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Covid’s IFR just keeps DROPPING

by Kit Knightly

Kit Knightly With every new study, with every new paper, the “deadly” pandemic gets less and less, well, deadly. The most recent data review, published in late March, puts the infection fatality ratio (IFR) at 0.15%. That is, once again, pretty much the same as a normal flu season. The new paper is the work …

Apr 21, 2021

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WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #13

by Editor

"The pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing all these medical journal articles, behind the scenes, for marketing purposes."

Apr 20, 2021

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Denying the Demonic

by Editor

Edward Curtin In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper was the people’s vaccine. My point was simple: excrement and death have long been associated in cultural history and in the Western imagination with the evil …

Apr 18, 2021

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Open Letter to a Friend Who “Tested Positive”…and Should Have Known Better

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Jerry Bernini Dear Josef K, Several weeks have passed since you told me that you “tested positive” for what was initially and briefly called Sars-CoV-2 and then quickly became the more euphonious and easier to remember Covid-19. I was frankly surprised at the time, not that someone made this claim, but that you accepted that …

Apr 17, 2021

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3 Things You Don’t Know about Euthanasia

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Rosemary Frei, via her website The cadence is increasing of jurisdictions introducing, normalizing and expanding laws allowing doctors to help people commit suicide. Is this purely in the service of relieving unbearable physical or mental suffering? Or do other factors predominate? I used to believe the former, but my recent re-examination of the issue suggests …

Apr 16, 2021

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The Silencing of the Lambs

by Editor

Andrea Halewood ‘All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.’ Frank Herbert, Dune Many of us want to be led. As children we look to our parents to protect us, to soothe our fears, to relieve us of responsibility. As adults we seek the same protection – we want powerful leaders, leaders who …

Apr 15, 2021

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WATCH: Science Says

by Editor

The mouthpieces of the scientific establishment have identified the latest global security threat: antiscience. So what does that mean, exactly? Whatever they want it to mean, of course!

Apr 15, 2021

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CIJA Sting Operation Stirs FCDO’s ‘Hotch Potch’ of Spooks

by Kit Knightly

Vanessa Beeley A recent sting operation carried out by the Commission for International Justice and Accountablity (CIJA) entrapped an unsuspecting academic member of the Working Group on Syria Media and Propganda (WGSPM) into engaging in a series of email conversations with a fake “Russian agent”. These emails were then supplied to the BBC producer, Chloe Hadjimatheou, who is responsible …

Apr 13, 2021

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“You are Damaged and Only We Can Repair You”

by Kit Knightly

Thomas Harrington They are the stewards Of the whole universe Masters by force Commanders without laws. […] They eat everything They eat everything They eat everything And leave nothing. José “Zeca” Afonso, “Os Vampiros” (1963) Fifteen years ago, a good Uruguayan friend said to me, “Tom, we are at the end of an era, not …

Apr 12, 2021

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