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The Cult of the Vaccine Neurotic "The jab" is just the latest story to be reported as mantra Matt Taibbi Yesterday, I ran a story that had nothing to do with vaccines, about the  seeming delay of the development of a drug  called molnupiravir (see the above segment with the gracious hosts of  The Hill: Rising  for more). In the time it took to report and write that piece, conventional wisdom turned against the drug, which is now suspected of ivermectinism and other deviationist, anti-vax tendencies, in the latest iteration of our most recent collective national mania — the Cult of the Vaccine Neurotic. The speed of the change was incredible. Just a week ago, on October 1st, the pharmaceutical giant Merck issued a terse  announcement  that quickly became big news. Molnupiravir, an experimental antiviral drug, “reduced the risk of hospitalization or death” of Covid-19 patients by as much as 50%, according to a study. The “first draft of history” stories that ...

That Untraversed Land John Michael Greer It’s been just over a month since  I started talking  about how the predictions set out in 1972 by  The Limits to Growth  were coming true in our time. Since then the situation has become steadily worse. As I write this, rolling blackouts are leaving millions of people in China to huddle in the dark and shutting down yet another round of factories on which the West’s consumer economies depend, while China’s real estate market lurches and shudders with bond defaults.  In Europe, natural gas supplies have run short, sending prices to record levels, while in Britain, the fuel they call petrol and we call gasoline is running short as well.  Here in the United States, visit a store—any store, anywhere in the country—and odds are you’ll find plenty of bare shelves. Insofar as the corporate media is discussing these shortages at all, they’re blaming it on the shutdowns last year and on a lack of truck drivers to haul goods ...

The Pandora Papers: Same old nonsense in a new box The MSM is trying to trick people into thinking they’re still journalists, by telling us things we already know. Kit Knightly The Pandora Papers are out! Following the riveting Panama Papers in 2016, and the astounding Paradise Papers of 2017, the latest entry in the trilogy of financial “leaks” is finally here, and I couldn’t be more excited. THE “LEAKS” So let’s get right down to it…what do the “leaks” say? Well, according to The Guardian… The files reveal how wealthy individuals can shield their income and their assets from taxation and scrutiny by hiding them in offshore jurisdictions, more commonly known as “tax havens”. Mind. Blown. Rich people don’t pay tax! WHAT?! It’s groundbreaking stuff. But that’s the kind of world-changing expos’s you get when you read the work of the  International Consortium of Investigative Journalists  (ICIJ). THE SOURCE Just as with the Panama Papers in 2016 and the Paradise Papers of 2017, t...

US State With Highest Vaccination Rate Hit by Virus Surge US State With Highest Vaccination Rate Hit by Virus Surge By  Ivan Pentchoukov   bigger smaller Vermont , the state with the highest  vaccination rate  in the United States, is experiencing a  CCP virus  surge at levels not seen since the pandemic’s peak last winter. The number of cases in Vermont is at a record level, hospitalizations are close to the records made last winter, and the state recorded the deadliest day and the second deadliest month of the pandemic in September. “I think it’s clearly frustrating for all of us,” said Michael Pieciak, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation who monitors CCP virus statistics for the state. More than 69 percent of Vermont’s population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Sept. 24, according to the  CDC , far above the national rate of 56 percent. The state recorded the highest rate of hospitalizations per 100,000 re...

Thanks to CoCoLuv9491 for recommending this article... Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor "Whistleblower" Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse. Glenn Greenwald Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies at the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled 'Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower' on Capitol Hill October 5, 2021 in Washington, (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Much is revealed  by who is bestowed hero status by the corporate media. This week's anointed avatar of stunning courage is Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager being widely hailed as a "whistleblower” for  providing internal corporate documents  to the  Wall Street Journal  relating to the various harms which Facebook and its other platforms (Instagram and Wha...