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4.6.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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Note: I read a lot of Substacks each day. The Basket is intended to be a collection of the money quotes from the best of what I read. My goal is that you enjoy this service because it saves you time and quickly informs you. And my hope is that you find one or two articles that you click into because you want more.What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Bragg Vs Trump by Eli Lake
Consequences Of Lockdowns by Dr. Pierre Kory
House Bill 1169 In Missouri by Tom Renz
Trapped In Trans Care by By Emily Yoffe
Autism & Gender Dysphoria by Dr. Peter McCullough
Obesity Drug Breakthroughs by John Mandrola
Sex-Designated Safeguarding by Amy Sousa
Food Industry Capture by Texas Slim
SSRI Psychotic Tendencies by Dr. Pierre Kory
Global Capitalism Totalitarianism by CJ Hopkins
The Marxism Of Wokeness by Musket Philosophy
Closing Schools; Killing Kids by Josh Stevenson
Vax Death Estimates by Norman Fenton
Moderna Death Lot by Sasha Latypova
Societal Problem Of Depression by Mathew Crawford
“Relatively Safe” by Dr. Peter McCullough
Progress With PCR by Tom Jefferson & Carl Heneghan
Sex Ed The Old Fashion Way Rebecca Velo
Machiavelli Nailed It by David McGrogan
NYC Nursing Homes by Brian Mowrey
Bragg Vs Trump by Eli Lake
For seven years, the progressive resistance has fantasized about Donald Trump’s indictment, conviction, and incarceration.
All of these narratives have placed Democrats, progressive lawyers, MSNBC pundits, and the retired wine moms who can’t get enough in a cycle of perpetual anticipation and inevitable frustration. Every promising scandal has fizzled.
If that indictment is what has been widely reported, then it will be hard to persuade anyone outside of the progressive bubble that it was worth upending 230 years of American norms and customs to charge—for the first time—a former president with a felony.
President Biden’s own Justice Department, which would be the appropriate venue to prosecute this case, has declined to do so—presumably, because there’s not much there there.
reporting violations of campaign finance law are almost never prosecuted as felonies.
Bragg will still win politically even if he loses in court.
Consequences Of Lockdowns by Dr. Pierre Kory
Everything we have been told by government bureaucrats has been wrong, and yet they refuse to acknowledge the error of their ways. Fauci continues his endless tour of fawning media interviews, maintaining his status as a demigod among the smug ruling class in places far away from Anacostia.
Meanwhile, children have fallen further behind in school, once-great city downtowns have hollowed out, and medical professionals who dared speak out have had their livelihoods threatened. Even doctors like me, a longtime Democrat voter who pulled the lever for Biden in 2020, have been targeted.
So while it’s all good fun seeing Fauci and Bowser face the music, the policies they have pushed these last three years are anything but. We will all be living with the consequences for years to come, and it’s up to all of us to hold them to account.
House Bill 1169 In Missouri by Tom Renz
The idea of vaccines in food has been around for a long time & is definitely possible.
This is a nightmare scenario whereby people’s genetics are potentially altered with “factory foods” without them even knowing.
It is claimed that beef, pork, etc. cannot transfer vaccination from the meat to a the consumer of the meat. At initial glance that would make sense (cow DNA and people DNA is quite different and an mRNA designed for cows would probably not be able to transfer directly to people), but that is NOT the whole story.
Given that we are now talking about a new level of genetic engineering with unknown effects and no long-term studies, do the potential genetic changes the mRNA injections facilitate pose a long-term risk to humans that ingest the altered food?
why would the people pushing to use these unproven technologies be opposed to disclosing what they are doing? The pushback against House Bill 1169 in Missouri is shocking.
Trapped In Trans Care by By Emily Yoffe
When he was 14 years old, Caroline’s son got a pharmaceutical implant in his arm that was supposed to help relieve his psychological distress. It was a puberty blocker called Supprelin, and it would continuously release a drug for about the next two years that would arrest further sexual development.
Instead of providing relief, Caroline told The Free Press, her son experienced a devastating decline in his mental and physical health after this intervention. Among the side effects of Supprelin, according to a handout from the Transgender Center, are “mood changes, and weight changes.” The manufacturer’s website also lists “depression, including rare reports of suicidal ideation and attempt.”
In June of 2022, she wrote an email to the clinic demanding immediate removal of the puberty blocker. The doctors in charge disagreed.
The Supprelin is still in Casey’s arm.
She says, “My son needs the antidote to this whole therapy. I feel like he needs a licensed therapist, an endocrinologist, people who can see him through the recovery from this. It’s going to be physical and mental. And then we need family counseling, because this whole thing has torn us apart.”
Autism & Gender Dysphoria by Dr. Peter McCullough
The CDC indicates that 1 in 36 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
rise in gender dysphoria (GD) which is driving the clinical development of transgender medicine
Van Der Miesen et al, in a narrative review concluded that about 20% of GD patients indeed have ASD.
Obesity Drug Breakthroughs by John Mandrola
these drugs clearly cause weight loss against a placebo. The degree of gain is similar to that seen in weight loss surgery. And with that weight loss comes improvements in important cardiometabolic measures such as blood pressure and blood sugar levels. This is really important.
the mechanism of action (slowing of absorption) leads to the main side effects—gastrointestinal. Though less than ideal, these side effects are tolerable for most.
weight loss seems dependent on continuing the drugs.
Sex-Designated Safeguarding by Amy Sousa
It’s 2023 and sex-designated bathrooms are still a global issue. Women in economically impoverished counties are still fighting for safe bathrooms. Women who once enjoyed the benefits our Suffragette sisters fought hard for and won are now losing all the sex-based provisions we previously enjoyed.
In sub-Saharan Africa 1 in 10 girls miss school because of a lack of bathrooms during their periods.
in places like Ethiopia, Kenya, and India women face rates of sexual assaults 40-50% more than women with access to sex-designated bathrooms.
The immutable category of sex has been replaced in language and law by the undefinable category of “gender identity.”
In many places, this change took place with no public commentary, debate, or due process.
The term “gender identity” has no discrete definition. It is a tautological maze of meaninglessness. There are 100’s of claimed identities, all of them are self-defined and self-prescribed.
there is no compelling reason why any spaces should be segregated by identity categories.
Sex-based safeguarding remains an important factor for women/girls. While men commit the overwhelming majority of rape, nearly 97%, women/girls make up the majority of victims, roughly 70%. Thus sex recognition remains an important factor in sex-based safeguarding.
But rather than being told to demand respect for their bodies and boundaries, women/girls are being told to respect men’s rights to violate their boundaries based on men’s self-declared identity claims.
regardless of identity claims, women and girls demand sex-designated spaces, we demand the right of consent, the right to say NO to men/boys on the basis of sex and on that alone.
Food Industry Capture by Texas Slim
the food industry's concentration of power has led to a lack of transparency and control over the world's food supply.
One of the most significant effects of GMOs on human health is their link to obesity.
Canola is derived from rapeseed, which was banned for human consumption in 1956 due to high levels of erucic acid. In the 1970s, labs developed strains of rapeseed with low levels of erucic acid and found ways to remove the bitterness.
Canola oil is used in almost every processed food we consume, and most restaurants use it to fry and cook their food.
90% of American canola, soy, sugar, and wheat are at least 90% genetically modified. And the top 5 most common ingredients in processed foods are all salts, the next two, dextrose and corn syrup, are the most used in food and beverages. Both are derived from corn that is genetically modified.
The food industry has undergone a massive transformation in recent years with the advent of genetically modified foods, also known as GM or GMO foods…the widespread use of GMOs could have severe health and environmental consequences.
SSRI Psychotic Tendencies by Dr. Pierre Kory
The major problem…is that while SSRI suicides and homicides are rarer than sudden COVID-19 vaccine deaths, the medical profession is in much greater denial about the SSRI casualties. As a result, when individuals on SSRIs begin exhibiting these psychotic tendencies, the most common response (besides doing nothing) is to raise the dose of their SSRI or change to another SSRI.
This often has catastrophic outcomes, as the worst thing you can do with an SSRI is abruptly change the dose or change to another SSRI. Similarly, many critical warning signs are missed by responsible mental health care providers time and time again (including for many mass shooters).
Global Capitalism Totalitarianism by CJ Hopkins
the Left has aligned with GloboCap, which, after all, is still decoding all those nasty despotic values (i.e., racism, and other forms of bigotry), and is opposing dictators and religious zealots, and is spreading “democracy” all across the planet. You might think I am being facetious. I am not. Global capitalism is still doing that. Which I support, as do all liberals and leftists.
The catch is, as global capitalism continues to do that, and makes a big show of doing that, it is also going totalitarian. It is not decoding those despotic values out of the goodness of its heart. What it is doing is establishing ideological uniformity. The problem is, it has no ideology. All it knows how to do is decode values, transforming societies into markets and everything in them into valueless commodities. Which it is doing in totalitarian fashion. The Nazis referred to this process as “Gleichschaltung,” the synchronization of all elements of society according to official ideology. That is what is happening, currently, globally.
The Marxism Of Wokeness by Musket Philosophy
Woke is a term that has been around for quite some time. A quick read of history shows its roots going back to the 1940s. It was originally used primarily by African Americans in those times, but they didn’t realize it hit the mainstream until the Black Lives Matter movement.
the term is in both the lexicons of the right and the left. For the left, they see woke as meaning “being aware of systemic injustices,” and the right (for the most part) sees it as “radical cultural Marxists who wish to completely remodel society.”
Wokeness is not an ideology. It is a useful force for achieving goals. What those goals may be can vary by the individual, as they vary widely for the groups presented above, but they also result in the same thing: chaos. Wokeness is simply the endgame of leftism, utter and complete chaos, breakdown of reality, and confusion.
The reason why these Marxist ideologies didn’t become woke until now is that they lacked amplification and the ability to make it beyond the halls of academia. Amplification gives the wokes the ability to appear much bigger and scarier than they did before via concentrated shows of force like cancellations and shows of activism facilitated by the internet.
Closing Schools; Killing Kids by Josh Stevenson
The fact that we are now only accounting for the massive secondary harms is a depressing testament to how being paralyzed with constant alarmism and political polarization ends up harming children in the end.
It appears that the US is again a sad outlier when comparing to our westernized, democratic peers. While there are many factors that contribute to this sad reality, it should not be ignored that for many children that live with constant exposure to violence, drug use, and other risks; school is often the safest place for them to be. The US was a major outlier in pandemic school closures. Those decisions were political, rather than data-driven or reality-based (see my previous post below).
Vax Death Estimates by Norman Fenton
With…minimal assumptions we estimate there have been:
approximately 120,000 deaths in the USA directly caused by the covid vaccines (between Dec 2020 until 23 March 2023) and 16,000 in the UK (between Dec 2020 until 29 Sept 2022).
over 103 deaths per million doses of the covid vaccines in the UK with big differences between the three main vaccines (187 for Astra Zeneca, 68 for Pfizer and 35 for Moderna). For Astra Zeneca that amounts to 1 death in every 5348 doses.
Taking account of the small proportion of people reporting serious adverse reactions that may have subsequently lead to early deaths, there are likely to have been an additional 70,000 deaths in the USA and 35,000 in the UK indirectly caused by the vaccines.
deaths caused directly or indirectly by the vaccines account for about half the excess deaths in the UK since Jan 2021.
Moderna Death Lot by Sasha Latypova
This graph was constructed looking at only serious adverse events per lot number reported in VAERS, and only for CDC verified lot numbers (total ~700 verified lot numbers for Covid-19 poison released in the US at that time). I compared it to the same data for flu vaccines for all years available in VAERS. The variability lot-to-lot reached 1000% for covid injections - consistent with randomly produced toxic garbage which is what these injections contain in reality.
Moderna shipped 900K doses of this lot to 37 states. Since the DOD contract specified that Moderna shipped the doses to the DOD/Government, there was no way for them to track the shipments after they arrived at the DOD locations…The government clearly wanted the injections in the arms, no matter what. With full knowledge of how poisonous these shots are they created the system by which everyone involved would have lots of money and no liability for deaths or injuries as long as they followed the orders. So nobody bothered to investigate anything, or remove the lot from shelves, and there was no mechanism to do this anyway.
The lot remained in circulation in 37 states until it ran out in March 2021. It is associated with 3000+ injuries and 65 deaths in VAERS database.
Societal Problem Of Depression by Mathew Crawford
depression rates skyrocketed over the past 60+ years in the wealthiest nations—right around the time that Douglas Murray details as the era during which American society split into more distinct classes. And people's brains and bodies started to signal that something was wrong.
A second wave of rapidly increasing anxiety and depressive disorders hit us at around the time the iPhone was introduced and the mortgage bond bubble collapsed into the banking crisis [around which weighty and confusing government systems began pivoting rapidly, spiraling toward World War E]. This time, teens—and girls in particular—are feeling the greatest levels of increasing stress. Too many young people are spiraling out of control.
This is a societal problem. This all happened along with the sorting of the classes. This all happened along with the centralization of the purse strings that controlled the direction and asymmetric control over the direction of technology.
“Relatively Safe” by Dr. Peter McCullough
Villa-Zapata and coworkers published a report from VAERS on “safety” of COVID-19 vaccination in children age 5 to 17 and in the data table there are 56 deaths! Also listed are other potentially fatal complications such as anaphylaxis and myocarditis. The authors concluded that COVID-19 vaccination in children is “relatively safe.”
Progress With PCR by Tom Jefferson & Carl Heneghan
If the WHO were doing what it should be doing, it would run a global testing harmonisation programme so that a CT of 25 in Lapland is broadly comparable to one in Malaysia in the same type of patient with the same clinical medicine background.
PCR, far from being a shot in the dark, can accurately predict (if properly done) who matters in an epidemic and who does not, seen with a public health scope.
Subjects who harbour fragments of the virus which cannot replicate are not capable of passing the disease. Those who have low Cts can, and if they are immunosuppressed, they can do so for weeks. So the former is not a public health problem; the latter is.
Nine different kits tested recently in the US on the same set of gold standards gave Cts that were all within 2-3 cycles of each other. Since 25 looks like the average Ct value for infectiousness, this makes 27 the upper bound. All else is likely to be a “false positive” in the sense that the body is getting rid of fragments which are of no interest to our immune system as they cannot infect cells and replicate.
Sex Ed The Old Fashion Way Rebecca Velo
there is a growing movement from the left to not just teach kids about adult situations but to rob them of their innocence as young as possible and indoctrinate them with graphic information about sex. Radical progressive educators proudly state that children are ‘sexual beings’ from birth.
Efforts to group boys and girls together to discuss this explicit sex ed are being pushed by activists, despite public sentiment.
In an attempt to ‘queer’ youth the focus seems to be on anal sex. References to heterosexual sex are often accompanied with an emphasis on abortion. Focusing on marriage, abstinence, having babies, or committed relationships is now a thing of the past.
In the ‘90s we were taught about many of the dangers of the world through a negative lens and it worked to mitigate a rising tide of violence, teen sex, and drug use. As we see that tide rising again, why not implement the tried and true strategy to stop it?
Machiavelli Nailed It by David McGrogan
The most important two sentences in the history of political philosophy since the ancient Greeks appears towards the beginning of Machiavelli’s The Prince. ‘[A] wise ruler,’ the author informs his reader, ‘must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times and in every circumstance. Then they will always be loyal to him.’
The history of the development of modern governance is essentially a riff on this basic insight. It tells us almost everything we need to know about our current predicament: those who rule us vigorously engaged in the task of making us need them, so that they can retain our loyalty and hence stay in power - and gain more of it.
NYC Nursing Homes by Brian Mowrey
for the 5 boroughs (a.k.a. “New York City”), there were scarcely any deaths, and no waves after early 2020. Total deaths for all five boroughs, before and after June 2020
Nursing homes in NYC and northern New Jersey experienced a triple-crisis of staff-vectored infections, staffing outages, and management non-communication to outside resources. Between 50 - 100% of residents were infected; staff outages might as well have been total, leaving residents abandoned; and no outside authorities were made aware of the problem until deaths were already inevitable.
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