The political donations aspect of this applies equally in Australia.
I would go further and ban all dontaions from corporations to political campaigns and limit the amount individuals can donate.
Trouble is, good guys don’t need rules and bad guys can’t/don’t follow them. They are bad because they can’t follow rules. So they will find a new way to be bad or just break the rules.
What will solve the problem is more ethical candidates and a more aware populace. That is not a quick fix. It takes time and effort.
I was thinking about all the conflicting advice and claims through which we have to navigate to find out how to best survive and improve our health and finances. For instance the recent conflicting results between the trials of the anti-SARS-COV-2 drug, Hydroxychloroquine, where patients died, compared to the doctors who were curing 99% of their parients with it. Or the fact that 90% of people put on respirators died. And it hit me. I realised a really, really basic simplicity. The person who gets results is more right than the person who does not. (And since rightness equates to survival and wrongness equates to death, you’re better off being right than you are being wrong!) The person who gets results is more knowledgeable, more in communication or more competent with the subject or tools. The doctors curing patients with Hydroxychloroquine know the recommended dose is 600 whereas in one trial the doctors killing their patients with it were administering 3-4 times that amount. Over the lethal dose. And the doctors curing patients were administering it with an antibiotic and Zinc. The doctors on the trial who were killing their patients were not administering the anitbiotic and zinc. https://canoe.com/news/world/who-halts-hydroxychloroquine-hiv-drugs-in-covid-trials-after-failure-to-reduce-death Now I won’t go into the possibility that the trials were set up to fail so that they could discredit the $20 solution in favor of the $3,000 alternative, that’s a whole ‘nother issue. Or why those who formulated the trial did not just copy what was well and widely known from doctors in China and France to be the working trilogy of factors. The point I realised is that the doctors who cured their patients knew more and were therefore more right than the doctors who killed theirs. Another case in point. A very few doctors know that intravenous vitamin C will cure sepsis. Most doctors do not know that. In fact in NZ some time ago a family had to hire a lawyer to legally force the medicos to administer IV C to restore to health a comatose man they wanted to take off life support. He fully recovered with the IV C. https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/13121-vitamin-c-man-speaks.html There is an old Chinese Proverb that goes, “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.” For the man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. So my recommendation to you is to look for people who are getting results as they are more right than the people not getting results. Another rock-bottom simplicity I realised some time ago, there is so much information that it is impossible for one person to know it all. If the person you are consulting for your health issue(s) has not seen it and fixed it before, shop for someone who has!
I have made up my mind to say my say. I shall do it kindly, distinctly; but I am going to do it. I know there are thousands of men who substantially agree with me, but who are not in a condition to express their thoughts. They are poor; they are in business; and they know that should they tell their honest thought, persons will refuse to patronize them—to trade with them; they wish to get bread for their little children; they wish to take care of their wives; they wish to have homes and the comforts of life. Every such person is a certificate of the meanness of the community in which he resides. And yet I do not blame these people for not expressing their thought. I say to them: ‘Keep your ideas to yourselves; feed and clothe the ones you love; I will do your talking for you. The church can not touch, can not crush, can not starve, cannot stop or stay me; I will express your thoughts. ― Robert G. Ingersoll
I do not know enough about Robert to know to which church he was referring but it applies equally today to the church of religious dogma that is big pHarma educated and funded medical pseudo science!
Did you know that as the levels of good bacteria decrease in the gut (because of lack of adequate levels of polyphenols in the diet), more pathogenic really bad) bacteria have the opportunity to enter the bloodstream?
You can decrease the level of good bacteria in your gut by
(1) frequent doses of antibiotic treatments from your physician,
(2) ingesting animal products that were led a steady diet of antibiotics and
(3) by not consuming enough polyphenols.
Add to this an increasing intake of omega fatty acids and decrease in omega-3 fatty acids in the general diet, and you are virtually assured the lining of the gut will be inflamed, giving rise to gaps in an otherwise strong biological barrier to prevent the entry of bad bacteria in large, undigested proteins.
This is what is called leaky gut syndrome.
Now more bacteria as well as other intact dietary proteins such as those found in gluten-containing or dairy products are able to enter into the bloodstream and the levels of cellular inflammation are increased throughout the body. When that happens you gain weight, accelerate the development of chronic disease, and age faster.
We all need quality omega3 with polyphenols in it.
When I see insanity like this I am pleasantly surprised that more politicians are not taken out by those they have harmed. Show what good souls most people are.
