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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?
@my parents said know: haha, the control group! Yes, that is how I’m going to respond to well-meaning friends and relatives who inquire about my vaccine status going forward!
WES: they’re quitting ahead of pissed off “Republican” voters kicking them out in the next primary. This way they keep their dignity, if not also their millions.
Things that make you go hmmm: the three countries that seem to be the source of the “highly transmissible” variants are the U.K., South Africa, and Brazil. Where have I heard of those three countries recently? Oh, right, those are the three countries that hosted the Astrozeneca vaccine trials.
See page 8 in the paper describing the efficacy of different timings for the second jab
Coincidence? Side effect? Bug? Feature? Don’t know..
The best time to buy is always yesterday… or last fall, when I was telling friends and family to get with the program (sadly, no one was convinced). I was really only window-shopping today, I could have bought yesterday if I really thought that I needed it. Not sure what I would trade it for if it turned into a ten-bagger anyway; I was mainly thinking of my nieces, thinking that perhaps I should grab a pile for each of them for when I’m gone. They’re more likely to live in a World Made by Hand than I am. Ah, well. If this doesn’t blow up the system another chance will probably come around.
Here is the thing… on one hand I’m pleased as punch to see the corruption exposed via the Reddit traders. As “Quoth the Raven” podcaster Chris says, it’s a beautiful red pill moment for a large number of people. And it is a gutsy move to go after silver; as I type this silver is up 7% on futures just this evening (Sunday 6pm). Seemingly knowledgeable people are saying in the various comment threads that there is no way this is going harm JPMorgan, the biggest manipulator of silver. But on the other hand, if it does, we may regret that we got our wish. If the Great Reset hypothesis is true, there will have to be a financial crash to usher in the new system, whatever that is. And that new system is not gonna be using real money (constitutional money, gold and silver), boys and girls. Nosiree.
Demand for physical silver is off the charts, with none to be had any large retail vendor. An hour ago the only silver that I could find was a 500 oz coin package for $17k. Interesting times.
Apropos of the recent fireworks in GME, Melvin Capital, etc, this one never gets old:
Gene Burnett: Jump, You F*ckers
Credit to Karl Denninger at the Market Ticker for introducing me to that video/song.
@D Benton Smith: it would be hard to rip into you, prove you wrong, etc etc when I agree with you. On all of your points, although I do kind of reserve judgement on how long it will take to get to round 6 (the kinetic round); never underestimate apathy, confusion and media manipulation, and we are likely to see a couple more rounds 5a, 5b, 5c, etc. One of those was announced this morning on reddit by WallStreetBets, and it’s a doozy: they want to take on $SLV, the silver ETF:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/reddit-rebellion-about-descend-precious-metals-market
Now THERE is a rich vein (pun intended) of shorts and manipulation, and taking that on would be epic. Almost makes me want to set up an account at a brokerage just to get in on the fun with a little coin that I wouldn’t care if I lost.
Interesting article in the Off-Guardian:
Fleshes out the case that I believe Dr. D mentioned first quite a while ago, that it was awfully conveeenient that Covid showed up just as the cracks started showing in the US Banking system in September 2019 with the Repo crisis. The most interesting thing in the article above is the author’s triangulation of country responses according to how closely tied each country is to the dollar hegemony system. Still, as I made the case to a co-worker today, it’s probably never just one reason; sure, it papers over the financial collapse while shoveling billions (did I just say billions, sorry, trillions) to the banks and most wealthy, but it also ratchets down energy consumption, it was a convenient vector to attack Trump, it has reinforced social control to the Nth degree, it probably has made billions for politicians on insider Pharma stock trading, yada, yada, yada.
It’s unfortunate that the twitter link to the Richard Medhurst rant at the end was not a live link – you have to copy and paste into a URL address bar. The last sentence really says it all: “They got rid of Trump, and now they’re giving you the architect of the system that gave you Trump!”
If you want an unvarnished look back at Biden’s history, I recommend the last free episode of the “Death Is Just Around the Corner” podcast, “#113: The Old Man’s Back Again:”
https://podtail.com/en/podcast/death-is-just-around-the-corner/
D. Benton Smith: I also subscribe to the hypothesis that what we’re witnessing is the controlled demolition of society, to adjust the middle and lower classes to the new realities of energy depletion and financial overshoot. FWIW.
@phoenixvoice, with the caveat that anecdote is not the same as data… my sister, an international flight attendant for a major airline, believes she had Covid-19 twice: first in late January, and then again in late September. Only the latter one was confirmed with PCR testing, but she is convinced that the earlier one was, too, due to some of the classic symptoms such as loss of smell capability. Both were fairly serious (but not life-threatening) encounters, with the usual high fever, extreme fatigue, etc. I don’t think she would say that one episode was noticeably worse than the other. So, odds are that yes, you can get it more than once, with similar intensities.
De-platforming: a crucial first step would be to make sure that the site is not on a U.S.-based host. A whois search on the domain reveals that Network Solutions can’t supply any information about the host, so perhaps Raul has wisely set it up to be in a good, neutral location (like, maybe, Switzerland).
WES, my friend, love your pithy comments, but is there any way you could perhaps combine all your comments together into one post, with @name to show who it is directed to as a response? When you make many separate short comments it pushes the comment section over 40 comments, which spills over to a second page, which forces all of us to reload the whole page and scroll down to see comments 41, 42, etc. Thanks!
@sinnycool: regarding chicken entrails… as you know, we have an inauguration coming up. The origin of the word inauguration has, I believe, chicken entrails embedded in it. Also the flight patterns of birds, and other natural phenomena, which the Roman priest class (called augurs) were called upon to interpret at important moments of State.
@zerosum, why are you always posting non-sequiturs? Seriously.
Yeah, Mr. House, I’m thinking we’re not far off from the formation of Covid-19 truth commissions. Virologists and doctors for COVID 19 truth dot com. Grab the domain while you can.
WES, funny you should mention JFK and the CIA… I just started listening to an excellent podcast that has a five episode deep dive on that very topic. The podcast is called “Death Is Just Around the Corner,” I recommend it.
I had to jump down to the comments section to post this, without reading any prior comments or subsequent articles: how many days do you think it will take for Google/YouTube to take down the video of Dr. Kory’s testimony? 24 hours? 48 hours? Because they WILL do it, they’re that evil.
I want to dig into President Trump’s push to scrap Section 230, and the surprising support from Tulsi Gabbard (who I have generally respected in the past, and who puzzles me now). To me, scrapping Section 230 means that platforms (like Twitter, Facebook, or any web site with a comment section) would become responsible/liable for what is posted therein by the members/users/commenters. As such, I see scrapping Section 230 as a neutron bomb to completely eradicate freedom of opinion on the Internet, because no platform can take the risk of being sued for what is posted. Am I missing something?
As I see it, the problem is not the shield from liability, no, the problem is the censorship that is occurring: the algorithmic de-promotion of inconvenient truths, the labeling of tweets as false information, etc etc. How is scrapping 230 going to fix the censorship? Am I in opposite-land? To me, the problem is that Section 230’s prohibition against censorship in return for the liability shield is being ignored and abused. As far as I can tell what is needed are court cases by those that are harmed (say, Trump, or NY Post) that challenge the platform’s censorship: “Section 230 says you can’t be held liable for your content, but you’re putting your fingers on the scale, so we’re suing your sorry ass.” Or a credible threat from the DOJ to splinter social media into a thousand little pieces if they don’t play by the rules.
Again, am I missing something?
