Month: September 2023

By Selwyn Duke

“Only one to two percent” of deaths officially labeled as caused by COVID actually were induced by the disease. The rest were labeled as COVID but actually had other causes.

So said an individual I spoke to recently, who I’ll keep anonymous, about the deceased people processed by this individual’s medical examiner’s office. I won’t reveal much about this person, who I’ll call “ME,” except to say that ME is highly trained and qualified and works at a major medical examiner’s office in New York State.

ME’s information is not revelatory. We’ve heard from many sources that COVID numbers have been inflated. Personally speaking, I also talked a couple of years ago to an employee at a NY hospital who told me, casually and as a matter of course, “They’re lumping all the flu cases in with COVID.” But it’s especially noteworthy and newsworthy when the information comes from someone such as ME, who’s highly trained, in a position to know and who reveals such striking numbers.

I pressed ME on his (I’ll use the masculine pronoun generically here; this doesn’t imply that ME is male or not so) claim. “You’re not exaggerating?” I asked. ME confidently reiterated his assertion: Many deaths his office evaluated were attributed to COVID — but “only one to two percent” actually were.

What were the real causes? ME mentioned ischemia, myocardial infarction (heart attack) and complications from diabetes as major culprits. He also said that there were a large number of suicides — presumably another negative secondary effect of the lockdowns and other irrational COVID policies — though these were not labeled as COVID deaths at his office.

ME did state, however, that sometimes a person will have died from something wholly unrelated to COVID — he mentioned a motorcycle accident case as an example — and his office will list the decedent as having been “COVID positive” (not a COVID death, though), even though he wasn’t, because this would enable the deceased’s family to receive financial aid for the funeral.

Related to this, ME mentioned how not only were hospitals getting more money from the government if a patient was labeled COVID-positive, but that he believed funeral homes were also receiving funds for processing COVID-positive decedents, though he was unsure on this point.

Obviously, however, the monetary carrot will always corrupt a system: As is said, what you fund, you get more of.

ME doesn’t approve of the dishonesty at his office, of the gross manipulation of COVID numbers. But ME also mentioned that his role isn’t to sign the death certificates; it’s to provide the office itself with accurate information derived from his evaluation of decedents. As for the people who run things at this medical examiner’s office, ME wasn’t very impressed, describing them as fools (though ME used a different but synonymous term).

Lastly, ME mentioned something I’ve long pointed out: While with the flu, for example, the mortality counter is reset every year, this isn’t done with COVID. Rather, authorities keep a running count, continually adding on to the previous years’ numbers, so that the disease’s mortality appears especially frightening.

So what are America’s actual COVID numbers? Can ME’s one-to-two-percent estimate be extrapolated to our whole country? We don’t know. What’s for certain is that COVID has been grossly mismanaged and mischaracterized by people who would sententiously scold “Follow the science!” but were themselves following money and politics. In the process, this medical/scientific establishment has perhaps permanently discredited itself — and never was reputational destruction more richly deserved.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/medical_examiners_office_source_only_1_to_2_percent_of_covid_deaths_were_really_covid.html

The short version of the story is that Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh nationalist figure, was killed in Canada. According to India, he’s a terrorist. The Trudeau government decided to incite a diplomatic crisis by accusing India of killing him. But the basis for some of this crisis seems to have come from the Biden administration.

The Biden administration is eagerly pouring gasoline on the flames, urging India to cooperate with Trudeau’s inquiry.

Speaking to reporters in New York on Friday, Blinken said that the United States was “deeply concerned about the allegations that Prime Minister Trudeau has raised”.

“We’ve been consulting throughout very closely with our Canadian colleague, not just consulting, coordinating on this issue. And from our perspective, it is critical that the Canadian investigation proceeds and it would be important that India work with the Canadians on this investigation,” Blinken said on Friday, adding that the US wanted to see “accountability”.

Why is this America’s business?

Blinken neglected to mention that his administration had decided to get involved at the intel level.

In the aftermath of the killing, U.S. intelligence agencies offered their Canadian counterparts context that helped Canada conclude that India had been involved.

The Biden administration is hag-ridden by leftists and as such it’s looking to undermine the more nationalist Modi government in India.

This is another example of why we can’t have ideological leftists who are primarily loyal to the Left, not to America.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-helped-incite-india-crisis-with-canada/

The United States’ government scientific organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), predicts zero sunspots from 2031 to 2040. This is an extreme situation that has not occurred in as long as humanity has been counting sunspots, and it leads us into uncharted territory in terms of our solar system. However, this prediction aligns with the warnings of the world-renowned solar researcher Valentina Zharkova for many years, who indicated in 2019 various signs of this catastrophic phenomenon, including the extreme hailstorms we have seen in Europe and the world this summer. The forecast and various observations this year give cause for very significant concern. In this unique analysis, Free West Media explains why.

The United States’ government scientific organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), recently updated the forecast for the number of sunspots and, consequently, solar activity during the ongoing Solar Cycle 25 (SC25) and the upcoming Solar Cycle 26 (SC26). On average, a solar cycle lasts about eleven years, with a peak in solar activity lasting just over two years in the middle of this 11-year period. The current solar cycle began, according to NASA, with a solar minimum in December 2019 and is expected to continue until the end of 2030. We are currently in the peak of this cycle, which began around the turn of the year, earlier than expected. It is this heightened solar activity within an otherwise overall weak solar cycle that has resulted in spectacular auroras at unusually southern latitudes. The unusual auroras are due to cosmic radiation now penetrating deeper into our atmosphere due to the weakening of the Earth’s magnetic field, a consequence of the sun’s generally diminished activity. This creates stronger and new colors of auroras, visible even farther from the poles, where the magnetic field typically directs charged particles toward our atmosphere. Therefore, auroras are usually seen near the poles.

NOAA’s sunspot forecast is presented on the Space Weather Prediction Center’s website, which is operated in collaboration with the United States’ National Weather Service (NWS).

A Grand Solar Minimum Looms

NOAA’s forecast is as astonishing as it is alarming, as it indicates that NOAA’s scientists believe there will be very few or even no sunspots at all from December 2031 until at least December 2040, as far as the forecast extends. While it is a forecast (see table), it is highly noteworthy because it suggests not only an extremely and unusually low solar activity but also that SC26 is not expected to have an active phase at all. Normally, during the active phase, the sun has around 150-300 sunspots each month. The active phase was supposed to occur between August 2034 and October 2036, according to the research study “Predictions of solar activity cycles 25 and 26 using non-linear autoregressive exogenous neural networks” by Mirkan Y. Kalkan et al., published in the July issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. However, it appears that this active phase will not occur according to NOAA.

Looking at NOAA’s updated forecast for this period, we can see that they predict 1 sunspot for August 2034. They also provide a margin of error for their estimate, stating that the number could range from 1 to 11 sunspots. The number of sunspots does not increase as usual toward the middle of the active period but instead gradually decreases in their forecast. In October 2036, they expect 0.1 sunspots, with the minimum again given as 0 and the maximum as 10.1.

Not only does NOAA state that Solar Cycle 26 will not have an active phase, but the forecast also shows that the expected number of sunspots remains at 0 from July 2040 and as far as the forecast extends, until December 2040.

Even the sun has its spots, as the English astronomer Thomas Harriot is said to have remarked. He is believed to be the first to have observed sunspots with a telescope in the year 1610. But now, it seems that time is out of joint – the sun’s activity has decreased significantly during the past solar cycles, and now NOAA predicts that the next solar cycle will have no sunspots at all. Such low solar activity has never been observed by astronomers, and thus, we are in completely uncharted territory regarding the severity of the ice age this will bring to Earth.

Therefore, NOAA predicts that a Grand Solar Minimum, or GSM, will occur in the 2030s, although this is not explicitly stated. Nya Tider has unsuccessfully attempted to obtain a response from NOAA. We seek both a comment from them regarding the GSM and confirmation that the forecast is indeed accurate. The question is whether the forecast has been projected this far into the future or if there has been an error in their presentation. However, the latter is unlikely because Nya Tider has been following NOAA’s forecasts for several years, and they typically mark “N/A” (Not Available) when they do not have a value, whether it pertains to data or forecasts. At the time of publication, Nya Tider had not yet received a response.

Europe in Deep Freeze In numerous articles and analyses in recent years, Nya Tider has emphasized research and data indicating that the sun influences Earth’s climate. Most recently, we did so in the analysis “It’s the Sun that Drives Earth’s Climate, Not Carbon Dioxide – Top Researchers Push Back Against Climate Lies” in Nya Tider, Week 35/2023. In that article, we also mentioned the world-leading solar researcher Valentina Zharkova, who was one of the first to raise the alarm about the Grand Solar Minimum. In her research paper “Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling,” published in August 2020 on the website of the United States’ National Institutes of Health (NIH), she made the following prediction:

The reason she specifies the end year as 2053 is that it is the likely end year for Solar Cycle 27, which will primarily occur during the 2040s. NOAA’s forecast, therefore, aligns completely with Zharkova’s warnings from many years ago.

A Grand Solar Minimum occurs approximately every 200 years, with the most recent one taking place during SC5 and SC6, lasting from 1798 to 1823 (see the solar activity diagram). Before that, 400 years ago, the Maunder Minimum occurred, which was a period of cold from 1645 to 1715. This period hit Europe particularly hard, with crop failures, famine, and mass deaths.

NASA describes this cold period as follows:

“From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum. During this period, very few sunspots were seen on the Sun’s surface, and the overall brightness of the Sun decreased slightly. Already in the midst of a colder-than-average period, the Little Ice Age, Europe and North America went into a deep freeze: alpine glaciers extended over valley farmland, sea ice crept south from the Arctic, and famous canals in the Netherlands froze regularly — events that are rare today.”

NASA states that Europe and North America went into a “deep freeze.” Low solar activity, as we have seen since the last Solar Cycle 24, is thus directly associated with devastating colder climates. SC24 lasted from December 2008 to December 2019, when climate alarmists began to seriously alarm the world’s populations about “human-induced global warming.” This is highly remarkable, as history clearly demonstrates the opposite, namely, devastating global cooling. However, the climate establishment and its bought researchers avoid acknowledging this fact at all costs.

In the next 30 years, global warming will be the least of our concerns.– Valentina Zharkova

NOAA’s forecast also indicates something even worse, what is sometimes called a Super Grand Solar Minimum, which occurs roughly every 2,000 years. These have a devastating impact on Earth’s magnetic field and, consequently, the climate, as they lead to severe natural disasters and cold. Subsequent food shortages, famine, and societal chaos have, each time, led to the downfall of empires and civilizations.

https://freewestmedia.com/2023/09/23/noaa-predicts-zero-sunspots-for-almost-the-whole-2030s/

A woman in Germany has been warned by a court after comparing a transgender organization’s recently-adopted mascot and a symbol known to be used by pedophiles. Rona Duwe, a women’s rights campaigner, has received an order from the Higher Regional Court in Cologne barring her from further comparisons.

The initial complaint, lodged against Duwe in March, referred to a series of comments she had made online criticizing the distinct pink and blue butterfly being utilized as a mascot by a board member of the German Society for Transidentity and Intersexuality (DGTI – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität).

The butterfly, which has been named Fiely, is a mascot of the northern German trans self-help group Fielappers – a low-German word translating to “butterflies.” Trans-identified male DGTI board member Julia Steenken has appeared holding the butterfly in public situations, and, according to Duwe, the mascot has been present in photos taken at several court proceedings, at meetings of the national parliament or Bundestag, in medical clinics, at events with families, and with the police.

The butterfly mascot was designed by Andrea Fleßner, a trans-identified male involved in the founding of Fielappers. Fleßner also has a close working relationship with DGTI.

Fiely is often seen posed amongst other childlike-toys on its dedicated Facebook page.

On social media and her blog, Duwe questioned the meaning behind the butterfly, specifically asking why Steenken, who was a board member at DGTI at the time, was displaying the pastel pink, blue and white toy in a historic press photo. The photo featured four other trans-identified males, two of which were DGTI members, and two of which were representatives with Germany’s Green Party.

The press photo had already been subject to much discussion on social media, and Duwe offered her own thoughts on X (formerly Twitter) after taking part in a discussion on Facebook, suggesting that the butterfly mascot had some resemblance to a logo known to be associated with the “child lover” movement. She articulated her thoughts further in a post on her Substack.

“The butterfly with light blue and pink heart-shaped wings is also known internationally as a symbol for ‘child lover,’” Duwe wrote. “These symbols are used by the US FBI as an identification marker for pederast rings. In addition to adults, Fielappers also advises relatives and parents of ‘trans children’ and offers a brochure.”

According to the Fielappers website, the crocheted butterfly took inspiration from other crocheted children’s toys, and “can … be male, female or any other gender or gender identity.”

In 2016, the FBI declassified information on the symbolism pedophiles utilize to indicate their attraction. Amongst the seemingly abstract logos, a pink-and-blue butterfly with heart shaped wings was reported as a symbol used by pedophiles with “no gender preference” for the children they sought to abuse.

Duwe told Reduxx that shortly after publishing the post, she received a cease and desist notice from the law office of Dr. Jasper Prigge on March 6, which stated that she was being “warned” against “any further statements about our client Julia Steenken.” The notice highlighted a specific “highly defamatory” quote from Duwe’s Substack post in which she stated that the “mascot … is also attributed to pedophile rings.”

On April 19, Duwe appeared in a Düsseldorf court to defend her statements. Steenken was not in attendance, and instead his legal representative, Prigge, was present to accuse her of defamation on his behalf.

Four months later, after a costly legal battle, the Higher Regional Court in Cologne affirmed that Duwe’s comments, while not defamatory, required restraint. The court ruling warned her and others against making strong comparisons between the logo and Fiely in the future, though admitting the two bore some similarity.

Yet despite the fact Duwe was found to have done nothing wrong in a legal sense, the cost of court fees were split equally between Steenken and Duwe, even though he had been the one to initiate the litigation. Duwe told Reduxx that in total, she was forced to spend approximately €7,000 (approx. $7,400 USD) in order to defend herself.

On September 10, in response to the decision from the court, a photo of Fiely was posted alongside an announcement stating that the group’s mascot would not be changed.

Though the Cologne court did agree with Duwe that the symbols bear a resemblance to each other, trans activists and members of the German press have used the ruling to warn those critical of gender ideology against making similar statements.

Steenken’s lawyer, Jasper Prigge, issued a press release on September 3 suggesting anyone who replicated Duwe’s statements could face legal action.

Trans und Pädophilie in einen Zusammenhang zu bringen, ist perfide. Eine Bloggerin darf dies in Bezug auf unsere Mandantin nun nicht mehr, vor dem OLG Köln gab sie eine Unterlassungserklärung ab. Ein wichtiges Verfahren! 🏳️‍⚧️ https://t.co/PtfKtHDT4e

— Jasper Prigge (@JasperPrigge) September 4, 2023

Pro-LGBT publication Queer.de went a step further, releasing an article with the headline, “Blogger is not allowed to associate trans woman with pedophilia,” and compared Duwe to the nation’s far-right political movement.

Steenken is a prominent member of Germany’s trans activist community, and is known for having contributed to the draft of a gender self-identification bill that was recently passed.

In 2019, the German government offered DGTI a draft of the proposed gender self-identification bill, inviting their input. Steenken then responded with a revision proposal on behalf of the DGTI board.

Notably, one source cited by Steenken in the revision proposal is sexologist Gunter Schmidt, who has previously made statements sympathetic of pedophilia. In a 1991 article for the Journal of Homosexuality, Schmidt wrote, “A person’s age, or the difference in age between the partners, says too little about the nature and quality of their relationship to justify making laws against such partnerships merely on the strength of this information. Pedophile relationships are extremely varied, despite their common features, too varied to allow us to use the term ‘sexual abuse’ as a synonym without being guilty of discriminating against and defaming a whole group of people.”

In March of 2020, while being consulted on the draft of the bill once again, Steenken called for the total removal of any requirements necessitating a medical diagnosis in order to change one’s legal sex. Writing on behalf of the entire DGTI board, Steenken also stated that he saw “no justification” for an age limit.

https://reduxx.info/germany-woman-warned-by-court-after-questioning-butterfly-symbol-used-by-trans-rights-group/

The demographic crisis combined with the population explosion in Africa and effectively open borders add up to the eradication of Europe in the foreseeable future. Last week, over 8,000 welfare colonists invaded the small Italian island Lampedusa in just 2 days. If current trends continue, Africa will soon stretch north all the way through Scandinavia.

Because the extinction of Western Civilization is the ultimate objective of leftism, the Red Pope is on board. It isn’t enough to lure Third Worlders with promises of free money and then let them invade in their infinite numbers to displace Europeans; Europeans must actively help them:

Francis on Saturday condemned “belligerent nationalisms” and called for a pan-European response to migration to stop the Mediterranean, where thousands have drowned, from becoming “the graveyard of dignity”. …

On Friday, he said migrants who risk drowning at sea “must be rescued” because doing so was “a duty of humanity” and that those who impede rescues commit “a gesture of hate”.

By siding with a massive invasion force that is wiping away Europe just as predicted in The Camp of the Saints, Francis characteristically serves his true religion, leftism. Here’s the thanks he gets from other leftists:

Left-wing politicians have criticised [French President Emmanuel] Macron over his decision to attend the Mass, saying it violates strict separation of state and faith, known as laïcité.

He will get even less thanks from the majority population when it becomes Muslim as an inevitable consequence of mass immigration from points south. Christianity will be eradicated, as surely as it was throughout the Christian Middle East when it fell to Islamic armies.

Francis says that defending Europe is “scandalous, disgusting and sinful.”

Hagia Sophia once rivaled the Vatican. After Muslim conquest, it became a mosque. The Vatican will suffer the same fate if Francis has his way.

Moonbattery Red Pope Calls for Europe’s Demise – Moonbattery

But back to the three star hotel accommodation that every illegal immigrant must now receive. On one hand we have record numbers coming into the UK while on the other hand the CINO (Conservative In Name Only) government tell the public that getting a grip on immigration is a priority. The Home Secretary told Parliament this week: “It is totally unacceptable that too many towns and cities around the country now house the 45,000 asylum seekers who are in hotels… it is not right that the British taxpayer is forking out the cost.” This blatant level of dishonesty does not go unnoticed and the government will be rightly punished at the next general election in 18 months.

UK Government Contract States That Illegal Immigrants Must Have 3 Star Hotel Rooms or Better via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/IXQRpMcwC6

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 23, 2023

‘More than anything else, these years just past have been about keeping us apart… driving division. Everywhere people meet was closed. People were frightened into their homes. Now the online world they chased us into turns out to be something else they feel they need to shut down. They didn’t see that one coming, those stupid, clever people.’

Bloody knife attack in the Old Botanical Garden in Munich.

On Wednesday evening, at around 8.30 pm, an actually harmless request for a cigarette escalated. Two work colleagues, a 25-year-old and a 32-year-old Afghan (both asylum seekers), were brutally attacked and robbed by a group of men.

The 25-year-old security guard suffered a cut (10 centimetres long) on his face and several stab wounds on his arm when a 21-year-old Tunisian (also an asylum seeker) suddenly attacked him with a knife.

When the Afghan (32) rushed to help his colleague, five other acquaintances of the knifeman (one Italian and four Moroccans / Tunisians aged between 18 and 52) beat and kicked the two. In the process, they were robbed of their mobile phones and several hundred euros in cash (about 650 euros). The 32-year-old suffered various bruises and a laceration on his face.

Uninvolved witnesses alerted the police. All perpetrators could be temporarily arrested near the crime scene.

One Moroccan (52) tried in vain to escape during the transport to the police station and assaulted a police officer in the process. Another Moroccan (25) also spat at an officer.

At the scene, the police officers found a backpack with numerous packets of hashish ready for sale, which could be attributed to the 21-year-old knife attacker. His victim, the 25-year-old Afghan, had to be treated as an outpatient in a Munich hospital.

“The 21-year-old main perpetrator was taken into custody, while the five others involved were released the following day after undergoing police identification treatment,” said a spokesperson for the Munich police headquarters. The investigations were taken over by the police stations 21 (robbery offences) and 83 (narcotics offences).

Polizeieinsatz in München: Messerattacke im Alten Botanischen Garten | Regional | BILD.de

A man allegedly attacked a teenager in Ulm with a broken glass bottle. The 16-year-old victim suffered severe cuts to his face and neck, according to the public prosecutor’s office and the police on Friday. Rescue workers took the injured man to hospital after the attack on Wednesday afternoon. According to the report, his injuries were not life-threatening.
The 24-year-old suspect is said to have attacked his adversary out of jealousy. According to information, he only let go of him after a passer-by intervened. Police officers arrested him a short time later. The Tunisian has been in custody since Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder.

https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.ulm-mann-verletzt-16-jaehrigen-mit-flaschenhals-schwer.346de332-8401-451b-a0bc-32e100c9c665.html

On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and special guest Neil Anderson, former director of Migration Watch discuss: * The Russell Brand: innocent until proven guilty. It may be possible that both sides are right – but we don’t know and neither side should presume to know the truth. (this episode was recorded before we learnt about Caroline Dinenage MP’s letter to various media outlets) * Bogus black history taught to our children in books and via the BBC’s “Horrible Histories” * The sudden arrival of 18,000 migrants on the island of Lampedusa (regular pop. 6,000)