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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico Orders Investigation into COVID-19 Pandemic Management and Vaccines

After 21,000 Excess Deaths Announced in Slovakia Since 2020

[Translation by Dr. William Makis] Prime Minister's Address to Parliament January 23,2024

“Ladies and gentlemen of Progressive Slovakia and the Opposition parties, have you seen the statistics on how our deaths have risen from various cardiovascular events due to vaccination?

But you reject it, of course you reject it, while you claim that (COVID-19) Vaccination was the best thing in the world.

What do you know about how many vaccines we have left over that expired and how much money was thrown away into the air? What do you know about purchases of medical equipment and tests? You know that we demonstrated very clearly the connection of one company from Trnava (Slovakia) to the chairman of one of the opposition political parties.

Hundreds of thousands, millions worth of purchases, completely useless. What do you know about management? What do you know about what was going on in terms of taking various measures which, in our view,significantly increased the morbidity than was perhaps the case in other countries?

And you all laughed at the other states, other countries. You laughed at Russia, where they stood on the principle of individual visits of patients by doctors, and they managed it significantly better than we managed it here in Slovakia.

We have 21,000 deaths, which we connect with the fact that the governments that were here since 2020 were not capable of managing (the pandemic) and cared only about economic gains and of course made sure they were bowing to pharmaceutical companies from which they bought huge quantities of useless medical equipment and often also vaccines.

I don’t even want to talk about the European level, you know that I have been very open and I said it to Madam President of the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen) openly that the suspicions that are connected with her and to the purchase, the largest purchase in the history of the European Commission, of vaccines, when she literally exchanged secret SMS text messages with CEO of Pfizer (Albert Bourla), and when, to the ridicule of Members of the European Parliament a report was issued that was completely blacked out, we will simply never be able to find out the truth of what role pharmaceutical companies played and who actually organized this whole circus around COVID-19.

Under these conditions, ladies and gentlemen, the government of Slovak Republic has decided that it will include into the Government’s Program Statement, a commitment that it will settle this issue. The Slovak public simply needs an answer, needs an answer in regards to vaccination, what it actually was. Why were people vaccinated with various experimental Vaccines without any trials? Why were all sorts of drugs forced into people? Why was there state wide testing? Who was buying? Why were they buying? What quantities were being bought? How much money did it cost?

And we’ll end up at billions, at billions, you can grin all you want because you don’t even know anything other than showing disrespect for another opinion. You know democracy is about sometimes respecting another opinion. When you are here discussing for the third week talking about the Criminal Code, nobody is swearing at you, we are listening to you, you are talking, so please be kind enough if we have a different opinion, then please respect it even if you disagree with it.

Under these conditions, we have decided that we will create an Office of the Government Plenipotentiary which will be dealing with these questions. Today, we have not only appointed the Director of Plenipotentiary, but we’ve also empowered him when it comes to obtaining information from various Institutions, in particular we will be obtaining information from the Chief Hygienist, we will be asking questions at the National Health Information Center. We still want to know, based on what we currently have available to us, what actually happened.

I think that Dr.Kotlar, Member of the National Assembly, is sufficiently equipped in terms of information. I see that he is also prepared in terms of assembling a team. I have requested from him that before we make any public statements, that we have first gone through everything at the government, and I am absolutely convinced that his work will lead to results that we will make public and we will tell the Slovak public what in God’s name happened during COVID.

We know today one thing for sure: previous governments completely failed to manage COVID properly and have around their necks 21,000 dead people and apparently they made a huge amount of money on the unnecessary purchases of various medical equipment and vaccines.

Thank you very much.”




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My Take…

A few weeks ago, newly elected Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico clearly outlined his governing party’s position on rejecting the WHO Pandemic Treaty. I translated his speech here.

This time, Slovakia leads the way again and provides the “template” on how to approach the crimes and fraud committed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the politicians who were in power at the time.Publicly address current excess deaths
Publicly expose the cardiovascular (and other) deaths caused by COVID-19 Vaccination
Call out the corruption involving the contracts that were awarded for masks and other personal protective equipment (and the politicians involved)
Call out the corruption in the procurement of COVID-19 Vaccines
Call out the experimental nature of COVID-19 Vaccines and the inappropriate use of various drugs that were forced on people during the pandemic
Launch a government investigation into the handling of the entire COVID-19 pandemic, including the rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines and the purchases of various medical equipment and vaccines (and who benefited financially).
Make a commitment to the public, to make all the findings of such a government investigation public.

Notice that even though he is a politician, he is not dancing around the issue or sugar coating it. He is simply telling it like it is.

This is a great template to follow, by other politicians who want to do the right thing at this time.

For example, in Canada, Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith could launch such an investigation into corruption and crimes committed during the COVID-19 pandemic (especially by Alberta Health Services and the Colleges of Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Dentists, etc) and if she did, she would have overwhelming support from the public.

*https://www.globalresearch.ca/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-orders-investigation-covid-19-pandemic-management-vaccines-21000-excess-deaths-announced-slovakia-since-2020/5848126

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Dr. William Makis is a Canadian physician with expertise in Radiology, Oncology and Immunology. Governor General’s Medal, University of Toronto Scholar. Author of 100+ peer-reviewed medical publications.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Por Que Troquei o Ateísmo Pelo Cristianismo

 
Jonathan Noyes

Muitas vezes me perguntam o que me levou à conversão do ateísmo ao cristianismo. A resposta às vezes surpreende: a realidade. A realidade é a forma como o mundo realmente é. Não muda de acordo com nossos gostos e desgostos. Por isso, quando você não vive de acordo com a realidade, você esbarra nela. Como ateu, ao procurar respostas para questões importantes, esbarrei na realidade.

O primeiro solavanco veio quando tentei explicar o que causou o início do universo. Não é tão complicado quanto você imagina. Existem apenas duas opções: algo ou nada. Isso me colocou em uma situação difícil como ateu. Eu não queria dizer que algo causou o universo porque esse algo teria que ser imensamente poderoso, incrivelmente criativo e fora de sua própria criação (ou seja, fora do tempo e do espaço). Esse algo estava começando a se parecer com Deus, e eu não queria dizer que Deus causou o universo. Em vez disso, eu queria dizer que nada causou o universo. Isso não é razoável, no entanto.

Como ateu, eu acreditava que tudo o que existe é produto de processos físicos cegos. Eu não conseguia explicar de onde veio o universo porque tudo que eu tinha para começar era nada. Mas nada vem do nada. Dizer que o universo surgiu do nada vai contra as nossas intuições básicas sobre a realidade. Contudo, no teísmo cristão, não havia mais do que nada para começar. Houve uma causa sem causa. A explicação cristã se alinha perfeitamente com a forma como o mundo realmente é.

Esse foi o primeiro solavanco. O próximo solavanco foi o mais difícil para mim.

Como ateu, eu sabia que certas coisas estavam realmente erradas. Eu teria concordado que o que aconteceu nas fornalhas de Auschwitz estava errado. O que eu quis dizer quando disse que estava errado? Eu não estava apenas descrevendo minha opinião pessoal ou uma emoção. Eu estava descrevendo as próprias ações. Eu estava dizendo que essas coisas eram perversas e más, e não do jeito que deveriam ser. Observe algo importante aqui. Para que eu pudesse dizer que algo estava errado em última análise, tive que apelar para um padrão objetivo fora de mim. Certo e errado, bom e mau, precisam ser detalhes do mundo externo e não apenas opiniões pessoais, mas sobre o ateísmo, não existe um padrão objetivo.

Toda cosmovisão precisa dar uma explicação adequada para a moralidade objetiva que percebemos no mundo. Cada vez que eu me opunha a que algo fosse ruim, eu esbarrava na realidade. Eventualmente, percebi que o ateísmo não poderia explicar a existência da moralidade objetiva. O teísmo cristão sim. Mas há mais.

Enquanto eu lutava com a ideia de que havia uma obrigação objetiva no mundo em que vivemos, e compreendi que o universo tinha que vir de algo ou “Alguém”, me vi esbarrando em outra parte da realidade que não conseguia explicar. : a alma.

As almas são reais e isso foi um grande problema para mim. A existência das almas não é difícil de reconhecer quando pensamos cuidadosamente sobre a realidade. Deixe-me mostrar o que quero dizer. Você já teve uma música presa na sua cabeça? Para lançar essa música, você abre seu crânio, vasculha seu cérebro e extrai a música? Claro que não. A música não existe fisicamente. Existe em sua mente. Sua alma.

Eu não apenas tinha consciência da minha alma, mas também sabia que havia algo especial em ser humano.

Todos nós sabemos que os humanos são especiais. É por isso que clamamos por justiça diante da injustiça. Eu não poderia fundamentar isso em minha visão de mundo. Lembre-se, eu acreditava que todas as coisas – até você e eu – são o resultado de processos puramente físicos. No final, o ateísmo reduz os seres humanos a lixo cósmico, robôs húmidos sem propósito ou significado último. É aqui que entra a minha luta. No ateísmo, nada saciava a minha sede de significado ou o meu desejo de justiça. Em última análise, nada importa no ateísmo. Este não foi o testemunho da minha alma, no entanto. Eu sabia que a vida tinha sentido. Eu sabia que as pessoas eram valiosas.

Eu também sabia de outra coisa. Eu sabia que as almas eram reais e especiais, mas também estavam quebradas.

Minha alma testificou que o quebrantamento do qual reclamei “lá fora” no mundo também estava “aqui dentro” em mim. Eu estava quebrado e precisava desesperadamente de um resgate. Em momentos de descuido, eu deixava escapar o desejo de que as coisas fossem acertadas porque tinha que viver na realidade. Eu sabia que precisava de algo que o ateísmo não poderia oferecer. Eu precisava de perdão. O ateísmo não faz nada para explicar o que torna os humanos especiais e não tem resposta para a fragilidade humana. O ateísmo não oferece perdão verdadeiro. O teísmo cristão sim, no entanto.

Então, por que troquei o ateísmo pelo cristianismo? Como ateu, me deparei com a realidade e comecei a perseguir as respostas para minhas perguntas mais difíceis. Em cada caso, o ateísmo ficou aquém. É simples: sou cristão porque é a verdadeira história da realidade.

Dennis Edwards: Um cristão é aquele que acredita em Cristo e tenta seguir Seus mandamentos. Tenho problemas com o sistema religioso estabelecido. Sim eu faço. Mas não tenho problemas com Jesus. Ele é quem eu sigo, não o sistema religioso.

Artigo original encontrado aqui: https://www.str.org/w/why-i-left-atheism-for-christianity

Why I Left Atheism for Christianity

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Jonathan Noyes
 I’m often asked what led to my converting from atheism to Christianity. The answer sometimes surprises: reality. Reality is the way the world really is. It doesn’t change according to our likes and dislikes. Because of this, when you don’t live according to reality, you bump into it. As an atheist, when looking for answers to important questions, I bumped hard into reality.

The first bump came as I tried to explain what caused the beginning of the universe. It’s not as complicated as you might think. There are only two options: something or nothing. This put me in a tough spot as an atheist. I didn’t want to say something caused the universe because that something would have to be immensely powerful, incredibly creative, and outside its own creation (i.e., outside time and space). That something was starting to look like God, and I did not want to say God caused the universe. Instead, I wanted to say nothing caused the universe. This is unreasonable, though.

As an atheist, I believed everything that exists is the product of blind, physical processes. I couldn’t explain where the universe came from because all I had to start with was nothing. But nothing comes from nothing. To say the universe came from nothing goes against our basic intuitions about reality. However, on Christian theism, there was more than nothing to start with. There was an uncaused cause. The Christian explanation lines up perfectly with the way the world really is.

That was the first bump. The next bump was the most difficult for me.

As an atheist, I knew certain things were actually wrong. I would have agreed that what happened in the furnaces of Auschwitz was wrong. What did I mean when I said it was wrong, though? I wasn’t merely describing my personal opinion or an emotion. I was describing the actions themselves. I was saying these things were wicked and evil, not the way they’re supposed to be. Notice something important here. For me to say anything was wrong in an ultimate sense, I had to appeal to an objective standard outside of myself. Right and wrong, good and bad, need to be details of the external world and not just personal opinions, but on atheism, there is no objective standard.

Every worldview needs to give an adequate explanation for the objective morality we perceive in the world. Every time I objected to something being bad, I bumped hard into reality. Eventually, I realized atheism couldn’t explain the existence of objective morality. Christian theism does. But there’s more.

As I wrestled with the idea that there was an objective oughtness to the world we live in, and I came to understand the universe had to come from something or “Someone,” I found myself bumping into another part of reality I couldn’t explain: the soul.

Souls are real, and this was a major problem for me. The existence of souls is not hard to recognize when we think carefully about reality. Let me show you what I mean. Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? To get that song out, do you crack open your skull, sift through your brain, and extract the song? Of course not. The song doesn’t exist physically. It exists in your mind. Your soul.

Not only was I aware of my soul, but I also knew there was something special about being human.

We all know humans are special. That’s why we cry out for justice in the face of injustice. I couldn’t ground this in my worldview. Remember, I believed that all things—even you and I—are the result of purely physical processes. In the end, atheism reduces human beings to cosmic junk, moist robots with no ultimate purpose or meaning. This is where my struggle came in. On atheism, nothing quenched my thirst for significance or my desire for justice. Nothing ultimately matters on atheism. This wasn’t the testimony of my soul, though. I knew life had meaning. I knew people were valuable.

I knew something else, too. I knew souls were real and they were special, but they’re also broken.

My soul testified to the knowledge that the brokenness I complained about “out there” in the world was also “in here” in me. I was broken and in desperate need of a rescue. In unguarded moments, I would let the desire for things to be made right slip because I had to live in reality. I knew I needed something atheism couldn’t offer. I needed forgiveness. Atheism does nothing to explain what makes humans special, and it has no answer to human brokenness. Atheism has no offer of true forgiveness. Christian theism does, though.

So why did I leave atheism for Christianity? As an atheist, I bumped into reality and started chasing the answers to my most difficult questions. In each case, atheism came up short. It’s simple: I’m a Christian because it’s the true story of reality.

Original article found here: https://www.str.org/w/why-i-left-atheism-for-christianity

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