General Forum - Post Your Questions Here by EddieC in Collabocracy

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Not a question, per se, just wanted to offer well wishes. Good luck to you. I'll try and keep an eye for anything I can contribute meaningfully to.

FARMER PROTESTS SPREAD: Desperate Farmers Protest Against New Laws That Will Bankrupt Them. (10.29) by Budget-song-budget in WayOfTheBern

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Sorry, not as up-to-date as I should be on the farmers' situation. Any suggestions on how to support them from afar?

Western Drug Trials in Ukraine: Bioweapon Research in Bed With 'Big Pharma, Vaccines and Military' by chakokat in WayOfTheBern

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I see. Thank you.

Western Drug Trials in Ukraine: Bioweapon Research in Bed With 'Big Pharma, Vaccines and Military' by chakokat in WayOfTheBern

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Hmm... the article doesn't mention which companies/organizations were responsible and doesn't appear to link to the alleged documents.

WaPo: Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet | Three geoengineering projects seek to alter the chemistry of the atmosphere and the ocean. Critics warn of unintended consequences. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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I've become more and more skeptical of "global warming" in recent years. A lot of the climate alarmism tends to only look at recent history while ignoring data that shows we're actually below average for last 10,000+ years.

I'd even venture to say policing carbon and other emissions serves as a useful distraction from reducing actual industrial/chemical pollution.

Russia is close to creating cancer vaccines, says President Putin by yaiyen in WayOfTheBern

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I must have missed the memo on cancer being an infectious disease.

Bombshell Finding: Any Level of Fluoride in Water is Unsafe | "After a court order, the NTP report was released, showing that out of 55 studies included, 52 found that increased fluoride exposure was associated with decreases in child IQ." by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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In case it was ever in doubt, no, the agencies cannot plead ignorance. Pleading guilty to intent to cause harm seems more appropriate:

Newly released emails reveal that leadership within the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute of Health acted to prevent the release of long-delayed review of fluoride’s toxicity by the National Toxicology Program.

https://derrickbroze.substack.com/p/the-fluoride-emails

Edit: My bad. I see the above is already mentioned within your link.

The Billionaire Who Wants To Live Forever Has Long Covid by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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It's actually worse than that. There were control groups and they were sabotaged. Here's a pretty detailed breakdown of some of the... anomalies, shall we say, in the Pfizer trial:

https://researchrebel.substack.com/p/comirnaty-or-comirnaughty

Tucker Carlson: The Vladimir Putin Interview by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Then dragging Ukraine into NATO is all about pressure, pressure, pressure. Why? I think, among other things, because excessive production capacities were created. During the confrontation with the Soviet Union. There were many centers created and specialists on the Soviet Union who could not do anything else. They convinced the political leadership that it is necessary to continue chiseling Russia, to try to break it up, to create on this territory several quasi state entities, and to subdue them in a divided form, to use their combined potential for the future struggle with China. This is a mistake, including the excessive potential of those who worked for the confrontation with the Soviet Union. It is necessary to get rid of this. There should be new, fresh forces, people who look into the future and understand what is happening in the world.

This was one of the key quotes for me. The angry part of me is all for this. Yes, get rid of it. Get rid of it all. Do the JFK(?) thing. Splinter the deep state into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. But they are human beings too, and it seems like it would be more amicable and productive if we could re-organize and re-purpose all this excessive MIC manpower toward more mutually beneficial goals.

If we try to arbitrarily take away somebody's career, somebody's purpose, he/she will resist, using whatever tools they have, including the power/influence of their current position. If we give them new purpose, then it seems like a lot of new opportunities could open up. The more we convert this manpower to more cooperative efforts, the less effective the more entrenched elements would become - hopefully to a point where you could just smash the murderous diehard remnants.

Midwestern Doctor: Why The Bioweapons Research Industry Is A Danger to Society by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Also seemingly impossible to secure honesty and transparency from those involved in the research:

@garyruskin

The University of North Carolina just produced a tiny batch of emails, apparently from the private gmail addresses of Ralph and Toni Baric. The emails suggest an effort to evade North Carolina public records laws.

While we appreciate that @UNC has produced these documents, it is the responsibility of institutions of higher learning, such as UNC, to release to the public all the data and evidence they may have related to the origins of Covid-19, and not to hide or bury any of it.

(jpeg of Toni Baric to Peter Daszak follows, saying "I guess it was only a matter of time but I have been foia'd too. Let's only communicate via Gmail. They want your emails through me and many others.")

Tucker Carlson: The Vladimir Putin Interview by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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That's a good point. I also hope we see more of these, and a period of greater mutual interest and curiosity in general, and in particular from subjects of the empire. I have a feeling more than a few of my friends have (hopefully only temporarily) become the zombies you refer to, swallowing the boogie man story, but never having bothered to read or hear anything from the man, the fellow human being himself.

Tucker Carlson: The Vladimir Putin Interview by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Whether I agree with him or not, I'm glad that Putin got a pretty big microphone to work with, and that a lot of people got to hear something from the guy firsthand for the first time, people who might otherwise just keep humming along inside the mainstream bubble.

That said, I don't want to say it was rehearsed - and I'm not saying rehearsal/preparation is bad at all, especially if you have an important message - but it still felt really made-for-TV. I don't want the constant camera changes. I don't want it to be simultaneously interpreted. It feels like a bit of a dis-service to the content. Not to rag on the the guy interpreting, as he seemed pretty good. But I feel like a lot of stuff gets lost when trying to maintain pace with a speaker who obviously has a ton of stuff to say. They should have native interpreters for both sides who have some freedom to pause as needed and double check to make sure things gets across as accurately as possible. If it takes 5 hours, so be it. They can provided the edited version later for people with short attention spans. Something like this deserves to be done more methodically/accurately. It's not like this is the 20th century and they gotta pretend it's 60 Minutes. Whiteboards, Powerpoint LibreOffice Impress, multi-feeds, whatever they need to communicate more effectively rather than more quickly.

USA Lieutenant, Ted Macie shares DMED data for pilots after getting injected with the #Covid #Vaccine - Listen to these shocking statistics by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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IIRC, the DOD rescinded his access to DMED afterward and pressured him into taking down his whistleblowing video.

Internal docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization indicate that @amazon bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS that expressed views the White House did not approve of by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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So much easier to burn books in the media-as-a-service digital age, or at least soft-censor like the big tech companies do.

But fortunately also much easier to store them and other files one might care to. For anybody who hasn't done so yet, I recommend getting NAS storage for whatever you might want to pirate and/or preserve digitally. There's lots of fairly cheap off-the-shelf solutions these days. Or you can just re-purpose old PC hardware you may have laying around with free NAS software like OMV or TrueNAS (warning: some tinkering involved). As an added bonus, you can conveniently share files between your multiple devices, family members, friends (I assume most of us are using a smartphone + at least one other device these days?).

The surprising resilience of the Russian economy by chakokat in WayOfTheBern

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I've read the same before, but I'm still highly doubtful of their reserves from the average person's perspective. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that there's at least some semblance of counterweight to Empire Inc. But Russia is still deeply tied to global fiat. I also wonder what kind of response most Joe Russias would get if they went to their bank and asked to exchange their notes for gold.

The surprising resilience of the Russian economy by chakokat in WayOfTheBern

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Hurray. A country whose currency is backed by a heap of lies is able to withstand the economic sanctions of countries whose currencies are backed by a far more massive heap of lies.

@wikileaks: Alleged WikiLeaks Vault 7 whistleblower Joshua Schulte given a 40 year sentence in a New York federal court today by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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His wiki page reads like a classic hit piece.

Gonzalo Lira Is Dead | naked capitalism by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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This hurts...

Fall "vaccine" uptake an "abysmal" 7%; more US pols pledge BANS on "vaccination"; TX AG Ken Paxton SUING Pfizer; 5G under fire in NYC; Walmart, Costco, Wegmans DROP self-checkout; & more by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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On second thought... I forgot about shedding, as well as potential blood donor issues. That would make banning considerably more reasonable.

Fall "vaccine" uptake an "abysmal" 7%; more US pols pledge BANS on "vaccination"; TX AG Ken Paxton SUING Pfizer; 5G under fire in NYC; Walmart, Costco, Wegmans DROP self-checkout; & more by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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Agree, approval should be withdrawn.

Agree again, full disclosure is only the first step.

Fall "vaccine" uptake an "abysmal" 7%; more US pols pledge BANS on "vaccination"; TX AG Ken Paxton SUING Pfizer; 5G under fire in NYC; Walmart, Costco, Wegmans DROP self-checkout; & more by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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As much as these injections and everything about them disgusts me, they shouldn't be banned any more than say HCQ, IVM, etc. Banning them would be a tacit endorsement of the power structure that tries to tells us what we can and can't take - and by extension, what we must take. Would be more effective if more politicians backed efforts like Paxton's, as well as shined more light inward on the CDC, NIH, HHS, the rest of Capitol Hill, and perhaps most importantly, the DOD.

Whitney Webb discusses potential cyber attack in 2024 by rondeuce40 in WayOfTheBern

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wow

Proof that vaccination rates are grossly overestimated, which means that all the population based estimates of supposed vaccine efficacy that we have been bombarded with for the last 2+ years are garbage. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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good lord...

Once might be an accident. Twice raises eyebrows. Thrice? Forget thrice. That excel sheet had 800+ instances of vaccinated population count exceeding overall population count in the "Age - municipality" sheet.

Some other nuggets from that data:

  • Multiple towns called "Unspecified" also have anywhere from 4,500 to 270,000 vaccinated vs. a population of nil.

  • The population counts include fractions of a person.

  • There's a town called "Great Barrington".

Jimmy Dore Show w/ Steve Kirsch: Bombshell! Covid Vaxx Killed Millions Worldwide! by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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From what I understand, there's a few reasons you might be in the clear:

  1. You received duds, due to possibly expired or improperly stored vials.

  2. You received mostly a dud, due to manufacturing inconsistencies/variance (video: skip to around 14:00). Since you got only two, another theory is also that the earlier batches had the wildest variance, and therefore more chance for a rubber bullet.

  3. You didn't receive a dud, but your nurse/doctor managed to not hit an artery, reducing the occurrence of systemic spread.

  4. Some combination of the above?

  5. You're built like a tank - or maybe X-Men's Wolverine - and should procreate so we have more of your genes in the pool for future generations :)

There's probably a couple other reasons I can't recall. Regardless, good luck to you and perhaps consider a more detailed blood test at your next physical (I've heard something called a D-Dimer can detect microclots?). I'm not a doctor. This isn't medical advice, yadda yadda. Please do your due diligence before jumping into anything.

Having a hard time caring about the latest Israel/Palestine conflict because like it or not, Covid is still far and away the bigger issue. by tomatopotato in WayOfTheBern

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Thanks for the perspectives everyone.

I think I was probably a little irritated when I wrote that yesterday. Not that it excuses any of the callousness. The way I described things made it sound like the Israel/Palestine issue isn't important, which was not cool. My apologies again, and thanks again for keeping me grounded.

Hydroxychloroquine Associated With Far Lower COVID-19 Mortality: Study The French study included 30,202 patients. | "Just 0.8% of patients at a facility in France who received hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic died, compared to 4.8% of patients who did not receive the drug combination." by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Rough rehash of earlier HCQ narrative:

  • Dr. Boulware publishes study claiming HCQ doesn't work.

  • TDS-afflicted media runs with it.

  • Others point out the fraud in Boulware's analysis, but the damage is already done.

  • It also comes out that Boulware didn't disclose his financial COI with Gilead (makers of deadly/expensive/competing solution remdesivir).

  • Boulware later goes on to publish a similar hit piece on Ivermectin.

And the world goes round...

Chronicles of an Unvaccinated Leftist ⋆ Brownstone Institute by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Some choice quotes from the dailyclout.io analysis linked by the author:

"Cardiac events: 11 BNT162b2 vs 3 Placebo" (out of the 38 recorded deaths in the clinical trial)

"Subject # 10841470 is an obese 65-year-old Hispanic male with a medical history including pulmonary fibrosis and hypertension. He was in the placeboarm of the trial and received doses 1 and 2 on September 30 and October 21, 2020, respectively. On December 23, 2020, the subject received dose 1 of the Moderna mRNA vaccine. (wtf #1) This protocol deviation was reported in his Case Report Form after the subject reported symptoms of COVID-19 on December 28, 2020 and was admitted to the hospital on December 31, 2020. While hospitalized, he became hypoxic and was intubated on January 2, 2021. (sounds familiar...) He received monoclonal antibodies as part of his treatment in the hospital. Despite these efforts, the subject continued to deteriorate, lapsed into multisystem organ failure, and ultimately died on January 11, 2021. Subject #10841470 was in the List of Discontinued Subjects (Listing of Discontinued Subjects) as a “Death” and in the 6-Month Interim Report (6-Month Interim Report of Adverse Events C4591001) as a placebo death with COVID-19 as the secondary cause of death. (wtf #2) This is a misrepresentation of the subject’s clinical information. The subject should have been discontinued from the Pfizer/BioNTech clinical trial because the 'subject received non-study COVID-19 vaccine'."

Chronicles of an Unvaccinated Leftist ⋆ Brownstone Institute by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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“It is even more effective to add language framing vaccine uptake as protecting others and as a cooperative action. Not only does emphasizing that vaccination is a prosocial action increase uptake, but it also increases people’s willingness to pressure others to do so.”

Yep. I'm still coming to grips with certain friends of mine who'd never dream of touching even the purest grade-A organic marijuana, but had no problem trying to peer pressure me into getting injected. And when I responded by urging caution and sharing Pfizer's own damn clinical trial data and other research, I found myself uninvited from the usual get-togethers. Decade+ old friendships... I don't wanna say down the drain, but it's looking a little bleak at the moment.

The End of LBRY Inc. by tomatopotato in WayOfTheBern

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TL;DR:

LBRY Inc. is the entity that develops developed LBRY. LBRY is the blockchain and free/libre/open source/censorship resistant engine, used mainly to power video content on Odysee (a/the frontend) and LBRY clients (direct access). The SEC sued LBRY Inc. on the grounds that the LBC cryptocurrency is a security, not an asset. LBRY Inc. lost the suit, but had planned to appeal the decision. Yesterday, they decided to drop the appeal, not because they were in the wrong, but because the SEC buried them in financial debt due to legal fees.

I'm not an investor, so I don't pretend to know all the ins and outs between a security and an asset. I just know that one, the lawsuit-happy SEC is once again acting directly against the interests of regular people. And two, the fewer alternatives we have to Goliath Google, the more powerful the censorship machine becomes.

Hats off to the folks who developed LBRY. Hopefully somebody picks up where they left off.

P.S. Because of LBRY's open source nature, the network will persist and content will remain available/grow if the community supports it and continues to run nodes. Pretty big "if" though.

German health minister @Karl_Lauterbach & virologist @c_drosten last weekend: They talk about "info-pandemic" that is working against them and speculate how scientists can be silenced in the future. | Their lessons from Covid: There were too many dissenting opinions. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Bonus link:

How Scientific Fraud took the World Hostage

"In January 2021, I wrote two Twitter threads on the peer-review procedure of Christian Drosten’s scientific publication about the Covid PCR test that formed the basis for the current political agenda. As an Editor of a Scientific Journal, I will give you some more insights into scientific peer-review processes and why fraudulent manipulation concerning Drosten’s PCR paper most likely took place in the Journal of publication “Eurosurveillance”."

cont'd at https://www.drgoddek.com/p/how-scientific-fraud-took-the-world

Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods - Jonathan Cook by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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Thank you. I'm sorry I didn't see your reply until now.

@ggreenwald: What happened to the whole thing about opposing the use of the FBI to investigate and punish domestic dissent? I believe there's a House GOP Committee that was created -- U.S. House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government -- to oppose this: by therazorx in WayOfTheBern

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Minor(?) nitpick, but the name of the committee is annoyingly vague and eminently forgettable. Why not just call it something straightforward like the Subcommittee on the Violation of Free Speech by the Federal Government?

What happened to their usually reliable abuse of artistic license (a la "Patriot" Act), Did they not have time to think up one of their stupid acronyms (a la PREP)?

It's like they can't wait for this one to die down.

@ggreenwald: What happened to the whole thing about opposing the use of the FBI to investigate and punish domestic dissent? I believe there's a House GOP Committee that was created -- U.S. House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government -- to oppose this: by therazorx in WayOfTheBern

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Yes, myself included. It was easy for me to spot the rot of neocons/PNAC. The process was considerably more arduous when it came time for me to acknowledge the utter depravity of my (ex-)"team". And even more time was needed for me to even begin to glimpse between the lines at all that was/is unsaid.

I lament our school systems, glossing over atrocities of the past as a relic of history, rather than a sign of the future.

So the newest CDC study just dropped. From January to June 2023, just 159 total patients over 65 were hospitalized with COVID-19 as their primary health issue who were not on record as having been fully vaccinated against COVID-19! That's a whopping 0.53 patients per state per month. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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If you're talking just pure unadulterated IFR (minus iatrogenic corporate hospital protocols and other shenanigans), then I could see that.

The furin cleavage site, sequence match to a previous Moderna patent, systematically induced variation found in Omicron mutations, etc. would seem to indicate it was a good deal more than your standard coronavirus though.

@RobertKennedyJr: "This ignominious, unprovoked, and barbaric attack on Israel must be met with world condemnation and unequivocal support for the Jewish state’s right to self-defense. We must provide Israel with whatever it needs to defend itself — now. As President, [...]" by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Bobby, all you had to do was call for peace. Even just de-escalation. Not get sucked into the heat of the moment...

At any rate, his tweet, despite calling for policy that's "unambiguous", is anything but.

  • He expresses support for Israel's right to self-defense. Fine, okay, just like any other nation state.

  • "... we must follow through with unwavering, resolute, and practical action." Which means what exactly? Increase in already substantial aid money? MIC hardware? US soldiers stationed in Israel? Pre-emption Regime change Full-scale invasion of Palestine?

The tweet is just hot air and I don't see any follow-up so far.

Edit: Not a dealbreaker for me, but getting pretty damn close. At the very least, I don't see myself donating anymore.

So what would happen if the government shut down FOREVER? by BobQuasit in WayOfTheBern

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Same thing that would happen if people stopped vaccinating. The frail, weak, or otherwise immunocompromised would probably pass on. The overwhelming majority of humanity would carry on living.

(assuming no lab-created monstrosities)

Edit: I should probably elaborate. If government shut down forever, those formerly in power would for the most part fade into obscurity. The rest of us would just carry on living and establish another form of societal order with whoever's left.

UK: Rumble executives may be arrested over refusal to deplatform Russell Brand by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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If/When Rumble displaces Youtube, it'll become part of the censorship machine.

Sooner or later, we're going to need to move permanently to decentralized and (mostly) censorship-free, "right-wing", "extremist" platforms like Bitchute, LBRY (use a LBRY client, not Odysee), nostr, etc. I highly recommend checking them out (again) if you haven't recently. Still some kinks to work out, but they've certainly come a long way.

Poll after poll shows that significant majorities of Democrats -- or US liberals -- strongly favor both corporate control and state control of political speech online, both in the name of stopping hate speech and disinformation, which FBI and DHS will benevolently decide: ¦ Glenn Greenwald by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Democrats are a shrinking demographic being held up by the same polling, propaganda, and fraud that said Hillary was basically a lock for the White House.

-formerly D, now I

Why is this useless COVID shit the one and only free stuff in the American healthcare system? by Hydrogenbomb in WayOfTheBern

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Sorry, I gotta be pedantic again.

Not free. Paid for by the taxes of both the "vaxxed" and un-injected alike, without our input. And despite the un-injected involuntarily contributing money toward R&D, we still had to put up with propaganda, harrassment, coercion, fraud, etc. from all the needle pushers.

Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles may now be worthless. | A study examining more than 73,000 NFT collections found that 95% had a market cap of 0 ETH. Out of the top collections, the most common price for an NFT is now $5-$100. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Not to be pedantic, but the author is conflating NFTs with strictly digital art NFTs, like those banal ape jpegs. There are legitimate use cases for NFTs that are still maturing, such as digital proof of ownership of asset X (i.e. blockchain verified, not relying on gov't ID or some other "trusted" 3rd party, and immune to civil forfeiture in a sense).

Thoughts on climate change? by Hydrogenbomb in WayOfTheBern

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I haven't researched it enough myself, so this is just conjecture on my part, but...

If you compare the temperature charts that only go back to 1900-ish vs. the ones that pre-date human civilization, and look into how some are measuring/recording temp. currently... well, your BS meter may experience global warming.

Romanian doctor says she cures ‘100 percent’ of COVID patients | Flavia Groșan chose not to apply official protocols to treat COVID-19 patients at all stages of the illness, instead approaching the disease as an ‘atypical pneumonia.’ by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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"The only logical conclusion absent data manipulation is that NSW doctors have withheld treatment (antibiotics or other therapies) from unvaccinated patients diagnosed with COVID and sent them straight to their death without being treated in hospital."

https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/the-shipman-line

Pro mRNA Jab Scientist Phillip Buckhaults: "We found DNA contaminating the mRNA jabs." | Thank you for speaking out on this issue; however... by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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I'm also a little surprised how tightly the mainstream narrative still grips his view, especially since he not only acknowledges the problems of funding in research, but has also admitted to cardiac arrythmia post-vaccination (I'd share the link, but it looks like he just took his Twitter account offline).

Liberals pretending to get COVID boosters by Hydrogenbomb in WayOfTheBern

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Unfortunate cases of party loyalty/purity. Vote Blue isn't enough. Need Code Blue also.

Minnesota Woman Sues Doctors that Performed Double Mastectomy on Her at Age 16 by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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Feels like something that should be an 18+ decision or a parental decision.

If it turns out these pre-adulthood parental decisions are overwhelmingly wrong, the public consciousness should eventually self-correct without the burden of more legislation for another hot-button, yet ultimately minor social issue (in terms of how many people are actually affected by this).

Anyway, your body, your choice.

Things RFK Jr. did & didn't say yesterday in Los Angeles by emorej in WayOfTheBern

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Those are good answers. Off the cuff, I prolly woulda said I'd abstain from voting for either out of moral considerations (thereby leaving a lotta points on the table).

Dem Porn-Wife Cries 'Sex Crime' After Public Videos Used To 'Humiliate' Her In Race by Super_Soviet_Gundam in WayOfTheBern

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I'm in the same camp.

Didn't care about Clinton/Lewinsky when it went down (insofar as the sex life of two presumably independent and consenting adults), don't care about this either. I think it would be healthy for the American mindset to accept more sex workers openly and unabashedly running for and managing public office.

More interested in her po... (sigh... was about to write positions here) ...litical stance, which the articles I've seen didn't bother to, or barely mentioned. So I went and looked them up. She appears to have been primarily motivated to run for office in defense of abortion rights. That's fine with me, as long as we're consistent and also defend medical freedom for all, especially the uninjected. She claims to be a "nurse practitioner", but is conspicuously quiet on the vax/mask/lockdown mandate issue (no statement on her campaign site, no response to questions on twitter). Here are her other stated priorities:

https://www.susannagibson.com/priority

Either onboard with or swept up in the CO2/climate agenda. Other priorities seem too vaguely stated for me to judge one way or the other. I think I'll pass on this one.

Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods - Jonathan Cook by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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I hadn't heard about this. Got any links?

Experts Believe Aaron Rodgers Ankle Injury A Result Of Being Unvaccinated by Blackhalo in WayOfTheBern

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In case anybody thinks it was nothing more than just satire from the Bee, here's Olbermann's not-quite-tongue-in-cheek / foot-in-mouth take:

"Another #SuddenLisfranc due to failure to vaccinate 💉💉💉💉💉💉"

https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1701395489378148703

So, who is lining up for the new and totally improved monovalent XBB.1,5 (aka yesterday's news) mRNA boosters? I mean, the FDA and CDC just approved & recommended them for EVERYONE over 6 MONTHS OLD based on exactly zero randomly controlled trail or even observational efficacy or safety tests! by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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And they keep trying to pass their bogus booster testing off as okay, since it's based off the "established" safety and efficacy of the initial randomized controlled trials, which were anything but random, and controlled only in the sense that they rigged it:

https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/comirnaty-or-comirnaughty

EU Chief Von der Leyen Calls on World Leaders to Usher In Global 'Digital ID' | "Many of you are familiar with the COVID-19 digital certificate. The EU developed it for itself. The model was so functional and so trusted that 51 countries on 4 continents adopted it for free." by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Isn't this the woman that... yep.

"The European Commission has said it cannot and does not need to find text messages that its president, Ursula von der Leyen, exchanged with the boss of Pfizer at the height of the pandemic, fuelling its dispute with the EU’s internal watchdog.

The commission’s defence of its right not to keep records of Von der Leyen’s text messages was published on Wednesday by the EU’s official watchdog, the European Ombudsman, which conducted an initial investigation after a complaint about transparency.

In a sharp rebuke issued in January, the ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, accused the EU executive of maladministration. She said text messages concerning EU policies and decisions should be treated as documents subject to EU transparency rules.

The saga, known to critics as Deletegate, arose after the New York Times reported in April 2021 that Von der Leyen had exchanged text messages with the Pfizer chief executive, Albert Bourla, forging a relationship that unlocked lucrative deals for life-saving coronavirus vaccines.

The commission later refused a freedom of information request from a journalist to provide the text messages, prompting an appeal to the ombudsman..."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/european-commission-defiant-over-von-der-leyens-pfizer-texts

Happy Friday friends. Question. When did you wake up? And what was the event that woke you up? I’ll go first. by [deleted] in WayOfTheBern

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Yeah :(

I try to stay hopeful that people will come around tho :)

Happy Friday friends. Question. When did you wake up? And what was the event that woke you up? I’ll go first. by [deleted] in WayOfTheBern

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Chronologically:

  • First: invasion of Iraq after 9/11 (holy hell, Republicans are shitty). The number of people we killed and keep killing in the Middle East turned me off of politics entirely at this point and I am ashamed to say, I went back to sleep for a number of years after this in disgust/numbness/whatever.

  • Second: Snowden revelations

  • Third: 2016 Dem primaries (wtf, my "side" is just as shitty?!). Now I just feel like whatever party in power is the overtly shitty side, and the party not in power is the controlled opposition.

  • Fourth: Covid. I generally trusted doctors until this point.

Honorable mentions: J6, Occupy, focus on the CO2 scam (instead of actual industrial pollution), and probably forgetting a bunch

I've always tried to read a range of perspectives/opinions, even from people I... disagree with (to put it nicely) - from communists to libertarians, racists to the woke Borg, everything in between, and yes, conspiracy theorists. More than ever, I feel like the conspiracy theorists have the highest accuracy and crime solving rating.

Edit: I should add, by Republicans, I mean (R) politicians. I have nothing against conservatives.

For the WIN! Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana USDC No. 3:22-CV-1213 by FThumb in WayOfTheBern

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Yeah, I meant our gov't in general, with hundreds if not thousands of civil servants participating in these censorship efforts, and it taking all these years to reach a conclusion that should have been self-apparent from the get-go.

For the WIN! Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana USDC No. 3:22-CV-1213 by FThumb in WayOfTheBern

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According to my anti-scientific measurements, it takes our gov't approximately 4 years to defend the 1st Amendment.

Half of Vaccinated People Never Stop Producing Spike Protein, Study Found | COVID Vaccine is a GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Also more valuable to politicians, since they're more likely to die suddenly than live out a quiet few decades in retirement with social security benefits.

What’s Behind Talk of a Possible Plea Deal for Assange? by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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Oh... that Kennedy.

Dr. Shiva running as an independent says Jimmy Done is a pussy if he doesn't have him on for an interview! by Crazyjanecreepyjeff in WayOfTheBern

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War is usually the #1 issue for me for presidential elections. But after what the shots did to my dad and Covid culture did to my friends, I'm leaning Kennedy this time.

That said, I like Shiva overall. His speech/mannerism might be downright off-putting to some, but he seems to have the biggest, most genuine axe to grind with the establishment (and "Not So Obvious Establishment"). No baby gloves regarding Israel like Kennedy. No pandering to corporate interests like Trump (and then putting on the anti-mandate act now that it's safe to do so). I hope Jimmy and others eventually have him on.

The whole family has covid again and I'm fucking pissed. by Crazyjanecreepyjeff in WayOfTheBern

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According to @GirardotMarc:

1 injection out of 20 goes IV and that changes everything, even if it's only partial.

There are clearly 2 distinct pathogenic processes at play: 1) w/ normal immune sensitive cells: the vaccine MoA will have all transfected cells destroyed by spike antigen presentation on the MHC. That is preliminary Mechanism of Harm of all non-genetic AEs. Remember they inject 10-50 billion LNPs, the destruction potential is crazy. Here no integration is ever possible, the cells don't survive.
The non-genetic AEs can be explained 100% by a bolus of LNP hitting the endothelium in variety of severities, topologies and areas: aneurysm, thrombosis, necrosis, blood-tissue barrier micro-perforation lead to death, neuropathies, neurodegenerative disease, gangrene, myopericarditis, vasculitis, alzheimer's, parkinson, sterility, patent foramen ovale, strokes, arterial rupture...

2) with immune privileged cells ie stem cells/progenitor cells: here transfected cells are ever-dividing, are protected from the immune system, are self renewing, and eternal. integration is almost automatic during mitosis, and we disrupt their intracellular environment likely permanently. That's the very definition of cancer and (in foetuses/new born) of genetic disorders. In other word, I propose a new cancer theory where disrupted stem cells are the driving force, and that process isn't specific to COVID vaccines BTW ! Stem cells should be mostly out of reach of LNPs in normal injections (injection site lymph node and breast cancer excluded), but again an inadvertent IV injection would increase that risk a thousand fold or more, and that explains turbo cancer.

Geniune, compassionate, forgiving human beings by tomatopotato in WayOfTheBern

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Yeah, I found that disappointing as well. Smug Nurse apparently deleted her TikTok account also. Was it out of remorse? Shame? Opportunism? I dunno. An apology somewhere somehow would've been nice. I can only hope for the best and brace for the worst.

edit: yeah, and fuck GoFundMe

Mask Mandates Are Coming Back by Super_Soviet_Gundam in WayOfTheBern

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I will not comply.

Last time I refused initially, but gave into pressure from my supervisor after some HR-prompted wagon-circling. Never again.

Sorry Not Sorry by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Sorry Not Sorry by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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I think that might (hopefully) be an accurate assessment? There have been reports of significantly more painful episodes of vaccine shedding after sexual intercourse. I've also experienced something that might be attributed to shedding, although I can't be certain. It was after spending an evening with the most highly jabbed friend I know, just dinner and nothing really physical, although she managed to get me into a goodbye hug at the end. I had a few strange and strangely itchy welts on my thigh for a few days after. Nothing major, but still. That would seem to indicate the the degree of physical contact is a contributing factor, if not the primary determinant.

That said, I've heard of one potential case where the victim experienced heart issues for a time, which doesn't really make sense to me in terms of the pathology.

Sorry Not Sorry by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Just wanted to say thank you u/stickdog

I feel like Veganmark's passing was a big loss, but you and others have persevered in getting vital truth out there. Hats off.

Alex Jones was right. COVID Fascism making a comeback. by Super_Soviet_Gundam in WayOfTheBern

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I will not comply.

BOMBSHELL: Ivermectin Is Now OK To Treat COVID! – Says The FDA - How about that "horse paste"? by rundown9 in WayOfTheBern

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I don't remember where I read about the paste containing other potentially undesirable additives. I'll try to look for it.

BOMBSHELL: Ivermectin Is Now OK To Treat COVID! – Says The FDA - How about that "horse paste"? by rundown9 in WayOfTheBern

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And following that, poison center calls were exaggerated by the media like this:

"Between January and August 2020, poison control received 23 calls about ivermectin. In that same time period this year, the state poison control network has received 159 calls about ivermectin – a 591% increase.

Of the 159 calls made in 2021, 64 of them were made in the month of August, according to a health advisory released by Texas’ health department Thursday warning of the dangers of using ivermectin improperly." (USA Today)

  • No effort to cross check that 591% figure with overall usage rate increases, which were quite possibly far greater than 591%.

  • No mention that those poison center calls were quite possibly due to messing up dosage with the animal version, which can also contain additives that humans don't take well to that aren't found in the human form - all of which could have been avoided if they hadn't tried to clamp down on the basic pills that had been available prior to 2020 no problem.

A couple(?) highly suspect "studies" also popped up around this time.

Any decent, concise summaries on the Ukraine situation? by tomatopotato in WayOfTheBern

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Thanks, I'll have a look.

Any decent, concise summaries on the Ukraine situation? by tomatopotato in WayOfTheBern

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Thank you. I appreciate the summary. I also came across this link that my friend will hopefully appreciate:

https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/the-real-history-of-the-war-in-ukraine

Any decent, concise summaries on the Ukraine situation? by tomatopotato in WayOfTheBern

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Thank you. I was looking for something that goes into more detail about the 2014 events, but that link was good too. And in visiting it, I came across the following, which also seems like a decent summary:

https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/the-real-history-of-the-war-in-ukraine

CIA moderating Wikipedia – former editor by [deleted] in WayOfTheBern

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<insert Guy Fawkes mask here>

DNC wants interns to be vaccinated for covid for remote work by arnott in WayOfTheBern

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More subtle than another Seth Rich incident I suppose.

Mary Talley Bowden MD: We’re suing the FDA for misleading the public about ivermectin, telling Americans it’s only for horses. Hearing scheduled in NOLA, 5th circuit, August 8th. by DrJaye in WayOfTheBern

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Saidit mangled my emoji, but anyway lol :p

Mary Talley Bowden MD: We’re suing the FDA for misleading the public about ivermectin, telling Americans it’s only for horses. Hearing scheduled in NOLA, 5th circuit, August 8th. by DrJaye in WayOfTheBern

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Whoever was involved in the hatchet job on IVM deserves a stocking full of rusty, mangled horseshoes for Xmas, and community service for 8-10 years or however long it takes for Pfizer et al to conduct clean, non-fraudulent RCTs for their non-vaccines, whichever is longer.

Vivek Ramaswamy: I've been waiting for a long time to expose and gut the FDA by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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Vivek/??? vs. RFK/West or West/RFK general elections might be a pleasant surprise.

Trump's unprecedented campaign pitch: Elect me to get revenge on the government by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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Out of anybody? RFK Jr., Cornel West

Out of anybody from the right side of the uniparty? Ron Paul I guess?

That's running in the Republican primary? I dunno. I'm not informed enough about any of the candidates. Any suggestions?

Trump's unprecedented campaign pitch: Elect me to get revenge on the government by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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I'm kinda surprised Mr. Drain-the-Swamp still has such a fan base. His people/appointees were awful.

  • Bolton - PNAC war hawk/criminal

  • Education: Betsy Devos - Public Schools Inc.

  • FCC: Ajit Pai - Verizon plant killing net neutrality

  • FDA: Gottlieb - Pfizer plant killing people

  • HHS: Azar - yet another pharma plant

  • AG: Barr - surveillance state cog

  • EPA: Wheeler - coal lobbyist? really?

  • etc. etc.

Clearly on the side of big business. Hell, he still claims credit for the "vaccines". Only good thing I can recall is that he didn't bomb quite as many people as the other Oval Office fuckups of the last few decades.

Why is he still relevant to regular people on the right? It's like TDS in reverse.

RFK Jr.'s long con (I probably enjoyed the comments section more than I should have) by tomatopotato in WayOfTheBern

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Even if you're not into RFK Jr., I think it's gotta be refreshing for most to see the peanut gallery turning on the (fake anti-)establishment from time to time.

In Surprise Reversal, NIH to Hand Over Communications Between Agency & People Injured by COVID Shots | The National Institutes of Health withdrew its motion to dismiss a FOI lawsuit after the agency had refused to release correspondence between NIH researchers & people w/ COVID-19 vaccine injuries. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Pfizer Vaccine Batches in the EU were Placebos, Say Scientists by Inuma in WayOfTheBern

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Ah, that sucks. Sounds like you had a rougher time than I did in trying to broach the topic(s).

My relatives in the family chat group were at least willing to hear me out, although nobody wanted to discuss any specific points they disagreed with me on. I was simply "wrong" and that was that. I can only hope that the ones who remained silent (in your family also) were curious enough to look into things more on their own.

Pfizer Vaccine Batches in the EU were Placebos, Say Scientists by Inuma in WayOfTheBern

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I mean, Japan kinda does, but kinda doesn't. I've never seen it OTC here, and the minority that does use it seems to be mail-ordering from India. I tried looking around myself, but hospitals/clinics won't prescribe it for Covid, so I also ended up ordering a pack to test.

Note, I didn't actually need it. By the time my package arrived, I'd already caught and recovered from Covid (was basically a mundane 2.5 day cold; didn't take anything special other than vitamin D, zinc, and a buncha citrus). The mainstream hit job made me curious though:

  • Contradiction #1: dubiously slanted articles like this one from NPR for a naturally derived medicine that's been given to billions and is on the WHO's list of essential medicines

  • Contradiction #2: bunch of twitter anons seemingly parroting the same warning about IVM causing hepatitis vs. studies showing that it suppresses hepatitis viral replication (1, 2)

Long story short, I smelled bullshit. Tried 1x 12mg tablet per day for a couple months to verify for myself how safe/unsafe it was. Nothing of consequence happened. If anything, I actually feel better than before (anecdotal; this is not medical advice, yadda yadda). With that I felt comfortable enough giving some to my parents to hold onto, just in case.