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Vaccines - how did they come about?

Vaccine Smallpox
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I find vaccines quite fascinating. To be more accurate, I find the thinking and emotion around vaccines endlessly fascinating... and often quite disturbing. They have become, what we in the UK call 'national treasures.'

A national treasure is someone, such as Dame Judi Dench, or Sir David Attenborough. We laugh at their little jokes, we forgive them any possible weakness, we treat their statements as carrying a great and solemn weight. They have moved to a sainted realm.

If, for example, someone was to say about David Attenborough. 'God, what a terrible bore. Time he was put into a nursing home, and stopped moaning on about Climate Change...' This statement would not, I can guarantee, be met with Universal approval.' Moving on ...

Mithridatism. Most people have never heard of it.
'Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts. The word is derived from Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus, who so feared being poisoned that he regularly ingested small doses, aiming to develop immunity.'
From my favourite website of all time - Wikipedia. Hey, before you start, it's good for non-contentious subjects.

From mithridatism came the substance Theriac Mithridatium. Also called Galene, or Venetian treacle. These were the universal panaceas, designed to cure all ailments suffered by mankind ... and, of course, womankind. They were complex to prepare:
'The preparation of Galene was simple in that its ingredients were free of fractional measures. Four vipers cut down small were placed in a solution of sal ammoniac, about one gallon, to which were added nine specified herbs and Attic wine, together with five fresh squills also cut down small. The pot was covered with clay and set upon a fire. When the vapour came out of the four small holes left in the clay seal, dark and turgid, the heat had reached the vipers and they were cooked. The pot was left to cool for a night and day. The roasted matter was taken out and pounded until all was reduced to powder. After 10 days the powder was ready for the next stage of manufacture.

At the final stage the prescribed quantities of 55 herbs previously prepared by various processes, along with the prescribed quantity of squill and viper flesh powder (48 drachms), were added to hedychium, long pepper and poppy juice (all at 24 drachms); eight herbs including cinnamon and opobalsam (all at 12 drachms); 18 herbs including myrrh, black and white pepper and turpentine resin (at 6 drachms); 22 others and then Lemnian earth and roasted copper (at 4 drachms each); bitumen and castoreum (the secretion of beaver); 150 drachms of honey and 80 drachms of vetch meal.

The concoction took some 40 days to prepare, after which the process of maturation began. Twelve years was considered by Galen the proper period to keep it before use. Galen records that the Emperor Marcus Aurelius consumed the preparation within 2 months of its being compounded without ill effect.

Mithridatium was similar but contained fewer ingredients and no viper but did contain lizard! The other differences were that the opium content of Andromachus' theriac was higher than that of Mithridatium, which also differed in containing no Lemnian earth, copper or bitumen and 14 fewer herbal ingredients...' 1
Simple to prepare ... I think I would prefer to make a bacon sandwich, thanks very much.

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The 'Unvaccinated' Question (Revisited)

Papers Please
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On 1 September, 1941, Chief of Reich Security Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most fanatical, mass-murdering Nazis, issued a now notorious decree ordering Jews above the age of six to wear an identifying badge in public. The Jewish Badge, a yellow Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed inside the star, was meant to stigmatize and humiliate the Jews and was also used to segregate them and monitor and control their movements.

Nothing like that is happening currently, especially not in New Normal Germany.

What is happening currently in New Normal Germany is the fascist fanatics in control of the government are rewriting the "Infection Protection Act," again — as they have been doing repeatedly for the last two years — in order to allow themselves to continue to violate the German constitution (the "Grundgesetz") and rule the nation by arbitrary decree under the guise of "protecting the public health."

This repeatedly revised "Infection Protection Act" — which has granted the government of New Normal Germany the authority to order lockdowns, curfews, the outlawing of protests against the New Normal, the mandatory wearing of medical-looking masks, the segregation and persecution of "the Unvaccinated," etc. — is of course in no way remotely comparable to the "Enabling Act of 1933," which granted the government of Nazi Germany the authority to issue whatever decrees it wanted under the guise of "remedying the distress of the people."

There is absolutely no similarity whatsoever between these two pieces of legislation.

I mean, look at this "Autumn/Winter Plan" for the new revision of the "Infection Protection Act," which will remain in effect from October until Easter, and which government officials and state propagandists (a/k/a the German media) are likening to "snow chain ordinances."

There is absolutely nothing creepily fascistic or remotely Nazi about this plan.

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They're bringing COVID back...and this time its permanent

Covid Scam
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Covid is back in every headline. As the new normal crowd get desperate to scare people into accepting the Great Reset they're going back to their old favourite to get us used to the forever pandemic.

The UK's "Covid cases" are (apparently) up to 3.8 million, according to the Office of National Statistics. It's reportedly just as bad in the EU, where "cases" (allegedly) tripled in six weeks.

Thing's are looking pretty grim across the pond too, with "cases" "surging" all across the US.

It's no better on the other side of the (supposed) ideological divide. Russia, China and India - despite being brave multipolar warriors locked in a 5D chess struggle against the machinations of the globalist elite - have all seen "cases" of the "new variant" as well.

No matter where you live "cases" are on the way up. But, as we all know, "cases" actually means "people who tested positive", and is a fudged statistic used entirely for propaganda purposes.

The new "wave" is really just about selling one big idea: The pandemic will never end.

Marketwatch is leading the way as far as on-the-nose headlines go, with:
U.S. leads the world in new COVID cases as BA.5 continues to spread and illustrate that the pandemic is far from over
The pandemic is far from over - that's the hardcoded message doing the rounds right now, and it's not at all subtle. The WHO literally said it, pretty much word for word:
WHO warns covid 'nowhere near over' as variants spike in U.S., Europe
They're switching up the symptoms too, with "sub-variant BA.5" producing new symptoms which include a "sore throat and hoarse voice".

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Tour de Farce

Molière would never be short of material today.
Tour de France
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The great mystery continues at the Tour de France. The fittest men on the planet are dropping like flies.

Must be that dangerous global warming again.

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War against humanity reaching the boiling point of no return

The Georgia Guidestones are destroyed, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is forced to resign, the longest serving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is allegedly assassinated, the head of OPEC suddenly dies at 63 with no explanation, angry mobs stormed the Columbo capital forcing the resignation of Sri Lanka's second president in less than two months, and a quarter of Canada's internet goes down for 19 hours. Every single one of these staggering world events all fatedly co-occurring within a 24-36 hour stretch from Thursday to Friday last week, can't all be by pure coincidence. Noteworthy also - all these decisive global developments simultaneously unfolding worldwide went down while top G20 nations' reps were bickering in Bali over the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov leaving early.
Georgia Guidestones
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The escalating tempo of these major global events amidst the unprecedented backdrop of the greatest risk of nuclear world war annihilation in history, ongoing premeditated genocidal murder and maiming of millions from poison bioweapon non-vaccines, animal livestock culling, 100 food processing plants destroyed by fire arson, all to set the stage for unprecedented food and fuel shortages leading to famine and mass starvation, soaring highest gasoline and food prices ever, skyrocketing worldwide inflation, all timed with the complete collapse of the global economy and final death of the US dollar as the international currency exchange, all these earthshaking epochal developments are definitely not by accident but planned years in advance by the controllers benignly masquerading today as elites' "Great Reset." Tragically it's being perpetrated the world over in order to bring life on planet earth to a total standstill, never so dangerously, precariously closer to utter, sheer disaster and destruction at the diabolical hands of a murderous elite intentionally orchestrating never before seen cataclysmic crises.

Let's look at the final words just prior to the sudden, untimely death of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, three weeks from stepping down from his key 6-year international post as the planet's most powerful energy organization:
Our industry is now facing huge challenges along multiple fronts and these threaten our investment potential now and in the longer term. To put it bluntly, the oil and gas industry is under siege.
In December 2018 for the first time in 75 years, the United States became a net oil exporter. But once imposter Biden took over in January 2021, his first day in office he revoked construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and is now in the process of illegally depleting America's strategic oil reserve, sending it to places like China. The Biden crime show has been demanding, then begging OPEC to boost production. OPEC's answer: "if you want more oil, pump it yourself." Meanwhile, UAE and Saudi leaders snubbed Uncle Joe, refusing to either take his calls or host his visit. Within just hours after the OPEC head's final words making it clear that continued oil and gas development is absolutely essential over the long haul, amidst the elite's rush for the world to run on alternative green fuel sources, the 63-year old Nigerian OPEC leader in previous good health suddenly wound up suspiciously dead.

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Return of the Los Angeles County mask mandate is on autopilot

Kids in Class
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People in the city and county of Los Angeles, California have suffered under some the more extreme coronavirus crackdown measures in America. And, one of those authoritarian measures — the county's mask mandate — may be about to make a comeback under county policy to automatically reimpose the mandate if the coronavirus "community transmission" in the county is determined to have risen to what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers "high" and stay at that level for two weeks. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer is advising that the mask mandate will return before the end of this month if the current trend of increasing "cases" continues.

Insanity upon insanity. Tyranny on autopilot. The coronavirus circulating today is different than what was circulating when Los Angeles County previously mandated mask wearing. Yet, the county has put the reimposing of the same supposedly responsive policy on autopilot. Further, masks, while causing known health detriments, have not been shown to provide net protection against the spread of any coronavirus. The county might as well mandate each person in the county carry a rabbit's foot in his pocket to ward off infection. Most importantly, mask mandates impinge on liberty and exceed proper governmental bounds. Nonetheless, if a number on the county's CDC-inspired chart crosses an arbitrary level and stays there or higher for two weeks, the county is set to reimpose a draconian mask mandate.

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We can't trust the renewed 'polio vaccination' push. Here's why.

Injecting the World
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Last week we wrote about the new "polio outbreak" reported in the UK and around the world, and how it was likely yet another constructed narrative designed to sell yet more vaccines.

After all, it was reported that the market for polio vaccines had "stagnated" through 2021, and the first-ever vaccine granted approval under emergency use license by the World Health Organization was a new "triple-locked" polio vaccine.

In early June, the WHO granted Chinese pharmaceutical giant SINOVAC international approval for their new polio vaccine too.

So, they had brand new products, but no one to buy them.

The motive was there to create a population of 'incentivised' customers. That's a simple mechanic of marketing we're all very familiar with.

Since March, Israel has been running the "Operation Two Drops", a polio vaccination drive (using that new "emergency use" polio vaccine), which apparently resulted in a huge increase in vaccine uptake in children of all ages.

This program was reported to be "over" just yesterday, with the Jerusalem Post headlining that "Israel's polio outbreak finally under control".

Just as with the Covid "vaccines", Israel has acted as the world's guinea pig.

Following the proclaimed "polio outbreak" in London (yes, they're actually calling it an outbreak despite literally zero reported cases) the UK government declared an "emergency" and laid plans to "increase vaccine coverage".

The EU meanwhile has pledged to provide 40 million euros worth of polio vaccines to Afghanistan,

And just today Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique announced they have already administered over 36 million doses of polio vaccines as part of a new joint initiative, despite the region reporting just two cases in the whole of 2022.

So, clearly, a big part of this is selling vaccines.

A lot of vaccines.

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Scottish Parliament votes to make Covid 'emergency powers' permanent

Scottish Parliament House
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Yesterday, Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) voted to make some the emergency measures - initially instated to "combat the pandemic" - permanent features of Scottish law.

Originally passed in March 2020, the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act established all sorts of powers never before claimed by the devolved parliament.

Now it is rebranded as the "Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill", and codifies a number of those "emergency" powers into permanent law.

These powers include permanently conducting criminal trials over video-link, registering deaths remotely, and other practices wide open to corruption.

Others grant parliament (or health bodies) the power to "restrict or prohibit access in respect of the whole or a specified part of an
educational establishment or of relevant premises"
, as well as "make different provision for different purposes (for example, for different descriptions of people attending an educational establishment)"

For those who haven't learned "bureaucrat" on Duolingo, that means ordering schools to close and/or exclude or segregate students of "different descriptions". Unvaccinated ones, for example.

The justification for extending the powers is as weaselly as you'd expect, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told the BBC:
...the passing of this bill maintains those [powers] that will ensure we are better prepared for future public health threats, pragmatic reforms that have enabled more efficient or convenient public services, and some temporary changes to mitigate the impact Covid has had on our justice system.
So, just like that, emergency powers allegedly put in place to fight this "pandemic" are suddenly reasonably public health practices preparing us for the next "pandemic".

The bill passed into law by 66 votes to 52 at its first reading.

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'Polio Outbreak' - The WHO, Bill Gates, emergency vaccines & more of the same

Polio Vaccine
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Polio is on the front pages of British newspapers again for the first time in decades. What a time to be alive.

For those who missed it, two days ago the UK government declared a "national incident" after traces of the polio virus were detected in sewage from North London.

Yes, a "national incident"...for traces...found in sewage.

This is a massive escalation, even compared to the pandemic. Covid and Monkeypox at least had the good taste to wait for a single person to actually have the disease (allegedly) before hitting the big red panic button.

In a somewhat startling coincidence, just two days before the "polio in London" news broke, Forbes published an article headlined...
There May Be A New Polio Epidemic On Its Way- If So, What We Can Do
It's totally unrelated, talking about a "polio-like" enterovirus that hasn't yet had a vaccine approved in the US, and never mentions London once.

The same (or similar) news hitting headlines around the world for (supposedly) totally different reasons makes my inner-cynic twitch.

So, what's going on here?

While it may look like polio is suddenly back in the news, it's actually been there longer than you'd think and has been building to this point.

The truth is it all fits into a very predictable pattern.

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The "Lab-Leak Theory" returns...as yet another fake binary

Lab Leak
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The theory that "Covid" originated in a bio-lab has been back in the headlines over the last few weeks, serving as a prime example of the type of fake binary OffG has been warning you about.

The "lab-leak theory" - which pushes the idea Sars-Cov-2 was bio-engineered in a lab as a "gain-of-function" program, and then either accidentally or deliberately released on an unsuspecting population - first came to the front pages as early as January 2020.

At the time it was deemed a "racist" "anti-china" conspiracy theory" by the vast majority of the media, and it fell away from the narrative.

It had a resurgence in 2021, suddenly & inexplicably becoming not racist anymore.

In February 2021 the World Health Organization published a report finding the lab origin for Covid19 "extremely unlikely". But WHO chief Tedro Adhanom was obviously keen not to let the idea die completely, publicly stating "more investigation was needed".

Overall, around this time, it suddenly became much less taboo to suggest the "virus" originated in a lab.

The BBC had an explainer article titled "Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously", the New Yorker reported:
Scientists and political commentators are no longer dismissing the possibility that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese laboratory.
As the Wikipedia page notes:
Since May 2021, some media organizations softened previous language that described the laboratory leak theory as "debunked" or a "conspiracy theory"
We did a brief coronavirus fact-check on "Covid is a bio-weapon" at the time.

Then, in December 2021, the Daily Mail reported that Dr Alina Chan had told the UK's Science Select Committee that it is 'reasonable to believe [the] virus was engineered in China' and that "the lab origin is more likely than not".

But after a brief furore over that, it again faded from the front pages.

Now it's back. And gaining momentum.