DMED Is a Game-changer on Vaccine Safety

 

On Monday, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) held a panel discussion on vaccine safety (see Second Opinion).  During this hearing we learned about some DOD whistleblowers that revealed alarming data on vaccine safety.  These protected whistleblowers shared data from the DMED and it is a game-changer.

DMED is the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database.   DMED was created to track every illness of military members from an epidemiological standpoint for the purpose of diagnosing any adverse health trend that could affect military readiness.  It is accurate, complete and designed for early detection of issues in the military population.

Daniel Horowitz has been working with the whistleblowers to get the word out.  From the data (and there is a *lot* of data) it looks 2020 (year 1 of Covid) was like the previous 4 years and 2021 (year 1 of vaccines) shows alarming upticks in medical problems.  The whistleblowers went public, because their commanders ignored the issue.  Here are some findings from Daniel:

In a declaration under penalty of perjury that Renz plans to use in federal court, Drs. Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa Long — three military doctors — revealed that there has been a 300% increase in DMED codes registered for miscarriages in the military in 2021 over the five-year average. The five-year average was 1,499 codes for miscarriages per year. During the first 10 months of 2021, it was 4,182.

Aside from the spike in miscarriage diagnoses (ICD code O03 for spontaneous abortions), there was an almost 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (from a five-year average of 38,700 per year to 114,645 in the first 11 months of 2021). There was also a 1,000% increase in diagnosis codes for neurological issues, which increased from a baseline average of 82,000 to 863,000!

Some other numbers he did not mention at the hearing but gave to me in the interview are the following:

  • myocardial infarction –269% increase
  • Bell’s palsy – 291% increase
  • congenital malformations (for children of military personnel) – 156% increase
  • female infertility – 471% increase
  • pulmonary embolisms – 467% increase

These findings from the best epidemiological database in the world are enough to make me conclude that the Covid Vaccines are unsafe for military age people until Pfizer/Moderna can provide better data.    Given a choice between great data from the US military and redacted data from Big Pharma, I’ll choose the great data.

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  1. Old Bathos Member
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    MarciN (View Comment):

    I don’t think there’s enough information about the patients to glean much from the report, and there’s a lot we don’t know about the virus or vaccines yet. But the findings are pretty serious, I think.

    I hope it is enough to end the mandate idea forever. I think reasonable doubts and concerns and questions about these vaccines should be enough to take the mandates to court and put an end to them. There’s no time to wait for the research labs to study this. A decision on risk has to be made now, and this makes the vaccines look too risky.

    I wonder why the military is allowing these doctors to speak after what they did to Lt. Col. Scheller.

    Different world for military docs than for line officers–also harder to replace.

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  2. James Lileks Contributor
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    Also, Washington Post? C’mon, James. You might as well be referencing Weekly World News. At this point in history, anyone who seriously accepts the Washington Post as a source should be laughed at long and loud.

    I’ll begin:

    Did you read the piece? If you want to discount the source automatically, fine, but you have to believe that they made up the fellow’s history – including the sources – and published it without regard for a libel suit. 

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  3. Hans Gruber Pfizer President Inactive
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    Also, Washington Post? C’mon, James. You might as well be referencing Weekly World News. At this point in history, anyone who seriously accepts the Washington Post as a source should be laughed at long and loud.

    I’ll begin:

    Did you read the piece? If you want to discount the source automatically, fine, but you have to believe that they made up the fellow’s history – including the sources – and published it without regard for a libel suit.

    Paging Nick Sandman. The lawyer in question is a sole practitioner and quite overloaded with work, so I doubt they’ll have to worry about a libel suit for at least a while.

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  4. Vince Guerra Inactive
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    Also, Washington Post? C’mon, James. You might as well be referencing Weekly World News. At this point in history, anyone who seriously accepts the Washington Post as a source should be laughed at long and loud.

    I’ll begin:

    Did you read the piece? If you want to discount the source automatically, fine, but you have to believe that they made up the fellow’s history – including the sources – and published it without regard for a libel suit.

    Yeah, it’s a disgusting hit piece that tows the party line on all things Covid. I’m surprised you spend your time reading this type of leftist smear. 

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  5. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    Also, Washington Post? C’mon, James. You might as well be referencing Weekly World News. At this point in history, anyone who seriously accepts the Washington Post as a source should be laughed at long and loud.

    I’ll begin:

    Did you read the piece? If you want to discount the source automatically, fine, but you have to believe that they made up the fellow’s history – including the sources – and published it without regard for a libel suit.

    As I say, it’s the Washington Post. They make up stuff all the time.

    Of course, you’d think they’d have learned from their Covington lies. But I doubt it.

     

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  6. James Lileks Contributor
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    Hans Gruber Pfizer President (View Comment):
    Paging Nick Sandman. The lawyer in question is a sole practitioner and quite overloaded with work, so I doubt they’ll have to worry about a libel suit for at least a while.

    I think if I’d been libeled by the newspaper owned by the richest man in the country, right down to the paper manufacturing quotes from me out of thin air, I’d find the time to sue. 

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  7. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Hans Gruber Pfizer President (View Comment):
    Paging Nick Sandman. The lawyer in question is a sole practitioner and quite overloaded with work, so I doubt they’ll have to worry about a libel suit for at least a while.

    I think if I’d been libeled by the newspaper owned by the richest man in the country, right down to the paper manufacturing quotes from me out of thin air, I’d find the time to sue.

    Umm. He did. They settled out of court, for an undisclosed amount. He also got an undisclosed chunk of change from CNN.

    Wait, . . . you’re not talking about Sandmann here, are you?

    But if the question is whether the Washington Post is now in the business of telling the truth, I see no evidence of it.

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  8. James Lileks Contributor
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    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    Yeah, it’s a disgusting hit piece that tows the party line on all things Covid. I’m surprised you spend your time reading this type of leftist smear. 

    I read all sorts of things. Some of them seem plausible despite my misgivings about the source. If you think up the Post made up everything about the guy’s history, the finances of MAFA, Renz’s quotes, and his secret whistleblower who cannot be interviewed, you’re welcome to do so. I just don’t advise sending him any money. 

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  9. Vince Guerra Inactive
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    Yeah, it’s a disgusting hit piece that tows the party line on all things Covid. I’m surprised you spend your time reading this type of leftist smear.

    I read all sorts of things. Some of them seem plausible despite my misgivings about the source. If you think up the Post made up everything about the guy’s history, the finances of MAFA, Renz’s quotes, and his secret whistleblower who cannot be interviewed, you’re welcome to do so. I just don’t advise sending him any money.

    I think the leftist media paints the picture they want all the time to distract from real news as they’re doing in this case. Read their garbage if you want to but I stay clear of publications I know aren’t interested in actual journalism. Did they even report on the five hours of expert testimony given that day? 

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  10. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    Yeah, it’s a disgusting hit piece that tows the party line on all things Covid. I’m surprised you spend your time reading this type of leftist smear.

    I read all sorts of things. Some of them seem plausible despite my misgivings about the source. If you think up the Post made up everything about the guy’s history, the finances of MAFA, Renz’s quotes, and his secret whistleblower who cannot be interviewed, you’re welcome to do so. I just don’t advise sending him any money.

    No worries there. Thanks to Democrats (and their Republican enablers), I don’t have any money.

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  11. James Lileks Contributor
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    Vince Guerra (View Comment):
    Read their garbage if you want to but I stay clear of publications I know aren’t interested in actual journalism

    Okay, I’ll bite: have any of the publications you trust taken a look at his lawsuits? If so, what do they say?

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  12. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    And the word went out on whatever passes for JournoList these days: this guy is exposing the dangers of our holy vaccine! Quick! Someone needs to take him out with a smear-filled “profile”!

    I mean, good lord, it’s by the numbers. Yesterday nobody knew his name, today they know he one of those low-lifes who puts ketchup on his scrambled eggs.

    How does that happen so quickly? Duh.

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  13. Hans Gruber Pfizer President Inactive
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    @Pseudodionysius

    https://youtu.be/mbGqeyemofU

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  14. James Lileks Contributor
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    And the word went out on whatever passes for JournoList these days: this guy is exposing the dangers of our holy vaccine! Quick! Someone needs to take him out with a smear-filled “profile”!

    I mean, good lord, it’s by the numbers. Yesterday nobody knew his name, today they know he one of those low-lifes who puts ketchup on his scrambled eggs.

    How does that happen so quickly? Duh.

    That’s not how it works. 

    No one paid much attention to this guy outside of Ohio. I had no idea who he was until I started researching some unsourced assertions about a local case of a COVID patient whose case was taken up by people in Renz’s orbit. That led back to primary sources, e.g.,  Renz’s pre-vaccine lawsuits. Those wouldn’t be much of a story; people file lawsuits about everything, and just because Renz’s lawsuits were windmill-tilting shotgun blasts that didn’t mean they were national news. But then his public profile notches up, because he’s shifted from suing the state over lockdowns to working the anti-vax circuit. All of a sudden he’s quoted all over the place. Okay, who is this guy?

    See also, Avenatti. Some people wanted him to run for president because he hated Trump. Some people are devoted to Renz because he’s opposed to Trump’s vaccine. Also, class-action lawyers are parasites who cripple innovation and free enterprise! Also, this class-action lawyer is a shining paragon of selflessness. 

    I agree with many of the arguments made in Renz’s suits – blind squirrel, acorn –  but that doesn’t mean I have to respect him, his intentions, his character, his partner’s endorsements of extra-judicial executions, or his unsourced super-secret hush-hush assertions.

    If you want to hang your hat on his star, go ahead. I think he’s an opportunist with an eye to hoovering up those sweet, sweet contributions. I’m not interested in some fantasy about journolist coordination to accurately quote Renz detractors when we have Fauci on record directing a takedown of the Great Barrington signatories, because that actually matters

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  15. Vince Guerra Inactive
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Vince Guerra (View Comment):
    Read their garbage if you want to but I stay clear of publications I know aren’t interested in actual journalism

    Okay, I’ll bite: have any of the publications you trust taken a look at his lawsuits? If so, what do they say?

    I haven’t heard anyone in the conservative press talking about the man himself or his secondary efforts other than to express gratitude for those few willing to fight. They’re all too busy actually covering the story he’s testifying about because it’s, you know, a pretty big deal.

    Most of the true conservative media cares about dying Americans and lying government officials. I get that neocons and leftists don’t care about that kind of thing but liberty minded Americans still do.

    So get off the man and maybe start examining his claims. You work for a newspaper, right?

    [Update] I just check out the Minneapolis Star Tribune and it looks like the only coverage they offered was a hit piece by AP “fact checkers” as well. So I guess they’re not interested in the substance of the five hours of damning testimony either.

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  16. Hans Gruber Pfizer President Inactive
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    Oh, oh! The Washington Post strikes back!

    https://rumble.com/vthrna-ep-1599dr.-malone-sues-the-washington-post-larry-summers-interviews-for-sec.html

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  17. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    James Lileks (View Comment):
    If you want to hang your hat on his star, go ahead.

    I don’t want to “hang my hat on his star.” I want to hear what he has to say. But your first impulse was to impugn his character.

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  18. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    I haven’t heard anyone in the conservative press talking about the man himself or his secondary efforts other than to express gratitude for those few willing to fight. They’re all too busy actually covering the story he’s testifying about because it’s, you know, a pretty big deal.

    Most of the true conservative media cares about dying Americans and lying government officials. I get that neocons and leftists don’t care about that kind of thing but liberty minded Americans still do.

    So get off the man and maybe start examining his claims. You work for a newspaper, right?

    That’s why the immediate attempt to attack his character makes me want to puke. Especially coming from someone I thought was above that kind of stupid nonsense.

    As I said above, what does it matter if he’s right? Is he right? Let’s check out his claims. The left would prefer to simply attack the person as a means of implying the claims aren’t worth examining.

    Also, it’s not like Renz was the only person speaking at that five-hour hearing. But they figured “Hey, we can smear this one guy, and in the process we’ll make the whole thing look bad!”

    You think this isn’t done on purpose? Of course it is.

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  19. Barfly Member
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    Jane Austen would have dug this thread.

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  20. kedavis Coolidge
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    DonG (CAGW is a hoax) (View Comment):
    I will say that the lawyer that testified (Thomas Renz) has a dodgy 1990’s looking website. I hope he is not the Covid Sidney Powell.

    Read the WaPo profile on Renz. He’s the source for a lot of claims about a lot of stuff, sourced to whistleblowers no one can talk to. He’s also part of ForGodCountryFamily.org, which doesn’t appear grifty at all, no sir.

    Doesn’t matter if he’s right.

    Is he right?

     

    I would add a comma:  Doesn’t matter, if he’s right.

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  21. Barfly Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    DonG (CAGW is a hoax) (View Comment):
    I will say that the lawyer that testified (Thomas Renz) has a dodgy 1990’s looking website. I hope he is not the Covid Sidney Powell.

    Read the WaPo profile on Renz. He’s the source for a lot of claims about a lot of stuff, sourced to whistleblowers no one can talk to. He’s also part of ForGodCountryFamily.org, which doesn’t appear grifty at all, no sir.

    Doesn’t matter if he’s right.

    Is he right?

    I would add a comma: Doesn’t matter, if he’s right.

    Oh-ohh!

    Seriously, that’s a good idea. The absence of that comma strains the casual reader’s generosity.

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  22. kedavis Coolidge
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    I haven’t heard anyone in the conservative press talking about the man himself or his secondary efforts other than to express gratitude for those few willing to fight. They’re all too busy actually covering the story he’s testifying about because it’s, you know, a pretty big deal.

    Most of the true conservative media cares about dying Americans and lying government officials. I get that neocons and leftists don’t care about that kind of thing but liberty minded Americans still do.

    So get off the man and maybe start examining his claims. You work for a newspaper, right?

    That’s why the immediate attempt to attack his character makes me want to puke. Especially coming from someone I thought was above that kind of stupid nonsense.

    As I said above, what does it matter if he’s right? Is he right? Let’s check out his claims. The left would prefer to simply attack the person as a means of implying the claims aren’t worth examining.

    Also, it’s not like Renz was the only person speaking at that five-hour hearing. But they figured “Hey, we can smear this one guy, and in the process we’ll make the whole thing look bad!”

    You think this isn’t done on purpose? Of course it is.

    Needed that comma here, too.

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  23. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):

    While talking to Stew Peters

     

    Wait a minute, Stew Peters? The bounty hunter? The guy who called the hospital that kept a COVID patient on a ventilator for two and half months Satanic torturers?

    I can’t tell from a photo of the back of a guy’s head if he is this “Peters the bounty hunter” or not.

    I can tell you that he has the  2nd most popular podcast on Apple podcasts in the USA, and he is # 6 in terms of all American podcasts.

    Also, with the exception of Catherine Austin Fitts, there are no people commenting on America’s political and economic fabric whose info  I take without a grain of salt. But Peters has been in the forefront of much needed  intel on the COVID situation, and the COVID vaccine catastrophe.

     

     

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  24. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    There is not much reason for heavyweight plaintiff firms to try to go after the vaccine makers because the USA assumes all liability for vaccination injuries. There are no punitive dames, no big pain and suffering awards nor any deep-dive potentially embarrassing discovery fights.

    Going before a special board, filing in a fixed process under the Federal Tort Claims Act and the 1983 and 1986 vaccine legislation, resulting in formulaic outcomes (slowly generated) is not attractive to most personal injury lawyers.

    It takes a lot to get around those blanket protections for the vaccine makers. From the statute summary

    Provides that no vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death: (1) resulting from unavoidable side effects; or (2) solely due to the manufacturer’s failure to provide direct warnings. Provides that a manufacturer may be held liable where: (1) such manufacturer engaged in the fraudulent or intentional withholding of information; or (2) such manufacturer failed to exercise due care. Permits punitive damages in such civil actions under certain circumstances.

    So, for the heavy hitters in the plaintiffs’ bar to get involved there would have to be (a) some really serious, debilitating injuries (a bout of mild myocarditis with no lasting injury is not a big dollar item) AND (b) some smoking-gun evidence that Big Pharma knowingly screwed the pooch on manufacturing quality and/or knew about some horrific effects but acted to hush it up.

    Even if it turns out that there is some long-term autoimmune conditions caused by the vaccines, Big Pharma is in the clear unless it can be proven they knew it would happen and actively concealed that info.

    Yes but one clear way around this matter would be for plaintiffs to insist that having the definition of “vaccine” altered to include these injections negates the standing principles of manufacturers’ immunity for injuries/deaths of vaccination products.

    A person can’t call a dog a cat, in order to get that  pet allowed in the apartment by a lease that clearly spells out “no dogs allowed.”

    The fact that the Big Pharma execs and the agency heads like Fauci that they partner with can alter legal definitions to suit their needs should be worrisome to every citizen in the nation. Sooner or later one of these legal matters will land in front of a judge whose grandson died of a cardiac arrest a day after getting the booster.

    Justice is often delayed but cannot, in a society requiring justice, be denied.

     

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  25. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Jason Rudert (View Comment):

    David Foster (View Comment):

    What is really needed is not only time-series data, but a specific comparison of the population that has had the vaccines versus the population that has not had the vaccines…stratified by age. This should be easy to create from the data IF the individual records show vaxxed/unvaxxed status…don’t know if they do, though.

    Exactly. Many of these symptoms/maladies are also consequences of COVID infections.

    Except when you delve into the matter, long COV symptoms come about in those patients who were hospitalized and then slammed with rocephin, Fentanyl, remdesivir and a number of other questionable drugs.

    When patients who received appropriate, adequate care involving things like HCQ with Z pak, zinc Vit D3, or high dose vit C infusions, COVID did not require hospitalizations and then the sufferers rarely had these “long COVID” problems.

     

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  26. Vince Guerra Inactive
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    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):

    While talking to Stew Peters

     

    Wait a minute, Stew Peters? The bounty hunter? The guy who called the hospital that kept a COVID patient on a ventilator for two and half months Satanic torturers?

    I can’t tell from a photo of the back of a guy’s head if he is this “Peters the bounty hunter” or not.

    I can tell you that he has the 2nd most popular podcast on Apple podcasts in the USA, and he is # 6 in terms of all American podcasts.

    Also, with the exception of Catherine Austin Fitts, there are no people commenting on America’s political and economic fabric whose info I take without a grain of salt. But Peters has been in the forefront of much needed intel on the COVID situation, and the COVID vaccine catastrophe.

     

     

    Anyone who doesn’t understand the significance of Stew Peters, Steve Bannon, Conservative Daily, Telegram, and Rumble are as disconnected from conservative America as they are insulated from the most important stories around. 

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  27. Hans Gruber Pfizer President Inactive
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    https://youtu.be/vJfyFoZcetY

    The cat TOTALLY out of the bag — and you’re still DEBATING!

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  28. Barfly Member
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    Somebody ‘splain. No, takes too long. Somebody sum up.

    I get there’s a claimant with a claim, both at issue. I gather the claimant claims to have data that advances the claim. I need to know one thing – where can I look at this data?

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  29. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Sandy (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    DonG (CAGW is a hoax) (View Comment):
    I will say that the lawyer that testified (Thomas Renz) has a dodgy 1990’s looking website. I hope he is not the Covid Sidney Powell.

    Read the WaPo profile on Renz. He’s the source for a lot of claims about a lot of stuff, sourced to whistleblowers no one can talk to. He’s also part of ForGodCountryFamily.org, which doesn’t appear grifty at all, no sir.

    The WaPo article is well done. It looks thorough and balanced and Renz does not look like the best of men. However, this stood out to me: Asked about his litigation experience and his role challenging coronavirus vaccines, Renz said in an email: “I sincerely wish that the big firms would step up but they have not so it is left to nobodies like me.”

    The obvious reply is that no good firm will touch this because there is no good case to be made. But consider that such might be unwilling to attach themselves to something that is untouchable, much like climate change only worse. As thoroughly vaccinated Scottish physician Malcolm Kendrick complained in 2019: “It is clear that, in the medical profession, there is an unquestioned faith in vaccination. That is, all vaccinations, for all diseases, everywhere – for everyone. Anyone who dares to hint that, ahem, there could be some negative issues associated with vaccination is subjected to withering contempt. ‘You will be responsible for killing millions of children.’ You don’t understand science.’”

    The good firms won’t touch defending those charged in the January 6 riot, either.

     

    Yes we have the same problem in the American court system that we face in journalism.

    The controlling interests hold sway over the legal entities, from law firms to judges. The controlling interests also hold sway over journalism.

    Back in the day, the military/industrial complex &  BigOil/Big Energy  determined how the court system & the media handled issues.

    When in 1997 I tried to hand over 15 months of my research on MTBE the gas additive, I knew enough to present the matter as “a public health matter dwarfing almost all others.”

    So editors at SF Chronicle and Mercury News called me. Now consider, I was not expecting these editors to have me be their reporter. I just wanted to hand over 2 banker boxes & a summary over to their reporters.

    The moment the editors realized MTBE was Big Oil’s baby, they backed out of any interest in the story. Public health be damned! (A small time monthly took the story on, allowing me to report it. That small time monthly was one of the first out there to take advantage of the internet, so often my stories had 200,000 readers, or roughly 2/3rds of what Rolling Stone reporters garnered.

    Now Big Pharma has the big  bucks and influence that Big Military and Big Oil once had. Public health be damned!

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  30. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Vince Guerra (View Comment):

    Yeah, it’s a disgusting hit piece that tows the party line on all things Covid. I’m surprised you spend your time reading this type of leftist smear.

    I read all sorts of things. Some of them seem plausible despite my misgivings about the source. If you think up the Post made up everything about the guy’s history, the finances of MAFA, Renz’s quotes, and his secret whistleblower who cannot be interviewed, you’re welcome to do so. I just don’t advise sending him any money.

    I think the leftist media paints the picture they want all the time to distract from real news as they’re doing in this case. Read their garbage if you want to but I stay clear of publications I know aren’t interested in actual journalism. Did they even report on the five hours of expert testimony given that day?

    Well I don’t think that is the point that Lileks is considering. Who needs to consider 5hours of testimon when they can simply regurgitate CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and Washington Post headlines.

    Lileks is citing the esteemable Washington Post. While we are referencing a guy who does not count, as he doesn’t have Bezos’ backing him. So Renz  can be held accountable as being the scum he is, for every lawsuit he pursued where there was a comma omitted, or an i that was not dotted, or a t that was not crossed.

    Lileks is also overlooking how incensed Big Insurers are right now. If they continue to see a 40% increases in fatalities, each year until COVID ends, perhaps they will be out of business soon.

    Or perhaps not. Big Pharma knows that their products are injurious and deadly. So maybe they will simply start paying the premiums for people in industries and school districts where mandates are required.

    My local elementary school did not have a de-fib machine inside of a glass box hanging prominently on an outside wall until 70 days ago.

    Death and injury are coming for our children, while the Lileks of the world discuss the seediness of the Tom Renzs of the legal profession, whose horses are never white enough, whose armor is never that polished.

    (Of course the Tom Renzs of the world don’t have a big legal firm air brushing away their human frailities.)

    Fauci has deliberately set about to  destroy our society, kill off first our old people and disabled and now is coming for the kids. But Lileks most likely views Fauci as the kindly dignified grandfather The Washington Post frames him as being. While holding his nose when the Renzs of the legal world attempt to bring justice.

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