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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Immune Tolerance by Dr Ah Kahn Syed
Scarring From IgGF4-related Disease by Jessica Rose
Safe & Effective? by Joel Smalley
Covid Worse After Booster by Alex Berenson
50 Questions For Neurenberg 2.0 by Michael P Senger
Kelley K & Elon vs Faust & Some Guy Named Ted by Kelley K
2 Foot Long Clots by Steve Kirsch
Blood Pressure & Pulse Issues by James Cintolo
CCP Agrees to Censor For US Government by Glenn Greenwald
CISA’s “Critical Infrastructure” by KanekoaTheGreat
Decentralized Peer Review by Anandamide
Observed Trends in Miscarriages By Brandon is not your bro
How Many Covid Deaths Actually? by Justin Hart
Sycophancy Cost 20 Million Lives? by Ethical Skeptic
Vax-Injured Soldier by Team Humanity
WEF Targeting Africa by Jer In America
IgG4 & Tumor Progression by Jessica Rose
Dissent is Good by Jennifer Sey
Struggle For Liberty by Jeffrey Tucker
The Harms of Delaying a Respiratory Infection by Vinay Prasad
Myo & Mentration Issues by James Cintolo
XBB Variant by Igor Chudov
Malone & Rogan: 1 Yr Anniversary by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Fauci’s Legacy by Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H.
Spike Burns the Endothelium by Walter M Chesnut
Vax Causes AUS Mortality by Denis G Rancourt, Marine Baudin and Jérémie Mercier
A Look at Scandinavia & Vax Excess Death by el gato malo
Why Did German Doctors Join the Nazi Party? by Omar S. Haquea, Julian De Freitas, IvanaViani, Bradley Niederschulte, & Harold J.Bursztajn
Immune Tolerance by Dr Ah Kahn Syed
when Ersa says “this is bad” I had to raise an eyebrow even though I have been trying to avoid digging into the nuances of the immunological changes associated with COVID and the mRNA vaccines.
The chart clearly shows a large and significant rise in PD-L1 expression (in immune cells).
But why? PD-L1 is the protein that T-cells use to mitigate any attack against host cells (i.e. your own body). Inhibition of PD-L1 is the basis of some of the most important and effective cancer treatments developed in the last 10 years.
the fact that there is a switch of Immunoglobulin-G (which is your standard memory antibody) to the rare form of IgG4 following mRNA COVID “vaccines” means that the immune system is collapsing.
by the time of the “booster” the IgG4 proportion has risen to levels we would never see in a normal infectious process or traditional vaccine.
In fact, raised IgG4 levels are indicators of some very problematic diseases and represent immune tolerance.
article showed definitively that the spike protein - the very one produced in huge quantities by the mRNA therapy - suppressed p53 activity at a cellular level. p53 is the main tumour suppressor in the body - so suppressing it (p53) is a really bad idea.
Scarring From IgGF4-related Disease by Jessica Rose
Instead of the intended pool of spike-specific neutralizing IgG antibodies being dominant in multiply-injected people, a pool of antibodies associated with spike-specific tolerance are dominant in multiply-injected people.
This confirms that this class switch to this tolerizing antibody subclass is specific to the effects of repeated injections with the Comirnaty products (we’ll have to check the Moderna mRNA-1273 products) and more importantly, that is not a typical consequence of repeat antigen exposure from either natural infections and vaccination.
a disease related to IgG4 appropriately called IgG4-related disease. Original, right?
IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD)5
This is a ‘dis-ease’ that is characterized by lymphocyte (white blood cell) and IgG4-secreting plasma (B) cell tissue infiltration.
The result of this infiltration is fibrosis (scarring).
Safe & Effective? by Joel Smalley
The pushers set the narrative - Safe and Effective™. So, all that is required to defeat the narrative is either:
periods of negative unvaccinated representation when there is low COVID mortality - vaccine is not safe;
or
periods of insignificant over-representation when there is material COVID mortality - vaccine is not effective.
And all it takes is surveys of 25,000 alive people and 25,000 dead ones.
If they really wanted to know the truth, the government could sponsor this and get the results in a very, very small fraction of the time and budget provided to set up a useless track and trace system.
Covid Worse After Booster by Alex Berenson
The immune shift causes the body to make relatively more of a less potent kind of antibody to Covid, displacing antibodies that attack the virus more aggressively. The change could heighten the risk of Covid infection and mean that people who are infected suffer longer and more serious cases.
It may also increase the chance of certain autoimmune disorders, though that connection is more speculative.
Worse, the researchers found evidence that being infected with Sars-Cov-2 after receiving a booster worsens rather than reverses the shift.
if the mRNAs are truly generating broad “immune tolerance” to a virus that continues to mutate its spike and make all our anti-spike protein antibodies less potent (as Omicron has), the long-term consequences are potentially frightening.
50 Questions For Neurenberg 2.0 by Michael P Senger
Given the magnitude of the harm that’s been done, the public deserves to know exactly who knew and did what, when, and why in the days leading up to the lockdowns of spring 2020 and beyond. Though it may not be politically feasible, ideally this would one day take the form of an international tribunal. Below are just some of the many disturbing questions to which any leader who claims to represent the public ought to demand answers:
How did a 40-year member of the British Communist Party with no background in epidemiology become a leading advisor to the UK Government, and why was she recently promoted to lead the WHO’s nudge unit?
Why has there been so little public discussion of China’s influence on the global response to Covid, despite FBI Director Christopher Wray’s disclosure that Chinese officials were “aggressively urging support for China’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis?”
Why were widely-known and publicized problems with PCR testing and comorbidities ignored for purposes of counting Covid deaths?
Why were mechanical drones initially deployed by various states and countries to monitor lockdown compliance?
Why did elite western publications begin explicitly urging the public to adopt a response to Covid that was more like China’s?
Leading officials have made conflicting statements as to whether the goal of lockdowns was to eliminate the virus, slow the spread, or buy time for vaccines. What was the actual goal they had in mind at the time they implemented these policies?*
*NOTE: I only included a couple of Senger’s 50 important questions.
Kelley K & Elon vs Faust & Some Guy Named Ted by Kelley K
I replied again to Ted on Twitter pointing out the flawed analysis and tagging Jeremy Faust. Faust actually replied to me saying - get this - that he unintentionally “juxtaposed two graphs that weren’t optimal to juxtapose.” WEREN’T OPTIMAL?!? He was comparing flu deaths where flu was the underlying cause of death to Covid deaths where Covid was anywhere on the death certificate (underlying or a contributing cause). Saying that’s “not optimal” is putting it mildly. It’s comparing apples to oranges as far as cause of death is concerned, while also ignoring that we test significantly more for Covid than we ever tested for flu, so the ascertainment rates are very different. We also have different definitions for flu deaths versus Covid deaths that skews Covid deaths higher.
I pointed out to him that it was dishonest not to consider the difference in testing rates between flu and Covid, then he refused to engage with me further because it was mean to call his assessments “dishonest.” Either he’s got very thin skin, or he bailed so he wouldn’t have to acknowledge that he conveniently left out the significant differences in testing during Covid versus historical flu seasons from his analysis.
2 Foot Long Clots by Steve Kirsch
I talked to a nurse with 23 years of experience and she never heard about clots longer than a few inches in her career until the vax came along. Now, we are seeing blood clots in kids as young as 8 -12 years old, but only if they’ve been vaccinated.
“I worked with vascular surgeons for 24 years and quit prior to covid so all our patients were unvaccinated insofar as covid. I have seen clots primarily in the lower extremities longer that 1 foot but mostly on ultrasound. In most cases anticoagulation is used. In cases where clot removal or surgical thrombectomy is needed the clot would not come out as an as intact piece or unit. It would break up into pieces. So, as I commented below, I have never seen anything resembling these "fibrous" clots in operating room and I have no idea what they are.”
Blood Pressure & Pulse Issues by James Cintolo
A brand new study posted in Nature Cardiovascular Research identified an alarming safety signal the media had silenced. Specifically, there was a 2X increase in cases of dysautonomia after mRNA vaccination. Dysautonomia is a disorder of the nervous system that can prevent people from regulating pulse, and blood pressure which can result in temporary immobility due to rapid blood pressure and pulse fluctuations. Other symptoms like nausea, blurry vision, and chest pain can occur.
CCP Agrees to Censor For US Government by Glenn Greenwald
Rather than ban TikTok from the U.S., the U.S. Security State is now doing exactly that which China does to U.S. tech companies: namely, requiring that, as a condition to maintaining access to the American market, TikTok must now censor content that undermines what these agencies view as American national security interests. TikTok, desperate not to lose access to hundreds of millions of Americans, has been making a series of significant concessions to appease the Pentagon, CIA and FBI, the agencies most opposed to deals to allow TikTok to stay in the U.S.
Among those concessions is that TikTok is now outsourcing what the U.S. Government calls “content moderation” — a pleasant-sounding euphemism for political censorship — to groups controlled by the U.S. Government
when all of these governments claim to be worried about “destabilization” and “propaganda,” what they mean is that they want to retain the power to propagandize their own citizenries. By “national security” and “national interests,” they do not mean they want to protect the welfare of their citizens but rather seek to preserve their foreign meddling in other countries and their ability to quash criticism of national leaders
CISA’s “Critical Infrastructure” by KanekoaTheGreat
CISA outsourced censorship to a web of like-minded private sector and civil society partners to circumvent unclear legal authorities and violations of the First Amendment.
Formed in 2018, CISA’s stated mission was to protect America from cybersecurity threats from hostile foreign countries, but that mission was quickly and quietly corrupted when the branch of DHS designated foreign and then domestic disinformation as attacks on critical infrastructure.
“One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,” Jen Easterly, Biden’s CISA said.
Decentralized Peer Review by Anandamide
The sharp focus should be ending this poisonous administration of C19 vaccines and prosecuting the parties that abused Fiat medicine. They abused peoples faith in Science while defraying liability and laundering their actions through unaccountable government agencies.
Even if a GOF virus can circle the globe and evolve into the more the virulent Delta variant, the government’s response to it has magnified its ‘death-print’ from something that would have gone un-noticed to a lockdown served with a cold rearrangement of the global monetary system. This was the largest wealth transfer in human history. As Carlin likes to say “Its big club and you ain’t in it”.
We need to decentralize the peer review process so the incumbent advertisers and woke mob running these journals can’t so easily weaponize them as tools of their cultish narrative.
The blockchain based tools to do this are mature and easy to implement. It is really just about getting many scientists on board with its necessity and we can prevent this from happening again.
Observed Trends in Miscarriages By Brandon is not your bro
Pelvic exam in stirrups reveals dilated cervix and here comes the baby, blood everywhere and baby lands unexpectedly on the gurney thankfully. Alive. Eyes fused, breathing, clamped the cord, baby wrapped in a blanket to the nursery.
Usually the babies are dead but this little guy wasn’t, he tried to live but no chance at 18 weeks. I collect no data, I use trends … this is a trend that tells scientists to collect data. I will continue to report the trends I see.
All we can do is tell people to resist and say no to these jabs. If they choose not to heed the warnings, not much else we can do. I’m seeing a rise in ovarian cancers at the moment. There are still miscarriages but not at the rate it was a year ago.
How Many Covid Deaths Actually? by Justin Hart
The CDC has "confirmed" 923,710 deaths. But if you use an "apples to apples" comparison on how they track other respiratory burdens then you would have to conclude that there have been 347,601 deaths.
In other words, the MASTER record that the CDC uses to track cases and deaths has only 347K deaths that have complete information (clinical date, lab-confirmed sample)
Sycophancy Cost 20 Million Lives? by Ethical Skeptic
The cost of sycophancy usually involves suffering on the part of the majority of the population, and the enrichment of a very small membership of Royalty, those who profit from the mantle of the fake virtue they have pushed.
There are times during which, because of a lack of intelligence on the matter at hand, taking limited, parsimonious, or even no action – is the right course of action.
We acted in accordance with lockdown and virtue-words (eg. ‘vaccine’, ‘flatten the curve’, ‘mask up’) policies of magical thinking, before we could define the danger we actually faced and before we knew which action we should be rationally taking.
The future death tally from such maliciously-motivated thinking could stand to be on the order of 20 million lives or more – a divergent function which is very difficult to predict, save for its inordinately large reality.
Such is the cost of woke and fake science.
Vax-Injured Soldier by Team Humanity
Shannon’s life changed in an instant. Her legs started to tremor; she suffered from electrical feelings in her chest; she was dizzy, exhausted and everything in her ached. Shannon said it felt like, “she had poison sand in her blood.”
Shannon could not work. She couldn’t support her battalion, let alone take care of herself. Leaving her team in Kuwait to come home and heal was completely devastating. Shannon is the epitome of a team member. She did not want to leave her comrades behind.
As of now Shannon says she has 50% of her strength and life back. She still struggles with debilitating fatigue, neurological symptoms, and constant pain.
WEF Targeting Africa by Jer In America
it seems as though the WEF is moving the goalpost and trying to redefine what constitutes a global health crisis, what constitutes improved health equity. This is a recipe for more concentrated socialist health policies forced on the people who live in nations like Africa. The WEF has fairly consistently up until now framed global health crises along the lines of deadly viruses, outbreaks of infectious diseases.
IgG4 & Tumor Progression by Jessica Rose
In effect, IgG4 outcompetes IgG1 and thus, the scales tip from tumor suppression, to tumor progression. All because of IgG4.
persistent re-injection of a messenger RNA that encodes a foreign, highly immunogenic protein, is NOT a good idea in this context. This is precisely continuous antigen stimulation by spike protein. Not only that, since we know that both the mRNA and the spike protein are long-lasting in the body, you mightn’t even have to re-inject yourself repeatedly qualify as undergoing continuous antigen stimulation.
Dissent is Good by Jennifer Sey
it is the responsibility of every leader to welcome dissent. And it is why the Founding Fathers enshrined free speech in the Bill of Rights. Unfettered speech gives power to the people. It is the lynchpin of a democracy. And we need it to get to truth, to innovate, to progress, and to hold power to account.
Business leaders who stifle dissent almost always fail in the end. And so do authoritarian censorship regimes.
Struggle For Liberty by Jeffrey Tucker
Then came 2020. In a matter of weeks, the progress of decades was crushed underfoot. Hardly anyone could have predicted the trigger: fear of a virus plus an intellectually preposterous response, followed by an appalling three years of lies and coverups that continue to this day.
something else had gone wrong that we had not noticed. The population as a whole had begun to take freedom itself for granted, and even began to believe it was an optional condition of life.
And here we are almost three years later still living amidst the rubble, with shattered public health, a traumatized generation of children, a demoralized and terrorized population with crushed civic associations and friend networks, familial losses, the international conflicts, the loss of moral center, and a devastating loss of faith and trust in the elites of all institutions in society.
Our generation has learned a valuable lesson. Never take freedom for granted. Never entrust that freedom to a handful of experts with power. Never believe that humankind is above and beyond the deployment of brutal methods of command and control. Should we ever again let down our guard, should we ever believe that there are truths so well understood that we need not teach them to the next generation, we can lose all that we have gained.
The Harms of Delaying a Respiratory Infection by Vinay Prasad
trying to delay meeting the virus is silly. This isn't a sexually transmitted disease, nor Ebola, it's a highly transmissible respiratory virus. You will not be able to avoid it forever. Getting it in November 2023 rather than December 2022 is a pointless distinction. You're just a little older.
And yet, many people are chasing this delusion. They're using tests, masks, and otherwise being a general buzz kill, to delay the time until they get COVID-19.
Right off the bat: their goal is illogical. Nothing will be substantively different when they get it a few months from now anyway. They won't be able to delay much more than that, even with the most draconian interventions.
The second thing that's illogical is that some of what they're doing will actually delay the time to covid: like sitting in your house all day like a recluse. But some of what they're doing will not delay the time. Mask wearing is one of those things. Testing is another.
Myo & Mentration Issues by James Cintolo
2 new bombshell studies recently surfaced. One indicated 100% of kids with mRNA COVID vaccine myocarditis had meaningful heart damage after 3-6 month follow up with their medical doctors — that evidenced by LGE on MRI cardiac screenings and more. Next, authors Thorp et al found that US COVID vaccine administration was linked to a 145-times increase in reports of menstrual abnormalities and other problems with pregnant women.
XBB Variant by Igor Chudov
Despite promises of “miltilayered hybrid immunity” from vaccinations and multiple reinfections, there is no immunity in sight. This is already the seventh wave of Covid in New York.
The chart below shows that XBB.1.5 is the sneakiest variant ever to evade vaccinated immunity (an oxymoron by now). It also has a great affinity to ACE2, so very likely it will be able to infect the lungs and the cardiovascular system with worse outcomes than previous Omicron variants.
Malone & Rogan: 1 Yr Anniversary by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Frankly - I had no idea how this podcast would change my life. That is until it went live, and the number of people watching it just kept going up and up and up. Some even say I even “broke Google”. That is, I broke their search term algorithms, and they had to resort to cheating to control the rankings for the term “mass formation psychosis” (a term that I did not invent) to fit the main-stream narrative. Something that to this day Google refuses to admit they did (although Steve Kirsch kept the receipts). These days, I like to joke that I spoke those three little words and the entire Silicon Valley lost bladder control. That is what is generally known as a “tell”.
Then came the backlash. Spotify created a special attack/”factchecking” episode, and if you use either the Spotify search engine OR Google, you cannot find the episode easily - it has been “memory holed” (a term coined by George Orwell).
Fauci’s Legacy by Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H.
If Dr. Fauci wants to forever improve the agency he is now departing, he should speak out against medical censorship and publicly call for the immediate discontinuation of a White House internal policy that the thousands of doctors and scientists at the NIH, FDA, and CDC are not allowed to speak to the media. Medical discussion should not be a privilege hoarded by a select few agency leaders.
Dr. Fauci made helpful contributions during the pandemic, urging people to take COVID seriously and encouraging high-risk Americans to get vaccinated. But at a desperate time when the country needed the NIAID to work, it didn't. Fauci's agency failed to pivot its mammoth research infrastructure to give doctors and policymakers the medical evidence they needed at a critical time. In the absence of evidence, dogma ruled the day. The result has been the most politicized pandemic in history and a loss of public trust. Rebuilding that trust and a broken agency will be the charge of Dr. Fauci's successor.
Spike Burns the Endothelium by Walter M Chesnut
In order to fully understand COVID and Long COVID, I believe we need to rethink what the Spike Protein does to the Endothelium. I believe it “BURNS” the Endothelium. And severely, too.
instead of the skin, we are dealing with another organ of LARGE SURFACE AREA: The Endothelium. However, unlike the skin, THE MICROVASCULATURE IS NOT INNERVATED! In other words, we DO NOT FEEL THE “BURN” of the Spike Protein (and other SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins) “burning” our Endothelia. Therefore, we now have a more logical and complete understanding of the pathogenesis and nature of COVID, and especially Long COVID.
Vax Causes AUS Mortality by Denis G Rancourt, Marine Baudin and Jérémie Mercier
All-cause mortality by week in Australia shows that there was no detectable excess mortality 13 months into the declared pandemic, followed by a step-wise increase in mortality in mid-April 2021, synchronous with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine prioritizing elderly, disabled and aboriginal residents.
Excess mortality in Australia is causally associated with the COVID-19 vaccine. The corresponding vaccine injection fatality ratio (vIFR) is approximately 0.05%.
Another example of probable causal synchronicity between a rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout prioritizing elderly, frail and disabled residents and large excess all-cause mortality is that of India. In that case, the early rollout of the vaccine in April-July 2021 was devastating, causing the deaths of approximately 3.7 million residents, on administering approximately 350 million doses of the vaccine (in a population of 1.39 billion). This corresponds to an effective vIFR (per-dose toxicity) of approximately 1%.
Both India and Australia had virtually no detectable excess all-cause mortality after a pandemic was declared by the WHO, until their respective COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, which makes the synchronicity association relatively easy to assign.
A Look at Scandinavia & Vax Excess Death by el gato malo
perhaps getting covid before getting vaxxed allows for more robust long term immunity vs getting vaxxed as first immune training.
perhaps getting vaxxed first prevents the acquisition of viable sterilizing immunity later and left people more open to later problems from omicron which they seem to struggle more to clear than the unvaxxed.
there is also sound evidence that the double jabbed fail to generate novel responses to new pathogens of variant based boosters.
and so it’s quite plausible that those who got their initial immunity from the jab would later wind up susceptible to the evolving “escape” variants generated by leaky vaccines vs those who had naturally acquired immune training.
Why Did German Doctors Join the Nazi Party? by Omar S. Haquea, Julian De Freitas, IvanaViani, Bradley Niederschulte, & Harold J.Bursztajn
The full ScienceDirect article can be found HERE
Of particular significance for future research and education is the manner in which the persecution of Jewish physician colleagues was rationalized in the name of medical ethics itself.
One theory for Nazi doctors' abandonment of the ancient and most basic tenets of ethical medicine is that medical doctors tend to have an authoritarian personality, characterized by a strong adherence to rules and a weak ability to control more primitive, “id-driven,” impulses
Other possible explanations have been rooted in theories of practitioner narcissism.
much insight can be gained by considering the specific nexus of forces that led physicians to enroll in the first place. One factor that stands out in the context of current professional and societal concerns is the use of “ethical” claims or considerations to rationalize unethical acts.
Physicians may have been especially predisposed to assent to the authority of the Nazi regime because there were many abstract and practical objectives and orientations that the regime appeared to share with the medical profession.
Through a Social Darwinist ideology, Nazism explicitly framed its methods and aims in biological terms. As Hitler's deputy, Rudolph Hess, claimed: “National socialism is nothing but applied biology”
The German Medical Society was a preexisting organization, not one created by the Nazis to serve its ends.
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