Are You Simmering Yet?

There is a tale that goes something along the lines of ‘if you drop a frog into hot water it will jump out, but if you put a frog into cold water and gentle raise the temperature it will sit there till it croaks.’ The premise of this allegory is not constrained to just the frogs, be they straight or gay frogs, because humans also fall prey to this sort of situation. For proof of this play a little game with some of your friends; meet them in person and then take a small step forward and lean in to their personal space. Many people will step back in order to maintain their own personal space; and you the reader can see just how far some people will walk backwards before the complaining starts.

 

This author was recently asked why he put forward so much pushback with regard to the measures and mandates put in place for COVID-19. For this author there were at the time a number of flags that were raised around the inconsistencies in the messaging around COVID-19. This was forgivable in the first two weeks, ‘to flatten the curve’ due to the then reported lack of knowledge about the SARS2-Corona virus; over time though there was an ever increasing series of missteps and reversals. The pin from the proverbial official narrative hand grenade was when the miracle vaccine was announced and it was coupled with an indemnity for the manufactures of the vaccine.

 

But wait, there’s more:

Consider the levels to which Governments are now looking to ‘manage’ the people who voted them into office. Recent evidence has shown that in Canada there seems to be seems to be a touch of NIMBYism when it comes to ‘managing’ people who protest the actions of the Government of the day, in this the current year (2022).  According to the Canadian PM, it is perfectly reasonable for the people of China to demand for the stepping down of the leader of their government, on the heals of that same Canadian PM overseeing the tearing asunder the Canadian Constitution for two plus years only to shed it entirely under the guise of the Emergency Measures Act when some Canadians rose in protest against policies enacted under this same Canadian Prime Minister’s watch.

 

Additionally, many governments are now looking at CBDCs, or Central Bank Digital Currencies. This is a subject that is worthy of grave consideration; not because the value of the currency has the fluidity similar to the element Mercury, but because the side effects are potentially as equally as dangerous. The Central Banking system has long relied on the ideal of ‘Fix It Again Tonight’ because at the end of the day a FIAT currency means that there is nothing of tangible/portable value backing the currency outside what each of the other players in the currency game believes a specific currency is worth.

 

The problem with CBDCs is not the number of fingers in the monetary pie; it is the number of knives. The knives mentioned represent the rules and controls that can be applied to the fingers, which represents the people’s ability to use the fallacious and seemingly worthless numbers on a screen. This leads this author to wonder why the governments would implement a new system when the old system was easily adaptable. The current system had numbered bills and scanners which could trace the path of each and every printed bill and follow each and every digitally transaction; through both of these actions a block-chain could have been built and yet it wasn’t. This author is left to wonder if the CBDC ledger will be open to all of the people; this new information based currency costs nothing to print and the currency’s metadata would cost little to nothing to disseminate.

 

And more:

Both the State of California and the country of Switzerland have prepared emergency legislation drafts to ban Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the event of blackouts and brownouts. Germany’s government decided to fell a preverbal forest of windmills to reopen a coal mine so the country can fire-up coal based energy plant(s) to mitigate the risk of people going with out heat and light in the winter of 2022-23.

 

‘Just Stop Oil’ and other climate activists are up in arms in England over England re-opening one or perhaps more coalmines. The extracted coal is to be used in the manufacture of primary steel. The two grades of steel are primary and secondary; primary steel is made from iron ore and coal, while secondary steel is made with a high level of scrap and/or recycled steel that contains other metals and impurities. It must be noted that in recent years a similar amount of coal was in both demand and use, was shipped in from the around the world; so coal consumption and the manufacture of steel remains the same while the fuel consumed within the supply-chain for the end result has been drastically lowered. Leaving this author to ask, why don’t the climate activists see this as a win? Perhaps the climate activists or their stewards want the people of England to remain jobless, poor, cold, hungry and in the dark.

 

Still more:

The narrative around war in Ukraine, in much of the legacy media which is propping up what the governments are saying has left this author in a state confusion. The umbrella message being conveyed is that Ukraine needs to be supported in the defense of its democracy from the evils of Vladimir Putin – full stop, end of discussion.

 

Ukraine has a typical European government style of having both a president and a prime minister. Since 1991 there have been over eighteen prime ministerial changes and is currently on the fifth president in Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky since the start of the Russian aggression has imprisoned political opponents, taking control of media outlets, and recently closed the Ukrainian Orthodox churches; these actions don’t seem like the acts of a non-tyrant. Some may say that these acts are only being deployed because the acts of aggression by Russia, a non-tyrant would want to put the comfort of their people ahead of almost anything else and reduce personal/national isolation. The world would be very different today had Neville Chamberlain jailed Churchill.

 

This author would like to remind you, the dear reader, that the first casualty of war is the truth.

 

More more:

Information, disinformation and misinformation have now become useless words when it comes to facts, because many of the people in the traditional roles previously held by those disseminating facts now just give the opinion they hold or are told to spew. The term ‘the information age’, a term that was coined shortly after the introduction of the public Internet is a term that came late to the game; the three multi-syllabic words that opened this paragraph have existed in both principle and practice for many years.

 

It used to be understood that ‘my facts didn’t care bout your feelings’ whilst now it seems that ‘my feelings don’t care about your facts’ has become the current mantra for many. When feelings trump facts words like information, disinformation and misinformation become the weapons in what some people are calling ‘the culture war’. A culture war is the situation that arises when the typically more extreme participants of opposing social/political ideologies are engaged in a contest to sway those outside of each ideology to come into their tent. One group’s information auto-magically becomes labeled as misinformation or disinformation for the other, via a practice called ‘spin’.

 

Below is a list of items found in the news and the reader is asked to label each as information, misinformation or disinformation:

·         ANTIFA protests were mostly peaceful, regardless of the assaults, death tolls and millions in damages.

·         ANTIFA claims they were the targeted by Elon Musk who denied their right to assemble for the purpose of mostly peaceful protesting.

·         Canadian media outlets provide a product Canadians are willing to buy.

·         Child sexual exploitative images were previously never a problem on Twitter.

·         Child sexual exploitative images were purged from Twitter in two weeks under Elon Musk’s ownership.

·         Conservative/Republican shadow-banning by Twitter didn’t happened.

·         COVID lock-downs would be the best thing for children.

·         Ghislaine Maxwell ‘trafficked’ underage people to no nameable persons.

·         Katie Hobbs certified her own win in the Arizona Gubernatorial race.

·         Lock-down protests were super-spreader events while BLM marches twice the size were not.

·         MRNA vaccines are safe and effective.

·         The cover-up of Hunter Biden’s laptop by the MSM was NOT election interference.

·         The exposure of Hunter Biden’s laptop story in October WAS election interference.

·         The FBI telling Social Media platforms to squash the Hunter Biden laptop story was a guard against Russian election interference.

·         The US southern boarder is secure.

·         Wuhan lab leak theory was all wrong; the wet market as source had to have been the truth on the street.

 

 

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. - Edward R. Murrow