Conspiracy Watch
What Really Happened to George Floyd?
Three years after George Floyd died lying on the ground, face down, under the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, some surprising and, for some, inconvenient facts are emerging. Facts that contradict my own impression of what happened that day, based on watching that gut-wrenching video of him screaming that he could not breathe, while Chauvin and the other cops on the scene blithely ignored him.
I believed that Floyd died from asphyxiation. I believed that Chauvin’s knee on his neck – for more than eight minutes – was an overt act of cruelty and racism. And I was disgusted by Chauvin’s attitude of nonchalance for the entirety of that time.
I wasn’t the only one. The clip went viral, and people all over the world were outraged. That led to the BLM riots that resulted in the destruction of more than a billion dollars in private property, the shuttering of hundreds of retail stores (many Black owned and operated), the murder of dozens of policemen and hundreds of civilians, mostly Black Americans, in the year that followed. And also to Chauvin being sentenced to 22.5 years in prison, during which he was stabbed 22 times by a fellow prisoner.
Since then, the wheels of justice have been slowly turning over the facts, including facts that question the way Floyd was handled, whether important exculpatory information was not allowed to be entered into court records, and – the one fact I thought we were sure of – that he died of asphyxiation.
Recently, some journalists have begun to publish information that was not available to the public at that time (including some that was available to the press, but not disclosed to their readers).
If, like I did, you “know” that George Floyd was a non-violent Black man maliciously murdered by a racist White cop, you should probably not read this article from The Free Press. It might be uncomfortable. And we wouldn’t want that.
Wins and Losses in the Gender Wars
Women Against “Not-Women” in the Boxing Ring
USA Boxing, the organization that regulates amateur boxing in the US, announced last week that trans-female (biological male) boxers, 18 and older, will be able to compete against women, so long as they have (1) “declared themselves to be women,” (2) “undergone gender reassignment surgery” (Just the bottom parts, oddly!), and (3) “taken hormone therapy (estrogen) for at least three months.”
The theory is that this triplet of requirements will reduce a transwoman’s athletic stamina, speed, and power to a level where he/she would be in the same category as a female, and, thus, would have no “unfair” advantage.
This is crazy. Since this topic became an issue, I’ve spent a bit of time researching the facts and reviewing the studies. To date, I haven’t found anything that supports this idea. Quite to the contrary, I’ve found nothing but facts and studies that prove that, although estrogen therapy can reduce the amount of testosterone in a male body, it cannot reduce by any significant degree all of the advantages that male bodies acquire during puberty, including bone density, fast-twitch muscularity, heart and lung capacity, and a few more things that I can’t remember offhand.
But that’s just science. And we know that science is just another tool of the hierarchy of privileged White males.
So, forget about science. Use your inner wisdom. See what happens when a transwoman fights a real woman in the same weight class.
For an extra gut-level, scientifically refutable insight, pay attention to the voice of the winner as he/she gloats about his/her crushing victory!
Click here.
Health Watch
I Should Have Acted Sooner!
If you have never tried ski-boarding, you should know that, for beginners, at least, it’s easier than skiing in some ways, but worse in others. Like how hard you hit the ground if you fall.
Since I first tried ski-boarding about twenty years ago, I had this idea about creating a special snowsuit for newbies that would be lined with inflated tubes of air. It would look sort of silly but would protect the new skier and warn experienced skiers to stay out of the way. Still, because it would make the wearer look like the Michelin Man, I knew it would be a tough sell.
Well, that problem has been solved. Suzhou Yidaibao Intelligent Technology Co, a Chinese startup, has developed “wearable airbag clothing” that magically inflates only when the wearer begins to fall down, It is advertised as an aid to oldsters and others at risk in any sort of mobile activity, but I’m thinking of trying to get distribution rights for skiers.
Click here.
Are Oreos Better Than Statins?
As I said in the introduction to my Jan. 19 extended coverage of the Hamas-Israel Conflict, I’m going to be publishing Special Issues on some of the recent – and more politically entrenched and emotionally charged – subjects that interest me. The idea is that it will allow me to devote more space in my regular weekly issues to subjects like business, investing, entrepreneurship, etc., that I have specialized in for decades.
The use of controversial and potentially lethal “drugs” – like COVID vaccines and statin medications – is one of the subjects that I will be covering at length in future Special Issues. But I couldn’t resist including a brief mention here of this article on statins in The Epoch Times by Nicholas Norwitz, who holds a doctorate from Oxford and is presently a Harvard scientist.
Click here to find out what he discovered by doing an experiment trying to manage cholesterol levels with… cookies!
(Thanks to CM, who sent this to me, saying, “Now here’s a replacement for statin drugs that I could go for!”)
