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While it’s known that vodka corrupts, I’ve been told that Absolut Vodka corrupts absolutely.

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You win the Internet today.

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Eventually, given what’s coming against us, all humor will of necessity be laconic.

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So it might be a good idea to make the switch to decadence and enjoy a stoli bolli while you can, because I'm reliably informed that under Davosian rule, King Klaus will have the peasantry programed to want home-made, potato-peel vodka to go with their bug canapes. And you will be happy about it, apparently.

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Finlandia is the best vodka, period! They even have their own embassy in Moscow.

(Finland is pronounced Finlandia in Russian)

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Sibelius’ “Finlandia”. Maybe it will go smoothly with your next vodka. https://youtu.be/F5zg_af9b8c

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I'm going to try that tonight thank you for the amazing composition with video.

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The theme, which Sibelius takes some time developing toward, is simply one of the most beautiful melodies I’ve ever heard.

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"The Swan of Tuanela" (sp) another of his compositions. Enchanting. I first heard it on a 78rpm disk on a Victrolla in the stairwell landing of a Victorian House in Alameda, Ca.

When I hear the piece, I remember the particular smell of that place after 50 years. I see the Swan.

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Thanks BigE (Big Easy?). I just listened to it. First time. Wonderful. Beautiful. Spellbinding.

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Stoly

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Omg, I was a Stoli Girl back in the day. Sober 10 yrs now and the thought of vodka really makes me want to puke…but yeah 👍

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Sober 10 years myself. I’ve had some days where the vodka looks particularly enticing, not gonna lie.

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Oh man I have thought many a time that if I had not been secure in my sobriety I’d be dead during this plandemic. I also often thought of those newly sober. More crimes against humans.

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I think about that all the time. Drinking was always off the table for me, but there have been moments when I knew that if I had lived alone any time during these last few years, I would have drunk myself to death. Plus Jesus. All praise 🙏

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Good for you for quitting. You aren't missing anything at all.

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I drank a lot for the first few months (almost every day, more a celebration of sorts with my locked down family, we had fun) but quickly returned to an occasional glass of wine or a couple of cocktails 3-4 times a month by September or October.

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Your comment reminded me of the song by Cold War Kids. We use to Vacation.

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Sober 38 years myself. My weakness was Southern Comfort— But I saw the light...

It was blue... in my rear view mirror. And I was a paramedic at the time, so I felt like a total hypocrite. And I was SURE it was going to cost me my job. Luckily it didn’t, but I was never going to put myself or anyone else at risk like that again, so I quit that very day.

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Vodka is nasty.

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Tripple like

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Vodka is nasty.

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I've drank vodka with Russians in Russia and Stoly is laughed at!

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So?

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Russian Standard is Da Boss, bar none. Of course, might be hard to find on western shelves right now.

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Akvavit. Or Brännvin.

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A man after my own name ;-D

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This gives me the will to fight on!!

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A thousand hills worth dying on. Not one prison worth living in.

Fight on, bro.

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Remember when Tequila was the enemy?

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Tequila let's you makes mistakes faster than anything but computers and handguns

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No, Tequila takes a little more time to make me stupid than computers do ;-). It takes a few minutes for alcohol to work...

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Well, I rarely comment on occurrences in my life but need to now..received a call at 11:00 last night that my dear friend died from a heart attack; age 55..this is third loss from a heart attack in the past 8 months I have had..the first was a very good friend who was somewhat overweight and rarely got checkups so I chalked his death up to his life choices; age 58..a couple of months later I lost another friend from a heart attack, he was not in bad shape and had a generally clean living; age 62..I am devastated from the latest news and even though I try to be objective of cause, I keep landing on a common denominator..all were vaccinated..I never expected at 60 years old that I would lose so many in such a short period of time..I certainly expect that in my later years..if Anthony Fauci were in front of me right now the sight would not be pretty

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So sorry to hear this. All were way too young to have heart attacks, IMO. My friend just told me she had a heart attack 7 weeks after her booster. She’s 78 and had high cholesterol so it’s hard to connect to the jab. I know others who had strokes, heart attacks, serious and deadly “falls”, cancer resurgence, died in their sleep. All in the past year. They all can’t just be coincidences!

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I agree with all of you. And Thanos snapped his fingers….

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I was at a friend’s the other day and the (all Vaxxed) kids were playing in her pool. I kept waiting for one to clutch his chest and be in danger of drowning. I’m sure no one else was thinking that but me. They have no idea what they’ve done to their children.

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I felt the same anxiety about my sister (51) & my niece (19) who are both tripled vaxxed – when they participated in a 10k walk/run at Disney World a couple weekends ago. 😨

My sister & her family think I’m some nut job because I’ve been concerned about the mRNA vaccines from the start. I do not believe they’ve taken seriously any info I’ve attempted to share with them over the past year regarding the risks.

Instead, they have mostly cut me out of their lives. Ditto with my father, his wife, & a few friends. I am so sad over this.

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Wow! I’d feel the same at a 10k! Many of us have felt the pain of being dissed and excluded since the toxxines were launched. In the end, I believe our concerns will be validated. However, many won’t acknowledge this since it means they’d have to blame themselves.

I used to say “Living well is the best revenge.” But now I say (to myself) “LIVING is the best revenge.” How sad is that?!

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You are very much NOT alone in this....

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Dang CA. Wonder how many picked up on that one???

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I’ve received a few “likes”. But they need to be a Marvel fan….. Thanks Mrhounddog - great minds think alike!!

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I'm Marvel-less (haha) so I erroneously thought of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes's fraudulent company.

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Honestly, I had to look it up, since I don’t watch that genre!

Later edit based on LoveOneAnother: I’m Marvel-less!

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I'm so sorry about this. For those of us awake, it is hard not to see the connection with the jab, and at the same time even harder to convince others (if we can even bring ourselves to mention it). I lost my brother around Thanksgiving to kidney failure and severe heart disease that developed after fairly routine surgery, conditions of which there was no hint before. Then my sister-in-law, his widow, suffered a stroke which the doctors in the emergency room initially refused to recognize because she had no risk factors. I had tried to warn my brother about the jabs but he politely refused to listen to me or read anything I sent them. My sister-in-law on my husband's side just died of a massive cancer that appeared suddenly and killed her within a few months. She was completely on board with all the covid stuff and had not long before the cancer appeared had the booster. I'm afraid we are going to be seeing a lot of this in the next few years.

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I just read Justin Biebers wife was hospitalized with stroke like symptoms. She’s 27

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The articles say it was a small blood clot in her brain, which apparently later resolved itself and she has been released from the hospital. Of course, while the articles say it was possibly Covid 19 related, none say a thing about possibly or PROBABLY being vaccine related.

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I don't think that's how cranial thrombi do.

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I was also thinking “hmmm…how did it do that?” …..but I I’m not a doctor, I haven’t opened my Cracker Jack box yet (degree is in the there somewhere)

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Of course. And strokes are a common side effect of COVID, especially in young people

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25, isnt she?

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Too young for a stroke either way🙁

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I lost 5 friends, mid fifties, all boosted, 1 brain bleed, 3 heart attacks in one week, 1 heart attack 2 weeks later. I saw lots of deaths post booster at my nursing home job. All happened 3-6 weeks post boost. Bleed outs, heart attacks and stroke. Zero deaths from Covid though.

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Mental. I lost a friend I her 50s. Heart Failure. She was a runner.

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I've noticed a stunning number of deaths in the late 40's to early 60's in the last few months. What's very noticeable is the proportion of females in this cohort. Maybe 60% female. It's pretty unusual.

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And so many strokes that have caused hearing/vision problems...probably for the rest of their lives.

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So sorry to hear this. A friend of mine, age around 70 died suddenly from cardiac issues a few months ago. She was very focused on holistic health. I don't know for sure if she got the jab, but she was in California so very likely. I have another friend here in Ontario who got appendicitis after the first shot and also cardiac issues, not sure the details. She won't get the second shot.

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I’m afraid we’ll all be presented with an butcher’s bill that will cost us dearly. The rest of this year will bring earth-shaking changes—in population, among other things.

The Deagle report indicated that US population would be only a hundred million by 2025. This year will tell.

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So sorry. My super athletic husband is a month out from heart surgery, and his best friend died in his sleep from the super clot. Both early50s, both vaxxed.

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Sorry to hear that. I could not convince my husband to not take the jab. He thinks Im becoming a conspiracy theorist.

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Those who so willingly swallow the kool-aid are know as 'complicity theorists'.

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JMJ, did you grow up in Catholic school?

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Partially. You?

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The reason I ask is because I went to Catholic school, and the sisters had us write JMJ with a ✝️At the top of every page of school work. That’s what your name reminded me of.

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Yes! My dad used to say Jesus, Mary & Joseph!

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Sorry for you loss

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So sorry for your loss.

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What we can observe from the data is that cancer and heart/vascular disease related deaths increased significantly in 2020-21. But the slope began to increase before vaccines were available. Several physicians I know have commented that the COVID extremes resulted in diversion of resources and deferred treatment for other conditions. One speculated that the dramatic decrease in screening resulting from mandates is a logical explanation for greater severity of outcomes (in plain language: more deaths because we're not finding it early enough to do anything useful). A consequence of poor risk management IMO.

For myself I can say my physical condition was adversely affected when the forced closure of gyms, bars and nightclubs. Between the three that's where I get most of my exercise ;-).

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In addition, Covid infections themselves can cause vascular/heart damage. Much like the toxxines do.

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"toxxines" - love it!

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Any flu increases risk for those with existing heart or vascular conditions as well as those with respiratory problems. I'm not familiar with the specifics on how COVID-19 infection will cause heart or vascular damage in patients without those conditions before infection. Can you link some references? I'd be interested in learning more.

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BTW this was the first red flag for me concerning the “vaccines”. My understanding is that they were designed assuming the spike was just a key to allow the virus to “open” and enter the cell. Little did the designers know that the spike is itself a major toxic player in the disease. And the mRNA was creating a spike factory in every vaxxed body! I’m only a layman, but that’s my interpretation of what I’ve read. And it set off alarm bells.

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This is the first article I saw on the subject. I’m sure there are more. It’s how the wild spike protein damages the vascular system. Probably similar effect with the faux spike in the injectable product.

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/the-novel-coronavirus-spike-protein-plays-additional-key-role-in-illness/

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❤️❤️❤️

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It would be beautiful!

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Just the tip of the iceberg. There will be countless people dying from any number of things that can be traced back to the past two years of useless NPIs. They'll be dying before their time for years if not decades, and their deaths won't correctly be attributed to the lying, feckless, joke of a ruling class that wrecked society over a bad flu.

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Not just NPIs, it was PIs too.

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It will be interesting to see what Life Insurance companies have to say later this year…..

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Insurance companies are already reporting huge increases. Two months ago, the CEO of OneAmerica Insurance said “the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

“And what we saw just in third quarter, we’re seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said.

“Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”

See https://www.thecentersquare.com/indiana/indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-are-up-40-among-people-ages-18-64/article_71473b12-6b1e-11ec-8641-5b2c06725e2c.html

Also, Wall Street is beginning to take notice. Check out Ed Dowd’s posts — https://twitter.com/dowdedward/status/1491099485791223809?s=21

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Caustic remark: so bad for payouts from life insurance, but should reduce the payouts for health insurance carriers. Death generally ends treatment expenses.

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I raise my glass to Mr. Ethical Skeptic for doing the dirty work of science that most scientists are now refusing to do in order to play politics.

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I'll drink to that!

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It is pretty hard on honest scientists these days. If you ask the wrong questions, you find funding evaporating. If you fail to support the desired outcomes, funding (and employment) vanish faster than Tequila at a Sammy Hagar concert.

It's not new and being a technologist instead of a scientist isn't a cure. The current intolerant politics finds it's way into everything. It is increasingly hard to cling to facts and valid analytical methods. Priorities are set by politics, as is funding. It is stifling innovation in so many areas.

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Yeah, nothing at all to do with the liquid nanoparticles in those 'safe' jabs ending up in the liver, eh?

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That was my first thought.

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Damaged or unhealthy liver = unhealthy body system.

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Gato didn't post it but Ethical Sceptic also has a plot for non-alcoholic liver disease and the trend looks virtually identical. Something is destroying livers and it started before the vax (mid 2020) and has continued throughout 2021. This tweet shows both:

https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1502893065337552896?cxt=HHwWgIC-7ffRrNspAAAA

LNPs are nasty but I have to think the spike protein plays a role here too.

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Haven't you realized yet that you can't just compare data from the last two years with previous years? You need to apply the appropriate correction factors. Once done, it will be seen that non-pharmaceutical interventions, in addition to saving the world from the Black Death, reduced alcohol-related fatalities to the lowest levels ever recorded.

I am forwarding your post to the appropriate authorities for immediate labeling as 'misinformation'.

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There was a 'glitch' in the data. It will be corrected.

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Vivek Murthy will be so happy!

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BTW, I am sure there are people on here who subscribe to a number of these sub stacks which is good. My comment is that has anyone noticed how bad Alex Berenson is on Russia as he has gone Full Judith Miller with the war propaganda? I just delete his posts concerning foreign policy. I think he’s been excellent on the Covid Scam but is in Full Retard Mode on Russia and Ukraine. All the more reason to read a lot of stuff.

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Whether you a skeptic on the Covid narrative doesn’t seem to correlate well with being a neocon. In fact, that is why the pivot from Covid to Russia make so much sense for politicians. Much of the support they lost from overlaying their hand on Covid can be regained by focusing creating outrage and fear of Russia.

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Yes, war is a bipartisan effort. It seems to be working. 😳

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Exactly. A bunch of former anti-mask, anti-mandate people around here are now doing exactly the chest thumping, flag waving display of enthusiasm that the PTB desired to occur. Hopefully, these are only outliers and most are still deeply suspicious of official pronouncements.

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It seems a second layer of sifting is occurring. As if a finer sieve has been added and those who were all on the same red-pill page about C-19 are now being tested further. Sigh.

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You can take the reporter out of the NYT’s, but apparently you can not take NYT’s out of the reporter.

He has been great on covid.

I do not understand why he cannot connect the dots......

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He's a true-blue liberal, n he reverts to his essence 🙄

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I haven't read anything he has to say on the subject. I decided recently to not read anything with respect to the Ukraine Russia thing. There's way too much bull shale coming from both sides. When anyone asks me my opinion on this matter I simply say it's the fault of the USA.

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I just say I don't care and hope we stay out of it

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Something is definitely off with Berenson. At best he's just incapable of considering evidence and/or conclusions at odds with his preconceived notions. We've now seen three specific areas (Malone, Ivermectin, Ukraine) where he's shown he's completely unwilling to consider anything contrary to his initial knee-jerk opinions. It's a level of closed-minded arrogance coupled with snarky pontifications that just grates on people, just an utter inability to read the room. He's very likely on the spectrum (as are many), but most learn some social graces and coping skills by middle age. Apparently he has not.

He got it right on the vaccines, but in hindsight that was likely due to stubborn contrarianism rather than any dogged pursuit of the facts. It's gone to his head and made him even more insufferable.

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Rather than in the spectrum he is likely just an arrogant, over self promoting ass

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I subscribed to Berenson because he was willing to put in the time to track down data that contradicted the narrative. He would often exaggerate the conclusions, but the papers he would unearth would otherwise have been buried permanently. Also, I think his instinct that “virus is going to virus” was the correct framing from the beginning.

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I followed Alex for the COVID info. I purchased his books and supported his substack when he got banned from Twitter. But, I cancelled my paid subscription last month. His snark intensifies in spite of (or because of??) the complaints and suggestions from his readers’ comments. His self-sabotage is a pitiful thing to watch.

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Berenson has some odd takes at times. I am greatly appreciative of what he has done but, like many people who were sceptical of Covid, they appear to have Gell-Mann Amnesia and suddenly trust the same liars they didn't trust regarding the coof.

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My sentiments exactly. When the wicked witch Nuland says she’s worried about the “research lab” falling into Russian hands, you know there’s some bad sh!t in there. Why Alex can’t correlate her admission with our need to have world wide proxy labs is a mystery.

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We locked gyms, schools, playgrounds and churches but those liquor stores were essential. SMH

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Is this all tied together as a plan to get rid of TEAM USA or was it greed and stupidity. I am saying it’s both. And perhaps retribution for the sins of a nation that had everything and totally blew it.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/hawks-or-pigeons-in-a-bad-mood/

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Don't be so sure in your assessments of 'US weakness.' Certainly our present leadership is minor league, but the nation's technical strengths should not be underestimated.

While Russia is openly parading these new missiles for all the world to see, don't forget the accomplishments of, for instance, Kelly Johnson's Lockheed Skunk Works who among other things designed the P-51 in 90 days at the end of WWII. That was really too late to have much effect on that war, and it would soon be eclipsed by the advent of the jet fighter. Nonetheless, it was an amazing accomplishment and demonstration of American know-how.

But you say, that was 70 years ago, what about now? Good question. Some years ago the USAF retired its fleet of near-hypersonic SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. Those in turn had replaced the venerable U-2, like the one in which Francis Gary Powers got shot down in 1960 over Russia (by an SA-2 missile). (Both Skunk Works products, BTW.) The SR-71 flew so fast and so high -- its actual capabilities are still classified to this day -- that it was immune to attack from the ground or air, and it could fly at will whenever and wherever it wanted. The Soviets could see it up there, but were powerless to do anything about it. And remember, the SR-71 operated secretly for many years before its existence was even acknowledged. (In its later days, it would be shown sometimes at airshows, I remember seeing one in the 1980s at Fairchild AFB near Spokane. There's one on static display at an aerospace museum near Portland today; if you're lucky (as I was) there might be a retired SR-71 flight officer on duty as a docent, explaining that still amazing aircraft.)

The lesson to be learned here is that the USAF would not have retired the SR-71, or shown it in public, until (likely many) years after its replacement was fully operational. From this point on, I am talking only about things that have been presumed or speculated, but are consistent with past US military history.

So what replaced the SR-71? The official story is spy satellites, but useful as those are, they have too many limitations that a manned, maneuverable system does not have. Those in the know believe that there is an advanced spy plane some call Aurora. This aircraft/spacecraft has capabilities that exceed the SR-71 by at least as much as the SR-71 exceeded the U-2, which is substantial. While the SR-71's top speed is still classified, there is some evidence that it was much, much higher than the claimed Mach 3 (about 2000 mph). Aurora then is likely able to fly in near space, from an isolated and top secret base somewhere in the middle of nowhere (SR-71s were based at Beale AFB near Sacramento, hardly in the middle of nowhere), and go anywhere anytime. It will no doubt implement the most advanced stealth technology, so it is essentially invisible. Where the SR-71 could be seen but not attacked, Aurora is essentially invisible.

It is also possible that such a platform could have some offensive capability. One never knows until one day, when Aurora is declassified. Now where would the technology for this come from? Well, the USAF has been doing lots of strange things out in the desert at Area 51 and now Area 52. Few people actually know what they are up to, though they've been out there for decades and clearly up to something that they don't want the general public to know about. Supposedly the F-117 stealth fighter was first flown out there, while it was still top secret.

Anyway the point of this is that we should not believe that the US military has been out-performed by the Russians or Chinese. They are doing things that (unlike Russian and Chinese PR) they won't talk about. There may, for example, be a fleet of hundreds of US Navy nuclear-powered mini-attack subs out there lurking in the depths, waiting to destroy enemy assets on a moment's notice with ultrafast seaborne/airborne torpedo/missiles. The US has the technology for this -- these mini-subs could easily be based in a small, unobtrusive facility in port somewhere with sail-in, sail-out secrecy. Nobody would know.

It's possible that the Russians and Chinese are all about propaganda, one of their strengths after all. That Chinese hypersonic glide missile or whatever they called it? It has to be launched from a Long March booster, IIRC roughly equivalent to a US Titan or Russian Proton -- a big, expensive rocket that takes quite a bit of time to prepare and launch. Hardly a serious weapon system, not to mention that it landed some 25 miles off target.

Russia and China are not standing still. But neither is the USA -- the difference is that the most advanced military systems of the US military are top secret. They are not putting on shows and bragging to everybody, they are doing it quietly. As has been their practice for 75 years now.

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As a kid in the 1950's I was living in the U.K. as my father was stationed there for a number of years with the USAF. As a navigator, he was involved in the U2/Gary Powers stuff and flew a lot of secret missions connected with the U2s. At that time, my mother had no idea what his various missions were about. He only told us a bit about it much much later, not long before he died in 1989. And even then he didn't tell us all the details, so yes, the military is always pretty top secret in certain things.

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Good post. And hopefully the US military are keeping top secret things such as you talk about out of enemy hands. Because the enemy is already in our military, it seems. We’re Trojan horsed.

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Even in the military, programs like these are on a 'strict need to know' basis. Many command officers are not aware of the true extent (and sometimes, even the existence) of the programs. That's the only way to keep things secret, and the US military has been doing this, successfully, for key programs now since the advent of the Cold War.

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I know that some things have been kept secret even from the administration in DC. God knows our survival as a nation depends on it now.

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Good commentary on the Ukraine.

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Interesting thoughts re armed Ukrainian nationalists turning on the West. Shudder.

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Liver disease shot up as more people took the organ destroying jab.

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Putting deaths by/with/from/of CoVid (as you wish) in perspective surprising, this site is interesting. You can chose your Country from the drop-down.

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-france

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I meant to say, some of those CoVid-attributed deaths would undoubtedly be in some of the other categories pre-CoVid.

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And then we have to wonder if that Covid figure reflects WITH Covid deaths, FROM Covid, or a mix of the two.

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No Sweden?

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Thanks, it wouldn't load any data for me earlier!

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Something to note about Sweden (where I'm from) is that any death where the virus was confirmed present at time of death, is entered as a Covid death, along with any other causes of death, so the same person may appear multiple times in the official mortality registry.

Say for instance someone dying of heart failure while also having liver cirrhosis, and while carrying the virus; that would be entered once in each category if the physician declaring the person dead thought it a significant contributor to death.

So looking in one registry will yield about 16 000 dead (virus present/suspected), while another will show about 8 900 (virus and infection confirmed as cause of death/significantly contributing factor) and yet another might show even fewer if the cause of death is put as Covid infection resulting in loss of life, with no known comorbidities.

So one really needs to dig into multiple files, databases and such from several agencies, and a lot of the information is classified for the public due to doctor/patient confidentiality, and if you have that kind of access you are only allowed to share information with formally appointed researchers.

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Fab source link tyvm!!

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Oh no! Imagine how much worse this could've been if we'd allowed people to be stressed out by working for a living, on top of being driven to drink Because of COVID.

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And imagine how much worse it would have been if they weren’t vaccinated!

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"Son you're gonna drive me to drinking if you don't stop spouting that covidiot thinking!"

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Maybe if they made vodka as expensive as gasoline, it would act as a deterrent.

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Not to advocate drinking (or becoming a teetotaller) but making your own is very easy. I mean, ridiculously so if you don't live in apartment.

And here in Sweden, due to the state having the monopoly on selling alcohol, vodka /is/ much more expensive than gasoline. 25:-/L for gas, about 150:-/L for vodka (and then it's the cheap stuff that tastes as if you're gargling with turpentine).

As to converting liters and gallons, I gave up when the article I looked at started going on about "eight quarts to a gallon" and imperial gallons and liquid gallons vs. dry gallons.

Me, I'm looking into converting an old pick up-truck for woodgas.

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Very pragmatic, Rikard 😹

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Thank you :) My wife tells me I'm pragmatic and practical as a cover for being so cheap Uncle Scrooge looks like Richard Pryor in "Brewster's millions".

Me: "Nono, don't throw that away, it might come in handy later."

Wife: "And for what would you use a worn-out pair of leaky Wellington's?"

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I love a nice glass of RON95 . . .

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Mr. Ethical Skeptic was on a tear yesterday. He's sniffing out a problem.

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Some poor souls saw it very clearly right through the bottom of a bottle.

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Clotting kills livers. My friend's friend died last month after it was diagnosed failed one week later.

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I'm sure they'll find a way to make this another form of "long haul covid". I had someone tell me recently that she had had "vascular covid", i.e., she had had a stroke. Everything gets chalked up to covid.

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They sure are on a mission to normalize all of the destruction.

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There are So many HARMS from the covid regime. An increase of alcohol and drug abuse is one of the many.

Also I just spoke with a friend in the state I grew up in.

3 people I know from high school just dropped dead suddenly all previously healthy. Late 50’s.

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i am just a little kitten, but i remember some anonymous guy claiming to be from moderna on 4chan saying that half the nanoparticles were destined for the liver and contained a mutant version of a cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor...

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We stressed out people and triggered alcoholism! Yay! (Remember "excess deaths = Covid" crap research papers?)

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No one could have forseen this outcome. No one. I bet the same thing hasn't happened with drug overdoses or smoking . . .

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If you're Russian thru a bottle, you'll feel it in UrCranium!

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Vodka is good for cleaning. It is pure alcohol, safer than the poisonous Isopropyl alcohol sold in the drug store. I don't drink vodka (don't drink any alcohol or wine, beer, etc., but use the vodka for cleaning.) I buy the cheapest brand available.

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I use it to clean my hummingbird feeders. After cleaning with vodka, and then rinsed with clean water, the feeders are well cleaned for the birds.

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Timing wise, this is more attributable to the lockdowns than the shots. Excess deaths coincide almost 1 to 1 with the imposition of lockdowns & mass unemployment. The shots weren't available until late 2020...

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Deaths are up significantly in 2021 vs 2020 for those from 15-70 yo.

https://mariaromana.substack.com/p/the-cdc-reads-my-substack?s=w

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Thanks your all cause mortality graph is exactly what I was looking for, nice post!!

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Wrong. Look at world data, age stratified excess deaths. Old folks over 80 were the bulk of deaths from Covid in 2020 and excess deaths for 2021 track with vaccine rollout and are concentrated in young working age folks. Not that corp media in NATO countries report any of it but the truth is out there. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

‘Former BlackRock Portfolio Manager, Investor Edward Dowd, Explains Bombshell ‘Fraud’ Charge re Pfizer Hiding Deaths Data; Many Media Outlets are ‘Accomplices to Murder’

https://dailyclout.io/edward-dowd-explains-bombshell-fraud-charge-re-pfizer-hiding-deaths-data/

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Ludwig can speak for himself but I think he's talking specifically about the plot Gato posted. It clearly shows the incidence of alcoholic liver deaths level increasing in mid-2020, well before the shots were rolled out. His comment is exactly correct. The vax may have exacerbated this in 2021 but was clearly not the initial impetus.

We are on the same side here but before denouncing someone as "Wrong" you might want to make sure the context is correct. We need to persuade people, not drive them away by shouting at them.

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Also, just butting in here, liver damage from alcohol to the extent that it kills you isn't something you get from half a year to a year of drinking. The figures probably shows alcoholics getting an extra push hand from lockdowns and other high-stress stupidities and paying for it.

And (stealthily checking liver cirrhosis in the national health registry) Hepatitis B and C can factor into it, as can fatty liver disease. Seeing as how substance abuse generally reaches a stage of "pop anything to keep the DTs/withdrawal away", it shouldn't be unreasonable to assume that what we are seeing is a sort of "all of the above" aggravated by mandates and lockdowns.

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Fair enough!

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Thank you for sharing. Love listening to Naomi Wolf and Edward Dowd. His comment … “we are a legion”

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Im just going off the graph presented by egm. That shows excess deaths prior to the Vax, but coinciding with NPIs...

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Three videos to watch:

Naomi Wolf explains Pfizer lab animal results shows fast migration from injection site to major organs of the body: https://rumble.com/vx5zn8-naomi-wolf-discovers-more-crimes-against-humanity-in-pfizer-study.html

Edward Dowd broke some of the news about insurance company numbers and funeral industry numbers showing MUCH higher deaths in 2021. He is working with actuarials behind the scenes, and they've broken open the CDC numbers and shows a "vietnam-level" event for millenials (18-49) in terms of deaths, and a WWII-level event for boomers in terms of death from the vaccines. He says Wall Street has woken up, and there will be some more major news coming out next week. https://rumble.com/vx58bw-edward-dowd-explains-how-thousands-of-people-have-died-from-covid-vaccines.html

Edward Dowd shares info disclosed from a German insurer (this was reported a week or so ago) https://rumble.com/vx41ro-edward-dowd-2.5-to-3-million-germans-have-been-injured-by-covid-vaccines.html

And get this... Republican legislators are looking to pass a bill to amend a current fund to take care of people who have suffered from adverse events! This feels like they're opening a liability shield with OUR tax dollars for vaccine companies that fraudulently foisted this on to us? And the FDA, Fauci and others are complicit in this! It's because so many of them have holdings in these companies, and receive fat donations from them as well. https://ussanews.com/senate-republicans-introduce-covid-19-vaccine-injury-bill/ The fund already exists, but they want to make it easier to draw from it, as only 79 claims have been paid out, while over 7000 have been filed.

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The lipid nanoparticles concentrate in the liver with the resulting damage from spike protein. Liver damage causes scaring. So the jab could exacerbate an already damaged liver causing disease severe enough for diagnosis.

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no doubt - big and growing drug abuse problem in US - but the chart takes off early 2020 - the early 2020 plandemic lockdowns couldn't have produced that in that timeframe - something else drove that - booze getting substituted for ocycontin?

"Sobriety is Resistance!"

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Three videos to watch:

Naomi Wolf explains Pfizer lab animal results shows fast migration from injection site to major organs of the body: https://rumble.com/vx5zn8-naomi-wolf-discovers-more-crimes-against-humanity-in-pfizer-study.html

Edward Dowd broke some of the news about insurance company numbers and funeral industry numbers showing MUCH higher deaths in 2021. He is working with actuarials behind the scenes, and they've broken open the CDC numbers and shows a "vietnam-level" event for millenials (18-49) in terms of deaths, and a WWII-level event for boomers in terms of death from the vaccines. He says Wall Street has woken up, and there will be some more major news coming out next week. https://rumble.com/vx58bw-edward-dowd-explains-how-thousands-of-people-have-died-from-covid-vaccines.html

Edward Dowd shares info disclosed from a German insurer (this was reported a week or so ago) https://rumble.com/vx41ro-edward-dowd-2.5-to-3-million-germans-have-been-injured-by-covid-vaccines.html

And get this... Republican legislators are looking to pass a bill to amend a current fund to take care of people who have suffered from adverse events! This feels like they're opening a liability shield with OUR tax dollars for vaccine companies that fraudulently foisted this on to us? And the FDA, Fauci and others are complicit in this! It's because so many of them have holdings in these companies, and receive fat donations from them as well. https://ussanews.com/senate-republicans-introduce-covid-19-vaccine-injury-bill/ The fund already exists, but they want to make it easier to draw from it, as only 79 claims have been paid out, while over 7000 have been filed.

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I suspect we have some measurement bias in this chart, as liver cirrhosis takes more than 2 years to present, but...we can also note that science indicates that sugar is a significant cause of liver damage. We can theorize that "lock down" has increased both alcohol and sugar consumption. Also dramatic increases in watching Netflix and Prime Video as well as conventional "news" media - and there is a definite link between watching a lot of news media and accelerated brain death ;-).

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Just wait until we start seeing "autoimmune hepatitis (K75.4)" outpacing "alcoholic liver disease (K70)".

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Must have missed the NY Times story on this trend or maybe I'm just a fascist for thinking it might be important. Every life matters of course--we learned that when having lockdowns shoved down our throats in 2020--but I guess some more than others?

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And to think that the once great stalwart of all things Vodka, Smirnoff, is now made by Diageo of Dublin!!! My semi alcoholic friend of many years ago had a riverboat in Zimbabwe (and that's way back) and he named the boat "Cirrhosis of the River!"

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To be clear, is this saying two years prior, there were roughly ~35,000 deaths. While during covidiot times, the number of fatalities increased to somewhere approaching ~40,000 deaths due to cirrhous of the liver?

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BTW: If you're not following Edward Dowd on GETTR, you need to be. He's been all over exposing this data in a fashion that is bound to get serious traction. He's a former star BlackRock investment fund manager who is educating Wall Street with the undeniable horrendous jab-related early death data:

https://gettr.com/user/edwarddowd

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Hey, maybe AA would be a good place to go to find your vax hesitant aka wide awake tribe, just saying.

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I would be interested to see what the statistics were for the increase in cannabis usage and health effects.

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Victory Gin

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With vaccines!

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mRNA vaccines!

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I SURE hope he loses in a primary. Down with DeWine!

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