Wednesday 6th May 2020

You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from. - Paulo Coelho

Isn’t that just beautiful?

How not to respond to questions from the wife - 101.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data.

But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. – Paul Hawken

If you share my newsletters or snippets thereof, or similar truths, you are a truth warrior! You inspire optimism by your courage, determination and dedication.

Keep speeking your truth and keep inspiring others.

Give a man enough and you make him a slave.

LOVE IT!

That anomaly points to the reason for the big scam!

If you want to control someone, lie to them, feed them misinformation and keep them ignorant. That is exactly what is happening at present.

This release was originally an article under the same title by Jeremy Beck published in the 29 April 2020 Australian Alert Service.

Funding from a repurposed Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) must be directed to specific industrial sectors to ensure Australia builds out of the economic depression with a greater level of self-sufficiency. COVID-19 has exposed our vulnerability to a breakdown of global supply chains, in which international trade in many commodities cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, the CEFC must prioritise funding for industries which supply our everyday needs. This will protect us, to the greatest extent possible, from any future calamity such as a blockade, war, or a major cosmic event. For example, an asteroid strike may induce an ice age and major crop failures; and a solar coronal mass ejection that knocks out much of the world’s electrical and communications systems would make today’s crisis look trivial.

Fortunately, there are many essential industry sectors which can restart immediately. Food canneries are a good example. In their heyday they provided good jobs in prosperous regional communities. Then we shut them down in favour of cheaper foreign canned food, causing great suffering to farmers and rural communities. We replaced these and many other productive jobs with new, unproductive jobs in the service sector, such as in casinos. Now many of these non-essential service jobs are fast disappearing. Crown alone has stood down 11,000 staff from its Melbourne and Perth casinos. When the physical distancing and other restrictions imposed to curb COVID-19 finally end, we must not go back to a reliance on non-essential jobs. The world and Australia are in a severe economic depression, and to get out of it will require a focus on essential industries such as food production, and on nation-building infrastructure.

As one of the nation’s few remaining canneries, SPC at Shepparton in Victoria has reported a massive upswing in demand as people see the benefits of canned fruits and vegetables. Panic buying aside, SPC Chief Executive Robert Giles told local newspaper The Adviser on 6 April that he sees a longer-term revival of canned fruits. “As we pass through this thing (the Coronavirus), many people are going to be feeling the crunch economically”, Giles said. “So we will see a big return to canned produce.”

Fresh and canned seafood also provides an enormous opportunity for meaningful employment. Australia is presently a net seafood importer, which makes no sense for a nation with such a massive coastline and vast territorial waters. We produce around 230,000 tonnes of seafood per year whereas the latest UN Food and Agriculture Organisation figures show Thailand’s total fishery production in 2017 was a massive 2.4 million tonnes! Thailand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is only four per cent that of Australia’s, and its continental shelf area, which provides most of the catch, is 10 times smaller! Perth-based Mendolia Seafoods prides itself on its “gourmet seafood, 100 per cent caught and packed in Australia”. Caught in the “pristine waters” off Fremantle, Western Australia, Mendolia Seafoods packs sardines, tuna and salmon for the domestic market. With government assistance, such a business model will see a revival of Australian fisheries.

National COVID-19 Coordination Commission

The National COVID-19 Coordination Commission chaired by former Fortescue Metals boss Neville Power would do well to consider such immediate employment opportunities in the essential productive economy, and the benefits of a repurposed CEFC to get immediate funds flowing. One of the commissioners, former Dow Chemical Company boss Andrew Liveris, has shown some encouraging signs. “Australia should become the number one packaged food exporter in the world”, he told The Australian in remarks quoted 7 April.

Liveris spoke of the need for a secure domestic energy supply, which is obviously vital for our security. Whereas in 1985 Australia produced 96 per cent of all its crude oil needs through domestic production, now we are nearly totally dependent on foreign oil. He also highlighted the potential of a domestic petrochemical industry, i.e. the manufacture of plastics and other useful materials from both raw petroleum feedstocks, and refinery and gas-processing by-products. “Petrochemicals should be a no-brainer for this country”, Liveris said. “We have all the raw materials for it. And it is a job multiplier. For every one job in terms of energy input, you can get an output of eight jobs in the industry.” Liveris also said he has a passion to get natural gas domestically priced in Australia to enable the manufacturing sector. And he raised the idea of developing a more efficient Australian coastal shipping service.

While a domestic petroleum industry is urgently needed, fuel tank construction for emergency fuel supplies must start immediately. It’s useless having a strategic oil reserve on paper, when the physical oil is stored on the far side of the world in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as the Australian government has just arranged on 10 March. Any blockage in physical supply means our nation stops and we’ll descend into chaos in a matter of days as trucks can’t restock the supermarket shelves.

Alarming Defence Department report

ABC’s 7.30 has this week revealed a confidential Defence Department report which predicted it would take just three months for essential services to break down during a major crisis that halted supply chains. Retired Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn said in an interview that 98 per cent of our trade depends upon foreign-owned shipping, so “we’re actually in a pretty fragile position”. The Defence Department report highlighted several serious risks in addition to fuel security, including an unforeseen risk of a breakdown in sanitation because imported water treatment chemicals would run out. “Now you’re getting in some nasty consequences because that’s also on [sic] health and hygiene. And that surprised us. That wasn’t something we’d expected”, commented Cheryl Durrant, who was Director for Preparedness and Mobilisation at the Defence Department from January 2015 until February 2020.

“We need to redesign critical parts of our supply chains”, said Blackburn. “And that means, it’s not only having a capability in Australia to manufacture or produce something … in those critical areas, you also have to have a strategy of ownership and/or control over critical capabilities. We’re smart enough to do something about it, if only we just wake up!”

Future threats and opportunities

Once the COVID-19 pandemic is over we still face the potential for future viruses with far higher mortality rates. The threat of war is real, but other threats also require a much greater self-sufficiency. For example, a solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth’s magnetosphere in September 1859 and induced the largest geomagnetic storm on record. People in the north-eastern USA could read a newspaper by the light of the aurora borealis! Telegraph systems failed, and in some cases gave telegraph operators electric shocks. If such a solar storm happened today, GPS systems, telephones and the internet could go down for days, weeks, or much longer. Many power grids would be out of action for an extended period. The potential for tragedy is magnified enormously in any nation so dependent on foreign supply chains.

Essential local production of fertilisers also provides us an opportunity. Much of our fertiliser consumption is imported. Other opportunities arise in building critical infrastructure, all the way from grand national projects to critical upgrades at the local council level. Now that traffic volumes are low with many people working at home, grade separation for railway crossings provides a good employment opportunity. The Victorian government has completed many projects at dangerous and normally congested railway crossings, but all the other railway crossings should be done too.

Australia can do this, but it means we must abandon the failed policies of free trade and globalisation that have left us so vulnerable. Government can support local strategic industries in several ways. Given government purchasing across the many departments runs into many billions of dollars, merely a policy to prefer Australian-made products will assist local jobs. Better paying a premium for the Australian product than paying the multitudes of laid-off workers to sit at home and do nothing! Bounty payments by government to encourage specific strategic industries, such as machine-tool manufacturing, will ensure they can compete with cheaper foreign imports. Tariff protection also has a successful track record, such as in keeping our car-making industry viable until we suicidally adopted free trade.

Love this. We had a toy poodle who would look like the little guy on the left... ...until he lay down and rolled in it!

Most of us don’t get the opportunity to do something as courageous and dramatic as this let alone get pictures of it, but each day there are lesser opportunities to help another. Keep an eye or ear out for them.

Bruce Wiseman April 26, 2020.

This is a short summary of the key facts associated with the virus and the pandemic. It is a summary of a MUCH LARGER detailed report on what happened, which can be accessed at the end of this summary.

It is not skewed by political partisan ship or charges and counter-charges. Just FACTS.

You have permission to forward this summary and you have permission to forward the much larger report, which, as noted, can be accessed and download via the link at the end of this summary.

Nothing like this has ever happened before. Is important that we understand exactly what did occur so we can prevent a reoccurrence.

Lately there have been discussions as to whether the virus escaped from the lab in Wuhan. So far there is no evidence to prove this. Another study pointed out that at this point the Type A version of the virus which appears to have been the first version came from the Guandong province and not the Wuhan province. There is a lab there too. The bottom line is no one knows if this was caused by a lab accident or not. Whether it came from a lab or not is of less importance than how it was handled. Viruses occur in nature, escape by accident or can be deliberately spread by terrorists. That this can happen is simply a fact of life. What is more important is how this gets handled once it occurs.

To bring some clarity into the confusions and accusations in regards to the COVID-19 debacle it is time to focus on the facts. There are politically motivated accusations and countries accuse each other. None of that is going anywhere. However there are facts of what occurred and that is what we should be focusing on. The facts given below are documented in detail in the timeline that follows.

Fact:
COVID-19 is a very contagious virus that can have bad effects on certain people mostly with preexisting conditions and morbidity.

Fact:
The Wuhan and Hubei government publicly admitted that they were dishonest (lied) about the virus handling and that they badly mishandled it. They even withheld the degree of the contagiousness from two projects (teams)sent from Beijing. And they did this because of financial and economic motivations.

Fact:
By 19 to 20 January the National government of China became fully aware of the extent and danger of this virus. They did take strong measures in an attempt to contain the virus in the Hubei area and all over China as it had spread to almost all provinces. Taking these actions was correct by the national Chinese government.

Fact:
The National Chinese government however did not also shut down all international travel in and out of China at that time (20 January). That was a big mistake and facilitated the spread across the planet.

Fact:
The World Health Organization knew already on 31 December that there was human-to-human transmission but they did not tell anyone. Subsequently the WHO was aware of various reports originated in China that the virus was contagious and was spread by human-to-human transmission. The WHO still kept reporting that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Even a WHO scientist reported that there was human-to-human transmission but later that day withdrew that statement. The WHO continued to report no human-to-human transmission up to 23 January knowing it to be different all along.

Fact:
The WHO while being fully aware of human-to-human transmission did not announce an International Health Emergency on 23 January while acknowledging at that point that there was human-to-human transmission. The WHO waited until a week later to do so. However during that week millions of people left China after the Chinese New Year celebrations. After that the WHO continued to advise against travel restrictions and when the US implemented travel restriction on 30 January the WHO criticized the US. The WHOs actions facilitated the spread of the virus.

Fact:
Despite the fact that virus had arrived on US soil the mayor and health commissioner of New York advised their citizens to disregard safety measures and go out as usual.

Fact:
New York became the epicenter with the worst fall out of the virus requiring heroic efforts to contain it.

Fact:
Mayors and counties in the Bay area acted responsibly and so did the governors of California and Washington and implemented safety measures. Both states fared much better and saved much more lives than what occurred in New York. And while the officials involved in those states were Democrats they acted responsibly and disregarded the irresponsible behavior of Democrat Speaker Pelosi that was earlier advocating for people to got to Chinatown in San Francisco and have a good time which was done for political reasons.

Fact:
The Federal government acted responsibly when it implemented travel restrictions from China on 30 January and later other countries. This helped contain the spread of the virus. This is something the national government of China should have done on 20 January, i.e. before millions of people left China after the Lunar holiday on 23 January. The Chinese government instead protested the travel restrictions implemented by the US.

The moral of the story is that people that care about other people also take responsibility for other people. And the larger the sphere of that responsibility is the more constructive their decisions are. Conversely the more people focus on their own financial or political interests with a disregard for others the more destructive their decisions are. This has nothing to do with whether these people are Republicans or Democrats or Americans or Chinese.

In that regard there is another important point. No government or the citizens in any country benefited from this. Not the US and not China and for China they will feel the economic and public relations pain for a good while to come which unfortunately will also negatively affect the Chinese population. And there were many Chinese citizens that took heroic actions in an attempt to avert this disaster. If the Chinese government were smart they would minimally criminally prosecute those officials in Wuhan and from the Hubei provincial government and do it as a jury trial with the citizens of Wuhan sitting on the jury, many of whom have good friends in the US, Europe and elsewhere.

That raises the question “Did anyone benefit from this?”

By sheer necessity billions of dollars had to be invested into the pharmaceutical industry for research, therapeutics, vaccines and other medical equipment. Nothing wrong with that.

However, there is something that should not happen and that is the following: Many pharmaceutical companies contribute millions of dollars to the World Health Organization. https://www.globalpolicy.org/home/270-general/52830-who-do-financial-contributions-from-pharma-violate-who-guidelines.html The WHO has been dishonest (deliberately lied) and in fact facilitated the spread of the virus. And in no way should it be able to financially benefit from this and the taxpayer dollars that were given to the pharmaceutical industry to solve the disaster the WHO created. For this reason pharmaceutical companies at least in the US should be prohibited to contribute any funds to the WHO for a number of years – essentially a form of sanction.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a non-profit. This non-profit has invested millions of dollars in pharmaceutical stock and it is making a windfall in increased stock value. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1021577629748680000 They have also provided vast amounts to the WHO. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/who-funds-world-health-organization-un-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-trump/ The WHO should not be able to benefit from this and this non-profit should not be allowed to profit from the suffering of millions of citizens and in no way should any of this money make its way to the WHO. For this reason this non-profit should minimally be prohibited from contributing to the WHO for a number of years or it should divest itself of all pharmaceutical stock at the price it had before this pandemic hit the world. In fact this stock should be sold at that price to the US government so the profits benefit the taxpayers.

The timeline follows below

See these quotes from Robert F Kennedy Jr said on April 8 2020 with regard to Bill Gates:

Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy - the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism.

Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of “lesser humans.”

Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India’s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496, 000 children between 2000 and 2017.

In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.

In 2014, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by GSK and Merck, on 23, 000 young girls in remote Indian provinces.

Approximately 1, 200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court.

In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a trial of a GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions to 1,048 of the 5,049 children.

During Gates’ 2002 MenAfriVac campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates’ operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Between 50 and 500 children developed paralysis. South African newspapers complained, “We are guinea pigs for the drug makers.” Nelson Mandela’s former Senior Economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes Gates’ philanthropic practices as “ruthless and immoral.”

In 2010, Gates committed $10 billion to the WHO promising to reduce population, in part, through new vaccines. A month later, Gates told a Ted Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population”. In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a phony “tetanus” vaccine campaign. Independent labs found the sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing sterility vaccines for over a decade. Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines.

A 2017 study (Morgensen et.Al.2017) showed that WHO’s popular DTP vaccine is killing more African children than the diseases it pretends to prevent. Vaccinated girls suffer 10x the death rate of unvaccinated children. Gates and WHO have refused to recall the lethal vaccine which WHO forces upon millions of African children annually.

Global public health advocates around the world accuse Gates of hijacking WHO’s agenda away from the projects that are proven to curb infectious diseases; clean water, hygiene, nutrition, and economic development. They say he has diverted agency resources to serve his personal fetish-that good health only comes in a syringe.

In addition to using his philanthropy to control WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and PATH, Gates funds private pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines, and a massive network of pharmaceutical-industry front groups that broadcast deceptive propaganda, develop fraudulent studies, conduct surveillance and psychological operations against vaccine hesitancy and use Gates’ power and money to silence dissent and coerce compliance. In his recent nonstop Pharmedia appearances, Gates appears gleeful that the Covid-19 crisis will give him the opportunity to force his third-world vaccine programs on American children.“

Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014-2020 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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