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What you can find in this collection (these are my headlines, not the authors’):
Vaxes Make You 2x More Likely To Get Covid by STEVE KIRSCH
Cochrane Hires Consultancy After Mask Retraction by PAUL D. THACKER
70M Students Need Jab To Attend School by PAUL THOMAS MD (RETIRED)
Military Whistle Blower Goes Public by JUSTIN HART
ACE2 Waves Of Attack by WALTER M CHESNUT
CDC Data Misinterpreted by KELLEY K
Vaccine-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome by IGOR CHUDOV
Visibility Filtering by MATT TAIBBI
Flipping On The Deep State by MATT TAIBBI
Centrally Coordinated PsyOp by EL GATO MALO
The Art Of Political Science by JOHN DROZ JR.
Bacterial Pneumonia As Primary? by MARTIN NEIL, JONATHAN ENGLER, JESSICA HOCKETT & NORMAN FENTON
Germany: Birth Rates Down, Abortions Up by NAKED EMPEROR
Kids With Damaged Immune Systems by ALEX BERENSON
SV40 Promoter Purpose by MERYL NASS
Climate Science Beliefs by PETER HALLIGAN
50% Have Spike 6 Months After Last Vax by IGOR CHUDOV
Gender-Affirm vs Dutch Protocols by COLIN WRIGHT
Similar To McCarthyism, But Worse by PHILIP O'REILLY
Purposefully Not Purified by SASHA LATYPOVA
Vaxes Make You 2x More Likely To Get Covid by STEVE KIRSCH
The vaccines in general make you 2X as likely to get COVID.
If you do get COVID (which is half as likely for the unvaccinated), the COVID vaccines do NOTHING to reduce your risk of hospitalization. They are lying about that. This is why no state or country in the world will ever release their vaccine-death record level data. If the data was good, they’d be making it mandatory for everyone to download it. They would be teaching it in schools.
The vaccines will increase your risk of dying from COVID if you do get COVID by up to 3x. My analysis on the CMS Nursing home data shows that clearly. The odd-ratio of 2 months post COVID vaccine (to give it a chance to be administered and work) vs. just before the vaccine rollout, shows an OR of over 3 with a z-score over 21. Stay tuned for that one in a Substack coming up soon!
Cochrane Hires Consultancy After Mask Retraction by PAUL D. THACKER
Scientists who wrote the mask review are still waiting for Soares-Weiser to explain her decisions and now wonder how much money she is wasting on the outside consulting firm Envoy.
The Cochrane Library…(is) faced with an ongoing crisis caused by multiple missteps, Cochrane editor-in-chief, Karla Soares-Weiser has hired the pricey consulting firm Envoy to address scientists’ concerns about her lack of transparency, leadership, and communication skills.
The crisis came to a head last March, when Soares-Weiser rushed out a statement undermining Cochrane scientists’ assessment that masks provide little help in stopping community transmission of viruses.
70M Students Need Jab To Attend School by PAUL THOMAS MD (RETIRED)
Imagine a doctor saying your child cannot return to school unless injected with a syringe full of mystery substances that comes without a package insert.
Well, you don’t have to imagine...
Because that is exactly what is happening right now.
For children to return to school – the same public schools YOUR hard-earned tax dollars pay for – they are REQUIRED to get jabbed with the novel mRNA shot. That includes toddlers to twenty-year-olds—about 20% of the US population.
Many families that are struggling rely on this option to make ends meet.
Big Pharma execs can afford to send their children to whatever private school they want; they don’t abide by the same rules that you and I are beholden to.And now that Big Pharma has joined forces with Big Government, they’re eager to jab our children, and they expect you to sit down and shut up.
Military Whistle Blower Goes Public by JUSTIN HART
A Navy Medical Service Corps officer, Lt. Ted Macie, has made public alarming data concerning a sharp increase in incidents of myocarditis, accidents, assaults, self-harm, and suicide attempts in the US military during 2021.
Lt. Macie obtained the data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), a record of all diagnoses made by military or civilian health providers for active service members.
Some of the startling statistics include a 130.5% rise in diagnoses of myocarditis (potentially lethal heart inflammation), a 147% rise in intentional self-harm incidents, and an 828% rise in injuries resulting from assaults.
ACE2 Waves Of Attack by WALTER M CHESNUT
Long COVID and the excess deaths we are observing are due to the Spike Protein’s immune complex formation with ACE2. Remember, ACE2 can also be SOLUBLE. It can circulate, unbound to cell membranes. It can form complexes with the Spike Protein which can then generate an autoimmune response to ACE2, destroying it and rendering it non-functioning.
Ultimately, what concerns me the most? With repeated exposures to the Spike Protein, in any form, this autoimmune response becomes permanent or so prevalent as to functionally, if not actually, eradicate ACE2. Additionally, it could also be that the therapeutics we are using are Band-Aids, temporary reserves sent in to fight a battle destined to be lost by the ever diminishing resource of ACE2. You can only keep the waves back for so long.
CDC Data Misinterpreted by KELLEY K
Data illiteracy and tribal allegiance are major problems in Covid discourse. While I often call out the CDC, the mainstream media, and various scientists and others for exaggerating Covid risks, I also don’t hesitate to point out when demonstrably false information is spread that goes the other way. I’m on the side of truth and accuracy.
The CDC data simply does not show what the articles claim. The data in the CDC graph was completely misunderstood…It’s not the percentage of Covid deaths, but the percentage of ALL deaths.
it’s…entirely false to claim that the CDC is reporting less than 2% of Covid deaths are actually caused by Covid.
Vaccine-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome by IGOR CHUDOV
we have scientific confirmation that vaccination against COVID-19 causes a marked decrease in immunity to heterologous pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi. This decreased immunity to other pathogens (acquired immune deficit) is what people colloquially refer to as “VAIDS.” (VAIDS stands for Vaccine-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
29 COVID-vaccinated children aged 5-11, had markedly decreased immune responses 28 days after the second dose of Pfizer. Many specific immune reactions declined by a factor of over ten times
“Conclusions: BNT162b2 vaccination in children alters cytokine responses to heterologous stimulants, particularly one month after vaccination. This study is the first to report the immunological heterologous effects of COVID-19 vaccination in children.”
Visibility Filtering by MATT TAIBBI
a phenomenon we saw repeatedly in the Twitter Files, but didn’t delve into in detail then: the use of deamplification and “visibility filtering” as PR-friendly alternatives to outright bans
In the last 6-8 months — hell, the last 2-3 months — the landscape for non-corporate media businesses has tightened dramatically. Independent media content is increasingly hard to find via platform searches, even when exact terminology, bylines, or dates are entered by users.
Social media platforms that once provided effective marketing and distribution at little to no cost are now difficult to navigate even with the aid of paid boosting tools.
In other words, even if your business does well enough to pay full retail rates for marketing, a widening lattice of algorithmic restriction across platforms is making distribution for non-corporate media a nightmare anyway.
Flipping On The Deep State by MATT TAIBBI
Through the turn of the 21st century virtually no American political writers used deep state. In the mid-2000s, as laws like the PATRIOT Act passed and the Bush/Cheney government funded huge new agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the word was suddenly everywhere, inevitably deployed as left-of-center critique of the Bush-Cheney legacy.
The instant Donald Trump appeared on the scene, “Deep State” became myth.
In July of last year David Rothkopf wrote a piece for the Daily Beast called, “You’re going to miss the Deep State when it’s gone: Trump’s terrifying plan to purge tens of thousands of career government workers and replace them with loyal stooges must be stopped in its tracks.”
Rothkopf replied that “career government officials” got a bad rap because “about ten years ago, Alex Jones and the InfoWars crowd started zeroing in on the deep state, as yet another of the conspiracy theories…”
…have accepted the core idea that suspicions of unelected institutional power are, like disdain for “elites,” fictional products of “misinformation” and rightist resentment. Criticism of “deep state” in fact is often used by Internet censors as a way to identify dangerous or foreign-aligned groups. What a coincidence that this same deep state just happened to be the chief fixation and worry of educated Democrats a decade ago!
Centrally Coordinated PsyOp by EL GATO MALO
listen to how precisely they are repeated. same numbers, same words, same accusations. watch how everyone fixates and hits on the word “hunch” to discredit a statement that was, in fact, based in the science.
this was either an orchestrated psyop or a truly impressive out of control emergent monkey see, money do festival to end all festivals. honestly, i lean toward the former. you do not get that kind of utter lockstep on linguistic cues without coordination.
that endlessly repeated hit came from somewhere. where, we may never know, but there sure was a stunning synchrony to speech for all things covid and this is just the sort of thing the office of the national security advisor and the IC apparatchiks that surround them excel at. and they are the ones who put debbie birx in place.
it’s not a huge leap to imagine them invoking “national security” to suborn the media (if, indeed, it’s even possible to suborn a group so endlessly willing to carry filthy water under authoritarian auspices.)
no one did any work. they all reported what they were told to report.
and that incredible alignment itself is a glaring red warning sign.
The Art Of Political Science by JOHN DROZ JR.
The war we are engaged in is that powerful Left-wing forces (exterior and from within) are trying to take America down. One of their primary strategies to do this is to replace Science with political science. That is what this case is about, as the FDA is specifically arguing that they have the right to scrap Science and substitute political science — with impunity!
The gist of a current court case that you’ve likely never heard of, is that three heroic doctors are suing the FDA about the loss of their jobs, about their careers being derailed, about the loss of their reputation — all because their professional, scientific opinion as to what was in the best interest of their patients, was different than the political agenda of the FDA.
What is at stake here could not be more significant, and it applies across the board to EVERY federal agency. The question is: do federal agencies have the unsupervised right to replace Science with political science? Put another way: can they act dishonestly, incompetently, etc. with essentially no meaningful consequences?
Bacterial Pneumonia As Primary? by MARTIN NEIL, JONATHAN ENGLER, JESSICA HOCKETT & NORMAN FENTON
Respiratory deaths in hospitals may therefore have been caused by bacterial pneumonia but wrongly attributed to SARS-CoV-2.
The pattern of spread of SARS-CoV-2 in spring 2020, and the geographical concentration of the SARS-CoV-2 mortality toll is not what one would expect from a spreading respiratory virus. It is highly localised in specific geographically distant regions and cities. It is a pin-point pandemic.
Was SARS-CoV-2 a bystander or decoy virus and were bacterial pneumonia deaths mistakenly or intentionally used as proof that SARS-CoV-2 was a deadly respiratory pathogen?
Conflating pneumonia & covid-19 repeats an official longstanding tactic of conflating the attribution of influenza and pneumonia.
as with all medical treatments the important question is whether, if people had pneumonia, they were given antibiotics on time.
Furthermore, in spring 2020 people were told to self-isolate if they suffered covid symptoms. This would buy time for pathogens to multiply and for a more severe condition to develop, which might be subsequently harder to manage. Many people would have then presented late to ICU, with incipient or lingering pneumonia (perhaps from the previous normal flu season), disguised as covid-19, and were left untreated with antibiotics until their condition deteriorated further.
Germany: Birth Rates Down, Abortions Up by NAKED EMPEROR
The blue line shows monthly birth deviations, whilst the red line shows vaccinations. Green bars show deviations in abortions.
As you can see, the actual number of births is far below what they were predicted to be from 2022 onwards.
For abortions, the decline started in the first quarter of 2021 and continued until the third quarter of 2021. From that point on the trend completely reversed and is significantly higher than expected.
there is not a definitive explanation for the anomalies. However, one thing is clear - something has gone awry in the area of reproduction and it didn’t start with Covid but in the Winter of 2021/2022.
Kids With Damaged Immune Systems by ALEX BERENSON
Kids who got Pfizer’s mRNA Covid jabs had a weakened immune response to other viruses and bacteria, Australian researchers reported in a study published last week.
The diminished response appeared within weeks after the second Pfizer dose, the authors found. Blood taken from the children produced fewer crucial signaling molecules when stimulated with several common potential bacteria and viruses.
Over time, the immune response to bacteria returned to normal. But the diminished response to viruses lasted at least six months, for as long as the researchers collected data. “Our study showed that, in children, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination decreases inflammatory cytokine responses,” the authors wrote.
Cytokines like interferon play a crucial role in the immune system, helping it attack viruses and other foreign invaders. (The first line of one widely cited paper on interferons explains they are “elicited on challenge to the host defense and are essential for mobilizing immune responses to pathogens.”)
SV40 Promoter Purpose by MERYL NASS
What if that huge amount of E.coli-made double-stranded DNA encased in plasmids was in the mRNA COVID vaccines for a reason, and was not the result of sloppy manufacturing?
What if it was there to make it interact with our own genes, with the intention to cause mutations in our chromosomes?
And what if the SV40 promoter recently found in the vaccine was there deliberately, to enhance this process, since it has a unique function of allowing the plasmid DNA to get through the nuclear membrane, to enter the nucleus? There are a lot of “What ifs” here.
The SV40 promoter is a means to move plasmid DNA into cell nuclei.
Climate Science Beliefs by PETER HALLIGAN
“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”
Pretty sound advice you would think. Though politicians have been paying scientists to support political dogma for a long time – whilst refusing to pay for actual science! It is not as if most leading politicians are scientifically literate in any case (or literate in mathematics or statistics or medicine for that matter).
“To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem of today’s climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science. Should not we free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models”.
50% Have Spike 6 Months After Last Vax by IGOR CHUDOV
A clever scientific study by Brogna et al., just published, detected the presence of spike protein in COVID-vaccinated people six MONTHS after vaccination - and excluded the possibility of cross-contamination of experimental data with wild-circulating COVID infections.
The study's authors used a sensitive test, called mass-spectrometry to detect a specific amino-acid sequence that exists only in the vaccine-induced spike protein.
It turns out that only the people in the vaccinated subgroup were found to carry vaccine-derived spike protein. What is worse, vaccine spike protein was found as late as six months after the last dose!
“The specific PP-Spike fragment was found in 50% of the biological sample analyzed (Figures 1C–E and 2).”
Gender-Affirm vs Dutch Protocols by COLIN WRIGHT
“[A]ccording to an internal presentation from 2021, 73 percent of new patients were identified as girls at birth. Gender clinics in Western Europe, Canada and the United States have reported a similarly disproportionate sex skew that has bewildered clinicians.”
the children currently fueling the unprecedented surge in gender-clinic referrals differ significantly from the group (natal males) that the original, ostensibly more cautious, “Dutch protocol” for pediatric sex-trait modification was intended to serve.
As a Reuters investigation recently revealed, U.S. gender clinics aren’t adhering even to the Dutch approach. Instead, they’re adopting a less rigorous, highly medicalized “gender-affirming” model, which entails automatic social transition and on-demand puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.
Considering that this form of gender dysphoria is new and rapid, it would seem prudent to gather more data about its possible causes before offering medical interventions.
Similar To McCarthyism, But Worse by PHILIP O'REILLY
While it may feel to some that we are once again living through a period of political persecution, it is not the case. The government is not actively trying to weed people out of public service for their political beliefs. This is not to say that we aren’t faced with persecution, many of us are, however instead of being persecuted for our political beliefs by the government, we are being persecuted and bullied by a small group of radicals operating in both the public and private sectors.
This persecution is much more insidious than McCarthyism as it is less subject to government control. Like McCarthyism, these witch trials can result in loss of jobs, the destruction of careers and livelihoods, and subjects its victims to the modern equivalent of blacklists and cancellation. I am, of course, referring to DEI “training” and the consultant witchfinders who make lucrative salaries bullying innocent people and branding the unfortunates as racists and white supremacists.
It is time for each of us to look inward and find that courage. We will need it to resist these DEI charlatans who would earn their blood money through dishonesty and bullying, confident in their belief that we will simply sit there and take it.
Purposefully Not Purified by SASHA LATYPOVA
After the mRNA is produced by a chemical reaction from the DNA matrix, again, it must be purified and any untranslated residual DNA removed. Clearly, this does not happen in covid injections manufacturing.
Pfizer encoded an undisclosed “gene” into the DNA matrix from which mRNA is being made for covid injections. Then they left huge amounts of this raw material in the final product. The purpose of this undisclosed component is to ensure that whatever it is attached to is delivered not just into the cell, but into the cell’s nucleus (where the human DNA resides). Let’s remember however, that humans do not have some sort of a central DNA place that can be modified for the whole body. Human body consists of trillions of cells, each with the nucleus containing DNA (except red blood cells), and the majority of cells in the body are a variety of non-human cells (microbiome) with their own DNAs.
Microbial cells may replicate quickly, such as e.coli that live in our gut who will pick up the plasmids if they end up there and start replicating them and spewing spike, dying off, shedding, etc. Furthermore, the SV40 promoter ensures that the “cargo” is delivered to the nuclei of the cells that are not dividing or slowly dividing, such as neurons, cardiac cells, skeletal and smooth muscle cells. The latter are cells that line the gastrointestinal tract, all blood vessels, bladder and uterus. These cells are not dividing normally, because they reached terminal differentiation which is critical for normal body growth and function.
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