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April 30, 2020
Ellen DeGeneres Very Rude - Apparently
The news that Ellen DeGeneres can be very rude to people came up in my YouTube feed. Hah, I knew I liked her, good to hear she tells people where to go.
April 26, 2020
Who does Meghan Markle want to be next?
You may be familiar with the mounting evidence that Meghan Markle, aka the Duchess of Sussex, is something of a chameleon, basing her look on who she happens to be copying at the time. There is plenty of evidence out there, just search on YouTube. In the past she has copied Angelina Jolie, Ivanka Trump, and Princess Diana to name a few. Even her wedding dress was a straight copy of that worn by Princess Angela
But who is she trying to transform herself into now? My pick is she's trying to be Zoe Saldana. You may know her from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Saldana is the second biggest grossing actress in history.
Watch for Meghan Markle to try her look in the not too distant future:
Will Meghan Markle be successful? Doubt it, one key difference between the pair, Ms Saldana is extremely talented, she can act. Not only that but she heats up the screen as well. I don't know if any of you have actually seen Meghan Markle's acting, but let's just say, she can't act and leave it at that.
But who is she trying to transform herself into now? My pick is she's trying to be Zoe Saldana. You may know her from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Saldana is the second biggest grossing actress in history.
Watch for Meghan Markle to try her look in the not too distant future:
April 24, 2020
COVID-19: How China is exploiting a crisis of its own making
An interesting perspective from an Indian source, the theory that the Third World War has started already...
April 20, 2020
Your COVID-19 Greta Thunberg Future
Have you all woken up to what the world would be like in the Greta Thunberg future? The current COVID-19 hysteria has revealed what that world looks like. No air travel, the entire population kept under house arrest, social distancing and control over mass gatherings as a form of population control (minimising non-carbon neutral human reproduction), subjugation to the central government, no religion, and an early death. Mind boggling boredom. Tell the Greens to shove it.
April 16, 2020
Donald Trump Suspends WHO Funding
About time is all I can say. The World Health Organisation has proven itself a propaganda arm of the Chinese government over the Coronavirus crisis. Amongst all the fuss many will have forgotten the pattern of events.
At the start China said the virus could not spread human to human. The WHO remained silent. Then they admitted the virus could spread by human contact, and the WHO made no fuss. Finally, when countries started to close their borders, China directly lobbied countries not to do so, that this was unjustified, and the WHO supported them.
It appears, prima facie, that China had a problem, knew about it, but decided to allow the virus to spread so everyone would have to share the problem. The WHO did nothing, they're up to their necks in this too. Donald Trump's actions therefore are totally justified and China must be held to account as well.
At the start China said the virus could not spread human to human. The WHO remained silent. Then they admitted the virus could spread by human contact, and the WHO made no fuss. Finally, when countries started to close their borders, China directly lobbied countries not to do so, that this was unjustified, and the WHO supported them.
It appears, prima facie, that China had a problem, knew about it, but decided to allow the virus to spread so everyone would have to share the problem. The WHO did nothing, they're up to their necks in this too. Donald Trump's actions therefore are totally justified and China must be held to account as well.
April 15, 2020
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April 11, 2020
COVID-19 Hysteria
I take issue with the way the COVID-19 numbers are being presented. To begin with only raw numbers are being used. Why? Take the USA, they have 504,000 cases out of a population of 328 million. That's 0.154% of the US population. To put this in perspective, that's equivalent to a bad flu season. Does the reader think it is rational to throw away an economy over something as bad as the flu or a little worse?
Now there isn't resistance to COVID-19 yet, that will take time, so higher mortality amongst those who catch it is to be expected. Currently that sits around 4%. That's not healthy, but I ask again, does it make sense to throw the economy away over this number of deaths.
This sounds heartless, but really isn't. We are talking life vs life here. If the economy is thrown away, which appears what many want to do, several things happen. The first is unemployment and increasing homelessness. This will lead to early death through diminished circumstances and suicide. Add to that the children of families who fall on hard times, their futures are compromised, and they die early deaths. I suspect the numbers adversely affected by an all-encompassing lockdown will be far worse than the adverse effects of keeping business functioning while the virus runs through the country. Yes, observe health guidelines but note, Japan has not locked down the whole country. Only Tokyo and six other prefectures have been locked down. What does a lockdown in Japan mean? People still go to work and restaurants remain open, but have to close by 8pm. Meanwhile areas like Aichi prefecture where Toyota is based have no lockdown at all.
Got the idea China was locked down? The media were all over it weren't they. But that, like Japan, was only certain areas, they remained ready for business throughout.
New Zealand has been touted as a positive example. They're not, they're incredibly stupid. Yes, they can stamp out the virus for now but then what? 20% of their export income relies on tourism. What are they going to do, ban all 7.5 billion people on planet earth from visiting. Or perhaps require all visitors to be isolated for 14 days? The effect of that would be to end Queenstown, Rotorua and the entire tourism industry. This would have a dire effect on indigenous Maori income as their tribes have invested heavily in tourism. NZ is no example to others, they'll be faced with either shutting away rather like North Korea or facing a second or third wave.
There is another problem with NZ's COVID-19 figures, they include probable cases. That's people who have been in contact with a COVID-19 positive, even if they have no symptoms or even been tested. NZ inflates their numbers this way. Why?
And finally, a word about that dishonest bunch of criminals the United Nations and the WHO. Why should we believe a word they have to say. Is this an attempt by the UN to limit population growth? Think about it, social distancing shutting down night life, sports, religious meetings and so on, is effectively limiting the ability of young people to meet one another. And there appears no end in sight to this policy of social distancing. It looks like population control by stealth and with few flights taking place, this has become our Greta Thunberg future. Have you woken up yet to what that world looks like? It's not a world I want to live in.
I agree with Donald Trump when it comes to the WHO, they were actively trying to spread the virus and are totally China focused. My advice, don't trust anyone not elected to office and that includes those scientists insisting the western industrialised world give up centuries of development over a simple virus.
Now there isn't resistance to COVID-19 yet, that will take time, so higher mortality amongst those who catch it is to be expected. Currently that sits around 4%. That's not healthy, but I ask again, does it make sense to throw the economy away over this number of deaths.
This sounds heartless, but really isn't. We are talking life vs life here. If the economy is thrown away, which appears what many want to do, several things happen. The first is unemployment and increasing homelessness. This will lead to early death through diminished circumstances and suicide. Add to that the children of families who fall on hard times, their futures are compromised, and they die early deaths. I suspect the numbers adversely affected by an all-encompassing lockdown will be far worse than the adverse effects of keeping business functioning while the virus runs through the country. Yes, observe health guidelines but note, Japan has not locked down the whole country. Only Tokyo and six other prefectures have been locked down. What does a lockdown in Japan mean? People still go to work and restaurants remain open, but have to close by 8pm. Meanwhile areas like Aichi prefecture where Toyota is based have no lockdown at all.
Got the idea China was locked down? The media were all over it weren't they. But that, like Japan, was only certain areas, they remained ready for business throughout.
New Zealand has been touted as a positive example. They're not, they're incredibly stupid. Yes, they can stamp out the virus for now but then what? 20% of their export income relies on tourism. What are they going to do, ban all 7.5 billion people on planet earth from visiting. Or perhaps require all visitors to be isolated for 14 days? The effect of that would be to end Queenstown, Rotorua and the entire tourism industry. This would have a dire effect on indigenous Maori income as their tribes have invested heavily in tourism. NZ is no example to others, they'll be faced with either shutting away rather like North Korea or facing a second or third wave.
There is another problem with NZ's COVID-19 figures, they include probable cases. That's people who have been in contact with a COVID-19 positive, even if they have no symptoms or even been tested. NZ inflates their numbers this way. Why?
And finally, a word about that dishonest bunch of criminals the United Nations and the WHO. Why should we believe a word they have to say. Is this an attempt by the UN to limit population growth? Think about it, social distancing shutting down night life, sports, religious meetings and so on, is effectively limiting the ability of young people to meet one another. And there appears no end in sight to this policy of social distancing. It looks like population control by stealth and with few flights taking place, this has become our Greta Thunberg future. Have you woken up yet to what that world looks like? It's not a world I want to live in.
I agree with Donald Trump when it comes to the WHO, they were actively trying to spread the virus and are totally China focused. My advice, don't trust anyone not elected to office and that includes those scientists insisting the western industrialised world give up centuries of development over a simple virus.
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April 07, 2020
George Pell Witchhunt
Cardinal Pell has had his convictions for historical child abuse quashed. This was part of the war against the Roman Catholic church and finally we have justice. Pell is a good man, a great Australian and finally has had his name cleared. See the embedded video for more...
Dithering Jacinda
Now we have a situation where the New Zealand prime minister, the dithering Jacinda Ardern has her Minister of Health, David Clark twice break lockdown, the first time to drive 20 kms to a beach so his family could take a walk and the second time he drove to a park to ride his mountain bike. Does she sack him? Nope, he gets demoted but keeps his Health portfolio. And this right in the middle of a global pandemic. What that spells for Jacinda, is weak.
April 05, 2020
Jacinda Ardern: Incompetent
It took me three years to learn that New Zealand's dear leader is actually incompetent. What passes for stardust is in fact, in one word, luck. In 2017 she got lucky. She didn't win the general election that year, she came second behind National, but she won the coalition negotiations. Winston Peters, the leader of a tiny fringe party of disaffected and mostly old National and Labour voters, decided to anoint her prime minister by entering coalition with the Ardern Labour party.
And then bad things started to happen. There was the terrorist who shot up two mosques, followed within a year by the White Island volcanic eruption which injured many tourists. These were events Ardern reacted to as anyone would expect, as a human. She looked good.
But then along came COVID-19. Now she is expected to make hard decisions, life and death decisions and she just can't do it. She's a ditherer, that's why I'm deciding to call her ditherer Jacinda. Her main opponent is wee Simon Bridges, the National party leader. He's a little man with little ideas and too much ambition. Ditherer Jacinda and wee Simon Bridges should hook up, they're meant for one another.
What decided the matter for me with ditherer Jacinda was her press conference on the 5th of April 2020. She gave a whole diatribe about what a wonderful job she'd done with COVID-19. Err, but no she hasn't, all she's done is virtually bankrupt the country. Clearly she's living in some parallel universe, not the real world. Most of her time was spent making it look like the government was doing things, when it is the New Zealand people doing it.
And NZ is already a country with social distance between people. Most live in houses separated by metres, in their own bubbles, that's why the virus hasn't spread that fast. It was never going to get out of hand, relying on overseas modelling was always stupid as NZ is a country that could easily hold 50 million, with only 5 million in it. Everyone is dispersed, effectively limiting the spread.
Ardern talked of a 'false dichotomy' of economy vs lives. What she really meant, in context, was health comes before the economy. She wants to shut down any question of the level of lockdown given the low level of Coronavirus cases. But the choice of economy vs lockdown is a conundrum if not a dichotomy. The choices are not mutually exclusive, it's a riddle, but if you favour one over the other you either end up with too many deaths which is bad, or only a few deaths but a broken economy and no income to fund the health care system in the future, which is also bad. The two are symbiotic and getting the balance right is clearly not something this dithering prime minister has time for.
I'm left with little faith NZ even knows how to come back from this disaster. What is certain is I won't be around to meet the cost, that will be left to my children and grandchildren. This crisis has been a massive theft by Baby Boomers of Millennial and Gen Z inheritance.
And then bad things started to happen. There was the terrorist who shot up two mosques, followed within a year by the White Island volcanic eruption which injured many tourists. These were events Ardern reacted to as anyone would expect, as a human. She looked good.
But then along came COVID-19. Now she is expected to make hard decisions, life and death decisions and she just can't do it. She's a ditherer, that's why I'm deciding to call her ditherer Jacinda. Her main opponent is wee Simon Bridges, the National party leader. He's a little man with little ideas and too much ambition. Ditherer Jacinda and wee Simon Bridges should hook up, they're meant for one another.
What decided the matter for me with ditherer Jacinda was her press conference on the 5th of April 2020. She gave a whole diatribe about what a wonderful job she'd done with COVID-19. Err, but no she hasn't, all she's done is virtually bankrupt the country. Clearly she's living in some parallel universe, not the real world. Most of her time was spent making it look like the government was doing things, when it is the New Zealand people doing it.
And NZ is already a country with social distance between people. Most live in houses separated by metres, in their own bubbles, that's why the virus hasn't spread that fast. It was never going to get out of hand, relying on overseas modelling was always stupid as NZ is a country that could easily hold 50 million, with only 5 million in it. Everyone is dispersed, effectively limiting the spread.
Ardern talked of a 'false dichotomy' of economy vs lives. What she really meant, in context, was health comes before the economy. She wants to shut down any question of the level of lockdown given the low level of Coronavirus cases. But the choice of economy vs lockdown is a conundrum if not a dichotomy. The choices are not mutually exclusive, it's a riddle, but if you favour one over the other you either end up with too many deaths which is bad, or only a few deaths but a broken economy and no income to fund the health care system in the future, which is also bad. The two are symbiotic and getting the balance right is clearly not something this dithering prime minister has time for.
I'm left with little faith NZ even knows how to come back from this disaster. What is certain is I won't be around to meet the cost, that will be left to my children and grandchildren. This crisis has been a massive theft by Baby Boomers of Millennial and Gen Z inheritance.
April 04, 2020
COVID-19 World Takeover
This could make a good movie, novel or just your average garden conspiracy theory. Here goes:
COVID-19 is one of many stages in an alien takeover of planet earth. The invasion has been ongoing since 1918. The invaders are doing this by infiltrating and taking over the power structures that make human civilisation what it is, and from within destroying social order and the bonds that hold society together.
It all started with the First World War. That was a war between empires, a human war that came at the end of a massive arms race. The aliens saw their chance and seeded earth with the Spanish flu, this began the process to cull the planet of life forms, but also to sow distrust in one another, the beginning of social distancing.
Then we have Prohibition, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Great Depression and the alien initiated Second World War. This was an even greater loss of life and an even bigger cull. All these events that followed the Spanish flu are alien in origin, they're infiltrating, and by hook or by crook, taking over.
Then after the Second World War we have the beginning of the end. The United Nations. Its purpose, to control and ultimately extinguish human life on earth. This final phase is the use of global pandemics to achieve certain objectives;
The final cull has begun folks. The next stage will be to require everyone to give a blood sample. We will be told the reason for this is to develop a vaccine for the Coronavirus. But in reality it will be to select a few for assimilation into alien society. The rest will be killed. The final takeover of earth will have been completed. That's when the alien invasion fleet will arrive. There will be no fight-back, as human life will have ended already and the few that do remain will be controlled and believe they're better off. They will have been fully assimilated.
This is your COVID-19 future. Who are these aliens? They are the current leaders. The UN, the US President Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern. They're aliens, not aliens having invaded a human host, as these aliens look just like humans from earth. However, they have one key difference, they don't believe in democracy, liberty, capitalism, freedom of choice, none of it.
This story resembles aspects of my latest novel, Dana Point which predates COVID-19. This tells the story of Augustus. He's from the planet Hercules, on the run and ends up back on earth. He's been to earth before because earth was seeded by Hercules with bipedal life forms we call Homo Sapiens. Hercules check up on earth from time to time, to see if it has advanced technologically enough to warrant assimilation. We find out that it has, and a hospital ship is being dispatched from Hercules which will carry out the blood testing and final selection. Augustus has issues of his own and he must deal with them before he can save earth. There is more to the novel than just this of course, but please read it by following the link at the top of my blog, or follow the embedded link below.
Dana Point
COVID-19 is one of many stages in an alien takeover of planet earth. The invasion has been ongoing since 1918. The invaders are doing this by infiltrating and taking over the power structures that make human civilisation what it is, and from within destroying social order and the bonds that hold society together.
It all started with the First World War. That was a war between empires, a human war that came at the end of a massive arms race. The aliens saw their chance and seeded earth with the Spanish flu, this began the process to cull the planet of life forms, but also to sow distrust in one another, the beginning of social distancing.
Then we have Prohibition, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Great Depression and the alien initiated Second World War. This was an even greater loss of life and an even bigger cull. All these events that followed the Spanish flu are alien in origin, they're infiltrating, and by hook or by crook, taking over.
Then after the Second World War we have the beginning of the end. The United Nations. Its purpose, to control and ultimately extinguish human life on earth. This final phase is the use of global pandemics to achieve certain objectives;
- To win unquestioning loyalty from the myopic and easily led plebes;
- To socially distance communities, to break down social bonds, break the social contract;
- In achieving distance, to prevent human reproduction, how can people meet and reproduce if no-one can leave their existing bubble?
- To control nutrition and access to water;
- To control thought, and access to information.
The final cull has begun folks. The next stage will be to require everyone to give a blood sample. We will be told the reason for this is to develop a vaccine for the Coronavirus. But in reality it will be to select a few for assimilation into alien society. The rest will be killed. The final takeover of earth will have been completed. That's when the alien invasion fleet will arrive. There will be no fight-back, as human life will have ended already and the few that do remain will be controlled and believe they're better off. They will have been fully assimilated.
This is your COVID-19 future. Who are these aliens? They are the current leaders. The UN, the US President Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern. They're aliens, not aliens having invaded a human host, as these aliens look just like humans from earth. However, they have one key difference, they don't believe in democracy, liberty, capitalism, freedom of choice, none of it.
This story resembles aspects of my latest novel, Dana Point which predates COVID-19. This tells the story of Augustus. He's from the planet Hercules, on the run and ends up back on earth. He's been to earth before because earth was seeded by Hercules with bipedal life forms we call Homo Sapiens. Hercules check up on earth from time to time, to see if it has advanced technologically enough to warrant assimilation. We find out that it has, and a hospital ship is being dispatched from Hercules which will carry out the blood testing and final selection. Augustus has issues of his own and he must deal with them before he can save earth. There is more to the novel than just this of course, but please read it by following the link at the top of my blog, or follow the embedded link below.
Dana Point
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April 02, 2020
Sweden's Response to COVID-19
Children still go to school and its borders are still open. Sweden has a completely different approach to the COVID-19 crisis:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/sweden-coronavirus-approach-is-very-different-from-the-rest-of-europe.html
Critically, small businesses are still allowed to operate. This is something I think many governments simply don't understand. Small business is what drives the economy, shut them off, they go out of business and the result is Depression, not just recession. Sweden has gone for voluntary restrictions, an approach proven to work well.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/sweden-coronavirus-approach-is-very-different-from-the-rest-of-europe.html
Critically, small businesses are still allowed to operate. This is something I think many governments simply don't understand. Small business is what drives the economy, shut them off, they go out of business and the result is Depression, not just recession. Sweden has gone for voluntary restrictions, an approach proven to work well.