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The COVID Narrative Exposed on C-SPAN
Domestic Imperialists used the coercive apparatus of the state to stop hundreds of millions of people from enjoying their lives for years. Surely, we should see a great utilitarian benefit from these COVID lockdown policies and mask mandates.
Why was it, that states like Florida and California, which had drastically different policies, had no discernible difference in COVID deaths*?
This would have been a great opportunity for Progressives to advocate the Keto and Carnivore diet, considering obesity was clearly correlated with COVID deaths, but such a policy would not have justified massive increases in the size and scope of government in the lives of everyday people.
Here is Thomas E. Woods Jr., author of “Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania” on BookTV:
*Account for Florida’s older population.
Watch the video on BookTV: Diary of a Psychosis
Movie Bob’d
In the time just before the rise of Pewidepie as the most popular YouTuber there were the angry and nostalgic reviewers. The Angry Video Game Nerd formally Nintendo, Nostalgia Critic, Spoonyone, Cinemasnob and so on all were prominent on the platform. Mostly in their homes putting together reviews with skits that either missed or hit, while inventing characters to make a point. In that age the intended audience was not little children but rather teens and adults. Some of the reviewers became famous enough to inspire copy cats, or motivate others to take up the webcam and angrily criticise a film or game. Irate Gamer to AVGN being an example of one such copy cat reviewer. Then came Mr Plinkett. the Red Letter Media created character who narrated in a garbled voice lengthy reviews of Star Wars, Star Trek and other films with a comical break down. Such long form commentary form would pave the way for Mauler and many of those in the Every Frame A Pause realm.
The Fair Use period of YouTube ensured that some went to blip.tv or invented their own websites, the Nostalgia Critic heading That Guy With Glasses which had a stable of reviewers under one roof as such. Normal Boots would house many gamer types for a time such as Jon Tron to Peanut Butter Gamer. Lindsay Ellis, was then known as the Nostalgia Chick. She rose to prominence reviewing among the TGWG crew a fan favourite. In his own corner of YouTube lurked Movie Bob, who would often bludgeon contemporary American politics into basically every film he reviewed. Under the pretentious category of reviewer along with Patrick (H) Willems where the reviewer insists that they are the smartest person ever to review a thing to be reviewed. Movie Bob was a cliché that helped invent the modern meme of a Well Ackstually neckbeard.
At one convention where fans met their favourite online celebrities Movie Bob got a photo with Lindsay Ellis. He then went on to use this photo some time later as proof that he and her are friends. They are after all “colleagues” in the realm of reviewers, so to those peering in through the portal of social media it stands to reason that they could be real life friends. Ellis then responded by putting Bob in his place, calling him “creepy” for sharing such a photo with his claim of friendship. The very public Twitter shutdown put Bob down a rung and helped secure him as a meme. He would go on to complain about how it hurt him. You see, Bob is a male feminist type. The kind of male feminist who loses his feminist values when a drunk female is passed out nearby, (not Bob personally but the type of feminist I am referring to, I would never accuse such a man of such a thing…) and Ellis called him out for it.
Years later, Lindsay Ellis apologised for her tweet because it had hurt Bob’s credibility. Though his claim and boast on Twitter itself should have been condemnation of his character, being a false claim and all that. Now why have I informed you of all of this, because recently a 2016 photo of Tulsi Gabbard standing alongside Rabbi Shmuley was X’d out by the pro-genocide Rabbi. Shmuley claimed in his tweet above the 2016 photo that he was, “Excited to see my two close friends Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy, Jr lead the Donald Trump transition team.” Many Xers (Tweeters was much easier to say), seemed convinced that it was a recent photo of the Trump team alumni Gabbard.
Whether Shmuley is friends with Gabbard or Kennedy is unknown. They are both politicians who seem to have countless friends, the nature of the photo and tweet is reminiscent of Movie Bob. The attachment of self to another, a political beast determined to steel the flames of fame and influence from another. Or in the case of Shmuley the attachment of a woman who is associated with some antiwar sentiments to himself, who is pro a particular war. The X-tweet is all rather political and much ado about nothing in the grand scheme of things but it does further reveal the damaging attachment of personalities to causes and their association of a message when they themselves seek politics. This is the nature of politics, shaking hands and standing in photos with people of disrepute.
Lindsay Ellis is a much more talented reviewer and film maker than Bob ever was. Tulsi Gabbard is also a far more accomplished person than Shmuley could ever be. Which is why both feel the need to associate themselves with such women. It’s also the dangerous reality of having ones photo taken with strangers, because you never really know who they may be or what they will do with such a photo. But Gabbard is in Team Trump, where the policies seem onboard with enabling the genocide in Palestine. Shmuley already has many friend’s like that.
The Royal Navy Stumbles, Again
The Fat Amy follies continue apace.
We discussed this recently and it looks more and more likely that the hapless and increasingly Orwellian Starmer junta in the UK may be reneging on plans to buy more than the present complement of shoddy F35B aircraft they currently have.
They have started to weigh priorities to shift to a new joint fighter venture with Japan and Italy.
It will be as disastrous as the F35 and the stumbling efforts of the USAF to come up with a sixth-generation fighter aircraft.
I am amused they are all that concerned for having carrier-borne aircraft since both of their carriers are so unreliable, they dare not leave British territorial waters. The Royal Navy has a consistent problem with engineering casualties or breakdowns that are only exacerbated by employing an aircraft of questionable readiness.
The Global Air Combat Programme (GCAP) is now set to create yet another chaos avalanche of bad engineering and a failure of martial imagination tumbling through the treasuries of western aligned nations. Historians will have a hell of a good time documenting the absolute dumpster fire of Western military aviation in the 21st century.
The Labour government may force the MoD to decide between the F-35 and the future Tempest, the planned sixth-generation fighter that is part of the British-led Global Air Combat Programme (GCAP). The UK is working with Italy and Japan on the GCAP, which like the United States Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program calls for a system of systems that could include a manned fighter supported by multiple unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or drones.
The Starmer junta is reconsidering the deal and may not approve the further acquisition.
Original plans called for the UK to acquire 138 of the fifth-generation multirole fighters – which would include the air wings for its two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers – but to date, just 48 of the aircraft have been ordered, with 34 delivered. One of those was damaged beyond repair while operating from HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean in 2021.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/uk-could-back-out-f-35-fighter-program-212474
This little gem stuck out at Parliament with a subtext I will tease out for you:
Speaking to the U.K. Parliament’s Defense Committee back in September 2020, Nick Childs, Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said he considered a number “significantly higher” than 48 F-35Bs would be required to meet the ambition of 24 jets available for the baseline Carrier Strike mission. Taking into account training and other demands, a figure of 60-70 jets would be reasonable, Childs contended.
https://www.twz.com/air/united-kingdoms-f-35b-fleet-plans-under-threat-as-defense-cuts-loom
Mr. Childs is much more prescient than he let’s on because when you have a 30 percent and deteriorating operational readiness rate and acquire 100 F35Bs, you will be lucky to have 30 flyable aircraft.
Soon enough, the defense mandarins will finally recognize that the era of manned fighter aircraft is over but only after setting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire.
And I remind you, the British win all of their military victories in spite of their best efforts.
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Israel’s Genocide Risks Causing a Vaccine-Derived Polio Outbreak in Gaza
The New York Times reported on August 26 that more than 1.2 million doses of polio vaccine arrived in Gaza as part of an effort to vaccinate more than 640,000 Palestinian children with the aim of preventing an outbreak of the potentially paralyzing disease, but Israel’s continued military campaign and blockade of humanitarian aid poses an obstacle to the vaccines being distributed.
One case of paralytic polio has been confirmed in a 10-month-old child in Gaza who became paralyzed in one leg, which was the first case of polio in Gaza in a quarter-century.
Last week, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed concern about this development while reporting that the child “is currently in a stable condition.”
In the US during the pre-vaccine era, most people infected with polio never developed the disease, most people who did had mild flu-like symptoms and fully recovered, and it was in less than one percent of cases that paralysis occurred, sometimes resulting to permanent disability or death.
Poliovirus is transmitted via a fecal-oral route, and its global decline was largely due to advances in sanitation, better nutrition, and other improvements to societal standard of living. As noted in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) journal Pediatrics, nearly 90% of the decline in infectious disease mortality observed in the US during the twentieth century occurred before there were vaccines available to help explain the decline, which was instead mainly due to factors related to an increasing standard of living.
Changes in the diagnostic criteria for poliomyelitis also resulted in an artifactual decline of cases in the US falsely attributed to vaccination. Prior to 1955, large numbers of paralysis cases due to other causes, such as coxsackie virus infection, were incorrectly attributed to poliovirus, and diagnostic changes introduced that year created a perceived decline in paralytic polio that was largely a statistical artifact.
A famous example of potential misdiagnosis is President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom Americans are taught in school was wheelchair-bound for life because of a poliovirus infection, but whose symptoms some scientists have argued were more likely caused by an autoimmune disease known as Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).
The reappearance of polio in Gaza, the New York Times reported on August 16, is a result of “the destruction of the territory’s waste and water systems, which, along with malnourishment bordering on famine, has caused a multitude of grave health threats for Palestinians sealed in the territory.”
The Times also incorrectly reported that the vaccination effort “would involve giving recipients two rounds of injections”. While the polio vaccine used in the US and other developed countries is the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), which is administered by injection, the oral polio vaccine (OPV) is still widely used in developing countries, and it is the orally administered vaccine that would be given to Palestinian children if the vaccination campaign were able to proceed, according to the WHO.
The Times also failed to inform its readers in both of its aforementioned articles that the strain of poliovirus found in wastewater in Gaza is not the wild type but vaccine-derived poliovirus.
The inactivated vaccine is less effective and does not prevent infection and transmission of the poliovirus, whereas the “live” virus vaccine administered orally does confer immunity in the intestinal tract. However, the live-virus vaccine also carries the risk of itself causing paralytic polio in rare cases, and vaccinated individuals can shed vaccine-strain virus that can revert to virulence and hence infect and cause disease in others.
In the US, every case of paralytic polio occurring after 1979 was caused by the oral polio vaccine, which is why the switch was eventually made around the turn of the century to exclusive use of the less effective but safer “killed” vaccine.
Illustrating how the US government has long placed the policy goal of achieving a high vaccination rate over the goal of properly informing the public so individuals can make their own informed choice, in 1984, with the risk of paralytic polio being greater from the vaccine than from the wild virus and an inactivated vaccine already available, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared with respect to the continued use of the oral polio vaccine, that “any possible doubts, whether or not well founded, about the safety of the vaccine cannot be allowed to exist in view of the need to ensure that the vaccine will continue to be used to the maximum extent consistent with the nation’s public health objectives.” (Emphasis added.)
In 2019, the WHO reported that the world had crossed the threshold whereby more cases of polio were being caused by the vaccine than by the wild virus. The polio strain found in wastewater samples in Gaza and in the confirmed child case of paralytic polio was “circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2)”.
The horrific sanitary conditions and widespread malnutrition in Gaza are the result of Israel having waged a genocidal military campaign against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip for over ten months now, with indiscriminate bombardment that has systematically targeted the civilian infrastructure, including Gaza’s health care system, and killed over 40,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, coupled with a blockade policy that has been condemned by international human rights and aid organizations as the illegal use of deliberate starvation as a weapon of war.
In December of last year, the government of South Africa brought a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), sometimes called the “World Court” because it is the international community’s highest authority on interpretation and application of international law, accusing Israel of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention. The following month, the ICJ issued a preliminary ruling finding that Israel was committing a plausible genocide and ordering the Israeli government to take actions to demonstrate its commitment to compliance with the convention. Israel ignored the order.
In May, the ICJ ordered Israel to halt its military assault on Rafah in southern Gaza, where civilians had been ordered to flee by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and where 1.5 million Palestinians, over half the population of Gaza, were sheltering. As with the provisional measures the ICJ had previously issued, Israel ignored the Court’s order and proceeded with its genocidal campaign.
In a separate case brought before the ICJ by the UN General Assembly, the Court was asked to determine the legal consequences of Israel’s persistent occupation of Palestinian territory, and it issued its advisory opinion on July 19, ruling not only that a multitude of aspects of Israel’s occupation violate international law but that the occupation itself is illegal, amounting to an apartheid regime.
In May, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a separate body at the Hague in the Netherlands, announced that he was seeking arrest warrants for three top Hamas officials, including Ismail Haniyeh, whom Israel assassinated in Tehran, Iran, on July 31, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, the ICC has yet to issue the warrants, which require the approval of a three-judge panel.
The US government under the administration of President Joe Biden has been supporting Israel’s genocide while cynically feigning to care about the lives of Palestinian civilians and colluding with Israel in a public relations campaign aimed at creating the false perception that the only obstacle to a cessation of hostilities is Hamas’s rejection of an Israeli ceasefire proposal, when in fact Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly made clear that Israel will not end its genocidal military operation in Gaza before achieving the stated aim of eliminating Hamas and otherwise making demands transparently intended to ensure that no ceasefire can be achieved—a policy that has angered families of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups during the murderous attacks in Israel on October 7 last year.
While it is unlikely to happen given the perversity of the existing world governmental order, the US government could theoretically also be charged with violating the 1948 Genocide Convention for its complicity in Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Cross-posted from JeremyRHammond.com.
Suck Less
Zero accountability for personal failure is the diamond-hard core principle of the woke mind virus.
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Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Censored Truth for the Government
In a letter dated August 26 to the Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Jim Jordan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed that Facebook had inappropriately censored users’ posts at the request of the Biden administration.
The letter states that, “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”
While saying that the decision whether to censor was ultimately Meta’s, he expressed regret about caving to pressure from the White House. “I believe the government pressure was wrong,” he wrote, “and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.”
He added that Meta was “ready to push back if something like this happens again.”
Zuckerberg also admitted to having wrongly censored a New York Post article from October 2020 reporting on emails obtained from the laptop of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, indicating that he arranged a meeting between his father, who was then Vice President, and an adviser to the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where Hunter was a board member.
Less than a year after that meeting, Joe Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the company, afterward publicly bragging about having done so at a videotaped meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The New York Post story about corruption and influence-peddling was dismissed by Democrats as “Russian disinformation”. More than 50 former senior intelligence officials signed a letter characterizing the story as “a Russian information operation” aimed at “trying to influence how Americans vote” in the following month’s presidential election, and Politico and other mainstream media outlets ran with that narrative. Facebook censored the New York Post story, and Twitter went so far as to suspend the Post’s account.
The contents of the laptop were subsequently verified as authentic, and it was also later revealed that some of the former intelligence officials who signed the letter were CIA contractors and that the letter was written at the behest of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
Thus, true information was censored on social media and the claim of “Russian disinformation” aimed at influencing the election outcome was itself a disinformation campaign emanating from the Democratic establishment in collusion with the Deep State to influence the election in Biden’s favor.
Zuckerberg acknowledged in his letter to the House Committee, “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the single greatest purveyor of disinformation was the US government itself, such as the big lie that two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine would confer durable sterilizing immunity that would enable the population to reach herd immunity by stopping infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
As I and others were pointing out at the time, there was no scientific evidence to support that claim as the clinical trials were not designed to determine these pharmaceutical products’ effectiveness against infection and transmission.
Dr. Deboarah Birx, the former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, later admitted to Congress that the false claim upon which the vaccines were sold to the public was not based on scientific evidence but rather “hope”. Dr. Rochelle Walensky likewise later admitted that the claim was not science-based but faith-based.
I discussed how factually accurate information about COVID-19, the lockdowns, and the vaccines was being censored by social media companies in order to facilitate the propagation of official government disinformation on The Tom Woods Show in February 2021.
Cross-posted from JeremyRHammond.com.
Freedom of Navigation? US Navy Continues to Fail
It appears the US Navy and the NATO midgets continue to be thwarted in trying to secure safe passage through the Red Sea arterials against a foe which has no navy to speak of. If the data is correct, the Yemeni Houthis have no vessels beyond the size of a patrol boat with a provenance newer than 1973.
You US Navy dollars at work.
None of these efforts were helped when the EU formed a splinter coalition called Aspides so as not to associate with the US posture in Israel. The West’s inability to agree on how to perform a relatively basic task did not go unnoticed by potential adversaries. It was certainly noticed by the shipping companies we were trying to reassure.
Since January, not only have the attacks steadily increased in number, they have diversified too. Drones and cruise missiles were accompanied by hijackings and ballistic missiles. April saw the first use of a surface drone and there has been a steady increase in this method since.
Recently the Houthis have started following up their attacks with small arms fire from fast boats and the last few weeks have seen the amount of attacks increase above what was an average of 2.5 a week.
Even Russia doesn’t want to risk it at the moment. Earlier this month, Russian tankers Arpus and Arlan, which could have gone through the Suez Canal, instead transferred their oil into the Gold Pearl – too big for the Canal – and she duly went round the Cape.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/24/red-sea-houthis-us-navy-prosperity-guardian-iran-gaza/
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