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Herd Immunity

sunbeam March 3, 2021 Comments Off

I was alerted by a friend to an article in the Wall Street Journal by Marty Makary. Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, chief medical adviser to Sesame Care, and author of “The Price We Pay.” Dr. Makary has been heavily involved in the tracking of the COVID caseload here and around the world.

We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April

Makary points out that the number of new cases is down 77% over the last month and a half. Why? Makary notes:

More COVID Insanity

sunbeam March 2, 2021 Comments Off

Dr. Tom Woods has been an invaluable source for all manner of things related to the COVID insanity gripping a significant portion of the public. I present below an email from a young person to Dr. Woods concerning the situation at his university.

This email details the horrific situation that this person finds himself in. It is all due to the insane restrictions that have been imposed on the population by the COVID Stasi. This extends with even greater ferocity to those imprisoned within out institutions of higher learning. As this author indicates, the COVID Stasi are aided and abetted in their grand schemes by student volunteers. These volunteers have been brainwashed into believing that they have a moral high ground. They believe they are doing a righteous thing when they snitch on their fellow students.

Random Quotes

sunbeam March 1, 2021 1 Comment

Former Gen. Stanley McChrystal:

“I did see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaida in Iraq where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America.”

McChrystal is, of course, referring to PDJT as the powerful leader. Just how has PDJT led people to embrace violence as a solution to the problems plaguing the country? Did PDJT encourage BLM and Antifa to burn, pillage, loot and kill during the summer? Did PDJT order the police to stand down and allow burning, pillaging, looting and killing? Did PDJT encourage and foment violence in the wake of the most brazen election fraud in the history of the country?

Food For Thought

sunbeam February 27, 2021 Comments Off

Food for thought

From A Friend

sunbeam February 26, 2021 Comments Off

Something to really think about…

I found these numbers interesting.

As reported by the CDC … Here are the US deaths by year and the change from the previous year.

Year 2017: 2,818,503 Americans died

Year 2018: 2,839,205 deaths (20,702 more than the previous year 2017)

Marxist Takeover

sunbeam February 25, 2021 Comments Off

Following up on the post from yesterday, I am showing the beginning of an article on the Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft called:

Warning for America: The Four Steps of Marxist Takeover Were Activated in 2020

Back in July 2020 Scott McKay at American Spectator wrote an amazing piece on the Four Stages of Marxist Takeover.

McKay’s report is based on the words and warnings of Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov.

It’s been seven months since the report was published and the situation today is even more dire than predicted. Even McKay would never have predicted the antics of the Marxist left during the 2020 elections. The Marxist takeover of America is well on its way.

Here are the four steps of Marxist takeover of America.

The first goal of revolutionary propaganda, particularly the Marxist variety, is to demoralize. It’s to depress you and make you believe your civilization is lost. Once you succumb to that, you are, in the words of Ming the Merciless, “satisfied with less.” Why do you think ordinary white people are so willing to apologize for the sins of their ancestors and to confess to being racist without even knowing it? Why do you think corporate America is blindly endorsing a Marxist revolutionary organization that openly declares war on the nuclear family?

That’s demoralization, and according to Bezmenov it’s the first step in engineered societal collapse.

Is The End Of America Near?

sunbeam February 24, 2021 Comments Off

I have been writing for a long time about the usurping of Americans’ constitutional rights under the guise of a pandemic. The lockdowns, and other restrictive measures (no in-person religious services, no face-to-face schooling, wearing masks, etc.) is leading America to becoming a totalitarian state. The populace is being trained to submit to any and all dictates coming from our elected politicians. This is always couched inside the rhetoric of this being for one’s own good.

Naomi Wolf is an American liberal, feminist author, journalist and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. Wolf was an advisor to Bill Clinton’s successful run for a second term in 1996 for the Presidency. Wolf has written a number of books including the bestseller The End of America released in 2007.

This week Wolf appeared, believe it or not, on Tucker Carlson’s show. As Tucker noted, he’s sure she probably lost friends just for doing that. Such is the nature of the Cancel Culture in this country.

Why did she take this step which must have been fraught with trepidation for her? Even though she is someone who might be characterized as being on the Left, Wolf sees what is going on in the country as the precursor to a full-on police state. In her mind this transcends everything liberals and conservatives might disagree on. The people must unite to fight back against this appropriation of our liberties.

Random Idiocy

sunbeam February 23, 2021 Comments Off

There are legitimate concerns over the use of artificial intelligence. While it is a great labor saver, there are situations when its abilities are somewhat constrained.

Steve Sailer has an interesting example over at unz.com.

“We hear much about the menace posed by racist robots, but mighty Google appears to have succeeded in inventing artificial intelligence with the natural stupidity of a professor of intersectionality.

“Late last year, a YouTuber who produces popular chess videos found that his channel was blocked over charges of ‘harmful and dangerous’ content. Even though the channel was restored within 24 hours, YouTube did not explain why it had blocked Croatian chess player Antonio Radic, also known as ‘Agadmator,’ from its platform briefly, the Dailymail reported.”

Experts who viewed the comments section theorize that it was words like “white,” “black,” “attack,” and “threat” that caused Google AI filters to think that the comments were racist. A test of several hundred thousand chess comments revealed that AI software flagged an overwhelming majority (82%) of them as problematic.

Musings

sunbeam February 22, 2021 Comments Off

Despite the attempts of the cabal of Amazon Web Services, Google, Apple, and many other Big Tech monsters to take it down, Parler has been brought back to life.

Parler was falsely blamed as being the hub on which the Capitol Hill Riot was planned, but examination of DOJ indictments shows that Facebook and to a lesser extent Twitter were the central hubs — yet no one shut them down. Fuzzy covered the findings in Parler Vindicated: Study Finds Facebook ‘Far and Away’ Most Used Social Media By Capitol Hill Rioters.

Parler was shut down because it was viewed as a place for Trump supporters, the rest of the excuses were pretext.

Parler has moved to a new computer server farm. The 20 million users can begin using their old app and logins Monday, Interim CEO Mark Meckler told Just the News.

Musings

sunbeam February 20, 2021 1 Comment

Over the years and decades, we have seen many coups take place around the world. The most common thread that has run through most such events is the occupation of the capital city of that country by the military and the installation of various “protective” measures to protect the instigators. These have usually included razor wire and other impediments.

Has anyone noticed Washington DC lately? Armed troops with orders allowing deadly force patrol our nation’s capital. Razor wire fencing surrounds the seat of government. Their occupation of the city has now been extended to September. Pretty soon there will be TSA-style checkpoints in different places around the city.

This is our political elite telling us they have executed a coup against the American people.