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8.3.2023 The best of what I've read recently...
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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’):
Out Come The SV40 “Debunkers” by ANANDAMIDE
White House Hates First Amendment by ALEX BERENSON
But Sweden Is Heavily Vaxed Too by JOEL SMALLEY
“Expired Product Administered” by JESSICA ROSE
Dumping On Republicans Again by VINAY PRASAD
Arbitrary Vaccination Label by MARTIN NEIL & NORMAN FENTON
Crumbling NetZero Narrative by DAVID TURVER
More Neonatal Vaxes; Higher Mortality by STEVE KIRSCH
WARNING: WEF’s “Well-Being” Is Communism by IGOR CHUDOV
Minnesota’s Hypertension Spike by ASHMEDAI
First-Strike Nuclear Attack On Russia? by LEO HOHMANN
Musk Vs CCDH by AMUSE
Climate Change Or Tongan Volcano? by NAKED EMPEROR
They Got Away With It by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Campaign 2024 Chaos by MATT TAIBBI
No Central Banks, No Lockdowns by ESC
Intelligence Community Coup by MICHAEL P SENGER
School Shooting Data Deep Dive by JOSH STEVENSON
Silent Infection/Reinfection by WALTER M CHESNUT
We Compete With Bodies, Not Identities by AJ KAY
Out Come The SV40 “Debunkers” by ANANDAMIDE
Despite us being very clear about our sequencing detecting components of the SV40 virus, the media and fact checkers have gone into overdrive debunking and pre-bunking the claims of SV40 being in the vaccines.
This is a deliberate tactic to obfuscate the topic. Flood the zone with counter narratives that don’t address the actual concern but convince the less nuanced reader to look no further.
You would think Paul Offit would want to hear directly from the people who performed the study to understand what was found and what wasn’t found. Despite never having contacted us, they now claim to be experts on a topic where they haven’t performed the first step of investigative journalism. They did not pick up a pipette to perform any qPCR or sequencing.
White House Hates First Amendment by ALEX BERENSON
The Facebook documents reveal a White House completely unconcerned with the First Amendment implications of its censorship efforts.
By July 2021, Biden Administration pressure to censor Covid vaccine skeptics had grown so harsh Facebook executives believed the administration wanted the company to remove any “content that provides any negative information on or opinions about the vaccine.”
And Facebook’s executives admitted internally that intimidation from the White House had caused the company to censor posts that it should have allowed.
“We were under pressure from the administration,” a Facebook employee emailed to Nick Clegg, a senior company executive, after he asked why the company had censored the Covid lab leak theory. “We shouldn’t have done it.”
But Sweden Is Heavily Vaxed Too by JOEL SMALLEY
People often ask why heavily-vaxxed Sweden is not currently suffering the same magnitude of excess death as other comparable countries (e.g. Australia and New Zealand).
The vax makes people more susceptible to COVID (first, in the two-week window of immunosuppression when your body is totally pre-occupied with dealing with the trillions of spike proteins you’ve just programmed to produce for itself; second, later on, if you managed to survive the first window, when challenged with the whole natural virus, your stupid body naively produces a whole load of antibodies against a single part of an old strain which is no longer circulating - in other words, immunocompromised in both cases).
COVID (and most notably the way it is “treated”) results in a whole load of death.
If there is a good level of natural immunity (e.g. Sweden) then the impact of 1 and 2 are mitigated.
“Expired Product Administered” by JESSICA ROSE
For now, it appears as though it’s a good thing to be injected with expired product. But, and this is a big but (I like big buts), this could be an illusion.
reports from VAERS for the people who reported having been injected with expired product, aka “Expired product administered”….looked at the ratio of AEs to SAEs
99.7% of the 37,282 reports are considered not to be serious adverse events. To be clear, a serious adverse event is one where death, hospitalization, an ER visit, disability, birth defect or life threatening illness occurred.
even though 99.7% of the [immediately filed] reports associated with expired products are not associated with SAEs, I dare to ask the question: what would this rate be if we queried a month later?
Dumping On Republicans Again by VINAY PRASAD
A recent paper in JAMA IM claims that individuals who were Republican were more likely to die during the pandemic than Democrats were after vaccines were out. This paper happily fuels a narrative that Republicans died because they are stupid and didn’t get vaccinated.
Unfortunately, however, the paper is flawed— it can’t prove this case. Second, it is divisive— you could never say something so nasty about any other group, but it is acceptable to condemn Republicans. Third, and worst of all, it ignores the failures of Democrats— that failure been consistently ignored.
big picture: that most academics— especially the vocal ones— are fierce left wing Democrats, and, ergo, it is totally ok to argue, with weak data, that Republicans are evil and stupid and Democrats are infallible— is a dull an uninspired narrative. It will shred the last bit of trust in medicine. Sadly, many want to contribute to it.
Arbitrary Vaccination Label by MARTIN NEIL & NORMAN FENTON
The ‘cheap trick’ is simple: categorise those who are vaccinated as unvaccinated up until some arbitrarily defined time period after vaccination takes place. The time period might be 7, 14 or 21 days. The supposed justification for this practice being that the benefits of the vaccine do not accrue until it has had time to ‘kick in’. And before it becomes effective on day seven, fourteen, or whatever, the recipient is considered to be unvaccinated.
there are four ways in which this kind of selection bias might take place:
Miscategorised: Vaccinated are categorised as unvaccinated (or twice vaccinated categorised as single vaccinated Etc.)
Unverified: Those who are vaccinated but cannot be verified as such are categorised as unvaccinated.
Excluded: Those who are vaccinated but are infected before 14 days (or whatever) are allocated to neither the unvaccinated nor vaccinated categories but are instead simply removed from the analysis.
Undefined: The definitions of vaccinated and unvaccinated are left intentionally undefined.
This third version of the trick - exclusion - has tended to have been overlooked.
Crumbling NetZero Narrative by DAVID TURVER
Note how the peak in the 1930’s was higher than 1998 in the 1999 record and lower in the 2019 record. Note also how the difference in the smoothed average from 1880 to 1998 has increased from ~0.2oC in 1999 to ~1oC in 2019.
The first pillar of Net Zero is the claim of rapid warming. This is a tricky point to argue because almost all (including me) would agree that the world has warmed since the end of the Little Ice Age.
However, the scale of warming we have seen is a contentious subject. Part of the problem is that those who compile the various global datasets keep altering the historical record. This is the area that first made me sceptical of the whole Net Zero agenda. It seems that modern scientists think that meteorologists from the late 19th and early 20th century could not read thermometers properly.
More Neonatal Vaxes; Higher Mortality by STEVE KIRSCH
More vaccines in early childhood are correlated with higher mortality rates.
Bottom line: The vaccines are doing the opposite of what your pediatrician told you; they are increasing the risk your child will die.
And if your child doesn’t die, more vaccines increase the risk of a large number of chronic diseases. It’s nearly a straight line up and to the right.
WARNING: WEF’s “Well-Being” Is Communism by IGOR CHUDOV
The Club of Rome suggests that instead of focusing on the GDP, our leaders should define “wellbeing” in the same way for everyone — and then strive to maximize it.
Conspicuously missing from the definition of well-being is freedom and choice.
That omission is not accidental.
“Wellbeing economy” is not a fringe term and is now accepted by six governments, such as Scotland, New Zealand, Canada, and now additionally by Australia
The intentions of the planners of the so-called “well-being community” revolve around collectivism and a state-planned economy.
Minnesota’s Hypertension Spike by ASHMEDAI
It is indisputable that the data derived from CoD’s documented on Minnesota death certificates show a massive increase in the number of people dying with HHD in 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date that is presumptively attributable to a novel factor not present before 2021.
When >2% of decedents have HHD, any excess death from non-accidental causes would be expected to have a % in that ballpark with HHD. If in 2019 there was better surveillance of HHD or more aggressive adjudication by the CDC of text descriptions to HHD, that would create an artifact of ‘excess’ HHD deaths despite no increase in deaths overall. And because the average age of death in 2020 was functionally identical to the average age of death in 2019, we find roughly the same percentage who died ‘with’ HHD in 2020 as in 2019.
First-Strike Nuclear Attack On Russia? by LEO HOHMANN
Russia would be forced to use nuclear weapons if a counteroffensive by the Ukrainian military was successful and led to the retaking of certain Russian territories, according to a post from Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council.
In the absence of a peace deal, the only one whose power is being degraded is that of the United States of America and NATO. We are the ones who, through the policies of our corrupt globalist stooges in high elected office, have outsourced our entire industrial base over the last 35 years, to the point where we cannot survive a war with Russia and China because those two countries not only have massive nuclear and conventional capabilities but they also out-perform us on an industrial level. That means in any protracted conventional war, we would run out of munitions before they would.
This is why I suspect, based on the actions of the Western stooges I have seen over the last year and a half, that the Western plan is to make a first-strike nuclear attack on Russia. That’s the only realistic strategy I can see succeeding if the goal is to deliver a humiliating military defeat to Russia.
Musk Vs CCDH by AMUSE
This lawsuit is indeed a big deal. It's not just about a breach of contract or financial losses; it's about the fundamental principles of free speech and open dialogue. It's a battle against attempts to silence diverse voices and control the narrative.
The complaint alleges that CCDH unlawfully accessed X Corp.'s data to create a false narrative that the platform is overwhelmed with harmful content. The tactics used by CCDH are described as "flawed," with accusations of cherry-picking data and mischaracterizing it to create "faulty narratives."
CCDH's actions have allegedly led to financial harm to X Corp., with an estimated loss of tens of millions of dollars in advertising revenues. But beyond the financial aspect, the lawsuit represents a broader ideological battle.
Climate Change Or Tongan Volcano? by NAKED EMPEROR
Since 2021, the percentage of the world that burns has been on the decline.
Satellites have been recording the amount of fires on the planet’s surface and the trend is very firmly down. In the early 2000s, 3% of the world burnt but last year a new low was set at 2.2%.
article points to the increasing amounts of hurricanes we are told we are having, when in fact satellite data shows the opposite.
a volcanic eruption, that occurred last year, that was rarely mentioned.
This happened on 15 January 2022 in Tonga but we didn’t hear much about it because it was underwater. However, this was a major event which NASA warned could temporarily warm the Earth’s surface.
“Millán and his colleagues estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer. That’s nearly four times the amount of water vapor that scientists estimate the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines lofted into the stratosphere.”
“This extra water vapor could influence atmospheric chemistry, boosting certain chemical reactions that could temporarily worsen depletion of the ozone layer. It could also influence surface temperatures.”
They Got Away With It by JORDAN SCHACHTEL
They have never been held remotely accountable for being wrong and especially for behaving with complete disregard for the unalienable rights of the 8 billion human beings who populate our world. Therefore, this very ruling class faction, with its insatiable appetite for power, will never stop attempting to have their way with our civilization. They’re currently throwing bumper sticker narratives at the dart board and seeing what sticks.
One of the main lessons of the corona hysteria era is that we need to be much quicker on the draw in providing the counter narrative [the true signal] to the propaganda being deployed by the global ruling classes.
This is no easy task, but it’s so enormously important to the cause of preserving some semblance of human freedom, and pushing back against those who wish to transform the entire world into their own local versions of China’s Social Credit Score system.
Campaign 2024 Chaos by MATT TAIBBI
the establishment plan for the Republican Party this cycle was clearly Ron DeSantis, but a New York Times/Siena poll published yesterday shows he’s plunging like a stone, falling to 17%, a.k.a. 37 points behind Donald Trump.
Our leaders, who once had the election process reduced to scripts more predictable than Everybody Loves Raymond, now seem to have no clue what will happen beyond the next few minutes.
The man facing death in prison is in the strongest position of the major candidates.
Incumbent Joe Biden not only has the lowest approval rating in history…but as of Monday, when his son’s former partner Devon Archer testified in Congress, he appeared to be careening toward withdrawal due to impairment, scandal, or both. As dire as Trump’s legal situation may be, the political panic on the blue side is as striking.
It’s written on the faces of Democratic politicians that no one expected a multiple-indicted Trump to be competitive in polls with Biden this late in the game. This is causing messaging paralysis. No one knows what to say or think.
No Central Banks, No Lockdowns by ESC
without central bank action, there would have been no lockdowns. They would have been found too expensive almost immediately, as governments would have run out of cash, and the markets would have responded by rapidly appreciating interest rates. It would have been deemed inaffordable within weeks, if that.
Declines varied from nation to nation, of course, some were hit harder than others - but the impact was felt worldwide. Every nation which implemented these policies saw lower economic activity. And this was, of course, bloody obvious.
the BIS facilitated the lockdown policies by coordinating action between the various member central banks, in turn not only driving inflation, but also allowing the scamdemic to launch in the first place. And they did this through - in short - coordinating a colossal printing of money, the likes of which has never been observed before in history.
Intelligence Community Coup by MICHAEL P SENGER
it’s hauntingly clear that the illiberalism of the response to COVID largely emanated from the western intelligence community. But in part owing to the secrecy of the agencies involved, it’s difficult to determine who exactly within the intelligence community might have orchestrated all this and why.
there’s a degree of truth to the critical notion that, by virtue of their secrecy and their longstanding ethos of realpolitik, the western intelligence community may have a somewhat totalitarian culture all on their own, notwithstanding the influence of the CCP.
This longstanding culture of justifying the use of force and propaganda abroad may have blinded western intelligence leaders to the illiberalism of the policies their agencies were deploying in response to COVID; thus, what we witnessed during COVID may have been the result of the CIA and its counterparts turning their awesome powers of manipulation against their own people, however unwittingly.
School Shooting Data Deep Dive by JOSH STEVENSON @JOSH STEVENSON
the definition of a “School Shooting” according to this database is not what your average person would think of when we hear that word. Typically, we think of a pre-meditated, planned undertaking….it contains a lot of incidents that may or may not have any relation to schools, nor derive any effect from school policy.
For example, many of these records are really gang-related violence that happens on school property, as well as events that happen outside of school hours and incidentally near/ or on school property or school events.
One of the issues with this approach is that it often serves to allow media to overstate school shooting events
Silent Infection/Reinfection by WALTER M CHESNUT
It is clear that there have been sudden cardiac deaths [SCD] from the Spike Protein (SARS-CoV-2) due to Myocarditis. However, if we examine what occurs during an active SARS-CoV-2 infection, we discover that we are in a landscape ripe for SCD. It may be the case that those, especially athletes and those under great stress, suffering from cardiac arrest and SCD may be in the midst of an asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. This may be another significant mechanism for the observed dramatic increase in SCDs.
This would also explain why pilots, news anchors and others in stressful situations are succumbing to arrythmias causing cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death.
Asymptomatic infection/exposure to the Spike Protein may be causing sudden death in ways less immediately obvious than fulminant or “mild” myocarditis.
We Compete With Bodies, Not Identities by AJ KAY
Almost all female athletes train and compete with the knowledge that they will never be the best in the world. Elite female runners, for example, still dedicate their lives to their sport, knowing that, by virtue of their sex and its accompanying physical limits, they will never hold the title of the world’s fastest human. That distinction always has and always will go to a man. It doesn’t matter how she feels about that fact; it simply is. And rather than protesting to change the definition or subvert that constraint, she strives to be the best that her material reality will allow: the world’s fastest woman.
“Ineligible” is the correct description for a trans-identifying man who wants to be included in women’s sports — which is very different from “banned.” It makes clear that, in contrast to being singled out or excluded, an individual simply does not meet the essential inclusion criteria.
In other words, nothing has been taken because nothing was possessed, nor does an entitlement to possession exist.
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