Friday, July 29, 2022
West Virginia Won’t Do Business With Wall Street Banks That Boycott Fossil Fuels
West Virginia treasurer Riley Moore (R.) on Thursday determined that BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, as well as Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, are ineligible for state banking contracts due to their boycotts of fossil fuels. The ban will cost the Wall Street firms $18 billion per year, according to Moore's office.
"At the end of the day, all we want is for banks to act like banks," Moore told the Washington Free Beacon, adding it would be hard for the state to continue functioning without the coal industry.
Democrats are moving to eliminate fossil fuels as part of their governing platform. President Joe Biden has taken several actions to curb fossil fuel production, including bans on oil and natural gas leases on federal land. The president also revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil from Canada to the United States. Democratic senators like Raphael Warnock (Ga.) have also pushed for the country to move away from oil and gas through a carbon tax.
The coal mining industry accounts for more than 11,000 jobs in West Virginia, and the state reaps hundreds of millions of dollars in severance taxes from coal extraction annually. The average coal miner engineer makes nearly $90,000 a year.
In June, Moore gave the firms 30 days to provide the Mountain State's treasury with proof they supported the coal, oil, and natural gas industries. U.S. Bank eliminated its anti-coal mining efforts during that time, leading to its removal from Moore's final list of banned financial firms.
"I simply cannot stand by and allow financial institutions working against West Virginia’s critical industries to profit off the very funds their policies attempt to diminish," Moore said. The state treasurer also blamed the...
Rep. Gallagher: Communist China Loves The Left’s Anti-America Radicalism
Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., told students at the Young America’s Foundation’s 44th annual National Conservative Student Conference on Thursday that the woke ideology of the left is making America more vulnerable to the threat of communist China.
“I believe that we are in the early stages of an existential threat — existential competition — with international communism and that the stakes of this competition are the survival of the American project itself,” Gallagher said. “The communist cult’s vision is one of the state on steroids, using technology to control every aspect of our lives — what we think, what we say, how we worship. This is a new cold war, and I hate to tell you this, we are currently losing.”
Gallagher added that the reason we are losing is that “we no longer believe that we deserve to win.”
“This new cold war is not simply a military competition,” the former active-duty Marine said. “It’s an ideological competition between two fundamentally incompatible systems of government. … The Chinese Communist party believes there can be no higher authority than the state, as run by the party.”
Gallagher said the Chinese Communist Party altered the Bible in its approved “translation” to teach that even Christ himself is not above the state. “The state, in other words,” Gallagher said, “is the only religion.”
Meanwhile, anti-American leftist ideology weakens and demoralizes the United States, leaving us ill-prepared to face the threat of communism — something Gallagher said communist China uses to its advantage.
“We’re already seeing them co-opt this anti-American narrative of the radical left, co-opting their talking points to launch a preemptive ideological strike designed to weaken our will to fight by poisoning the minds of many of our own citizens against this nation,” Gallagher said. “And since war remains...
How Fauci and Grady Degraded the Standards of Ethical Requirements for Clinical Research in the US Compared to the Rest of the World
In reading Nuremberg, The Belmont Report, and now the Helsinki Declaration, I can say that up to 2020, US had far lower ethical standards for human subjects research than WMA. Now? None.
Both WHO and the US HHS suffer from a form of ethical blindness when it comes to vaccine research. Foregoing long-term vaccine safety studies in favor of retrospective analysis of real-world data, these agencies fail to recognize that post-marketing (and post-EUA) studies are de facto uncontrolled, non-randomized prospective clinical trials conducted without proper consenting procedures.
If you’ve read the Nuremberg Code, the Belmont Report, and the Declaration of Helsinki, you’d know that protections are supposed to be in place not for some people undergoing some clinical studies, but instead are considered to be required to be in place for all people undergoing any clinical studies.
Right now, in our Medical Ethics, Informed Consent, and Human Rights course @ IPAK-EDU, having completed our readings and discussions of The Nuremberg Code and the Belmont Report, we’re reading and discussing The Declaration of Helsinki.
Nuremberg focused primarily on the rights of patients’ protection from harm by doctors performing “human experiments”. Helsinki changed the langued to “clinical research”, but the intention was the same. The Belmont Report was an early draft of a guidance-type document in the US meant to inform professionals of the general expectations of normative standards; it is now only considered a “historic” document.
Nuremberg, Helsinki and Belmont carry no legally enforceable language in the US. Instead, Nuremberg and Helsinki were meant to provide international standards by which individual countries could gauge their governance and regulation of clinical, human subjects research. It takes a while, but comparing the Helsinki Code to the US policies in play prior to 2020 (before COVID) shows that US researchers (meaning US-based pharmaceutical companies) wanted to weaken the concept of beneficence - the principle that all involved in a trial should benefit from being part of a clinical trial.
Where the US had departed (prior to 2020) from the rest of the countries that backed Helsinki (WMA) and participated in its updates included, according to Kimmelman et al. (2009) included:
Disclosure of conflict of interest;
- Public disclosure of study design;
- Benefit for populations in which research is conducted (beneficence);
- Reporting of accurate results and publication of negative findings;
- Access to treatment after research has been conducted, and
- Restriction of use of placebo in a control group where effective alternative treatment is available.
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1094
Before You Click On The "Read More" Link,
Please Only Do So If You Are Over 21 Years Old.
If You are Easily Upset, Triggered Or Offended, This Is Not The Place For You.
Please Leave Silently Into The Night......
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1794
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
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