May 282021
 


Brassaï Couple on a bench, Paris 1932

 

Suppressing Data On Ivermectin Cost ‘Half A Million Lives’ – Kory (WT)
Inhaled Nanobodies Could Be New Secret Weapon Against Severe Covid (RT)
US Sitting On ‘Raft’ Of Unexamined Virus Intel (ZH)
Fort Detrick Base Is Full Of Suspicions – China (RT)
Rand Paul: “Fauci Cannot Investigate Himself; Get Him Under Oath” (SN)
California Launches Largest US Covid Vaccine Lottery Yet (G.)
Facebook Now Banning Anyone Who Says Virus Wasn’t Created In Wuhan Lab (BBee)
Bezos Weaponizes The Washington Post Homepage (DP)
Biden’s Budget Assumes a Massive Retroactive Capital Gains Tax (Mish)
Socialism for 1% Capitalism 99% (Braund)
CNN Hires Trump As News Anchor To Recover Lost Viewers (BBee)

 

 

Just how crazy is this? You can say that the vaccines are not approved, but not that they haven’t been appropriately tested?

 

 

Hodkinson

 

 

“It’s literally criminal.”

Suppressing Data On Ivermectin Cost ‘Half A Million Lives’ – Kory (WT)

In a recent Zoom call, Dr. Pierre Kory of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance outlined numerous details showing the World Health Organization (WHO) knowingly suppressed data on the effectiveness of ivermectin against the virus in order to benefit the vaccine interests of Big Pharma. “It’s criminal,” Kory said. “It’s literally criminal.” The drug “could have saved half a million lives this year if it had been approved.” The WHO, Kory contends, is simply taking part in the tactics of a time-worn “Disinformation Playbook.” The term was coined by the Union of Concerned Scientists 50 years ago to describe the strategies corporations have developed over decades to “attack science when it goes against their financial interests.”

It consists of five parts:
The Fake – Conduct counterfeit science and try to pass it off as legitimate research.
The Blitz – Harass scientists who speak out with results reviews inconvenient for industry.
The Diversion – Manufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists.
The Screen – Buy credibility through alliances with academia or professional societies.
The Fix – Manipulate government officials or processes to influence policy inappropriately.

In the full Zoom call, since removed by YouTube but available on Bitchute, Kory describes how the five tactics have been deployed against the scientific findings on ivermectin. One example is the corruption of leading medical journals, whose editors refuse to allow ivermectin studies to advance to peer review. The most egregious institutional participant, however, is the WHO. Kory is the lead author of a scientific review of the studies on ivermectin worldwide, which was published in the May-June edition of The American Journal of Therapeutics. As reported on the FlCCC website, there have been a total of 56 trials involving 469 scientists and 18,447 patients. Of these, 28 were randomized control trials (RCT), the type of trial considered highly authoritative in the medical community.

Together these have shown an 85 percent improvement as a preventative against the disease when taken before exposure. There has been a 78 percent patient improvement when administered early and a 46 percent improvement when delivered late. A 74 percent improvement in mortality was found and a 66 percent improvement across multiple areas in the 28 randomized control trials. Within only 10 days of publication the paper on ivermectin was rated number 13 most-read among the more than 200,000 other scientific publications that appeared during that time, Kory reports. Out of the 17.7 million papers that have been tracked by the rating source since it began, the ivermectin study is already ranked 246.

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I’ll take ivermectin instead.

Inhaled Nanobodies Could Be New Secret Weapon Against Severe Covid (RT)

In search of ways to complement jabs or to treat patients who can’t be vaccinated, scientists have tested inhalable anti-Covid nanobodies on hamsters, saying they’re effective in fighting the virus by targeting its spike protein. The promising new findings came courtesy of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, marking the first time nanobodies have been tested for inhalation treatment of the coronavirus disease. Nanobodies are similar to monoclonal antibodies, widely used in certain cancer treatments, but are smaller in size and boast a lower cost of production, which may prove key to a global rollout should the treatment gain regulatory approval in future. The researchers previously identified some 8,000 nanobodies which they whittled down to just one highly effective or “ultra potent” version called Nb21, which they then bioengineered to better slot together with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.


Their aerosolized nanobody, named Pittsburgh inhalable Nanobody-21 (PiN-21), is said to have reduced the number of infectious virus particles in the test subject hamsters’ nasal cavities, throats and lungs by a million-fold. “We are very excited and encouraged by our data suggesting that PiN-21 can be highly protective against severe disease and can potentially prevent human-to-human viral transmission,” said co-senior author Yi Shi. The study says that hamsters who inhaled PiN-21 at the time of infection experienced no Covid-19 related weight loss, compared to the control group, which received a placebo and lost 16% of their initial body weight within a week of infection. This would be the equivalent to an adult human losing 20lbs (9kg) in one week, it said. Test subjects who inhaled PiN-21 experienced milder changes in lung structure and severely reduced inflammation following infection than the placebo group.

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‘an extraordinary amount of computer power’, ‘databases of Chinese communications, the movement of lab workers and the pattern of the outbreak of the disease around the city of Wuhan.”

US Sitting On ‘Raft’ Of Unexamined Virus Intel (ZH)

Hours after President Biden promised to release the ‘full report’ from US Intelligence community’s 90-day examination of where COVID-19 originated – unless there’s something he’s unaware of… …the New York Times reports, there’s things he’s unaware of. Namely, ‘a raft of still-unexamined evidence that required additional computer analysis that might shed light on the mystery,” according to anonymous senior administration officials. In other words, the US government has been sitting on a large collection of intelligence in perhaps the most important investigation into an economy-wrecking global pandemic, as China destroyed evidence and has refused to cooperate with international probes.

According to the report, Biden’s call for the new investigation was in response to the ‘new’ evidence. While officials declined to describe the new evidence, they are hoping to apply ‘an extraordinary amount of computer power’ to analyze what the Times speculates may be ‘databases of Chinese communications, the movement of lab workers and the pattern of the outbreak of the disease around the city of Wuhan.” Biden’s call was also meant to spur American allies and intelligence agencies to scour their own evidence, such as “intercepts, witnesses or biological evidence — as well as hunt for new intelligence,” to assess whether the Chinese government covered up what happened.

Astute readers will note that the NYT substitutes its own facts, framing any lab release as of course “accidental,” and suggesting that Biden only dismissed the lab origin theory “until the Chinese government this week rejected allowing further investigation by the World Health Organization.” In reality, plenty of evidence existed which the entire leftist establishment and their media surrogates flatly branded a ‘debunked conspiracy theory’ after then-President Trump promoted it, while the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) parroted CCP propaganda that the virus could have only emerged via ‘natural origin’ (as opposed to the Chinese lab manipulating bat coronaviruses in the same city that the pandemic started).

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Two can play that game.

Fort Detrick Base Is Full Of Suspicions – China (RT)

Beijing has called on the US to provide an explanation for a respiratory disease in northern Virginia and a large-scale outbreak of e-cigarette disease in Wisconsin after Washington launched a new probe into Covid-19’s origins. Speaking on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian asked the US to reflect on its own role in the pandemic and not “dump” responsibility on China alone. Citing the 33 million Covid-19 cases in the US and 600,000 deaths, Zhao asked “How safe is your conscience?” “I also want to emphasize that the Fort Detrick base is full of suspicions. There are more than 200 biological laboratories in the United States spreading around the world. How many secrets are there?”

The spokesman said that there was an unexplained respiratory disease in northern Virginia in July 2019 and a large-scale outbreak of e-cigarette disease in Wisconsin. “When will the US release detailed data and information on relevant cases to the international community? The United States owes an explanation to the international community.” The Maryland-based US Fort Detrick center hosts a biolab which has become a hot topic on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a “cease and desist order” to halt operations at the germ lab over safety concerns.

Zhao’s comment comes after US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was giving intelligence agencies 90 days to pinpoint the origins of Covid-19. Biden said his administration would continue to push China to “participate in a full, transparent, evidence-based international investigation and to provide access to all relevant data and evidence.” Reinforcing a statement from the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC on Wednesday evening, Zhao called on the US to stop “ignoring facts and science” and refrain from “repeatedly clamoring to reinvestigate China.”

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Good idea.

Rand Paul: “Fauci Cannot Investigate Himself; Get Him Under Oath” (SN)

Senator Rand Paul, who has spearheaded the renewed push to investigate the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, has called for Dr Fauci to be placed under oath and made to testify about the murky ‘gain of function’ research he was involved with funding at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Paul also urged that Fauci “needs to be excluded from the investigation” because he is too deeply involved in the whole thing. Appearing on Fox News, Paul spoke about the funding that Fauci and the NIH supplied to China. “Well, sure it’s a lot. And there are some reports that it added up to millions over time. But the other thing he said was that there was no gain of function in the application. There are scientists who looked at the application and who absolutely and categorically disagree with him,” Paul noted.

“The other evidence that we have is Dr. Shi from the Wuhan lab published a paper that is clearly about gain of function and it that she thanks her group and Dr. Fauci for funding that paper. So there are a lot of contradictions going on,” Paul added. “I think Dr. Fauci should be made to testify under oath about the money that was given to the lab,” Paul said, adding “The good news is yesterday I passed an amendment on the Senate floor that says no more gain of function money can be sent to China.” “The bottom line, he cannot investigate himself. If he was responsible for giving this money. He has every incentive to cover it up and not reveal the truth about it because if the pandemic did come from the lab, he would have great culpability in this,” Paul further emphasised.

The Senator, who continues to receive death threats after being so vocal against Fauci, added that “he can’t be investigating this, nor can any of his people that he picks be investigating this. He needs to be excluded from the investigation.” “This is very important because this could happen again,” Paul warned, adding “I mean, they are experimenting with the SARS virus, which is 15 times more deadly than COVID-19. COVID-19 kills 1%… more than 3 million people. If SARS got out of the lab, that could be 50 million people. This is a very important task ahead of us. We have 11 labs in our country that do this kind of research.”

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Just how crazy is this? Does anyone find it normal?

California Launches Largest US Covid Vaccine Lottery Yet (G.)

California has become the latest state to offer a vaccine lottery to incentivize getting the coronavirus vaccine – launching the nation’s most valuable single prize draw: $1.5m. The state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Thursday that residents will be eligible for a total of $116.5m in prize money giveaways, a windfall aimed at getting millions more vaccinated before the nation’s most populous state fully reopens next month. The state’s reopening is pegged for 15 June, and on that day a drawing will be held to award 10 vaccinated people the top prize. Another 30 people will win $50,000 each, with those drawings starting 4 June. Anyone 12 and older who has received at least one shot will be eligible. And the next 2 million people who get vaccinated will get $50 gift cards.


The state estimates about 12 million Californians 12 and older have not been vaccinated. About 63% of the 34 million eligible have gotten shots, though the pace has slowed markedly in recent weeks as infection rates have plummeted to record lows. Ohio this week announced the first $1m winner of its “Vax-a-Million” contest, as well as the first child to win a full college scholarship. The scheme saw more than 2.7 million adults register for a chance to win. Colorado and Oregon also offered $1m prizes. New York is raffling 50 full scholarships to children 12 to 17 to public universities and colleges in the state, selecting 10 winners each of the next five Wednesdays. That California is turning to cash prizes to encourage vaccinations marks a major turnaround from earlier this year, when Californians clamored for shots, with some driving or waiting in line for hours to get one.

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Babylon Bee is on a roll.

Facebook Now Banning Anyone Who Says Virus Wasn’t Created In Wuhan Lab (BBee)

Facebook has updated its community standards today, declaring that anyone who says the COVID-19 virus wasn’t developed in the lab in Wuhan will be banned for sharing fake news. Mark Zuckerberg, may he live forever, announced the change from his royal throne today to a group of reporters gathered in his royal throne room. “Hear ye, hear ye!” Zuckerberg announced. “From henceforth, anyone saying the virus wasn’t created in a lab shall be banned! While previously, those who said the virus was created in a lab were hanged, this royal decree hereby reverses the order, and now, those who deny the obvious truth that it was created in a lab shall be declared anathema and sentenced to die!”


Zuckerberg’s royal scribes then began scrubbing the old rule from the giant Community Standards tablets displayed in the throne room and chiseling the updated rule on top. “So it is written, and so it is done!” announced Zuckerberg. And the people rejoiced and began feasting upon the lamb, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies.

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Amazon as the great defender of the minimum wage. Gutsy.

Bezos Weaponizes The Washington Post Homepage (DP)

A few years after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, he said it was because it “is the newspaper in the capital city of the most important country in the world” and “has an incredibly important role to play in this democracy.” Now, with more and more legislators scrutinizing his company’s business practices, his newspaper is playing that role — as an advertising platform in defense of Amazon. On Tuesday, hours after the Washington Post reported that the D.C. attorney general is bringing an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, the front page of the Post’s website was festooned with native ads from Amazon portraying itself as a devoted supporter of a higher federal minimum wage.

The Post ads, which appeared almost like editorial content, are part of a broader campaign by Amazon highlighting its support for a $15 minimum wage. Left unsaid: Amazon only begrudgingly agreed to a higher wage for its own workers after serious public shaming. The company has also continued to bankroll corporate lobbying groups that are leading the fight against a minimum wage hike, and the Washington Post editorial board has campaigned against a $15 wage. Amazon’s ad spending with the newspaper is nothing new: The company has disclosed spending $40.5 million with the Washington Post since 2013 on advertising and digital content, including $8.1 million last year, according to its proxy statements.

The company’s latest ad on the Post homepage was designed to make the tech giant look progressive in advance of the company’s annual meeting on Wednesday and the news that it’s acquiring legendary film studio MGM. If you were casually glancing at the Post page Tuesday, you may not have realized the Amazon language was an advertisement, since portions of it were included in the Washington Post masthead banner. Text boxes in the banner said: “Since 2018, Amazon has paid at least $15/hour. It’s time to raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage.” Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, noted Tuesday that “these ads aren’t clearly marked as ads, and that crosses a line.”

[..] Of course, as the Washington Post headline noted when Amazon announced it would raise its minimum wage to $15, it did so “following criticism” — most prominently from Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt., who launched a petition to Bezos in August 2018, demanding that he pay his workers “a living wage and improve working conditions at Amazon warehouses all across the country.” Sanders also introduced the “Stop BEZOS Act,” legislation to put a 100-percent tax on government benefits received by workers at large companies, after a report by the New Food Economy found that thousands of Amazon workers were on food stamps.

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“His budget and tax hikes are headed to the gutter. Beyond infrastructure, it’s unclear if Biden can pass anything.”

Biden’s Budget Assumes a Massive Retroactive Capital Gains Tax (Mish)

Biden seeks to hike the top rate on capital gains to 43.4% from 23.8% for households with income over $1 million. He also wants to make the increase retroactive and force capital gains realization at death as well. The WSJ reports Biden’s Budget Said to Assume Capital-Gains Tax Rate Increase Started in April. • Leaders of six biggest U.S. banks, testified to Congress Thursday warning against a retroactive change. • Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.), wants to maintain a lower tax rate for capital gains than for ordinary income. • Lawmakers from farm states, including Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.) and Rep. Cindy Axne (D., Iowa) have objected to the changes on capital gains at death. Biden wants to make it retroactive so that millionaires cannot accelerate gains now. And he wants to make gains taxable at death to prevent heirs from holding.

In short, Biden wants his tax hikes now and later too. He continues to appease the Progressives. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the budget is sustainable because long-term yields are below the rate of inflation, conveniently held there by the Fed. The budget also assumes no recession for at least another 9 years despite the fact they happen about every 5 years on average. Finally, Biden’s budget not only assumes retroactive tax hikes but those hikes will bring in more money than the nonpartisan congressional budget office assumes. Meanwhile, Enough is Enough, a Democratic Governor Courageously Says “No More Taxes”

There is bipartisan support for about $900 billion in infrastructure spend, far short of the $2.3 trillion Biden seeks. There is no bipartisan support for tax hikes. Moreover, Biden cannot afford to lose a single Democrat Senator on any issue, but the net impact of all his tax and budget proposals suggests he has lost at least 3 Senators. His budget and tax hikes are headed to the gutter. Beyond infrastructure, it’s unclear if Biden can pass anything.

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“Banks can continue to lend money at interest in order to cover their costs, and make a reasonable profit, but they should not be permitted to create new money at interest..”

Socialism for 1% Capitalism 99% (Braund)

Banks create money by making loans to their customers. This method accounts for around 97 per cent of the money in circulation. Nearly all money is created as debt, repayable at interest. This means that all loans have to be repaid with money also created as debt and loaned at interest. No wonder the economy struggles, when the system of money creation heaps cost upon unnecessary cost. And no wonder the banks generate such enormous profits. This system, known as fractional reserve banking, is an integral part of the nexus of unearned wealth: Banks’ shareholders earn dividends from the super-profits extracted by the process of money creation; banks loan money to their own investment arms to finance speculative activities which undermine the real economy and then pay themselves unwarranted bonuses from the proceeds; and money issued as debt helps drive up asset prices, especially land, through the housing market and the market for commercial property.

Not only does the system of money issue skew the economy in favour of the already wealthy, it places an unnecessary burden on genuine entrepreneurs by charging them for the use of money. Money is not wealth, but it is required to pay for land, labour and capital. Why should enterprising businesspeople pay a premium for the use of money, when without it business is impossible? It gets worse: Through the activities of credit card companies, banks try to cover up their economic misdemeanours by lending money for consumption to those unable to earn enough to get by. This creates an impression that the economy is in good health because people keep spending. In fact, UK personal debt, at £1,452bn is roughly equivalent to the country’s GDP.

If they are to remain in private ownership, banks must be obliged to work under a revised system of full reserve banking: they should only lend money which they can fund from deposits and reserves. If the money supply needs to be increased, new money can be issued through banks by a central authority. Banks can continue to lend money at interest in order to cover their costs, and make a reasonable profit, but they should not be permitted to create new money at interest, and they should be required to compete for business by offering the best possible savings and borrowing rates to their customers. The current system of money issue widens the gap between rich and poor by concentrating its lending for investment on large corporations, while charging the economically excluded exorbitant rates on borrowing for consumption. It conspires against an optimal supply of money by ensuring that the quantity of money in circulation never reflects the amount of wealth being created, thus introducing instability into the economy and driving the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

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More Babylon Bee.

CNN Hires Trump As News Anchor To Recover Lost Viewers (BBee)

In order to bring back the viewers it’s lost since the 2020 election ended, CNN is rehiring the biggest draw for its audience: former President Trump, who will host all the news segments every night on prime time.
“What we’ve discovered since the election is people only watched our station to see Trump, so we’re hiring him to anchor our programs,” said Bob CNN, owner and founder of the cable news station. “This will finally get our ratings out of the dump.” During his first night on the job, Trump simply yelled about election fraud for two hours. “Very sad, very pathetic, worst-run election in history, maybe ever! Worse than North Korea!” he said to an audience of millions, CNN’s largest in many months.

“Frankly, any ballot cast against me is suspect. You really believe that someone would walk into an election booth and look at me and Sleepy Joe and choose Sleepy Joe? No. Can’t happen. Fake news. Not good. Sad!” After this, the rest of the hosts for the night just yelled about Trump yelling about election fraud. According to Trump, the deal was “the biggest deal in the history of television, maybe ever.” Rumors indicate that Trump was given a majority share in the company, billions of dollars, and unlimited Diet Coke. According to insiders, the headquarters of CNN will also be moved to Mar-a-Lago as part of the deal. After the announcement, CNN’s ratings skyrocketed, and they’re finally outperforming the WNBA, soccer, and Saturday Night Live.

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    Brassaï Couple on a bench, Paris 1932   • Suppressing Data On Ivermectin Cost ‘Half A Million Lives’ – Kory (WT) • Inhaled Nanobodies Could Be Ne
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 28 2021]

    #76126
    V. Arnold
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    Just how crazy is this? Does anyone find it normal?

    • California Launches Largest US Covid Vaccine Lottery Yet (G.)

    Normal? Not even close…
    Crazy? grossly understated…

    When one’s world has gone completely over the edge; what does one do?
    That is certainly the question…

    To even engage this crazy horseshit is to give it legitimacy…
    Thereby…I will not engage it…

    So, what to do?
    Nothing, absolutely nothing…
    Work instead on your own sanity/survival; anything else is fatal/futile……………

    #76127
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Brassaï Couple on a bench, Paris 1932

    That picture is certainly worth a comment…
    Beautiful; especially the woman…just gorgeous…
    But the photograph is just swell…got everything right….

    #76128
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Re Couple on a bench. If this is Street Photography, I guess the woman’s expression and pose would be read as “Oh, hello there random photographer sneaking up behind me at night as I was about to make out with my lover on this beautiful Paris evening while perfectly made up to highlight my incredible beauty! Don’t you love the way my paramour’s hair blends into his fur collar and the way this little streetlight hits my cheekbones just right?” Or maybe it’s a highly staged photo shoot posing as street photography. Either way, nice photo. Mainly because the woman is beautiful and there is slight drama or mystery created by the man having his back to us.

    Re Vaccine Lotteries. Right, take your chances on a vaccine! It reminds me of being a child and getting a lollipop after visiting the doctor or dentist. Dog trainers use treats very effectively to get the correct behaviors from their charges.

    Re Inhaled nanobodies. Good news. Now we not only have virus lab leaks to be concerned with, but the possibility that our DNA can be manipulated via aerosol spray. Maybe we should be worrying about those jet contrails….

    Re the BBee humor. I find most of their stuff to be a bit too heavy-handed. They lack the slightly off-kilter approach perfected by The Onion, It’s not bad, it’s hit you over the head approach can be entertaining. Maybe an analogy would be Benny Hill vs. Monty Python.

    #76129
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Autocorrect must have put that apostrophe in the second “its.” I would never do that! Damn driverless keyboards!

    #76130
    absolute galore
    Participant

    One other crazy thing about the Lotto vaxxes– taxpayers in the states running these are essentially paying for giant ad promotionals for the vaccine makers. Absolutely nuts. Obviously required some collusion between government officials and pharma–would make a good expose if we had any journalists left.

    #76134
    Germ
    Participant

    Italy bans unvaccinated children from school.
    It was a while ago, but I wonder whether it will apply to these new vaxxes.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536981.amp

    #76135
    Germ
    Participant

    The Danish government on Friday presented its digital coronavirus passport enabling people to travel abroad or, in Denmark, go to the hairdresser, a tattoo parlor, dine inside a restaurant or wherever else it is needed.

    https://apnews.com/article/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-travel-lifestyle-health-257f6525e751899f99e5ecd494828fdc

    #76136
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    Which is greater, the odds of winning the vax lotto or the odds of dying from the ‘vaccine’? According to a pro-vax source using VAERS data your chance of dying from the ‘vaccine’ is around 3 out of 1 million. In Oregon there will be one $1 million prize randomly given to one of at least 2 million ‘vaccinees’. So in Oregon you are about 6 times more likely to die from the ‘vaccine’ than to win the lottery and that does not include the fact that VAERS significantly under reports deaths.

    #76137
    zerosum
    Participant

    A natural wonder – natural immunity
    A human exist because there are 10^13 units and, 10 times more, (10^14), symbiotic units that must stay in a continuous programed dance/activity.

    #76138
    Django
    Participant

    Yes well spotted Dark Matter. There are lots of statistics regarding chances of winning lotteries. You’re on a winner there.

    #76139
    Django
    Participant

    Play stupid games win stupid prizes springs to mind.

    #76140
    zerosum
    Participant

    White noise.
    Who is influential. Who is listening. Who is talking. Prospective.
    ——-
    (John Kenneth Galbraith[a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) died before doing blogging.)
    ——–
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging
    History of blogging

    https://www.niemanlab.org/
    “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism”

    The blog is dead, long live the blog


    “The Stream might be on the wane but still it dominates. All media on the web and in mobile apps has blog DNA in it and will continue for a long while.”
    PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2014: A NIEMAN LAB SERIES

    https://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2021/
    PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2021
    Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2020, here’s what they had to say.

    #76141
    Germ
    Participant

    Jim pens another cracker …

    National Horror Story Hour

    #76142
    Germ
    Participant

    On May 24th, 160 Indian doctors write to Prime Minister Modi: “No evidence to prove deaths occurring due to the Novel Coronavirus”.

    Powerful letter. Reality versus global propaganda and Pharma capture.

    https://biswaroop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Open-Letter-to-Honble-PM-Narendra-Modiji.pdf

    #76143
    Germ
    Participant

    We’ve been previously told that the genetic material contained in the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines could not enter the nucleus, and remained in the extra-nuclear cellular cytoplasm.

    Another big, fat, lie.
    Oops!
    If they’d spent a few years trialing these damn gene therapies they would have discovered that.

    “Scientists say the vaccine is sent into the cell nucleus instead of surrounding fluid, where parts of it break off and create mutated versions of themselves. The mutated versions then enter the body and trigger the blood clots.”

    German Scientists Find How Broken Parts Of COVID-19 Vaccines Mutate To Trigger Blood Clots

    #76144
    Germ
    Participant

    Shut him up!

    #76145
    Germ
    Participant

    Ivermectin works.

    “Meta-analyses based on 18 randomized controlled treatment trials of ivermectin in COVID-19 have found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance.”

    https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext/2021/06000/Review_of_the_Emerging_Evidence_Demonstrating_the.4.aspx

    #76146
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    Wow, Krystal and Saagar are leaving The Hill after 2 years.

    #76147
    Germ
    Participant
    #76148
    Germ
    Participant

    Israeli meshuganas :

    “About half of the general public will be willing to vaccinate their 12- to 15-year-old children if the Health Ministry recommends it, according to a survey released this week by the Meuhedet Health Maintenance Organization.”

    “Dr. Yoav Yehezkelli of Dept of Emergency Mgment & Disaster at Tel Aviv U School of Pub Hlth told the Post he does not believe children need to be vaccinated now because they tend to get mild cases of the virus, and the rate of infection was low”

    https://www.jpost.com/health-science/covid-19-vaccination-49-percent-of-israeli-parents-say-will-jab-teens-survey-669390

    #76149
    Germ
    Participant
    #76151
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    • Fort Detrick Base Is Full Of Suspicions – China (RT)

    [Posted again without links after first attempt failed to post.]

    A related summary and timeline I pieced together from some news at the time, about the outbreak at the Greenspring Retirement Community (an hour’s drive from Fort Detrick).

    “The symptoms usually start with a cough. In less than 2 weeks, a mystery virus at Springfield’s Greenspring Retirement Community has gotten 55 residents sick. Twenty have been hospitalized — some with pneumonia — and two people have died…”

    This happened in early July, 2019, at a long-term care facility in Springfield, Virginia, located 13 miles from DC, and 55 miles from Fort Detrick. The county health department did testing for “common pathogens” but all the test results were negative. The state health department and the CDC got involved with the testing. The CDC couldn’t (or wouldn’t) identify the cause of the outbreak.

    Coincidentally(?), the CDC shut down research at Fort Detrick on July 15.

    By July 17, an outbreak at another retirement community, Heatherwood (in Burke, Virginia, 7 miles from Greenspring), was being investigated by the county health department and the CDC. “There is no evidence of any connection between this and the outbreak and Greenspring.”

    On July 19, the state health department issued a warning about an increase in respiratory illnesses in multiple regions across the state. “Since the end of flu season in May, the Virginia Department of Health has received increased reports of respiratory (breathing) illness across the Commonwealth greater than observed in previous summers. Most of the reports have occurred among older adults and those with chronic medical conditions in assisted living and long-term care facilities.”

    By July 26, after at least 2 weeks of “extensive testing”, with at least 17 samples, the CDC reportedly was unable to identify the cause of the outbreak at Greenspring. “Despite extensive testing of multiple specimens, no specific pathogen was identified as the cause of the outbreak.”

    The final update from the county health department, on July 29, said the testing at the second community, Heatherwood, indicated rhinovirus, which is “the respiratory virus most frequently found in humans and the main source of the common cold.” The cause of the outbreak at Greenspring has never been fully identified publicly, to my knowledge.

    July 11, 2019:
    Fairfax County Health Department is conducting an outbreak investigation at Greenspring, a long-term care facility with assisted living and skilled nursing care, in Springfield, Va. The Health Department was recently informed that over the last 11 days a total of 54 individuals out of the 263 residents in this facility have become ill with respiratory symptoms ranging from upper respiratory symptoms (cough) to pneumonia. Of the ill individuals, 18 have been hospitalized and two have died.  The individuals who died were hospitalized with pneumonia. Both were older adults and had complex medical problems.  The Health Department does not know the full medical history and the extent to which the pneumonia contributed to the deaths. A specific cause has not yet been identified but additional tests are being done by the Virginia Department of Health and Inova Health System.

    July 12, 2019 (Local news story):
    The symptoms usually start with a cough. In less than 2 weeks, a mystery virus at Springfield’s Greenspring Retirement Community has gotten 55 residents sick. Twenty have been hospitalized — some with pneumonia — and two people have died… …Dr. Schwartz says the community is taking proper steps and thoroughly cleaning the facility while Inova Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention work to figure out what kind of a virus this is and how it is spreading. “These panels have looked for several of the most common pathogens and they have been negative so far,” said Dr. Schwartz.

    Meanwhile, at Fort Detrick;
    “The CDC sent a letter of concern on July 12, followed by a cease and desist letter July 15.”

    July 15 update (from the Health Department at Fairfield County):
    “No cause for the illnesses has yet been identified, but the Health Department is working with the Virginia Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct testing for viruses and bacteria that may cause respiratory illness.”

    July 16 update:
    “Results of testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are still pending”

    July 17 update:
    “CDC tested 17 specimens from ill Greenspring residents. No cause for the outbreak was identified.“
    “The Health Department is also investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness at Heatherwood, an assisted-living facility in Burke, VA. There is no evidence of any connection between this and the outbreak and Greenspring. The Health Department is working with Heatherwood to ensure appropriate measures are taken to reduce the risk of infection and keep residents safe. Samples are also being tested at CDC labs.”

    July 19 update:
    “Additional laboratory testing from CDC has not identified a specific cause for the increase in respiratory illness.”

    July 19 (WaPo):
    Third person has died after respiratory illness outbreak at Greenspring Village, Fairfax officials say
    CDC has tested 17 samples but has so far failed to identify the cause.

    July 19 (Virginia Department of Health):
    “Since the end of flu season in May, the Virginia Department of Health has received increased reports of respiratory (breathing) illness across the Commonwealth greater than observed in previous summers. Most of the reports have occurred among older adults and those with chronic medical conditions in assisted living and long-term care facilities.”

    July 26 update:
    “Despite extensive testing of multiple specimens, no specific pathogen was identified as the cause of the outbreak.”

    July 26 (local newspaper):
    “Working with the county health department along with the Virginia Department of Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested 17 samples taken from ill residents, but as of July 19, the agency had not been able to identify a specific cause for the sudden uptick in respiratory illness from either that initial testing or additional laboratory testing. CDC test results uncovered several bacteria known to “colonize” the nose and throat but may not be the cause of infection, and several specimens tested positive rhinovirus, the respiratory virus most frequently found in humans and the main source of the common cold, according to the Fairfax County Health Department.”

    July 26 (final update from health department about the outbreak at Greenspring):
    “Despite extensive testing of multiple specimens, no specific pathogen was identified as the cause of the outbreak [at Greenspring].”

    July 29 (final update from health department about the outbreak at Heatherwood):
    “Results of earlier testing [at Heatherwood] submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated rhinovirus, a virus that causes the common cold.“

    [for links to articles, check the comment section at the Debt Rattle for 17 May, 2020]

    #76152
    Germ
    Participant

    UK Vaccine Passports are coming:

    “MPs have accused the Government of introducing ID cards “by stealth” after ministers signed a vaccine passport contract that may last several years …”

    ” …the government has already signed several vaccine passport contracts, including one worth up to £21m that can be renewed each year.

    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) earlier this month signed a contract with HH Associates, a subsidiary of outsourcing firm HH Global, to produce paper vaccine passports for people who do not have access to a smartphone or computer.”

    https://inews.co.uk/news/government-id-cards-stealth-vaccine-passports-contract-1023897

    #76153
    Germ
    Participant

    Mother, 25, is put into intensive care coma after ‘very rare’ reaction to second Covid Pfizer jab caused terrifying anaphylactic shocks

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9625365/Mother-25-intensive-care-coma-rare-reaction-second-Covid-Pfizer-jab.html

    #76154
    Germ
    Participant

    “Keep BioNTech COVID jab for school children, German health minister says
    Germany’s health minister said reserving BioNTech-Pfizer jabs for kids is the best way to ensure schools will open after summer vacation.”

    https://www.dw.com/en/keep-biontech-covid-jab-for-school-children-german-health-minister-says/a-57633948

    #76155
    Noirette
    Participant

    On, Rand Paul (vid at top.)

    He brings up some good points, sure he ‘ – a politician, not a neutral scientist. (If any neutral scientists ever existed, other topic.)

    Science has been ‘weaponized’ – that is, used, roped in, to achieve aims that have by defintion nothing to do with ‘science’, a shoring up of an ‘Authority’ that resembles Religous Authorities of the past.

    For ex. Follow the Science as adressed to the general public means: shut the f* up and do as you are told. Obey the Priests…or be an oucast…

    The underlying aims are related to money (greed), control, domination, and, if confusedly for now, throwing over the post WW2 International Order (Westphalian Nation-States cooperating under some kind of International or ‘world’ rules and conventions, even if this was, is, somewhat illusory..)

    What R. Paul leaves out is that research of the kind he talks about (top level micro- bio-organism research, mostly on viruses and bacteria, of various kinds, including gain-of-function, genetic manipulations, etc.) is an international endeavour.

    There is a consequent + tight Int’l community collaborating on all this, and until not too long ago (2010 or a later..?) that was considered positive, in fact, researchers were chivvied into getting in touch with ‘colleagues’ (even when they didn’t speak the same language), collaborating, trying to write grant proposals together, etc. The meme that ‘top talent’ and ‘brilliance’ *has* to get together, work together, was touted, and a kind of heh, ‘we are all on the same page’ atmosphere prevailed.

    Scientists were encouraged to pose on ‘community varied pix’, that is trivia, but meant to show that collab. is a main point, and via collabs. and coops. and University-Commercial Labs-Gvmt organised partnerships, much could be accomplished. Many were encouraged to ‘get onto’ projects they knew nothing, or cared nothing, about.

    To advance your career (at say age 28 or 34 or…) in microbiology, bio-technology, high tech applied to medication..) you needed to publish, aka be an ‘author’, at least 20 papers with a ‘varied’ (international) team. In short, it is more like product placement than serious research.

    The NIH funding the Wuhan Lab via a Fauci donation to Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, see their site:

    Homepage

    Is nothing special.

    Practically all the research into these kinds of areas in the ‘West’ is run by Consortiums, usually called public-private partnerships, and on paper, provided one can find the relevant docs, generally include a large panoply of donors: States, non-profits, Associations (though that is not a thing in the Anglo World), Foundations, aka non-profits, Commercials aka Big Corps, others, etc. And all these entities (except in principle, States which don’t accept money) shift large sums around amongst themselves.

    Kicking in open doors, the Partners of EcoHealth alliance, from their site, look at the long list:

    Partners

    Includes natch’ John Hopkins, the CDC, the NIH.

    R. Paul is cherry picking one mini-example for political gain. OK I’m not against, good news. Would he denounce the whole structure of Med. Research in the US? Could he? Probably not.

    #76156
    Noirette
    Participant

    Typos in my post, sorry, but correcting them is too hard, ppl can auto-correct in their heads 🙂

    #76157
    Germ
    Participant

    Covid: EU approves Pfizer-BioNTech jab for 12-15 year olds

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57287755

    #76158
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    A reminder of some of the many problems with Fort Detrick (and the CDC), as described in a mainstream newspaper article:

    Trouble in the air at Fort Detrick
    by Kenneth King
    The Baltimore Sun
    February 28, 2011

    Even without deliberately floating its germs in the air, USAMRIID [Fort Detrick’s U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases] has had trouble keeping track of them. In 2009, it discovered 9,200-plus vials (one-eighth of its stock) weren’t logged into inventory. In 2003, while cleaning up a leaking Detrick chemical dump, employees found 100-plus vials of buried live bacteria. “The documentation for where this came from doesn’t exist,” Detrick’s safety director at the time, Lt. Col. Donald Archibald, stammered.

    There have been multiple instances since 2001 of Detrick anthrax ending up at places it wasn’t supposed to be — inside the facility and (according to the FBI) outside as well, in the U.S. Postal Service.

    In 2009, after safety lapses exposed a USAMRIID researcher to tularemia, two weeks passed before anyone suspected her illness was tularemia, the focus of her research. At Boston University in 2004, and at Texas A&M in 2006, months elapsed before infected researchers were correctly diagnosed. Sick biodefense researchers seem rarely to suspect the diseases they’re researching.

    Lab-acquired infections are a particular concern now that researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere have brought the 1918 flu back to life, and developed deadly bird flus that transmit easily between humans.

    Such recklessness makes laughable USAMRIID Commander John Skvorak’s declaration that USAMRIID is “tightly regulated” by the Army and CDC. The Government Accountability Office’s chief technologist testified in 2007 that the country’s now 1,300-plus “high-containment” germ labs were essentially regulating themselves. Little has changed since then.

    According to the Dallas Morning News, CDC inspections missed or ignored a veritable biosafety train wreck at Texas A&M until a public expose by a small nonprofit forced the CDC to suspend the university’s select agent research and investigate further. The red-faced agency ultimately issued a 21-page report on A&M’s safety lapses.

    CDC administrators ignored warnings of their own engineers about the backup power configuration for the CDC’s new suite of BSL-4 labs, causing a complete power loss and loss of negative air pressure in 2007. A second power loss occurred in occupied CDC labs that same year.

    The CDC didn’t even require that research developing new bird flus — probably the most dangerous germ research in the country — be conducted at the highest level of containment.

    The CDC also allowed USAMRIID researcher Peter Jahrling to conduct experiments trying to infect monkeys with smallpox. Currently, smallpox does not infect animals other than humans. That’s why world health authorities were able (they thought) to eradicate the disease. Risking the establishment of an animal reservoir for smallpox makes about as much sense as resurrecting the 1918 flu.

    The CDC’s reputation for “safety” rests on its secrecy, and on the fact that it hasn’t killed anyone in Atlanta since two janitors died of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1976.

    https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bs-xpm-2011-02-28-bs-ed-detrick-20110228-story.html

    #76159
    Django
    Participant

    The same EMA that reports 10 500 deaths and 450 000 injuries from vaccines.

    #76160
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Well, I was looking up Wisconsin’s latest coronavirus stats (at 350 new cases a day, we’re pretty much back to something-like-normal), and imagine my shock and horror when I learned that, according to The Guardian, Wisconsin is “ground zero of America’s battle against vaccine heresy hesitancy”!

    #76161
    Django
    Participant

    The British tabloids only publish vaccine adverse effects if they happen to celebs or women who look like second rate porn stars.

    #76162
    zerosum
    Participant

    Hint, hint, not in the USA
    July 12, 2019 (Local news story):
    The symptoms usually start with a cough. In less than 2 weeks, a mystery virus at Springfield’s Greenspring Retirement Community has gotten 55 residents sick. Twenty have been hospitalized — some with pneumonia — and two people have died… …Dr. Schwartz says the community is taking proper steps and thoroughly cleaning the facility while Inova Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention work to figure out what kind of a virus this is and how it is spreading. “These panels have looked for several of the most common pathogens and they have been negative so far,” said Dr. Schwartz.

    Fairfax County Health Department
    February 20, 2020 ·
    Update, week ending on February 21: Director of Epidemiology and Population Health, Dr. Benjamin Schwartz reports that flu activity remains widespread in Fairfax County and shares what residents should know about another disease-making headlines ̶ the coronavirus outbreak in China.
    https://www.facebook.com/fairfaxcountyhealth/videos/flu-is-making-people-sick-in-fairfax-county-not-coronavirus/640000020132352/

    #76163
    zerosum
    Participant

    Wuhan Lab Leak Theory will not include info from flue sickness in Springfield’s Greenspring Retirement Community.

    #76164
    Antidote
    Participant
    #76165
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijing-doubles-down-claims-covid-leaked-maryland-military-base

    Beijing Doubles Down On Claims COVID Leaked From Maryland Military Base

    Speaking on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian asked the White House to reflect on its own role in the pandemic and not “dump” responsibility on Beijing. He also demanded that Washington provide “an explanation” for a respiratory disease outbreak in northern Virginia, along with the outbreak of the “vaping disease”, which occurred shortly before the pandemic began, and has been used in Chinese media to spread uncertainty about the virus’s origins.

    #76166
    Germ
    Participant

    Henry’s mother is my tennis doubles partner!

    “England and Exeter Chiefs centre Henry Slade has been criticised after revealing that he will not take the Covid-19 vaccine.”
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/familyhealth/henry-slade-criticised-for-rejecting-covid-vaccine/ar-AAKtwVg

    “England rugby star Henry Slade explains coronavirus vaccine snub”

    England rugby star Henry Slade explains coronavirus vaccine snub

    #76167
    zerosum
    Participant

    Look how easy it will be to get $5,000 /sac
    https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/make-your-home-more-energy-efficient/23443

    #76168
    Dr. D
    Participant

    As Noirette, I’m not sure people understand what was happening. These consortiums were paying for gain-of-function, that is, bioweapons research, worldwide. The pretense being is, we have to create the bioweapons before these mythical OTHER scientists do what we’re the first do, in order STOP the bioweapons we’re definitely creating, but they only might be creating. But probably aren’t, but we certainly are. Got it.

    …And then forget to focus on the vaccine/prevention side, because Crispr the DNA to make a Stanley Cup for the death cult is just so much cooler. Come at me Bro.

    So if China releases it, they go “Duh! Weren’t us no how, it were the NIAID, funding that durn U.S. bioweapons research. Yes sir, we dinna no nuttin!!!” Then when it’s released in Ft. Deitrick, they say, “But, but we were just working on the Chinese virus, musta been them, when’s the last time it was us except every. single. time???”

    Point being, the funders KNOW. As a FACT. That they WILL. Create deadly bioweapons. With plausible deniability. That ANY of them, including NAIAID, heck, Bill Gate’s third gardener, can ‘accidentally’ release any time there’s a … I dunno … a worldwide economic collapse we don’t want to be blamed for, or an election we want to rig?

    That’s why it was outlawed. Years back. And that’s why Fauci signed off on 3rd or 4th partying the funding, so he could do it anyway. Called “Fraudulent conveyance.” …Repeat after me, children, “Plausible Deniability“. And yummy, yummy mass-murder for $$$ and power.

    So I DON’T CARE WHO. If China did it, please still go hang Fauci for treason of coordinating bioweapons with the CCP. And hang Batwoman too. Hang the head of Ft. Deitrick, heck, hang him for the LAST ten releases that only by a miracle DIDN’T kill everyone on the East Coast and every postman too. Or hang them for faking the anthrax with Mueller and railroading the wrong guy. Knowingly.

    Stop with your stupid, stupid games. I’d say hang Congress, the CIA, and the other guys who knew about it, but there’s no need as they’re already guilty of 1,000 other felonies ahead of that one. But STOP LYING. Stop playing games. I don’t care about your stupid “deniability” when every step of every action was a crime anyway, preceding the supposed, well-timed “accident.” And then every action AFTER was a crime of cover-up, reckless endangerment, withholding treatment, and KNOWINGLY forcing healthy people into contaminated environments, certain to cause death, then covering THAT up with more lies to insure more death. …Of small businessmen, children, and alcoholics.

    Back to the first line here: it was set up this way ON PURPOSE. The purpose was to allow and to cover a release of mass death, on command. That’s why international coordination, that’s why the funding is for MORE gain of function, not less. We have the check stubs. We have the names. We only need a single human with morals. Which we have not. It’s up to me and you. Tell the truth.

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