They Knew the Vaxx was Bad

I’m sure this will come as no surprise to anyone here, but documents have revealed that the Administration of the Six Bidens knew the vaxx was causing heart damage in the vaccinated, but ordered the information suppressed:

The Biden administration has been accused of purposefully covering up potentially deadly side effects of the Covid vaccines. A Congressional investigation found White House officials held back warnings about heart damage from Covid vaccines in younger people, even after getting early alerts from other countries, including Israel.

Internal emails and memos suggest a planned Health Alert Network (HAN) message by the CDC regarding myocarditis was not released. Drafts of this alert reportedly downplayed risks, emphasizing vaccine benefits over potential adverse events, according to the report. Emails indicate FDA officials, including then-Commissioner Janet Woodcock, expressed reservations about the language in the proposed HAN, leading to its suppression.

The Biden administration, the report alleges, gave former top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci talking points to downplay the myocarditis risk, instructing them to say that the reported cases ‘have been mild and often go away without requiring treatment.’

Meanwhile, the report reveals CDC officials privately briefed Pfizer and Moderna about the potential myocarditis warning while keeping the American public in the dark.

Now, remember this ex post facto revelation, so next time, when all your NPC friends, family, and coworkers tell you to “trust the science” you will know better than to do so. The science, such as it is, quite literally lies to you.

Anyhow, the revelation is impressive, very nice. Now do turbocancer and infertility.

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Big Fun Needs a Remix

Apparently “Teenage Suicide” is now just fine as far as the Canadian government is concerned.

A special committee of MPs and senators studying Medical Assistance in Dying has recommended allowing MAiD for mature minors. A mature minor is a child or teen who is deemed capable of making a decision for MAiD. This would essentially remove the minimum age of eligibility. The committee also suggested parents may not be consulted and wouldn’t need to consent to their child’s death via MAiD. Children are uniquely vulnerable. Canada’s first priority must be to provide high quality medical care for children.

And by “high quality medical care” they mean “killing teenagers”.

“Teenage suicide… just do it!”

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The Divisions Survive

The first attempt by the NFL to destroy its history and eliminate its divisions has comprehensively failed.

The Detroit Lions withdrew their proposal to reseed the NFL playoffs just before league meetings resumed Wednesday. In an effort to keep late-season games more competitive, the Lions had proposed a bylaw that would guarantee only the division winner in each conference with the best record a home playoff game. The rest of the playoff field would have been seeded strictly by record.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, a member of the competition committee, wasn’t in favor of the reseeding proposal when it was first discussed at the April league meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. “I’m a division purist, to be quite honest with you,” he said. “I love the rivalries that are division play. I love the structure of our scheduling that highlights it. I just categorized myself as a division purist. I think the division winner should get a home playoff game.”

Though there’s a desire among NFL executives to make late-season games more exciting and incentivize teams to play their starters in Week 18, there wasn’t enough support from league owners to approve Detroit’s proposal, so the Lions withdrew it before a formal vote.

The reason the proposal was pulled was because the league didn’t want a public record of how little support there was for such a prodigiously stupid idea. Which means that it will surface again the moment that the media can concoct a false narrative of public outrage over a 7-10 division champion having home field in the playoffs.

Never mind that the Vikings lost to the Rams anyhow, and not because they weren’t playing at home. The proposal needs to be stomped on, hard, every time the idiots in the media and the league office bring it up again.

UPDATE: The Tush Push survived as well.

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Peter Turchin’s Substack

I’m a fan of Peter Turchin and his work in the historical field he has termed “cliodynamics”. He’s quantified and articulated a number of the things that those of us in the pattern recognition business had only dimly recognized, and it’s very exciting to see that he’s now permitting us to see more of his work outside his very good books, such as this recent post on the so-called French Wars of Religion:

I asked ChatGPT to give me a one-sentence explanation of the causes of this bloody and lengthy civil war. Here’s what it said: “The French Wars of Religion were primarily caused by growing tensions between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots) in France, fueled by religious intolerance, political rivalries among noble families, and a weak monarchy unable to maintain order.” This answer perfectly encapsulates the standard story as seen in popular historical books, or online encyclopedias (LLMs, such as ChatGPT, are great at summarizing such common wisdom).

Readers of my books and blog posts would immediately realize that Cliodynamics gives a very different answer. Noble rivalries and religious tensions were what happened on the surface. But the deep structural causes of the FWR were popular immiseration, elite overproduction leading to intraelite conflict, and fiscal collapse of the state. In other words, the usual suspects when we talk about structural-demographic crises.

The Day of the Barricades (Paris, 1588), an ostensibly spontaneous popular uprising, which was in reality organized by counter-elites

What I’d like to do in this post series is delve a bit into these structural causes (for a deeper dive read Chapter 5 of Secular Cycles). I have two reasons to do so. First, the onset of the FWR gives us a nearly perfect example of how structural-demographic trends lead to state collapse and civil wars. Second, it was the fiscal collapse of the state that triggered warfare in c.1560. I wrote about the possibility of such a trigger for the America today in a recent post, where I concluded that we are fairly immune against it. But France in the sixteenth century was, most emphatically, not immune.

The ultimate driver, as usual in agrarian states, was population growth. During the integrative phase of the cycle (1450 to 1560) the population of France doubled: from 10–11 to 20–22 million. The French Kingdom in the sixteenth century was an overwhelmingly agrarian state and agricultural productivity couldn’t keep up with such massive population growth. As a result, food prices exploded. The price of a setier (a measure of volume) of wheat in livres tournois (the standard monetary unit in early-modern France) increased 10-fold between the 1460s and 1560s. Overpopulation created a high demand for food, inflating its price, and it increased the supply of labor, deflating its price. During the sixteenth century real wages lost two-thirds or more of their buying capacity. The daily wage of the Parisian laborer could buy 16 kg of grain in the 1490s, compared to less than 4 kg one century later.

Turchin makes it easy to see how the mainstream historical narrative is every bit as dumbed-down and falsified as the current news reporting. If you’ve got any interest in history or the truth, and if you’re here, you probably do, I highly recommend taking a gander at his substack.

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Vibrancy in Los Angeles

It’s always intriguing to observe how everyone who opposes racism and supports diversity eventually laments the inevitable result of replacing law-abiding, civic-minded Northern Europeans with people from literally every other culture in the world.

Los Angeles Realtor describes what LA has become Almost everyone she knows has recently been burglarized and attacked in their own homes. Some at gunpoint

“If you live in Los Angeles like I am, please watch this video. I need your help. This is affecting all of us and it’s becoming a real life issue

For the past couple of months, my best friend, my best friend’s mom, my doctor, 4 properties in my community, 3 plus clients, 2 other girlfriends that I have, they all have been burglarized. They have been attacked in their own homes.

In one of these cases, my friend actually left the property. Her kids were home with their nanny and someone broke in while they were in the property.

On top of that, this past Friday night around 10pm in front of my community, some of the residents trying to get in were stopped at the roundabout by someone and have been robbed at gunpoint. At gunpoint at 10pm and they stole literally everything that they had on, including watches, jewelry, anything that they had, personal belongings

— It shows that the crime is actually down around 30%. But from my experience, from the people that I talk to, that is definitely not accurate.

Of course, the police are still there to investigate hate crimes and prevent people from defending themselves. It’s increasingly obvious that not only are the police not a solution to the problem, they are an inherent part of the problem. Meanwhile, conservatives actually imagine that the problem is insufficient support for the police…

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Goodell’s Paradox

The NFL’s pursuit of “fairness” in potentially prioritizing win-loss records over division championships for playoff seeding has exposed how an even greater unfairness will be created if the league’s stupid proposal to devalue the divisions passes at the league owners’ meeting today.

The Commissioner wants the playoff tree to be reconfigured to tie seeding to record, without regard to whether a team won its division. The goal isn’t to promote equity when it comes to who’s at home and who’s on the road in the playoffs; the objective is to make late-season games more compelling by giving teams more to play for.

Whether that happens remains to be seen.

If the Commissioner gets his way on this (yes, the Lions proposed it, but the league office instigated it), it creates a separate issue as it relates to the scheduling formula.

Currently, every team plays: (1) six games against the three other teams in its division; (2) four games against all teams from another division in the conference, which rotates every year; (3) two games against the teams from the remaining divisions in the conference that finished in the same position the year before (first, second, third, fourth); (4) four games against all teams from a division in the other conference, which rotates every year; and (5) one game against a team from a division in the other conference that finished in the same position the year before.

By devaluing a division championship and emphasizing competition within the conference, the eight games every year that arise from an effort to ensure variety in schedule need to be reconsidered. Last year, the teams of the NFC North benefited from playing two of the weak divisions — the AFC South and NFC West. This year, it’ll be a much different story for the Lions, Vikings, Packers, and Bears; they play eight games against the teams of the AFC North and NFC East.

Likewise, the Rams have a very real chance at being in the No. 1 seed in 2025, given that they’ll play eight games against the teams of the AFC South and NFC South.

If a team’s record relative not to its division but to its conference will take on more importance in a playoff tree constructed based on total record, teams need to play more games in their conference. Ideally, every team would play one game against every other team in its conference — like college conferences did before they became too big to allow that.

If there is no value to divisions, or winning a division, then there is no reason to have the playoffs in the first place. Just do it like they do in soccer and award the conference championship to the team with the best record, and play the Super Bowl between the AFC and NFC champions.

But wait, that could be unfair to a team in one conference that had a better record than the best team in the other conference. So really, the playoffs should be eliminated altogether and the Super Bowl should be played between the teams with the two best records, regardless of conference.

Then again, isn’t that unfair to the team that finished with the best record? Why play the Super Bowl at all?

UPDATE: Another excellent suggestion that Roger Goodell should contemplate.

I just think there should be an equitable lottery of who should be the Super Bowl winner based on participation trophies.

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He Never Got His War

One of the more intellectually respectable neocons, Michael Ledeen, has died without ever seeing the US invasion of Iran for which he advocated for decades:

Michael A. Ledeen, a major American historian and intellectual, died after suffering a series of small strokes on Sunday at his daughter’s house in Texas. He was 83 years old. Ledeen was a vigorous participant in contributing to the demise of the communist Soviet Union and its Iron Curtain allies in Eastern Europe.

Ledeen served as a special advisor on terrorism to President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, Alexander Haig, and later worked as a consultant for the National Security Council. Writing for the Asia Times, author and journalist David P. Goldman argued that Ledeen’s “personal contribution to America’s victory in the Cold War is far greater than the public record shows.”

Leeden did not advocate military intervention in Iran. He was in the business of replicating Reagan’s anti-Soviet playbook for Iran’s clerical regime. 

Clown World just never stops lying. Ledeen had about as much to do with America’s victory in the Cold War as the average Zoomer born after the fall of the Soviet Union. And he was a rabid advocate of a US military empire in the Middle East; for all his subsequent denials, he stands condemned by his own words.

Scowcroft has managed to get one thing half right, even though he misdescribes it. He fears that if we attack Iraq “I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East. It could turn the whole region into a caldron and destroy the War on Terror.” One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today. If we wage the war effectively, we will bring down the terror regimes in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and either bring down the Saudi monarchy or force it to abandon its global assembly line to indoctrinate young terrorists. That’s our mission in the war against terror. – Michael Ledeen, August 6, 2002, National Review

He also took credit for the color revolution in Ukraine that resulted in Russia’s Special Military Operation that has led to the loss of 66,000 square kilometers of territory and over one million Ukrainian lives.

Michael Ledeen offers his own praise for the Orange Revolution by, um…taking credit for it:

The mild support we gave to the democratic forces in the Ukraine proved far more powerful than most of the experts expected. The revolutionaries required a bit of guidance in the methods of non-violent resistance, a bit of communications gear, and many words of encouragement. They did the rest. The same can and should be done elsewhere in the world (Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea…)

Not to mention EUR 130 billion in military aid…

Ledeen ended every column with “Faster, Please” in imitation of Cato’s demand for war with Carthage, so the subsequent attempts to retroactively whitewash his warmongering are obviously false. While it is best to avoid unnecessarily speaking ill of the dead, we cannot allow his fellow neoclowns to establish the false narrative that Ledeen was anything but an Israel First warmonger who sought to make use of US military power in defense of a foreign nation.

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Scott Adams and the Adverse Effect

On the basis of his unfortunate announcement, it would appear that Scott Adams made the wrong choice after all.

Scott Adams, the creator of the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip, has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones. Adams, 67, brought up the diagnosis Monday during a stream on his Rumble account, while discussing former President Joe Biden’s similar prostate cancer diagnosis.

“I’ve decided that today’s the day that I’m going to take the opportunity, since a lot of you are here, to make an announcement of my own,” Adams said during his podcast. “Some of you have already guessed, so this won’t surprise you all. But I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. But I’ve had it longer than he’s had it. Well, longer than he’s admitted having it,” Adams added. “So my life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”

Adams told viewers that he had been using a walker for months due to a tumor near his spine and was in near-constant pain, describing the condition as intolerable. “Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse,” he said.

It’s a genuine loss to the world. Remember, we’re talking about one of the five greatest cartoonists who ever lived here. And if you’ve been vaxxed, be sure to get checked out regularly and do not put off any remission checks.

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MAILVOX: Advice From the Terminated

In which a whistleblower discovers that no one cares about would-be heroes.

Advice from the Terminated

I once was terminated from a long-term white-collar job and refused to take the generous severance package they offered. Here’s some advice based on what I learned.

Only Do Real Whistleblowing

If your company is doing something unethical or even illegal and you feel you must inform others, never do so internally, trusting your managers to be appreciative or even just reasonable. Sadly, sometimes no good deed goes unpunished. Go external to have proper protection, especially if you have a reputation for being difficult (where your “not listening” means not always being compliant enough!).

“Help”, “Guidance” and “Protection” = Corrective Action

If you are being given “guidance” or “help” or even “protection” by your managers or HR person or Dean of Diversity – even if this is framed as “friendly concern” – consider that such actions can easily be characterized as discipline or corrective action later on. Especially if you are told you need to sign what you think is just something like an “incident report”, even when you think that your supervisor is supporting your actions – or even just acknowledge the reception of an email seemingly containing both praise and what could possibly be perceived as a subtle warning. I’d immediately start looking for a new job if you get one of these.

Your Excellent Reputation is Only as Good as Today

Years of past successes, impressive references, compliments about communication and social skills, professional accomplishments, glowing talent management evaluations, etc. can become irrelevant in a minute. If you are perceived by higher-ups as being insufficiently supportive of your organization’s direction or “problematic” in any way, watch out! And do not think for a minute that one manager will ever overturn the termination decision of another.

Just Shut the Hell Up

If you are involved in a meeting with higher-ups and you suspect that they are not open to concerns about how you are being treated unfairly do not try to persuade them at all. Just listen very carefully during the meeting, taking notes if that seems acceptable, and saying “Thank you”, and “I understand” a lot (maybe ask if you can record the meeting, as you truly don’t want to miss anything important – this, of course, will also serve to protect you). Later on, you can do more reflection and try to figure out what to do next. All of this is especially important if you are feeling frustrated or caught off guard by what happens. Unlike me, try not to show any lack of prudence or a dearth of absolutely impeccable manners and poise. Any weakness you show here might enable groups to create accounts about how they felt victimized by you.

You Can’t Afford to Think You are Smarter and More Clever Than Them

If it comes to legal manners, do not represent yourself, ever. Even if you are highly ethical, that won’t help and could even hurt: they know the legal game better than you ever could. And take heed: If the state is involved in the case, be aware of what ultimately will be made public and what won’t be made public. Also note that there is nothing Illegal about a company selectively choosing to enforce their own internal policies. Combine this with at-will employment, and this combination also will make getting any unemployment benefits that much more difficult.

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