Open Thread – Tues 11 April 2023
2,049 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 11 April 2023”
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Top Endersays:
April 12, 2023 at 5:43 pm
Another go at sorting out the teaching crisis:In the early seventies there was a determined move by the teacher’s union to eliminate corporal punishment in the schools. I foresaw the ensuing chaos, but was assured by the idealists that if children never experienced physical violence against themselves, they would inevitably be peaceful and obedient. In short, the teachers exhibited zero insight into what human beings are like, and children in particular.
The chickens have been coming home to roost ever since.The female teachers (most of them) hated confrontation and preferred psychological manipulation to a smack on the bottom. Making kids feel guilty was deemed preferable to smacking them in places where no damage would be done.
All part of the feminisation of society. I can’t say it’s improved anything much.
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Doing a little road trip while the missus is working in Hervey Bay, looking at places she has no interest in. Did Jindabyne to Orbost vie Bonang. Around 250km in 6 hours. Great drive terrible roads. Saw the biggest gorge in Vic, the Little River Gorge, it’s amazingly huge, well worth a look at. Staying in a cheap but clean motel in Swan Reach. Beer o’clock.
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Maybe so, but then how do we explain Biden’s hawkish stance on Taiwan, which goes beyond official US policy?
The American armaments industry — a.k.a. the military industrial complex — has more power than the US president and the Pentagon continues to make US foreign policy in consultation with its suppliers regardless of who’s in the White House.
Taiwan is simply a warfare opportunity.
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Psays:
April 12, 2023 at 5:49 pm
Plans unveiled for Syriac Catholic church in Sydney’s south westSydney’s Syriac Catholics are set to build a home for its fast-growing community after receiving development approval for a church and pastoral centre in Sydney’s south-west.
I suspect that this group will have limited enthusiasm for the antics of inner city transgender activists.
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Wesfarmers quitting Coles with $700 million share sale
Sean Smith
The West Australian
Wed, 12 April 2023 4:30PMWesfarmers is severing its equity ties with Coles after nearly 16 years with a $700 million sale of its last shares in the supermarket chain.
The WA conglomerate was late Wednesday seeking buyers for its remaining 37.2 million shares in Coles at $18.50 apiece through east coast broker Barrenjoey.
The sale will complete a gradual exit from the 15 per cent stake in Coles it retained after spinning off the group to its shareholders via a $20 billion demerger in November 2018.
Wesfarmers declined to comment on Wednesday but did not deny a sale was underway.
Most of the Coles stake was offloaded for $2 billion in two tranches in February and March 2020, with another $500m following in April last year.
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Hahaha. Some chick on a toothpaste commercial was just introduced as a “consumer sensory consultant”.
In the advertising bullshit-otorium, that’s not far from non-existent West Indian women and children being used as pawns of self-hatred in the millenial vision of Australian society — millenials being utterly ashamed of inclusion in the most successful human civilisation in history.
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I recall you cited Pew (without linking to the actual article or data) – well, I have a link to Pew as well, showing an increase in votes for Trump.
Cite your link, dope.
Meanwhile, here are The Figures [from Pew Research].
16,400,000 blacks voted in 2016.
Trump got 9%
That’s 1,476,000 black votes for The Dumpster.
2020, 2% of Trump’s 74 million votes were from blacks.
That’s 1,480,000 black votes.
4,000 more than 2016.
Meanwhile, 154 million votes were cast in 2020, compared with 125 million in 2016.
Bottom line: if Trump had held onto that 9% in 2020 he woulda drawn 1,660,000 votes, not 1,480,000. -
For those interested American Greatness has a good article on Robert F Kennedy Jr. It explains how he came to be an anti Vax campaigner. Also mentions how Trump was planning to have him on a vaccination commission.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-makes-a-run/ -
Tom:
The success of the trans movement consolidates the male homosexual campaign for access to children – the wettest of their perverted wet dreams.
Perhaps a step on the road to children as sex objects would be more accurate?
But after that, what is there to do?
There’s one thing that stands out – the hate and anger. Under all the glitter and rainbows is a disturbing level of self hatred which is displaced onto the normals. These are sick people, many of whom are turning on us because they refuse to acknowledge their own sickness.Perversions can never be satisfied – that’s one thing we’ve learned from them. Paedophilia is just another stepping stone on their way to self harm and suicide.
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Does Jamie Kah know you’ve now got the hots for Sharri?
Sancho, even though Jamie is a slut, I have little interest in horse-racing when she’s not participating.
She’s now swanning around the country when most people think she’s still injured.
The sooner she comes back to competitive racing the better.
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“consumer sensory consultant”
Up there with “innovation consultant”, “ideas broker” and “thought leader”. The one mentioned by Tom is probably an actress but if you ever make the mistake of watching the Drum some of them are for real. Something is broken in the species if people who are not under duress are willing to apply these labels to themselves.
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Does Hiden Biden signing end of pandemic mean Vax for America has been dropped for Legal Visitors?
Not those coming across America’s Southern Border Illegally, who have never needed to be Vaxxed – America – “The Stupid Country”
US tennis officials and the Biden administration banned Djokovic from playing in the US but illegals are no problem. Apparently if you come in illegally you are unable to pass on any diseases. Of course the obvious solution to the pandemic is to have everyone come into the US illegally. Why hasn’t anyone thought of that?
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US tennis officials and the Biden administration banned Djokovic from playing in the US but illegals are no problem. Apparently if you come in illegally you are unable to pass on any diseases. Of course the obvious solution to the pandemic is to have everyone come into the US illegally. Why hasn’t anyone thought of that?
why even bother to have customs and immigration at US airports?
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He sounds like Trump. If only he wasn’t a crazed loon about all vaccines.
I read RFKs (very well referenced) book on COVID, and examined his concerns about other vaccines as well.
He is *not* anti all vaccines – only those vaccines that have significant safety signals, and have never been tested against inert placebos in proper RCTs (ie pretty much all of them).
RFK is the only person I can think of who would make be hesitate before voting for Trump. He will likely be nobbled by the Democrat party should he start to do well in the primaries, or assassinated in the time honoured manner.
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From Steve Kirch:
A Medical Transparency Law…
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/what-a-medical-transparency-law-might?r=22jqht&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=emailWhereas:
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf has said “misinformation is the leading cause of death.”
There is widespread disagreement on whether the vaccine is saving or costing lives
No paper in the scientific peer-reviewed shows that keeping public health records secret results in superior health outcomes
No country in the world has made available death records which include vaccination history
Publishing the death-vax record level data will allow researchers worldwide to definitively determine whether vaccines are beneficial or harmful
Resolved that:
Within 30 days of the end of each month, each State shall provide the CDC with:
for each vaccine manufacturer/type, the # of people vaccinated by sex and age for each day
for each person who dies in that state, the name, DOB, DOD, SSN, sex, ICD-10 codes associated with the death, and vaccine records for the last 2 years
The CDC shall make 1a and 1b publicly available within 30 days of receipt from the states
Each month, Medicare shall provide the CDC with a record for each person who died containing: patient ID, State, DOB, DOD, a list of vaccines given in in the last 2 years (which includes the vaccine type, manufacturer, lot number, date administered), ICD-10 codes associated with the death
CDC shall make the data from Medicare publicly available.
If a physician fails to report a VAERS-reportable adverse event, the patient may within 1 year, bring an action in State court and be entitled to $10,000 per incident.
Any person involved in manipulation, falsification, corruption, suppression of this data shall be guilty of a crime.
The CDC shall be required to disclose any safety signal (using the CDC’s current definition) triggered in VAERS within 30 days of it being discovered. The CDC shall compute the safety signals every 30 days.
State bill provisions
Within 30 days of the end of each month, the state shall publish:
for each vaccine type, the # of people vaccinated by sex and age for each vaccine type on each day
for each person who dies, their name, DOB, DOD, SSN, sex, ICD-10 codes, and vaccine records for the last 2 years
The state shall publish the above records for the period from 2018 to presentSounds fair enough. But good luck getting them to comply.
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calli says:
April 12, 2023 at 6:07 pm
The Chinese Communist Party bought the corrupt US president and his family.
I wouldn’t limit that to the Bidens.Mitch McConnell fits the bill. His wife is Chinese and her family has business interests in China. McConnell has been in lockstep with Biden when it comes to China and is always prepared to assist not giving his Republican voters a thought.
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The rain that won’t be enough to fill our dams and river systems continues to fall, very heavy storm over Griffith around 2 this arvo. Obviously one “they” missed zapping.
The soil profile keeps getting topped up and the flush of weeds and self sown is turning paddocks green.
So far so good, planning to commence canola sowing on Monday.
Still can’t believe Aussie Cossack is a grifting sociopath. Shocked, I am.
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Abigail Shrier wrote her excellent book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters three years ago, I read it when it first came out. Shrier deals specifically with the phenomenon of teenage girls transitioning in the US. However, this phenomenon also now applies to the UK and Oz, and I suspect other English speaking countries. Most of the transgender clinics, be it Tavistock in the UK (which is still functioning) and the clinic here in Melbourne, are treating teenage girls (and younger). Whilst there are some boys, girls make up most of the children being treated for “gender dysphoria”. In her book Shrier discusses the contagion in detail. What’s causing this? Well, there are a number of factors, adolescent female contagions are nothing new, they have been around and observed for thousands of years. I remember them at school, it was anorexia and bulimia. At the girl’s school I attended there were country boarders, and I remember a number of them suffered from anorexia. Puberty is difficult for boys and girls however it’s probably more difficult for girls, given we start menstruating, and menstruation does impinge on our activities. I remember personally hating how my body was changing, it’s quite traumatic. Anyway, Shrier goes into all of this and she chronicles how this contagion has been made infinitely worse by social media and, more sinisterly and worringly, the active presence of online groomers, but there’s something else Shrier observed, almost all the girls she investigated came from liberal progressive families. Many parents, in fact many mothers, are actively encouraging their daughter’s desires to transition. Why? Because they feel that this is the “progressive” thing to do.
Shrier’s book is excellent, and there are others worth reading, you can’t go past Helen Joyce’s “Trans, Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights”. I’ve ordered “Defending Women’s Spaces” by UK writer Karen Ingala Smith, on how important and necessary women’s spaces are to safeguard and protect women.
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From May 8th, all vax requirements will be dropped for travel from Straya to Land of Rising Sun.
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Japan has been open to purebloods for a long time. I was there in December.Yes, you could travel to Japan if you had fewer than three COVID vaccinations but you had to have a negative PCR test result within 72 hours of arrival in Japan. This requirement has been dropped from 8 May, together with showing a vaccination certificate if you had 3 shots.
Looks like the US is just about the only place now requiring a vaccination certificate, as far as I can tell this requirement is still in place for travel to the US despite the state of emergency being dropped. The Republicans in the House tried to get rid of vaccination certificates for inbound travellers in March but the Democrats voted it down in the Senate
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Anyway, Shrier goes into all of this and she chronicles how this contagion has been made infinitely worse by social media and, more sinisterly and worringly, the active presence of online groomers, but there’s something else Shrier observed, almost all the girls she investigated came from liberal progressive families. Many parents, in fact many mothers, are actively encouraging their daughter’s desires to transition. Why? Because they feel that this is the “progressive” thing to do.
I’d argue it’s, leftwing narcissistic mothers encouraging the kids. They can wear it as a badge of honor. These mothers are mentally ill.
I don’t quite get where social media comes into it in terms of influencing kids.
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JCsays:
April 12, 2023 at 7:54 pm
Anyway, Shrier goes into all of this and she chronicles how this contagion has been made infinitely worse by social media and, more sinisterly and worringly, the active presence of online groomers, but there’s something else Shrier observed, almost all the girls she investigated came from liberal progressive families. Many parents, in fact many mothers, are actively encouraging their daughter’s desires to transition. Why? Because they feel that this is the “progressive” thing to do.I’d argue it’s, leftwing narcissistic mothers encouraging the kids. They can wear it as a badge of honor. These mothers are mentally ill.
I don’t quite get where social media comes into it in terms of influencing kids.
It’s hugely influential. It isn’t just the trans issue. In 2012 the philosopher Jesse Prinz published Beyond Human Nature. His central thesis is that medicine, psychology, and psychiatry has become to dominated by the biomedical medical model and too much ignored the importance of cultural factors in shaping our behavior. Behaviorists would read that book and proclaim, “So what! We’ve been saying that for decades!” It is one example of why I use to state, admittedly unfairly, that the journal title, “Biological Psychiatry”, is an oxymoron. Trying to understand human behavior without reference to environment is like trying to study the weather on the moon.
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That’s it for me, no more cute owls, from now on its cute golliwogs.
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“I’d argue it’s, leftwing narcissistic mothers encouraging the kids. They can wear it as a badge of honor. These mothers are mentally ill.
Yes, I agree, and I think Shrier would agree to.
I don’t quite get where social media comes into it in terms of influencing kids.”
Kids are online, on sites frequented by groomers, such as Reddit.
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All part of the feminisation of society. I can’t say it’s improved anything much.
The (majority) female teachers now send boys for ADHD drugging and treatment when they can’t handle regular boyish behaviors in class. Not saying there aren’t good lady teachers, but boys are treated as “trouble” and left to quietly fail schooling while girls get majority of the support, prizes and success.
I’d suggest one way to fix education is to get back to min 50/50 ratio of men/women teachers and offer boys option to have male teachers. This represents what feminists asked for decades ago to help girls do better … ain’t life strange.
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The soil profile keeps getting topped up and the flush of weeds and self sown is turning paddocks green.
So far so good, planning to commence canola sowing on Monday.
I have no sympathy for Big Farmer.
Still can’t believe Aussie Cossack is a grifting sociopath. Shocked, I am.
I know, right.
Un-fkn-believable.
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Yes, you could travel to Japan if you had fewer than three COVID vaccinations but you had to have a negative PCR test result within 72 hours of arrival in Japan. This requirement has been dropped from 8 May, together with showing a vaccination certificate if you had 3 shots.
Thanks Rugbyskier.
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So a serial killer is up for parole, when life doesn’t mean life.
Timebomb of grief finally erupts in Paul Denyer parole eligibilityFor the families and friends of Paul Denyer’s three victims, a timebomb of grief planted three decades ago by the Victorian Court of Appeal detonated this week as the serial killer became eligible for parole.
A Victorian MP who was the boyfriend of Denyer’s third victim has described the overturning of the original Supreme Court sentence guaranteeing the serial killer would die behind bars to a ‘‘30-year course of worry’’.
David Limbrick, the Liberal Democrats Upper House MP who was dating Natalie Russell at the time of her death, said the decision to rip up judge Frank Vincent’s sentence shattered family and friends at the time and had retraumatised them all these decades later.
‘‘We were devastated then as we felt it was a just and correct sentence,’’ Mr Limbrick said.
‘‘The impact of that decision has been that we were set on this 30-year course of worry. We have been worried for the last 30 years that he would be eligible for parole. And now he is.
‘‘No one has ever been able to provide certainty that he will not harm another woman, no one can guarantee that.’’
In sentencing Denyer to die in jail, Justice Vincent took into account advice from forensic psychiatrists and psychologists that the 21-year-old suffered from a ‘‘sadistic personality disorder’’.
‘‘I have been told that you obtain immense gratification from the humiliation, mutilation and killing of other human beings,’’ Justice Vincent said at the sentencing hearing on December 20, 1993.
He went on to say that ‘‘importantly, there is no known way of dealing with the problem which may well last for life’’ before concluding: ‘‘You do constitute such a danger, and at our present state of knowledge, apart from separating you from society, there is nothing that can be done about it.
‘‘Perhaps there will come a day when you will be able to walk among the ordinary people of our community. Whether you will ever do so must await the passage of years and decision of the executive government of the time.’’
In sentencing Denyer, Justice Vincent said ‘‘your conduct, as you remorselessly hunted down and killed three young people, is almost beyond comprehension’’ and he reflected on the broader community fear generated from the seven-week killing spree.
‘‘The apprehension that you have occasioned to many thousands of women in our community will be felt for a very long time,’’ he said.
‘‘For many, you are the fear that quickens their steps as they walk along or that causes parents to look anxiously at a clock when a child is late.’’
Six months later, in a split 2-1 decision, the Court of Appeal overturned Justice Vincent’s sentence, and set a 30-year minimum term before Denyer would be eligible for release. The court found the judge had ‘‘abrogated’’ his duty to pass sentence and it must be ‘‘irrelevant to the sentencing process to have regard to whether the executive government of the day might intervene in the sentence by a court of law’’.
Mr Limbrick said he could still recall the shock of that decision. ‘‘I didn’t really understand the reasons why it happened. I felt it was some failure of the justice system. It felt like a failure to us,’’ he said.
Russell’s parents, Brian and Carmel Russell, were contacted by the Department of Justice late last year to alert them that Denyer would be eligible for parole on April 11.
Since then, the couple says, they have been told nothing.
Victoria’s Adult Parole Board has declined to comment about Denyer’s fate.
Mr Limbrick said months of silence from the Department of Justice and the parole board had exacerbated the family’s anxiety.
‘‘I would have expected that the government should be at least briefing friends and families,’’ Mr Limbrick said.
‘‘It’s had a terrible impact. We don’t know how long this process is going to take.
“Is there going to be an announcement? We just don’t know.’’”
So much for justice. Oh and Denyer once “identified” as a woman (how convenient). He claimed he had gender dysphoria and it was this that led him to butcher three women. He wrote, “I committed these disgusting crimes , not because I ever hated womankind, but because I have never really felt that I was male.” Denyer began wearing women’s clothing and cosmetics in prison, in defiance of prison orders. Medical specialists evaluated whether Denyer could receive sex reassignment surgery and rejected the idea. Prisoner support groups said that he “cannot be anything but serious” about his transition, given that it would entail personal risk. One victim’s mother said Denyer’s transition made her and her husband feel “sick”, calling it a “stunt”. Denyer has since reverted to identifying as Paul.”
Who’s to say that, if paroled one day, Denyer doesn’t start identifying as a women the next day and given Victorian law, he can simply “identify” and enter a female only space. Just dandy!
How safe would women and children be around Denyer?
Who wants Paul Denyer in women’s spaces? I don’t.
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How safe would women and children be around Denyer?
The extremely well-informed veteran crime scribe Andrew Rule has a short piece in The Hun on this.
Rule opines, and with some justification that absolutely nobody on the Parole Board of Victoria wants to be associated with another release of the type that allowed Ernest Bayley out of the bin, where he promptly raped and killed journo Jill Meagher in an urban laneway before dumping her body out in the countryside.
People more well-sourced than I reckon he’s never getting out.
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On second thoughts and upon some cursory image searches, Ms Cossack does seem as though her legacy owes something to Goodyear and Dow Chemicals more so than a double first from Oxford. Remember ladies, lip fillers are best left to the professionals and definitely not something to be applied at home, by yourself.
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GWPF State of the Climate 2022.
Nothing happening: climate continues to be the best this planet has dished up for millions of years. People who believe in alarmism and ruinables should have to have compulsory sex change operations.
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“He shouldn’t be out at all Cassie. Poor families.”
Years ago, in Western Australia, there was a series of brutal rapes and murders of young women. The perpetrators were arrested, tried and drew long sentences. Public opinion was that there was a perfectly serviceable set of gallows at the old Fremantle jail. A well known civil rights activist gave an interview to a Perth radio station, wanting to know if all those demanding the death penalty, would be prepared to spring the trap themselves.
The announcer interrupted the programme fifteen minutes later “No more phone calls, please. We have enough volunteers for the hangman’s job.”
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The link to the Naomi Wolf talk at Hillsdale College was only part with a link to the full speech. It’s well worth it. She covers a lot of ground, including those behind it.
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That Tucker interview with Trump is pretty damned fascinating.
He references his uncle John G. Trump on the risk of nuclear war.Hadn’t heard of him but he was a brilliant scientist at MIT.
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Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc:
Mr Henry Mulligan
8TH APRIL 2023
Long before I became old myself I had great affection for elderly folk. I felt that in hospitals, nursing homes and care homes in particular the older patients were often unappreciated, frequently treated without respect and regarded as subhuman. Too many members of staff regarded the elderly as disposable and irrelevant. (It is, of course, this attitude which made the mass murder of the elderly easy to arrange in 2020 and 2021.)And so, for example, it annoyed me when I heard seventy and eighty-year-olds being addressed by their Christian names, as though they were children or in some way second-class citizens.
And because I always tried to talk to my patients, and find out a little about their lives, I knew that no one ever lives an uninteresting life.
So, I wrote a novel about an old man who was dying. His name was Mr Henry Mulligan and he disappeared from the geriatric ward of a large hospital in the English midlands. His wife, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, disappeared with him.
The story is written in the first person and it is based on a true story (though it isn’t, strictly speaking, autobiographical) and the ‘author’ is a young, newly qualified doctor who works in the hospital concerned. He is fond of the couple and decides to try to find them.
His search proves more of a challenge than he had expected and becomes something of a mystery story. The doctor discovers that he didn’t know as much about Mr Henry Mulligan as he thought he did.
Only be uncovering some well hidden secrets can the young doctor find the missing couple and solve the mystery.
It is a fairly short, easy to read story which I remember I wrote in two weeks in our apartment in Paris. I hardly moved from the keyboard for the whole two weeks and the story pretty much wrote itself. By the time I neared the end of the book, hammering the keyboard as fast as I could to get the story down, tears were pouring down my cheeks. I was, I remember, quite drained when I’d finished it.
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•NIAID is supposed to find and fix sources of infectious diseases, allergic diseases, and neurological diseases, but is instead an incubator for big pharma
•Fauci controls more than $7 billion, gives out more than 13x Bill Gates per year, is the most powerful person in public health history, controls what scientific studies are funded, and destroys any scientists who speak up against the pharmaceutical industry
•He develops pharmaceutical products and farms them out to universities and scientists, including the scientists on boards of the FDA, CDC, VRBPC, and ACIP that approve new drugs
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Scoop by ?@stevennelson10
? Former White House stenographer Mike McCormick says he has evidence “Joe Biden committed crimes in Ukraine in a conspiracy with [current national security adviser] Jake Sullivan,” – and that the FBI ignored his tip-off.
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