I first downloaded the iNaturalist app for help naming plants on Vancouver Island where I had recently moved. My first discovery is that these apps have come an amazing long way with excellent suggestions customized for location. To my astonishment, a few plants that I wasn't sure of attracted identity help from other botanists who were roving through unresolved i.d.'s. Then almost by accident I took a photo of a dead bird and found it accurately named too. Then a caterpillar! Every living thing can be helpfully i.d.'d or at least guessed. It's not just plants.
There's a collaboration with the California Academy of Science and National Geographic and that explains the interested volunteers who are checking out the unresolved identities and researching questions of their own.
It's a research tool, as you can tell by scanning the image attached, but you're welcome to drop in with questions because your photos improve the database.
The very latest numbers from Britain. All age groups above 30 contribute more Covid-19 infections than the unvaccinated do. This number is softened when you consider that the unvaccinated group is the smaller one. But I call total bullship on believing Covid-19 vaccines build immunity. A link to the data. A link to not building immunity.
Chinese regime influence operations in Canada are broad and pervasive. .. Canada is also a target because of “its all-around proximity with its chief rival the United States; its membership in key alliances such as NATO and the Five Eyes; its place in the Arctic; its image as an exemplary liberal democracy, which makes it a symbolic target; and the fact that it’s a middle power, which minimizes potential repercussions,” says the report.
At the link are summaries of interventions and intimidations I've been reading about, but aggregated here.
A bonus for BC readers:
“There are several municipal politicians in British Columbia, and in at least two provinces there are ministers of the Crown who we think are under at least the general influence of a foreign government,” said Fadden.
At Trump's most reviled, he occasionally broke -20 as the difference between Strong Approvers and Strong Disapprovers. Rasmussen keeps a running total of this using a 500 person phone survey every night and skipping those who don't feel strongly one way or the other. Schlichter's vision of an America divided with hazards of actual bloodshed is drawing nigh.
We're awash in data wealth, information about everybody. It's cheap and ubiquitous. And it's getting out of control. When the struggle for the new wealth settles on a pecking order, a governing body of the elect with a stable of well-heeled corporate satellites will deliver some services of modern society better than ever before. There will be an app for it.
The mighty who have brokered power are faced with disrupted pecking orders and the self-proclaimed elect are clamouring to get their hands on the new wealth too. This is bigger than the rediscovery and settlement of the Americas. The clamour includes regulatory bureaucracies, large businesses, political parties, media stars, a myriad of interest groups within and without the governents and chiefly the enterprise we call "Government". The winner will be the one with the ultimately superior app. I'm betting on Government 2.0, a refashioned system of governance that exploits Big Data and can shape behaviour (for our own good) and extract money from every living citizen all the time everywhere.
You know what the good news is? You get a free cell phone tracker. You know what "free" means? You're the product. A social credit score for good behaviour about vaccinations, an acceptable BMI and a record of pro-government postings on Facebook will let you board planes, sleep in hotels, dine in restaurants, avoid having your internet speed throttled, leave your state or even just travel outside your county. China is pointing the way.
The winner is going to fold the major corporations and media into what we used to call "government".This is called fascism. Because it is the new fascism, Fascism 2.0 with a modern look, it will prevail for a time. Maybe for a generation.
That governing body of the elect with a stable of well-heeled corporate satellites will deliver some services of modern society better than ever before. The elect will include people who have been elected but also the tenured bureaucracies within governments and the credentialed everywhere who regard their milieu's views as truth. They will crush some freedoms that are the engine for innovation and hope.
Ladies and gentlement, I give you "One app to rule them all"
Mainstream sources of news lie to us universally. Just as newspapers delete polls when the numbers go against the paper's politics, here's Rotten Tomatoes deleting the audience opinion of the Fauci documentary and leaving in the so-called critics who lavish licks of love on the insider octagenarian. 91% !!!
I"d be first in line if they needed volunteers to test the new messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19. If it could save lives, I'd step up. That day is past and although I've had lots of vaccinations over the years, this new one is the sticker. It's the sticker because I've read more about it than any other new medicine. The side effects (still underreported) and the long term unforseen consequences alarm me. If the review of recent literature at the link is sound, an auto-immune attack on much of humanity has been seeded by the mandated jabs
A little group and a big group.
Now I'm in the control group that have not taken the jabs. This too is an experiment, albeit a painful one since I've lost some of my citizenship in BC, the charter of rights and freedoms no longer is my shield, dining out is history and my summer vacation up one of BC"s fjords is gone.
Attention: President Stephanie Smith and Executive Committee
E: president@bcgeu.ca; bcgeuinfo@bcgeu.ca
T: (604) 291-9611 Dear President Smith and Executive Committee:
VIA EMAIL
Re: Public Health Orders issued on September 13, 2021, requiring healthcare support
workers to be vaccinated by October 26, 2021
I am writing to you on behalf of my clients, a large and growing group of healthcare support
workers who are members of your union. My clients have retained my services to assist them in
understanding the law and in presenting their requests to you for BCGEU’s support and
representation against the “vaccine”1 mandate of a ruthless employer, the BC Government and its
agencies and contractors.
My clients are not coming to BCGEU as adversaries, nor with the threat of litigation. Rather,
they are hopeful that this discussion will result in a renewed solidarity and shared sense of
purpose among the BCGEU membership.
My clients include both vaccinated and unvaccinated healthcare support workers, standing
together for the right of all members to reject an involuntary, invasive medical procedure. They
are not ‘anti-vaxxers’, having all received vaccinations in the past. But they are asserting their
legal right personally, and BCGEU’s legal right on behalf of the membership, to refuse injections
of experimental medicines known to cause harm.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac has been making yearly long-term weather forecasts for 230 years. We pay attention to them because they are normally 80% accurate. They did not do as well last winter but were 72% in predicting the direction of temperature change, and 78% accurate in the change in precipitation. This is pretty remarkable because while the U.S. weather forecasts are 90% accurate five days in advance, they are only 80% accurate seven days out. The Old Farmer’s Almanac forecasts are far less specific, they only predict the direction of change, but their forecasts are for twelve months in the future, quite impressive.
From Wattsupwiththat.com and written by Andy May. It's not based on what the groundhog saw in February. From the start with Robert Thomas in1792, it's been based on solar cycles, blended with temperature records and increasingly incorporating large weather elements that are affected by insolation. Currently several dozen elements are factored in like the El Nino current and the North Atlantic Oscillation.
Open Letter to Dr. Bonnie Henry, Adrian Dix, and Premier John Horgan
We are a group of extremely concerned health professionals in the Okanagan Valley, B.C. We have some critical questions
regarding COVID-19, specifically about the current reporting of case numbers, statistics, and testing, and the restrictions
imposed by your health orders. While discussion of adjunctive and alternative safe and effective treatments is being stifled, the
policies of mandatory experimental vaccines and vaccine passports are being forced upon our province, our country, and many
other countries worldwide.
Addressing Dr. Henry, Mr. Dix and Mr. Horgan: We—as healthcare practitioners and citizens—expect and deserve answers that
address these concerns directly. Proclaiming that vaccine therapies are “safe and effective” is misleading and sloganistic. The
reports of vaccine injuries are increasing every day, yet are being ignored. We are witnessing an increase in Covid illness
occurring in fully vaccinated individuals and, irrationally, that is being followed by a promise of mandated boosters.1 The lack
of answers and the vague information being provided over the past 18+ months do not instill confidence in British Columbians.
This lack of transparency has resulted in unprecedented divisiveness amongst citizens, families and friends. There are individuals
who are angry that some concerned citizens are not complying and are comparing our current circumstances to the Holocaust.
While this may seem extreme, the Holocaust also began with the small removal of freedoms2, just as we are seeing today. This
historical atrocity started out as a slow and seemingly innocent removal of rights by the government, but quickly morphed into
media control, divisiveness between groups of people, and limitations to what one select section of society could do. In this way,
the ordinary citizen easily became an enemy of the state. Today a one-sided, politically-driven narrative, which is being fuelled
by politicians and the media, is causing a similar divisiveness. When only one side of the story is made available to the public, it
is easy to understand how individuals can become disgruntled toward other citizens who are fighting to maintain their freedom
and bodily autonomy. A political agenda is clearly being pushed here, and the refusal to address questions and concerns of
healthcare practitioners and citizens of B.C. speaks volumes. We hope all of B.C. and Canada will carefully consider the
information included in this document and join us in demanding clear, direct and truthful answers.
You must recognize and acknowledge the problems our country faces with our media and with our supposed leaders. We are on
a dangerous trajectory and we must STOP —NOW!
It appears aspirin reduces serious Covid-19 consequences by about 40% (ICU admissions, mechanical ventilators and deaths) and somewhat reduces the chance of even being infected. This is in a new study out of Israel. See link explaining that blood clots could be the result of spike proteins generated from the mRNA of the vaccine and then being expressed in the cells lining blood vessels. The cells are then presumed to be alien and killed by white blood cells, thereby seeding clot material.
A soft-spoken doctor (Dr. Bhakdi) makes sense of our body's response to the Covid-19 virus and vaccines. (Ignore the subtitles in the picture. The short talk is in clear English).
Key point: We've seen a similar corona virus before. Against novel infections, we manufacture the antibody type called Immunoglobulin-M which appears in our blood after about 30 days. Against infections that look familiar, we recall into service our existing Immunoglobulin-G and -A antibodies and these appear in our blood about a week later. Three recent papers prove that IgG and IgA responses appear within a few days of a test injection of the vaccine with Covid-19 spikes. The conclusion: We've seen a similar corona virus before. We already have a form of herd immunity but locked away until needed. As the Doctor says, all groups found that all subjects who had been vaccinated responded within days with antibodies.
Key point: When the virus lands in the throat and nose, it takes days to multiply before it can reach the lungs where it may be deadly. This is enough time for the IgA and IgG to be mobilized.
Key point: The Vaccine triggers clot formation.The spike protein genes injected with the Covid-19 jabs circulate in the blood with some entering the cells lining the blood vessels. The cells begin to manufacture the spike proteins which can then protrude into the blood itself. Unfortunately, our body's defence system considers this to be an enemy invasion and may attack and kill our own blood vessels (vascular endothelium) which results in clot formation "which we know is happening all over the place". This explains some of the weird and even fatal secondary debilities elsewhere in the body. The initial landing of the virus in the nose and throat can spread and so can the initial landing of the supposedly harmless spikes in the vaccine.
Key point: The second jab is more dangerous than the first one. The second jab comes after enough time has passed for the body to manufacture type M immunoglogbulin too and the second jab raises antibody levels even higher at a time when blood cells have started expressing spikes they manufactured from the gene material in the first jab. This results in increased attack on the blood cells by all three kinds of antibodies as well as the lymphocytes and the leukocytes. This is something never seen before: both the anit-virus and anti-bacteria systems kick in with the ability to attack our own blood vessels.
Key point: Common flu viruses have a volatile gripping surface to catch onto our own cells and enter therein. The Covid-19 virus and variants have a relatively stable gripping surface which makes them easier to recognize. Old antibodies can generally attach to the new corona virus and plug its grip surface. Old antibodies to the common flu have a much more difficult time recognizing each season's variants.
Key point: He gives an understandable tour of the immune response system. If you're like me, you've been hearing stuff about the immune response but couldn't really explain it to someone else. A virus or bacterium arrives. If it's unfamiliar the IgM antibody system slowly kicks in, coming up to speed in about a month. If it's familiar, the IgA and IgG antibody systems quickly kick in. First the cell surface is protected. If however the cell is penetrated by virus, lymphocyte killer cells are called into service to consume the infected cell, virus and all. (Lymphocytes make up about a third of our white blood cells). If instead it's bacteria that have invaded, the antibodies clog up the gripping surfaces of the bacteria and the other type of killer blood cell is called into service. Leukocytes show up and consume the infected cells, bacteria and all.
His conclusion: "No one knows what the outcome will be but the vision is so awful, so terrifying, that I myself don't really want to know the answer."
This letter from Toronto librarians defends their liberty and privacy which are theirs by right and by law. It's addressed to the highly paid people at the top who worked from home and now are bullying the unvaccinated while dodging analysis and trashing people who have worked with passion through the covid pandemic.
We have chosen a career in libraries to make a positive difference in our communities.
We work passionately everyday to provide access to information, employment skills, language
learning, literacy, connectedness, and an enjoyment of life.
We worked throughout the pandemic without a vaccine available, and continued to fulfill our role
as community stewards by setting up food kitchens; calling isolated seniors to check in on them;
providing stressed out parents with resources to help their children cope; and ensuring library
users would have still have access to materials.
However the City Librarian Vickery Bowles, along with HR Director Brian Daly, and HR
Manager Louise Reimer, and nine other directors*, who make up part of the top eleven earners
of public funds in the system, and who have worked from home throughout the entire pandemic,
are now threatening, bullying and intimidating us with discipline, up to and including
dismissal, for not disclosing our medical records and/or not choosing to be vaccinated
against COVID-19.
Hundreds, if not thousands of us are now facing coercive policies that disregard foundational
principles of library work, privacy and democracy.
Vancouver Island Whale Watch promised a free second trip if no whales showed up. I was chuckling at the deal I was getting, two zodiac ocean tours for the price of one. I had no idea what was coming next, a top moment of my life.
We babysat a humpback whale while it's mother dove deep five times for about a quarter hour each time. The baby "mugged us", splashed us on purpose, dove under the zodiac, circled and generally freaked us out wondrously. We felt we belonged there as much as the baby from the deep who played with us.
Presenting calf, Marble, and briefly in the background, Slate (the mother with all black tail) just east of Valdez Island:
SFU professor, David Allen, reviewed 80 papers in the lockdown literature. You'd expect lockdowns and masks would have some clear benefit. They don't. (Summary at The Epoch Times, here). There is no net correlation between the measure taken and the cases of covid in the 80 papers.
He also makes a stab at a cost/benefit analysis, estimating years of lost life caused against years of life saved by those measures. Granted it's a very fuzzy number, but the first run through came up with over 200 to 1 times more evil done than good done. (A caveat is that in lockdown settings, some were cheating and in non-lockdown settings, some were complying with the intent anyway.).
Making this worse, he notes that research and opinion counter to the government narrative is suppresssed.
This cost/benefit effort has a key place in Canadian constitutional law. The constitution states: "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaramtees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribedby law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society" As Brian Peckford points out, until the cost benefit analyses have been done to demonstrate a justification for temporary abrogation of citizen rights, the statements of politicians and their staff about lockdowns are extra-legal. (Brian was premier of Newfoundland for 10 years and one of the original signatories of the Charter of Rights agreement with Justin's father, Pierre. He has a powerful site updated daily.)
