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The Artful Dilettante is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of Penn State University. He is a lover of liberty and a lifelong and passionate student of the same. He is voracious reader of books on the Enlightenment and the American colonial and revolutionary periods. He is a student of libertarian and Objectivist philosophies. He collects revolutionary war and period currency, books, and newspapers. He is married and the father of one teenage son. He is kind, witty, generous to a fault, and unjustifiably proud of himself. He is the life of the party and an unparalleled raconteur.

The most detailed evidence yet of the devastating damage Covid vaccines can do

INJECTING millions of people with countless copies of a gene that instructs the body to produce a toxic protein might not seem very sensible. But it was hoped that this approach, the basis of the Covid vaccine, would help minimise damage caused by the protein – the ‘spike’ that the genetically engineered SARS-CoV-2 uses to invade our body cells – when we meet the actual virus.

Last month we reported an American heart specialist’s finding that most of his patients showed biochemical changes signalling increased cardiovascular risk in the weeks following their Covid mRNA jab. Markers for inflammation, cell death and an immune response to coronary artery injury all increased compared with results from a few months previously. The overall results indicated a ‘dramatic’ rise, from 11 per cent to 25 per cent, in the likelihood of a heart attack or similar event occurring some time over the next five years should those changes persist. 

The report was presented as an abstract to a meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA), and subsequently published in Circulation, the AHA’s journal. After being made public, an ‘expression of concern’ was added to the abstract, saying there are ‘potential errors’ and it may not be reliable. 

There is however every reason to take it seriously – apart from UK researchers reportedly having found similar results, which they are not prepared to publish for fear of losing research money.

Last Friday the most detailed evidence yet of the damage the vaccine can do was presented at an online symposium on Covid science organised by Doctors for Covid Ethics. This is an international group that has long opposed the mass rollout of the Covid jab, arguing in particular that the immune system may attack our own tissues when it detects the presence of the spike protein. 

Thousands of deaths have been reported in the wake of the jab, but regulators claim most of these are coincidental, and have neglected detailed investigation of whether or not the vaccine was responsible.

Exactly that kind of investigation was carried out by German pathologist Professor Dr Arne Burkhardt, who has 40 years of experience in the field. He examined the tissues and organs of 15 patients where a post-mortem had been performed, an exceptional opportunity that came about because the bodies were in institutes of legal medicine and institutes of pathology.  

There were seven men and eight women aged between 28 and 95.  They died between seven days and six months post-injection.

In essence, Burkhardt found internal damage in most of the deceased, caused by a self-destruct process in which immune cells – lymphocytes – had invaded different parts of the body. 

In five of the 15 cases, it was concluded that the correlation with the vaccination was very probable; in seven, it was probable; and in two cases it was not clear, but possible. ‘In one case we did not find any of these changes of any significance,’ Burkhardt said.

He presented slides showing how the lymphocytes infiltrated heart muscle in particular, causing inflammation. Resulting lesions were small and easily overlooked, ‘but the destruction of just a few muscle cells may have a devastating effect’, he said. ‘If the inflammatory infiltration is found where the impulse for the contraction of the heart is given, this may lead to heart failure.’

Another finding, also easily missed, was lung damage caused by the lymphocyte invasion, seen in nearly half the cases. Liver, kidney, uterus, brain, thyroid and skin also showed signs of autoimmune damage. 

Summarising Burkhardt’s presentation, Canadian microbiologist Professor Dr Michael Palmer said: ‘Anybody with a medical training will see just how devastating the effect of these vaccines can be, at least in those who die after the vaccination . . . we also now know why the authorities were very hesitant to have autopsies performed on such victims.’ 

Elsewhere, Palmer has argued that even though deaths after vaccination are few compared with the numbers who have received the jab, ‘the total lifetime dose of these messenger RNA vaccines that you can tolerate before you die is limited. We don’t know the exact amount because there is simply not enough experimental data.  That’s one of the great scandals of these vaccines, that no proper toxicity studies have been carried out.’  

Animal studies have shown clearly that the jab does not just stay at the site of the injection. It circulates widely, such that the spike protein can combine with receptors in many parts of the body, and especially cells that line our blood vessels, causing both clotting and excessive bleeding. Many sudden clusters of deaths (see here and here) have been reported in the immediate wake of the vaccine drives, also observed in athletes

Burkhardt’s findings, highlighting immune cell infiltration of tissues where the vaccine-induced spike protein has manifested, come in the wake of many warnings of such a mechanism and are supported by various studies suggesting long-term risks. These include:

·       US physician Dr Patrick Whelan warned the US Food and Drug Administration a year ago, before the vaccine rollouts, that jabs based on the spike protein may themselves trigger symptoms of severe Covid, including blood clots, brain inflammation and damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Whelan, a paediatric specialist caring for children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome, urged particular caution over giving the vaccine to children and young adults, as they normally fight off the infection in its early stages.  Before any of the vaccines were approved for widespread use in humans, he said, there should be an assessment of the effects on the heart.  

       The vaccine includes a modification in the RNA code aimed at synthesising abundant copies of the spike protein – running into trillions of molecules, according to this visual display produced by Dr Charles Hoffe, a Canadian doctor. He says the majority of people who receive the Covid shot ‘are getting blood clots that they have no idea they’re even having.’ The modification, along with a device that protects the RNA mechanism against immediate destruction by the body, may enable the jabs to present a bigger risk in some recipients than natural infection, since this is usually dealt with successfully by a healthy immune system. No one knows exactly how much of the protein is produced by the jab, nor how long it lasts in the body.

Dr Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA technology, says ‘multiple peer-reviewed references’ demonstrate that the virus’s spike protein poisons body cells (see for example here), but the vaccine developers have not demonstrated the safety of their version of the protein.  Proper evaluation of the risks is still not being carried out, he says

·       Another German pathologist found from autopsies conducted on 40 people who died in the wake of the jab that 30-40 per cent were vaccine-related. Professor Peter Schirmacher believes many such deaths are missed, with doctors attributing them to natural causes.

·       American cardiologist and journal editor Dr Peter McCullough has warned that the vaccine can damage heart tissue in ways that go unnoticed at first, but which create scar tissue liable to cause permanent cardiac dysfunction later in life. ‘This will go down as the most dangerous biological medicinal product rollout in human history,’ he says. McCullough has also highlighted an increase in deaths among children in the UK since the NHS began vaccinating teenagers aged 12 and over against Covid.  

·       An analysis of UK ‘Yellow Card’ adverse reaction data by Dr Tess Lawrie’s Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy found thousands of reports of blood clotting after the Covid jabs. Almost every vein and artery was affected, and every organ including parts of the brain, lungs, heart, spleen, kidneys, ovaries and liver, ‘with life-threatening and life-changing consequences’. Lawrie urged the UK regulators as long ago as last June to declare the vaccine unsafe for use in humans because of the deaths and adverse reactions being reported.

·       A ‘chilling’ acknowledgement of the specific risks of mycocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (swelling in tissue surrounding the heart) following Covid vaccination was issued this month by the UK Health Security Agency. The agency still insists such cases are rare and that most patients recover fully, but evidence such as Burkhardt’s suggests many deaths may go unrecognised as vaccine-related.  

It’s a terrible mess, and there is a desperate need for a review of the entire Covid vaccine strategy. UK pathologists, please come to the rescue! 

Neville Hodgkinson

Vaccination Mythology Tied Up in Knots

Let me get this straight. We’re told that if you’re not vaccinated, you’re going to die. And that if you are vaccinated, you’re going to live. Yet the flu has a 99.99 percent survival rate. And vaccinated people are continuing to get the flu, just as unvaccinated people are continuing to get the flu. So how is it true that ALL of the unvaccinated are going to die, while ALL of the vaccinated are going to live?

I realize that Biden and Fauci are never wrong, and would never lie. So I must be missing something. Can someone please explain it to me?

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Destroying Democrat Delusions

Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not support the Democrats’ giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been watching Manchin for the last few months. Yet many Democrats, especially in the White House and in the progressive wing of the House of Representatives, appeared shocked when Manchin told Fox News’ Bret Baier, “I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t.”

They apparently believed Manchin would ultimately come around, and do so before Christmas. When he did not, they were stunned.

Their reaction is the latest manifestation of a mass delusion affecting Democrats in Washington. For nearly a year, since Jan. 20, 2021, they have believed they could enact a nation-changing agenda — shades of FDR and LBJ! — without having won a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate. Somehow, all on their own and without any Republican support, they could bring landmark legislation to a 50-50 tie vote in the Senate, and then have Vice President Kamala Harris break the tie in the Democrat’s favor. They seemed to forget that Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson had huge majorities in both House and Senate when they enacted sprawling New Deal and Great Society legislation, respectively.

Even the structure of their massive spending bill, which they called Build Back Better, was shaped by their lack of a Senate majority. Democratic leaders knew how hard it would be to get anything through the Senate — to keep all 50 of their own senators together — so they packed nearly the entire Biden agenda of social spending and climate projects into a one big bill. Then everyone on their side would have to vote for it, wouldn’t they?

No, they wouldn’t. Manchin, a Democrat from a state Donald Trump carried by 40 points last year, voted for earlier massive spending measures but drew the line at Build Back Better. He gave lots of reasons. He’s worried about inflation. He’s worried about the accounting gimmicks. He’s worried that the bill distracts resources from the fight against COVID. But the bottom line was: No.

Perhaps the real news was that Democrats were shocked. And angry. The White House quickly released a long statement, approved by President Biden himself, accusing Manchin of lying during negotiations over the bill. Manchin’s announcement on Fox News, the statement said, represented “a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the president and the senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate.”

Others were more … direct. “Let’s be clear: Manchin’s excuse is bulls—,” tweeted Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Still others used Manchin’s position to advocate blowing up the entire structure of the Senate. “What kind of healthy democracy is structured in a way that can allow one man elected by 290,000 voters in one of the least populous states to thwart the agenda of his party and the president who was elected with 81 million votes[?]” tweeted Sherrilyn Ifill, head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “We need structural change.” (Ifill neglected to note that Manchin had no special power by himself; he joined the 50 Republican senators who do not support the bill to create a 51-vote majority against the legislation.)

Obviously, Democrats were disappointed. That’s understandable. But what lay behind the intensity of their reaction? The American Enterprise Institute’s James Pethokoukis had a good point when he suggested the answer lay in the realm of psychology, not politics. “This whole fight over the Biden agenda seems like a behavioral psychology case study,” Pethokoukis tweeted. “Progressive Dems anchored their expectations when they thought the 2020 elections were going to be a big win — and when they weren’t, struggled to alter expectations.”

So the answer to the question — Why do Democrats believe they can pass controversial, far-reaching, consequential legislation without holding a majority of seats in the Senate? — might be that Democrats have not accepted the fact that they do not hold a majority of seats in the Senate. They have never adjusted their agenda to fit their actual situation. But now reality is doing it for them.

Byron York, Townhall.com


With Tyrants, You Have to go on OFFENSE

Fighting tyranny by complaining is not enough. You have to go on the offensive. DeSantis has the right idea. Don’t just block or repeal totalitarian measures. Criminalize the imposition of them. The governors, mayors, members of Congress and Presidents have no moral or legal right to do anything they’re doing. They are at war with the people. At some point, the goal will have to be: stop them by arresting, prosecuting and convicting them. If you conclude it’s not worth it, then you’re surrendering to a life under permanent, always expanding tyranny.

In American history, we ended British rule, abolished slavery and stopped the encroachment of Nazis, imperial Japanese and Soviet Communists. Today’s real and present danger? Totalitarian “Democrats.” They are NOT letting up. They will never accept any kind of defeat. At some point, lovers of liberty must go on the offensive and be the same way. Freedom is slipping away before our eyes.

Michael J Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The Game Being Played on Us

The insanity of the American and Western world is the great sadness of my old age. It is absolutely clear to me now, with the idiotic and groundless fake panic over “omicron,” which is killing no one, that this is the “crisis” our ruling elites have been waiting for; and they will not let go of it. The disproportionality between the enormous and incalculable economic, psychological, educational, cultural, and human damage the covid measures are causing, and the nearly non-existent benefit they are producing, is of no interest to our elites. They know it is not about health, and they are unreachable by argument and facts addressed to that disproportionality.

This is about consolidating their power and inculcating subservience in their populations. They have a long agenda to enact, and for it, they need blind obedience and total subservience. Brexit, Trump, and the AFD in the Bundestag shocked them; they want to make future such expressions of popular resistance impossible. You know their goals – global governance by unelected bureaucrats, open borders, end of the western nation-state and its historic populations, greatly diminished standard of living in the West (while they live large), to save mother earth from another of their non-existent crises, “climate change,” etc. In general, they need a passive population and total control to impose these widely despised, evil changes. And they see covid as their big chance. They will not voluntarily let go of it. They will never give us normal human life back – we will have to demand it.

It is high time for an enormous movement like the one that took place in your homeland in 1989. Only when millions of people go out on the streets happily and courageously and demand their freedom and a totally normal life, we would have a chance to get something like that from our really totalitarian governments and avoid a “China of the West”.

But I fear that the totally unjustified fear that the governments and media are so cleverly spreading through the population has made this impossible. And the few who understand it all don’t want to risk anything.

If something like an enormous movement doesn’t take place, then a wonderful 2500 years of civilization will end.

Jared Peterson

Various Quotes from Various Thinkers

Mass civil disobedience saves lives. If millions refuse to comply with tyrants, freedom wins. Do not be afraid.

Don’t let the ugly in others kill the beauty in you.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” [Viktor Frankl, Nazi concentration camp survivor]

“If ‘temporary’ provisions in the Build Back Better Act become permanent, U.S. national debt will increase by 24%.” [Elon Musk]

New poll reported by Breitbart News: Hispanic voters show 42-point shift towards Republicans since 2018. …and yet early morning data dumps, media coverups and blackmailed Supreme Court justices keep ensuring the victory of Democratic Communists. Plus the eradication of voter ID requirements, in-person voting and citizenship for voting. These polls probably understate the shift away from Bidenistas. Yet we are stuck with tired old tyrants and unaccountable henchpersons capable of unbridled evil. Can elections truly save us, at this point?

You think COVID is scary? Wait for hyperinflation.

How about a Surgeon General warning: Totalitarian control is bad for mental and physical health.

Just think. We’re a mere executive order away from this happening in the USA. Read on:

People in Sweden have started getting implanted with microchips that contain their COVID-19 passports, according to Newsweek.

The chip, developed by Epicenter, can store a covid passport under the skin.

“Implants are very versatile technology that can be used for many different things, and right now it is very convenient to have Covid passport always accessible on your implant,” Epicenter’s chief disruption officer Hannes Sjöblad told Ruptly.

It’s often said that today’s Democrats are not merely socialists; they are Communists. They are WORSE than Communists. They are a horrific hybrid of Communism, fascism, oligarchy, plutocracy, medical and cultural Nazism, amoral subjectivism and a little radical Islam thrown in. If we don’t defeat them totally, and decisively, they will ruin not just the United States, but all of civilization.

America is Erasing

In the event you are unaware that insanity now encompasses the US Supreme Court, the Court ruled in 2020 with only three dissents that a person’s gender is self-declared and unrelated to biological fact. The consequences of the Supreme Court’s elevation of fiction over fact are now showing themselves.

A female middle school child declared herself to be male, but the school prevented her from using the boy’s locker room. A naked girl showering with naked males was not the school’s idea of family values. However, a local court in Blue Springs, Missouri (57,000 population) ruled that as the girl said she was a boy, she had to be believed. The school had singled her out on the basis of her female genitalia and ruled that she was female and not eligible for the boys’ locker room. This decision based on biological fact the jury decided was discrimination and awarded the girl $4 million dollars. https://www.rt.com/usa/543444-missouri-school-transgender-bathroom/

This is a good example of what I mean when I say that in the US facts no longer matter. A country in which counterfactual claims take precedence over fact is a country soon to be bereft of scientific and technological capability.

Facts no longer matter across the spectrum from history to law, from language to mathematics. In America, law is whatever a prosecutor decides. For example, a federal prosecutor has decided that it is espionage for a non-citizen outside the country to publish leaked documents, as journalists have been doing for decades. The law being applied to Julian Assange does not exist on the US law books. But it doesn’t matter as law is whatever a prosecutor says, just as a person’s gender is whatever the person declares. Glenn Greenwald Explains How Truth, Law, and Justice are Overwhelmed by Deliberate Disinformation: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-real-disinformation-agents-watch

The English language has the largest vocabulary and is the most expressive. But according to the Woke imbeciles, this makes it oppressive. The Woke program is to shrink the language until all oppressive elements, such as gender pronouns, are eliminated. Once we no longer can know if it is a he or a she, a mother or a father, a grandmother or grandfather, aunt or uncle we will no longer be oppressed.

The new history is also free of factual basis. Wars are about whatever issue an organized interest group finds serves its interests. Critical Race Theory is a theory that specifies the facts, not a theory based in facts.

Mathematics is racist. That 2+2=4 is a white racist construct. This reduces mathematics to systemic racism.

Disrespect for facts is the hallmark of tyranny. Educational systems are the institutions that enculturate people into society and pass on its values. It is how a society and a culture survive as a country lives and develops in time. Today enculturation has been replaced with alienating youth from the society and culture that is their birthright. Instead, they are taught that their culture is evil and has a long history of crimes against humanity. Indeed, the New York Times 1619 Project teaches that the United States was founded on racism. The so-called “Civil War” is explained as the North’s attempt to cleanse itself of its own racist sins by projecting them upon the South.

When a country’s universities are against the country, sooner or later the people will be so also. Universities train leaders and educators who take the training to children. It is entirely possible to completely revolutionize and destroy a society through its educational system. That is what is happening in the US and UK. The two societies are erasing themselves. There is very little left.