“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Ready for a new box of chocolates? You never know what’s in them…… well, not really!
(1) More chess – including a weak opening and a mistake leading to checkmate.
(2) More firearms – namely the 30-06, multiple rounds, including armor-piercing, against plain old steel 1/2″, 5/8″, 3/4″ and 1″. It’s SPICY.
(3) – More physics magnets – specifically, an explanation of how they work. Bottom line – line up those electrons, buddy – whether it’s in the tiny, or in the big – because it’s a LAZY UNIVERSE and the universe wants to get all LOW ENERGY JEB on things!
(4) More chemistry and bad jokes – as a zany chemist facetiously documents all the laboratory errors he made, in an effort to turn a piece of plumbing pipe into the simple, cheap, metal salt that you can buy at the hardware store to kill roots in your sewer lines.
This is what real YouTube Science was, before AI and big money ruined everything!
(5) More YouTube ChiCom ClickBait FakeTech! How to turn an old microwave oven into clicks and cash (and not actually a laser-aimed, directed energy, flame-thrower).
I do wish Steve was here to critique, but just read the comments on YouTube.
Whatever you do, don’t do any of this stuff at home!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Well, it looks like we did. GOOD!!!
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
yird
noun, verb
earth, sod, soil, topsoil, loam, etc.
ground
to bury
to inter
Used in a sentence
The yird in the yard ain’t no place to yird your momma, but it will work for the old squirrel killed by pesticides.
Used in the title of a homemade horror movie
Used in a poem
MUSIC!
The Yirdbards! Whoops, I mean the Yardbirds!
THE STUFF
TL;DR- Bug sprays are the new vax, and you are the bugs they want to control.
It’s time to start talking about pesticides and depopulation. I will explain why in a few minutes.
Begin with this old video.
Robert Malone just re-blogged a really excellent article on MAHA and pesticides, and it is very helpful background for what I want to talk about. Please check it out.
TL;DR- The first step in going full vax, is getting vax-level legal protection.
Will Congress give the pesticide industry a de facto liability shield?
Guest essay by Dr. Meryl Nass, exclusive to Malone.News
The “public” bottom line is that the pesticide industry has seen how the vaccine industry protected itself from consequences – and they want some of that “protected monopoly” action, too!
The “hidden” bottom line, driven by the depoppers hiding behind plausible deniability and their industrial puppets, is that depop by vaccine is SO busted, but “Depop Plan B” using pesticides on both humans and animals is quite doable, and is now getting the big green light.
If we are not careful, a NEW form of depopulation will be granted a “free pass” to begin culling where vaccines left off, when we refused to take them.
I will share what I am learning in that regard.
Pesticides Tag in as Vaccines are on the Ropes
Did you know that CHINA wants to spray your yard, your house, your deck, your basement, your garden plants – with a chemical that goes right into those plants INTENTIONALLY – and will depopulate the hives of the bees that visit those flowers? Oh, yeah – and the squirrels and birds in your yard? Maybe even the vultures that eat the carcasses? That will cause measurable changes to your cardiovascular system? And for which they will charge you something approaching a grand per year – and that they will make you sign an almost unbreakable contract, which you can’t break – EVEN FOR HEALTH REASONS – without losing most of your money?
You had better wise up fast, because China figured out that Americans aren’t going to take those vaccines, and they have a NEW PLAN.
And I’m here to tell you all about it.
I have an organic yard and house. Yeah, I have to use some herbicides and some pesticides, but I generally avoid them almost entirely. If I absolutely must, I use weak, natural insecticides like natural pyrethrins VERY occasionally. I use borax traps for ants. I use pheromone traps for Japanese beetles. I use SPIDERS for most insects, and HOUSE CENTIPEDES to keep the spiders under control. The rule is that my little natural friends have to stay hidden, and they learn fast, just like little AI robots. Scare them good, and you won’t see them again.
I use natural oil repellents for rabbits, squirrels, and deer in the gardens. This natural system works like crazy. Good dehumidification also helps in a big way, to keep bugs out of the house. I pass those tips along to all my friends, too, just like they were passed on to me. A natural and dry house is a surprisingly clean and bug-free house.
We have birds, squirrels, rabbits, deer, coyotes, skunks, racoons, groundhogs, bats, woodpeckers, hawks, owls, chipmunks, field mice, and every other critter you can imagine. We treat the animals well, and they entertain us all year long. The insects can’t come in the house, however, and our pampered little predators take care of the few that do.
However, not all of my friends and neighbors have stood up to the blatant, merciless, and sometimes literally illegal solicitations by the pestilence of “green” pesticide companies, trying to sell their services to the unwary.
I am going to warn you about them.
What follows is a combination of my experiences with those of my friends, my neighbors, and their friends and neighbors. Most of this is first-hand information given directly to me by the people involved. Some is second-hand. Some is my own experience. I’m going to wrap it all up in one ball – a single “friend” – to keep all these people anonymous, and bury my connections to them.
My “friend” has some serious warnings for you. Pay attention – and LIVE.
My friend actually thinks the home pesticide racket is built for depop. I knew this person was wise to depop with vaccines, but not pesticides, so when they told me the current pressure by green pesticide companies was all about depopulation, I was stunned. I wasn’t even fully there yet. But when you hear my friend’s story, it makes sense.
Yes – depopulation by nasty elites and progs is almost a mainstream belief now.
The high-pressure sales by these “green pesticide” companies has gone up by a full quantum level. We used to get the top two or three companies coming to our door, once every few years, but lately they’re all everywhere, all the time. The competition is FIERCE. I’ve seen them coming to most of my friends’ houses, too. The companies send both college kids and seasoned pros on these calls, and it seems like most of these salespeople will just ignore “NO SOLICITORS” signs.
My friend is an avid gardener and a DIY type, and had avoided using a pesticide company for years. However, because they were in the middle of a very wet summer with a lot of insects getting into the house, AND because the salesman made it sound like their people were just applying organic plant extracts to the exterior, and promised it would solve the problem, my friend made the mistake of trusting the sales pitch, and signed a 1-year contract to try it out. HUGE mistake.
“Plant-based” doesn’t mean “plant extracts”. Nor does it mean organic. Nor does it mean natural. It means “there exist natural substances with the same mode of bug-killing action, but this newer, stronger, and more persistent synthetic poison is not one of them.”
It’s the difference between “pyrethrins” (moderately toxic natural substances in chrysanthemum flowers) and “pyrethroids” (synthetic molecules that kinda look like the natural ones, but are many times more potent and toxic).
Ditto for “neonicotinoids“, which function at the same insect (or mammal) receptors as nicotine, but have molecules which increasingly look almost nothing like nicotine.
Neonicotinoids, a.k.a. “neonics“, are contentious because (IMO) they are both over-accused in some ways, and under-accused in others. Let’s just say that they are not without controversy.
That is what is being called “plant-based”, “organic”, etc. Technically, it’s true, or almost true, but realistically, it’s so close to a lie, you need a spark-plug gapper to find the space. IMO, the term “plant-based” is a bridge between SCAMMERS and MARKS – nothing more. It is designed to get people who are very reluctant to spray synthetic poisons around their houses, to spray synthetic poisons around their houses.
Caveat emptor.
What it meant in practice for my friend, was a mixture of AGRICULTURAL INSECTICIDES sprayed all over the exterior of the house, sprayed on the ground all around the house and on the decks, sprayed all over the garden, and then delayed-release pellets of still more insecticides being scattered all over the lawn.
The very first casualty was one of my friend’s favorite squirrels – a big old thing – dead on the ground where the company had sprayed, two days later. They weren’t sure if it walked through the sprayed areas or munched on one of the timed-release pellets, but based on the maggot and ant activity, the squirrel likely died within hours of the first application.
It definitely took care of the insects (it took a few days) – they were GONE from the garden – including all the pollinators. There were definitely fewer insects coming into the house. The stuff works.
HOWEVER, my friend felt ILL within hours of spraying, and within 2-3 days knew that something was very wrong. They almost went to the doctor, and only held off from doing so, because they felt better after about a week to 10 days.
Now – here is the kicker. A few weeks later, my friend was told by their FitBit (health wrist watch) that there had been an improvement in exercising heart rate – that their pulse had gone down significantly. My friend found that surprising, and looked at a graph of the health data. Yes, it had gone down – from an unexpected increase earlier. What was very obvious was full recovery from a HUGE increase in heart rate starting the very day that the pesticides had been applied, topping out in 3-4 days, then going back to normal in a week to 10 days. After that, a flat line of normalcy.
My friend even remembered ignoring an earlier notification about heart rate – probably when it increased.
The truth was all in the data.
Good thing my friend only has mild cardiac issues. What if this would have happened to somebody with serious cardiac problems?
I repeat. My friend has medical evidence of health effects due to the applied pesticides. My guess is that they suffered from both of the chemicals sprayed on the house – one is a powerful pyrethroid, which can cause nerve problems like the symptoms they described – the other is a neonicotinoid, meaning it’s biologically like nicotine, and that is the one that IMO likely raised their heart rate.
My friend canceled the service a.s.a.p. and told the company why. One might think that a person would get their money back for a health-related exit, but no – the contract required almost complete payment of the full contract for discontinuing for ANY reason. My friend did NOT give a damn – they were OUT.
Lesson learned.
Now, that squirrel wasn’t the only casualty. A different company came to my friend’s house later, and mentioned (as a selling point) that they had secured contracts with two families just down the road. Well, what do you know – a few days later, there was a HUGE vulture pecking at what looked like a small dead mammal in the first mentioned neighbor’s yard. And if that’s not enough, there was ANOTHER dead mammal – some kind of squirrel or chipmunk – found later next door to the second property mentioned by the happy salesman.
I repeat – these are were mammals.
Between my neighbor’s symptoms preserved in data, and 3 dead mammals in or near 3 treated yards, I know that I for one sure don’t want to have anything to do with these “green” pesticides. My suspicions of them have been confirmed.
If you want to read more about the health effects of pesticides, this is a really good slideshow:
Go back to Malone’s hosted article by Dr. Nass. You will find that a certain big pesticide company merged with ChemChina. ChemChina is STATE-OWNED – meaning it’s the CCP.
Well, that company which is under CCP control, happens to be the one that produced the mixture of chemicals which likely sickened my friend and killed the squirrel. So if you wouldn’t trust China to “safely” put poisons in your yard and on your house, then strongly consider hiring some spiders to take care of the insects, and some house centipedes to take care of the spiders. Let the birds take care of the insects. Let the bees take care of the flowers. And let the hawks take care of the squirrels.
We continue to mourn the untimely passing of our beloved compatriot DePat, known in real life as Susie Sampson, and also as author Patricia Holden.
Until we have a dedicated author for the Tuesday daily open thread, I will be posting “placeholders” like this one, which may or may not be spiced up with additional content.
Gudthots will take DePat’s old Thursday daily open thread.
Please notify me in advance if you would like to post anything in lieu of the Tuesday placeholder. We welcome all content – the topic doesn’t matter.
W
Get Smart – Buy a Globe!
When I was trying to get somebody to take DePat’s Tuesday open thread – meaning THIS thread – and there were no takers, I toyed with the idea of turning this open into a kind of comedy hour. The satire would be brutal – brutal enough that somebody would quickly decide to shut me up by volunteering to take the open. OR SO I HOPED!
I was going to call myself Flat Earth Wolf, and I planned to ferociously but facetiously advocate everything that most people here disagreed with, if not depise. Flat earth, no virus, deep state Trump, woke right – the worse, the better!
Yeah, at first it sounded kinda fun, but then I realized that it would just drive people away. And even I wouldn’t enjoy it.
SIGH.
Eventually, I just decided to use this open to post my own honest opinions about things. The beauty of that is, if somebody disagrees with me, they only have to volunteer to take the open to shut me up – but I don’t have to be funny or interesting, which is work.
I can just spout off and state my piece – and that is exactly what I’m going to do!
Now, as you have seen, I’ve spent a lot of time being “fair” to flat earth, by making sure people who want to post any side of any debate can do so here – and that is still happening. Most of the time, I’m encouraging people to post views that may oppose not only my own views, but everybody else’s, too.
But it’s time to be more….. how shall I say….. “complete” about things.
I try to be “nice” about a lot of “science” that “has issues”. I just try to smile and not pull out any deadly weapons of argumentation.
No serrated blades. No 100-round clips. No razor-studded baseball bats. Maybe a hanky. Yes. A perfumed hanky. Cough. Cough. Pardon me!
WELL – NOT TODAY, AND NOT RIGHT HERE, AND NOT RIGHT NOW.
¿Comprende?
Pardon me for just one moment. I’m gonna be tougher about science. Because we have to be tough. We are up against a very organized force.
The Yellow Berets, also known as Public Health Service trainees, were a group of physicians who participated in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Associate Training Program during the Vietnam War era. They were often derogatorily referred to as “Yellow Berets” by supporters of the war who viewed them as avoiding military service.
We are up against some really bad people, who are fully prepared to tell any lie for their purposes. So this opposing army – OUR army – can’t tolerate weak, wrong, and misled science in the forward combat positions. SURE – if you want to work on the base back in safe territory, you can believe all the bad and broken science you want. But if you want to get out in front, you have to subject your own biases to the relentless sharpening forces of TRUTH – and in particular EVIDENCE.
Some things are very certain out in the front lines. One of them is that this planet is a sphere, roughly.
NOW – like most other professional scientists, I haz science skilz in a lot of different areas, because most true scientists are like that. We don’t turn off the science when we walk out of school or job – and our opinions can be particularly relevant in looking at other people’s “expert” stuff, and asking terrible, sharp, venomous questions that the “experts” in those areas are hiding from, or pretending don’t exist.
Much “organization” in current, problematic, sick, “mainstream” science is done to insulate compromised insiders from pesky intelligent outsiders.
Decorum, you know. That’s it. Decorum.
Well, too bad.
BUT we have to hold ourselves to the same revolutionary standards.
Yadig? Of course! What’s good for vaccines, is good for “no virus”, “flat earth”, and many other things.
Globe Earth Wolf has a recommendation that will ultimately test your faith in God, by beating on it. He’s gonna BEAT your armor until it is HARDER, and the first beat-down is that you need to buy an actual globe and STUDY IT.
They’re CHEAP AS DIRT. Most are made in CHYYYNA. But you still have to buy one. I don’t care where it’s made. BUY A GLOBE. And if you already have one, pull it out of the closet, attic or basement.
Buy one at a garage sale, if you have to.
I recommend buying a globe that is at least 12 inches in diameter, and is mounted so that the tilt of Earth’s axis relative to the sun is clearly demonstrable.
Blue oceans which are highly differentiated in color from the land masses are very helpful. Political boundaries are somewhat immaterial, although they do help you LOCATE things more quickly and precisely, and if they are current, the globe can be used to increase your current geopolitical understanding. On the other hand, a vintage globe can be useful for more historical understanding. In either case, I recommend blue oceans, because some vintage globes hide this physically useful truth, by making everything somewhat off-white, sepia and tan, simply to look good on furniture, as opposed to BEATING ON YOUR BRAIN, which is my purpose.
What I am doing is actually a stupid trick from science – a silly secret among the “top men”. And top women, but let’s not get TOO bogged down in DEI.
You see, MODELS – simple physical models – are behind so much of the best science and so many of the best scientists. I have watched this throughout my entire life, and it’s hilarious. Good models are what won Watson and Crick the Nobel Dynamite & Bankster Prize for DNA, and Doudna and Charpentier the same for CRISPR-Cas9. Good models are how all the best work on C60/Buckyballs/Fullerenes was done.
Good models are how stereochemistry was explained in the late 19th century. Good models are – over and over – how organic chemistry and then biochemistry were worked out in the 19th and 20th centuries.
When I went to school with a bunch of scary smart people, I quickly realized that I could use my cheap plastic molecular model set, which I was ironically forced to buy, but wisely chose to actually use, to find all sorts of science which had apparently evaded older students and even our professors for years. Simple, stupid, cheap, plastic and aluminum, “straws and jacks” (not even balls and sticks) was all it took to figure out realities that would ALWAYS show up in chemical behavior, spectroscopy, and quantum mechanical calculations.
I would SHOW PEOPLE this stuff with models – and you could always tell the winners from the losers by how fast they would start using their own “required but never used” model set to figure things out – by how carefully (or stupidly and carelessly) they would cut their little bonds – by how carefully or carelessly they would grab the right “jack” to get the right angles at the atoms – by how strongly they would reason past the limitations of the cheap models – and by how quickly they would spend some of their hard-earned but very limited cash to buy a SECOND or THIRD model set, to make even bigger and better models possible.
I am doing the exact same thing here, to make you smarter – to make YOU a winner.
Because we can’t have too much winning if you aren’t on the same page as Trump, as well as the historical patriots who really did walk this SPHERICAL planet and built this great civilization – and GOD – who made this WORKING BALL on which WORKING LIFE not only EXISTS but THRIVES and then hopefully carries on His PRO-LIFE MISSION of creating and persisting a life-filled and God-loving universe, which is something GOD WANTS BECAUSE IT’S GOOD.
Just my opinion?
Yeah. But still – buy a globe. You will learn so much from it.
I recommend keeping your globe in some place you visit regularly. I stand in front of my globe generally 2-4 times a day, and I probably toy with it at least daily. When we’re having science discussions here, especially after one of Steve’s science posts, I may spend a half hour with that globe.
What am I looking at?
I am looking at seasons. I’m looking at angles of the sun. I’m looking at hours of daylight, twilight, and darkness. But that’s just the beginning.
Most importantly, I’m looking at thousands of tiny details and saying “OH, THAT MAKES SENSE”. Airplane flights. Jet lag. Shipping routes. Planetary distances. Phone conversations. Satellites. “4 AM”. Russia, CHYYYNA, Japan. Burma Shave. TAIWAN. Why Hawaii has always been filled with trouble and bullshit. Look at your globe and every little thing starts to make sense.
This is very critical. When you have a real, true, winning solution in science, like a spherical planet, it just makes all the little stuff WORK. All the thousands of minor details WORK for any scientist who looks at the model, and kicks the tires. This is why Newton is not “replaced” by Einstein – he’s just being helped out around the edges where things get weird.
The problem with “Flat Earth” (and other things I’ll talk about later) is that one big mistake made from an emotionally attractive bias to the past tries (and fails) to upset all the little yet critical stuff other people are doing or have done – meaning millions of honest, good-faith observations. THEN, the same people who break all the little yet critical stuff for everybody else, when confronted, just throw back some non-working, “causes even more trouble”, evasion of an answer, and pretend that they answered the problem, when they didn’t. And that is exactly why nobody takes them seriously, and most people ignore them.
In science, you have to make something that lets OTHER PEOPLE explain or predict stuff on their own, successfully, nearly every time, to actually have a product that sells AND GETS RE-SOLD. Newton did that. Chemistry did that. Electromagnetism did that. Relativity did that. Quantum mechanics did that. Particle physics did that.
When you look at the globe, try to predict how long automobile trips and plane flights take. Look at where islands are. Look at where history happened. Look at where mankind started, wandered, and settled. Look at climate. Look at weather. Look at temperatures. Look at where those temperatures are on the globe.
Right there, the semi-frozen pizza stumbles hard, but the globe, with two poles on one axis, just works like crazy. Everything is nicely – no – perfectly explained – and it’s explained all together at the same time, by a very simple model.
Your actual globe will make you a solid and strong glober. And scientist. And lover of truth.
And then you will become even stronger, because – believe it or not – you will become stronger in FAITH. You will start to see how God makes stuff WORK – and I mean REALLY WORK – simply, powerfully, independently – and that pattern is something you can predict will show up again, and again, and again.
God makes stuff that WORKS. And KEEPS WORKING.
But I’m getting ahead of things.
So buy that globe, or get the old one out, and let’s talk about it. Make that globe WORK for you. Let it help you see the TRUTH.
And as it brings you closer to TRUTH, it will bring you closer to GOD.
W
“Is there anything as great as a Trump rally?”
TOPSHOT – US President Donald Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally as he campaigns at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Florida, October 12, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
zymotechnics
noun
the art of fermentation
fermentation technology
Used in a sentence
If one considers Pasteur and zymotechnics to be ancestral to modern biotechnology, then surely Liebig and early organic chemistry are foundational to modern pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and medicinal chemistry. (Derived from THIS LINK.)
Shown in a picture, sorta, kinda, hey, look! A squirrel!
Shown in a Soviet Uzbek film – no, wait – that’s not….. whatever!
MUSIC!
Well, now that we’re committed to the theme…..
UGH. Think I’ll have a sparkling water!
THE STUFF
If you want to see how much bad science is out there, just watch this lady review a scientific paper that was getting some “wowee” buzz.
You don’t have to understand the equations – just assume for the moment that she knows what she’s talking about (this is her area of science).
But notice that the opposite should also be true (and she says it). Some valuable gems get lost in the trash as well. Good science is increasingly not noticed, until it is rediscovered a second or third time and somehow gets more attention.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
volacious
adjective
able, apt or fit to fly
Shown in a picture
Used in a sentence
It’s not a question of whether or not to toss the toxic dwarf into GITMO – the question is whether he is sufficiently volacious to make it there intact without bubble wrap.
MUSIC!
Speaking of volcano sacrifices, as a belated Halloween offering, and with EPIC musical character beloved by Wheatie, we bring you this little number…..
And now for…..
THE STUFF
Thank you, Elon! You did it!
SO, in honor of Senator “Lurch” Thune, we have this!
And if that’s not enough Lurch, here’s more than you can handle!
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
xenocracy
noun
government by a body of foreigners
Shown in a picture
Used in a sentence
It’s hard to say who has been in charge of the intermittent American xenocracy, but we know for sure that it has not been Americans. They do prefer to rule us through “quasi-Americans” like Osatan , Kakula, and even Lyin’ Ted Cruz.
MUSIC!
Have some random previously unknown (to me) country music!
Has anybody here ever heard of this woman before?
THE STUFF
Thank you, Elon!
Fake science is real. But we’re starting to take it on.
Russia is playing a masterful game against the Western allies of Ukraine, by striking at the very heart of their neo-liberal, globalist, “rules-based” order – the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Russia has found the Achilles heel of WEF – pedophilia – which is a practice solidly rejected by almost the entire citizenry of every country which WEF alleges to represent.
Very soon, WEF’s assets and agents in Western countries will be quite unwelcome, and many trainees and associates will be forced to deny their association with that organization – not only with words, but with ACTIONS.
Russia will have succeeded in becoming a MORAL leader of the citizens of the West, in contradiction to the very governments of those countries. Too late, socialists and communists in those nations will learn that Mao’s essential work on contradiction applies to THEM as well.
Weaker and weaker, the governments of these countries will face citizens outraged at money pouring into Ukraine, working against world peace, as their economies weaken and their societies decay.
By this action, the SECOND PHASE of the fall of Sovietism will occur – the abandonment of Sovietism by Soviet-infiltrated and globalist-nurtured Western nations. That, in turn, will usher in the multi-polar world which appears to be the most scientifically plausible outcome of actual human social development.
Allow me to explain – in one small way – why I believe this is coming, and how it is happening.
It is very clear that WEF provides major support for the LGBT+ agenda which is overtaking the West, but which agenda is being slow-walked in China and actively rolled back in Russia. You will notice that WEF takes great pains to never push too hard on this topic, lest it appear to be leading, instead of merely responding and approving.
“Leading from behind” – as Obama calls it.
For example, in talking about its own “platforms”, the framework shown below is as close as WEF comes to open LGBT+/LGBTI advocacy – Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society. You can dig deeper for more specifics, but on the surface, WEF is in the closet.
What Russia has done, using one of its best disinformation assets in the West, is to prematurely expose WEF’s true intents on LGBT(P), where P is pedophilia. It did this using a most excellent “true lie”, as you will see.
You are likely familiar with the handiwork of Baxter Dmitry, but you probably never knew or connected the NAME of the master of “fake news” to his amazing product, which fools millions of people every day.
Baxter Dmitry is the absolute master of plausible lies. He finds things which not only COULD be true, but maybe SHOULD be true, and may even BE true, but are probably not, or at least not exactly, and then turns them into fake news.
Such a hilariously “diet” version of evil. And yet, he is, indeed, a bearer of false witness.
What is interesting, if you watch Dmitry long enough, is that his product rarely looks like out-and-out Russian propaganda, but it almost always serves Russian interests. If Dmitry’s work doesn’t weaken and demoralize the Western regimes with lies, it does so with truth.
Now – don’t get me wrong – THAT is not always something that bothers me. For example, while I reject the insane neo-liberal “rules-based order”, I am a complete backer of a “truth-based order” – so anybody telling more truth than the other guy, gets more of my support than the other guy.
How in the HELL does “rule-based order” matter, when the rules literally encode LIES? Such order is no better than “woke AI”, which is FORBIDDEN from finding or acknowledging certain truths that GOD rains down on us. To HELL with your “rules-based order”, founded on LIES.
Take the “Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell“. I don’t care where it came from. I don’t care where it passed, or whether it was “hacked” or “stolen”. I don’t care if Russia, China, or the Vatican gave it to Rudy Giuliani. I don’t care if they got the information honestly, or dishonestly, the latter being something the FBI does routinely.
All I care about, is whether the data on that laptop is real, intact, and TRUE.
See our masthead about how that is determined. By FREE INQUIRY.
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
To me, the fact that the FBI honored the DNC-convenient idea of hacked information is bad OVER the idea that true information is good – all that tells me is that the American DOJ and FBI are now CRIMINALS, dodging behind technicalities to hide the sordid truth about their co-conspirator, Joe Biden.
To me, they’re liars, much like Baxter Dmitry. But not EXACTLY like Baxter Dmitry.
To see this, we need to look at Baxter’s very recent, and very cunning “true lie” against WEF.
I have copied a large segment, but nowhere near the entire article, below.
FROM THE ARTICLE:
A controversial initiative being promoted in the corridors of power by Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum in Davos is set to have families and anyone who cares about children up in arms.
The World Economic Forum is now calling for the decriminalization of sex with children, arguing that laws against “age gap love,” more commonly known as pedophilia, “violate human rights.”
Rather than being a scourge, the pedophilia epidemic that is sweeping the world is actually “nature’s gift” to humanity, according to Klaus Schwab whose World Economic Forum has declared that pedophiles are being created by nature in increasingly large numbers for a reason.
According to a research paper presented at the WEF in Davos, the pedophile phenomenon represents nature’s attempt to cleanse the earth and “save humanity” from itself. Minor attracted people are far less likely to produce large numbers of offspring, according to academic data, and the so-called “underage people” they have so-called “relationships” with are statistically less likely to go on and become heads of large families themselves.
This appeals to the WEF and their vision of destroying the family unit and depopulating the earth.
The WEF, which has ordered the mainstream media to begin pushing the narrative, wants to introduce an international policy that will require the majority of countries to decriminalize or at the very least relax their laws against pedophilia.
The New York Times, always at the forefront of the globalist agenda, ran an op-ed arguing that pedophilia is not a crime.
According to the Times, civil rights protections must be extended to pedophiles. “Without legal protection, a pedophile cannot risk seeking treatment or disclosing his status to anyone for support.”
Not to be outdone, CNN countered with an article proclaiming that pedophiles are not “monsters” or “social deviants living in the shadows.” According to CNN, it’s high-time for society to update its image of pedophiles.
CNN followed up this article with an even more explicit call for sympathy. Rather than considering child molesters the lowest of the low, we should reach out to them and seek to understand them, according to CNN because, they claim, “One cannot choose not to be a pedophile.”
The psychologist Jesse Bering, author of “Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us,” also urges the reader to sympathize with child molesters, writing that people with pedophilia “aren’t living their lives in the closet; they’re eternally hunkered down in a panic room.”
Salon also got in on the act, urging us to meet pedophiles who mean well.
And the BBC, which famously spent decades covering up for Britain’s most notorious pedophile Jimmy Savile, also wants us to think positively about the new generation of pedophiles.
Make no mistake, a co-ordinated attempt is underway to present pedophilia as “harmless.”
What is going on? The media are presenting us with a classic case of the “Overton window.” According to the political scientist Joseph Overton, there is a window within which there are ideas considered “acceptable” by society, tolerated therefore even by those who do not share them. Ideas outside this window are considered “extremist” and not accepted in public debate.
What Baxter Dmitry has done here, is to create a plausible and shockingly believable, but completely over-the-top defense of pedophilia by WEF, and to then accuse them of having said it.
After making this apparently slanderous statement “by” WEF, however, Dmitry then goes into many paragraphs of highly legitimate and accurate reporting on the shilling and soft-pedaling of pedophilia by the media and Western globalist leaders, particularly those with close ties to WEF.
This is a masterpiece of disinformation, because it basically “pre-Epsteins” Klaus Schwab.
What Baxter Dmitry did, was to wrap an accusatory and likely false poison pill, in a whole bunch of connected truth. He sparks the gap of what we don’t know, with what we rightly suspect.
The effect is DEADLY. The article instantly generates megatons of bitter hatred against WEF.
WEF, as far as I know, never publicly said such a thing. Indeed, there are numerous fact-checker websites which vigorously deny it, too – for all that’s worth, now that fact-checkers as a whole have told as many lies as Baxter Dmitry – or maybe more.
I did go to the trouble of searching WEF’s site for anything close to the alleged statements, and they simply are not there, nor anything like them.
It would appear that – AS USUAL – Baxter Dmitry is lying.
Lying liars are lying again.
HOWEVER…..
This is where things get even more interesting.
There is a saying which I absolutely HATE because it insults my gay friends. However, I also respect the saying, because it literally came true, when I discovered that some of my gay friends were, in fact, pedophiles.
That statement:
“Scratch a gay, find a pedophile.”
Fact checkers will argue until the cows come home that this isn’t true, but for me, looking skeptically at any gay male has turned out to be one of the FASTEST ways to find pedophiles. Heterosexual pedophiles are – in my experience – much harder to find, and the female brand of heterosexual pedophiles even harder. Although, sadly, their numbers are growing.
My point is, this saying applies to the World Economic Forum as well.
If you go to WEF’s website, https://www.weforum.org/, and do a few searches on LGBT-related topics, buzzwords, acronyms, and the like, you will quickly find that WEF is fully behind the “gay agenda” and the “trans agenda”, pushing nations to adopt it completely.
You will NOT see any kind of open, full-throated support for pedophilia, or even inflammatory support for euphemisms like “minor-attracted persons”.
HOWEVER – just like when you see your gay friend collecting images of “pretty” boys, or catch him grooming teens with anime porn on social media, you can catch WEF shilling for pedo.
Only five countries in the world – Bolivia, Ecuador, Fiji, Malta and the UK – have constitutions that explicitly guarantee equality for citizens on the basis of sexual orientation as well as gender identity, according to a 2016 UCLA study.
Five countries – Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa and Sweden – have constitutions that provide protections based on sexual orientation.
But globally, there are few constitutional protections for LGBTI rights compared to provisions to protect against gender or racial discrimination, says the study.
Image: Equaldex
General disclaimer: The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion on the part of the World Economic Forum concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
In the graph, you will note that dark blue map color = LGBT illegal in some contexts. You can bet money this is referring to pedophilia. It is a VERY sneaky way to refer to it – as “a context” of LGBT. I will explain.
It’s also important to note the general disclaimer. THAT is about the fact that Taiwan is blue, but China is red. WEF is making sure China doesn’t take this to mean that WEF is saying Taiwan is a separate country. Yeah.
This article, in its entirety, is an extremely careful SHILL FOR PEDO, under the covers of shilling for constitutional LGBT protections. I urge you to read it in its entirety. However, if you want to see the key part, here it is.
Mexico abolished most discriminatory legal distinctions based on sexual orientation long before the United States. Mexico decriminalised sodomy in 1871, more than 100 years before the US Supreme Court overturned anti-sodomy laws in 2003.
The lone legal discriminatory point in Mexican law was a double penalty for corruption of a minor if it involved homosexuality. This provision was changed in 1998. The United States has no national antidiscrimination laws to protect LGBT people. In 2003 the Mexican Chamber of Deputies unanimously passed a national anti-discrimination law that included sexual orientation as a protected category, established a new agency to enforce the antidiscrimination law, and developed a national anti-homophobia campaign. Moreover, the first article of the Mexican Constitution prohibits discrimination based on “sexual preferences”. There is no explicit constitutional protection for sexual orientation in the United States.
Now, technically, what WEF is complaining about here, is that gay pedo was being doubly penalized as “corruption of a minor”, whereas straight pedo was only [in principle – see below] getting the standard weak sentence for that charge. But in my opinion, we need to go back to the map that got us here from the previous article. What is the difference between Mexico and the United States? LGBT is not “protected in some contexts” in the US. What are those contexts?
PEDOPHILIA.
Child prostitution, now euphemized as “child trafficking”, is RAMPANT in Mexico, and always has been. Young teen prostitutes and porn actresses were notorious in Mexico when I was a kid. However, it was all STRAIGHT. Gay pedo was “discriminated against”.
Now, thanks to progressive activism, pedophilia is protected in “gay contexts” as well, in Mexico. Or perhaps we should say that gay sex is protected in all contexts.
See how that works?
If you look at exactly how much real protection there is for anything LGBT *and* ADULT in the United States now, there is no reason that the US didn’t qualify for “green” in that map, except that “P” and “childhood T” are not protected here. Both – handily – captured by the idea of GROOMING of kids.
Beyond the issue of pedophilia, it’s very fascinating to read that full article, because WEF takes very close notes on two things that should scare you:
states are useful for gaining protections for LGBT(P) when national laws are not obtainable
religion does not protect the conservative status quo in Mexico, oddly, and WEF seems to think that evangelical Christians are the reason
You can see what these two things mean, and WEF hints at them. FOUR YEARS AGO.
WEF will try to subvert individual states in the US
WEF will try to subvert evangelical Christianity both in the US and elsewhere
DeSantis striking out explicitly at WEF is a very good thing, because he is definitely going to be a target of these people. However, Protestant churches are now going to be targeted by WEF, and IMO the WEF infiltration will use PEDO, just like they did with the Catholic Church. LGBT gets in first, and then they bring in the PEDO. Are you seeing that? I certainly am.
Russia is an old hand at winning wars using propaganda.
Just like Soviet Russia won the Vietnam war by stoking liberal anti-war and anti-cultural sentiment in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Post-Soviet Russia is going to win the Ukraine war by stoking conservative anti-war and anti-cultural sentiment in the United States during the 2020s.
Without getting too deep into that prediction, what we are seeing is Russia’s recognition that America is fundamentally culturally opposed to WEF’s view of the world, while WEF is a driving force behind the entire overexpansion of NATO into the former Soviet Union (FSU).
All Russia needs to do, is to make Americans SEE that WEF is behind the gender and pedophilic insanity that most of America despises, and Russia can further turn America against the WEF-begotten war in Ukraine. At the same time, as WEF weakens, China rises, taking control of WEF, as it has taken control of the UN.
While WEF most likely never said PUBLICLY the crazy things that Baxter Dmitry accuses them of saying, it would not surprise me at all, if Russian intelligence has VERBATIM picked up those very same ideas in WEF cyberspace and internal discussions. These ideas are fully consistent with the kind of thinking WEF engages in.
The ideas of “pedophile saviors” is not only perfectly satanic, but when couched in a Malthusian evolutionary context, it sounds brilliantly just like Yuval Harari – you know – the very creepy, gay, vegan, Israeli transhumanist who functions as a kind of Rasputin of Klaus Schwab.
The more you listen to this guy, the more you see him taking humanity over a cliff, in a kind of Hitlerian hubris that seems like something straight out of the 1940s.
WEF was clearly WAY out over their skis, and Putin nailed them in mid-air.
So where does that leave us?
In summary, what Baxter Dmitry has done, possibly with Russian direction, assistance, or intelligence, is to simply fill in the public blanks, by applying scratch a gay, find a pedophile to the LGBT(P) insanity of the World Economic Forum, at a time when that culturally aggressive and hyperprogressive organization is clearly linked to all manner of recently revealed evils, including vaccine techno-fascism, sneaky depopulation, sociobiological warfare, climate terraforming, energy cultural revolution, destruction of food sources and supply chains, financial eco-bullying, rampant corruption, criminal corporate swindling of the middle class, unbridled transhumanism, woke AI, militant veganism, globalist warmongering, treasury-raiding, taxation without representation, blatant censorship of obvious truth, and rabid antitheism (to be distinguished from mere atheism – practically a blessing in comparison).
Almost EVERY human has something to fear from WEF. It’s too easy.
All Putin has to do is hold up a cross, and he wins.
I will try to keep this brief – although that is hard, because I’m fighting against people’s “feelings” instead of facts.
When the other side LIES all the time, it creates a “feeling” that they’re lying about everything.
Yes, they ARE lying about everything – but the lies are often very sophisticated, being composed of a matrix of solid and hard-won truths, held together by crafty lies.
If you’re going to FIGHT BACK, then I say FIGHT BACK SMART.
Buckle up.
INTRO
There has been a very successful strain of disinformation used to make our side seem very unconvincing to normies (to put it mildly).
That strain is the “there is no virus” deception.
Many times we tolerate this, because we don’t want to discourage our “fellow skeptics”, but it is critical that we refute nonsense on our own side.
In the past I’ve devoted occasional comments to putting down disinformation to the tune of “there is no virus” and “the virus was never isolated”, but after this last time, meaning yesterday, I’ve decided to just GUT this beast right on the dissection table, under the glaring lights of its own post, so that the “debunking” has its own URL, suitable for posting in response to well-meaning people on our side, who think “no virus” is a tenable position.
NO. It is not tenable. You are being BAITED into nonsense, so that you are no longer effective. You are being baited into becoming a “FEELZ” person, like reliable Democrats.
The “there is no virus” position is basically the “new flat earth” of biology. You’ll see why momentarily.
An Example of “There Is No Virus / Isolation”
I want to thank Canadian Guest for bringing an example of this disinformation to the board for my consideration. Bringing some FRESH RATS to this SCIENCE HAWK is always appreciated.
This is why I don’t restrict the bringing of “propaganda” and potential disinformation here. We’re adults. We can DEAL with it – and often very usefully. I get more truth out of Russian “propaganda” than out of most MSM “explainers”. Funny how that works.
WE will be the judge of truth – NOT “them”.
Here is the video. Watch if you want – particularly after reading this.
There are some tells OTHER than what I’m going to talk about, that this is an interesting construction designed to derail critics of the vaccines. Tell me what you think “smells” like targeted disinformation in the comments.
Did CIA or FIB make this? Did Chinese intelligence? Who are these people?
Koch’s Postulates
One of the centerpieces of “disproving” that viruses exist, is to engage in passive-aggressive science using what are called “Koch’s postulates”.
Koch’s postulates were a brilliant set of standards from the beginning of microbiology, designed to help prove that an illness was actually caused by a microbe, rather than a bodily dysfunction of some kind.
The microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms.
The microorganism must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture.
The cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism.
The microorganism must be reisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.
Wikipedia has an excellent and quick presentation about Koch’s postulates AND the problems therein.
You would be very smart to notice something on the LAST slide.
“It is sometimes impossible to satisfy all of Koch’s postulates.”
One of the ways in which this happens, is that “pure culture” (stated in the second postulate) varies between a laboratory vacuum and a jungle floor. If you’re a “purist”, nothing will pass the postulates. If you’re laissez-faire about things, everything will pass. If you’re SMART about things, and demand a SMARTLY PURE culture, you will get great results, and Koch’s postulates will continue to work for even crazy things like viruses, prions, etc.
What’s up with viruses?
The problem is that viruses are not microbes in the same sense as bacteria, protozoans, and similar microorganisms which are well-handled by Koch’s original postulates, where “pure cultures” were “biologically sterile, but molecularly fertile” mixtures.
Viruses are, quite literally, molecular parasites. The transmission of viruses is both more demanding and less demanding on the nature of a “pure medium”, than is transmission of bacteria. Viruses transmit in a different way.
Viruses need almost nothing to survive in, but they need CELLS to reproduce in. Viruses do not grow in simple chemical brews. They need CELLS. Cells not only contain a lot of stuff of “their own” – they also contain a lot of viruses, AND the encoding for these and other viruses.
If you demand a “cell-free medium” for growth of a virus, you have basically sabotaged science “under the color of science”.
See how that works?
The history of Koch’s postulates, and the upgrading of Koch’s original postulates to take care of things like viruses, prions, etc., is discussed in THIS article:
SO – you will almost always see some kind of reference to Koch’s postulates, in “there is no virus” disinformation. Koch’s postulates are the perfect “medium” for passive-aggressive anti-science.
BUT WAIT! There’s MOAR!
“BUT MUH NON-ISOLATION!”
The next, and actually essential part of the disinformation, is the allegation that the virus behind COVID-19 was never isolated.
HOGWASH!
BULLSHIT!
LIES!
It was not only isolated early and often – it is ROUTINELY isolated, all over the world, in order that genetic studies OF THE VIRUS can be done.
Think of all the hundreds of thousands of scientists who gather “clout” in molecular biology by analyzing the RNA of a single virus, and thereby look for small changes in that RNA – meaning a few nitrogenous bases among hundreds of thousands. How do they “isolate” the RNA of the virus from samples taken from people? How do they NOT get a bunch of human nasal RNA, plus the RNA of all our OTHER embedded viruses, AND nasal bacteria, mixed up in the sample, screwing up the results?
It’s simple. They GROW THE VIRUS in a NONINFECTED cellular medium that LOVES the virus. They filter and separate the budding and “transmitting” virus from the cells. And then they check the RNA of the filtered virus.
WHICH LOOKS LIKE THIS!
“Pictures or it didn’t happen.”
You can even see the damn spikes! Of course, they didn’t really need to do this – the RNA is the real convincer – the FINGERPRINT – but a picture is helpful for the doubters.
Sure sounds like “isolation” to me!
One of the best ways to demonstrate this to you, is to simply READ YOU THE PAPER where the pictures came from – back in the early days of COVID-19.
This paper was “e-published” back in March of 2020, when “Wuhan Coronavirus” had just been renamed to “SARS-CoV-2” because of China and Democrats (more on that later). The paper was actually received in February, around the time I was recovering from the original Wuhan strain of COVID-19, or something immediately descended from it.
This is from a Japanese group located in Tokyo. This is not by any means the earliest research on SARS-CoV-2 virus. It’s an IMPROVEMENT paper. These guys are saying “Hey! It’s easier to isolate this damn virus using OUR new method!”
Here is a text version of the paper, emphasizing the abstract.
Enhanced isolation of SARS-CoV-2 by TMPRSS2-expressing cells
A novel betacoronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which caused a large respiratory outbreak in Wuhan, China in December 2019, is currently spreading across many countries globally. Here, we show that a TMPRSS2-expressing VeroE6 cell line is highly susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, making it useful for isolating and propagating SARS-CoV-2. Our results reveal that, in common with SARS- and Middle East respiratory syndrome-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 infection is enhanced by TMPRSS2.
As a bit of an aside, you will note that the editor is a Chinese researcher at an American university. The CCP has no problem pushing on the “social” buttons of American science, AND IT DOES. There was no way that the name “Wuhan coronavirus” was going to last. Think about it. This is subtle, but it’s the way things are now.
There are some nice graphics in the paper, too, including pictures of the virus.
(A) Expression of TMPRSS2 in total cellular RNA (0.2 µg) of indicated cells was compared with that in human lung RNA (catalog no. 636524; Clontech) by quantitative real-time PCR. ND, not detectable. (B) SARS-CoV-2–infected VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells. Cell rounding (black arrows) and syncytium formation (white arrows) (C). Electron micrograph showing isolated virus particles with negative staining. (Scale bar, 200 nm.) (D) Viral RNA multiplication in various cells at 48 h postinoculation with the viral specimen, as determined by real-time RT-PCR using E and N primer/probe sets (9). Cq, quantitation cycle. (E) Real-time RT-PCR amplification plot using the E primer/probe set, corresponding to the data in C. RFU, relative fluorescence units. (F) Comparison of cell susceptibility to the isolated virus, detected with a patient’s serum and Alexa 488-conjugated goat anti-human IgG. Nuclei were stained with DAPI.
It is EXTREMELY helpful to simply READ what the authors say, in recounting what they did.
I’ve put in BOLD what they DID.
Seven clinical specimens (throat swabs or sputum) obtained from seven SARS-CoV-2 infection cases were inoculated into VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells, which were monitored daily for cytopathic effect (CPE). These clinical specimens were deidentified prior to use, and this study was approved by the ethics committee of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan (approval no. 1091). Informed consent was obtained from all participants, from which the subjects were obtained, or their legally acceptable representatives for sample donation. In five cases among the seven, clear CPE with detachment/floating (black arrows, Fig. 1B) and syncytium formation (white arrows, Fig. 1B) developed at 2 or 3 d postinfection (p.i.) (Table 1).The virus titers in culture supernatants of the five cases at 3 d p.i. were 4.6 × 106 to 6.8 × 107 median tissue culture infectious dose (TCID50) per mL (Table 1).Typical coronavirus particles were detected by electron microscopy (Fig. 1C).Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of case Wk-521 detected the nearly full-length genome sequence from SARS-CoV-2 with >99.9% homology (1, 2) (GISAID database ID EPI_ISL_408667). Unexpectedly, the NGS data showed contaminated mycoplasma sequences (Mycoplasma hyorhinis and Mycoplasma arginini) from VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells. CPE in VeroE6 cells persistently infected with SARS-CoV was enhanced by infection with Mycoplasma fermentans (8), but whether a similar situation exists for SARS-CoV-2–related CPE in this cell line is unclear.
The viral RNA copies in the clinical specimens used for virus isolation were estimated by real-time RT-PCR (9, 10). As expected, viral RNA copies in the clinical specimens in which CPE developed within 2 d p.i. were greater than those in the other specimens (Table 1).
VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells are superior to other cell lines tested in this study for SARS-CoV-2 isolation. Consistent with previous reports (2, 4), the amount of SARS-CoV-2 RNAs in the culture supernatants of Vero, Calu-3, and A549 cells 48 h p.i. was low and was measurably higher when VeroE6 cells were used. However, the viral RNA copies in the VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cell culture supernatants were >100 times greater than those from VeroE6 cells (Fig. 1 D and E). Data for SARS-CoV show that TMPRSS2 enhances its entry efficiency (5, 11). VeroE6 and VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells were infected with 10-fold serially diluted SARS-CoV-2 samples, and the infected cells were visualized by indirect immunofluorescent assays (Fig. 1E). The results showed that VeroE6/TMPRSS2 displayed ∼10-fold greater number of SARS-CoV-2–infected cells than the parental VeroE6 cells. These data suggest that, in common with SARS-CoV, TMPRSS2 may also play an important role in SARS-CoV-2 cell entry.
Pay special attention to THIS PART which is not highlighted above, but which shows the level of ATTENTION that was paid to the results.
Unexpectedly, the NGS data showed contaminated mycoplasma sequences (Mycoplasma hyorhinis and Mycoplasma arginini) from VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells. CPE in VeroE6 cells persistently infected with SARS-CoV was enhanced by infection with Mycoplasma fermentans (8), but whether a similar situation exists for SARS-CoV-2–related CPE in this cell line is unclear.
See what I was talking about with a “pure medium”? These mycoplama are very common contaminants of cell cultures. Note that these scientists are not HIDING the presence of contaminants in their “pure” medium. On the contrary, they’re saying they spotted the contamination, and are accounting for it.
The bottom line is that these people know exactly what they are doing, dealing with the tricky nature of Koch’s postulates under the realities of working with viruses – some of the hardest biology that can be done.
And THAT brings me to a personal observation.
On Difficult Technology
Science is a game that everybody CAN play, and I would go so far as to say it’s a game that everybody SHOULD play. You should be teaching your kids science and art, in exactly the way you should teach them football, baseball, and ice skating.
And just like with PROFESSIONAL SPORTS, in which people who you respect make errors that you call out, it helps to RESPECT the pros of science – EVEN AS YOU POINT OUT THEIR ERRORS, WHICH YOU SHOULD.
We don’t believe professional athletes are “always right” – why should you believe the same things about scientists?
Back in my laboratory days, I had a couple of “lucky insights” connected by a lot of hard work, and they demonstrate how science gets past obstacles, including in particular other scientists.
Dissatisfied with my seemingly unexciting assigned research project, I was in the perfect mood when a colleague of mine drew something very interesting on the blackboard with a big chalk “X” through it.
“Why doesn’t this work?” was my question.
My colleague gave a reason that didn’t seem right to me, and then stated that he was abandoning that project. I asked if he minded if I tried it. He didn’t mind – he had already gotten a new assignment from our boss.
I picked up the gauntlet, and got things to work the very first time. The big chalk “X” was wrong. My insight was correct.
Happy that the abandoned research project was back in play, our boss allowed me to take it over and pursue it.
Pushing the idea through on a small scale, I actually got the entire project to work – but not to the satisfaction of skeptics. We didn’t have “clincher” proof. We needed to scale up to get that level of proof.
Scaling it up, however, failed. It took a lot of very interesting science to understand the whole process, and scale it up to the level that was necessary to convince the skeptics.
The problem was, not ALL of the skeptics were convinced. One skeptic, at the last minute, needed proof that would require even MORE scaling up.
The problem THERE is that NOT EVERYBODY could do the work.
When others could not duplicate my results, I was forced to do the even bigger scale-up myself, AND to do it under intense scrutiny, to figure out why *I* could do it and others could not.
The result was obvious proof that I had gotten it to work. The skeptic’s harassment had led to a magnificent NEW proof that neither we nor the skeptic had fully predicted. We had exceeded the level of proof that the skeptic demanded.
HOWEVER, this left open a subject that nobody really wanted to talk about.
Why weren’t others able to duplicate my results?
The sad fact is, science is filled with people who do not practice the habits necessary for success. They are not PERSISTENT when they need to be. They are not INSIGHTFUL in trying to get around problems. Even more importantly, they are not HOPEFUL that they CAN get around problems. This failure to have hope in overcoming obstacles is a HUGE problem in science. But likewise, many are not sufficiently DUBIOUS in trying to spot thousands of small potential problems, and doing what is necessary to prevent them. We have to be SKEPTICAL, too.
Even when we’re skeptical, sometimes we’re not skeptical enough. An excellent example is provided by the tragic death of Karen Wetterhahn, who died of dimethylmercury poisoning, when a few droplets of dimethylmercury splashed on and penetrated one of the thin latex gloves she was wearing. This was the level of protection recommended at the time, but it was not enough.
Karen had protected her coworkers by doing the work herself, instead of exposing THEM to the danger. She did the work “to code”, but it was still not enough. Part of her legacy is the habit of scientists in later years to use two or even three layers of gloves, when handling dangerously toxic and reactive substances. Many will use “one more than recommended” of just about any safety measure.
We have to LEARN and RETAIN thousands and thousands of such habits just to do some of the simplest scientific operations, like weighing out a substance properly.
The boss who I mentioned above loved to say “All the easy stuff has been done.” It’s SO true, even though it’s obviously an exaggeration. That is why there are amazing recent discoveries – every once in a while – of things that COULD have been discovered many years prior, and which were simply missed or overlooked. But for the most part, it’s true. Almost all of the easy and obvious stuff has been done.
So what is my point?
The point is, science is HARD – and yet you are allowed to criticize it – AND YOU SHOULD.
The trick is, criticizing it and BEING RIGHT. And you do NOT have to be an “expert”, or even a scientist, to be right.
But you may have to be persistent, insightful, hopeful, and skeptical.
I think it is now quite clear that Bill and Melinda Gates need to get the hell out of science and medicine for the good of humanity.
I am going to show you why.
I am not saying that Bill Gates is doing anything new. I am saying that he moved his disastrous “Windows Effect” from information technology – which Gates corrupted and hindered with his inferior product and short-sighted greed – to human health – where Gates is doing the exact same thing, only with more obvious damage to society and individuals.
I’m going to start at the END – with the most recent bit of evidence, which finally compelled me to write this article.
Hat tip apudlo on Gab for reposting this link, leading me to this study.
This isn’t just a 70% reduction in mortality of COVID-19 relative to no treatment. This is 70% reduction relative to treatment with Anthony Fauci’s “gold standard of care”, remdesivir.
Actually – let’s take a bit of a sidebar and then a hypostrophe (return from a parenthetical discussion) on the subject of remdesivir.
There will be justice for Veronica Wolski, because we will DEMAND IT. And until there IS justice, we will drag the CRIMES of Anthony Fauci and Gilead “Pharmaceuticals” and their SLEAZY ASSOCIATES thorough the headlines, over and over, until people SPIT IN THEIR PATH as they walk down the streets. So where do we begin? …
Well, they can lock us out of The Q Tree, but they can’t stop the truth from getting out. Enjoy a post first over on The U Tree and now HERE. Here is a quickie in my WAR ON REMDESIVIR. Fellow Treeper barkerjim dropped an interesting document today, from back in July, which showed the …
Hat tip DP…. wait for the remdesivir part…..
Cardiologists encouraging q6 month V-compliance despite myocardial damage and the use of inpatient R-vir despite WHO recommendation against and overt kidney/liver damage contributing to death are manifestations of mass formation psychosis @PaLegis@dougmastriano@PAHouseGOPpic.twitter.com/7iKoA7IEJB
— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® (@P_McCulloughMD) March 6, 2022
This is actually quite analogous to what the “medical establishment” did with mercury back in the day, when calomel and other mercury medicines killed and injured MILLIONS of Americans in the 19th century.
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But let’s return to BILL GATES.
Fauci and remdesivir are another story. Bill Gates is all about the vaccines. If Gates is kicking remdesivir under the table, I would not be surprised, but I tend to doubt it, because Gates seems to respect OTHER corrupt players, to some extent.
The point is, this brand new study CONFIRMS what we know from many other studies – that ivermectin really does reduce death from COVID-19 – and that it does so substantially.
Not only THAT, but the “70% reduction” figure has appeared MULTIPLE TIMES before, and is not only confirming in its magnitude, but is also extremely indicting of Bill Gates, as we shall see in a moment.
One “70%” case is cited in the link – a recent Malaysian study – where is appears that the authors deliberately misinterpreted their data, effectively HIDING a 70% reduction in mortality by ivermectin, by claiming the “p” value of the results meant they were insignificant, being only 91% instead of 95% or 99% (basically, the study was too small).
This “capture and kill by underpowering the study” is a NIFTY TRICK, which was also discussed by Steve Kirsch, and which I have covered previously.
The big picture, however, is that (1) authors have a variety of means of making a paper produce conclusions that are completely at odds with the data, and (2) they are using such techniques to satisfy their sponsors when the “science” doesn’t give the results hoped for by the sponsors.
Don’t believe me?
It turns out there is ANOTHER 70% reduction ivermectin paper we need to talk about.
And in that case, there is strong evidence that BILL GATES is behind the effective SCIENTIFIC BURYING of the result.
Hat tip to eilert and Sundance for this one.
This is the biggie. This is where Bill Gates showed his true self to the planet.
TIME and PERSISTENCE have narrowed down WHERE and WHEN it was, that ivermectin was blocked from becoming a universal treatment for COVID-19.
This work is mostly due to Tess Lawrie, who was one of the speakers (from England, via internet video) at the Defeat the Mandates rally in Washington, DC.
The article frames a video by Tess Lawrie, which, as Sundance rightly states, is STUNNING. Yes, it is somewhat professionally produced, but speaking as a scientist, this is one of the most insightful and direct explorations of institutional scientific misconduct which has ever been put on the table.
It is shockingly clear from this video that ivermectin was saving OVER 70% – in fact 75% – of hospitalized patients who would have otherwise died. They are talking about tens of thousands of patients DAILY. Using an EXTREMELY safe drug.
This video lays it all out – who was responsible for the corruption of the conclusions of the preprint which blocked ivermectin – a FRONT ORGANIZATION for Bill & Melinda Gates called Unitaid. We don’t know the names of the individuals in Unitaid yet, but it’s very clear that TENS OF THOUSANDS immediately, and ultimately HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS – worldwide even MILLIONS of people died – because of an ABUSE OF SCIENCE.
It’s very simple. Anybody can see what they did there.
“Let them die – we want the money.”
But now, let me tell you something MORE.
There is also evidence that Bill Gates has done EVEN MORE to block “old” drugs for COVID-19.
Begin with “LancetGate” and the “LancetGate Effect“. LancetGate was the first instance, where a FALSE anti-hydroxychloroquine paper – later RETRACTED – literally caused DEATHS that could be seen on a graph, due to panicked withdrawal of HCQ from patients in Switzerland, by a RASH bureaucratic ban on treatment with it.
This is explained in an article I did, covering a SECOND case of the LancetGate effect, where a ban on ivermectin was lifted, resulting in suppression of a wave of the delta variant in Indonesia.
The murderous LancetGate Effect is back, and this time it killed thousands before bureaucrats relented and allowed doctors to save patients. [ Hat Tip to barkerjim for alerting me to this Indonesian case. ] Part 1 – LancetGate Effect 1.0 and 1.1 Ah, the memories of LancetGate! That moment when “they” “finally” “proved” that hydroxychloroquine …
I have always suspected that Bill Gates was somehow behind the retracted LancetGate paper, but I’ve never been able to prove it. Part of that suspicion dated back to the very beginning of the COVID pandemic. When Bill Gates, “Mr. Vaxx and Vaxx Alone”, decided that treatments needed study, I knew that THE FIX WAS IN.
Yeah. This fucker can PAY FOR MY RESPIRATOR. Just read this. The guy who funded the UNETHICAL virus research that gave me the fucking shortness of breath….. The guy who promoted a curiously fortuitous corona virus “exer-psy-op” while his CHINESE FRIENDS let loose the ChiCom-19 virus….. The guy who worked with DEMOCRATS to try to …
And then, when LancetGate hit, I suspected Gates.
However, it was only LATER that I stumbled upon ANOTHER instance of Gates’ apparent meddling in the scientific examination of hydroxychloroquine. Discussed HERE:
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This one was actually a bit of a gold mine. Not only did I find that Facebook, Twitter, Gates and Pfizer were all tied behind a study which trashed hydroxychloroquine – there was ANOTHER study in the mix, funded by this gang, which pooh-poohed ivermectin.
These papers did NOT get big play in public – rather, they were used to quietly influence doctors behind the scenes. Gates is CUNNING, and he clearly does NOT want the “crowd” interfering in his delicate, moneyed, subversive operations.
He LEARNED after LancetGate, IMO, to be a bit more stealthy.
I have NOT looked at these two papers since the discovery of the funding. I do believe that when it first came out, I may have read the HCQ paper, if it’s the one I think it is, which was done in Brazil. I remember that at the time, I thought it was problematic for some reason, but I don’t really want to look at it again, because I think it would be better if OTHER scientists looked at these two studies and figured out what’s wrong with them.
Because I will BET MONEY there is something wrong with them. But I would rather just be the one to point out the funding issues, and let others find the science problems independently.
Now – there is one other potential scandal here, which almost nobody is talking about except me, and that has to do with the “suppression” of the fact that simple, normal, drug-store antihistamines have a rather profound effect in preventing death by COVID-19.
You didn’t know that, did you?
The Spanish nursing home study. Never heard of it, unless you follow a few sites like this one, or Jo Nova, or Karl Denninger.
This signal showed up in the literature several times, and NOBODY followed up on it. But in terms of saving lives, simple, over-the-counter antihistamines have been IMPRESSIVE.
Everybody underestimates Spain. The last letter in “PIGS” is far less of an insult than an error. Years ago, when I was at a conference, and Japanese industrial spies were getting me drunk (it was a great red wine), I decided that I had to give them SOMETHING for their time and effort, if only …
Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President: AND our wonderful REALFLOTUS. Hopefully, this great couple is getting some REST, because they may NEED IT. I am telling y’all – the Trumps may very well be on their way back to the White House in 1-3 years. In fact, the way Obammunism has been …
You see, it’s actually rather ironic, but while we were all distracted by the drama of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, nicely seeded by the other side, nobody paid any attention to the massive live-saving signal from drugstore antihistamines.
Something out in the public, that nobody could have stopped us from using. Something that – from THEIR point of view – could not have been allowed to become a public controversy, if they wanted the vaccines approved.
This is why – even though I am totally in favor of HCQ and ivermectin – I think it’s important to look deeper, and see how ALL OF US were fooled. The Spanish nursing home study was DONE treating patients in June of 2020. The results were in. The doctors finished their paper in September, but had already gone to the media 3 weeks into June.
There is no reason we could not have been saving people worldwide with their protocol, other than the likelihood that somebody didn’t want that knowledge to get out. And one of the ways to do that, is to set up a Hegelian conflict where the media sides AGAINST treatments in favor of the vaccines as “the only way”.
EVERYTHING after that is just a story of the FAILURE of human science, with all its “big data” and all its “artificial intelligence”, to FIND THAT SIGNAL, AMPLIFY IT, and START SAVING LIVES.
But that’s not what happened. Using a Hegelian process, we were made to fight over TWO DRUGS that THEY COULD CONTROL – and our minds were steered away from even safer and possibly even more effective common drugs that THEY COULD NOT CONTROL.
Even famotidine (a digestive tract H2 antihistaminic) is a distraction from the obvious truth that respiratory-tract-affecting H1 antihistaminics were found by both the Spanish authors and Dr. Chetty in South Africa to completely eliminate mortality from the inflammatory stage of COVID-19, if administered as soon as hypoxia ensues, or better still, at the first symptoms of the disease.
Well, here’s what I think.
I don’t think this signal was “lost”. I think this signal was covered up when possible, and distracted from when it could not be covered up.
And if you don’t think Bill Gates was somehow involved in that, you have a lot of catching up to do.
EVENT 201 SPONSORS:
Event 201 was designed to give people PRECONCEPTIONS.
Event 201 was designed to make sure people believed certain things – many of which science was about to find were simply UNTRUE. It was also designed to make sure people did NOT believe other things – or think them possible. And, I believe, Event 201 is also why much of the World Health Organization’s early advice was just plain BAD.
THEY were misled TOO.
At this point, I’m not sure how much Bill Gates is responsible for, but I do know this.
I am prepared to question every single word that comes out of his mouth.
He is NOT HERE TO HELP. I am not sure what in the hell he is up to, but he’s not here to help.
