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-Great Cultural Revolution
Joe Manchin pulls his $1.8 trillion spending compromise off the table: report
[NYPost] My 2 cents: this could be a stopping point in the Donk Crazy Descent in America. It "appears" that pressuring Manchin and Sinema in crazeee contemptuous terms/actions may not have worked so well?
It does, indeed. But if so, to what will they turn their malign attention next?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?
[American Thinker] First it was responsible manly smart men...
Commercials take up 27% of commercial television screen time and are the main source of income for TV and radio stations. In most cases, advertisements on all channels appear simultaneously, so don't try to change the channel, there will be commercials elsewhere, too. Nowadays they have also taken over the Internet. For a financial support, websites have to run ads on their pages, the largest share supplied and controlled by Google. Ads pry into your eyes, unceremoniously interfere with text, and on YouTube, in the most inappropriate places they cut into the action of films, lectures and concerts, tearing apart musical performances. There's no escaping commercials, we've grown accustomed to them, and they become almost as much a part of our lives as food, toilets, and sleep.

In the United States today, the White population (not including Hispanics) is 57.8%. In real life Caucasians are still in the majority, but now on TV and the Internet they are swept under the rug like trash. Blacks compose 14% of the U.S. population but appear in 50% of commercials. White actors now appear for promotion of health insurance, gold, loans and some medicines. Moreover, if a White person appears in a commercial, he/she is usually old, sick, a freak, or at the very least, an appendage to a Black partner. If there's a doctor on the screen, he's usually Black, while the patient is usually White. Caucasian young men appear in only 4% of the commercials! If some aliens began to study the population of Planet Earth through our TV commercials they would have a somewhat distorted picture of Americans, to put it mildly.

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Posted by: Frank G || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I usually make snide remarks like 'yeah, right - like they can afford that shit!' and it's all good.
Posted by: Raj || 01/09/2022 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Because Caucasians don't watch commercial television?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/09/2022 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know how it is elsewhere, but watching local Atlanta based networks one would think you were living in Zimbabwe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 1:37 Comments || Top||

#4  So we have come full circle from the 60's. An having BLK AMERICANS entertaining us 😷....
Posted by: NN2N2 || 01/09/2022 1:49 Comments || Top||

#5  What is a television?
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/09/2022 2:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Many have noticed this as well. Women majority in most movies in leading roles. Language changes also, Ebonics and so on. Old films disappearing as with books having been written or having men in leading roles. Media is losing a vast audience. Can you imagine acting in productions in NYC. They have killed off this industry. Best not even to view. It is a waist of time anyway.
Posted by: Dale || 01/09/2022 3:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Publishing caters to women
Hollywood caters to minority yoot

White male Caucasians? They're out building things, making stuff, creating value and wealth
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 4:06 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai, Cook, Trump, Musk, Gates, Hamm, Page, Brin, Buffet, Walton, Cathy, Koch, Dell, Mars, Pickens, Murdoch, Branson, Knight, Newhouse, Ruben, Furstenburg, Wang, Rockefeller, Stephens, Kaiser, Scott.....

See any commonality? Care to guess how many payrolls they meet every month?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 5:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Wait until you see the SuperBowl halftime show!
Posted by: Airandee || 01/09/2022 7:18 Comments || Top||

#10  1/2 time show....
What's to say they haven't already planned for a transgender male playing 😟 female dancer to lose clothing LIVE.... Like Janet J. Did years got "accidently" on cue.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/09/2022 8:23 Comments || Top||

#11  The depiction of blacks living in affluence and harmony with other races (including Asians, like the Amazon commercial) should be considered an outrageous lie by BLM, which drumbeats oppression 24/7. But of course, oppression is currency, so why would they object?
Posted by: jack salami || 01/09/2022 11:16 Comments || Top||

#12  Caucasians are no longer the target audience… now they are just the target.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/09/2022 13:43 Comments || Top||

#13  We're developing two cultures. One is for normal people who want to see a dramatic or comedic treatment of life's struggles, and aspirations.

The other is the 'official' culture of corporate consumer advertising + NFLX/Hollywood, Broadway and the Pravda-media: this increasingly resembles the Bolsheviks' surrogate reality," per historian Richard Pipes. From ch. 6 of Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, "Culture as Propaganda," p. 283:

"Propaganda was not a Bolshevik invention of course. The novelty of what the Bolsheviks did lay in the centrality of propaganda in Soviet life: previously used to touch up or to distort reality, in communist Russia became a surrogate reality.

"Communist propaganda strove, and to a surprising extent succeeded, in creating a fictitious world side by side with that of every day experience and in stark contradiction to it, which Soviet citizens were required to pretend to believe."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#14  Don't like TV or Hollywood content? Don't view it, boycott the sponsors and let them know.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/09/2022 14:05 Comments || Top||

#15  MF. I would argue we are already 2 different cultures with a widening gap. It's not just commercials, literary characters and historical figures have their ethnicity et al changed in the visual representation. Really woke commercials/entertainment will have NO blondes. None of this is targeted at anyone over say 18 probably, as they have codified their reality. This is for kids and teens to casually but repeatedly be exposed to it and it becomes reality.
Posted by: jefe101 || 01/09/2022 18:05 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Despotism Is the New Normal: Looming Threats to Freedom in 2022
[Rutherford Institute] Despotism has become our new normal.

Digital tyranny, surveillance. Intolerance, cancel culture, censorship. Lockdowns, mandates, government overreach. Supply chain shortages, inflation. Police brutality, home invasions, martial law. The loss of bodily integrity, privacy, autonomy.

These acts of tyranny by an authoritarian government have long since ceased to alarm or unnerve us. We have become desensitized to government brutality, accustomed to government corruption, and unfazed by the government’s assaults on our freedoms.

This present trajectory is unsustainable. The center cannot hold.

The following danger points pose some of the greatest threats to our collective and individual freedoms now and in the year to come.

Censorship. The most controversial issues of our day—gay rights, abortion, race, religion, sexuality, political correctness, police brutality, et al.—have become battlegrounds for those who claim to believe in freedom of speech but only when it favors the views and positions they support. Thus, while on paper, we are technically free to speak, in reality, we are only as free to speak as the government and tech giants such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. Yet it’s a slippery slope from censoring so-called illegitimate ideas to silencing truth. What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them. Unfortunately, censorship is just the beginning. Once you allow the government and its corporate partners to determine who is worthy enough to participate in society, anything goes.

The Emergency State. Now that the government has gotten a taste for flexing its police state powers by way of a bevy of lockdowns, mandates, restrictions, contact tracing programs, heightened surveillance, censorship, overcriminalization, etc., "we the people" may well find ourselves burdened with a Nanny State inclined to use its draconian pandemic powers to protect us from ourselves. Therein lies the danger of the government’s Machiavellian version of crisis management that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. This is the power grab hiding in plain sight.

Pre-crime. The government is about to rapidly expand its policing efforts to focus on pre-crime and thought crimes. Precrime, straight out of the realm of dystopian science fiction movies such as Minority Report, aims to prevent crimes before they happen by combining widespread surveillance, behavior prediction technologies, data mining, precognitive technology, and neighborhood and family snitch programs to enable police to capture would-be criminals before they can do any damage. The intent, of course, is for the government to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful in its preemptive efforts to combat domestic extremism, a broad label that can be applied to anything or anyone the government perceives to be a threat to its power.

The Surveillance State. This all-seeing fourth branch of government, comprised of a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors, watches everything we do, reads everything we write, listens to everything we say, and monitors everywhere we go. Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it is all being recorded, stored, and catalogued, and will be used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government’s choosing. Even agencies not traditionally associated with the intelligence community are part of the government’s growing network of snitches and spies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 06:19 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Enabled because the internet is the vast knowledge base of The Beast.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/09/2022 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Recently I went out into a heavily wooded area and left my cell phone in the woods.

I went home and went to a website that claimed it could track a person by their cell number.

I entered my cell number and used my home address as the starting point and it drew a map from my home to the exact point in the woods where I had placed my phone.

If I had any of your cell phone numbers I would know exactly where you are as you are reading this.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/09/2022 7:13 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Rozhin: Briefly about Kazakhstan
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] 1. Former head of the KNB Massimov was detained in the case of high treason. De facto, this already finally legitimizes the existing belief that the whole reason was the dismantling of the Kazakh clans and their struggle for power, in which Tokayev is now winning. In addition to Masimov, other unnamed high-ranking officials are reported to have been arrested.

2. Nazarbayev's press secretary said that he had not left Kazakhstan yet. It was also stated that Nazarbayev had held telephone conversations with the leaders of the CIS countries and that he called on everyone to "rally around Tokayev." It looks like an admission of defeat and the establishment of autocracy in Kazakhstan. But here it is better to wait for the video statements of Nazarbayev himself - so far they are being made on his behalf.

3. The suppression of the hotbeds of armed uprisings continues in the country, and it is too early to talk about full control over the situation. Nevertheless, in a number of cities they are already really putting things in order and began to eliminate the consequences. Plus, the funeral of the victims of the bloody events began. Today it became known that an Israeli citizen, as well as a young child, was killed in the same Alma-Ata.

4. The country continues to experience interruptions to the Internet and communications. The access control regime is gradually being built on the roads, which is already yielding certain results. While the peacekeepers take control of strategic objects, the authorities accumulate loyal troops and police units and send them to problem areas.

In general, it can be assumed that the events after the introduction of the CSTO troops and the arrests of officials involved in organizing the protests and riots, are embarking on a path leading to the stabilization of Kazakhstan, which will now be solely ruled by Tokayev. without looking back at the elbasy.

Kazakhstan. 01/08/2022 Evening

[ColonelCassad] The main for the evening in Kazakhstan.

1. The cleansing process in Kazakhstan is still ongoing, with videos and reports of ongoing gunfights between the military and police with armed militants. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirms information about dozens of killed militants. In Alma-Ata, they continue to collect the corpses of people killed on January 5-6 (among the dead there are 2 or 3 children). There are no Russian citizens among the victims. Life in a number of districts of the city is gradually returning to normal and the worst for Alma-Ata is most likely over. Of course. these events will remain in the memory of the townspeople for many years. Such a "black January", which seemed to bode nothing.

2. The normalization of transport links is gradually underway, including the resumption of the work of the airports of Kazakhstan. The airport in Almaty is promised to resume work on January 10. The Russian Federation provides assistance to citizens wishing to leave Kazakhstan and who had difficulties with departure during the events of January 5-7. Interruptions in the Internet and communication continue, which causes problems with the operation of electronic banking and the inability to use plastic cards. Shops in Almaty, which have already opened, work for cash. It is also worth noting that it was the Chinese specialists who helped the Kazakh authorities to block the Internet. The Chinese are now great masters in this area.

3. In the leadership of Kazakhstan, behind-the-scenes negotiations and resignations continue. Apparently, now there is a bargaining on the final terms of the honorable surrender of the Nazarbayev clan, which will save the face of Nazarbayev himself and save his family from criminal prosecution. The subject of bargaining is the future place of the Nazarbayev clan in the system of power and property of Kazakhstan. Of course, you can forget about the times when Tokayev was subordinate to Nazarbayev.

Now he is the sovereign ruler. But it is quite understandable that if we go to a complete clean-up of the Nazarbayev clan, this will increase the risk of an escalation of the conflict within the country. Therefore, such a fog around the main culprits of what happened. As soon as the parties agree on all the conditions, a list of the main culprits / scapegoats will be made public, including some members of the Nazarbayev clan. And they may not be. In any case, for objective reasons Tokayev will be much closer to Moscow and Beijing than Nazarbayev. And a little further from Ankara, Washington and Brussels, which upsets many in the west.

Judging by social networks, the Turks are most upset, who are already beginning to accuse Erdogan of not being too active in the Kazakhstani crisis and ultimately allowing Moscow to outplay himself. But, I believe, due to the economic influence of Turkey in Kazakhstan, Erdogan will remain in the game, even if his opportunities there will be reduced. that he was not very active in the Kazakh crisis and, as a result, allowed Moscow to outplay himself. But, I believe, due to the economic influence of Turkey in Kazakhstan, Erdogan will remain in the game, even if his opportunities there will be reduced. that he was not very active in the Kazakh crisis and, as a result, allowed Moscow to outplay himself. But, I believe, due to the economic influence of Turkey in Kazakhstan, Erdogan will remain in the game, even if his opportunities there will be reduced.

4. The authorities of Kazakhstan confirm the January decision to abandon the increase in gas prices from 60 to 120 tenge, and also preserve the state regulation of gas prices. In addition, until July 1, a moratorium is introduced on any increase in utility tariffs for the population. Taking into account the resignation of the government, which was associated with a conspiracy of gas workers that led to an increase in gas prices, in fact, all the initial demands of the protesters against the increase in gas prices were met. The plans of those forces that planned to use these justified protests of the citizens of Kazakhstan for their own selfish purposes have failed.

But I am sure that the citizens of Kazakhstan will be interested to know the names of the direct perpetrators of both the price increase and those who planned to use the protests in the internal political struggle, which led to the bloody events in Almaty.

5. The CSTO contingent has already got involved in the routine work of ensuring security and will complete its full deployment in the next 2-3 days. There are no clashes or conflicts, it is a purely security mission. The Kazakh authorities assure that as soon as the situation in the country stabilizes (according to various estimates, it will take another 2-3 weeks), the contingent may begin to prepare for the withdrawal (previously the figure of 1 month for the operation was called).

In principle, the task of the CSTO to show the ability to quickly transfer troops to the attacked country has already been completed, now the task is to show the effective work of the contingent and complete the operation beautifully, so that later it can be referred to as an example of the effective and active use of the CSTO troops, which of course will destroy the myth that ... that the CSTO is a paper structure incapable of anything.

This operation certainly surprised and upset many, since such agility was clearly not expected from the CSTO. Pashinyan, as the formal political leader of the operation on behalf of the CSTO, looks ridiculous, of course, but quite in the spirit of modern postmodernism, it is clear that the operation is being led from Moscow.
Posted by: badanov || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


A bit of gallows humor from Russia on Kazakhstan


From Boris Rozhin:

It's already January 8th. The invasion of Ukraine does not start and does not begin. Again we have exchanged "aggression" for something else ...
What will the prominent experts-aggressors say?

Posted by: badanov || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Gallows humor, perhaps - but if you can't laugh then they find you curled up in a corner, sucking your thumb and sobbing uncontrollably. Looks bad on your performance reviews.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/09/2022 8:11 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
‘We Have Been Lied To': Megyn Kelly Slams Bureaucrats Like ‘Prophet' Dr. Fauci Raking In The Cash
[WIRE] Megyn Kelly this week laid into bureaucrat "prophet" Dr. Anthony Fauci for "lying" to the American public regarding protocols and realities on all things COVID-related, citing flip-flops on quarantine timelines, cloth masks, and vaccine protection.

"The truth is that ’10 days’ [for quarantining] was a made-up standard from the beginning," Kelly said on her show, referring to the recent change from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cut back the ten-day quarantine frame to five days, so long as you don’t have symptoms.

"As was the six-feet distancing rule," Kelly continued, "as was the cloth mask rule, as was the 70% for herd immunity rule. I could go on."

"The point is: we have been lied to, we have been actively misled, we have been led around like mules on a tether by government bureaucrats, like Fauci, who wants to shut down your job while he makes north of $400,000 a year — and we learned this week is set to retire with a pension of over $350,00 a year."

"These people wanna muzzle your kid all day at school while they parade around maskless at dinners and the Met Gala," slammed Kelly, seemingly referring to far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other elected Democrats.

"They want to scare parents into sticking an experimental vaccine into their kids’ arms over and over and over — not one, but two shots, and then a mandatory third. Or no sports, or school, or indoor fun of any kind, despite the data that unvaccinated young people face a risk far less severe than that of fully-vaccinated adults."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 02:35 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two weeks to flatten the curve!
Vax this summer, and no surge this fall!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 4:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Flatten Fauci instead.
Posted by: KBK || 01/09/2022 23:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Black Panther Defense Minister Leaves Congress to Spend More Time With His Hate Group
[FrontPage] Rep. Bobby Rush, the former Deputy Minister of Defense for the Black Panthers, announced that he’s joining his fellow Democrats fleeing the sinking ship ahead of the midterms, not for political reasons mind you, but in order to spend more time with his grandchildren.

"We plan to arm the total black community so when the pigs come down on us, we will be equal," Rush once bragged. "We advocate offensive violence against the power structure... we are at war and the Minister of Defense must be in charge."

As a House Democrat, Rush, suffering from criminal hypocrisy and a broken mirror, falsely claimed during the BLM riots that President Trump "wants to instigate a race war".

A month after two police officers were murdered, the cops finally raided a Black Panther apartment where Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Chicago chapter, was holed up. This time around, the Panthers got the worst of the exchange. Rush, who had been there hours earlier, emerged at Jesse Jackson’s service, claiming that he had been marked for death by the cops.

"If I was out on the street, they would have shot me down," he claimed.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/09/2022 09:07 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Covid Pitch Meeting
By Harrison Hill Smith

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/09/2022 08:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Funny. Ironic. Sad. Very close to true.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/09/2022 13:24 Comments || Top||


American Oligarchy
[AMGREATNESS] To observe that the Left and its cheerleading media have treated the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot as a solemn occasion would be to understate the point. For the Left, the (actually) mostly peaceful demonstrations of that day, which for a small percentage of demonstrators did entail illegal trespassing of the Capitol, represented a watershed moment in the history of our "democracy." January 6 was the day, the narrative goes, where "deplorable" Trumpians attempted to effectuate an "insurrection" and a "coup," seeking to "overturn" the results of the perfect and pristine 2020 presidential election.

The lead-up to the one-year January 6 anniversary was endlessly promoted by our insular and self-congratulatory Washington press corps as something akin to the one-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. The imbecilic and senile dolt who is our commander-in-chief dedicated his January 6, 2022, remarks to excoriating his predecessor for that predecessor’s alleged incitement of an "insurrection." Defying parody, a candlelight vigil was held at the National Mall—"in remembrance of the attack on our democracy that occurred on January 6, 2021."

In fairness, it is true that modern America no longer meets a threshold definition of "democracy." But the Left is wrong as to why. America in the year 2022 is not a nation bedeviled by a great scourge of right-wing political violence, but it is a nation bedeviled by a monolithic and intellectually homogenous oligarchy
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Posted by: Fred || 01/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To all the idiots cuntservatives that faithful love the bastards in the USSA government
You morons are not a republic you idiot cowards are under a military dictatorship.

https://youtu.be/Ko_MhUKo-Qo
Posted by: I spit on you || 01/09/2022 18:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Not Arab but Russian. And not a master chess player besides — did your mother drink too much vodka when she was pregnant with you, my dear? Because hating us for being conservatives while hating us for disliking the Democrats currently running the country really leaves no Americans at all that you can approve of... and no reason for us to start a civil war just to please you.

Are you from the Pravda camp or from Izvestia? Not that there’s any difference, but it would amuse us to know who is paying for your internet connection.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/09/2022 18:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Dearest TW Mirrors never lie. Indeed, they highlight exactly what they see.
What about your mirror? What image will it reflect? Who will you see inside that surface that mercilessly sends back your truest image?
The yourself that you think you are? A brave person who would do the right thing at the right time… or a coward?
Wait before giving an overly hasty answer. If the mirror were to reveal anything else, you'd be even more disappointed.You'd probably stop standing on your pretty pedestal judging people with your superhero tones. Don't judge until you've taken a look in your mirror. The promising words that you so easily distribute to your audience don't make you a better person than all the other cowards who call themselves civil or conservative. The problem, as I have reported in other posts in this crap blog is that the various habituals who daily expose their dementia in a nation full of madmen and drug addicts, run by psychopaths and criminals and despite all this continue to the bitter end to revere and respect the system ...... you make me sick, I spit in your face
To your knowledge I am not Russian, not Arabic and the difference is that by analyzing your way of expressing yourself I understand your falsity, instead you try to guess my ethnic origin. You are really stupid.
Black is a form of dirt.
Posted by: I spit on you aka black is a form of dirt || 01/09/2022 19:28 Comments || Top||

#4  I see a Rodent, grim-visaged, noble in aspect, fierce in countenance, infinite in reason.

I see power. I see truth. I see FERRET.

Heed my words, SOY-boy. ПОДЧИНЯЙСЯ!!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 19:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The IP he connects from is in Taiwan, but I think he connects through a proxy.

The syntax for a Slavic speaker is all wrong. My best guess: Arab.
Posted by: badanov || 01/09/2022 19:49 Comments || Top||

#6  More like one o' them fire-worshippin' Persians
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 19:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Arab. The small dick changes the syntax
Posted by: Frank G || 01/09/2022 20:32 Comments || Top||

#8  An Arab who doesn’t fantasize about my armpit hair and making my husband clean his outhouse? I’m impressed.

But threatening me with a mirror? You’re entirely too late, my dear. I first faced that mirror in 1990, when Mr. Wife called from the other side of the world to say goodby as they took him to hospital, “just in case,” leaving me his parents and an infant to care for. The second time was a decade later...but you really aren’t interested.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/09/2022 21:10 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
New study of Pfizer's COVID vaccine has some disturbing findings
[American Thinker] I just read a disturbing study of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine's efficacy by the Canadian COVID Care Alliance. This organization comprises over 500 independent Canadian doctors, scientists, and health care practitioners. The title of the article, "The Pfizer Inoculations for COVID-19: More Harm Than Good," is disturbing. The article itself, which discusses the many nuances of this study, is even more distressing.

You may recall the much-reported "95% efficacy" of the vaccine against COVID-19. We all assumed that if we were vaccinated, we would then only have a 5% chance of becoming infected. Sounds great, but the statement is misleading. In the Pfizer study, only 8 out of 18,198, or 0.043% of participants who received the vaccine, contracted COVID, while 162 out of 18,325, 0.884% in the control group who received injections of saline became infected. Therefore, while there was a Relative Risk Reduction of 95%, the Actual Risk Reduction was a mere 0.84%.

This disparity certainly changes one's perspective on just how effective the vaccine is. Everyone in the study, including the control group, had a less than 1% chance of infection. Of course, as the virus spread throughout the population, a higher percentage of people became infected. The conclusions of the study remain the same insofar as the likelihood of the vaccine preventing infection in any given controlled group of persons.

The article also asserts, among other things, that the study was conducted on relatively young and healthy persons but was then recommended to be used first on old, less healthy individuals. The trials did not follow scientific protocols, owing to the desire for rapid deployment. Follow-up studies were made virtually impossible because as subjects were unblinded — made aware of whether they had received the vaccine or the placebo. The unvaccinated largely chose to receive the vaccine. Thus, there is no control group remaining to study

The most damning findings concerned the lack of disclosure of possible, or even likely, long-term health risks on vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals. These findings revealed significant increases for the vaccinated. It also pointed out that for adolescents and children, the vaccine posed all risk with virtually no benefit, since those young individuals, even if they became infected, had a near-universal good outcome. Myocarditis and other afflictions are a substantial health hazard facing vaccinated young people.

I would urge everyone to read this study by going to the link above. Seek out other studies and reports. We all owe it to ourselves to become informed and educated about something this important. Our lives and those of our children are at stake. We must also demand more disclosure than we have been receiving from the drug companies and from our government officials. Their priorities, whether political or profit-driven, are different from ours. The questions concerning those who have placed their political status or their desire for greater profits above the welfare of the population are subjects for another day.
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#1  Additional Pfizer research data arriving in 75 years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I am anti vaccine. But the writer of this article is fataly bad at understanding math.
Posted by: flash91 || 01/09/2022 3:40 Comments || Top||

#3  When the CDC and the FDA said it would take 75 years to produce the files, it was a big red flag to me
I took the booster on the strong advice of my oncologist
I was in bed with a number of side effects, such as, elevated pulse rates into the 150 range, severe headaches, shortness of breath and fatigue
Reading these papers makes me wonder why they rolled these monsters out and why they didn’t withdraw them
I read somewhere that over 458,000 worldwide have died from vaccine related side effects and those have been lumped in with the COVID deaths
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/09/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#4  It's not truly a vaccine. It's actually a super-risky gene therapy that teaches the body to manufacture spike proteins. This means that its effects are much riskier and much less predictable than a normal vaccine.

For public health policy, the big problem is that the risk-benefit calculus varies enormously by age. Young people are at almost zero risk from COVID but are at great risk of myocarditis from the vaccine.

If we had followed the Great Barrington Declaration doctors' wise approach and focused our efforts on the elderly, we would have been far better off in every way.

This self-inflicted catastrophe has destroyed public confidence in the medical profession and shown our political class to be power-mad idiots who blindly follow each other's worst instincts without any regard for data, evidence or logic.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#5  @3
Funny how they can kick out and give EUA in a couple of months but they have to peacemeal that data over 75 years because of the "undue burden" to review the data. I have to site Biden, "c'mon, man".

@1
Did you see where a fed judge told the FDA they were full of s**t and ordered to kick out 55,000 pages per month?
Posted by: Ebbeper Omoluger3320 || 01/09/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  AfterPfiser, my resting heart beat went from 60 to 40 and stayed there for almost 6 weeks. I developed AFIB and blood clots in the heart. 10 months later I am starting to feel and think better. Send shots to Aidan if we can’t nuke them!
Posted by: Gpa Cooky || 01/09/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#7  This is basic stuff - absolute vs relative risk. Pfizer plays the same numbers game with Lipitor marketing.

What's really interesting is that the study group of 18,000 individuals had a less than 1% case rate while the general population was more like 15%.
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/09/2022 16:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Also, for giggles, look at Maddy de Garay. 12 year girl in the Pfizer kids trial. Had a stroke. She's 13 now in a wheelchair with a feeding tube. Pfizer wrote up the adverse event as "stomach upset."
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/09/2022 16:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Selling a product with zero ramifications.

You should expect lies in the sales pitch.
Posted by: flash91 || 01/09/2022 17:21 Comments || Top||

#10  So, it's less "If it saves just one life," and more "We have to destroy the village to save it."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/09/2022 17:24 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm not anti-vaccine but I'm drifting in that direction more and more. The missus and I have both had two Moderna jabs plus the booster. However, we both probably will get no future jabs. The more this Washington circus goes on, the more distrust is fostered. There is a total lack of transparency regarding anything coming out of D.C. These people are dishonest and have no regard for the American people.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/09/2022 17:25 Comments || Top||

#12  There are a growing number of studies (in the vicinity of 1000)all debunking the safety of these "vaccines". The Media's compliant silence on the allegations against Pfizer's testing practices is truly impressive. Is it any wonder that more and more people (just not seemingly here in NZ)are beginning to awaken from the governmental induced fear coma?
Posted by: JakTheRipper || 01/09/2022 22:50 Comments || Top||

#13  Vaxxed were 20 times less likely to be infected.

"Actual risk reduction" doesn't make any sense.
Posted by: KBK || 01/09/2022 23:25 Comments || Top||

#14  Nobel Prize winner Dr. Luc Montagnier:
"It would be irrational, legally indefensible and contrary to the public interest for government to mandate vaccines absent any evidence that the vaccines are effective in stopping the spread of the pathogen they target. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening here...."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 23:32 Comments || Top||


Is The Omicron Variant Manmade?
[AndMagazine] The first cases of Omicron were detected in Botswana. In announcing the discovery of the new strain, the Botswanan Ministry of Health and Wellness revealed that Omicron "was detected on four foreign nationals who had entered Botswana on the 7th of November 2021, on a diplomatic mission. The quartet tested positive for COVID-19 on the 11th of November 2021 as they were preparing to return." These four diplomats became patients zero, one, two, and three to be infected with Omicron. Botswana has not revealed the nationality of the diplomats in question.

Botswana’s announcement suggests that a small team of individuals from an unknown nation outside Africa flew in and flew out of Botswana over a period of only a few days and stayed just long enough to spread the virus to the local population. Where did they come from? How did they get infected?
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#1  As the wife and I sit here in ICU beds now since 12-29-21 and getting "treated". We see about 19+ whites/Hispanics vs. Maybe 1 in 20+++ Black or Asian Americas.Avg. Gen age 60+. More if and when we get home.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/09/2022 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Thought you might have been on a special, Green Door tech assignment. Adding you to our prayer list. New arrivals go to the top. Get well soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 1:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember its the MILD Variant. We walked around UNVAX'd for just shy of 2 years following basic Flu Precautions w/o getting infected by the 3 other varitants....
To take my facts in a clearer
Prospective. We live in a Ga metro area that is 60+%black. Yet are seeing the hospitialized numbers I cited. BTW Blk American vax rates are well under 38% here according county figures.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/09/2022 3:47 Comments || Top||

#4  We have learned an important fact about biological warfare : it works. Expect more viruses.
Posted by: Grunter || 01/09/2022 3:57 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Meanwhile, discussions regarding the actual origins of COVID have nearly disappeared.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2022 5:30 Comments || Top||


#7  Keep your head up NN2N1.
You and spouse are in my prayers.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/09/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#8  If I were a villainous group/nation creating a virus to take down my enemies I would also make a virus that would be milder but spread quicker that I could unleash after my first one had done its damage to sort of restore things somewhat so that someone was around for me to sell things to or rule over in the aftermath.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/09/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Thinking of you and your wife, NN2N1. You'll beat this.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/09/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#10  All the best, NN. Sounds like things are going o.k. although not ideal.

I hope you can stay away from remdesivir. That is bad news. Best wishes
Posted by: Ebbeper Omoluger3320 || 01/09/2022 11:43 Comments || Top||

#11  In our thoughts and prayers NN2N1
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/09/2022 15:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Amen
Posted by: Frank G || 01/09/2022 15:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Good luck NN2NI.

The bat lady is a spike specialist. Omicron has an unusual number of spike mutations. I wonder if the density of spike mutations is matched by mutations elsewhere in the RNA, or if it's another graft job.
Posted by: KBK || 01/09/2022 23:31 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Terror Threat in Asian Countries Declined in 2021, Singapore Think-Tank Reports
[BenarNews] Terrorist threats in Southeast and South Asian countries declined in 2021, a Singapore think-tank said in its annual threat assessment published this week, noting that COVID-19 movement restrictions had "flattened the curve of terrorism."

There were fewer terror-related incidents in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Bangladesh as governments battled the pandemic, according to the Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis report published by researchers at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

In Thailand in 2021, meanwhile, violent mostly peaceful incidents connected to an insurgency in the far south were similar to those in the previous year, the researchers found.
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