The Nuremberg Code, a part of which is listed listed at the end of this post (concerning informed consent), came about in the wake of World War II, the result of a public trial of Nazi leadership figures in the Nuremberg Trials, lasting from 1946-49. These days we call such public displays “virtue signalling,” as in the wake of the war the Allies were much in need of a public face lift. Crimes against humanity knew no nationality, and my own country, The United States, was sorely in need of a public trial and a few ritual hangings. But victor’s justice prevailed. The Nuremberg Code led to the subsequent 1975 Helsinki Accords, designed to ease the stalemate between the West and the USSR that existed at that time. Article VII of the Helsinki Accords reads as follows, promoting

Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief.

This was apparently intended as a slap in the face to the USSR, again, virtual signalling and nothing more. Neither the Nuremberg Code nor the Helsinki Accords have force of law or treaty behind them, and as such are merely window dressing. In fact, during the current “pandemic,” they’ve been ignored in total. It’s a good thing for leadership, as if these enunciated principles carried with them force of law, our prisons would be over-populated and thousands of white lab coats would be hanging in the closets. The medical and scientific professions are as corrupt as anything that might have existed in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union that led to this massive display of false righteousness called Nuremberg.

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The above video, about the Zika virus, is about 16 minutes long. If you elect not to watch it, this paragraph will summarize. Zika erupted in Brazil in the year 2014. Interestingly, there was work in progress on a Zika vaccine prior to that time. After the breakout, President Obama requested $1.8 billion to develop the vaccine. Brazil historically had 150-200 cases of microcephaly (babies with shrunken heads) annually. In 2014 there were 4,000, most in the last half of the year. Two things coincided with the outbreak of microcephaly: Mandated Dtap vaccinations (diptheria/tetanus/pertussis) for all Brazilian pregnant mothers, and spraying of the larvicide pyriproxyfen into the water supply in various areas to stop mosquitos from infesting water tanks. Pyriproxyfen, made by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese subsidiary of Monsanto, caused mosquitos to be deformed prior to hatching, i.e., birth defects. An Argentine group, Physicians in Crop-Sprayed Towns, claims that the cases of microcephaly are caused not by the Zika virus, but rather by pyriproxyfen. (Link.) In the United States we annually have 25,000+ cases of microcephaly, and the Wild Doc in the above video, Dr. Dale Brown, strongly suggests a connection between the Dtap vaccine and that deformity.

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The title of this article says it all:

Facebook: People Are Now Permitted to Speculate Covid-19 Leaked from a Laboratory

I did a run through the comments under this article – not one of which spots the misdirection at work. It is very discouraging.

The reason why the US Government is “seriously considering” that the virus might have slipped out of a laboratory in Wuhan is obvious, to readers here and at other sites like this. It’s the oldest game there is in propaganda – misdirection. Get people to ask the wrong question, and the answer does not matter. (There is no virus, Cyrus.)

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I yesterday stumbled upon this list, Master List of Logical Fallacies, assembled by Owen M. Williamson at the University of Texas at El Paso. He’s come up with 146 of them. It is quite a joy ride to read through them, so many of them updated to modern times, as in #90, “Overexplaining, aka “Mansplaining”. Some I like very much and think are justifiably called “fallacies,” such as #146, “Zero Tolerance:

The contemporary fallacy of declaring an “emergency” and promising to disregard justice and due process and devote unlimited resources (and occasionally, unlimited cruelty) to stamp out a limited, insignificant or even nonexistent problem.

My experience with ZT is in our schools. Administrators cast a negative pall over any targeted behavior (“bullying”) and eliminate due process. They apply standardized mindless punishment without a day in court for the accused. It’s nasty business, as I see it, allowing school officials off the hook. Each incident of behavior needs thoughtful and just inquiry into alleged behaviors, meting out measured and just punishment when someone is found guilty. But who the hell has time for that? (It’s lazy too.)

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This is normally Steve Kelly’s area of expertise, as he is a lifelong wilderness advocate. It has long been an interest of mine as well. My activities in wilderness ceased when I resigned in disgust from the Montana Wilderness Association years ago. While I was an active member, the group was always short of money, the trademark of a genuine environmental group. Over the years, the Pew Charitable Trusts, as an active strategy, took over funding of groups like MWA, removing anyone with a backbone and replacing them with industry “collaborators,” or people who do not believe in confrontation.

They are showered in cash from Pew and other organizations that want to put an end to wilderness activism. MWA now has a large and well-paid staff  (I count 21, whereas when I was a member there were three), and they all wear outdoor apparel and appear in natural settings. Their main funtion is to make the group look like it is doing useful activities while accomplishing nothing. I don’t imagine them to be outdoorsy. 

Pew’s task is now complete. MWA is an industry front group, and not a proponent or defender of wilderness.

(One good thing came out of my years with MWA – it is how I met my wife.)

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