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7.10.2023 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’):
Vaxes Saved No One by JOEL SMALLEY
Long Vax by REBEKAH BARNETT
Missouri Vs Biden by JUSTIN HART
More Jabs; Fewer Births by ALEX BERENSON
Lack Of Punishment by ZEPHARETH LEDBETTER
Parallel Polis by AARON KHERIATY, MD
OAS Demonstrated In Hamsters by NAKED EMPEROR
WHO & Gates Targeting Africa by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Free Speech Wins In Court by AARON KHERIATY, MD
Stanford’s Jack-Booted Nazis by MERYL NASS
Top Surgery Complications by PETER A. MCCULLOUGH, MD, MPH™
Protests The Sign Of Overabundance by ABE GREENWALD
Lancet Removes PrePrint by MATHEW ALDRED
Suicides Up Among Japanese Women by GUY GIN
Contaminated During Manufacturing by ANANDAMIDE
School Closures And Poor Journalism by KELLEY K
CDC Lies To Cover Up Lies by ASHMEDAI & COQUIN DE CHIEN
Practical Criminal Justice Reform by AUDRA FACINELLI
One-World Digital Currency by LEO HOHMANN
Puppet Master Myth by DAVID ZWEIG
Vaxes Saved No One by JOEL SMALLEY
in the ten months since July 2021, when the “vaccine” is alleged to have been *up to 100% effective*, there is pretty much the same amount of excess death (473k) as there was in the comparable ten months, just over a year before (482k), when there was no “vaccine”.
If the “vaccine” is also alleged to reduce mortality, how is it that excess deaths remain the same
The case that this last intervention made things worse is actually stronger than the case for it being effective.
However, this latter claim does not even have to be made in order to refute the claim that the “vaccine” is safe and effective.
if there is lower mortality coincident with decreasing rates of “vaccination”, at the same time this strongly suggests, once again, that it was the vaccine interfering with the natural, expected decline in mortality in the nine months from July 2021
- not that this point needs to be proven to simply reject the hypothesis that the vaccine was effective and saved any lives.
Long Vax by REBEKAH BARNETT
In the tweet, Dr Phelps, previous President of the Australian Medical Association and current member of the OzSAGE Covid working group, linked to a Science article titled, Rare link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness starts to gain acceptance.
there is still so much we don’t know about how these vaccines affect people, and there is still much research to be done. What we do know is that new and grave potential side effects are being discovered all the time, as evidenced by the numerous updates to the internationally recognised and WHO-endorsed Brighton Collaboration list of Covid vaccine serious adverse events.
Research out of Canberra University found that while Covid and vaccine related information from traditional news sources and government was met with skepticism during the pandemic, Australians placed high trust in doctors, scientists and health experts. When Dr Swan assured ABC’s audience that there were no surprises around the corner, it’s likely that many watching believed him.
Missouri Vs Biden by Justin Hart
A judge overseeing the case of Missouri vs. Biden (the BIG Covid censorship lawsuit brought by the AGs of Missouri and Louisiana and involving many members of Team Reality (including Jay Bhattacharya) just issued a BIG injunction against the government.
In short: the government will NO LONGER be able to censor you over social media.
The judge NAMED NAMES!
More Jabs; Fewer Births by ALEX BERENSON
several nations that had stable birth levels before the mRNAs were introduced in 2021 have seen sharp drops since. Sweden had about 115,000 births annually from 2012 to 2021. Last year, births plunged to 105,000. In 2023, they are tracking below 100,000. Germany has a similar trend.
The trend is not universal, and how the jabs might damage fertility remains unclear. They cause serious menstrual changes in many women, but large studies show their use in pregnancy does not cause miscarriages.
East Asian nations with near-universal mRNA jab uptake among adults already had shriveling birth rates. But since early 2022, they have seen births fall to levels previously considered unthinkable.
The crisis is most profound in South Korea, a country of 51 million that had barely 600 births a day in April. The South Korean birthrate is now barely one-third the level needed to keep the country’s population stable. Taiwan and Japan are barely in better shape. Japan had almost twice as many deaths as births last year.
Lack Of Punishment by ZEPHARETH LEDBETTER
almost every major American city is run by the left and that the majority of violent crimes happen there. Handcuffing the police and the public from being able to defend themselves, combined with revolving door justice, exacerbates the problem.
When Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York…from 1993-2001, stronger and more focused anti-crime measures…resulted in a precipitous drop in all crime. Contrary to leftist reason, this acted as more of a deterrent than a mass incarceration technique.
The prison population rose during the initial phases of implementation, though it didn’t continue to rise as many expected but instead reduced dramatically as potential perpetrators realized what zero tolerance meant.
Parallel Polis by AARON KHERIATY, MD
we are now at a hinge in history—the end of an age and the beginning of something new. Anyone who thinks he or she knows exactly what will emerge next is probably wrong. Whatever is coming next, it will be a very different world from the one we’ve inhabited since World War II. I am quite certain that many things will get worse before they get better. Our societal institutions—governmental, educational, communications, media, medical, public health, etc.—have failed us. The degree of rot in these institutions makes reform or repair, in the short term at least, impractical.
The common feature of all totalitarian systems is the prohibition of questions: every totalitarian regime first monopolizes what counts as rationality and determines what questions you are allowed to ask.
if you don’t see that precisely this is happening on an unprecedented scale globally, you have not been paying close attention.
“I suggest that we join forces in creating, slowly but surely, parallel structures that are capable, to a limited degree at least, of supplementing the generally beneficial and necessary functions that are missing in the existing structures, and where possible, to use those existing structures, to humanize them.” And he clarified that this strategy “need not lead to a direct conflict with the regime…”
The task, therefore, was to create so many of these parallel structures and institutions that the corrupt state would finally be limited in its reach…Elements of the parallel polis would always survive: as the state crushed one institution, two others would arise elsewhere.
today’s Parallel Polis should be grounded in three principles: Sovereignty, Solidarity, Subsidiarity.
OAS Demonstrated In Hamsters by NAKED EMPEROR
from the very beginning, one of the concerns with using vaccines against coronaviruses is the concept of Original Antigenic Sin (OAS). This phenomenon is where the immune system is trained on the variant in the vaccine but upon encountering a new but similar version of the virus, it responds based on its memory of the original virus rather than the new one.
A group of researchers wanted to investigate whether the theory held up in practice and have recently published their report called “Impact of imprinted immunity induced by mRNA vaccination in an experimental animal model” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. They used hamsters for their experiments because their immune responses can be similar to those of humans. The hamsters were given a three-dose mRNA vaccination, similar to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine used in humans. After the vaccinations, the hamsters were exposed to different variants of SARS-CoV-2.
When infected with BQ.1.1, the hamsters produce large immune responses to B.1.1 and BA.2 with a far weaker response to BQ.1.1. By the time the hamsters get infected with XBB.1, they hardly produce any immune response at all but are still producing a response to B.1.1
The immune response to XBB.1.5 was even weaker still and that is the current most dominant variant around the world.
recent studies have shown that vaccinated individuals are producing an IgG4 response and are therefore tolerating the virus in the same way we do pollen or bee stings.
So we are at the point where vaccinated individuals are no longer producing an antibody response to new variants, due to OAS, whilst allowing the virus to run riot in their bodies, due to the IgG4 response tricking their bodies into thinking the virus is as harmless as some pollen.
WHO & Gates Targeting Africa by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
WHO director Tedros Adhanom declared that 12 African countries will be receiving 18 million doses of malaria vaccine in the coming months, declaring that climate change is largely responsible for the continuing disease burden in the continent.
we’ve again encountered a situation in which the “cure” appears to be more threatening than the disease itself.
The only malaria “vaccine” that has been rolled out thus far is an injection called Mosquirix (RTS,S/AS01), which is produced by Big Pharma giant GSK.
The largest Mosquirix trials produced shockingly poor results, with the vaccine cohort having much worse outcomes than the placebo group. The vaccine group displayed ten times higher risk of meningitis and cerebral malaria, and a doubling in the risk of death compared to the placebo group. Even if the shots “work,” they do not achieve any temporary or long term sterilizing immunity or significant efficacious benefit, so in no way would it reduce the actual disease burden.
Nonetheless, the notoriously corrupt and captured World Health Organization has given its stamp of approval for the dangerous vaccine
Free Speech Wins In Court by AARON KHERIATY, MD
Courts rarely release rulings on federal holidays, but no doubt to drive home the point about how important this case is for our constitutionally guaranteed liberties, Judge Terry Doughty released on Independence Day his 155-page ruling on our request for a preliminary injunction against the government’s censorship regime.
he granted nearly all the provisions in our request, placing strict limits around any communication between government officials and social media companies. If such communications continue, they will be subject to subpoena in our case and could implicate the actors in criminal liabilities for violating the injunction.
the judge himself wrote in the decision, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” That, my friends, is a strong claim, but as I have previously argued, an entirely accurate one.
The New York Times reporters even wrung their hands worrying that the ruling could “curtail efforts to fight disinformation”—begging the question about who decides what constitutes disinformation. The First Amendment clearly indicates this cannot be the job of the government. More tellingly, the Times and the Post in their framing of the case simply said the quiet part out loud, indicating that these newspapers believe government censorship is good as long as it’s controlling the flow of information in directions that they approve.
Stanford’s Jack-Booted Nazis by MERYL NASS
The Stanford Internet Observatory…is a central node in the massive effort to censor EVERYTHING to keep out all the news that the USG and these losers have decided we are not allowed to hear. It is these “professionals” that greased the machinery of totalitarianism that has been creeping in on us further and further these past 3 and a half years. These so-called professionals made destruction of democracy trendy, a well-paid career that many students have now gotten degrees in, according to Mike Benz of the Freedom Foundation Online. They interfaced with social media companies for the USG, and did who knows what else to effectively keep the world population in the dark.
Renee DiResta is central to the operation of turning illegal viewpoint censorship into an academic field, and helped to mislabel free speech as mis, dis and malinformation, then call it a crime, which justified the massive censorship apparatus. She is one of the few fat spiders who spun the web that encircled the US (and other countries) to control what everyone has been allowed to see, and what they are not. She and her buddies like Alex Stamos and Kate Starbird pretended to be ivory tower academics when they were in reality jack-booted Nazis successfully hammering away and destroying our democracy.
Top Surgery Complications by PETER A. MCCULLOUGH, MD, MPH™
paper by Kääriäinen and coworkers from Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
It was notable that 40.4% of the patients had psychiatric diagnoses in addition to gender dysphoria. A concentric circular approach was used in 50.9% and a transverse incision approach in 49.1% of the patients. In the transverse incision group, 21.4% of the patients underwent pedicled mammaplasty and 78.6% mastectomy with a free nipple-areola complex graft. An astounding one-third of the patients had complications (hematoma, infection, seroma, fistula, or partial necrosis of nipple-areola complex) and the reoperation rate was 8.8%. Hematoma was the most frequent reason for reoperation. Corrections were required for the scar in 14.0% of the patients, the contour in 28.0%, the areola in 15.8%, and the nipple in 5.3%. Secondary corrections were needed more often in the concentric circular (55.2%) than in the transverse incision group (25.0%; p = 0.031).
Protests The Sign Of Overabundance by ABE GREENWALD
The latest riots are only a piece of a larger mass fever sweeping not just Paris or France or Europe but all of the West.
It’s tempting to point to the seismic events of 2020—the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd—as the catalyst for this increased instability. But the rise goes back further. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), “Mass protests increased annually by an average of 11.5 percent from 2009 to 2019 across all regions of the world.” The upheavals of 2020 only exacerbated a growing trend. In the U.S., recall that Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the Women’s March all managed to seize our attention before we ever heard the word Covid.
The West has made such extraordinary—indeed, historically unique—progress in reducing suffering on a large scale that we’re now left grasping for new ideals and new aspirations to fulfill. This is not to say that everything is perfect. But the current penchant for protests and riots is profoundly out of proportion with the relatively small-scale challenges we still face.
We’ve stuffed ourselves to the gills with the good things that we’ve created. But we are still human beings—the one species on the planet that yearns for meaning. And we don’t know where to turn next. In a different age, many would turn to their faith. But in the West, religion has been on a steep decline that crosses the rising rate of mass protests in an X pattern. So aimless activists protest and riot and embrace causes that they hope will bring needed shape to their moral lives.
Lancet Removes PrePrint by MATHEW ALDRED
The Lancet has just stopped people from downloading this paper
It’s a little disturbing that it has been removed from the PrePrint Server. The purpose of Preprints is to allow debate. This is the justification given by The Lancet: “This preprint has been removed by Preprints with The Lancet because the study's conclusions are not supported by the study methodology. Preprints with The Lancet reserves the right to remove a paper that has been posted if we determine that it has violated our screening criteria.”
These are the authors:
Nicolas Hulscher, BS, Paul E. Alexander, PhD, Richard Amerling, MD, Heather Gessling, MD, Roger Hodkinson, MD, William Makis, MD, Harvey A. Risch, MD, PhD, Mark Trozzi, MD, Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Suicides Up Among Japanese Women by GUY GIN
Lockdowns and long school closures certainly affected young females more than young males in countries that had them, but Japan didn’t. Moreover, Japan’s toughest Covid measures (its unenforced “voluntary lockdown” and nationwide school closures) ended in May 2020, so they can’t explain higher suicide rates in 2021 and 2022. So what does?
Well, although Japan was one of the first countries to reopen schools, Japanese school students were forced to lead faceless and restricted existences “due to Covid” until April this year.
have explicitly linked Japan’s in-school Covid measures to increased suicides.
Japanese students were stuck between a rock and a hard place during Covid: when they weren’t being made to spend long hours at home, they had to treat each other like biohazards when attending in-person education. Oh, and lots of teenagers have developed complexes about their looks thanks to 24/7 masking.
Contaminated During Manufacturing by ANANDAMIDE
This DNA contamination is important as it is a result of a manufacturing change Pfizer performed after the clinical trial. Process 1 used synthetic DNA for the trial. Process 2 was used to scale up the manufacturing and this required cloning of the vaccine encoded DNA into a plasmid for replication in E.coli. This process is materially different but was treated as a bio-equivalent.
A recent analysis of Pfizer's pivotal study (Levi and Guetzkow) found 1.5-3 fold higher rates of adverse events in patients after crossover and presumably receiving Process 2 material, compared with patients before crossover, presumably receiving Process 1 material.
These contaminants are over the limit. Multiple independent scientists are reproducing these results. The injection of dsDNA containing controversial DNA sequences known to integrate into the genome was not properly disclosed to regulators nor patients in the informed consent process.
School Closures And Poor Journalism by KELLEY K
the article was a very rough approximation of what the participants said. Even the statements in the article that are in quotation marks are NOT direct quotes from the video. It is simply poor journalism, unfortunately, which led to this viral tweet. Nobody in the video ever said that public health didn’t know school closures would be harmful.
None of the participants replied that we underestimated or didn’t foresee the harms to students of school closures
We were told public health was following the science, but I think in many cases, they were driven by their own fears. Public health went all in on avoiding Covid harms, to the detriment of everything else, especially when it came to schools. They failed to do a proper risk-benefit analysis of the recommendations they were making. Many people were begging officials to consider some of the second- and third-order effects of school closures, but we were dismissed as Covid deniers, racists, and grandma killers. In reality, we were evaluating evidence on kids and Covid and were concerned about the obvious harms that were occurring as a result of extended school closures in the U.S.
CDC Lies To Cover Up Lies by ASHMEDAI & COQUIN DE CHIEN
the CDC’s statements defy elementary common sense; are logically incoherent; are inconsistent with the CDC’s own standards; asserts a standard that lacks any material justification; and, most importantly, are themselves a willful, deliberate misrepresentation of material facts for the purpose of deceiving and misleading the public about the existence and scope of covid vaccine injuries/deaths.
Put simply, the CDC is asking us to believe that if a coroner documents a covid vaccine as a COD on a death certificate without explicitly spelling out that there were side effects from the vaccine, the most reasonable and correct interpretation is that the vaccine did NOT contribute to the death.
Practical Criminal Justice Reform by AUDRA FACINELLI
I would take a harder look at nonviolent offenses and see what we can do instead of prison. What do I suggest? Involuntary commitment/involuntary drug rehabilitation
And although many people don’t like the idea of a mental hospital, let me point you to the cold hard facts. The mentally ill weren’t just “released” from mental hospitals in the 1950s, they were “involuntarily committed” from mental hospitals to prison. Is it ableist to point out that mentally ill people make up 44% of those incarcerated? Maybe. But at least I’m living in reality.
Which is better? Locking them up in prison so you can pretend you’ve “respected their civil right to hear voices/be drug addicts” or get them the actual help they need to live in society? Drug addicts can lead normal, healthy lives if they stay off drugs. Mentally ill people can live normal healthy lives if they take their medications.
One-World Digital Currency by LEO HOHMANN by
The end game is this: They want globally recognized digital identities, followed by globally recognized and centralized digital currencies. This will make it possible to usher in the long-awaited, long-planned one-world system that will allow global oligarchs to use artificial intelligence to enslave every human being on the planet.
Once these two things are in place, it will be easy to tag, track, and digitally mark every human being by making them present their digital ID before they can move about, receive government services, receive healthcare, have a bank account, buy or sell.
The movement toward central-bank digital currencies will take a bit more time than what is needed to implement digital IDs. That’s because before the globalized digital currencies can be fully created and mandated, all of the world’s paper fiat currencies must first be destroyed. That process will start with the destruction of the U.S. dollar — a process which is starting to really pick up steam.
Puppet Master Myth by DAVID ZWEIG
the RFK Jr.-as-right winger narrative is part of an ethos of the leftist political and media establishment: any stance, even if taken by a veteran of the left, that goes against the favored views of the progressive influencer class must, by default, be Republican or right wing; and any group or individual supporting that position must only be doing so as part of a GOP plot.
According to the legacy media, if you are a Muslim, Asian American, or a heterodox thinker who disagrees with a particular position of the leftist elite, you are a patsy who has been hoodwinked by the GOP. This line of reasoning—or political tactic, if you will—not only condescends to the people it targets, it also may backfire by shrinking the size of the Democrats’ voter base.
The notion that any time a group or individual who may have been generally aligned with the left but then veered from leftist orthodoxy was not doing so because of their own volition but, rather, because a GOP puppet master manipulated them is—to be candid—racist, prejudiced, and demeaning. It is based on the idea that if you disagree with the leftist elite you lack personal agency, and the only way you could have arrived at a differing view was not through your own thought process and values, but because you were conned by clever conservatives.
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