THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”In 1987, Gorbachev said he wanted to build Alexander Dubček’s “socialism with a human face,” to which I responded that Frankenstein’s monster also had a human face. Communism goes against human nature and can only be sustained by totalitarian repression.”

― Garry Kasparov

BIRTHDAYS:

1567 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter

1582 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer. Intorno a La Dafne, and Per la gloriosissima Vergine, and Virgil’s Prologue

1672 Joseph Addison, English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

1825 George Inness, American landscape painter

1855 Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter

1874 Romaine Brooks [Beatrice Romaine Goddard], American painter

1923 Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22)

MISCELLANY:

FORMERLY KNOWN AS MAY DAY. Victims of Communism Day—2024

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REASONABLE QUESTION. Do socialists have good intentions?

REMEMBER:

REMINDER: THIS WAS PUBLISED IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Yes, I realize the following is on the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP) website. Oddly, the Canadian website disappeared during the lockdown.

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

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