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7.25.2023 The best of Rational Ground, Team Reality and many others...
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Whether You Like It Or Not by LEO HOHMANN
Fauci Knew Feb 1 by ALEX BERENSON
Cancer Deaths Climbing In MN by ASHMEDAI
Life Years Lost by JOEL SMALLEY
New Outdated Monovalent by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
Art Activism by JUDSON STACY VEREEN
Feudalist One Health Ambitions by DAVID BELL
Delayed Or Missed Healthcare by DAVID ZWEIG
Government Mind Control by AARON KHERIATY, MD
FDA Rejects Approves Remdesivir by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
Spike Vs Luteolin by WALTER M CHESNUT
Please Censor by ALEX BERENSON
Universal AIDS by WALTER M CHESNUT
Vax + Covid = Stroke Risk by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
Public-Private Feudalistic Fascism by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Culling The Autistic by MATHEW ALDRED
Energy Is Wealth by EL GATO MALO
W.H.O Faked Covid Deaths by ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
Jabs Damage Gut Biome by SASHA LATYPOVA
The 2019-2020 Flu Covid Season by BILL RICE, JR.
Whether You Like It Or Not by LEO HOHMANN
The CEO of Worldcoin has warned that a global digital ID system will be ushered in for citizens around the world whether they “like it or not.”
the beast system is based on the world’s people accepting to technological components offered up by the Luciferian globalist elites: A globally recognized digital ID to replaced the cards in your wallet and a globally recognized digital money to replace the cash in your wallet. The two together will comprise the foundation of the punitive global beast system.
Worldcoin is co-founded by Sam Altman, the head of the company, Open AI, that is behind the artificial intelligence chatbot ChapGPT.
According to Worldcoin’s executives, World ID, or “something like” it, will soon be mandatory for anyone who wishes to partake in the day-to-day functions of society.
Fauci Clueless? by ALEX BERENSON
“Wuhan University.”
That’s how Dr. Anthony Fauci referred to the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, a day after the virologist Kristian Andersen warned Fauci he suspected Sars-Cov-2 might not be entirely natural. (Just spitballing here, Tony!)
Fauci made the error in an email to other federal officials he had no reason to expect anyone would ever see. In fact, the National Institutes of Health later hid it from a public records request.
Which implies Fauci’s mistake was honest. Which, in turn, implies that as of Feb. 1, 2020, he knew so little about the gain-of-function research happening in Wuhan, he couldn’t even get the location of the lab doing it right.
Depression = Long Covid by JUSTIN HART
New paper on Nature.com looked at people in France who were already suffering from some sort of depression BEFORE the pandemic started. The study followed them through the pandemic and found that these folks were 2 to 3 times MORE LIKELY to have persistent symptoms (even if they didn’t have Covid).
We’ve long suspected that Long Covid may be psychosomatic.
The research suggests that people who were experiencing symptoms of depression at the start of the pandemic were more likely to have "persistent symptoms" related to COVID-19, regardless of whether they actually got infected with the virus or not.
Cancer Deaths Climbing In MN by ASHMEDAI
I am fairly certain that the cancer trends…are actually understating the scope and prevalence of what is probably a far greater rise in cancer incidence. A lot of people who would’ve become cancer victims in 2021-23 were killed off before they could be killed by cancer. The excess mortality, especially in 2020, overwhelmingly hit the old and moribundly comorbid demographics - the same sort who also account for the overwhelming majority of cancer deaths. Therefore, the true expected number of cancer deaths should be markedly lower than what the pre-pandemic trendline would extrapolate to.
Life Years Lost by JOEL SMALLEY
There were more life-years lost in England in the mortality season spanning July 2020 to June 2021, the year of the “vaccine” than there were the prior year when “COVID” first emerged.
In the year to 2022 when ostensibly every “vulnerable” person is “protected”, life-years lost are only marginally lower but as per my previous report, there’s likely still some to come, and this is in the context that deaths should be remarkably lower in any case, simply due to the pull-forward effect.
New Outdated Monovalent by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
On June 16, the FDA announced that it had advised manufacturers planning to update their COVID-19 vaccines that they should specifically target XBB.1.5. Scientists from Moderna, Novavax, and Pfizer had told the FDA and its advisory committee that their XBB.1.5 monovalent vaccines could be ready to inject into arms by late July or early fall.
Shaffner and the VRBPAC should take a look at the CDC Nowcast System which shows XBB.1.5 at 27% of strains and falling fast. That means by the the fall the new monovalent XBB.1.5 vaccine would be completely obsolete. It appears that the FDA, CDC, and vaccine developers will never be able to get ahead of the now weakened but agile Omicron strains. They have still not addressed unacceptable safety data which overshadows discussions on “who should receive the product.”
Art Activism by JUDSON STACY VEREEN
if you look closely, it is hard not to realize that if you are black, you make Afro-centric art that focuses on the historic injustice of your people. If you are female, you make feminist art that does more or less the same. If you are wheelchair-bound, you will likely be groomed to make art that puts that fact front and center.
Here is where they so often succumb to institutionalized thinking that clearly seeks to weaponize one’s political identity, with an emphasis on personalizing victimhood via their art. In this way, you get a straight line from art school to self-exploitation. Whatever your identity may be, whatever your art may look like, if it does not speak to social justice or victimhood status — or better yet, if it can’t — it will likely remain in the shadows of so much of the art that does.
Add to this fact a plethora of galleries seeking to cash in on this commentary to survive and you create an environment reminiscent of the echo chamber phenomenon
Feudalist One Health Ambitions by DAVID BELL
‘One Health’, a modern term for this holistic approach to health, is therefore old news, as is a willingness to corrupt and manipulate such a concept for personal gain. Ill health is a lever for fear, and death even more so, especially to those who believe that we are simply organic constructs that end in dust and decay. A cult feeding off these fears, holding that the entire biosphere is threatening us with diseases and death, would therefore have real potential for mass control. Convince followers that humans are the poison that made this world so destructive, and you will also have a means to stoke hate against non-believers whilst adding guilt to the tools for compliance.
A cult based on fear of the world and the people who poisoned it, dressed up in philanthropy and virtue, has risen amongst us. Co-opting One Health terminology, it is now funded by the spoils of Covid, and empowered by technology that can take this mediaeval witch-hunting sect global.
In the end, mad ideologues collapse under the weight of their own deceit and the shallowness of their dogmas. The earth-mother religion of a corrupted One Health and the feudalist ambitions of its priests will be no different. We should not fear public health or a holistic view of the world. They are ours and can be a force for good. Rather, we should expose the hollowness of the people who would subvert them, driven by their own greed and barren ideologies.
Delayed Or Missed Healthcare by DAVID ZWEIG
A great harm of Covid policies and the environment of fear…is that during the pandemic millions of people either were not able to seek medical care or fear of Covid kept them from doing so. A new study, published in JAMA Network Open, offers unsettling evidence of this effect for children: for more than a year and a half, from June 2020 through January 2022, more than one-quarter of American children (27.6%) delayed or missed preventive care because of the pandemic.
Studies have found a spike in delayed care for complicated appendicitis, “all with late diagnosis resulting from different aspects of the fear from the current global COVID‐19 pandemic.”
Delays in diagnosing and treating children with new-onset type 1 diabetes, leading to presentation in severe diabetic ketoacidosis, have also been documented.
The CDC estimated that in the 2020/2021 school year a decrease in vaccinations represents 250,000 kindergartners potentially not protected against measles. While part of the decrease in vaccinations may be due to a change in attitudes toward vaccines, given the high rate of missed pediatric appointments, some portion of the vaccination decrease is likely related to parents and their child simply not showing up at medical facilities.
Government Mind Control by AARON KHERIATY, MD
Two unanticipated events in 2016 completely shocked our ruling class: the election of Trump in the U.S., and the Brexit vote in the U.K. Our elites did not respond by examining the disconnect between their core assumptions and the will of the people. Instead they decided that, sure, democracy is all fine and well, but naturally, democracy must be protected from these unruly people.
In the wake of Trump and Brexit, the Anglosphere Surveillance State, birthed following 9/11, gave birth in turn to its natural offspring, the Censorship Leviathan. There are 434 federal agencies in the Federal Register—most of which the average American cannot name. A little-known agency in our vast administrative state, called CISA—the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency—was erected in the waning days of the Obama administration in 2016
CISA quickly became a clearinghouse for what Michael Shellenberger has dubbed the Censorship Industrial Complex:
During COVID, the federal government saw fit not only to censor your voice online but to monitor your private behavior for compliance with government directives.
In May of 2022 we learned that during the previous two years, the CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed COVID lockdown orders.
when the government takes upon itself the task of monitoring and shaping your behavior (through surveillance) and your thoughts (through censorship), we have a perfectly apt name for this.
It’s called mind control.
FDA Rejects Approves Remdesivir by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
Remdesivir can cause both kidney injury and liver damage, thus with no mortality benefit, many believe it should not be used.
The drug has struggled in recent years as patients commonly decline the antiviral since the November, 2020, WHO warning against inpatient use.
In a move that defies all regulatory convention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for the use of Veklury® (remdesivir) in COVID-19 patients with severe renal impairment, including those on dialysis
The phase 3 REDPINE trial failed to recruit sufficient subjects to assess efficacy. Instead of properly rejecting the application, the FDA went ahead and approved the drug with insufficient safety and efficacy data
Spike Vs Luteolin by WALTER M CHESNUT
It appears that Luteolin has the ability to be a very powerful therapeutic against the Spike Protein. Not only by preventing its entry, but by also inhibiting its ability to induce cancer.
“Luteolin is a common flavonoid abundantly present in several plant products, including broccoli, pepper, thyme, and celery. Studies have shown that luteolin possesses beneficial neuroprotective effects both in vitro and in vivo. It also has antioxidant and immunomodulatory properties.”
Luteolin appears to have the ability to prevent cell entry of the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 by disrupting its RBD.
there is abundant evidence that the Spike Protein interferes with tumor suppressors p53 and BRAC. Luteolin has the ability to block the development of cancer by preventing malignant cells from dividing
Please Censor by ALEX BERENSON
A majority of Americans - and an overwhelming number of Democrats - no longer support First Amendment protections for free speech.
The government should restrict “false” information online, even if doing so blocks people from “publishing or accessing information,” 55 percent of Americans said in a large poll released Thursday. Only 42 percent disagreed.
The antipathy to free speech represents a sea change in attitudes in just five years. It is driven by a powerful new hostility to First Amendment rights on the left.
In an identically worded poll five years ago, Democrats and Republicans favored free speech online by roughly 3 to 2 margins. Today, Republicans still favor the First Amendment by about that much. But Democrats have turned against it by even more.
Universal AIDS by WALTER M CHESNUT
JUST AS AIDS IS THE EFFECT OF HIV’S DESTRUCTION OF CD4 T-CELLS, ALL THE PATHOLOGIES BEING OBSERVED POST SPIKE PROTEIN EXPOSURE ARE THE EFFECTS OF THE SPIKE PROTEIN’S DESTRUCTION OF VIRTUALLY EVERY CELL TYPE!
We are dealing with an “AIDS” of universal scope. We need to understand if this virus is acting like HIV and other latent viruses. Is it slowly, inexorably destroying everything it touches? Cell. By. Cell.
Vax + Covid = Stroke Risk by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
Because the COVID-19 vaccines load the body with the genetic code for the thrombogenic and lethal Wuhan Spike protein, those who take a vaccine are vulnerable to a catastrophe if they get infected with SARS-CoV-2 after recently taking one of the shots.
Nahab and coworkers from Emory analyzed a statewide database of COVID-19 vaccine recipients. Approximately 5 million adult Georgians received at least one COVID-19 vaccine between December 2020 and March 2022: 54% received BNT162b2, 41% received mRNA-1273, and 5% received Ad26.COV2.S. Those with concurrent COVID-19 infection within 21 days post-vaccination had an increased risk of ischemic (OR = 8.00, 95% CI: 4.18, 15.31) and hemorrhagic stroke (OR =5.23, 95% CI: 1.11, 24.64).
Public-Private Feudalistic Fascism by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
we must understand the current system in China not through the lens of communism, but through a public-private feudalistic fascism, in which there is one ruling party comprised of select competing powerful people.
The Chinese Communist Party has succeeded in merging the public sector and private sector into a single ruling entity, while still allowing market forces to operate and loyal businesses to flourish within the confines of this structure.
China’s Social Credit System has established a working means to passively but regularly nudge Chinese citizens and businesses in the direction of maintaining compliance with the Party standards.
It has become clear that the Uniparty in D.C. and their corporate allies are all in on continuing to transform America into a more complete China-like political entity.
The covid hysteria era worked magnificently to facilitate the fastest roll up of power in modern history. Now, the Uniparty has transitioned from “the pandemic” to the climate hoax, hoping that it will convince you to give up more autonomy to the people in charge.
Culling The Autistic by MATHEW ALDRED
Society has a responsibility to support and protect its most vulnerable members. Instead of considering euthanasia as an option for individuals with autism, efforts should be focused on improving their quality of life. This can be achieved through better access to healthcare, education, and social services, as well as promoting acceptance and understanding of autism in society.
The practice of euthanasia for individuals with autism is not beneficial for society. It undermines the value of life, is based on a misunderstanding of autism, and could lead to dangerous precedents. Society should focus on promoting acceptance and improving the quality of life for individuals with autism, rather than considering their lives as less valuable. The richness of human life lies in its diversity, and every individual, including those with autism, has a unique contribution to make to society.
Energy Is Wealth by EL GATO MALO
you cannot fix the environment by keeping poor people poor and “green energy for the 3rd world” is just a nasty new way to say “let them eat cake.”
there are no nations that got rich without using a lot of energy. that’s HOW you get rich.
and failing societies tend to be filthy societies. pollution and poverty go hand in hand.
they have to grow out of it and that too can be messy.
in anything resembling a remotely modern society energy use is wealth and wealth, in turn, is environmentalism in pretty much every meaningful sense.
for the developing world to start caring about the environment, it’s first going to have to develop, just like we did. and we need to get out of their way and let them.
W.H.O Faked Covid Deaths by ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
This World Health Organization document…proves that the world public health leadership at the WHO faked death reports during the pandemic. This was designed to overestimate the death rate worldwide.
This document, titled: “INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR CERTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION (CODING) OF COVID-19 AS CAUSE OF DEATH Based on ICD International Statistical Classification of Diseases” clearly demonstrates, with images no less, that the WHO was and IS requiring countries to jigger death certificates to code for more COVID-19 deaths than there actually were.The document also “teaches” physicians and hospitals to code for COVID-19, even when the cause of death may have been something else. Note that in the WHO examples below, a positive COVID-19 test is not necessary for listing COVID-19 as the cause of death.
Jabs Damage Gut Biome by SASHA LATYPOVA
This study showed that C-19 injections damage gut flora (as measured by bifidobacteria levels) and that the damage persists in 4 patients for up to 9 months. After 9 months, bifidobacteria levels dropped to practically zero.
Apparently, probiotic supplements rarely reverse this and most do not work very well. Many brands either do not have the good quality strains or even when they do, it is extremely difficult to re-populate the gut with good bacteria. Damage to gut bacteria is not easy to fix and it is best to avoid breaking it. Interestingly, the effect of C-19 injections on gut biome is hard to evaluate this way in overweight people because they lack bifidobacteria to begin with. This points to a possible link between obesity and damaged gut microflora, starting in childhood.
The 2019-2020 Flu Covid Season by BILL RICE, JR.
the flu season of 2019-2020 produced far more school closings than the prior flu season (2018-2019), which is also considered one of the more severe in many years.
the 2017-2018 flu season produced the vast majority of its ILI cases in a period of approximately five or six week (around mid-January 2018). ILI cases in that season spiked quickly, but then fell dramatically beginning in February.
In contrast, the flu season of 2019-2020 arrived weeks earlier and had ILI percentages that met or exceeded (often by large margins) the “baseline” expectation for 22 consecutive weeks.
At some point (certainly by mid-January 2020), it must have occurred to someone in the public health bureaucracies that this new coronavirus might be spreading in America. They would know this because they know the ILI symptoms are pretty-much identical to “Covid symptoms” and these agencies actually compile and produce all of the ILI statistics I’ve used in my research.
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