They Promised There Wouldn’t Be Any Math

Safe and Effective Wuhan Flu 45 Comments

The Daily Sceptic- How Many Lives Did the Vaccines Save and How Many Did They End?

Some of these estimates and assumptions may be a little off in either direction, so not too much weight should be put on the exact figures. The important point is that the number of lives estimated to be saved by the vaccines is around the same as the number estimated to be lost to them or slightly lower – a conclusion which is consistent with the findings of Professor Christine Stabell-Benn, who analysed the all-cause death data from the mRNA vaccine trials and found a similar number of deaths in the vaccine and control arms.

We should also note that the longer term impact of the vaccines is still unknown.

It is looking very much like the vaccine programme failed to save any lives overall and was a very costly mistake.

Temporarily Unexpected

Democrats 16 Comments

Ed Morrissey: the sudden drop in demand for gasoline is distorting the results on inflation

Almost all categories still show double-digit year-on-year increases, and crude consumer food prices show a month-on-month increase in double digits as well. Even with the one-month plunge in gas prices, energy inflation still hits 8.5% year-on-year in this report, too.

So what does this mean? Is this a signal that inflation is over and the economy is on the brink of recovery? Not exactly. As I mentioned in my first post, the drop in gas prices is due to a sudden drop in demand, not an increase in supply — and that usually means a recession. The month-on-month personal-consumption figures in the PPI report for July look ominous, too[…]

Personal consumption less foods dropped dramatically to -4.3%, which suggests that economic activity is now concentrated on staples. That would be a product of a five-quarter decline in real disposable personal income, plus what looks like a stall in the economy.

The one-month breather on inflation may be welcome news in some quarters, but the underlying reasons for it are causes for alarm. We are not solving inflation through increased production but through the choking off of demand. That’s a recession, and it may have already arrived, regardless of what the last jobs report suggests.

Carry On Then

Chinada 18 Comments

Blacklocks- Politicians in China’s Pay

MPs, provincial legislators and city councillors are known to be in the pay of foreign agents, a former espionage officer yesterday told the Commons ethics committee. The foreign agents’ source country was not named though cabinet has accused China of clandestine activities: “What we know for sure is we have various foreign countries that succeeded in recruiting elected officials – again, municipal, provincial or federal.”

I, Napoleon

Children R Our Future Groomers I, Napoleon 22 Comments

Welcome to Waterloo.

The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers.

Lawyers expect about 1,000 families to join a medical negligence lawsuit alleging vulnerable children have been misdiagnosed and placed on a damaging medical pathway.

They are accusing the gender identity development service [GIDS] at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust of multiple failures in its duty of care.

This includes allegations it recklessly prescribed puberty blockers with harmful side effects and adopted an “unquestioning, affirmative approach” to children identifying as transgender.

Last month NHS England announced it was shutting the Tavistock clinic over safety concerns following a damning external review. Care will be handed to regional children’s hospitals.

Faster, please.

Thursday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 23 Comments

Woke Britain:  Colonialism caused homophobia.  The Telford scandal.

Sweden may deport violent migrants. But only if they attack gays.

Biden’s America:  The climate change emergency.  China Joe falsely claims inflation disappeared.  The Godfather and his son go on vacation.  C.S. Lewis and our fantasy, our reality.  So when are the FBI going to raid Hunter Biden’s house?  Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  China’s bought and paid for Canadian politicians.  The gender insanity.  Rex Murphy writes about Trudeau’s coalition partner.  The feds don’t drive Canadian made cars., and the cabinet wants more French spoken on Turtle Island.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

Democrats Russiagate 5 Comments

Asymmetrical lawfare.

The bar had a record of repeatedly accommodating Kevin Clinesmith, a now convicted felon who pleaded guilty in August 2020 to falsifying a document that was the basis for a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign official Carter Page.

After receiving a 12-months probation sentence, which he first agreed to, Clinesmith was expected to have his attorney designation stripped. However, the D.C. Bar did not pursue that course of action, despite long-standing precedent surrounding lawyers committing crimes in legal matters. […]

At the heart of Clinesmith’s crime was the fact that he doctored an email to state that Page was “not a source” for the CIA when the opposite was true. By omitting the crucial detail, that Page had lawfully collaborated with the CIA as an “operation contact” to provide the agency information for years, the FBI proceeded with electronically monitoring Page as a possible Russian spy.

Oh?

Basic Dictatorship 29 Comments

National Post-Privacy experts disagree with RCMP assertion that spyware is similar to wiretapping

Privacy experts say police and government use of “extremely intrusive” spyware needs to be tightly controlled, and the technology should be outlawed for the general Canadian public.

The director of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said spyware is “like a wiretap on steroids,” and requires more oversight and a much higher threshold for use.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

CreepyJoeBiden Drain The Swamp 40 Comments

Those ‘Classified’ Docs FBI Sought in Trump Raid Were Already Declassified

On Monday, the FBI executed a search warrant of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home that was approved by a magistrate judge who is not only linked to Jeffrey Epstein but was also an Obama donor. According to CNN, the raid was “part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, that may have been brought there.”

If that is the case, this further proves that the raid was an abuse of power, because we’ve known for months now that the documents in question were already declassified by then-President Trump.

“Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” Kash Patel, a former top Trump administration official, told Breitbart News in a phone interview in May. According to Patel, the classification markings just had not been updated.

“The White House counsel failed to generate the paperwork to change the classification markings, but that doesn’t mean the information wasn’t declassified,” Patel added. “I was there with President Trump when he said ‘We are declassifying this information.’”

Patel served as the Pentagon chief of staff as well as principal deputy to the acting director of national intelligence. He is also a former National Security Council aide, former top House Intelligence Committee staffer, and former federal prosecutor and public defender.

More: It seems the Justice Department should have put an issue of this magnitude before a full federal judge, rather than a magistrate, and that maybe it should have found someone without an Epstein connection.

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