THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people’s natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they — the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate — are themselves the government.”

― Robert Higgs

BIRTHDAYS:

1582 Thomas Simpson, English composer.  Bonny Sweet Robin

1721 Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist, organist, teacher, and composer. Concerto in E Flat Major Op. 3 No. 4, Pastorale

1852 Edward Austin Abbey, American painter.

1868 Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac).

1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer. “Bogoroditse Devo” All-Night Vigil

1908 Abraham Maslow, American psychologist who created Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.

1926 Anne McCaffrey, American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.

1929 Milan Kundera, Czech-French poet and novelist (The Joke: The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Immortality).

1942 Samuel R. Delany Jr, American sci-fi author.

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REMEMBER:

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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