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7.21.2023 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’):
Israel Diagnosis Data by AUSSIE17
Russia’s Vax Evangelism by EDWARD SLAVSQUAT
Fauci Was Always Lying by ALEX BERENSON
Covid Vax & Spontaneous Abortions by STEVE KIRSCH
Western Australia Adverse Events by PHILLIP.ALTMAN
Nudging Tricks For Net Zero by NAKED EMPEROR
US Excess Deaths by USMORTALITY
Weed Messes With Your Mind by Eric Spitznagel
Coyote’s Law In Action by EL GATO MALO
Green Colonialism by ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
Ethnically Targeted Bioweapons by SASHA LATYPOVA
DoD Rules For Trans Members by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
In-N-Out Bars Masks by VINAY PRASAD
Stay Out-Of-Date by KATHERINE WATT
Delayed Death Reporting by JOEL SMALLEY
Danish Trans Study by SEGM
Do Stricter Gun Laws Help? by JOSH STEVENSON
Leftist Theology by TOMMY
Woke’s Obsession With Words by Celia Farber
Trans Threat To Gays by MICKEY Z.
Israel Diagnosis Data by AUSSIE17 @AUSSIE17
Cardiac Arrest diagnoses nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021 and more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. This is an extremely concerning trend as it is showing acceleration.
Israel is one of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world, with 81.5% of its population having received at least one dose.
However, in 2023, it appears that a majority of the population has become anti-vaxxers. It is unfortunate that despite the decrease in experimental vaccinations by the people, deaths and cases continue to accelerate.
Russia’s Vax Evangelism by EDWARD SLAVSQUAT
the Pandemic should have been a “teachable moment”, and arguably the most important lesson gleaned from this globally coordinated war on public health would be: “We should probably stop with those genetic injections, shouldn’t we?”
Unfortunately there is growing evidence that the Russian government concluded the exact opposite.
Russia’s vax evangelists want a “mRNA vaccine platform” so they can “immunize a patient often, a lot, and for a long time.”
Russia’s most trusted public health experts want genetic “canned food” that can be spoon-fed to the proles when “dangerous pathogens” appear. And also, an mRNA platform can “help” protect public health, because one of the benefits of mRNA injections is that you can “immunize a patient, often, a lot, and for a long time.” This is where mRNA goo “shines”.
Fauci Was Always Lying by ALEX BERENSON
“Scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments.”
The words - from Feb. 1, 2020, as Covid exploded worldwide - come from a note written by none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s Doctor himself. They come as Fauci and top virologists were just starting their strenuous efforts to hide and distract from the potential Chinese lab origins of Sars-Cov-2.
And after the first cover-up came the second. The National Institutes of Health hid Fauci’s words, completely redacting the email he had written from Freedom of Information Act requests. The NIH gave up the note only in response to a House of Representatives subpoena - years after Fauci wrote it, far too late.
Covid Vax & Spontaneous Abortions by STEVE KIRSCH
There are 3,836 reports out of 4,711 total reports for all vaccines combined in the 33 year history of VAERS, regardless of the onset date.
So 81% of all the reports in history are coming from the COVID vaccine!
There were 673 spontaneous abortion reports for the COVID vaccine with an onset date of Day 0, meaning the significant adverse events from the vaccine STARTED on Day 0.
In addition there was a huge second peak of 519 reports at 15-30 days onset. No other vaccine in history showed anything comparable to this.
Western Australia Adverse Events by PHILLIP.ALTMAN
“In 2021 a total of 5,756,723 vaccine doses were administered in WA, up from 2,071,167 in 2020. Of this amount, 3,948,673 individual doses of COVID-19 vaccine were recorded in the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) as being administered to WA residents. The increase in vaccine administration resulted in a significant increase in reports of AEFI, with WAVSS receiving 10,726 individual AEFI reports in 2021, up from 270 in 2020. Of these AEFI, 10,428 (97%) occurred after a COVID-19 vaccine.”
The staggering rise in adverse events following vaccination was not due to the large number of Covid “vaccinations”. Non-Covid vaccinations were running about 2 million prior to 2021 and nearly that number during 2021 with only a few hundred non-Covid vaccine related adverse events.
Put in graphical terms, these statistics are astounding. Vaccine related adverse reactions skyrocket only following the Covid injection rollout in Feb. 2021.
Nudging Tricks For Net Zero by NAKED EMPEROR
To achieve Net Zero, BIT wants widespread behavioural change at a societal level. They estimate that 63% of emissions reductions will come about through behavioural changes. Their target is for 1 in 10 TV viewers to change their behaviours. In doing so, BIT thinks this will save 1.1 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions per year by avoiding food waste, avoiding medium-length flights, switching to a plant-based diet and switching to an electric vehicle.
However, even if their nudging tricks go to plan, the BIT says that an additional 22.2 billion tonnes of CO2 will need to be cut if we are to limit global warming to 1.5C.
There is no doubt in their minds that man-made climate change is occurring and that cutting CO2 emissions is the only way out. “The question must be not if, but how, best to use this powerful tool of persuasion for maximum good”, they say.
US Excess Deaths by USMORTALITY
CDC's Excess Deaths chart suggests that death levels have returned to baseline, and thus excess deaths have stopped in the US.
age groups 0-24, 25-44, 75-84 still look elevated
So while we can see that most age groups appear to be back to normal, there are still two age groups which have sign. Excess, and also the excess ASMR chart still shows clearly that there’s some excess mortality going on. Currently, about +5-10%!
Weed Messes With Your Mind by Eric Spitznagel
In May, a Denmark study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry examined the weed habits of over 6.5 million Danes over the age of 16, and found that both men and women with an addiction to cannabis were twice as likely than nonusers to be diagnosed with clinical depression, and had a three times higher risk of developing bipolar disorder with psychotic symptoms. (The study authors did note that it wasn’t entirely clear if there was a direct line between heavy cannabis and mental illness, or whether people with mental illness were more likely to become addicted to cannabis.)
Another study, this one from Norway and published in The Lancet Psychiatry last month, followed patients without serious mental health conditions and found that those who’d experienced weed-induced psychosis were at significant risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia later. Other drugs like cocaine, amphetamines, and alcohol were included in the study, but cannabis had the highest rate of schizophrenia, with 27 percent of users developing the chronic brain disorder within six years.
Coyote’s Law In Action by EL GATO MALO
what happens in 4 years when someone new gets to take this new set of capabilities out for a spin?
for those who would be happy to see trump wield this, how would you feel about hilary clinton or gavin newsom or who knows who else?
it’s literal self harm and empowers the uniparty to ever greater depredations to fight the last set of outrages and necessitate the next.
it’s a one way ticket to tyranny.
this is why i’m such a fan of “coyote’s law”
“before granting any new power or prerogative to the state, first imagine that power wielded by the politician you hate most, because one day it will be.”
Green Colonialism by ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
Leaders from so-called developing nations have a different take on global climate change policies. Many state that they are being forced to use green energy, which is expensive and produces less energy per invested capital. This will make it even harder for billions of people to escape poverty. The term being used for these kinds of policies which are now being forced upon developing nations by the World Bank, WEF, and the usual globalist actors has become known as Green Colonialism.
Uganda's President Museveni wrote in a Wall Street Journal article entitled "Solar and Wind Force Poverty on Africa," that “Africans have a right to use reliable, cheap energy, and doing so doesn’t prevent the development of the continent’s renewables. Forcing Africa down one route will hinder our fight against poverty.”
If wealthy nations truly want to help nations with high poverty rates <and reduce immigration pressure>, at the very least they would get out of their way. They would help them develop their natural gas and other hydrocarbon projects.
Ethnically Targeted Bioweapons by SASHA LATYPOVA
There are several published studies on the ethnic differences in the susceptibility to covid illness, here is one of them
if you are wondering whether ethnically targeted bioweapons are a thing, let’s look into this. This topic is definitely studied and discussed in many press, science, government and military reports. RFK Jr. is perfectly correct to state this. He did not suggest the covid-19 poisoning agent was preferentially designed to protect Ashkenazi population. This is also correct. It wasn’t, really.
Targeting by ethnic or population genetics is tricky as there are few ethnic-specific genes, people of the target ethnicity may or may not have them, and many off-target effects with technologies used for targeting.
ethnic genetic differences are too diffuse to make a good target, however, there are other, potentially better resolved targets. Targeting microbiome differences rather than differences in the DNA of the host has been identified as one of them.
DoD Rules For Trans Members by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
The 34 page memo details the enormous perks granted to service members who identify as transgender.
here’s some of the “highlights” found within the document:
Taxpayer funded “care” for transgender service members
Service members who identify as transgender may receive a waiver for grooming and uniform standards.
Service members who identify as transgender may receive an indefinite waiver for physical fitness standards. This waiver often becomes a de facto permanent situation, and the transgender identifying service member just has to renew the exemption request every six months.
Service members who identify as transgender will be considered “non-deployable” for up to 300 days while taking hormones for their “transition” period. Again, given that these hormones are often required for life, this may render the transgender identifying service member as permanently unable to deploy.
In-N-Out Bars Masks by VINAY PRASAD
In-N-Out Burger has now banned employees from wearing masks, unless they have an explicit doctor’s note to do so. The logic is simple. Masks diminish the experience of customers, and offer no benefits to a healthy worker. The worker likely already had covid, masks don’t delay the time till you get COVID (kinda a big deal), and the worker will surely get COVID anyway— masks or no masks— at the exact same time anyway (this is the key point).
In-N-Out is a rational company. It is balancing the workers’ psychological comfort in an unproven intervention vs. the actual loss of experience to customers. It would be like In-N-Out banning burning incense sticks burning on the counter to ward off bad omens— something they surely would do. As far as I can tell, it is not controversial at all.
Stay Out-Of-Date by KATHERINE WATT
One of the phrases being pushed into the public consciousness is the admonition to “stay up-to-date” on “vaccines.”
Brook Jackson’s False Claims Act case…has revealed that all products labeled and promoted by the US Government (military and health officials) as ‘vaccines’ are presumptively biochemical weapons manufactured by pharmaceutical companies, to war department (DoD) specifications, to intentionally injure recipients, under military weapons procurement contracts.
I therefore urge readers to stay out-of-date.
Delayed Death Reporting by JOEL SMALLEY
How on earth can you produce a reliable mortality analysis when so many deaths are missing from the dataset??
anyone making claims about excess deaths now, relying on deaths by date of registration, I’ll tell you plainly again, all you are doing is measuring the (in)efficiency of the death recording process in the UK.
Deaths appearing in the register now are simply deaths that actually occurred as much as 18 months ago. If there is an increase in such registrations now, it is simply a measure of the coroner’s activity in dealing with historic cases
Looking at deaths of 19 to 29 year olds (in the chart above), we can clearly see the extent of deaths that have not yet appeared in the mortality dataset, as they taper off substantially in recent months. Alas, that isn’t a miracle improvement in public health
Danish Trans Study by SEGM
Rates of suicide remain elevated for those who identify as transgender despite widespread access to medical transition services.
A recently published study from Denmark compared the rate of suicide attempts, suicide-related deaths, non-suicide-related deaths, and all-cause mortality between non-transgender and transgender-identifying individuals. The study spanned 42 years, however the average follow-up for transgender-identified individuals was less than six years. The study found that transgender-identifying individuals in Denmark had significantly elevated rates of all four adverse outcomes.
Do Stricter Gun Laws Help? by JOSH STEVENSON
Measuring a specific policies’ effectiveness is fraught with potential confounders, and is a dynamic thing. Laws are not static, they change over time. So do trends with gun violence. How do you know what law was in effect during a certain event in time? How long do major changes in laws take to take effect? Much of the research on gun policy has the inconvenient reality that it deals with small numbers- and certain incidents like mass shootings are statistically rare- making measurement difficult. For these reasons, I have taken the approach of using a Pro Gun-Control advocacy group’s definition of what “good” laws are and have applied the raw, population adjusted, cumulative rates for the period of time we have data for (rather than picking a specific point in time, which is often a source of bias and selective narrative spinning). In short, measuring them by their very own standards.
it appears that Everytown’s rankings currently do not bear out in the school shooting data. However, just like with similar observation data we’re familiar with from Covid, it’s important to not make causal claims with observational data that is subject to other unmeasured underlying differences. However, that does not stop advocates for stricter gun laws from making such certain assertions.
Leftist Theology by TOMMY
It may feel uncomfortable for people who don’t think of themselves as religious, but the entire framework for leftist (not necessarily liberal) orthodoxy has a theology. The reason so many leftists focus on and seem to detest religion is because they are religious warriors fighting a religious battle against Judeo-Christian principles.
the roots of leftist dogma require this detachment of human categorization from any underlying reality. It requires the presumption that human nature is something created by humanity and can be changed based on social structures, not at all tied to any biology.
One group sees humans as made in the image of God, and the other sees humans as made in their own image.
This is a deep religious conflict. Not simply a political battle.
Woke’s Obsession With Words by Celia Farber
my take on “woke”, why it is so dangerous, is that it dislodges real ethics and moral code with a wholly synthetic algorithm of cold, calculated moral indignation— one that (surprise!) serves the final agenda of central banks and global corporations seeking a tranhumanist/pedo-revolutionary “future,” for mankind. It actually gets more upset over spoken words than by real tangible massacres.
They feign and induce sudden onset hysteria, so called virtue signaling, over nothing at all. They censor. They cancel. They condemn. They practice radical de-contextualization: Retroviruses become lethal overnight. Pneumonia becomes transmissible by outside air and even elevator buttons. Azov Nazis become not Nazis, despite photographing themselves festooned with Nazi insignia. PCR can detect an “infection.” And RFK Jr. suddenly mutates before your eyes into a “deplorable” and “vile” anti-semite, despite a whole life and career never showing any such inkling.
Trans Threat To Gays by MICKEY Z.
the top threat to lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people today is the “trans” agenda.
For example, not that long ago, if a female felt attracted to a female, she’d be accurately viewed as a lesbian.
Today, she’d be pressured to accept that her same-sex attraction proves that she’s actually a man. Vampiric creeps would relentlessly coerce her into chopping off her breasts, taking dangerous drugs like puberty blockers or hormone treatments, choosing a new name and new pronouns, dressing in men’s clothes, etc.
In other words, they would CONVERT her from gay to straight
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