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Dear Mark Zuckerberg: “We are Fiona Godlee and Kamran Abbasi, editors of The BMJ, one of the world’s oldest and most influential general medical journals. We are writing to raise serious concerns about the ‘fact checking’ being undertaken by third party providers on behalf of Facebook/Meta”

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Open letter from The BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

In September, a former employee of Ventavia, a contract research company helping carry out the main Pfizer covid-19 vaccine trial, began providing The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. These materials revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety. We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.

The BMJ commissioned an investigative reporter to write up the story for our journal. The article was published on 2 November, following legal review, external peer review and subject to The BMJ’s usual high level editorial oversight and review.[1]

But from November 10, readers began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share our article. Some reported being unable to share it. Many others reported having their posts flagged with a warning about “Missing context … Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.” Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share “false information” might have their posts moved lower in Facebook’s News Feed. Group administrators where the article was shared received messages from Facebook informing them that such posts were “partly false.”

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A personal note: Mark, you are being a fucking asshole in this, in election fraud and mind control of much of the world. You are a punk stuffed with a selfish ideology you probably do not fully understand. If you do understand, you are evil. No one anywhere near you will tell you this, but it is something you should hear and pay attention to. ABN

Francis Collins is making a strawman argument as to the justification for his political demand to undermine scientific opposition.  The three scientists were not advocating to put vulnerable people at risk, or letting the virus just run through the population.  They were arguing the severity of the NIH and CDC response.  The lockdowns and mitigation effort, was disproportionate to the risk the virus presented

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Fox News' Bret Baier asked Dr. Francis Collins about his email calling the Great Barrington Declaration authors (@DrJBhattacharya, @MartinKulldorff) "fringe epidemiologists."

Collins: "Hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we had followed that strategy."

Uh … 🤔

Originally tweeted by Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) on December 19, 2021.

The scale of overreaction -not only in the email- from the medical and scientific establishment to any counter opinion or criticism only points out how those who made these decisions were/are incapable of accepting criticism.  That is a dangerous personality trait.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins are thin-skinned, unstable ideologues with visions of grandiosity. They have wreaked havoc on our nation and permeated a major crisis on the global stage.   These are not mentally or emotionally stable people, and it shows.

These are people who needed a career operating in government systems and institutions, because they could never be successful in the private sector.  They are devoid of skills needed outside academia and institutional structure.  These are very disturbed minds who have allowed their power to influence their narcissistic self-image.

History will not look well upon Collins or Fauci any more than history reflects well upon Josef Mengele.

They Are Losing Control of the COVID Narrative, and They Will Respond with More Restrictions

The title of this is also from Sundance’s article quoted above. I 100% agree Collins is a disaster, as are Fauci, Wallensky, Birx, and more. Our govt is infested with people so wrong-headed they have turned science upside down. ABN

Hospital misclassifications of the ill as “covid patients” degraded care in exchange for federal dollars

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A disturbing article here detailing how the government basically bribed hospitals to label every patient a COVID patient, and then patients had their standards of care reduced as they were treated for COVID to get government payoffs instead of other illnesses they needed treatment for, their families were kept out of the loop on their care and away from them so they couldn’t interfere, and they were given inefficacious treatments instead of drugs which worked like Ivermectin and HCQ, all so the COVID numbers would explode and patients labeled “COVID” would die in large numbers. Jon Rappoport summarizes the important, really unbelievable points here. The effort to produce as many deaths as possible was more extensive than just putting sick patients in nursing homes and blocking drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin. We are really dealing with an outright enemy looking to kill us, and it appears in full control of not just the government, but the medical industry as well. I told you I was seeing their assets all through the medical field, from nurses to doctors.

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This is as low and dirty as it gets, institutional cruelty and murder under the color “government approved.” ABN

Pierre Kory: “Over the last two years, our political and public health authorities have talked often of trusting science to guide an effective response to this terrible virus, but their actions have more often been dictated by tribalism and greed”

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Omicron emerging in the United States and news of the first reported death in the United Kingdom remind us how little we understand the novel coronavirus, and with vaccines less effective against the new variant, how much we are in need of additional ways to fight it. To broaden our knowledge of COVID-19 and identify the best ways to treat and prevent it, doctors should be able to use every possible safe means at their disposal to help patients. Unfortunately, that is impossible in our current political climate.

Since the summer of 2020, U.S. public health agencies have continually shut down the use or even discussion of generic treatments that are minimally profitable. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded 20 large research studies of patented pharmaceutical industry drugs before only recently (and slowly) agreeing to study repurposed generic medicines.

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Ex-MIT board member says her concerns about Chinese spying were deemed ‘racist’

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But Bethel argued MIT is unaware of the challenges it faces when mingling research with a research institute beholden to the CCP.

“I believe that MIT doesn’t have a firm grasp on events in China or on the risks of partnerships with Chinese institutions in cutting-edge areas of science that are subject to misappropriation or abuse for military modernization or repression,” Bethel wrote.

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Rather than comment in-depth on the naivety and agreeableness of elite Westerners (for receiving bribery & flattery) when dealing with China, I direct readers to this comment section for a variety of insights from people, many of whom have lived in China. ABN

Panic Hits Meet The Press as They Contemplate Collective Media’s Inability to Destroy Donald Trump and Manipulate Public Opinion

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The NBC media panel for Meet the Press is absolutely apoplectic about their inability to destroy President Donald Trump and his supportive base of pragmatic, awakened Americans.   The pearl-clutching and fear are palpable, as the leftist roundtable contemplates future elections that may deconstruct decades of election control, manipulation, fraud and falsehood.

What the panel of John Heilemann, Marianna Sotomayor, Kimberly Atkins Stohr and Brendan Buckreally really fear is the pesky system within our constitutional republic we call ‘federalism’.   They need to keep their attacks against Donald Trump cast in the role of eliminating baby Hitler simply to avoid confronting the flaws in their own ideological arguments.  They fear freedom. They need the collective. Individual liberty is against their own sense of self and purpose.

If you listen through their nonsense (not for the faint of heart), all of the panel apoplexy boils down to individual states in control of their own elections.  What they fear is federalism itself, which makes sense when you remind yourself there are two generations of leftists who were taught that collectivism (the we are the world crap), where only one centralized federal government, of all consuming power and authority, should be allowed to make decisions. 

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Sundance, no need to capitalize every word in a “natural speech” headline like this. Caps make reading harder as they signal a different type of headline and convey a mood different from what you probably intend. Just a friendly suggestion. ABN

Researcher Andrew Hill’s conflict: A $40 million Gates Foundation grant vs a half million human lives

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In a stunning admission, virologist Dr. Andrew Hill acknowledged in a zoom call that publication of his study could lead to the deaths of at least a half million people.

In defending his reversal on the effectiveness of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, he discussed his “difficult situation” and said, “I’ve got this role where I’m supposed to produce this paper and we’re in a very difficult, delicate balance.”

…Hill had previously authored a analysis of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 that found the drug overwhelmingly effective.

On Jan. 6 of 2020, Hill testified enthusiastically before the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidlelines Panel in support of ivermectin’s use. Within a month, however, Hill found himself in what he describes as a “tricky situation.” Under pressure from his funding sponsors, Hill then published an unfavorable study. Ironically, he used the same sources as in the original study. Only the conclusions had changed.

Shortly before he published, Dr. Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy in Bath, England, and one of the world’s leading medical research analysts, contacted Hill via Zoom and recorded the call (transcript below). Lawrie had learned of his new position and reached out to try to rectify the situation.

In a remarkable exchange, Hill admitted his manipulated study would likely delay the uptake of ivermectin in the UK and United States, but said he hoped his doing so would only set the lifesaving drug’s acceptance back by about “six weeks,” after which he was willing to give his support for its use.

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This story is frightening, important to understand. ABN

Hilaria Baldwin says something important about information reality: “Everybody has trolls. Everybody has people who want to tell you whether you’re good or bad or what you think or what you feel”

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Video source: Hilaria Baldwin claims husband Alec Baldwin has been suffering from PTSD for a ‘long time’ even before Rust shooting… and complains about living in the ‘famous world’ in new video

I am not taking sides on what happened in the shooting. But clearly Hilaria has experienced intense stress while at the same time being slightly removed from it. What she says is wise and very true. ABN

Michigan diocese instructs priests to deny sacraments to LGBTQ people unless they have repented

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A Michigan diocese issued a sweeping rule that members of the LGBTQ community cannot be given holy sacraments until they have repented

In addition to repenting, the diocese explains that anyone in a same-sex relationship must leave their partner

The Diocese of Marquette sparked controversy on social media by the policy, which many experts say is not likely to be adapted by others

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An excellent side of Buddhism is its core principles—impermanence, emptiness, no-self, wisdom and harmlessness—very naturally adapt to changing cultural and historical conditions. Buddhist morality is as clear as any morality can be, without being rigidly based on scriptural dictates of an ancient civilization. Buddhists “take refuge” in the Dharma, the Buddhist community, and in Shakyamuni Buddha as teacher. The essence of Buddhist practice is the Three Trainings: sila, samadhi, prajna—morality, concentration, wisdom. Buddhists are not only allowed to understand things in their own way to the best of their ability, but are encouraged to so. All human beings are capable of enlightenment. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha. The most basic sexual morality is do no harm to others through your sexual behavior. ABN

The afterlife

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If you are a hard no-afterlife-is-possible, you will never actually experience it. If you are right, death = end of all experience.

If you are open to there being an afterlife, you will be better prepared for one if it happens. If there is no afterlife, you will never know you were wrong.

Given the above, it is reasonable to presume that our instincts and inklings that morality matters should be heeded. It is reasonable to look for signs of an afterlife. It is reasonable to prepare for an afterlife.

Here is the Mayor of New York spreading COVID misinformation, because he knows there are no consequences for purposefully lying if it’s in service of policy the media supports

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Here is the Mayor of New York spreading COVID misinformation, because he knows there are no consequences for purposefully lying if it’s in service of policy the media supports

There has been zero benefit whatsoever to vaccine mandates in New York City vs neighboring counties

Originally tweeted by IM (@ianmSC) on November 23, 2021.

China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018

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This responsibility mandate is the impetus behind obfuscation efforts on the part of Chinese officials regarding the origins of Covid-19 – efforts to block a reasonable process of discovery, which are profiled in this article. The People’s Republic of China and its Chinese Communist Party (hereinafter ‘the CCP’, ‘China’s CCP’, or ‘The Party’) owe the world restitution along the same legal lines as those which presided in the Iran Flight 655 case. Theirs was a case of malicious negligence in the handling of a Chinese-made virus which could be mistakenly released as a defacto weapon of war, no different than a missile inadvertently deployed from an anti-air warfare, or even strategic nuclear system. A duty which was entrusted to them by the international community for handling and safekeeping of such a potential weapon. A duty they were negligent and cavalier in executing, causing the ‘shoot-down’ death of myriad innocents outside their nation.2

How do we infer that the Chinese Communist Party both reacted to and concealed the existence of SARS-CoV-2 as far back as March 2018? There is a critical path of query and dependency necessary and sufficient in prosecuting this problem from a deductive perspective. The questions which compose this pathway are exhibited in detail within this article. To summarize in advance, the critical arguments within this article involve eight key avenues of consilient inference:

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