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such tremendous progressWe are now in the third year of these open posts. As the phrase "died suddenly" repeats in the mass media like a mantra, statistics for work days lost to illness and all-cause mortality mount up in heavily vaccinated nations, and more and more ugly facts about the official response to Covid spill out into public, we are entering what may well turn out to be the most difficult period of the Covid disaster -- the phase in which denial rises in lockstep with the death rate, and a great many people try not to admit what has been done to them by the people and institutions they trusted. It could get ugly, folks.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
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Date: 2024-05-14 03:20 pm (UTC)
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This is too precious not to share.

I looked up that Aldous Huxley quote for myself - and this is the response I got from the AI built into the Brave browser I use.

"Medical science has made significant strides in understanding the human body and developing treatments for various diseases. According to Aldous Huxley, “medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.” This quote highlights the remarkable advancements in medical science, which have led to a better understanding of human health and the development of effective treatments."

...and then it goes on to list them, and ends with a bold fanfare.

Please see facepalm icon.

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Utah mom sues AstraZeneca, claiming she was left ‘permanently disabled’ in COVID vaccine trial

https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/us-news/us-woman-sues-astrazeneca-after-claiming-she-was-left-permanently-disabled-by-covid-vaccine/

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Date: 2024-05-14 09:19 pm (UTC)
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I was wondering what others are thinking of the current astral condition. Early this year it seemed to be clearing up a bit, but now it feels absolutely putrid and I've seen a number of other people remarking on it. What characterizes it now seems like an intense sense of foreboding, the feeling that something terrible and unknown approaching. I've found banishing rituals only clear it up for a short time but it's most intense when lying down to sleep or waking up, daily routines can usually distract from it. Its "odor" seems similar to the specters of the pandemic but at the same time not identical.

Also, this may be completely random but I feel like whenever something really violent (more than usual) is going on in other parts of the world this sense diminishes somewhat. It could be that whatever this stuff is is drawn toward these events when they happen and thus less troublesome to people not involved.

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I consider myself as psychically sensitive as a potatoe, and I usually never remember my dreams anymore (I used to have excellent dream recall, and find the fact that it's gone slightly disturbing). And when I do, it's the usual fragmented nonsense.

But last weekend, I had a dream where I said to someone, "did you notice that when a place is run down on the material level, it's also a real cesspit on the etheric and astral levels?" and concluded that I need to recommit to doing the SOP.

The atmosphere that night was... not good. Even my dogs didn't sleep well, and seemed to be plagued by bad dreams.

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Date: 2024-05-14 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
So I looked up the quote a different way.
- Wikiquote says it's misattributed and from a 2018 book: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#Misattributed
- But this NIH abstract from 2014 cites it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4162690/

So now I definitely don't know what to think :)

Boston Bob

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"It could get ugly, folks."

Isn't it already pretty ugly?

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Date: 2024-05-19 08:39 am (UTC)
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Indeed it is. And I think it will get uglier.

But what any given individual experiences may or may not align with what is going on out there generally. Just because there's a shale storm, that doesn't mean you have to go stand outside on an open field— that's what I tell myself. Time to stay alert, get creative.
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I still have it on video - a wonderful local woman who ran a local feed store, but closed it due to the pandemic logistics issues (which were used purposely to destroy small businesses, but preserve big ones), told me a sad story:
A friend's 18 year-old daughter took the vax, because she was "forced" to by her college in Iowa.
She died 20 minutes later, in the parking lot.
No cause-of-death tying it to the vax.
She had (at that time) two other friends who had died post-vaccination. Within the day.
Again, the medical system died not attribute the deaths to the vax. Pure coincidence.

I had produced a few DVDs, and reams of scientific papers I had downloaded, to try to convince people to not get the vax.
My brother simply said, "I will do whatever my doctor tells me to do." Now he is suffering from some health consquences, which he blames on diet or stress. I wonder.

The one success story that I thought I had had turned out to not be a success. I have friends who are a couple with two sons in their 20s, who were in college at the time of the scamdemic. I gave them one of my packets of a DVD and papers. I thought that it worked, but nope:

The sons felt that they were forced to take the vax by their colleges. One of the boys now had some chronic health issues (digestive, etc.), and just hasn't felt well since the shots. He is very angry.
The father is in denial. He even freaked out, literally as in arms waving, when I mentioned a book by someone who was vaccine damaged. "What do you mean, vaccine damaged! What's the proof!"

I don't think society will ever, as a whole, admit what happened to them. The ongoing chronic health issues will be attributes to other things, and the suffering masses will become another source of profits.

People can't see what they don't believe in. And they believe in modern medicine (most of them).
-Tides of Truth

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$16.9 Million in COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Claims Paid in Australia

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/16-9-million-in-covid-19-vaccine-injury-claims-paid-in-australia-5646629

Thank you

Date: 2024-05-15 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Week 145

Dear JMG and dear forumistas, thank you.

Where I am it's a gray day, but the window is wide open and the birds are singing.

I'm taking it one day at a time. I read all your posts.

Cetiosaurus

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Enjoy the birds and thank you also!

It was like summer here today and while the mood on the street wasn't Simon and Garfunkel
singing the 59th Street Bridge song 'Feeling Groovy' it was manageable.


Two ambulances seen without sirens. One siren heard a few blocks away.

An Inappropriate Preposition

Date: 2024-05-15 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
This may not seem initially relevant, but has anyone noticed people's spelling and grammar has become significantly worse in the past few years?

What I've particularly noticed are preposition errors - that's words like "before", "behind", "above". They are often missing or the wrong ones used.

And also the missing of transition words, like "the", "and", "although" and "because", or sometimes the word is duplicated, like "the the".

What's interesting is that these are the errors that small children make when learning to talk - they miss out the prepositions or get them wrong/get them in the wrong places.

This is particularly surprising given that prerty much all computers have a spellchecker, including phones.

This forum seems relatively immune, but my colleagues' spelling is now awful, and news articles are even worse - if anything, it's evidence the articles are not actually AI-written, as I'd expect the spelling to be better!

Where I'm going with this is that I think people's brains have literally been damaged in an indirectly measurable way over the past few years (I won't speculateon the cause) - look up the areas of the brain associated with language and writing, then look up what other functions those areas of the brain have...

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Has anyone noticed how people seem to have lost their sense of humour as well?

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Only last week Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico gave this speech:-

“I also clearly declare that we (Slovakia Democratic Party) WILL NOT support strengthening the Powers of the World Health Organisation”

“One study after another confirms the scandalous consequences of mass vaccination with experimental untested vaccines”

“If someone had a different opinion on vaccination against Covid - they were dangerous to society”

Today he has been shot in public

https://nitter.poast.org/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1790763619388428377#m

BREAKING: Pro-Trump Conservative Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico Shot in Public – Stood Up Against Ukraine War and WHO Global Pandemic Accord

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/breaking-pro-trump-conservative-slovakian-prime-minister-robert/

of course, i dont know whether or not it is related to what he said recently but..

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erika checking in before court...

Date: 2024-05-15 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
it's me, erika. this may not seem covid related and maybe it's tenuous but i think not because of the TYPES of people most of us here are (incorrigible, anti-authoritarian, contrarian, odd, weird, anti-social, misanthropic, alpha, oldest sibling, outsider, mainstream/social failure).

right before James' death, my mom was dreaming about me, wrote me a card telling me so, and now she and my sister and new little nephew are back in my life. James and i used to argue about whether they were all covidians or not and they ARE! but i found out after he was gone so i didn't have the chance to say, "you're right."

i see the same issues that caused us to be estranged haven't gone away and the coof debacle was just another example. but i'm stronger even as i'm weaker now and am letting them have their beliefs because i see how desperately they need them to exist. already i am getting the attraction/repulsion game from them.

on a speakerphone mother's day call, my mom admitted that she recently realized that my little sister had set me up to get punished all my life. i laughed HARD because that's what's happening with my current temporary restraining order case i've got to fight tomorrow at 8:30 via a zoom call to the court.

i requested a zoom call because i cannot walk without a cane and when i do my knee is deteriorating so i'm also trying to get knee surgery before i possibly get evicted as i cannot move my own boxes or anything anywhere. i was limping in jail but all the rushing to the hospital to feed James when i got out really tore it up.

i never knew how to defend myself from my sister's accusations and found myself equally dumbfounded and speechless regarding my neighbor, simone bailey's accusations. she's obviously colluding with the landlord to get me out and i've been not able to think straight because of grief over James and the incredulousness about my current hellish situation.

earlier i'd compared this situation to the demon hypothesis and said that i'm in Devouring Mother Central here in Mordor (san francisco), and the "666" in the case number winks at me.

yes, your friends and family who cannot bear to hear any other truths regarding the world ending or the governments trying to murder us, I GET IT. i'm just about at my limit for handling human darkness and i've done laps in others' evil as well as my own. but this is... different... the Devouring Mother ethos mixed with zombie bureaucrats has led to dismissive/dismissed tragedy and i'm struggling with nausea. it was just about constant when this all happened and now it's dissipating as i get my VOICE and my power back.

will my power save me? i shrug. i know not. we're getting slammed hammered and shattered us outsiders. they smell us coming miles away. our smiles and energy tell on us.

so all that has been said above about their inability to order on menus or suicide out or not i think is hella TRUE. i think madness is all about us now. i was told by a middle-aged man who works as a nurse at a hospital to be the one to tell on someone FIRST. that's key to neutralizing a threat as he did it with a woman he knew had it in for him. and now he says he's free.

free? a middle aged man, Gen X, thinks it's a great idea to tell on the woman first? ew. but it WORKED.

it is the world we live in. i'd rather go like CJ Hopkins and walk out of court with head high even as my pockets are ever lighter.

so here's the cover letter (my primary defense) that i submitted to court for tomorrow. there's plenty of email evidence regarding the character of simone bailey as well as my landlord's management company, so we'll see.

i share the cover letter because it took me an extraordinarily LOOONG time to even figure out my defense because i hate having to even DEFEND myself. the devouring mother's playbook is the antithesis of everything i've EVER tried to be about: honor, taking a punch, admitting my own faults, dealing face-to-face.

the court clerk said their business is booming because no one solves anything face-to-face anymore. whether it's the phones that started it i don't know, but in a world of proud tattle tellers, it's hard to try and appeal to your judge's humanity in the cold cold world of court and gotcha justice where it's more about filing crazy confusing forms PROPERLY. it's a different game a different way of THINKING about the world as none of the clerks found all these forms absurd in the least.

it's about following the RULES.

so here's my cover letter and approach and i'll tell you what happened later or even later if it's too hard to deal with.

but my entire eviction case is dependent upon this restraining order because if it goes through and is approved, there's a nuisance eviction clause and they'll have grounds to get me out no matter what the truth is.

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ATTACHMENT 11- Cover Letter Regarding Case# CCH-24-586669 10 May 2024

Dear Your Honor:

I haven’t known quite just how to respond to this Restriction Order. Not only am I still in deep shock and grief about the tragic suffering and death of James Swanson, my deeply beloved partner of 26 years on April 4, to this madness Helen “Simone” Bailey has wrought, but I feel vulnerable, confused, and played like I’m in an 80s horror movie as the hapless victim trapped in her poisonous killer slime web. Simone is only 41 and it has been James Swanson, age 58, and I, who will be 57 in a couple of months, are actually the ones who have been in need of some kind of restraint from Simone as we’ve been harassed for decades, and now fatally terrorized, by this deeply-disturbed bitter and sadistic woman.

We all used to be friendly years ago until I told her in 2015 that we weren’t going to cover for her illegally subletting her place anymore. Simone doesn’t have any friends or lovers and screws over everyone in her life so she’d ruthlessly scam just about every unwitting subletter, and we’d have to routinely change locks and watch out for ricocheting vengeance. She bought us a vacuum we didn’t ask for so that she could use the $179 cost to justify stealing the $2,000 deposit from the young couple from Belgium and immediately evicting them out of their 4-month agreement because they were white people and she wanted to rent out her rent-controlled NYC apartment and return to her rent-controlled SF one. Again we had to change out our locks and I wanted nothing to do with her cruel rackets anymore, so I wrote her so in NYC.

When she came home, she knocked on my door and furiously yelled in my face, “Fxck you and your honor!”

She tried to pump up some rage here and there over the past few years by spooging her poison slime in a face or two, and apparently even started a previous Restraining Order against me back in 2017 I just found out about because of all this now, but the silence all this time was glorious. / Until last year when she hit-and-run James’ motorcycle, totaling it, costing $4k with a new salvage title. We found out it was her via a meter maid, and she paid up and said she didn’t come clean about it because she was afraid of me. At least she paid so we went about our separate business and figured that’s just how she is.

But ever since this past August, when James was suddenly sick with full blown stage 4 metastatic melanoma and brain cancer, and I’ve been hobbling around taking care of him and the household like an old exhausted lady, Simone seemed like a little sister demon suddenly testing and taunting us by pounding on the door all the time for the tiniest of annoyances.

I said “yes” to every request to keep the peace for James’ sake as I was also too tired to argue. A wheelchair delivered up here that she initially gave me a week to move because “a few inches” went into her space, turned into daily emails and door bangings as “friendly reminders.” James hated the way she pounded on the door because it scared him and loud sounds hurt his head. So rather than wait for help come the weekend, I stumbled down the stairs with it as she calmly watched from below with a smug happy look. / There’s your bitter sadism.

On the morning of March 15, after I’d put my foot in Simone’s door, and sobbed from my failure at engaging her empathy to leave James alone, I heard Andre Moreno, the maintenance man, take a crowbar and pry out Simone’s lock and heard the old-growth redwood splintering and did not know why until I later saw the photos in this request for her Restraining Order. I did not gouge the deadbolt out of Simone’s door and the door was never closed. I had my foot in the door, Simone screamed, pushed me
away and said I was psycho and I said I’ll show you psycho (which is just more yelling for someone from New Jersey). Simone and Andre way overplayed gouging the whole deadbolt out of an old-growth hard redwood doorway. That is absolutely absurd.

So I know I’m being set up for the perfect easy eviction.

In fact, I believe that’s the actual purpose of this Restraining Order: To finally and completely evict me.

Lawyers wouldn’t take my Unlawful Detainer case for anything less than $20-40k with no good outcome likely because it’s assumed the restraining order would be granted and I’d be “toast.” That’s a quote.

I was too busy with James to even notice this restraining order and eviction business at first. I was at the hospital at all hours to feed James back to his days-before self and home at night cleaning the urine, vomit, feces, broken glass, trash, and blood I found strewn all over when I came home from jail. So when I first found out about the restraining order long after the fact, I was actually relieved and thought it meant that Simone would be forcing herself to leave me alone so I could concentrate on James. But she isn’t leaving me alone, and she won’t. Helen “Simone” Bailey is not using the restraining order to protect herself; she’s using it to control, punish and bully me. She is having way too much fun weaponizing the power of the law and using the SFPD as her thugs to restrict my rights as well as the most basic human rights of my late beloved, James Swanson. [I’ve already filed complaints with The Department of Police Accountability as well as The City Attorney’s Office.]

Helen “Simone” Bailey is not even afraid of me: She routinely entered our apartment while James was half dead and I was in jail, and when I saw her a couple of weeks ago at Rainbow Grocery, she gave me a huge smile as she started dialing something on her phone and buttonholed a clerk who then gave me skunk eye. Was Simone setting up a new scene? I, who used to thank the SFPD for their service am now terrified to death of the SFPD now that they’re on call as her insta-thugs to serve her littlest whims. With my new bouts of PTSD I call Current Traumatic Stress Disorder, I turned around and left before finally doing some desperately-needed grocery shopping.

The Two-for-One / Buy-One-Get-One-Free is that Citywide Property and Lincoln Shaw, the owner, is using Simone’s restraining order to justify the Unlawful Detainer to evict me. I’ve been here 30 years; they can get four times the rent when I’m gone, and the value of this entire building will also greatly increase because of the huge rent differential.

Thus, what follows is my rebuttal not to Simone’s tame earlier version of the events claimed here on her request for a Permanent Restraining Order, but to the current bloated and growing claims of the 3-Day-or-Quit Unlawful Detainer notices taped to my door a few days after I got out of jail.

All I can do is tell my side, but I also have some evidence about the quality of character of those who’ve colluded against James and me in the hopes that even if you’re tired and merely skim all these many pages of my story and defense---as my entire life is in the balance--you soon realize there’s much more to this story than you’d assume out of habit. Like the SFPD didn’t do with me when they took me to jail on Simone and Andre’s words and left James to die.

Thank you for your time, focus, consideration and attention,
Erika Lopez

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Date: 2024-05-16 03:43 am (UTC)
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At the 88 comments mark I found myself reading and rereading. Much here to chew on. Thanks everybody.

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Date: 2024-05-16 03:54 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
In regards to keeping up with this shell game narrative. I am finding a small subset of people are well focused on unmasking events of 2020 and 2021 and am disheartened to see they are not recieiving much attention.

Have any others come across Gigaohm Biological or Mark Kulack in the past few months? If so what are your thoughts?

Crack in the narrative

Date: 2024-05-16 07:37 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
On this forum back in 2021 and, as I recall, in 2022, we had some discussion of "cracks in the narrative." At the time, when making my comments I had no clue how heavily throttled & muffled & bribed with kickbacks the mainstream media would turn out be. Now of course, we've had some years when more people are turning to alternative media, and opposition to the "official" narrative is much better organized, articulate, and legally savvy. So: I'm calling this a whopping fat crack in the narrative-- (EcoHealth is the Dr Peter Daszak operation https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/personnel/dr-peter-daszak )—

PRESS RELEASE

BREAKING: HHS Suspends Funding and Proposes Formal Debarment of EcoHealth Alliance, Cites Evidence from COVID Select Report
May 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accepted the Select Subcommittee’s recommendation to formally debar EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. (EcoHealth). HHS will immediately commence official debarment proceedings and implement a government-wide suspension of U.S. taxpayer funds to EcoHealth — including a hold on all active grants.

“EcoHealth Alliance and Dr. Peter Daszak should never again receive a single penny from the U.S. taxpayer. Only two weeks after the Select Subcommittee released an extensive report detailing EcoHealth’s wrongdoing and recommending the formal debarment of EcoHealth and its president, HHS has begun efforts to cut off all U.S. funding to this corrupt organization. EcoHealth facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight, willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant, and apparently made false statements to the NIH. These actions are wholly abhorrent, indefensible, and must be addressed with swift action. EcoHealth’s immediate funding suspension and future debarment is not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide.

“The Select Subcommittee’s investigation into EcoHealth and the origins of COVID-19 is far from over. Dr. Daszak and his team are still required to produce all outstanding documents and answer the Select Subcommittee’s questions, specifically related to Dr. Daszak’s potential dishonesty under oath. We will hold EcoHealth accountable for any waste, fraud, and abuse and are committed to uncovering any illegal activity, including lying to Congress, NIH, or the Inspector General,” said Chairman Wenstrup.

READ MORE https://oversight.house.gov/release/breaking-hhs-suspends-funding-and-proposes-formal-debarment-of-ecohealth-alliance-cites-evidence-from-covid-select-report/

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we seem to be approaching a time when it's officially stated that covid was made in a lab. more a rift valley than a giant crack at this stage. i wonder if at some point we'll see people actually held accountable for their actions.

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Date: 2024-05-16 03:24 pm (UTC)
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North Carolina could ban face masks for medical reasons in public

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4666792-north-carolina-could-ban-face-masks-for-medical-reasons-in-public/

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Date: 2024-05-16 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
here is another assassination attempt, this time in Ireland

Breaking News: Assassination attempt on Irish Republican European MEP candidate Malachy Steenson

A man is in custody. The situation in Ireland is on a knife edge.

https://nitter.poast.org/JimFergusonUK/status/1790824896823460220#m

there is a short clip of him talking about it

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Date: 2024-05-16 04:26 pm (UTC)
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Pfizer accused of 'bringing discredit' on pharmaceutical industry and promoting an 'unlicensed' Covid vaccine

https://www.gbnews.com/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer-uk-ruling

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Date: 2024-05-16 04:58 pm (UTC)
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cuz udderwise dey'z da bomb!


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BREAKING: The NIH just ADMITTED to funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan through EcoHealth Alliance.

This is MASSIVE news.

https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1791136991318335729

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Date: 2024-05-17 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mskrieger
Oh indeed, the US government has officially cut off funding EcoHealth because Oh the Horrors! They were doing what they said they'd do when they asked for the money!

Seems rather too little too late, IMHO but there may be more to come.

--Ms. Krieger

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Pfizer Offers To Pay $200-250 Million To Settle Lawsuits Over Popular Heartburn Medication: Report

https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-offers-to-pay-200-250-million-to-settle-lawsuits-over-popular-heartburn-medication-report

Good News Stories of Last Week

Date: 2024-05-16 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I’d like to share a condensed version of selected ‘wins’ recently discussed by Dr. Mark Trozzi and Ted Kuntz, with some light commentary by yours truly. Full version, including links and video of the discussion are available here: https://drtrozzi.substack.com/p/wins-of-the-week-ep20-with-ted-kuntz

Political

1 - In an unexpected turn of events, all 49 Republican senators, led by Senator Ron Johnson, have formally urged President Joe Biden to withdraw his support in expanding the World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic authority. The letter, sent ahead of the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, argues that the WHO’s mishandling of the Cooties-19 crisis underscores the need for major reforms rather than granting it more power. The senators warn that such an expansion could threaten U.S. sovereignty and constitutional rights, emphasizing that any international agreement enhancing WHO’s authority should be treated as a treaty, requiring a two-thirds supermajority vote in the Senate for approval.

Legal

1 - A Notice of Liability was delivered to individuals at the WHO this week including WHO Director General Tedros. The notice addressed both corporate and personal liability in wrongdoing. It states: “Based on your authority as the designated WHO Director General, the majority of people around the world trusted your words when you stated that Cooties-19 GMOs and gene therapies were ‘safe and effective’. This claim cannot be substantiated and is further disproved by [Cooties]-19 [vixen] contracts. As such, the right to free and informed consent was violated for every human being who was injected with the experimental [Cooties]-19 GMO gene therapy called ‘vaccines’. Your failure to advise on, recommend, promote and ensure free and informed consent for these [Cooties]-19 GMO gene therapies can be prosecuted for both breach of your duty of care as well as for battery. The WHO and its employees can no longer say they are ignorant of the issues and public concerns.”

2 - A Quebec court has authorized two separate class-action lawsuits against YouTube and Facebook for allegedly censoring posts and videos critical of Cooties-19 measures and vixens. In the lawsuit against YouTube, the plaintiff, Éloïse Boies, alleges that YouTube censored three of her videos that questioned the pandemic health measures of the government and the Cooties-19 vixen. YouTube cited a violation of its platform policy, stating that Ms. Boies spread “incorrect medical information contradicting that of local health authorities or the WHO regarding Cooties-19.” Ms. Boies, who runs YouTube channel “Elo Wants To Know,” argues that YouTube’s content control related to the Cooties-19 pandemic is an unlawful an intentional infringement on freedom of expression, which is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

3 - Veteran OBGYN physician Dr. James Thorp called on attorneys this week to take on lawsuits against medical institutions that forced the experimental and “dangerous” Cooties-19 injections on babies and pregnant women. Thorp explained in a lengthy ‘X’ thread that many hospitals signed “secret, unethical, and likely illegal” cooperative agreements with Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to force the Cooties shots on “the most vulnerable patients.”

Medical

1 - AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Cooties-19 goo worldwide months after it acknowledged a rare and dangerous side effect. The manufacturers admitted this in court documents months ago. The application to withdraw the vixen's marketing authorization in the European Union was made on March 5 and came into effect on Tuesday last week.

2 - Former CNN host, Chris Cuomo, says it was "wrong" for clinicians to "play scared" on the benefits of Ivermectin so that he shared "bad information" with the public. Cuomo made his comments on a recent episode of the Patrick Bet-David podcast. “The entire clinical community knew that Ivermectin couldn't hurt you. "It's cheap. It's not owned by anybody. And it's used as an anti microbial, anti viral and all of these different ways. It has been for a long time," Cuomo said. He also disclosed for the first time that he has been suffering from side effects he attributes to the Cooties-19 goo.

Calling It Like It Is

1 - On May 3, 2024, the New York Times posted an article on their front page entitled - Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening? Among other experts it reported that Dr. Janet Woodcock, a long-time leader of the FDA who retired in February, said she believed that some recipients had experienced uncommon but “serious” and “life-changing” reactions beyond those described by federal agencies. “I feel bad for those people,” said Dr. Woodcock, who became the FDA’s acting commissioner in January 2021 as the [vixens] were rolling out. “I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously.” “I’m disappointed in myself,” she added. “I did a lot of things I feel very good about, but this is one of the few things I feel I just didn’t bring it home.” I’m sure she cries herself to sleep every single night. Pray tell us, Dr. ‘pure as the driven snow’ Woodcock, how much did your net worth change between January 2021 and today?

Citizen Action

1 - The organization ‘Stand for Health Freedom’ announced that due to its Vote for Health Freedom project (https://standforhealthfreedom.com/vote-for-health-freedom), it helped 892 candidates who stand for health freedom get elected in 2022 and 134 candidates take office in 2023 (at the state level, I believe). Already this year, through the early primaries (only four states so far) it has helped 148 candidates move on to the general election. With only 30% of U.S. citizens take part in the primary process, further wins may be possible if the health freedom movement steps up and votes freedom-loving candidates onto the ballot for the general election. Though, personally, I have little faith in the electoral processes and the power of politicians outside their party’s policies, I am glad that this is happening. When the weak points of the ‘monster’ are not known, it’s worth while poking it in every spot possible and look for a reaction.

What developments will this week bring? Only time will tell!

Ron M

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Date: 2024-05-16 06:46 pm (UTC)
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i lost because i put my foot in her door.

erika

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Date: 2024-05-16 10:31 pm (UTC)
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Ouch. I'm very sorry to hear that! ;-(

So what will happen next? Is there any (reasonable) way for you to appeal?

And may I send you a hug?

Milkyway

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Date: 2024-05-16 08:16 pm (UTC)
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A link to what I found to be a fascinating and insightful brand new interview between John Campbell and a guy called Marc Girardot. He appears to have come from a tech background, is eloquent, shows depth of understanding and obviously questioned the vixens pretty early on. More on his background here:

https://thenewamerican.com/video/marc-girardot-debunking-covid-myths%ef%bf%bc/

And his substack here:

https://covidmythbuster.substack.com/

And the interview link here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_qCaAI9IzI

He does seem to have a healthy ego as this theory has been spoken about by others suggesting it's not the whole story, e.g. Brian Mowbrey talks here about inconsistency of vixen manufacture too:
https://unglossed.substack.com/p/myocarditis-and-bolus-theory)

I don't disagree but this theory feels pretty close to the money and Mr Girardot's figure of 1 in 20 shots having a more damaging profile (mentioned in the interview) feels about right. That would mean anyone taking 2 or 3 shots has a 10-15% chance of a 'bad' reaction/consequence and someone having had 6 of them has around a 25% chance of increased issues. That means the majority have kind of 'got away with it' so helps account for why this issue is not as big as it should be.

I do remain concerned that the newest sars2 virus iterations are going to offer an increasing challenge this year. Just waiting on the latest 'unoffical official' report on this week's UK picture...

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Date: 2024-05-17 01:07 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Having listened to that interview I left with a very different impression. Particularly in regards to the sort of assumption that if the injection process itself was performed better there would be less issues.

I felt like there was a call for "new technology", which is truly the last of what we need as demonstrated by the abject failures of the past several years, and all the others that it has helped shed light on.

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Date: 2024-05-16 09:09 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] scotlyn
I'll see your Huxley, and raise you a Wallace... ;)

Seriously, I had no idea that Alfred Russell Wallace (the fellow who disputed primacy re evolutionary theory with Darwin, that Wallace) had penned a serious anti-vaccination screed to be presented to the Parliamentary Enquiry in the UK established in 1890's in order to investigate whether the mandatory vaccination laws were harming or helping.

https://archive.org/details/b21356336

On page 9 of Wallace's submission (dated 1898!) he says this:

"This brief statement of the early history of vaccination has been introduced here in order to give what seems to be a probable explanation of the remarkable fact that a large portion of the medical profession accepted, as proved, that vaccination protected against a subsequent inoculation of small-pox, when in reality there was no such proof, as the subsequent history of small-pox epidemics has shown. The medical and other members of the Royal Commission could not realize the possibility of such a failure to get at the truth. Again and again they asked the witnesses above referred to to explain how it was possible that so many educated specialists could be thus deceived. They overlooked the fact that a century ago was, as regards the majority of the medical profession, a prescientific age ; and nothing proves this more clearly than the absence of any systematic " control" experiments, and the extreme haste with which some of the heads of the profession expressed their belief in the lifelong protection against small-pox afforded by vaccination, only four years after the discovery had been first announced. This testimony caused Parliament to vote Jenner £10,000 in 1802.

Ample proof now exists of the fallacy of this belief, since vaccination gives no protection whatever, as will be shown later on..."

So, here we are 120+ years later, still marvelling at the capacity of doctors and scholars to fall for this "fallacy"...

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Date: 2024-05-17 01:13 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Excellent point. Here is another fun data point for the origins being dealt with.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/hilary-koprowski-developed-live-virus-polio-vaccine-dies-at-96.html

"Dr. Hilary Koprowski macerated the ingredients in an ordinary kitchen blender one January day in 1948. He poured the result — thick, cold, gray and greasy — into a beaker, lifted it to his lips and drank. It tasted, he later said, like cod liver oil.

With that sip, Dr. Koprowski, a virologist who died on April 11 at 96, inoculated himself against polio, years before the vaccines of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin."

This was not a nobody, this was a serious figure in where we are today.

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Date: 2024-05-16 10:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] scotlyn
Vaccine advocates often blame Andrew Wakefield's paper of 1998, for drawing the ordinary public's attention to the possibility of a connection between vaccination and autism. In fact, I have seen screeds that place ALL the blame for ANY type of vaccine hesitancy whatsoever, whensoever, upon THAT paper.

They (and we, unfortunately, also) have forgotten that others, for example Robert Thomas Cooper were already drawing attention to what they saw as credible links between cancer and vaccination, in 1903.


https://archive.org/details/the-etiology-of-cancer-pdf

weighing various harms

Date: 2024-05-17 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] mskrieger
Hi Scotlyn,

I don't think any responsible, honest person would argue that allopathic medical interventions lack risks. And it's possible that certain interventions--mRNA vaccines, for example--increase cancer risk a lot. Unacceptably.

But the reason we use some medical interventions is because the benefit we get from them is much greater than the risk of harm.

And I am worried that we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater by rejecting all vaccines in every scenario. Measles outbreaks are getting bigger and scarier all the time. Just recently 52 people in a shelter for recent immigrants in Chicago got measles from an unvaccinated toddler who was infected somewhere enroute
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7319a1.htm

Some of those folks had been vaccinated for measles in the past. The protection wanes over time. A couple of the people infected wound up in the hospital with complications--most of those were children under the age of 4. Measles encephalitis, the most serious complication, can kill or leave people with permanent brain damage. Measles infections also tend to wipe out almost all the immune system's memory, leading to lots of reinfections over the next year or two with common viruses the person has already successfully faced (but might not the second time around.) That's why we vaccinate for it, even though the vaccine carries risks.

I for one am incensed that the powers that be tried to force everyone to get an ineffective, dangerous vaccine and in doing so destroyed the last shreds of confidence any of us had in the older, more effective, less dangerous vaccines that helped us live longer and prevented the debilitating effects of many communicable diseases.

--Ms. Krieger

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