So it does not prevent transmission of SARS-COV-2, but DOES promote cancer. What’s not to like?
Author: MCM
If only there were more such voices speaking from the halls of Academe….
Fact check: Israel launching ‘Green Pass’ for citizens vaccinated against COVID-19
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/02/fact-check-israel-launching-green-pass-covid-19-vaccinated/6871965002/
No jab, no Hajj: Saudi says all Muslims will need to have Covid vaccine before they can perform annual pilgrimage to Mecca
https://www.rt.com/news/516961-saudi-hajj-vaccine-mandatory/
Support for Covid-19 Vaccine Passports Grows, With European, Chinese Backing
U.S. holds back for now [but not for long] amid ethical and practical concerns
https://www.wsj.com/articles/support-for-covid-19-vaccine-passports-grows-with-european-chinese-backing-11614771850
New Yorkers would have to flash COVID-19 passport to enter venues under new program
https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/new-yorkers-must-flash-covid-19-passport-to-enter-venues-under-new-program/
How times change. Thomas and his backers played the race card loud and clear, back when Anita Hill (reluctantly) came forward to tell all about him at the Senate confirmation hearings thirty years ago—and that play cowed the Democrats (especially Joe Biden). So Thomas got away with likening himself to Jesse Washington and Emmett Hill, joining SCOTUS thanks to that alone. (He certainly did not prevail because he was “the best man for the job,” as Bush the Elder said with a straight face.) The Senate voted “aye” 52-48, although the Senate Democrats outnumbered the Republicans by 16 seats.
Today, Thomas’ racial/gender status has been canceled. In short, he isn’t woke, and therefore isn’t black.
via Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG):
Amazon Quietly Bans Books Containing Undefined ‘Hate Speech’ | 02 March 2021 | Amazon has adopted a rule against books that contain anything the company labels as “hate speech.” It appears there was no announcement of the new rule. It was only noticed by media after the online retailer recently banned a book that criticizes transgender ideology. It isn’t clear what Amazon means by “hate speech” or even if it used that label to drop that particular book. In general parlance, Americans hold widely diverging views on what constitutes hate speech, a 2017 Cato poll found. Some tech platforms describe it as speech that disparages people based on characteristics such as race, gender, and sexual proclivities. But insider evidence indicates the companies aren’t clear on where to draw the lines, perpetually redraw them, and at least in some instances ignore violations when politically convenient.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/amazon-quietly-bans-books-containing-undefined-hate-speech_3716038.html
Amazon Strips Clarence Thomas Documentary From Streaming Service During Black History Month | 26 Feb 2021 | Amazon stripped a documentary on conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black justice currently serving on the Supreme Court, from its streaming service during Black History Month. “This video is currently unavailable to watch in your location,” the website reads when the title is clicked. While this article is being written in Denver, the outage appears nationwide, also reported by Breitbart News.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/26/amazon-strips-clarence-thomas-documentary-from-streaming-service-during-black-history-month/
From Colleen McGuire:
Hi Mark
Keep in mind that I haven’t practiced law in a number of years and never encountered a SLAPP suit, yet and still, I find the defendants’ usage of a SLAPP defense to be so, sorry to be cliched, but Orwellian. These were suits that the little guy brought against corporate behemoths who could outgun them, as this definition indicates:
A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.
Who the heck is censored and intimidated here? That’s the defendant’s intention and game plan for YOU. Who the heck is burdened here? Together the defendants have far more cumulative wealth than little ole you. With all the backing of a powerful university behind them, the defendants have no impetus or need to abandon their criticism or opposition to you.
Their SLAPP claim is just so ass-backwards. Frankly, in my opinion it is an insult to use it as a sword when it was intended as a shield to all the brave litigants who have stood up to powerful plutocrats, one of whom YOU ain’t! But perhaps the law around SLAPP claims has morphed into something else??
From Victoria Ward:
Dear Mark,
I plan to study your enclosure. I glanced over it. Lockdown Sceptics had a good article from a philosopher on why one already is at a disadvantage in these arguments –
https://lockdownsceptics.org/the-covid-differend/ An excerpt:The French philosopher, Jean-François Lyotard, describes a radical kind of divide in outlook and opinion, which does not consist in disagreement about something but in the absence of any shared ground on which to establish disagreement. This divide is not merely a difference, then, but what Lyotard calls a “differend”. When there is a differend between people, there are no terms on which any differences between them can be meaningfully identified, discussed, compromised on, resolved. Any attempt to engage in debate works in favour of one of the parties (the one whose terms of debate are used to frame the encounter) and so profoundly against the other party that they are of necessity stripped of the means even of representing their position, let alone of having it prevail.
I certainly think an honest judge would be on your side.
Regards,
Vicki
From a colleague (untenured) at NYU (notably, the only one who has reached out to me since this ordeal began):
Oh my god! “provably true statements and their opinion”.
Do they think they can win that way?
They just said: “subjective and subjective”I am so so sorry you have to go through this.
Note Gavin Newsom’s yelp of disapproval.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/abandon-ship-governors-scramble-to
From Kathy Dopp:
“Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan wrote an article, “Vaccine Apartheid: If One Person Is Unprotected, We Are All Unprotected” on 26/02/2021 for the Defend Democracy Press.VaccineApartheid: If One Person Is Unprotected, We Are All Unprotected | DefendDemocracyPress
They are way off base! I offer ten points of rebuttal, supported by numerous academic studies or data found linked from my website http://www.kathydopp.info/COVIDinfo
1. All FDA authorizationletters for COVID-19 vaccines expressly provide that the vaccines are “an investigational vaccine not licensed for any indication” and require that “all promotional material relating to the COVID-19 Vaccine clearly and conspicuously … state that this product has not been approved or licensed by the FDA.” Under both international and federal laws since the Nuremberg Code in 1947, every person has the right to refuse to be subjected to experimental medical procedures.
2. Goodman & Moynihan display unwarranted fear. Overall about 92% of people do not get COVID symptoms when exposed to the SARS-COV-2 virus (although 60% of elderly nursing home residents may become symptomatic), young healthy children are virtually immune from COVID-19, as are most people having blood type O or anyone with a healthy immune system having sufficient vitamin D levels. The vast majority of persons are, thus, far safer to simply allow themselves to contract the SARS-COV-2 virus and develop natural immunity, which is more long-lasting and resistant to any new mutations. For most people, the risks are higher of harmful adverse events from an experimental vaccine for which the makers have been given immunity from causing harm.
3. No valid study has shown that children or other asymptomatic persons spread the SARS-COV-2 virus to others. The only two studies pretending to show asymptomatic persons or children spread the virus either:(a) compared viral loads in the sickest hospitalized children having co-morbidities in their early symptomatic stage of COVID with dying adult patients in the cytokine storm phase of COVID whose bodies had already cleared the virus and whose immune systems were attacking their own bodies; or(b) used a computer model, which assumed that 25% of asymptomatic persons were infectious, to “prove” that assumed asymptomatic infectious persons spread the viral infection. Both of the above studies assumed what they wanted to prove. No actual valid scientific study found evidence to support the hypothesis that asymptomatic persons or healthy school children spread the viral infection.
4. The experimental mRNA vaccines do not stop the vaccinated person from getting or spreading the SARS-COV-2 infection. In fact their trials showed some in the vaccinated treatment groups came down with COVID-19 within the one or 2 weeks following the final dose of the vaccines, the time periods for which data was collected and reported. Thus, neither of the mRNA vaccines meets the CDC’s own legal definition of a vaccine as preventing the illness and preventing the spread of the disease.
5. Scientists and doctors warn against vaccination against any coronavirus due to the phenomenon of antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) that causes the vaccine recipient to more rapidly develop a cytokine storm, the exaggerated immune reaction, that is the most serious stage of COVID-19, on the first occasion following vaccination when the recipient is exposed to the wild virus. To buttress the truth of this claim, deaths of the elderly following COVID vaccinations have risen within one day to two weeks following their vaccinations in countries that have begun vaccinations.
[R.I.P. Hank Aaron and Lawrence Ferlinghetti—MCM]6. The synthetic spike proteins in the vaccines contain syncytin-homologous proteins, which are essential for the formation of the placenta in mammals such as humans. Thus, a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 could trigger an immune reaction against syncytin-1, resulting potentially in infertility of indefinite duration in vaccinated women. Already, hundreds or pregnant woman have experienced miscarriages following vaccinations, and many women of child-bearing age may discover they’re infertile.
7. The mRNA vaccines contain polyethylene glycol (PEG) to protect the synthetic mRNA strands. Yet, 70% of people develop antibodies against this substance – this means that many people develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination.
8. Any vaccine injects potentially harmful nano (tiny) particles into the muscle that can be picked up by the blood and subsequently cross the blood-brain barrier causing neurological damages that may disable a person for the rest of his/her life. Already, persons have developed severe facial Bell’s palsy and other crippling neurological illnesses, and some have died within hours of taking the experimental COVID vaccines.
9. Scientists warn that the COVID vaccines may cause blood clots, brain inflammation, and heart attacks, as buttressed by reported experiences since COVID vaccinations began.
10. There are numerous low-cost, available, effective preventions and treatments for COVID-19 symptoms.It is mind-boggling that anyone purporting to care about humanity suggests we need “mass vaccination” of the human population with an experimental vaccine. SARS-COV-2 is an endemic virus, harmless to most people. Most persons’ immune systems are more sophisticated, effective and safe than experimental vaccines. Plus, treatment for COVID symptoms are widely available, especially in countries like Asia and Africa where there were no murderous disinformation campaigns to discredit low-cost drugs like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, and where more persons may be out in the sunshine with no face mask and so have fewer vitamin D deficiencies that can cause persons to be high-risk for serious COVID symptoms. A far better solution to stop COVID-19 would be to make everyone aware of all the safe, effective, available preventions and treatments and the need to begin treatment within a few days of symptoms first appearing for those at high risk.
Please see http://www.kathydopp.info/COVIDinfo/COVIDTreatments
Thanks to Mark Crispin Miller for sending me the Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan article and thanks to Mary Maxwell for giving me a few writing pointers for my above response.
Mass fury stoked by propaganda.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/professor-quits-covid-19-research-amid-hostility-over-his-findings
I know Dasha from the interview I did with her and Anna Khachiyan on “Red Scare,” their great podcast, a few months back, about my lawsuit.
(The photos in this piece were taken by my son, Louis Miller, another intrepid New Yorker.)
Here Amy Goodman once more demonstrates her mettle as a faux-left propagandist servicing Big Pharma and Bill Gates et al. Here, though, she outdoes herself, distorting language with a ruthless zest that would have brought a smile to the reptilian face of Dr. Goebbels. (I say that with all due respect, as one who, years ago, was invited fairly often to appear on Amy’s show, and who had her visit “The Culture Industries,” a course of mine at NYU, at least twice, to talk about the pressures faced by independent journalists, she then having seemingly been one of them.)
The phrase “vaccine apartheid” is, of course, wholly appropriate to this moment of impending civil death for all who won’t get jabbed with any of the rushed, experimental COVID “vaccines” now being rolled out all over, their serious risks, true ineffectiveness and ghastly side effects completely blacked out by the media. Everything we now are free to do, like work, and play, and travel, we are likely not to be allowed to do unless we get those shots—a likelihood that’s prompted bio-freedom activists to compare those who’ll be stigmatized as “anti-vaxxers” (whether they’re opposed to all vaccines or not) to the Jews in Hitler’s Germany, forced to advertise their status as non-citizens—and subhumans—by putting on the yellow star, and keeping it in view.
But that is not how Amy Goodman uses “vaccine apartheid.” In the universe she shares with countless others on “the left,” that looming two-class state is one in which the vaccinated will be (somehow) outclassed by the unvaccinated. How? By somehow keeping them at risk, despite the latter’s having wisely got their shots. How? By enabling “the virus” to keep mutating, into killer variants against which those initial COVID “vaccinations” will be useless. So while the “vaccinated” will be free to work, and go to movies, concerts, sports events and church, synagogue or mosque, and take the bus, board trains and/or airliners, while the “anti-vaxxers” will be shunned, shut out, and living hand-to-mouth, the latter will be comparable to white people in South Africa decades ago, and the former will be (somehow) like the blacks.
How is this all (to put it charitably) wrong-headed? Let us count the ways, or try.
First, this terroristic riff ignores the inconvenient fact that the COVID “vaccines” don’t prevent transmission, but are intended just to lessen the severity of symptoms (and so are really not vaccines at all).
Second, Amy’s riff ignores the no-less-inconvenient fact that viruses tend to mutate into weaker variants, which is why herd immunity has—despite the WHO-and-CDC’s Oceanic Newthink on the subject—always been the way in which humanity gets over viral epidemics. Although viruses can mutate into deadlier versions, they generally don’t.
Third, Amy’s riff ignores the also-inconvenient fact that animals also catch viruses, which means that her mad vision of a world completely “vaccinated,” and therefore wholly COVID-free, would necessarily entail meticulous injection of every house pet and wild animal on Earth—a task that no elite, however rich and powerful, could ever possibly pull off.
Fourth, Amy’s riff ignores the widely-blacked-out-and/or-misreported fact that treating COVID-19 early, with remedies like HCQ+ and Ivermectine, among others, has proved tremendously effective, so that there’s no need for these risky new “vaccines” at all.
No doubt there still more to say about this wicked little propaganda gem; so please feel free to say it.
Schakowsky’s point is vital: if one person in the world remains unprotected, we are all unprotected. The COVID-19 virus mutates rapidly. Highly contagious variants are spreading around the globe, including the UK, South Africa, and Brazil variants, now joined by the New York City variant. If the virus is not contained globally, it will continue to mutate and spread through unprotected populations, potentially rendering our current crop of vaccines ineffective — plunging the planet back into a catastrophic pandemic all over again.