Disingenuous Journalism

I've mentioned it many times before. When it comes to mainstream journalism, it's important to pay attention to the facts, and read the accompanying analysis with a great deal of scepticism. Unfortunately, most people do the exact opposite. They skip lightly over the facts and end up taking the journalist's advice without noticing the flawed logic of her analysis.

As an example of a factually correct, but logically flawed article, I came across this one, written by a certain McKenzie Beard.

The article starts off by noting that as of August of this year, more vaccinated people have been dying from Covid than unvaccinated people. This is part of a troubling trend, as the author correctly points out:

• September 2021 saw 23% vaccinated Covid deaths against 77% unvaccinated.
• January 2022 saw 42% vaccinated Covid deaths against 58% unvaccinated.
• August 2022 saw 58% vaccinated Covid deaths against 42% unvaccinated.

What the rate is today is not mentioned, but the trend is presumably intact. If so, being vaccinated is likely to be a net negative when it comes to surviving Covid within a few months from now. However, this is not mentioned by the author.

Another thing that isn't mentioned by the author is the fact that the vaccines are causing illnesses of their own. There are studies that lay a link between the vaccines and a recent surge in heart disease and cancers. There's also the unresolved issue of excess deaths. If the vaccine had a net positive effect on the population, we would have negative excess deaths by now.

An honest analysis would point out these two facts:

1. Vaccines will likely be a net negative in preventing deaths due to Covid in a not-too-distant future.
2. Vaccines are the likely cause of the current surge in new illnesses, and why we have a persistently high excess death rate.

The logical conclusion would be to immediately halt the vaccination effort and to start prosecuting those who promoted it. But this is not what the journalist arrives at in her analysis.

The journalist quotes an expert named Cynthia Cox who tells us that our problems can be remedied simply by taking the boosters. The reasoning is as follows:

• More than 50% of people are vaccinated, so it is logical that more than 50% that die are vaccinated.
• Many vaccinated individuals are old and frail and naturally prone to dying when infected by Covid.
• The vaccine requires boosters in order to remain effective.

An honest analysis of this would tell us that the vaccine doesn't work very well. To be vaccinated used to mean protection from illness. Now it means protection from death, but only if fully boosted. But the journalist doesn't seem to notice this weakness in Cox's argument. She focuses instead on a report that seems to contradict the overall finding related to Covid deaths in August.

This report claims that vaccinated people were 6 times more likely to survive Covid than unvaccinated people, and boosted people were as much as 12 times more likely to survive. How this ends up with 58% of all covid deaths being among the vaccinated is not explained. However, the analysis was focused on a very specific Omicron variant that hardly killed anyone, so there might be an explanation buried there somewhere, if only the journalist had done her job and dug it up.

My guess is that the study showed that extremely frail individuals gain a short-term benefit from the vaccine. But that's hardly a good basis for a push towards mass vaccination.

The journalist continues in the same disingenuous vain by rolling out a chart that does nothing to support her argument.

The chart is provided by a political commentator named David French, and it seems to show that vaccines have been a great success. However, it merely shows graphically the above-mentioned waning of the vaccine's effectiveness. The vaccine started off more effective than natural immunity, but the gap between vaccine immunity and naturally immunity stopped growing as early as April 2022.

David French has simply presented a graph that proves the overall thesis of the sceptic. Had the journalist done her job, she would have gotten hold of more recent data, which would most likely be showing the gap between vaccinated and natural immunity closing.

Instead of doing her job, the journalist goes onto pushing the vaccine onto everybody, including children as young as 5 years of age, for the spurious claim that it might save grandma.

Offering to Molech

By Charles Foster - Illustrators of the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us http://associate.com/photos/Bible-Pictures--1897-W-A-Foster/page-0074-1.jpg, Public Domain, Link

Narrative and Reality

Most people believe in free will, with the implication that we can alter the world around us with actions and words. It's therefore rational to acknowledge the importance of narrative in the world. However, a lot of people take this a lot further than it can reasonably be pushed. An extreme example of this is the idea that a man can become a woman through actions and words alone. There's also a widespread belief that actions will be rewarded simply through virtue of intent: The idea is that a person that wants to do good is good. However, if actions turn out to do harm, intent is secondary. It's irrelevant to the victims of a crime that the perpetrators were acting out of a genuine belief in their own goodness.

To put this into a spiritual context, we can say that reality is God, narrative is an extension of our free will, and that an overextended belief in narrative is a Luciferian deception. Those who have come to believe that narrative is superior to reality have fallen for one of Lucifer's primary inversions.

The temptation to fall for Lucifer's inversion is especially strong among people who have a fear of reality. Those who are fearful or frustrated with the way the world hangs together seek to control reality through narrative. This is why we have so many such people in politics where narrative is of special importance. We also find them in the bureaucracy, especially in the parts where matters of life and death are decided.

This became apparent during the pandemic, when a lot of high-ranking politicians and bureaucrats insisted on vaccine mandates and the like in order to protect themselves from the dangers of the real world. Narrative took off in a spectacular fashion. Merely whishing and hoping that the vaccines would work wonders, and have no long-term side-effects, was enough to push draconian measures onto the population at large.

However, such actions come with consequences. They do not merely unleash hell on ordinary people. They unleash hell on the perpetrators themselves as well, and this happens in a way that is particularly scary to this fearful and frustrated lot. Reality rises up before them and demonstrates in a most brutal fashion that it is not secondary to narrative.

I mentioned this aspect of reality a year ago when we first started to see how reality rises up like a relentless tide in front of those who refuse to let go of their failed narratives. There's no stopping the consequences of failed actions, and those who pushed for vaccines are now faced with two spectres that are sure to scare this fearful lot enough to make their lives a living hell.

There's the realization in the population at large that the vaccines don't work, and that there is an undeniable number of excess deaths in the population. The negative excess deaths that normally follow a pandemic is not materializing, and people are starting to suspect that this is due to the emergency measured pushed for by the fearful and frustrated lot over at the FDA and similar bureaucratic institutions. The bureaucrats are under increasing pressure to explain the situation and somehow prove that it has nothing to do with them.

However, this is not their primary problem. Narrative can still be spun to cover up for their failed policies. But God doesn't care about narrative. He penetrates this shield and stands before the bureaucrats no matter what they do. Imagine the state of affairs over at the FDA now that one of their own colleagues has died after a short illness.

It appears that the FDA and their collaborators in the media are in full cover up mode. The case of A. Oveta Fuller isn't getting any coverage at all. She's not even listed in Wikipedia's list of notable deaths. That's how scary her sudden and unexpected death is to them. But what does it help to cover up this story? Most people outside the FDA wouldn't have reacted anyway differently from how we react to similar news. If there's a cover up, it's mostly to calm the nerves of fellow FDA officials and their collaborators in the media.

God has walked in through the doors at the FDA, and He is currently standing before everyone to see. But no-one wants to look. They are telling each other stories, pretending to believe their own narrative even as it is falling apart. They pushed a narrative, and they believed in it themselves. They took their own medicine, and now they cannot escape what they created for themselves. Continued storytelling will do nothing to keep them calm at night.

The bureaucrats over at the FDA are currently learning what it means to be struck by a "fear of God".

Mask of the beast

The Case of A. Oveta Fuller

I recently came across a story about the death of a woman with the name of A. Oveta Fuller. Before her death, she was an influential officer in the FDA, involved in the push for universal vaccination against Covid, including young children. It's therefore reasonable to presume that she was fully vaccinated with the five shots currently recommended for those over 60 years of age.

None of this is particularly unusual among high-ranking health officials, and I wouldn't have posted on her death if it wasn't for a peculiar oddity related to it:

The woman died on November 18. She was a notable person with a Wikipedia page dedicated to her name. Yet, she's not on Wikipedia's list of notable deaths. That's odd because it's now a whole week since she passed away. Why didn't the author of the latest changes to her page on Wikipedia do the minor task of putting her name on the list of notable deaths?

The social contract

A New Car for my Wife

My wife and I ended up buying a Dacia Sandero Stepway after all. The lady who had said that we couldn't buy a car without first going into debt for a month or so changed her mind. We couldn't get the exact car we had picked out. It had to be slightly different. But the new offer was cheaper by a few hundred euros, and there was no other difference than the car's colour and its variant. We were looking at an orange "expression" model, but we're getting a black "comfort" model. Apparently, it's cheaper by a few hundred euro to be comfortable than to be expressive.

I was advised by a friend to buy an LNG model, but we're sticking with gasoline. I'm a conservative soul. Besides, I don't like the idea of driving around with a bottle of highly flammable gas at great pressure. Furthermore, my experience with tax incentives like the one currently used to sell LNG cars, is that they disappear as soon as there's high adoption, and we're not going to drive the car so much that it will make a great difference to our wallets.

The car will be delivered fresh from the factory in a few weeks from now, and we're paying cash. We're not messing around with credit that has to be terminated at a certain date. I did that once, buying a piece of furniture in Norway, many years ago, and I managed to make it more expensive for myself by quite a lot simply by missing the cancel date by a few days. I don't want to repeat that experience. Especially since it turned out to be untrue that Dacia only sells cars to people willing to go into debt. The saleswoman was lying to us, and she almost lost a sale for doing it. Hopefully, she learned a lesson there.

As the saying goes: "If the lady wants to buy a hat, sell the lady a hat." That's rule one in any kind of retail sales. Don't push secondary products onto people who don't want them.

Anyway, I may have given my readers the impression that I saved all the money to buy the car by carefully putting aside a gold coin every now and again, and that I've now cashed in on my savings in order to make the purchase. However, this is not what happened. I've sold no gold in order to buy the car.

The car is bought entirely from a windfall profit made by my family's company in Norway. The company made an investment two years back that they financed by not paying a dividend last year. They then went on to make a profitable sale of a sub-division as well as an above average year of regular sales.

I was not in charge of any of this. I'm merely an indirect owner of a small part of the company, and I have virtually no say in any business decisions. When they decided to postpone the annual dividend by a year, my wife and I had to compensate by digging into our cash savings, which I had the foresight to put aside when I sold my house in Norway some five years ago. This means that we tapped into our savings a year ago, not to buy a car, but in order to keep our standard of living.

This in turn prompted my wife to go back to her old employer to make more money than she was able to make from her little business adventure. We had to rearrange things due to the decisions that were made in Norway. It was a little painful, but we were prepared, and things turned out well. The profit foreseen by the management team of my family's company turned out as planned and hoped for, and the shareholders ended up rewarded for our willingness to go along with it.

Now, we're in the happy situation that my income is back to what it used to be, my wife is earning a decent salary, and we got a windfall profit to spend on a car.

This illustrates the sort of economic planning that comes with generational savings. My family's company is 150 years old, and it was in its time bought with money that can be traced back several hundred years. We're talking 1600s, 1500s and even 1400s. This is old money.

But old money doesn't hang around magically without any effort or sacrifice. There's a mindset required for it to persist. There's always an element of luck involved, but the deciding factor is the willingness to let the capital grow. My ex-wife was eager to sell it all and buy a house back in the 1980s. If I had done that, I would have ended up with so many bills that I would soon have had to sell it again.

My ex never understood the difference between capital and cash flow. She never understood the point in living according to our income rather than our capital. Why not spend it all?

The answer to that question is now being told, loud and clear I presume. My three children in Norway are now the owners of valuable shares in a reasonably successful family business. This puts them in a position to cut down on debt and buy places for themselves to live. My part of the profits is enough for me to live off of, and even support my wife to a certain extent. All of this would have been lost had my ex had her way. My refusal to go along with that demand made her eventually intolerably grumpy, and we divorced, but I think my point is now more than clear enough to her, and to our children.

My children in Norway are treating the capital with respect. Even the one the most like my ex is behaving reasonably sensibly.

To top it all off, my two boys in Norway are growing the same kind of beard and moustache that I have, which I take to be a symbol of respect, much like my great grandfather (William) who ended up looking almost identical to his father. My great grandfather was financially much more successful than his father, but I suspect that it was his father who imprinted the common sense of my great grandfather into his head.

My great grandfather remained deeply reverent and respectful of his father his whole life, and the most likely reason for this is that generational savings is not only about saving up for the children. It's equally much a matter of good upbringings, and few things make a stronger impression than a good example, with proof that what we say is true, even if it takes a decade or two to materialize. My great grandfather's father was a successful man. His children too were successful, and my great grandfather had the additional luck of marrying the richest girl in town, with whom he ended up making a small fortune in what is now my family's business. I'm sure my great grandfather's father had a say in how that came about, and that his sound advice was followed by his son.

So, I'm buying a car for my wife, and I'm doing it with money that I'm receiving from past generations. My part in it is that I too have made some sacrifices and some moves required to keep the capital intact, and even make it grow. My largest contribution has in many ways been my inactivity. I've kept my fingers off the capital. The house I bought and lived in back in Norway was modest and within my ability to keep until I sold it at a profit. But that profit too has been turned into capital that's merely sitting there, patiently waiting for an opportunity to be invested in something that my youngest son here in Porto can take with him as his gift from his forefathers.

Constance and William

Av Gustav Borgen – Norsk Folkemuseum: image no. NFB.49970, via digitaltmuseum.no., Offentlig eiendom, Lenke

Still Waiting for Negative Excess Deaths

Excess death is a measure of how many more people die in a given time period compared to precious time periods of the same duration. There's an average established from previous years that we extend into the future based on the expectation that the future will be pretty much like the past. When we get more deaths than what we had in the past, we have excess deaths.

This can be seen in this chart I've plotted based on notable deaths recorded on Wikipedia:

Notable deaths according to Wikipedia

The blue column represent the base line. They are from before the pandemic. The red column represents the pandemic, and the yellow column is 2022, the start of the post-pandemic era.

Note that the vaccine rollout didn't result in negative excess deaths. Nor are we currently seeing negative excess deaths, almost a full year into the post-pandemic era.

This is concerning because it was the old and the frail that were dying in great numbers back in 2020. Remember, we were to take extra precautions to save grandma, and many took the vaccine for no other reason than to save old and frail people.

If the vaccine had worked, the vaccine rollout should have resulted in excess deaths going negative. Old and frail people would have gained an extra year or two. But this didn't happen. The year of the vaccine was no better than the start of the pandemic, despite the virus becoming progressively less deadly.

What's even more concerning is that excess deaths would have gone negative for sure in the post-pandemic era if no-one had done anything to mitigate the pandemic. The reason for this is that many who would have died in 2021 or 2022 would already have died, and so we would have had a population with fewer old and frail than we normally have. The fact that we are still seeing excess deaths indicate that the population is still full of frail people despite two years of excess deaths.

This can only be explained as a result of the population in general becoming frailer and more susceptible to an early death. The measures taken during the pandemic have created a frailer and more unhealthy population compared to what we had during pre-pandemic years.

November still has some days to go before we're at the end of it, but the numbers don't look good. The negative excess mortality rate that we should have had by now is still a long way from materializing.

The most disturbing thing about this is that if this anomaly persists, current excess deaths will become the norm, which would mean that life expectancy goes down. Becoming eighty or ninety years old will become less common. People dying in their sixties and seventies will become the norm, as it was in the not-too-distant past.

The mask of the beast

One New Case of Monkeypox per Week in Portugal

A total of 948 cases of Monkeypox have been registered in Portugal as of November 16. This is the first update of these numbers since October 21 when there had been 944 cases since the beginning of the outbreak.

This means that there have been 4 new cases over a 26-day period, which translates to about 1 new case per week. A clear downward trend has been in place since the start of August.

• July 1 - 415 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• July 7 - 473 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• July 13 - 515 cases - about 7 new cases per day
• July 20 - 588 cases - about 10 new case per day
• July 27 - 633 cases - about 7 new cases per day
• August 3 -710 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• August 10 - 770 cases - about 9 new cases per day
• August 17 - 810 cases - about 6 new cases per day
• August 24 - 846 cases - about 5 new cases per day
• August 31 - 871 cases - about 4 new cases per day
• October 2 - 926 cases - about 2 new cases per day
• October 21 - 944 cases - about 1 new case per day
• November 16 - 948 cases - about 1 new case per week

Assuming a hospital stay of no more than ten days for the infected, there should be no more than 2 cases of Monkeypox currently in Portuguese hospitals. The downward trend indicates that the outbreak may be over by Christmas.

Pride flag

By Gilbert Baker (Vector graphics by Fibonacci) - SVG based on this image, Public Domain, Link

50 New Cases of Monkeypox per Day Worldwide

As of November 14, we've reached 79,000 cases of Monkeypox worldwide. That's fewer than predicted on November 5. We are only seeing 50 new cases per day, while our prediction was for 250 cases per day. We're down from 1,000 new cases per day back in August, so these latest figures are a clear sign that the outbreak is waning.

The worldwide number of cases currently in hospitals can be estimated to be 500 based on an assumption that patients are released within 10 days. That's a miniscule percentage of the total number of hospital beds in the world, which is in the millions.

Assuming that this trend persists, we can make the following prediction going forward:

• July 24 - 17,500 cases, 700 new cases per day, 7,000 inpatients
• August 1 - 24,000 cases, 750 new cases per day, 7,500 inpatients
• August 9 - 32,000 cases, 1,000 new cases per day, 10,000 inpatients
• August 17 - 39,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• August 25 - 46,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• September 2 - 53,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• September 10 - 57,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• September 18 - 61,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• September 26 - 65,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• October 15 - 73,000 cases, 400 new cases per day, 4,000 inpatients
• November 4 - 78,500 cases, 275 new cases per day, 2,750 inpatients
• November 14 - 79,000 cases, 50 new cases per day, 500 inpatients
• November 24 - 80,000 cases, 100 new cases per day, 1,000 inpatients
• December 4 - 81,000 cases, 100 new cases per day, 1,000 inpatients
• December 14 - 81,500 cases, 50 new cases per day, 500 inpatients
• December 24 - 82,000 cases, 50 new cases per day, 500 inpatients

Pride flag

By Gilbert Baker (Vector graphics by Fibonacci) - SVG based on this image, Public Domain, Link

Buying a Car

My wife and I are out looking for a new car. The one we have is a 22-year-old Opel Corsa. What we found was a brand-new Dacia Sandero. That's quite an upgrade. However, there's a problem.

The lady who showed us the car has now told us that they only sell it on credit. We can't pay for the car in full.

But we're not buying anything on credit. It's a matter of principle. We wouldn't even buy a house on credit, so why buy a car that way? We told the lady that we either buy the car without credit, or we won't buy it at all. The answer was that we had to look for some other car. They don't sell their cars to people like us.

I wouldn't have believed this story if it was told to me, but here we are. The car we were prepared to buy is still in the showroom waiting for someone poor enough to buy it.

It appears that the world has gone full credit-crazy at this point. No-one is to own anything without being in debt. That means that everyone in effect is to be a renter. Nothing is to be owned by anyone but the corporations. Even car producers no longer sell their cars. They rent them out. Customers only get to drive their cars if they promise to pay in instalments with interest.

If anyone defaults on their loan, the corporation comes and takes the car. It's returned to the dealer only to be rented out to someone else.

This appears to be the future they have in store for us. However, there are still people out there willing to be paid in full, and my wife and I will just have to look a little farther afield in order to get what we want. It won't be the Dacia that we found. It will have to be some other car.

Since we have most of our savings in real money, as opposed to the fake stuff that people call money these days, we are in no rush to buy. It's not like our money will suddenly evaporate into nothing, as happened to the German Mark a hundred years ago.

Sovereign

By Heritage Auctions for image, Mary Gillick for coin - Newman Numismatic Portal, Public Domain, Link

A 37 Billion Dollar Reward for Warmongering

A missile lands in a field in Poland, close to Ukraine. A tractor is hit along with some poor unsuspecting farmer. Zelenski calls for everyone to start World War 3, and Biden calls for another $37 billion of US taxpayer money to be sent as aid to Zelensky and friends.

That's the level of stupid that the world has come to.

Joe Biden receives presidential medal of freedom

By Chuck Kennedy - https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/photos/pb.63811549237.-2207520000.1484275919./10155140878359238/?type=3&theater, Public Domain, Link

Wettest Drought on Record

We had a dry winter last year, and with politicians suddenly back to focusing on scaring us with climate doom after two years of non-stop virus doom, they must have decided on drought as the ultimate catastrophic end to the Iberian Peninsula.

They declared drought as the menace of our time and the end to society as we know it. Politicians would soon have to take on the task of deciding who gets their ration of water and who doesn't, a wet dream for any politician.

But God has a sense of humour. It started raining almost immediately, and the weather has on average been no drier than any other year since their declaration of doom back in March of this year.

The funny thing is that people still talk of the drought with a dead serious face, even as it's pouring with water from the skies. My reply to them is that it's the wettest drought on record. We never had such wet droughts before, so we can only conclude that this is manmade.

Sun

By DracoLumina17 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Collecting my Thoughts on Norse Mythology

I'm having a lot of fun writing my story about Dreufey and her adventures in the universe of Norse mythology, and one of the more entertaining parts of this is the research I'm doing to get all the various characters and places into their correct relation to each other.

This has led me to not things down her on my blog, which I in turn have incorporated into the story. But some things cannot be incorporated into the story because they're too technical. They don't belong in a book that's meant as light entertainment. I've therefore decided to create an appendix where I lay out the technicalities for the interested reader. There, they will find such things as a map of the universe as I've interpreted it. There's also a bunch of notes that are merely there for me as a quick reference.

Norse mythology is complex. There are all sorts of places and beings, and it requires a quick reference chapter to keep track of it all.

China's Three Trillion Dollar Problem

China is heading for a major show down with the West. Among other things, the country aims to conquer Taiwan. This may cost the lives of thousands of people, but that's a price the political elite in China is willing to pay. However, they are not equally willing to see trillions of dollars frozen through sanctions.

Having watched the West's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, they know that any foreign reserves that they have in dollars or euros are likely to be frozen if they engage in direct hostilities with Taiwan, and that is probably too much of a prize to pay.

The only way out of this, apart from abandoning their plans to take over Taiwan, is for China to exchange trillions of foreign reserves for assets that cannot be frozen by the West. A logical first step would be to stock up on commodities, which they have already done. The next step would be to stock up on gold and silver. However, there's little available silver, and the total value of all above ground gold in the world is only 11 trillion dollars.

China has at least 3 trillion dollars in foreign reserves that it needs to convert. With little other choice than to buy gold, that's 3 trillion dollars coming into a market that has no more than 11 trillion to offer, of which only a small fraction is readily available in physical form.

China cannot buy and hold paper contracts, because these can be frozen by the issuers, so they will have to have the gold delivered to them. But how will they do that without driving the price of gold higher? The answer is that they can't. They can play the paper market and try to manipulate the prize lower, but they will at some point have to ask for delivery, and that's when it will become clear to everyone that the demand for physical gold is bigger than can be provided at current prices.

Gold prices may be kept artificially low for a while longer, but if China is to invade Taiwan, they will first have to get their gold delivered home to them, and that will drive the price of gold a lot higher than where it is today.

Sovereign

By Heritage Auctions for image, Mary Gillick for coin - Newman Numismatic Portal, Public Domain, Link

A Curious Thing about Hell

I've finished the initial cycle of my romantic novel. The heroin's past life has been hammered out, and her husband has been laid to rest. With the story set in Norse mythology, I had to look into that religion's take on the afterlife. I learned that there was not only one Viking heaven, but two. I've also learned a few things about Hel, also known as Helheim.

The sources are conflicting on the subject. However, old sources indicate that Hel is not at all like Christian hell. The link between Hel and Christian hell is something that was introduced by Christian missionaries as they moved north, into territories where Norse mythology was practiced as religion.

The original belief was based on the idea that the afterlife takes place underground, in a realm where life goes on pretty much as it did on Earth. This realm, where everyone goes is what they called Hel, and there was nothing particularly sad or terrible about it. It wasn't some punishment for past sins. Whatever character a person had while alive continued in the afterlife.

This means that lost souls. The sad lot that never manage to see anything good in life, remain lost soles in the hereafter, and it is this group of people that the goddess of the underworld, also called Hel, bring together as an army that will eventually battle other gods at the end of times. This image is what Christian missionaries expanded and elaborated on in order to convince people that all of Hel is like this. However, this is a demonization of the original belief, where lost souls were only a tiny bit of Hel's enormous realm.

Furthermore, there were alternatives to Hel. People went to Folkvanger and Valhalla as well. There was also a place called Alfheim, which appears to have been a popular destination among believers. But you couldn't get to any of these places without first going to Hel.

Christian missionaries used a demonized version of Hel in order to explain the Christian idea of hell and eternal damnation. The word Hel was thus converted into the word hell, which we now use to mean what the Christians had in mind. This worked well in England. However, when they went to Scandinavia, they had to up their game, because the word hell means good luck in Scandinavian languages. Besides, people rather liked the idea of a cosy warm place underground. It was very much what they were having in mind as Hel anyway.

The missionaries had to give up on the word hell and invent a new word. That word is helvete. Hell is to this day used to mean good luck. We wish all our friends 'hell og lykke' in their lives, which translates to 'good luck and happiness'.

Another curious thing about the old belief system is that it was generally believed that spirits of our forefathers could be brought back to Earth by naming a child after the forefather in question. If that forefather had been to Alfheim, the realm of elves, the child would grow up to be in part an elf. The whole afterlife thing was something floating and cyclical. Spirits went to the various places that existed for the dead and they could come back and bring some of that with them.

The idea that the Christian vision of what the afterlife looks like is similar to pagan tradition is wrong. Norse mythology has nine realms, and spirits travel between all these places. When we die, we first go to Hel, and from there we move on to wherever else we want to go, or we simply hang around in Hel, living our lives as before.

Stone ship graveyard

By User:Berig - User:Berig. Transferred from en.wp, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

The Great Vaccine Pivot Continues

Here's a rather revealing article in The Atlantic that illustrates a couple of things about the way things work.

The author starts out by describing her utter cluelessness as to how viruses spread in general. Then she goes on to tell us that she had no way of knowing the severity of the Wuhan flu. There was no reliable information regarding this at the start of 2020. However, that's a blatant lie. Anyone who cared to dig a little beyond the talking heads on TV knew from the start that very few were getting seriously ill from the flu.

Then she defends her position on vaccines. Who was she to question the wisdom of it? Never mind that the mystery serum was largely untested. Even kids should be injected with it despite the fact that no healthy children get seriously ill from the flu.

The article is a piece of utter obfuscation. The author uses the fact that she thought that American teachers' unions were pushing the mask mandate on kids a little too far as proof that she was somehow in the other camp. Now, all of a sudden, she's a defender of liberty and truth. She too is joining the great vaccine pivot.

What's particularly interesting about this is that this woman was hailed as something of an expert when it came to public health and vaccines, and her role was to play in the controlled opposition team.

Real opposition by real experts was pushed aside, and this puppet was put into place instead. This pushed away valid scepticism related to the virus response by governments. Instead, we got this moron telling us that kids may suffer from wearing masks all the time, and that we should stop doing this even before all the children are properly vaccinated.

Now that it's clear that the virus response was a massive disaster with enormous social and economic consequences that will burden us for decades to come, the woman has the audacity to suggest that we should forget what they did to us and move on. She places herself firmly in the opposition camp, and generously declares that she is willing to forget and move on.

This is how controlled opposition works, and we're idiots to fall for it.

While we have no choice but to move on, we must never forget what happened, and how it was done. There's no excuse for what they did to us, and the author should never again be taken seriously by anyone. Nor should we ever again trust the so-called experts that they roll out for us on TV. They are snake oil salesmen every one of them, always with the same remedy to their imagined and made-up problems. Be it a virus, nuclear war or global warming, their solution always includes higher taxes and less freedom for everyone.

Emily Oster

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Notable Deaths in October

With October behind us, we now have another month of notable deaths to analyse.

October 2022 saw 677 deaths, which is less than 2021 and 2020 with 742 and 679 deaths, but only marginally so. The number is well above 2019 and 2018 with 590 and 570 deaths. Once again, we're seeing numbers in line with the pandemic rather than the years that preceded it:

• 570 in October 2018
• 590 in October 2019
• 679 in October 2020
• 742 in October 2021
• 677 in October 2022

Deaths among those younger than 70 years of age compares to previous years as follows:

• 21.07% in October 2018
• 20.00% in October 2019
• 23.42% in October 2020
• 22.11% in October 2021
• 23.04% in October 2022

October 2022 is comparable to 2021 and 2020. This too is in line with numbers from the pandemic.

Using a severity formula that divides deaths among those older than 69 by 10 and multiplies deaths younger than 70 by 4 we get the following:

• 525 in October 2018
• 519 in October 2019
• 688 in October 2020
• 714 in October 2021
• 676 in October 2022

October 2021 and 2020 are the worst, with 2022 a close third. These numbers too are well above 2018 and 2019.

Notable deaths according to Wikipedia

Here are the numbers:

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October 2022:

• 20s = 4 = 0.59%
• 30s = 11 = 1.62%
• 40s = 24 = 3.55%
• 50s = 33 = 4.87%
• 60s = 84 = 12.41%
• 70s = 140 = 20.68%
• 80s = 212 = 31.31%
• 90s = 155 = 22.90%
• 100+ = 14 = 2.07%

Total = 677; Younger than 70 = 23.04%

October 2021:

• 20s = 7 = 0.94%
• 30s = 10 = 1.35%
• 40s = 14 = 1.89%
• 50s = 48 = 6.47%
• 60s = 85 = 11.46%
• 70s = 161 = 21.70%
• 80s = 246 = 33.15%
• 90s = 147 = 19.81%
• 100+ = 24 = 3.23%

Total = 742; Younger than 70 = 22.11%

October 2020:

• 20s = 5 = 0.74%
• 30s = 10 = 1.47%
• 40s = 26 = 3.83%
• 50s = 39 = 5.73%
• 60s = 79 = 11.63%
• 70s = 153 = 22.53%
• 80s = 204 = 30.04%
• 90s = 151 = 22.24%
• 100+ = 12 = 1.77%

Total = 679; Younger than 70 = 23.42%

October 2019:

• 20s = 7 = 1.19%
• 30s = 12 = 2.03%
• 40s = 11 = 1.86%
• 50s = 31 = 5.25%
• 60s = 57 = 9.66%
• 70s = 129 = 21.86%
• 80s = 195 = 33.05%
• 90s = 135 = 22.88%
• 100+ = 13 = 2.20%

Total = 590; Younger than 70 = 20.00%

October 2018:

• 20s = 5 = 0.88%
• 30s = 14 = 2.46%
• 40s = 18 = 3.16%
• 50s = 31 = 5.44%
• 60s = 54 = 9.47%
• 70s = 128 = 22.46%
• 80s = 187 = 32.81%
• 90s = 122 = 21.40%
• 100+ = 11 = 1.93%

Total = 570; Younger than 70 = 21.07%

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One New Case of Monkeypox per Day in Portugal

A total of 944 cases of Monkeypox have been registered in Portugal as of October 21. This is the first update of these numbers since October 2 when there had been 926 cases since the beginning of the outbreak.

This means that there have been 18 new cases over a 19-day period, which translates to about 1 new case per day. A clear downward trend has been in place since the start of August.

• July 1 - 415 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• July 7 - 473 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• July 13 - 515 cases - about 7 new cases per day
• July 20 - 588 cases - about 10 new case per day
• July 27 - 633 cases - about 7 new cases per day
• August 3 -710 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• August 10 - 770 cases - about 9 new cases per day
• August 17 - 810 cases - about 6 new cases per day
• August 24 - 846 cases - about 5 new cases per day
• August 31 - 871 cases - about 4 new cases per day
• October 2 - 926 cases - about 2 new cases per day
• October 21 - 944 cases - about 1 new case per day

Assuming a hospital stay of no more than ten days for the infected, there should be no more than 10 cases of Monkeypox currently in Portuguese hospitals. The downward trend indicates that the outbreak may be over by Christmas.

Pride flag

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275 New Cases of Monkeypox per Day Worldwide

As of November 4, we've reached 78,500 cases of Monkeypox worldwide. That's fewer by a few thousand than predicted on October 17. We are only seeing 275 new cases per day. That's down from 1,000 new cases per day back in August, and a clear sign that the outbreak is waning.

The worldwide number of cases currently in hospitals can be estimated to be 2,750 based on an assumption that patients are released within 10 days. That's a miniscule percentage of the total number of hospital beds in the world, which is in the millions.

Assuming that this trend persists, we can make the following prediction going forward:

• July 24 - 17,500 cases, 700 new cases per day, 7,000 inpatients
• August 1 - 24,000 cases, 750 new cases per day, 7,500 inpatients
• August 9 - 32,000 cases, 1,000 new cases per day, 10,000 inpatients
• August 17 - 39,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• August 25 - 46,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• September 2 - 53,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• September 10 - 57,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• September 18 - 61,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• September 26 - 65,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• October 15 - 73,000 cases, 400 new cases per day, 4,000 inpatients
• November 4 - 78,500 cases, 275 new cases per day, 2,750 inpatients
• November 14 - 81,000 cases, 250 new cases per day, 2,500 inpatients
• November 24 - 83,500 cases, 250 new cases per day, 2,500 inpatients
• December 4 - 86,000 cases, 250 new cases per day, 2,500 inpatients
• December 14 - 88,000 cases, 200 new cases per day, 2,000 inpatients
• December 24 - 90,000 cases, 200 new cases per day, 2,000 inpatients

Pride flag

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Dark Magic

The problem with disbelief in God is that we end up not believing in the devil either. Evil can be on full display, and we don't see it, because we don't believe that it exists. At least not in the pure and undiluted form that it has been shown to us lately.

The same goes for magic. Once we stop believing in it, we stop believing in dark magic as well. We become blind to the propaganda and the psyops used to control and spellbind us, and we become like putty in the hands of the evil ones in control of the apparatus of magic.

Many got themselves unwittingly injected by unknown substances for no good reasons at all, except for the dark magic that was used against them. It was well known all along that the injections were ineffective and dangerous. I wrote about this during the early days of the rollout, based on news reports that anyone could read for themselves. People got ill with the virus despite being injected. Many died from the injection. One of the selected substances was so dangerous that even those in the deepest trance were getting apprehensive.

People wore masks on their faces, sometimes two layers. Many were genuinely scared of people who behaved normally. There were those who refused to go to Christmas gatherings if there was anyone unvaccinated among the guests. That's how crazy things were.

But people are waking up, and many are starting to understand the power of their foresight and will. They can see what's coming, and they don't want any of it. Seeing that those who resisted the dark spell did so with no other weapon than their will to resist, people now know that dark magic can be resisted in this way. Next time the people at the ministry of magic try their dirty tricks on us, many more will say no, and the evil will in that way be deflected and rendered impotent.

None of this was impossible to predict, of course. Anyone with a clear head and a good grasp of reality could see that this would eventually happen. Yet very few will dare use the word magic to describe what went on, even though people were quite clearly in a trance, spellbound and unable to act rationally based on widely available facts.

The mask of the beast

A Victory for Democracy

The election in Brazil is universally hailed as a victory for democracy. Just about everyone that's asked to comment on the election result will mention this, often as the single most important thing about the election, as if the ousting of Bolsonaro was some kind of great return to democracy after decades of dictatorship.

I find this curious. It's almost as if everyone has been given a script to read from. Besides, there was something fishy about the results coming in at above 55% in favour of Bolsonaro at the very beginning of their counting, only to be gradually turned into a narrow loss. It was not quite as odd as when Biden ended up the most popular president ever, with more vote than Obama ever had, but the numbers that came in looked fishy. There was something too smooth and managed about them.

However, none of this matters. Liberty is not won at the ballot box. It's grown organically through the network and the severing of ties with the state. When we take control of our own lives, and apply foresight and will to our destiny, we become free. Everything else is but an illusion of freedom where the power-hungry tie us down with their chains of dependence on their various welfare schemes.

Stolen elections may even be good in the end. When it becomes obvious that politicians are nothing but crooks, hellbent on power, people realize that they cannot trust them. This will make people seek alternatives, which they will find among the liberty minded in their own communities.

The laws of economy kick in. When the elite bases its power on a diminishing base of support, their exploitations become all the more glaring. We get inflation and a radical move of wealth away from ordinary people and into the hands of well-connected corporations and individuals. The whole economy gets skewed towards the production of weapons and drugs, and away from healthy living.

In the end, it becomes obvious that only those who manage to disconnect form the system have any chance of getting through the ensuing collapse without great loss.

The social contract