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1.19.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
The Amateurs vs The Authorities by el gato
Manipulation of the Masses by Mickey Z.
Buyer Beware by Dr. Peter McCullough
IgG4 Explainer by Naked Emperor
Stop Helicoptering by Jennifer Sey
What Actually Happened by Justing Hart
Denominatorgate by Alex Berenson
VAERS Death Signal by Steve Kirsch
Vax Spike Plasma by Meryl Nass
WHO’s Power Grab by Meryl Nass
CDC Admits Stroke Risk With Bivalent by Vinay Prasad
Germany’s Mortality Increase by Fabian Spieker
Lancet Is Captured by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil
Colombia Vax Postmortem by Dr. Peter McCullough
FDA Got It Wrong by Vinay Prasad
Plandemic to Green Revolution by Joel Smalley
Adolescents Fear the Jab by James Cintolo
Warm Dead Bodies by Meryl Nass
Centralizing Covid Diagnoses by Naked Emperor
Overboosting & IgG4 by DoorlessCarp
Pharma’s Weight Loss Bonanza by Dave The Knave
Fauci Knew About IgG4 by Igor Chudov
Two More Flip by Aussie17
Fake Western Blots by Brian Mowrey
Black Box Warnings by Kim Witczak
Destroying the Food Chain by The Corbett Report
The Amateurs vs The Authorities by el gato malo
i sense that the tipping point is coming and just as all the folks once lauding lockdown and ramming it down your throat as civic duty all flipped, changed jerseys, and can no longer be found
the politicians are not going down with this ship. but someone is. so they will happily pivot to “we’re the victims here!” and lead the righteous indignation pitchfork parade to save their own hides.
if this data shows “safe and effective” then produce it. but if these companies and “leaders” lied, it’s time to push this over the line into accountability.
Manipulation of the Masses by Mickey Z.
Upon declaring war on Germany in December 1917, the president (Wilson) proclaimed, “conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.” (Sound familiar?)
It’s no wonder so many of today’s Americans — all across the ideological spectrum — are so easily and willingly duped by fake news, deep fakes, and clickbait. The system has been in place for more than a century.
We, all of us, are the end result of an ongoing social experiment. We’ve gone from “liberty cabbage” to “flatten the curve.” We’ve surrendered the ability to discern fact from fiction. Even worse, so many of us have surrendered the desire to discern fact from fiction.
Buyer Beware by Dr. Peter McCullough
Woo et al from the FDA in a report has described thousands (N=3790, 11% fatal) of patients with blood clots and their description of what happens in the human body is nothing short of “blood curdling.” Clots going from the ankle to the groin, shooting to both lungs, and killing the victim
I wonder if a similar analysis for the mRNA vaccines would find the same degree of clot burden. In my clinical experience the mRNA and adenoviral vaccines are equally dangerous. As in the Woo report, the events with Janssen appear occur in a shorter time window (median 12 days) in proximity to the injection whereas the long lasting mRNA can drive catastrophic events months later.
IgG4 Explainer by Naked Emperor
When a foreign object enters your body, your immune system kicks into action. One of the responses your immune system produces is the creation of antibodies, of which there are various types. Another word for an antibody is immunoglobulin or ‘Ig’. Igs are Y-shaped proteins that bind to specific antigens on the tips of the Y, which then neutralise them or flag the invader for destruction by other parts of the immune system.
There are various types of antibodies, including IgM and IgG.
IgMs are the largest antibodies and first to appear when an invader tries to invade. They are produced when you breath in a virus in your mucosal membranes.
IgGs are the most common antibody in circulating blood and protect from infection. There are four types of IgG starting with IgG1 through to IgG4. IgG3 protects against bacteria, parasites and viruses and produce an inflammatory response. If you get a fever, it is likely that IgG3 antibodies are at work in your body.
IgG4, on the other hand, responds to allergens.
Whilst an IgG4 response is a good thing for an allergen, this is bad for a constantly replicating virus. The bee sting will quickly be removed from your body but a virus will continue replicating all over the place.
Stop Helicoptering by Jennifer Sey
Many seem to believe that there is, in fact, a perfect outcome for their kids — one free of pain and discomfort — if they just think long and hard enough about every course of action, no matter how insignificant. This manner of parenting suggests that, at every crossroads, there is a perfect decision, a perfect frictionless path for the child, that is possible if only the very invested parent makes just the right spreadsheet of pros and cons and spends enough time perseverating.
But that’s absurd. And impossible. And it is not a childrearing approach without costs.
Let your kid do more. Let them screw up. And then let them fix it. Make sure they know you’re always there and always love them. Almost no decision is permanent. Mistakes can and will be made in life. There is almost always room to iterate, improve, change course.
What Actually Happened by Justin Hart
Global elites had ramped up significant efforts to reshape the world to address a host of inequalities and imagined boogeymen like climate change.
These global elites were bolstered by a host of corrupt institutions which included the WHO (“World Health Organization”), big pharmaceutical companies, and world wealth and health players like Bill Gates.
With the emergence of a new virus these groups pounced at the vulnerable moment to put their plans into action and retool the world with a host of proposals – this was known as The Great Reset. The Coronavirus response was just the first sortie in this plan.
Governments across the world, under the threat of serious mortality (real or imagined), caved to the plan of action which utilized never-before imagined cram downs on individual rights, massive financial expenses, and enhanced authority overhauls to set the stage for a shift of power.
Free speech, right to assembly, right to bodily autonomy, representative government all fell within months of the first COVID-19 cases announced in almost every country.
Denominatorgate by Alex Berenson
Many patients listed as having “unknown” Covid vaccination status and grouped with the unvaccinated are actually Covid-jabbed, the database suggests.
If hospitals are systematically misclassifying vaccinated patients as unjabbed, the endlessly repeated claim that unvaccinated people are at much higher risk of being hospitalized from Covid becomes impossible to trust, much less verify.
But when they then provide their internal figures to public health agencies that calculate how well the vaccines work, those agencies then drop the “unknown” category and classify Covid patients who are not known to be vaccinated as unvaccinated.
Suddenly the mRNA jabs suddenly reduce the risk of Covid hospitalization by three or five or even 10 times
VAERS Death Signal by Steve Kirsch
The CDC is clearly a corrupt agency, Congress is complicit for not calling them out on this, and so is the mainstream medical community and press. They are all looking the other way while innocent Americans are being slaughtered by these vaccines.
I find it troubling that when 1M airline passengers are delayed, there will be an immediate and thorough investigation. Yet when all the evidence consistently shows that at least 500K Americans are killed by their government, there is silence from everyone and no investigation.
Vax Spike Plasma by Meryl Nass
16 young people aged 12-21 who were hospitalized with myocarditis soon after a COVID shot were compared with 45 controls in the same age group. Two findings stuck out to me. First, there was no evidence of autoimmunity (antibodies against self-antigens) in the subjects.
Second, full length spike protein was found in the plasma of most of the myocarditis patients but in almost none of the controls.
WHO’s Power Grab by Meryl Nass
According to author and researcher James Roguski, these two proposals would transform the WHO from an advisory organization to a global governing body whose policies would be legally binding.
They also would greatly expand the scope and reach of the IHR, institute a system of global health certificates and “passports” and allow the WHO to mandate medical examinations, quarantine and treatment.
Roguski said the proposed documents would give the WHO power over the means of production during a declared pandemic, call for the development of IHR infrastructure at “points of entry” (such as national borders), redirect billions of dollars to the “Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex” and remove mention of “respect for dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of people.”
CDC Admits Stroke Risk With Bivalent by Vinay Prasad
We know very little, but it appears a safety signal of stroke may be identified. Of course, there is nothing magic about 65, so it may also occur at younger ages. What is the absolute risk? Where is the press conference? Sadly, no further info followed.
when you approve products without RCTs that can prove a net clinical benefit, even modest safety signals can be devastating.
This administration is playing fast and loose with the agencies credibility. If this safety signal turns out to be salient. Their reputation will rightly be in tatter.
Germany’s Mortality Increase by Fabian Spieker
German mortality has been increasing further with the national excess mortality rate reaching 26% in the last reporting week and excess mortality rates across the 16 German federal lands ranging between 3% and 43%.
While such increases are not unusual during winter time, there is something extraordinary about the German data. Instead of following the typical U-shaped pattern attributed to seasonal respiratory infectious disease, excess mortality has been increasing steadily throughout 2022.
So far I could make out several factors contributing to the rising German mortality:
Lack of medical care due to closure of hospitals
Mortality directly caused by COVID-19 modRNA products (affecting the vaccinated)
Mortality indirectly caused by COVID-19 modRNA products (affecting both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated)
Lancet Is Captured by Norman Fenton and Martin Neil
On 6 May 2021 The Lancet published a blatantly flawed study of the effectiveness of the Pfizer covid vaccine on the population of Israel, claiming it was 95% effective.
After an initial response saying they would ask the authors for a response to our letter we heard nothing until 20 months later
On 11 January 2023 (at 11:21) we got an email from Josefine Gibson apologising for the ‘sub standard experience’ we had with The Lancet. She said that, after discussing it with Horton, they were now inviting us to publish the original letter or an update to it, suggesting the update ‘reflect more current experience with the vaccine’.
On 13 January 2023 we got a response from Josefine Gibson saying they had decided against publishing the letter.
Colombia Vax Postmortem by Dr. Peter McCullough
In a series of 121 deaths primarily after the whole virus CoronaVac (Sinovac) injection, 57% were classified as sudden cardiac death and the pathologies included myocardial infarction, aortic dissection, and in few cases with no cardiac pathology assumed primary arrhythmic death.
Despite the authors claim of “no association,” its my interpretation of the data that 78% of the deaths could be directly attributed to a known mechanism of COVID-19 vaccination.
This is very consistent with the recent report from Schwab et al from Germany whose data revealed 71% of deaths within 20 days of vaccination occurred in the context of acute problems known to be caused by the vaccines.
FDA Got It Wrong by Vinay Prasad
Peter Marks of the US FDA wrote an essay in JAMA where he discussed what companies will have to prove for future COVID19 vaccines.
The bivalent booster was approved based on 8 mice Ab data, but now Marks argues, going forward, “large randomized clinical trials similar to the initial trials of the currently authorized or licensed vaccines for COVID-19 will be required.”
the recent JAMA essay is a logical admission that Marks and Califf and the FDA were wrong to grant EUA to the bivalent booster. All of the same arguments for RCT that they wish to direct going forward apply to this erroneous decision. The FDA is not doing well in recent years with aduhelm and exondys and now bivalent boosters.
Plandemic to Green Revolution by Joel Smalley
The globalist cabal showed their true colours through their evil Covid “plandemic” (links to a brilliant short poem) which has finally exposed the true intent of their climate change agenda.
I have no doubt that the conspirators driving these globalist agendas who understand the devastation their policies have caused and will continue to cause are very bad people, in fact evil
Against all logic, these retards [politicians] really seem to believe that we can give up using all fossil fuels, and nuclear power as well according to green extremists, without the economy regressing back to pre-industrial revolution standards of living and that this will somehow tackle climate change™
Adolescents Fear the Jab by James Cintolo
many adolescents were hesitant to vaccinate mainly because they felt COVID vaccines contained technology that would cause harm, or death
a cross-sectional survey based study of 288 adolescents aged 14-19 years old in Colombia
50.69% agreed COVID was made in a lab to harm people.
53.79% agreed COVID was created to reduce the world population.
13.2-fold increased odds of adolescents avoiding vaccination based on perceived risk that COVID vaccines “have technology to damage health”.
14.9-fold increased odds of adolescents avoiding vaccination based on perceived risk that COVID vaccines would lead to death.
Warm Dead Bodies by Meryl Nass
Japanese researchers have been instructed to investigate the mechanisms by which experimental mRNA jabs could be causing deaths and severe adverse reactions.
Hiroshima University School of Medicine Prof. Masataka Nagao highlighted how the bodies of vaccinated persons he performed autopsies on were abnormally warm, with upwards of 100 degree F body temperatures.
The research has led Nagao to conclude the vaccine causes immune system abnormalities that prompt inflammation throughout the body, which is likely the cause of the high body temperatures at the time of autopsy.
Centralizing Covid Diagnoses by Naked Emperor
The proposed ME system would change this, as the government would now hire and pay one Medical Examiner, to sit in every hospital and write all MCCD's for all deceased patients. This would effectively eliminate any variation in causes of death.
our role was to sit on the fence and act in the best interests of a deceased patient (and their families), but also protect the hospital and our doctors from any potential negligence.
When I asked my mentor in 2016, how the ME system would change things, I was told that Bereavement Services/Patient Affairs would become purely administrative and that the clinical judgement would fall to the Medical Examiner.
The power and decision making with regards to MCCD/Coroners Referrals was being taken away not only from treating doctors but also from Bereavement Services/Patient Affairs/Bereavement Officers/Bereavement Service Managers/Directors of End of Life Care.
The highest cause of death at every hospital per annum pre Covid-19 is Pneumonia. Pneumonia is a Respiratory Disease like Covid-19. Pneumonia can be broken down into 4 different causes of death: Bronchopneumonia, Aspiration Pneumonia, Community Acquired Pneumonia & Hospital Acquired Pneumonia.
These four causes when added together kill the largest number of people on an annual basis prior to the pandemic
The Medical Examiner (one individual in each hospital), was certifying all these Pneumonia deaths as Covid-19 deaths. When 4 different diseases being grouped and now being called Covid-19, you will inevitably see Covid-19 with a huge death rate.
Overboosting & IgG4 by DoorlessCarp
Antibodies are not a correlate of immunity, but studies have shown that the presence of relatively low levels of IgG4 can cause impaired Fc-mediated effector functionality. B-cell imprinting may be implicated and the effects appeared to persist for at least 6 - 8 years. Use of strong adjuvants may partially reverse this, but this also carries its own risk profile.
According to these studies, boosting more than 3-4 times is not recommended and the gap between boosters should be 1-2 years minimum to minimise the risk of class switching and imprinting - provided there isn’t persistent exposure to antigens during this period.
However, research has found evidence for this with some experimental mRNA gene therapies and re-infections can increase exposure further, mediating yet more class switching according to the previously referenced works.
These experimental transfection agents and subsequent boosters should be withdrawn immediately as experimental data indicates that antibody titres and not subclasses such as IgG4 or other contributors to an effective immune response were adequately considered in their design or assessed for in clinical trials until now.
Pharma’s Weight Loss Bonanza by Dave The Knave
At the heart of this issue is also the knowledge that some of this feels like a band-aid on a hemorrhage. We need to seriously address the twin crises of over-nutrition and sedentary lifestyle. This is largely beyond the patient-doctor relationship and not something physicians are able to control.
The 26 weeks of follow-up without treatment in the Liraglutide study showed that patients return to baseline BMI within ~6 months of discontinuing treatment.
The AAP’s recommendation will likely lead to increased prescriptions of Liraglutide and Semaglutide, though neither were included in the evidence base.
There are two main things I’d like to address here. The first is a general impression of the basic recommendations and the desire to address the obesity epidemic we face. The second is what the implications of recommending “weight loss pharmacotherapy” are and what drugs pediatricians might reach for.
Fauci Knew About IgG4 by Igor Chudov
knowledge about the IgG4 antibody subclass (intended by nature for allergens and such) being suboptimal for immune response to a replicating virus such as Sars-Cov-2 was well known in immunology.
Even Dr. Fauci co-authored a 2015 Science Translational Medicine study that negatively spoke of IgG4 antibodies from repeat injections as undesirable in vaccine response.
Fauci and other authors mention IgG4 and imply that it is suboptimal.
IgG4 switch takes at least half a year to develop, sometimes a year.
Even Anthony Fauci, who, as we know, “represents science,” was aware of this personally as the author of studies discussing IgG4 antibodies and their undesirability. The likelihood of “immune tolerance” was well within the routine knowledge of immunology and vaccinology.
Two More Flip by Aussie17
Cardiologist Professor Abdullah Alabdulgader calls for suspension of mRNA jab because of cardiac harm concerns.
Dr Joseph Fraiman also made a public statement asking to withdraw the mRNA vaccines. He was the author of the reanalysis of Pfizer’s original trial that found at least 1 in 800 Severe Adverse Events.
There are two factions, one trying to get the truth out and another trying to hold on to the narrative. I imagine chaotic scenes in every meeting room, manifesting in mixed and confusing messages to the public.
Fake Western Blots by Brian Mowrey
In December, just before deployment, Pfizer sent the FDA Western blot “images” of Covid-vaccine-expressed spike protein that were clearly not images of Western blots, but either computer simulations or “touch-ups.”
With such high percentages of fragment RNA, the European Medicines Agency in particular wanted to know that these fragment molecules don’t get turned into fragment proteins
As others have commented, the lack of objection of the EMA and other regulators to these multiple, obvious simulated blots is astonishing.
I would propose that the assessor was pre-familiar with the other Western blot experiments which are represented by synthetic images, but not with the experiment represented by an authentic image.
In light of this quirk in the assessor’s remarks, it is entirely possible that multiple authentic Western blots had been previously shared by BioNTech in other communications, and the synthetic images were merely meant to “display” the derived results.
Black Box Warnings by Kim Witczak
At the time of my husband’s death, there were no suicide warnings on antidepressants. So, it became our mission to get the drug label changed. It was too late for our family. But if just one person was informed, then Woody’s life and death made a difference.
I had a successful failure to warn, wrongful death lawsuit against Pfizer that unsealed documents showing the FDA, Pfizer and others long knew about the risk of suicide and failed to warn the public.
The media was an important tool in helping to tell the dark side of antidepressants.
Eventually 13 years after the FDA first held hearings on the link between Prozac and suicide in 1991, FDA blackbox suicide warnings were added to all antidepressants for kids in 2004 and young adults (up to age 24) in 2006.
To this day, there are no warnings for adults.
Destroying the Food Chain by The Corbett Report
The COVID lockdowns demonstrated the fragility of the global industrial food supply chain, with closures and layoffs causing massive disruptions at meat processors and food distributors in countries around the world, from Canada to the UK to China to Japan.
Then the Russian invasion of Ukraine kicked off a fresh round of global food insecurity.
All told, the shocks to the global food supply chain have contributed to a doubling in the number of people facing acute food insecurity since the start of the scamdemic.
Given this vivid demonstration of just how fragile the global food supply is and just how much economic and societal chaos can result from any shock to this system, it would be unthinkable that governments would now be deliberately attempting to undermine that supply chain further, wouldn't it?
Well, think again.
We are witnessing a controlled demolition of the food supply chain, one that is intended to result in the destruction of the current industrial farming system as we know it.
