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We have entered the Substack era
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Twenty years ago, Craigslist captured the classified ads that were the lifeblood of the newspaper business model. Ten years ago social media captured the remaining corporate ads that newspapers relied on. Newspapers shrunk, consolidated, and went bankrupt. They tried to move online, first as a free offering for paid print subscribers and then as an online only subscription model. But only a few newspapers are making it financially. Owning a newspaper is now like owning an NFL team or a racehorse — a hobby for billionaires like Jeff Bezos or Carlos Slim.
Cable news profited from the chaos of the Trump era but now that the Orange Man is gone, their fortunes are slumping as well. CNN and MSNBC no longer report the news, instead they just have a host plus a few guests discussing the reporting done by the NY Times. Television news is now wholly dependent on advertising from the pharmaceutical industry and their coverage reflects that.
So for the last two years the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, the Atlantic, the Economist, New Yorker, etc. have lied to us every single day about the coronavirus pandemic. They committed mass murder by denigrating treatments that are safe, inexpensive, and effective. And they exaggerated the benefits and minimized the harms from coronavirus vaccines. The entire bourgeois news industry now works directly for the cartel.
For a while Twitter hosted a thriving conversation where a wide range of critical thinkers posted data and analysis that were better than anything in the mainstream press. But then Jack Dorsey went full Nazi and deplatformed anyone who questioned the Pharma narrative. And Zuckerberg gleefully implemented Stasi-like censorship on Facebook and Instagram because it fulfilled his totalitarian fantasies.
Now the conversation has moved over to Substack and it is extraordinary. The combination of no censorship plus a way for the best writers to monetize their work has led to a flourishing of original reporting and brilliant critique. I am grateful to everyone who has subscribed to my account since I launched a month ago and I am enjoying the intellectual freedom of writing on this site.
I subscribe to 25 accounts. Substack reader (still in beta) organizes posts chronologically in a newsfeed so that one can read them like a newspaper. I want to direct your attention to a handful of accounts that are better than anything in the mainstream press. One literally cannot understand the coronavirus pandemic unless one is reading their work right now:
Alex Berenson should win a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting:
Unreported Truths
On the Pfizer study that caused Twitter to block me
On July 28, Pfizer researchers offered updated results from the company’s pivotal Covid vaccine clinical trial - the 44,000-person study providing the key data supporting use of the vaccine worldwide. Last week’s report is the final clean update we will…
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3 months ago · 350 likes · 151 comments · Alex Berenson
I’m envious of the scholarly accounts that were smart enough to make themselves anonymous from the beginning. Eugyppius is amazing:
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More on Original Antigenic Sin and the Folly of Our Universal Vaccination Campaign
To review: We have now had ten months of mass vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. Nearly 7 billion doses have been administered worldwide. This unprecedented campaign has not eradicated Corona; it has not even suppressed infections. Instead, case statistics have ballooned almost everywhere. While the vaccinated appear to enjoy some protection against severe……
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11 days ago · 688 likes · 547 comments · eugyppius
El Gato Malo was one of my favorite accounts on Twitter (he’s a genius and hilarious too) and I’m so glad that his writing has found a home on Substack:
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are leaky vaccines driving delta variant evolution and making it more deadly?
one of the great fears in any vaccination campaign is that the vaccine can wind up becoming the driver viral evolution and making the virus more dangerous. this is a special concern around imperfect (so called “leaky”) vaccines that are non-sterilizing. such vaccines do not stop spread or contagion of the virus. this means the virus will have lots of……
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a month ago · 244 likes · 454 comments · el gato malo
Aaron Siri just joined Substack. He’s one of the finest attorneys in the country. He will make a great Attorney General one day:
Injecting Freedom
Study Destroys Justification for Vaccine Mandates
Civil and individual rights are only meaningful if they continue to protect individuals during difficult situations. It is why the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of neo-Nazis to march through Jewish neighborhoods. It is why it upheld the right to burn the American flag. Protecting these rights when it is difficult protects us all. It assures th……
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17 days ago · 185 likes · 63 comments · Aaron Siri
just launched a week ago and he is doing brilliant work:
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15 things everyone needs to know about COVID and how to treat it
If I could only tell you 15 things, here’s what I’d say… Avoid all the COVID vaccines, even Novavax. Just say no. It’s not for anyone. No exceptions. The data shows that these vaccines kill more people than they save. You can end up dead or disabled or with a compromised immune system for the rest of your life. For kids, for example, we will kill over 10……
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a day ago · 124 likes · 112 comments ·
The original reporting by James Lyons-Weiler is extraordinary:
Popular Rationalism
An Evolutionary Explanation on Why Natural Immunity is Vastly Superior
SARS-CoV-2 uses all of the weapons it has in its arsenal. Why aren’t we? I have been waiting for some time to write this article, in part because it involves complex ideas from evolutionary theory that most people will have little reasons to immediately understand, and in part due to the need for data to emerge to determine whether the predictions suppo……
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a month ago · 24 likes · 2 comments · James Lyons-Weiler
I highly recommend these accounts as well:
Rounding the Earth Newsletter
Pandemic, Bitcoin, education, finance, economics, statistics, and other topics that need attention.
By Mathew Crawford
Putting the Boss in Quack
Miraculous pharmaceutical inventions
By Levi Quackenboss
Mindset Shifts—Essays by Barry Brownstein
Awareness of your mindset is the portal to change
Tessa Fights Robots
Staying coherent in a crazy word.
By Tessa Lena
Charles Eisenstein
Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology
Igor’s Newsletter
Independent thoughts
By Igor Chudov
The Vaccine Court
Updates from the NVICP, The PREP Act and CounterMeasures Injury Compensation Program
By Wayne Rohde
Kids, Covid, and Covid Vaccines
how children and teens are affected by Covid, Covid policies, and Covid vaccines
By Darby Shaw
Outside Voices
Featured writing from independent journalists, brought to you by Glenn Greenwald Substack.
The market for independent truth telling is massive and the market for Pharma lies shrinks by the day.
In the comments, please let me know who you are reading and what accounts you would recommend! 🙌
Mass containment cannot be enacted at the whims of medical bureaucrats. Not even in China. Nationwide house arrest requires vast popular support, and so it is unsurprising to find that lockdowns and Corona alarmism travel together.
In late January, as the WHO pondered whether to declare a public health emergency, social media filled with videos of people collapsing in the streets of Wuhan. In a curious pattern that we’ll see repeated over and over, these videos were immediately picked up by the press. The world has now witnessed almost 90 million Corona infections. Nowhere in the West has anyone experienced sudden, incapacitating Covid symptoms like these. What is more, all of these videos appeared on or just after 23 January, the exact day that the Chinese locked down Hubei province.
These videos were all fake. They strike us as farcical today, because we have been sold a very different Corona mythology. Our stories are more about how Corona will kill our grandparents, overwhelm our hospitals, reinfect the recovered, and cripple the healthy. They are part of a much different information campaign, and yet they belong to the same
general playbook: First, a government opts into mass containment. Then, alarming information fills the airwaves to justify the restrictions.
The iconic March 2020 cell-phone photograph by Emanuele di Terlizzi, of a military convoy in Bergamo transporting the corpses of Corona victims. One of many curious and well-timed pieces of viral internet content that served to further pandemic hysteria—lending it in an organic, authentic feel.
This goes back to the disappearance of commentary on most News Sites starting around 2014-2015. They want to disappear the True Consensus, and create a Fake Consensus.
Wow, the outright fraud in the media is even worse than I suspected.
Come on - you should realize by now the media is complete BS.
richwicks saysCome on - you should realize by now the media is complete BS.
Yes, but now it is shockingly blatant.
It's quite obvious our news media is just propaganda. Their mistake was opening up comments in the first place. I learned more about what was going on in the world reading comments than I would ever get out of reading the article itself. I don't think I'm alone either. When comments disappeared, so did the readership.
In the infrastructure bill the government is pushing though is direct support for our "news" media.
Hence the "Misleading" crap on Social Media... What I love about Misleading is that the censors aren't saying the fact is wrong, but the conclusion the writing is drawing from it is "unapproved" - it "leads away" from the Peddled Narrative.
CBS has been a leftist company... it will not change. They are deep into the swamp, and are stuck into the shit that has settled to the bottom. even if you drained the swamp, you will still see CBS in it like a beached whale.
NBC is much worse than C'BS' at when I am at.
Whipping up a crisis
The wall between journalism and activism is badly corroded
October 18, 2021 | 8:30 pm ...
I can’t say for sure why The Daily botched the whip issue. I can say that ‘which side are you on?’ thinking is endemic in journalism right now, and it rears its head most perniciously when the ideological stakes are high. ‘Are we going to include that whipping thing because everyone says it’s true, or are we going to fact-check it?’
Who wants to be seen, in a business dominated by liberals, as the journalist who doesn’t take racism seriously, and ‘downplays’ the horror that everyone thinks they’ve seen? I’d offer a different version of Mr Jack in the Box’s Manichaean choice: are you an activist or a journalist? Which side are you on?
The only reason we talk about transgendered bathrooms and transgendered kids, is because THEY constantly do. Have either of these issues effected you? My bet is they haven't. I am in Silicon Valley, and I remember hearing about BLM and Antifa constantly but it only effected me once in San Jose. It was really a small handful of people running around and making it impossible to drive through the city. I wouldn't say it was more than 100 people. For that, we had national coverage of them.
It's honestly a waste of your time to keep ahead of the BS coming from NBC and CBS.
Pfizer-Sponsored NBC News Caught Lying About COVID and Kids
On a recent episode of “The Jimmy Dore Show,” comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore called out Dr. John Torres, medical correspondent for NBC News, for overplaying COVID’s risk to children.
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Jeremy Loffredo
'This is a story about how money influences corporate news.'
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On a recent episode of “The Jimmy Dore Show,” comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore accused Dr. John Torres, medical correspondent for NBC News, for overplaying COVID’s risk to children and reporting incorrect statistics.
“This is a story about how money influences corporate news,” Dore said, before playing a compilation video of Pfizer sponsoring newscasts on CNN, NBC, CBS, Good Morning America, ABC News, MSNBC and 60 Minutes.
“So what’s the result of all that Pfizer money going to newsrooms?” Dore asked. “Here’s how they’re going to report on the Pfizer vaccine being authorized for children who are at almost zero risk, according to the science.”
Dore played a clip of Torres on NBC’s Today show explaining why parents should vaccinate their children with Pfizer’s vaccine.
Torres recited statistics — including the statement that “there have been 146,000 COVID deaths [among children]” — that aren’t corroborated by any government health agency.
“I don’t know where this guy is getting his information but it’s certainly wrong,” Dore explained.
Dore pointed to an Oct. 8 article in USA TODAY which cited data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing “fewer than 700 children have died of COVID-19 during the course of the pandemic.”
“John Torres of NBC just told us 146,000,” Dore said. “Whenever they make an error it always happens to be in the pro-Pfizer direction.”
Dore suggested they “want to scare you to death” so you get your kid the Pfizer shot. “Despite the risk being almost immeasurable, they are trying to tell you that the risk is urgent,” Dore said.
“According to the CDC,” Dore said, citing an article in New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, “the child mortality risk from COVID is actually lower than the flu.”
“But would you know that from watching NBC’s coverage?” asked Dore.
Blue saysNBC is much worse than C'BS' at when I am at.
It's honestly a waste of your time to keep ahead of the BS coming from NBC and CBS. The primary point of "mainstream news" is propaganda but secondary, it's to waste your time.
The only reason we talk about transgendered bathrooms and transgendered kids, is because THEY constantly do. Have either of these issues effected you? My bet is they haven't. I am in Silicon Valley, and I remember hearing about BLM and Antifa constantly but it only effected me once in San Jose. It was really a small handful of people running around and making it impossible to drive through the city. I wouldn't say it was more than 100 people. For that, we had national coverage of them.
The media makes small things seem huge, and huge things seem small all the time. For example the "crowds" for Clinton versus "the few fanatics" that showed up for ...
Here are a few quotes from the interview:
On threats from the press (Dr. Alexander):
A reporter with the Washington Post told me, “We work as a pack. When we come at you [for our stories] we know there’s a small number of you who are going to commit suicide. We know you’ll take your life. It’s par for the course. We’re going to burn your life down. By the time we’re finished with you, you won’t be able to get a job. We’ll strip you of your home. We’ll do anything we need to do to turn you into a pauper. And if you survive all of that, we’ll write in such a way that we’ll incite some sick nut job to come after you, stalk you and your family, and harm you.”
On threats from the press (Dr. Alexander):
A reporter with the Washington Post told me, “We work as a pack. When we come at you [for our stories] we know there’s a small number of you who are going to commit suicide. We know you’ll take your life. It’s par for the course. We’re going to burn your life down. By the time we’re finished with you, you won’t be able to get a job. We’ll strip you of your home. We’ll do anything we need to do to turn you into a pauper. And if you survive all of that, we’ll write in such a way that we’ll incite some sick nut job to come after you, stalk you and your family, and harm you.”
After Judge dismisses Gun Charge, Politfact refuses to alter their "Fact Check" about Kyle's Possession not being "Perfectly Legal", claiming a "Grey Area".
11/17/21
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BIG TECH › VIEWS
Conflict of Interest? Bill Gates Gave $319 Million to Major Media Outlets, Documents Reveal
According to MintPress News, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated at least $319 million to fund media projects at hundreds of organizations including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic, raising questions about those news outlets’ ability to report objectively on Gates and his work.
By now the double standards and missteps of those who want to “flag,” ban and de-platform their way to a healthier democracy are well established. The Wuhan Lab Leak hypothesis was a dangerous, racist conspiracy theory until, well, the evidence suggested otherwise. The acquiescence of many in big tech and at-large media outlets to hardline trans ideology prevents the statement of obvious scientific fact.
Another buried story was local cities blocking access on major streets so that the rioters wouldn’t enter those cities.
Bill Maher: ‘If Don Jr. Had Done What Hunter Biden Had Done, It Would Be Every Night, All Night on MSNBC’
by Will
about 16 hours ago
From the Bill Mahaer article above:
So, every Democratic politician has to wear on his sleeve every silly, stupid woke thing that the fringe left does and the red team has to wear kids in cages and lock her up and all that kind of stuff.”
Bill Mahaer still has to spout shit like "kids in cages" to pander his audience. "Kids in Cages" was Obama.
KENOSHA, WI—In a verdict that surprised both the prosecution, defense, and judge, the jury for the Rittenhouse trial declared that the Media be found guilty on all counts.
The courtroom fell silent as the jury foreman stood to read the verdict, “We the jury find the media guilty on all counts, including the egregious use of its influence to lie to the American people.”
The jury then listed guilty verdicts for the following allegations:
Painting an innocent American teenager as a white supremacist terrorist.
Painting violent, communist criminals as peaceful, innocent victims.
Using its influence to sow painful divisions in the greatest nation on Earth.
Using minorities as pawns in race-baiting schemes just for ratings.
Inciting violence on vulnerable neighborhoods and minority-owned businesses.
Giving an entire show to Brian Stelter.
Upon hearing the verdicts, the judge summarily sentenced the Media to continue its inevitable decline in viewership and trust, until they either strive for objective journalism, or disappear entirely.
Following the verdicts and sentencing, the Media immediately reported to the American people that a murderous white supremacist terrorist was set free, given a KKK outfit and bazooka, and told to kill, kill, kill.
the world erupts (again) in protests against tyranny
and once more, it's "crickets" from the US media
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just a quick sampling of a bit of the news from the rest of the world today in case you missed it:
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Aaron Ginn
@aginnt
“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
From Vienna today👇🏼
November 20th 2021
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Ivan Vilibor Sinčić MEP
@SincicMEP
Croatia against Covid pass.
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November 20th 2021
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Aaron Ginn
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From Paris today, an endless stream of anti-mandate and pro-liberty protestors.
November 20th 2021
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Avi Yemini 🇦🇺🇮🇱
@OzraeliAvi
Meanwhile in Melbourne.
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November 20th 2021
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Disclose.tv
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NOW - Violent protests against Covid-restrictions in #Rotterdam, Netherlands.
November 19th 2021
9,291 Retweets23,553 Likes
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Braudel
@Kukicat7
Rome today as the numbers grow against the Green pass
November 20th 2021
251 Retweets572 Likes
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Aaron Ginn
@aginnt
An amazing scene in Perth today as tens of thousands of protestors gather to stop the destruction of their free country.
November 20th 2021
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Aaron Ginn
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Zurich rises today in force to stop medical segregation and to recall COVID emergency powers.
November 20th 2021
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meanwhile, back in america, THIS is trending:
so, while, yeah, clearly we inhabit clown world, amidst all the endless bread and circuses, a “mr. cynical paws” kind of cat might be temped to observe:
why, it’s almost as if the media/government complex is seeking to hide how vulnerable the state is to uprisings and how far out of step these ersatz bio-fascist dictators have become with the mood of the people.
be a shame if someone came along and helped spread the news…
MJ16 min ago
I intellectually understood the phrase "the Revolution will not be televised" but it wasn't until this year that I really got it
MJ16 min ago
I intellectually understood the phrase "the Revolution will not be televised" but it wasn't until this year that I really got it
Vaccine Safety Research Foundation
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Why have our doctors, scientists and PhDs been silenced? Does the TNI have anything to do with it?
Sponsored by Vaccine Safety Research Foundation
Black, White Americans Join Hands Around Common Cause Of Launching Journalists Into The Sun
U.S.—In a rare moment of national unity, Americans of all races, backgrounds, and creeds have joined hands together across America around the shared belief that we should immediately launch all mainstream media journalists directly into the sun.
"I know we don't agree on much these days, but this one's a no-brainer," said Dale Smith, a white guy from Townville, Tennessee. "I'm honestly not sure why we didn't do this a long time ago."
Darnell Woodson, a black small business owner from Baltimore, agrees. "Wait a minute! We haven't launched all the lyin' journalists into the sun yet? Well, no wonder things are so bad," he said.
Citizens, experts, and policymakers all agree that gathering up the people most responsible for the racial hatred and division in this country over the last decade, loading them all into a rocket, and launching them straight into the nearest star as quickly as possible is the most effective thing we can do to promote healing in America.
Elon Musk has announced he will dedicate one of his very own SpaceX rockets for the task. He will also dedicate a second rocket large enough to hold Brian Stelter.
Story at-a-glance:
The International Grand Committee on Disinformation (IGCD) consists of “an international array of legislators, policy advisers and other experts” who work together “to forge international alliances that bring shared, effective strategies into the battle against online disinformation.”
The founders of the IGCD are four members of the British and Canadian Parliaments, including British Member of Parliament (MP) Damian Collins, who is also on the board of the Centers for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The CCDH fabricates reports that are then used to strip people of their freedom of speech rights.
Logistics for the IGCD are provided by the Reset Initiative (a not-so-subtle reminder that censorship is a requirement for The Great Reset), which is part of The Omidyar Group of philanthropies.
Omidyar funds Whistleblower Aid, the legal counsel for the fake Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen, who has testified before U.S., French, British and EU lawmakers, calling for more censorship.
CCDH chairman Simon Clark also has ties to Arabella Advisors, the most powerful dark money lobbying group in the U.S.
If you suspected censorship was being coordinated on a global scale, you’d be right.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Americans are appalled after learning the racist President Biden has banned travel from 8 African countries.
"If you are able to travel freely to America, then you ain't black," said Biden. "We have a new COVID variant or something like that. All the Africans have gotta stay out."
Voters are reporting that they are devastated to learn Biden is just as racist as Trump was when he restricted travel from China. Just like when Trump did it, Biden's racist travel ban is obviously an attempt to keep people of color out of our country while using COVID as an excuse. Sad!
Civil rights groups and various liberal organizations have not yet come out and condemned the racist, xenophobic travel ban as they did during the Trump travel ban. This is probably just because they forgot, or maybe they had too many Thanksgiving leftovers and fell asleep.
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