ivmmeta |•97% of
37 early treatment and prophylaxis studies
report positive effects (95% of all
57 studies). 26
studies show statistically significant improvements in isolation.
•Random effects meta-analysis with
pooled effects using the most serious outcome reported shows 78% and
85% improvement for
early
treatment and prophylaxis(RR
0.22
[0.12-0.39] and
0.15
[0.09-0.25]). Results are similar after exclusion based sensitivity analysis:
80% and
87% (RR
0.20
[0.14-0.28] and
0.13
[0.07-0.25]),
and after restriction to 32 peer-reviewed studies:
80% and
88% (RR
0.20
[0.12-0.34] and
0.12
[0.05-0.30]).
•81% and
96% lower mortality is observed for early treatment and prophylaxis
(RR 0.19
[0.07-0.54] and
0.04
[0.00-0.58]). Statistically
significant improvements are seen for mortality, ventilation, hospitalization,
cases, and viral clearance.
•100% of the
17 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) for early treatment and prophylaxis report positive effects,
with an estimated improvement of
73% and
83% respectively (RR 0.27
[0.18-0.41] and
0.17
[0.05-0.61]), and 93% of all
29 RCTs.
•The probability that an ineffective
treatment generated results as positive as the
57 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in
5 trillion (p = 0.00000000000021).
•Heterogeneity arises from many factors including
treatment delay, patient population, the effect measured, variants, and
treatment regimens. The consistency of positive results across a wide variety
of cases is remarkable. Heterogeneity is low in specific cases, for example
early treatment mortality.
•While many treatments have some level
of efficacy, they do not replace vaccines and other measures to avoid
infection. Only 28% of ivermectin
studies show zero events in the treatment arm.
•Elimination of COVID-19 is a race
against viral evolution. No treatment, vaccine, or intervention is 100%
available and effective for all current and future variants. All practical,
effective, and safe means should be used. Not doing so increases the risk of
COVID-19 becoming endemic; and increases mortality, morbidity, and collateral
damage.
•Many studies do not specify
administration, or specify fasting. Administration with food may significantly
increase plasma and tissue concentration.
•All data to reproduce this paper and
the sources are in the appendix.
See [Bryant, Hill, Kory, Lawrie, Nardelli] for other meta analyses, all
with similar results confirming effectiveness.
One of the disconcerting things I’ve been seeing again and
again from all the major players in this new narrative like Lue
Elizondo and Christopher Mellon is the absurd assertion that not only is
it entirely possible that the unknown phenomena allegedly being
regularly witnessed by military personnel are extraterrestrial in
origin, but that if they are extraterrestrial they may want to hurt us.
Mellon,
the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
who helped get the ball rolling on UFOs entering mainstream attention
back in 2017 when he leaked three Pentagon videos to The New York Times, has stated that he sees extraterrestrial origin as an entirely possible explanation for these phenomena.
“We don’t even understand how you could do something like that,” Mellon said in a recent interview with CTV News
of the inexplicable maneuvers and features these aircraft supposedly
demonstrate. “We don’t even understand the science behind it. Not like
somebody’s a couple generations of fighter jet behind us; I mean this is
a whole difference of kind, not degree.”
Asked
why the pilots of mysterious aircraft with incomprehensible scientific
advancement might want to monitor the US military, Mellon said the
following:
“Well
probably for the same reason we do: to understand what kind of threat
we could pose to them. Should a conflict arise they want to be able to
engage us effectively, defeat us rapidly, at minimum cost of life and
treasure, just as we would on the other side. We do similar kinds of
things; we don’t have vehicles quite like this, but we’re certainly very
actively monitoring military forces of other countries.”
The
notion that UFOs could pose a threat to humans whether their alleged
operators are from our own world or from another is being promoted by
the main drivers of this strange new plotline, and it is being
enthusiastically lapped up by many UFO enthusiasts who see framing these
phenomena as a national security threat as the best way to get
mainstream power structures to take them seriously and disclose
information to the public.
foxnews | CARLSON: So one of the main reasons we know as much about UFOs and know
as much about what The Pentagon knows about UFOs is because of a man
called Lue Elizondo, who used to run the Pentagon's UFO program. He's
gone public about this, as you know, if you watch this show. Now, he
says The Pentagon is launching a smear campaign against him.
CARLSON: One of the main reasons that sane people are now capable of
talking about UFOs without being laughed at is because of a man called
Lue Elizondo. Thirteen years ago, Elizondo was assigned to lead a
Pentagon program that investigated this phenomenon, whatever it is.
Since
leaving employment with the U.S. government, Elizondo has gone public
about some of what he knows about UFO sightings. Again, he has made this
current conversation possible.
Now, Elizondo has filed a
complaint with The Pentagon's Inspector General, and in that complaint,
he says The Pentagon is waging a coordinated disinformation campaign to
smear him for talking about this subject.
Lue Elizondo joins us tonight. Lue, thanks so much for coming on.
LUE ELIZONDO, FORMER PENTAGON OFFICIAL: Tucker, always a pleasure.
CARLSON: What do you believe the Pentagon -- thank you -- what are they doing to you and why?
ELIZONDO:
Well, there are certainly pockets of resistance within The Pentagon.
And my concern is that they're not being forthcoming with the American
people about the reality of the program, the findings of the program, my
role in the program, and frankly, the importance of this topic from a
national security perspective.
I think the concern for me is that
there's a lot of information that still has to see the light of day,
and they are obfuscating the truth. And more importantly, they may be
doing it to Congress, which is a whole another level of deception, of
course, if that is indeed the case.
CARLSON: Yes, and it's also
illegal. They're required by law, to release this information to the
Congress and to the public. When can we expect that and how convinced
are you about withholding critical information from that report?
ELIZONDO:
Yes, two things with that, Tucker. That report can come out any day,
probably anytime between next week and June 25th. Hopefully, the report
is what Congress expects, and frankly, what Congress deserves. But I'll
tell you something of equal importance that I think our friends in
Congress should probably be aware of, and that is the Public Affairs
Office right now in the United States Pentagon is obfuscating, and more
importantly, interfering with the Freedom of Information Act process
that is something that is in law.
So I think that's something every American should be concerned with.
CARLSON: Yes, it's illegal, among other things and wrong. What specifically do you worry they will omit from this report?
ELIZONDO:
Well, in the program ATIP that I was part of, we looked at a lot of
things, primarily as most people know, the UAP or the Unidentified
Aerial Phenomenon topic and more importantly, the incursions into us
airspace. There's a lot of data, Tucker out there.
And I mean,
there's a lot and I have to be very careful what I say. But I think, if
just some of that information comes to light. You know, one thing people
look at the Nimitz incident, they look at the Roosevelt, they look at
the kid in the Omaha and they say, well, you know, those are anecdotal,
those are, you know, events that occurred every so often.
But I
think Americans would be really surprised to know that these events are
continuing to literally last week, they're happening all the time.
The sudden opening of Gates’ closet and the rate at which skeletons are tumbling out is very, very suspicious. There is a flurry of unmistakably coordinated articles and posts. His past common-knowledge peccadilloes are being reported breathlessly as if it is the Scoop of the Century. This is fallout of internecine warfare among the powers that be.
Who is so powerful that even Bill Gates cannot escape their wrath?
How did Bill Gates manage to piss them off?
From a PR perspective, Bill had outlived his usefulness as a public face for the Great Reset.
It’s not like he’ll lose money beyond the half he has to hand over to Melinda French - but he definitely won't ever get that coveted Nobel prize or be carted out on TV as the public face of the Great Reset anymore.
NYMag | On Sunday night, another volley of reporting on Gates’s alleged behavior
was published, including several details on the Microsoft co-founder’s
improprieties at work. According to the Wall Street Journal,
Microsoft board members ultimately decided that he must step down from
the board in the midst of a company investigation into a romantic
relationship with a subordinate in 2000. While Gates and Microsoft
admitted to the relationship — which a spokeswoman for the
philanthropist called “an affair almost 20 years ago which ended
amicably” — his team denied that the “decision to transition off the
board” was related to the investigation.
Pursuing
sexual relationships at a powerful institution he co-founded was not
just limited to Microsoft, or the affair in 2000. According to the New York Times,
Gates tried to date women working for him at Microsoft and the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, asking people out by email — “If this makes
you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened,” he wrote in 2006 — and in
person. Witnesses also claim that he was dismissive of his wife in
meetings at their shared group, and that Gates did not respond to her
request for an outside party to investigate a sexual-harassment claim
against their money manager, who is still on the job.
More
information on the Epstein connection also came to light on Sunday
evening. While it’s already understood that Melinda Gates was not
thrilled by her husband spending time with the alleged sex trafficker,
the Times notes that Gates ignored her advice on the subject
and continued meeting with him. Epstein provided some advice of his own,
according to the Daily Beast,
which reported that the predator met with Gates dozens of times between
2011 and 2014 and told him how to end his “toxic” marriage to Melinda.
Apparently going to Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion to get the advice
was more impactful than the advice itself.
thedrive | We may not know the identities of all the mysterious craft that
American military personnel and others have been seeing in the skies as
of late, but I have seen more than enough to tell you that it is clear
that a very terrestrial adversary is toying with us in our own backyard
using relatively simple technologies—drones and balloons—and making off
with what could be the biggest intelligence haul of a generation. While
that may disappoint some who hope the origins of all these events are
far more exotic in nature, the strategic implications of these bold
operations, which have been happening for years, undeterred, are
absolutely massive.
Our team here at The War Zone has
spent the last two years indirectly laying out a case for the hypothesis
that many of the events involving supposed UFOs, or unidentified aerial
phenomena (UAP), as they are now often called, over the last decade are
actually the manifestation of foreign adversaries harnessing advances
in lower-end unmanned aerial vehicle technology, and even simpler
platforms, to gather intelligence of extreme fidelity on some of
America's most sensitive warfighting capabilities. Now, considering all the news on this topic in recent weeks, including our own major story
on a series of bizarre incidents involving U.S. Navy destroyers and
'UAP' off the Southern California coast in 2019, it's time to not only
sum up our case, but to discuss the broader implications of these
revelations, what needs to be done about them, and the Pentagon's
fledgling 'UAP Task Force' as a whole.
Yes, I realize that the idea that an adversary is penetrating U.S.
military training areas unmolested, and has been for years, using lowly
drone technology and balloons, is a big pill to swallow, but as one of
the people who have repeatedly warned about the threat posed by lower-end drones
for a decade—warnings that largely were dismissed by the Pentagon until
drones made or altered in ramshackle ISIS workshops in a war zone were literally raining down bomblets on U.S. and allied forces in Iraq—it isn't really surprising at all. Nor is the fact that the Defense Department is still playing catch-up when it comes to the realities surrounding the drone threat, and not just to its forces abroad,
but also to the homeland overall. The utter lack of vision and early
robust interest in regards to this emerging threat will go down as one
of the Pentagon's biggest strategic missteps of our time.
The gross inaction and the stigma surrounding unexplained aerial
phenomena as a whole has led to what appears to be the paralyzation of
the systems designed to protect us and our most critical military
technologies, pointing to a massive failure in U.S. military
intelligence. This is a blind spot we ourselves literally created out of
cultural taboos and a military-industrial complex that is ill-suited to
foresee and counter a lower-end threat that is very hard to defend
against.
newsweek | The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon
over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret
army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part
of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than
ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA,
carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms
and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in
private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name
companies.
The unprecedented shift has placed an ever greater
number of soldiers, civilians, and contractors working under false
identities, partly as a natural result in the growth of secret special
forces but also as an intentional response to the challenges of
traveling and operating in an increasingly transparent world. The
explosion of Pentagon cyber warfare, moreover, has led to thousands of
spies who carry out their day-to-day work in various made-up personas,
the very type of nefarious operations the United States decries when
Russian and Chinese spies do the same.
Newsweek's exclusive report on this secret world is the result
of a two-year investigation involving the examination of over 600
resumes and 1,000 job postings, dozens of Freedom of Information Act
requests, and scores of interviews with participants and defense
decision-makers. What emerges is a window into not just a little-known
sector of the American military, but also a completely unregulated
practice. No one knows the program's total size, and the explosion of
signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military
policies and culture. Congress
has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military
developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the
Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic
accountability.
The signature reduction effort engages some 130 private companies to
administer the new clandestine world. Dozens of little known and secret
government organizations support the program, doling out classified
contracts and overseeing publicly unacknowledged operations. Altogether
the companies pull in over $900 million annually to service the
clandestine force—doing everything from creating false documentation and
paying the bills (and taxes) of individuals operating under assumed
names, to manufacturing disguises and other devices to thwart detection
and identification, to building invisible devices to photograph and
listen in on activity in the most remote corners of the Middle East and
Africa.
vice | The
Pentagon is carrying out warrantless surveillance of Americans,
according to a new letter written by Senator Ron Wyden and obtained by
Motherboard.
Senator
Wyden's office asked the Department of Defense (DoD), which includes
various military and intelligence agencies such as the National Security
Agency (NSA) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), for detailed
information about its data purchasing practices after Motherboard
revealed special forces were buying location data. The responses also
touched on military or intelligence use of internet browsing and other
types of data, and prompted Wyden to demand more answers specifically
about warrantless spying on American citizens.
Some
of the answers the DoD provided were given in a form that means Wyden's
office cannot legally publish specifics on the surveillance; one answer
in particular was classified. In the letter Wyden is pushing the DoD to
release the information to the public. A Wyden aide told Motherboard
that the Senator is unable to make the information public at this time,
but believes it would meaningfully inform the debate around how the DoD
is interpreting the law and its purchases of data.
"I
write to urge you to release to the public information about the
Department of Defense's (DoD) warrantless surveillance of Americans," the letter, addressed to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, reads.
Wyden
and his staff with appropriate security clearances are able to review
classified responses, a Wyden aide told Motherboard. Wyden's office
declined to provide Motherboard with specifics about the classified
answer. But a Wyden aide said that the question related to the DoD
buying internet metadata.
"Are
any DoD components buying and using without a court order internet
metadata, including 'netflow' and Domain Name System (DNS) records," the
question read, and asked whether those records were about "domestic
internet communications (where the sender and recipient are both U.S. IP
addresses)" and "internet communications where one side of the
communication is a U.S. IP address and the other side is located
abroad."
unlimitedhangout | The devastating hack on SolarWinds was quickly pinned on Russia by US
intelligence. A more likely culprit, Samanage, a company whose software
was integrated into SolarWinds’ software just as the “back door” was
inserted, is deeply tied to Israeli intelligence and intelligence-linked
families such as the Maxwells.
In mid-December of 2020, a massive hack compromised the networks of
numerous US federal agencies, major corporations, the top five
accounting firms in the country, and the military, among others. Despite
most US media attention now focusing on election-related chaos, the
fallout from the hack continues to make headlines day after day.
The hack, which affected Texas-based software provider SolarWinds,
was blamed on Russia on January 5 by the US government’s Cyber Unified
Coordination Group. Their statement asserted that the attackers were “likely Russian in origin,” but they failed to provide evidence to back up that claim.
Since
then, numerous developments in the official investigation have been
reported, but no actual evidence pointing to Russia has yet to be
released. Rather, mainstream media outlets began reporting the
intelligence community’s “likely” conclusion as fact right away, with
the New York Timessubsequently reporting that
US investigators were examining a product used by SolarWinds that was
sold by a Czech Republic–based company, as the possible entry point for
the “Russian hackers.” Interest in that company, however, comes from the
fact that the attackers most likely had access to the systems of a
contractor or subsidiary of SolarWinds. This, combined with the
evidence-free report from US intelligence on “likely” Russian
involvement, is said to be the reason investigators are focusing on the
Czech company, though any of SolarWinds’ contractors/subsidiaries could
have been the entry point.
Such narratives clearly echo those that
became prominent in the wake of the 2016 election, when now-debunked
claims were made that Russian hackers were responsible for leaked emails
published by WikiLeaks. Parallels are obvious when one considers that
SolarWinds quickly brought on the discredited firm CrowdStrike to aid them in securing their networks and investigating the hack. CrowdStrike had also been brought on by the DNC after the 2016 WikiLeaks publication, and subsequently it was central in developing the false declarations regarding the involvement of “Russian hackers” in that event.
There
are also other parallels. As Russiagate played out, it became apparent
that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and a foreign power,
but the nation was Israel, not Russia. Indeed, many of the reports that came out of Russiagate revealed collusionwith Israel,
yet those instances received little coverage and generated little media
outrage. This has led some to suggest that Russiagate may have been a
cover for what was in fact Israelgate.
Similarly, in the case of
the SolarWinds hack, there is the odd case and timing of SolarWinds’
acquisition of a company called Samanage in 2019. As this report will
explore, Samanage’s deep ties to Israeli intelligence, venture-capital
firms connected to both intelligence and Isabel Maxwell, as well as
Samange’s integration with the Orion software at the time of the back
door’s insertion warrant investigation every bit as much as SolarWinds’
Czech-based contractor.
politico | Jeffrey Epstein has become a
near-universal villain in the public eye. Dozens of women, some of whom
were as young as 14 at the time, have accused him of molesting them over
two decades, primarily in the 1990s and 2000s, in Florida, New York and
New Mexico, as well as on his private Caribbean island. A number of
powerful men, from Britain’s Prince Andrew to lawyer Alan Dershowitz, have been accused in courtdocuments of having sex with a young woman Epstein introduced them to, allegations both men deny. One male associate of Epstein’s has been charged
in France. Other influential men were friends with Epstein or accepted
his money. Yet after reporting on Epstein for months and speaking to
associates like Oh, I came to a realization: Beyond these men exists a
group of women, possibly even larger,who helped keep Epstein’s massive sex-trafficking operation running for more than 20 years.
Dozens of these women worked for
Epstein, formally or informally. If you think of this group as a
pyramid, at the top sits Maxwell, a longtime Epstein employee and
confidante who now stands accused of recruiting minors for Epstein and sex-trafficking
a 14-year-old girl, charges she denies. Below her were women Epstein
employed as assistants, who allegedly scheduled and managed dozens of
minors for Epstein to abuse. There were also women like Oh who brought
friends to meet Epstein and received gifts or access to his wealth.
These women aren’t household names,
even for people following Epstein’s story. But his victims say they were
key to grooming and deceiving them and allowing Epstein to operate with
impunity. In fact, most of Epstein’s victims were introduced to him
through other women, according to the 12 victims I’ve spoken with over
the past year and a half, as well as dozens of allegations in court and
in the media. Often, victims say, it was the women around Epstein who
tried to make them feel comfortable, as if what they were experiencing
was normal or harmless.
Once Epstein began to face legal
scrutiny, other women made it easier for him to rehabilitate himself and
reemerge with his power and social cachet largely intact. Two women
served as the lead prosecutors on his case when he first faced charges,
in 2006, and were closely involved in crafting his federal
non-prosecution agreement, plea deal and lenient sentence. For those
without deep knowledge of the case, Epstein’s short incarceration of 13 months in a county jail
could be read as a signal that, whatever crime he had committed, it
wasn’t that bad. After his release, a number of female socialites and
professionals helped to welcomeEpstein, by then a registered sex offender, back into elite circles. His abuse then continued, court documents assert.
To point this out is not to excuse any of the men or prestigious institutions—universities, banks, funds—that
also helped to protect Epstein, nor is it meant to hold women to a
higher standard. But as a woman myself, I have been struck by the sheer
number of women around Epstein, and many of the victims I’ve spoken with
say they feel especially betrayed by those who violated the unspoken
rule that women protect other women, especially minors.
miamiherald | The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has cleared Palm Beach
state prosecutors and the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office of any wrongdoing
in connection with the lenient criminal prosecution and liberal jail
privileges received by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
FDLE
investigators found no evidence that Barry Krischer, who was the Palm
Beach state attorney when the case was investigated in 2005-2006, or his
assistant state attorney on the case, Lanna Belohlavek, committed any
crimes, accepted any bribes or gifts, or did anything improper in their
handling of the case, according to a 24-page summary of the state probe
into their actions obtained Monday by the Miami Herald.
FDLE’s criminal investigation was ordered by Gov. Ron DeSantis following a series of stories
in the Miami Herald, beginning in 2018. The series detailed how Epstein
received unprecedented federal immunity and served a short jail
sentence in 2008. After the series, Epstein was indicted in New York in
2019 on new sex trafficking charges, but died a month later behind bars
while awaiting trial. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
The state’s probe was two-fold: focusing on Krischer’s initial
decision not to prosecute Epstein, a wealthy New York financier accused
of molesting and raping more than a dozen middle and high school girls
at his Palm Beach mansion; and on Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s
role, if any, in Epstein’s unusual accommodations while he was in
custody in the Palm Beach county jail.
In 2007, Epstein’s
criminal case was taken over by the Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office, which
compiled enough evidence to charge him in a 53-page sex crime
indictment. However, Miami’s U.S. attorney at the time, Alexander
Acosta, approved a non-prosecution agreement giving Epstein and an
untold number of other conspirators immunity in exchange for Epstein
agreeing to plead guilty to relatively minor state charges and serve
what turned out to be a 13-month sentence in the Palm Beach county jail.
FDLE released three summaries of its investigation Monday — an
examination of the state attorney’s office’s handling of the case; a
look at allegations that Epstein sexually abused two women while he was
on work release in Palm Beach; and an inquiry into whether anyone in the
Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office committed any crimes or received any
benefits for giving Epstein special privileges while he was
incarcerated.
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I think it is critical to note the huge number of nursing home
workers that are young women under 40 – both nursing and support staff. I
do not have exact numbers but just from experience over 3 decades – I
would say that demographic is 50-75% of the employees in nursing homes
and rehab centers.
An unvaccinated health care worker at a Kentucky nursing home set off a Covid-19 outbreak among many staff and residents who were already vaccinated, according to a new study. https://t.co/P4cpVzkIHR
The NYTimes tweet above places the blame of the outbreak of COVID
among vaccinated patients and staff at the doorstep of a young
unvaccinated female worker. Of course – it is all the fault of the young
rube making a disastrous decision. No one ever talks about the actual
reasons why she is making that decision.
I have heard all these stories of the menstrual problems after the
vaccine for weeks. Because I am an internist, that topic does not come
up very often. However, I had my first patient encounter this week with a
custodial staff member in a local nursing home. She has had a Mirena
IUD in place for the past 12 months. She had minimal but appropriate
menstrual flow with the device until late February. She had her 2nd
Pfizer shot in late Feb – and then 1 day later began to have profound
and severe menstrual flow. Way way worse than ever in her life. She has
Obamacare – so she has a $10000 deductible – so she avoids doctor visits
like the plague. Her husband finally dragged her in, tired of paying
for literally boxes of pads every 2-3 days. She had bled her hemoglobin
down to 6. My initial impression was the IUD had become somehow
dislodged and damaged her. NOPE – No evidence of that found on exam by
OBGYN. Perfect working order. No infections. No nothing – just a very
profoundly hypertrophied endometrium. She is going to be fine and
getting taken care of. Interestingly, I have NEVER not once seen this
kind of thing with an IUD. I have no explanation why this or any other
menstrual issues are happening with these vaccines.
BUT she has shared this finding with all the other women at work –
and informed me yesterday a not so small number of them had very strange
menstrual issues after their shot. Including a 60 something who had her
first period in 20 years starting 2 days after her Pfizer 2nd dose.
I would make this point – there were enough women in the vaccine
trials – to have noted this problem during the trials. And yet nothing
was said. Was it noticed? Was it documented? I have learned from my OB
GYN colleagues this week that indeed they have been seeing this issue –
not in huge numbers – but definitely a phenomenon.
So you have young women with a problem like this going on at enough
frequency that the rumor mill is engaged in a big way. Many know
personally women who have stories.
And as usual – crickets chirping – from our federal officials. And they wonder why there is no trust.
You see – as a PCP – I deal with human nature – the human condition. One of the fundamental issues of young people is having children – especially women. You start having this issue occur and no one in authority is even making an attempt to address it – and what do you think is going to happen?
The older I get – the more I am beginning to believe that these
elites are really not humans – they may be lizards in disguise after
all.
And even more importantly – these young women are critical in the
vaccination effort because of their jobs – as documented in the tweet
above.
And unfortunately – one has not far to look to see how far the medical elites have their heads up their asses.
Dr. Gawande – I know you live in an ivory tower – and love to make
proclamations from on high. Those of us who work with real patients and
real people know that if you keep talking like that – the staffs of the
nursing homes are just going to walk. Indeed, it has already started –
talk to the HR folks in any of them across this country. You pay them so
well – that they could just as easily be working at Burger King.
Keep it up – and we will have an even bigger problem than you can even possibly imagine.
My God – a little bit of trust and credibility goes along way. My
profession has learned this over decades – and the medical elite in
charge have just shat all over that decades of hard work in no time.
“Even though it sounds like a
paranoid fever dream- a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging
across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to
influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and
control the flow of information.” (Lest you think that this was a subversion of democracy, Ball informs us that “they were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”)
Another conclusion you might come to is that many of the political
figures whom you believed were serving those who elected them into
office, actually serve the interests of a clique of technocrats and
billionaires lusting over the deconstruction of western civilization
under something called “a Great Reset”. Where this was brushed off as an
unfounded conspiracy theory not long ago, even Canada’s Deputy Prime
Minister (and neo-Nazi supporting Rhodes Scholar) Chrystia Freeland decided to become a Trustee of the World Economic Forum
just weeks ago. In this role, Freeland joins fellow Oxford technocrat
Mark Carney in their mutual endeavor to be a part of the new movement to
decarbonize civilization and make feudalism cool again.
Lastly, you might notice that your having arrived at these
conclusions is itself increasingly becoming a form of thought-crime
punishable in a variety of distasteful ways elaborated by a series of
unprecedented new emergency regulations that propose extending the
definition of “terrorism”. Those implicated under the new definition
will be those broad swaths of citizens of western nations who don’t
agree with the operating beliefs of the ruling oligarchy.
Already a 60 day review of the U.S. military is underway to purge the armed forces of all such “thought criminals” while McCarthyite legislation has been drafted to cleanse all government jobs of “conspiracy theorists”.
Another startling announcement from the National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin that domestic terrorists include: “ideologically-motivated
violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental
authority [and] perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.”
While not yet fully codified into law (though it will be
if not nipped in the bud soon), you can be sure that things are
certainly moving fast as, before our very eyes, the right to free speech
is being torn to shreds by means of censorship across social media and
the internet, cancelling all opinions deemed unacceptable to the ruling
class.
persuasion | Censorship is about who has the power to censor, and what checks are
placed upon that power. Right now, tech companies have all the power,
and they exercise it as a like-minded cartel. When we see Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Cruz voice similar concerns over what happened to
WallStreetBets last week, we should realize that the politics of this
issue in the post-Trump era will no longer divide along an axis of Left
and Right, but of insider and outsider.
Elizabeth Warren, when
she started landing blows against Wall Street after the 2008 financial
crisis, met with President Obama’s economics adviser, the former
treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers. He presented her
with a choice: “I could be an insider or I could be an outsider,” she
recalled in her 2014 memoir, A Fighting Chance. “Outsiders can
say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them.
Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas.
People—powerful people—listen to what they have to say. But insiders
also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.”
.@AOC bringing back her social media crash course for members of Congress. Here's what lawmakers took away from it at the 2019 session: https://t.co/daHysbxKIc
Occasional Cortex Fans tell themselves that AOC is positioning herself as an insider: “I will show you how to develop a base and raise money without going through Pelosi or the DNC.” They delude themselves into believing that she is the most interesting politician around right now.
It’s
precisely this insider-protection scheme that the internet and social
media have most disrupted. Insiders are massively powerful but few in
number. Outsiders have always been numerous but unorganized. Social
networking and online organizing have given the outsiders real power to
effect change, and finally register their disgust at the way incompetent
elites protect each other. The elites of Big Business, Big Media, Wall
Street, and Washington are terrified of this, and will leverage any
censorship power to keep the outsiders at bay.
The Real “Big Lie”
After
the storming of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, we heard a lot about
the “Big Lie” perpetrated by Trump and his allies that the election was
“stolen.” In reality, this narrative never got far. It was rejected by
the media (including Fox News), thrown out by the courts, labeled by
social networks as “disputed,” and dismissed by politicians, including
Trump’s own vice president. Yes, some far-right groups like the Proud
Boys and Oath Keepers came to Washington to commit acts of violence, but
they were roundly denounced. For a Big Lie to be successful, it has to
have buy-in from the people in power, moneyed interests, the
narrative-framers in the media generally, all of whom have to benefit
from the lie and therefore repeat it.
But what issue could
possibly unite all of these constituencies? For several years, elites in
the media, government, and now finance have denounced social media as a
tool for propaganda, disinformation and hate. Social media was to blame
for the Russian disinformation that supposedly elected Trump in 2016.
Social media was fingered as the main culprit in an “insurrection” that
attempted to overthrow an election. And now, WallStreetBets is accused
without evidence of spreading hate and misinformation. We’ve even been
told that social media is worse than cigarettes.
What
all of our elites have in common is a reason to fear social media.
Legacy media hates social media for disrupting their business models and
competing with them for influence. Wall Street has just learned that
organized social networks can threaten their control of the Monopoly
board. The party in power benefits from increased censorship and
repression of political dissent by labeling it “hate speech” and
“disinformation.” Ironically, the tech oligarchs benefit the least from
the censorship they impose, but the threat of break-up keeps them in
line.
If there is a Big Lie in American politics right now, it is
the idea that censorship of social media is necessary to save
democracy. In his book The Square and the Tower,
the historian Niall Ferguson describes the age-old tension between
hierarchies and networks—between the rulers in the Tower and the people
in the Square. The last thing that the rulers want to see when they look
down is a teeming throng in the Square. And nobody benefits more than
the rulers from malleable censorship rules that are easily weaponized to
restrict, disrupt, or disband the Square. What the insiders fear is not
the end of democracy, but the end of their control over it, and the
loss of the benefits they extract from it. Ultimately, the battle over
speech is just one aspect of a broader war for power amid a growing
political realignment that is not Left versus Right, but rather insider
versus outsider. Thanks to social media, the outsiders are threatening
to replace who’s in the Tower, and the insiders have never been more
scared.
TAC | I read the files on Hunter Biden’s laptop. They paint a sleazy picture
of multi-million dollar wire transfers, potential money laundering, and
possible tax evasion. They raise serious questions about the judgment
and propriety of Jim Biden, the president-elect’s brother, and Joe
himself. Call it smoke not fire, but smoke that should not be ignored.
The files were supplied to TAC by a known source previously established to have access.
Joe Biden is lucky a coordinated media effort kept Hunter out of the campaign. The FBI has had the laptop since 2019, when they subpoenaed
the files in connection with a money laundering investigation. Federal
investigators also served a round of subpoenas on December 8, a month
after the election, including one for Hunter Biden himself. While the
legal thrust of the investigation by the federal prosecutor in Delaware
is taxes, the real focus seems to be on Hunter’s Chinese connections.
This all comes after the FBI has had over a year to examine some of the
same files TAC looked at.
In the final weeks before the election, Hunter’s laptop fell into Republican hands. The story went public in the New York Post,
revealing that Hunter Biden introduced his father, then vice president,
to a top executive at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma less than a year
before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into
firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company. The meeting is
mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser
to the board of Burisma, sent Hunter Biden about a year after Hunter
himself joined the Burisma board at a salary of $83,000 a month with no obvious work duties past making such introductions.
Nice
work if you can get it, and to get it your dad better be vice
president. If all that alone does not meet the test of impropriety, we
need a new test. Hunter Biden’s value to clients was his perceived
access to the White House. His father Joe was at least a passive
participant in the scheme, maybe more than that.
The
problem was many Americans never heard this story. Twitter led a social
media charge to not allow the information online. After years of
salivating over every bit of Trump family gossip, the mainstream media
claimed the Biden story did not matter, or was Russian disinfo. Surveys suggest the information could have swung the election if voters had known about it. One survey showed that enough people in battleground states would have changed their votes to give Trump 311 electoral votes and reelection.
No
mind, really. As soon as it became clear Joe Biden was going to win,
the media on all sides lost interest in the laptop. The story became
about the story. It devolved into think pieces about the Orwellian role
of social media and some online giggling about the sex tapes on the
laptop. But our short attention spans have consequences. The laptop
still has a lot to tell us.
Hunter’s laptop was chock-a-block with video that appears to show Hunter
smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with a woman, as well as
numerous other sexually explicit images. There’s evidence there that
Hunter spent money on escorts, some $21,000 on cam sites, big plays on all sorts of depravities.
There is also Joe’s car insurance information, Hunter’s SSN, pages of
call logs, and lots of email addresses, bank account numbers, and
personal information of prominent people. None of the material is
encrypted, just dumped on a standard MacBook Pro using the password
“Hunter02.” The machine was regularly connected to the internet and
might as well have had an electronic sign on it saying “My dad is
important, here’s what you’ll need to blackmail me and others to get to
him.”
technologyreview | Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite. How a team of spies in Mexico got their hands on Russia's space secrets—and tried to change the course of the Cold War.
Scott and
the CIA had already been exploring other plans to steal the spacecraft.
On November 19, six miles up the Panuco River from the Gulf of Mexico,
two American spies watched the Soviet ship carrying the Luna arrive at
the Port of Tampico.
The first was Robert Zambernardi, an Italian-American CIA officer
from Massachusetts. With tan skin and a droopy black mustache, he could
pass for a local during covert operations, and was an expert in
photography, secret writing, disguise, and womanizing. Zambernardi also
controlled a team of mercenaries he called Rudos—“tough
guys”—from Mexico’s corrupt and violent Federal Judicial Police. They
made treasonous Americans “disappear,” according to Mexican journalist
and TV personality Jaime Maussan, who interviewed Zambernardi for a 2017
book about the mission, Operación LightFire.
The
second man was Warren L. Dean, Winston Scott’s deputy chief of station.
A tall and dashing martini man, Dean had joined the FBI and chased
Nazis in Bolivia and Chile, before serving under Scott in London and
then joining him in Mexico City. Dean watched workers load the cargo
from the Soviet boat onto a train, and asked his colleague if they could
somehow grab it during its journey to the auditorium.
“We can delay it a few hours,” said Zambernardi, but he dissuaded Dean from staging a Mexican great train robbery, according to Operación Lightfire. “Moving photos are always very blurry,” Zambernardi told him. “We need the train to stop.”
The freight cars were slowly loaded with objects from Russian
life—everything from hammer and sickle postage stamps, to fur coats, and
instruments that displayed the might of Soviet science: cutting-edge
microscopes that revealed the invisible, and world-beating telescopes
that scanned the great beyond. Under the unflinching stares of armed KGB
agents, workers lifted the Luna onto the train.
“There are too many loose ends here,” Dean conceded, according to Maussan’s account. “We will do the kidnapping with Silveti.”
unlimitedhangout | The devastating hack on SolarWinds was quickly pinned on Russia by US
intelligence. A more likely culprit, Samanage, a company whose software
was integrated into SolarWinds’ software just as the “back door” was
inserted, is deeply tied to Israeli intelligence and intelligence-linked
families such as the Maxwells.
In mid-December of 2020, a massive hack compromised the networks of
numerous US federal agencies, major corporations, the top five
accounting firms in the country, and the military, among others. Despite
most US media attention now focusing on election-related chaos, the
fallout from the hack continues to make headlines day after day.
The hack, which affected Texas-based software provider SolarWinds,
was blamed on Russia on January 5 by the US government’s Cyber Unified
Coordination Group. Their statement asserted that the attackers were “likely Russian in origin,” but they failed to provide evidence to back up that claim.
Since
then, numerous developments in the official investigation have been
reported, but no actual evidence pointing to Russia has yet to be
released. Rather, mainstream media outlets began reporting the
intelligence community’s “likely” conclusion as fact right away, with
the New York Timessubsequently reporting that
US investigators were examining a product used by SolarWinds that was
sold by a Czech Republic–based company, as the possible entry point for
the “Russian hackers.” Interest in that company, however, comes from the
fact that the attackers most likely had access to the systems of a
contractor or subsidiary of SolarWinds. This, combined with the
evidence-free report from US intelligence on “likely” Russian
involvement, is said to be the reason investigators are focusing on the
Czech company, though any of SolarWinds’ contractors/subsidiaries could
have been the entry point.
Such narratives clearly echo those that
became prominent in the wake of the 2016 election, when now-debunked
claims were made that Russian hackers were responsible for leaked emails
published by WikiLeaks. Parallels are obvious when one considers that
SolarWinds quickly brought on the discredited firm CrowdStrike to aid them in securing their networks and investigating the hack. CrowdStrike had also been brought on by the DNC after the 2016 WikiLeaks publication, and subsequently it was central in developing the false declarations regarding the involvement of “Russian hackers” in that event.
There
are also other parallels. As Russiagate played out, it became apparent
that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and a foreign power,
but the nation was Israel, not Russia. Indeed, many of the reports that came out of Russiagate revealed collusionwith Israel,
yet those instances received little coverage and generated little media
outrage. This has led some to suggest that Russiagate may have been a
cover for what was in fact Israelgate.
Similarly, in the case of
the SolarWinds hack, there is the odd case and timing of SolarWinds’
acquisition of a company called Samanage in 2019. As this report will
explore, Samanage’s deep ties to Israeli intelligence, venture-capital
firms connected to both intelligence and Isabel Maxwell, as well as
Samange’s integration with the Orion software at the time of the back
door’s insertion warrant investigation every bit as much as SolarWinds’
Czech-based contractor.
WaPo | For the past four years, the United States was governed by a conspiracy theorist in chief. Whether by retweetingQAnon
accounts from the Oval Office or painting himself as the victim of
shadowy “deep state” plots at rallies, President Donald Trump injected
the toxin of baseless conspiratorial thinking straight into America’s
political bloodstream. On Jan. 6, America saw how far that venom had
spread, as a ragtag group of militias, racist extremists and flag-waving
disciples of Trumpism stormed the Capitol.
The
insurrectionists were unified by their support for Trump. But many of
them shared another crucial trait: They were conspiracy theorists. And
while hundreds of people stormed the Capitol, there are millions of Americans who share their views. There is no doubt: The United States has a serious problem with pathological political delusions.
So, do we have any hope of deprogramming the millions of Americans who are devoted to dangerous lunacy? Don’t hold your breath.
Psychologists
and political scientists have been interested in conspiracy theories
for decades, but their research has taken on new urgency. And what is
clear from their findings is this: Once people have gone far enough down
the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking, it can be nearly impossible
to get them back out.
There
are a few reasons conspiracy theories are so “sticky” once they’re in
someone’s head. First, conspiracy theorists are far more likely to have a
Manichaean worldview,
meaning they interpret everything as a battle between good and evil.
That makes it harder for dispassionate evidence-based arguments to break
through. (For QAnon believers, Trump is the central superhero in an
epic saga to vanquish a shadowy cabal.)
Second,
those who seek to debunk conspiracy theories are precisely the people
that true believers distrust. If someone believes the media is
controlled by sinister but unseen puppet masters, fact checks from CNN
will never convince them they’re wrong.
thedebrief |In an exclusive feature for The Debrief,
U.S. military and intelligence officials, as well as Pentagon emails,
offer an unprecedented glimpse behind the scenes of what’s currently
going on with The Pentagon’s investigation into UFOs, or as they term
them, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP).
For the last two years, the
Department of Defense’s newly revamped “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Task Force” (or UAPTF) has been busy briefing lawmakers, Intelligence
Community stakeholders, and the highest levels of the U.S. military on
encounters with what they say are mysterious airborne objects that defy
conventional explanations.
Along with classified briefings,
multiple senior U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter say
two classified intelligence reports on UAP have been widely distributed
to the U.S. Intelligence Community. Numerous sources from various
government agencies told The Debrief
that these reports include clear photographic evidence of UAP. The
reports also explicitly state that the Task Force is considering the
possibility that these unidentified objects could, as stated by one
source from the U.S. Intelligence Community said, be operated by
“intelligences of unknown origin.”
Significantly, a retired U.S. Air
Force brigadier general and head of RAND corporation’s Space Enterprise
Initiative has—for the first time—gone on record to discuss some of the
most likely explanations for UAP.
His responses were surprising.
Overwhelmingly, everyone The Debrief
spoke with said the most striking feature of the recently released
UAPTF intelligence position report was the inclusion of new and
“extremely clear” photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft.
The photograph, which is said to
have also been taken from inside the cockpit of a military fighter jet,
depicted an apparent aerospace vehicle described as a large equilateral
triangle with rounded or “blunted” edges and large, perfectly spherical
white “lights” in each corner. Officials who had seen it said the image
was captured in 2019 by an F/A-18 fighter pilot.
Two officials that received the
report said the photo was taken after the triangular craft emerged from
the ocean and began to ascend straight upwards at a 90-degree angle. It
was indicated that this event occurred off the eastern coast of the
United States. Several other sources confirmed the photo’s existence;
however, they declined to provide any further specifics of the
incident.
Regarding the overall theme of the
recent report, officials who read it say the report primarily focused
on “Unidentified Submersible Phenomena,” or unidentified “transmedium”
vehicles capable of operating both under water and in the air.
The three officials we spoke with
said the report suggested the UAP Task Force appears to be concerned
that the objects being termed as UAP may be originating from within the
world’s oceans. Strange as this may sound, the idea of “USOs” or
“unidentified submersible objects” is not something exclusive to the
current UAPTF.
americanthinker |Suddenly,
though, the media is releasing information about the criminal
investigations into not both Hunter Biden and Joe’s brother, James
Biden. As the above tweet notes, these investigations have been ongoing
for years. We also know that a sizable number of voters
would have passed over Biden for Trump had they known about Biden
family corruption. So, what gives? Why are Hunter and, by extension, Joe
himself, suddenly fair game?
It could be that bad things are about to come down from the FBI. After all, Trump did promise
that “a lot of big things” will happen soon. The sudden flurry of
reports about the Bidens could just be the Democrats’ way of getting
ahead of the story so that, if Hunter is shown doing the perp walk, they
can say that it’s “old news.”
However,
it’s equally likely that the Democrats are making plans to get Biden
out of office as quickly as possible – or perhaps, sideline him before
he’s even sworn in (assuming, of course, that Biden hangs onto that
president-elect title). As Monica Showalter pointed out on Thursday, Biden is not making leftists happy. He’s filling his possible administration with corporate insiders, he wants a former military officer to head the defense department, and he’s continuing to show a very rapid cognitive decline. He's offering Clinton-era politics with a side of dementia and that is not what the hard left side of the party wants.
In
any event, the goal, always, was to get Kamala into the White House. It
didn’t and doesn’t matter that the voters don’t like her -- as
demonstrated by the fact that even her home state of California didn’t like her and her early retreat from the primaries. What matters is that she, unlike both Hillary and Joe, is Barack Obama’s true third term.
Harris
is as hard left as they come and willing to do whatever it takes to
maintain power. While Joe Biden, despite his corruption and his shift to
the hard left, still cherishes some residual notions about the
Constitution, Kamala is not hindered by such old-fashioned ideas:
With
Americans at large finally learning that Hunter Biden and James Biden
are crooked and that Joe is the big, corrupt tree from which these
rotten apples fell, there’s going to be lots of pressure on Joe to
retire as quickly as is politely possible. It’s The New York Times that
gives the game away. On Thursday, it published a positively wistful
article entitled “Investigation of His Son Is Likely to Hang Over Biden
as He Takes Office: Unless the Trump Justice Department clears Hunter
Biden, the new president will confront the prospect of his own
administration handling an inquiry that could expose his son to criminal
prosecution.” The opening paragraph, speaks of Biden in a “no-win situation” that could be “politically and legally perilous,” and the report continues in that vein. The subtext is clear: Leave. Leave now.
Joe
served his purpose by being the bland front person for a full leftist
assault on the White House. Now it’s time for him to go. And while his
handlers may reward him for a job well done with the pleasure of the
inauguration, you can be sure that they’ll pressure him to do what he promised to do, which is to invent a respectable disease and quit ASAP.
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