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5.26.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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What $150 Billion Gets You by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
EU’s Periodic Safety Update Report #3 by SONIA ELIJAH
Oregon Ends 5-Day Isolation by KELLEY K
Vaccines Cause Autism by Steve Kirsch
Vaxes Did Not Reduce Respiratory Deaths by John Dee
Cardiovascular Injury After 5th mRNA Shot by Dr. Peter McCullough
Dumbphones Instead Of Smartphones by Olivia Reingold
GOP Needs To Pivot by REBECCA VELO
War On Reality by CJ HOPKINS
10 Year Average For Excess Death by NORMAN FENTON & MARTIN NEIL
Post-Vax Vaginal Bleeding by ALEX BERENSON
Media As Climate Change Marketing Arm by el gato malo
Under 25s 52.5% Of Myo Cases by Meryl Nass
Eco-Money Laundering by Dr. Robert Malone
FDA Knew LNPs Went Everywhere Before EUA by Aaron Siri
Duke’s Foibles May Lead To “Yulia’s Law” by ALEX BERENSON
Is Spike Causing Demyelination Epidemic? by WALTER M CHESNUT
Australia’s Dystopian Covid Censorship by MATT TAIBBI
Kennedy Challenges Biden On Ukraine by Celia Farber
Early Use Of Mulnupiravir by Dr. Peter McCullough
What $150 Billion Gets You by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Five months ago to this day, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky delivered what has now become an infamous address to the U.S. Congress. During his speech, Zelensky boldly declared the city of Bakhmut as his country’s “stronghold in the east,” adding, “the fight for Bakhmut will change the trajectory of our war for independence and for freedom.”
with the fall of Bakhmut, the media and NATO-aligned governments are in full damage control mode, writing off this devastating battlefield loss as unimportant. Nonetheless, no matter how they spin it, Ukraine’s loss of Bakhmut is a big deal. Russia has captured a city that allows their forces to disrupt critical supply lines. It also opens up a path of attack to multiple additional Ukrainian cities.
Where exactly did that $150 billion in U.S. taxpayer supplied aid end up, and when, if ever, will the people in charge consider striking a peace deal to the benefit of humanity?
EU’s Periodic Safety Update Report #3 by SONIA ELIJAH
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, the EU’s Periodic Safety Update Report #3 (PSUR #3), covering the 6-month period of 19 December 2021 through to 18 June 2022, recently became available
An overview of the data
508,351 case reports (individuals) containing 1,597,673 events
Three times the number of cases were reported for women than men
1/3 of all cases were classified as serious
3280 deaths reported
60% of cases were reported with either outcome unknown or not recovered
92% of cases did not have any comorbidities
Highest number of cases occurred in the 31-50 year age group
Germany had the highest recorded number of cases (22.5% of all reported worldwide cases)
This report focuses on the pregnancy and lactation adverse event cases in the 396-page bombshell report.
Oregon Ends 5-Day Isolation by KELLEY K
Oregon, a state that enforced many stringent Covid restrictions over the past three years, is the first state I’m aware of that has dropped recommendations to isolate after testing positive for Covid-19.
For much of the pandemic, the CDC advised anyone infected with Covid-19 to isolate for 10 days (or longer in some cases). Then in late December 2021, near the peak of the initial Omicron wave, the CDC announced that they were shortening isolation times to 5 days, followed by 5 days of masking.
This update was welcomed by many, but infuriated many others. The change was met with a lot of debate about whether or not to require a negative test before ending isolation. In the end, the CDC recommended that people who wanted could take an antigen test before ending isolation, but that it wasn’t necessary.
Many other countries and Canadian provinces have ended their Covid isolation guidance already. As with most Covid protocols, the CDC is behind much of the world in this regard.
Vaccines Cause Autism by Steve Kirsch
According to one of the world’s most respected authorities on autism, all, or nearly all, of the world’s top 100 scientists in the autism field know that vaccines are the primary driver behind the autism crisis in America. They just aren’t allowed to talk about it in public. If they did that, they would lose their funding, their job, and be the subject of intimidation techniques from their peers. So they keep quiet and nobody knows what they really think.
The bottom line is that the experts know how to solve the chronic disease crisis in America, but they are not allowed to talk about it. And even if they did, no one would listen or believe them. They would be labeled as liars and misinformation spreaders.
the mainstream medical community and CDC will never do these studies. And if they did, they’d never publicly release the underlying data.
Vaxes Did Not Reduce Respiratory Deaths by John Dee
COVID is held to be a respiratory illness first and foremost, so if the vaccines are working as claimed then we should see not just a reduction in incidence of COVID but a reduction in incidence of concomitant respiratory diagnoses whether acute or not, but especially if acute.
In plain English, the vaccines have not reduced incidence of COVID death associated with respiratory conditions.
All that has happened is that the likelihood of a positive test result is lowered for those who were jabbed prior to death. I suggest that this may arise through patient choice and/or because protocol dictates vaccinated in-patients are tested less aggressively and/or because protocol dictates that the sickest patients should not be exposed to the vaccine. There may be other reasons, but what is abundantly clear to me right now is that we’re looking at the biggest cover-up in the history of medicine.
Even in the heat of the third wave and truck loads of COVID death…when you’d think vaccine benefit for COVID as a respiratory disease was at an all time high. Not so!
Cardiovascular Injury After 5th mRNA Shot by Dr. Peter McCullough
In the elderly with baseline heart disease, any degree of cardiovascular injury could be disastrous as published by Yamamoto et al in an 81 year old man after his fifth mRNA shot.
The authors report this man decompensated within a day of his fifth shot and required defibrillation, mechanical ventilation, and full life support measures for myocarditis which precipitated the cardiac arrest, conduction defects, and heart failure. He stayed in the hospital over a month.
“The COVID-19 vaccine is thought to cause myocarditis via direct damage by free spike protein and induction of inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-1β and IL-6) by the lipid nanoparticles covering the mRNA. Expression of free spike protein may increase after the initial bivalent vaccination because antibodies against the spike protein of the BA.4-5 variant are yet to be generated.”
I wonder how many elderly patients have died within a few days of the COVID-19 vaccine, unrecognized and not reported by families, doctors, or others. Only all-cause mortality data published in the coming months to years will give us a clue. In the meantime, all seniors should understand that even if prior shots were tolerated, the next one could be fatal.
Dumbphones Instead Of Smartphones by Olivia Reingold
By age 12, seven out of ten American kids own a smartphone. They also spend about eight hours online a day, inhaling TikTok trends, toggling between texts, and turning their daily lives into Snapchat and Instagram content. Most will have seen pornography by age 12, with three in four teenage boys saying they watch adult content at least once a week.
In 2018, Lance Black, a Utah father of six, became a founder and investor in Gabb Wireless—a company making internet-free smartphones. The devices, which start at $150, are aimed at kids 5 to 15 and loaded only with the essentials: features for texting, calling, and a GPS tracker for parents. (Call them dumbphones.)
“It has a touchscreen, and you can call and text, so kids aren’t embarrassed to pull it out,” Black tells me, adding that it runs on an Android-based operating system.
GOP Needs To Pivot by REBECCA VELO
The Republican Party has long been known as the party of the rich old White man. But this has been slowly changing. Many Black and especially Brown people are beginning to throw their support to the GOP because of the far-left radical takeover of the Democratic Party. And Democrats are increasingly becoming the party of the elite.
The problem seems to be that mainstream Republicans are still stuck in the old days of warmongering and low taxes. The majority of the public could care less about the war in Ukraine or lowering taxes. They want lower grocery bills, schools that actually educate, safe neighborhoods, orderly immigration, and better job opportunities. These are all policies Democrats seemingly no longer prioritize.
It's time for the GOP to recognize the party’s new calling as that of the working class and minority.
The GOP needs to make a huge play to shift demographics. They need to start courting minorities, women, and the working class in a BIG way.
they must push back on the racist and fascist narrative. Make Democrats describe what they mean by ‘racist’.
they must begin reaching out and campaigning in urban areas.
War On Reality by CJ HOPKINS
The War on Reality is a civil war, but it is much more than just a civil war. It is an asymmetrical, polymorphous, metastatic, multiplicitous war. An ontological free-for-all. It has no conventions or rules of engagement. There are no battle lines. The battle is everywhere. Alliances shift from day to day. It is chaos, unrelenting, inescapable chaos. An omnipresent, immaterial, omnipotent organism attacking itself. It is continual, and completely unwinnable. It is unwinnable because it has already been won. It ended in victory the moment it began, and now we’re doomed to go on fighting it forever, or until some less ethereal leviathan is born, or reborn, out of its ashes.
The point is, the ongoing War on Reality is not a means to an end. It is the end. The official ideology (i.e., “reality”) that GloboCap, Inc. is implementing is not a set of official values or beliefs. It is the absence of any values or beliefs, any non-commodifiable values and beliefs. Values and beliefs are fine, as long as they’re just empty signs, logos, meaningless identity statements, and not principles and beliefs you are trying to live by, and that you are crazy enough to fight to preserve. Those kind of values have to go, so that the people of the New Normal future can be free to believe that war is peace, ignorance is strength, two plus two equals five, men have periods, Donald Trump is a Russian secret agent and literally Hitler, Vladimir Putin (who is also literally Hitler) invaded Ukraine for no reason whatsoever, or certainly not because of anything to do with GloboCap, Inc., or NATO, or the non-existent Ukrainian neo-Nazis, and then destroyed his own pipelines in the Baltic Sea, or whatever blatantly ridiculous nonsense they (i.e., the people of the New Normal future) are told to pretend or to actually believe by Rachel Maddow and the other talking heads you saw in Orfalea’s video.
10 Year Average For Excess Death by NORMAN FENTON & MARTIN NEIL
We believe that using a 10-year pre-covid (i.e., pre-2020) period is the best way to determine excess deaths, assuming stability and homogeneity in the population and in disease profiles.
by including a year that is higher than expected and excluding a normal year, the excess is manipulated to look smaller.
Thus, for example, for its 2022 figures the ONS in the UK uses the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 for its ‘baseline’ and for 2023 it uses the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022. We believe this is extremely duplicitous, since the high excess numbers in 2021 result in artificially suppressing the excess death figures in 2022, and the high excess numbers in both 2021 and 2022 result in even greater artificial suppression of the excess death figures in 2023.
Post-Vax Vaginal Bleeding by ALEX BERENSON
Women 45 and over had a high risk of severe vaginal bleeding after receiving mRNA Covid shots, Swedish researchers found after studying almost 3 million women.
The increased risk lasted for at least three months after women received a shot and was even higher after the third shot than the first two. That finding suggests what scientists call a “dose-response relationship,” strong evidence the link was not coincidence.
Overall, a third mRNA dose raised the risk of severe, medically diagnosed bleeding episodes by 25-45 percent. Some women required inpatient hospital care.
Media As Climate Change Marketing Arm by el gato malo
this is not how a news service functions. this is how a marketing department functions.
climate activists pumped $8 million into AP and got a couple dozen new reporters led by peter prengaman who rapidly amassed a team of climate zealots to engage in one sided reporting on this topic.
you cannot read any newswire, newspaper, watch TV, movies, read, anyhting without finding global warming embedding. it’s just everyplace and ubiquitous and the whole “the science is settled” claptrap really gained currency here.
but is this a genuine movement or is it bought and paid for astroturfing and marketing? does everyone really feel this way or are small groups being paid (and well) to push a viewpoint that happens to help those aspiring to power to control half the world through energy, emissions, and regulators reach and that provides massive subsidy and profits for a vast set of corporate machinery that profits from the green grift?
the goal is to make you hear it so many times that you just cannot get away from it and the sheer mass makes it start to feel like reality.
those who pay the piper every shall call the tune, and so news is not news, it’s informercial. this is not data or assessment, it’s “sham wow” on relentless all day every day sale cycle.
Under 25s 52.5% Of Myo Cases by Meryl Nass
people under age 25 comprised only 8.8% of the second doses received, but were 52.5% of the myocarditis cases reported. On this basis they were about 6 times as likely to report myocarditis as the whole group
fully 1/3 of the vaccinated 16-17 year olds did not go back for their second dose. Presumably most had a troublesome adverse reaction.
I think they did not want us to see the ARR for myocarditis associated with Moderna’s second dose, because it would have been sky-high. (Note that in studies from many countries, the Moderna vaccine is much more strongly associated with myocarditis than the Pfizer vaccine. Note also that the DHHS is a patent holder for Moderna’s vax but I do not think it is for Pfizer’s.)
Eco-Money Laundering by Dr. Robert Malone
A non-profit organization called the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) boasts that their mission is to “raise funds for and make grants to the disruptive nonviolent climate movement.” This effort has been extraordinarily successful.
In 2022 alone, they gave away $5.1 million to 44 “ultra-ambitious” groups. Many of these groups are in the business of illegal vandalism, and some are most definitely not “non-violent”.
the Climate Emergency Fund states that they are basically a money laundering organization: they take donations, then they take the risk for laundering the money (donations) to their favorite organization - which then conducts illegal activity, for which CEF then asserts no knowledge of - that is, until they brag about it in their annual report or on their website (or see the images above), all the while again claiming that they only fund “legal and eligible” activities.
FDA Knew LNPs Went Everywhere Before EUA by Aaron Siri
When the Covid-19 vaccines rolled out, public health officials took great pains to downplay how the vaccines spread from the injection site. Articles with language like this were common: “Most of the mRNA vaccine stayed in the injection site muscle—where you get the shot.”
We now know the truth. The lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, travel widely throughout the body. These LNPs carry the Frankenstein mRNA that causes the cells to produce spike proteins.
from the lawsuit that we brought against the FDA demanding the release of the Pfizer documents, we now know that this same data was also provided to the FDA. What is really troubling, however, is that this document was dated November 9, 2020—meaning, prior to any Emergency Use Authorization or public use of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.
It is one thing to have inflammation in one’s bicep, but it is quite another to have it in your heart muscle, liver, ovaries, etc.
This is again why the government should not be in the business of promoting, let alone mandating, any product. It becomes impossible to acknowledge safety issues without self-incrimination.
Duke’s Foibles May Lead To “Yulia’s Law” by ALEX BERENSON
Yulia Hicks, a 14-year-old North Carolina girl denied a lifesaving kidney transplant for the crime of being unvaccinated.
Transplant surgeons at Duke University Hospital told her parents that Yulia could not stay on the transplant list if she did not have a Covid shot, even though she had already had Covid.
The story, which Fox News picked up, led to a wave of publicity - and more than 30 potential donors stepped forward. Fortunately, one was a match.
Now, another North Carolina hospital has stepped up, and Yulia will receive a new kidney from a live donor tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the North Carolina legislature is considering “Yulia’s Law,” which would bar transplant discrimination on the basis of Covid vaccination status. The bill overwhelmingly passed North Carolina’s House on May 2 and has passed a first reading in the Senate.
Is Spike Causing Demyelination Epidemic? by WALTER M CHESNUT
the Spike Protein is an invasive proteopathic seed capable of cellular disruption, destruction and inducing prionopathies.
Perhaps the most disturbing outcome of this neurovirulence is the induction of a chronic demyelinating disease. The pathogenesis of this demyelinating disease fits hand-in-glove with SARS-CoV-2.
THE ANTIBODIES TO SARS-COV-2 (SPIKE) THEMSELVES can induce disease.
As early as two years ago, it was observed that the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 can induce demyelination.
demyelination may be the cause for the non-acute myocarditis sudden deaths.
we must endeavor to discover if, indeed, we are in the midst of a catastrophic global demyelination epidemic
Australia’s Dystopian Covid Censorship by MATT TAIBBI
In the months since the Twitter Files reports started to come out, we’re seeing more efforts around the globe to use public records searches and other methods to at least begin to drag out into the open the various state and quasi-state bureaucracies dedicated to policing the Internet.
Through a freedom of information request, a conservative Australian senator named Alex Antic revealed that the country’s Department of Home Affairs between 2017 and 2022 made “13,636 referrals to digital platforms to review content against their own terms of service.” Of those, 9000 were terrorism-related, but a full 4,213 were listed as “Covid-19 related” referrals.
18 emails to Twitter containing 223 total takedown requests from the Department of Home Affairs.
The DHA emails…show a stricter, more nakedly dystopian approach to speech control than we found in communications from American intelligence agencies in earlier Twitter Files reports.
Kennedy Challenges Biden On Ukraine by Celia Farber
Joe Biden is 100% disinterested in the will of the American people, and seems to be leading us into armageddon.
“President Joe Biden on Friday told G7 leaders at a summit in Japan that the United States will support a joint international effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s, a move paving the way for providing the fighter jets to Ukraine. Biden has not yet decided if the United States will directly send the aircraft to the country, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.
Biden’s Democratic contender Kennedy strongly rebuked the move, saying the United States continues to waste money in an effort that is counterproductive to the people of Ukraine.
“We were tricked. This is not a humanitarian war.”
Early Use Of Mulnupiravir by Dr. Peter McCullough
Xie et al reported from the Veterans Administration automated database and found that among US veterans of whom were 92% men age 70 years, 46% former smokers, 63% vaxxed and boosted, that early use of the SARS-CoV-2 polymerase inhibitor, mulnupiravir, especially if started on Day 1, was associated with reduced risk of post-acute sequalae, hospitalization, and death after acute COVID-19.
we use non-randomized analyses such as this not to make therapeutic claims on a specific drug, but to analyze overall patterns of care and in this case be reassured that early mulnupiravir as part of a multidrug regimen was associated with achieving the over-arching goal of reducing hospitalization and death.
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Vax Questions
This is an effort to consolidate the primary questions surrounding the new Covid vaccines. As I have stated before, I am pro-vax, pro-test, anti-rush. The Vax Questions generally fall into 4 categories: Technology itself (mRNA, DNA, etc.) Risks (Spike protein, LNPs, & processes involved—production, dosing, etc.)
Thank you for your relentless efforts compiling all this information!