The Appeal to Authority is not the knowledge of facts about which the authority is about, not even the knowledge of what the authorities truly believe, but the knowledge of what the authorities want you to believe, which entails a category mistake when used as an argument about the facts the authority is about.
On Reconciliation
Reconciliation is possible only by means of one, core global culture, one set of consistent principles for All of humanity; not cultural relativism, which perpetuates cross-cultural contradictions and irreconcilable conflicts about values and norms. Human unity, which is to say Global Reconciliation, can be accomplished only through refutation and rejection of both Indigenous and modern ideologies, not their glorification. Incidentally, one global culture already exists, it existed for millenia; Aristotle has formalised its scope as the ‘laws of thought’, the fundamental principles of meaning/sense without which language, thought or communication could not exist. The capacity to consistently formulate and convey meaning is the essence of humanity.
To seek Reconciliation and Rights ‘for your tribe’ is to set yourself apart from humanity, and so to contradict your capacity for inter-tribal reconciliation on the basis of our shared humanity. We either co-exist as humans, as conscious rational beings, and so we are already reconciled, or we set ourselves apart under racial and tribal identities, in which case there is no common basis for reconciliation apart from coming against the point of the spear.
Reconciliation is possible only by means of one, core global culture, one set of consistent principles for All of humanity; not cultural relativism, which perpetuates cross-cultural contradictions and irreconcilable conflicts about values and norms. Human unity, which is to say Global Reconciliation, can be accomplished only through refutation and rejection of both Indigenous and modern ideologies, not their glorification. Incidentally, one global culture already exists, it existed for millenia; Aristotle has formalised its scope as the ‘laws of thought’, the fundamental principles of meaning/sense without which language, thought or communication could not exist. The capacity to consistently formulate and convey meaning is the essence of humanity.
To seek Reconciliation and Rights ‘for your tribe’ is to set yourself apart from humanity, and so to contradict your capacity for inter-tribal reconciliation on the basis of our shared humanity. We either co-exist as humans, as conscious rational beings, and so we are already reconciled, or we set ourselves apart under racial and tribal identities, in which case there is no common basis for reconciliation apart from coming against the point of the spear.
An interesting article on the history of emergency powers, which partly confirms that emergency powers are unlawful, but lacks the courage to assert this basic conclusion and instead uses a euphemism “paradoxical”. In essence, emergency powers (rule by decree under the pretext of emergency) are not based on any authority, they have no force of law, no constitutional legitimacy, but are always, invariably an instrument of tyranny. The article gives a good historical overview of the modern use of this instrument. https://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/wars-pandemics-and-emergencies-what-can-history-tell-us-about-executive-power-and-surveillance-in-times-of-crisis/
My email to James Newbury MP (17 Aug 2021); I received no response.
Dear James,
Would you be willing to sponsor my parliamentary e-petition?
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/374
The argument underpinning my petition to the Parliament of Victoria to repeal Emergency Powers:
The principle of Ultra Vires was succinctly formulated by Justice Griffith in Sydney Municipal Council v Commonwealth, HCA 50 (26 April 1904): “... if the authority which assumes to create such a delegation does not itself possess the power, the delegation is void, since the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
The legislative power in the State of Victoria is vested solely in the Parliament (s16, Constitution Act 1975), where the "Parliament" includes each House of the Parliament, the members of each House, the committees of each House and joint committees of both Houses (s94B.7). The only means of making legally binding restrictions on freedoms under the constitution is therefore by the majority vote of the Parliament.
Emergency Powers are essentially a delegation of the constitutional authority to make legally binding restrictions on freedoms (s200, Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008). If it were not an extension of the legislative authority of the Parliment it would not have the force of law. Emergency Powers, once assumed, are exercised by the decree of the government.
The constitutional objection is that the Parliament does not have the authority to dispense with or bypass any element of the legislative process set in the Constitution (including the majority vote by both houses). The Parliament cannot delegate powers it does not itself possess. Any Act of Parliament that would purport to delegate powers that exceed the procedural limits of the Parliament itself is therefore Ultra Vires and Void. This problem is most obvious in the case of purported suspension of the Parliament, as it then explicitly assumes authority over and above the Parliament, and yet the Parliament is the only source of its legitimate, constitutional authority, therefore contradiction. This takes us back to the judgment in Municipal Council v Commonwealth 1904; “...the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
Best wishes,
Michael Kowalik
Dear James,
Would you be willing to sponsor my parliamentary e-petition?
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/374
The argument underpinning my petition to the Parliament of Victoria to repeal Emergency Powers:
The principle of Ultra Vires was succinctly formulated by Justice Griffith in Sydney Municipal Council v Commonwealth, HCA 50 (26 April 1904): “... if the authority which assumes to create such a delegation does not itself possess the power, the delegation is void, since the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
The legislative power in the State of Victoria is vested solely in the Parliament (s16, Constitution Act 1975), where the "Parliament" includes each House of the Parliament, the members of each House, the committees of each House and joint committees of both Houses (s94B.7). The only means of making legally binding restrictions on freedoms under the constitution is therefore by the majority vote of the Parliament.
Emergency Powers are essentially a delegation of the constitutional authority to make legally binding restrictions on freedoms (s200, Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008). If it were not an extension of the legislative authority of the Parliment it would not have the force of law. Emergency Powers, once assumed, are exercised by the decree of the government.
The constitutional objection is that the Parliament does not have the authority to dispense with or bypass any element of the legislative process set in the Constitution (including the majority vote by both houses). The Parliament cannot delegate powers it does not itself possess. Any Act of Parliament that would purport to delegate powers that exceed the procedural limits of the Parliament itself is therefore Ultra Vires and Void. This problem is most obvious in the case of purported suspension of the Parliament, as it then explicitly assumes authority over and above the Parliament, and yet the Parliament is the only source of its legitimate, constitutional authority, therefore contradiction. This takes us back to the judgment in Municipal Council v Commonwealth 1904; “...the spring cannot rise higher than its source.”
Best wishes,
Michael Kowalik
On Hyperinflation
Several news sources today ran a piece on the looming threat of hyperinflation, comparing today’s economy to past instances of extreme loss of purchasing power. A crucial difference between all past instances of hyperinflation is that today 98% of money in circulation is bank credit, not cash, which means that if the economy would start stalling due to high inflation combined with rising interest rates, then mortgages would be widely defaulted on and so 98% of money could hypothetically disappear from circulation, causing extreme deflation. Also, current inflation is not a result of excessive money printing but of artificial disruptions in global productivity and supply chains, so whereas some consumable products will temporarily become more expensive, this will divert funds available for the repayment of mortgages. Also, the land/house inventory is not shrinking like the consumable supplies, and this puts additional deflationary pressure on the real estate. I therefore expect the real estate market to massively collapse, causing widespread loan defaults, shrinking the (credit based) M3 money supply to M0 (cash), and another deflation-driven Great Depression.
Several news sources today ran a piece on the looming threat of hyperinflation, comparing today’s economy to past instances of extreme loss of purchasing power. A crucial difference between all past instances of hyperinflation is that today 98% of money in circulation is bank credit, not cash, which means that if the economy would start stalling due to high inflation combined with rising interest rates, then mortgages would be widely defaulted on and so 98% of money could hypothetically disappear from circulation, causing extreme deflation. Also, current inflation is not a result of excessive money printing but of artificial disruptions in global productivity and supply chains, so whereas some consumable products will temporarily become more expensive, this will divert funds available for the repayment of mortgages. Also, the land/house inventory is not shrinking like the consumable supplies, and this puts additional deflationary pressure on the real estate. I therefore expect the real estate market to massively collapse, causing widespread loan defaults, shrinking the (credit based) M3 money supply to M0 (cash), and another deflation-driven Great Depression.
People who preach that there are too many people in the world (David Attenborough, Clive Blazey, Tim Flannery) never lead by example and get rid of themselves to “save the Earth”. Therefore they only mean that there are too many OTHER people.
Forwarded from Sanjeev Sabhlok PUBLIC CHANNEL (Sanjeev Sabhlok)
Just made a fascinating discovery. Deaths in Australia increased in 2019 by 10,061 compared with the average of the previous 4 years (159,240).
The ABSOLUTE UPPER BOUND estimate of potential covid deaths in 2020 in Australia (if we followed Sweden's no-lockdown policies) that I've arrived at is 6,500. This means that there was a MASSACRE of some sort in Australia during 2019 that vastly exceeded covid's maximum death potential.
What happened in Australia in 2019 that we don't know about? Can anyone help explain this?
Did we have a particularly bad flu season? Is the lower level of deaths in 2020 therefore the opposite of the "dry tinder" effect that we saw in Sweden?
Download the spreadsheet from:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/deaths-australia/latest-release
The ABSOLUTE UPPER BOUND estimate of potential covid deaths in 2020 in Australia (if we followed Sweden's no-lockdown policies) that I've arrived at is 6,500. This means that there was a MASSACRE of some sort in Australia during 2019 that vastly exceeded covid's maximum death potential.
What happened in Australia in 2019 that we don't know about? Can anyone help explain this?
Did we have a particularly bad flu season? Is the lower level of deaths in 2020 therefore the opposite of the "dry tinder" effect that we saw in Sweden?
Download the spreadsheet from:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/deaths-australia/latest-release
On Eco-Fascism
The idea that native species have a higher (moral?) status and deserve special protection by the state, whereas non-native species do not, is arguably a modern, normalised feature of Nazi ideology. It goes hand in hand with the idea that “nature” should be returned to some mythologically defined “original state” of “health”. This ideology is one of the mandatory, cross-curriculum priorities in Australian schools. The associated value commitments also underpin the special rights and the superior moral status of the indigenous tribes, those who are connected to the land/environment by “blood” or “heritage”; Germanic “blood” became the basis for nativist prioritarianism and tribal supremacism, and led to some of the greatest crimes against humanity. The tribalist/nativist aspect of this ideology is also prioritised in the Australian curriculum, albeit it has been transposed from Germanic tribes onto native tribes of the Australian continent. Nazism had a makeover, it was rebranded as a symbiosis of Extinction Rebelion, Climate Emergency and the political endorsement of First Nations prioritarianism. In short, Nazism was not defeated at the end of WWII, but progressively normalised. Here is a fascinating analysis of the Nazi roots of contemporary environmentalism: https://infrakshun.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/dark-green-ii-eco-fascism/
The idea that native species have a higher (moral?) status and deserve special protection by the state, whereas non-native species do not, is arguably a modern, normalised feature of Nazi ideology. It goes hand in hand with the idea that “nature” should be returned to some mythologically defined “original state” of “health”. This ideology is one of the mandatory, cross-curriculum priorities in Australian schools. The associated value commitments also underpin the special rights and the superior moral status of the indigenous tribes, those who are connected to the land/environment by “blood” or “heritage”; Germanic “blood” became the basis for nativist prioritarianism and tribal supremacism, and led to some of the greatest crimes against humanity. The tribalist/nativist aspect of this ideology is also prioritised in the Australian curriculum, albeit it has been transposed from Germanic tribes onto native tribes of the Australian continent. Nazism had a makeover, it was rebranded as a symbiosis of Extinction Rebelion, Climate Emergency and the political endorsement of First Nations prioritarianism. In short, Nazism was not defeated at the end of WWII, but progressively normalised. Here is a fascinating analysis of the Nazi roots of contemporary environmentalism: https://infrakshun.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/dark-green-ii-eco-fascism/
INFRAKSHUN
Dark Green II: Roots of Eco-Fascism
By M.K. Styllinski Eco-fascism: “… A totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the “land”, understood as …
I just understood why German Nazis are so hated nowadays; because they called their genocidal facilities “Deathcamp”, rather than “Wellcamp”. So silly of them. https://www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/industry/queenslands-quarantine-network/wellcamp-quarantine-facility-toowoomba
Both Nazis and Communists are characterised by insect mentality; a strong swarming instinct with limited capacity for autonomous thought.
Nazism is intrinsically wrong because it derives its meaning and values from the animal vessel and the local conditioning of humanity, rather than from humanity itself - the conscious rational agency from which all meaning and value derives.
“Trust the science”? There is no vaccine science to speak of. “...the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial.” https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
The BMJ
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial
Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight. Paul D Thacker reports
In autumn 2020 Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive…
In autumn 2020 Pfizer’s chairman and chief executive…
“cumulative incidence of spontaneous abortion ranging from 82% (104/127) to 91% (104/114), 7–8 times higher than the original authors’ results.”
Forwarded from Actions be me
12 hours after publication, this BMJ article was re-tweeted 29000 times. Facebook is clearly censoring this article. The BMJ website is intermittently crashing under the load. https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635