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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Climate Cult by Zion Lights
Bivalent Bad for 5-11yos by Peter A. McCullough, MD
Trusting The Experts by The 21st Century Salonnière
Non-Covid Excess Death in Germany by Fabian Spieker
Pfizer’s Pforever Propfits by Vinay Prasad
FAA Vax Injury Failures by Steve Kirsch
Today’s Nazis by Dr Ah Kahn Syed
Spike Causes Misreading by Walter M Chesnut
Vax Countries High Mortality by Alex Berenson
Not Debating Covid by Vinay Prasad
Loss of Trust by John Mandrola & Vinay Prasad
Swedish Birth Rate by el gato malo
The Urge to Matter by Curtis Yarvin
Fear & Vaccines by Damian
EcoHealth’s $3M DoD Grant by John Leake
Vax Harm Survey by John Smith
Vax Subscription Service by A Midwestern Doctor
FDA: Just Do Something by Meryl Nass
Vax Kidney Disease by Alex Berenson
History Is About Us by Curtis Yarvin
Climate Cult by Zion Lights
For any cult to work it needs to offer salvation. Roger offers that, plus a sense of purpose and belonging to the young people who flock to him.
In a TedTalk, sociologist Janja Lalich identifies the key elements of a cult: “A cult is a group or movement with a shared commitment to a usually extreme ideology that is usually embodied in a charismatic leader.” Roger preached martyrdom—he pushed everyone to sacrifice more in order to “fill the jails”—and used fear and control as tools for wielding power. I’d often be asked by reporters if XR was a cult, and I’d say no. But it was.
It’s not just Roger Hallam who inspires terror and devotion among his climate-change flock. Those qualities typify the climate change movement.
Just Stop Oil has nothing to do with saving the environment or waking people up to the climate emergency. It’s about one man, his ambitions for revolution and power, and the innocent children he has brainwashed to do his bidding.
Bivalent Bad for 5-11yos by Peter A. McCullough, MD
Moderna, which had greater frequency of adverse events than Pfizer, for example, caused 30% of children to have fever and vomit. Combined, 22% reported that boosters had a negative health impact, 14% could not perform daily activities to return to school, and 2% were so sick they required acute medical care.
Vaccines should have acceptable safety profiles with <5% having any significant short-term symptoms, be safe over the long term, provide at least 50% protection against a disease, inhibit transmission, and last at least a year.
Faulty vaccines that underperform or make our kids sick should be rejected by parents and removed from the market to protect public safety.
Trusting The Experts by The 21st Century Salonnière
There is no branch of medicine that solves “gender problems,” akin to how dematologists treat skin problems and cardiologists treat heart problems.
Today the “left” (or what calls itself the left in the United States) has become an unrecognizable, authoritarian force, with very entrenched ideas of right and wrong.
When it comes to the trans issue, the only right thing according to the new authoritarian left is affirmation. The only right thing is to adopt a distressed teen’s pronouns and new name right away, and begin transition if they want it.
And so the left-leaning public, unless they made enormous efforts to delve into the specifics and discover that there’s no evidence-based reason to adopt any of these practices and beliefs, just…agreed with all of it. That must be the best new way to help people.
Non-Covid Excess Death in Germany by Fabian Spieker
Non-COVID excess deaths correlate very strongly with newly administered vaccine doses in all German federal states during the time between calendar week 8/2021 and calendar week 27/2021
The correlation is strong enough to suggest a causal link.
One excess death occurred for every 1642 administered vaccine doses (95% CI: 1477-1808 doses).
From the time of their introduction to the market until the end of 2022 a total of 191,029,491 COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in Germany according to RKI figures. This translates to 116,309 vaccinees who died as a direct consequence of receiving a dose of the nucleotide-based vaccines against COVID-19 in Germany
Pfizer’s Pforever Propfits by Vinay Prasad
Pfizer was legally obligated to study troponin elevations in young men who got the shot. This is different that clinical myocarditis— this is heart damage that these young healthy men may not feel or may ignore, and is much more common.
Yet strangely, these data are missing from the FDA briefing document.
The average American will now only be tasked with getting a yearly unproven booster, and the primary series will be ignored. Kids and older Americans will have to get 2 doses of the bivalent shot and then placed on the perpetual booster train. Pfizer will keep earning billions.
Although this administration claims to follow the science, they instead follow the Bourla. Their policies have been dictated to them by Pfizer, and work to keep Pfizer shareholders rich.
FAA Vax Injury Failures by Steve Kirsch
Failing to investigate numerous safety issues associated with the vaccine that were brought to her attention is inexcusable. Her actions risk the lives and health of FAA employees, pilots, and the public.
Susan allowed the EKG PR interval to be changed without any scientific justification for the change. No cardiac society on the planet changed their recommendations. Why did the FAA all of a sudden make this change?
Because Susan looked the other way when vaccine safety issues were brought to her attention, she could be liable for criminally negligent homicide.
Today’s Nazis by Dr Ah Kahn Syed
It’s important to recognise that the Nazi party (NSDAP - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist Workers Party) was fully based on socialist doctrine.
Why is this relevant? Because what is happening in the “post-pandemic” society is entirely enabled by the “greater good” concept - where your bodily autonomy is irrelevant whilst “the needs of society” are more important. Sounds dystopian? Absolutely.
they were indoctrinated by mass media and propaganda (nudge) units to believe that it was “for the good of society” and secondly, because if you tried to push back you were sent to jail. Sound familiar?
Spike Causes Misreading by Walter M Chesnut
Every cell in your body “goes to school.” There is no such thing as a generic cell. Each cell has been told by the DNA in its nucleus what proteins to transcribe (via mRNA) to have the cell become a skin cell, brain cell, muscle cell - you get the idea.
Now, the Spike Protein…is causing those proteins to be “misread.” They are translated into nonsense.
When cells lose the tools they make to do their jobs, they lose their identity.
So, this is further evidence as to why we are seeing sudden cardiac deaths, cancers, neurodegeneration and all the strange illnesses that are rampantly appearing. For example, when enough cells involved in cardiac conduction no longer know they are involved in cardiac conduction, cardiac conduction ceases.
This is also most likely the reason for the observed immunodeficiency. Immune cells no longer know they are immune cells, and dysfunction.
Vax Countries High Mortality by Alex Berenson
The death surge in highly mRNA vaccinated countries continues this winter.
Meanwhile, less-vaccinated countries are reporting normal or below normal mortality rates.
Most wealthy countries that relied on mRNA Covid shots and boosters had non-Covid deaths well above normal in 2022.
With recent upward revisions, Europe will now probably report more excess deaths in 2022 than either 2020, before Covid vaccines were available, or 2021, before boosters began in earnest.
But in contrast, South Africa and Bulgaria - two middle-income countries with much lower levels of Covid vaccinations - have reported normal or below-normal deaths for several months.
Not Debating Covid by Vinay Prasad
Universities retain their title as the one place on earth with the least common sense.
Throughout all this, I cannot recall a single debate on any COVID-19 policy issue. We didn't have debates about masking. We didn't have debates about lockdown. We didn't have debates about the school closure. We didn't have debates about masking 2-year-olds.
We continue to have no debates.
The prime source of revenue of universities, particularly academic medical centers, is partnerships with biopharma and billing insurance companies. We continue to enter into agreements with pharma companies. There's no time to debate public policy. And these debates might put off a future pharmaceutical company suitor.
Loss of Trust by John Mandrola & Vinay Prasad
we don’t know anything about how many of the heart-related deaths of the past two years can be attributed to vaccines, as opposed to the harms of lockdown, or multiple other causes.
We believe the feverish speculation that Covid-19 vaccines have led to increased sudden deaths is largely due to a trust problem with our public health leaders. And Americans have good reasons for their skepticism.
Trust, once lost, is hard to regain. People feel that their medical leaders are withholding basic facts, denying reality, disregarding new information, or worse, causing them harm.
When people feel this way, they will look to other sources—even outlandish ones—that make them feel heard. Because of the continuing failures of our public health officials to discharge their duties properly, it is deeply unfortunate but also understandable that many Americans are turning to Twitter instead of the CDC.
Swedish Birth Rate by el gato malo
sweden’s birth rate data remains severely suppressed in a fashion unprecedented in the 25 years of data to which i have access
the slight delay early on might well be due to the very old getting first jabs (and not being of child bearing age) but after that, even the inflections align with eerie precision. this is very, very worrying.
if perhaps we cannot call this a 100% sure smoking gun, it certainly seems like an awfully warm one to ignore.
if this is what i fear it is, the expected outcome is for births to continue to stabilize at rates roughly where they are now.
the swedes are no longer vaccinating in any meaningful numbers and if my hypothesis is correct, the damage is done and durable.
The Urge to Matter by Curtis Yarvin
In our oligarchical system of government, the marketplace of ideas that matters is the marketplace of ideas within the winners of these tournaments. In technical or purportedly technical fields, it is the marketplace of ideas amongst prestigious academics.
The engineering problem is that when a marketplace of ideas makes final decisions, the marketplace is polluted with power. When the marketplace is polluted with power, its ideas compete not just on their wisdom, but on their ability to generate power—for example, their power to attract (or reject) funding.
This is why leftism always wins: leftism is what generates more power. Leftism always has more energy and more excitement. This is because its ideas generate power—leftist ideas always involve impact on the world. If science is put in charge of science, science will favor ideas which make science more powerful, which will be or become leftist ideas. Leftism at bottom is just the natural and inevitable human urge to matter.
Fear & Vaccines by Damian
the Sunday Times recently reported that “barely anyone aged 18-49 in Ireland takes second Covid booster.” This is in a country which has hitherto been incredibly compliant with Covid restrictions and vaccine drives.
The cat, as they say, appears to be out of the bag.
On the one hand, we have studies that appear to show an unexpected and potentially harmful impact of the vaccines on the quality of our antibody response to Covid and, thus, our ability to successfully fight the virus.
on the other hand, we appear to have a runaway narrative linking the persistent, elevated levels of excess death in heavily vaccinated countries to the vaccines themselves, as seen in Malhotra’s appearance on the BBC.
Whatever this fresh wave of fear that seems to be building both in the establishment media and the anti-establishment media (Twitter, Substack, etc.) brings, it is the fear itself, rather than the subject of the fear, that may pose us the greatest threat.
EcoHealth’s $3M DoD Grant by John Leake
It is surely one of most bizarre events in history that none of the men who developed SARS-CoV-2 are even the subject of an official investigation. On the contrary, they remain in business and continue to receive taxpayer money.
EcoHealth Alliance just got another $3 million Department of Defense Grant
For a long time I have suspected that the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex of international foundations and U.S. federal agencies is now operating outside of the law. The key players in this Complex are untouchable. No legislator or law enforcement officer has the heart to challenge their power. The latest Eco-Health Alliance grant is further evidence that “We the People” no longer count.
Vax Harm Survey by John Smith
The author conducted a survey of 2840 participants, of which 51% of respondents reported being vaccinated.
27% of the unvaccinated participants knew someone in their social circle who had a significant health problem after they received the vaccine.
even among the vaccinated participants only, 15% knew someone in their social circle who had a significant health problem after they received the vaccine
among the vaccinated participants themselves, 13% reported experiencing a severe health issue after the vaccine
an estimate using the survey data and ratios of vaccine deaths to covid-19 deaths suggests that the number of fatalities due to covid-19 vaccines may be as high as 278,000
Vax Subscription Service by A Midwestern Doctor
Given that existing evidence now shows that:
More COVID-19 vaccines over time result in reduced immunity to COVID-19 for the individual
Severe injuries are very common following a COVID-19 vaccination and increase in frequency with each successive vaccination.
A large portion of the public essentially agrees with the previous statements and most importantly believes that the vaccines are killing people.
It is completely inexcusable that the FDA has moved towards instituting annual COVID-19 vaccinations (which, following their authorization, will be made mandatory by many institutions and employers).
FDA: Just Do Something by Meryl Nass
You would need to vaccinate 92,000 people in their 40s to prevent one hospitalization with Omicron. How many would be maimed or killed by all those shots? And you would think that if the shots saved lives, here is the place to tell us. But there is no mention of lives saved.
The FDA is using the same argument as the UK in its briefing documents for the VRBPAC meeting tomorrow: that we don’t know enough about the disease and the vaccines. But FDA flipped the script: the FDA’s response to not knowing enough is to urge yearly booster vaccinations, which will save FDA from having frequent advisory committee meetings at which it must convince the advisors of the need for more or newer doses.
Putting a yearly shot in place now saves them from future decisions. Which is a big priority, since FDA’s top vaccine official, Peter Marks, admitted that he approved an earlier booster to kick the can down the road, because FDA needed to ‘do something.’
Vax Kidney Disease by Alex Berenson
researchers in New Zealand have found a strong association between Pfizer’s mRNA Covid shot and kidney injuries.
In the three weeks after a mRNA jab, the risk of acute kidney injury rose 60 percent, the researchers found. They reported almost 1,800 extra cases - the equivalent of over 100,000 extra cases of kidney injury in the United States.
History Is About Us by Curtis Yarvin
Of course Lenin’s party was literally the Social Democratic Labor Party. And of course since Teddy Roosevelt went to the great hunting grounds in the sky—that is, for about the last century—“progressive” in American discourse has just meant “communist.”
if the popularity of the USSR in 1988, among the most elite American social class, was a candle, the popularity of the USSR in 1938, among the most elite American social class, would be a streetlight. A stadium light. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that in the 1930s, the “Soviet experiment” was cool among all cool people.
Speaking as a diplomat’s son, I will say that the global elite are genuinely some of the best people in the world. But we are not always right. And it rather displeases me to see a member of my own caviar caste sticking up for us, while he pretends to be sticking up for them. In the world I grew up in, there is no worse sin.
The Cold War is unfortunately one area in which progressive historiography is so universal that there is almost no systematic scholarship that is worth a barrel of piss. A good rule of thumb is that if your historiography of the Soviet Union matches the Soviets’ own historiography, some long-forgotten communist has urinated in your tea. This whole subplot needs to be totally revised and it’s not like there is money to do it.