Truth tellers and systematic liars. Team Reality gets peer-review published. Accounting for known biases in reporting on Ukraine.

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On the subject of people who lie to you, the pharmaceutical companies and in fact a lot of big business make a good deal of money off of our weaknesses. Lying helps their bottom line.

Alex Berenson has a good piece covering three such: drugs, gambling, and philandering. Inasmuch as there is considerable money to be made on all three, you see a lot of advocacy in the mainstream media. This despite the fact that they destroy the fabric of American society.  Berenson was brave enough to abandon a sinecure at the New York Times in order to tell the truth. The midwits he left behind continue to curse him. And I am sure they envy the level of talent that allowed him, Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald to break free.

Тhе Dаіlу Еxроsé еxаsреrаtеs mе bу соntіnuіng tо shаkе thеіr tіn сuр іn mу fасе, but thеу gеt аn аԝful lоt rіght. Наvіng ԝrіttеn thіs, І rеsоlvеd tо sеnd thеm sоmе mоrе mоnеу.  І hарреn tо hаvе hаd аbоut $1200 ԝоrth оf а mіnоr сrурtосurrеnсу.  Тhе $100 І gаvе thеm ԝіll nоt shоԝ uр аnуԝhеrе thаt thе sрооks соuld lіnk іt tо mе.  Раrаnоіd?  Yеs І аm.  Dіd уоu nоtісе thаt thе ІRS ԝаs іnfоrmіng thеm оf реорlе ԝhо bоught rеlіgіоus bооks аnd dоnаtеd tо МАԌА?  Нmmmm.  І'm еvеn еnсrурtіng thіs раrаgrарh.  Sее іf уоu саn sеаrсh оn іt оr trаnslаtе іt.

Here's a piece that they did today on the germ theory of disease. I recently wrote about it in the context of viruses.  This piece covers the waterfront – viruses, bacteria, mushrooms and every other microscopic pathogen.  On the other hand, I got an email from a second-hand acquaintance at NIH claiming that viruses are as real as real can be, starting with the Tobacco Mosaic Virus in 1920.  I'll still keep my eyes open.  Even Luc Montagnier, discoverer of the AIDS virus, didn't sound totally convinced of his own discovery.  I expect there is more to the story.

They are beating the all the drums for vaccines.  Again.  Here's a piece from the BBC about a WHO-reported 45-fold increase in measles cases.  From 941 in 2022 to 42,200 in Europe.  First of all, I don't believe the WHO.  Here's what I wrote in 2022 in response to this piece of fear porn claiming 207,500 deaths worldwide.  The total deaths claimed in this recent piece – and we just saw how they lie, miscounting deaths – is five.  There is no reckoning, no mention, no consideration of the deaths caused by the MMR vaccine, which are not negligible, or the side effects such as autism.  Back in my youth, when everybody got measles as a matter of course, nobody considered it a disaster.  Measles didn't make yesterday's list of panics, though the vaccine did. 

Eric Topol, a government mouthpiece who posts on Substack advocating the Covid program, especially vaccines, posted an interview with Jonathan Howard, author of a new book entitled "We Want Them Infected."  It is a down-the-line defense and justification of NIH's approach to Covid, with especially nasty attacks on Team Reality.  I made notes only halfway through the long interview, enough to call it a review.  Here it is.  Doesn't exactly raise my faith in our government.

Team Reality, for its part, finally got a peer-reviewed article. This one in Cureus, a medical journal published by Springer Verlag, Germany's leading scientific publishing house.  The message is simple: the mRNA injections are too dangerous and should be stopped.  Authors include Stephanie Seneff, an MIT researcher with whom I have a correspondence and whose books I have reviewed, Steve Kirsch, leader of the parade, Peter McCullough, who is seemingly everywhere these days, and Jessica Rose, who publishes an amazing amount of deep research on Covid.  There are a couple of new names, Mead and Wolfinger, probably the guys who did most of the writing.  I had been skeptical that anybody could turn the Covid leviathan around.  I may have been wrong.

Tony Heller doesn't get too much press these days, but he keeps on plugging. Here's a piece about him and his continual efforts to expose the global warming fraud perpetuated by our government and NASA in particular.  You will note that a lot of the books that I reviewed were about climate. I get a little bit bored with the subject. To me the evidence is so clear, and the amount of new science so paltry that it hardly seems worth my breath to talk about it. But the people who have been persistently wrong for 40 years persist in their error, so I can't let up totally. In the hope that there are minds that are still willing to be changed, I will reference interesting pieces as they come to my attention.

I read Zerohedge faithfully, even though I find that they have a wrong and strong bias on the subject of the war in Ukraine. A recent controversy concerns a transport airplane Ilyushin 76 shot down over Belgorod.  The Russians claim that it carried Ukrainian prisoners of war headed for an exchange. Ukrainians don't know for sure, but think the evidence is that it was carrying military supplies.  The Kyiv Post offers what they know so far.

Why would Ukraine do that? Kill their own POWs? It makes no sense. I ask you to contrast the Ukrainian presentation by Denys Davydov with that of Zerohedge.  As usual the Russian propaganda echoed by ZH has a much greater air of certainty. It claims that Ukraine shot it down, which is probably true. It blames a Patriot missile, which seems likely. It claims that Ukraine knew that there were Ukrainian prisoners of war on board, which does not seem credible. Two years of war have shown that Ukraine cares deeply about its soldiers whereas Russia considers their expendable.

We saw similar Russian propaganda with regard to blowing up the Nova Kakhovka Dam, flooding the left bank of the Dnipro River. The action killed a great many civilians and apparently drowned a few Russian soldiers as well. Though they vehemently denied it at the time, now, long after the fact it seems pretty well established that the Russians did it.  Even Gonzalo Lira inadvertently said as much in one of his broadcasts.  To me it was obvious from day one.  It took hundreds of times more explosives than could be carried by a missile.  It could only have been done by massive charges laid in the foundation by demolitions experts.  Since the Russians controlled the dam, it had to be them.

We saw a similar Russian propaganda campaign with regard to the downing of MH17 in 2014. Why would Ukraine shoot down an airplane from a supportive country such as the Netherlands? It never made sense.

Many questions remain unanswered long after the fact.  The Russians have denied that the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, Viktor Sokolov, was killed in the attack on their headquarters last September.  Why hasn't he been seen since then?  Where is he?  They deny that top General Valery Gerasimov was killed in an attack in Crimea on January 5. Where is he?  .

The take-home point is that the Russians will lie about anything. Whatever claims they make should be independently verified. I advise my readers not to believe stories like the Ilyushin 76, MH 17, or anything else until there has been time for independent confirmation. Davydov raises good questions about the Ilyushin shootdown. Same kind of questions as surrounded the Prigozhin plane crash. Where are the bodies? Why wasn't the ground littered with them? What was the tail number of the aircraft? What was its flight plan? Enquiring minds ought to want to know, especially when the source is known to be as biased as Zerohedge. 

My critique of Tucker Carlson is that he doesn't have the curiosity to ask such questions when it goes against his narrative.  It weakens my belief in all of his narratives, even though I agree with most of them. As I write this, I strongly applaud his speech yesterday at the Oilers arena in Edmonton.

Riley Waggaman, AKA Edward Slavsquat, as a longtime resident of Russia, has a unique perspective on affairs there.  Like most people who look to Substack for income, he continually invites new readers.  I like him well enough to recommend that you take a look.  Here's the link.  Of special interest to Ukrainians should be the fact that Russia continues to aggressively push gene-therapy "vaccines" on its population.  My only regret is that most adverse reactions won't appear in a useful timeframe.

That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man continues to appreciate praise of Eastern Europe, most recently in the Tucker piece referenced above.  Speaking about it this morning to other first-grade parents, on the topic of brazen theft and poop on the streets, I repeated the adage I coined for Ukraine: "We're too poor to be that stupid."

Graham