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This Week in the New Normal #2   Freedom gets screwed, prisoners face vaccine blackmail, you can be worse than dead and an old enemy returns. Our successor to This Week in the Guardian , This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. “Jab or jail” In the US, judges have started making getting vaccinated a condition of bail . Brandon Rutherford, a 21-year-old from Cincinnatti, was given a suspended sentence for possession of fentanyl, but the sentence came with a rider – he must get “vaccinated” against Covid19 in the next 60 days, or he will be sent to prison for eighteen months. This is not the first time this has happened. Last month another judge in Ohio made a similar ruling , offering a convicted defendant a choice between five years probation, or one year and a vaccine. Whilst in Louisiana, judges are offering to cut community service sentences in exchange for people getti

All of the Evidence Is In:  The Covid Vaccine Is a Failure August 16, 2021 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: |   Print This Article URGENT READ All of the Evidence Is In:   The Covid Vaccine Is a Failure Paul Craig Roberts Dear Readers,   In my efforts to provide good information in place of Big Pharma-serving propaganda about Covid and the vaccine, I have reported to you from the official databases the large number of deaths and health issues associated with the vaccine.   For some age groups the vaccine is more dangerous than the virus. I have also reported to you from official reports that the largest percentage of new cases are associated with those who are fully vaccinated.   The question is: are these actually new cases or are they vaccine-associated illnesses?   Following the conclusions of a Nobel prize-winner in medicine and other top level experts, I have attribut

Variant Roulette (Evolution and Immunity Escape) Mathew Crawford Part 1 One of the most dreadful propositions of mass vaccination is that large scale vaccination during a pandemic or epidemic promotes the selection of mutations that escape immunity. Generally speaking, most viruses tend to evolve toward greater ability to survive and thrive in a host, but with lessened ability to harm that host. After all, a harmed host is more likely to perish, generally along with all the many living things hitching a ride inside. For these and other reasons, it has been understood by the scientific community that  imperfect vaccination can enhance the transmission of viruses  (Read et al). This is sometimes referred to as the  imperfect vaccine hypothesis  or the  "leaky" vaccine hypothesis . As a pandemic wages on, the default expectation is for surviving strains of a virus to be those that find a way to push the boundaries of infectivity in order to keep the infection rate, R, above 1, w