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For those courageous souls brave enough to look and see what is,

who are unwilling to blindly accept

the lies and rules of tyrannical authority.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.

One word of truth outweighs a world of lies.

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If perchance a post of mine you think extreme

heed this from Kahlil Gibran:

“In battling evil, excess is good;

for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth.

He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.”

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One of my goals is to think and act as if I fear no man’s wrath or deed.


Observation And Integrity

Wednesday 28th December 2022


G’day,

Hope this finds you fit and well.

Here is a sampling of what recently crossed my digital desk.

I hope you get something from it!

Global Warming Sarcasm

Is Jordan Peterson right to say we should have “enforced monogamy”” to solve the incel problem?

Respect

GlassDuo - A Remarkable Listen

Resist An Evil System

Cesium - The most ACTIVE metal on EARTH!

Audrey Hepburn Nothing Is Impossible

Compulsory moral bioenhancement should be covert

Ancient Egyptian Air Conditioner Cools Air 25 Degrees Without Electricity

School Bench

Slay Your Inner Dragon

Prioritorising Time Allocation

Climate Emergency Not Supported by Data, Say Four Leading Italian Scientists

Home Evacuation Checklist: How to Prepare for an Emergency and What to do During an Evacuation

Will The Fallout From “Qatargate” Splatter The European Commission?

Too Dumb Huh?

The Source Of The Climate Scam

Epstein/Maxwell Names

Facebook Spooks

Down The FBI Twitter Hole

The String Pullers

Life Hack - Coffee

Little Drummer Boy by For KING and COUNTRY

Some Thoughts For Next Year

Have a great week!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Global Warming Sarcasm
 
US Weather Map
 
 
 

On Twitter Jon Miltimore said with his tongue poking so far through his cheek it must have hurt worse than the frostbite many are suffering: “If the coldest Christmas in a half-century doesn’t convince you that global warming is dire threat to humanity’s very existence that requires giving government total control of the economy, nothing will.”

 
 
 
 
Is Jordan Peterson right to say we should have “enforced monogamy” to solve the incel problem?
 
Sexless In USA
 
 
 

J Stopl writes:

He is quite right if you correctly understand what he means by that.

This will be rather long answer, because this is a very complex issue. One of the most important differences between the sexuality of men and women is that since women can get pregnant, there is much higher risk connected with sex for women than for men. When woman got pregnant in the prehistory, she needed men to care for her, protect her and took care of food and such for her and the baby. That is the reason why women have evolutionary hardcoded onto them that they are much pickier than men in choosing their sexual partners. Men did not have this problem, they are just biologically programmed to spread their seed. But women had to be careful. You want good genes for your offsprings and capable father to take care of you and your child, so you raise the chances of survival for your genes. So it is not the case that men like sex more than woman, quite the opposite. Women can reach much more intense and diverse levels of sexual pleasure, because nature had to compensate for the risks connected with having sex and motivate woman to do it anyway. This is key to understand what comes next. Natural result of this evolutionary pickiness of women is the fact that through out prehistory of human kind, relatively small part of men got most women and significant amount of men never manage to reproduce. That is the reason why all of us have much more female ancestors than male ancestors. Rather small amount of strongest, most attractive and capable men just reproduced with many woman. So polygamy.

Now this was probably sustainable during the prehistory and it was also good for the gene pool, because only the best genes reproduced. But it is unsustainable in any kind of larger civilisation, because you can not have very functional civilisation with large chunk of males not having any sex and prospects of reproducing. They will rather burn everything to the ground than to live in such an environment. That is why most civilisations regulated sexual behaviour in one way or another. And one of the most successful ways of doing that was monogamy, which was promoted by christianity. The very strict rules in regards to monogamy that christianity promotes are first and foremost very effective way of distributing sexual partners to almost everyone. Think about it. The ban of premarital sex, ban of abortions, illegality of divorces, very high legal or societal disdain for promiscuity, promotion of sex as a way of reproduction and not just pleasure, all of those concepts are in one way or another aim at strengthening of the nuclear family unit. Because it was incredibly good for the stability of the society. When you look at Islam, where polygamy is common, it does not take a genius to figure out that for every high status male who has seven wifes, there are six lower status males who has none. That can not help the stability of any society.

But in recent centuries, literally every single one of those legal and cultural norms, that incentivised monogamy, fell apart. Divorces got legal and then even socially totally acceptable and are now basically just simple administrative act. When I listen to stories of my grandmother, who grew up on the Moravian countryside around WWII, the norms were very different. When a girl was not married around her’s 20 something, she was considered weird. When woman got a divorce, she was then considered problematic, damaged goods. There was a stigma connected to it. Premarital sex is an absolute standard today, which takes away the incentive to get married in the form of sex. Ban of abortions ensured that when woman got pregnant, she needed to keep the child and that motivated her to get married so she is not a single mother. And there were high levels of cultural disdain for promiscuity which is now totally normalised, and if one looks at big parts of modern culture, even glorified to be honest. Both for men and for women. My grandmother told me that when some girl from her trade school (she must have been around 17, so year 1952 in the communist Czechoslovakia) had “something” (I do not know if it was sex or some lesser intimity) with some boy she just met at some kind of dance party, her and her girlfriends just did not speak with that girl anymore. They just considered her to be a slut.

Now, I am of course aware that all of those reforms had good and moral reasons. When you have an alcoholic husband who beats you, it is horrible not to be able to get a divorce. There are life situations in which no one can blame a woman for getting an abortion, for example after a rape. And the cultural disdain for promiscuity was often full of hypocrisy and fakery. I understand all this. But it is also important to understand that those norms were not here just to promote patriarchy or whatever, but they all had an important civilisational role. The broad introduction of the contraception pill in the 1960’s basically took away the risk of pregnancy from casual sex and the massive entering of women into the workforce made men less necessary to women as providers for the families. And when all of this combines, we are getting back to the prehistoric model. According to the data, around 30% of American man in the age bracket 18–30 are basically sexless. I am not sure about the data in the European countries, but it won’t be that different IMO. It went up three times in the last 30 years, but it literally skyrocketed after Tinder became the single biggest way of meeting people. The data from the Tinder are clear. Women pass on circa 95% of men on Tinder and swipe right on the 5%. Man pass on circa 47% of women on Tinder and swipe right on 53%. That is the evolutionary pickiness distilled to the basics, since it is purely about the looks on Tinder.

According to the data, the bottom 80% of men are fighting over the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are fighting over the top 20% of men. In the past, women were motivated to settle down and get married. Even if the guy from her village who wanted to marry her was not the most pretty or the brightest, it was still better to settle down with him then it was to stay single. This is gone. Woman are not incentivised by the society to settle with less attractive guy just to settle down. Why would she? She is biologically programmed to pursue the best genetic material there is. There are also other factors in play, like the digitalisation of the human interactions. People are far less likely to just casually meet, young men are increasingly spending time playing video games and are also getting huge amounts of arousal from watching porn, which is incredibly easy to reach. Now you might say that after centuries of social norms being set up to redistribute sexual partners to men, the coin finally turned and it is time for women to be the masters of the sex market, right? You go queen! Well, not really.

The situation is also bad for women and does not bring them happiness. Here is why. In today’s hook up culture, it is totally normal and easy for women to have casual sex with very attractive men. They just find her on Tinder and if there is no other more attractive option, they have sex with her. So young women can have number of high value male sexual partners. But while the female very likely wants to take these “relationships” further, the males very likely do not. Why would they? These high value males are the true winners of the current situation. They are not motivated to settle, they are having sex with many beautiful women on regular basis. So for them the women is just one of many, it does not mean that much. But for the women, unless she is off the charts model material, it creates unattainable standards of what kind of men they desire to settle with. Now contemporary women is expected to study at an university and then pursue a career for some time before settling down to have children. It is usually around 30 years of age. So she starts to look for the partner to settle down with, but she is in her early 30’s and she wants only very attractive guys, because her previous sexual experiences gave her the impression that she can get these kind of guys. They had sex with her right? So she has a chance. And then there are other factors in play.

It is backed by the data that women usually need men that is at least as inteligent and successful as her for the relationship to work. Relationships where the women makes more than the men rarely lasts. So our hypothetical women in her early 30’s needs very attractive men that is educated and makes at least as much, but ideally more, than her. So basically very small percentage of really high value males. But there is the catch. She is competing for this males with younger girls in their early 20’s. They do not have university degree or the career, but it is proven by the data that men do not care at all about that. Men do not look for extensive levels of intelligence and career success in woman. And those young women are in the peak of their reproductive health. That, translated into normal language, means that women in their early 20’s are much more attractive than women in their 30’s. That is just hard biology. So women are increasingly unable to find partners to settle with, because their standards are just too high. There is increasing number of women in their 30’s and 40’s that are unhappy, because they just can not find the “right guy”. Because they are not motivated by the societal norms to settle, even if it means lowering their standards. They are, on the other hand, incentivised by the popular culture (by it pop music or movies and tv shows) to try as much as possible and just find the one, ideal men. But the probability that she will succeed is very low, unless she is just really smoking hot, model material.

Thus you have increasing numbers of young dudes that are in involuntary celibate (incels), because no woman wants to have sex with them. And you have increasing number of childless women that do not settle down and marry, because she just can not find the “right guy”. And women in their early 40’s are the largest users of antidepressants, because at this age women start to realise, that they just missed it and they will remain childless. This presents huge problem for the society. Do you really think that society with 30+ % of men that are not seeing any prospects of finding a sexual partner will remain stable and functional? Think twice. When you read the incel forums, you can see incredible amount of hate towards the world. Most of them would rather see it burn down than to just make peace with it. What percentage of American school shooters would do what they did if they had a girlfriend? This is what Jordan Peterson means by enforcing monogamy. He does not mean to enforce it through the state giving sexual partners to men. That is absurd. He means that society upholds values that promotes monogamy and marriage and offers incentives to get married, even if it means that your husband won’t be the biggest alpha male in the town. But I think that there is literally zero chance of doing that in today societal atmosphere. Most people are absolutely unaware of these issues and just think that it is the fault of the guys that are having no sex (which in some cases of course is, no doubt about it). But there are larger societal forces in play. So I think that these things just have to play out and when young people see the damage it will do onto the society, they will return to more traditional norms. I think we can already see glimpses of that among the younger generations.

 
 
 
 
Respect
 
Respect
 
 
 

Or you could do it just because it is the right thing to do!

 
 
 
 
GlassDuo - A Remarkable Listen
 
GlassDuo
 
 
 

 
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Resist An Evil System
 
Resist An Evil System
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Cesium - The most ACTIVE metal on EARTH!
 
Caesium-133
 
 
 

This should satisfy the urge to see something blow up that some boys have.

 
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Audrey Hepburn Nothing Is Impossible
 
Audrey Hepburn Nothing Is Impossible
 
 
 

 
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Compulsory moral bioenhancement should be covert
 
 
 
 

(Tom: Good to know that those who would enslave us have willing servants in the medical profession.)

Some theorists argue that moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory. I take this argument one step further, arguing that if moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory, then its administration ought to be covert rather than overt. This is to say that it is morally preferable for compulsory moral bioenhancement to be administered without the recipients knowing that they are receiving the enhancement. My argument for this is that if moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory, then its administration is a matter of public health, and for this reason should be governed by public health ethics. I argue that the covert administration of a compulsory moral bioenhancement program better conforms to public health ethics than does an overt compulsory program. In particular, a covert compulsory program promotes values such as liberty, utility, equality, and autonomy better than an overt program does. Thus, a covert compulsory moral bioenhancement program is morally preferable to an overt moral bioenhancement program.

 
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Ancient Egyptian Air Conditioner Cools Air 25 Degrees Without Electricity
 
terracotta air cooler
 
 
 

Based on the ancient Egyptian technology known as “evaporative cooling,” New Delhi-based Ant Studio created a zero-electricity, zero-emissions air conditioner made simply of terra-cotta tubes and water. Inspired by the structure of a beehive, the cone-shaped clay tubes stacked on top of each other in alternating directions.

When water runs down the structure—it’s sufficient to wet the cones just once or twice a day—the process of evaporation gradually lowers the air temperature. The porous terra-cotta units absorb water that then seeps to the outer surface, where it evaporates and turns into cold air.

 
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School Bench
 
School Bench
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Slay Your Inner Dragon
 
Slay Your Inner Dragon
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Prioritorising Time Allocation
 
Prioritorising Time Allocation
 
 
 

True. Whatever you make the priority will consume your time. There’s a great line I read decades ago, “The job expands to fill the available time.”

So the tool to handle this is a block timetable where you assign blocks of time in your day and week for the tasks to which you need to or wish to allocate your time.

If you block out time for the necessities and the desirables then you are more at cause over your schedule and life.

Of course there are nearly always unforeseens that come up (like the dog peeing or pooping where he shouldn’t) and need to be handled which is why some slack to handle them is built into a well structured schedule.

 
 
 
 
Climate Emergency Not Supported by Data, Say Four Leading Italian Scientists
 
Cyclone Frequency
 
 
 

Well-researched, fact-driven, credible scientific papers such as this are crucial in the battle to stop green activists and rentiers having a free run to catastrophise every bad weather event in the interest of promoting a command-and-control Net Zero agenda. Attempting to attribute single weather events to humans burning fossil fuels is the product of feverish imaginations and ’garbage in, garbage out’ climate models. Rational, evidence-based science should be promoted at every opportunity.

 
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Home Evacuation Checklist: How to Prepare for an Emergency and What to do During an Evacuation
 
Home Evacuation Checklist
 
 
 

As with any emergency, handling a home evacuation with confidence comes down to being as prepared as possible. With the right preparations, everyone can get to safety without making missteps along the way or getting too stressed. Although there is no way to fully ease stress during an emergency, preparations can help.

So, explore what to do before, during, and after an evacuation to get ready to handle this situation with ease. Also, be sure to take a look at what to bring along for the ride, so you do not leave anything important behind. To get started, use this guide to learn how to prepare to leave your house or the city as needed to stay safe.

 
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Will The Fallout From “Qatargate” Splatter The European Commission?
 
 
 
 

As the Qatargate scandal widens, questions are being asked as to whether its reverberations will reach the Commission, the EU’s executive branch. Recent revelations suggest the EU’s Chief Diplomat Josep Borrell could be implicated.

Since erupting last weekend with police raids on MEPs’ homes and offices in the European parliament, the Qatargate scandal has done nothing but mushroom. What began as a criminal probe into current and former MEPs and parliamentary assistants implicated in a bribery ring aimed at burnishing the public image of the current World Cup host has widened significantly — not only in terms of the number of people involved but also the number of organizations and third countries, which now also include Morocco.

As the scandal grows, both the Parliament and the European Commission are locked in a frantic damage control mission. European Parliament president Roberta Metsola on Thursday (15 December) pledged to unveil a “wide-ranging reform package” in January, which will include  measures to bolster whistleblower protections, a ban on all unofficial parliamentary friendship groups (groups of MEPs discussing relations with non-EU countries) and a review of enforcement of code of conduct rules for MEPs.

 
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Too Dumb Huh?
 
Too Dumb Huh?
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
The Source Of The Climate Scam
 
The Source Of The Climate Scam
 
 
 

When you dive deep into the origins, history and actions of those pushing the climate change scam you come to the conclusion that it is a control operation planned to forward a tyrannical one world government. When you look how the two largest lobbying groups on the planet (those who lobby the US and EU governing body members) it quickly becomes obvious that the larger the government, the more it is subject to corrupt corporate influence. Small, local government does not seem to be immune from it. I think we need a new resurgence in ethics and morals to create a better society.

 
 
 
 
Epstein/Maxwell Names
 
Epstein/Maxwell Names
 
 
 

 
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Facebook Spooks
 
Facebook Spooks
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Down The FBI Twitter Hole
 
Down The FBI Twitter Hole
 
 
 

The fact that Twitter and the FBI were ignoring child abuse accounts to go after those not following the narrative confirms what those in the know have been saying for 70+ years, the FBI is probably close to being Public Enemy Number 1.

 
 
 
 
The String Pullers
 
The String Pullers
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Life Hack - Coffee
 
Life Hack - Coffee
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Little Drummer Boy by For KING and COUNTRY
 
Little Drummer Boy by For KING and COUNTRY
 
 
 

Epic!

 
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Some Thoughts For Next Year
 
 
 
 

In this, my closing article in my last newsletter for this year, I would like to share something with you that has the potential to revoutionize next year for you.

I saw a meme on social media that referred to the self-talk that goes on in our heads and most of it not being constructive. Got me thinking about what we should focus on because it is far easier to focus on something rather than avoid thinking about something. If you don’t appreciate this, stop reading this, look at the time then see how long you can go without thinking ’rhinoceros’. Not long I’ll wager!

As I was writing this I recalled a story I heard over 40 years ago now. ’Bout a pilot who took off and announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have turned of the fasten seat belts sign but recommend while seated you leave them on in case we strike any unexpected turbulence.

“We are presently climbing to our cruising altitude of 33,000 feet. I have not picked a destination yet but we have plenty of fuel so we’ll just wing it for a while, see where circumstances take us and pick a landing spot some time later today or tomorrow.”

Would you feel just a teeny bit apprehensive at this point? Or full on panic?

And yet isn’t that exactly how most of us live our lives?

There’s some impressive science to back up goal setting. And yet it’s something we’re never taught or encouraged to do. But the statistics don’t lie, and make a strong argument for getting good at this skill; and making a habit of it. A Harvard Business Study found that the 3% of graduates from their MBA who had their goals written down, ended up earning ten times as much as the other 97% put together, just ten years after graduation.

So I penned some questions to ask yourself:

IMMEDIATE - Boost Efficiency “What product do I want to attain with this action?” “Will my proposed action obtain that specific product?” “Is it the best action or is there a more efficient way to accomplish that product?” “What will be the future consequences of this contemplated action?”

Just doing that with every contemplated action will revolutionise your life. You will be more focused, more disciplined, more productive and happier.

DAILY - Boost Effectiveness “What is the most important product for me to attain today?” “Is doing the actions on my Daily To Do list going to attain that product?“ “If not, what do I need to change or add so it does?”

This will kick your effectiveness upstairs to a whole new level.

WEEKLY - Consistent Improvement “What worked well last week that I need to write in my ’Successful Actions and Wins’ book? (So I don’t lose track of it.)” “What did I not do well last week? What failed, what was omitted, on what did I waste time?” “What do I need to change so that does not happen again?” “What progress do I want to make on my most important goals this week?”

Do you know you only need to improve by 2% a week to be 100% better a year from now than you are today?

MONTHLY - Progress Review “Am I a twelfth closer to my annual target than I was this day last month?” “If not, why not? What attitude or action changes would get me back on track?”

YEARLY - Deep Review “Did I attain my major targets for the year?” “If not, why not? What did I misestimate? What do I need to change so this does not happen next year?” “What are my major targets to accomplish in each area of my life in the coming year?”

LONG TERM - Maximize Lifetime Accomplishment First, establish or review your basic purpose in life. Second, decide where you would like to be in 5 and 10 years. Third, list the resources (skills, contacts, assets etc.) you need to develop or acquire to make that target. Fourth, work out a plan in sequence of how you are going to acquire those resources.

One could make a valid case that the best way for doing the above is in reverse order to that listed. And if you are capable of doing that, by all means do so. If you have no idea what is your basic purpose or where you would like to be in 5-10 years don’t let that stop you from changing the way you look at things, the way you think and do things by starting at the top of the list and expanding your abilities as you hone your skills.

And remember that your perception of what you can get done varies markedly according to the time frame. Various people have observed this and said something along the lines of the following, “Most people grossly over estimate what they can get done in a day/year and underesimate what they can do in 5-10 years.”

If you decide to give the above a try, please drop me a line and let me know how you go with it. Your wins, losses, what you found worked for you and what didn’t. What you changed or added.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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!

Tom

 
 

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