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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’):
Gen Z’s Disinterest In Driving by Rob Henderson
Fixing The CDC by STUART BUCK
Animal Replicon Vaccines by Dr. Peter McCullough
German Marriage Rates Drop by FABIAN SPIEKER
Gene Altering Food by Tom Renz
Created Equal by MUSKET PHILOSOPHY
WHO Treaty Debated by CARL HENEGHAN & TOM JEFFERSON
mRNA Disrupts MicroRNA by Dr. Peter McCullough
More Radical Than Thou by Mickey Z.
Being Independent by HEATHER L. MERRELL
New Article Says Masks Unnecessary by Justin Hart
Apologize Or Don’t Back Down by Jennifer Sey
NYC’s 2020 “Covid Deaths” by JESSICA HOCKETT
FDA Cuts mRNA Dosing In Half Or More by Alex Berenson
FDA Pulls Monovalent In Favor Of Bivalent by Jessica Rose
IVM Study Shows RRR of 71.57% by MERYL DOREY
Are Safe mRNAs Possible? by Dr. Peter McCullough
Glyphosate & Autism by Dr. Robert Malone
Government Fueled Chaos by CHUCK VIPPERMAN
Moderna’s DoD Contract by SASHA LATYPOVA
Gen Z’s Disinterest In Driving by Rob Henderson
two decades ago, when more than 80 percent of American 18-year-olds were licensed to drive. Now, that number has plummeted to just 60 percent. This means that about 1.5 million newly minted adults have no idea what it feels like to get behind the wheel.
In the past, the car represented the ultimate escape, a portal to exciting opportunities, risk-taking, and adventure. It was the only way a teenage boy could get out of the house, hang out with his friends, impress a romantic interest, and even get laid in the backseat.
Now teenagers don’t seem to go anywhere at all, or at least anywhere that requires a car.
Instead, they go deep into apps, social media, and online porn. As psychologist Jean Twenge notes in her book about Gen Z: “The party is on Instagram and Snapchat now.”
In 2015, a Journal of Sex Research paper reported that 67 percent of male college students agreed that viewing pornography is “an acceptable way to express one’s sexuality,”
Sex is not the only risky thing that Gen Zers are having less of. They are generally disinclined toward danger and risk-taking. Teenagers used to flout advice about physical safety. Gen Z is different. Rather than rejecting safety, they have embraced it.
Fixing The CDC by STUART BUCK
the focus on whether public health guidance is “fast” or “easy to understand,” or whether the CDC has enough channels to communicate directly with the public, is misguided unless we first know that the information is accurate and trustworthy.
the CDC’s guidance (such as its guidance for how schools should operate) might indeed be complicated and hard to understand. But those issues are secondary to a much larger problem: the CDC’s process for coming up with such guidance is far from transparent.
Like it or not, a fair number of the public are wary of extra requirements as to child vaccination, especially given that Covid poses so little risk to children in the first place. The main federal agency that makes recommendations here (even if not legally binding) should bend over backwards to make sure that its guidance is fully transparent and that it addresses a steelman version of the critics’ concerns (no matter how unpersuasive they might seem).
Animal Replicon Vaccines by Dr. Peter McCullough
Compared with human medicine, veterinary medicine is far ahead in genetic vaccine technologies
“replicon” vaccines in development and approved products. “To increase the potency by stimulating multiple immune pathways simultaneously, nucleic acid vaccines based on self-replicating viral RNAs (replicon vaccines) have been developed. An important feature that sets replicon vaccines apart from LAV or viral-vectored vaccines is their inability to spread from cell to cell. Replicons do not code for viral structural proteins required for encapsidation but instead code for a heterologous gene of interest. Thus, replicons are not infectious and are limited to a single round of replication. In its most simple form, a replicon is a cloned viral complementary DNA (cDNA) with the structural genes removed.”
The inability to not only shut off antigen production but to control continued amplification beyond one round of RNA could overwhelm the body with damaging antigen production. Expression of foreign proteins/antigens on the cell surface over time is bound to generate autoimmunity and a variety of problems.
German Marriage Rates Drop by FABIAN SPIEKER
Germany saw a drop in the number of marriages per capita starting with the first lockdowns in early 2020, followed by a surge in live births throughout 2021.
Marriage rates stayed below the lagging 5 year moving average all throughout 2021, which and correlate with a drop in birth rates 43 weeks later.
Live births per 43-week-lagging marriages show a strong seasonal pattern. Calculating an excess time series from this variable reveals that the drop in 2022 excess birth rates is much less pronounced than the preceding drop in excess marriage rates.
Gene Altering Food by Tom Renz
Bad news - the big pharma complex wants to hide vaccines in your food including these mRNA poisons. Good news - Missouri HB1169 could stop this. Best news - other states are considering similar bills to protect the food supply (BTW - I will help ANY state to get this done).
it simply cannot be denied that there are an immense number of gene therapy vaccines under development for use in food in the immediate future. Further, as shown above, the manufacturers of these gene altering poisons are also creating plants with transmissible vaccines. A fundamental issue facing the public in this is that this new capacity to create ingestible vaccines that potentially alter our genetics is that the law is woefully inadequate to deal with this technology.
Created Equal by MUSKET PHILOSOPHY
One of the most famous lines of all time is perhaps the most misunderstood line of all time. I imagine you might have heard of it. It goes, “All men are created equal.”
There is clear evidence that Thomas Jefferson, the writer, did not believe men were genetically equal. He meant that for a government to be legitimate under natural law, all men should be equal in the eyes of the law. This is a substantially more powerful idea than that of all men being genetically equal.
This means that even if you’re not as smart as the next guy, or as strong, or have as much money when you are judged before a jury of your peers, you are entitled to the same rights as any other person. Without this social contract, there is no law.
WHO Treaty Debated by CARL HENEGHAN & TOM JEFFERSON
So, what is the Treaty about, and should we be concerned?
the negotiating team is looking into the definition, means and procedure for declaring a pandemic, what this means in practice, how to finance pandemic preparedness and response initiatives and the setting up of a new Governing Body for overseeing the treaty.
There are also no widely accepted definitions for the end of the pandemic – who knows when this one will end?
As for the actors in all this, there will be many. Global politics is an excellent distractor for domestic problems; the WHO Global Pandemic Supply Chain and Logistics Network will ensure numerous opportunities for industry, and academia will gladly go along with an agenda that promises $XXX funding opportunities. At the centre will be the WHO – primarily a political organisation; it is essential that the past mistakes of the Influenza narrative are not repeated.
mRNA Disrupts MicroRNA by Dr. Peter McCullough
Stati and colleagues published a review on how mRNA could disrupt the complicated RNA ecosystem in our bodies including microRNA (miRNA). These are small pieces of natural RNA that do not code for proteins, but rather they regulate gene expression and management of larger strands of RNA.
They arrived at these conclusions: “The disruption of miRNA biogenesis machinery is responsible for several human pathologies. miRNA dysregulation is associated with the development of clinical complications during COVID-19 infection. It has been demonstrated that the expression level of numerous miRNAs is altered after COVID-19 vaccination. Thus, the altered expression levels of circulating miRNAs could affect the severity of the disease once contracted. SARS-CoV-2-encoded miRNAs can affect the host’s immune response. It is reasonable to assume that the disrupted expression of these small molecules can contribute to the onset of other longer-term diseases. The dysregulation of the host miRNA range that modulates multiple gene expressions can influence cancer development, either directly or indirectly.”
To conclude, those who have taken multiple mRNA shots are in a brave new world of molecular biology and challenges to their personal health.
More Radical Than Thou by Mickey Z.
“activists”…I find many of them to be virtually indistinguishable from the “activists” I fled years ago.
The purity litmus tests. The provocateur/controlled opposition accusations*. The suffocating presence of pessimism. The irrational commitment to sign-holding and virtue signaling. The more-radical-than-thou pissing contests. The woeful lack of fact-checking.
Being Independent by HEATHER L. MERRELL
We are the unloved, the overlooked. We don’t play party politics and therefore are not useful to those that use political division to control the masses. We think on our feet, and judge politicians by their actions instead of their party affiliation. We’re usually well-studied. Many of us are very political, and we vote! We have little representation because lobbyists can’t buy us. We’re loyal to the nation, rather than to a man or woman in a leadership role.
There are a lot more Independents now. During and after covid, many woke to the political manipulations at play.
New Article Says Masks Unnecessary by Justin Hart
it seems like the era of universal masking in healthcare settings might be coming to an end.
The article tells us that the pandemic "context" has changed, with improved testing, population-level immunity, less virulent variants, and medical countermeasures.
they go on to discuss the downsides of universal masking in healthcare settings, like communication barriers, feelings of isolation, and negative impact on trust and empathy. But here's the thing: didn't we all know this from the get-go? I mean, it's not like we needed a PhD to realize that masks could muffle our speech and make it harder to connect with others. But now, when the "context" has changed, it's suddenly okay to admit that masks might not be all that?
here's the million-dollar question: are we really supposed to believe that all these experts just now realized that masks might not be as necessary as they claimed? Or is it possible that they knew all along, but were too afraid to admit it until the "context" gave them a way out?
Apologize Or Don’t Back Down by Jennifer Sey
In my opinion, the statement misses the mark in a few ways.
First, if you’re going to apologize, apologize. Own up to the fact that your brand leader insulted your consumer by calling them “fratty” and “out of touch.” Acknowledge that you promoted politics rather than product. Admit it wasn’t inclusion you were after, it was virtue signaling to align yourself with a set of “values” (that sex is assigned at birth rather than something observed) favored by coastal, deep Blue city elites.
Secondly, and I’ll take the “other side” on this one: Did the brand really not think about the fact that this choice of influencer/endorser might put them squarely in the center of a controversy and prepare for that? If they didn’t consider it, how clueless and out of touch are they? If they knew it, and didn’t stand by their position AND Mulvaney for that matter, then shame on them. If they are going to weigh in, then do it. And be prepared to deal with the repercussions and stand by the position. If they want to stand for “inclusion” by featuring Mulvaney, then go for it. Don’t back down.
swedish brith rates and the feb 2023 data is now out
there is no sign of recovery and rates remain at severely depressed levels after drops that are multiples of anything else in the data of the last 25 years. and yet no government or health agencies seems curious or even interested.
drop commenced right when vaccination picked up and is not recovering from these really low levels despite the highly reflexive nature of this data.
NYC’s 2020 “Covid Deaths” by JESSICA HOCKETT
Deaths went up – then way, way up -- in the wake of government & public health officials urging or ordering people to stay home. Approximately 70% of a full year’s mortality occurred between St. Patrick’s Day and Memorial Day. Just as shocking is the sudden drop back to baseline, where it stayed until the last weeks of December. The Government narrative was - and still is — “the virus hit New York harder,” but “New York got the virus under control.”
Incredibly, 90% of New York City resident deaths in 2020 that are blamed on covid-19 occurred between March 15th and May 30th
No one can deny that New York City’s 11-week death spike in spring 2020 was a mass casualty event unlike anywhere in the world (though possibly akin to the Northern Italy experience). The new vital statistics reports do take baby steps toward honest ascertainment of causes of death during both that event, and the three-year “pandemic,” but the agencies either don’t grasp or don’t want to acknowledge how much of an outlier NYC really was, how deadly the policies & protocols implemented were, and what the magnitude of all-cause & covid-attributed mortality suggests about the validity of claims about SARS-CoV-2’s infection fatality ratio.
FDA Cuts mRNA Dosing In Half Or More by Alex Berenson
This afternoon, under the guise of “simplify(ing)” the Covid vaccination schedule, the FDA ended the two-dose mRNA vaccination regimen for unvaccinated people.
Americans who have not yet been vaccinated can now receive only a single dose of the newer “bivalent” vaccines
The change is even bigger than it appears. Each dose of the Moderna bivalent vaccine contains only half as much as mRNA as the original Moderna shot. So people who receive the Moderna vaccine will get only one-quarter as much mRNA as the original dosing schedule, 50 micrograms instead of 200.
(Pfizer’s booster contains 30 micrograms of mRNA, the same as the original dose, so the Pfizer regimen has been cut only in half.)
The FDA is also discouraging repeated booster doses.
FDA Pulls Monovalent In Favor Of Bivalent by Jessica Rose
The monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the United States.
The bivalent shots ‘provide’, at best, an immune tickle against two extinct SPIKE variations.
recently, bivalent vials have been sequenced and found to be contaminated. Adverse event reports have been piling up in VAERS one week following original release-for-administration date, on September 2, 2022.
The bivalent shots were never authorized to be given as a first dose, especially not to new borns and babies.
There are N = 25,118 reports submitted since release in early September, 2022. I do not include the URF here (with URF: 31 → N = 778,658 adverse event occurrences). Granted, many of these reports are likely due to the damages done by previous monovalent shots, for example, in those who did not receive the bivalent shots as a primary shot, but nonetheless, the safety of these products requires re-examination by non-conflicted labs.
IVM Study Shows RRR of 71.57% by MERYL DOREY
study out of Bulgaria entitled, The SAIVE Trial, Post-Exposure use of ivermectin in Covid-19 prevention: Efficacy and Safety Results.
This study demonstrates clearly that giving Ivermectin prophylactically (as a preventative) was safe, effective and prevented illness.
“This study demonstrated highly statistically significant evidence in a large, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that daily oral treatment with ivermectin reduced the risk of infection following exposure to SARS-CoV-2. Ivermectin was also shown to be safe in doses and duration higher than currently used in approved indications.”
Are Safe mRNAs Possible? by Dr. Peter McCullough
The COVID-19 vaccines are known to be unsafe for several reasons: 1) the Wuhan Spike protein damages cells, tissues, organs, and causes blood clotting, 2) the lipid nanoparticles may have toxicity from the PEG or polysorbate 80 or from syncytia formation, 3) the mRNA appears to be resistant to ribonucleases and is not broken down in the body. As some point the mRNA or fragments could interfere with gene function or alter other microRNAs that are managing the human genome.
The Halma paper points out that safe mRNA products are possible. For example, properly designed mRNA coding for normal proteins that are deficient or ones that are sufficiently humanized and not recognized by the body as foreign could indeed become part of the future pharmacopeia. But there is no doubt that the first use of mRNA on a mass, indiscriminate scale has been a disaster with the COVID-19 vaccine campaign.
Glyphosate & Autism by Dr. Robert Malone
Grains treated with glyphosate had measurable levels of residue and that residue did not decrease after a year of storage. Furthermore, 30% of foods tested in Canada have measurable levels of Glyphosate.
Nearly 75% of Canadian women in their first trimester of pregnancy had detectable concentrations of glyphosate in their urine. The more whole wheat grains in the diet, the higher the levels of glyphosate.
Exposure to glyphosate during mice intrauterine development induces hyperactive and anxious behavior, as well as measurable levels of neuroinflammatory markers.
Neuroinflammation can be measured in the ASD temporal cortex in humans (at autopsy).
There appears to be a link between Neuroinflammation and ADHD.
Government Fueled Chaos by CHUCK VIPPERMAN
the incestuous relationship that developed during the pandemic between the privately-owned platform and governmental agencies. A plethora of emails and documents show close collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector. Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (fired by Elon Musk) met monthly with DHS to discuss censorship plans. A Microsoft exec texted DHS: "Platforms have got to get comfortable with government"
The bottom line is that our friendly little federal government chose to use the confusion of a pandemic to act even more monstrously than usual. They relied on the chaos---indeed, they FUELED it, in order to do what governments do---become unaccountable totalitarian monsters if normal checks are removed.
The government, their media allies, and quasi-governmental think tanks colluded to attack entities that expressed skepticism about COVID policies…and anything else they didn’t like. And they did it under the disgusting aegis of “protecting people from misinformation.”
Why is this important? Many reasons, but here is the biggest. Over the long haul, having enough people who believe it's better to challenge "bad" ideas not with “better” ideas but with a Government-manufactured muzzle will cause us to abandon any support for the notion of Free Speech.
Moderna’s DoD Contract by SASHA LATYPOVA
Moderna contracted with the DOD for a "manufacturing demonstration". In parallel, they contracted with HHS/BARDA for "vaccine" R&D. This is different from Pfizer’s contracts where R&D and clinical trial activities where explicitly out of scope.
differently from Pfizer and other covid contracts, Moderna’s contracts did not utilize Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contracting method. This does not seem to change the product liability, as Moderna’s poison is co-owned/co-developed with the US Government and is covered by the PREP Act like all other “covid countermeasures”.
How was it possible for the NIH/Moderna to have the pre-IND meeting for a Phase 1 human clinical trial scheduled with the FDA for a vaccine product a month before the “covid pandemic” was declared?
This funny contract is an account of plain looting by the Government and Moderna, together as co-conspirators against us, the powerless taxpayer. While government looting is not really new, this time we the taxpayers are also the target of the Globo-Fascist state-of-the-art weapons system consisting of randomly produced genetic-chemical poison, fear mongering, coercion and military-industrial strength bullshit.
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