I’ve spent the last month acting as nursemaid to my dear wife, who is recovering from a hip replacement.
There’s lot’s I’ve wanted to write about. There’s lot’s of new info about vaccine side-effects, especially cardiac issues. Then there’s the UK data about the ineffectiveness of the vaccines against Omicron.
The most recent release of Pfizer data tells us that Pfizer and the CDC knew by April 2021 that natural immunity was superior to vaccine-induced immunity, and sat on that crucial data.
We’ve also learned that only about half of the Canadian population has ever had COVID, which means half the population is vulnerable when/if there’s a new, more virulent variant of COVID.
I suspect a great many people will eventually regret not taking advantage of the de facto vaccine called Omicron. (I also suspect that Denmark opening up early so that pretty much everyone caught Omicron, will prove in retrospect to have been the smart course of action.)
If you listen to the mainstream media, you’d think Ukraine is winning the war.
In truth, most of the Ukrainian military is trapped in the Donbass. Their supply lines have been cut. The Russians control the skies. The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition. The Russians bomb them relentlessly day and night. Every day hundreds of young Ukrainian men and women are blown to bits.
The Russians are not moving quickly. They wait until a Ukrainian position has been largely destroyed before moving in, to keep Russian casualties to a minimum. It’s not pretty. War never is. It’s a tragic and unnecessary carnage.
Western weapons mostly get blown up before they reach the front lines, those that don’t get siphoned off to the black market. The arms manufacturers are thrilled. They are the only winners in this war.
A rational Ukraine Government would have long since surrendered. But the Americans are happy to fight to the last Ukrainian, with the stated goal of bleeding Russia dry. Zelensky is their puppet, so the war continues.
American politics is becoming more surreal by the day. Time magazine just published a column by Charlotte Alter arguing against free speech.
Free Speech is passe we are told - only white men and techno-geeks find it important. Elon Musk should have spent all those billions ending world hunger instead. Next they’ll be arguing that the US Constitution is outdated and superfluous.
The most scary story in recent days is that the US Government is rolling out a new Ministry of Truth, to control even more tightly what information you are allowed to receive. Ostensibly they don’t trust that you’re smart enough to figure out what’s truthful and what’s not. Welcome to Orwell’s world.
Caitlin Johnstone lays out succinctly what a threat to democracy this represents:
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/oh-god-its-going-to-get-so-much-worse-b7ef6a0290ed
P.S.: My site was blocked by Substack for a period of time in error. It’s back up now.
The Ministry of Truth
Good article, and welcome back!
Good to see you writing again - here's to a speedy recovery for your wife's hip! I noticed your Substack was down... Glad to learn that was an error.
Did you take in many of the speeches from the biker convoy in Ottawa this weekend? There are heroes still struggling for our freedom and basic civil liberties to move about freely within our own country.