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The Original COVID-19 Lie by MATT ORFALEA
Constitution Has Been Terminated by LEO HOHMANN
Spike Induced Systemic Calcification by WALTER M CHESNUT
Aussie Deaths Were Vaxxed by REBEKAH BARNETT
Internet Of Bodies by DR. JOSEPH SANSONE
Deep State: Functioning As Intended by EL GATO MALO
Suddenly & Unexpectedly by COQUIN DE CHIEN
Letting Our Guard Down by DAVID ZWEIG
Killer Vax In Korea by JOEL SMALLEY
Anthrax Attacks Key To Patriot Act by NAKED EMPEROR
Give Up Your Spare Rooms by PHILIP O'REILLY
Operation Vax 60% by AUSSIE17
Excess Homicides by T CODDINGTON
RFK Goes Where GOP Wont by JEFFREY A. TUCKER
Fast Track To Work Authorization by AMUSE
All Cause Deaths Up In Ever-Vaxed Groups by NAKED EMPEROR
Treatment For Long Spike Injury by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
Russians Also On ‘Team Global’ by SASHA LATYPOVA
Transgender Surgeries Have Doubled by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
The Harms Of Unregulated Digitalization by WORLD COUNCIL FOR HEALTH
The Original COVID-19 Lie by MATT ORFALEA
The COVID-19 lie that started it all—before lockdowns and mandates—was the lie that the virus was more deadly than it actually was. On March 3, 2020, the media cited the World Health Organization to spread the misinformation that the global death rate of COVID-19 was 3.4%.
Years later, the WHO’s much-expanded dataset now shows the real global case fatality rate is less than 1%. However, at the time, when the President of the United States correctly pointed out the figure was inflated, he was viciously attacked for “downplaying” the virus, as the WHO’s misleading statistic was regurgitated in the press.
Constitution Has Been Terminated by LEO HOHMANN
The brilliant constitutional attorney John Whitehead has argued that the U.S. Constitution has “effectively been terminated.”
after years of infiltration of our major institutions – schools, universities, churches, the media, government – and a couple of major crises in 9/11 and the Covid pandemic — the Constitution was subverted. Where they couldn’t get favorable court rulings, the globalists and their useful idiots (minions) found work-arounds, cleverly claiming they had extra-constitutional “emergency” powers. The legislative branch, Congress, sat back and allowed this evisceration to happen at the executive level.
And once the Constitution had been terminated, all of the other safeguards fell like dominoes. Every layer of society failed us during Covid hysteria 1.0.
Spike Induced Systemic Calcification by WALTER M CHESNUT
the Spike Protein, in addition to many already known pathologies, is also inducing systemic calcification. To understand this it is first necessary to understand how incredibly dangerous having ACE2 as a receptor is to the anatomy of the human body. If you wanted to design a weapon to target as much of the human body as possible, you would be hard pressed to find a more viable candidate than ACE2. I do not believe this is an accident
Since the Spike Protein is cytotoxic, it causes injury to tissue. This is the foundation on which the induction of systemic calcification may occur
Aussie Deaths Were Vaxxed by REBEKAH BARNETT
when the state hit its 80 per cent target and the borders reopened in December 2021, the exact opposite happened…Cases exploded, and as the vaccines had evidently failed to prevent infection or transmission, the official messaging quickly pivoted to focus on vaccines providing protection against severe illness and death.
the first Covid deaths after the vaccination rollout were mostly double jabbed, indicating that it was known to the Government as early as January 2022 that the vaccines did not prevent deaths either.
Internet Of Bodies by DR. JOSEPH SANSONE
The Internet of Bodies (IoB) term was coined in 2016. It describes connected devices that monitor the human body, collect physiological, biometric, or behavioral data, and exchange information over a wireless or hybrid network.
This of course is another transhumanist scam to enslave humanity. Imagine a world where human beings no longer have personal autonomy. A world where biological processes are continuously monitored with zero privacy. Imagine a world where thoughts are transplanted into your head. Imagine a world where a heart attack can be induced internally through The Internet of Bodies. In short, imagine a world where if you don’t obey, they simply unplug you from life.
Ultimately, The Internet of Bodies is about transforming human beings into something else. It is about stealing humanity of basic autonomy, and the right to remain human.
Deep State: Functioning As Intended by EL GATO MALO
if indeed the path to knowing who rules you lies in discovering those whom you may not criticize, the deep state sure seems to keep winding up in the middle of the graph with alarming consistency. they do not even like having their name spoken aloud.
their embedding in media, social media, and culture has become extreme. their agendas increasingly reach into universities and to schools where federal funds and federal grants have come to dominate so much of budgets and the output cum ideology of scientists and thereby students.
the place where the permanent state resides, the place where real power lies.
it comes together in terrible confluences of intelligence, regulatory, law enforcement, and bureaucratic state that command vast budgets and have near zero supervision. they have become thieves’ forests of grifters and power grabbers that stretch from EPA to FBI, DOJ to NIH, and CDC to CIA.
they penetrate everything. they determine what leaders “see” and what they “know.” they use this to set deep agendas and manipulate the course of events. when did covid get out of control in the US? right when the national security advisor sent in debbie birx to run the show. and how did she run roughshod over so many purportedly powerful people? because she had the real power behind her, the deep influence of the “deep state.”
Suddenly & Unexpectedly by COQUIN DE CHIEN
online data tool embedded in a national obituary website, https://www.legacy.com. Steve utilized the website’s advanced search tool to filter obituaries for the keywords “suddenly” and “unexpectedly.” He then filtered by date range and U.S. state.
I created a multi-user spreadsheet and gave Steve access. He populated the sheet with the number of instances of “suddenly” or “unexpectedly” for every U.S. state and for the years 2015 through August 21, 2023.
The results are staggering and incontrovertible. Something is very wrong with public health beginning not in the covid year of 2020, but rather upon deployment of the transfecting gene therapy drug the government calls a “vaccine” in 2021.
While there can be no attribution to a single cause of death, this is an alarming trend that cannot be unseen. What is causing such a rise? Is it fentanyl overdoses? Is it the use of a medicament in hospital? Could it possibly be the covid gene therapy drug deployed in the past two years?
Letting Our Guard Down by DAVID ZWEIG
For both news outlets and a cottage industry of public health professionals-come-media-darlings like Wachter, the cyclical waxing and waning of Covid continues to deliver a gift of reliable, recurrent source material. The populace can be kept in a state of repeated anxiety, and the “experts” can maintain their relevance by regularly telling us how we should feel and what we should do.
“Why the uptick?” Wachter writes. It’s not the new variant, he says. Rather, “more likely, it’s the same reason we’ve seen this roller coaster for two years: after a 6-12 month lull in Covid, most folks have let down their guard.”
“The virus lurks, waiting to find less immune & more unmasked hosts. It’s now finding them,” he writes. “This pattern will likely repeat 2-3 times yearly for the foreseeable future.”
Let me be candid: this is complete nonsense.
Killer Vax In Korea by JOEL SMALLEY
According to the plot of cumulative excess mortality, as at May 2023, Korea has tallied over 81,000 excess deaths, just over 3 months of extra deaths based on the 2019 average, over the last 18 months or so.
These excess deaths started in October 2021, a few months after Korea’s aggressive vaccination campaign. Prior to that, Korea had experienced very little “COVID” death, which incidentally also increases substantially, but still only represents 43% of the total excess deaths by the end of the observation period.
Notably, the same pattern repeats itself a couple of months after the “booster” campaign, whereby priorly both “COVID” and excess deaths had flattened, before resuming their upward course.
Anthrax Attacks Key To Patriot Act by NAKED EMPEROR
the attacks on the World Trade Center (& don’t forget building no. 7) and the Pentagon occurred on September 11, 2001.
Within days of the attacks, a legislative proposal aimed at enhancing the powers of US law enforcement agencies was already in the works. Attorney General John Ashcroft, with the Bush Administration, played a primary role in drafting the initial version of the bill.
The initial draft of the PATRIOT Act, which was presented to Congress, granted broad powers with limited oversight.
The anthrax attacks contributed to an already heightened state of concern and urgency in Congress. This climate undoubtedly played a role in the speed and decisiveness with which the PATRIOT Act was passed. Whilst Daschle and Leahy had reservations and were directly involved in the legislative process, after the anthrax attacks they voted for the Act with only Senator Russ Feingold voting against it.
Give Up Your Spare Rooms by PHILIP O'REILLY
In Toronto, Mayor Olivia Chow, faced with a crisis that has refugees sleeping in the streets, has devised “a program to encourage residents to offer available rental units at or below market rate.” Meanwhile, Nova Scotia Housing Minister John Lohr is looking to partner with Happipad, a free online home-sharing platform to leverage the “130,000 vacant bedrooms across Nova Scotia” to address the housing crisis.
If politicians are thinking about ways to convince citizens to volunteer the use of their spare rooms, you can be certain that some of them are already thinking of ways to make citizens give up their spare rooms. Private property is a cornerstone of a free society and any attempt to infringe on it must be viewed in the harshest of terms and resisted at the outset- lest it be viewed as permissible.
The cause of the American Revolution is more complicated than many people think. It is not as simple as the “no taxation without representation” slogan that many of us grew up hearing. Nor was it limited to a conflict between the colonists and the British. It was, however, unquestionably a battle for the rights of citizens and the primacy of the individual over the government.
Operation Vax 60% by AUSSIE17
A startling announcement has been issued by Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a recently retired Singaporean Minister and a Board of Trustee member at the World Economic Forum. He is advocating for immediate action to prioritize the implementation of WHO, IMF, and their multinational partners' efforts to vaccinate a minimum of 60% of every country's population within the next year.
This situation is deeply concerning, as there appears to be a significant gap between the realities on the ground and the broad directives issued by self-appointed, unelected officials from the World Economic Forum, who seem to assert their authority in determining vaccination strategies worldwide. The field of science behind this pandemic is undeniably complex, yet these officials are offering one-size-fits-all recommendations.
It's crucial to question whether these decision-makers are fully aware of the emerging issues surrounding experimental mRNA vaccines or if they're heavily invested in these products and thus doubling down despite mounting evidence of harm.
Excess Homicides by T CODDINGTON
The grey bars represent the 2018-19 average of deaths by homicide, the blue are the additional homicides, with a % increase labeled at the top of the bar. Above the 18-19 average, we see 30%, 39%, and 32% increases in 2020, 2021, and 2022 respectively. A total of 18.7K additional homicides occured in those years above what would be expected if those years had the number based on the 18-19 average.
Homicides in 2018 & 2019 showed very little trend. Roughly 18K in 2018 and 18.3K in 2019 (1.5% increase)….In a way, we are calculating “excess homicides”.
From 1st pass, recognizing limited data, it would appear there were 2 step changes in 2020. First, in Q2 we jump from a 9% increase in homicides to a 27% increase, compared to same periods in 2018-19. Then, 2020 Q3 & Q4 show a 42% increase over same periods of 2018-19. Similar levels of increases persist through at least 2022 Q3.
RFK Goes Where GOP Wont by JEFFREY A. TUCKER
we’ve got Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., out there on countless public interviews, as a presidential candidate, saying remarkable things like 1) the CIA in 1963 killed his uncle who was president, 2) the intelligence community works with Big Pharma on gain-of-function research to create and cure new killer viruses, 3) they germ-gamed the lockdowns since 2001, 4) the lockdowns of March 2020 was a coup d’etat against representative democracy, 5) right now we have industry-captured Deep-State agencies that are ruling America who have no regard whatsoever for the US Constitution or the idea of freedom.
He says all of this without any shyness and with a great deal with knowledge and detail. He provides the receipts. Indeed, he has written several books on these themes. People listen and think “Oh that’s very interesting” and go hear him speak, without any presumption that he stands any chance to be President despite his wild popularity because, essentially, the fix is in.
Biden has already been selected to get the nomination, which rather demonstrates RFK’s point.
Fast Track To Work Authorization by AMUSE
one aspect of Biden’s immigration policy that is largely unknown is the legal framework surrounding these asylum seekers, particularly their ability to work, obtain Social Security numbers, and pay taxes. Despite promises from NGOs and the White House, asylum seekers are not immediately eligible to work upon setting foot on American soil.
Once an EAD is granted, the illegal immigration the Biden administration helps them apply for a Social Security Number (SSN), a crucial identifier used for a myriad of legal processes, from employment to opening a bank account.
the immediate effect of Biden’s immigration policy is clear: asylum seekers have a path to work authorization, a Social Security Number, and tax obligations. What remains unclear is whether employers like Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be punished for failing to hire Biden’s army of refugees—the DOJ is working overtime to ensure they do…
All Cause Deaths Up In Ever-Vaxed Groups by NAKED EMPEROR
if a higher percentage of deaths are occurring in the vaccinated (than the percentage of people vaccinated), then perhaps the vaccines are causing some harm. There are many confounders which confuse things but it is at least a signal that something is up and should be looked at. For example if 90% of the country is vaccinated but 95% of deaths are in the vaccinated then perhaps the vaccine is causing the additional 5% of deaths.
So, I took the data showing the percentage of people vaccinated with at least one dose
You can see that in all the age groups, except for the 50-59 year olds, the percentage of all cause deaths in the ‘ever vaccinated’ group is higher than the percentage of that group that is vaccinated. The data for the 80-89 and 90+ groups are particularly shocking.
Treatment For Long Spike Injury by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
We searched the literature for all available sources of evidence for products that can aid the human body in breaking down and catabolizing the Spike protein. We found two compounds, nattokinase and bromelain. Both of which additionally have fibrinolytic properties which are advantageous in the prothrombotic milieu induced by the persistent Spike protein. Curcumin was added for its anti-inflammatory properties in the setting of post-COVID and vaccine patients. The main safety caveats are bleeding and allergic reactions, both of which are manageable. It is our experience that both nattokinase and bromelain can be used in addition to antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs with physician monitoring.
The empiric regimen can be continued for 3-12 months or more and be guided by clinical observation:
-Nattokinase 2000 FU (100) mg orally twice a day without food
-Bromelain 500 mg orally once a day without food
-Curcumin 500 mg orally twice a day (nano, liposomal, or with piperine additive suggested)
Russians Also On ‘Team Global’ by SASHA LATYPOVA
the Russian and US governments are playing on the same team here - Team Global, Team WHO, Team Fake Pandemics and Biodefense.
Russian MOD: we must defend ourselves against those American-made GOF threats!
US DOD: we must defend ourselves against those rogue PhDs in their garages, pangolins in wet markets, “emerging pathogens” and foreign adversaries cooking bugs!
Do you see where this is heading?
Of course - the global regulation/banning/nonproliferation of making bad viruses in labs via the WHO. The WHO pandemic treaty requires the sharing of potential “pandemic pathogens”, aka particularly innovative poisoning agents. Who could have predicted this?
Transgender Surgeries Have Doubled by PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
Wright and colleagues reported from national sources of data that all forms of transgender surgeries have risen sharply since 2016. Overall, 25 099 patients (52.3%) were aged 19 to 30 years, 10 476 (21.8%) were aged 31 to 40, and 3678 (7.7%) were aged 12 to 18 years.
In summary, there has been an explosion of transgender surgeries that have been enabled by third party insurance coverage. Because transgender medicine worsens the burden of psychiatric care and increases the risk of mortality, coverage for these procedures should be dropped immediately. A complete moratorium should be placed on transgender medicine until the adverse consequences can be better understood.
The Harms Of Unregulated Digitalization by WORLD COUNCIL FOR HEALTH
Not everything that is technologically feasible should be deployed. Ethical considerations must be above narrow interests of power and money. It is essential to use technology with discernment.
The newly released, in-depth WCH policy brief showcases some aspects of the process of digitalization that negatively impact (public) health, essential human rights and democracy. It discusses radiation-based wireless technology (including 5G), the impacts of excessive or misguided use of digital technology on mental health and development as well as the inhumane conditions under which some technologies are being produced. It further explains the threats emanating from the surveillance economy, Digital ID, a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and the idea of a cashless society.
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Great selection as always. By the way, the link for Jeffrey Tucker doesn't go straight through to his article but to Brownstone's weekly digest which contains his article.