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Best of the Web: 'Unethical' and up to 98 times worse than the disease: Top scientists publish paradigm-shifting study about COVID-19 vaccines

Jennifer Margulis and Joe Wang
The Epoch Times
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:23 UTC
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A team of nine experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top universities has published paradigm-shifting research about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and why mandating vaccines for college students is unethical.

This 50-page study, which was published on The Social Science Research Network at the end of August, analyzed CDC and industry-sponsored data on vaccine adverse events, and concluded that mandates for COVID-19 boosters for young people may cause 18 to 98 actual serious adverse events for each COVID-19 infection-related hospitalization theoretically prevented.

The paper is co-authored by Dr. Stefan Baral, an epidemiology professor at Johns Hopkins University; surgeon Martin Adel Makary, M.D., a professor at Johns Hopkins known for his books exposing medical malfeasance, including "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Heath Care"; and Dr. Vinayak Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, who is a professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as the author of over 350 academic and peer-reviewed articles.

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Best of the Web: Shallow 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits southwest China, death toll rises to 93 (UPDATES)


NDTV
Mon, 05 Sep 2022 08:39 UTC
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At least 46 people were killed when a strong earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, state media reported, as violent tremors in a remote region damaged homes and left some areas without electricity.

The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey.

Tremors shook buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu -- where millions are confined to their homes under a strict Covid lockdown -- and in the nearby megacity of Chongqing, local residents told AFP.

"I felt it quite strongly. Some of my neighbours on the ground floor said they felt it very noticeably," said Chen, a resident of Chengdu.


Comment: Update September 6

CNN reports:
Earthquake death toll rises to 65 in Sichuan, China as aftershocks rattle province

At least 65 people are confirmed dead after an earthquake hit China's southwestern Sichuan province on Monday, according to Chinese broadcaster CCTV.

Aftershocks were still being felt on Tuesday, state media said, a day after the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said a 6.6-magnitude quake shook the region southwest of Sichuan's capital Chengdu around 1 p.m. Monday.

So far 248 injuries have been reported and at least 12 people remain missing, according to state media.
Images showed rescue workers carrying injured residents over makeshift bridges in Luding County, near the quake's epicenter.

Rescuers transfer injured people in Luding county, Ganzi prefecture, Sichuan Province
Rescuers transfer injured people in Luding county, Ganzi prefecture, Sichuan Province.
The USGS said quake's epicenter was about 43 kilometers (27 miles) southeast of Kangding, a city of around 100,000 people. Over a million residents in surrounding areas are estimated to have experienced moderate tremors in the aftermath of the quake, it added.

Some homes were severely damaged in the quake, with images appearing to show whole buildings had collapsed into piles of bricks and wooden beams.
Update September 11

CGNT reports:
Death toll rises to 93 after powerful earthquake in China's Sichuan

The death toll from a magnitude-6.8 earthquake that struck southwest China's Sichuan Province on September 5 has risen to 93, with 25 people still missing, China Media Group reported on Monday.

The toll from the quake hit 55 in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, while another 38 people were confirmed dead in Ya'an City.


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Best of the Web: Politician's DNA found under fingernails of slain Las Vegas journalist - Robert Telles charged with brutal murder

Rio Lacanlale
Reno Gazette Journal
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
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© K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via APClark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, right, talks to Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German in his Las Vegas office on May 11, 2022. Authorities served search warrants at Telles home on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in connection with the fatal stabbing of German.
Investigative reporter Jeff German was stabbed in the neck and torso in a surprise attack outside his home, according to a newly released arrest report for Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who faces a murder charge in the slaying.

In the three-page report obtained Thursday by the USA Today Network, detectives detailed numerous "defensive wounds" on German's hands and arms, indicating he had tried to fight off his attacker, whose DNA was later found under the journalist's fingernails during an autopsy.

Stabbed at least seven times, German collapsed — "and never got back up." He was 69.

Comment: This guy seems especially bad at covering his tracks.

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Best of the Web: Navy warns watchdog site releasing all UFO videos would 'harm national security'

Jack Birle
Washington Examiner
Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:49 UTC
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A watchdog website says its Freedom of Information Act request for every UFO video held by the Navy was denied due to national security reasons.

The Black Vault says that, since April 2020, it has been attempting to get all videos of UFOs (also called unidentified aerial phenomena) possessed by the Navy via a FOIA request.

After receiving several rejections in which the Navy would neither confirm nor deny the existence of the videos, the group says it received a response denying the request for the "sensitive information."

Comment: From Black Vault's announcement:
The request was simple. It asked for all videos that were designated "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena", just like the FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast videos that they had previously released and labeled as "UAP". The FOIA case filed sought ALL of them.

It seemed plausible if there were three, there were more at NAVAIR. However, in March of 2022, NAVAIR would deny that request stating that they found no additional videos. It seemed strange they had three, and only those three, but other requests had already been filed by The Black Vault to seek out more places UAP videos might be hiding.

On February 2, 2021, The Black Vault had also filed FOIA request DON-NAVY-2021-001456. Given that it was recognized by Congress, and stated in the media numerous times, this specific case was filed with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) which was said to be the home for the UAP Task Force (UAPTF). Yet, it would take 17 months for ONI to inform The Black Vault that the videos, if any designation "UAP" should exist, would be housed at the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (N2/N6), and a new case needed to be filed there. It appeared that the 17 month wait endured, was a complete waste of time.

A new case was filed DON-NAVY-2022-010360 to N2/N6, and only two months after that was filed on July 11, 2022, The Black Vault received the official denial.

"The UAP Task Force has responded back to DNS-36 and have stated that the requested videos contain sensitive information pertaining to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and are classified and are exempt from disclosure in their entirety under exemption 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(1) in accordance with Executive Order 13526 and the UAP Security Classification Guide," Gary Cason, Deputy Director, DON FOIA/PA Program Office, said in the response letter. "The release of this information will harm national security as it may provide adversaries valuable information regarding Department of Defense/Navy operations, vulnerabilities, and/or capabilities. No portions of the videos can be segregated for release."

Potentially seeing a justification of an appeal, the U.S. Navy uncharacteristically gave additional details for their decision, which cited the previous release of three UAP videos.

"While three UAP videos were released in the past, the facts specific to those three videos are unique in that those videos were initially released via unofficial channels before official release," Cason stated in the letter. "Those events were discussed extensively in the public domain; in fact, major news outlets conducted specials on these events. Given the amount of information in the public domain regarding these encounters, it was possible to release the files without further damage to national security."

The Black Vault has filed an appeal seeking the release of the videos denied.
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Best of the Web: Putin: Almost all of Ukraine's grain goes to EU countries instead of African countries in need of food

Elena Teslova
Anadolu Agency
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:33 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that almost all Ukraine's grain was transported to the EU countries.

Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Wednesday, Putin warned that an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe may arise in the world because the West exports most of the Ukrainian grain to its countries, and not to the countries in need in Africa.

"All, almost all grain exported from Ukraine is sent not to the developing poorest countries, but to the EU countries.

"Under the UN World Food Program, which implies assistance to countries in need, only two ships were loaded, I emphasize, only two out of 87, and 60,000 tons of food were exported on them of the 2 million tons, this is only 3% that is sent to developing countries," the president said.
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Best of the Web: Specialists found narcotic drugs at positions abandoned by Ukrainian army


TASS
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:22 UTC
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Russian specialists found opioid drugs and ephedrine substances at positions abandoned by Ukrainian military personnel, the chief of the Russian army's radiation, chemical and biological protection force, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov said on Thursday.

He stressed that Russian specialists continued to study biosamples taken from Ukrainian prisoners of war. He recalled that earlier high concentrations of antibiotics and immunological markers were found in their blood, which indicated contact with the causative agents of the fever with renal syndrome and the West Nile fever, which the Pentagon had been studying under the Ukrainian projects UP-4 and UP-8.

"Special attention should be paid to the narcotic drugs, including opioid drugs, found at the positions abandoned by the Ukrainian army, such as methadone, codepsine and codeterp, as well as ephedrine substances: t-fedrine and triphedrine," Kirillov said.

At the same time, he explained that the drug methadone was used in the treatment of drug addiction as a means of substitution therapy.

Kirillov recalled that in Nazi Germany during World War II, medical officers administered pervitin (an amphetamine derivative) to Wehrmacht soldiers to reduce psycho-emotional strain. The United States used the same drug during the Korean and Vietnam wars. "Such drugs cause addiction and result in such side effects as excessive aggressiveness, which explains extreme cruelty towards the civilian population by some Ukrainian soldiers, as well as the bombardments of cities in Donbass," he added.
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Best of the Web: Irish court JAILS teacher who refuses to use student's "gender-neutral pronouns"

Helen Bruce
Daily Mail
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:45 UTC

Comment: This case makes THREE countries in which it's now a criminal offense to 'misgender' someone - minors, specifically. First Canada, then Brazil, now Ireland...


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© Daily MailTeacher Enoch Burke (pictured on Monday being brought into the Bridewell Garda station in Garda custody) was arrested yesterday morning for breaching a court order not to teach at his Westmeath school, or be physically present there
'I love my school but I am here today because I would not call a boy a girl'

A teacher who refused to use gender-neutral pronouns for a transgender student has been sent to Mountjoy prison for contempt of court.

Enoch Burke was arrested yesterday morning for breaching a court order not to teach at his Westmeath school, or be physically present there.

After Judge Michael Quinn made his ruling, Mr Burke said: 'It is insanity that I will be led from this courtroom to a place of incarceration, but I will not give up my Christian beliefs.'

Counsel for Wilson's Hospital School's board of management said it was with a 'heavy heart' that it sought Mr Burke's committal to prison, but she said her client had been left with no choice as Mr Burke continued to attend the school, despite the court order which it had obtained last week.

Comment: Godspeed to Mr. Burke. His fight is one of many.

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Best of the Web: Does gender exist?

L.P. Koch
luctalks.substack.com
Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
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Much of the discussion around "gender" rests on the assumption that sex and gender are two different things. Sex, so the theory goes, is about genitals, chromosomes, and so on. Gender, so the theory continues, is about social roles and identity.

The problem is: this idea is very new. In the English language, until very recently, "sex" and "gender" have been used interchangeably. (And before the 1950s, "gender" wasn't used at all.) So why two words for the same thing? What's this all about?

Here's what seems to have happened: the word "gender" has always been a specific term used in linguistics to denote the grammatical gender of nouns and other words, as in the Latin genus. This may seem confusing to English speakers, but in most languages, certainly in all Romance, Semitic, and most Germanic languages (but also in Russian, and in different forms in Japanese, Mandarin, etc.), there is such a thing as a masculine, feminine, and in some cases neuter form for nouns, and even verbs and adjectives. In English, all that's left of this are the pronouns.
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Best of the Web: The most inhuman weapon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not HIMARS, but pills


Chernayakobra.ru
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:00 UTC
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Ukrainian soldiers ride through a street in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, on July 8.
Russian military correspondents report amazing things about the mental attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the attack on Kherson. In particular, on the Snigirevsky sector of the front, during another sortie from Kiselevka in the direction of Blagodatny, independent soldiers repeatedly rose to their full height without artillery cover, stupidly attacked from forest plantations across the bare steppe. Naturally, they were met with well-aimed fire, after which the surviving defenders of the Independence rolled back.

"This is how the attack on Kherson east of Nikolaev has been looking like for the third day already... Reinforcements arrive, equipment accumulates and goes on a suicide raid again... no one on the Russian side understands the meaning of such suicide attacks," you can read on Russian telegram channels.

Comment: The evidence of such practice in Ukraine is anecdotal so far. It was, however, confirmed to be widespread among NATO-Saudi terrorist forces in Syria. See also:

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Best of the Web: Pakistan - At least 1,200 dead, 33 million affected since mid-June in worst floods in a decade (UPDATE)

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:38 UTC
Pakistan. A flood wave washed the luxury hotel off the face of the earth.
A flood wave washed luxury hotel off the face of the earth.
The catastrophic flooding continues to cause widespread destruction in Pakistan, where 33 million people have now been affected, according to the government. The situation is likely to worsen over the coming days. and warnings have been issued for rising levels of the Indus and Kabul rivers.

Almost 1,000 Fatalities Reported

The number of people who have died as a result of monsoon rain and flooding in Pakistan since mid-June now stands at 982, including 316 children. The figure represents an increase of almost 300 deaths in the last week. As of 20 August, 692 fatalities were reported.

As of 27 August, 339 people had lost their lives in Sindh Province. Fatalities were also reported in Balochistan (234), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (195), Punjab (167), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (37), Gilgit-Baltistan (9) and Islamabad Capital Territory (1).


Comment: Update September 2

Euronews.com reports:
Pakistan floods death toll surges past 1,200


Pakistani authorities on Friday warned people in devastated southern Sindh province to move to safer places before more floodwater from the swollen Indus river is expected to hit the region this week.

The town of Shahdadkot in the province saw people moving their cattle through knee-deep water with many buildings also affected.

In May, some parts of Sindh were the hottest place in Pakistan. Now people are facing floods there that have caused an outbreak of waterborne diseases. Although flood waters continued to recede in most of the country, many districts in Sindh remained underwater.

The death toll from the flooding surged past 1,200, officials said Friday, with families and children at special risk of disease and homelessness.


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