You're Not A Dog, Ya'll!

Start the day with a laugh:

I took some dog pain killer the other day. The human version. But dogs take it too. It's pretty much the same. But theirs is savory and chewable. Wrong end of the stick? pic.twitter.com/Ywv8NVBI6O

— Alexandros Marinos (@alexandrosM) September 2, 2021

Totally unrelated, but also gave me a good laugh. This knucklehead thought he was gonna change the world by leaking DIOG? He was obviously living in a complete fantasy world. Thought leaking DIOG would lead to a new Church Commission? As if the Church Commission didn't enable the modern Deep (National Security) State as we know it--the one that took out Trump--by establishing the partnership between the Legislative Branch and the Intel agencies:

‘I Helped Destroy People’

Another Sign That The Narrative Is Breaking Down

Today the NYT ran an article, the significance of which is not so much what is said, but the fact that the article appeared in such an ueber-MSM outlet. The article is a call to America to ask the "hard Covid-19 questions." The point is that, two years on, we have yet to really face up to those questions:

The Hard Covid-19 Questions We’re Not Asking

The authors, two public health professors, focus on the issue of how to deal with children's health concerns. Nevertheless, the manner in which the entire article is framed basically throws the doors wide open to discuss just what we've been doing and to re-examine what we should be doing. Make no mistake about it--the authors are not anti-vaxxers, However, one position they stake themselves to is that Zero Covid is not a realistic goal. But that, tacitly, has been the goal up until know, and to that extent this article is a frontal assault on the official narrative--the Covid Regime as we have known it. The editors at the NYT certainly understood that.

An open discussion that accepts that Zero Covid is not a realistic policy goal necessarily opens the door to any number of ideas that, until the Israeli study blew the doors open, were considered heretical. That dynamic is changing day by day, and this article could be a significant marker of progress toward questioning everything that's been going on.

Excerpts:

Another Sign The Wheels Are Coming Off?

This article appeared yesterday at the Epoch Times. If a former medical school professor, a current Pfizer board member, and former head of the FDA--that's all one person--is openly saying that natural immunity needs to be included in policy discussions, does that signal that the wheels are coming off the establishment narrative of the Covid Regime? The person in question is Scott Gottlieb, and he specifically cites the recent Israeli study everyone's been talking about:

Pfizer Board Member: ‘Natural Immunity’ Against COVID-19 Needs to Be Included in Policy Discussions

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who is also a Pfizer board member, noted that “natural immunity” gained from a prior COVID-19 infection needs to be included in discussions about virus-related policies and mandates.

“The balance of the evidence demonstrates that natural immunity confers a durable protection,” Gottlieb said during an Aug. 30 interview, referring to a landmark new preprint Israeli study that found that prior COVID-19 infection confers more protection against the virus than any of the vaccines. “It’s fair to conclude that.”

Although Gottlieb said he would “be careful” about concluding whether natural immunity provides better protection against transmitting the virus, officials “should start assimilating that into our policy discussions.”

“Natural infection confers robust and durable immunity,” he said, citing the Israeli study and others.

...

Last week, researchers from Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University said that individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 had superior protection against the Delta variant of the CCP virus compared to those who received the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, the most commonly used shot in Israel.

“This analysis demonstrated that natural immunity affords longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease, and hospitalization due to the Delta variant,” the study reads, noting that the findings came from the “largest real-world observational study” in the world.

Support from a figure like Gottlieb is important for a reset of the narrative. The feeling is hard to shake--the establishment is on the defensive.

Updating The Boost Stage

Well, first a brief political update--although, really, it's all politics. And in a very real sense it seems almost pointless. Election 2022 is pointing toward being one of the few most consequential elections in American history, but until that happens most of the real political news is at the grass roots level. As Emerald Robinson recounted recently (How The GOP Committed Suicide Trying to Stop Trump), once Mitch McConnell and the RNC conspired with state GOP organizations to install Zhou in the White House, the stage was set. We're seeing the results of Mitch's perfidy and the only real question is what happens when people get to register their views. The Federalist summarizes the current situation well, and the highly predictable future for the next year: 

Biden’s Presidency Is Already A Total Disaster

The first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency have been fraught with crises. First it was the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. Then it was the border crisis. Then it was the economy.

And now Afghanistan, ...

The administration is stumbling from one disaster to the next, with no end in sight and public opinion plummeting on nearly every major issue. ...

...

The corporate press, keenly aware that things are not going well for this White House, will soon back away from their critical tone on Afghanistan and resume their usual routine of running cover for Biden. In the coming days we’ll almost certainly see outlandish polls showing that, aside from Afghanistan, Biden is doing pretty well, actually, considering all the crises his young administration has had to face.

But don’t buy this line. Biden has not been overtaken by events, he is not a hapless victim of history or coincidence. Every problem his White House has encountered, it has made worse. Every crisis his administration has faced has been of its own making. And as bad as things have been thus far, they are going to get even worse.

There's plenty more at the link, if you need the reminder. Remarkably, the author leaves out the near collapse of NATO, under the pressure of the Zhou regime's fecklessness. But there are just so many disasters you can cover in one article. 

Briefly Noted: Serious Pushback In WA, More

The Federalist carried a very interesting article this morning on a topic that's been out there--more or less waiting in the wings. I'm referring to the issue of mandates for employees to submit to experimental gene therapy injections. We're talking about two different but related issues. One is the issue of private companies issuing such mandates, while the other relates to governments doing so. The article in question has to do with an extremely broad mandate issued by Dem governor of Washington state, Jay Inslee. I've been predicting, based on early indications, that mandates of this sort will arouse opposition--especially now that the Dread Delta has revealed that the mandates could quickly develop into open ended demands with no set time limits. The initial time frame for a boost, for example, was 8 months, which has now decreased to 5 months--but these are all averages. The actual rate of decrease in effectiveness will clearly differ among individuals. Some wags have suggested IV implants so that a constant drip can be administered.

With that in mind, skepticism regarding these medications is increasing--what, people are asking, was the point of the "vaccines" in the first place? In the face of these developments, some Dem rulers on the state and local level have gone ahead with mandates for their employees, and opposition has quickly developed--usually led by unions:

Mass Resistance Arises As Washington Makes It Nearly Impossible To Get Vaccine Exemptions

It’s unlikely Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee expected this level of pushback. In progressive Washington, it’s rare to see such bipartisan ire towards an Inslee policy. How will he respond?

The most controversial element of the mandate is a gotcha question that all employees seeking a religious exemption must answer:

Covid Update 8/27/21

It's been a bit of a rough day, but I'm finally catching up with things--well, with some things. The big Covid news today was a new Israeli study. Israeli, perhaps the most vaxxed country on earth, has developed into a sort of canary in the coal mine. Also, along with the UK, they've been pushing out some good quality data and analysis.

This is the study that has created a real buzz:

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections

Here's a summary--but the long and short is simply that natural immunity is significantly superior to vaccine immunity (if that's the correct terminology):

Docs For Covid Ethics

A week or two ago--it's hard to keep track--I summarized Session II of the Doctors for Covid Ethics symposium. That session focused on economic and technocracy issues and featured, among others, Richard Werner and Catherine Austin Fitts. I spent part of this morning watching a major portion of Session I of the Doctors For Covid Ethics Symposium. I found Michael Palmer's presentation on Covid Origins quite powerful. The science that he presented in support of the conclusion that Covid-19 is "indisputably" a lab engineered virus was simply overwhelming. Then I read that our Intel agencies will continue the coverup: Biden’s intelligence agencies bow to Beijing and claim they can’t make a conclusion on COVID. That's not going to go down well with normals smarting under the Covid Regime's jackboot on their necks:

No kidding. China has been covering up from the start of the pandemic that’s killed 4 million worldwide, which is just one of many clues that COVID likely leaked from a Wuhan lab. But Biden’s intel agencies don’t want to go there.

Another presentation I found quite compelling was the one by Denis Rancourt. Rancourt is a retired physicist who has turned his expertise in statistical analysis to the epidemiological data--and then has drilled down to determine exactly what is behind "The False Pandemic." Rancourt began his work by examining "all cause mortality" statistics, and concluded that--with the partial exception of the United States--there was in fact no pandemic.  By drilling down into the data he was able to pinpoint those areas where a type of pandemic could be said to have been instigated by the authorities. He doesn't cavil to term what happened an attack on old people--although he also speaks movingly of young males, especially, reduced to despair. With regard to the elderly he places the blame for the die-off that he has documented on public policies that blatantly violated everything we've learned since WWII about public health: old people isolated in care facilities, sick patients from hospitals inserted among them, treatment--especially antibiotics--withdrawn, panic driven healthcare workers abandoning their posts. The resulting genocide was a foregone conclusion. I highly recommend the presentation.

However, I found among Rancourt's publications a statement: What I believe about COVID. Rancourt, a Canadian, appears not to be a fan of America. Nevertheless, I offer this excerpt:

Boost Stage At Six, Not Eight--And More

Remember when boosting at eight months was a thing? That always seemed weird, given that the Israelis are boosting at five, I think. But now it seems the US is catching up. Eight is old hat:

Remember when they said you'd need a booster at eight months?

Make it six.https://t.co/NQhoxmTZgO

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

How do you keep up with this? Anyway, it seems checking for antibodies is still cheating--otherwise you might find out that you need your boost at two months, like that pathologist who did his own test.

Speaking of keeping up with things, remember the vax immunity v. natural immunity debate? Here's some news from the gene therapy petri dish that is Israel that may put that one to rest, too:

1/ Wow. New Israeli preprint shows natural immunity to #SARSCoV2 is FAR superior to the artificial kind - vaccinated people were 13x as likely to be infected and 27x to have symptomatic infections as a matched cohort that was previously infected. And this is with Delta dominant. pic.twitter.com/hhD9h0vyMS

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

Berenson also has an interesting thread on the state of Twitter censorship. Twitter "fact checking" is having trouble keeping up with developments, too. And that suggests that the Grand Narrative is close to collapse. Berenson claims he's considering a defamation action against Twitter--more power to him if he does:

Follow The Hope

In a remarkable interview, Doc Rochelle was asked about the basis for the CDC's support for boosting people--was it based on hope or, preferably, data? asked the interviewer. Rochelle's forthright answer was that they had "hope, not data" that the boosts will work. Don't believe me? Here it is:

I don't know quite how to respond. Why is she still in this job? A third jab, with attendant risks, and no data to justify it? We are now officially just winging it, folks. It has come down to this. https://t.co/ocHOLp14MF

— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) August 25, 2021

Also of interest, re Covid origins. The US intel report is still under wraps, will probably be heavily redacted, but the Epoch Times is reporting (excerpts from a much longer article):

‘Nudging’ The Public To Comply

Recently I presented by theory that what drives social conformity--including compliance with patently unreasonable mandates against normal human behavior--is the rootedness of human nature as social, and especially as rooted in the most basic of human institutions: the family, NOT the individual. From that I extrapolated to the natural human tendency to comply with the wishes or demands of authority (father/mother) figures, and to attempt to 'get along with' sibling figures--authorities at lower public levels as well as friends and neighbors. The point being that it takes an unusual degree of independence to actually resist the tendency to conform.

In support of that I presented some videos on related topics, which focused largely on totalitarian regimes of the past, especially from the 20th century. While I'm certainly not about to say that such regimes will not arise again, that isn't the model of social control that our power elite is following. The techniques are similar in that they play on the same tendencies of human nature, but these current techniques are less overtly coercive. They rely on fostering a desire to conform and to persuade others to do so, as well.

Dr. Gary Sidley, a psychologist in the UK, has two articles that examine all this in the specific context of the Covid Regime. The first article is a response to the failure of his professional association, the British Psychological Society, to condemn what Sidley sees as unethical use of psychological techniques used to 'nudge' the subject population into compliance with irrational mandates:

The Dubious Ethics of ‘Nudging’ the Public to Comply With Covid Restrictions

Sidley begins by providing examples of irrational, hysterical, or even overtly aggressive behavior, on the part of otherwise normal people. From there he moves to the 'nudges'--conscious manipulation of the population by the government utilizing psychological techniques--that have induced such behavior:

Covid Update 8/25/21

Is peak Covid Panic starting to wane? Or is the ban on thinking losing its efficacy--a bit like the gene therapy injections losing their efficacy over time? It seems beyond coincidence that these "breakthrough articles" are coming out at the same time as the rising tide of reports concerning the loss of efficacy and the rapid increase in breakthrough Covid cases.

Three developments in recent reporting point in that direction. The significance of the developments really lies in where they come from--mainstream media outlets and institutions. My summaries are from Zerohedge.

The first article relates to two articles--one by the BBC and one by Bloomberg--which came out last week. Neither article is great, but the fact that they appeared at all in MSM outlets raised eyebrows. And there have been a few other similar articles hinting at questions slowly fermenting in woke skulls. These are questions that were strictly verboten for wokesters--until now? Excerpt:

UPDATED: Vax 'Authorization': Short And Long Versions

The other day we asked--tongue in cheek--why would anyone not trust their government.  As if on cue, the government has provided a perfect, well, reminder of that basic fact of life. The FDA 'authorization' of a Covid 'vaccine' is another one of those now-you-see-it-now-you-don't government actions. One is left wondering, What does it mean? Fortunately, there are people who can explain it.

First the short version, via Twitter:

1/ So now that Come-Here-Naughty is approved (ish), the @moderna_tx @JNJNews lose their Emergency Use Authorizations, right? Because there's an approved alternative and you can't have an EUA when there are "adequate, approved, and available alternatives."

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

2/ Or is this another reason @us_fda is going out of its way to say Comirnaty is not available?

"although COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) is approved... there is not sufficient approved vaccine available for distribution to this population."https://t.co/XrqIORQZVt

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

3/ Whatever game(s) they are playing here, they're being too clever by half.

SOURCE: Footnote 9https://t.co/sEU2YzOwfP

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 25, 2021

The Covid - Kabul Connection

Alex Berenson really nails this. I think a lot of people had been sensing the connection, but he really gets its:

Hey ‘Merica! You can trust Uncle Joe about vaccines! He won’t lie to you or leave you behind! pic.twitter.com/mLYWCgvQr6

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 24, 2021

Things that don’t count:

Papers from Japan
Dying 13 days after your second dose
Full approval that isn’t *exactly* full approval
Myocarditis
First dose spikes
Data from Europe
Or Israel
Or anywhere that’s telling anything remotely resembling the truth

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 24, 2021

The kid gets it, too:

This kid wins the 💉Internet pic.twitter.com/xkm3rLhBAG

— Brian Hund 🎙 Libertarian since ‘92 🦅 (@brianhund) August 24, 2021

After All, Why Would You NOT Trust The Government, Right?

Totally brilliant post from Babylon Bee:

100 Million Vaccine-Hesitant Americans Will Get The Shot Now That A Government Agency Said It’s OK https://t.co/O3CBTrSlRh

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 23, 2021

According to sources, the Food and Drug Administration is completely trustworthy and has never approved harmful drugs for the public before. Those sources further confirmed that the FDA is a part of the government, which has never lied or been incompetent or corrupt in any way. 

"Yeah, I've always trusted the government and drug companies, so I guess I'm ok to get the vaccine now," said Bubba Snugglebrugg, who was previously a militant anti-vaxxer. "I can't wait to get my 'Fauci Ouchie' and wear my Pfizer sticker! Thanks, FDA!"

Sources within the FDA say the vaccine went through a rigorous approval process of various government bureaucrats saying "Oh well, what the heck—we may as well approve this now", and signing a very important-looking document with a government seal and some big words on it. 

UPDATED: The Rules Just Don't Matter Anymore

Since I can't embed Rumble videos, I'm linking to a number of video segments from Steve Bannon's Warroom. This isn't the full program but a major portion of it. The guests were chosen generally with an eye on the reported full authorization of the Pfizer gene therapy injection come Monday. Bannon had Dr. Robert Malone on as a guest host to help with the med tech stuff. What I've done is I've provided a succinct summary of the main points discussed. I've also provided the total time each segment runs, so you can see how much more each goes beyond my little summary. I found these presentations quite compelling.

The first guest was also featured in the transcript/summary I did recently for the symposium with Richard Werner, Catherine Austin Fitts, and David Skidmore.

Reflecting On Legitimacy

It's a bad sign for the health of our political establishment that more and more articles are popping up with people writing about issues of legitimate governance. I don't think I've ever been naive about the American political order, but I'll be the first to admit I didn't think the country would ever sink to this level. Trump has revealed to all: The Empire's clothing is threadbare at best. And now serious people are asking: What comes next. That may seem extreme at this point, but events have a way of taking on a life of their own. Once a rock starts downhill it gathers momentum.

So I plan here to provide examples of the type of commentary that's out there, and increasing. First, however, I'll sketch out the traditional ideas on government in the Western tradition.

Aristotle's classical formulation of good and bad types of government has retained its usefulness. Aristotle came up with three categories, based on : Rule by one, by several, and by many, and divided each category in two: good and corrupt forms. Thus, there could be good or bad forms of government in any of the three categories (simplified): 

One:  Monarchy  Dictatorship

Several: Aristocracy  Oligarchy

Many: Timocracy  Democracy

Aristotle and other ancients were advocates of a governments in which all three levels of society were involved.

During the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas was also a strong advocate for a mixed constitution, in which all elements of society received representation under a strong executive. Aquinas presents his reasoning in favor of a mixed constitution in three elements, which explictly includes the idea of what we now term "checks and balances":

Turley On The Regime's Assault On Our Constitutional Order

I understand that Professor Turley would prefer a more nuanced title to this post, but in a practical sense it's hard to characterize what's going on much differently. Turley has written two good articles, both arising from the Covid Regime, which illustrate a shocking disregard both for the federal republic that the US is supposed to be under its Constitution, as well as for the rights of the individual citizens.

I'll keep this brief.

The first article addresses the outrageous scheme by the regime to pay Florida teachers to break Florida laws:

Can An Entire Population Become Mentally Ill?

I think I've mentioned that my father was a professor--and practitioner--of clinical psychology. One of the things he used to say that has always stuck with me is that people actually may choose to become insane. It's an escape mechanism for coping with reality that some people find preferable to dealing with the real world on its own terms. The title of this blog--meaning in history--is related to the idea that my father propounded. Humans, as rational animals, are geared toward the discovery of meaning and order in existence. History records that search for meaning in history. All societies exist in history and seek to express on a societal level the meaning of their existence. 

When that meaning is threatened, when it is challenged to the extent that severe doubt arises, humans and societies can react in a number of ways. They can, for example, seek to refine their understanding of the meaning and order of existence. They can redefine that meaning in relatively new terms--although the nature of reality usually limits at least limits the possibilities for a re-understanding of existence. More radically, individuals and societies can attempt to deny reality--refuse to recognize existential threats for what they are. Alternatively, people can rush to embrace illusory meanings that seem preferable. We see many examples of the reactions both in history and in the contemporary world around us.

Cat, Bag ... Out! Plus, Who Lost ... Sweden?

Dr. Robert Malone's twitter feed has become a bit of a go to morning check for Covid commentary and news. There are others, of course, but he retweets lots of good information.

This morning there seems to be almost a theme to most of it--cats getting out the bags they had been kept in. And we all know how hard it is to get cats back into their bags, so that's a good thing.

For example, in his understated way--which requires some reflection--Malone shares a revelation from Dr. Rochelle, who seems to me to not entirely understand what the program is. Otherwise, why would she open this bag full of cats?

Assuming this is verified, "reports from Israel suggest INCREASED RISK OF SEVERE DISEASE amongst those vaccinated early" => ADE. Just saying. https://t.co/TipjRT4JII

— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) August 19, 2021

Why do I say that items like this require some reflection? Well, ask yourself: Fine, ADE; just because the virus finds a workaround (mutation/variant) for the vax, why should that lead to increased risk of serious illness? Serious illness could lead to death, right?

Briefly Noted: Two Covid Studies

I actually saw brief references to each of these studies a few days ago, but they seem to be attracting more attention today--and I have a bit more time.

The first was a study done at a major Vietnamese hospital for infectious diseases. Karl Denninger has winkled out the details and their implications. These are things that KD has hammered at for a long time. What the study showed was that the fully vaccinated staff had a high rate of "breakthrough" infection. Those infections were with the Delta variant--with a twist:

[The infections among healthcare workers] all belonged to the Delta variant, and were phylogenetically distinct from the contemporary Delta variant sequences obtained from community transmission cases, suggestive of ongoing transmission between the workers.

Which, of course means that hospitals staffed by vaccinated healthcare workers are hotbeds of transmission, especially since--as is common with such people--their viral loads were extremely high.

KD draws the "reasonable conclusions":