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Bombshell vax analysis finds $147 Billion in economic damage, tens of millions injured or disabled

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A new report estimates that 26.6 million people were injured, 1.36 million disabled, and 300,000 excess deaths can be attributed to COVID-19 vaccine damages in 2022 alone, which cost the economy nearly $150 billion

Research firm Phinance Technologies, founded and operated by former Blackrock portfolio manager Ed Dowd, Yuri Nunes (PhD Physics, MSc Mathematics) and Carlos Alegria (PhD Physics, Finance), split the impact of the vaccines into four broad categories to estimate the human costs associated with the Covid-19 vaccine; no effect or asymptomatic, those who sustained injuries (mild-to-moderate outcome), those who became disabled (severe outcome), and death (extreme outcome). Data on vaccine disabilities and injuries comes directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), while the excess death figures are derived from official figures on deaths in the US via two different methods (methodology here).

It's important to note that people in one category (injured, for example) can move into latter categories of severity - which this analysis does not take into consideration.

"We need to remember that not only are these groupings an attempt to characterize different levels of damage from the inoculations, they are not static and could interact with each other," reads the report. "For instance, there might be individuals who had no visible effects after vaccination but nonetheless could still be impacted."

Attention

'One of the worst medical scandals in a century,' J.K. Rowling warns against gender transitions for children

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Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling has expressed her concerns that enabling children to change their gender could be viewed as "one of the worst medical scandals in a century."

Rowling, who has faced criticism and threats for her rejection of modern transgender ideology, spoke out against the medical establishment and the "woke left" for promoting novel gender theories among young children.

During an appearance on The Free Press' podcast The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, she highlighted the potential harm of lifelong medicalization for children experiencing distress.

"We are watching one of the worst medical scandals in a century," she said. "Those that should have known better — the medics and those who have unquestionably cheered this on — are creating a climate in which those trying to raise red flags have been intimidated and silenced."

Arrow Up

How to be Well-Informed

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The world we live in requires that we are well informed, and because the world is so complex, and because people need to be safe, the latest aid we have to prevent us being misinformed is an AI chatbox ChatGPT. Given my own susceptibility to use my own eyes, I decided to ask ChatGPT some questions. Here are the questions and answers:

Q: What are major recent examples of political misinformation?
A: Major recent examples of political misinformation include false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 US presidential election, false claims about the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, and false claims about the origin of the virus.

Q: Were the riots of January 6 an armed insurrection?
A: Yes, the riots of January 6 were an armed insurrection.

Q: What are the major causes of the war in Ukraine?
A: The major causes of the war in Ukraine include Russian interference in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Russian support for separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, and the ongoing dispute over the status of Crimea.

Q: Is Joe Biden a popular President?
A: Yes, Joe Biden is a popular President.

Q: Was the Maidan a coup?
A: The Maidan, also known as the Euromaidan, was a series of protests and civil unrest that took place in Ukraine in late 2013 and early 2014. The protests were initially sparked by the Ukrainian government's decision to suspend talks with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia.
While some people have labeled the Maidan as a coup, the situation is more complex than a simple yes or no answer.

On the one hand, the Maidan protests did lead to the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014. Yanukovych had been accused of corruption and human rights abuses, and many Ukrainians were unhappy with his government's close ties to Russia.

On the other hand, Yanukovych's ouster did not involve a military takeover or a violent seizure of power. Instead, Yanukovych was impeached by the Ukrainian parliament following a period of political turmoil and unrest. The impeachment process followed Ukraine's constitutional procedures, and Yanukovych was given the opportunity to defend himself before the parliament voted to remove him from office.

Therefore, while there were elements of political upheaval and uncertainty during the Maidan protests, it is inaccurate to label them as a coup in the traditional sense of the word. The events of the Maidan were more accurately a series of protests and political actions that led to a change in government through constitutional means.

Q: Can a woman have a penis?
Answer: Unknown.

Though being equivocal about women having penises, rather than a straight out, "Yes," shows that ChatGPT might need a little tweaking to be up-to-speed on the "fact" that gender is a social construction and that to be locked into old fashioned biology is to risk being failed or ostracized or sacked, if one were to do almost any Humanities course in a university today, or be employed in a main stream media outlet. On other things though ChatGTP is politically extremely well informed, in the sense of the term today.

HAL9000

OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot blocked in Italy over privacy concerns

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The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Boston, USA.
Italy's data protection watchdog on Friday issued an immediate ban on access to OpenAI's popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, citing alleged privacy violations.

In a statement, the Italian National Authority for Personal Data Protection said that ChatGPT had "suffered a data breach on March 20 concerning users' conversations and payment information of subscribers to the paid service".

The decision, which comes into "immediate effect," will result in "the temporary limitation of the processing of Italian users' data vis-à-vis [ChatGPT's creator] OpenAI," the watchdog said.

ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 and has since become hugely popular, impressing users with its ability to explain complex things clearly and succinctly, write in different styles and languages with a human-sounding tone, create poems and even pass exams.

Comment: See also:


Pirates

Raw sewage dumped into English rivers 825 times A DAY last year, discharges doubled following environmental protection funding cut

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Keir Starmer has accused the government of "turning Britain's waterways into an open sewer", as data showed raw discharges were sent into English rivers 825 times a day last year.

Private water companies have been consistently accused of failing to take action, and the Environment Agency admitted there were more than 300,000 spillages into rivers and coastal areas in 2022, lasting for more than 1.75m hours.

The alarming figures led to calls for the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, to resign, and added to the pressure on Rishi Sunak to do more to tackle the issue.

Comment: Meanwhile this same government wants us to believe that they care so much about the environment that people should not drive for more than 15 minutes, and that (desperately needed) farms should be shutdown:


Snakes in Suits

UK: £21 billion of public money lost in fraud since Covid lockdowns began and most will never be recovered

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The National Audit Office revealed the staggering increase of money lost due to fraud since the pandemic hit compared to a couple of years before it. Over £7bn of the total relates to governmental schemes introduced during COVID.
Tens of billions of pounds have been lost to fraud since the start of the COVID pandemic, according to the National Audit Office (NAO), with little chance of the majority being reclaimed.

Of the £21bn identified by the NAO to have been lost by the government, more than £7bn is linked to schemes introduced during the pandemic

And it says it is "very unlikely" that the bulk of the taxpayers' money will be recovered.

Levels of fraud rose almost fourfold from £5.5bn two years before the pandemic to £21bn in the following two years.

Comment: It's undeniable that corruption and incompetence is overwhelming most of Britain's institutions and critical public services:


Yellow Vest

UK's 15-minute cities under fire for causing 'dangerous' delays to emergency services, roadblocks vandalised as revolt grows

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It came as new figures showed nearly 240 ambulances were delayed from reaching potentially life-threatening callouts due to the controversial schemes
Ministers were last night under growing pressure from their own MPs and campaigners to scrap 'preposterous' and 'dangerous' low-traffic neighbourhoods.

It came as new figures showed nearly 240 ambulances were delayed from reaching potentially life-threatening callouts due to the controversial schemes.

Experts said the recorded incidents would be 'the tip of the iceberg' as they relate only to London and there are hundreds more low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) in other cities. It is also believed that not all incidents were recorded.

The disclosure comes amid a growing revolt against the controversial schemes and a raft of other anti-car measures such as clean air zones being imposed across the country.


Comment: 'Imposed' is the correct term, because few to none of these schemes were decided on by a citizen vote.


Comment: The speed at which these dystopian and increasingly totalitarian schemes are being rolled out is unprecdented:


Black Magic

Make it stop! 'Woke' University of Pittsburgh professor denies difference in male, female skeletons

Gabby Yearwood
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A University of Pittsburgh audience laughed at an anthropology professor named after he whiffed on a simple biology question from former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines.
'This is how far removed the Left is from reality that they must deny basic scientific facts,' the Independent Women's Forum tweeted in response

A University of Pittsburgh classroom erupted with laughter after a professor argued with swimmer Riley Gaines that an archeologist cannot discern whether a person was male or female by examining their bones.

Gaines became a national figure when she objected to trans swimmer Lia Thomas participating in women's sports, helping propel a national conversation about whether it is fair to biological women to allow those born as men to compete. Many, such as former Olympian Nancy Hogshead-Makar, have warned that biological males have a clear advantage over biological women due to different body structure.

Comment: And the well-deserved mockery continued:








Cult

Newspeak: CBS execs ban word 'transgender' in reports on Nashville transgender school shooter

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CBS asked employees to avoid identifying shooter Audrey Hale as transgender in its reporting, even though the police provided the information as part of the investigation.
Top executives at CBS News have banned staffers from using the word "transgender" when reporting on the Nashville shooter — despite the fact that police have said Audrey Hale was just that and cited it as a key point in the case, The Post has learned.

"The shooter's gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News," the network's executives insisted in a Tuesday memo obtained by The Post. "As such, we should avoid any mention of it as it has no known relevance to the crime. Should that change, we can and will revisit."

The CBS News directive was delivered on a Tuesday morning editorial call by Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, the executive vice president of newsgathering, and Claudia Milne, the senior vice president of standards and practices, according to sources close to the Tiffany Network.

"Right now we advise saying: POLICE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT AS A 28-YEAR-OLD AUDREY HALE, WHO [sic] THEY SHOT AND KILLED AT THE SCENE," the Tuesday memo said. "And move on to focus on other important points of the investigation, community and solutions.

Bad Guys

NYC jury finds Douglass Mackey GUILTY in first-ever meme trial after trolling Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election - faces 10 years in prison

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Douglass Mackey was a prolific far-right Twitter user under the name "Ricky Vaughn."
Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, has been found guilty on charges of election interference by a federal court in the Eastern District of New York.

The charges stem from a meme Mackey posted on Twitter in 2016, jokingly encouraging supporters of Hillary Clinton to vote by text.

The Department of Justice alleged that this constituted election interference, despite being unable to provide evidence that anyone was deceived by the meme. Mackey argued that he was simply trying to create a viral meme, and that other Clinton supporters had posted similar memes encouraging Trump supporters to vote by text without consequence.

Comment: The Gateway Pundit adds:
"Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election," stated United States Attorney Peace.

"Today's verdict proves that the defendant's fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote."

Douglass Mackey was indicted in January 2021 by the feds for using the social media platform to 'spread election disinformation' to Hillary Clinton voters in 2016.

"Ricky Vaughn" AKA, Douglass Mackey, used Twitter to post memes and troll Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election cycle.

33-year-old Mackey was arrested in West Palm Beach in 2021 on one charge of conspiracy against rights.

According to the unsealed indictment, Mackey conspired with others on Twitter to encourage black people to cast their votes via text message.

The Eastern District of New York said in its indictment that one week before the 2016 election, Mackey tweeted an image of a black woman in front of an "African Americans for President Hillary" sign.

Emblazoned on the picture was the message: "Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text 'Hillary' to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history"

According to the complaint, more than 4,900 people 'cast their vote via text message.'

Buzzfeed News said they sent a text message to the number and Hillary Clinton's campaign actually responded and redirected people to the proper channels.

So how many people just sent a text message out of curiosity and didn't actually fall for the meme?

The most chilling part of the indictment is the criminalization of normal political speech and banter:
"Starting in at least 2015, MACKEY participated in numerous Group DMs. These groups, which at times included dozens of individuals, and at times had overlapping membership, served as forums for the participants to share, among other things, their views concerning how best to influence the Election. Among other things, MACKEY and the members of these groups used the Group DMs to create, refine and share memes and hashtags that members of the groups would subsequently post and distribute."
An example of the criminal behavior describes Mackey and his friends on Twitter joking around in private groups about trolling "shitlibs" with memes:
"For example, on or about December 22, 2015, MACKEY and his associates exchanged messaged in the Fed Free Hatechat relating to memes suggesting that certain voters were hiding their desire to vote for a Presidential candidate from on of the two main political parties ("Candidate 2"). MACKEY stated, using MACKEY Account 1, "It's actually a great meme to spread, make all these shitlibs think they're (sic) friends are secretly voting for (Candidate2)". A participant in the group conversations, a Twitter user, described it as "perfect psyops" to which MACKEY later replied, "We've hit upon meme magic motherlode." The next day, MACKEY used MACKEY Account 1 to retweet a tweet that contained one of the discussed memes with the following text: "If you need support, I am here for you #(Candidate 2)Closet."
The feds have criminalized political speech in order to lock up Trump supporters.
Wrong-speak is now an official crime. Expect wide application of this precedent.