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4.28.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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Germany Drops Kids Vax Recommendation by EUGYPPIUS
Garbage Science Of The Experts by el gato malo
Free Light Chains In Healthy Vaxed by WALTER M CHESNUT
England: 4500 Excess Cardiac Emergencies
Germany Funding Russia by Joe Nocera
Identity Politics: Turning Oppressed Into Oppressors by DUPONT LAJOIE
DeSantis Leading Florida Astray by DR. JOSEPH SANSONE
Talk To Black Mothers by JON RAPPOPORT
UK: Sickness Absence Rates Up by Naked Emperor
Military Complex Goes After Tucker by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Randi Lies About Everything by JESSICA HOCKETT
Healthy User Bias In Vaxes by MATHEW CRAWFORD
The mRNA Operating System by KAREN KINGSTON
Finland Mask Study by DAVID ZWEIG
Competing Financial Superpowers by SASHA LATYPOVA
The Absurdities Of Trans Activism by PHILIP O'REILLY
School Choice To Save Civilization by el gato malo
Excluding Contrary Voices by EUGYPPIUS
UK: Vaxed Death Rate Jumps by Alex Berenson
Pfizer’s Web Of Payouts by AUSSIE17
Germany Drops Kids Vax Recommendation by EUGYPPIUS
STIKO (the Ständige Impfkomission), the German vaccine regulatory authority, have released a draft of their updated Covid vaccination recommendations.
The document excludes healthy children under 18 years of age from vaccination, because they’re not at serious risk from infection.
Adults up to 59 years of age, meanwhile, should have three “immunological exposures” to SARS-2, one (but not two or three) of which can be infection. All those young adults who were forced into accepting boosters back in 2021 despite documented infections can just unboost themselves now, I guess. Too bad about that.
Finally, for at-risk groups and those 60 and over, STIKO recommends annual vaccination against Covid and influenza, preferably in the Fall, to reinforce protection during the winter months. For this recommendation as for all the others, they have no meaningful evidence to speak of.
Neither available vaccines nor the science have changed all that much at all since the whole circus started. What has changed since 2021, are attitudes towards vaccines, and Covid vaccines in particular.
Garbage Science Of The Experts by el gato malo
don’t forget that early on, tony knew lockdowns did not work, covid was not high risk, masks were useless, and that people should not panic. he said every one of those things. they were true when he said them and they are true now. then he turned on a dime and said the opposite for entirely political reasons the moment debbie birx rode in on her security state horse and took charge.
what divided us was our “experts” and their endless hectoring and harangue to do everything wrong. they came after lives and livelihoods with known garbage science that they still try to whitewash to this day.
they made EVERYTHING political, sought to subvert choice and judgement at every turn and killed people in droves by turning our response into something far more deadly than covid ever thought of being.
Free Light Chains In Healthy Vaxed by WALTER M CHESNUT
A very interesting discovery was made when responses to SARS-CoV-2 and its Spike Protein were made regarding Free Light Chains (FLC).
“Elevated levels of FLCs in COVID-19 and healthy vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 patients…reflect hyperactivation of the immune system after contact with coronavirus.”
the FLC were HIGHEST in the HEALTHY VACCINATED CONTROLS!
When B Cells create antibodies to invading pathogens, an excess amount of the part of the antibody that attaches to the pathogen is secreted. Excess free light chains can be deposited in tissues causing systemic amyloidosis. I believe we need to screen organs in the general population post COVID and post Spike Protein vaccination to determine if amyloidosis has been induced, and, if so, to what extent the disease is present.
What I find most striking is that symptoms of systemic amyloidosis very strongly resemble Long COVID. And, unless you TEST FOR AMYLOID DEPOSITION, you will not know it is the cause.
England: 4500 Excess Cardiac Emergencies
At the end of 2021 the vaccination rate in 12-29 year olds across England was on average 71%.
If we take this figure and multiply it by the population size of 12-29 year olds in West Midlands, we arrive at an at-risk population size of 938,927.
4337 / 938927 = 0.0046 = 0.46%
I estimate that roughly 0.46% of Englands vaccinated population ages 12-29 suffered cardiac emergencies.
Germany Funding Russia by Joe Nocera
in Germany…the citizenry are irrationally afraid of nuclear power.
In fact, Germany is so afraid of nuclear power that, as of April 15, it no longer has any working nuclear reactors, even though nuclear power once provided more than 25 percent of the country’s energy needs, and even though it is one of the safest, cleanest forms of energy in existence.
the price of energy in Germany has gone through the roof.
in 2014, after Russia invaded Crimea, the Germans compartmentalized their view of the pipeline, insisting that it was nothing more than a business deal and had nothing to do with politics.
Many countries, including the U.S., had warned Germany over the years that the pipeline—and a second planned pipeline, Nord Stream 2—gave Russia tremendous leverage if it ever chose to weaponize its gas reserves. The Germans consistently dismissed those warnings.
until the war, Germany bought about $25 billion worth of gas, oil, and coal from Russia per year, according to Paige Lambermont, a policy analyst at the Institute for Energy Research. Although the price of energy varies, Germany has probably spent, by my calculations, upward of $200 billion on energy resources from Russia.
Identity Politics: Turning Oppressed Into Oppressors by DUPONT LAJOIE
Consequences of the sexual revolution and the deconstruction doctrine promoted by the postmodernist philosophers of the Frankfurt School and French theory, the primal attachments such as family, religion, and patriotism, have weakened and fractured throughout the Western world.
collective identities formed around characteristics such as race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Identities constructed in opposition of the group perceived as the oppressor (white Christian heterosexual men) are therefore recognized as oppressed.
It is the tribalisation of politics and advocates for unabashed separatism: political meetings forbidden to white people or dedicated spaces for people of color.
It considers that rather than being an individual, we are all essentially a member of a group based on those oppressors or oppressed characteristics. Identity politics evaluates individuals according to their birth rather than their achievement.
It is a common enemy politic, a system in which a particular group identified as oppressed can wield power against those recognized as oppressors.
Instead of promoting equality, identity politics has turned the so-called oppressed into oppressors.
I have ranted for over a year that “OAS” is stupid and not real.
I have said, further, that the term itself has driven widespread confusion within the research, with many green researchers in recent decades seduced by the word “sin” into imagining and attempting to amplify conclusions not in fact offered by the term’s originator; but that obviously the fault lies with that same individual, Thomas Francis Jr, for using a misleading term.
Essentially everything I have argued in my critiques of “OAS” is affirmed in the manuscript by Koutsakas and Ellebedy.
Whereas the promulgators of “OAS” can offer nothing but illusion and feverish noise. They almost never even can show a comparison to the un-“sinned” when waving their charts around.
DeSantis Leading Florida Astray by DR. JOSEPH SANSONE
It would appear that the Governor and legislature in the state of Florida are slow walking Floridians into enslavement to The Great Reset. This will include forced vaccination and forced quarantines. The fall of 2024 may coincide with the fall of Florida.
A health freedom bill in Florida called SB222 was being promoted by various health freedom organizations.
Apparently, this bill was killed by DeSantis. The alternative bill being promoted, SB252, according to activists, reportedly “forces employees to follow federal government mandates and opens the door to the World Health Organization to control our health policies. And, while it claims to prevent MRNA vaccine mandates that’s not permanent and runs 20 months.”
It appears a bait and switch designed to sell the free Florida narrative while simultaneously setting up the state to fall to a future planned pandemic under the yoke of the WHO.
If DeSantis is not participating in a criminal take down of Florida, he is showing extremely poor discernment.
Talk To Black Mothers by JON RAPPOPORT
White liberals never set up town halls for residents of black neighborhoods, where the white people listen to what the LAW-ABIDING black residents really want. The white people just ASSUME.
They always assume. They always know best.
They always patronize.
For years, I’ve been saying that if you really want to know what’s going on in black neighborhoods, you have to talk to black mothers who are raising their kids alone without fathers. They’ll tell you the truth. They’ll tell you what they fear. They’ll talk about gangs and drugs and unsafe streets.
UK: Sickness Absence Rates Up by Naked Emperor
The long term sickness absence rate in the UK has been on a steady downward trend since at least the mid 90s. Even in 2020, when we had to lockdown due to a deadly circulating virus, the trend continued downwards.
But according to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) latest publication - ‘Sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2022’ - something happened in 2021 to reverse this trend. And sharply.
The sickness absence rate in 2020 was 1.8% but rose 44% to 2.6% in 2022. Within two years almost 20 years of progress has been wiped out with absence rates similar to those in 2004.
biggest increase has been in healthy people. There is a 26% rise in absence rates in people with long term health conditions but a 50% increase in those without any long term health conditions.
Military Complex Goes After Tucker by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
The longtime Fox News host was one of the only voices on television to consistently criticize the upper echelons of the D.C. Uniparty military industrial regime. From the Slava Slush Fund in Ukraine to the Biden Administration’s continuing undeclared wars in the Middle East and Africa, Carlson fiercely critiqued the unaccountable global war machine.
It should go without saying that scrutinizing U.S. military policy is not akin to saying negative things about individual service members. While this is common sense outside of the D.C. Beltway, it is a truly radical concept within it.
Senior military officials took to the corporate press this week to smear Carlson as having an un-American, anti-U.S. military worldview.
This generals class — none of whom have ever won a war — believes their personal and professional aspirations are not just aligned with the country’s interests, but no different than them.
Randi Lies About Everything by JESSICA HOCKETT
"We spent every day from February on, trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools. But we also knew that people had to be safe. And maybe it's because I live in New York City. I live near a hospital. Every other minute there was an ambulance. There was terror. Our members were terrified. Others were terrified. "
Reliable sources say the hospital closest to Ms. Weingarten is New York Presbyterian-Columbia.
Like hospitals citywide (and across America), emergency department visits and inpatient admissions at NYP-Columbia plummeted with “stay home” orders.
Healthy User Bias In Vaxes by MATHEW CRAWFORD
From the time that vaccines are rolled out, there is a brief span during 2021 Q3 when vaccine uptake shows negative correlation with the ACMR, suggestive of at least some vaccine effectiveness (VE). However, as I pointed out in my re-evaluation of the Society of Actuaries report last year, this appears to be mean-reversion from the first COVID-19 wave. More people died in the counties with higher vaccination rates before vaccine rollout, so there were fewer [elderly in particular] at high risk of dying later on.
Put simple: This graph fits perfectly with the hypothesis that all apparent VE is simply HUB. But we can check the Healthy User Bias (HUB) against the Wealthy User Bias (WUB), which should look highly similar under my model, to see if the results look different. They do not.
The mRNA Operating System by KAREN KINGSTON
In 2021 Moderna proudly boasted that their mRNA is a gene-editing technology platform using software programs, called mRNA, to encode new genetic codes in human cells.
The 2021 Moderna site clearly defines mRNA as a software program that makes ‘proteins’ (artificially-programmed genetic material foreign to the human species) in humans. The mRNA injections do not contain biological RNA, but contain programmable technologies/electronic devices.
“We set out to create an mRNA technology platform that functions very much like an operating system (OS) on a computer. It is designed so that it can plug and play with different programs. In our case, the ‘program’ or ‘app’ is our mRNA drug - the unique sequence (program) that codes for a protein.” - Moderna website, July 2021
Finland Mask Study by DAVID ZWEIG
Turku—the city with school mask mandates for kids down to age 10 (versus age 12 in the other cities)—had a higher incidence of Covid cases. The authors also looked specifically at case rates among 10 to 12 year olds, and found no overall benefit of the mask mandate for that age group in Turku. In conclusion, the authors write, “face mask recommendations in schools did not reduce COVID-19 incidence among 10–12-year-olds in Finland.”
In a recent interview, Anthony Fauci said that “at the population level, masks work at the margins—maybe 10 percent.”
The hedged specificity of “maybe 10 percent” was based on discredited results from a study in Bangladesh. But the more important part of the quote is his somewhat remarkable admission that masks at a population level—meaning when mandated or recommended for the community or schools, for example—only “work at the margins.” In other words, at best, there is a meager effect.
Fauci’s somewhat heretical admission comes on the heels of a new study from Finland, which found school mask mandates for younger children did nothing.
Competing Financial Superpowers by SASHA LATYPOVA
Here is an interesting graph of the change in money supply. It does look a bit apocalyptic.
The goal of this is to crash the economy: destruction of demand through depopulation, which contracts the global balance sheet and enables both population and money-supply “re-set”. That’s what the self appointed criminal gang of “owners” mean by the global reset.
Christine Lagarde is caught publicly in the act of telling the truth! This can only mean that the situation is indeed dire…in the highly veiled language of the central bankers she is announcing that they will now be overtly (rather than covertly) waging financial wars. She has announced the bank’s readiness to engage in a financial global apocalypse.
Fragmentation of the global supply chain is ongoing as unruly business owners are not stupid enough to fall for “inflation reduction act”, and “strategic autonomy agendas”. How dare they doubt the pronouncements of great government leaders!
the unruly countries are also running for the exits and de-dollarizing the trade, which makes central bankers nervous
The Absurdities Of Trans Activism by PHILIP O'REILLY
radical trans activists and their allies in the media are insisting that tolerance is not enough. Instead, we are being told, not asked, to validate the beliefs of a group of people who have either a tenuous hold on reality or are intent on redefining it to suit their personal preferences. They insist one’s gender is something that can be chosen, often varying on a daily or hourly basis.
an insistence that reality is not rational, determinable, and objective. It instead is governed by the subjective feelings of individuals who, with the assistance of “magic words” (pronouns) and personal feelings, can redefine reality itself and insist that the rest of us comply with their beliefs.
Allowing transgender activists to spread and enforce a belief system that enables them to reject science and redefine reality based on their own personal feelings is a slow road to hell…It is time to push back against the demands of trans activists and insist on scientific rationalism. As Voltaire wisely said, “[t]hose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
School Choice To Save Civilization by el gato malo
these are not people you want to share a civilization with.
because they are not civilized.
civilization lies in self governance, not in dominion over others.
and all these people know is domination and dressing up their intolerance of you as “tolerance” for their endless attacks it not “inclusive pluralism” it’s brainwashed barbarism and there is no way to reason with it, accommodate it into quiescence, or live beside it in peace.
the identity lies not in an outcome but in the activism itself. so it will never stop. it cannot be appeased or satiated. each new meal evokes naught but greater caverns of hunger.
to be sure, it’s not all of the kids, but it’s enough to make them dominant even as a deranged shouty minority.
education is not too important to be left to the private sector.
it’s too important to be left anywhere near the government.
anything would be better and a free market would be MUCH better. fund every kid. make the schools compete for them by offering good product
Excluding Contrary Voices by EUGYPPIUS
Major media engage in a power process that determines the range of acceptable debate and ensures uniformity among elites on key questions. Carlson…is now decidedly outside that process; the range of debate just got that much narrower, and the enforcement of regime-favouring orthodoxies that much easier. The result, in our eyes, is a narrow monotonous establishment discourse, but this doesn’t mean that mainstream media is dead, merely that it’s excluding ever more contrary voices.
In his recent statement, Carlson remarks that political discourse in the United States increasingly resembles that of a “one-party state.” The phenomenon is not confined to America. The establishment responded to the twin 2016 populist backlashes of Brexit and Trump’s election by circling their wagons and working to establish ideological conformity across all major Western institutions, as a means of preempting similar upsets from the unwashed masses in the future. One effect of this campaign is the ongoing exclusion of all nonconforming voices from the press, in favour of a bland, paternalistic Pravda-esque uniparty discourse.
UK: Vaxed Death Rate Jumps by Alex Berenson
[In June 2021] an unvaccinated 70-something had about a 4.5 percent chance of dying for the year - 1 in 22 odds.
Meanwhile, a “fully vaccinated” person - someone more than 21 days past his second dose - had only a 1.8 percent annual risk of death.
Now jump ahead a year, to June 2022. Again, England had very few Covid deaths that month, so whatever impact the shots have on Covid won’t matter to these figures. Seasonal patterns in mortality shouldn’t matter either, since both charts use June.
The pool of unjabbed people remains very small, but death rates in the group have fallen notably - from an annualized rate to 4.5 percent to only 3.2 percent
But even more interesting is that all the vaccinated groups with the exception of people who received a third-dose/booster more than 21 days earlier now have a HIGHER death rate than the unvaccinated.
Most of those groups are very small, but the two-dose unboosted group is not. In fact, it is larger than the unvaccinated group. And it has an annual death rate of almost 5.5 percent
Pfizer’s Web Of Payouts by AUSSIE17
Pfizer and a bunch of "independent" groups are actually in cahoots…These groups are all about pushing vaccine mandates and the "safe and effective" narrative.
there are approximately 500 groups involved, and each got a nice fat payment from Pfizer.
Even more shocking is that these 28 pages of documents only show the groups that Pfizer is legally required to report on in the US. They don't even show the organizations that Pfizer sponsors outside of the US! There would be thousands if they had to report on all of them worldwide.
Check out the chart below to see how much cash Pfizer gave the prestigious Imperial College London. This is where many of the pro-experimental mRNA professors work in the UK.
Even though many of these professors don't have a "direct" conflict of interest, imagine how you'd feel if you worked at a place that got money from Pfizer. Would you be quick to speak out against them? Probably not. You might wanna play along with the whole "Safe and Effective" story to get ahead in your career.
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