Roundup
(1) James Webb is starting to take pictures – and the very first one was a selfie.
(2) This was very very very predictable: “Distributed Denial of Secrets, a leak site, claimed it received information about donors to the Canadian Freedom Convoy after activists hacked GiveSendGo.” Doxxing contributors to sites on the right is done to – among other things – discourage people from donating to such causes.
(3) On the campaign against ivermectin, and on the campaign against hydroxychloroquine.
(4) On the Palin defamation case against the Times:
A federal judge on Monday threw out a defamation case brought by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin against The New York Times over an editorial the paper published in 2017…
As the jury was deliberating on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that Palin’s suit should be tossed because her legal team failed to produce substantial evidence that the paper knowingly and recklessly published false information about her.
Despite his ruling, Rakoff told the jury to keep deliberating to a verdict, and noted that an appeal in the case was very likely.
It is nearly impossible to prove defamation of a public figure by the standards set in Sullivan, unless the writers are foolish enough to email each other about their malicious and knowingly fraudulent plans. So it’s not the least bit surprising that it wasn’t proven. But the point of this suit always was to go to SCOTUS, and that may indeed still happen.
The attack on GiveSendGo (like the attack on Mike “My Pillow” Lindell from Minnesota Bank & Trust, as well as the attack on Michelle Malkin and her husband from PayPal) represents a dangerous new front in the war of leftists in “woke” corporate America on any and all dissenting citizens. It is clearly insufficient that the voices of those who refuse to accept the lies of Biden and the MSM are silenced on various social media platforms; punitive measures on their financial existence are now legitimate in our increasingly Orwellian and dystopian “kakistocracy.”
I believe some incriminating emails were discovered. The problem is the “actual malice” standard although many of us recognize that the NY Times did have actual malice toward Palin in 2008. The appeal should be interesting.
Plus, of course, a Clinton nominee. (I always look.)
No surprise there, and I doubt the Sullivan standard was salient in his ruling.
I suspect the point was to set up an appeal.
The judge couldn’t wait for the verdict? Odds are no Manhattan jury would go SP’s way. Why be impatient? We need to rethink Sullivan. It was crafted at a time when reporters had some integrity and actually tried to get things right. A time when there actually was such a thing as an honest mistake. Those days are gone. Reporters are woke and mendacious and sometimes, as in this case, downright evil.
The NYT was cute here. They slandered Palin–deliberately. It was no oops. The judge seems otherwise competent, but his finding for the NYT stinks. And why didn’t he bounce the case before the trial? Isn’t Palin in a trial because some judicial body said the suit could go forward?
The entire judiciary in America is as corrupt as the noxious FBI. For instance, as I read the law, no state or company or school has a legal right to impose a mandate to take an EUA drug. Sooner or later, there will be lawsuits.
Do I think the DOJ (backroom fiddling with the relevant law) and SCOTUS are going to knock down the mandates? Ha. In a pig’s eye they will.
2) Dox the doxers, then apply the appropriate personal consequence.
3) those involved in suppressing effective alternatives are participants in mass murder and crimes against humanity.
4) If the case does reach the S.C. and Sullivan is not revised/rejected then those voting against modifying/rejecting Sullivan are guilty of violating their oath of office, thus demonstrating their unfitness for the office. As they have a legal and moral obligation to correct those injustices within their power to do so.
Nice for the Democrats Propaganda Ministry can smear any opposition with impunity
Pfizer expects a $100B profit year, wonder why cheap alternatives are gone?
Posting opponents names, accounts has been a tactic for awhile and they seem to be immune to prosecution
And can’t wait to see what is out there
From the post describing the “campaign against ivermectin”—one could call it an all-out war, actually—there’s this incisive conclusion (which I take to be rhetorical):
“…But if [the medical/pharmaceutical/political authorities] actively suppressed the adoption of useful medications during a pandemic, then this is beyond the pale. It would suggest a total collapse of any morality or sense of responsibility within the pharmaceutical industry and their partners in the regulatory agencies.”
This describes precisely what has happened. (Also with regard to HCL + zinc.)
Justin Trudeau’s behavior has been truly amazing. Now he is using his powers to basically call the Freedom Convoy terrorists.
Maybe Canada needs a massive strike right now as a further reminder of who makes his little country run.
One other interesting COVID observation today. It shows what can happen when an entity as a whole decides they are done with COVID that the NFL just finished off it’s five week postseason without a single significant player missing a game and now the NBA has zero players in their COVID protocols.
Players and owners both reached the point where they stopped caring and started getting on with their business.
P.S.- The team hit the hardest during Omicron was, you guessed it, the L.A. Rams who overcame long COVID to win the Super Bowl.
What Trudeau is up to.
https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1493348317895528458
Griffin:
I seem to recall that the NBA was one of the first if not the first entity to start canceling when COVID began.
The article about HCQ mentions the Drs. whose book I mentioned in a comment last week. Thery make a very reasonable case for therapeutics and the treatment data they compiled was analyzed by a data analyst and shown in the book. Not a RCT, but certainly worth considering. For anyone interested the book, “Overcoming the COVID Darkness: How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7000 Patients,” is here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RPSXMQD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The rejection of therapeutics by the health bureaucracies is hard to understand. Until someone shows me some other possible reason, my conclusion is that money and greed are paramount. If so, they have committed despicable and criminally inhumane acts.
Is this for real?
Ontario police visit you for a facebook posting?
Didn’t the mafia used to do this? Just stop by to make sure that you are okay.
And, just like the mafia they are using your money to do it!
Skip: “Pfizer expects a $100B profit year, wonder why cheap alternatives are gone?”
Precisely.
Charles,
It’s absolutely real. Plenty of sites have the video.
Kate,
Profits realized through participation in mass murder are invalid. They have an end date because the truth will get out.
I tried to see if my name was on the list (I donated $5 and said nothing of it publicly), but it wouldn’t load.
But I got my answer anyway. Some random guy I don’t know and have zero friends in common with on Facebook replied to a comment I made on a givesendgo post, and said: “yeah your 5 bucks made a huge difference. Should have bought your old man a pirate patch”
The pirate patch comment is in reference to my husband. He must have clicked my profile and saw pictures of my husband, who is slightly deformed around his left eye (in which he is also blind).
These people are garbage. How on earth can they convince themselves to be the “good guys?”
NS: “These people are garbage. How on earth can they convince themselves to be the “good guys?”
They are convinced that the Democrat government bureaucrats know best, and they refuse to consider any other point of view. The same mind set as the CAGW true believers. The same people who convinced themselves that the BLM/ANTIFA riots of 2020 were perfectly okay, but see the truckers protest as “criminal.” It’s thinking that I find difficult to understand. It takes a certain sort of personality – close minded, convinced they are on high moral ground, and that anyone who disagrees must be a fascist/racist/QANON/science denying/knuckle dragger. They’re not a majority, but numerous enough and activist enough to be a threat to everything we hold dear.
We are seeing how other countries have become Communist hellholes.
“Maybe Canada needs a massive strike” Every place that still has mandates needs a massive strike. The people could have made enforcement unsustainable months ago. What are they going to do? Throw 300 people off a train all at the same time? Ban 1000 people a day from an airline? Go door to door writing up every single business that isn’t enforcing mandates? Carry on as if nothing’s wrong when millions of essential workers are refusing to work? And the government and big media and big corporations know it, they know the people have the power, that’s why they worked so hard to instill fear in the general population, and to make people attached to and dependent on their fear.
Democrats, social media and the covid nazis have undoubtedly killed many with their relentless campaign against any possible treatments for covid. The question is why?
What’s the payoff? Pharma stock? Cash?
Doctors are going to be grilled. I know mine is a coward and not really all that bright. But even he will figure out that he was lied to and should have known better.
Of all the criminality and corruption that lefties have committed, supported or embraced, this will prove to be the worst. It’s such a simple question. And an answer claiming they don’t work won’t suffice. People were dying. Did you do a comprehensive study when skilled, veteran doctors claimed success? No. Hmmm, now that we know beyond any doubt that these treatments work we have to conclude that you killed people.
“…hard to understand…”
Lots of money.
Lots of power.
Lots of control.
Lots of influence.
Lots of masochism.
The ability to steal an election and to continue to cover up scandal after scandal after scandal.
The ability to ensure that you stay in power forever and ever, amen…
Not bad for a couple of hundred thousand deaths, eh?
In Ukraine, the people voted FOR a professional comedian.
But in America, an amateur comedian, though not without talent—the “No-Malarkey Kid”— had to steal it.
So which is funnier….?
In the meantime, those jokes just keep coming (and no, this is not “The Bee”):
“National Defense University hosts speaker arguing ‘democratic socialism’ is answer to China threat.
“The academic lecture for national security leaders, which will condemn “Western arrogance,” comes as U.S. military is accused of going woke.”—
https://justthenews.com/government/security/pentagon-funded-school-host-speaker-wholl-argue-democratic-socialism-answer
Not to be undone (or overshadowed), the latest “Biden” nominee seems to have achieved, even surpassed, the requisite level of corruption—
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/confirm-biden-fed-nominee-sarah-bloom-raskin-chuck-devore
+ Bonus:
“…Look Who’s Still on Spotify”—
https://pjmedia.com/culture/athena-thorne/2022/02/14/well-well-well-look-whos-back-on-spotify-n1559061
On a (slightly?) more serious note:
” ‘We’ve known how to cure COVID since about March of 2020’: Dr. Robert Malone
“This is a clear pivot consequent to their horrible polling numbers,” Malone said, referring to the recent scramble by Democratic governors to lift COVID-19″—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/dr-robert-malone-weve-known-how-cure-covid-about-march-2020
Key grafs:
‘…The sudden scramble two years later by democratic governors to lift mask mandates “is a clear pivot consequent to their horrible polling numbers”…. “It’s exactly what I predicted when people were asking me, ‘How will we know when this thing is over?’ I’ve said, ‘Well, you’ll know it because they’ll all start giving awards to each other and claiming that they’re the ones that are responsible for curing it.’…
‘…Malone also discussed explosive new data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) regarding possible COVID vaccine side effects, which three military medical whistleblowers recently came forward with when they saw a significant increase in common vaccine injuries during 2021….
‘…Malone was asked about recently released emails exposing a plan…to discredit the anti-lockdown epidemiologists behind the Great Barrington Declaration. The exchange showed the three — then…NIH Director Francis Collins,…(NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, and NIAID Deputy Director…Dr. Clifford Lane — coordinating “a quick and devastating takedown” of the premises of the declaration, which espouses “focused protection,” a mitigation strategy prioritizing the most vulnerable populations.
‘”[T]hey slandered and defamed [Sunetra Gupta, Ph.D., Jay Bhattacharya, MD, Ph.D., and Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D.] as ‘fringe’ epidemiologists, but they happen to be full professors at the obscure universities Oxford, Stanford and Harvard, I believe,” Malone said sarcastically….
“And please note that neither Dr. Fauci nor Dr. Collins nor Dr. Lane have any formal training in epidemiology,” Malone added.
“So what we’re looking at,” he said, “is really quite shocking: It runs across all of health care,…through Health and Human Services, across all the Western nations — there seems to be some odd collusion, and that has been focused on amplifying the fear and suppressing any counter-narrative.”
Oops….
Correction: At 3:27 a.m. above
“masochism” should, of course, be “sadism”….
(Unless one might prefer “sado-masochism”…you know—“Diversity”…)
The HCQ article makes the valuable point that randomized controlled trials are touted as the only possible justification for a protocol–unless the protocol is something like masking, which has no RCT support, in which case refusing to believe in its justification is tantamount to spreading misinformation, for which you must be censored and professionally gutted.
I’m skeptical, though, that the hostility to HCQ and ivermectin is explained entirely by profit motives. I believe it is a combination of hostility to the “sort of people” who tout these drugs, beginning with the ur-sort Donald Trump, along with the panicked sense that any talk of effective treatment protocols will depress the public’s willingness to vaccinate and, to some extent, to mask and lockdown. Mandates, in turn, have taken on a life of their own as a political class that’s losing its prestige and authority needs to clamp down harder and harder on meek compliance and tribal solidarity through virtue signaling.
@NS
‘These people are garbage. How on earth can they convince themselves to be the “good guys?” ‘
The don’t have to convince themselves. They are the self righteous. They know down to their very core that they are always the good person. They will do or say anything to achieve their goal. While these particular ones are mostly atheist they are the Spanish Inquisition. Since they are the definition of good, nothing they do can be bad.
Barry Meislin, have you read the RFK Jr book about Fauci? I always thought RFK Jr was a nut but he has hundreds of references in the book and I think he has hit upon something. Fauci and the NIH have tremendous power over grants to academics. Most medical research is now funded by government or Big Pharma. I personally know of cases of fake data still being used to justify therapy.
Mike, indeed.
Though I haven’t read it I have read much about it and it’s damning and convincing, though—disclaimer—I lean toward that theory in any event, getting my information from a variety of other sources.
I’ve even been thinking that RFK Jr. may have, with his courage, conscientiousness and determination and persistence (his father’s doggedness?) “saved” the Kennedy “brand”, at least temporarily, at least in this instance—not that I’d encourage salvationist manners of thinking necessarily…but he strikes me as the real deal and we all are fortunate that he has taken this task upon himself.
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BTW, while Malone in his article (quoted from above), credits bad polling numbers for the “pivot”, I’m certain that the Canadian truckers (and others not Canadian) have contributed to getting this idea of mal-governance out into the open.
It’s not a new idea, certainly—but they’ve put it in center stage.
Fauci and the NIH have tremendous power over grants to academics. Most medical research is now funded by government or Big Pharma.
Aye. See the late Phillip Johnson (who was at one point legal counsel to Peter Deuesberg) on the pathologies inherent in government funding of biomedical research.
One thing that should be on the starboard platform is an end to the state and federal patronage mill. You see these line items in the federal budget marked ‘grants, subsidies, and contributions’. Disbursements to corporations – be they commercial, philanthropic, or government corporations – and disbursements to persons with institutional addresses should disappear. If not 100% of the time, then 90% of the time. NIH can undertake in-house research and accept sealed bids for contracts. In re NSF, transfer the polar programs office to the Interior department and shut it down. You’ll get a lot of huffing and puffing from faculty of the “I-and-my-colleagues-in-the-profession” variety. Ha ha.
/ rant off.
BTW (part 2), it would seem clear that Fauci (and his merrye gang of greedy, murderous prevaricators) are monstrous egomaniacs—and/or lily-livered, if scheming, “Yes-men”), judging from the former’s behavior over the past two plus years along with all the revelations that have emerged regarding his associations and his lies, and also because of the revelations of his previous policies and behavior with regard to HIV.
Essentially, it’s history repeating, but in a huger—global—-arena.
(Yes, an egotistical monster. No wonder “Biden”, pace Psaki, has absolutely no intention of firing Fauci; though one may well wonder what will happen to him should the winds shift, since he would make a pretty impressive scapegoat….OTOH, Fauci probably knows “where all the bodies are buried”, so to speak….which, if true, would provide him with a remarkably secure “insurance” policy.)
“…randomized controlled trials are touted as the only possible justification for a protocol…. I’m skeptical….”
Well yes, and you should be.
The general rule is:
“WE DO WHAT WE WANT TO AND YOU’D BETTER OBEY US”, which can be broken out into:
a) “If we want to push something, we push it—with our media allies providing all the necessary support and our national health officials, with furiously-stroked chins and strategically-knitted eyebrows, exhorting the HEALTH BENEFITS of whatever we decide)”
IOW, WE DON’T NEED NO FREAKIN’ RCT to push what we want to push; after all, we’re the experts! WE decide.
Examples:
– Politicians who don’t mask (and who don’t see any need—not even OPTICS!—to follow lockdown rules)
– BLM/Antifa rallies and demos where masking isn’t required (because such demos are demonstrably “good” for the “overall health of society”, etc., etc.)
– Illegal immigrants who don’t have to be checked for Covid (because…giving them hope for a better life is the epitome of morality, and besides, because “WE SAID SO”)
– Etc….
b) Conversely, “If we want to squelch something, we squelch it ESPECIALLY if it didn’t undergo that SACRED CRT. Precisely because it didn’t undergo CRT. IOW, take your—we don’t care how many reams of—empirical evidence and SHOVE IT. That’s right: No CRT? No laundry….(once again—with spirit!—“with our media allies providing all the necessary support”, etc.)
But the game’s up. (Or soon will be.)
(Either that, or they’ll have to come up with a particularly virulent “variant” real soon….)
Related (heh):
“Forbes Contributor Fired Over Investigative Stories On Fauci”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/forbes-contributor-fired-over-investigative-stories-fauci
“Over the target” (as they say) can be the only reason….
NS @ 10:10pm,
That is unbelievable!
Reagan tells Soviet jokes
This Saturday I’m interviewing a widow who lost her husband to a hospital that at first refused therapeutics, then relented and her husband started getting well, and then another administrator denied them, and he died.
Murdered.