In a joint exposé with Public, Michael Shellenberger, Alexandra Gutentag and I report on a damning new cache of whistleblower documents. Join a livestream as I walk through the most appalling material
Construing the people of the United States to be "the enemy" doesn't quite meet the Constitutional definition of treason, but it comes pretty close to it, wouldn't you say?
They're supposed to be answerable to us other than 1 very key element: our 'representatives' (both house and senate) take so much money from special interest groups/lobbyists that while they plead and make promises for your vote, they don't give a dfamn about voters, they represent the special interests.
As reported by Glen Greenwald, one of the classified items Ed Snowden released showed that the form to fill out, if you wanted to change/upgrade your parking situation at NSA headquarters, was a classified document.
As "public servants", we the people are supposed to be able to monitor what they do. If they classify EVERYTHING, no more pesky need to answer to us. Problem solved.
I could tell you but then I'd have to discredit you, shut down your bank account, and send fifty of my guys to the phone center to barrage your boss with allegations that you're a neo-nazi.
We are becoming a police state much faster than I initially thought. If the government outsources the worst excesses I guess they think it's perfectly legal. I really despise these people.
Prolly can’t make it, but I noticed it all started with US Military cooperation, which reminds of a post I made on Twitter today regarding the military involvement in COVID. Someone pointed to Big Pharma as the villain. I said, basically, “It’s not Pharma. It’s the US Military.” Here’s the actual quote, “I used to think what you're thinking, until I realized THE US MILITARY (1) created the COVID-19 virus as a weapon; (2) produced the jab; (3) couldn't legally authorize the jab IF THERE WERE OTHER VIABLE options, ie ivermectin; (4) censored info re all these things.”
I feel a bit like Charlton Heston’s character in Soylent Green when he discovered the obscene truth--his overseers were grinding up little folks and disposing of them to become human fodder (as the military feeds us proles to cannons). “It’s the military!!!”
Nothing about Covid makes sense. If it was a bioweapon, why would it target the seriously ill and the Elderly (even catching the common cold can kill these people)? I could understand if it was a domestic weapon, culling citizens to save Social Security and Medicare money, but it's useless as a weapon (there was one death-- debatable if really from Covid-- on the USS Theodore Roosevelt where 60% of over 4000 sailors tested positive for the virus. Similarly Singapore had 10s of thousands of healthy, young contracted construction workers who were quarantined after testing positive, with ZERO deaths.) The vaccines were ineffective for a week or a month and only protected for four months at best, so it was pointless to prevent an outbreak unless the timing was perfect. Sasha Latypova pushed the bioweapon angle (and Fauci headed the US biowarfare effort), but even if Covid was a "dry run" , it was a disaster. Latypova also noted that the vaccine batches were so variable that their adverse effects were exponentially different by batch (and in mid May 2021 Pfizer changed it's demand for ultra-cold shipping and storage --liquid nitrogen and dry ice to refrigeration (which makes no sense for an EUA mRNA product supposedly dependent and approved for ultracold handling for stability. )
Fortunately Omicron and natural human infection immunity ended the pandemic. The SNAFUs and FUBARs of the federal government, if not intentional, could have made for an indefinite pandemic without Omicron, the "Jesus" variant which saved everyone.
Never made any sense, and you have to wonder what the real agenda was?
One of the best "proofs" of my theory [it was the military] is the absolute senselessness of it all. Have you ever watched MASH? read Catch 22? used the term SNAFU? These acronyms are all military brats, and bear the image of their parent. In reality, I don't think it was purposely deployed as a bioweapon. It most likely leaked from Wuhan lab due to utter incompetence fueled by hubris that we can bottle up nature in those plastic pharmaceutical containers and dispense it at will, like aspirin. But, we need have no doubts whatsoever that the virus was purposely WEAPONIZED for military purposes. Most likely the "stated purpose" was "defensive" to do research on such viruses in order to prepare for bioweapon attacks from our enemies. But we all know that there's no such thing as a purely defensive tool. Defense is merely another way to say, "He started it!" while killing your enemy. In the end, from my perspective as a doctor, the virus turned out to outright kill less than 1% of its victims. Unfortunately, the real disasters were a result of the measures the military took to contain it! It appears that 1 out of 35 people will end up with silent, permanent heart damage, from the jab, with a good portion of those people (mostly men and/or athletes) dying suddenly from it. This is also proving to cause cancers and other diseases that will cause life-long pain and disability for millions. However, the worst casualty has been the loss of faith in the medical profession, the military, government, and society in general, who censored the voices of people who tried to warn them. The cover-up always seems to be worse than the initial crime, and friendly fire is one of the suckiest ways to die.
I worked in the past with the FDA and was impressed (not always in a positive way) with their attention to detail and their rigidity. With the mRNA vaccines (and even the intentional lack of treatment before the vaccine monotherapy) I was stunned at the lack of standards (as were Marion Gruber and Philip Krause who resigned as the heads of the FDA's vaccine division).
Danish researcher Stabell Benn and colleagues did a comparison of available Covid vaccines; the data presented on the mRNA vaccines (singly or pooled) from the Gold Standard EUA trials, double blinded and placebo controlled with over 70,000 subjects, showed ZERO protection from death (31 deaths in mRNA vaccine groups, 30 in controls. The British Medical Journal and others pointed to fraud in the Pfizer trials.) This was the Gold Standard clinical trial that the CDC/ FDA/ NIH were demanding of ivermectin and other well characterized drugs, which while prophylactic efficacy wasn't established (as with the Covid vaccines), had minimal acute toxicities (particularly compared to the Covid vaccines). The WHO declared glucocorticoids VERBOTEN, though published in March 2020 as effective by Chinese clinical immunologists (and also Standard of Care in Veterinary Medicine for all(?) mammals with serious respiratory viral infections). The wide range of toxicities by batch of the mRNA vaccines and the "accomodation" to switch storage conditions is not characteristic of the FDA I remember.
While there are always populational differences in adverse effects (for example carbamazepine is more dangerous to Han Chinese), the ranges of mRNA toxicities (1 in 800 hospitalized after the jabs in the UK, also high in Australia even before Covid appeared; while the CDC blanket dismissed all adverse effects with their "safe and effective" mantra. (When measles vaccines were introduced, Western Africa had lost about 20% of their children below age 6 to measles. There were "only" 400 children (immigrants?) lost to measles in the US annually; measles was an endemic childhood disease, eradicated from the US in 2000 (rubella in 2004; their vaccines should be travel vaccines, un-necessary to vaccinate every toddler for a conquered disease). Of course the measles vaccines reduced death from measles by over 90% in the vaccinated (strikingly different from the Covid vaccines).
The Big Question is why weren't the Covid vaccine roll-outs stopped or at least limited to those at most risk from the virus? The vaccine issues (un-necessary in healthy subjects under age 50; myocarditis and clotting disorders particularly in young healthy people; leaky with poor protection against infection and spread of Covid) were well known by summer of 2021. But rather than correct the situation, there was a doubling down (mandates!) with what Norman Fenton's data suggest was a placebo. Most of Europe has limited the Covid vaccines to the most vulnerable only. The US is pushing these vaccines in children (90% of whom by end of 2022 tested positive for SARS-CoV2 antibodies and thus have superior natural immunity.)
The economic damage. The election fraud. The effects have put everyone back on their heels. Global impact possibly more effective than nukes because no one can be blamed as the sole cause.
The real agenda? That be Fauci masterminding federal dollars to friends doing business with labs in China because they really weren't supposed to do it anywhere. And these folks are oh so smart.
On a lighter note, today there was a headline about how Chinese university research has released a study indentifying contributing dietary factors to the development of colorectal cancer --- alcohol and white bread. Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 12.8 years of study, blah, blah, blah. Really, Gracie?
Plenty of military decisions don't make any sense. They obviously didn't intend for the virus to get out into the public, and they were still modifying it so maybe they thought they would eventually be able to control it. Biological warfare doesn't make a lot of sense. But if you're doubting the lethality of COVID-19, just look at year-over-year statistics on everything from deaths to strokes to organ failure, anything that a weakened immune system can't fight off. The numbers are markedly higher since 2020.
The US has a Covid death rate that is 15th highest out of >200 countries, and about four times higher than the global average. 12 countries which border, or are close to Ukraine, have Covid death rates higher than the US (Ukraine, with only 38% vaccinated, is only 37th worse). Because of financial incentives in the US to die of Covid, some investigators are looking at excess deaths instead. And while Covid-caused deaths have fallen dramatically, excess deaths have continued in most industrialized Western countries, which is somewhat surprising since usually the death rate falls after a pandemic as the most frail have passed. In 2019 total deaths in the US were 2.85 million; in 2020 there were 3.38 million deaths. However two-thirds of Covid deaths came after the introduction of the vaccines in 2021 and 2022, according to the CDC. Norwegian researchers found that countries had excess death rates than correlated with vaccination rates ("but correlation does not necessarily mean causation"). Proper comparisons would be between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations after the vaccines were introduced and after Omicron.
Excess (non-Covid) death rates are running between 5 and 15% above normal in 2023 in many (most?) countries (John Campbell has kept up with this topic while ignored by State Media); in the US a 10% increase in excess deaths would be about 300,000 more deaths in one year, not much above Covid numbers (1.18 million between 2020 and 2023) . Moreover these excess deaths are not mostly confined to the Elderly, as with Covid deaths.
Very true re: mainstream media coverage ignoring stats that don't align with their narrative or reporting in a misleading way. But I think a more cogent comparison would be China vs. US COVID figures, as both are larger and denser-populated countries. China's COVID mortality rates were a fraction of US rates though their population is much larger, indicating that the vaccines were effective. Another distinction is the severity of the disease to infected people before vaccines became available as compared to after (much worse in 2020; now people are saying "it's just like the flu."). Another is the growing rate of autoimmune issues, strokes, liver damage, and so on, above pre-COVID yearly figures, and so likely to be aftereffects of the virus after multiple infections (e.g., it's not just another flu). The fact that infection rates and long-term effects are not yet under control doesn't indicate that the vaccines were useless; our inconsistent policies in the West failed to contain the virus before it mutated. I think we were having the wrong debates during the lockdowns. It's never been a draconian choice between pinning down citizens and forcibly injecting them, or just going back to life as usual. We could have insisted on proof of vaccination for certain activities in dense cities, reopened schools more cautiously after installing air filters, and continued to mask in enclosed group settings, while encouraging socializing outdoors. Clearly we have made many mistakes and now there are too many variants to hope to eradicate them all, but vaccines and masks used judiciously have been proven to reduce at least the severity of infections, the amount of contagious viral load, and the risk of long-term effects.
I have come across what I beleive to be sock puppet accounts or "professional" trolls on this site and on Publics in the comments section for months (although not recently).
each time they only read the anti disinformation sites like racket and Public.
they usually agree about sympathetic issue A,B and C, but all this Disinformation/Twitter Files stuff is a big nothing burger. "all platforms moderate content, that's not censorship" or something like that. glad to have more confirmation this is going on...
On another site it was reported that, "On Sept. 20, Politico published an article headlined "Biden's campaign set to counterpunch on misinformation." The story reported that President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign is "overhauling" its strategy to fight "misinformation" on social media. The new effort includes "recruiting hundreds of staffers and volunteers to monitor platforms." To supervise the work, the campaign hired a former Biden White House staffer named Rob Flaherty, who was described as a "bulldog" and a "controversial figure" whose "combative emails to social media firms have become part of a Republican-led federal court case and a congressional investigation.""
Armed with this information, I posted the following comment in another forum: " Biden's response to charges that his team censors? Redouble efforts to suppress complaints about it!"
So much of the censorship reporting has been entangled with COVID narratives when the real motive for the censorship process is election manipulation. Thanks for reporting this.
The REAL motive is to protect the USA FROM democracy.
This tool kit can (and has been) applied to other issues where excessively clear, too widely believed (and inconveniently true) information might make difficulties for various government/oligarchy approved activities.
Protect FROM democracy? That's ambiguous. You mean like when a lynch mob does a vote? That kind of democracy?
From the pdf " the adoption of techniques to
influence political opinion online seems to have become general electoral and political practice. " ... I read this as agreeing with my position....except it is looking at the problem generically, not the specific case where the government aims to influence the vote to maintain its' power and weaken its enemies.
It's the fact that they can't stop talking about Americans as "the enemy". IMO, that should be an impeachable offense, and I will certainly never vote for a leader, politician or party that sees a large minority as enemies to be disposed of.
Fuck those assholes, they are there to provide governance for ALL AMERICANS, not thought police the ones that didn't vote for them, as if they are examples of human decency and competence. They aren't decent at all: they've ruined this country and millions are suffering and dying from easily preventable causes while these monsters use their tax dollars to enrich supervillains and support genocides.
If you're able to cross-post any of this reporting that has your byline on it, I'd appreciate it. Shellenberger has banned me from reading anything on Public.
Feel free to look into it if you're curious ... the point is, I'd like to be able to read the story, and probably some other non-Public-subscribing Racket subscribers would too, if Matt is able to cross-post.
I thought asking you (the person affected) was "looking into it" If I ask Mr. Shellenberger I doubt he'll tell me. Is there another person privy to the details?
The efforts described in this article about the "CTI Files" follow directly from the actions of Professor Michael Mann. He is the author of the "Hockey Stick" version of Global Warming. His paper was published in Nature, April 23, 1998. What Mann did subsequently and very successfully was to recruit a group of "volunteers" to instantly quash any publication or author skeptical of Mann's thesis. This is exactly the path of Terp, Breuer, and Krebs but on a much larger scale.
Just wait until AI is full blown. It will become difficult to impossible to discern fact from fiction.
I'm curious if you don't believe in the greenhouse effect (too much CO2 and related gases released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels). It seems to me that to doubt that our climate has changed (because of the greenhouse effect) is like doubting that Covid is real simply because censorship and faulty information resulted from that crisis. Speculating on something that is real but not yet understood (or deliberately misrepresented in the absence of a scientific consensus) is just human nature. It is our "thinking" species's natural response to uncertainty. If we don't get it right away, well, let's make some educated guesses. We do this partly because NOT understanding an unfolding crisis can cause (again, in humans) panic-induced chaos. We do NOT like uncertainty, eh? But does that mean the crisis to which we are responding in this way was also "invented"? If climate change is fake then Covid was too? This is a serious question. I hope you'll respond yes or no. Thanks.
I don't doubt that our climate has changed because it has been changing since time immemorial. And yes, some of that is probably related to the "greenhouse effect". Professor Michael Mann and others from East Anglia in the UK used cherry picking of data and abnormal statistical analyses to create the Hockey Stick. They refused to release their government funded data that others might try to replicate or reject their hypotheses. Next, they set out as I mentioned to instantly deny the ability to speak or publish the research of anyone who disagreed with them. Attorney's general, former bartenders, Swedish children, and others then actively work to stifle opposition and create religious like belief (see THE GRIP OF CULTURE by Andy A. West). I submit this is a form of bigotry (intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself). Count me a skeptic who plans to adjust.
Of course a majority may come to want electric cars anyway. Depending on the free market price I might want one too, while still abhorring Mann's or Fauci's debasement of science.
Swedish children? Are you referring to Greta Thunberg? It strikes me as, well, odd, that you would deploy precisely the same methods to discredit Mann that you discredit Mann for deploying. Obviously our climate has been changing "since time immemorial." You could have simply answered, no, I do not believe in the greenhouse effect, nor do I think that switching to renewables is anything other than a clever marketing campaign. What's interesting is that I agree that electric cars won't solve our climate problem—not because we're not in deep trouble but because we're in VERY deep trouble. No, renewables won't fix this. It's way too late for that. Only radical rationing (heavily regulated so as to ensure the opposite of what tax cuts for the rich and privatization of governance accomplished) will save us now. I guess I have to ask, at the risk of triggering the usual personal attacks associated with inconvenient truths being uttered, what good is free speech to a corpse?
I'm having trouble following your argument about Professor Mann and my methods. My problem with Mann is that he has become rich and famous while not following good scientific methods. I am not cherry-picking data. I am not creating "customized" statistical analysis to create his "hockey stick" temperature graph. I am not refusing to disclose government funded data. I am not recruiting volunteers to quash anyone's research. I am not getting scientific journal editors fired by threatening to publish in other journals. Mann has done all of these things. He and many others have made their careers based on government funding. I do not say these things because I'm envious.
I do not anticipate a need for world emergency green new deal funding. I do not want us to damage the world economy or to make our earth ugly by covering it with solar panels and wind turbines. This is a false religion.
If Mann is standing in your way, preventing you from a more profitable understanding of our warming climate and its probable causes, they're plenty of other climate scientists and studies to consult---and learn.
The climate changes. The earth's axis changes. The megnetic declination changes and the tempreture changes. In 1913, 134 degree day was recorded in the US. The Ash Wednesday storm of '62 hit NJ, MD, VA, (water came all the way to Shore Drive). NC, (water covered the OBX from ocean to bay) SC, and recorded 30 foot waves. You can google the pictures. I'm 79 and think things are calming down.
The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis - a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt,' The International Energy Agency (IEA). Some responsible people are just QUIETLY doing it without mandates.
Emissions Analysis: Why US carbon emissions have fallen 14% since 2005 Before 2005, US carbon emissions were marching upwards year after year, with little sign of slowing down. After this point, they fell quickly, declining 14% from their peak by the end of 2016.
(CO 2) emissions for new model year (MY) 2021 light-duty vehicles was 348 grams per mile, down from 681 grams per mile for new vehicles in MY 1975 ‒ a decrease of 49%.
Bonnie, I hope you are feeling a bit better after my special report for you. Have a little faith in the American people.
I’m wondering about this and other information that’s come out since SCOTUS agreed to hear the suit brought by Drs Battacharya and Keriarty (sp)et al. Will new info such as this be available/allowed to be brought forth?
What does a huge, secretive, lavishly funded military-security apparatus do when it can't find a real, credible enemy to fight?
It turns on the people it is supposed to protect and declares them the enemy.
If the people of the country are "the enemy", does this not mean that the government has become literally the enemy of the people?
I'm beginning to get that 1789 feeling.
You are not alone.
Construing the people of the United States to be "the enemy" doesn't quite meet the Constitutional definition of treason, but it comes pretty close to it, wouldn't you say?
I would say these people are answerable to us; we are not answerable to them.
They're supposed to be answerable to us other than 1 very key element: our 'representatives' (both house and senate) take so much money from special interest groups/lobbyists that while they plead and make promises for your vote, they don't give a dfamn about voters, they represent the special interests.
Haha in theory.
According to Noam Chomsky and others most secrecy is to cover up embarrassing info. It has nothing to do with national security.
The US public is a lot more likely to replace the US government than is China. So the US public is the greater threat.
As reported by Glen Greenwald, one of the classified items Ed Snowden released showed that the form to fill out, if you wanted to change/upgrade your parking situation at NSA headquarters, was a classified document.
As "public servants", we the people are supposed to be able to monitor what they do. If they classify EVERYTHING, no more pesky need to answer to us. Problem solved.
Or hack itself and blame the enemies of IsReal
Thanks again. You fucking rule. Best $5 month ever.
OK, how many of you are just feds paid to infiltrate the 'Stack?
On a serious note, this is a fantastic article -- though we shouldn't be surprised about its contents.
I could tell you but then I'd have to discredit you, shut down your bank account, and send fifty of my guys to the phone center to barrage your boss with allegations that you're a neo-nazi.
We are becoming a police state much faster than I initially thought. If the government outsources the worst excesses I guess they think it's perfectly legal. I really despise these people.
Thanks Matt for staying on top of this story.
always been a police state - you just hadn't been a target yet...
Yup. The FBI that the left and anti/Trumpers adore is the same entity that spied on MLK and others in the civil rights movement. The very same.
🤣he said becoming!!! Haa!
More bad news for those interested.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/30/putting-it-together-the-forced-metadata-demand-inside-the-jack-smith-court-order-they-are-showing-us-the-govt-battlespace-for-2024-and-what-we-will-face/#more-253349
Prolly can’t make it, but I noticed it all started with US Military cooperation, which reminds of a post I made on Twitter today regarding the military involvement in COVID. Someone pointed to Big Pharma as the villain. I said, basically, “It’s not Pharma. It’s the US Military.” Here’s the actual quote, “I used to think what you're thinking, until I realized THE US MILITARY (1) created the COVID-19 virus as a weapon; (2) produced the jab; (3) couldn't legally authorize the jab IF THERE WERE OTHER VIABLE options, ie ivermectin; (4) censored info re all these things.”
I feel a bit like Charlton Heston’s character in Soylent Green when he discovered the obscene truth--his overseers were grinding up little folks and disposing of them to become human fodder (as the military feeds us proles to cannons). “It’s the military!!!”
Nothing about Covid makes sense. If it was a bioweapon, why would it target the seriously ill and the Elderly (even catching the common cold can kill these people)? I could understand if it was a domestic weapon, culling citizens to save Social Security and Medicare money, but it's useless as a weapon (there was one death-- debatable if really from Covid-- on the USS Theodore Roosevelt where 60% of over 4000 sailors tested positive for the virus. Similarly Singapore had 10s of thousands of healthy, young contracted construction workers who were quarantined after testing positive, with ZERO deaths.) The vaccines were ineffective for a week or a month and only protected for four months at best, so it was pointless to prevent an outbreak unless the timing was perfect. Sasha Latypova pushed the bioweapon angle (and Fauci headed the US biowarfare effort), but even if Covid was a "dry run" , it was a disaster. Latypova also noted that the vaccine batches were so variable that their adverse effects were exponentially different by batch (and in mid May 2021 Pfizer changed it's demand for ultra-cold shipping and storage --liquid nitrogen and dry ice to refrigeration (which makes no sense for an EUA mRNA product supposedly dependent and approved for ultracold handling for stability. )
Fortunately Omicron and natural human infection immunity ended the pandemic. The SNAFUs and FUBARs of the federal government, if not intentional, could have made for an indefinite pandemic without Omicron, the "Jesus" variant which saved everyone.
Never made any sense, and you have to wonder what the real agenda was?
One of the best "proofs" of my theory [it was the military] is the absolute senselessness of it all. Have you ever watched MASH? read Catch 22? used the term SNAFU? These acronyms are all military brats, and bear the image of their parent. In reality, I don't think it was purposely deployed as a bioweapon. It most likely leaked from Wuhan lab due to utter incompetence fueled by hubris that we can bottle up nature in those plastic pharmaceutical containers and dispense it at will, like aspirin. But, we need have no doubts whatsoever that the virus was purposely WEAPONIZED for military purposes. Most likely the "stated purpose" was "defensive" to do research on such viruses in order to prepare for bioweapon attacks from our enemies. But we all know that there's no such thing as a purely defensive tool. Defense is merely another way to say, "He started it!" while killing your enemy. In the end, from my perspective as a doctor, the virus turned out to outright kill less than 1% of its victims. Unfortunately, the real disasters were a result of the measures the military took to contain it! It appears that 1 out of 35 people will end up with silent, permanent heart damage, from the jab, with a good portion of those people (mostly men and/or athletes) dying suddenly from it. This is also proving to cause cancers and other diseases that will cause life-long pain and disability for millions. However, the worst casualty has been the loss of faith in the medical profession, the military, government, and society in general, who censored the voices of people who tried to warn them. The cover-up always seems to be worse than the initial crime, and friendly fire is one of the suckiest ways to die.
I worked in the past with the FDA and was impressed (not always in a positive way) with their attention to detail and their rigidity. With the mRNA vaccines (and even the intentional lack of treatment before the vaccine monotherapy) I was stunned at the lack of standards (as were Marion Gruber and Philip Krause who resigned as the heads of the FDA's vaccine division).
Danish researcher Stabell Benn and colleagues did a comparison of available Covid vaccines; the data presented on the mRNA vaccines (singly or pooled) from the Gold Standard EUA trials, double blinded and placebo controlled with over 70,000 subjects, showed ZERO protection from death (31 deaths in mRNA vaccine groups, 30 in controls. The British Medical Journal and others pointed to fraud in the Pfizer trials.) This was the Gold Standard clinical trial that the CDC/ FDA/ NIH were demanding of ivermectin and other well characterized drugs, which while prophylactic efficacy wasn't established (as with the Covid vaccines), had minimal acute toxicities (particularly compared to the Covid vaccines). The WHO declared glucocorticoids VERBOTEN, though published in March 2020 as effective by Chinese clinical immunologists (and also Standard of Care in Veterinary Medicine for all(?) mammals with serious respiratory viral infections). The wide range of toxicities by batch of the mRNA vaccines and the "accomodation" to switch storage conditions is not characteristic of the FDA I remember.
While there are always populational differences in adverse effects (for example carbamazepine is more dangerous to Han Chinese), the ranges of mRNA toxicities (1 in 800 hospitalized after the jabs in the UK, also high in Australia even before Covid appeared; while the CDC blanket dismissed all adverse effects with their "safe and effective" mantra. (When measles vaccines were introduced, Western Africa had lost about 20% of their children below age 6 to measles. There were "only" 400 children (immigrants?) lost to measles in the US annually; measles was an endemic childhood disease, eradicated from the US in 2000 (rubella in 2004; their vaccines should be travel vaccines, un-necessary to vaccinate every toddler for a conquered disease). Of course the measles vaccines reduced death from measles by over 90% in the vaccinated (strikingly different from the Covid vaccines).
The Big Question is why weren't the Covid vaccine roll-outs stopped or at least limited to those at most risk from the virus? The vaccine issues (un-necessary in healthy subjects under age 50; myocarditis and clotting disorders particularly in young healthy people; leaky with poor protection against infection and spread of Covid) were well known by summer of 2021. But rather than correct the situation, there was a doubling down (mandates!) with what Norman Fenton's data suggest was a placebo. Most of Europe has limited the Covid vaccines to the most vulnerable only. The US is pushing these vaccines in children (90% of whom by end of 2022 tested positive for SARS-CoV2 antibodies and thus have superior natural immunity.)
Well said
The economic damage. The election fraud. The effects have put everyone back on their heels. Global impact possibly more effective than nukes because no one can be blamed as the sole cause.
The real agenda? That be Fauci masterminding federal dollars to friends doing business with labs in China because they really weren't supposed to do it anywhere. And these folks are oh so smart.
On a lighter note, today there was a headline about how Chinese university research has released a study indentifying contributing dietary factors to the development of colorectal cancer --- alcohol and white bread. Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 12.8 years of study, blah, blah, blah. Really, Gracie?
Where Covid came from? Still a mystery.
Plenty of military decisions don't make any sense. They obviously didn't intend for the virus to get out into the public, and they were still modifying it so maybe they thought they would eventually be able to control it. Biological warfare doesn't make a lot of sense. But if you're doubting the lethality of COVID-19, just look at year-over-year statistics on everything from deaths to strokes to organ failure, anything that a weakened immune system can't fight off. The numbers are markedly higher since 2020.
The US has a Covid death rate that is 15th highest out of >200 countries, and about four times higher than the global average. 12 countries which border, or are close to Ukraine, have Covid death rates higher than the US (Ukraine, with only 38% vaccinated, is only 37th worse). Because of financial incentives in the US to die of Covid, some investigators are looking at excess deaths instead. And while Covid-caused deaths have fallen dramatically, excess deaths have continued in most industrialized Western countries, which is somewhat surprising since usually the death rate falls after a pandemic as the most frail have passed. In 2019 total deaths in the US were 2.85 million; in 2020 there were 3.38 million deaths. However two-thirds of Covid deaths came after the introduction of the vaccines in 2021 and 2022, according to the CDC. Norwegian researchers found that countries had excess death rates than correlated with vaccination rates ("but correlation does not necessarily mean causation"). Proper comparisons would be between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations after the vaccines were introduced and after Omicron.
Excess (non-Covid) death rates are running between 5 and 15% above normal in 2023 in many (most?) countries (John Campbell has kept up with this topic while ignored by State Media); in the US a 10% increase in excess deaths would be about 300,000 more deaths in one year, not much above Covid numbers (1.18 million between 2020 and 2023) . Moreover these excess deaths are not mostly confined to the Elderly, as with Covid deaths.
Very true re: mainstream media coverage ignoring stats that don't align with their narrative or reporting in a misleading way. But I think a more cogent comparison would be China vs. US COVID figures, as both are larger and denser-populated countries. China's COVID mortality rates were a fraction of US rates though their population is much larger, indicating that the vaccines were effective. Another distinction is the severity of the disease to infected people before vaccines became available as compared to after (much worse in 2020; now people are saying "it's just like the flu."). Another is the growing rate of autoimmune issues, strokes, liver damage, and so on, above pre-COVID yearly figures, and so likely to be aftereffects of the virus after multiple infections (e.g., it's not just another flu). The fact that infection rates and long-term effects are not yet under control doesn't indicate that the vaccines were useless; our inconsistent policies in the West failed to contain the virus before it mutated. I think we were having the wrong debates during the lockdowns. It's never been a draconian choice between pinning down citizens and forcibly injecting them, or just going back to life as usual. We could have insisted on proof of vaccination for certain activities in dense cities, reopened schools more cautiously after installing air filters, and continued to mask in enclosed group settings, while encouraging socializing outdoors. Clearly we have made many mistakes and now there are too many variants to hope to eradicate them all, but vaccines and masks used judiciously have been proven to reduce at least the severity of infections, the amount of contagious viral load, and the risk of long-term effects.
Better be quick about it before the heavy hand comes down. It’s coming
I have come across what I beleive to be sock puppet accounts or "professional" trolls on this site and on Publics in the comments section for months (although not recently).
each time they only read the anti disinformation sites like racket and Public.
they usually agree about sympathetic issue A,B and C, but all this Disinformation/Twitter Files stuff is a big nothing burger. "all platforms moderate content, that's not censorship" or something like that. glad to have more confirmation this is going on...
On another site it was reported that, "On Sept. 20, Politico published an article headlined "Biden's campaign set to counterpunch on misinformation." The story reported that President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign is "overhauling" its strategy to fight "misinformation" on social media. The new effort includes "recruiting hundreds of staffers and volunteers to monitor platforms." To supervise the work, the campaign hired a former Biden White House staffer named Rob Flaherty, who was described as a "bulldog" and a "controversial figure" whose "combative emails to social media firms have become part of a Republican-led federal court case and a congressional investigation.""
Armed with this information, I posted the following comment in another forum: " Biden's response to charges that his team censors? Redouble efforts to suppress complaints about it!"
My post was instantly blasted from the site.
So much of the censorship reporting has been entangled with COVID narratives when the real motive for the censorship process is election manipulation. Thanks for reporting this.
@MCL
The REAL motive is to protect the USA FROM democracy.
This tool kit can (and has been) applied to other issues where excessively clear, too widely believed (and inconveniently true) information might make difficulties for various government/oligarchy approved activities.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/ct_appendix.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjjgdGr0-eCAxWfv4kEHQMsCmYQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1288ylyY3wtBzA6jv1oanr
Protect FROM democracy? That's ambiguous. You mean like when a lynch mob does a vote? That kind of democracy?
From the pdf " the adoption of techniques to
influence political opinion online seems to have become general electoral and political practice. " ... I read this as agreeing with my position....except it is looking at the problem generically, not the specific case where the government aims to influence the vote to maintain its' power and weaken its enemies.
@MCL
TL, DNR.
LOL
@MCL
OK
Wow good for you. Too much to read. I’ll take your word for it.
I'd say they are doing a bangup job of censoring reports of censorship. What else could they do?
Slate, perhaps?
It's the fact that they can't stop talking about Americans as "the enemy". IMO, that should be an impeachable offense, and I will certainly never vote for a leader, politician or party that sees a large minority as enemies to be disposed of.
Fuck those assholes, they are there to provide governance for ALL AMERICANS, not thought police the ones that didn't vote for them, as if they are examples of human decency and competence. They aren't decent at all: they've ruined this country and millions are suffering and dying from easily preventable causes while these monsters use their tax dollars to enrich supervillains and support genocides.
If you're able to cross-post any of this reporting that has your byline on it, I'd appreciate it. Shellenberger has banned me from reading anything on Public.
Have you considered giving him some money? You know, like BUYING his product?
I had a paid subscription to Public until I was banned ... and I'm sure a few other Racket subscribers would appreciate a cross-post if it's possible.
I feel like that's not the real story. Why would he ban you from giving him money?
Feel free to look into it if you're curious ... the point is, I'd like to be able to read the story, and probably some other non-Public-subscribing Racket subscribers would too, if Matt is able to cross-post.
I thought asking you (the person affected) was "looking into it" If I ask Mr. Shellenberger I doubt he'll tell me. Is there another person privy to the details?
The efforts described in this article about the "CTI Files" follow directly from the actions of Professor Michael Mann. He is the author of the "Hockey Stick" version of Global Warming. His paper was published in Nature, April 23, 1998. What Mann did subsequently and very successfully was to recruit a group of "volunteers" to instantly quash any publication or author skeptical of Mann's thesis. This is exactly the path of Terp, Breuer, and Krebs but on a much larger scale.
Just wait until AI is full blown. It will become difficult to impossible to discern fact from fiction.
The real danger of AI
I'm curious if you don't believe in the greenhouse effect (too much CO2 and related gases released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels). It seems to me that to doubt that our climate has changed (because of the greenhouse effect) is like doubting that Covid is real simply because censorship and faulty information resulted from that crisis. Speculating on something that is real but not yet understood (or deliberately misrepresented in the absence of a scientific consensus) is just human nature. It is our "thinking" species's natural response to uncertainty. If we don't get it right away, well, let's make some educated guesses. We do this partly because NOT understanding an unfolding crisis can cause (again, in humans) panic-induced chaos. We do NOT like uncertainty, eh? But does that mean the crisis to which we are responding in this way was also "invented"? If climate change is fake then Covid was too? This is a serious question. I hope you'll respond yes or no. Thanks.
I don't doubt that our climate has changed because it has been changing since time immemorial. And yes, some of that is probably related to the "greenhouse effect". Professor Michael Mann and others from East Anglia in the UK used cherry picking of data and abnormal statistical analyses to create the Hockey Stick. They refused to release their government funded data that others might try to replicate or reject their hypotheses. Next, they set out as I mentioned to instantly deny the ability to speak or publish the research of anyone who disagreed with them. Attorney's general, former bartenders, Swedish children, and others then actively work to stifle opposition and create religious like belief (see THE GRIP OF CULTURE by Andy A. West). I submit this is a form of bigotry (intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself). Count me a skeptic who plans to adjust.
Of course a majority may come to want electric cars anyway. Depending on the free market price I might want one too, while still abhorring Mann's or Fauci's debasement of science.
Swedish children? Are you referring to Greta Thunberg? It strikes me as, well, odd, that you would deploy precisely the same methods to discredit Mann that you discredit Mann for deploying. Obviously our climate has been changing "since time immemorial." You could have simply answered, no, I do not believe in the greenhouse effect, nor do I think that switching to renewables is anything other than a clever marketing campaign. What's interesting is that I agree that electric cars won't solve our climate problem—not because we're not in deep trouble but because we're in VERY deep trouble. No, renewables won't fix this. It's way too late for that. Only radical rationing (heavily regulated so as to ensure the opposite of what tax cuts for the rich and privatization of governance accomplished) will save us now. I guess I have to ask, at the risk of triggering the usual personal attacks associated with inconvenient truths being uttered, what good is free speech to a corpse?
I'm having trouble following your argument about Professor Mann and my methods. My problem with Mann is that he has become rich and famous while not following good scientific methods. I am not cherry-picking data. I am not creating "customized" statistical analysis to create his "hockey stick" temperature graph. I am not refusing to disclose government funded data. I am not recruiting volunteers to quash anyone's research. I am not getting scientific journal editors fired by threatening to publish in other journals. Mann has done all of these things. He and many others have made their careers based on government funding. I do not say these things because I'm envious.
I do not anticipate a need for world emergency green new deal funding. I do not want us to damage the world economy or to make our earth ugly by covering it with solar panels and wind turbines. This is a false religion.
If Mann is standing in your way, preventing you from a more profitable understanding of our warming climate and its probable causes, they're plenty of other climate scientists and studies to consult---and learn.
The climate changes. The earth's axis changes. The megnetic declination changes and the tempreture changes. In 1913, 134 degree day was recorded in the US. The Ash Wednesday storm of '62 hit NJ, MD, VA, (water came all the way to Shore Drive). NC, (water covered the OBX from ocean to bay) SC, and recorded 30 foot waves. You can google the pictures. I'm 79 and think things are calming down.
The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis - a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt,' The International Energy Agency (IEA). Some responsible people are just QUIETLY doing it without mandates.
Emissions Analysis: Why US carbon emissions have fallen 14% since 2005 Before 2005, US carbon emissions were marching upwards year after year, with little sign of slowing down. After this point, they fell quickly, declining 14% from their peak by the end of 2016.
(CO 2) emissions for new model year (MY) 2021 light-duty vehicles was 348 grams per mile, down from 681 grams per mile for new vehicles in MY 1975 ‒ a decrease of 49%.
Bonnie, I hope you are feeling a bit better after my special report for you. Have a little faith in the American people.
Livestream on Racket?
This is my question as well. I would like to join this stream tonight at 5p est. but, will need the link to do so.
Thanks,
🤖
Yes, Matt added the link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPAGaMi6bjg
Thanks ❗️
I'm nauseous.
They are who we thought they were.
Don’t let ‘em off the hook!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmQbk5h86w
I’m wondering about this and other information that’s come out since SCOTUS agreed to hear the suit brought by Drs Battacharya and Keriarty (sp)et al. Will new info such as this be available/allowed to be brought forth?
The playbook looks straight outta Spy vs. Spy