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If anyone can suggest a way to work on this collaboratively I would be glad to transfer what I have done to such a site.
TAE Summary: I so want to do this. You’ve made a great start on it. Let’s discuss off-line outside of the comment section. Here is a throw-away email that you can use to contact me: taes.klieb@spamgourmet.com.
PS: I would be a little worried about DropBox, or any other commercial entity, cutting off access if they became aware that there was ‘misinformation’ being shared. Keep a master copy outside of your Dropbox folder!
Bits of this an that, since I haven’t commented in a while. For those who have been running into the “prove you’re not a robot page”: I stopped clicking on the checkbox for “keep me signed in”, and since then I have had fewer problems (though it means I often have to sign in, especially if I’ve switched devices (iPad to laptop, for instance).
Standing in the shower yesterday morning I was struck by a thought. During the citizen investigation phase of 9/11 a Californian named Paul Thompson set up a web site that was a fantastic resource for digging into the event and its timeline. It was called cooperative research dot org (I spelled it out that way because if you go to that URL now you are redirected to a site that sells legal forms), and it was an open source collaboration and information sharing platform, initially focused on 9/11 and later expanded to the Iraq war. All of the content led back to on-line news sources as documentation, with a short quote that could be expanded, and you could view things in different skeins: you could, for instance, focus on American Airlines flight 11 and see a timeline of everything that was known about that flight minute by minute, as reported by various news organizations. Paul wrote a book about 9/11, moved to New Zealand, and then the web site withered and died. I’d like to think that if he had kept it going to the present time we’d be sharing information about the pandemic, vaccines, and the Great Reset. Hell, if Julian Assange wasn’t rotting in Belmarsh I’m sure that Wikileaks would be publishing narrative-busting content today. You can bet Mr. Global wouldn’t like that.
It struck me that TAE Summary’s alternative narrative list would make a good framework for gathering and classifying information, similar to cooperative research dot org. I had already started the process of archiving data and video and fitting it into that PANDA framework of about five statements, but I was finding it too constrictive. It’s slow going, creating PDF files, documenting their source URL, naming the files logically, and filing into logical folders. I have a part-time but intense high tech job. I’ve been trying to put in a bigger effort at The Farm, aka doomstead, with its 162 blueberry plants, unbuilt greenhouse and partially completed triple-redundant water well system, even though I worry that it will all be for naught because I’m in the deep blue state of Oregon and may have to ultimately flee. Is anyone else collecting and classifying articles and videos? I’ve heard that NextCloud has amazing collaboration tools these days.
My domestic partner, who gets her news exclusively from the New York Times and works in the state health department, is firmly on the opposite side of the narrative chasm. I’m sure you can guess which one. We have an uneasy truce these days not to discuss anything related to current events. One of her med school classmates from the late 80’s was in town this past weekend, and seeing as it was World Ivermectin Day I tried throwing out the gambit about “have you heard of ivermectin? Is anyone at your hospital using it for treatment?” Predictably, I ran into the party line: the studies are too small. The studies are too inconclusive. We were at lunch with his daughter, so I refrained from pushing it too hard, maybe 30 seconds about the 60 studies and 23,000 partipants and 74% overall reduction in harm. No dice. He’s actually moved out of seeing patients and is an administrator, so I am reminded of that old aphorism, “It’s hard to get a man to see something when his salary depends on him not seeing it.”
Reflecting on it later, I wondered if there might be a different way to approach it. As others have said, sticking to the mainstream narrative is like a religion for those who have a vested interest in the narrative; that vested interest can either be financial, or perhaps not wanting to consider the slightest chance that the person has made the wrong choices about what information to evaluate or substances to allow into their bodies. Maybe one approach is to try to expose it as a religion? Suppose I had started that lunch conversation like this:
“I’d like to come at a topic in a round-about way. I have no ideas about what religion you follow, or even if you reject religion. But I’m going start by saying that I’m a true believer in the Zoroastrian religion, one of the world’s oldest religions; many features of younger religions like Christianity and the Muslim faith incorporated the Zoroastrian precepts of monotheism, judgement after death, heaven, and hell. I’d like to invite you to consider accepting Ahura-Mazda, the Wise One, as your personal spiritual guide. Would you like to hear about the Threefold Path of Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good Deeds?”
Here I would pause, and look deeply into my guest’s eyes for a significant moment before saying, “Actually, I’m pulling your leg. But I want you to think back to a moment a few seconds ago when you were probably feeling deep discomfort at the thought that perhaps you might be drawn into a discussion where you might feel like you had to defend your religious views. I want you to recognize that involuntary reaction for my next topic, which will probably invoke a similar reaction. I’m hoping that if you can recognize the reaction, perhaps you can set it aside for just a minute or two, to hear what I think is good and important data. Are you ready?”
“There are prophylatic, early stage, and even successful late stage treatment options for Covid-19. Please set aside the dogma that you’ve probably been subjected to from hither-to trusted health authorities about this. Ivermectin works, and it’s been shoved off the table by powerful financial interests.” And then we’re off and running.
The CDC appears to be dropping the RT-PCR test in favor of other testing methods:
Lab Alert: Changes to SARS-COV-2 Testing
Is this so that they can track variants more closely?
Rand Paul failed to deliver the kill shot question, however: “What financial interests do you have in the vaccine?”
If they’re going to start censoring SMS messages it’s only a hop, skip, and a jump to blocking or hiding emails. Oh, wait, they’re already doing that:
@John Day: I like Catherine Austin Fitts’ term: “Mr. Global.”
How ivermectin works:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5
Interesting that now there is an editorial banner on that page saying that the paper is under further review.
@Oxymoron: as I recall you’re in Australia… does Australia have naturopathic physicians? I decided a long time ago to favor naturopathic physicians over allopathic (conventional) medicine, with a few exceptions. When I’ve had an ear infection my naturopathic physician has prescribed drops composed of garlic and mullein flower extract in olive oil applied into the ear canal. Cleared it right up.
OK, I’ll try again (file was too large, apparently). For you, Dr. D; at work everyone knew it was theater.
I think I pulled this link out of a ZH comment last week, FWIW:
https://rifters.com/real/articles/Genetically-targeted-magnetic-control-of-the-nervous-system.pdf
@oldandtired: many police departments have standardized on the Ruger Mini-14; it’s the functional equivalent of an assault rifle in that it is a semiautomatic rifle that accepts magazine clips. It just looks less like a scary assault rifle, and more like a traditional rifle with a wooden stock. And yes, it is chambered for .223/5.56 cartridges, same as an AR-15, so it has all the same penetration disadvantages that Dr. D outlined.
@Germ: dude, you’re killing it today! It’s like your channeling Whitney Webb! So many inconvenient coincidental connections. Image in post 76089 is gone, by the way.
@Polder Dweller: at my workplace of about 100 persons the vaccine defiance is at least 50% or higher. So there are pockets of resistance. In our case it is driven by a combination of factors: mostly conservative politically, people were acutely aware of the media bias against Trump and thus were quick to spot inconsistencies in the narrative and recognize the way in which the masking and vaccine policy were being used to political ends, not purely for health reasons (for a while a friend of mine was wearing a mask with a message printed on it: “This mask is as useless as my Governor”). We also have a sizable group of ethnic Russians, and they can smell a totalitarian roll-out a mile away – they’ve already lived under it, literally. And of course I’ve been quietly talking to people in small groups about what is coming, and as bits of that materialize it reinforces skepticism.
@ctbarnum: Karl has kind of split his site between the normal financial/cultural analyses on the main market-ticker.org front page, and the “nad” site of the site – I’m not sure what “nad” is short for, but you access it by clicking on the “Click for what the Media does not want Published” link under Main Navigation on the right. Look for the article under the “nad” section.
@Mr. House: any protection against a bio-weapon is going to be bio-weapon-specific, and they’re not exactly going to announce that they know in advance what the bio-weapon is going to be, are they? That would raise awkward questions.
Dr. D: enjoyed the video above, but clearly someone is having a bit of fun whenever the Helmut Stroker character is speaking. The graph he draws at the 5:40 minute mark is clearly a middle finger gesture, and the later reference to control, er surveillance, is comedic genius. My guess is that someone took vintage news footage and spliced in the spicy Stroker bits.
Regarding “Bright Green Lies,” James Howard Kunstler interviewed Derrick Jensen over at the KunstlerCast:
KunstlerCast 341 — Yakking with Derrick Jensen about “Bright Green Lies”
Good, thought-provoking interview.
Regarding “Bright Green Lies,” James Howard Kunstler interviewed Derrick Jensen over at the KunstlerCast:
KunstlerCast 341 — Yakking with Derrick Jensen about “Bright Green Lies”
Good, thought-provoking interview.
I’ve had a general sense that deaths and serious cases have done an uptick since the vaccine rollout really got going, but this page seems to confirm it for a large number of nations:
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=65597
Could be coincidental, but bears watching.
Also, at some point we’re going to have to throw off the framing they want to impose on people like myself: I’m not vaccine hesitant, I’m vaccine defiant. Our Governess in Oregon says she won’t lift restrictions until the state reaches 70% vaccination; my response to that isn’t printable on a family blog.
Here, let me fix that for you:
It has been previously proved that traumatic injury and chronic disease can cause premature immune system aging, but this research is the first to argue a
viral infectionbioweapon does the same.So, now if you’re vaccinated you don’t have to wear a mask, says Joe:
Here’s my take on this: they’ll ride this horse for a while to try and pull in people who are on the fence about vaccination. Meanwhile this will turn into further justification for businesses and sporting events and all manner of public gatherings to enforce “let’s see your vaccination card or wear your mask” policies at the entrances. This in turn will spur a great many people who don’t want the vaccine to make their own phony paper vaccination cards to evade the policy… and that will lead to their desired endgame: “We have to have a digital vaccine passport that can’t be forged.” Checkmate and match.
Right, thanks, Doc Robinson, that’s what I thought. The CD4+ T-cells trigger the production of the antibodies, which is what my Wikipedia research suggested.
Actually, the sign probably also needs a line “The vaccines are safe and effective.”
Just spitballin’ here, but maybe there is SO MUCH refutation material for each point of the narrative that the information has to be rolled out, week by week.
I am thinking of erecting a sign in my front yard. We live in middle class neighborhood two doors down from the park, which is very popular these days as a place where people feel safe to congregate. The sign would be placed perpendicular to the sidewalk, so that one would see one side as a person walked to the park, and another side as the person walked back. Or maybe it is two signs, facing the sidewalk, side by side. The first sign has the standard narrative laid out:
A deadly novel virus is sweeping the planet.
Nobody is immune, and there is no cure.
Asymptomatic people are the major drivers of the disease.
So we have to lock down and wear masks until everyone is vaccinated.
Anyone who challenges this narrative is a danger to society and must be censored.Each of those statements would be on a lightly colored band. The second sign would also have corresponding lightly colored bands, with links to the scientific refutation of each of those statements. For ease of use, the links would have QR code’s next to them, so that passers-by can use their ubiquitous cell phone to bring up the information. Later today I will post what I think would be the best links for each of those statements, and will invite your comments.
This idea came to me after watching the video by Nick Hudson of PANDA, https://www.pandata.org/ .
The NIH article on T-cell effectiveness against different variants uses a kind of verbal sleight-of-hand to suggest that vaccinees get a boost in T-cell immunity from the mRNA process; I’m not sure that is true. Here is the relevant paragraph:
CD8+ T cells limit infection by recognizing parts of the virus protein presented on the surface of infected cells and killing those cells. In their study of recovered COVID-19 patients, the researchers determined that SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T-cell responses remained largely intact and could recognize virtually all mutations in the variants studied. While larger studies are needed, the researchers note that their findings suggest that the T cell response in convalescent individuals, and most likely in vaccinees, are largely not affected by the mutations found in these three variants, and should offer protection against emerging variants. Optimal immunity to SARS-Cov-2 likely requires strong multivalent T-cell responses in addition to neutralizing antibodies and other responses to protect against current SARS-CoV-2 strains and emerging variants, the authors indicate. They stress the importance of monitoring the breadth, magnitude and durability of the anti-SARS-CoV-2 T-cell responses in recovered and vaccinated individuals as part of any assessment to determine if booster vaccinations are needed.
Here’s the thing: all I’ve ever heard about with regard to the vaccines is that they produce antibodies in the blood – period. I believe that this a point that Dr. Bhakdi brought up, but I also know that the T-cell immunity usually arises (primarily arises?) from the T-cells recognizing the waste products of an actual infection. And since the vaccine spike protein is functionally inert as far as replication goes, it doesn’t make sense to me that the mRNA vaccines would provoke the durable, long-lasting, multi-variant T-cell response. We already know from news reports that the cross-reactivity between the vaccines and certain variants is poor.
@JohnDay, this is precisely the scenario I tried to bring up with my wife this morning (adverse vaccine reactions masquerading as Covid-19 hospitalizations). Here in Oregon the damn governor is locking down counties again “because of increased hospitalizations.” I would be most interested in any sources you might be able provide that confirm that spike proteins produced as a result of vaccination would show up as positive PCR tests. Is it fragments of the spike protein itself that are detected by the PCR test, or is it fragments of the single strand RNA encased within the spike protein that are detected by the PCR test? Presumably the gene therapy process omits putting the RNA inside the spike protein created in your cells, so if the PCR test is looking for RNA fragments then vaccinated people should not be showing positive test results.
New link, appears to be just the transcript:
VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Who Runs The World?’, Black Rock & Vanguard – By Bill Sardi
Interesting that the link I posted earlier is now dead… hmmm. I can see it clear as day on my laptop from when I first saw it this morning. DMCA takedown? Taking flak because you’re over the target? I dunno.
@Noirette: oh, there is absolutely NO mystery as to why Biden was chosen… he was absolutely the most corrupted, and thus easiest to control. I think that those making the argument that he is China’s puppet are taking it too far, but no question in my mind that he is somebody’s puppet. Somebody (or perhaps somebodies) rich, and probably not somebody (somebodies) with the public good uppermost in mind.Blown in the sense of “I can’t believe an anonymous Dutch researcher put this together.” My favorite part: the wall of media voices that slowly builds, all of them saying “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy!” at the 24 minute mark.
Prepare to have your mind blown.
She says she will have a second video… can’t wait.
Question for @Germ, perhaps others living in the UK: what would you see as the risks for an unvaccinated American (who adamantly wants to stay unvaccinated) as far as traveling to the UK in the next few months? My sister lives in England, and has developed a life-threatening medical condition. I’m getting a lot of family pressure, understandably, to help take care of her during this upcoming time period, but I’m wary of getting caught in a “you can’t get on a plane to come back unless you’re vaccinated” sort of situation. Also, are there other risks I might get caught up in? My personal view of the UK government is that they’re mad, given the over the top reaction and lockdowns we’ve seen. Especially after Doc Robinson’s report that UK deaths are actually below that of the last five years running the other day.
Madamski said:
I’m looking for insights into how “good Germans’ support policies they would detest under other circumstances.
I’ve posted in the distant past that I’m, ummm, related to a mid-level health official in a deeply Blue coastal state. As such, it brings me into occasional, incidental contact with a fair cross section of our state’s health department working on Covid-19 response. I’ve pondered your implied question myself at length, and I’ve come to a couple conclusions.
One is that process absolutely rules over results. If it looks like plausibly good process they’re going to go with that as a first choice. Process doesn’t require much thinking, it takes no risks, it allows one to focus on the minutiae of how far apart toddlers have to sit at lunch or how many square feet per person should be allowed in an exercise facility, based on stone tablets sent from the CDC. Nobody gets fired or even denied promotion if you’ve done good process.
Second, being a Blue state, everyone is plugged into the dominant monoculture media, so they’re never exposed to anything that challenges their world-view (my relative was given a Dr. Fauci bobble-head doll as a gift, I kid you not).
Finally, these are well-meaning, highly trained professionals who have spent their entire careers doing measurable good in the world (in the areas of antibiotic resistance, Hepatitis C policy, influenza campaigns, just to quote a few that I’m familiar with) by implementing CDC protocols. Most of them have worked at the CDC at one time or another, they have friends at the CDC now, and their current jobs and pay and status are completely beholden to CDC grant money that they apply for every year (the sad reality is that a lot of, perhaps the majority, of our state’s health department communicable disease department wouldn’t even be funded without the CDC money). To pry one of their heads open just a tiny crack to suggest that perhaps the CDC is missing the boat on something like Covid-19 treatment is a non-starter. Their faith is absolute and unshakeable. And so that is how you get good Germans.
Did anyone manage to follow the link on odysee that @Germ posted yesterday? The specific page referenced has been taken down. I did poke around and found an Ivor Cummins video called “The New Normal” which may have been what Germ was trying to surface; here is the link for that:
https://odysee.com/@selousie:a/The-New-Normal:1
It’s well produced, with good clips from various elites revealing bits that make the case that there really is a general plan behind it all.
By the way, in the media and censorship environment that we live in I have gotten to where I make no assumptions about the continued availability of any information. In the past I used to just save the link to a ZeroHedge article, for example, assuming that it would be available indefinitely. That ended a few weeks ago when I clicked one of those old links, only to be hit with a paywall that told me past articles were only available for paying members – and only members at the HIGHEST level of membership at that. Ok, so now I save the link to the originating web page that ZeroHedge took it from, AND pdf the article as well. Same for video; any interesting video I download before I even watch it. In Firefox you can bring up the Page Info from the Tools menu; scroll through the Media tab to find the video element, and try downloading it using the Save As button. For obstinate web sites I resort to the command line tool “youtube-dl”, which works almost always and not just on youtube.
I’d like to point out that there is a “number of stars” rating system on that EMA page regarding ivermectin. I rated it one star the other day when I was on the page, and when the window popped up for comment I ripped them a new alimentary exit orifice for good measure. Something about they should be hung from lamp posts for crimes against humanity; being European, maybe they’ll get the reference.
@adlertag: or we could just be grown-ups and treat it as it occurs with ivermectin.
I’ll tell you what I’ve been seeing for months: people going through the motions, that’s all. Nobody washes masks, people have stopped worrying about what doorknobs they touch or whether they’re clean, spacing in grocery stores is a joke… and the sky hasn’t fallen. Traffic on the highway is back to pre-Covid congestion, or greater. You’ve got the idiot true believers driving around alone in their cars with their double Fauci masks, but the rest of us have concluded that we’re under a political lockdown, not a medical lockdown. Not to say it isn’t dangerous, not to say it isn’t real, but I’m done complying.
The big giveaway is how the top medical establishment has ignored, shoved aside, fraudulently sabotaged, and outright lied about effective treatments. The way that hydroxychloroquine was demonized was quite impressive: at first I chalked it up to TDS (anything Trump says must be wrong), but they really went all out, faking studies, deliberately administering the drug at late stage hospitalization (when all the people who were using it successfully were prescribing at first symptoms), not including zinc in the treatment, etc. In the US, they managed to shove it off the menu quite successfully. They’re trying to do the same thing with ivermectin as well, citing one study that applied the drug at absurd levels in vitro to kill the virus, and then ignoring the forty-odd other studies. The problem they have is that ivermectin is just too effective: the studies show it works as prophylactic, at early stage treatment, and even after hospitalization, with varying degrees of success.
I’ve appreciated Thomas Frank’s interviews with Matt Taibbi on the Useful Idiots podcast, but lately I’ve begun to feel that he is like the baseball announcer that criticizes one coach’s decision to call for a pitching change while failing to notice that all the players on the field are wearing the same uniform.
For those wishing to follow up for themselves on the Vitamin D study that Doc Robinson linked above, the relevant disclaimer regarding Vitamin D deficiency is on line 422. Good catch, Doc Robinson.
That map of armed conflicts was very interesting. How many of us would have correctly identified our southern neighbor Mexico as a country with a major war and 10,000+ deaths in the past year? Not me. I thought that the Chiapas conflict was only simmering these days, so is the author of that map counting the drug war casualties?
