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Withholding Crucial Pregnancy Outcomes by NORMAN FENTON & MARTIN NEIL
Replacing GDP With Communism by RUSSELL LAMBERTI
Long Vax Or Long Covid? by ANANDAMIDE
Prison Or Plea Deal by GOOD CITIZEN
Fewer Shots; Less Infant Mortality by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
A Nastier Playbook by EL GATO MALO
Did CDC Adjust Their Coding Algorithm? by ASHMEDAI
China Ramps Up Diesel Production by AMUSE
2X More Non-Covid Excess Deaths by USMORTALITY
Japanese Vax Pusher Never Got The Jab by GUY GIN
The False Dichotomy by JONATHAN ENGLER & MARTIN NEIL
Minnesotan Iatrogenesis & Democide by JOEL SMALLEY
Profitable Pandemic by ALEX BERENSON
A Military Draft Coming? by LEO HOHMANN
Schools Were Safe All Along by ALEX BERENSON
Truth; Not Your Truth by JENNIFER SEY
Japan’s Excess Death Explosion by JOEL SMALLEY
Endless Death Peaks by STEVE KIRSCH
Spike Protein Cardiotoxicity by WALTER M CHESNUT
Chronic Sampling Bias by JOHN DEE
Withholding Crucial Pregnancy Outcomes by NORMAN FENTON & MARTIN NEIL
report to the PEAG [Pharmacovigilance Expert Advisory Group] provided information about the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reported up until 30 June 2021 by the Yellow Card Vaccine Monitor (YCVM) Group (a self selected group of 30,000 people who registered to provide regular updates of any adverse reactions to their vaccinations).
An astonishing 53% of all those in the YCVM reported at least one ADR (adverse drug reaction). Of those receiving the AZ vaccine 59.2% reported at least one ADR, compared to 38.8% for Pfizer and 59.3% for Moderna.
There were 1366 pregnant women in the YCVM. Of those who received the AZ vaccine a whopping 66% (124 out of 203) reported at least one ADR; 38% of the Pfizer recipients and 61% of the Moderna recipients reported at least one ADR.
Replacing GDP With Communism by RUSSELL LAMBERTI
On the chopping block is GDP, which, we are told in the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All final report, provides a “narrow, distorted view” of economic activity and societal well-being by measuring things it shouldn’t, and not measuring things it should. WHO recommends “getting beyond maximizing GDP and, instead, using a range of dynamic metrics to track progress across core societal values.”
replacing GDP will mean little if new measurement systems only further entrench and enable the desire to “direct economic activity” by Great Reset ideologues.
European Parliament, speakers discussed new ways in which governments and large supranational bureaucracies can direct economic resources. This is the reincarnate ‘Club of Rome’ (the opening plenary was titled “Limits to Growth”, a homage to the Club), and it seeks to reassert the ideas of planetary finitude needing mediation by wise technocrats with sweeping powers: The Great (Malthusian) Reset.
Our task is not to ridicule perceptive instincts that express concern, but to discredit iatrogenic economic solutions equipped with new-generation tools of central planning, and instead sketch a more decentralised, human-scale – and humane – path toward the flourishing society.
Long Vax Or Long Covid? by ANANDAMIDE
Several pathologists have asked us how to differentiate Vax Spike from COVID Spike.
This is important in order to differentiate Long Vax from Long COVID and its traditionally done by looking for nucleocapsid protein with ELISA or other protein based assays. The vaccine doesn’t present any nucleocapsid sequence so only those infected by the virus should have both spike and nucleocapsid.
Due to the codon optimizations of the vaccines, the DNA sequences for these two versions of spike are substantially different. Pfizer is only 72% identical to the Wuhan1 spike DNA sequence.
This makes it very easy to differentiate the Vax spike residual DNA or RNA from the virus.
What was surprising was to find zero cross reactivity with the Wuhan-1 sequence for 40 cycles. I was expecting a 10-20 CT offset but instead the primers show ZERO reactivity with the Virus spike gBlock.
This is a very favorable outcome for using these assays as tool to track Long Vax and Long Covid biopsies.
Prison Or Plea Deal by GOOD CITIZEN
The reality that anyone with half a functioning brain could see coming since they orchestrated a domestic coup against Trump and spent four years undermining his Presidency.
The reality that conservative pundits failed for years to disclose to their loyal flock—Trump is not permitted to ever return to the White House. It doesn’t matter if he’s polling at 99% with all voters, he simply has two choices: Prison, or a plea deal that prevents his name from appearing on the ballot in 2024.
This isn’t just election interference, it’s weaponized lawfare by the state for ballot rigging against the favored candidate, and it will, not, stop.
Fewer Shots; Less Infant Mortality by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
an analysis by Miller, et al, suggests the entire program of hyper vaccination may be backfiring.
The two main independent variables in this analysis restricted to developed countries at two time points 2019 and 2021 (check for internal validity) were the number of vaccines given in the 28 day neonatal period (none, hepatitis B, Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) for tuberculosis) and then the overall number of shots given before age 1 year. The outcome variable was all cause mortality at age 1 and 5 years.
As you can see this does not look good for vaccines. In every analysis the children who went “natural” with no shots did the best and there was a trend for the fewest number of injections to be associated with the lowest mortality.
A Nastier Playbook by EL GATO MALO
if you wanted a weapon to destroy a society, how could you improve upon the confluence of carbon obsession and woke? you’ll make them poor. you’ll convince them that math is racist. you’ll pit group against group, make a muddle of sexuality, vilify child rearing, and have everyone so furious fighting over and politicizing nothing that they’ll barely notice their demographic decline, their school scores sliding, their science stultifying and politicizing, and their family structures dissolving. you’ll have them clamoring for truth ministries and ideological purity over fact.
if you’ve got a nastier playbook than that, i’d love to hear it.
consider the possibility that this is not a system breaking but rather one working as intended. (it’s just not our system. it’s one aimed at us as a weapon.)
Did CDC Adjust Their Coding Algorithm? by ASHMEDAI
Was the CDC trying to modify their algorithm in order to perpetrate a different data fraud upon the public, and accidentally screwed up their algorithm in the process causing it to randomly assign B99 to hundreds of covid deaths lacking any indication for such a designation?
the temporary burst of enigmatic illness in 2021 is an artifact created by the CDC. The CDC applies ICD codes to each Cause of Death (CoD) on every death certificate (except when they don’t want to, such as death certificates that identify a covid vaccine as a CoD). The only question is how did the CDC manage to confound their own ICD code algorithm to create the mirage of a one-year pandemic of elusive infectious agents.
practically all of the “excess” B99 deaths in 2021 explicitly identified *Covid* as a CoD on the death certificate
On the one hand, the CDC did something to their algorithm that resulted in the unwarranted application of B99 to more than 700 covid deaths in 2021.
On the other hand, there is no appreciable benefit the CDC gains from unnecessarily adding B99 to hundreds of covid deaths.
China Ramps Up Diesel Production by AMUSE
China's state-owned enterprise (SOE) refiners have significantly ramped up production of marine diesel, a move that has raised concerns among analysts and defense experts. The capacity utilization at SOE refiners has surged from 75% to 95%, reaching full production
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy relies on marine diesel, making the sudden increase in production a potential warning sign. The economic reality in China does not align with SOE marine diesel refineries operating at full capacity, leading to speculation about the country's military intentions.
China's increased military posturing near Taiwan has been a source of international concern, and the recent developments in marine diesel production add to the growing apprehension.
the signs point to a potential escalation in tensions. Vigilance and diplomatic engagement will be crucial in the coming months to understand China's actions and to ensure peace and stability in the region
2X More Non-Covid Excess Deaths by USMORTALITY
we can see from these figures, almost 2x more excess deaths are non-covid excess deaths. In fact, based on these figures, the failed pandemic response has caused an additional 9.5M excess deaths. As it’s likely that COVID-19 was vastly overreported, based on ‘magic’ flu disappearance, media spurred panic, and government incentives, it’s likely that these COVID-19 deaths are vastly overreported, which would bring the total of needless excess deaths easily to over 10 Million!
When combining the WHO data and vaccination data from Our World in Data, we can see, that excess deaths peaked with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Even with billions of doses given, excess deaths do not fall back to normal levels and remain above 500k/month!
excess deaths were not stopped at all, by the vaccine rollout, and in many places peaked with its introduction. Whether this is causal remains unclear.
Japanese Vax Pusher Never Got The Jab by GUY GIN
Governor Kawakatsu openly admits he never once rolled up his sleeve for an mRNA injection despite strongly recommending his constituents do so, as discussed in a recent article in the magazine President.
As an example of Governor Kawakatsu’s public pro-vax stance, the article points to his words and actions during the State of Emergency (SoE) that he’d declared in 2021. After saying that “the SoE can’t be lifted in the current situation”, he opened up two more large-scale vaccination centres in Shizuoka to “accelerate vaccinations across the whole prefecture”, which had a vaccination rate lower than the national average at the time.
The same article quotes a female medical worker from Shizuoka whose right arm was paralysed after getting the Covid jab.
“I wish I’d never got vaccinated like Governor Kawakatsu. Even though Governor Kawakatsu understood the dangers and didn’t get vaccinated, he strongly recommended the vaccines to people in Shizuoka. I want him to take responsibility for the people injured by the vaccines.”
The False Dichotomy by JONATHAN ENGLER & MARTIN NEIL
the establishment is unlikely to have lost control over the mainstream media. It now appears to be allowing the lab-leak story to come out, and in fact even encouraging it. That is because it would much rather people pre-occupy themselves with the mystery of “where did it come from?” than they attempt to seriously address two questions:
“Is the SARS-CoV-2 virus actually relatively more lethal than the respiratory viruses that typically occur during winter?”, and
“If not then what caused all the deaths?”
The question as to whether the origin of SARS-Cov-2 was a lab or zoonotic is a classic “false dichotomy”
the evidence suggests that there was no pandemic in 2020, by any reasonable definition of that word. All the harm observed since spring 2020 was caused by the dystopian response to the perceived threat, including the rollout of a number of “vaccines” which were neither safe nor effective.
Minnesotan Iatrogenesis & Democide by JOEL SMALLEY
I was fortunate to obtain copies of the death certificates of all four hundred thousand Minnesotans who died between Jan 2015 and May 2023.
Unfortunately, my analysis indicates twenty-two thousand of those deaths occurred earlier than they should have done.
not so much a viral pandemic as a shifting iatrogenic one -
first, non-pharmaceutical interventions and general disruption to health and social care provision, and treatment protocols, especially affecting care home residents;
second, the introduction of a novel therapeutic [Remdesivir] with known fatal side effects, only administered to those in hospital;
third, the introduction of yet another novel therapeutic [Covid Vax] with absolutely no knowledge about it whatsoever, except past failures of vaccines for coronaviruses, but injected into as many non-thinking people’s arms as quickly as possible, wherever they happen to be or what their risk profile was, and not paused in the slightest as evidence quickly emerged that immune systems were being compromised.
Profitable Pandemic by ALEX BERENSON by
American hospitals made more money than ever during Covid, thanks to special government subsidies, a new study shows.
Hospital profit margins in 2020 and 2021 more than doubled compared to 2019, researchers reported in JAMA Health Forum last month. In all, hospitals made at least $16 billion more in profits during the two Covid years than they did in 2019, the researchers found.
Hospitals delayed profitable elective procedures early in the pandemic and had extra costs for traveling nurses and protective gear. But the 20 percent bonus they received for Covid patients and other special funding more than made up the difference for most hospitals.
“COVID-19 relief funding aided in operating margins reaching all-time highs,” the researchers wrote. “Funding amounts may have been larger than was necessary for many hospitals.”
A Military Draft Coming? by LEO HOHMANN
The military is unable to even come close to meeting its targets for recruitment, off by 20 to 30 percent in every branch except the Marines, which is struggling as well but might just barely make its goals this year.
My guess is that the last thing Biden would do is reinstate the draft now, given that we are entering an election year. But with the neoconservative warmongers who run Washington itching to get into a war with Russia, they will definitely need a draft soon and are probably planning to start one up shortly after the November 2024 election.
It’s easier to ignore the root cause of their failure to recruit volunteers and contemplate how they can force our sons and daughters into their corrupted clutches.
Schools Were Safe All Along by ALEX BERENSON
Children almost never passed Covid infections in school, a study published Friday reveals.
In fall 2021, in four Massachusetts school districts with 18,000 children, researchers found 44 potential cases of in-school transmission.
You read that right.
18,000 students. 34 schools. Four months. And 44 Covid infections - including no infections of teachers or other staff members.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, as parents pressed with increasing urgency to reopen classrooms, teachers unions and Democratic politicians warned in-school Covid transmission would lead to waves of death. “Teachers are so worried about returning to school that they’re preparing wills,” CNN infamously wrote on July 16, 2020.
In reality, schools were among the safest possible places for students and teachers during Covid, this study suggests.
Truth; Not Your Truth by JENNIFER SEY
I’d argue the widespread adoption of my truth during the height of the me too era, has ushered in widespread use of the term beyond the subject of sexual violence, and the fungibility of the notion of truth more broadly.
Speaking your truth puts personal experience above hard, cold facts. And in a day and age where truth is in the eyes of the beholder, we need to get back to some measure of reality.
It isn’t compassionate to endorse a lie. If we go along with lies, they never end. And people like Nassar continue abusing and we get extremely harmful policies like prolonged public school closures.
And, most frighteningly, we may lose the notion of objective truth forever.
Japan’s Excess Death Explosion by JOEL SMALLEY
As many as 345,000 Japanese have died in “excess” between 25-Apr-21 and 26-Mar-23 (and still counting), a truly unprecedented mortality event in the last quarter of a century.
Prior to 25-Apr-21, excess mortality had not exhibited any signs of unusual activity, in spite of the alleged deadliness of COVID that was rife in the western world for an entire year.
Perhaps just coincidentally, Japan started administering the experimental mRNA product to its citizens a couple of weeks before death rates soared, an experiment they evidently did not need to take part in.
Also, perhaps coincidentally, each subsequent wave of death appears to follow a new round of “vaccinations”.
Endless Death Peaks by STEVE KIRSCH
What you can see from Figure 1 above is that the COVID vaccines don’t look at all like a safe vaccine: the peaks of deaths just keep going and going. The peaks end after 2.5 years because the COVID vaccines have only been out for 2.5 years.
A safe vaccine should have a peak near day 0 just due to coincidence causing false reports in the first few days after the vaccine as people falsely associate the death event with the date of vaccination. The rest of the curve should be flat. This is the case for many of the vaccines. For example, the Rubella vaccine doesn’t have a single death report in the history of VAERS (but does have 800 adverse event reports).
Spike Protein Cardiotoxicity by WALTER M CHESNUT
The exact same pathology that is induced by radiation is mimicked by the Spike Protein. This has both immediate and long-term consequences. It may be that, as with radiation induced cardiotoxicity, the damage may be irreversible.
From deposition of extracellular matrix to fibrosis and autonomic dysfunction we see the complete panoply of Spike Protein pathology.
The Spike Protein, I believe, is orders of magnitude more powerful than the amount of radiation given in cancer treatment.
If this hypothesis is true, we must immediately begin screenings and implement treatment protocols. Again, my fear is that, currently, much of the damage from radiation induced cardiotoxicity is irreversible.
Chronic Sampling Bias by JOHN DEE
probable (a.k.a. genuine/symptomatic) COVID in-patients prior to death were 151 times more likely to suffer an acute respiratory condition if they were vaccinated.
Vaccinated folk who were suffering from an existing chronic respiratory disease were 1.32 times (32%) more likely to suffer an acute respiratory condition – Chronic Respiratory by Vaccinated (OR = 1.32, p=0.016).
Vaccinated folk who were suffering from major comorbidity (cardiac, cancer etc) were two times more likely to suffer an acute respiratory condition – Comorbidity by Vaccinated (OR = 2.04, p<0.001).
we are very likely looking at yet more evidence of sample bias; that is to say, the behaviour and care of complex clinical cases may well differ between the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts in ways we haven’t fathomed, an example being people who are far too sick to be vaccinated.
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