Peter Myers Digest December 2023 – Situation Report: The World

(1) The Cosmopolitan Empire. Special writeup for Shamireaders, by the author
(2) New Zealand’s new conservative Gov’t to remove Gender Ideology from Schools
(3) Excavation beneath Canadian church suspected of “mass grave” found no evidence of human remains
(4) ‘Unmarked Indigenous Mass Grave’ turns out to be Just Rocks
(5) World elites fly private jets to COP28 climate change summit
(6) Anti-woke activists are winning the culture war – the Economist

(1) The Cosmopolitan Empire. Special writeup for Shamireaders, by the author

The Cosmopolitan Empire: One World but Whose?

by Peter Gerard Myers

Special writeup for Shamireaders, by the author

December 11, 2023

I have not visited Amazon’s webpage on my book, lest I be tempted to reply to Readers’ comments. Were I to do so, Amazon would ban both me and my book.

But I believe that this review by C.G. is there:

QUOTE
*The Cosmopolitan Empire* by Peter Gerard Myers is a surprisingly good update to Nesta Webster’s *Plot Against Civilization* and Douglas Reed’s *Controversy of Zion.* It is also very timely, since many masks are being ripped away at this moment. It covers a wide spectrum of what are called “conspiracy theories” or alternative explanations to the official party line.

In fact, a very wide spectrum, from the secret Balfour treaty to H.G. Wells, Sakharov, Gorbachov, and the convergence of world government, which could open the eyes of those just waking up. And it draws on great many sources. The author has vetted many of his assertions with others, from different schools of thought. … A lively and readable work of great value to all innocent bystanders whatever their own disillusionment may be.
ENDQUOTE

The book is a collection of essays and appendices, which groups the conspirators running the world into factions:
– British (Anglo-American Imperial)
– Globalist (Illuminati, top-level Freemasons such as the Rothschild family and George Soros)
– Zionist (the Netanyahu faction)
– Green Left (Trotskyists, Greens, Feminists and the like).

The appendices cover individual conspiracies including
– the Balfour Declaration as a Secret Treaty
– the disappeareance of flight MH370
– evidence that Stalin was murdered

The book is academic quality, meaning that controversial statements are backed up with references using in-text citation based on the APA7 standard. There is a comprehenive Bibliography and an Index.

Yet, despite that academic rigour, the book is free of the political correctness prevalent in academia today. It’s 468 pages of original research, unscripted by academic minders.

Since the time of Nesta Webster, the viewpoint of Lyndon Larouche has become entrenched among conspiracy theorists, so that is my starting point.

Larouche and his followers deserve credit for bringing awareness of high-level conspiracies to a wide audience. But, at the same time, they also obfuscate the issue, because, to speak plainly in black and white would render their literature unpublishable (they would fall foul of the censors). Therefore, they reveal much but also hide much.

My aim has been to reveal some of what they kept hidden, and correct their mistakes, while, at the same time, staying publishable myself. I think I came as close as you can get to being banned.

You can read the chapters in any order. You might, for example, start with some of the Appendices that interest you. Or delve into the chapters covering H. G. Wells and George Orwell. Or Marxism or the history of the Soviet Union. Or Rousseau, or Nietzsche. Or the origins of Judaism and of Christianity (the book maintains that they have quite different origins).

Reviews are the lifeblood of any book. Shamireaders are a group of well-informed people, and I would welcome reviews from you, posted to Amazon’s page on The Cosmopolitan Empire. Of course, the reviews need not agree with one another. Some may be critical, others full of praise. But such differerences are the spice and zest of literature.

The Cosmopolitan Empire: One World but Whose?
is for sale at Amazon (paperback $26; Kindle edition $5.99)

The eBook is at Barnes & Noble ($5.99), but only for residents of USA:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cosmopolitan-empire-peter-myers/1144199836

Barnes & Noble, and other bookshops, can also sell the print edition, by ordering it from the distributor, IngramSpark. That’s printed independently from Amazon. Why not suggest that they order extra copies, and stock it on their shelves?

(2) New Zealand’s new conservative Gov’t to remove Gender Ideology from Schools

www.theepochtimes.com/world/new-zealand-to-axe-gender-ideology-from-national-curriculum-in-schools-5543319

New Zealand To Axe Gender Ideology From National Curriculum In Schools

Increasing opposition to gender ideology taught to young people is the driving force to remove and rewrite health guidelines in schools.

By Kerry Meadows-Bonner

12/7/2023

New Zealand’s tri-party coalition government has agreed to overhaul the existing gender, sexuality, and relationship guidelines in schools, aiming to shift the focus towards academic achievement rather than ideology.

This decision will include the removal and replacement of the relationships and sexuality-based guidelines.

This agreement has gained a mix of support and criticism from various sectors, including parents, educators, members of the LGBTQ community, and advocacy groups.

Support for the decision comes from Resist Gender Education (RGE), a group advocating for factual and age-appropriate education.

RGE argues that the current Relationships and Sexuality Education Guide (RSE Guide) is scientifically inaccurate, promotes an ideology not held by a majority of parents and caregivers, and is not age-appropriate in places.

There is also concern that certain concepts being taught, such as the spectrum of sex and the fluidity of gender identity, are more ideological than factual and potentially confusing for young students, and can promote body dissociation in young children.

With topics like ‘gender identity’ being introduced to children as young as five, RGE also believes it is too early for such complex discussions.

RGE stated that schools are currently teaching children that sexist stereotypes are what determine their sex.

“As a consequence, would-be lesbian and gay children are learning that if they don’t conform to feminine or masculine stereotypes, their bodies ought to be medically altered,” RGE said in a <https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRVCe5PKkqMrfsDszwPVtnSXhA-AgomgF4a5lZtIyufewKPpI4rUMO4OSVAfGqtOg/pub> media release, on Nov. 25.

Instead, RGE sees the need for education about consent and healthy relationships, but as a non-biased approach to the content of Relationship and Sexuality Education lessons.

“We are a non-partisan and non-religious group who advocate for the right of children to be their authentic selves without discrimination, labelling, or medical intervention to ‘fix’ them,” RGE said.

The Pushback

Critical of this removal and rewrite proposal, Education Professor Katie Fitzpatrick from the University of Auckland has been public in her warning that removing these guidelines could result in regressive schooling.

Ms. Fitzpatrick, a lead writer in the 2015 documents for sexuality education, argues that omitting these topics could be seen as withholding essential knowledge and education from young people.

New Zealand’s largest Education Union, the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), echoed the sentiment, urging the government to consider teachers’ and parents’ views before implementing any radical educational policies.

“My initial reaction was dismay,” said NZEI’s president Mark Potter, a Wellington-based primary school teacher.

“The one thing our children don’t need is less education in the area of relationships and health.”

The recent results of the Programme For International Student Assessment (PISA) which assesses the knowledge and skills of 15-year-old students and insights into educational systems, <https://www.oecd.org/publication/pisa-2022-results/country-notes/new-zealand-33941739/> showed contributing background factors such as rising rates of food insecurity and anxiety among students.

NZEI wants to see the government write policies that support student well-being and a sense of belonging, rather than cherry-picking parts of the curriculum for political agendas.

The Epoch Times has contacted New Zealand’s Minister of Education, Erica Stanford for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

(3) Excavation beneath Canadian church suspected of “mass grave” found no evidence of human remains

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6941441

No evidence of human remains found beneath church at Pine Creek Residential School site

Kelly Geraldine Malone | The Canadian Press | Posted: Saturday, August 19th, 2023 12:22 PM | Last Updated: August 19th

21 child deaths recorded at the school, which operated from 1890 to 1969

No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school.

Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe shared the results of the four-week excavation in a social media video Friday. He said the outcome takes “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek.”

Fourteen anomalies were detected using ground-penetrating radar in the basement of the church on the site of the former Pine Creek Residential School last year. Survivors had spoken about “horror stories” in the basement.

The First Nation, northwest of Winnipeg, hired an archeological team from the University of Brandon to do the excavation earlier this summer. It is the same team that assists police on archeological digs and excavations in the province.

<https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6916641> Manitoba community gathers to prepare for church basement excavation of possible unmarked graves

<https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6915890> Day of ceremony planned ahead of dig for possible unmarked graves on Manitoba First Nation

“As a community we were preparing for more than one possible outcome, which meant we would prepare for the worst but hope for the best,” Nepinak said.
Spiritual advisers led a pipe ceremony when the search began and a sacred fire was lit nearby to ensure elders, survivors and intergenerational survivors felt supported. Nepinak said the search should be an example about how to use an Indigenous-led approach that respects survivors.
Nepinak said he is aware the results will feed into a denialist narrative of what happened at residential schools and urged people to continue supporting the search for truth.
“The results of our excavation under the church should not be deemed as conclusive of other ongoing searches and efforts to identify reflections from other community processes including other (ground-penetrating radar) initiatives,” Nepinak said.

<https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6914414> Potential unmarked graves investigation finds no evidence so far of criminal activity: Manitoba RCMP

<https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6544695> Search of Pine Creek Residential School site in western Manitoba finds 14 possible unmarked graves

Each search is unique and they should not be compared, he added.
An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools. More than 60 per cent of the schools were run by the Catholic Church.
The Pine Creek school was run by the Roman Catholic Church and operated from 1890 to 1969 in different buildings, including the church, on a large plot of land.
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has a record of 21 child deaths at the school and survivors have long spoken about the abuse there.

<https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6480470> Search of Pine Creek Residential School site in western Manitoba reveals 6 potential unmarked graves

The community’s initial search also determined there were 57 additional anomalies found on the grounds around the church and old school site.
Nepinak said the excavation of the church basement is not the end for the First Nation. They will continue to engage with community members to find a path forward.
“This does not mark the end of our truth-finding project.”

(4) ‘Unmarked Indigenous Mass Grave’ turns out to be Just Rocks

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63918

‘Unmarked Indigenous Mass Grave’ Detected Under ‘Abusive Catholic Residential School’ Excavated in Canada – Turns Out to Be Just Rocks

Chris Menahan

InformationLiberation

Aug. 20, 2023

What was hyped as an “unmarked indigenous mass grave” detected using ground-penetrating radar under an “abusive” Catholic residential school in Manitoba turned out to be nothing but rocks after an extensive four-week excavation.

Indigenous groups in Canada used tales of “mass graves” and Catholic “abuse” of indigenous youths at residential schools <https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-unveils-revised-c23-bln-compensation-deal-indigenous-children-2023-04-05/> to collect billions in reparations from Canadian taxpayers and have been reluctant to dig up any of the suspected “mass grave” sites detected with radar — <https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62823> lest researchers’ belief that the “graves” are actually just rocks and tree roots be confirmed.

They claimed digging up the suspected “mass grave” sites would <https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/residential-schools-intergenerational-trauma-kamloops-1.6052240> trigger “intergenerational trauma” and disturb the dead.

Nonetheless, indigenous groups last month agreed to allow the excavation of a suspected mass grave site under the former Pine Creek Residential School in Manitoba.

“Spiritual advisers led a pipe ceremony when the search began and a sacred fire was lit nearby to ensure elders, survivors and intergenerational survivors felt supported,” <https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6941441> Canadian state broadcaster CBC reported.

“The First Nation, northwest of Winnipeg, hired an archeological team from the University of Brandon to do the excavation earlier this summer,” CBC continued. “It is the same team that assists police on archeological digs and excavations in the province.”

“No evidence of human remains” was found during the investigation, CBC reported.

“Fourteen anomalies were detected using ground-penetrating radar in the basement of the church on the site of the former Pine Creek Residential School last year,” CBC said. “Survivors had spoken about ‘horror stories’ in the basement.”

Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe said the revelation should take “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek.”

From <https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6941441> CBC:

“As a community we were preparing for more than one possible outcome, which meant we would prepare for the worst but hope for the best,” Nepinak said.

[…] Nepinak said he is aware the results will feed into a denialist narrative of what happened at residential schools and urged people to continue supporting the search for truth.

“The results of our excavation under the church should not be deemed as conclusive of other ongoing searches and efforts to identify reflections from other community processes including other (ground-penetrating radar) initiatives,” Nepinak said.

“The 200 ‘unmarked graves’ in Kamloops, [British Columbia] were identified by the same technology that identified the 14 in Manitoba, which we now know turned out to be nothing more than a pile of rocks underground,” <https://thecountersignal.com/breaking-residential-school-mass-grave-turned-out-be-be-underground-rocks-no-bodies-found/> The Counter Signal reports:

Even to this day, the CBC has been hellbent on perpetuating a ‘mass graves’ interpretation of said anomalies that have been detected at various former residential school sites.

The media’s absolute worst interpretation of the anomalies inspired protests and terrorist arson across the country.

Since the mass graves announcement, at least 83 churches have been burned to the ground or vandalized.

“[T]o this day, no human remains have been found at any former residential school in Canada,” The Counter Signal reports.

“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau more than once made a point to bring attention to the [indigenous mass graves] hoax, and was infamously seen kneeling beside the so-called graves with a teddy bear in his hand,” <https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-unmarked-graves-discovery-at-manitoba-residential-school-turns-out-to-be-hoax-no-bodies-found-only-rocks> The Post Millennial reports.

“Prior to the excavation, Nepinak suggested dark intentions of the supposed culprits of the now debunked grave site at the church,” TPM noted.

“We understand that over time burial sites may be lost to the natural elements,” [Nepinak] explained in an earlier press release. “But to bury remains under a building suggests a dark and sinister intent that cannot be unaddressed as we expose the truth of what happened in our homeland.”

When are Canadian Catholics going to get reparations for all the churches left-wing/indigenous rights extremists burned down based on nonsense?

(5) World elites fly private jets to COP28 climate change summit

https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/world/world-elites-accused-of-hypocrisy-again-after-taking-private-jets-to-climate-change-summit/article_c7c6313e-95ef-11ee-9f57-e738ef59a6a3.html

World elites accused of hypocrisy again after taking private jets to climate change summit

By Kevin Killough

Just the News

Dec 8, 2023

Green energy hypocrisy appeared to be on full display again at the annual United Nations global climate-change summit, as the private jets of world leaders landed in Dubai with hefty carbon footprints.

At this year’s event, called COP28, Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Foreign Secretary David Cameron and King Charles III each took a <https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/king-charles-sunak-cameron-cop28-private-jets-b2456050.html> separate private jet flights to the conference.

Among the sharpest critics was Wyoming GOP Sen. John Barrasso, whose letter-writing campaign asked <https://www.scribd.com/document/689718540/Sen-Barrasso-COP28-Letters#download&from_embed> why this year’s attendees couldn’t hold their conference via Zoom.

The amount of carbon dioxide – blamed as a major contributor to global warming – that the three British jets emitted appeared further underscored by U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutterres saying at COP28 that “<https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1144212> humanity’s fate is hanging in the balance.”

Josh Hammer, Newsweek editor at large and host of “<https://www.newsweek.com/podcasts/the-josh-hammer-show> The Josh Hammer Show,” told Just The News that it’s a tendency for climate crusaders to feel themselves high above the people they want to impose rules upon.

“The galling hypocrisy can be rather easily explained by understanding that men such as Al Gore and [U.S. climate envoy] John Kerry simply do not think the rules apply to them. To the ‘limousine liberal’ mind, it is entirely consistent to preach to the plebeians one thing and to actually do something yourself entirely inconsistent with it,” Hammer said.

Even some prominent climate activists have started to become critics of the hypocrisy on display at the climate conferences. Swedish climate celebrity Greta Thunberg <https://www.gbnews.com/news/greta-thunberg-skips-cop28-climate-conference-protests-rules> didn’t attend this year’s event, and she skipped out on last year’s as well.

“The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing,” <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/31/greta-thunberg-to-skip-greenwashing-cop27-climate-summit-in-egypt> Thunberg said of COP27, last year’s climate summit.

In addition to private jets, climate activists have also been <https://apnews.com/article/climate-activists-luxury-private-jets-948fdfd4a377a633cedb359d05e3541c> vandalizing yachts and golf courses used by the ultra wealthy, who are also some of the biggest funders of climate nonprofits.

Michael Bloomberg, through his Bloomberg Philanthropies, <https://www.bloomberg.org/environment/moving-beyond-carbon/beyond-carbon/> committed $1 billion so far to his Beyond Carbon campaign, which aims to “shut down every last U.S. coal plant” and “accelerate the energy transition.”

Yet, the former U.S. climate envoy <https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-bloomberg-un-climate-envoy-private-jets> prefers the comfort of his private jet over commercial air travel.

John Kerry, the current climate czar, was questioned earlier this year during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp3zPaYcfjw> about his use of private jets, and claimed it was “one of the most outrageously persistent lies” that he regularly flies in private jets.

<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-scorched-misleading-private-jet-use-democrats-standard-hypocrisy> Fox News reported that Kerry’s family owns a jet that was used a few dozen times over 18 months. It was sold shortly after Kerry testified at the subcommittee.

“This is the precise opposite of the ‘lead by example’ mindset, and it should revolt us,” Hammer said.

“It’s all about telling us what they want to tell us what kind of car to drive, what kind of electricity to use, what kind of food to eat, what kind of clothes to wear, what you should invest in,” Milloy told Just The News.

The climate movement, Milloy said, uses extreme language, such as <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-10/biden-says-climate-change-poses-greater-threat-than-nuclear-war> Biden claiming climate change presents a greater threat than nuclear war, because fear is needed to get people to accept the restrictive policies.

“It’s obviously lunacy,” Milloy said.

“Which included a windmill, by the way,” Milloy pointed out.

In the end, the pigs end up living just like the humans and ruling over all the other animals on the farm.

“So you can envision a world where the elites like Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Al Gore will still be flying and using fossil fuels and eating meat. And the rest of us are going to be screwed. We will have given up all our freedoms and standard of living for nothing, and the weather will be the same,” Milloy said.

As <https://www.utilitydive.com/news/electricity-prices-inflation-consumer-price-index/640656/> rising energy costs show up on voters’ bills, voters may be less inclined to accept sacrifices demanded of them from people who won’t share in those sacrifices.

“I think the fact that these elites such as Kerry are so willfully blind to, or defiant of, the very strictures they seek to impose on others means there is real potential to expose for a mass audience the hollowness of the entire enterprise,” Hammer also said. “But that also requires those in the media to do their part to shine a spotlight on it.”

(6) Anti-woke activists are winning the culture war – the Economist

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/09/anti-woke-activists-are-losing-many-of-their-school-board-battles

Anti-woke activists are winning the culture war in America
They are losing school-board battles, but that does not mean they are in retreat

Dec 9th 2023 | WASHINGTON, DC

Two years ago it seemed that a conservative movement against “wokeness” was taking over America’s schools. Seen by many on the right as an insidious liberal outlook emphasising race, gender and sexuality, wokeness has many guises: among them critical race theory (crt), gender theory and queer theory. According to its opponents, it all amounts to the same thing, it is thriving in schools and it has to go.

Activists set out to uproot it, and quickly made their mark. Moms for Liberty, a conservative group founded in 2021 that opposes crt and other supposedly progressive policies in schools, says that in 2022 over half its candidates won their school-board elections. Other anti-woke groups claimed success, too. But is their momentum waning? Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, says that its candidates won 43% of its elections this year. News outlets reported that the movement was losing steam.

The reality is not so simple. An analysis by the Wall Street Journal of the November 2023 school-board elections found that the group exaggerated its success, winning about one-third of its elections. The Moms also seem to have been weakening before last month’s elections. A separate analysis by The Economist shows that less than one-third of the group’s endorsed candidates won their elections in spring 2023.

To Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-largest teachers union, the recent elections show that families are siding with educators. “I know people look at this as R[epublican] versus D[emocrat], but I think this is deeper than that,” she says. “People who believe in children and the humanity of everyone…won out over those who are trying to divide and demonise.”

Ms Justice disagrees. “They’re liars,” she insisted, referring to those who say the anti-woke cause is struggling. “The unions have run the ground game on these elections for 50 years…and they’ve been completely uncontested normally, so they’re freaking out.”

Although her movement’s election success is debatable, its impact is not. Teachers have lost their jobs for being too woke. A teacher in Florida was recently dismissed for using “Mx”, a gender-neutral version of Ms or Mr. Another, in Georgia, was fired for reading a book about a gender non-binary child called “My Shadow is Purple” to her pupils. A librarian in Colorado lost her job (and won a $250,000 lawsuit) for promoting anti-racism and LGBT workshops for teenagers.

Two Advanced Placement courses (which give high-schoolers college credits) in African-American studies and psychology by the College Board, the maker of the SAT, have been banned from high schools in Florida. (Arkansas dropped the African-American-studies programme, too.) Florida also changed its history standards to require pupils to be taught about the supposed benefits of slavery, such as teaching skills to African-Americans, to ensure a balanced view of human bondage.

Broader education policy is yielding to similar pressure. According to Education Week, 44 states have introduced bills or taken other steps to restrict CRT since January 2021; 18 have imposed bans or limits. Conservative activists may have lost most of their school-board battles, but in many ways they are winning the war.