Masked New Yorkers walk through the mall in the Oculus, lower Manhattan, December 2021 Written by: Heather Mac Donald

Public health chiefs and the media are working overtime to gin up hysteria

Inside the Omicron fear factory – by Heather MacDonald (The Spectator) 20 Dec 2021

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In March 2020, a profile of the typical Covid victim emerged from Italy. The average decedent was eighty years with approximately three comorbidities such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes. The young had little to worry about; the survival rate for the vast majority of the population was well over 99 percent.

That portrait never significantly changed. The early assessments of Covid out of Italy have remained valid through today. And so it will prove with the Omicron variant.

The data out of South Africa, after five weeks of Omicron spread, suggest that Omicron should be a cause for celebration, not fear. Its symptoms are mild to non-existent in the majority of the infected, especially the vaccinated; hospitalization rates are over nine times lower than for previous Covid strains; deaths are negligible. That assessment will only be confirmed as the US and other western countries gather their own data on Omicron.

Yet the public health establishment and the media are working overtime to gin up Omicron hysteria. The official response to the Omicron variant provides a case study in the deliberate manufacture of fear. The following strategies are key:

1. Create a group norm of fear […]

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eugyppius | December 26, 2021 Early reports that Omicron is substantially milder than other SARS-2 strains are every day confirmed by new data. A month into the unprecedented South African case spike, driven entirely by Omicron, Corona deaths remain low. It’s earlier days in the United Kingdom, where Omicron is only just over half of cases. […]

The Beginning of the End? The virus part of the pandemic will probably soon be over.

By Maria Heemskerk Source I do realize that unfortunately the international community feels like it cannot criticize anything Ukraine does since it is ‘fighting a war against Russia’ (in their eyes) and the enemy of your enemy is supposed to be your friend, but it would certainly boost the West’s credibility to draw a line. […]

When Are We Taking Action On Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Problem?

I talk about it a lot, but have never had a serious pop at defining what the term means to me, so here we go. 

Patriarchy is about systems, not about individual people. It’s about beliefs, attitudes, social structures, habits of behaviour and the like.

Almost everyone living in a patriarchal system is a victim of this system – very few people actually benefit from it. Patriarchy hurts most men just as much as it hurts most women, and all gender-non-conforming people.

Patriarchy is a system based on power. It assumes that hierarchy and authority are always good and necessary.

Where it gets especially problematic is that it assumes certain people are naturally supposed to have dominance over other kinds of people.

Continue reading “What is Patriarchy? .-all relationships are based on fear, control, ownership, power and the desire to get ahead-“

Who Do You Blame for Covid When the Vaccination Rate Is Nearly 100 Percent?

Who Do You Blame for Covid When the Vaccination Rate Is Nearly 100 Percent? – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

Russia pulls back 10,000 troops from near Ukraine in surprise de-escalation

Pentagon to provide battlefield intelligence, deploy cyber warfare units to Ukraine: NYT

U.S. developing plan to provide intelligence to Ukraine The Pentagon is working on a plan to provide Ukraine with battlefield intelligence that could help the country more quickly respond to a possible Russian invasion, The New York Times reported, citing U.S. officials. “The number one thing we can do is real time actionable intelligence that […]

Pentagon to provide battlefield intelligence, deploy cyber warfare units to Ukraine: NYT

Senators sound Ukraine war drums, not peace chimes on Christmas Eve On the day before Christmas, when the world’s two billion Christians celebrate the birth of the prince of peace, the Washington Post accorded Senators Rob Portman and Jeanne Shaheen – Republican and Democrat, from Ohio and New Hampshire, respectively – a guest editorial entitled […] Senators sound Ukraine war drums, not peace chimes on Christmas Eve

Sweden announces increased combat readiness due to threat from Russian Federation Sweden announced an increase in the level of combat readiness of the country. U.S., Canada, Norway join EU project for rapid military deployment to Russian border The decision was made in connection with the tension of the situation on the border of Ukraine and Russia, said the head of the General Staff of Sweden, Micael Byden…. “We […] Sweden, Finland: NATO activates new front on eastern flank

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Unicameral Parliament) adopted a law that allows foreign forces on its territory to participate in multinational exercises in 2022. U.S.-NATO mobile missile launchers headed to the Baltic states

The decision was made at a meeting on Tuesday and was supported by […]ZELENSKY OPENS THE WAY FOR FOREIGN TROOPS TO BE PERMANENTLY AND LEGALLY BASED IN UKRAINE

Russia’s Ultimatum To Western Imperialists – What Is the “or Else”? – by Patrick Armstrong – 21 Dec 2021

Posted on December 26, 2021 by xenagoguevicene

Full details here of dozens of ways Russia could reply to US/NATO military pressure, encirclement and illegal punitive sanctions. […]

Moscow has issued an ultimatum to USA/NATO. It is this: seriously negotiate on the issues laid out here and here. Some of them are non-negotiable.Ultimatums always have an “Or Else” clause. What is the “or else” in this case? I don’t know but I’ve been thinking and reading other peoples’ thoughts and some ideas/guesses/suppositions follow. They are the order that they occurred to me. Whether Moscow has such a list in front of it or not, it certainly has many “counter-threats” it can use.

\Russia’s Ultimatum To Western Imperialists – What Is the “or Else”? – by Patrick Armstrong – 21 Dec 2021