Maybe not the right place to comment, but as a Norwegian, i love reading your take, esp. On Norwegian data as there is precious little critical review to come across. What do you think about this? FHI is pausing the NorMomo work and withdrawing it from Euromomo for «budget» reasons. Quite remarkable timing giving that this year will have record (unexplained) mortality…
Hei Jan, thanks for the links! I've seen it, but for a variety of reasons (I'm running a work-related conference today and tomorrow), I won't be able to do it before later this week. Also, no worries, this is a good a place as any to share these.
As a first off-the-cuff remark: they pulled the same (crap) with the Covid-19 data (which Joel Smalley analysed), stating that they need to stop publishing it citing budget cuts. Now it's the same with the Euromomo data.
Ian Fleming, the creator of 'James Bond', had one of his protagonists quip: 'once is happenstance, twice coincidence, thrice--enemy in action'.
In the United States, it now seems that it is legal to force people to take experimental (EUA) "medicines" whose "side" effects include infertility, seizures, heart attacks, and death. In August 2021, the US Justice Department wrote a memo explaining why it was NOT a violation of federal law to mandate EUA products. Courts do not have to take the word of the executive branch as law, but they give it deference as a general principle, and they have been giving it a great deal of deference in current cases. (Aaron Kheriaty's case against the University of California's mandate was just dismissed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on the grounds that there is no constitutional right violated by a vaccine mandate -- see his "Human Flourishing" substack post today.)
Thus, my alma mater, Caltech, now a temple of pseudoscience, is probably correct when, in its FAQ about its Convid-injection mandate for faculty, staff, and students, it says that the Justice Department's memo cleared up all legal doubts about the mandate.
Maybe it can be called still the rule of law. But the law has lost all connection with morality, and it's become more like the rule of Nazi law. I think often of "Judgment at Nuremberg" (the Stanley Kramer classic film).
Rule of Law became Rule by Law with the Lissabon treaty, since from then all a EUropean governement, or a governement with long-standing and far-reaching agreements with the EU (like Norway and Switzerland) needs to do to circumvent normal and formal legislatory process is to refer to planned, discussed or suggested possible future EU-wide regulation.
"We are adapating and adjusting existing laws in order for them to work smoothly and efficiently with the planned EU-wide future regulations" is a very common phrase since then, as is "We are not able to adjust that law/regulation in accordance with the people's will due to the existing/planned EU-wide law/regulation".
Heads, the politruks win; tails democracy loses.
Which was the entire point of the Lissabon Treaty in the first place: national governements become de facto provincial governements while remaining de jure sovereign, and the real decision-making process can take place in Brussels without hurdles like democracy, voting or what the peoples of EUrope want.
Unsurprising since China has been the model for EU since the early 1990s, and Britain "leaving" only sped that up.
The same applies in the US. The rule of law has been ignored in so many cases that we now have a de facto two tiered justice system.
If you are a conservative politician and attract the attention of the left (in a bad way) you may well find yourself charged with something..... even if you haven’t committed a crime. You will probably, eventually, get something resembling justice but your reputation and bank account will be severely damaged in the process. The “process” is what will ruin you.
The whole Covid mess has made things worse. Now doctors and those who question health edicts (which are mostly ‘advisories’ or regulations instead of laws) are being persecuted by various governments and social media. Our freedoms are being eroded at an increasing pace and seemingly little is done to counter this trend.
It is better here because of our federal system. The new rules/laws etc. are often declared unconstitutional, but the process takes forever and people can be badly hurt in the interim.
The Rule of Law needs to be re-established, and quickly.....
Brave Substack author deals a blow to the tyranny!
People have been conditioned through schooling, their thoughts altered by the lack of nutrition, and they might not want to make any decisions about their well-being instead relying on the magic injection provided by legislators and judges to live.
Maybe not the right place to comment, but as a Norwegian, i love reading your take, esp. On Norwegian data as there is precious little critical review to come across. What do you think about this? FHI is pausing the NorMomo work and withdrawing it from Euromomo for «budget» reasons. Quite remarkable timing giving that this year will have record (unexplained) mortality…
https://www.fhi.no/meldinger/normomo-settes-pa-pause/
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Hei Jan, thanks for the links! I've seen it, but for a variety of reasons (I'm running a work-related conference today and tomorrow), I won't be able to do it before later this week. Also, no worries, this is a good a place as any to share these.
As a first off-the-cuff remark: they pulled the same (crap) with the Covid-19 data (which Joel Smalley analysed), stating that they need to stop publishing it citing budget cuts. Now it's the same with the Euromomo data.
Ian Fleming, the creator of 'James Bond', had one of his protagonists quip: 'once is happenstance, twice coincidence, thrice--enemy in action'.
We'll soon see how coincidental this move is, eh?
In the United States, it now seems that it is legal to force people to take experimental (EUA) "medicines" whose "side" effects include infertility, seizures, heart attacks, and death. In August 2021, the US Justice Department wrote a memo explaining why it was NOT a violation of federal law to mandate EUA products. Courts do not have to take the word of the executive branch as law, but they give it deference as a general principle, and they have been giving it a great deal of deference in current cases. (Aaron Kheriaty's case against the University of California's mandate was just dismissed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on the grounds that there is no constitutional right violated by a vaccine mandate -- see his "Human Flourishing" substack post today.)
Thus, my alma mater, Caltech, now a temple of pseudoscience, is probably correct when, in its FAQ about its Convid-injection mandate for faculty, staff, and students, it says that the Justice Department's memo cleared up all legal doubts about the mandate.
Maybe it can be called still the rule of law. But the law has lost all connection with morality, and it's become more like the rule of Nazi law. I think often of "Judgment at Nuremberg" (the Stanley Kramer classic film).
Kheriaty's post: https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/legal-update-my-case-against-the
Thanks, Sanjoy, for bringing this up!
Rule of Law became Rule by Law with the Lissabon treaty, since from then all a EUropean governement, or a governement with long-standing and far-reaching agreements with the EU (like Norway and Switzerland) needs to do to circumvent normal and formal legislatory process is to refer to planned, discussed or suggested possible future EU-wide regulation.
"We are adapating and adjusting existing laws in order for them to work smoothly and efficiently with the planned EU-wide future regulations" is a very common phrase since then, as is "We are not able to adjust that law/regulation in accordance with the people's will due to the existing/planned EU-wide law/regulation".
Heads, the politruks win; tails democracy loses.
Which was the entire point of the Lissabon Treaty in the first place: national governements become de facto provincial governements while remaining de jure sovereign, and the real decision-making process can take place in Brussels without hurdles like democracy, voting or what the peoples of EUrope want.
Unsurprising since China has been the model for EU since the early 1990s, and Britain "leaving" only sped that up.
The same applies in the US. The rule of law has been ignored in so many cases that we now have a de facto two tiered justice system.
If you are a conservative politician and attract the attention of the left (in a bad way) you may well find yourself charged with something..... even if you haven’t committed a crime. You will probably, eventually, get something resembling justice but your reputation and bank account will be severely damaged in the process. The “process” is what will ruin you.
The whole Covid mess has made things worse. Now doctors and those who question health edicts (which are mostly ‘advisories’ or regulations instead of laws) are being persecuted by various governments and social media. Our freedoms are being eroded at an increasing pace and seemingly little is done to counter this trend.
It is better here because of our federal system. The new rules/laws etc. are often declared unconstitutional, but the process takes forever and people can be badly hurt in the interim.
The Rule of Law needs to be re-established, and quickly.....
Brave Substack author deals a blow to the tyranny!
People have been conditioned through schooling, their thoughts altered by the lack of nutrition, and they might not want to make any decisions about their well-being instead relying on the magic injection provided by legislators and judges to live.