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Aug 4, 2022·edited Aug 4, 2022Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Hi Tess,

A personal taste of academia in Japan, a long and convoluted read (my bad), but resigning in protest from a tenured position is proving to be a fairly accurate mandlebrot fractal of what the ruling class has been planning for all of us ... and now something I take for granted as beneath the glossy sheen of Japan Inc.

For those without the time or interest for a long read, just 7 years ago, I was a tenured Associate Professor at a less than competitive Women's College in Tokyo ... but had published and presented original research in three countries (Motivating students through Event-Driven curriculums), was popular among students, and involved in many community outreach activities supporting the homeless, the severely handicapped, kindergarten children, etc.

Now, I am living off of a shrink-flation pension, supplemented by minimum wage part-time work for public schools in West Tokyo ... often just the token foreigner taking orders from public school teachers who had not yet been born when I started my academic career in Japan.

While my first girlfriend back in the states was a Japanese exchange student who eventually did honors work for Prof. Susumu Kuno (he can be found on Wikipedia)... then the head of Harvard's Linguistics Department, I challenge anyone to name one academic of international status in any Japanese academic institution.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-you-banned-from-Why/answer/Steven-Steve-F-Martin

Wow.

Just tried to edit the Quora post for clarity, and found Quora would not accept even a shortened version because now, 'It is too long'.

So I copy pasted a corrected version to my new substack here ...

https://steven45.substack.com/publish/post/67141291

And a small bit of 'business' news that I posted to my F.book page ...

It appears Japan Inc. is in a bit of a business conundrum.

If, according to the Mainichi News, on behalf of the taxpaying public, the national govt. has bought 40 billion yen worth of vaccines from Moderna, Phizer, and Astrazeneca ... that is about 300 million dollars, the details of which are not available to the public.

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20220507/ddm/002/010/126000c

But also according to the Mainichi news, the first of 800 families, and growing, was just awarded $324,000.00 ... that is the going price for a vaccine-snuffed life according to the courts. But totaling 800 families ... and growing, that comes to about 260 million dollars ... also tax payer's money.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-vaccine-compensation-payment-given-to-family-of-japanese-woman-who-died_4635730.html?utm_source=ccpvnoe&utm_campaign=2022-08-02&utm_medium=email&est=P14xKtA9TqxGj7nppTzhKL4BDdOoJocXGDRasCHSregGXqC2QI04fOv20w%3D%3D

What to do?

Raise taxes on the cost of living?

Print another trillion or so of emergency fiat currency?

More mainstream 'news' to nudge the population to get the jab and keep the adverse events payoffs to a minimum?

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

It's tough being a ''business man'' in the new world order.

Cheers Tess!

steve

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Thank you for yet another illuminating article. I became aware that academic institutions were captured several years ago, but I never knew how bad it was.

It might be controversial to say this, but Covid has exposed the rot in many institutions, and in pushing unscientific agendas and propoganda with no sound scientific basis these corrupt establishmeets have inadvertently woken many people up to the truth. I believe this is a good thing.

Maybe when people realise the reality that we work endless hours, indebt ourselves under the illusion that education always improves career prospects, and recognise that we tire ourselves out for material things, to keep up with the Jones's, and invariably to enrich the fat cats at the top of the food chain whom will not hesitate to strip you of your freedoms and rights on command (vaccine mandates) or cast you aside when you are ill, you begin to question who you are working for and why. I'm not judging anyone in this situation, and not all companies are the same, but it is a good time to reflect on what you really want in life and consider choosing a career that brings you genuine happiness and joy. Most independent employers actually value hard work and determination over academic qualifications. If no opportunities comes up in your chosen field, seek out opportunities or look at vocational education which can open many doors. Start living life for you and by your values. Just my thoughts.

I believe something good can come from all of this and that in time we will witness the great awakening over the great reset.

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

They’re being used as money-laundering operations in the US as well. Lots of federal government money pours into universities, and lots of political donations pour out, pretty much all to one party.

It’s a giant scam. The ratio of “administrative staff” to professors says it all.

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Very well said Dr Tess Lawrie, I 100% agree. That is why I am an Independent Researcher. Academia does not allow my research, as simple as that.

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Aug 5, 2022·edited Aug 5, 2022Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

My view is probably treasonous within academic circles. But for a long time I have been quite concerned with over specialization of roles within society. This concern also refers to the number of those chasing PhDs and most of the academic heirarchy.

I saw how specialization has been promoted and at times it certainly has merits to be top of a field. But generalists, autodidacts and or renaissance men are also very important.

The more I learn about managing systems and the integration of business systems, or within holistic health models too, the more it becomes apparent that it's often the way an issue occurs in x and presents as a problem in x, but often in y and z also.

And that it is essential to understand how other systems are affected and how all systems work together to produce a functioning whole. To correctly diagnose and treat an issue. Otherwise we can and often tunnel vision on fixing x. Then we see y suffer and z collapse.

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"I suggest that young people really tap into their intuition when considering university courses at this time, and consider the full array of life’s options."

Yes and yes and yes. Time for a total rehaul in so many ways and higher education (lately sounds like an oxymoron) is clearly one of them. (Particularly in light of their being used to propagandize and politicize as we've seen with Covid. They've shown, and Mark Crispin Miller's story is a perfect example, how its become all about the money.)

Look forward to the interview. Thank you!

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Hit the nail right on the head! A perfect explanation to the rot in our educational settings.

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Ivory tower has its downsides. Human life has no value when viewed from an ivory tower.

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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Tess, thank you for this valuable message. Things are worse than I even imagined. We shall have to have our own universities ready for when the first children graduate from schools that awakened (not woke) parents like Mikki Willis & wife are setting up. Also it will be exhilarating to have real thinkers in our midst, perhaps for the first time in history since the pre-Socratic philosophers. Human beings that have not been intellectually ruined and morally corrupted by the education they have undergone. Real lovers of wisdom and poets, the deepest thinkers of all. The previous system was cradled by the church, let's never forget that. It has been moribund from birth, sometime in the Middle Ages. We've never had the real thing yet and we are going to get it now. Again, it's exhilarating.

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I went to junior college. I am not brainwashed. (I know I probably am, at some levels, which is actually a good sign I am fighting false ideas).

My family went to top, or near top universities. ( in eyes of most). They're all Very brainwashed on the DeATHVAX... They all took it, and bitch about my "conspiracy theories". Bowing down to CIA language as they speak.

Piss on Harvard, Oxford, Georgetown. Go Westchester Community College!

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AIRLINE VACCINE MANDATES CAUSE CHAOS

¨Commercial airline pilots are speaking up more than ever about vaccine injuries and the “hostile” environment that unvaccinated and vaccine-injured pilots must endure.

Australian Captain Glen Waters was employed with Virgin Australia Airlines. After 20 years of exemplary service, Virgin terminated his employment. Why? Because he declined the Covid “vaccine.”

The biggest irony of this is that Australian aviators who did exactly what good aviators should do – think critically, assess risk and make safe decisions – were the ones whom the airlines, regulator and government punished and sacked. These aviators worked out that new risks were being introduced into flying that simply should never have been allowed, and so they resisted. Now, their assessments are being proven right as pilot vaccine injury increases.

Cpt. Waters dreamed of becoming a pilot from a young age. In high school, he flew gliders and in 1987 he began to realise his dream when he started training to become an airline pilot. He worked for Virgin Australia for 20 years, 19 of those as a captain.

On 16 September 2021 Virgin Australia announced it will require all its staff to be “vaccinated against Covid-19,” in line with domestic rival Qantas Airways and a growing number of airlines in the Asia-Pacific region. Pilots, cabin crew and airport workers were instructed they had to be fully vaccinated by 15 November.

In April 2022, on the 20th anniversary of his employment with the company, Virgin sent Cpt. Waters an email terminating his employment for “serious misconduct.” What was Cpt. Waters’ serious misconduct? He assessed the risks and made a rational, safe decision – not to be injected with a Covid “vaccine.”

The day after he was fired and still reeling from the shock of Virgin’s unjust action, Cpt. Waters spoke with Hoody, host of Hoody’s Heroes, about the circumstances leading up to his termination as well as his plans for the future. You can watch their discussion on Rumble by clicking on the image below.

When asked by Hoody what his plans were for the future, Cpt. Waters answered: “I am going to look after my fellow employees for a while because there’re a lot of desperate situations there. Somebody’s supposed to be looking after them. It wasn’t supposed to be me but we’re getting together to help each other because there’re quite some sad, sorry stories out there.”

Cpt. Waters is now advocating for pilots who were coerced into taking “vaccines” and injured as a result. In an interview with The Defender in June, Cpt. Waters said the injured pilots are scared of talking about their injury because they will be labelled “anti-vaxxers” and be discriminated against and/or have their employment terminated.

Virgin Australia is not allowing injured pilots to speak out, Cpt. Waters said, because “the company is actively trying to terminate anyone reporting vaccine injury.” He told The Defender that 900 pilots from Virgin Australia can no longer fly because they are suffering from medical complications post-Covid injection. “No doubt there are many more who are continuing to fly with troubling symptoms,” he said.

One captain had a stroke and went blind and another healthy captain had a sudden heart attack and fell down the boarding stairs. Formerly healthy pilots now report headaches, chest pains and shortness of breath, Cpt. Waters said. “I have heard [about cases of] tinnitus, vertigo and brain fog, including temporary blindness, in some crew. Disrupted menstrual cycles are reported frequently, perhaps affecting dozens [of employees].” Many of these issues are not even recognised as adverse events to the vaccine, even though the health issues are coming in waves, post-vaccination.¨

Read More https://www.hopegirlblog.com/2022/08/04/airline-vaccine-mandates-cause-chaos/

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There was a comment about an excessive admin staff in academia (who need a reason to exist,, so they invent problems) who are essentially busy drones who do no useful work.

Don't we see a similar problem in govt. and in health care? That might be worth a post.

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Thank you for all you're doing Tess.

Completely agree about the 'new lows' ... looks like academia has gone the way of the media. Should we now start using terms like 'corporate academia' ?

Also, in this article there appears to be a typo... HART should perhaps be HARE?

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Makes perfect sense to me.

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Yes. Absolutely right. Universities don't teach the things that we've forgotten as 'modern' civilisations. Schools generally feed the debt machine with our children.

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The universities are making courses easier to pass to not kill the golden goose.

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