Holocaust Day.

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On #HolocaustMemorialDay portraits of seven Holocaust survivors, commissioned by The Prince of Wales, will go on public display at The Queen’s Gallery. These remarkable portraits will act as a lasting memorial to those who lost their lives and whose stories will never be told.

Observation:

Why can't we have a 'Nakba Memorial Day' to follow 'Holocaust Memorial Day'?

That would be a start in correcting public perceptions about the situation in Israel and Palestine.

And why can't the objectional building on Parliament Green - if it HAS to be constructed - be dedicated to all historical genocides (there have been so many) and not just to the Jewish race and/or religion?

Holocaust facts that don't see the light of day: https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=holocaust

My sympathies are with those that suffered from the fascist German regime as they are with every example of totalitarian or internecine outrage. Up to 1.2 Armenian Christians were wiped out. Stalin killed how many Ukrainians and others? (6 - 9 million is the estimate if you didn't know) Mao tse tung in a 'Great Leap Forward' (oh the irony) killed off 15–55 million in only four years. Up to 1.1 million deaths in the Rwanda conflict when the world looked on. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship seems positively humane with only 4000 deaths to his credit. How about the 125 million (est) who died as result of two world wars. And so we could go on. People are still suffering and dying around the world from oppressive regimes, not least the people in Palestine. Objectivity requires we detach personal experience from the wider perspective and any tribal affiliations if we want to take a moral stand. Nor is a refusal to face up to objective evidence excused by a genuine and understandable sympathy for those caught up in these events. Rather we should look to causes and solutions, always on the guard against those whose only interest is in using them for current political purposes. As always, when a subject is said to be beyond investigation and rational debate, you know you have a much bigger problem of mass mind manipulation.

From a year ago:

Holocaust Revisited:

I have the greatest sympathy for ALL the people that suffered in both the First and Second World Wars. The German campaign to target specific groups, of which Jews were but one - others included the mentally and physically disabled, Communists, political opponents, homosexuals and classified 'deviants' and gypsies - was deplorable and despicable. Nor should time lessen our abhorrence of it or commitment to preventing it happening again, but we should also be very wary of giving precedence to any one racial or religious group to the exclusion of others, particularly if the intention is, to use it for party political or propaganda purposes, as the Holocaust remembrances clearly are. As we have seen, Israel, itself responsible for both terrorism and genocide, besides on-going persecution, apartheid, bombing and ghettoising of Gaza closely akin to what happened in Warsaw, has made great play of the events of 75 years ago, and used it to great effect to influence European and American nations in its favour. Some would see this as the height of hypocrisy and duplicity. As to the story of the Concentration Camps themselves, there has until comparatively recently been only one narrative in town, that of Gas Chambers and Six Million Jews murdered in them. This has been shown by academics of the highest order, not only to be unreliable but also factually inaccurate in several respects. I noticed that even today's BBC News only referred to "more than a million" deaths, which was a significant shift, though of course still deplorable. In 'Breaking the Spell - The Holocaust, Myth and Reality', Professor Nicholas Kollerstrom argues that the many deaths that did occur, resulted not from gas chambers but from starvation and disease - mainly typhus - no less tragic, but certainly not as the story has been presented to the world. He claims using contemporary documentation and other scientific evidence, there is nothing to support the claim of Gas Chambers. In fact they do the precise opposite. We now find ourselves in a situation where the barbarism of the Second World War, enacted and suffered by all sides, has become the aphorism of just one group, to be used to brow beat old enemies and justify creating new ones. Its practical manifestation has been the way it has been used to mendaciously influence liberal democracies to curtail free-speech and academic rigour in relation not only to criticism of the Jewish religion but to the activities, including war crimes, of the State of Israel itself, using a pretext of 'anti-semitism'. For anyone committed to preventing a repeat of an holocaust, a reality which of course is not limited to Jews, this is quite intolerable. We witness daily that those most vocal in seeking sympathy for historic mistreatment, are actively engaged in meting it out to others and arguing for violent aggression against its neighbours. Let us start by re-investigating the received story and subjecting recent current events to the same rigorous and balanced examination before we all become victims of a new repressive regime, of which Hitler's Nazi Germany was the epitome.

Now when even Boris refers to 'False Flags' in his Ukraine Statement in Parliament (were my ears deceiving me?) it must be official. I thought I would repost this little conversation from a few years back. Yes indeed, "My enemy's enemy is my friend"! And of course only the Russians would employ such repugnant tactics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjTebEdZLg

 Statistical proof there never was an 'epidemic' as claimed.

Dear Friends,

 

From the depth of our hearts, a belated thank you for signing the Great Barrington Declaration. With over 850,000 signatures, together we opened up the pandemic debate. While many governments continued with their failed lockdown and other restrictive policies, things have moved in the right direction. For example, most schools have re-opened, most countries prioritized older people for vaccination and Florida rejected restrictions in favor of focused protection without the negative consequences that lockdowners predicted.

 

While occasionally censored, we have not been silenced. Since authoring the Declaration in October 2020, the three of us have actively advocated for focused protection through social media, op-eds and interviews on, for example, vaccine passports and natural immunity.

 

We have also launched Collateral Global, a charity staffed with academics from across the world to document and disseminate information about the collateral damage of the restrictive measures so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of this pandemic and are able to inform future policy with evidence and analysis. Collateral Global is crowdfunding so that this work can be done to the highest possible standards. You are welcome to join us and help us in those efforts at www.collateralglobal.org, as well as follow us on Twitter, etc. We are also planning an initiative on scientific freedom soon.

 

 

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If this doesn't make you THINK, nothing will!

See also:  https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-report-of-10000-deaths-from-covid.html

You wanted 'science'?  Here's the science:

Basically if you've had the vaccine, you are more, not less, susceptible to later variants!

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.22.22269660v1?fbclid=IwAR07-9phS_enpXNncFWXsaIsKUumjMT-XIjGI_SwXx7PQRQyTRBTyagsd00

Tom Leet

Author

Tim Veater Ha fair. Essentially they tested a load of people and found that people who had two doses of the vaccine within the last 5 months were MORE likely to test positive for Omicron than the unvaccinated.

The reason for this is not identified by this study. However, they mention immune escape i.e. the vaccine not protecting people from Omicron, because it's different to Delta. They don't mention "original antigenic sin" i.e. the idea that someone could be more susceptible to a future variant after being vaccinated with an old variant - but that's also a possibility.

The numbers for the finding above were in a similar range, so we shouldn't draw too many conclusions based on this preprint study alone. However, what is very clear - and that this study shows with strong numbers - is that the vaccines don't offer as much protection against Omicron and any efficacy they do provide in terms of reducing transmission wanes rapidly. So even ignoring the rather scary possibility of original antigenic sin, this alone should be enough to render the "vaccinate everyone" approach illogical - and vaccine passports cannot be justified, even if we were to ignore the freedom issues and focus purely on the medical rationale.

Halos create Confidence (Apparently)

Strange things are happening to my attempts to post on Facebook. A comment I was writing about what appeared on YouTube, mysteriously disappeared before I was able to post it. Going back to YouTube the whole segment has disappeared also although the clips are still available. (See below)

It contained a whole line of videos listed second from the top purporting to be from "Team Halo" on the "Vaccine Confidence Project". This it seems is not to be confused with the "Halo Project', a UK based charity dedicated to helping women subject to forced marriage and abusive relationships. (See: https://www.haloproject.org.uk/) 

'Team Halo' on the other hand appears to be, "part of the United Nations Verified initiative." It can be found here: https://teamhalo.org/ .  'Halos' are of course a sign of divine approval, presumably chosen as a name for its psychological impact. We can have every confidence in God after all. Rather coincidentally the 'halo effect' was very apparent in the UK's 'Booster' campaign. (See header)

It states, "We are a group of scientists and healthcare professionals from around the world, working to end this pandemic by volunteering our time to address Covid-19 vaccine concerns and misinformation." 

In fact it may be doing the exact opposite and it would appear the YouTube is actively supporting it, by affording the videos top billing. 

In addition, it would appear that related Face Book may be actively censoring criticism of it, if my experience is anything to go by. Or perhaps it was just an internet fluke?

The Team Halo site goes on to say, "Team Halo was established as part of the United Nations Verified initiative in partnership with Purpose and the Vaccine Confidence Project at the University of London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Support is provided by Luminate, IKEA Foundation, and Capgemini."

In one a young handsome unnamed doctor, with a Welsh accent and hints of a foreign (Italian?) one, answers the question "Are there long-term effects for under 18s of taking the Covid vaccine?" he  states, "We haven't identified any long-term effects of the Covid 19 vaccine in children." He goes on to say how would they know given the fact "the vaccine hasn't been around for long" which he concedes is "a valid concern? This surely qualifies as an oxymoron?

The justification for his assurance that the RNA vaccine is perfectly safe for under 19's in the long term is twofold: one, he says after teaching the immune system, "it doesn't stay in the body for long ... if the vaccine isn't around any more it can't really do any harm", surely a dangerously misleading statement if ever I heard one?  And two, he relies on the experience of using other child vaccines, where any adverse effects are only observed in the first month or two, which should give reassurance that this new, novel vaccine should behave the same. "There is no reason to suspect that the Covid vaccine will be any different to the rest of them."

Let us consider these two assertions more closely. All the tricks of the trade have been used - handsome male, doctor's uniform, obligatory stethoscope - to make the speaker medically credible but no information on his identity or qualifications. He could be an actor for all we know though we must trust that is not the case.

Although it is factually correct to say the liquid in which the laboratory created RNA duplicate is suspended is excreted in time by the body's normal processes, it is wrong to suggest this negates any residual effect. Indeed the product would be quite useless if it didn't! It can only work if it interferes with and permanently changes the body's exquisite immune system at a fundamental and microscopic level in a process that even now is imperfectly understood. The technique is new and experiment, yet it has been recklessly rolled out to millions and is here promoted to children whose bodies are still developing. 

The effect on the reproductive system of females is of particular concern. Obviously any adverse effects on ovulation and the developing foetus can not be assessed for years or even decades. It is well known that genetic effects of medications can in fact skip generations, appearing the grandchildren of the treated mother. To recommend a gene altering vaccine to ovulating children without any epidemiological information is nothing short of outrageous.

His second reassurance is deeply controversial. There is a mountain of both anecdotal and statistical evidence of adverse effects of standard childhood vaccinations. High temperature, fever and other serious neurological consequence of vaccines have been reported. The huge increase in affective disorders and autism has been attributed to them (see:  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Real-Anthony-Fauci/Robert-F-Kennedy/Children-s-Health-Defense/9781510766808 ) So to use the safety record of long-standing vaccines, to reassure the use of wholly experimental ones on children when they are not even needed is both unethical and reckless.

BACKERS OF THE VACCINE CONFIDENCE PROJECT

'LUMINATE' 

"Established in 2018, Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation with the goal of empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies. We were founded by The Omidyar Group, established by philanthropists Pierre and Pam Omidyar. Pierre is the founder of eBay. 

To date, Luminate’s global work has supported 348 organisations, in 17 countries with over $414 million in funding. We focus our efforts on organisations working in countries where the need is most acute, where impacts can be shared across countries, where there are significant time-bound opportunities, and where the greatest impacts can be made. However, we do support organisations outside of our priority countries and regularly review emerging issues and opportunities that may require us to work in new areas.  

There are twenty six pages of organisations that have received substantial grants running to hundreds of millions of pounds. We must assume and trust this is all for our betterment. (See: https://luminategroup.com/portfolio?page=26 )

IKEA FOUNDATION

The Swedish furniture group was founded in Sweden in 1943. The Foundation is a more recent off-shoot. It states: "The IKEA Foundation is funded by INGKA Foundation, owner of the Ingka Group of companies. The IKEA Foundation is independent from the retail business with a sole focus on creating brighter lives on a liveable planet through philanthropy and grant-making." Many pages of organisations that have received large grants are listed.

"We are committed to tackling some of the root causes of inequality: poverty, the consequences of climate change, and lack of resources such as clean air, energy and fertile land. Families need both financial stability and a healthy environment if they and their children are to thrive. Improving livelihoods and protecting the planet are inseparable.

"Through our grantmaking, we work with our partners to help people and communities with the fewest resources build livelihoods and support their families. Our learning has been that to create a lasting impact, we need to actively seek ways to engage in dialogue and collaboration with local organisations and communities.

"Beyond our grantmaking, it’s also important that different perspectives and pathways are represented and understood. We are committed to amplifying the voices of partners and local communities to ensure a fair, inclusive and balanced debate around each of the areas where we operate: rural livelihoods, refugee livelihoods, employment and entrepreneurship, access to renewable energy, and climate action." (See:  https://ikeafoundation.org/about/ )

CAPGEMINI

From WIKIPEDIA:  is a French multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company. It is headquartered in Paris, France.  Capgemini was founded by Serge Kampf in 1967 as an enterprise management and data processing company. The company was founded as the Société pour la Gestion de l'Entreprise et le Traitement de l'Information (Sogeti). In July 2020, Capgemini reported that it has been named as a pioneer in Everest Group's Guidewire IT services called "Guidewire Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020 – Setting the Key Phase on Cloud."^[9]

In June 2021, Capgemini partners with Sanofi, Orange & Generali to launch Future4care, a European start-up accelerator focused on digital healthcare.^[10][11] Capgemini has over 300,000 employees in over 50 countries, of whom nearly 125,000 are in India. (See: In July 2020, Capgemini reported that it has been named as a pioneer in Everest Group's Guidewire IT services called "Guidewire Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020 – Setting the Key Phase on Cloud."^[9]

In June 2021, Capgemini partners with Sanofi, Orange & Generali to launch Future4care, a European start-up accelerator focused on digital healthcare.^[10][11] Capgemini has over 300,000 employees in over 50 countries, of whom nearly 125,000 are in India.

(See: https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/ )

 Sun, Tree, Us!

Photo: Dom Lowe.

Been listening to Feynman talking about the sun and trees and making the well known point that trees are made from light and air rather than soil, although of course it couldn't survive without its roots to access water. Its the photons from the sun that power photosynthesis. It's the carbon dioxide (CO2), which has been turned into a baddie but is actually a goodie, that makes the carbon of which the tree is largely composed. What the picture shows is the visible light, only a tiny part of the wide spectrum of waves that are everywhere all the time, from a hydrogen/helium furnace ninety three million miles away, enabling the tree to live and us to see it in all its amazing beauty. We too are utterly dependent on the same process of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide but in reverse. We are as much dependent on that tree as it is on the sun and air! https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=CO2

See also 

The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ww1IXRfTA&t=4s

What a force of nature he was? Bringing 'science' 'down to earth'.

Sadly the memories we attach to particular buildings and landscapes, though of tremendous value to us, are seldom given great weight in the scheme of things. I am currently reading the Tibbles 1932 book on the talented poet John Clare (1793-1864) who lamented the loss of the open fields to enclosure in the early 1800's. Today I'm afraid it's houses, roads, railways, wind farms and solar panels but the motivation is the same. The following poem, written sometime in the 1830's, before he was unnecessarily consigned to the Northampton mental institution, for his last twenty six years, is written in his own unique way. It is long but well worth the effort.

The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare

Pe[ti]tioners are full of prayers
To fall in pitys way
But if her hand the gift forebears
Theyll sooner swear than pray
They're not the worst to want who lurch
On plenty with complaints
No more then those who go to church
Are eer the better saints
I hold no hat to beg a mite
Nor pick it up when thrown
Nor limping leg I hold in sight
But pray to keep my own
Where profit gets his clutches in
Theres little he will leave
Gain stooping for a single pin
Will stick it on his sleeve

For passers bye I never pin
No troubles to my breast
Nor carry round some names
More money from the rest
Im swordy well a piece of land
Thats fell upon the town
Who worked me till I couldn't stand
And crush me now Im down

In parish bonds I well may wail
Reduced to every shift
Pity may grieve at troubles tale
But cunning shares the gift
Harvests with plenty on his brow
Leaves losses taunt with me
Yet gain comes yearly with the plough
And will not let me be

Alas dependance thou'rt a brute
Want only understands
His feelings wither branch and root
That falls in parish hands
The much that clouts the ploughmans shoe
The moss that hides the stone
Now Im become the parish due
Is more then I can own

Though Im no man yet any wrong
Some sort of right may seek
And I am glad if een a song
Gives me the room to speak
Ive got among such grubbing geer
And such a hungry pack
If I brought harvest twice a year
They'd bring me nothing back

When war their tyrant prices got
I trembled with alarms
they fell and saved my little spot
Or towns had turned to farms
Let profit keep an humble place
That gentry may be known
Let pedigrees their honours trace
And toil enjoy its own

The silver springs grown naked dykes
Scarce own a buch of rushes
When grain got high the tasteless tykes
Grubbed up trees bank and bushes
And me they turned inside out
For sand and grit and stones
And turned my old green hills about
And pickt my very bones

These things that claim my own as theirs
Where born but yesterday
But ere I fell to town affairs
I were as proud as they
I kept my horses cows and sheep
And built the town below
Ere they had cat or dog to keep
And then to use me so

Parish allowance gaunt and dread
Had it the earth to keep
Would even pine the bees to dead
To save an extra keep
Prides workhouse is a place that yields
From poverty its gains
And mines a workhouse for the fields
A starving the remains

The bees flye round in feeble rings
And find no blossom bye
Then thrum their almost weary wings
Upon the moss and die
Rabbits that find my hills turned oer
Forsake my poor abode
They dread a workhouse like the poor
And nibble on the road

If with a clover bottle now
Spring dares to lift her head
The next day brings the hasty plough
And makes me miserys bed
The butterflyes may wir to come
I cannot keep em now
Nor can they bear my parish home
That withers on my brow

No now not een a stone can lie
Im just what eer they like
My hedges like the winter flye
And leave me but the dyke
My gates are thrown from off the hooks
The parish thoroughfare
Lord he thats in the parish books
Has little wealth to spare

I couldn't keep a dust of grit
Nor scarce a grain of sand
But bags and carts claimed every bit
And now theyve got the land
I used to bring the summer life
To many a butterflye
But in oppressions iron strife
Dead tussocks bow and sigh

Ive scarce a nook to call my own
For things that creep or flye
The beetle hiding neath a stone
Does well to hurry bye
Stock eats my struggles every day
As bare as any road
He's sure to be in somethings way
If eer he stirs abroad

I am no man to whine and beg
But fond of freedom still
I hing no lies on pitys peg
To bring a gris to mill
On pitys back I neednt jump
My looks speak loud alone
My only tree the've left a stump
And nought remains my own

My mossy hills gains greedy hand
And more then greedy mind
Levels into a russet land
Nor leaves a bend behind
In summers gone I bloomed in pride
Folks came for miles to prize
My flowers that bloomed no where beside
And scarce believed their eyes

Yet worried with a greedy pack
They rend and delve and tear
The very grass from off my back
Ive scarce a rag to wear
Gain takes my freedom all away
Since its dull suit I wore
And yet scorn vows I never pay
And hurts me more and more

And should the price of grain get high
Lord help and keep it low
I shant posses a single flye
Or get a weed to grow
I shant possess a yard of ground
To bid a mouse to thrive
For gain has put me in a pound
I scarce can keep alive

I own Im poor like many more
But then the poor mun live
And many came for miles before
For what I had to give
But since I fell upon the town
They pass me with a sigh
Ive scarce the room to say sit down
And so they wander bye

Though now I seem so full of clack
Yet when yer' riding bye
The very birds upon my back
Are not more fain to flye
I feel so lorn in this disgrace
God send the grain to fall
I am the oldest in the place
And the worst sereved of all

Lord bless ye I was kind to all
And poverty in me
Could always find a humble stall
A rest and lodging free
Poor bodys with a hungry ass
I welcomed many a day
And gave him tether room to grass
And never said him nay

There was a time my bit of ground
Made freemen of the slave
The ass no pinard dare to pound
When I his supper gave
The gipseys camp was not afraid
I made his dwelling free
Till vile enclousure came and made
A parish slave of me

The gipseys further on sojourn
No parish bounds they like
No sticks I own and would earth burn
I shouldn't own a dyke
I am no friend to lawless work
Nor would a rebel be
And why I call a christian turk
Is they are turks to me

And if I could find a friend
With no deciet to sham
Who'd send me some few sheep to tend
And leave me as I am
To keep my hills from cart and plough
And strife and mongerel men
And as spring found me find em now
I should look up agen

And save his Lordships woods that past
The day of danger dwell
Of all the fields I am the last
That my own face can tell
Yet what with stone pits delving holes
And strife to buy and sell
My name will quickly be the whole
Thats left of swordy well

https://genius.com/John-clare-the-lament-of-swordy-well-annotated