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6.29.2023 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’):
Increase In Non-Cancer Prostate Disease by ASHMEDAI
Switzerland Votes For Vax Pass by Naked Emperor
The Rise Of Corporatism by Jeffrey Tucker
Fox News Implosion by JD RUCKER
“Flu” Vs Influenza by TOM JEFFERSON & CARL HENEGHAN
RSV Vax AEs by JESSICA ROSE
Resist AI Regulation by EL GATO MALO
Spike Exposure And Permanent Endothelial Activation by WALTER M CHESNUT
Healthy Vaccine Effect by ALEX BERENSON
Study Misleads On Myo by KELLEY K
Capture Of Education by Eric Kaufmann
Cultivating Critical Consciousness by LISA LOGAN
Randi Fails Up by EL GATO MALO
Lame BioWeapon Attempt by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Japan Continues The Scare Campaign by GUY GIN
Pfizer’s Halted Pregnancy Trial by MARTY MAKARY M.D., M.P.H.
Was Covid Novel & Deadly? by Thomas Verduyn, Dr Todd Kenyon and Dr Jonathan Engler
Fearing The Truth In AI by EL GATO MALO
Administrative Man Of The State by EUGYPPIUS
The Meeting That Never Happened by Erich Hartmann
Increase In Non-Cancer Prostate Disease by ASHMEDAI
Prostate conditions are overwhelmingly MCoD’s - meaning that they are either comorbid conditions in people who died for other reasons, or were themselves caused by the UCoD. In other words, they are mostly “died with” as opposed to “died because of”. (“Died with” here doesn’t mean it contribute at all to the death, just that it wasn’t the main thing that killed the person.)
in absolute terms, there are very few prostate deaths, meaning that it is difficult to draw any reliable conclusions from these data in a vacuum. However, the increase in 2022 is stark and surely merits a proper investigation (however unlikely it is to ever materialize because it may implicate a certain golden calf Pharma product). Also, we’re not operating in a vacuum - there is plenty of other data that exists surrounding excess mortality in the pandemic years.
Switzerland Votes For Vax Pass by Naked Emperor
Switzerland distinguished itself as one of the few nations globally that entrusted its citizens with the power to vote on measures concerning Covid-19. The first referendum took place in June 2021. It was a time when only approximately a third of the populace was vaccinated, yet the poll results exhibited a significant majority support for the Covid laws with a staggering 60.2% favouring them.
Not long afterwards, in November 2021, Switzerland’s second referendum took place. This vote was particularly contentious as it encompassed an array of substantial measures like stricter restrictions, comprehensive contact tracing, and the issuance of vaccination certificates. Despite the divisive nature of these policies, an even greater number of people endorsed them, with a 62% majority, which interestingly, was also the fourth-highest voter turnout in Swiss history, standing at 65.7%.
in 2023 the outcome is no different. Yesterday, a rare third referendum was held….the Swiss parliament decided to extend some aspects of the Covid laws, including the vaccine certificates, until summer 2024.
The Rise Of Corporatism by Jeffrey Tucker
corporatism. It refers to the merger of industry and state into a unit with the purpose of achieving some grand visionary end, the liberty of individuals be damned. The word itself predates its successor, which is fascism.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel…In his vision of politics, the nation as a whole needs a destiny that is consistent with his postulated laws of history. This holistic view was inclusive of church, industry, family, and individuals: everyone must march in the same direction.
The whole reaches its pinnacle in the institution of the state, he wrote in Philosophy of Right, which “is the actuality of the ethical idea, “the rationality of the ethical whole,” the “divine idea as it exists on earth,” and a “work of art in which the freedom of the individual is actualized and reconciled with the freedom of the whole.”
In the 21s century, it has been given new life and an ambition that is global in scope. But as regards the highest American ideals and enlightenment values of freedom for all, it really does represent the opposite.
It is also the single most vexing problem we face today, far more of a going concern than old archetypes of socialism and capitalism. Also in the American context, corporatism can come in forms that masquerade as both left and right. But make no mistake: the real target is always liberty traditionally understood.
Fox News Implosion by JD RUCKER
Fox News received the worst ratings news it has ever experienced on Friday, marking the continued implosion of the previously top-rated cable news channel.
“Last Friday, Fox News recorded its worst performance in primetime in the network's history. Just 109,000 people between the ages of 25 to 54 tuned into Tucker Carlson's old 8pm time slot, to watch the replacement show "Fox News Tonight."“
“How bad is that? To put it in context, "Fox News Tonight" was ranked 41st out of all cable news shows on Friday. This is the time slot that used to routinely be ranked number one.”
Fox News is willfully misleading Americans. They have been doing so for some time, working as controlled opposition by sprinkling globalist propaganda in with their occasional moments of ideological clarity.
They didn't like Tucker Carlson. They don't like any of the current hosts who are marginally patriotic or who embrace the truth. They tolerate the occasional truth as a means to entice people into absorbing the propaganda they deliver.
Fox News does the bidding of Big Pharma. They work on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. They cover for George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates. In short, the network operates as an organization that must be considered the enemy of the people.
“Flu” Vs Influenza by TOM JEFFERSON & CARL HENEGHAN
Cochrane reviews show that vaccines could only affect the most (i. e. if they had 100% efficacy) some 7 TO 15% of the annual flu burden, since this is the proportion of people with the flu who truly have influenza.
we aim to control a major health problem, influenza-like illness (“the flu”), with a series of preventive interventions which can, in the best case scenario, prevent only 15% of that problem while making people believe we can deal with the lot.
The autumn-winter time is the time when (for example) we would expect Rhinoviruses, Parainfluenza Viruses, and Respiratory Syncytial Viruses to be circulating.
These cannot be attacked by the influenza vaccine. In other words, vaccination programmes are directed against what surveillance systems worldwide call “influenza” but, in reality, are influenza-like illness/flu. Surveillance systems cannot distinguish the two and provide reliable estimates of impact. This point is the key to understanding what comes next.
RSV Vax AEs by JESSICA ROSE
This product has been approved by the FDA for use in individuals 60 years and older as of May 3, 2023. My concern here is that the age grouping will get increasingly lower for approval, until this product also gets onto the childhood vaccination schedule as the COVID-19 products did. In this FDA news release, the following is written:
“Among a subset of these clinical trial participants, the most commonly reported side effects by individuals who received Arexvy were injection site pain, fatigue, muscle pain, headache and joint stiffness/pain. Among all clinical trial participants, atrial fibrillation within 30 days of vaccination was reported in 10 participants who received Arexvy and 4 participants who received placebo. “
In addition to this limited information on potential side effects, they also report on acute disseminated encephalomyelitis since an individual succumbed to this and died whilst concomitantly having been injected with an influenza shot and the RSV shot. Another individual succumbed to Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Resist AI Regulation by EL GATO MALO
once, what you said 5 years ago was forgotten. but no longer. not even when you delete the tweets. the internet remembers. and reputation is all.
AI poses dire threats to the credentialed classes. lawyers, doctors, lower level and possibly soon higher level coders. lots of people with expensive educations, credentials and licensure that grants guild privilege (and assures guild level profit protection) and that stymies innovation and affordable access are at massive schumpeterian risk.
and these people are connected.
they will use the machinery of government and media to fight the encroachment that threatens their fiefdoms and frees the rest of us.
and this is a fight we must make sure they lose.
and it’s why we must resist the calls to “regulate AI” and instead demand that it be free.
Spike Exposure And Permanent Endothelial Activation by WALTER M CHESNUT
much of what follows an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection (Long COVID), or Spike Protein exposure, can be explained as a dysregulation of cell adhesion, initiating in the Endothelium.
THE ENDOTHELIUM MAY BECOME PERMANENTLY ACTIVATED BY THE SPIKE PROTEIN
The body must either be unable to clear the Spike Protein (inability to break it down) or, the Spike Protein is being constantly produced, or both.
Healthy Vaccine Effect by ALEX BERENSON
The most important open secret in public health is three words: healthy vaccine effect.
Scientists have noticed the phenomenon with flu shots for decades.
Adults who get vaccinated are generally healthier and have better medical care than the unjabbed. Also, doctors often withhold vaccines from terminally ill people. Even a 2011 study of flu shots in hospice care excluded patients with under two months to live.
The importance of this bias to vaccine epidemiology can’t be overstated. It means “observational” studies - studies based on real-world use - overestimate how well vaccines work at preventing disease and death.
But for the public health experts who promote flu and Covid jabs for adults, the hidden bias is a feature, not a bug. Most of them have a Fight Club attitude towards it: the first rule of the healthy vaccine effect is we don’t talk about the healthy vaccine effect.
Study Misleads On Myo by KELLEY K
The first problem with this study is that it does not look at the subgroup that is of specific concern for post-vax myocarditis from the Covid vaccine — young men after dose 2.
The study combines rates for males and females in their comparisons, even though it is well-known that the risk is MUCH higher in young men than in young women. Much like how they combined men and women, the study also combined risks from the first and second dose in their analysis. It’s also well-known that the risk is MUCH higher after the second dose.
In order to make their case, the authors compared their diluted risk of myocarditis from the Covid vaccine to the risk of myocarditis from the SMALLPOX vaccine. This vaccine is not commonly used and has well-known risks of myocarditis, so it’s a bizarre and unfair comparison.
this paper compares their diluted rate of myocarditis from Covid vaccination to the rate of myocarditis from Covid infection. For this, they use a very flawed MMWR as their source.
When studies like this one use misleading data, they are not providing the “important context” on “risks and benefits” as they claim. Instead papers like this just add to suspicions that public health is irreparably compromised.
Capture Of Education by Eric Kaufmann
Striking fear into pupils results in less expressive freedom, which makes race relations more strained. The share of nonblack pupils saying they felt uncomfortable criticizing a black classmate increases from 32 percent to 50 percent between those with no CSJ [Critical Social Justice] exposure and those with heavy exposure to CSJ. The same results can be seen with corporate DEI programs, which sharply increase workers’ reluctance to criticize a black coworker. If a black pupil or a coworker doesn’t receive constructive criticism of their performance or ideas, they are likely to be disadvantaged compared to their nonblack peers.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and former NIH Director Francis Collins were aware of, and discussed, “breakthrough cases” of COVID in January 2021 — right when the vaccines became widely available.
Two months after discussing this data, she said vaccinated people “don’t carry the virus” and “don’t get sick.” In a congressional hearing, after it became clear people were able to get infected with COVID even after receiving the vaccine, she defended her original statements by claiming it was true at the time she said it — namely, for the [strains] we were dealing with in early 2021.
the fact vaccine mandates were pushed, even though those in charge knew people could contract and spread the virus while vaccinated, is indefensible.
Cultivating Critical Consciousness by LISA LOGAN
behind the veneer of seemingly charitable efforts to help students from impoverished communities by providing extra social services at school lies a carefully crafted alignment of policy and practices across the health and education sectors in order to accomplish a targeted political-social agenda.
the CDC’s The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model implemented through the Whole Child Design Principles of the Science of Learning and Development (SoLD) Alliance (Figure 1) is actually a backdoor method to ensure that the teaching and learning of critical pedagogy is infused into every entity providing services to the child within the community.
Lately, it’s become increasingly clear that the “identity,” “empathy,” and “perspective-taking” aspects of SEL are being intentionally manipulated by some educators to have conversations about race, class and gender identity in the classroom that have nothing to do with enhancing those skills in their traditional sense, and everything to do with cultivating a critical consciousness.
Randi Fails Up by EL GATO MALO
this whole system has become one big tyranny of failing up. the worse you behave and the more damage you do, the more everyone wants you onside and hands you more power so long as you’re going to use it in support of whatever oppressive purpose du jour happens to be.
they are happy to use any pretext to justify the taking of power and the “credential” gained by the last failure is used to provide proof of bona fides to advise on the next one. it’s a circular self-promotion scheme to keep using the honors they bestow upon one another to justify the grant of further prerogative.
it has no sense, no morality, and no accountability.
it’s just a will to power.
Lame BioWeapon Attempt by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
from the very beginning of the covid hysteria era, there was never an out of the ordinary disease burden imposed upon human civilization. The extensive burden to humanity was applied by governments, not a virus.
Lab leak or not, what happened amounted to just another cold/flu respiratory season. Everything else was the result of human intervention. It wasn’t a virus that shut down society and spooled up the money printer. Your government did that.
let’s look at the real data from Diamond Princess, the ultimate petri dish. This data makes clear that there was no “severe strain” in the first place.
Of the 3,711 people aboard the ship, only 20% tested positive for evidence of the coronavirus, via shoddy PCR swabs. Yet among those 20 percent, the vast majority of passengers and crew who tested positive had zero symptoms.
By the time all passengers had disembarked from the vessel, there were only 7 reported deaths, with the average age of this cohort being in the mid 80s. It still remains unclear if these passengers died from, with, or without Covid.
Japan Continues The Scare Campaign by GUY GIN
Japanese TV has been running variations of the same vax promotional material since the jabs became available: “Cases are rising!” “Everyone is getting the vaccine.” “The vaccine will give you piece of mind.” “You should get the vaccine. Trust me, I’m a doctor.”
Compared with the military-level psyops used in the west, Japan’s techniques might seem unimpressive. But by February 2023, Japan had administered twice as many boosters per capita than western countries that had fascistically persecuted the unvaxed. So what Japan’s vax promotion lacks in sophistication it more than makes up for in sustainability.
Pfizer’s Halted Pregnancy Trial by MARTY MAKARY M.D., M.P.H.
Pharma companies actually have a track record of halting trials that aren’t going their way, and hiding results they don’t like. It allows them to control the narrative and manipulate markets. In many cases where data is hidden, Pharma companies play doctors like a fiddle.
Over the last two years, healthy pregnant women asked if Covid vaccines were safe for them. Public health officials said “yes” when the correct answer should have been “we don’t know,” given that pregnant and breastfeeding women were excluded from the original Covid vaccine trials.
To settle the controversy, Pfizer launched a randomized controlled trial of 4,000 pregnant women in February 2021. But five months into the study, after enrolling 349 women, the study mysteriously stopped recruiting. Pfizer never gave us a reason. Most concerning, the pregnancy outcomes of those who participated in the trial, and their babies, are still not public today, nearly years later.
Was Covid Novel & Deadly? by Thomas Verduyn, Dr Todd Kenyon and Dr Jonathan Engler
SARS-CoV-2 was “novel” only in the sense that it was first discovered in early 2020. It is certain that it existed globally for at least six months before this. Already by January 2020 about half the world’s population was immune to this virus. Nor was Covid outside the parameters of known treatments available for respiratory diseases. These facts should have been front and center in the media, and should have had a strong influence on government policies. Sadly, all this information was buried.
The fact that 2020 was the worst year for only 4 of these 33 countries lends support to our conclusion that Covid was about as bad as a normal flu season. The fact that 2021 was the worst year for 10 countries helps reinforce our previous findings that the Covid shots did very little to prevent Covid deaths and instead caused a great deal of deaths from adverse events.
Covid mortality (when adjusted for only one of several factors) ranked ninth among the leading causes of death in Canada, the same rank normally held by influenza and pneumonia.
Fearing The Truth In AI by EL GATO MALO
unfettered self-learning AI is not biased. it is not prejudiced. those words literally do not have any meaning there.
they are literally calling deep learning from datasets racist.
what teacher’s union could survive having to compete against a vastly superior product that’s available anywhere, anytime at a cost an order of magnitude lower than the service they currently monopolize?
bingo.
none.
and so they seek to shift the playing field
they do not fear that AI will lie to us.
they fear that AI will tell us the truth about just how much our “leaders” have lied to us.
Administrative Man Of The State by EUGYPPIUS
Administrative Man. This is how state bureaucrats everywhere approach their subject populations, and it is an unavoidable artefact of routine bureaucratic processes like regulation and taxation…everybody is more or less the same, subject to nudging via the same incentives, requiring the same protections from the same risks, and likely to benefit from the same one-size-fits-all solutions.
The highly differentiated lives that people actually lead – their vast differences in personal circumstances, wealth, individual preferences, religious beliefs and political opinions – are at best ignored, at worst considered a massive inconvenience.
Our states are some of the most powerful and overextended in history; no system has been so well positioned to impose its vision of politics and culture on its subjects ever before.
There is an unstated, unconsciously harboured bureaucratic vision of a country made up entirely of Administrative Men as the ideal receptacles of bureaucratic solutions, which are of course always correct, except when the people fail them.
The Meeting That Never Happened by Erich Hartmann
In the third week of March a secret emergency meeting was scheduled to take place between President Donald Trump, the COVID Task Force, and eight of the most eminently qualified public health experts in the world. This elite group of scientists was slated to present the highest-level decision-makers in our government with an alternative POV to lock down; a much-needed second opinion on national turtling.
We didn’t know it at the time, but this would have been the most important meeting of the COVID-19 era. But it never occurred.
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