weird, I can't "heart" this comment ("somethign went wrong") or any other on this blog post, but on another article I can heart all the comments to my heart's content. This is so disheartening.
I could heart yours because you got right to the heart of the matter. (Substack always (again) under attack, and having javascript issues. One might call it a "heart attack.")
Not really. But I am a lot more sympathetic to that than the crowd of "Let's put the opening curly brace such that we can better ignore it, to then _pretend_ that white space matters, even though the ultimate judge (compiler) doesn't give a damn".
Hah! THAT is wild. So, my VPN was off all the time, according to Opera. So now I turned on ON, to "North America", and I can make a heart! Lol! So the other way around. But in another thread, I can with VPN off, from Europe. I was able to "heart" for this blogger yesterday and before just fine, though.
But I briefly hat VPN on earlier this day when participating in Naked Emperor's test to reach the kremlin site. Maybe this thing here pick this up that I posted "from two places" and got confuse somehow...
Yeah in the case of an update lag, refresh helped here so far - but not with this error message. There, not even clearing the browser cache on setting "everything, from forever" helped.
While I could just switch to the next tab, someone else's comment section, and set hearts there. But here I can close the browser and open the blogpost ocmpletely new - nah.
Probably some KGB mind destabilization tricks. Now that the (not everywhere) cold war is back, and all.
I've been wondering about the heart button issue for over a month. Sometimes it won't let me ❤ a reply if I didn't ❤ the original comment. Other times it seems to be time driven. Ex: ❤ several short comments is a row quickly, it stops working. But if I wait awhile, I can go back and they work. --- I don't think it's the KGB, yet. I think it's FJB!s minions.
In that case, I can heartily recommend to eat a hearty bean stew. As the Bavarian saying goes: "Wenn's Arschl brummt, is' Herzl g'sund" (when the bums hum, the heart is healthy)
No it's the opposite. A few super wealthy and powerful people have controlled the narrative for most of history, the only reason we can challenge it now is because of technology and the ability for the individual to be platformed.
The Internet introduced "many to many" in as a mass communication model. Before the internet, we had print, then radio and TV. Ironically in the days of the US revolution, there were lots of independent folks with small printing presses putting out their views, and King George wasn't happy about it at all. He tried to control printing presses (he invoked "reasonable press control" :-). Back in his islands, he'd had control over the "media". When the authors of the US constitution said "the Press" their vision was print media with a modest barrier to entry (not so much "mass" as we think of it now). Of course mass media became an expensive business to get into, and so exclusive. The image of the wealthy and powerful controlling the media, as you say.
By the time the first "new media" (broadcast radio) came along, the idea of a few-to-many communication was well entrenched, and the model for licensing broadcast stations was accepted. The authors of our constitution would surely have spoken out against it. But they were all dead by then. And, since the history was told mostly by those in control of the mass media, well, thar you go. Still, many licenses were sold to many people. In short order, though, most were consolidated into the control of a few national networks. Actually at one point one...but that's another tale (and tail). Outside the US most governments skipped the "pretend it's free" and retained control of radio and the content found there upon.
TV followed this few-to-many and further consolidated control. A few were brazenly honest (Hurst) in their role in controlling the public. Most continue the illusion of "public good". Remember the original CNN tag line? "All the news you need to know". Right out of Orwell!
Internet media restored a low barrier to entry and thus a many-to-many medium. And here we are, exchanging irreverent counter-culture ideas and making fun of the mainstream media, politicians, government, and all they corrupt. So open and free, right?
Well not as much as you might think. A few of the biggest (and richest) corporations control the platforms that enable this many-to-many connectivity. Odds are high that this forum is living on and depending upon infrastructure from Google or AWS. Which have the power to suppress anything they choose. So while we enjoy the illusion of open and free, we must remember that we still serve at the will and whim of the ruling class ;-).
Now that's a third rail no one in mainstream society or so-called "polite company" can touch. And in places where it's discussed there is sure to be a healthy proportion of feds glowing in the darkness and trying to stir up some crazy behavior so that it can be used as an example of how dangerous the sort of people that don't accept the received narrative are to the narrativians.
I stand corrected. It's definitely more about which caliber the German gunners on the shore were using that's the subject of great agenda debate ; ) LOL
Thar's something to think about. Glad I have old history books, but then, can I be sure those accounts weren't slanted? People haven't changed, so pretty much everything is suspect unless we have faith or firsthand knowledge. sigh (I can see why virtual reality is a thing.)
Interesting take. History is definitely written with a HUGE slant, and very rarely impartially. There are always many sides to the story, and it is hard to frame it in the simple fashion that resonates with most Americans ("either/or" perception). How do you tell the story of a Wicked Problem so that the average person can see the inter-connectivity, as well as the overall situation?
MAA, I agree with you. I kept copies of memes with Kamala, FJB, Pelosi and other demorats condemning the “Trump Vax”. January 21 their tune changed. Flip-flop-flip-flop……
That article made me want to rip my hair out. Just a couple months ago they were calling free states idiotic for 'pretending covid is over'. Jay Inslee called them 'second-class states', about a week before announcing Washington would also remove the masks. (In 10 days of course)
Ah. Neanderthals. One of the first species humans wiped out. It is so human to use the names of the defeated as a slur. Biden must be a civilized and intelligent man. After all, they can't come back to haunt us... Not like those anti-vaxxers.
Northern europeans generally have clearly measurable amounts of neanderthal DNA. Somethin asians, africans, indians (both kinds), semites, and sundry lack.
This must obviously mean that everyone lacking residual neanderthal DNA must pay reparations to the decendants of this genocide.
Let's see, 3% interest per year, cumulative, over 30 000 years...
The good news for all Westcoasters is that Drs. Inslee, Newsom, and Brown got together (via Zoom, I presume) to discuss the science and medicine on mandates and to a man and one woman decided to chop many days off their previously announced, scientifically based, returns to normal. These docs are no slouches: All recognize when the science has changed. And, wow, have they got the science down to the nearest minute! In Washington State, for example, Dr. Inslee proclaimed yesterday that the masks could come off at exactly 11:59 pm, March 11, 2022 - and, I guess, not a single second sooner. King County, home of the once late, great city of Seattle, will likely be going their own way on this. What is the old saying, "Last but not Least"?
The timelines have always puzzled me. Deep in the recesses of their brains there must be a reason; but why wait 2 weeks; 3 weeks; whatever? Seems like the same logic that says the virus doesn't affect you when sitting down in a bar/restaurant, but does once you get up to go to out the door.
Meanwhile Ca Senator Dr Richard Pan (demic) (D-Sacramento) introduces bill to require covid vax for all school kids, all employees and all contractors NO medical exemptions, No religious exemptions. His main contributor is big pharma.
Here is the "scientific" argument for mandating the vaccine for school kids: We already require vaccines for other diseases. COVID is no different than polio. No I am not making this up!
The logic: we already took away the right of parents to decide. Long ago. Done deal.
What bothers me is that the lack of data on how mRNA vaccines work in children. Prior to 2020, mRNA was not approved for nor commonly considered for kids, for solid reasons based on how mRNA triggering works. The depth of understanding hasn't expanded in 2 years.
What bothers me more is how many people let party affiliation drive. It's OK to give these unapproved (for kids) vaccines to kids because OUR politicians said it's OK. And think that's reasonable.
This is a look into his thought process and it's fascinating. He also notes the other "peer" reviewer is a journalist for The Hill. Because The Hill is SCIENCE!
I would like to know who the hell would ever let their child be part of the clinical trials for these "vaccines". Allowing your 6 month old child to be a guinea pig for DNA altering "vaccines" should be #1 on list of reasons you should not be allowed to parent, or at least in the top 5. The more I've thought about this the more I think they're experimenting on orphaned kids in foster care as I cannot fathom the insanity you would need to be suffering from to willingly do this to your kids.
Insane seems a fair description. The only thing consistent in the COVID dialogue has been a consistent demand we not allow logical and reasonable risk assessment. The risk of serious complications to a healthy child from COVID (or any other flu) is very small. This risk should, in rational thinking, be part of the equation. It simply isn't being allowed.
I'm sure there's folks on this thread who know more about drug discovery and drug trails, but from what I know, there are typically (usually) a lot of steps that have to happen to assess and mitigate risk before clinical trails.
I've been reading up on mRNA via PubMed, NCBI, etc. There is a lot of literature (and diversity in the literature) prior to 2020. It's very interseting stuff (well I think so, but I'm not a biochemist). There's a real literature shift in 2020, with not so much new information as far as I can tell (so far). The post COVID politics publications are inconsistent with those before 2020. Quality of data as well as methodology seems far better going back to before COVID politics. So I've focused there.
Quite a few of the resources I found note that due to the mechanisms by which mRNA vaccines work, results in immature physiology is unpredictable. I gathered that it has to do with hormone interactions. Human hormones are very different in kids than adults. The common theme was "mRNA based treatments are not recommended for children" with the most common definition of "child" being under 16 years.
The 'normal' progression leading up to clinical trails has been bypassed with COVID. As has almost all conventional logic. Replaced instead with "source bias". If "the other party" says it, it's misinformation. If "our party" says it, it's reliable science. Even when what "our party" is saying is exactly what "the other party" said last week.
And NY students can go without masks tomorrow. The writing is on the wall. Declare victory, maybe turn off the money spigot, and take credit for spring.
As a life long Kalifornistanian, it's always amazed me how many times this Kabuki dance repeats. I've noticed that fellow inhabitants of this utopian gulag, know the lies, just put their head down for a time, knowing it will go away to some degree in time, and go about their drudgery in paradise. It's some ludicrous penultimate form of forgive and forget.
And there in lies the problem. The forget part. It's one thing to do your time, it's another to be enslaved, because "the food and the weather are really great!"
The "prison" uprising can't start soon enough, but let's be smart and wait until the weeks before Nov 8, unless we want more short attention span theater to twist us in the wind.
I said for months that the Covid madness would never dissapear by an act of common return to the good old, collective mental sanity. Rather, it´d be killed by another crazy event that´d displace Covid, to which all the media madness we suffered due to Covid would focus. My guess was an astronomical/warlike incident....and there you go...The same media that ignored Ucraine´s massacre on Russian civilians for almost a decade is now full force using their guns to totally distort the complex reality of what is going on today.
That said, we´ll go back to Covid in October. The WHO has chosen Deutsche Telekom to create the technology to implement a vaccination passport, worldwide scale...
So you weren't a fan of NY media's 'hell week' of 2020 landing on the same week as holy week? Or how about burying the extra covid corpses in the potter's field of Hart Island on Good Friday? Too scripted for ya?
I think you've got cause-effect reversed. Folks are finally tired of the restrictions and starting to ask questions. And push back. So a new crisis was badly needed. And when you want it bad, you get it bad.
Hi. I agree the Covid wave is slowly reversing and some people have started questioning things that only a few months ago were written in stone.
Is this enough for me to believe this is a "cause"? Well, I might be wrong, of course. But I´ll stick to my argument, because Putin is clearly trying to create a transnational anti-globalist, traditionalist, anti-woke front, as stated years ago for Aleksandr Dugin and similar Putin´s close companion. And the initiative was his. This invasion could not be predicted by the globalist elites he precisely wants to combat, hence the impossibility of creating a plot, as you do when you know the temporal development of the events, as it happened during the "pandemic".
I honestly think there´s no room for nukes in this conflict. What would be the point of a boxing fight where both boxers take off their gloves, use brass knuckers and beat themselves to death?
But I also think this will be a long conflict. As I said before, I suspect there is a deep ideological quest in the invasion. This is not a blitzkrieg attack in search for geopolitical relief and to avoid having NATO right besides Russia´s frontiers.
I think Russia is giving the first steps in an humongous project that will make Russia the spiritual home of every individual who despises woke globalism. Again, I might be wrong, but I think Putin is appalled by the possibility of Russia becoming a part of the New World Order, and is trying to build an heterogenous ideological front that counterbalance the globalist elites push. I will be surprised if he abandons the idea.
Then offer some colossal discounts on Air-BnBs to rowdy and raucous Texans. We promise not to mask up wherever we go. I went to jail for 3 days in 2 counties to work off a minor speeding ticket so you know I'm legit.
I'm old enough to remember when The Atlantic printed that Gov. Kemp of Georgia opening his State was an "Experiment in Human Sacrifice." This was several months after DeSantis figured out the ruse and opened... but California was the first? Huh.
You missed the point. California is THE FIRST to lift these restrictions. Didn't you read the story? SO clearly whatever happened in Georgia was something completely different. [SARCASM FLAG]
I loved MSN today. Not. Due to my work computer defaulting, I get a lot of Microsoft messaging. Lots of veiled messaging, lots of Covid19 “long covid” stories. Implying the disease is soooo much worse, of course you should get the vax. Ha! And yet one story about vac being only 12% efficacy against Omicron or something like that (don’t quote me because I don’t trust MSN on anything, I know they are cherry picking articles to throw up whatever messaging they want. They are hedging their bets also. I was rolling my eyes. One of their “experts” said something in the 12% article that OUR experts have known since the vaxes came out. Give me a break. Over and over proof of MSM (not just MSN) being pure and unadulterated misdirection artists, not news.
From day one I have never and still don’t believe in any of the mandates. Be mindful that the midterm elections are coming up. These corrupt politicians and their cohorts will stop at nothing to drive the final nail into the coffin of democracy. Be aware that there are going to be constant distractions coming
I'd keep the vaxxed data on backup, as I suspect it'll become handy just to check how many of them will claim never to have yielded to tyranny, just as from May 8th 1945 so many "pure Aryan specimen" scraped their own skin to get rid of the SS tattoo mark or burned their NSDAP member card, while blending in with the "impure breed" and turning more democratic than Churchill.
Senator Pan-demic wants to keep us safe by closing the exemption loopholes on his previous forced vax bill, vax school kids without parent knowledge or consent, also keep us safe from wayward doctors who advise against the vax (mine is adamantly opposed): "AB 2098, establishing accountability for licensed medical professionals spreading disinformation."
I hate this man. Thought he was leaving to go work for Biden. If this bill passes we will need to leave California. I know many who fled when his first vaccine mandates were passed.
My friends and family have all called Pan's office, as well as other co-authors and sponsors. If this passes, along with AB1993, we will have no choice but to leave Commiefornia for good. Already have property in another state and tenants on a short-term lease, so it'll be ready for our exit in a few months if that should happen.
I wrote on Berenson stack yesterday that Desantis still accepts c19 vaccines though. Why? I’m not saying he mandates them, of course he doesn’t. But why does he even allow them? Or approve of them. Does he for children?
One of my biggest political beefs is the politicians who are against mandates but still say you should get a vaccine. Huh? What brain cells got killed in between logic and their mouth?
These clot shots have killed over 44,000 documented by EudraVigilence, VAERS and equivalents in Australia and NZ. No statistics seem to be coming from other countries that I am aware of (although there’s bound to be one out of Israel, how many have died there on TOP of that 44,000?). Recently in America there was a recall on Similac and other baby formulas when FOUR babies died. Four. Again I’ll repeat four. Swine flu vac killed somewhere between 37-50 and it was recalled (I never got the number exact but it was “under 50”).
I think his position is about choice.He wants to let people make their own choices about their treatment and their health.Until there is proof that the shots cause those deaths and injuries he will have to straddle that line.I too think they do but a public figure has to not say what he can’t prove.
I agree with Erika. He wants his constituents to have a choice. I don't agree with Erika, that he shouldn't allow them that choice. Choice is choice. If you are good with taking that risk, more power to ya. BUT! The people that choose the risk should not be allowed a legal "out."
Careful. Sometimes I forget to vet information that comes, esp on Twitter. I haven’t been able to verify. Should have double checked before sending. I think those are really from the FOI release information but are they actually observed Adverse events or just potential ones? I didn’t bet that part, sorry. I’m sure the other side just waits for the moments we screw up and cite incorrect data. Let’s both check this.
All of this misses the main point. An experimental gene therapy was forced upon individuals in violation of the Nuremberg Code. All of the other stuff (lockdowns, masks, forced isolation) could be justified (I guess because our leaders are corrupt morons) by bad policy decisions in an "attempt to save lives". From the onset there were repeated clear safety signals that showed the vaccines was dangerous, caused major adverse events and were lethal for hundreds of thousands. Doctors and scientists ignored or denied the dead bodies. To my doctor colleagues: if you told your patients the vaccines were "safe and effective" and badgered them to get the vax, you are an accomplice to murder and you need to get out of our profession. And when all of this comes out, we will pursue you to the Gates of Hell. There, I said it.
What has changed? It's an election year, and these jackwagon tyrants want to get not stomped in the polls, a stomping they can't cheat their way out of. And if they get re-elected, all the crap would come back in a tsunami...
How come the same people who brutalized the citizens of their own countries sending the police after anyone who defied lockdowns, masks, vaccines are now "praying for Ukraine"?
It's not over yet. They've just scheduled the end. Conveniently it coincides with the scheduled end in Oregon and Washington too.
From Washington's bureau of propaganda yesterday:
"Indoor mask requirements lifted as of 11:59 p.m. on March 11
With declining case rates and hospitalizations across the west, California, Oregon and Washington are moving together to update their masking guidance. After 11:59 p.m. on March 11, California, Oregon and Washington will be adopting new indoor mask policies and move from mask requirements to mask recommendations in schools."
Right out of the chute, a lie. California is not "the first state to formally announce a return to normal;" that would be Florida and a couple of other states.
And, yes, these same MSM jackasses derided him, attacked him, as usual.
Already starting to note the shift of the hysterical class to the “yes, we must listen and respect views that differ from our own.” REALLY, REALLY? This is why I was dropped as a friend for 40 years by you? When I questioned authority? The bumper sticker we all had in the 70s?
The Dems are historically the party of slavery, although sadly, a great many of their constituents including that 95% of the traditional black vote.... don't appear to know that history for reasons I can't fathom. And guess what...the Dems are STILL the party of slavery...except now they want to include everyone in slavery.
Kaiser Family Foundation bills itself as a non-partisan clearinghouse for health policy journalism and polling, but in fact they are and always have been shills for Big Pharma, the incredibly lucrative managed health care business, and rent seeking medical institutions looking to extract more money from government. This is just KFF stroking the folks in charge of the Covered California money spigot on behalf of the interests that make up their donor class. All of who are rolling on Scrooge McDuck-level money mountains already.
Blue state data point: Feb 22: voluntary masking ("encouraged" guidance posted) in the grocery store near 95% / Mar 1: no guidance posted - even the hand sanitizer gone! - voluntary masking under 10% - just about all elderly.
At this point, I would have preferred to see much more masking - it's an unexpected paradox - but I think it might have indicated people were making individual judgements of risk and not just being CDC-guided automatons ... that dangerous yesterday/not dangerous today reaction is real - I find it spooky ... now that it's "over".
Still seeing people driving alone in their cars with masks on in Commiefornia. Yesterday I was one of two patrons at Trader Joe's sans mask. My cashier was unmasked, however, which was a first. I told him it was nice to see his face.
Yesterday i was offered a mask at a big store on my little island in Rhode Island. Of course i said no thanks... but 90% or more were wearing them...this state is no bueno.
If the news is this fake, imagine how fake history is...
weird, I can't "heart" this comment ("somethign went wrong") or any other on this blog post, but on another article I can heart all the comments to my heart's content. This is so disheartening.
I could heart yours because you got right to the heart of the matter. (Substack always (again) under attack, and having javascript issues. One might call it a "heart attack.")
"javascript issues" that term appears to have redundancies
You must be part of the vast Python conspiracy...the "White space matters" crowd...
Not really. But I am a lot more sympathetic to that than the crowd of "Let's put the opening curly brace such that we can better ignore it, to then _pretend_ that white space matters, even though the ultimate judge (compiler) doesn't give a damn".
Hey - all space matters!
It must be long covid. Ha!
Myoheartitus?
Meowheartitus.
Heartily sympathetic though I'm sure that heartly maters.
InfoHog, same issue here. I paused my VPN and now I'm able to heart your comment. Looks like maybe Substack is blocking VPN'd hearting.
Hah! THAT is wild. So, my VPN was off all the time, according to Opera. So now I turned on ON, to "North America", and I can make a heart! Lol! So the other way around. But in another thread, I can with VPN off, from Europe. I was able to "heart" for this blogger yesterday and before just fine, though.
But I briefly hat VPN on earlier this day when participating in Naked Emperor's test to reach the kremlin site. Maybe this thing here pick this up that I posted "from two places" and got confuse somehow...
Better to spy on you my dear.
Its a glitch. Others can see the hearts
Others can see hearts, but not necessarily mine? Because it goes like this: 1) click 2) count goes up by 1, 3) error message, 4) count goes -1 again
Mine has been doing the same. Eugypius confirmed he can see my likes even tho I can't.
Stop that! All of you, Stop that right now!!! 😎
Refresh usually helps. I don't usually get the error message. It just ignores that I did anything.
Yeah in the case of an update lag, refresh helped here so far - but not with this error message. There, not even clearing the browser cache on setting "everything, from forever" helped.
While I could just switch to the next tab, someone else's comment section, and set hearts there. But here I can close the browser and open the blogpost ocmpletely new - nah.
Probably some KGB mind destabilization tricks. Now that the (not everywhere) cold war is back, and all.
I've been wondering about the heart button issue for over a month. Sometimes it won't let me ❤ a reply if I didn't ❤ the original comment. Other times it seems to be time driven. Ex: ❤ several short comments is a row quickly, it stops working. But if I wait awhile, I can go back and they work. --- I don't think it's the KGB, yet. I think it's FJB!s minions.
Same for me
That breaks my heart.
In that case, I can heartily recommend to eat a hearty bean stew. As the Bavarian saying goes: "Wenn's Arschl brummt, is' Herzl g'sund" (when the bums hum, the heart is healthy)
I thought it was my phone but it seems many others had the same issue.
That said, they've weaponized fake news and censorship in a way they never could throughout history. Thanks technology.
No it's the opposite. A few super wealthy and powerful people have controlled the narrative for most of history, the only reason we can challenge it now is because of technology and the ability for the individual to be platformed.
It's both. Like poles.
The Internet introduced "many to many" in as a mass communication model. Before the internet, we had print, then radio and TV. Ironically in the days of the US revolution, there were lots of independent folks with small printing presses putting out their views, and King George wasn't happy about it at all. He tried to control printing presses (he invoked "reasonable press control" :-). Back in his islands, he'd had control over the "media". When the authors of the US constitution said "the Press" their vision was print media with a modest barrier to entry (not so much "mass" as we think of it now). Of course mass media became an expensive business to get into, and so exclusive. The image of the wealthy and powerful controlling the media, as you say.
By the time the first "new media" (broadcast radio) came along, the idea of a few-to-many communication was well entrenched, and the model for licensing broadcast stations was accepted. The authors of our constitution would surely have spoken out against it. But they were all dead by then. And, since the history was told mostly by those in control of the mass media, well, thar you go. Still, many licenses were sold to many people. In short order, though, most were consolidated into the control of a few national networks. Actually at one point one...but that's another tale (and tail). Outside the US most governments skipped the "pretend it's free" and retained control of radio and the content found there upon.
TV followed this few-to-many and further consolidated control. A few were brazenly honest (Hurst) in their role in controlling the public. Most continue the illusion of "public good". Remember the original CNN tag line? "All the news you need to know". Right out of Orwell!
Internet media restored a low barrier to entry and thus a many-to-many medium. And here we are, exchanging irreverent counter-culture ideas and making fun of the mainstream media, politicians, government, and all they corrupt. So open and free, right?
Well not as much as you might think. A few of the biggest (and richest) corporations control the platforms that enable this many-to-many connectivity. Odds are high that this forum is living on and depending upon infrastructure from Google or AWS. Which have the power to suppress anything they choose. So while we enjoy the illusion of open and free, we must remember that we still serve at the will and whim of the ruling class ;-).
I suppose next you're going to tell me Anderson Cooper interned for the CIA...oh wait nevermind.
This is worth the time to watch. Basically, we're at the whim of Blackrock and The Vanguard investment groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2t4u_tEefM&t=1710s
It makes me queasy to watch stuff like this; while it’s important to know, there’s absolutely NOTHING we can do about it at this point. 🤢
I do have hope. There are millions of people fighting for our basic rights and freedoms.
I hate it when you’re right! 😉
Me too, sometimes :-(
It's worth pointing out that back then, "small printing press" is the only kind that existed.
We know the news outright lies about covid, but so many people are still believing what they tell us about Ukraine.
And that the history we're told about WWII is correct. And pretty much all of them for that matter.
Now that's a third rail no one in mainstream society or so-called "polite company" can touch. And in places where it's discussed there is sure to be a healthy proportion of feds glowing in the darkness and trying to stir up some crazy behavior so that it can be used as an example of how dangerous the sort of people that don't accept the received narrative are to the narrativians.
Gee, I have no idea what you're talking about. I was referring to what units went ashore on D-Day, or, something. Yeah, that's it! :-D
I stand corrected. It's definitely more about which caliber the German gunners on the shore were using that's the subject of great agenda debate ; ) LOL
I keep reminding my husband of that…
For a different perspective (this is #3. 1 and 2 are on his website.)
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/03/01/ukraine-update-3/
Indeed. The "Arc of History" is calculated as Area Under the Curve of fake news datapoints.
Journalism is the 'first draft of history,' so they get to keep making it faker as they go. Eventually it's just a myth.
I believe you underestimate how far journalism has progressed: they skip right to the 'just make it up' mythology stage now :-)
Old Soviet joke: "The future is known; it’s the past which is always changing.”
Thar's something to think about. Glad I have old history books, but then, can I be sure those accounts weren't slanted? People haven't changed, so pretty much everything is suspect unless we have faith or firsthand knowledge. sigh (I can see why virtual reality is a thing.)
Interesting take. History is definitely written with a HUGE slant, and very rarely impartially. There are always many sides to the story, and it is hard to frame it in the simple fashion that resonates with most Americans ("either/or" perception). How do you tell the story of a Wicked Problem so that the average person can see the inter-connectivity, as well as the overall situation?
"We are against the vax, lockdowns, and masks. We have always been against the vax, lockdowns, and masks."
And we've always been at war with East Asia
Uh, Florida
MAA, I agree with you. I kept copies of memes with Kamala, FJB, Pelosi and other demorats condemning the “Trump Vax”. January 21 their tune changed. Flip-flop-flip-flop……
Rinse and repeat.
I’d like to rinse out most of their mouths.... and repeat....
hmmm...where have I heard that before...
That article made me want to rip my hair out. Just a couple months ago they were calling free states idiotic for 'pretending covid is over'. Jay Inslee called them 'second-class states', about a week before announcing Washington would also remove the masks. (In 10 days of course)
Anyone recall “Neanderthal thinking”?
Ah. Neanderthals. One of the first species humans wiped out. It is so human to use the names of the defeated as a slur. Biden must be a civilized and intelligent man. After all, they can't come back to haunt us... Not like those anti-vaxxers.
Northern europeans generally have clearly measurable amounts of neanderthal DNA. Somethin asians, africans, indians (both kinds), semites, and sundry lack.
This must obviously mean that everyone lacking residual neanderthal DNA must pay reparations to the decendants of this genocide.
Let's see, 3% interest per year, cumulative, over 30 000 years...
Been waiting for my check now for a while.
Exactly, although that was like a year ago.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-change-in-the-wind-is-obvious
The good news for all Westcoasters is that Drs. Inslee, Newsom, and Brown got together (via Zoom, I presume) to discuss the science and medicine on mandates and to a man and one woman decided to chop many days off their previously announced, scientifically based, returns to normal. These docs are no slouches: All recognize when the science has changed. And, wow, have they got the science down to the nearest minute! In Washington State, for example, Dr. Inslee proclaimed yesterday that the masks could come off at exactly 11:59 pm, March 11, 2022 - and, I guess, not a single second sooner. King County, home of the once late, great city of Seattle, will likely be going their own way on this. What is the old saying, "Last but not Least"?
The timelines have always puzzled me. Deep in the recesses of their brains there must be a reason; but why wait 2 weeks; 3 weeks; whatever? Seems like the same logic that says the virus doesn't affect you when sitting down in a bar/restaurant, but does once you get up to go to out the door.
They can't say it's safe today after saying it's not safe yesterday. It's purely a political buffer so they don't lose face.
Yes, they are willing to mask your kids for longer to save political face.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/blue-state-officials-dont-even-believe
When just last week Inslee was saying "that's not where the science is" (lifting before March 21) and maskless states were "second-class states".
They are scrambling to retain voters for November. That's all.
But a very large number of us former democratic voters will never go back. I bet the libertarian party will gain a lot of new supporters.
Now, if the LP will give us a halfway decent candidate… (they won’t; the LP is a shitshow.)
Any Libertarian not named Ron Paul cannot be trusted, IMHO.
Yay :/
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/were-all-libertarians-now
I was done with them in 2016. They have yet to make me regret my decision.
https://caucus99percent.com/content/i-feel-so-free-thank-you-hillary
Anyone who actively pushed these agendas needs to be held to account. They can't be allowed to gaslight everyone and then push a new dangerous idea.
Meanwhile Ca Senator Dr Richard Pan (demic) (D-Sacramento) introduces bill to require covid vax for all school kids, all employees and all contractors NO medical exemptions, No religious exemptions. His main contributor is big pharma.
Not until the clot shots are pulled from the market will this madness stop. Today is the first Pfizer dump of redacted docs. It's the start.
Here is the "scientific" argument for mandating the vaccine for school kids: We already require vaccines for other diseases. COVID is no different than polio. No I am not making this up!
The logic: we already took away the right of parents to decide. Long ago. Done deal.
Cuz those vaccines work the way they work
What bothers me is that the lack of data on how mRNA vaccines work in children. Prior to 2020, mRNA was not approved for nor commonly considered for kids, for solid reasons based on how mRNA triggering works. The depth of understanding hasn't expanded in 2 years.
What bothers me more is how many people let party affiliation drive. It's OK to give these unapproved (for kids) vaccines to kids because OUR politicians said it's OK. And think that's reasonable.
Dr Malone just did a post on his thinking behind how he peer reviews a study. This one is “Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine among children”.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/peer-review-example-effectiveness?utm_source=url
This is a look into his thought process and it's fascinating. He also notes the other "peer" reviewer is a journalist for The Hill. Because The Hill is SCIENCE!
I would like to know who the hell would ever let their child be part of the clinical trials for these "vaccines". Allowing your 6 month old child to be a guinea pig for DNA altering "vaccines" should be #1 on list of reasons you should not be allowed to parent, or at least in the top 5. The more I've thought about this the more I think they're experimenting on orphaned kids in foster care as I cannot fathom the insanity you would need to be suffering from to willingly do this to your kids.
Insane seems a fair description. The only thing consistent in the COVID dialogue has been a consistent demand we not allow logical and reasonable risk assessment. The risk of serious complications to a healthy child from COVID (or any other flu) is very small. This risk should, in rational thinking, be part of the equation. It simply isn't being allowed.
I'm sure there's folks on this thread who know more about drug discovery and drug trails, but from what I know, there are typically (usually) a lot of steps that have to happen to assess and mitigate risk before clinical trails.
I've been reading up on mRNA via PubMed, NCBI, etc. There is a lot of literature (and diversity in the literature) prior to 2020. It's very interseting stuff (well I think so, but I'm not a biochemist). There's a real literature shift in 2020, with not so much new information as far as I can tell (so far). The post COVID politics publications are inconsistent with those before 2020. Quality of data as well as methodology seems far better going back to before COVID politics. So I've focused there.
Quite a few of the resources I found note that due to the mechanisms by which mRNA vaccines work, results in immature physiology is unpredictable. I gathered that it has to do with hormone interactions. Human hormones are very different in kids than adults. The common theme was "mRNA based treatments are not recommended for children" with the most common definition of "child" being under 16 years.
The 'normal' progression leading up to clinical trails has been bypassed with COVID. As has almost all conventional logic. Replaced instead with "source bias". If "the other party" says it, it's misinformation. If "our party" says it, it's reliable science. Even when what "our party" is saying is exactly what "the other party" said last week.
I’m sure you’ve seen his latest bill to combat medical misinformation? Who’s voting for him??
Missed that...which if his gems is this?
https://sd06.senate.ca.gov/2021-2022-legislation
The first one is a crown jewel...
all of them, he's a busy man. this one too - "AB 2098, establishing accountability for licensed medical professionals spreading disinformation."
https://sd06.senate.ca.gov/news/2022-02-22-senator-dr-richard-pan-introduces-covid-19-testing-legislation-keep-schools-open-and
yup, that's dangerous stuff. Wow.
"Congress drops mask mandate just ahead of Biden's State of the Union address"
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-drops-mask-mandate-ahead-bidens-state-union/story?id=83161580
And NY students can go without masks tomorrow. The writing is on the wall. Declare victory, maybe turn off the money spigot, and take credit for spring.
"Pelosi says she won't wear mask to State of the Union"
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/596332-pelosi-says-she-wont-wear-mask-to-state-of-the-union
Day-umn! If anybody needs to wear a mask it's her! Anything to cover that ugly face!
Not a surprise, she didn't wear one to the salon when this whole thing started.
Edit: wow those comments are cancer
Some of the comments give a clear window into the leftie thought processes....or lack thereof, I guess.
Those comments prove how far gone the lefties are. Oxygen deprivation has destroyed those few remaining brain cells they had.
Isn't it only for the "vaxxed?" If they're not vaxxed, they have to test. I don't know if they are allowed to mask if unvaxxed.
For future generations they prefer to call it masklighting. It’s a more comprehensive approach to government sponsored psychological control.
And it doesn't hurt the climate. (😉😋)
Love this term. I shall lambast deserving idiots with it. Thanks!
That is pretty good. Maybe I’ll use it and see how many blank looks I get....
As a life long Kalifornistanian, it's always amazed me how many times this Kabuki dance repeats. I've noticed that fellow inhabitants of this utopian gulag, know the lies, just put their head down for a time, knowing it will go away to some degree in time, and go about their drudgery in paradise. It's some ludicrous penultimate form of forgive and forget.
And there in lies the problem. The forget part. It's one thing to do your time, it's another to be enslaved, because "the food and the weather are really great!"
The "prison" uprising can't start soon enough, but let's be smart and wait until the weeks before Nov 8, unless we want more short attention span theater to twist us in the wind.
I said for months that the Covid madness would never dissapear by an act of common return to the good old, collective mental sanity. Rather, it´d be killed by another crazy event that´d displace Covid, to which all the media madness we suffered due to Covid would focus. My guess was an astronomical/warlike incident....and there you go...The same media that ignored Ucraine´s massacre on Russian civilians for almost a decade is now full force using their guns to totally distort the complex reality of what is going on today.
That said, we´ll go back to Covid in October. The WHO has chosen Deutsche Telekom to create the technology to implement a vaccination passport, worldwide scale...
I predict April and then end of Nov. They love canceling Easter and Christmas.
So you weren't a fan of NY media's 'hell week' of 2020 landing on the same week as holy week? Or how about burying the extra covid corpses in the potter's field of Hart Island on Good Friday? Too scripted for ya?
Christian holidays anyone? Are they really becoming that conspicuous?
I think you've got cause-effect reversed. Folks are finally tired of the restrictions and starting to ask questions. And push back. So a new crisis was badly needed. And when you want it bad, you get it bad.
Hi. I agree the Covid wave is slowly reversing and some people have started questioning things that only a few months ago were written in stone.
Is this enough for me to believe this is a "cause"? Well, I might be wrong, of course. But I´ll stick to my argument, because Putin is clearly trying to create a transnational anti-globalist, traditionalist, anti-woke front, as stated years ago for Aleksandr Dugin and similar Putin´s close companion. And the initiative was his. This invasion could not be predicted by the globalist elites he precisely wants to combat, hence the impossibility of creating a plot, as you do when you know the temporal development of the events, as it happened during the "pandemic".
Perhaps then, Purple Man, we should accept Putin's threat to launch a nuke if anyone messes with the Rooskies in their tete-a-tete with Ukraine?
Hi.
I honestly think there´s no room for nukes in this conflict. What would be the point of a boxing fight where both boxers take off their gloves, use brass knuckers and beat themselves to death?
But I also think this will be a long conflict. As I said before, I suspect there is a deep ideological quest in the invasion. This is not a blitzkrieg attack in search for geopolitical relief and to avoid having NATO right besides Russia´s frontiers.
I think Russia is giving the first steps in an humongous project that will make Russia the spiritual home of every individual who despises woke globalism. Again, I might be wrong, but I think Putin is appalled by the possibility of Russia becoming a part of the New World Order, and is trying to build an heterogenous ideological front that counterbalance the globalist elites push. I will be surprised if he abandons the idea.
We´ll see:)
Germany might be a little busy with a war in October. Food, nevermind telecommunications is tough without natural gas or coal.
Most people here in CA are just obedient. Not much of that frontier spirit left here.
Then offer some colossal discounts on Air-BnBs to rowdy and raucous Texans. We promise not to mask up wherever we go. I went to jail for 3 days in 2 counties to work off a minor speeding ticket so you know I'm legit.
I'm old enough to remember when The Atlantic printed that Gov. Kemp of Georgia opening his State was an "Experiment in Human Sacrifice." This was several months after DeSantis figured out the ruse and opened... but California was the first? Huh.
How old do you have to be? Not very.
Those of us living within the Expirament State salute you! We don't read The Atlantic 'round these parts...
You missed the point. California is THE FIRST to lift these restrictions. Didn't you read the story? SO clearly whatever happened in Georgia was something completely different. [SARCASM FLAG]
"the parties were switched back then" Love it Gatito Bueno, because it will be so true
I loved MSN today. Not. Due to my work computer defaulting, I get a lot of Microsoft messaging. Lots of veiled messaging, lots of Covid19 “long covid” stories. Implying the disease is soooo much worse, of course you should get the vax. Ha! And yet one story about vac being only 12% efficacy against Omicron or something like that (don’t quote me because I don’t trust MSN on anything, I know they are cherry picking articles to throw up whatever messaging they want. They are hedging their bets also. I was rolling my eyes. One of their “experts” said something in the 12% article that OUR experts have known since the vaxes came out. Give me a break. Over and over proof of MSM (not just MSN) being pure and unadulterated misdirection artists, not news.
From day one I have never and still don’t believe in any of the mandates. Be mindful that the midterm elections are coming up. These corrupt politicians and their cohorts will stop at nothing to drive the final nail into the coffin of democracy. Be aware that there are going to be constant distractions coming
Amen. Good comment. The “news” is filled with distractions. Talk about “mis” and “dis” information.
I totally agree with you
I'd keep the vaxxed data on backup, as I suspect it'll become handy just to check how many of them will claim never to have yielded to tyranny, just as from May 8th 1945 so many "pure Aryan specimen" scraped their own skin to get rid of the SS tattoo mark or burned their NSDAP member card, while blending in with the "impure breed" and turning more democratic than Churchill.
Senator Pan-demic wants to keep us safe by closing the exemption loopholes on his previous forced vax bill, vax school kids without parent knowledge or consent, also keep us safe from wayward doctors who advise against the vax (mine is adamantly opposed): "AB 2098, establishing accountability for licensed medical professionals spreading disinformation."
https://sd06.senate.ca.gov/news/2022-02-22-senator-dr-richard-pan-introduces-covid-19-testing-legislation-keep-schools-open-and
I hate this man. Thought he was leaving to go work for Biden. If this bill passes we will need to leave California. I know many who fled when his first vaccine mandates were passed.
there won't be any of us left. if we're out of a job which is what keeps us here, we'll be forced to leave.
Yup
My family and one of our daughters left then !
He is satanic by nature …
My friends and family have all called Pan's office, as well as other co-authors and sponsors. If this passes, along with AB1993, we will have no choice but to leave Commiefornia for good. Already have property in another state and tenants on a short-term lease, so it'll be ready for our exit in a few months if that should happen.
Meanwhile in Florida…
Yup we have been living “back to normal” here in the sunshine for some time now thanks to DeSantis.
I wrote on Berenson stack yesterday that Desantis still accepts c19 vaccines though. Why? I’m not saying he mandates them, of course he doesn’t. But why does he even allow them? Or approve of them. Does he for children?
One of my biggest political beefs is the politicians who are against mandates but still say you should get a vaccine. Huh? What brain cells got killed in between logic and their mouth?
These clot shots have killed over 44,000 documented by EudraVigilence, VAERS and equivalents in Australia and NZ. No statistics seem to be coming from other countries that I am aware of (although there’s bound to be one out of Israel, how many have died there on TOP of that 44,000?). Recently in America there was a recall on Similac and other baby formulas when FOUR babies died. Four. Again I’ll repeat four. Swine flu vac killed somewhere between 37-50 and it was recalled (I never got the number exact but it was “under 50”).
I think his position is about choice.He wants to let people make their own choices about their treatment and their health.Until there is proof that the shots cause those deaths and injuries he will have to straddle that line.I too think they do but a public figure has to not say what he can’t prove.
I hope Bandit sees this too but did both of you see the adverse effects released from the Pfizer data. 9 pages with fine print .
Yes these jabs are dangerous.
https://mobile.twitter.com/themfingcoo/status/1498714453214474246?s=21
I agree with Erika. He wants his constituents to have a choice. I don't agree with Erika, that he shouldn't allow them that choice. Choice is choice. If you are good with taking that risk, more power to ya. BUT! The people that choose the risk should not be allowed a legal "out."
I hope Bandit sees this too but did both of you see the adverse effects released from the Pfizer data. 9 pages with fine print .
Yes these jabs are dangerous.
https://mobile.twitter.com/themfingcoo/status/1498714453214474246?s=21
Thank-you for those pages!
Careful. Sometimes I forget to vet information that comes, esp on Twitter. I haven’t been able to verify. Should have double checked before sending. I think those are really from the FOI release information but are they actually observed Adverse events or just potential ones? I didn’t bet that part, sorry. I’m sure the other side just waits for the moments we screw up and cite incorrect data. Let’s both check this.
I don’t watch SNL but in pretty sure the pandemic crisis narrative is over when SNL does this.
https://reason.com/2022/02/27/snl-to-liberals-its-ok-to-question-nonsensical-mask-mandates/
I would love to hear your take on this recent op ed piece in the NYTimes by a mathematics statistician. The vaccines are necessary grip on people is amazing to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/opinion/under-5-vaccine.html
All of this misses the main point. An experimental gene therapy was forced upon individuals in violation of the Nuremberg Code. All of the other stuff (lockdowns, masks, forced isolation) could be justified (I guess because our leaders are corrupt morons) by bad policy decisions in an "attempt to save lives". From the onset there were repeated clear safety signals that showed the vaccines was dangerous, caused major adverse events and were lethal for hundreds of thousands. Doctors and scientists ignored or denied the dead bodies. To my doctor colleagues: if you told your patients the vaccines were "safe and effective" and badgered them to get the vax, you are an accomplice to murder and you need to get out of our profession. And when all of this comes out, we will pursue you to the Gates of Hell. There, I said it.
What has changed? It's an election year, and these jackwagon tyrants want to get not stomped in the polls, a stomping they can't cheat their way out of. And if they get re-elected, all the crap would come back in a tsunami...
“California became the first state
to formally announce an
approach to "return to normal"”
Gee, did Florida and South Dakota fall of the map?
To borrow from Bill Clinton, I guess it all depends on what the meaning of “formally announce” is.
Yeah, pretty sure my new home state of South Dakota was the first to go back to normal...in May 2020.
The money in this whole thing shits me so I wrote this rap track to vent...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmAhPm8deMs
Police Smash NZ Protest 49:00 mark https://www.facebook.com/ChantelleBakerNZ/videos/517390793056668
This company's Wellington Branch enabled the regime by towing vehicles https://ptsl.co.nz/contact/
How come the same people who brutalized the citizens of their own countries sending the police after anyone who defied lockdowns, masks, vaccines are now "praying for Ukraine"?
It's not over yet. They've just scheduled the end. Conveniently it coincides with the scheduled end in Oregon and Washington too.
From Washington's bureau of propaganda yesterday:
"Indoor mask requirements lifted as of 11:59 p.m. on March 11
With declining case rates and hospitalizations across the west, California, Oregon and Washington are moving together to update their masking guidance. After 11:59 p.m. on March 11, California, Oregon and Washington will be adopting new indoor mask policies and move from mask requirements to mask recommendations in schools."
These jackals out here in the Legislature are bought and paid for minions of our PharmaKings.
Currently being considered for bills.
1. AB-1993, no jab, no job in Calif.
2. AB-2098, doctors who don't spout the State narrative will be sent to their Medical Board for re-education.
But we are the first state to "return to normal"?
We are literally being turned into a Fascist state by our "leaders".
I was for the war, before I was against it.
My age is showing.
I was so confused by your title and first paragraph. Gaslights, when used, were fueled by natural gas. Natural gas is very cheap in California.
Right out of the chute, a lie. California is not "the first state to formally announce a return to normal;" that would be Florida and a couple of other states.
And, yes, these same MSM jackasses derided him, attacked him, as usual.
MSNBC’s Melber: ‘Stupid’ DeSantis Needs to ‘Grow Up’ — Little Children Are Fighting to Breathe in Florida https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/08/11/msnbcs-melber-stupid-desantis-needs-to-grow-up-little-children-are-fighting-to-breathe-in-florida/#
CNN Smears Gov. Ron DeSantis With Misleading Story On Florida Teachers Dying From COVID
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/14/cnn-smears-gov-ron-desantis-with-misleading-story-on-florida-teachers-dying-from-covid/
Sadly, consumers of news from The View, Colbert, will hail their concoquring leaders, slayers of the virus! MORONS
Already starting to note the shift of the hysterical class to the “yes, we must listen and respect views that differ from our own.” REALLY, REALLY? This is why I was dropped as a friend for 40 years by you? When I questioned authority? The bumper sticker we all had in the 70s?
Didn't the Democrats/American Socialists do that in misrepresenting the Republican party as being the ones advocating slavery?
The Dems are historically the party of slavery, although sadly, a great many of their constituents including that 95% of the traditional black vote.... don't appear to know that history for reasons I can't fathom. And guess what...the Dems are STILL the party of slavery...except now they want to include everyone in slavery.
Kaiser Family Foundation bills itself as a non-partisan clearinghouse for health policy journalism and polling, but in fact they are and always have been shills for Big Pharma, the incredibly lucrative managed health care business, and rent seeking medical institutions looking to extract more money from government. This is just KFF stroking the folks in charge of the Covered California money spigot on behalf of the interests that make up their donor class. All of who are rolling on Scrooge McDuck-level money mountains already.
Blue state data point: Feb 22: voluntary masking ("encouraged" guidance posted) in the grocery store near 95% / Mar 1: no guidance posted - even the hand sanitizer gone! - voluntary masking under 10% - just about all elderly.
At this point, I would have preferred to see much more masking - it's an unexpected paradox - but I think it might have indicated people were making individual judgements of risk and not just being CDC-guided automatons ... that dangerous yesterday/not dangerous today reaction is real - I find it spooky ... now that it's "over".
Still seeing people driving alone in their cars with masks on in Commiefornia. Yesterday I was one of two patrons at Trader Joe's sans mask. My cashier was unmasked, however, which was a first. I told him it was nice to see his face.
I just drove by a masked guy sitting on a bench in the middle of nowhere, by the road. Not another person in sight.
Yesterday i was offered a mask at a big store on my little island in Rhode Island. Of course i said no thanks... but 90% or more were wearing them...this state is no bueno.