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René Magritte The son of man 1946

 

Fauci and the NIH Knew Covid-19 “Vaccines” Could Lead to ADE (Ghion)
Informed Consent Disclosure To Vaccine Trial Subjects Of ADE Risk (Wiley)
How Much Spike Protein Is Being Made (Lincoln)
Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden (Atl.)
Covid-19 Natural Immunity Compared To Vaccine-induced Immunity (Attkisson)
My Own Country Kicked Me Out Because My Immunity Was Acquired Naturally (RT)
A Plea To Allow The Use Of Ivermectin As Covid-19 Treatment (Biz)
Biden Message For DeSantis On Covid Mask Opposition: ‘Get Out Of The Way’ (MH)
Mayor De Blasio And Governor Cuomo Are Pushing Hard For Vaccinations (F.)
Vaccine Cards Are Just The Beginning (Whitehead)
We Stand in Solidarity with Dr. Peter McCullough MD (Change)
Julian Assange: Peering Through The Murk (Rozenberg)
America Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy (Unherd)
Meet Your New Feudal Overlords (Weems)
2020: A Propaganda Masterpiece (Perspectives on the Pandemic)

 

 

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles—this they name empire;
and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

— Tacitus (quoting Calgacus), Agricola 30.

 

 

Vaccine safety under Trump

 

 

 

 

“..over 160 million Americans and more than 2 billion people around the world were never told about the distinct possibility that they could end up developing a disease called Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE).”

Fauci and the NIH Knew Covid-19 “Vaccines” Could Lead to ADE (Ghion)

Late last night, an anonymous source forwarded a screenshot of a report attributed to Timothy Cardozo and Ronald Veazey that is found at the bottom of NIH’s website. The report specifically warned of the distinct possibility that people who are injected with Covid-19 “vaccines” could develop the very Antibody-Dependent Enhancement that Dr. Malone keeps ringing the alarm about. Not only was this information suppressed from the public, the government-media-corporate complex went out of their way to censor—in the case of Dr. Malone destroy—anyone who questions the safety and efficacy of these boosters that are still undergoing clinical trials. Even though I knew all along that the US government, and governments around the world, were lying through their teeth about the origins of Covid-19 and were likewise peddling medical misinformation about the scientific integrity of the “vaccines”, it was still shocking to read the following paragraph right on NIH’s website:

“The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent.” [source NIH] Despite Cardozo and Veazey’s explicit instruction that NIH must disclose the full risks of the “vaccines” to test subjects in the clinical trials that were conducted last year as well as to all recipients once the “vaccines” garnered approval for general use, over 160 million Americans and more than 2 billion people around the world were never told about the distinct possibility that they could end up developing a disease called Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE).

A significant percentage of the world’s population is now at risk of contracting an ailment that could lead to their body’s natural immune system getting compromised and attacking their vital organs. If that sounds familiar, that is because ADE is an autoimmune disease that is very similar to HIV/AIDs. [..] This is not some fluke occurrence that could not have been foreseen, “vaccines” that produce spiked proteins by way of mRNA or adenovirus were studied on lab animals—specifically ferrets and cats because they are more susceptible to Coronavirus—for over twenty years. Though the test subjects initially acquired synthetic antibodies, once their immunization window expired and they were challenged with SARS-CoV-1, the lab animals that were injected with the “vaccines” were wiped out.

The warning on NIH’s website was alluding to this very real possibility but the very authorities we entrust to protect us instead concealed this information and conditioned billions of people to get jabbed without informed consent. Every plutocrat, politician and opinion leader who took part in this conspiracy of silence should be frogmarched and tried before an international tribunal similar to the trials Nazis faced after World War II for violating the Nuremberg codes and committing brutalities that will once day be judged to exceed the evils of Hitler.

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This from October 2020 is the basis for the article above, both referenced by Dr. Robert Malone.

Informed Consent Disclosure To Vaccine Trial Subjects Of ADE Risk (Wiley)

Vaccine-elicited enhancement of disease was previously observed in human subjects with vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), dengue virus and measles.1 Vaccine-elicited enhancement of disease was also observed with the SARS and MERS viruses and with feline coronavirus, which are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen of COVID-19 disease. The immune mechanisms of this enhancement have invariably involved antibodies, from direct antibody-dependent enhancement, to immune complex formation by antibodies, albeit accompanied by various coordinated cellular responses, such as Th2 T-cell skewing. Notably, both neutralising and non-neutralising antibodies have been implicated.

A recent study revealed IgG-mediated acute lung injury in vivo in macaques infected with SARS that correlated with a vaccine-elicited, neutralising antibody response.8 Inflammation and tissue damage in the lung in this animal model recapitulated the inflammation and tissue damage in the lungs of SARS-infected patients who succumbed to the disease. The time course was also similar, with the worst damage occurring in delayed fashion in synchrony with ramping up of the immune response. Remarkably, neutralising antibodies controlled the virus in the animal, but then would precipitate a severe, tissue-damaging, inflammatory response in the lung.

This is a similar profile to immune complex-mediated disease seen with RSV vaccines in the past, wherein vaccinees succumbed to fatal enhanced RSV disease because of the formation of antibody-virus immune complexes that precipitated harmful, inflammatory immune responses. It is also similar to the clinical course of COVID-19 patients, in whom severe COVID-19 disease is associated with the development of anti-SARS-CoV-2 serum antibodies, with titres correlating directly with the severity of disease. Conversely, subjects who recover quickly may have low or no anti-SARS-CoV-2 serum antibodies.

The elicitation of antibodies, specifically neutralising antibodies, is the goal of nearly every current SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate. The prior evidence that vaccine-elicited, antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of disease is likely to occur to some degree with COVID-19 vaccines is vertically consistent from controlled SARS studies in primates to clinical observations in SARS and COVID-19. Thus, a finite, non-theoretical risk is evident in the medical literature that vaccine candidates composed of the SARS-CoV-2 viral spike and eliciting anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, be they neutralising or not, place vaccinees at higher risk for more severe COVID-19 disease when they encounter circulating viruses.

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Fun with numbers. Much more at the link.

How Much Spike Protein Is Being Made (Lincoln)

This thread is to shed a bit of light on the mysteries of how much spike protein is being made, where it is going and how is it going there. Sadly our captured regulatory agencies did not insist the mfr do so
1/ I start by estimating how much spike protein is being created by the mRNA vaccines
2/We know there is 30 microgram for Pfizer
3/Molecular weight is estimated at > 1.25 x10^6 gm/mole. (~330 gm per mole of nucleotide). This comes out to 30 x 10^-6 grams/ 1.25 x 10^6 gm/mole =24 x 10^-12 moles. 6 x 10^23 molecules/mole x 24 x 10^-12 moles =14.4x 10^12 molecules mRNA (14.4trillion)
4/14.4 trillion spike protein if 1 mRNA produces 1 spike protein. A more reasonable number is 1000 spike per mRNA X1000 14,400 trillion spikes
5/So basically 30 micrograms of mRNA will theoretically produce about 14,400 trillion individual spike proteins (if 100% efficient)
6/Now we ask this. How many cells are transfected by the vaccines. In other words, how many mRNA molecules are in each LNP
7/Since we can estimate how many mRNA molecules there are (14.4 trillion for Pfizer), we must estimate how many LNP’s
8/First we must estimate the size of LNP “Together with the mRNA, these components form particles of about 60–100 nm in size by using a rapid mixing production technique (Evers et al., 2018).”
9/So lets call it 80 nm and assume a spherical shape.
10/So LNP particles of 80 nm have a total weight of about 0.5 mg. Lipids are typically less dense than water but using the density of water we may estimate the volume of 0.5 mg as 5 x 10^17 cubic nm

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These people have lost their connection to the world. This girl wants unvaccinated on a no-fly list. But not because of the flying, no, the problem occurs when they leave the airport:

“..air-filtration systems and mask requirements make transmission of the coronavirus unlikely during any given passenger flight, infected people can spread it when they leave the airport and take off their mask…”

Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden (Atl.)

When you go to the airport, you see two kinds of security rules. Some apply equally to everyone; no one can carry weapons through the TSA checkpoint. But other protocols divide passengers into categories according to how much of a threat the government thinks they pose. If you submit to heightened scrutiny in advance, TSA PreCheck lets you go through security without taking off your shoes; a no-fly list keeps certain people off the plane entirely. Not everyone poses an equal threat. Rifling through the bags of every business traveler and patting down every preschooler and octogenarian would waste the TSA’s time and needlessly burden many passengers. The same principle applies to limiting the spread of the coronavirus.

The number of COVID-19 cases keeps growing, even though remarkably safe, effective vaccines are widely available, at least to adults. Many public agencies are responding by reimposing masking rules on everyone. But at this stage of the pandemic, tougher universal restrictions are not the solution to continuing viral spread. While flying, vaccinated people should no longer carry the burden for unvaccinated people. The White House has rejected a nationwide vaccine mandate—a sweeping suggestion that the Biden administration could not easily enact if it wanted to—but a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step that the federal government should take. It will help limit the risk of transmission at destinations where unvaccinated people travel—and, by setting norms that restrict certain privileges to vaccinated people, will also help raise the stagnant vaccination rates that are keeping both the economy and society from fully recovering.

Flying is not a right, and the case for restricting it to vaccinated people is straightforward: The federal government is the sole entity that can regulate the terms and conditions of airline safety. And although air-filtration systems and mask requirements make transmission of the coronavirus unlikely during any given passenger flight, infected people can spread it when they leave the airport and take off their mask. The whole point of international-travel bans is to curb infections in the destination country; to protect itself, the United States still has many such restrictions in place. Beyond limiting the virus’s flow from hot spots to the rest of the country, allowing only vaccinated people on domestic flights will change minds, too.

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A long list of articles about natural immunity.

Covid-19 Natural Immunity Compared To Vaccine-induced Immunity (Attkisson)

Hard data counters widespread public misinformation that claimed “virtually all” patients hospitalized and dying of Covid-19 are unvaccinated. Pfizer and Moderna had claimed their vaccines were “100% effective” at preventing serious illness. Many in the media even popularized a propaganda phrase designed to push more people to get vaccinated: “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Not so, says CDC and other data. Recent CDC data found that 74% of those who tested positive for Covid-19 in a Massachusetts analysis had been fully-vaccinated. Equally as troubling for those advocating vaccination-for-all: four out of five people hospitalized with Covid were fully-vaccinated. And CDC said “viral load” — indicating how able the human host is to spread Covid-19 — is about the same among the vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Contrary to the infamous misinformation by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last May, vaccinated people can— and are— spreading Covid. (CDC officials later corrected Walensky’s false claim.) CDC’s newest findings on so-called “breakthrough” infections in vaccinated people are mirrored by other data releases. Illinois health officials recently announced more than 160 fully-vaccinated people have died of Covid-19, and at least 644 been hospitalized; ten deaths and 51 hospitalizations counted in the prior week. Israel’s Health Ministry recently said effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has fallen to 40 percent. Last month, 100 vaccinated British sailors isolated on a ship at sea reportedly came down with Covid seven weeks into their deployment.

In July, New Jersey reported 49 fully vaccinated residents had died of Covid; 27 in Louisiana; 80 in Massachusetts. Nationally, as of July 12, CDC said it was aware of more than 4,400 people who got Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated and had to be hospitalized; and 1,063 fully vaccinated people who died of Covid. But health officials still argue that vaccinated people make up only a small fraction of the seriously ill. Critics counter that CDC’s recent Massachusetts data calls that into question.

[..] As of May 29, CDC estimated more than 120 million Americans— more than one in three— had already battled Covid. While an estimated six-tenths of one-percent died, the other 99.4% of those infected survived with a presumed immune status that appears to be superior to that which comes with vaccination. If doctors could routinely test to confirm who has fought off and become immune to Covid-19, it would eliminate the practical need or rationale for those protected millions to get vaccinated. It would also allow them to avoid even the slight risk of serious vaccine side effects. Unfortunately, virologists say no commonly-used test can detect with certainty whether a person is immune.

A common misconception is that antibody tests can make that determination. But experts say immunity after infection or exposure often comes without a person producing or maintaining measurable antibodies. Because of that reality, people who have had asymptomatic infections — infections where they suffered no symptoms — have no easy way to know that they’re immune. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that the millions who know they got Covid can be assured they’re unlikely to suffer reinfection, for at least as long of a time period that scientists have been able to measure. Possibly far beyond.

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Rachel Marsden. Canada. Vying for first place in idiocy with Australia.

My Own Country Kicked Me Out Because My Immunity Was Acquired Naturally (RT)

I went home to visit my mother. Canada tried to force me into a Covid detention facility threatening fines and police action as they don’t recognize my natural immunity. I had no choice but to immediately fly back to Europe.
At the time of writing, I’m at an altitude of exactly 11,277m, 5,230km away from Vancouver, Canada, and 3,159km from my stopover in Munich, Germany, en route back to Paris, France. Where I really should be is relaxing on the backyard patio or in the jacuzzi at my home near Vancouver with a cold drink on a hot summer day. Instead, I’m on a Lufthansa flight heading back to Paris – just a few hours after arriving across the ocean on a 10-hour flight – because my own country’s officials kicked me out.

All because I committed the apparent violation of trying to re-enter my own country with proof of naturally acquired Covid-19 antibodies made by my own immune system post-recovery rather than those generated by the manmade Covid-19 vaccine about which much is still to be learned. Daily life for a Covid-19 survivor with natural immunity from the disease is not for the faint of heart. As someone with a high level of laboratory tested antibodies whose levels have yet to drop even after several months post-illness, my doctor has advised against vaccination. Much is obviously still to be learned about the Covid jabs, still in stage 3 of clinical trials and considered experimental by health authorities – particularly with reports abounding of breakthrough cases of vaccinated people catching and spreading Covid.

To protect and preserve my acquired immunity by opting out of vaccination that risks interfering with it or causing a risk to my health, France now requires me to succumb to nasal swab antigen tests every 48 hours if I wish to continue accessing everyday venues like public transit, gyms, restaurants, some shopping malls, and bars. But it’s a price that I’m willing to pay for my health.

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From South Africa.

A Plea To Allow The Use Of Ivermectin As Covid-19 Treatment (Biz)

Twenty countries are using Ivermectin to treat Covid-19. They include Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Nigeria, and Egypt. In South Africa doctors are allowed to prescribe Ivermectin, but it is not being rolled out everywhere and in hospitals and clinics. According to Jackie Stone, a doctor in Zimbabwe, since January – when Ivermectin began to be used – it has cut COVID hospital admissions and deaths over 70%. “The death rate rose sharply in January and peaked on the 25th at 70 deaths per day. Official authorisation for the use of Ivermectin was granted on 26th January. Just one month later, on 26th February, the COVID death rate had fallen to zero”.

A meta-analysis gold standard review of 24 randomised trials conducted in 15 countries among more than 3400 people worldwide of clinical trials – just released by the BIRD group in the UK – showed that deaths are dramatically reduced when Ivermectin is administered. Published in the American Journal of Therapeutics the most rigorous statistical standards were applied by world-leading biostatistician, Mr Andrew Bryant, and medical doctor and researcher Dr Tess Lawrie. The results concluded that Ivermectin has an over 70% success in preventing deaths in hospitalised patients. Mexico City authorities created a home-treatment-kit, including Ivermectin, for its 22 million-strong population in December 2020 and cut hospitalisations by over 70%.

Those Indian states that adopted Ivermectin policies saw their cases fall far more than 80%; Uttar Pradesh – down 98% [37,944 to 596], Uttarakhand – down 97% [9642 to 287] and Goa – down 90% [4195 to 423]. Delhi saw a 99% drop [28,395 to 238]. The bottom line is that Ivermectin works, and it works extraordinarily well. You do not need to be a scientist to understand these numbers, as they are self-evident. If South Africa had a policy of testing and treating – as does Mexico City, which has emptied its hospitals since they implemented it, does – and of using Ivermectin for prevention for health workers and those not vaccinated – we could end the effects of the pandemic here.

Besides cutting hospitalisations and deaths Ivermectin can also be used as a preventative. In Argentina, 788 health workers took Ivermectin weekly and 407 did not. After ten weeks, 58% of those not taking Ivermectin had become sick – but not one of those who took it became sick. The use of Ivermectin has been restricted because the WHO says that further clinical trials are needed before they can recommend it. When asked about this, Dr Stone replied, “I find it very hard to understand how they can say that there is not sufficient evidence. There are three thousand patients plus in, I think, twenty-four trials where they demonstrate an over 75% reduction in mortality. Those figures fit exactly with what we have seen.”

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Of course Florida is mostly fine, but you already guessed that. This is about raw power, and about DeSantis being popular.

Biden Message For DeSantis On Covid Mask Opposition: ‘Get Out Of The Way’ (MH)

President Joe Biden delivered a stern message on Tuesday to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the Republican’s opposition to mask mandates: “Get out of the way.” DeSantis has attributed the state’s uptick in COVID-19 cases to seasonal factors and rejected calls to impose a mask mandate. He last week signed an executive order threatening to withhold state funds from school districts that put mask mandates in place to follow federal health guidance for areas experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases.

“Look, we need leadership from everyone. If some governors aren’t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it,” Biden said in remarks about the pandemic. “I say to these governors please help. But if you are not going to help, at least get out of the way of the people who are trying to do the right thing. Use your power to save lives.” For the third consecutive day, COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida reached a pandemic high at 11,863 patients. Federal health officials said on Monday that one in three cases of coronavirus nationwide occurred in Florida and Texas last week. [..] DeSantis has likened the recent surge to the spike in cases last summer.

“These things have a pattern,” he said last month. “We saw the pattern last summer. It’s similar. I think it started a little later. I think people should just be prepared for that.” At a news conference in the Everglades on Tuesday, DeSantis repeated his belief that the surge will subside soon, saying: “These things come — you know we have summer season for whatever reason in the Sunbelt and particularly Florida, you know. It will probably come back in the winter, just like last year, not as much as the Northeast, but we’ll see.” DeSantis also downplayed the surge in hospitalizations and did not address the increasing strain on hospital staff. “Our hospitals are open for business,” he said, adding that in hospitals with high COVID cases, those patients “represent a fraction of the overall hospital beds.”

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They should both go.

Mayor De Blasio And Governor Cuomo Are Pushing Hard For Vaccinations (F.)

The surge of the Delta variant has prompted New York City and state officials to take swift action. This week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recommended that residents of the city wear masks when inside with crowds, even if you’re vaccinated. De Blasio said, “We want to strongly recommend that people wear a mask in indoor settings, even if you’re vaccinated.” The mayor added, “This is particularly true of course if you might be around anyone unvaccinated.” De Blasio emphasized, “Vaccination, vaccination, vaccination, that’s the ballgame.” He offered a $100 financial incentive for people to get their shots. City workers won’t have a choice, and will be mandated to get vaccinated. Additionally, all new government hires will have to show proof of vaccination or else they can’t start their jobs.

The Mayor will also be initiating a “Key to NYC Pass,” which is like the Covid-19 passport talked about a few months ago. It’s a carrot-and-stick approach, as people will be required to show that they are vaccinated if they want to go to restaurants, gyms and other events. No vaccinations, no entrance. “If you want to participate in society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated,” de Blasio proclaimed. “If we’re going to stop the Delta variant, the time is now,” said the mayor. “This is going to make clear, you want to enjoy everything great in this summer of New York City? Go get vaccinated.”

In an interview with MSNBC, de Blasio dialed up his frustration over the unvaccinated. “We’ve got to shake people at this point and say, ‘Come on now.’ We tried voluntary. We could not have been more kind and compassionate. Free testing, everywhere you turn, incentives, friendly, warm embrace. The voluntary phase is over,” de Blasio said last week. “It’s time for mandates, because it’s the only way to protect our people.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, similar to de Blasio, is pushing for people to get vaccinated. He’s requesting private businesses, such as bars and restaurants, to show proof of vaccination against Covid-19, as a condition for admission to their establishments. The governor also called for a vaccine mandate for employees of the state’s MTA and Port Authority, similar to his previous order for state hospital employees.

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Once you do them, they’re impossible to undo.

Vaccine Cards Are Just The Beginning (Whitehead)

It used to be that “we the people” had the right to come and go as we please without the fear of being stopped, questioned by police or forced to identify ourselves. In other words, unless police had a reasonable suspicion that a person was guilty of wrongdoing, they had no legal authority to stop the person and require identification. Unfortunately, in this age of COVID-19, that unrestricted right to move about freely is being pitted against the government’s power to lock down communities at a moment’s notice. And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power, “we the people” have been on the losing end of the deal.

Now vaccine passports, vaccine admission requirements, and travel restrictions may seem like small, necessary steps in winning the war against the COVID-19 virus, but that’s just so much propaganda. They’re only necessary to the police state in its efforts to further brainwash the populace into believing that the government legitimately has the power to enforce such blatant acts of authoritarianism. This is how you imprison a populace and lock down a nation. It makes no difference if such police state tactics are carried out in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America healthy again: the philosophy remains the same, and it is a mindset that is not friendly to freedom.

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship. You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law. If you’re tempted to justify these draconian measures for whatever reason—for the sake of health concerns, the economy, or national security—beware: there’s always a boomerang effect. Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now, rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.

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Click link, sign petition.

We Stand in Solidarity with Dr. Peter McCullough MD (Change)

We the undersigned stand in deep support and gratitude of Dr. Peter McCullough MD. We recognize his unwavering commitment to upholding his fiduciary responsibility to his patients, the highest standards of science and to the Hippocratic Oath. Most notably Dr. McCullough has and continues to be a forerunner and promoter of early ambulatory treatment of covid symptoms. Due to Dr. McCullough’s contribution, protocols such as those described in Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection, countless lives have been saved. Going further, Dr. McCullough, with other respected researchers and physicians developed an early treatment plan for senior care facilities as well as raised valid concerns over both the safety and efficacy of the covid vaccines, especially considering the increasing number of breakthrough cases being experienced the world over, as well as the number of adverse events reported.


Instead of commending Dr. McCullough and backing these lifesaving discoveries, Baylor Scott and White has initiated a law suit, claiming that Dr. McCullough is falsely associating with their organization, and is demanding 1,000,000 in monetary aid as well as non monetary aid. We the undersigned strongly and emphatically urge that the individuals working on behalf of Baylor Scott and White dismiss this case. Your time and energies are much better spent in supporting Dr. McCullough in saving lives. Let it be known that the scientific, medical and lay communities are watching this development very closely and resolutely stand with Dr. McCullough.

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Murky indeed, even the article itself.

Julian Assange: Peering Through The Murk (Rozenberg)

Assange remains in prison. The district judge refused him bail after the US government said it would seek to appeal to the High Court against her decision. And on 5 July Mr Justice Swift granted the US permission on three of the five grounds set out in its application for permission to appeal. What were those? This is where the story becomes murky. The judge’s two-page order, which has not been published but is readily available from the court, explains briefly why he refused the US permission to appeal on grounds 3 and 4. It says nothing about Swift’s reasons for granting permission on grounds 1, 2 and 5. That’s not a problem as far as the parties are concerned: they know what the grounds of appeal were. And when the appeal is heard – this autumn or next year – we shall find out too.

But if, as Swift has held, the US has raised ‘arguable issues that should be considered at a final hearing’, lawyers with clients currently facing extradition to the US need to know – now – precisely what these are. Foreign governments seeking extradition are represented by the Crown Prosecution Service. I asked the CPS for a copy of the application they had filed for permission to appeal. They refused to let me see it. Instead, they suggested I asked the High Court. The court told me I needed to make a written application to the judge and pay a fee of £255. I was not willing to do so – it raises concerns about access to justice data that were the subject of an important report by the Legal Education Foundation last month – and I have not been able to get hold of a copy in any other way.

After further requests, the CPS agreed to send me an informal briefing note that had been supplied to other journalists shortly after Swift’s ruling. This note, which includes a minor inaccuracy, is the source of all media reports and legal commentaries on the judge’s ruling. The first arguable ground, according to this note, was that Baraitser had made errors of law in applying the test under section 91 of the Extradition Act 2003. This says that if the physical or mental condition of a suspect ‘is such that it would be unjust or oppressive to extradite him’, the judge must either order his or her discharge or adjourn the hearing until he or she is better. We don’t know what Baraitser’s alleged errors were. The second arguable ground is that, having decided that the threshold for discharge was met, Baraitser should have notified the requesting state of her provisional view and given the US a chance to offer assurances.

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Following the Soviet model of falling apart.

America Has Become Its Own Worst Enemy (Unherd)

Back in the 1970s, Russian women marvelled at how their American equivalents could afford to leave work while they had children. As the New York Times reported, they “express astonishment when they learn that an American father can support a family of two, three or four children without his wife’s working. Many are also surprised that American women would willingly have more than one child.” For them, it was a huge struggle to raise just one. The Soviet Union’s main adversary in the Cold War was also defined by ideology, to some extent. Many western nations had embraced liberalism, but no other was created with the words of John Locke enshrined in its foundation. Yet liberalism, too, faced its challenges in the late 20th century, not from the obviously failing Soviet Communism, but from rival ideas within the democratic tradition.

Starting in the 1960s, a new way of thinking began to predominate in the US that was not really liberal, although its opponents confusingly still referred to it as such. This new way of thinking was more hostile to freedom of speech, and its adherents began the process of chasing deviant thinkers out of academia that began in the late 1960s and would massively reduce political diversity by the 21st century; it supported not just personal sexual freedom, as did liberalism, but radical ideas about sex, including hostility to the family; it was anti-religion and would become more so when religion clashed with sexual rights. As for freedom of association, the “master freedom” in Christopher Caldwell’s words, this was also incompatible with a worldview that prioritised equality over liberty.

This new way of thinking — progressivism is probably the fairest term — is far less tolerant than liberalism. Indeed, in its hostility to freedom of speech, its Manichean worldview, its suspicion that its opponents are fascists, and the belief that politics should be inserted into everything — from science to children’s books — it is closer to the totalitarian tradition. American progressivism is not communism, obviously, anymore than its opponents are Nazis; the market is perfectly capable of achieving most progressive goals, and America has become more culturally Left-wing as Right-wing economic policies have dominated, globalisation being the common theme that links the two. But globalisation came with a price, with millions of jobs lost after the 2001 trade deal with China, made two months after George W. Bush had followed the Soviet example by invading Afghanistan.

It was in those former industrial heartlands where people first began to notice an epidemic of drug-related deaths that now constitutes one of the greatest social disasters in history. Four decades on from its superpower rival, the United States had now become a country in which people were dying younger, driven by overdoses and suicides. That this epidemic took so long to register may have been the solitary and often legal nature of the drug problem; unlike Aids, it did not affect too many celebrities, Prince being the exception. But it could also be who the victims were — predominantly rural white Americans, neither powerful themselves nor championed by powerful supporters.

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All your base do belong to us.

Meet Your New Feudal Overlords (Weems)

Classic feudalism was a system where a wealthy land-owning nobility (the 1%) controlled the peasant class of workers known as serfs (everyone else). The elites provided serfs with a small piece of land on which to live. Although they paid taxes, generally, serfs owned no property, had no economic power or upward mobility. During the Middle Ages, as much as 90% of Europe’s population fell into this category. Sound familiar? I admit it’s not a perfect comparison, but it’s something worth considering — especially given what’s happening not just with housing but with land ownership in general. In our system, owning real estate is the most common vehicle for wealth accumulation. So what happens when only the wealthiest Americans can afford to own property?

Before you answer, you should know that billionaires are buying up land like it’s going out of style. Do you know who owns the most farmland in the United States? Bill Gates and his soon-to-be ex-wife Melinda, that’s who. With 242,000 acres of cropland plus nearly 30,000 additional acres of land in their real estate portfolio, they’re playing real-life monopoly. According to The Land Report, 100 families own 42 million acres across the country. The Gates family barely breaks the top 50. Former TCI chief John Malone is at the top of the list with 2.2 million acres. While billionaires snatch up the country’s ranches and farmland, Wall Street is buying up all the houses they can get their hands on.

I wrote last August about my personal experience with renting a house in North Carolina. In 2013, we searched for a home in a town just outside of Raleigh. We noticed corporations owned almost all the houses. Every rental sign had a QR code in one neighborhood, so you never actually saw a real estate agent. The company, American Homes 4 Rent (AMR), was the landlord for most of the single-family rental properties in the area, including the one we ultimately rented. Interestingly, the same billionaire, an investor named B. Wayne Hughes controls both the company where we stored our furniture and American Homes 4 Rent. At the time, tapping Wall Street investors made sense. In the wake of the housing crisis of the early aughts, a wave of foreclosures devastated the real estate markets.

By 2010, the housing market was in free fall. Across the country, the glut of empty homes numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Faced with the risk of stalling an already sluggish economic recovery, the government looked to Wall Street. In 2012, the Obama administration launched a program making it easier for private investors like AMR and Blackrock to acquire foreclosed homes by the hundreds. The plan worked. According to The Atlantic, institutional investors jumped into the housing market, buying foreclosed properties then renting them out. The billions in transferred middle-class wealth made inequality worse. At the time, there were few good options.

In the same piece last August, I wrote about how hedge funds and private equity firms like Blackrock and AMH scooped up single-family foreclosures left and right: From 2011 to 2017, the largest global investors bought over 200,000 homes in the U.S., spending over $30 billion. In Atlanta, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and hedge funds bought almost 90% of homes sold from January 2011 to June 2012. By February of last year, institutional investors owned one-fifth of all single-family rentals in the Atlanta area. Until late 2019, Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, owned 40% of Invitation Homes (INVH), capitalizing on the glut of foreclosures following the housing crisis. American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), a REIT founded by billionaire B. Wayne Hughes, currently owns 52,052 homes across the country. AMH owns nearly 10% percent of all single-family homes in Atlanta.

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Very interesting man.

2020: A Propaganda Masterpiece (Perspectives on the Pandemic)

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government,” wrote Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda. In part one of Episode 17, Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University, discusses the propaganda onslaught that defined the year 2020, when what was dismissed one week is confirmed the next, and why questioning official narratives “necessarily means taking ‘conspiracy theory’ seriously.”

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    René Magritte The son of man 1946   • Fauci and the NIH Knew Covid-19 “Vaccines” Could Lead to ADE (Ghion) • Informed Consent Disclosure To Vacci
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 4 2021]

    #82227
    a kullervo
    Participant

    Re: ADE

    Another day, another acronym, another way for people to lose their marbles.

    #82232
    those darned kids
    Participant

    ¡viva los rednecks!

    [insert important rumble link – “freedom-fighter-court-victory-ends-masking-shots-quarantine-in-alberta.html”]

    cross your toes!

    #82234
    sumac.carol
    Participant

    COVID-19 only kills people who were flu vaccinated.

    I’ m not sure if the work of Judy Mikovits has been covered yet here (see link).

    Highlights: Cellular and molecular biologist Judy Mikovits, Ph.D. believes COVID-19 — the disease — is not caused by SARS-CoV-2 alone, but rather that it’s the result of a combination of SARS-CoV-2 and XMRVs (human gammaretroviruses)
    SARS-CoV-2 also appears to have been manipulated to include components of HIV that destroys immune function along with XMRVs
    Those already infected with XMRVs may end up getting serious COVID-19 infection and/or die from the disease. Mikovits’s research suggests more than 30 million Americans carry XMRVs and other gammaretroviruses in their bodies from contaminated vaccines and blood supply
    Mikovits believes 40 years of data suggest Type 1 interferon at very low dose would be an ideal treatment for COVID-19
    RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) testing, currently used to diagnose active infection by detecting the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material, overestimates infection rates. For an accurate account of COVID-19 prevalence, we need to test for antibodies
    Judy Mikovits, Ph.D. is a cellular and molecular biologist,1 researcher and was the founding research director of the Whittemore Peterson Institute that researches and treats chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in Reno, Nevada.

    #82235
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    The quantity of posts increases, as the quality reduces…
    Sad, but inevitable?
    I don’t know……………
    …but I notice the donated money runs flat…I wonder why…
    TAE is a gem, but values as a mere pebble on the beach…

    #82237
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    @VA: Yeah, the “chit-chat” posts sometimes take up more space than they really should, but this place remains a rich, beautiful oasis compared to the moral and intellectual Sahara Desert that is the modern Internet.

    #82239
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    The next Covid variant could kill up to one in THREE people: SAGE warns

    This article in the DM, which came out a few days ago, is clearly intended to soften up the (in this case British) public ahead of a possible mass ADE scenario in the coming autumn/winter. The official story will be that it’s the dangerous new variant they warned everyone about back in the summer.

    #82241
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The Smoking Jab: Fauci and the NIH Knew Covid-19 “Vaccines” Could Lead to Antibody-Dependent Enhancement”
    https://ghionjournal.com/fauci-nih-knew-covid-19-vaccines-could-lead-antibody-dependent-enhancement/

    And as no good deed goes unpunished:

    “Tuesday, August 3, 2021, 3:35 PM – This morning, our website was hit with a severe denial-of-service attack as more than 2 million hits from bots based in China took Ghion Journal offline for more than two hours only to be hit with another DOS attack this afternoon. IP addresses can be spoofed so there’s no way of knowing who is responsible. What we do know is that this level of coordinated attack cannot be pulled off by lone individuals; this was either a state act or the work of powerful institutions with the financial means and the technical know-how to pull off such a brazen act of criminal censorship.”

    Of course for some of us, that’s all the confirmation we need. If they posted Queen Elizabeth was Sasquatch, and got a DoS attack of this level, at this point I’d believe it was true. So thanks for the seal of approval, fellows! It really saves time!

    …Of course the other half is, we already know ADE was the prime reason mRNAs couldn’t get any approval or have any successes after 10 years of trying. So bad, so much wasted, they were at risk of bankruptcy if it failed. …Not that that’s a motive or anything. Fine ethical companies who pay billions for killing 10k humans yearly would never avoid bankruptcy by lying and by being the prime donors to health organizations and sharing patents with all the pivots decision-makers. Heavens, no.

    This is not some fluke occurrence that could not have been foreseen, “vaccines” that produce spiked proteins by way of mRNA or adenovirus were studied on lab animals—specifically ferrets and cats because they are more susceptible to Coronavirus—for over twenty years. Though the test subjects initially acquired synthetic antibodies, once their immunization window expired and they were challenged with SARS-CoV-1, the lab animals that were injected with the “vaccines” were wiped out. The warning on NIH’s website was alluding to this very real possibility but the very authorities we entrust to protect us instead concealed this information and conditioned billions of people to get jabbed without informed consent. Every plutocrat, politician and opinion leader who took part in this conspiracy of silence should be frogmarched and tried before an international tribunal similar to the trials Nazis faced after World War II for violating the Nuremberg codes and committing brutalities that will once day be judged to exceed the evils of Hitler.”

    Well, we have no choice but to all find out, do we?

    “Italy Denying the Right to Vote if Unvaccinated”

    But of course! They have the yellow patches and bracelets! The stinky “Won’t do what they’re tolds” don’t deserve the right to vote because, are they human really? We don’t allow other murderers to vote, so why them? …I mean other than every member of Congress, Parliament, 10 Downing, all White Houses, every MoD and Pentagon, every Wall St, and City, every ECB and WHO, etc. Those guys are alright.

    …It’s called the “True Scotsman Fallacy.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman If you were a real Italian, citizen, etc, you’d get vaccinated. But you didn’t, so you’re not a true, actual Italian, citizen, human, etc. QED. I rest my case.
    Who decides? Power. The purpose of power is power. Power is used to overcome reason. Otherwise, what’s the point? To do things that would have happened anyway? No. OBVIOUSLY the only reason for it is to be #AntiMeritocracy and #AntiDemocracy, #AntiLogical, to harm people and not help them. If you help someone, they’ll cooperate voluntarily, in free market exchange. That is, Capitalism.

    If they’ll pay $1,000 for the vaccine, will they pay $10,000? Asking for a friend.

    Ezla—yes, they’ll be very surprised when their plan to reduce Oz to slavery hasn’t deterred them much at all. When you’re overwhelming majority, flagpoles, ball-peen hammers and Nerf bats are more than adequate. And guns are so 16th century. In the 21st, the people who use them are the losers. People who use humor are the winners. The Yanks are the best example: they’ve done everything they can think of since 1994 to get rednecks to take a swing. There’s no offense they haven’t attempted, no affront they haven’t tried. Because they think in terms of violence, don’t understand Americans at all, and believe their own bulls—t. And so, every offense, like 1/6 most recently, has utterly failed, mocking them, while year after year, American values slowly take ground. The main thing is, because THEY believe in violence, our being armed scares the h— out of THEM. Not us. And ultimately would be handy, but not until the last extreme. Not now at all. Now while they’re under extreme pressure, but we’ve barely gotten off the couch.

    Pressure? Yes, they’re printing $1T a day to hold it together, then draining $1T every night. Couch? Yes, Americans have hardly got up to school board meetings yet, and they’re already being steamrolled. CNN, NFL, NBA, bankrupt.

    Do what suits Oz, although being mostly rural, did that law REALLY make any sense? To leave everyone outside of Melbourne defenseless as in “Road Warrior (I)”? That was terribly rude to your minority fellows, the rural Aussies, and all for what? Crime went up. Just repeal it and trust yourself. If you can’t trust yourselves, who can you? It’s possible it was causation and crime will also go down as well.

    Hale: Well in Obama’s defense, he didn’t kill EVERY black and brown person worldwide. Just every one near a drone. And in America, he only stole their houses.

    Deflationista is of course right about group-think. But we have opinions, each based on our evidence, biases, and more. How can you not? Or not express them? What would “express” mean? To look at what one or another person sees as clearly illogical or clearly unsupported, that Lizard people wear rubber masks or that the Military isn’t lying, and yet say, “Good job, good sir”? So that’s pretty difficult because of COURSE you say, “Are you for real? That’s ridiculous, and so is the horse you rode in on.” Perhaps there is another way humans can disagree and this is why we have proctored debate structures and Queensbury Rules, but that’s vanishingly rare everywhere.

    There are infinite very high number of ways to pattern any raw data together. Intel agencies have this problem all the time, as their opposite Intel agencies try to feed them such misdirection. We’re not immune. We’re trying to know which way the “Rabbit Hole” lies that people seem to be sliding down. Is it toward more trusting of the CIA, FBI, Congress, and CNN? Is it the opposite? Is it towards war? Away from it? Is it when you try to get FoIAs, audits, discovery lawsuits, hidden cameras? Or when you do all you can including prison to prevent those things? Is it when you want people to speak openly, publish, print books, retain self defense? Or when they don’t?

    Obviously to me (and no surprise), we of course, with Kunstler and Greenwald and Taibbi you respect, all think the authorities and establishments have lost their minds and are lying pretty continuously. …That should be the least surprising thing on earth for anyone who’s read history or a cynic like yourself. I mean, “Pentagon Papers?” “WMDs and ties to Al-q”? And if they are lying, trust is broken and it’s easier to credit OTHER authorities, even medical ones, as also lying to us continuously. Especially when in a short window, it seems they probably are, like being able to read their own contradicting internal memos and emails, seeing proof-of-funding, seeing their promises evaporate again and again, while our freedoms are lost again and again. So WE of course, think we’re all coming into alignment, Blue Dogs (HK), far-lefts(GG), and Constitutionalists (whoever) because as facts are exposed though behavior or FoIAs, we’re realizing the same truth that has been underneath all along. And it’s not pretty. But that’s just one way to look at it and clearly the Left, CNN, or cynics as yourself disagree and assemble the patterns in a different way.

    We’re all pretty tired of dumb. But the dumb seems to be because as Casey said, “Everything the (American) people believes is a lie.” …That we fed to them. On purpose. For power, and profit. And the chicks, Jeff says. No news there, has it ever NOT been this way? They just got a bit further with the eternal underlying desires of all humans. Or further than in recent history. The excesses of pre-revolutionary France no doubt put all this to shame.

    So what are you supposed to do when it’s pretty clear everything people say now, or have said in your life, has mostly been a lie, and you can prove it with document requests? Clearly the people on the “other side” as it were are as much victims as villains, and as you say, your own side is hardly better.

    Sure. We all agree. Therefore the way to determine who is who is also perfectly easy: Do they want, allow, and encourage discovery, release of information, and audits, and committees? Do they allow people to freely make their own choices? Are they attacking and imprisoning whistle blowers, document leakers, journalists, and people attempting to assemble and publish information? Do they cooperate with open agreements or push their will using methods of violence, deceit, and war? Stuff like that.

    And it’s fine if Cheeto is also doing all that. We know. Unless pressed, hardly anyone WOULD be for all transparency and cooperation as it makes power and position that much harder to use. But that’s because power is then held to accountability, and restraint, balance of powers, and so on. So they can get away with less. People who spend lives trying to get into power don’t want that seat so they can then do and change nothing with it. We understand. But that’s why they need overseers, their peers, accountants, open documents, all that, to keep them honest and in line.

    Who is doing that? Neither side? Okay, but how do you assemble the playing field, and how do you promote and prosecute your own goals on that field? That’s where the ultimate cynicism isn’t helpful. Surely SOMETHING makes sense, and you can use the prejudices of the various teams to accomplish SOMETHING you desire.

    There’s always dumb people. Mostly dumb people. Busy people. People who believe childish things, whatever, like any soldier or workman you work with them to get somewhere, don’t you? Like being on a bus? Now you can shoot everyone and hold them hostage, or sing “Flintstones” and get them on your side so we all steer together. I guess you could jump out and go it alone, but that seems extreme.

    I’d find out why it’s emotional. Is EVERYBODY wrong, and you’re right? (Maybe) Is everybody a fool and knows nothing, including you? Great, no doubt that’s the most true, but how do you ACT? This is the world we’re all stuck in. Do what’s helpful. Not only for others, but for yourself as well.

    Me, I want discussions, including you, and open access to all the records we can, with stiff and real penalties for lying or doctoring written or verbal statements. Only then can we figure out what’s going on and do something with it. Which although always good, is a base requirement for a Democracy where the people decide. Decide on bad, false, leading information? Never, nothing moves until we have good, honest information, however bad decision-makers we are. It’s not enough to say “We can’t.” “Humans don’t know, can’t know, can’t be sure.” So what? You don’t get out of acting because you don’t know if it’s a rabbit or a tiger under the bush. Life itself is this problem. So that makes me allies with anyone who gets records, reveals them, or is punished for telling them. Because I don’t know or trust, I don’t know or trust Doctors, Governments, Corporations either and am allies with anyone who will press them to leave me alone. Because they won’t, I need stiff self-defense, legally and physically. And because nobody wants a life of badgered self-defense, I want them as small, helpless, and equal to me as possible. …And all that puts me on the side of the Enlightenment, Locke, and therefore the Constitution. It’s not that hard; they had the same problems in 1770 too.

    So here I am. What do you stand for?

    “This new way of thinking was more hostile to freedom of speech, and its adherents began the process of chasing [out] deviant thinkers … it was anti-religion and would become more so when religion clashed with sexual rights. As for freedom of association, the “master freedom” in Christopher Caldwell’s words, this was also incompatible with a worldview that prioritised equality over liberty.

    “According to The Land Report, 100 families own 42 million acres across the country. The Gates family barely breaks the top 50.

    We noticed corporations owned almost all the houses.

    the Obama administration launched a program making it easier for private investors like AMR and Blackrock to acquire foreclosed homes by the hundreds. The plan worked. According to The Atlantic, institutional investors jumped into the housing market, buying foreclosed properties then renting them out. The billions in transferred middle-class wealth made inequality worse.”

    Good thing / Bad thing? For / Against? Act? Or do not Act? You don’t get out of it. Acting and choosing is who you are.

    #82242
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Freedom Fighter Court VICTORY! Ends Masking, Shots, Quarantine in Alberta!

    Could we have a bit less chit-chat about whose chit-chat is better/worse than others? We want scoring, we’ll watch the Olympics.

    #82243
    deflationista
    Participant

    For two days now, I have been trying to post something here. It is lengthy- so I tried chopping it up into sections. Even that failed. As I was trying to do all of this, Dr. D’s long post came through which is about the length of my post. I copied his text and pasted it into google docs and it is a similar word count.

    What am I doing wrong? Or am I being throttled?

    Please advise.

    #82244
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    Heidelberg chief pathologist calls for more autopsies of vaccinated people

    “The chief pathologist at the University of Heidelberg, Peter Schirmacher, urges many more autopsies of vaccinated people. In addition to corona deaths, the corpses of people who die in connection with a vaccination would also have to be examined more frequently, said Schirmacher of the German Press Agency in Stuttgart.

    “The director of the Pathological Institute in Heidelberg even warns of a high number of unreported cases of vaccination deaths and complains: The pathologists do not notice anything about most of the patients who die after and possibly from a vaccination. However, other scientists disagree with him on this point, as do the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) and the Paul Ehrlich Institute.

    “The doctor now wants to get to the bottom of rare, serious side effects of vaccination – such as cerebral vein thrombosis or autoimmune diseases. The problem from his point of view: Vaccinated people usually do not die under clinical observation. “The doctor examining the corpse does not establish a context with the vaccination and certifies a natural death and the patient is buried,” reports Schirmacher. “Or he certifies an unclear type of death and the public prosecutor sees no third-party fault and releases the corpse for burial.”

    “In Baden-Württemberg, the pathologists therefore worked with public prosecutors, the police and resident doctors, reports Schirmacher. More than 40 people have already been autopsied who died within two weeks of being vaccinated. Schirmacher assumes that 30 to 40 percent of them died from the vaccination. In his opinion, the frequency of fatal consequences of vaccinations is underestimated – a politically explosive statement in times when the vaccination campaign is losing momentum, the delta variant is spreading rapidly and restrictions on non-vaccinated people are being discussed.

    Die Welt (German)

    #82245
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “Just over half of Americans who remain unvaccinated against Covid-19 still believe the vaccine is more dangerous than the coronavirus — despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, according to a new survey published Wednesday.” (from some worthless CNN article not worth linking.)

    Sometimes it’s good to be a kook.

    ^&*

    deflationista:

    I seem to have no problems posting. If ye like, send them to [email protected] and I’ll try posting them for you.

    #82247
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    They must be having quite the snowball fight in Hell right now. Dr. D wrote a long post that made discernible sense and that I mostly agreed with!


    @deflationista
    : If your post has a large number of links in it, it could possibly be running afoul of the spam-filtering mechanisms of the site. Otherwise, I don’t know what to tell you. That is odd indeed.

    #82248
    Mr. House
    Participant

    What is your point? Please explain your last post or edit before posting, esp if its going to be something that long.

    #82249

    def,

    your post is up. maybe what you do wrong is not check that.

    #82250
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “No wall high enough, no ocean large enough to protect us from the vakzine…” says Joe “Tailgunner” Biden

    The Freudian slippage grows tectonic.

    #82251
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    deflationista’s post isn’t up in my part of the web. no deflatiionista here. Looks like it’s a distibuted architecture issue? The cloud acting cloudy?

    #82252
    deflationista
    Participant

    DEVIL SPERM ATE MY BABY!

    “Those who know, don’t say. Those who say, don’t know.” That quote changed things for me. I used to be an active participant here and in other forums like this way back in the day. Jay Hanson and I used to go back and forth. (You wanna talk about a flaming liberal? Jay was your guy.) For a while there, even Kunstler got involved. But, when I heard that quote… man. It stopped me in my tracks. It kind of made sense. What the fuck did I know? And why was I saying so much? I ended my ‘career’ as a full time participant in these types of forums. Which leads me to another concept. “We don’t know what we don’t know.” That’s right boys and girls- your friends and mine- Dunning and Kruger. Hand in hand, these two concepts seem to flourish in these spaces. We have a bunch of “experts” saying things. Apparently, they “know” all sorts of shit. But what they don’t know is, they don’t know what they don’t know. Capiche? Typically, the dominant personalities take over. The better writers keep posting. If you have both attributes, look out! But for most people in these forums, they get intimidated. They try to raise their hand and make a comment or pipe in with an opinion only to be swatted back in line by the established pecking order. That’s how these forums tend to settle. Hell, that’s how things settle in real life. Most people just end up lurking- head down, lips zipped. I mean, look what happened when I came here to raise a red flag about information that apparently is taken as gospel by the general AE populace. You all get ruffled feathers. I become some “naive” idiot that you might as well “tolerate” because the group deems me a low threat to the order. Someone even gave me a sort of rating. You attack this Yuri dude as if he is some deep state agent planted to disseminate vaccine propaganda. I mean, someone insinuated I was a plant by the CIA or the NSA and it was only a matter of time before ‘a person like me’ shows up. That’s a common response in these darkened times when people say things that run counter to your precious narrative. I didn’t even know who Yuri was until the day I watched that video. Who the fuck cares what his credentials are? That somehow negates his analysis of shitty data used by ivermectin and anti-vax propagandists? If credentials are so important, then what the fuck are yours? I found a great About Us page today on a blog called Skeptical Raptor. They suggest credentials don’t really matter: “Mr. Andrew Wakefield presumably attended medical school, and he perpetrated one of the largest medical frauds in the history of mankind. Linus Pauling won two Nobel Prizes, yet wrote pseudoscientific books about vitamin C, which has no effect on or colds. Tetyana Obukhanych has a Ph.D. in immunology, and she hasn’t written one accurate thing about vaccines. The only thing that matters is evidence, not false authority.”

    Some person suggested that I am a sucker for big government or big pharma. Someone considers me to be a sheep who is “selling pro-covid firewater”. What the fuck does that even mean? What the fuck is going on in this world? And then ironically enough, I see some commentary in someone’s post suggesting, and rightfully so, that QAnon (and I am paraphrasing), is “out there”? Oh, theeey’re out there? But the weird narratives being spun here are….. perfectly acceptable?! Makes sense! Does anyone ever examine their own biases? Their own personal flavor of conspiracy? Maybe being in these echo chambers is not conducive to open dialogue or learning afterall? Maybe they don’t allow new ideas to penetrate the hardened shell? Just wondering out loud. I see it as a devolving feedback loop that eventually hones the community into a homogenous sort of groupthink. Does anyone consider how they may be Dunning-Kruger’s latest sucker? Are you one of those who knows? Or one of those who says?

    Something is surely afoot in this god forsaken country where even critical thinking is frowned upon as long as it ain’t critical of the agreed upon narrative. And madame cafone hit on it earlier when she said that the “sides have been drawn” or something like that and nothing will change that. She got that right, by god. I came here to post a little teeny tiny bit of needed push back on articles and graphics emanating from people like Kory, Lawrie, Weinstein, FLCCC, BiRD. I started to see people like Raul and Nicole, people I consider my mentors, post these things more and more, without even the slightest sniff of disclaimer. Apparently this shit is real and everyone knows it! I have friends sharing those same exact graphics and YouTube interviews on their social media platforms. My friends fell right into every goddamn trap set by the antivax, antiliberal campaign. Kristin is unapproachable at this point. Like some wild animal hybrid of a honey badger and Marjorie Taylor Greene. She is completely lost in a world dominated by dumb right wing memes and hateful groupthink. She is the ultimate antivaxxer. Well, only until you consider my friend Karen, who makes Kristin look like Linus fucking Pauling. Karen’s kid won’t be going to college because her school of choice requires a covid shot. I get it. I do. I can see taking a stand. But Karen’s kid doesn’t have any vaccines. Neither do Kristin’s kids. Walking freely in society living on the immunity provided by others, kinda like the welfare leeches they like to complain about. Both are deep in the rabbit hole of believing that Fauci is pure, unadulterated evil. Satan incarnate. Just like Bill Gates, except Bill Gates is worse! That’s because Bill is attempting to depopulate the planet, so he and Fauci developed the virus, and the vaccine to cure it, so that they could not only kill some people right off, but then track the survivors through microchips floating in the covid vaccines. Never mind that both Kristin and Karen carry a fucking cell phone everywhere they go and have been tracked by the NSA for like 20 years now. They use the same phrases I have heard here like “Great Reset” or “Big Purge”. You see that language used in a lot of places these days. Funny thing that none of them seem to consider, just for entertainment purposes, is that maybe the global elites did indeed create the virus to kill off some of the overflow- what with overpopulation and resource depletion, and the coming climate crisis. What better way to cull the herd? But maybe instead of the vaccine being a poison to kill you, it actually serves as a lifeboat of sorts. They knew damn well who would and who wouldn’t take the jab. And looking at the demographics of who actually is and who isn’t getting jabbed, maybe their plan is going according to plan? Maybe conservatives, blacks, and latinos should call their bluff? Maybe you are the one’s being purged? At least though, you’ll die free. Libs owned! High five! It might make a good sci-fi novel. But I digress.

    You could see the looney wave coming from a mile away. Look at Jim Kunstler fer chrissakes. Are you kidding me? If you think that this man has not changed over the years, you either just started reading him, or you are just as far down the same rabbit hole that he is. I love the guy. Don’t get me wrong. But my man started to repeat similar editorials that he must have been hearing on Fox News. In an almost completely transparent way, almost word for word. I could watch Fox during the week, and then read Jim on Friday, and know exactly where he got his “talking points” for his essays. I admit that I slid down the same holes. It’s a slippery slope for sure. Look at Glenn Greenwald. Even Matt Taibi. You should read Nate Robinson’s new article on how these two slid down that hole over the last several years. I don’t agree with everything Nate Robinson says, but goddamn, he tapped into a sentiment that I know I’m not alone in feeling. And, Nate has receipts.

    Seems like old Donald really did a number on the mindset of this country. It’s like he turned on a light in a hot Phoenix apartment in the middle of the night. Roaches that we never knew existed, it turns out, were everywhere. It was fucking refreshing to have someone not give a shit about what he said, or how he said it. Grab ‘em by the pussy didn’t even phase anyone. Me too. I mean, me neither. I was so damn tired and I wasn’t going to take it anymore. Nothing phased us. He wasn’t a typical politician, we said. He is not a fascist, we said. He loves America, we said. And the whole Russian BS really sealed the deal for a lot of people. I think that’s when Kunstler really started losing his footing in the rabbit hole. He slipped in the mud, and just kept on sliding. There were times over the last several years where you could not differentiate between Jim’s Monday or Friday rants and Hannity’s nightly editorials. I know. It’s no biggy if that’s the case. But what was a big deal for me was knowing that my dude- my man- Jim fucking Kunstler, drank some sort of alt-right Kool-Aid. He was now reduced to just some weird, smarter version of Mark Levin or Kurt Schlichter. He lost his essence. He lost his life force and became just another stale voice in a shallow sea of crackers. Just like Glenn Greenwald. Just like Matt Taibi. They morphed into something akin to catty sorority girls who got butt hurt that they weren’t invited to Delta Chi’s homecoming party and now just can’t let it go. But there is a hard edge to their commentary. A meanness. A real honest to god hatred for establishment liberal figures and policies. It gurgles from their depths like the slow, early boil of a thick tar. It seemed that they just couldn’t help but lose themselves to it. Like the power of Mordor. Or as if they were bitten by some walker before Rick Grimes could chop its head off. Now, they seem fully turned, unable to come back to the world of the living. Trapped in some darkened hologram of reality consisting of heavy revenge and mean tweets. What a sad turn of events. We need those fresh voices. The voices that once bashed everyone equally for being tools of the system. Now Jim and Glenn and a lot of you here just bash in one direction. As if the side your bashing from isn’t a gigantic part of the problem. Somehow tough, working class guys and gals everywhere are OK worshiping an effeminate elitist prig who, and this I promise, hates you more than he hates a steady breeze or an Adam “Shifty” Schiff press conference. He loathes his followers. He loathes you. I promise. Think about it. Nicole Foss used to be part of this beautiful place. Trump ended that. But many here probably think of her the same way you think of me- some snowflake liberal tool who does the bidding of the big government establishment. Someone who needs to be discounted because they haven’t eaten the right color pill. And the same does apply equally in the other direction. The “other” is always part of some odd conspiracy it seems for both parties. Remember when Jim used to stress the fact that he is allergic to conspiracies? I just had to throw that in. Raylan Givens had a great quote in the TV show Justfied: “If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” Maybe something to think about.

    I loathe liberals. Maybe more than I loathe whatever the fuck the right has become. Liberals are more insidious because they pretend to care. Cons just don’t bother pretending. Someone earlier thanked this forum for steering them to a red state to live. Oh yeah? Good luck with that. I live in the reddest of all states. It ain’t Texas. My state makes Texas look like fucking Cuba. My state has a bunch of Karens and Kristins running around in it and a bunch of other morons who don’t have a pot to piss in and think that libruls lurk around every corner trying to take their freedumbs. A BLM peaceful protest happened last year in my state where families with kids and signs came out in solidarity with George Floyd, and what happened next really made me take pause. Hundreds of armed “patriots”, some wearing Nazi tats and garb surrounded, intimidated, and assaulted peaceful protesters. People were hit with flags poles, punched in the back of their heads, other people (women) were pushed down stairs, racist things were screamed over a megaphone. It was like a preview of what some of us saw those tourists doing at the Capitol on Jan 6th. I’ll tell you. I am so fucking tired of the dumbness of America. Blue State America is D.U.M.B. Red State America is D.U.M.B.E.R. We are dumb all over, just like Zappa said. And a little ugly on the side. I was able to find my footing during the pandemic. I was sliding down the same slippery slopes as many of you, Kunstler, Greenwald, etc., but the excruciating dumbness on display this last year just snapped me out of whatever trance I was under and I started climbing out of that dark, muddy hole. Take Ivermectin for a fake virus! <Wait, what?>…. Vaccine makes you infertile! <Oh my god thats terrible news>…. Dr. Fauci is evil! <Ok, but…>… Bill Gates is eviler! <Wow, I had no idea>… Ivermectin cures covid 100%! <Holy shit! Why is it being censored?>… Hydroxychloroquin works! <But I thought…>… There are microchips in the vaccine! <Are you sure that’s possible?>…. The vaccine is more dangerous than covid! <FUCK!>…. You become magnetized if you get the shot! <HOLY SHIT!>…. Demon sperm! <Say that again?!>…. There are no excess deaths from covid! <Wait, no one died?>…. Alien DNA is being used in medicine!… <You…actually…>…. Inject some bleach, you say? “We oughta look into that, Brownie… You’re doin’ a heckuva job”….. Oh wait, I got my decades mixed up. Really people. Get a grip. We had a White Coat Summit of Donald’s favorite doctors for god’s sake. Do you know how stupid you have to be to believe some of this shit? I’m sorry. But this is lunacy. We ain’t wrapped tight.

    Not everyone, especially your normal everyday sciencey type, is out to get you or in on some deep, centuries long conspiracy. If scientific consensus doesn’t confirm your bias, you don’t just disregard it as some nonsense propaganda or proof of some sinister agenda. Like Raylan Givens said, “you’re the asshole.” Just because someone is a doctor, doesn’t mean they can’t be bat shit crazy. Just think of Trump’s favorite- Dr. Stella Immanuel. You should question your own beliefs, especially the one’s you hold dearest. They are often the one’s that you got all wrong somewhere along the line. And I would definitely question any data or claim you hear from Kory, Lawrie, etc. It just ain’t science. It’s kind of creepy even. Why wouldn’t you want to have all available data to inform your opinion? I’ve got no skin in the game other than the fact that their claims and methodology are so blatantly skewed that I just want to see them answer for it.

    Thanks for reading this long rambling rant. I am taking care of my mom who is dying of Stage IV leiomyosarcoma so I have a lot of time to write and reflect. It’s a damn sad state of affairs here. Life is too short to let your mind calcify into hate and cynicism and conspiracy. I am speaking to myself. And maybe you too. But, don’t listen to me. I just don’t know. Do you?

    #82253
    deflationista
    Participant

    Thanks madame and Mister Roboto for your offers of help. Mister Robot, you were correct about too many hyperlinks. I removed and sent. It worked!

    #82254
    those darned kids
    Participant

    odd? i’ve had posts rejected with no links, no odd characters (besides the author!), short, long, no matter..

    some i’ve just scrapped. others, madamski has helped with links (thanks!). some i edit, others i break up.

    i always copy now before i hit submit. i am more surprised when a post goes through than not.

    again, thanks for a place here. i don’t write lengthy posts with stats and facts – those areas are well covered by many excellent commentators. i do hope my approach of cynical humour adds something. every court needs a fool, for if we can’t laugh at ourselves..

    #82255

    so now we have that same long post two days in a row! winning!

    #82256
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    @dee: I saw and responded to that post on the previous thread. I don’t know why it didn’t show up on your browser, other than the fact that the blog-software around here is kind of kludgey and janky, like a lot of website software on the Internet these days. This probably isn’t it, but one thing you might need to make sure of is that you are clicking the final page number for comment threads that go over one page.

    #82257
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Sorry for your troubles, deflationista. Yes, everything gets filtered through personal ego and bias on the net as in reality at large.

    But you haven’t provided anything of substance that gives me reason to revise my views on things like the covid vakzines.

    Yes, a wide range of opinions are found here, most of them in agreement that the Official Narrative is bunk. From there, things vary widely, and mostly with the above-mentioned biases intact. Yes, many of those opinions show a degree of paranoiac rationalizing rather than genuine rational critique, just like the pronouncements coming from the authorities, from Kunstler, from me, and most certainly from you… which is fine: we’re fucking human, just like you, although this rubber human face mask I wear isn’t to hide my lizard skin but to protect me from exotic miocrobial pathogens. 😉

    Yes, we’re all tired of dumbness. I am especially tired of my own, and I could join MENSA if I liked, and won’t, because I’ve met them and they’re too dumb. In the end, all one can do is stand and deliver.

    Feel His Diss-ease…

    #82258
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “Nicole Foss used to be part of this beautiful place. Trump ended that.”

    Uh, Nicole ended that. Let’s keep this reality-based.

    #82259
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Haha thanks for the laugh Raul 😉

    #82260
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    deflationista:

    p.s. I remember Brain Food from the old days. There was plenty of teh dumb there-then too. Including from Jay himself, but then, we were, as we are here now, dealing with topics that overwhelm our cognitive faculties. Overarching global power systems are hard to understand even for advanced simians culturally conditioned toward electronically mediated tunnel vision.

    monk

    #82261
    chooch
    Participant

    I choose Flintstones…Thanks Dr. D

    #82262
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Because I don’t know or trust, I don’t know or trust Doctors, Governments, Corporations either and am allies with anyone who will press them to leave me alone. Because they won’t, I need stiff self-defense, legally and physically. And because nobody wants a life of badgered self-defense, I want them as small, helpless, and equal to me as possible.
    Hell yes to that friend.

    I also want allies because being alone sucks. Which is why I am here on this forum.
    I want action and like CJ Hopkins wrote recently –

    pick a fucking side

    I have said it here many times – THIS IS NOT A TEST. Just because we have had almost all of our lives be one way (comfortable and stable) doesn’t mean they stay that way. That’s what storms are – dramatic changes to the system.
    Well we are in one now.
    Also regarding the comments issues – WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS. Like Chris Martenson and others have mentioned (here as well) – our anger, attention, research and emotion needs to get directed up. Not sideways.
    We are the majority. We are under some kind of rising tyranny from the FEW.
    We are being shocked and are under pressure and it is not our fault. Let’s be kind and patient.
    There will be alot going on here for people – information, thought experiments, social exchanges etc. It will wane too but right now shit is real homie.

    Australia is like a giant open air prison where papers need to be presented for everything. Food – tick, petrol – tick, work – tick, transport – tick. We are tracked and traced EVERYWHERE. This is the precursor to wearable digital social credits reporting systems. Masks need to be worn everywhere inside and outside. This is the 5th rolling lockdown and there are no signs of this slowing down.

    I want you all to know I frikken love yas all and wish you the best it is a very unusual point in human history with a great deal of potential carnage on the horizon through many possible vectors from social upheaval through to genocidal medical experiments.
    Sorry Rant Over.

    #82263
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    I didn’t think Raul’s remark was funny. I thought it was pointlessly exclusionary, an example of the kind of group disapproval, clique chauvinism, that is easily exploited by Big Brothers into a Daily Hate.

    The guy made an honest technical mistake quite common here, and expressed the usual paranoia… in the form of a question not an accusation, and did so after making it clear he first assumed responsibility: What am I doing wrong here?

    Suggestion: you won’t form meaningful political solutions using snark as glue.

    I know: let’s form apparatchiks! Dueling apparatchiks! We can get team uniforms!

    #82264
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “Also regarding the comments issues – WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS. ”

    Once you label a thing as something, one is less able to see how that thing, like all things, drifts away from what the label states. Team Good Guy rapidly becomes Team Pogrom.

    #82265
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    deflationista:

    “We want scoring, we’ll watch the Olympics.”

    Although I rather did enjoy scoring deflationista’s methods, it’s not a thing I’d care to repeat nor did anyone ask for an encore. Instead, my rating system got rated. As is only apt. 🙂

    #82266
    oxymoron
    Participant

    All things are labels and words as such are but symbols for symbols and are thus twice removed from reality which lives outside such constructs. Labels are the words you used to offer pedantry to reject or diminish simple idea of unity in adverse circumstances.
    The wholeness you are seeking I feel may not be reachable or able to be symbolised by words – mine or yours.
    I reckon you are nit-picking and I don’t like it.

    Anyways – deep down I know I am nobody so I don’t care – I offer my love – take it or don’t it’s still there.

    #82267
    deflationista
    Participant

    Sorry Raul for clogging up the works. I tried posting that long rant August 3, midday EST. Apparently it didn’t show up until about 04:30AM August 4.

    No big deal at all. I thought maybe there was a size limit. And there probably is a rule about number of links like Mister Roboto said. As soon as I removed some, it went right through.

    #82268
    Mr. House
    Participant

    So if i’m reading the smoking jab correctly, it sounds like if you don’t get your booster every so many months you’ll essentially die. So a subscription service essentially. And seeing how the past few years have gone with people being denied services due to view points, yeah sign me up!

    #82269
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    I will point out some technical issues regarding your post, deflationista:

    One, there is little mention here of Trump, period. He is acknowledged as a factor but is not a rally cry for the crowd. We have our Trump fans and our Trump detractors. Discussion of Trump exceopt for analytical purposes was discarded awhile back. SO that’s one major straw man.

    Two, the fact that political branding exists in the anti-vakzine/oaficial narrative is hardly surprising nor itself damning. Most people gather together and label themselves. They don the apparel that best fitrs a compromise between their detailed personal beliefs and the team which they seem to most feel fits those beliefs. Next thing you know, Great Reset is a household name. The branding isa necessarily sloppy, and so are the branded: human beings. Another straw man.

    My impression is that most folks here know that Taibbi and Greenwald worked within certain limitations. I’ve felt that way about Taibbi since his early forays.

    I suggest you keep your liberal-loathing to yourself. It doesn’t sell here although most folks here seem to associate more with conservatism than liberalism. Intersting how you open that paragraph with ‘I loathe liberals’ and then proceed to denigrate conservatives by association with a radicalized element and an event that happened when everyone and their mother was rioting, but those conservatives, “who don’t even pretend to care” (mindless dreck, that statement, a universal tar brush that gets as much on you as your canvas) were the ones smart enough to treat it for what it was: lawlessness in the streets, whose existence “justifies” response with same, even if those “loathsome liberals” were, in this incident, behaving peacefully although elsewhere, BLM protestors, too often didn’t: BLM attacks customers enjoying dinner in Dallas. Furious black MAGA supporter captures it: ‘This is what Cultural Marxism looks like’

    Headline obviously expressing the branding associated with its perspective, ho-hum, yadi ya…

    I’ve striven to stimulate an attitude of open-mindedness toward your appearance, deflationista. I like rogue wolves, being one myself.

    But I don’t see you stanbding and delivering. I see you more doing that Tyler Durden thing at the end of that movie I hope never to see:

    Ouch

    Which is not to say that you’re shooting yourself in the foot, although that is true, imo, but that you’re venting your own self-frustration because it hurts so bad and you’re tired of punching yourself as you watch your dear mother die. I don’t mind the ranting; I rather enjoy it in fact; and the basic echo chamber syndromes you point out are indeed real.

    But so is yours.

    #82270
    Mr. House
    Participant

    I mean heck they’re going to deny you service if you don’t get the jab, but at least you’ll get to live and trust your own immune system.

    #82271
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ deflationista
    August 4, 2021 at 4:24 am #82115 REPLY

    The responses to your point of view should help you crystalize your opinions

    My opinion or anybody else that you mentioned did not change and will not change the dynamics of the changes to our economic/social networks.

    There is a river of printed money that many are saying our children and grand children will have to pay back.
    Question:
    1. pay back to who?
    2. Make who richer.
    3. Since +60% of people are living off loans and from paycheck to paycheck, where is the money coming from to pay back all that printed money? (med. industry??) ( That’s a dream)
    3. Another dream, from the inheritance from the boomers.

    Another point, play with the numbers. Just like everyone else

    Playing with the numbers
    Excess mortality: deaths from all causes compared to previous years

    https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=new_deaths_per_million&Metric=Excess+mortality&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=AUS~C
    (hint: the yearly world population has not been reduced beyond the error bar)
    ———
    Visualizing the History of Pandemics By Nicholas LePan

    Visualizing the History of Pandemics


    —–
    @ deflationista
    News

    • Fauci and the NIH Knew Covid-19 “Vaccines” Could Lead to ADE (Ghion)

    Late last night, an anonymous source forwarded a screenshot of a report attributed to Timothy Cardozo and Ronald Veazey that is found at the bottom of NIH’s website. The report specifically warned of the distinct possibility that people who are injected with Covid-19 “vaccines” could develop the very Antibody-Dependent Enhancement that Dr. Malone keeps ringing the alarm about. Not only was this information suppressed from the public, the government-media-corporate complex went out of their way to censor—

    • A Plea To Allow The Use Of Ivermectin As Covid-19 Treatment (Biz)
    ( A plea to whom !!!!! )
    This article, written by eleven doctors and professors to the Department of Health, urges the Department to facilitate the use of Ivermectin in the public health sector. The article was delivered to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s house by Jeremy Gordon who believes that we could end the crisis of the pandemic with the use of Ivermectin as they have in Zimbabwe. – Nadya Swart
    Twenty countries are using Ivermectin to treat Covid-19.
    The use of Ivermectin has been restricted because the WHO says that further clinical trials are needed before they can recommend it. When asked about this, Dr Stone replied, “I find it very hard to understand how they can say that there is not sufficient evidence. There are three thousand patients plus in, I think, twenty-four trials where they demonstrate an over 75% reduction in mortality. Those figures fit exactly with what we have seen.”

    ————
    Read/Find out who will pay back the printed money
    https://gen.medium.com/meet-your-new-feudal-overlords-e18709541d61
    Meet Your New Feudal Overlords

    by Marlon Weems.
    ——-

    #82272
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “So if i’m reading the smoking jab correctly, it sounds like if you don’t get your booster every so many months you’ll essentially die. So a subscription service essentially. And seeing how the past few years have gone with people being denied services due to view points, yeah sign me up!”

    What’s so sad is that this perspective is as supported by the broad swath of readily available evidence as not. What’s even sadder is that equally valid is the perspective that it’s as much or more caused by bureaucratic vapor-lock: that they could be killing us off in a controlled systematic manner and not even realize they’re doing it. Meanwhile, the likes of Soros giggle with glee until they begin to notice that tsunamis and hurricans and wildfires and angry mobs and foreign militaries and corp/gov alliances are also dying off in a controlled systematic manner of which they are not in control.

    Who’s in control? Fate, tao, god. Something like that. Not us, not them. Me, I can barely control myself. Most of us submit personal control to work schedules, street lights, curricula, job requirements, preset social parameters, and off-the-shelf packaged entertainment distraction/relaxtion hypnosis modules. (Huxley’s prophecies came true about the time he published his propehtic book.)

    We gripe that an overarching economic system, based on a few getting rich off the rest of us, would have the gall to require tracking us like the subjects we already are and readily submit to, often without questioning it or even realizing we could question it. But… we’re SUBjects, see? We’re not SUPERjects:

    superject noun
    su·​per·​ject | \ ˈsüpə(r)ˌjekt \
    plural -s:
    an individual or an actual entity that progressively emerges through feelings and the attainment of satisfactions // for the philosophy of organism, a subject emerges from the world a superject rather than a subject
    — A. N. Whitehead

    #82273
    deflationista
    Participant

    This is what it looks like when you do due diligence:

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422044335076306947.html

    Also, I appreciate his conclusions and feel the same way.

    #82274
    Dr. D
    Participant

    New eviction moratorium, overriding the Supreme Court and all Federal law.

    That’s on orders of the CDC. …So a guess the CDC is the supreme ruler, and can override the President, Supreme Court, and the people’s contract, the Constitution now? I guess so.

    Nothing to see here. Have a nice day.

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