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BEING A LONG SHORTLY – 4

April 8, 2023 Prudence Leadbetter Leave a comment

How we deal with national problems need not, in all cases, be nationally. A large fraction of our national weakness has resulted from the least-efficient mechanism in the country – and the most expensive – the federal Government in its thousands of permutations, assuming responsibility for local and intensely personal problems and discomforts. These would include things like food, education, employment, housing, and sexuality… not to mention the nature of household appliances and pronouns. We are becoming weaker as a people and weaker individually, as we wait for unrelated bureaucrats and disingenuous politicians to make us comfortable. Only in the past 30 years, or so, have we begun to recognize that every bit of comfort has come at a loss of freedom. Let’s move forward.

IMMIGRATION

Every nation must deal with immigration. It’s an outgrowth of the “greener-grass” syndrome. People in many countries live in economic and political systems that are pretty crappy. Often there isn’t enough food or the government is mean to people. Many of those countries are led by dictators or communists of various shades of red, leaving the residents not very happy. Eventually some of those people do what it takes to move to some other country where the political and economic “grass” is greener… or prettier… or less crowded. All countries, including those that people leave, have laws – or fences – to control entry, which means not crossing their border until or unless the new country actually thinks it might be good to let the foreigner across that border. Every country does this: controls and guards its border, mainly because one never knows when a foreigner might try to steal from the new country or from its people or, worse, try to do harm to the new country or to its people.

So, every country on Earth controls its borders, umm… except for one: Ours, the U. S. of A. Interestingly, ours is one of the freest and the most blessed with food and blessed with the idiocy of perpetual welfare. How would a relatively modern, successful country like ours, ever select a leader who would not defend its borders? It is a conundrum. Our current leader, chosen according to legend by 80 Million of his fellow citizens, has actively subverted the laws – and the fences – of his country resulting in the unbridled entry of more than 5 Million strangers from 100 other countries (or more), a million of whom sidestepped the polite greetings of the so-called “Border patrol” staff so that they could enter in secret, perhaps with less than honorable intentions toward their new country. What an odd “leader” our country is entrusted to.

Let us hope every voter with the opportunity is able to choose a far, far different leader so that our country’s border will again be protected and guarded. It’s a simple thing.

DRUGS

Drugs can heal or injure or kill. These 3 options are true for both licit and illicit drugs. In concert with the problems of immigration, tons of illicit drugs cross the unguarded border we just discussed, and they definitely injure and kill the legal residents of this country. Our erstwhile government, hired to protect us, the citizens, has failed to solve the problem of mind-altering and often deadly drugs for, well, virtually forever. But, under current leadership and the inactions of our bureaucratic “deep state,” the swath of death such drugs have wrought has reached new depths of death and failure. One wonders why this particular national problem has proven insoluble. Our national government reflexively tries to force the solution to deadly, destructive drugs back upon individuals and localities, while grasping onto personal problems that earn votes and the continuation in power to make them national ones. Someone is not being honest with the citizenry.

Over the span of 9 years or more, America sacrificed about 55,000 of its young men and women fighting Communists in Viet-Nam. We have agonized over the waste of those young people for the 50-plus years since we pulled out. Lots of lies and untruths were told to the American people during that botched conflict, yet we persevered until there was nothing left to fight for, and we left.

Drugs kill between 60,000 and 100,000 young people EVERY DAMNED YEAR nowadays – mostly due to fentanyl that comes through Mexico, our “friends” to the south. The victims don’t need the Defense Department to ship them overseas to be killed; overdosing can be accomplished close to home… sometimes in the home.

Fentanyl is fairly easy to make from its constituent chemicals, benzylfentanyl and 4-anilinopiperidine and our other “friends,” Communist China sells large quantities of those chemicals to Mexican cartels. Toluene, an easy chemical to obtain, they don’t need to import. “Fentanyl” is 100 times as potent as morphine in its ability to react with pleasure receptors in the brain, so a user must be very, very careful as to dosage. Its other effect is suppression of breathing, and a user certainly wouldn’t want to end up like George Floyd, late of Minneapolis. A deadly dose, even for a man as big as the late Mr. Floyd, is about the volume of one shake of salt on some food – very, very careful. Unfortunately, most users of drugs, particularly drugs of questionable origin, are somewhat stupid. Tens of thousands smarten up every year, right before they stop breathing.

A president, especially one elected due to his immense popularity with some 80 Million of his fellow citizens, would go out of his way, at least a little bit, to guarantee that they or their offspring would be safe from the ravages of illicit drugs like fentanyl. It’s the least he could do for the millions of people who loved him so much, once. It turns out that that President is more enamored of the one-point-something Billion friends he has in China, dwarfing the paltry crowd who “voted” him in. So, he has done less than nothing to stop the flow of illegal drugs or illegal aliens across our once-guarded border. Indeed, his actions have facilitated both of those illegal border-crossings, and here we are. Parents and lovers who are mourning the loss of loved-ones to fentanyl and other “southern” drugs, are advised to never forget who their President cares about least.

Drugs could be stopped, but not one plea-bargained case at a time. (See: https://www.prudenceleadbetter.com/2016/05/15/drugs-and-governance/)

It would be refreshing to hear a campaign speech that included the protection of the American people as a key promise. It would elicit many Prudent votes, particularly if the death penalty were revived for drug distributors.

MEDICINE & FREEDOM

Recently, as in 3 years ago, a “new” coronavirus swept across the planet. A lot of people died as a result, but not always from that virus, COVID-19. We’ve talked about this, but the virus is not the biggest damage-causer. The presence of COVID yielded a massive loss of rights and freedoms – un-Constitutionally – and changed the relationships among individuals, health-care providers and institutions, and changed the relationship between the federal government and individuals. We who are plagued with short memories, owe it to ourselves and to our descendants, to keep alive the abuses Americans have been subjected to and why the new relationships must be reversed in law. Lately we have heard the CDC and the NIAID branch of it, try to walk back the directives they issued during the “pandemic” that cost many their jobs, licenses and even lives. Governors, school systems, public agencies, even branches of the military created executive authorities and powers to direct the actions of individuals because they were “following CDC guidance” or “following the science” as imaginatively defined by people like Dr. Anthony Fauci who claimed to “represent” science. People like to think that “doctors,” including Phd’s, are “scientists,” but many are followers of others. For medical doctors, with the brutal intrusion of federal governance into health care, many are employees, now, and they can be fired by the institutions that they turned to for stability and protection, if they don’t kow and tow.

Police and fire departments forced trained members to accept the experimental injections or lose their jobs; military branches forced members to accept the shots or lose their position, despite the investment in training and skills. Teachers were forced to accept the experimental chemical injections on the same basis. People were forced to get the injections or forego normal exercise of their rights of movement, assembly or commerce. Almost none of what was imposed on us, free, sovereign, Americans, was Constitutional. Those who were questioned on these actions used various claims of ignorance by citing the “CDC” advisories as their authority to restrict freedoms. Ostensibly, thanks to active fear-mongering by government entities, that same CDC and NIAID (Fauci) and ignorant media (to the point of marshalling hatred against those who disagreed with the fear… mixing it all up with “racism,” lack of “equity” and even “white supremacy” as reasons that people questioned “the science”) COVID was such a threat that states of emergency were justified and people could be arrested or economically destroyed for opening their businesses.

To be Prudent, most of “science” touted during the dark medical age of 2020 through 2022, was bogus. Real science was often put forth and literally suppressed by government and media working together to protect a single narrative, and those actions killed tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Americans who would have survived COVID relatively easily had less harmful treatments been allowed early in their infections. In some cases, those alternative treatments worked in very late stages of infection, but it took a contentious legal battle to obtain them. Hundreds of thousands.

Science is not a place or even a consensus, it is a process. Stopping investigation, data analysis and experimentation by claiming “settled science” or similar baloney, is as anti-science as can be. That’s what the “great” Anthony Fauci represented throughout. The entire National Institutes of Health – NIH – should be disassembled and reconstituted in a way that will improve health and longevity, not the bottom lines of pharmaceutical companies.

The only legitimate role of government in our democratic Republic is to be a partner in the health, safety, advancement and prosperity of its citizens. Consider what it is, in fact today, and recognize why Prudence indicates that these should be revolutionary times.

DOLLARS

The world is awash in dollars including the trillions we create through productive enterprise in our own economy, those we create through productive enterprise in other countries, the “air-dollars” the FED creates for us at re-election times, and the dollars created by foreign banks and enterprises. Lots and lots of dollars. The “air-dollars” have been tolerated by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations (OPEC being largely a creation of Henry Kissinger and the American oil industry) and nearly every other nation in the world since Nixon closed the “Gold Window” of the Treasury in 1973. Simultaneously we guaranteed to protect Saudi Arabia and its oil markets and they agreed to market oil only in dollar denominations. People who wanted oil, and many other traded products, were happy to accept dollars in payment and just as often would sell their goods in terms of dollar values rather than their own currencies. The need to maintain “exchange rates” with all other currencies and the dollar, gave rise to incredibly lucrative currency speculations that have been not only a financial lever but a political one, as George Soros and others can testify. So many dollars. Every one is a bill – a bill against American productivity, and each must eventually be paid with something valued by the holder.

Many in power today seem to view the ocean of dollars as something that will be tolerated forever, and, further, that our incomprehensible debt – over 32 Trillion, now – can be “mentalized” as opposed to monetized. That is, we will eventually be able to talk our debtors out of worrying about it or even wanting it paid back. Without grasping what their attitude means, many people just roll their eyes when asked about how we will ever deal with our national debt? Since it can’t be dealt with now, the best thing is to not let it worry us too awfully much, and let someone worry about it in the future. Apparently, since we have made ours the largest single element of worldwide debt, all other nations should realize that if our debts are called the world will be worse off without an independent United States… so there: deal with it. That’s some convenient mentalizing, but it’s not likely to work.

Until 10 or 15 years ago, the majority of nations accepted the dominance of the dollar as a trade-off for stability and extensive military aid from the U.S. to the more than 150 nations in which Americans were posted to protect or stabilize smaller countries facing politically crappy enemies. Militarily, the U.S. had established a global empire that benefitted itself in both trade and influence, yet also cost it more than its own productivity could afford, hence the enormous debt being tolerated. But tolerance isn’t love. There was and is nothing about our past relationships that will inhibit smaller countries from accepting “help” from Communist China, our sworn enemy. Part of China’s all-dimensional war against the U.S. is the unseating of the dollar as the global currency of trade. If we lose the “petro-dollar” advantage other nations will quickly decide to not accept payments of international trade obligations in dollars. One hopes that some one of the geniuses who brought us to this point of astronomical debt, is working on how the U.S. of A. is going to survive as an independent entity without the petro-dollar economy to sustain it. Voters should ask politicians this question.

Fellow Prudentialists will appreciate the growing, unique responsibilities of U.S. citizenship, ignored or un-taught only at our peril. Let’s move further.

Crime, Economics, Education, Family, Health Care, Politics 2020, Politics 2021, Politics 2022

LOCKDOWN, LOCKUP

March 20, 2022 Prudence Leadbetter Leave a comment

The concept of “science” as the basis for public policy has been tried during the past two-plus years, and it has been found not only a failure, but fatally dangerous. “Public policy,” by definition, means politics, and, suddenly, “science,” which is to say, Medical Science, became grossly politicized (more grossly than it already was). Logic dictates that politically “guided” science or medicine should be questioned in the most severe and intricate way. For more than two years, however, such questioning has been made virtually illegal and something to be censored.

We can see, no matter what one’s political viewpoint, that all of our public policies of locking down certain forms of commerce and assembly (even while allowing favored others) had only the true effect of destroying, mainly, free-enterprise businesses, denying elementary education, exposing millions of very vulnerable populations to Covid-19, upsetting and destroying marriages, increasing suicide rates across many age groups, increasing opioid deaths, creating huge disparities in rights, and expanding the reach and power of all levels of government. Fear, itself, was spread across nations, which simplified the tasks of causing people to act in contravention of their legal rights. It did not, however, actually limit the spread or medical impacts of the Covid-19 virus. Otherwise, fewer people would have died in the second year of the “pandemic” when supposedly “safe and effective” vaccines were widely administered… except that more people died in the second year. If face masks were effective in preventing infection from Covid-19, some statistical proof would exist… somewhere, but it doesn’t. There are quite a few untruths being spread by government types and those they have co-opted into alliance in the promulgating of ideas that are not so. For those who cared to learn the untruth of these ideas, these utterances become lies. And there are many.

For example, the mRNA injections do not constitute “vaccination.” Quite cleverly, when the “government” called for emergency development of a “vaccine” against the SARS-Cov-2 virus, giant pharmaceutical companies happily took upon themselves the heroic task of creating vaccines that had never succeeded (against corona viruses) and at “warp speed.” Fortunately, mRNA biotechnology had been developing for a decade and, in fact, was being developed to stop Covid-19 in the fall of 2019, before the “Coronavirus Pandemic” was even heard of, by a company called Moderna, in a city named Wuhan, China, amazingly enough.

So, the “heroic” aspect was not true, nor, it turns out, was the “warp speed.” It’s possible that the approval and release of the supposed “vaccines” could have been done by June of 2020, rather than immediately after the presidential elections in November. Ostensibly that was impossible because of the rigorous testing being done to gain even emergency use approval by the independent FDA. Ooops, there are a couple more… lies, that is. The testing performed wasn’t all that rigorous, ignored several potentially vulnerable groups (children, pregnant women, etc.) and the FDA is far from independent from either politics or “Big Pharma.” There seemed to be some political timing on the release of the “vaccines.” Surely not, you must be shouting – our benign representatives and public servants would never delay life-saving treatment for political reasons… never. We won’t bring up the refusal of hospitals to perform life-saving procedures on patients who won’t take the injection. (!) Back to the non-vaccines.

These shots stimulate cells in your body to create spike proteins that are similar to the Covid-19 spike proteins. What they don’t do, which real vaccines do, is stimulate B-cells and T-cells to create immune response to the pathogen, itself, response that becomes part of your immune profile, ready in the future to “wake up” and fight off the covid virus. By flooding your system with billions of spike proteins that the body recognizes as foreign, it causes the liver and kidneys and digestive system to get rid of them. If you happen to be exposed to Covid, itself, during the next couple of months or so thereafter, your body will get rid of those, too. Are there antibodies to “Covid” created? Yes, but they won’t be created if there’s a second exposure to Covid, so you need a second injection, then a third. In effect, the injection hi-jacks the immune system to reject spike proteins. The story is / was that the mRNA chemicals that induce that action were not going to make “permanent” changes to cells, that it would be out of the body in a couple of weeks, perhaps, and it definitely would-not-affect-your-DNA-itself… no, no, no, no.

So, the big lie continues: these shots aren’t really vaccines, but they are called “vaccines” because people are comfortable with that term, just as they are with “booster” shots. However, there is also the sad fact that the rather poisonous chemicals of these injections do NOT leave the body in a couple of weeks, and can actually be found over 12 months later, still capable of producing spike proteins.

Unfortunately, also, spike proteins accumulate in the ovaries, lungs, brain, kidneys, heart and pericardium, and elsewhere, causing “long Covid” and a host of other chronic bad reactions. So much dis-information, so little time. Now it is being revealed, drip by drip, that the shots, themselves, weaken your body’s natural immunity – not just towards Covid, but towards, well… everything. Pathologists have detected, following the injections, significant increases in childhood cancers, for one example, but not just in children! Adults are being diagnosed with supposed childhood cancers and other diseases, and the increase follows Covid vaccination – apparently. For some reason, the typical immune responses of millions of Americans are not stopping these diseases that are usually handled without notice by immune systems. Normal public health regimens would have this uptick carefully studied, but the CDC is not interested.

There are accumulating statistics from several countries that susceptibility to Covid-19 is much greater among fully “vaccinated” and boosted people, than for un-vaccinated people. At least one country has ceased publishing that data lest the average person misunderstand it.

There has also been noted from insurance companies’ death-benefit statistics, an astronomical uptick in all deaths for 18 to 64-year-olds – just in 2021, year of the “vaccines” – amounting to about 40%. What? FORTY PERCENT%? What in Hell is causing that? The NIH and the rest of the public-health alphabet-soup of agencies and departments are uninterested. The rest of us should be very interested.

Very sadly, research in Sweden has shown the mRNA chemicals can actually CHANGE the host DNA in living liver cells. Oh, no… this was the biggest safety promise of all when these weird injections gained political power: They could not change or damage one’s DNA. Uh-oh. Is this going to be another Thalidomide? Or a new type of cancer, in effect? Please, someone, tell us the truth… or, if not THEtruth, how about Atruth about these God-forsaken shots.

Maybe the FDA could release all it knows about mRNA injections and the premises under which they were approved, even for emergency use. Maybe the CDC could reveal all it knows about adverse effects of the shots. They have a “vaers” system for “voluntary” reporting of bad reactions to all vaccines. It is Prudent to expect that CDC has a great deal of information about such events, but they’ve released a report that covers only about the first month after emergency-use approval; why not the rest? More than a year has passed since then.

Would it be asking too much to reveal what the costs have been to the federal government for the development and purchase/distribution of the “approved” vaccines? How about what the NIH, CDC or NIAID know about TREATMENTS for Covid that can prevent serious disease, hospitalization or ventilation and death. There are several, some have the status of over-the-counter medications in many parts of the world, and they are not just safe, but extremely safe after decades of use. There is overwhelming experience and data about their effectiveness as anti-viral products, yet they are virtually illegal to prescribe or administer in the United States. Is repression of information about these inexpensive, proven-safe drugs, in the realm of lies of omission?

How much are hospitals and extended-care facilities paid by HCCFA, MEDICAID or MEDICARE for care and treatment of ostensible Covid patients? One good description listed the main ways hospitals made the most: 1) Admit and test the patient – test him or her more than once if necessary to obtain a positive result; 2) Place the patient in a “Covid” ward; Start him or her on Remdesivir (a very dangerous anti-viral linked to liver and kidney damage); 3) As patient declines, place him or her on a ventilator; 4) Discharge patient or release him or her to a mortuary. What might all of this be worth? About $100,000! The key to great billing, however, is the positive test result.

Even less complex regimens are good billing so long as “Covid” is tied to the patient. When $Millions start to pile up, ethical fences start buckling. Overstating the number of “Covid” patients – and getting rewarded for doing so – has been a great boost to institutional incomes and a great boost to public hysteria about the danger presented by Covid-19. Despite all sorts of statistics to the contrary, most Americans believe that Covid is practically a death sentence, following a long, painful decline and probable intubation/ventilation. Worse, since it is “so contagious” family members can’t visit those in extended care or in hospital, even as they pass away. Across the country, thanks to most of media burying inconvenient statistics, governors and mayors empowered themselves to strip millions of their citizens and residents of their constitutional rights, and those millions of Americans willingly went along with the restrictions out of FEAR! Fear generated by a steady stream of real dis-information happily spewed by the so-called “main-stream media.”

People who lost a friend or relative to covid are angry at anyone who questions the mish-mash of illogical, often erroneous “public-health” dictates, as though opponents of the government overreach might be part of the reason their loved-one got sick. They should be angry! They should be angry with China, for spreading the disease across the globe after it had escaped from their lab in Wuhan City; they should be angry with the NIH, the CDC and the NIAID, who surreptitiously passed the research, including Gain-of-Function research, off to the Wuhan Laboratory because it was illegal to do it in the United States; they should be angry with those same bozos and the FDA for not only approving these increasingly useless injections, but also for denying and suppressing safe potential treatments that have been shown to almost stop the spread of the Covid virus in the body, allowing natural immunity to fight the infection off far more quickly than it could have, potentially preventing the deaths of half a million or more of the reported “Covid” fatalities. They should be angry… but not at people who refuse to wear ineffective face masks.

They should be angry, as well, at political “leaders,” or controllers, who locked down our economy as they did, and locked down our personal activities as they did. The collateral deaths from suicide, drug overdose and, in a sense, broken hearts, as lives, businesses and marriages crumbled, amounted to more than a quarter of a million. If “an enemy” had invaded and killed over 200,000 Americans, we’d all be angry at him, her or them… certainly. And we would fight back until he, she, it were vanquished: totally defeated and rendered unable to repeat that evil action. Unfortunately, we were convinced to TAKE DIRECTION FROM the enemy! And here we are, still arguing over face masks for toddlers. Shame on us.

Economics, Family, Governance, Health Care, Politics 2021

INJECTABLE WISDOM

July 10, 2021 Prudence Leadbetter Leave a comment

Vaccine is a comforting word… concept. Inject some serum, or drink it, depends, and one will become safe from a serious, if not existential, threat. What a concept. What could go wrong? Some of the most profitable industries in the world have accepted billions of dollars of “aid” from the federal government so that development of a “vaccine” that promises to protect everybody from COVID-19, could be accelerated. Numerous regulations were relaxed to permit development and testing to proceed together, there being no time to waste!

Miraculously, the first two, then three vaccines were all phenomenally effective and safe, safe, safe. Hurry, everyone, and get your shot or shots or jabs; they’re FREE! Oh, here and there some rare reaction or “allergy” to the serums was reported, but when you compare the millions and millions of doses, a few thousand hospitalizations, disabilities and deaths are a small price to pay to defeat the worst virus since the last one, regardless of how it was engineered or spread across the world in record time. Hurry! They’re safe, effective and FREE, say the pharmaceutical giants who produce the serums, as do the government functionaries and politicians that financed their development and rendered them available for “emergency” use, despite their connections to the very companies producing them.

“FREE” is a relative term in matters of emergency vaccines. Aside from the $billions to accelerate their availability, every single, damned shot and jab is being paid for by Uncle Sam, our benevolent government, on the arm, so to speak. Some of the top medical agencies of our friend, the federal government, helped to engineer COVID-19 both in this country and in China with our funding, to make it more communicable to humans, it being a virus in bats, after all and very unlikely to infect humans, it turns out, without the engineering. But, glory be, we have the vaccines! We’re saved.

Unless we aren’t. These vaccines are still experimental drugs that have received emergency-use authorization because there are no alternative treatments for COVID-19. Our thoughtful and benign government-types have made sure we are as safe as humanly possible by creating laws that protect us from being forced to take experimental drugs unless there are “no alternative treatments” available. How good of them. Not.

There are alternative, effective, inexpensive drugs available that have remarkably good effects on COVID-19 both in early treatment and even in preventive (prophylactic) uses. In many countries one or another of these drugs are readily available, even over-the-counter-available, and people have taken them and benefitted. Even some late-treatment uses have reversed “hopeless” disease trajectories.

“But, they can’t prescribe off-label!” critics and talking heads on television say. Well, duh, every friggin’ drug in the world is off-label for a brand new virus, now, isn’t it? When people are dying and standard procedures are failing to save them, why not try drugs that have worked for thousands of cases? Because it’s off label? No, because Donald Trump recommended that we try them. Shame on us. Doctors, actual practicing medical DOCTORS who had copious evidence of effectiveness of Ivermectin, for example, were not praised but cancelled. Twitter and Google suppressed their opinions. Why?

“We don’t know how safe they are!” worry the heads.

Let’s consider that we don’t know how actually safe the “vaccines” are, either, do we? In fact, let’s consider that thousands of people have died or suffered life-changing reactions to these experimental drugs – drugs the manufacturers are promoting for children and even infants! Some authorities are forcing children to be vaccinated, when there is no evidence that these vaccines afford ANY protection to people younger than 20 or 24, say, since they are at an infinitesimally small risk from COVID. Who takes a vaccine – an experimental vaccine – against the threat of a disease that is not a threat?

There are thousands of people whose effects from the vaccines will never be included in any database of pros and cons about these vaccines. As it is, if someone complains about a bad effect every medical effort seems to be to hold the vaccine harmless. Many people don’t register a complaint because they don’t connect the injection with a new physical problem. In Prudence’ case it’s shortness of breath, loss of endurance, poor sleep patterns because poor breathing interrupts sleep. After 76 years of quite good health, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine has initiated an imPrudent slow, uncomfortable decline. We’ll find out if anything can be done, other than taking some other pharmaceutical(s) for the rest of Prudence’ life.

There is something – or many things – rotten about the creation of COVID-19 and these vaccines, while alternative treatments are suppressed. It is a billionaire’s game, led, in part, by the unusual Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci and others in the CDC, NIH and USAID, not to overlook the U.N.’s W. H. O. whose leadership helped Communist China suppress information about the new virus even while it was being spread across the world. Billionaires and would-be billionaires. Giant pharmaceutical companies and would-be giant pharmaceutical companies.

The formula is simple: create a worldwide health crisis and pop out serums that virtually every human will need to take… and damn the consequences for some. Let’s say four billion doses at $150 a jab… whirr, clunk, click, ding a ding-ding: $600 BILLION! If 5 or 10 or 50 thousand die from the vaccine, or 150,000 die from “lock-down” drug abuse and suicide, well, we’re overpopulated, anyway.

It is unhealthy, we might say, to lose trust in the medical establishment. The erosion began with the inception of Medicare and the federalization of welfare under Lyndon Johnson. Piece by piece, hospital by hospital, practitioner by practitioner, medical group by medical group, insurance company by insurance company, pharmaceutical company by pharmaceutical company, device manufacturer by device manufacturer, the entire industry/delivery system has adjusted to the political value of health care… and to the financial flows directed increasingly by government.

The politicization of medicine takes place to a significant degree by the direction and management of grant monies. Both “non-profit” universities, colleges and teaching hospitals, and for-profit laboratories and pharmaceutical manufacturers are very concerned to not buck prevailing politics. The research they do is often closely aligned with the opinions of politicians. While they may not publish “lies,” per se, they look only for certain truths – truths that keep grant money flowing. The increase in “billionaire-ships” over the last 20 years has created another source of grants aimed at fulfilling, often, a single person’s views of what is important research and what is not.

COVID-19 brings to light all of these weaknesses in medical science, as well as outright corruption, as private dollars sway the work and attitudes of “official” federal agencies that are depended upon for dispassionate truth. The World Health Organization division of the U. N. has also proven itself corrupt by kow-tow-ing to the Chinese Communist party in matters of truth about COVID-19’s origin and spread, helping to contribute to thousands of deaths, worldwide. To whom can we turn? The N.B.A.? NIKE? Not bloody likely.

There are truth-tellers out there. Hopefully, you are one, and so is your best friend and your significant other. There are a handful of people in office who are both truthful and unafraid of the truth – not always congruent conditions. Support your local truth-tellers and follow those who have the courage to proclaim and defend truth. Don’t fall victim to repeating the claims of suspected – hoped-for – truth-tellers, without confirming the truth, yourself. You will be challenged by people who believe things that aren’t so.

Truth is the right medicine for our health care and our health/medical industries. What else could be? It is the right medicine for our own health whenever we interact with those increasingly government-driven organizations. Is it not the right medicine for government and the law, too? Would truth work in government?

Is a COVID vaccine the right set of chemicals to inject into your only body? Find out the truth to the best of your ability, before you say, “Yes.”

A reckoning is surely coming. Hearing those words causes some listeners to imagine China being hoist on the World’s petard for causing so many deaths and economic losses. Won’t happen, it seems Prudent to say, at least not during the Biden-Harris administrations. They are long bought and paid-for.

No, a reckoning over COVID-19 could take the form of reduced health for millions around the world, due to widespread vaccination with serums that are effective against COVID while also being effective against good heart function, or against pregnancy and maternity. Such “side effects” have side-effected many thousands, including, as our friend, the global socialist movement in the persons of the U. S. government, God forbid, forces inoculation of youngsters. Not many have died, some merely debilitated at age 12 or so.

Culture, Education, Politics 2020, Sex

Orwell was right

September 11, 2020 Prudence Leadbetter Leave a comment

We live in an age of what is called, REASON. Supposedly we have become so very smart that there is no longer a need for faith in any God or gods, no need for superstition or even wishful thinking. We have the handmaid of reason: SCIENCE. No one can confuse us with un-testable “mumbo-jumbo.” We can rely on science, and science is based on evidence, experimentation and repeatable observations. No mysteries for us; all of our beliefs and decisions are science-based, evidence-based, expert-based. Since we aren’t all scientists or mathematicians, EXPERTS hold an important place in our reason-fed society.

Yes, we still honor some religious leaders and we still respect the ancient founders of religions… well, some of them: the ones that science can prove actually existed. And we still revere the great teachings of these ancient religion-founders… at least the ones that science can prove were actually taught by the scientifically-accepted founders. Reason teaches all of us that questioning the fables that surround Mohammed could result in damages or death. Muslims not only believe but take offense, too.

In any case, we don’t have to accept the mythologies of other religions, especially Christianity, until science confirms them.

Science, one can easily see, is connected intimately with TRUTH. This makes so much sense that reasonable people think that science and truth are obviously the same thing. Basing our decisions, our votes, our very governance on truth will certainly avoid a host of problems that derive from lies and myths and false ideas. We’ve seen a whole lot of that in our political history. The political movement that is based on truth, evidence and science is unquestionably the one to follow and support.

Truth, however, has proven elusive, science notwithstanding. How can this be so? People who believe in science and truth would never lie, would they? The fly in that ointment is that science, during its best efforts, can only approach truth. Truthful scientists never claim to understand absolute truth; science is the quest for truth. Granted, there are a lot of things scientists are pretty sure of, sometimes so much so that very little additional research is done on those matters. But, every day, and particularly when a new disease is encountered, there are more questions than answers, and scientists are generally very careful to not proclaim answers that may soon be rendered untrue. Lies can creep in. Well, there are advantages to lying, as humans have learned, and this truth has found its way into political planning and campaigns… and even into science. Who knew?

The basic difference between individual freedom and responsibility as a governing philosophy, and all the other governing models, is that the alternatives to freedom can only gain ascendancy by convincing people of lies. The greatest of these is the fundament of what we know as socialism: that controlled people will be MORE free if they can shuck off the burdens of responsibility, merit, attainment and, interestingly, religion.

The above is a bold claim. There had better be some proven truth that backs up such a claim. All that defenders of freedom have is the history of socialism since it appeared. It always fails and, in every case, manifests the deaths of millions of people it controls in order to install ever-“purer” forms of the revolution that installed socialists into power. Only then will the planned future the people were promised, be possible. Unfortunately, socialist regimes never run out of enemies of the “people” who are preventing the completion of the revolution. This is due, in no small part, to the inability of planned economies to produce sufficient productive surplus to finance the growth and improved standards of living necessary to serve everyone and defend the nation. There is always too little surplus to destroy debt – also known as “investment in the future” – as well.

Eventually, socialism consumes all of its people’s money and a lot of other people’s money. This, unfortunately, is where the United States is, now. We have swallowed a lot of socialist bull-bleep and find ourselves $27 Trillion in debt. As we argue over Covid-19, our time is spent expanding the socialist aspects of government, and expanding that debt. Fortunately, there is still enough freedom in the American system to encourage and allow substantial productive surplus. In theory our economy can destroy that debt. Unfortunately, we are politically unable to stop outspending our productive surplus… socialistically.

Truth exists, known or not, and science, if honestly applied, will keep approaching it. The rest of us will, according to those so enamored, keep running our lives, our personal economics and our government accordingly. That scenario is superior to how we do those things, now. It’s because of competing belief structures. Truth… reality… is dashed on the rocks of belief every day. Worse, we seem to be able to consider COMPETING TRUTHS!

A perfect example is the current fascination and promulgation of trans-genderism. Our august politicians have created legal structures around the theory that believing in transgenderism makes it true, or real in some way. It is not, of course, although the feelings – emotions – that cause someone to deny the responsibilities of his or her biology are certainly real. Yet those who oppose encouraging transgenderism are held to be “deny-ers” and literally on the wrong side of the law. The same happens with socialism and anti-Americanism. Both modes of belief are replete with untruths and distortions so skewed as to be utter lies. Yet their adherents believe their “facts” (beliefs) are true.

There is no compromise. We have cleverly talked ourselves into legislating official defense of competing “truths.”

Politicians, elected mayors, governors, district attorneys, certain presidential and vice-presidential candidates and more, defend anarchists’ “right” to riot in proclamation of their “truths.” It’s a stretch, and illegal. The destruction of civil rights now defends civil rights of certain others. These same bemoan the “fact” that the Trump administration failed to follow “the science” at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis.

And so, the left has managed to weaponize truth. Once abortion was converted from ending the life of a baby to promoting the lives of women, we were solidly on this path. Our tax dollars pay for much of it and the wealthiest people and corporations in the world “donate” huge sums to subsidize the only movements who ACT on hatreds, and who promote the destruction of America and of the idea of America.

What is wrong with this picture? What is wrong with us?

Uncategorized

Conservational Conservatism

September 10, 2017 Prudence Leadbetter Leave a comment

Real conservatives are also conservationists. Liberals, of course, will scoff at this, but Prudence tells us that this is a logical relationship. The nature of true conservancy can illuminate the right thinking of true conservatives.

Those who fight for conservation of nature have drawn political lines mainly along economic – often anti-economic – lines. The in-group of conservationists tends to view all those who are not as rabid about conservation as they as somewhat backward, perhaps rapacious exploiters who care about only profit… even if it will “destroy” our home planet. Planetary destruction is a tall order, but humans have been quite industrious about modifying our environments, plural, although the greatest, planet-wide climatological changes have occurred with no human input whatsoever. Still, our increasing need for energy has changed the lower atmosphere, at least, making humans ever more suspect.

As defined by conservationists, conservatives are all greedy, overweight and driven by profits; very conservative people, however, see such people as enemies of honest capitalism similar to their being enemies of conservation. Real conservatives are not in favor of unregulated, monopoly capitalism, like that which results from close connections to politicians and their overreaching governance.

Real conservatism is not reactionary, but it does desire to conserve good philosophies and, with them, the best of ethics for organizing and governing our society. This also means conserving the best of our culture, not plural. It is, viewed without hate, not all bad.

Some conservationists would sacrifice human civilization to preserve a pristine habitat for every other form of life, or at least, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants wouldn’t be missed, especially if snail-darters would then thrive. Once enthralled by being smarter and more sensitive than everyone else, rabid conservationists tend to ally with others who are equally so convinced. Political power follows. Now, the very overreaching government that makes so-called capitalism an enemy of vast majorities, is seen as the one force needed to assure adherence to their beliefs – whether conservationist, abortionist or racist (anti-white).

True conservatives can discern which of these causes should be opposed and which are worth working with. We oppose abortion-on-demand and racism of all colors. We believe in non-wastefulness, non-pollution, and clean environments. We tend to be religious and we do NOT seek for the government(s) to enforce our beliefs, but to protect them. We oppose globalized, monopolistic crony-capitalism since it tends toward organized theft of both wealth and sovereignty. We trust individuals to perfect themselves, yet we insist on firm application of laws and sanctions for wrongdoing… for everyone.

Conservatives believe in balance and in courtesy toward all. We tend to accept others as good or, at least, right-motivated until proven wrong. To true conservatives, what someone feels is not nearly as important as what one DOES. That is, anyone who is willing to ACT like an American, including respect for our laws and for other people, is welcome to live in America. It’s fairly simple. Respect for other people includes respect for their environment – everyone’s environment, while enabling economic opportunity and private property rights that make it possible for individuals to be FREE to the greatest degree possible… FROM GOVERNMENT.

The most passionate conservationists are well-advised to be conservatives, as well, and to recognize human nature as individual and not monolithic. Conservationists seem to have fallen into encouragement of a police state that will enforce conservation as they see it; conservation that pits its desired ends AGAINST people, requiring, therefore, government to force compliance with conservationists’ corner on a part of science. This ignores other parts of science, particularly that of human nature, yielding a somewhat fascist liberalism that has rendered America a rich-appearing debtor, barely able to afford conservation or even self-defense.

The success of the American experiment will be recognized in the shrinkage of government, not its growth, and in its honesty of education, not its bias.

Governance

Truth, Belief, Spirituality, Life, Death, Freedom

June 18, 2016 Bob Wescott Leave a comment

THE BIG SIX.
It feels as though all the “old” ways are under assault at once. The arguments against what is and how it came to be, are endless. Overpopulation is an argument that’s so old it’s become new again. The reasons to limit – even reduce – population change with the winds of politics, but they’re certainly heating up again, now. Mankind has no clear basis for determining when population is “over,” or just larger, but there are plenty of worries… and theories – same things, sometimes.
TRUE SEX
Another, relatively new argument is about sexuality. The closer we can get to pure animalism the better, according to some. Animals, themselves, exercise better ethics about sex than do humans who want to act like animals. Even Federal and state governments are de-regulating sex, mostly by coercing straight people, who are the vast majority. Why it is a government problem is hard to compute.
Reconfiguring sex brings up issues like Freedom, Social Cohesion, Law, Justice and the Regulatory State. The social – and sexual – roles of males and females are shifting, and have been for a century, to the point they no longer have legal definition. Their denial is where legality matters. The original feminist rebellion, allegorized in the Garden of Eden story, is playing out to unintended results, all around us.
HOT TRUTH
Climate Change – measurable in less than half a lifetime – is a wonderfully heavy political tool for leftist, controlling types. Too many people on the planet is the source of it, of course, as we are the source for everything unpleasant, even, now, earthquakes and volcanoes. The chief agitators about climate change are the same who want to sunder sexuality, disrupt business, cut law free from its moorings and render education into government pigeon-holing.
COLD TRUTH
Religious institutions are being de-legitimized, despite Constitutional protection of religious freedom, but religion, itself – as in spirituality – is being lost at the same time, as if it were never more than decoration. The spirituality of life is dismissed as inconvenience, as millions of abortions are committed around the world, so strongly advocated by those who deny fatherhood and motherhood as oppressive.
Science, to socialist controllers, is the new religion. It’s technology, really, that provides cover for the erasing of tradition… and of spirit. Science somehow justifies top-down regulation; freedom, religious and otherwise, is its impediment.
FORMULA SIX
All areas of human testing, failure and success derive from the following elements of the formulae for Humanity:
1) Truth; 2) Belief; 3) Spirituality; 4) Life; 5) Death; and, 6) Freedom.
I have tried to identify another “root” or “end” to improve this sextet, but these encompass everything, I think. All other topics of debate, argument, war and peace, including those heated and cold, are “means” to these “ends.” My contention is that it is possible to devise governance that prevents the means from thwarting the ends for all… and for every individual, family, extended group or nation. So, in turn:
TRUTH is absolute, illimitable, pure. It bumps into beliefs – or the other way around – constantly, but it can’t be changed with a new truth (opinion) to take its place, and lies may stick to it only temporarily. Truth is the reason for experiment, discovery, curiosity and science, but it can’t be limited by any of those – it simply is.
TREWTH
Many of mankind’s troubles stem from attempts to define or re-define truth, as though different opinions represented differing sets of truths. Obviously that is impossible; there are only differing sets of beliefs or, corrosively, attitudes.
Truth may be described through evidence, but evidence, itself, requires constant, scientific (defined as examination and testing free of the pollution of beliefs) distillation. There are as many truths as there are atomic particles, all potentially discoverable, but true regardless. Humans are concerned with a tiny fraction of them.
PERSONAL TRUTH
Our greatest literature is about the revelation of truth, or about truths that conflict based on unequal beliefs about them. Often, unable to reveal absolute truth, literature will draw moral lessons from its obvious existence, even if imperfectly known, and present those as a form of proof of absolutes. Such are easily disregarded by skeptics, who insist that they are entitled to irrefutable proof of absolute truth if they are to respond to it in any way. Otherwise, their comfortable beliefs will suffice for this lifetime.
JUDGMENT
Legal battles are one forge for isolating absolute truth, hopefully stripped of all misunderstanding. Oddly, mere opposing “views” of what is true are the essence of “proof” that will convict or acquit a suspect. Recognizing that absolute proof of absolute truth is imperfectly achievable by humans, we invest judges and juries with the power to “rate” the quality of opposing views of truth, in order to convict or acquit. Neither outcome establishes “truth,” although one may come close. Whose opinion of what is true, is most plausible?
Even confessions must be proven, as individuals are known to admit to acts not performed for various reasons.
TRUTH IN POLITICS
Controlling types, politicians and others, find that controlling access to truth – thereby defining truth for the controlled – yields immense power. Science is their umbrella, and education, glorious, indoctrinating, “public” education, is their most effective tool.
The monopolistic ability to control the beliefs of most of the population, and therefore how that population grants power democratically, enables teachers – controlled through licensure and unionization – to define “truth” for their students. “Science,” then is more free to pursue the “truths” it wishes to discover and to ignore those it wishes to obscure – or, as happens, doesn’t believe in.
Truth controlled by politics is a dangerous, dangerous weapon.
TRUE LIES
The existence of truth spawns lies… some unintended. Lying, when on purpose, is purely human. There is no inherent requirement for lying that must be met to live well. Lying is easy in its simplest applications; many are harmless, even beneficial for the “ly-ee.”
“Do I look stupid?” The asker probably thinks he or she DOES look stupid in some situation, but usually receives an answer like, “Of course not!” Which might be a lie. “Do these clothes make me look fat?”
Of course not.
[Additional Truthiness to follow]

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