This is a bit of a worry. The Google CEO said that its chatbot Bard learned how to translate Bengali without a programmer teaching it the language. He said that this was a case of emergent properties. It will be something to watch, as these sorts of events could point to some sort of proto-consciousness developing. I do not believe that machines are, or will obtain full consciousness as we know it, but there could be something else that we presently do not fully understand along these lines of emergent properties, without full consciousness. This could result in unpredictable activities, which may turn out to be as dangerous as runway consciousness. It is alarming, but predictable that as usual, the Dr Frankensteins are charging ahead, with no real concern about the consequences, Elon Musk being an exception.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-04-19-google-ceo-doesnt-understand-ai-chatbot-bard.html

The easy solution adopted by the Greens to the so-called environmental crisis involves abandoning fossil fuels and putting in place a capitalist economy based upon renewable energy. Actually, most Greens are radical Leftists, and when scratched, metaphorically, bleed red, red for communism. But, neither capitalism, or communism are sustainable on so-called renewable energy sources, which are anything but. Converting the vast majority of a nation over to electricity is not going to work, because the grid cannot cope with this massive expansion in demand, and this is true for all jurisdictions, including Australia and the US. The problem is that the main forms of renewable energy, wind and solar, are not fossil fuel-neutral, and will depend upon a massive use of fossil fuels to get to any where need the level required to make an attempt at replacing fossil fuels. But, the wind does not blow all the time, and the sun sets each day. Batteries can store electricity, but at a cost; they require extensive resources to produce, and massive numbers will be needed.

Meanwhile, while the environmentalist work to deindustrialise the West, the Green Left give their blessings to communist China to build coal-fired power stations, to rule the world. That is the real goal of Left and environmentalism is general: Chinese communist takeover.

Financial gurus Charles Nenner is very well respected for his accurate economic predictions, such as the global financial crisis, and much more. So, when he writes, I read. Summing up the endgame of the present perfect storm of geo-political crisis, he concludes that the American empire is at an end, something many others have said as well. But, when empires like this face an aggressive competitor, in this case communist China, war is inevitable. And, this war will spiral into a global World War III. The death toll will be 30 percent of all people on Earth, Nenner says. That is highly significant to say the least, and if true, or if the percentage is even higher, it is not likely that techno-industrial civilisation will survive. This is something that should be discussed I think. If one was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer, surely thinking about end of lifer decisions would cross one’s mind? At least one would make a will, if there was not one.

https://usawatchdog.com/dollar-finished-america-in-danger-charles-nenner/

Edward Dutton has presented a good summary piece that gives us an empirical confirmation of what we have always know; that the Left are hypocrites. He summarises the conclusions reached by fellow dissent biosocial researcher, Eric Kaufmann, in an article on white fright published in the Social Science Quarterly. While the Left are engaged in endless virtue-signalling about non-whites, diversity and mass immigration, in general, at the personal level, they seek to protect themselves and families by not living in highly multi-racial areas, and certainly their children go to white schools, and the higher the class the better. This was confirmed by Kaufmann by use of both UK and US data, and I would bet that it is also true for Australia as well. As I see it, while Professor Dutton concludes that this supports the human biodiversity position that people want to be with their own kind, which is no doubt true, I think the more probable hypothesis is that the Leftist seeks white neighbourhoods because the alternatives are not so safe; violent crime and other forms of social breakdown. Thus, the Leftist is about self-promotion and survival, and woke is used by them for just that purpose too.

https://vdare.com/articles/it-s-official-leftists-are-hypocrites-who-prefer-living-in-whiter-areas

Brownstone continues its insightful examination of the politics of the Covid frenzy, this time focussing up academia. While there are fine details for each jurisdiction, in general, with a few exceptions, academics across the disciplines performed in the old fashion way; jump? How high? Or, updated, jabs? How many? There were in Australia only a handful of brave senior academics, most retired and thus at the emeritus level, who took a stand; they had completed their academic careers and cancellation would not be a disaster. These were mainly from STEM, and I cannot remember any Arts/Humanities academics speaking out. If anything, they were religious fanatics for the jab. But, if there was a mass rebellion, just maybe some of the social damage of the Covid lockdowns could have been adverted. But, no, despite all the lip service about freedom and liberty they push, they conformed and supported tyranny.

In this game, on-line journalism, one needs to be sure that sources are accurate, and information needs to be tirelessly run to the ground. When I saw the material about a new report from the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), “The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty” advocating the legalisation of paedophilia, sex between adults and children, I thought it might be fake news. But, unfortunately, no.

“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,” the report states. As well, it says that lawyers, judges and law enforcement should consider “the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.”

This is happening in New York, but be sure that the US is a testing ground for us in Australia, and it could soon be here, just like is happening with the Central Bank Digital currencies. Notice how going into the banks which still have tellers is a long wait, needing one to take a cut lunch, as many banks just put on one teller, and have lines going out the door. It is the equivalent of the lockdowns, both devious measures to achieve an end, and in the banking case, a move to digital banking.

But I digress. In New York City a credit card company is working with the government to track people’s purchase and to work out their carbon footprint. With Central Bank Digital Currencies, in the future, people using up too much carbon credits will simply be financially executed, and funds frozen, as was done in the Canadian truckers’ protests. The globalist elites push so hard for this as it will give them ultimate control over all aspects of life. Want to protest something that upsets you, some woke agenda? Then be prepared to starve in the brave new world, just around the corner. In the old days they just shot dissents, but today it is more humane to financially destroy them.

The Dominion Voting systems defamation case against Fox News has concluded, with Fox throwing in the towel, and agreeing to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million (roughly one-quarter of Fox News' reported gross earnings in 2022) to settle its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. This was to avoid a protracted trial, but really, they should have gone for it, since the payment was not far off. As I understand it, Fox went down for reporting false statements, that harmed the plaintiff’s reputation. I do not know if the actual machines were tested, or what evidence was heard in court.  But, the issue was about the integrity of the election, and issues like this should be publicly debated, even if ultimately wrong. Anyway, while Leftists are rejoicing, the case creates a precedence for media outlets and others to go after Leftists who pushed things like Russia stole the election for Trump. It will be open lawfare now.

One more case to raise sceptical doubts abut the state of the Western legal systems. 

Talk about conspiracy theories being uncovered; I am losing track of the number coming true. For example, the US government has been involved in a mass censorship operation using third party actors, to censor the views of political agents that they saw as in any way problematic. The US State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) used a covert corporation led by a former intelligence officer to blacklist conservative media outlets. This was revealed by Elon Musk’s “Twitter files.” What was created, and probably still thrives, is a Disinfo Cloud, acting by big Tech to censor by various means such dissents, most notably Covid vax critics during the height of the plandemic. This mechanism was set into place and has not been dismantled, so we can assume that it is stil operating, working away, day by day.

https://thekylebecker.substack.com/p/the-shadowy-group-behind-the-us-governments

This item illustrates the ideology behind the Covid plandemic, that this was not some one-off event as most ordinary people think, and which they hope is now behind them. On the contrary, no sooner did old Joe Biden declare that the Covid nonsense was over, that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act was to be extended by Secretary Becerra at the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).  He intends to amend the declaration under the Act for medical countermeasures against COVID-19, extending Covid measures out to December 2024. And, when that date is reached, or before, the measures will no doubt be extended once more. Having tasted ultimate power, the technocrats cannot let go. That is the lesson illustrated for us all in whatever jurisdiction we are in.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/the-emergency-is-dead-long-live-thel

Not only as Hunter Biden been up to all sorts of things with the communist Chinese, as revealed by his lost tap top, but it may be, if an IRS whistleblower is right, that there has been a coverup into his tax evasion investigation. There was “preferential treatment” and false testimony to Congress by a “senior political appointee.” Sounds like business as usual. There is not much more information about where this was coming from, but, it is not too hard to guess.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/19/irs-whistleblower-alleges-cover-up-of-hunter-biden-tax-evasion/

The mRNA vaxxes, released in early 2021 were said by the health authorities, and by all, right down to the local GP, to be safe and effective. This was also said to hold for pregnant women. But a vaccine evaluation report by Pfizer to the TGA Australia, tht was obtained under a Freedom of Information request, casts doubt upon that. The vaccine was known not to stay at the injection site, and did move around the body, reaching the female reproductive system, including the ovaries. There was found to be a doubling of pregnancy loss in the intervention group, as well as there being higher rates of foetal malformations in each of the 12 categories studied. That hardly seems consistent with the claims of safety, and was not publicised at the time. And, outside of these documents, as documented by Dr Naomi wolf and colleagues, the effects upon female fertility and menstrual cycles are significant, and are only just beginning to be fully documented.

https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-false-messaging-on-covid-vaccines

I have covered this topic a number of times at the blog, and the question of viral evolution was one of my arguments given against the reliance upon the Covid vaxxes back at the time of the rollout. My argument was that with the corona viruses, vaccines will be of limited use given the rapid mutation of the virus itself. And, that was proven true by the way variant after variant was found. As well, the Covid vaxxes proved to be of limited effectiveness, with people getting vaxxed, and still getting the disease. What has been proposed is the mass vaccination regime has put evolutionary pressure upon the Covid-19 virus to mutate, and as the vaccines are “leaky” and do not prevent transmission, the virus has spread and will continue to spread. Petrol has been put on a small fire, to make it into a bushfire. If societies were not at the mercy of Big Pharma, the Covid issue could have ben dealt with like any other flu, and herd immunity would have happened long ago.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/vaccines-alone-cannot-slow-the-evolution

I have two articles to do about the shocking trend of the elites to normalisation of paedophilia and/or the sexualisation of minors, which I take to be the next big woke thing. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates millions annually to a nongovernmental organization, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF),  which claims that children are born sexual and should learn about "commercial sex work" under 10 years of age! "Sexual activity may be part of different types of relationships, including dating, marriage or commercial sex work, among others," a publication says. If so, just exactly where will this level of liberation goes, given all that has gone before from the 1960s onto the decadence of today. Today, is the way of decay.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/gates-funded-ngo-claims-children-born-sexual-10-year-olds-should-learn-about-commercial-sex-work

Yesterday, all our methane seemed so far away … In fact, according to woke climate change autocrats and associated technocrats, methane production from cows etc. was killing the planet. Never mind that methane, apart from its alleged global warming aspect, has a global cooling effect, absorbing the sun’s radiation as well as impacting upon cloud patterns. Clouds are the big unknown in climate science, with positive and negative climate forcing effects. So, even in conventional climatology circles, the methane question is complex. In fact, recent research indicates that the supposed warming effect of methane needs to be scaled down by 30 percent.

So, why then should there be a fanatic drive to end farming in places like the Netherlands? Because, the climate crisis was never about rational science, which takes a longer view when examining the evidence. the agenda, in short, as cancelling the Western industrial society.

Everywhere one turns these days, yet another conspiracy theory, derided by the establishment in the past, comes out true. Passing mention at the blog has been made of the revelations made by the recently released court filings dealing with the possible involvement of the Saudi Arabian Government and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks. Donald C. Canestraro, a former Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration has worked as an investigator assigned to the Office of Military Commissions - Military Commissions Defense Organization, undertaking the investigation. Two terrorists were found to be in contact with the CIA prior to the 9/11 bombing. Don’t tell me that from such contact they did not formulate the clear idea that the two were up to something! Of course, they knew what might go down; the issue is how far the CIA was involved. I would bet at least $ 2 that the CIA was in up to their greasy necks. The event of 9/11, if it did not occur, would have had to have been invented, since it rang in the war against terror, and the social oppression that we all now live under, that was re-activated in the Covid plandemic.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/court-filing-claims-cia-recruited

According to Dr Malone, Covid has been the worst atrocity in history. The case for that cannot be purely on the number of deaths, although these numbers, while inflated by the narrative to scare people into eternal vaxxes, are still disturbing: 6,908,554 deaths worldwide as of April 19, 2023. The death toll from wars has been much greater, and even from communism, such as the cultural revolution under Chairman Mao, killing by some estimates up to 80 million people.

While it seems good news, for the movement to close down the universities, there is a dark cloud behind the silver lining. Here in the US, but I think the trend is also on Australian campuses, enrolments in the Arts and Humanities are falling. One may at first glance think that this is to be welcomed, given the level of wokeness flowing from these cesspools. But, as detailed below, it is likely that this is a planed demolition, with the aspects of woke that have been sown, and grown, in these disciplines being implanted across the broader spectrum of studies, such as STEM, just as toxic weeds grow over land that once was at least marginally productive. Really then, there is no escape except to close these places down and reform higher education.

https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2023/04/19/the_woke_revolution_is_erasing_the_past_149121.html

Footage published on the internet shows a large number of Chinese nationals at the San Vicente Migrant camp in Panama, a place where the US and UN get together the illegals to invade the US. The Chinese are preparing to enter the US illegally, which is the done thing today, providing that the aliens are non-white. The problem here is that these are all men, no women and children, and all of military age. If this is not going to be full of CCP agents … I will walk to China.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-army-of-chinese-nationals-line-up-in-panama-to-invade-usa/

At the time when the World Economic Forum began its climate change move to cancel meat, I pondered about whether they would go after rice as well, thinking that rice would be given a pass as Asians eat it, and the main attack is upon the West. But, not so, even though over half the world depends upon rice, the climate change machine is now going against rice. Rice is a big methane producer, and methane is hated by the regime, even more than carbon dioxide. What they intend to do about it is not clear, beyond the truism, of somehow reducing methane production in rice farming, which could be done to some degree, but the crop itself is intrinsically methane producing. You just have to look at the paddy fields to see happy bubbles of methane jumping to be free. I guess global mass famine is … back on the menu, boys!