly against the pressure to get vaccinated. "It's bigger than baseball, it's a life decision," said </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31614354/chicago-cubs-anthony-rizzo-waiting-more-data-covid-19-vaccine" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Anthony Rizzo</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , who is considered the legendary Chicago Cubs star. "It has a heavy weight. It's a decision I made and I'm behind it ... it's a big issue ... I'm taking more time to see the data on all of this." It was recently reported that </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/novak-djokovic-vaccine-status-australian-unvaccinated-visas" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Novak Djokovic also</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, The world-ranked tennis player, will not take part in the Australian Open in January, after refusing to reveal his vaccine status. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Djokovic revealed in an interview with local Serbian media that in light of Corona's restrictions in Australia, he is unsure of his plans to travel to Melbourne for the Grand Slam. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"I will not reveal my status, whether I have been vaccinated or not. It is a private matter, and it is an inappropriate investigation," he said, adding, in an interview with Reuters: "Yes, no, maybe, I'm thinking about it," they will take advantage of it. " </span></span></p><table class="img-txt" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: 415px; margin: 15px 0px; width: 710px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><img alt="colaje unvaccinated athlets" height="400" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/colaje%20unvaccinated%20athlets.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></h3></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Refusing to cooperate with coercive policies: Kyrie Irving, Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Rizzo, Bill Bradley and Novak Djokovic</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> Why do so many top athletes insist on not succumbing to the massive pressure to get vaccinated? In the press mockery is celebrated. But no one in the media refers to the huge elephant in the room: the fear of vaccine damage. Is this fear ridiculous? Or are the athletes who resist just listening carefully to some of their peers, who report injuries and serious side effects after the vaccine? "I was fine until then, until I took the vaccine," says </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://thecovidworld.com/brandon-goodwin-26-year-old-nba-player-suffers-blood-clots-shortly-after-receiving-the-covid-19-vaccine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Brandon Goodwin</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, NBA player from the Atlanta Hawks team on Twitch stream. Goodwin, 26, began suffering from blood clots shortly after he was vaccinated. "I got sick and never recovered from it. I had back pain, I was especially tired in games. I was so tired, I felt like I could not run and get off the field. My back hurt. My back really started to ache ... so I found out I had blood clots. All. It's within a month ... ". Godwin explicitly claims that the vaccine is what caused what happened to him, and that the result is the elimination of his ability to play this season. "Yes, the vaccine has finished my season. A thousand percent." He said his group asked him to silence the story. "The Hawks were like 'Do not say anything about it. Do not tell anyone,'" he said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Like Goodwin, in recent months more and more athletes have come out and stated in their voice or in writing, in media or social media interviews, about serious health problems they have experienced due to the vaccine. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">At the same time, there are more and more incidents of collapse and collapse, illness and even sudden death among athletes, including leading and well-known sports stars, as well as lesser-known athletes, those who play in local teams, including college athletes in different countries.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The Real-Time News investigation found 183 such cases among professional athletes, coaches, athletes at universities and colleges and youth athletes, all of which have occurred since December 2020, the month in which the global immunization campaign began. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">This large amount speaks for itself and tells a very different story from the mantra that the media repeats, according to which, the athletes who refuse to get vaccinated are just a handful of "vaccine opponents".</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">For many of the injured athletes, the injury means serious consequences for their health, their ability to continue playing, and even the continuation of their sporting careers. In 108 cases it was a death.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Common to most athletes - the young age and suddenness with which it happened, and the fact that most of them are men (only 15 of them women). The vast majority are aged 17-40, except for 21 older people (five aged 42-45, six aged 46-49, seven aged 51-54, and three others aged 60-64), and in at least over 80 cases the athletes were reported to feel unwell and suddenly collapse During a game, race or training, or immediately after. In most cases, it has been reported that the cause of the breakdown is heart-related, including myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle), pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium) or a combination of both - premycarditis, heart attacks or cardiac arrest. The second cause reported in six cases is coagulation events, including pulmonary embolism, pulmonary blood clots in the brain and brain. We emphasize that the list we have is even longer, but for the sake of caution, cases were removed from it in which we did not have full details, so that only the cases that were reported in detail remained. In addition, cases were removed from the list in which evidence of previous risk factors was mentioned, such as a heart defect.</span></p><blockquote style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 15px;"><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">At least 108 sudden deaths have been reported among athletes since December, the start of the Corona vaccine campaign, the vast majority of them young people up to the age of 40. The list also includes youth players</span></p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /></blockquote><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Although not in all cases the immunized status of the injured athletes is published, and it is important to emphasize that the vulnerability can not be determined from the vaccine, the large number of casualties since December among this young group, there are many reasons to assume it is mostly healthy and without background disease That athletes, at least the professional ones among them, are scrutinized carefully and relatively often), puzzling, and certainly constitutes a red flag and requires a comprehensive and in-depth clarification of the subject. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Certainly the need for it cannot be eliminated through superficial claims. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Also, given the almost sweeping duty of vaccinations in many teams and leagues, as well as in universities and colleges, the assumption is that especially recently, it is often difficult to impossible for professional athletes to continue playing without being vaccinated. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">This finding is particularly striking against the background of the fact that fatal events resulting from the sudden collapse of athletes are considered according to the research literature to be a rare phenomenon. </span></span></p><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Heartbreak in front of thousands of fans</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">On 31 October, Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero was hospitalized after feeling unwell during his team's game against Alavés. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The 33-year-old Argentine star, who is considered the king of Manchester City's goalscorers of all time and the foreigner with the most goals in the Premier League of all time (181), </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://twitter.com/salutcat/status/1438582710004592642?s%3D20" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">called on Twitter</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> for everyone aged 12 and over to get vaccinated. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">But on October 31, he was rushed to the hospital after feeling severe chest pain. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">He signaled to the coaches during the first half that he was asking to be replaced, then grabbed his heart and collapsed on the grass. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">This week it was reported in Spain that last tests revealed a severe arrhythmia, and the cardiologists who examined him are not optimistic about his ability to return to the pitch in a few months. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">At the moment, according to reports, Aguero's professional future and whether he will be able to continue playing football at all is unclear, and will only become clear after he undergoes further tests in the coming months. </span></span></p><table class="img-txt" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="injurd 8" height="952" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/injurd%208.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero was hospitalized after feeling unwell and suffering from chest pains during his team's game against the Alavés team.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Like Aguero, several superstars have collapsed in front of tens of thousands of viewers in recent months. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Perhaps the best known is the Danish footballer Christian Eriksen, the Inter Milan player and the Danish national team. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">On June 12, during his team's opening match against Finland in the Euro 2020 tournament, 29-year-old Eriksen, who was at his peak of fitness, </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/13/he-was-gone-christian-eriksen-had-cardiac-arrest-denmark-doctor-says" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">collapsed</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> and went into cardiac arrest in front of 15,000 fans in the stands. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">For 20 minutes, the team's medical staff tried to revive him, and when they finally succeeded through an electric shock, he was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent a pacemaker transplant.</span></span></p><table class="img-txt" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="injurd 7" height="525" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/injurd%207.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Inter-Milan player Christian Eriksen collapsed during his side's opening match against Finland in the Euro 2020 tournament, and went into cardiac arrest in front of 15,000 fans in the stands. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">A similar incident </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/125921348/my-heart-stopped-for-26-minutes-cricketer-david-wakefields-remarkable-survival-story" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">happened to</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> 27-year-old </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">cricketer </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/125921348/my-heart-stopped-for-26-minutes-cricketer-david-wakefields-remarkable-survival-story" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">David Wakefield</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , who collapsed during training on March 11 and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">suffered a </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">cardiac arrest. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">He, too, survived thanks to the action of the emergency team, who performed CPR on him using a defibrillator, but it took long minutes and six electric shocks before his heart beat again. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The diagnosis was myocarditis, and a pacemaker was implanted in his heart. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">In addition, apparently due to the prolonged time in which his heart stopped beating, he also suffered from swelling in the brain, which in order to reduce it was put to sleep and respirated. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Only after three weeks in intensive care and then extensive rehabilitation, was he able to walk and talk again.</span></span></p><blockquote style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 15px;"><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">In June, 29-year-old Danish footballer Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest in front of 15,000 fans. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">A similar incident occurred to 27-year-old cricketer David Wakefield on March 27, and in late July 18-year-old Belgian Rona Koja suffered a heart attack</span></span></p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">At the end of July, </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.newsy-today.com/he-collapsed-in-the-middle-of-a-game/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Rona Koja</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> from the Belgian 18-year-old Anderlecht Hogaldi team suffered a heart attack at the end of the first half of a friendly match. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">He was saved thanks to the swift action of his fellow actors, and immediately afterwards of the emergency services. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">On September 17, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">25-year-old </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Bayern Munich player </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11890/12410615/kingsley-coman-bayern-munich-forward-has-heart-surgery-after-minor-irregularity-found" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Kingsman Koeman</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> was also forced </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">to undergo surgery to correct arrhythmias. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Another athlete hospitalized in July is Pedro Obiang, a professional Italian footballer who played as a liaison at the Serie A football club in Sesotho. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The 29-year-old Obiang was hospitalized in July for ten days, according to a </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.the-sun.com/sport/3441653/sassuolo-west-ham-pedro-obiang/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">SUN report</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> as a result of a lung problem, but </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">other </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://api-assets.infowars.com/2021/09/miocardite2.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> claim it was myocarditis. </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">And in August, Fabrika Naskala, the defender of the Turkish Shiktash football team, was hospitalized after collapsing on the pitch in the 70th minute of a game against the Gaziantepspor team.</span></p><table class="img-txt" dir="rtl" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="injurd new" height="870" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/injurd%20new.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Fabrika Naskala, the defender of the Turkish Shiktash football team, was hospitalized after collapsing on the pitch in the 70th minute.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Other athletes have reported serious problems that cast doubt on the continuation of their sporting careers. </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUrJkJ-FuFd/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Take</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , for example, </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CUrJkJ-FuFd/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Florian Dagori</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, Who holds the world record for static freediving of respiratory arrest, wrote on his Instagram account: "After the second dose I noticed that my pulse was much higher than normal and my respiratory capacity dropped significantly .... 10 days after the second vaccination, I went to see a cardiologist and he told me it was A side effect of the Pfizer vaccine, 'there is nothing to worry about, just rest it will pass.' By the immune system and some tiny blood leaks from the valves that no longer close properly. "Like Sputnik, Synovak, Sinopar, etc., instead of the new mRNA vaccines."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><table class="img-txt" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="injured 4" height="400" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/injured%204.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Florian Dagori: "My first recommendation to free divers around the world is to choose a vaccine that is produced the old way, such as Sputnik, Synovak, Sinopar, etc., instead of the new mRNA vaccines."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Passed away suddenly</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">As mentioned, in 108 of the cases identified in the media reports, the collapse of the athletes ended in death. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">For example, on February 6, 2021, </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.spin.ph/basketball/ncaa-men/tributes-pour-for-the-sudden-passing-of-clement-leutcheu-a2437-20210206" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Clement Luco</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , a 25-year-old Cameroonian basketball player who played in Manila, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">died </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">after suffering a sudden heart attack. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">On April 18, basketball player </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://deaddeath.com/death/basketballer-antron-pippen-has-died-at-age-33-death-obituary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Anton Pippin,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> 33, who played for Texas A&M International University and later on the International Basketball Association's Upstate Heat team </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, died unexpectedly </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">On June 18, </span></span><a href="file:///C:/My%20Documents/A%20%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%9F%20%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%AA/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8/%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94/%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Lima</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> passed away </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, a footballer who moved to the Uruguayan Olympic team. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Lima, 49, died of a sudden heart attack while playing football with friends.</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">In August, </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-ojo-former-florida-state-center-dies-age-27/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Ujo,</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> 27, a professional Nigerian-American basketball player from Florida who previously played for the Florida State center team and moved to Serbia </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, died unexpectedly </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Ujo collapsed during training and died during resuscitation attempts at a local hospital in Serbia. </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://waterford-news.ie/2021/08/21/community-unites-for-roy-butler/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Roy Butler</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , a 23-year-old Irish footballer who previously played for Waterford FC, also died on 17 August. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The media </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irish-community-mourning-tributes-paid-24786114" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> his sudden death, but did not comment on his immunization status. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">However, his relatives said he died after the vaccination. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"My beautiful nephew Roy Butler, of Irish Waterford City, has passed away today, after a miracle 'vaccine' ... I'm heartbroken and so angry," his aunt, Marianne Hart, tweeted on her Twitter account. </span></span></p><table class="img-txt" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="injured 5" height="338" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/injured%205.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Roy Butler, 23, died four days after being vaccinated. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://today.in-24.com/sport/News/103507.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Alexaida Guadz</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , a 30-year-old marathon runner from Valencia, died during a race in August in the city of Nagoana in the state of Krabovo. She collapsed 50 meters from the finish line, and died after attempts to revive her were unsuccessful. </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://usdaynews.com/celebrities/celebrity-death/franck-berrier-death-cause/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Frank Breyer</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , a 37-year-old former French-Belgian footballer, also died of a sudden heart attack in August. And in Japan, </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://thecovidworld.com/yusuke-kinoshita-27-year-old-japanese-professional-baseball-player-dies-7-weeks-after-covid-19-vaccine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Yusuka Kinoshita</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , a professional baseball player, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">died in August </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">. He died after a month-long struggle at the hospital, where he was evacuated after collapsing during training on July 6. He was resuscitated and anesthetized during hospitalization, until his death on August 5th. The Japanese media reported extensively on his death. The news site Sponichi initially included the headline: "Resilience against Corona" but quickly changed the report. However, </span></span><a href="file:///C:/My%20Documents/A%20%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%9F%20%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%AA/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8/%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94/%E4%B8%AD%E6%97%A5%E3%83%BB%E6%9C%A8%E4%B8%8B%E9%9B%84%E4%BB%8B%E6%8A%95%E6%89%8B%E3%81%8C%E3%83%AF%E3%82%AF%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3%E6%8E%A5%E7%A8%AE%E5%BE%8C%E3%81%AB%E3%80%8C%E9%87%8D%E7%AF%A4%E3%80%8D%E5%8D%B1%E6%A9%9F%E3%80%80%E5%B0%82%E9%96%80%E5%AE%B6%E3%81%AF%E3%80%8C%E6%8E%A5%E7%A8%AE%E3%82%92%E5%BF%8C%E9%81%BF%E3%81%97%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%81%A7%E3%80%8D%E3%81%A8%E8%A8%B4%E3%81%88?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Yahoo Japan</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Reported that the sudden collapse of the baseball player may have been related to the second corona vaccine he received. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">According to the report, Ochiro Oshima, the owner of the Chunichi dragon group where Kinushita played, said in an interview with him: "I heard he got sick after the vaccine. He is hospitalized and fighting for his life. I do not know the causal link between his vaccine and the collapse. ".</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">On October 10, the Pharma Baseball Club in Italy announced a mourning for the sudden death of Simon Badudi, a baseball player and coach of the Park Ranger team. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">According to a report in the Corriere di Bologna, my 40-year-old uncle returned that evening from a party where his team was celebrating a victory and promotion to the league. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">At some point, it is not clear exactly when, he left his car by the side of the road and returned home on foot. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">He fell asleep, but a few hours later his heart stopped beating.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Athletes teenagers and children were also injured and died</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The list also includes 23 teenagers, aged 12-17, of whom 16 died. 17-year-old Dylan Rich died in early September after suffering a heart attack during his team's youth cup game against Boston United; Elisha Gorham, also 17, a Baltimore football player who also collapsed during a game in October, and died of a heart attack and systemic failure; Bruno Stein, 15, a young goalkeeper from FC An der Fahner Höhe in Germany died suddenly in October; And Chloe Gianni Giavatzi, a young 12-year-old Italian tennis player who was found dead in her bed by her mother in June; Jason Kidd, also 12, is a basketball player from Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. Died unexpectedly in early November while warming up for school basketball practice. In August, three young cyclists from the same group were hospitalized in Belgium for three weeks apart with heart problems: Zander Verhagen, 17, Joppa Arfels, 15, and Yarko van Herc, also 15. Van Herc suffered chest pains during Versailles Race,Two days after vaccination, he was hospitalized and diagnosed with myocarditis. </span></p><table class="img-txt" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="injurd 11" height="400" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/injurd%2011.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Yarken van Herck, 15, suffered from chest pain during a race in Versailles, two days after the vaccine, was hospitalized and diagnosed with myocarditis.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Refuse to remain silent</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Some of the athletes themselves or their associates have openly stated a link between the immunization of Corona and their condition. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">For example, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">34-year-old </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">French tennis player </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/Tennis_Interviews/102836/jeremy-chardy-i" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeremy Chardi</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , who was previously ranked 25th in the world, has announced that he is suspending his games for the current season, and does not know when and if he will be able to play again. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">This is as a result of a series of severe health problems he has been suffering from since receiving the corona vaccine, including severe pain throughout the body during physical exertion. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"I regret being vaccinated," Chardi declared in a media interview. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">“Since I got vaccinated (between the Olympics and the U.S. Open), I have a problem, I have had difficulties. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"Suddenly I can not train, I can not play ... At the moment my season stops and I do not know when I will start again ... This is the first time that the idea that next season may be my last came to my mind."</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Alexander Kissonga, an Italian professional basketball player who was hospitalized in late July after being diagnosed with premixturitis, shared his story on his </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCgRLCDzRc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Instagram</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> account</span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CSCgRLCDzRc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"></span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">His, and left no room for doubt as to the fact that he linked the disease to the modern vaccine he had received. "I have been hospitalized for a month. I have been diagnosed with acute premiitis. In other words, it is an infection that causes inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart." Kisonga said he made a decision to share his story because he feels there is no discussion about the side effects of the vaccine. "What I'm most sorry about is that we do not talk about it !!! Then I found out that it is one of the possible side effects of the vaccine, and that it usually happens to young people ... The vaccine statistics say the benefits outweigh the harm, and here I wonder. .. Am I a minority who has suffered from the harms of the vaccine? Who treats it? Or rather - is anyone responsible for it? From what I can judge, if someone makes money on markers or vaccines, should he not be responsible for compensating those who unfortunately had negative effects ?! ".</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><a dir="rtl" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZ5528FSD-/?utm_source%3Dig_embed%26utm_campaign%3Dloading" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"></span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">19-year-old </span><a dir="rtl" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZ5528FSD-/?utm_source%3Dig_embed%26utm_campaign%3Dloading" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Sienna Knowles</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , a competitive horse rider from Australia who was hospitalized in October and diagnosed with blood clots in her chest, shared her condition in a series of Instagram posts that went viral, saying she became ill after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"How crazy I quickly became from a super healthy 19-year-old girl who never suffered from any health problems - working full time, training and riding horses every day - to someone who was all taken from her after Pfizer's second vaccination," Knowles wrote. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"My lungs are full of blood clots and the heart is under stress. My new normal [is] now that I have a pulmonologist, a cardiologist, blood tests, full body scans, an ultrasound of the heart and lungs." </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">She added that she did not want to receive the vaccine because she was afraid. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"I wish I would never have gotten it and been able to get my healthy body back."</span></span></p><table class="img-txt" dir="rtl" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZ5528FSD-/?utm_source%3Dig_embed%26utm_campaign%3Dloading" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="injurd 2" height="400" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/injurd%202.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="706" /></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Sienna Knowles: "I wish I would never have gotten it and been able to get my healthy body back."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Even </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://thecovidworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Francesca-Marcon.mp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Francesca Marcon</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , Italian volleyball player 38-year-old suffered from pericarditis after receiving the second dose of Pfizer on August 3, not silent. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Markon, who immediately suffered from shortness of breath and chest pain, went to the emergency room the next day and was diagnosed with pericarditis, wrote on her Instagram account that she regrets being vaccinated: "I declare I am not an vaccine but I was never persuaded to take this vaccine and now I understand why," she wrote. Marcon. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">She went on to say, "Maybe it's a bit of a blasphemy - but I wonder: is there no kind of compensation for someone who suffers from health damage after the vaccine? Who pays the price for everything?".</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Pauchi and the heads of the FDA, CDC and NIH did not come to listen to the victims</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Kyle Warner, 29, a professional mountain bike rider from Idaho who has won three state championships and a famous YouTuber, was diagnosed with pericarditis, POTS and arthritis a month after receiving the second dose of Pfizer's vaccine. His career has been ruined, and he is still ill and unable to work, participate in races or train. In an interview with Dr. John Campbell in October, he said he received the first dose of the vaccine in mid-May, and the second dose in June. Two weeks later he experienced a rapid pulse sensation. Shalev went up again and he felt nauseous and weak and went to the emergency room. The doctors dismissed the incident and claimed he was having an anxiety attack. That he “resists vaccinations.” Four days later he was hospitalized again with pain and pressure in the chest area,And this time they took his concern seriously and referred him to a cardiologist.</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Warner was one of 20 people affected by side effects after the corona vaccines were invited to speak at a press conference organized by Senator Johnson in the Senate, along with doctors and scientists. Senator Johnson also invited Dr. Anthony Pucci and the heads of the CDC, the NIH and the FDA, the directors of Pfizer and Moderna and the representatives of the states of the victims. None of them showed up. Thank you to Dr. Pauchi and the heads of the organizations for not showing up and not listening to us. I am glad to know that our good is in front of your eyes. This message is for you. It is a message about how what is happening broke my heart, literally and figuratively. " </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"Thank you to everyone who supported and understood me when I spoke on this issue," he wrote on his Instagram account. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"Many of you know me as a pretty reasonable and caring guy and I never intended to be a part of all this discourse. However, after my experience this summer, and listening to thousands of similar stories, I feel I have to stand by the people who can not or do not have access to the same platform.</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"It's not political, it's personal. I want the best for the world and for humanity, and it breaks my heart to see people suffer in every way. The last week in DC has shaken my view of the world drastically, and it made me realize how much we as sons "The average person needs to unite and sync with each other. Listen to my message before you judge or tag. I'm just a guy who cares about others and wants the government to recognize and support what's actually happening."</span></p><table class="img-txt" style="background: rgb(217, 230, 237); border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.instagram.com/p/CWCOcGlrFMT/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="WhatsApp Image 2021 11 14 at 09.50.06 1" height="406" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/WhatsApp_Image_2021-11-14_at_09.50.06_1.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="960" /></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="desc" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Kyle Warner at the Senate Press Conference</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"The collapsing athlete": a rare phenomenon</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The large number of athletes who collapsed and died this year must serve as a bright red light, especially in light of the fact that sudden death and cardiac arrest of athletes are considered a rare phenomenon in the research medical literature. According to </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-69384-8_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">an article</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Published in May this year in the journal Sports Cardiology, entitled "The Collapsed Athlete", in its most recent annual report for 2017, the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (NCCSIR) noted that for 36 years, from 1982 to 2017 , 862 non-traumatic catastrophic injuries occurred among U.S. college athletes, 44 of which were fatal. The main causes include cardiac arrest, stroke, hypothermia, respiratory distress, hypoglycemia, trauma and overexertion. According to the article, "collapsing athlete" syndrome is defined as an athlete. Experiencing a sudden loss of stable tone, to the point of inability to continue attending the sporting event.These are cases that have occurred in the United States only, and only among college athletes, but the small numbers over so many years reflect the fact that the phenomenon is indeed rare. </span></p><blockquote dir="rtl" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 15px;"><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">For 36 years, from 1982 to 2017, 862 non-traumatic catastrophic injuries occurred among U.S. college athletes, 44 of which were fatal. The main causes include cardiac arrest, stroke, hypothermia, respiratory distress, hypoglycemia, trauma and overexertion.</span></p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /></blockquote><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1615710" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">In</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> a </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1615710" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">study</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> published in 2017 in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Canadian researchers examined the incidence of sudden cardiac arrest during participation in sports, between the years 2009-2014 among 12-45 year olds. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">They used a cardiac arrest database in Canada for this purpose. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The study findings showed that during 18.5 million years of observation, 74 cases of sudden cardiac arrest occurred during participation in sports; </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Of these, 16 occurred during competitive sports and 58 during non-competitive sports. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest during competitive sports was 0.76 cases per 100,000 sports years. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">According to the study, the occurrence of sudden cardiac arrest due to structural heart disease during participation in competitive sports was rare.</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><a dir="rtl" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3810/psm.2014.11.2088" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"></span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Another </span><a dir="rtl" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3810/psm.2014.11.2088" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">study</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , published in 2013 in the journal by researchers from the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Texas, identified over 13 years - between 2000 and 2013 - 54 cases of sudden cardiac deaths among young football players. </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">And it turns out that even at older ages, cardiac arrest during athletic activity is rare. </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.011988" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">A study</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> published in 2015 in the journal Circulation, examined the cases of sudden cardiac arrest associated with sports in a large population in the metropolitan area of Portland, among the 35-65 age group, between 2002 and 2013. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The researchers identified 1,247 cases, of which 63 (5%) occurred during sports activities. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">In 16% of cases the victims had a previous heart disease, and in 56% they had cardiovascular risk factors. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">36% of cases had cardiovascular symptoms during the week preceding the event.</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-align: right; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">5 times more FIFA athletes have died this year compared to previous years</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">To know how many deaths have occurred in reality during the past two decades among players FIFA (2001-2020), used the Wikipedia entry " </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_footballers_who_died_while_playing" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">list of registered players union who died while playing</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> " (List of association footballers who died while playing). </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">But we treated for calculation purposes And only to those players on the list who were active players, not past players.Also, it is important to emphasize that we only referred to SUD and SCD and not to all the sudden deaths</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The data on Wikipedia shows that between 2001-2020 there were an average of 4.2 deaths per year attributed to sudden cardiac death (SCD) or unexplained sudden death (SUD), with the vast majority being SCD. This figure is confirmed by previous data and longitudinal studies, which also indicate that the risk of sudden cardiac mortality (SCD) and unexplained death (SUD) among FIFA players is about 4-6 cases per year. For example, a </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3810/psm.2014.11.2088" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">study</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> published in 2014 in writing The Physician and Sportsmedicine magazine, 54 deaths of football players registered with FIFA were found as a result of SCD events from 2000 to 2013. In addition, data from FIFA published over the years also strengthen this estimated range. For example, in 2012 it </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.haaretz.co.il/sport/world-soccer/1.1677188" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">was reported</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> In Haaretz that FIFA has decided to set up a large database to analyze the phenomenon of heart events and player collapses on the pitch. This, in light of the fact that 36 footballers have died on the field over the course of a decade. </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40634436" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">In the report</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> Of the BBC from 2017 which dealt with the issue of heart attacks among football players on the pitch and addressed FIFA's intention to train players to deal with these situations using defibrillators, cited data provided to the BBC by Global Sports Statistics, according to which 64 players died in the last decade during a game .</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">To know how many cases occurred this year - in 2021 (until mid-November 2021), we used the list of players who died during 2021, collected in the "Real Time News" research. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">This list includes the players listed in Wikipedia this year (in Wikipedia the list is more partial). </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">From these data, 21 cases of SCD / SUD were found among FIFA players.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Dr. Josh Getzko, a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University, analyzed the data. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">That is - about 5 times more than the annual average!</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"This figure is statistically significant. In fact, there is no other year since 2001 where the difference between the number of cases observed of SCD / SUD and the expected number is statistically significant. 2021 is the only one where the difference is very statistically significant, which is unlikely to occur - 2 out of 1,000 "Moreover, even if we take into account the margin of error, and we will only cover 14 cases in 2021 - the difference is still statistically significant."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><img alt="WhatsApp Image 2021 11 13 at 23.45.37 1" height="522" src="https://www.rtnews.co.il/images/yaffa/dead%20athlets/WhatsApp_Image_2021-11-13_at_23.45.37_1.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: right; height: auto; margin: 15px 0px 15px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1013" /></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"> </h3><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Exercise after the vaccine? </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Caution can prevent disaster</span></span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Does performing strenuous sports activity after mRNA-based vaccines increase the risk of the vaccinated? This question has occupied in recent months the health ministries and experts around the world, especially in the context of myocarditis and cardiac events. This is in light of the ongoing reports flowing in from all over the world about increased side effects, especially among teenagers and young people. In Singapore, for example, as </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">early as September 16 </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">, the Ministry of Health </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/expert-committee-on-covid-19-vaccination-statement-on-skin-reactions-after-vaccination-and-refraining-from-strenuous-physical-activity-after-vaccination" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">issued</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> a statement from a committee of experts on the subject stating that "vaccinated people, especially adolescents and young people, should avoid strenuous exercise for two weeks after each dose of mRNA-based Cubid-19 vaccines." During this period, the vaccinated should "seek immediate medical attention if they develop chest pain, shortness of breath or palpitations. Vaccine providers should advise this to the people receiving the vaccine."</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">In Israel, on the other hand, the Ministry of Health completely dismisses claims about the increased risk of physical activity. At the beginning of October, it was reported in the various media in the country that the professionals in the Ministry of Health formulate a recommendation according to which vaccinators, including young people under the age of 30, should refrain from strenuous activity and sports training for a week. Following the </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.facebook.com/yoav.yehezkelli.7/posts/548147539609919?__cft__%255b0%255d%3DAZWwbEosSA7QmbEE0ZF-JrkfkNoRCrJVElbOsmXiMYgltVXKmNGET20BOVV2OsD5dqmPH7jUKpDtQ5wsMxsG_uj4nEKbAIa47NzbeVEEt9Stc3_rZV3NXDrT3cQqr5Qnd7Q%26__tn__%3D%252CO%252CP-R" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">publication</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> of Dr. Yoav Yehezkeli, an expert in internal medicine and medical administration, a lecturer in the Emergency Management Program at Tel Aviv University and one of the founders of the Epidemic Treatment Team (ZTM) on his Facebook page, where he welcomed this caution, the Ministry of Health chose to publish </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.facebook.com/Health.gov.il/posts/4196827653762447?__cft__%255b0%255d%3DAZUCU7UaCro1phFOT8NsT-Bp9TM4Sop0FPCHPGMhjqEsrlvCzodF5c1655kJYYhG7FOhbkixU5AwtN9ZirHveu2y1ba65s4TfgdL54g2yJpJKTWJcfqEtcep-VJ6ElnMTgffCHEEbWEyoAkobv5IhSYM%26__tn__%3D%252CO%252CP-R" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">a</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> crowning </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.facebook.com/Health.gov.il/posts/4196827653762447?__cft__%255b0%255d%3DAZUCU7UaCro1phFOT8NsT-Bp9TM4Sop0FPCHPGMhjqEsrlvCzodF5c1655kJYYhG7FOhbkixU5AwtN9ZirHveu2y1ba65s4TfgdL54g2yJpJKTWJcfqEtcep-VJ6ElnMTgffCHEEbWEyoAkobv5IhSYM%26__tn__%3D%252CO%252CP-R" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">post</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> Dr. Yehezkeli's publicity as "Pike", and announced that "experts from the Ministry of Health have overwhelmingly decided that there is no danger in sports after vaccinations ... go get vaccinated. Go out and practice. " </span></span></p><blockquote dir="rtl" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 15px;"><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">While in Singapore precautionary measures are taken, in Israel the Ministry of Health eliminates the risk and calls the publications calling for caution "Pike"</span></p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /></blockquote><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/vpb-06102021/he/files_publications_corona_vaccine-priorities-board-06102021.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">At a hearing</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> on October 6, members of the IDF (epidemic treatment team) decided by an absolute majority against a decision similar to the one made in Singapore. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"Do not prevent physical activity after any vaccination ... I do not recognize that avoiding activity reduces myocarditis and this is very problematic at the level of the message of the safety of the vaccine."</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"Team members completely rejected this recommendation, without holding a professional discussion," Dr. Yehezkeli wrote in response to the decision in the IDF. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"No experts in the field were present at the hearing: cardiologists, sports doctors or exercise physiologists." </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">According to him, the allegations that led to the cancellation of the recommendation, such as "there is no evidence that physical activity increases the risk of myocarditis following the vaccine," express a lack of professionalism. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"Obviously, the effort itself is not the cause of myocarditis. Physical exertion increases the risk of a fatal arrhythmia in case the vaccine causes myocarditis. Fatal incidents for you to take precautionary measures? </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Or does the desire to erase from the public discourse any mention of a side effect from the vaccine outweigh it? ", He wrote.</span></span></p><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Mild or life-threatening illness?</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The link between corona vaccines and two known heart diseases: myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart) has been recognized by health authorities. Myocarditis can lead to arrhythmias, and is considered to cause about 20% of cases of sudden cardiac death. Often, there may be a condition that combines the two disorders, called premiocarditis. Along with the approval of the vaccine for adults and the issuance of an emergency permit for 12-15 year olds granted by the FDA, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">the US Food and Drug Administration </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-june-25-2021" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">announced</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> in June an update in the drug leaflet of Pfizer and Modernena vaccines, in relation to the increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination. For each of the two vaccines, the manufacturers' information leaflet was amended to include warnings against myocarditis and pericarditis, as well as information about both diseases. According to the FDA announcement, the update was written following a comprehensive review of the information and a discussion in the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Committee.</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The first evidence of this connection came from Israel, when, following cumulative reports received from hospitals in the country, the Ministry of Health appointed a commission of inquiry to examine the issue. The committee, chaired by Prof. Dror Mevorach, </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2109730?fbclid%3DIwAR1ZKUOTw4rmf2LxYv0B4PECFuygKYBF04_HSvrGfB9Bv90BKUdO0KK1TA8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> its findings in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The article included reports received from December 2020 to May 2021, with cases being monitored from the first vaccination day to 30 days after the second vaccination. The researchers reported 304 people with myocarditis symptoms, of whom, they said, 21 received an alternative diagnosis. Of the remaining 283 cases, 142 occurred after Pfizer vaccination, and of these in 136 patients the diagnosis was defined as certain or reasonable. According to the article, these are 136 cases of myocarditis out of 5.4 million people who were vaccinated with one or two doses. </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">While in absolute numbers it does sound small, it is important to understand that the occurrence of the phenomenon after the second dose is 5.3 times higher than expected. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Moreover, when it comes to boys aged 16-19, the risk is 1 in 6,637 - a risk 13.6 times higher than expected. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Moreover, as </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Prof. Mevorach himself </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/vaccine-priorities-board/he/files_publications_corona_vaccine-priorities-board-101062021.pdf?fbclid%3DIwAR0xGHV_QUZVhuW5HrT4jrwp3DwEPSyHlIWnq2b3RRhR-3feaRGQ6t736T8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> at a meeting of the Vaccine Prioritization Committee held on June 3, it is likely that this is an underestimation of the cases. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">It should be noted that according to </span></span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.science.org/content/article/israel-reports-link-between-rare-cases-heart-inflammation-and-covid-19-vaccination" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">an article</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> published in the journal Science, in a report submitted to the Ministry of Health on June 1, the researchers concluded that one in 3,000 to one in 6,000 boys and young people aged 16-24 developed myocarditis - a higher estimate than reported in the article itself. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Prof. Mevorach himself, in a Twitter tweet from May 25, also wrote that he estimates that the incidence stands at one in 3,000 to one in 6,000. </span></span></p><blockquote dir="rtl" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 15px;"><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">According to the research literature, myocarditis is a life-threatening disease that can cause long-term damage to the heart muscle and lead to heart rhythm disorders and heart failure.</span></p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /></blockquote><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Most cases of myocarditis in the study were defined as mild and transient, but seven cases were defined as severe, and one case, of a young woman, ended in death. The Ministry of Health emphasizes that this is usually a mild illness, which involves only a short hospital stay. However, according to </span><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://journals.lww.com/pidj/Fulltext/2021/10000/Transient_Cardiac_Injury_in_Adolescents_Receiving.1.aspx?fbclid%3DIwAR2-_CI9yk43bRk_nkUQGP9rH_hCdb-x9OWSoA9DusWaek8kuSDBLL4yBUQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">the research literature</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"> , it is a life-threatening disease, which can cause long-term damage to the heart muscle and lead to heart rhythm disorders and heart failure, which only with prolonged follow-up can reveal the true effect of myocardial tissue or myocardial tissue itself. Thus, even cases defined as mild require follow-up to rule out such damage. Dr. Michael Godovich, one of the members of the Vaccine Prioritization Committee, said in a discussion that presented the data from Prof. Mevorach's study: Disapproves of the emphasis that this is a mild disease. What's more, half of the patients were in intensive care. "</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Another issue that arises, in light of the findings, is what is the prevalence of cardiac inflammation in children under 16 years of age? </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">At present, there are still no studies or reports indicating the prevalence of myocarditis and pericarditis at these ages, nor after vaccination with a third booster dose.</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"> </p><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Corona vaccines: 277 times higher risk of myocarditis compared to flu vaccines</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Myocarditis and pericarditis are not the only cardiac effects in which an increase was found near corona vaccines.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Dr. Getzko analyzed data from the U.S. VAERS (Side Effects Reporting System), focusing on cardiac events reported in teens and young men following corona vaccinations from December (beginning of the vaccination campaign) to October 8, and comparing them to reports on Cardiac events in adolescents and young people after influenza vaccines in the last five flu seasons (2015/16 - 2019/20).</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">First, he examined the amount of cardiac events reported among 18-49-year-olds after corona vaccines, and the amount of these events among the same age group after influenza vaccines. He then examined the ratio of the incidence of cardiac events in corona-versus-flu vaccines per million vaccine doses. Results: The rate of cardiac events reported this year (December to October) following corona vaccines per million vaccine doses among 18-49 year olds was 46 times higher than the rate reported following influenza vaccines during the last five flu seasons. The rate of arrhythmia events following corona vaccines is 89 times higher than influenza vaccines; The rate of coronary artery disease is 65 times higher due to corona vaccines compared to influenza vaccines; The rate of heart failure is 17 times higher; The rate of other cardiac disorders is 46 times higher; The rate of pericarditis is 84 times higher; And the incidence of myocarditis is 277 times higher following corona vaccines compared to influenza vaccines. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">"It is important to remember that these reporting systems are characterized by a very large built-in sub-reporting," Dr. Getzko said in an interview with Real-Time News. 40-50 or more. "The significance of this estimate is almost inconceivable in its scope. If the total number of reports of cardiac events is close to 100,000 (98,235 reports), then doubling by about 50,000 means about five million (!) Reports If the number of reports of coronary heart disease is about 17,000 (17,071), then in reality the number is 850,000; if the number of reports of heart failure is 6,577, then in reality the number is about 325,000. And if the number of reports of myocarditis is 1,512, then in reality the number is 75,600, all in a group of young people. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><h3 dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; text-transform: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Increased MDA call rate of cardiac events in young people</span></h3><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">A study conducted several months ago by Prof. Rezaf Levy, an expert in systemic risk management, development and implementation of analytical models for risk forecasting in government bodies and health systems from MIT, based on the use of the Magen David Adom database, reinforces the concerns of Dr. Getzko's analysis. Prof. Levy analyzed the MDA readings in the years 2021-2019, focusing on readings related to cardiac arrest and heart attacks according to the definitions set by MDA teams in the field. This period includes 14 months without corona epidemic and without vaccines (2019 to March 2020); Ten months of epidemic (March 2020 to December 2020); and five-and-a-half months of epidemic with vaccines (January-May 2021). Over 83% in heart attack readings among women aged 20 to 29. Moreover, the study showed that the increase in case rates increases as the ages get younger.</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Although the study data do not include information on the immunization status of the groups, the statistical analysis indicates a significant association between weeks in which there were many MDA readings diagnosed by medical staff as heart attacks and heart attacks in 16-39 year olds. The cardiac events occurred after the start of the vaccination campaign in 2021. Also, according to the article, the correlation seems to be particularly related to the administration of the second doses of the vaccine, and the decision to vaccinate recovering patients at these ages. </span></p><blockquote dir="rtl" style="background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #07385c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0px; padding: 15px;"><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">The study findings indicated a 25% increase in the readiness rate of cardiac events in the young age group in 2021 compared to previous periods, and an increase of over 83% in the readings of heart attacks among women aged 20-29. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Moreover, the study showed that the increase in case rates increases as the ages get younger</span></span></p><hr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(72, 123, 186); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 3px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 25px 0px 20px; overflow: visible; text-align: inherit;" /></blockquote><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Although the article did not claim that the increase was due to the vaccine, in light of the disturbing data, and especially in light of the proven link between the vaccine and myocarditis and the risk of cardiac events as a result of inflammation, Prof. Levy demanded a detailed and urgent examination of cases. The findings and the article itself were forwarded by the MIT research team to the Israeli Ministry of Health, but received no response. In an online meeting, an excerpt of which was published by the Ministry of Health on October 10, the head of health services, Dr. Sharon Elrai-Price, claimed that the National Center for Disease Control reviewed Prof. Levy's research, and found that the data was incorrect. Great that I have seen and run in a very significant way, "she said referring to the claim about the link between the vaccine and cardiac events. Understand in depth what he did and see if there is anything in it,And the National Center for Disease Control did a very comprehensive examination including on the data of the same study, that it was MDA readings and actually found that there is nothing, no more heart attacks, no more emergency room visits not seen in this morbidity period, morbidity period from beginning, mortality data from beginning "2021, we do not see an increase in mortality except Corona's mortality."</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">Following this, on October 12, members of the Corona Emergency Council (PRC) contacted the director of the National Center for Disease Control, Prof. Little Keenan Boker, and asked for data on the date and vaccination status of the reported cases; the diagnosis in the hospital; Levy; the experts who examined his research; and whether an independent team was used. The request has not yet been answered. The request from "Real Time News" for a response in this matter from the information center for Corona on behalf of the Ministry of Health was also not answered. </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;">As stated, at this stage it is not possible to establish a direct connection between the deaths of the competitive athletes described in the article, but the picture that emerges from it is very worrying. </span><span class="goog-text-highlight" style="background-color: #c9d7f1; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; vertical-align: inherit;">The large number of cases close to vaccination, compared to the relatively rare occurrence of these cases in athletes in previous years (pre-vaccinated corona), must serve as a warning sign indicating increased risk and requires thorough, professional and independent reference and testing, as well as the establishment and improvement of existing monitoring and monitoring systems. Side effects, before continuing to impose additional vaccines and boosters on the public, and in particular on young people, adolescents and children. </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"> <a class="wf_file" href="https://www-rtnews-co-il.translate.goog/images/yaffa/PDF/%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%95_%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%96_%D7%93%D7%A6%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A8_2020.pdf?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d5ee0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Link to the list of athletes who have been injured and / or died since December 2020</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-15913486183268288222021-11-11T14:07:00.005-08:002022-06-25T09:01:39.347-07:00Fact Check: Is It Possible To Make A Full-Length Superhero Movie In A Day? [UPDATED] <p>You cannot find a more qualified and informed doctor on the subject of Covid-19 than Peter McCullough. In this 90 minute talk, the average length of a Hollywood movie, he gives his unvarnished opinion on the vaccines and the war on early treatments. It's a tour de force from a skilled communicator. Get some popcorn, dim the lights, and prepare to get some life saving information from a true real-life superhero. </p><p>[UPDATE 11/29 - I did not know when I posted this that Peter McCullough is also an accomplished runner and has run a marathon in all 50 states. Superhero indeed!] </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="376" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VejvnLYd1QY" width="555" youtube-src-id="VejvnLYd1QY"></iframe></div><p></p><p>YouTube banned this speech. Dr. McCullough is a top cardiologist speaking about the latest research on Covid. Some of that research conflicts with the narrative put forth by parties involved in a massive get-rich-quick scheme that is causing great harm according to the research presented here. So I ported the speech over to Rumble. </p><p>Here's the Rumble link: </p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/v19vdbp-dr.-peter-mccullough-102721.html">https://rumble.com/v19vdbp-dr.-peter-mccullough-102721.html</a></p><p>h/t AAPSonline.org. Speech from 10/27/21 </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1111351358778990270.post-15793675167131012602021-11-03T07:53:00.004-07:002023-08-01T07:31:43.625-07:00Fact Check: Is Climate Change Real? [UPDATED]<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3481227496179898788" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 810px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijnu0HRtbZyY4rcOS9hOJKZ1o95v5-RsvCNl4F1vnikwBdSZZc5VFOYrMrL6f1fIEuH3-eG3UId-J2fqro4Ebpm2VsWnloyP3_DNoX6Omed3IdiCUs3aBcjC0EAPoKpCvHp0coPaaZUt4/s1600/global-warming-burning-earth-burning.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="640" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijnu0HRtbZyY4rcOS9hOJKZ1o95v5-RsvCNl4F1vnikwBdSZZc5VFOYrMrL6f1fIEuH3-eG3UId-J2fqro4Ebpm2VsWnloyP3_DNoX6Omed3IdiCUs3aBcjC0EAPoKpCvHp0coPaaZUt4/s640/global-warming-burning-earth-burning.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /><br /></p><h3 style="color: black; font-family: Times; text-align: left;">A Socratic Guide To The Burning Question Of Our Time</h3><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />Intro I<br /><br />There's an old Jewish joke that goes something like this:<br /><br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">No matter what Shlomo did in bed, his wife could never achieve an orgasm. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Since by Jewish law a wife is entitled to sexual pleasure, they decide to consult their Rabbi. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">The Rabbi listens to their story, strokes his beard, and makes the following suggestion: "Hire a strapping young man. While the two of you are making love, have the young man wave a towel over you. That will get God's attention and he will provide an orgasm."<br /><br />They go home and follow the Rabbi's advice. They hire a handsome young man and he waves a towel over them as they make love. It does not help and the wife is still unsatisfied. Perplexed, they go back to the Rabbi.<br /><br />"Okay,' he says to the husband, "Try it reversed. Have the young man make love to your wife and you wave the towel over them."<br /><br />Once again, they follow the Rabbi's advice. They go home and hire the same strapping young man.<br /><br />The young man gets into bed with the wife and the husband waves the towel. The young man gets to work with great enthusiasm and soon she has an enormous, room-shaking, ear-splitting, screaming orgasm.<br /><br />The husband smiles, looks at the young man and says to him triumphantly, "See that, you schmuck? THAT'S how you wave a towel!"</blockquote><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Intro II<br /><br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world.<br /><br />In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.</blockquote><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park", "Andromeda Strain", "Westworld", and numerous other works of fiction and non-fiction. Crichton also held a medical degree from Harvard.<br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></p><h4 style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">A Brief History of the Theory of Global Warming (aka Climate Change)</h4><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">It all began back in the 1700s when some rock stars - no, not that kind of rock star, geologists actually - were traipsing around Europe and noticed that some of the boulders in the valleys matched the rocks on distant peaks. The only plausible explanation for how those boulders traveled so far was that they must have been carried by ice. This idea was fleshed-out a few decades later by a scientist studying skeletons and frozen remains of large mammals in Siberia. Thus was born the idea of The Great Ice Age. But that opened up a whole new can-o-worms; if ice once covered the Earth, what melted the ice?<br /><br />In 1824, around the same time these ideas were percolating, a scientist named Joseph Fourier figured out that Earth would be much colder without its atmosphere. Air was trapping heat from the sun and keeping us warm, he said. Fourier had discovered the greenhouse effect.<br /><br />Building on Fourier's work, other scientists found that about 70% of the greenhouse effect was due to water vapor, 20% was due to carbon dioxide (CO2), and the final 10% was due to methane, ozone, and other gasses. A theory developed that maybe changes in the atmosphere had ended The Great Ice Age.<br /><br />Water vapor was dismissed as a cause because excess water condenses and falls-out as precipitation. CO2, methane, and ozone do not cycle as quickly, so the theory of melting ice focused primarily on CO2, which while only .04% of the atmosphere, accounts for 20% of the warming effect.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />Two things were going on at the same time as all this. One was the industrial revolution and the burning of coal in newly invented steam engines. The other was the observation that the existing glaciers were continuing to melt! Could they be related and tied back to changes in CO2?<br /><br />Along came a Swedish scientist named <span style="font-family: inherit;">Svante Arrhenius, who in 1898 calculated the hypothetical climate change that would result if atmospheric CO2 was cut in half. He calculated that the Earth would be glaciated...as it was during The Great Ice Age! He also calculated that if CO2 doubled, we'd have melting ice and ...global warming! So, the "modern" CO2 theory of global warming dates back to the calculations Arrhenius did 120 years ago in an attempt to explain the onset and demise of The Great Ice Age. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, we've been burning progressively more carbon fuels like coal, oil, and gas in the last 120 years. Finally, i</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">n 1960, an American scientist named David Keeling began measuring CO2 levels at an observatory in Hawaii. What he discovered was that CO2 was trending up at an alarming rate! </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So with Keeling showing CO2 skyrocketing, Arrhenius' saying we are going to fry if CO2 rises, and glaciers continuing to melt, that eventually leads to Al Gore, Kyoto, Paris, The UN IPCC, and a scientific "consensus" saying global warming is an "existential threat". (Meaning, the end is nigh!)</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2009, the U.S. government under Barack Obama officially declared that CO2 emissions endangered life on Earth. Whole generations now believe we are doomed. Some have even stopped having children thinking there is no future. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">All from a gas that humans exhale, that plants inhale, that makes up only .04% of our atmosphere, and that formed the basis of a theory developed in the 1800s to try and explain the The Great Ice Age!</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop Quiz:<br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">So, what really ended The Great Ice Age?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">A. CO2</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">B. Mr. Milankovitch</blockquote><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Since this whole CO2 inquiry began as an attempt to explain The Great Ice Age, one of the first questions to ask is, was the premise right? Have we learned anything new since Fourier, Arrhenius, Keeling, et al? Do we now know what caused and ended The Great Ice Age?<br /><br />You are probably certain it was CO2. After all, you've been told for years that CO2 drives climate. Since the 1800s and Arrhenius we've believed that changes in CO2 can have dramatic effects. We still believe CO2 is melting glaciers today. It's "settled science" after all.<br /><br />Except, that's not what happened. It turns out, Mr. Milankovitch did it. (Yup, our climate has been hacked by the Russians! Actually, he was Serbian, just sounds Russian.) Milutin Milankovitch was a scientist who figured out in the 1920s that the Earth has a cyclical relationship to the sun. It tilts. It wobbles. It's orbit changes. Some cycles take 100,000 years to complete. Some take 41,000 years. Some take 23,000 years. The effect of all this is rather dramatic... ta da... climate change!<br /><br /></p><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">MILANKOVITCH CYCLES</div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizo0G3YWrJ52snCouj-x4534LlGm1UdKFM7gvwpAAeK82Y5mefx4EEbau33TV9oEKF5KBfe2v-XkWfGrEUnhrPqvdhEjdGKwtuJ7lWUiYloVVtDkb9ri7kVsWIBGngN0hy-zbae7XDINs/s1600/milankovitch.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="640" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizo0G3YWrJ52snCouj-x4534LlGm1UdKFM7gvwpAAeK82Y5mefx4EEbau33TV9oEKF5KBfe2v-XkWfGrEUnhrPqvdhEjdGKwtuJ7lWUiYloVVtDkb9ri7kVsWIBGngN0hy-zbae7XDINs/s400/milankovitch.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />Of course, Milankovitch was instantly dismissed as a kook. Even today as I'm typing this, his name is unrecognized by the spell-check gremlins in my computer. Fourier, Arrhenius, and Keeling, however, are spell-check VIPs.<br /><br />Until 1998, Milankovitch got no respect. But then a funny thing happened down in Antarctica. Scientists drilled an ice core at a place called Vostok (more Russians!) that gave them a 420,000 year climate history, and voila, there were major ice ages and warmings every 100,000 years. There were also shorter cycles in between. Milankovitch could no longer be dismissed, except of course by spell-check.<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUK5qNmZVBea53m6UbxZQKFUs78a5iSA7CVzCwGY-nOIA6xJfgDhg3HVyZtS7XRbS0zTIIvpYZ6Kiuqohtz8B2XMNsS1kOKumoTyQts-X3O41kPNr71uZAsy2_7LQb1vvLJf2AEW4cXuE/s1600/Vostok-temps.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="509" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUK5qNmZVBea53m6UbxZQKFUs78a5iSA7CVzCwGY-nOIA6xJfgDhg3HVyZtS7XRbS0zTIIvpYZ6Kiuqohtz8B2XMNsS1kOKumoTyQts-X3O41kPNr71uZAsy2_7LQb1vvLJf2AEW4cXuE/s640/Vostok-temps.png" width="640" /></a><br /></p><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />Then in 2000 another Antarctic ice core was obtained at Dome C that goes back 800,000 years. Again it confirmed Milankovitch. The Great Ice Age now had a plausible explanation. The Earth's relationship to the sun caused major climate change - global coolings and global warmings - going back as far as we can see.<br /></p><h4 style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"></h4><h4 style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Dome C Temperature Estimates</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrxjtVwmaHFthpFaPIjy68tZyCZ_sCR1hcP7WClckrNjO753J3u0yaEd0qhBkk43RQOi6992raquBLrxqX39wWn4bN4IOMPaDP0kCeF4ex1OtGJgn-pdEM-S3eHhbU-kg-yI4IBUFaFM/s1600/DomeC-temperature-only.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="1600" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmrxjtVwmaHFthpFaPIjy68tZyCZ_sCR1hcP7WClckrNjO753J3u0yaEd0qhBkk43RQOi6992raquBLrxqX39wWn4bN4IOMPaDP0kCeF4ex1OtGJgn-pdEM-S3eHhbU-kg-yI4IBUFaFM/s640/DomeC-temperature-only.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />If major climate change happens at least every 100,000 years, as Milankovitch theorized, and the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, then there have been 45,000 of those alone. The Great Ice Age was just the latest in a countless series of coolings and warmings!<br /><br />Another name that should get mentioned at this point is Eddy, as in John A. Eddy. Eddy was one of the most recent astronomers to study the cyclical output of the sun. He published a groundbreaking study in 1976 and named the most recent solar minimums and maximums. While Milankovitch cycles play out over tens of thousands of years, solar cycles can be as short as 11 years. They are also closely correlated with...ta da...climate change!<br /><br />Here are some of the solar minimums and maximums from recent Earth history that resulted in major global warmings and mini-ice ages:<br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsAE34speJPxpNCPab0hnUHfaBTijv3laxw2lXN1fqOQgvVXofGwnCVgI9Qoa8GmV6MQQSqabeFch8qpZwWSGHUMO0x6tOe4f2DoBQ_k6kjE62kz-DOd02WinIBelnAXzH3VW_WtIWaA/s1600/Solar+Activity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="898" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsAE34speJPxpNCPab0hnUHfaBTijv3laxw2lXN1fqOQgvVXofGwnCVgI9Qoa8GmV6MQQSqabeFch8qpZwWSGHUMO0x6tOe4f2DoBQ_k6kjE62kz-DOd02WinIBelnAXzH3VW_WtIWaA/s640/Solar+Activity.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />You can see why glaciers are melting today by looking at the right side of the solar activity graph. We are also near a peak in the Milankovitch cycle. Something would be horribly wrong if glaciers were NOT melting today!<br /><br />So between Milankovitch's orbital cycles and Eddy's solar cycles, these are the bases for ice ages and their demise. These are the bases for perpetual climate change. In addition, one-time events like volcanoes and asteroids can also produce dramatic and sudden climate swings.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">[UPDATE 7/31/23: In addition to volcanoes and asteroids, undersea volcanoes and exothermic releases must be considered. We are currently experiencing a dramatic and sudden rise in ocean temps which largely occurred over a 4 week period beginning in March, 2023. The theory is that heat from the Earth's core did this. An ocean cannot be rapidly heated from above due to marginally hotter air. But an exothermic release from the Earth's core (as hot as the surface of the sun!) could do that. This theory has been brilliantly fleshed-out over a few years in a post on theethicalskeptic.com website. <a href="https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/" target="_blank">https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/</a> </p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Moreover, in January, 2022, the largest undersea volcano ever recorded erupted and sent unprecedented amounts of water vapor into the stratosphere. As we know, 70% of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapor, and the amount from this undersea release is expected to take years if not decades to cycle through. Unknown is the thermal footprint this had on deep Pacific Ocean temps because our measurements are largely based on surface temps. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere" target="_blank">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere</a> ]</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />So, CO2 did not cause either The Great Ice Age or any of the many tens of thousands of cyclical coolings and warmings that preceded it. It's the fluctuating sun and our wonky orbit that cause climate change.<br /><br />(A newer ice core at Allan Hills, Antarctica claims to go back over 1.2 million years, and it also confirms Milankovitch.)<br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></p><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Pop quiz:</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, within the Milankovitch and Eddy cycles, we know that:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. CO2 drives climate change </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. Climate drives CO2 change</blockquote>Just because Arrhenius et al were wrong about The Great Ice Age doesn't mean they are also wrong about what will happen if we add massive amounts of CO2 to our atmosphere. According to the CO2 theory of global warming, as CO2 increases, so will temperatures.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote><ol></ol>That's why you are probably certain that CO2 still drives climate change. A consensus of scientists, academics, politicians, and celebrities have been telling you for years that higher CO2 concentrations will cause the Earth to get hotter. As we burn more and more fossil fuels, that releases more CO2 into the air. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, ergo the Earth gets hotter. It's simple.<br /><br />Except, that's not what happens. Along with temperature records going back 800,000 years, we also got CO2 records for the same time span.<br /><br />Here's the CO2 and temperature record from the Dome C ice core: </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dome C Temperature and CO2 for 800,000 Years (Red = CO2, Blue = Temps)</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_S94HWFN8ioGJUWziQ7WWmmmFVi32_kEu2ziicoU58c6ILeH8CjYlnzDyRjXeaceYRBnY6tVLB5Yt55bZcO6ZN9RH6JhI9fedDYXXTcVo18eJHbpIaeMfH9QJ_H6xT3FqJkWSbTc3hg/s1600/800000yr+Dome+C+graph.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="1600" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_S94HWFN8ioGJUWziQ7WWmmmFVi32_kEu2ziicoU58c6ILeH8CjYlnzDyRjXeaceYRBnY6tVLB5Yt55bZcO6ZN9RH6JhI9fedDYXXTcVo18eJHbpIaeMfH9QJ_H6xT3FqJkWSbTc3hg/s640/800000yr+Dome+C+graph.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At first glance temperature and CO2 appear to be closely correlated. One might even conclude that Arrhenius was right and that CO2 caused the ice ages. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But when zooming in on this graph, something interesting is revealed; CO2 trails temperature by 1200 years, + or - 700 years! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Climate Change (blue) precedes CO2 Change by 1200, + or - 700 Years</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3KeD27HfJK7Jjv6Ss0bsQE-3zLMqbJrO3vlf0-JJmLDG9ER7xrbb6bFG96NFBcJBXRz2qZSCsJpKoONyvD0wO5vDOFu9XYW3sSB3YqZcqFfxUSqKzZzjsmQLVT4nFaewpP4BFuTHNlU/s1600/800000yr+Dome+C+zoom.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="143" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3KeD27HfJK7Jjv6Ss0bsQE-3zLMqbJrO3vlf0-JJmLDG9ER7xrbb6bFG96NFBcJBXRz2qZSCsJpKoONyvD0wO5vDOFu9XYW3sSB3YqZcqFfxUSqKzZzjsmQLVT4nFaewpP4BFuTHNlU/s400/800000yr+Dome+C+zoom.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CO2 and the other atmospheric gasses behave somewhat like water vapor, except over a longer timeframe. We know that hotter air can retain water vapor in greater concentrations than colder air. There is also a water cycle that is constantly moving water from vapor, to precipitation, to ground, to sea, and then back to vapor. CO2 has a similar cycle, just not as quick. (See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%27s_law" target="_blank">Henry's Law</a>) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A number of datasets from ice and sediment cores confirm this finding. The hotter it gets on Earth, the more CO2 can be found in the atmosphere. Contrary to what you've been told, CO2 does not drive climate. Climate drives CO2! The alleged cause is actually an effect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">_________________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pop Quiz:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="clear: both;">Still, pumping CO2 into the atmosphere is a new thing, and that's what makes this an existential threat!</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. True</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. False </blockquote>As everyone since Keeling knows, CO2 levels are in-fact rising. And who can forget Al Gore on the scissor lift in his movie showing CO2 going literally off the chart? And as everyone knows since Arrhenius, more CO2 makes Earth hotter, right?<br /><br />Except, that's not what's happening. Yes, we are in a warm period due to both Milankovitch and Eddy, and accordingly, CO2 is rising. That's to be expected. But the question remains: is this time different because we are burning fossil fuels? Can CO2 work both ways? Can it both be driven by temperature and also drive temperatures up?<br /><br />If greenhouse gasses both increase as temperatures go up, and then cause even more warming, why is the greenhouse effect not a runaway reaction? According to Arrhenius and modern global warming theory, the greenhouse effect should create a feedback loop. Why isn't that visible in the ice core data? <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The answer has to do with the light spectrum and each gasses' role in trapping radiation in the troposphere. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuNud_doExLjZUlfmpAYDxQti3faopaJMhyPDUcfG0i-zPP-RX8hqWqKyG27P0tSOCNXDyO5JEx979JzqQedEFLUewfN1X90M1wd59-Q8RVFhAzP8CF5NpjcZ6Dl1Z2xt2PsJTdvgMQY/s1600/Atmospheric_Transmission.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="850" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuNud_doExLjZUlfmpAYDxQti3faopaJMhyPDUcfG0i-zPP-RX8hqWqKyG27P0tSOCNXDyO5JEx979JzqQedEFLUewfN1X90M1wd59-Q8RVFhAzP8CF5NpjcZ6Dl1Z2xt2PsJTdvgMQY/s640/Atmospheric_Transmission.png" width="633" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">At the affected upgoing wavelengths, which are the ones involved in global warming, CO2 is already absorbing 100% of the radiation it is capable of absorbing. Adding more CO2 into the atmosphere can not trap more than 100% of the affected radiation! This is why the greenhouse effect is not a runaway reaction or a feedback loop. It's a self-limiting reaction.<br /><br />In the 1800s, when Arrhenius was doing his calculations, the instruments for measuring the light spectrum this accurately did not exist. (Then again, neither did antibiotics, airplanes, Model T Fords, transistors...)<br /><br />Additionally, as CO2 increases, the CO2 cycle speeds up. Here's an example of how the biosphere absorbs CO2 at faster rates:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDBO40IzOi1YiGV7QldKOvEH7Wya5OJ7ABJGuMGc3rONK8wqSexKshYFLgQKyt95GRRiUAxCTwwVeLxyvOPHbg1F4W4tDxaLtgK98xBsUNwqT87irV5TzOhETaqEsmwyShuEr3p7lzZA/s1600/CO2-pineGrowth100120_white_bg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1540" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDBO40IzOi1YiGV7QldKOvEH7Wya5OJ7ABJGuMGc3rONK8wqSexKshYFLgQKyt95GRRiUAxCTwwVeLxyvOPHbg1F4W4tDxaLtgK98xBsUNwqT87irV5TzOhETaqEsmwyShuEr3p7lzZA/s640/CO2-pineGrowth100120_white_bg.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="clear: both;"><br /><br />So, adding more CO2 into the atmosphere will not effect climate, and any CO2 increases will just grow the biosphere. </div><div style="clear: both;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop Quiz:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, there is a scientific consensus that says CO2 is uniquely warming our planet, and no one can prove otherwise. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. True</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. False</blockquote><br />Anyone who's taken a middle school science class knows the value of a control group. Luckily, scientists have the ability to track temperature and CO2 on some of the other bodies around Earth. Venus, Mars, and the Moon are particularly close to us and have yielded some interesting data. If global warming theory is right, temperatures on those bodies should be un-correlated to Earth temps because they are free from the effects of industrialization!<br /><br />Except, that's not what's happening. In an odd coincidence both <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/31/mars-also-undergoing-climate-change-ice-age-retrea/">Mars</a> and the <a href="https://www.space.com/40875-apollo-astronauts-caused-moon-warming.html">Moon</a> are warming! (Of course, it's still <a href="https://www.space.com/40875-apollo-astronauts-caused-moon-warming.html">man's fault</a>!) Milankovitch is particularly relevant to the Moon, because as goes the Earth, so goes the Moon. Eddy is particularly relevant to Mars, because as goes the Sun, so goes Mars.<br /><br />But there's more.<br /><br /></div><div style="clear: both;">In our solar system, only Venus, Earth, and Mars have atmospheres with CO2. Of the three, Venus is closest to the sun, has a dense atmosphere, is very hot, and has about 200,000 times the CO2 concentration of Earth. Mars is furthest from the sun, has a very light atmosphere, is quite cold, and still has about 14 times the CO2 concentration of Earth! It appears that distance from the sun is what primarily drives climate on these three planets, not CO2. _________________________________________________________________________________</div></div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />Pop Quiz:<br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Still, we know that global warming is true because all the predictions have been right!</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">A. True</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">B. False</blockquote><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Real science can accurately predict the future. If a cannon ball with a known mass, is fired from a cannon with a known amount of force, at a known trajectory, etc., science can predict exactly where it will land. That's how science works.<br /><br />If global warming science is real and quantifiable, scientists would be able to similarly predict the future of climate.<br /><br />Except that's not what has happened. In fact, every single dire prediction has been proven wrong. 100% wrong. Here's a brief summary of what the experts have predicted:<br /><br /></p><ul style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><li>Global famine by the year 2000 - Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Nobel Prize recipient, Professor </li><li>Entire nations wiped out by 1999 - Noel Brown, U.N. Environmental Director</li><li>Ice caps will melt away and oceans will rise causing massive flooding by 2014 - Al Gore, VPOTUS, global warming evangelist</li><li>End of snow in England by 2015 - Dr. David Viner, climate scientist at The University of East Anglia</li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Increased tornadoes and hurricanes - James Hanson, professor of climate at Columbia University & the high priest of global warming, and The U.N. IPCC</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Ice Age in Europe - Dr. Paul Ehrlich</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sub-Saharan Africa drying up - U.N. and World Bank</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Massive flooding in China and India - </span>Asian Development Bank and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research</li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Polar Bear extinction - National Geographic, The New York Times, Guardian, among many.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Drastic Temperature Increases - James Hanson</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Earth will be in a “True Planetary Emergency” by 2016 unless greenhouse gasses are reduced - Al Gore</span></li></ul><ul style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"></ul><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">None of those predictions came true. Not one. And that is just a tiny sampling. </div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">And here are some of the bad predictions from</span><a href="https://www.thegwpf.com/top-12-debunked-climate-scares-of-2018/" style="background-color: transparent;"> just this past year</a>!</div><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop Quiz:<br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Still, we are under an existential threat because the Earth is progressively getting:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">A: Hotter </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">B: Colder </blockquote><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">You are probably certain that the Earth is getting hotter. The name global warming itself describes the danger. You are probably familiar with the apocryphal "hockey stick" graph featured in "An Inconvenient Truth":<br /><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg063_b1CwkVFsHV4pMSl8wpxDk_B7LJPJFPyeGnQVC6PIp12hk67DJW_snyu3_U4OQCt9IsKpB4tUwtF82chGvwDuiihPVJzaCRdHk8amqJiUr1LFo3NhYbOwYpkjp6pNrfgVCOzqu518/s1600/hockey_stick_visual.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="636" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg063_b1CwkVFsHV4pMSl8wpxDk_B7LJPJFPyeGnQVC6PIp12hk67DJW_snyu3_U4OQCt9IsKpB4tUwtF82chGvwDuiihPVJzaCRdHk8amqJiUr1LFo3NhYbOwYpkjp6pNrfgVCOzqu518/s640/hockey_stick_visual.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br />Except, that's not what's happening in the long run:<br /> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLzB45YtJKxCCsUc2OERWR5RGktVTmnC_H9HgzU3trInBcv9sHtXQrAZg4okjuyMkMyB7nNLc33AxN7oBEHhetUlUfszSlvk5Okxc4P4pkxtOP5b8w_Gvmw3gdl4bhayohdyHbQ53eeU/s1600/2000px-Five_Myr_Climate_Change.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1600" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLzB45YtJKxCCsUc2OERWR5RGktVTmnC_H9HgzU3trInBcv9sHtXQrAZg4okjuyMkMyB7nNLc33AxN7oBEHhetUlUfszSlvk5Okxc4P4pkxtOP5b8w_Gvmw3gdl4bhayohdyHbQ53eeU/s640/2000px-Five_Myr_Climate_Change.svg.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">The Earth is actually getting cooler! </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Five million years is not much when you consider the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. That would take 900 - five million year graphs! So, here's another graph estimating 65 million years of global climate change, still only a fraction of Earth's life. Again, it clearly shows Earth is cooling. </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj39_1nVCKUfmbSMHTdN0W7v_9J7dtmeB7pFPhCUWPHtRDJ1AA7sonsj7AF6_HmAItNA2gf_ZSTw9Q-iT0qCrsL3h9JrVXgwEdJSNo13i7PjZusxaYgpNCDkOpxqJ3qY5hDRra0mmG4tGs/s1600/300px-65_Myr_Climate_Change.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="300" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj39_1nVCKUfmbSMHTdN0W7v_9J7dtmeB7pFPhCUWPHtRDJ1AA7sonsj7AF6_HmAItNA2gf_ZSTw9Q-iT0qCrsL3h9JrVXgwEdJSNo13i7PjZusxaYgpNCDkOpxqJ3qY5hDRra0mmG4tGs/s400/300px-65_Myr_Climate_Change.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">The existential threat is that we will eventually freeze, not bake!<br /><br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />Pop quiz:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Still, in the 200,000 year history of mankind:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A. It has never been this hot</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">B. It's been much hotter before </blockquote><br />No doubt you are sure it's never been this hot. It says so on the "hockey stick" graph. And just consider the melting glaciers!<br /><br />Yet, we know that 1100 years ago, when the Vikings first went to Iceland, there were no glaciers there. Today, glaciers cover much of Iceland. Similarly, Vikings settled on Greenland around the same time and successfully farmed there for 500 years. But they abandoned Greenland in the mid 15th century, presumably because it got too cold. Those two events are known as the Medieval Warm Period and The Little Ice Age. Curiously, you won't find either of those events on Al Gore's graph.<br /><br />Here's a graph that shows 10,000 years of climate change from ice cores on Greenland:<br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lt0ZeY1oyCNXyKgYFzVejI1V5DkHRq08bCr4fWqArIfUClCVbSm1CyyPNrT5vMOQRoTHP8ImpBn28zH2t203DfEs7ZgmIq-49jm9RltuPK7Xm2A1q5O8qKH3TqNIzJBOKOJ6hsHt8vw/s1600/10000-year-temperatures-chart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="530" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lt0ZeY1oyCNXyKgYFzVejI1V5DkHRq08bCr4fWqArIfUClCVbSm1CyyPNrT5vMOQRoTHP8ImpBn28zH2t203DfEs7ZgmIq-49jm9RltuPK7Xm2A1q5O8qKH3TqNIzJBOKOJ6hsHt8vw/s400/10000-year-temperatures-chart.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />And here's a map of glacial retreat in Glacier Bay, Alaska going back 2 1/2 centuries. As you can see, glaciers have been in retreat since long before your SUV!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj140KSpHHqj_rlmTZyPTrv-YKPmZYX2HVXeaznQ28Ny3kT_13ezghBPlb2ld2eFL8CzGO3vCp6nvgC7BPz9z_piLNgEORmLpKhWa2igo5WNLqlo4ekv4rWTV8kvF4zWbQMm6ZFtLqcdfc/s1600/glacierbaymap_thumb_thumb.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj140KSpHHqj_rlmTZyPTrv-YKPmZYX2HVXeaznQ28Ny3kT_13ezghBPlb2ld2eFL8CzGO3vCp6nvgC7BPz9z_piLNgEORmLpKhWa2igo5WNLqlo4ekv4rWTV8kvF4zWbQMm6ZFtLqcdfc/s640/glacierbaymap_thumb_thumb.gif" width="585" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />We have enough data to know that this warm period is nothing new. It's been hotter than this many times before, even in man's brief 200,000 year history.<br /><br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">You are still free to believe in the CO2 theory of global warming. Heck, you are free to believe in anything you want, including Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy! But any serious person who looks into global warming must reflect long and hard before blindly waving a towel for the consensus.<br /><br />_________________________________________________________________________________<br /><br />I was the founder of Kindzone.com, one of the first companies to test market retail carbon credits. I've been closely following the science and consensus of global warming for over 20 years.<br /><br />Ron Reich </div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0