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Who's failed more?

I vote for the reporters.

Honest to god: this was my profession for 30+ years and I cannot tell you how appalled I am by the disintegration of it.

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The reporters haven't 'failed' because they're being paid to push the narrative. The media is captured.

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Captured. Complicit. Whatever.

Look: The media spent THREE YEARS yapping the redundancy of a "worldwide pandemic," so what would you expect?

Covid was a better story than "Lots of people have a new strain of flu." This is the same mindset that the "First Woman President elected" is a better story than "Bombastic New York Millionaire elected." No one wanted to find out WHY.

The media bought into the bullshit from the medical bureaucrats and therefore empowered them.

The media lack independent thought b/c they're lazy and they all want to be STARS and CELEBRITIES just like Fauci and Big Pharma.

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I think it goes further than that.....

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/its-no-surprise-medias-ignoring-the

There’s a reason the Ben Collins of the world resort so often to credentialism — it’s really the only thing they have. “Reporter for NBC News” is important because “NBC News” is important. But the narrative is set far above their pay grade, they’re just tasked with finding the most acceptable way to push it. There’s a reason that Musk gave the story to Taibbi in the first place — major outlets wouldn’t run it to begin with!

And if Ben Collins didn’t push the narrative for NBC News, somebody else would — and he knows it. There’s no shortage of people lining up to write fluff PR pieces for the rich and powerful.

If you want to know how the NY Times can employ over 1,000 journalists and continue to miss the most important stories of the day (instead covered by one guy in his free time and his feline editor) — it’s because they’re paid to miss the most important stories of the day. The whole industry is simply the modern-day version of the JournoList.

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NYTimes, WaPo, etc. no longer can rely on advertising. So it's giving its readers what they want--or what NYTimes management thinks they want.

Glenn Greenwald had ad excellent article earlier this week: about the legacy media and the rise in independent journalism.

NBC News et al? Meh. Not impressed.

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My “nightstand” reading this month is The Grey Lady Winked (2021) chronicling the terrible reporting of the NYT going back as far as its “celebration” of Hitler’s 1936 Olympiad up to the 1619 débâcle. I’d love a second edition that included Covid reporting. Funny how Central Park never did turn into a mass graveyard…as was predicted.

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As long as no one is "triggered," or "made to feel unsafe."

Man, the world is NUTS.

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Agreed, but somehow I think it is deeper than that, I just can’t figure out what.

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I used to wonder why they spent so much money advertising drugs that consumers could not go out and buy OTC. Now it's clear they were not only selling product- they were buying cover and influence.

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Big pharma spends more money on advertising than they do R & D.

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Yes, they source Twitter/Big Tech--and parrot talking points vs. asking critical questions. We now know that the narrative was being curated deliberately by the 3-letter agencies that were supposed to be policing it. "Reporters" fell for it, but were paid to do so. I don't disagree they want to be stars/celebs at all--and their "skills" reflect that. But let's not forget that traditional media is still owned by 6 woke corporations--and they have ulterior motives. They also pay their employees to push a narrative they support. Strong, inquiring minds are quickly pushed out. They have to go independent and it's why Substack has such strong voices.

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Which is why we have Substack and Joe Rogan. Now there's Rumble, which is competition for YouTube. It does not censor anyone and its servers are independent of AWS. Glenn Greenwald;s podcast is on Rumble.

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Well paid criminals.

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These are not reporters, they are propagandists. Who knew that corporations would unite against their own people.

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MSM was bad enough before covid, without the intrusion of the Trusted News Initiative that launched us on the path.

It's been dramatically downhill from there.

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To add to your store of knowledge, here in Canada there was a meeting in 2018 between Canada Tax Agency (CRA) and 30 mainstream media firms to decide how to divvy up half a billion dollars in subsidies. Up until that time the federal government was not willing to hand out bailout funds to the media. Now they would get it. The timing was just before the pandemic hit. Now my inquiring mind asks the question, was there some quid pro quo arrangement? I expect something similar happened in the US.

Oh and if you get a chance to read Tara Henleys scathing reveal of the Canadian Mainstream News media it is an eye opener. She credits the Liberal Colleges for creating the woke news reporting of today. She quit over it.

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Corporate media takeover. So very few independent journalists. They all work for a team now. That is the establishment, mostly the democrat party but establishment republicans too. These non-journalists will write and say anything they are told. Nothing but propaganda operatives. Nobody reads or watches them, which is ok. Because big Pharma and the military industrial complex are subsidizing them.

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But when they pushed masks and vaccines, “if we could save one life!” But 130 strokes, meh…

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I detest that line "if we could save one life!" on so many levels....

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How about " We're all in this together",

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Yes!! Right up there

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"Look over here everyone!! Brandon has documents in his garage!!"

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Crisis after crisis after crisis…anyone else feeling it 😫

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The new term for it is Fear Farming. It is intentional. It grabs your attention and gets your blood boiling so you side with the Fear Farmer against his opponent.

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Excellent, when a president has declassified documents in a secure location he gets raided by the DC gestapo but if a half wit vice president, who cannot declassify them ,has documents in his garage it's "Well he came forward". Yea after six years. The media does the same thing with every issue out there. They are Marxists and follow a marxist agenda!

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and…a few other locations.

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…although he can’t remember those either?

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Nothing to get excited about. This is a limited hangout. Admit a small problem to keep peoples eyes off of the excess mortality, plunging birthrates and athletes dropping dead every day.

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Ed Dowd’s book is out by the way. He offers no speculations only facts and figures on deaths that reviewers are impressed by. Apparently there is some issue with the QR codes embedded in the book, but one of the Amazon reviewers offers a fix for that issue.

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Exactly

They had to do something

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Notice how commercials for “Cologuard” list all kinds of warnings but the Pfizer/Moderna vaccine ads have no warnings. 🤔

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Can't say it enough - thank you, Alex, for not letting the haters stop you - this folks is what integrity looks like

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The vaccine's side effects include DEATH, but no worries there... DEATH rarely has long term complications and requires not medical follow-up.

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In "The Invisible Siege" by Dan Werb, which is very pro mRNA vaccines and I suspect ghost written by Ralph Baric*, on page 179 they casually mention risk of stroke was concern with mRNA vaccine, so it's ridiculous the media presents this as some unforeseen side effect.

Full quote:

https://imgur.com/a/Lhk7QPx

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* nearly every page fellates Baric:

“He was coronavirology’s ony titan, and his name was Ralph Baric” p50

“…where his mind could extend beyond the boundaries of human knowledge and achieve quiet glory” p51

“Ralph Baric wryly described his choice to study coronaviruses as a good example of his farsighted decision-making” p54

“…would make him one of the most consequential scientists alive today” p67

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Check out this link, scroll down and look for EcoHealth Lawsuit Documents, which include a summons and sworn affidavits for some details of EcoHealth, the Daszaks (plural, includes his wife), Baric and others:

https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/mafas-landmark-litigation/

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Baric would be hanged in a just world

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False alarm says the CDC!

"Extensive review affirms covid booster is safe after system flagged risk"

Washington Post

https://wapo.st/3QFZkig

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Feel free to DM me (email listed in my profile) and when I finish the book I will summarize better. I have around 120 sticky notes littering the book.

Two other gems:

P97

Baric knew that vaccines that didn’t accurately match their targets could weaken human resistance and inadvertently make people who were inoculated sicker.

“Baric was one of the few scientists who saw the stakes clearly. It wasn’t that an eventual SARS vaccine might work or not. It was that a vaccine could be either an antidote or a poison for a future pandemic-ready coronavirus, and there might be no way to tell them apart until it was too late.

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P5 (Dr Nick Mark, Seattle)

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"Mark knew the PPE was meant to keep him safe, but he couldn’t help feel anxious every time he was called to a patients bed and had to suit up yet again. Dressed in his cumbersome gear, he’d wash his hands, suggest treatments he thought (hoped) might inflect the course of their illness, exit the area, wash his hands again, and disrobe. Minutes later, he would have to do it all over again when, say, another infected patients lungs gave out and they came face-to-face with their imminent death. Again, frustratingly, Mark would have to don his PPE before he could try to help bring them back from the void. There was so much more he could do, he knew, if only he could face the virus without protection"

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"there was so much more he could do, he knew, if only he could face the virus without protection"

wow... (note that there were zero excess deaths spring of 2020 in Washington, so Dr Mark is being overly dramatic. At another point in the point he mentions "the waves of death" he faced.)

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I have NEVER used this emoji before, but 🤮 seems in order.

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There’s about 100 more like that in the book. It’s crazy. I’ve got sticky notes for each one 😂

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The whole book is fascinating because half the time I wonder if Dan Werb is "blinking" at us, like that POW who praised his captors while blinking out "T-O-R-T-U-R-E". There are so many passages where I pause "I can't believe they are saying this".

The whole premise of the book is absurd:

It's thesis is that Ralph Baric started researching Coronaviruses in the 80's while everyone else focused on AIDS, and we are lucky he did so because he realized that with a few mutations Coronaviruses could transform from benign viruses causing the common cold to pandemics which could kill millions.

Eventually they develop the tests to actually identify Coronaviruses just in time for SARS which killed 800 people by causing them to get pneumonia. Never mind that 4 million people per year die of pneomonia and we never bothered PCRing the specific virus which triggered the infection, Baric was sure that SARS 03 was going to be a nightmare.

He was surprised when it burned out on it's own, but Baric decide this was just luck and we wouldn't be so lucky next time, so he started creating mutated viruses in his lab to study what would happen if the things he was making showed up in nature.

It never apparently crossed his mind that coronaviruses had been here 300 million years with the first mammals, 50 million years when bats showed up, 3 million years when our earliest hominid ancestors (who largely lived in caves with bats) appeared.

To Baric, the fact that Coronaviruses never mutated over these 300 million years to become the global killers is just mere luck. It will happen eventually and thank God, because Ralph Baric's mind could extend beyond the boundaries of human knowledge.

When MERS appeared Baric knew he was proven right, but once again, it burned out before the world could pivot, so he decided this was our final chance of being lucky. No way would be lucky a 3rd time. Again, he never stopped to consider if the fact all of these “new” coronaviruses were being detected only because humanity finally developed the tools to actually detect them in the first place. He never stopped to consider if we had PCR tests in 1820 might we have found them everywhere then too?

Imagine if in 1930 it was Baric who discovered Pluto instead of Clyde Tombaugh. Baric would've declared that Pluto must have sprang into existence and we must be prepared for other dwarf planets to appear, never stopping to consider that Pluto was always there and it's just that we finally developed a telescope powerful enough to detect it.

In this, Baric is no different than your common Doomsday Cult leader. The arrogance that the end of the world waited *precisely* until they arrived is the prideful fall in Baric as much as a Koresh or Jim Jones.

But seriously, time was running out after MERS, and humanity’s fate rested on him being to make a bunch of more infectious versions of regular viruses as quickly as possible in his labs so we could be ready in case… more infectious versions of regular viruses appeared?

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SO...just what does the CDC 3 years after the fact making such a statement mean in the greater context? Does it lessen or more deeply incriminate them? I tend to prefer what Dr. McCullough recently has made clear. About time a spade is called a spade. This utter lack of accountability is a disgrace beyond measure. twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1614017401011703809

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Dr. McCullough and others were correct about so many things. No one listened--and these courageous people were silenced--and worse.

And yet here we are, with ongoing hype about "GET YOUR BOOSTER!"

After three years, I'm certain too many people just do not WANT to know or admit that they were WRONG.

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The reckoning has to be overpowering as to make these cowards in denial or trying to sweep away what was done intentionally FEEL IT! They must be held to account! The pussy footing around and coddling of these criminals has to end

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No matter how you slice it, even one death associated with vaccines is enough to tell me the mRNA vaccines are dangerous . I can’t believe we’re quantifying cardiovascular incidents and deaths

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What’s it going to take... I really appreciate your reporting, keep it up. Maybe someday the mainstream will throw in the towel, because this fight should have been stopped a long time ago.

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We know the problems. Our systems are corrupted. It is time to organize and fix them.

Decentralize everything. Demand transparency. Weaponize the tyranny of the masses back onto the people corrupting our systems and end the Global Agenda.

Also understand systems better and how important they are. If you tell us the kind of systems that govern over you, we can accurately predict your quality of life.

Embrace decentralized and transparent systems.

Fear centralized ones.

Know the difference:

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear

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B-O-O-M

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They must be trying to get ahead of something - maybe the Football player having a heart failure, or the Florida Grand Jury. This would be buried otherwise.

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When this story appeared (late Friday) on the Fox News & Daily Wire websites, the reader comments were almost uniformly, "This must be BAD if the CDC is actually admitting it."

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It’s way past time to STOP THESE SHOTS

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Plenty of failure to go around. Heaven help us all.

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I have watched people get ravaged by this technology for 2 years, many unaware that their suffering is in any way related. Cardiovascular issues ad infinitum. I have watched people defend these companies over their dead family members. What will be the breaking point? And now, mRNA in our food?

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I don't follow Trump closely, but I haven't heard him tooting his vaccine horn since Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field. Maybe he finally gets it.

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I would love to see Trump come out against the Covid "vaccines". This would be a really damaging admission for him to make because it was obviously under his administration that they were developed. What would be so interesting is that the media would see an enormous opening to attack Trump. But that would mean they would have to admit that the Covid shots are dangerous. And with that admission comes a whole lot of other problems like what they did to push the shots, the bureaucratic coverup and the fact that the Democrats have pushed mandates so hard. So I suspect the media and the Democrats would keep pretending that the shots were safe and proclaim that Trump had pivoted simply to appease his base.

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If Trump weren't self-serving, he would do exactly what you suggest. In one fell swoop, he could say he thought he was doing the right thing with warp speed (even though we know he was doing it to get re-elected), he could bring down the media for not properly investigating, bring down the Biden administration for the mandates, and demand help for those suffering from adverse events. He could bow out of the election and lift up DeSantis. But you are right, if Trump did that the Dems would probably double-down.

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I would love to see what you suggest happen. I like DJT for his "promises made & promises kept" and his love of country. I think he originally pushed warp speed because people other than Scott Atlas convinced him a million people could die. HOWEVER, he should've listened to Scott Atlas and done his own research to find out what all of us reading here knew early on. If he doesn't cop to his mistakes (like also bad-mouthing DeSantis right before Nov. 8) I won't like him much anymore.

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Trump is funny sometimes, but he is also off-putting. I think he pushed Warp Speed because he wanted credit for getting the country back to work and most importantly, he wanted to be re-elected. Trump is not the type of person to do his own research, even if he did have a lot of free time. I think the plandemic was rolled out to make sure he didn't win re-election via mass mail-in balloting. I'm not a Trump fan, but I would chose him any day over a tyrannical Democrat. These last 3 years are embedded in my memory.

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agree

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Interesting take...could definitely see that sort of scenario play out too. His EGO will most likely not allow him to admit as a few others have mentioned here, but playing in essence a sacrificial role would be interesting forcing the rest to be exposed more as well

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I kinda like the idea. The more devastation & deaths (which sadly, we know are coming), the more Trump would be seen as knowing the truth & not being afraid to admit he was wrong.

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I agree, but it seems the law lacks teeth these days, but who knows perhaps he should. Now was Trump oblivious to it all...that is a sticking point to be debated since he is far too wise-street smart and had wise people around him NOT to have seen red flags everywhere or he really is that un-wise. Can it be both?

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Scott Atlas was a wise one among the other bought & paid for “authorities” and we know what happened to him. Pres Trump was bamboozled by them all…and would’ve looked very bad to the nation if he’d have gone against those the world considered “experts” in saving lives. I detest them all…except I do like Pres Trump!

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Just imagine if Atlas would have been put in Fauci place how many across America would NOT have died or had livelihoods destroyed. I "get" the opinion of T could do nothing or had his hands tied, but I also believe he had a choice. If he made a choice for political reasons...its not the right choice given the # of people who were allowed to die based on Fauci policies and Brix etc. Just sayin...

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You’re totally correct.

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The thing is it's NOT Monday morning QBing. You and I as well as most who were aware knew the policies were wrong long before the disasters were allowed to play out with all you mentioned. It's really a disgrace no one STOPPED it

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He KNOWS how many of those who voted for him feel about his avoidance of the injection issue. As this tends to blow up more and more just watch the commiecrats pin it even more on T and Operation Warp Speed. Its inevitable...especially if he is allowed to run in 24

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Yep, warp speed will take down Trump & the mandates will take down Biden.

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That’s why I no longer support Trump.

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think there are a LOT in that boat which I also think he KNOWS

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From the very beginning, Trump has always done what he determines is best for Trump. I always supported conservative policies, but not Trump. Held my nose and voted for him the first time, but not the second time (not Biden either). Doesn't matter in CA anyway. Overturning of Roe v Wade will hopefully save a lot of babies, but Warp Speed has killed a lot of people and will likely kill more as time progresses. Still the net is likely more lives saved.

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I have come to the conclusion that Trump is a sociopath. Of course, many in power are. And it’s not necessarily always bad.

Not this time. though.

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I'm not sure if he is, but I think being a sociopath is always bad.

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One can only hope, but his ego rarely has him admitting fault.

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