Mark

To be fair ... Binswanger argues, in a string of sophistries, that the spike protein jab is very safe and very effective. He doesn’t endorse any government forcing people to get it. Apparently he, like Brook, has no problem with companies requiring their employees to get jabbed, in effect forcing them to do it. (Of course many companies are private in name only, being substantially financed by, or otherwise benefiting from, government, but ARI ignores this.) And though they denounce government forcing people to get jabbed, for every word they utter about it they utter several hundred words praising vaccination to the skies. Getting jabbed is good; oh, by the way, the government shouldn’t force you to be good. Thus they take half the moral fire out of opposing forced vaccination.

Christian Drosten is Germany’s Anthony Faucci. Recently he said that he hoped for multiple post-vaccination infections: “I want to have vaccine immunity and then, on top of that, I want to have my first infection, and my second, and my third at some point.” Why is he saying this now? The following is excerpted from an article by “eugyppius,” There Are No Arguments on the Other Side: ---------------------------------------------------------- The answer is vaccine failure. Drosten spoke after steep case spikes in the United States and Israel had shown all the world that the SARS-2 vaccines do not stop transmission. These events had destroyed all arguments for Germany’s coercive vaccination policies, along with any lingering hopes that anybody, anywhere would eradicate SARS-2. It was up to Drosten to see how these awkward facts might be sewn into the tapestry of virus hysteria that he and the rest of the propaganda apparatus had spent the last 18 months spinning. His particular ... trial balloon is interesting, as one of various clues suggesting that elites understand the vaccines have failed, and that they no longer believe that anything beyond natural immunity will end the pandemic. As numbers deteriorate over the winter, they will beat the vaccination drums ever louder – not because they think this will help, but because the alternative to blaming the unvaccinated is admitting failure. They will now vaccinate and vaccinate and vaccinate, while Corona infects ever wider numbers of people. In this way, they plan to usher some semblance of herd immunity in through the back door, while allowing the vaccines to take the credit for falling infections in the spring. They played the same game with lockdowns. ... the vaccinators don’t have coherent arguments anymore; they just have power. You can tell this from the lazy and extremely stupid things that they say in the press all the time: This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, they explain, so we have to vaccinate everyone to reduce spread, but breakthrough infections don’t matter, since the primary purpose of vaccination is to limit severe disease, which is why we have to vaccinate children, who are not at risk of severe disease, in order to reduce spread. ... The great problem these geniuses [like Drosten, said sarcastically] now face, is that while virus anxiety has become a self-reinforcing phenomenon with a life of its own, none of their hysteria-fuelled methods have worked. The people in charge have sown demand for virus eradication, which is the one thing they cannot deliver. But they can’t just end suppression policies either, unless they want the eradicationists to blame them for every last Corona death. They have no options but to insist on more of the same – first more lockdowns and more masks, now more vaccines. The discourse surrounding vaccination isn’t supposed to be correct. It’s supposed to justify vaccination policies politically and encourage compliance. If the vaccines were actually safe and effective, this encouragement wouldn’t be necessary and none of us would be here saying any of these things. The Pfizer child vaccine trial is the latest in a long line of travesties showing that there is no longer any interest, anywhere, in studying the safety or the effectiveness of the vaccines at all. The vaccinators are like a cornered animal. They will say anything to escape the inconvenient trap that their own rhetoric and heedless policies have put them in.

COVID VACCINE AGENDA NOW TARGETING YOUNG CHILDREN by Joel Skousen, World Affairs Brief, 31 Oct. 2021 If ever there was any doubt about the evil and rapacious agenda behind this vaccine propaganda and promotion it is the recent decision by the FDA to allow it to be given to children as young as age 5. Children are not even at risk for the Covid virus, but their developing immune system and less-robust elimination systems, make them highly susceptible to damage from the vaccine. Real doctors warned the FDA panel that the rise in deaths and vaccine damage to teens who are now getting the shot should give them pause about widening the emergency use of this injection to children, but their testimony fell on deaf ears. The panel acted like its mind was already made up and they were simple going through the motions of the hearing.

With a name like Kawsar Talaat – both names are Muslim – she is either an immigrant from the Middle East or her parents where unassimilated immigrants from the Middle East. Her John Hopkins webpage says she is fluent in Arabic (and Spanish, which I imagine was acquired in order to deal with Spanish speaking patients). It may be a case of an immigrant doing the dirty work Americans won’t do, except that unfortunately a lot of Americans are doing it or keeping quiet while others do it. ARI has been promoting Amesh Adalja all through this covid fiasco. He also is affiliated with Johns Hopkins and his M.D. is from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. Here’s what he said about vaccinating children: “...when the vaccine is approved for children above the age of five, that’s going to help with our population immunity because those children are going to be – it’s going to be harder for the virus to infect them. And that’s going to be important as we move the next transition phase of this pandemic.” Last month Binswanger published Vaccine skepticism is arbitrary “The safety and efficacy of the mRNA Covid vaccines are established beyond any reasonable doubt.” Etc. These stupid people would do much harm. Fortunately even among Ayn Rand fans few are listening to them any more; at least I get that impression.

By Ann Bauer: I Have Been Through This Before She makes an analogy: ... Covid ... is to ... Covid propaganda as ... Autism ... is to ... Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School About Covid propaganda: “History will out. Ten or 15 or 25 years from now there will a reckoning, deep research, a spate of biographies and memoirs from the people who spent 2020-21 under the sway of gurus. News media that trumpeted their wisdom and methods will issue brisk, researched, documentary-style reports. People will swarm out of the shadows to claim they didn’t really believe the experts embodied science and were secretly resisting all along; even those who preached their gospel and strong-armed the public’s obedience will insist they actually did not.” About Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School: “I don’t know what I thought I’d find there. Maybe I was looking for the answer to how terribly and repeatedly we as people can get our responses to nature so wrong. The courtyard was empty, brilliantly sunny. The brick buildings were old and graceful, like hallowed monuments to science. I had to remind myself there were decades of abuse, psychological terror, and forced separation from parents within the walls of this place. And for all those years, staff watched and participated without a single one of them speaking out.”

Ellen, This document on the FDA’s website seems to say VRBPAC was chartered in December 2019: Charter of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee But also on the FDA’s website there is a reference to VRBPAC dated April 26, 2019: Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee In the little time I spent looking I didn’t find anything dated before that. Mark

I’ve read about legal cases where common sense trumped contract. A person entered into a contract that was patently ridiculous and the courts voided the contract. (The cases that I remember reading about in the newspaper or history books involved selling rights to something at a ridiculously underestimated value.) Surely the tacit or written consent of the vaxxed to hold Pfizer free of responsibility for injury, when Pfizer has lied so much about testing and safety and efficacy, qualifies as ridiculous. Pfizer etc. has made tens of billions of dollars from this poison. (Off the government – one cannot sell a EUA drug privately.) Pfizer etc. should be forced to disgorge those billions to their victims. The situation is insane now but hopefully sanity will return. I really, really, like Dr. Meryl Nass. Here is her letter to the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, before their decision about child vaccination: Do children aged five through eleven need to be vaccinated for COVID?

Ellen, I listened several times to make a faithful transcript and was puzzled myself at that word “rational”. It may have been a verbal slip, hard to tell; he’s not the most consistent person in the world. I added [sic ?] to the transcription. Any masochists here can listen to it at youtube.com/watch?v=QX6BJAxuSFI&t=1510s Mark

Meanwhile back at ARI ... Yaron Brook Show, 12 September 2021 [25:10] "Why are people not getting vaccinated? What is it about these vaccines that is causing people not to get vaccinated? Because, I mean, the reality is that anybody over a certain age, and certainly in certain parts of the country, it is completely rational [sic?] not to get vaccinated. The, the, the, the number of people dying from covid is ten times more among the vaccinated than the non-vaccinated [sic, he intended to say the reverse, as what he says next makes clear]. I mean, if you have any susceptibility to this [covid disease], because of age, because of co-morbidity, or just, if you want to eliminate the random risk, the possibility that you would, you know, land up in a hospital from this, you get vaccinated. The cost is minimal and the side-effects are minimal. The risk is zero. "So why aren’t people getting vaccinated? And the reason people are not getting vaccinated, the reason people buy into conspiracy theories, or one reason they buy into conspiracy theories around this, is because a political class, left and right, have completely lost, completely lost, the confidence of the American people. [Suddenly reads from chat:] Wonder Freeman says ‘Sepsis kills 300 thousand people a year.’ Yes. But the point is that if you get vaccinated covid shouldn’t be killing anybody, pretty much. I mean, yes, some people will still die, but the numbers would by tiny and insignificant, and nobody would, it would be less than sepsis, a lot less. It’s, this is, huh, covid is easy to deal with. Vaccines are amazing. Amazingly effective. "But everybody has lost confidence in our government. They’ve lost confidence in the authorities, they’ve lost confidence in our president, in the previous one and in this one. They’ve lost confidence in the entire public health mechanism. The CDC, Faucci, and the whole thing." Comment: He doesn't address why people have lost confidence in these “authorities.” After more in the same vein: "So, uh, irrationality is rampant in the world in which we live. Uh, people should do their own research, and to do their own research means get the facts, and I think that if you get the facts I think that everybody, everybody over a certain age, certainly over 40, will get vaccinated. And everybody obese, over the age of 20 would get vaccinated. But people are not interested in facts, people don’t believe the numbers, people don’t believe the evidence." Unlike his rational, factual self. He concludes that not only is it authoritarian for the government to force people to take the vaccine, it makes the vaccine look bad. He concludes: "It’s challenged in court; I hope it gets overturned, but it might not. ... but I hope in the court of public opinion it is challenged. I also hope you all get vaccinated. And then challenge it [that is, being forced to do what’s good for you]. Again, if you’re over 40, if you have uh, if you have a uh, uh, any kind of co-morbidity, please get vaccinated." The only positive thing I can say about this excerpt is that, without saying so explicitly, it takes for granted that forcing people to take the vaccine, and the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, are two separate issues. Even if the vaccine were safe and effective (I would say, Brook would say they are), it would not justify forcing people to take it. And at least he didn’t recommend the vaccine for the young. (On the other hand he didn’t explicitly discourage it.)

tmj, Thanks for posting the link to the video about the 19 year old woman. At the very end the young woman said she couldn’t talk about something personal because she was still trying to face “what has been taken from me” (quoting from memory). This could refer to a neurological deficit because earlier she spoke of having had tremors and a severe headache, symptoms of a neurological assault. But another, I imagine more likely, possibility is that the shot-induced blood clots rendered her infertile. I added the video to this list of horrors, mainly focusing on the neurological: Vaccine Horrors At the end there is a link to an interview with a physician’s aid: Deborah Conrad Mark

The federal government and most state governments want to mandate the spike protein shot, They would force you to take it on pain of losing your job and doubtless further punishments in future. Whether that is right or not is a question separate from the safety and efficiency of a medical treatment. Suppose for a moment that the spike protein shot is all Peter says it is: very safe, phenomenally effective. Here are a few quotes from an article Peter references, “America’s Finally Telling the Anti-Vax Nuts Where They Can Go,” on the leftist website The Daily Beast: ... we must completely dispense with thoughts and prayers and placating conversations to convince vaccine-hesitant Americans. Instead, it’s time to lay the boom down with vaccine mandates across schools, airlines, and businesses ...” ... ... California ... announced that [it] will require coronavirus vaccine mandates for all schoolchildren in the coming year. In a sane country, this policy would be celebrated and embraced by other states ... ... If anti-vax parents don’t like it, they can homeschool their kids ... [Comment: At least he’s not opposed to home-schooling but apparently he’s happy with forcing parents to pay for the public schools they can no longer use.] ... [Airlines] must follow [two politicians’] proposal requiring passengers to be vaccinated or show proof of a negative test before domestic flights. Etc. What is Peter doing on a discussion group more-or-less informed by libertarian ideals?

From the AmericanThinker article quoted by anthony: “... the left has permanently trashed medical ethics in their quest to fundamentally transform America". The left isn’t in a position to affect the ethics of doctors. And I doubt that most doctors themselves are rubbing their hands together in private thinking “I’m fundamentally transforming America.” Just what are they thinking? That is a puzzle. It may have to do with what it takes to get into medical school. The process tends to winnow out independent and adventurous thinkers; don’t rock the boat, get straight A’s. And after medical school there is a lot of sucking up to superiors to get ahead. It all cultivates a herd mentality. They do what they are told to do. With covid and the vaccines they are acting as if hypnotized. The people at the top, though, don’t have the shabby excuse of evasion. I think they know what they are doing, and they are motivated by money, power, and the leftist mind-set. Long ago Rand recognized the fundamental nature of that mind-set. When she was writing her novels leftists talked about helping the workers. She realized the left wasn’t out to help them at all, it was out to destroy just for the sake of destruction. She called leftism “anti-life” in her novels and essays. Today we see that mentality naked and unashamed. They’re killing and maiming people wholesale, both intentionally and because they don’t care if they do. That they are going after youth and children is beyond horrible. First mass vaccination at any cost, then passports, then individually tagged digital currency – total state control of individuals, that is their desire. The totalitarianism of the early part of the 20th century in Russia and parts of Europe would be like the horse and buggy is to the modern car. We absolutely have to reverse this. The unvaxxed, the un-poisoned we should say, ought to act proud. Shame the vaxxed, the poisoned, for going along with the leftist program. Besides risking their health they are traitors. The “powers that be” can’t arrest all of us. Each vaxxed is a sell out. (This is rather off-the-cuff and rambling but I haven’t got time to compose something better.)

Any discovery begins with anecdotes. (The lead may or may not pan out.) I believe that penicillin was never subjected to a double-blind study until well after it had been used for years with great benefit. It worked, why withhold it from people who needed it. Double-blind studies have their place but one place they don’t have is a satiation where time is critical. In that case you do the best you can even if you might be prejudiced.

Ellen, That randomness is the insidious thing about these mRNA vaccines. Most, way most, people (in the short term, no one knows about long-term) seem all right after getting jabbed. Cases like Tiffany Dover are very rare (she keeled over right after the jab, and on public TV). Yet statistically a significant percentage of the vaccinated die or are horrendously injured. (Another day I’ll post some links about people injured neurologically.) As Dr. Peter McCulough points out, you are better off taking the chance with covid than with the mRNA vaccine. With proper treatment (HCQ or Ivermectin, Quercetin, Zinc, vitamin D, aspirin as an anticoagulant) your chance of surviving, and surviving just fine, with covid is virtually 100%. Even with no treatment at all, assuming you are healthy and take vitamins, your chance is better with covid than with the vaccine. But "they" – who seem to be practically everybody in mainstream media, politics, and medicine – hide behind the random nature of the vaccine’s effects. It would be better if it were cyanide, then its nature would be obvious. As it is, it is cyanide roulette. Language is very important in propaganda. As you (Ellen) say, it is not the vaxxed vs. the unvaxed, it is the poisoned vs. the un-poisoned.

I don’t know enough biblical history and theology to follow the disagreement between Neil and Valliant but obviously Valliant isn’t exactly a class act. From the video: “What Neil Parille does, this is the jerk we’re talking about, the dishonest, lying, you know, stalker. I mean the guy’s got mental issues as far as I can tell, ah, huh, ha, huh, huh, huh, huuh.”

This Week in the World Affairs Brief THE LOSING BATTLE AGAINST THE MANDATE — MASS FIRINGS BEGIN by Joel Skousen Even as new protests emerge and a small minority of unvaccinated employees band together to fight for their jobs ... the handwriting is on the wall – the courts are not supporting legal challenges to the mandates, and companies are not backing down. In fact, they are getting more aggressive about enforcing the vaccine mandate and preparing to fire those who refuse the Covid vaccines, or make life so difficult for them, that they either cave or quit. It’s hard to believe that hospitals are willing to even shut down certain operations due to lack of personnel rather than relent to the requests for accommodating exceptions. There is a powerful and evil agenda behind these mRNA vaccines that is driving the threats and relentless pressure on everyone to comply. I see no end in sight to this pressure. All of these coming job losses add to the enforced slowdown in the economy, which will provide multiple avenues for the globalists to enforce their “solutions” for the Great Reset upon us. I don’t detect even a hint of remorse in the media or corporate CEOs for the mandate’s role in the shortages and mass resignations that are occurring – so committed are they, either wittingly or blindly to the global game plan. -------------------------------------------------------- I think the “losing” in “losing battle” is premature but certainly things are not going well. In his news aggregator is the article White House Details Plan To "Quickly" Vaccinate 28 Million Children Age 5-11 From the article, emphasis mine: ... the White House has secured enough [Pfizer product] to supply more than 25,000 doses for pediatricians and primary care physicians who have already signed up to deliver the vaccine, while the country now has enough Pfizer vaccine to jab roughly 28 million kids who will soon be eligible ... Meanwhile, the White House is rolling out an 'advertising' campaign to convince parents and kids that the vaccine is safe and effective. According to the report, "the administration believes trusted messengers — educators, doctors, and community leaders — will be vital to encouraging vaccinations."

The following gobbledegook is from OSHA's website, osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs, emphasis mine: “Are adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine recordable on the OSHA recordkeeping log? “DOL [Department of Labor] and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers' vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904's recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination at least through May 2022.” Forget inexpensive and effect treatments, forget natural immunity, the “powers that be” want to force you to get jabbed regardless and they don’t want to know when you get injured. It's clear forced vaccination is not about your health. I’m taking OSHA's existence for granted and pointing out the contradiction of its position with caring about safety.

Anthony and Peter, Not according to Dr. Peter McCullough. In his recent talk Winning the War Against Therapeutic Nihilism he said that although vaccinated people who get Covid can be easier to treat, across all age groups statitically you are better off taking your changes with Covid rather than the vaccine. The link above is to my abridgement of his talk. The abridgement is less than an hour. I removed a technical section that no one would understand and a few irrelvant asides. People are unlikely to watch a video lasting more than an hour. Consider giving out the abridgement link above rather than a link to the original Bitchute or Rumble. This is an absolutely terrific talk and deserves wide distribution.

Even if Dr. Mercola is a bit of a huckster (I'm not saying he is, and I don't think he's a quack) he's certainly doing good work these days. See his Businesses: $700,000 Fine for Not Complying With Vax Mandate (The link is to a reprint because the original is up only temporarily.) Recall that the folks at the so-called Ayn Rand Institute supported Biden over Trump, saying Trump was "authoritarian." They are either flaming idiots or making fools out of their supporters.

Measles is rarely harmful. In my childhood days every kid got measles. I got it, and I'm here to say it meant staying in bed with the curtains drawn. I haven't looked into the measles vaccine but considering the corruption being revealed in the vaccine industry it's worth considering that the measles vaccine might, statistically, be more harmful than the disease itself. But set that aside. No vaccine should be forced on anyone, or on anyone's children. All vaccines have risks. Whether to have them or not is a decision that ought to be left to the parents. One attorney who is fighting in this battle is Patricia Flynn , who specializes in religious exemptions to vaccination. She describes what she has had to put up with in this interview she gave on the Lew Rockwell Show in 2012.

This Week in the World Affairs Brief THE PROFESSIONAL REBELLION AGAINST VACCINE MANDATES by Joel Skousen Ayn Rand’s classic libertarian novel “Atlas Shrugged” describes a rebellion of the productive class against the encroaching socialist state. Her mythical hero, John Galt, encourages the most productive and essential corporate leaders in the nation to shrug the world of socialist burdens off of their shoulders and quit—knowing that without their skills and innovative leadership society under socialism will collapse. All these hard-working people retreat to Galt’s Gulch in the Rocky Mountains and prepare to rebuild later. There are similarities to this theme now as some of the best people are forced out of their jobs over these totalitarian Covid vaccine mandates. Sadly, the vaunted leadership class that Ayn envisioned leading the way has utterly failed to fight against the lies and deceptions of the false pandemic. They have either joined the conspiracy as knowing conspirators or become mindless yes-men and cheerleaders for these ruthless vaccines and freedom-wrecking Covid mandates. Instead there is a small but growing class of hard-working professionals who do the critical work of airlines, hospitals, railroads and ferries who are balking at the vaccine mandate, calling in sick, filing lawsuits and even quitting their jobs rather than submit to this tyranny. Just as in her fictional writing, as good people are forced out, it is creating havoc with the economy as shortages and delays get worse every day. The big question this week is, “Is it enough and will they be able to outlast the Powers-That-Be arrayed against them?”

Nurses at Minnesota Town Hall Meeting

tmj, Why not tell us what you mean? If you refer to the word “vaccinated,” I agree that the FDA/CDC use of the word is deceptive.

ARI event staff will be vaccinated, attendees must either be vaccinated or tested before and during event. The following is from an email sent by ARI. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masks No one will be required to wear a mask at the conference but of course, anyone is welcome to do so. Proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test result (a requirement that will be waived with proof of vaccination). We are requiring that all attendees bring proof of a negative result from a COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of checking in person for the conference. We also are requiring that attendees take a second test for COVID-19 during the conference, 48 to 72 hours after check-in. We will provide this second test free of charge to attendees, but anyone who tests positive will have to self-isolate in accordance with the hotel’s (and any applicable governmental) procedures. These two testing requirements will be waived, however, for any attendee who provides proof of having been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. You may bring proof of vaccination with you when you register in person. But to make the registration process as easy and quick as possible, you can upload your proof of vaccination here via our secure website. Your information will be stored in a private, secure server. Regrettably, anyone who cannot provide proof of a negative result from a COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours (and who has not had this requirement waived by providing proof of vaccination), will not be permitted to attend the conference in person. If you foresee this to be your situation, please contact us. Signed liability waiver We are requiring that all attendees sign a liability waiver when registering in person at the conference. For your reference, here is a link to the form that you will be required to sign. ARI employees ARI staff working at OCON will be required to provide proof that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Everyone at high risk for complications from COVID-19 is strongly encouraged to stay home and attend the conference virtually. Everyone for whom reason exists to think that if they contract COVID-19, the illness will be severe, is strongly encouraged to stay home. This includes but is not limited to individuals who are unvaccinated and aged 65 or over, and individuals with compromised immune systems. Please contact us if you have paid the registration fee but for health reasons now wish to stay home. All attendees should carefully weigh the fact that Austin is currently a COVID-19 hotspot. The fact that Austin is currently a COVID-19 hotspot has implications that are worth considering. Here are two of the most important ones. First, if you plan to go out in Austin to restaurants, bars, or other public venues, you should assume that you will be exposed to the virus. Even if you are fully vaccinated, this does not guarantee that you will not contract COVID-19, or that if you do contract COVID-19 you will be symptom-free, or that if you do contract COVID-19 you will not require hospitalization. Second, various news outlets are reporting that Intensive Care Units in the Austin area are operating at or near capacity, and if you require ICU-level treatment for COVID-19, you should assume that it may be unavailable. And of course, this also holds true should you require ICU-level treatment for a non-COVID-19-related condition or disease. If you decide to join us at OCON, know that we are planning a great, inspiring conference packed with great content and activities. -----------------------------------------------------------------

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra fires flutist who spread conspiracy theories Quoting the article: A flutist for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra who was publicly rebuked for her conspiracy-laden social media posts has been fired from the prestigious group. Emily Skala, whose posts on COVID-19 and November’s presidential election led the orchestra to distance itself from her in February, was terminated as its principal flutist Tuesday in accordance with its “progressive discipline policy,” the Baltimore Sun reported. ... Skala had previously claimed on Facebook that the coronavirus was “created in a lab” at the University of North Carolina before being sold to another laboratory in Wuhan, the Sun reported, adding that some of her other posts were flagged by Facebook for misinformation. see also She also pushed theories of election fraud, but has denied being a “conspiracy theorist” despite her belief that President Biden was not the authentic winner of November’s election.