Political Circus

Now that the virus has been classified as no more harmful than a regular flu by Norwegian civil servants, Norwegian politicians have declared themselves victorious. They are out in force, congratulating themselves for their victory. Never mind that there are more people in hospital for the virus now than a year ago. The lockdowns, mandates and vaccines have been a great success.

It's time to move on. Norwegian society can reopen. Restrictions can be lifted. Freedom can return. There are smiling faces everywhere. The war is over.

Next thing on the agenda is to save our planet from global manmade warming, and I'm sure the politicians will be as successful in this as they have been with the virus.

Trapeze Artists

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Love of Money

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

1 Timothy 6:10

Many relate this Bible quote to greed. However, there's more to this than that. The first thing to note is that money isn't the root of all evils, as some claim. It's merely one of many sources of evil, and this is only the case when money is highly coveted. Money doesn't lead to evil, it merely has the potential to do so when our love for it becomes unhealthy.

Furthermore, the nature of the evil associated with a love for money is laid out in the text. Such love has a tendency to lead us astray so that we end up hurting ourselves and others instead of benefiting from what money can provide.

This was illustrated to me when I had to stop my wife from getting herself vaccinated a few weeks back. Part of her argument was that she had to do this in order to secure her income. The alternative would be to dig into our savings in the event of further vaccine related restrictions. However, when I pointed out that our savings are there precisely for this kind of events, her argument unraveled, and that's how I ended up stopping her from making a bad decision.

Interestingly, my wife's predicament wasn't due to greed. Rather, it was due to her being too timid. She assumed that my love for our savings exceeded my love for her; and that's where she went astray.

The faith mentioned in the Bible is our faith in God, aka Nature, and the evil is any straying from this in pursuit of something else. My wife was about to stray from the faith, as it were. She was prepared to sacrifice herself for money. However, that didn't happen, and the consequence of this has been very positive. Her confidence and self esteem has improved, as well as her trust in me.

However, this doesn't mean that we should ignore the value of money. I would never spend our life saving on a medical procedure with a small chance of success or minimal utility. Our savings are meant for our son. I'm not going to steal from his inheritance in order to give myself a few extra months of life. There are limits to how much I'm willing to spend on myself at the expense of future generations. But my wife was about to sacrifice herself for mere pennies, and that would have been a monumental error at the other extreme.

The trick is to find the right balance. Money should not be so coveted that we put ourselves at risk, nor should it be so easily spent that future generations become disadvantaged.

Gold eagle

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Early Start to Flu Season

I woke up with a sore throat this morning. It's the typical start to a cold, and it didn't come unexpectedly. My son and wife have been coughing for a few days now, and my mother in law has had a light cough for several weeks. None of them are very ill, and I hope to be equally lucky.

My wife tested herself the other day and came out negative for the plague, so we can assume that the same is the case for the rest of us. This is nothing more than the common cold or a light flu.

I'm not keen on the whole testing thing, but it came in handy for my wife who was called by her pro-vaccine brother the other day. He wanted to know if her cold could be the plague, and my wife could confidently tell him that it isn't. But he went on nevertheless as if the vaccine is some kind of cure all. He told her to take the vaccine anyway, just in case. However, that narrative is unraveling. He's just slow to pick up on the latest news.

Health officials in Norway and England are telling us that the virus will soon be reclassified as largely harmless. It will be bundled together with colds and flus, and treated accordingly. This comes after Sweden and Denmark have done the same. As has often been the case before, Scandinavia exports pragmatic solutions to the rest of the world, wrapped in language designed to take the sting out of the remedy.

The official wording is typical. Lip service is paid to the vaccine so that policy makers are given a way to save face, but the conclusion is definite. There's no need for any of the measures pushed by totalitarian control freaks.

This is a clear message, similar to how the Goths operated in Roman times. There's a proposed solution on the table. Those who follow it will be able to save face. Those who reject it will reap the consequences. There will be no mercy. They will have to take full responsibility for whatever damage they make from here on out. No-one can any longer claim that they are merely acting out of caution.

It appears that the Goths are about to return, as I've been predicting for some time now.

Vitality and strength

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A Persistent Headache

The latest decree from our rulers in Portugal is that vaccine passports will no longer be required for indoor dining. The logic is the same as expressed in the UK. The goal was to scare as many as possible into taking the vaccine out of fear that they would otherwise be left out of everyday activities like dining out and going to supermarkets. Since this worked as intended, there's no need for a full implementation of vaccine passports.

While this reasoning may be true, I'm sure the refusal of the general public to go along with vaccine passports has had something to do with the decision as well. Hardly anyone has used their vaccination papers in order to enter vaccine only areas. Just about everyone has chosen to find alternatives, as witnessed by me and my family last Saturday.

The war of attrition that is waging against the authorities appears to be working. Mandates are being rolled back, and the vacuum is quickly filled by liberty minded people determined to push back on the authoritarian agenda. This happens without central organization. There is no leaders behind this. It's all happening spontaneously through the network effect.

However, the war is not without casualties. Many gave in to the pressure to get vaccinated through the summer. Some 85% of all adults in Portugal are vaccinated, and many of these are already regretting their decision.

The daughter in law of the old man that died the other day, is a friend of my wife, and she's becoming increasingly anxious about her vaccination. She has developed a persistent headache, and she fears that this may be vaccine related.

This is an aspect of the vaccine that few have touched upon; namely the psychological impact that it will have on anyone developing an illness after partaking in the experiment. The uncertainty alone is enough to make people ill from anxiety, and this is what's happening to my wife's friend. Her vaccination status is turning into a nightmare.

A tragic aspect of this story is that she and her husband were warned by the old man. He told them that he would take the vaccine so that they could see for themselves if it was safe or not. Yet, when he developed dementia and pneumonia in the weeks following his vaccination, the couple went ahead and got themselves vaccinated anyway. It was an act of such tremendous stupidity that they have a hard time explaining it.

However, their decision was not without cause. The specter of vaccine passports, combined with peer pressure, prompted them to get themselves vaccinated. Needless to say, none of them are very happy about the advice they received from family, and authority figures in government.

Headache

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Managing China's Train Wreck

It's becoming increasingly clear that Beijing is using Evergrande as a financial weapon. The latest evidence of this is how Evergrande is honoring its debt to local Yuan based debt while defaulting on offshore Dollar denominated debt.

This will have the effect of causing maximum damage abroad, while minimizing damage in China. Beijing is using Evergrande in much the same way it used its virus to strengthen its relative position in the world.

Xi Jinping

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Electric Volcanos

Earth is a giant capacitor. This is true regardless of its internal makeup, but it's especially true if Earth is hollow, as suggested in my book. Furthermore, Earth appears to have cracked. There are multiple fault lines crossing our planet, all of them teeming with geological activity. This is similar to what happens when a capacitor is too heavily charged. Small ones explode. Big ones deform and crack, with hot dielectric matter oozing out.

Seen in this light, it's reasonable to suggest that volcanos are electric phenomena. Magma is the hot dielectric matter pouring out of an overly charged planet. Volcanos are electrical hotspots, more heavily charged than areas of little to no geological activity.

This in turn ties up to gravity anomalies, with gravity consistently stronger in areas of much geological activity. It is the more heavily charged areas of our planet that have the strongest gravity, indicating that gravity is at least in part due to charge density.

Quake epicenters

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Gravity anomalies

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Lingering Fear

People are becoming increasingly relaxed about the virus. That's clear from direct observation. The trend is noticeable in the streets. More and more people are dropping the mask.

This is something we need to encourage so that the next wave of propaganda becomes as ineffective as possible, and the most effective way to achieve this is through example. The mere act of walking about, relaxed and happy is contagious. It's a sign of physical and mental health, and therefore something that everyone wants to emulate.

The more people we manage to relieve from their fear, the harder it will be for fear-mongers to reinstate the sort of fear that we've seen over the last 18 months. This will be especially true if we back up our fearless demeanor with the fact that the virus isn't very dangerous.

On the other hand, we need to build on the sense of dread that is starting to spread among the vaccinated. Whenever confronted by a vaccinated person, we need to point out that the vaccines aren't effective against variants, nor are they tested for long term side-effects. But this must be mellowed down with a message of hope. We must point out that the vaccines fade over time. There's little to worry about, provided we don't take any of the boosters.

The overall message should be that the vaccine is a bigger risk than the disease itself, and that the vaccine wears off so that we can all return to the old normal once the hysteria subsides.

With the new normal being a dystopian world of checkpoints, vaccines, and surveillance, it's easy to paint a picture of the old normal as something worth returning to no matter what our vaccine status may be. Who wouldn't rather live in the relative freedom that we had back in the 1980s than under the encroaching tyranny that we are seeing today?

Mask of the beast