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-Great Cultural Revolution
Facing the Beast
[FRONTPAGEMAG] I was relaxing in our screened porch in our little cottage in the forest, feeling rather pleased with myself. It had been an arduous week of the usual combat for liberty, but there had been victories.

I was reading a decorating magazine (we all have our vices). The grass was dewy; birds were loud. The morning was glorious.

I was feeling pioneer-ish and independent. I was alone in the house; Brian was traveling. I enjoyed the narrative moment: "Lady in the woods."

Then I heard a "thump" about eight feet away behind my head. It was an exasperated thump, like a teenager slamming the door to his room. Like, "Really??"

I glanced behind me and saw the enormous ears and forehead of a sizable brown bear, who was ducking insolently, clearly aware of me, to lower himself behind the trash cans.

I sped indoors, locking the door. I grabbed a weapon out of the hall closet. In my haste, I grabbed the weapon that looked like a rifle, instead of the actual rifle, which was in a case. Thus I found myself locked in an upstairs bathroom, cowering, armed with a BB gun.

I sort of knew this bear. Brian had captured on his trail camera about a year ago, what must have been this bear and his brother or sister, when the little ones were just adorable cubs. One of the cubs had nuzzled the trailcam til the mom had batted it away, urging her little ones to follow her deeper into the woods, far from the dangerous things of men. One of the cubs was now this massive creature, that bear-watchers call a "sub-adult."

I saw, peering fearfully out of the window, that it was no longer cute and fat. It was was thin, but massively muscled, and looked disoriented. It must have been eight feet long.

I paced into the upstairs bedroom and secured the windows. The bear left the garbage cans, and followed me around the corner of the house. I could now see it pacing and sniffing directly opposite the bedroom windows, though on the ground level. There were windows all around the house on that level. Bears had been known to break into homes.

I looked under the bed: hiding there could not save me if the bear made it into the house. I realized I was holding a BB gun, and felt ridiculous. Even if I managed to shoot it, this would do nothing but enrage him. The thin bedroom doors that I had thought so rustic and charming, could be broken down by an angry animal of that size in no time.

My heart pounded as I realized that he was not leaving; he continued pacing and circling, no matter where I went.

I went back into the bathroom, and locked that door with its flimsy lock.

There he was again, outside on that side of the house, as if he was spotting me or as if he could scent me. Surely he could smell my fear.

I cowered behind the bathroom curtain. The bear paused in its ransacking of the trash, stood up again on hind legs, looked right at me — or smelled right at me — and bared its long, sharp yellow teeth.

If I had had sympathy for the hungry teenager abandoned by its mom (or "emancipated" by its mom, as the bear watching sites explain) it evaporated.

I was on the phone with Brian, frozen with fear.

"Make yourself big! Shout at him!" Brian instructed. That was impossible. I could not move. I could hardly breathe.

That would be it, surely, I thought, after he’d exhausted the trash bag. He’d leave now, surely. But no. He came back toward me again like a nightmare, and headed once more to circle the house.

I called the sheriff’s office.

Twice they told me that nothing could be done, and to stay inside. I don’t blame the Columbia County Sheriffs. They have issues to deal with more serious than a former city lady trapped in her house by a hungry bear.

But the bear kept circling right up against the walls of the house. This went on for an hour. Adrenaline poured through my bloodstream. I did wonder if I would die that day.

When I called back in spite of myself and begged the police for help, they told me to call again only if he managed to break into the house. (Thank you, ’Defund the Police’ advocates...)

At certain points of extreme stress, I could not even bring myself any longer to look outside to see where the bear was. What if I looked and couldn’t see him because he was already in the house? I went right into a place that is familiar to those of us with PTSD - a traumatized place where you freeze, and where you engage in magical thinking.

If I don’t look at the bear he won’t be there. If I don’t meet his gaze he won’t see me or smell me. I am somewhere else. I am not really here.

Reader, after an hour I was saved when brave colleagues of mine, Craig Klein, Reinette Senum and Jamie Arrigo, who had been meeting nearby, drove down our wooded driveway, blowing their car horns. I raced down the steps, never so happy to see people in my life. Reinette laughed at the sight of me racing to open the door, still carrying my useless BB gun.

I think I was coherent, but I was in shock. An officer from the Sheriff’s department arrived at the same time, bless him. Humans saved me. The aggressor, the wild animal, had been scared away, and not by me. I’d been a wreck, hopeless.

For days, I ruminated about the sharp yellow teeth of that bear, exposed as he raised his snout into the air, sniffing, like a scene from a horrifying fairy tale.

Why do I tell this story?

Because - the bear had been growing more and more comfortable emerging from the woods; he grew more and more comfortable exploring our trash and then he took over territory in exploring our lawn; he was "habituated" ultimately, as bear watchers say; he had ownership of the lawn and was circling the house to mark his territory. He was comfortable at last in stalking the homeowners.

He was here because — I had done nothing to stop him. He was here because I let him slowly take over our home.

My not being able to look directly at the bear did not make me any safer. My denial put me in greater danger.

This all, of course, really happened. But that does not mean it is not also a metaphor.

The same week that this happened, I also finalized my reporting about the Pfizer vaccines, showing — what I knew for months I would eventually find.

The heart of the manufacture and distribution of millions of doses of the MRNA vaccines that are causing such a swath of death and destruction throughout North America and Western Europe, is enmeshed with the plans, methods and manufacturing infrastructure of our existential adversary.

The enemy is within our very bodies.

Since I first started reading the reports produced by the 3000 medical and scientific experts of the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Research Volunteers team, based on the 55000 Pfizer documents released under court order, I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong, not just a greedy pharmaceutical company and a regulatory agency that was fully corrupted, but rather, or additionally, I was seeing a massive act of war.

When I saw the eighteen months’ worth of sudden deaths, slow deaths, encephalies, strokes, heart attacks, pericarditis, myocarditis, Guillain Barre, Bell’s palsy, MS, blood clots, lung clots, leg clots, blue-green breast milk, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, neonatal seizures, neonatal multi-organ system failure, liver damage, kidney damage, suppressed lactation, suppressed sperm count, disrupted menses, all detailed the Pfizer documents; when I saw the fact that 34,000 plus of the 42000 plus adverse events "cases" itemized in the worldwide rollout of the Pfizer injections, were sustained in the US — with the next largest group being sustained in Western Europe - and that the 56 countries around the world that also had Pfizer injections rolled out, amounted for only a bit over 7000 adverse events total — I knew I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but rather that I was seeing an act of war.

When I saw the doubling of neonatal deaths in country after country, the rise of 34% above normal in stillbirths and spontaneous abortions for vaccinated versus unvaccinated mothers; when I saw that 3816 vaccinated women in the VAERS database lost their babies — 57% of all the neonatal deaths in all the time that VAERS records had been kept; when I saw that of 36 pregnancies followed in the Pfizer documents, 28 of the babies died; when I saw the rise of 40 per cent in death rates and the shocking rise in cases of disability in the West, I knew I was not seeing just medicine gone wrong on a massive scale, but that I was witnessing an act of war.

When I saw that you could boost the lethality or the damage caused by the injection by simply changing how dilute the solution is, or simply by reassigning which brand you use - with Moderna (100 mcg) far more damaging than Pfizer (30 mcg) — I knew that I was seeing not just medicine gone wrong on massive scale, but an act of war.

When I saw a study out of Hong Kong in 2021 — a study that, of course, was answerable to the CCP — that revealed that a second dose (a "booster") into the bloodstreams of mice, resulted in visibly enlarged hearts with white patches that could be seen by the naked eye, as well as cytokine storms and liver damage, I realized that the two-dose regime and then the "boosters" were slow but progressive ways to damage and then destroy the health of Western patients. The study concluded: "Post-vaccination myopericarditis is reported after immunization with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines."

And yet with this CCP-overseen finding, that by injecting mammals with the MRNA vaccine, their hearts were visibly damaged, the worldwide injection program kept going.

[Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model, Can Li, Yanxia Chen, Yan Zhao, David Christopher Lung, Zhanhong Ye, Wenchen Song, Fei-Fei Liu, Jian-Piao Cai, Wan-Man Wong, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Siddharth Sridhar, Ivan Fan-Ngai Hung, Hin Chu, Kin-Hang Kok, Dong-Yan Jin, Anna Jinxia Zhang, Kwok-Yung Yuen; Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 74, Issue 11, 1 June 2022, Pages 1933—1950.\

We were told that Pfizer/BioNTech is a German company. But it is actually a German-Chinese company. Since I first found that Pfizer/BioNTech had an MOU with Fosun Pharmaceuticals, a major CCP-linked pharmaceutical company based in Shanghai, to make the Pfizer/BioNTech MRNA vaccines, I knew that with a bit more digging I would find China at the heart of these acts of war.

BioNTech’s SEC filing shows that the MOU with Fosun Pharmaceuticals includes an equity investment by Fosun in BioNTech. In other words, the CCP is an equity investor in BioNTech: "As part of the strategic alliance with Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd ("Fosun Pharma"; Stock Symbol: 600196.SH, 02196.HK) whereby the two companies will work together on the development of BNT162 in China, Fosun agreed to make an equity investment which was received in mid-April 2020. The issuance of 1,580,777 ordinary shares with the nominal amount of k€ 1,581 was registered within the commercial register (Handelsregister) as of April 23, 2020." Not only that but: "Ai-Min Hui, President of Global R&D, and Chief Medical Officer of Fosun Pharma said: "We are closely working with BioNTech and regulatory authorities to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the vaccine candidate, in order to synchronize the development process in China with other countries, and to bring the vaccine to public as soon as possible, if the vaccine succeeds."

Fosun is not separate from the CCP; it is the CCP: Fosun acquired almost half of Sinopharm: "In 2003 Fosun Pharmaceutical acquired 49% stake of Sinopharm Group (Chinese: 国药控股). [...] In 2008, a year before the initial public offering of Sinopharm Group, Fosun Pharmaceutical owned the direct parent company of Sinopharm Group, Sinopharm Industrial Investment (Chinese: 国药产业投资) instead; the majority owner of the joint venture was state-owned China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm)." 2003年年报 [2003 Annual Report] (PDF). Fosun Industrial. 24 April 2004. Retrieved 5 August 2018— via Shanghai Stock Exchange website. [^ 国药集团复星联合成立首家混合所有制药企. 企业观察报 (in Chinese (China)). 4 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2018 — via Sina; ^ 2009年年报 [2009 Annual Report] (PDF). Fosun Pharmaceutical. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2018 — via Shanghai Stock Exchange website.; ^ "Connection Transaction" (PDF) (Press release). Shanghai: Fosun International. 20 June 2008.]

Sinopharm, of course, as you see above, of which Fosun owns almost half, is owned in turn directly by the Chinese State and thus reports directly to the CCP.

The initial BioNTech/Fosun MOU seems to imply that all of the BioNTech/Fosun joint ventures’ activity is in China, or in regions aligned with or close to China. But is that now the case? Fosun Pharma did not stay in China.

It came here. Fosun Pharmaceuticals is now also Fosun Pharmaceuticals USA, with branches for R and D and product formulation in Boston, MA and Princeton, NJ.

It is producing formulations and products in the US for distribution in the US and around the world. Fosun Pharma has built a "global operation strategy" for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 PCR tests and COVID-19 antigen tests:

"Fosun Pharma has built a strong root in China and developed a global operation strategy, with pharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D being the largest and core business segment, [...]"

"In 2021, the revenue from new and sub-new products including COMIRNATY® (mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, also known as BNT162b2), [...] accounted for over 25% of the revenue in the pharmaceutical manufacturing segment;
· Revenue from regions outside Mainland China and countries overseas reached RMB13,599 million, accounting for 34.86% of the total revenue, marking a step forward on globalization." [Italics mine].

And more: "Continuously strengthening the global operation capability and making further enhancement for globalization, Fosun Pharma has formed a global operating system for R&D, manufacturing and commercialization, and continuously expands overseas markets. [..] Globalization capability is continuously strengthened. The second headquarters in the United States help to build a global business landscape with full coverage of R&D, manufacturing and commercialization.[...]

"By the end of 2021, Fosun Pharma’s overseas commercialization team with over 1,200 employees has built marketing platforms in the United States, Africa and Europe [italics mine] and has achieved direct sales of formulations to the U.S. market. [...] The COVID-19 test kit by Fosun Diagnostics has been sold in over ten countries. [...] Gland Pharma, a holding subsidiary in India, received approvals from the US FDA for 13 generic drugs in 2021.

"Leveraging the current global manufacturing capability and world-class manufacturing facilities [...] Fosun Pharma has accelerated the acquirement of international GMP certification of domestic production lines, laying a solid foundation for exporting domestic products. In January and March 2022, Fosun Pharmaceutical Industrial obtained the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP)’s license to produce and supply the generic version of Merck’s oral COVID-19 treatment Molnupiravir and Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 treatment Nirmatrelvir, as well as the co-packaged product of Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir of Pfizer [....]. The license includes both ingredients and the finished drug. Through this license, Fosun Pharma devoted itself further to fighting against the pandemic around the world."

Fosun Pharma USA offers potential partners: "A global reach with a focus on the United States and China markets". It offers "US Rights" and "Global Rights" as well as "China Rights."

The FDA Filing for the Fosun Pharma USA facility says the facility is authorized to "develop specifications," including for the PCR tests and antigen tests it creates, and that the facility can also have US agents.

This is crucial. Fosun Pharmaceuticals does not just partner with Pfizer/BioNTech to make the COVID-19 vaccines: they make, as noted, the PCR tests that are the one primary metric that determine the scale of the pandemic in North America and Western Europe and thus the "lockdowns" of whole countries, whole industrial sectors.

A CCP-run company, and CCP-created product, thus, decides — who can go to work or school, who must close his or her shop, who can or cannot travel — in all of Europe and the US. A CCP-run company decides the formulation of the PCR and antigen tests that go deep into the nasopharyngeal cavities of Westerners who are forced, week after week, to test and test and test with these products. This is what is on the Fosun Pharma USA’s product pages:

So this CCP-owned hybrid entity is here now and it is creating the diagnostic instruments that determine the scale of the pandemic in the West. The CCP can thus dial it up or down.

It also makes: millions of the Pfizer/BioNTech MRNA injections, the Merck COVID-19 pill Molnupiravir, the Pfizer COVID-19 pill Paxlovid — for which Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla just signed a contract with the US government for 10 million doses and $5.29 billion dollars for 2022 — all this for the US and for ten other countries including the EU.

These are all formulated and distributed by a company leading directly to Chinese Communist Party.

When Pres. Biden does a deal with Pfizer/BioNTech in the millions of dollars, with our tax money, he is giving a substantial portion of the funds to China. When he spends a billion dollars via omnibus bills for PPE, including millions for PCR and antigen tests, he is writing checks to — China.

This is from Fosun Pharmaceutical USA’s website section "R and D": look at the last three entries:

Is Fosun a squeaky clean CCP-run Pharma enterprise? In 2018 a whistleblower — and in China that is courageous thing to be — broke a scandal revealing that Fosun Pharmaceuticals had "massively" faked its data and also bribed regulators. Facilities were so chaotic that the US FDA sent the company a stern letter.

BioNTech’s SEC filing reports as 100 per cent achieved, a tech transfer to — China. Not to a "Chinese company" or a "Chinese individual" but to the country of — China:

Further, the SEC filing explains that it will effect the "technology transfer with China" after marketing approval has been granted. I don’t know what "Technology transfer" or "tech transfer" means in this SEC filing; SEC filing experts who have reviewed it for me have suggested that this can mean IP, manufacturing methodologies, formulas, data, or all four. But surely it is significant that the company BioNTech has declared as 100 % complete or in process, a "Tech transfer" to CHINA. It is not "sharing" the tech or "licensing" the tech — it is transferring the tech. That means that in some capacity, China will be or is in charge of some aspect of BioNTech’s technology, however that is defined here.

So take all of the above, and map it against the 150,000 plus adverse events in the Pfizer documents, the deadly harms to reproduction, the Western baby die-off, the babies in seizures; map it against the population drop, the rise in disabilities, map it against the rigid, cruel vaccine mandates aimed at Western defense forces (Canada’s, and Australia’s and all of Western Europe’s, as well as at the most powerful military in the world, that of the United States) — map it against the vaccine mandates aimed at our police, our health care workers, our firefighters, our pilots, our first responders, our kids, our babies — all this done by a White House captive, via Hunter Biden’s laptop, to the CCP. Add to all of this the evidence of birth rates declining, especially in the West, by 12-20 per cent:

How better to cripple the world’s other superpower than by destroying our American front lines and our American next generation, with tainted, murderous vaccines, flowed easily enough into the West via (not even that many) shell companies and cutouts? How easy to do the same to Western Europe, to Canada and Australia, as a whole?

Take all of the above and consider that the virus originated in China; and now all of the testing apparatuses, as well as millions of the vaccines, the catastrophically damaging or lethal "solutions" to the virus, also all originate from the same folks; the same leadership cadre who brought the world forced abortions, citizens welded into their homes, Uighur concentration camps, and organ harvesting.

I made the case in my new book The Bodies of Others that a transnational group of bad actors - including the WEF, The WHO, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, tech companies and the CCP — used the pandemic to crush humanity and in particular to destroy the West.

With the provenance of the vaccines and tests, you can see yet another mechanism, yet another core methodology of this warfare.

Mapping these points of evidence, I think you may start to see what I see.

This all means, of course, that we are staring into the abyss right now.

Traumatized or not, we all need to snap out of denial.

We let our adversary come too close to us. Into our very bloodstreams.

We need to save each other.

We need to turn and face the ravening beast.
Posted by: 746 || 07/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm more on the side of the bear in such stories. Sp I imagined his side.

__________________________


Smell of oldness. And female. Old female. Fear. Very fear. Why? No danger. Bubby just want chill here. Aaaahhh... pissing feel good! Piss in potted plant, hee hee hee. Bubby come here often. Good spot.

Old female with long stick now. Danger stick. Hurt uncle Dodo once, never walked same. Bubby want no trouble. Mummy warn about this behaviour. Stick people. Lunatics. Old female run around, growl to herself. Not to Bubby. Rude. Maybe Bubby should head back. Smell of more fear. Is something about to happen?

Old female shouting about a 'china' now. And aaar enn aayy. Shouting at Bubby. Eh?

Uh oh! More loud people! In lunatic speeding people box! Run Bubby, run! Fuck these people, this spot no good anymore. Old place good.




Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2022 6:01 Comments || Top||


#3  If one's going camping where there's bears, shouldn't they take tiger gonad scented shampoo? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  The vaccines appear to cause every malady known to man (and a few new ones). Like "chemtrails" and 5G and "soap poisoning".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/20/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  The "vaccine" Does. Not. Work. If it was otherwise harmless, there would still be no reason to get it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2022 7:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Because - the bear had been growing more and more comfortable emerging from the woods; he grew more and more comfortable exploring our trash and then he took over territory in exploring our lawn; he was "habituated" ultimately, as bear watchers say; he had ownership of the lawn and was circling the house to mark his territory. He was comfortable at last in stalking the homeowners.

He was here because — I had done nothing to stop him. He was here because I let him slowly take over our home.

My not being able to look directly at the bear did not make me any safer. My denial put me in greater danger.

This all, of course, really happened. But that does not mean it is not also a metaphor.


There are a lot more analogous metaphors for her bear story in this world than the vaccine.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/20/2022 8:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Murcek, I never said it did. I just pointed out that the attribution of a long (long, long) list of maladies to it is suspect. You can be skeptical of it without being gullible -- and this is getting into the "global climate change" territory, where everything is blamed on a single cause.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/20/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Rob, I agree there are many conspiracy theories and every malady under the sun associated with the coof vaxx.

OTOH, like many things COVID, anyone who says "the science is settled" will probably look dumb later.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||


#10 
If one's going camping where there's bears,
it would be advisable to be constantly surrounded by an always awake, appropriately armed security detail.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/20/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#11  MRNA werebear super soldiers!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 07/20/2022 15:14 Comments || Top||


Democratics Worried that Biden is Healthy
From The Onion
"... The whole plan in 2020 was to take back the White House with Biden and then the next time around—after he had fallen and broken a hip or suffered a massive stroke or flatlined on live TV in the middle of a big speech—nominate someone Democrats actually like. But unfortunately, it’s looking more and more like the president will still be breathing and have the cognitive functioning needed to put his name on the ballot one more time. This is a complete disaster."
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shocking that The Onion actually posted something both funny and true.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 07/20/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||

#2  The Onion dogs on Brandon again.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2022 16:39 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Depression 'is NOT caused by low serotonin levels': Study casts doubt over widespread use of potent drugs designed to treat chemical imbalance in brain
Eat'em like breath mints
[MAIL] Low serotonin levels do not cause depression, according to a major review.

Today's landmark findings call into question society's ever-growing reliance on antidepressants like Prozac.

Millions of patients take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, designed to boost levels of the 'feel-good' chemical.

University College London researchers argue, however, that there's 'no convincing evidence' that depression is caused by an imbalance of the chemical.

One academic involved in the study described the findings as 'eye-opening', and that 'everything I thought I knew has been flipped upside down'.

Lead author Professor Joanna Moncrieff, a psychiatrist, said: 'The popularity of the "chemical imbalance" theory has coincided with a huge increase in the use of antidepressants.

'Thousands suffer from side effects of antidepressants, including severe withdrawal effects that can occur when people try to stop them, yet prescription rates continue to rise.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2022 07:03 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Except SSRIs beat placebos in tests.

And "potent drugs"? The word means they work; the opposite of "impotent".

Maybe there are multiple causes? Maybe people are different?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/20/2022 9:13 Comments || Top||

#2  'The popularity of the "chemical imbalance" theory has coincided with a huge increase in the use of antidepressants.

Conspiracy psycho babble. Normality is just around the corner. Continue your meds regime, adding more as necessary.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Some people constitute a chemical imbalance in the Universe.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2022 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I blame all these drugs on why people are bat shit crazy now.
Posted by: Chris || 07/20/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  What's with all the hatred for medicine that actually helps people? I don't understand why so many sound like Scientologists on this.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/20/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Low serotonin levels do not cause depression, according to a major review.

Of course not. Depression causes low serotonin levels. A depressed person coulda told you that. Experts...
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2022 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Don't take that as anything but a hack's opinion by the way. My own theory, from the journals of Dr. Dron, pilgrim through this here lost planet of sissies.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2022 12:03 Comments || Top||

#8  My ex wife was on alot of these drugs for depression. She is an ex now for a reason and she's crazier than ever is my personal hatred for them.
Posted by: Chris || 07/20/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Three main causes of depression:

1) Location
2) Location
3) Location
Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2022 12:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Sorrow comes from some cause in life surely. Some would say there's a God sized hole in your soul. Some, of the behaviourist persuasion would say there's trauma or guilt or just unscratched itches behind you.

The one thing we can all agree on is stuffing chems into you to trick your brain into tripping on serotonin won't cure it.

Know what does work though? And nearly always? Prayer. Prayer may not take away your sorrow. But it won't let you suffer so much either.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||

#11  The Parable of the flood
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/20/2022 13:36 Comments || Top||

#12  Know what does work though?

Range time, and a good horse.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2022 15:19 Comments || Top||

#13  Range time, and a good horse.

Riding with you
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/20/2022 15:58 Comments || Top||

#14  My simplistic unprofessional view of depression: I see some peoples lives, decisions, the way they live… and they should be depressed. It is your mind and body trying to tell you to simplify, eliminate stress and shape up. Others have no reason to be depressed as they seem to have it all. I suggest they seek help as something is wrong. I have No clue what the solution to this condition is.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/20/2022 18:44 Comments || Top||

#15  After realizing that ketamine and scopolamine not only work much more quickly than the serotonin re-uptake inhibitor class of anti-depressants — hours instead of 4-6 weeks — it was initially thought they impacted the glutamate pathways in the brain. Then there was talk about stimulating the creation of new nerve connections, doing something to the opioid receptors…

In other words, as far as I can tell, they know little more about how ketamine and scopolamine impact depression than they do about the serotonin re-uptake inhibitors.

And in the meantime, they are also being prescribed to treatment resistant anxiety, PTSD, and so forth.

Nonetheless, it looks to me like ketamine and scopolamine should be the first resort for treatment rather than leave patients suffering for months trying things that end up not working.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2022 20:10 Comments || Top||

#16  Paroxetine is the safest SSRI I have come across. It doesn't treat the underlying cause of depression of course, that is kismet. It just increases serotonin output. What you do with that is your own lot. You take the thingy once a day, headache the first few doses but no adverse effects. And drinking plenty of water helps. Usually bouts of depression occur on specific time of day so the shrink prescribes taking it an hour earlier to when you're gonna go all gloomy.

In retrospect, I was rather young... Please do your research first. It comes in various potencies too.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2022 23:02 Comments || Top||

#17  Which works for who seems to be genetic or something. A dear young person of my acquaintance worked her way through a variety of SSRIs, scopolamine, electro-convulsive therapy... before Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation finally seems to be working.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2022 23:12 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Expert: Kazakhstan believes Russia is losing in Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The promoters of Western interests in Kazakhstan are convincing the local population that Russia cannot succeed in Ukraine. Kazakh political scientist Maksim Kaznacheev told this to REGNUM on July 19.
They have come to believe this? How very interesting.
The expert noted that Kazakh society is heterogeneous, most of the population adheres to "national-patriotic and pan-Turkic views."

"The lion's share of Kazakhstanis believes that Russia will not 'pull' Ukraine. He believes that the collective West will unite, send money, weapons and equipment to Kiev, and the situation in the conflict zone will return to the situation before February 24," the expert said.

According to Kaznacheev, the successes of Russia and its allies, which are now visible to the naked eye, do not convince the bulk of Kazakhstanis.

“The advance of Russian troops and the liberation of new settlements are ignored or explained by "accident and misunderstanding." People are sincerely convinced that "luck is temporary," and very soon Russia will not withstand the sanctions pressure and will break down,” the political scientist said.

Kaznacheev believes that such a point of view was formed on purpose and is now "supported by Kazakhstan's pro-Western and pro-Turkish elites, as well as the conductors of Western interests in Kazakhstan: foundations, media and public opinion leaders."

"The West in the Kazakh media forms an anti-Russian picture. Common sense and an adequate perception of reality are replaced by ideology. For example, the theses are actively replicated that “social protests are about to break out in Russia, which will bury the current political system under them, and the new political elite will negotiate with the West on the terms of surrender."

Posted by: badanov || 07/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Glorious nation of Kazakhstan - finest potassium in the world!
Posted by: Raj || 07/20/2022 0:52 Comments || Top||


Economy
With blatant lies like these about the inflation crippling America, it's no wonder that Biden's approval rating is in the toilet: A blistering takedown by top business chief ANDY PUZDER
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 

Anyone living on a weekly Paycheck or fixed retirement income has known the LSD's have been lying about inflation from the start.

But the question really is: Can Biden be blamed, or was it his handlers various agendas ?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/20/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I just got back from grocery shopping -- they lie and poorly.
Posted by: magpie || 07/20/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Secret Service Leaves the January 6th Committee and the Press Fuming With Announcement on Supposed 'Evidence'
BLUF:
[Red State] How many times can one committee chase its own tail? Every single time Liz Cheney and crew hit a dead end, we are assured that if they just had "this" piece of unobtainable "evidence," the entire Trump "insurrection" conspiracy would be proved true. Committee Chair Bennie Thompson is even quoted as believing these text messages could provide critical details about the Secret Service’s involvement on January 6th.

Do you see where this is going? The January 6th committee has absolutely nothing to prove their grand theory of a Trump-led coup, so now they are looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on. You see, it wasn’t that their entire investigation was dumb, partisan, and pointless. It’s that it was thwarted by that dastardly Secret Service deleting text messages as part of a phone upgrade. And surely those missing messages provide the smoking gun, right?

The entire thing is farcical. What does the committee think the Secret Service was doing on January 6th? Does anyone really think its leadership and agents were part of an attempt to take over the government? Besides, the deletion of the text messages is being defended by Joe Biden’s own appointee. Is the theory now that Biden officials are pro-January 6th?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2022 02:23 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No, but they were part of an agent provocateur operation to discredit Trump. This is nothing new, the US government has been doing it to its enemies for a long time.

You notice they never actually bother to engage with ideas? It's always that their enemies are horrible people in their personal lives. They pick their noses while at home alone and engage in the same garden-variety corruption as the rest of the DC establishment. And if there's no nose-picking going on, they'll invent some.
Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268 || 07/20/2022 6:24 Comments || Top||


#3  The same National Archives that didn't wanna know about Hillary's secret email server and the 30,000+ missing emails? F*ck right off!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2022 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Seems like we need the equivalent of a "blind trust" for gummint data. Of course, the blind trusts pols use for their investments (when required) are kabuki, so it's probably wishful thinking.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2022 7:48 Comments || Top||

#5 


Given the talent in the I.T. world and the fact every politician uses I.T. I'd bet we will be seeing Gigabytes of data being leaked on the January 6th committee regarding their private political lynch mob tactics soon.

Either way, I'd welcome an investigation of the investigator's adherence to the actual Law verse party politics? If violations occurred then indicting them for subversion, a ban from political office or holding any government position. Plus full reimbursement of wasted taxpayer funds.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/20/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Given the talent in the I.T. world....

Unfortunately a good percentage of those folks fall into the 'wokesphere' and wouldn't be of much help.

They saw what happened to Seth Rich.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/20/2022 8:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Someone who is looking like they have something to hide - probably has something to hide.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#8  My guess is that a core belief at the Secret Service, even now, is that if there is EVER a doubt by a President of their commitment to total privacy, they will not be able to do their job effectively. If they breach that cardinal rule and lead on Trump, they will also see Obama, Clinton, Biden stories that will destroy them as well. My father was on the Presidential Detail from 1940 to 1946 and was adamant about never talking out of school even to family.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/20/2022 12:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Seems like we need the equivalent of a "blind trust" for gummint data

Well, that's the Amazon Cloud.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  I strongly suspect there is a federal law against records destruction like the Secret Service admitted to. Not that this matters...
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/20/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Try telling the IRS you lost stuff they want for an audit while you were "upgrading your computer."

Yeah, that's the ticket. I'm sure they will be fine with that...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2022 13:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AOC Sits In Invisible Police Car Awaiting Transport To Invisible Jail
[Bee] AOC was arrested yesterday, and actually faked wearing handcuffs. The Bee continues After a heroic protest at the Supreme Court, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent the better part of three hours sitting in an invisible police car with her wrists bound by invisible handcuffs, waiting to be taken to an invisible jail.

"After being threatened with an invisible gun, I was thrown on the ground by invisible police!" shouted Ocasio-Cortez as she flipped her hair for the camera. "They've kept me stuffed in this invisible squad car for hours, the fascists! When I get out of the invisible slammer, I'm going to make them pay - every last invisible one of them!"

Several members of Congress were reportedly arrested outside of the Supreme Court today, where they were protesting the court ruling that Congress had to actually show up for work. "It is absolutely heinous that the Supreme Court would ask us to like, make laws," said Representative Ilhan Omar. "We are far too busy leading protests about abortion to actually write any legislation on it. Ugh, why are these invisible handcuffs always so tight?"

Sources say Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has already obtained her first prison tattoo, which is invisible, and is subsisting well thus far on invisible prison food. She has reportedly kept herself in solitary confinement inside an invisible box, but she does come out to weep outside her own invisible prison cell if she thinks anyone with a camera is nearby.

At publishing time, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has generously offered to donate her invisible handcuffs to be displayed in the Smithsonian in commemoration of her bravery.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2022 07:23 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Her fantasy life continues...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/20/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Seriously needed this, this morning.

Thank you
Frank G. & BB
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/20/2022 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  You're welcome ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2022 8:57 Comments || Top||



Republicans show political evolution with same-sex marriage vote
[The Hill] A vote on codifying federal protections for same-sex marriage demonstrated a sharp political evolution for Republicans on the issue over the last decade, with nearly four dozen House GOP members voting in favor of the legislation.

The House Republican Conference gave members breathing room by not whipping votes against the bill, which Democrats brought up in response to concerns about the Supreme Court potentially reversing course on the case that protected the right for same-sex couples to marry

Titled the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill would also repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage for federal purposes as being between one man and one woman.

"I’m sure we’ll probably be split" on the bill, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said of the conference on Tuesday morning, noting that he does not formally whip the conference for or against most bills.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), vice chairman of the House GOP conference, said that the whip team communicated to members that the vote was "a matter of personal conscience."

In the end, 47 House Republicans voted for the bill, including two members of House GOP leadership: Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer (Minn.).

"It’s the right vote, and I’m proud to vote for it," said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.).
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2022 05:29 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Show political evolution?" No, it's actually little more than the uniparty once again revealed.

Congressional priorities illustrated ?


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2022 5:39 Comments || Top||



#4  Nadler is a toxic sleaze, Skidmark.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/20/2022 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Things pass in the House, then get stopped in the Senate often enough. That’s how the system was designed.

Otherwise, there is the Supreme Court,
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2022 23:22 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Moderna Vaccine Increases Myocarditis Risk by 44 Times in Young Adults: Peer-Reviewed Study
[rupreparing.com] A French peer-reviewed study concluded that for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the risk of myocarditis skyrockets a week after vaccination.

The risk of myocarditis after mRNA vaccination was 8 times and 30 times greater than unvaccinated control groups for BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna), respectively.

The largest association for myocarditis following the Moderna jab was 44 times higher risk for persons aged 18 to 24 years.

As for the Pfizer shot, in relation to the same age group, the risk was 13 times higher.

Infection with the Chinese Communist Party virus yielded, by comparison, a 9 times greater risk of the same condition.

Myocarditis refers to the inflammation of the heart muscle—a life-threatening condition. There are many established causes for this heart condition. The leading cause—according to modern science’s most recent discoveries—is viruses; but during the pandemic, COVID mRNA vaccines have earned a place as a top suspect for myocarditis.

The new study’s goal was to provide an assessment of association with vaccines across sex and age groups.

"Both SARS-CoV2 infection and COVID mRNA vaccines have been associated with myocarditis. Knowing the spike protein’s affinity to ACE2 receptors in the heart and spike protein’s injury to cardiomyocytes (cells of the heart), the association of myocarditis with SARS-CoV2 virus or spike protein-based mRNA vaccination was not entirely unexpected," Dr. Sanjay Verma, a cardiologist, told The Epoch Times via email.

Verma also thinks the CDC’s analysis "erroneously suggests" that risk of myocarditis after SARS-CoV2 infection is greater than after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

"For the cases of myocarditis after SARS-CoV2, CDC uses officially confirmed PCR+ ’cases,’ even though their own seroprevalence data demonstrates that far more people have been infected than officially conformed PCR+ ’cases.’ For example, seroprevalence data as of Feb 21, 2022, reveals 75 percent (about 54 million) of all children have been infected compared to 12 million officially confirmed PCR+ ’cases’ (i.e., the actual number of kids infected is 4.5 times greater than PCR+ ’cases’). Therefore, calculating the risk of myocarditis after SARS-CoV2 infection, the rate noted by CDC would therefore need to be reduced by 4.5 times. Thus far, CDC has not adjusted its COVID-19 morbidity and mortality data accordingly," said the cardiologist, who practices in Coachella Valley, California.

The study analyzed 1,612 cases of myocarditis and 1,613 cases of pericarditis in France from May 12, 2021, to Oct. 31, 2021, involving 32 million people aged 12 to 50 years who received 46 million doses of mRNA vaccines.

It is limited by using solely hospital discharge diagnoses. Therefore, it does not include those who may have died before being hospitalized or those whose symptoms were not severe enough to be hospitalized.

"There have been reports (pdf) of autopsy-proven myocarditis after vaccination and anecdotal evidence of patients being dismissed by ER and never being hospitalized. Adjusting for these excluded subsets may yield even higher risk than reported in this study. Follow-up of the patients in this study was limited to one month after discharge. However, a previous cardiac MRI study found about 75 percent of patients with vaccine-associated myocarditis can have persistent MRI abnormalities 3—8 months after initial diagnosis," Verma said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2022 11:03 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the US Gov't is insisting young people and infants get the Jab why again ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  $$$$$$$$$$$
Posted by: Chris || 07/20/2022 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  when are the bad effects of the vax are greater than the benefit

that is the question

The US is the only country recommending vax down to 6 months old. Biden bragged about this. Reports are that a number of CDC, NIH and HHS scientists were opposed to this.

However, there isn't much doubt that people over 50 have a substantial net benefit from the vax.

Somewhere between 6 months and 50 years old is where the net benefits become less that the bad effects. We won't have a really good handle on this for many years.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/20/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I read the other day that only 2% of very young kids in the US have parents dumb or brainwashed enough to get them vaxxed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2022 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5 
only 2% of very young kids in the US have parents dumb or brainwashed enough to get them vaxxed.
Thank God
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 07/20/2022 13:37 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
What's behind Iran's claims of Iraqi women trafficking crackdown? - analysis
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems



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