Alex Berenson

2022-02-24 01:40:40 A reminder: CO2 is what you get when you burn hydrocarbons like coal or oil.

(Or breathe, which makes every human being on the planet a greenhouse gas emitter, but let’s not even go there.)

Anyway, in part because they don’t have much of an oil industry to destroy, for the last 50 years or so, Europeans have been comfortable pushing energy efficiency with high gasoline taxes and high-speed trains and wind farms. Those are all basically harmless ways to prove they aren’t Americans. (The trains are actually nice.) (3/8) Open / Comment

2022-02-24 01:40:06 Re-Gretas, Ukraine has a few
How the European obsession with decarbonization has driven energy and electricity prices through the roof and helped give Vladimir Putin license to do whatever he likes

Once again, Western political and media elites find themselves in the unfortunate position of denying reality obvious to anyone with eyes, or a wallet.

This time, they are lying about the economic and now political crises their “green” energy policies are causing, particularly in Europe. These lies may damage them even more than their Covid fantasies did, because they are even more obvious to people outside their bubble. (1/8) Open / Comment

2022-02-23 22:57:04 A German insurance database of 11 million people reportedly shows a huge increase in severe side effects after Covid jabs

Welt, a major German newspaper, just ran an interview with Andreas Schofbeck, a board member for a Bavarian insurer called BKK Provita.

By itself, BKK Provita has 120,000 members. But it is a much larger consortium of so-called BKK insurers that are affiliated with German companies and collectively have 10.9 million members.

Here’s how Schofbeck described the claims in the BKK database, according to one of the reporters who interviewed him:

The “PEI numbers” are the official German data; the Paul Ehrlich Institute is the German agency that regulates vaccines and medicines.

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More to come on this, no doubt. Open / Comment

2022-02-23 17:49:31 Iceland for the win! Iceland becomes the first nation to lift ALL Covid restrictions, including entry rules for unvaccinated travelers

Iceland is back to the old normal.

From a reader there:

Keep in mind that as of LAST MONTH Iceland was still tightening restrictions.

How the mighty (mRNA shots) have fallen.

As a wise man once said, virus gonna virus. Open / Comment

2022-02-23 00:07:40 Just how useless are the mRNA shots?

This useless: about 20 percent of all the people in the Israeli trial were infected in less than a month after getting a fourth dose (compared to about 25 percent who had received “only” three).

Read that again. All these people had received AT LEAST three mRNA shots. Yet as Omicron spread across Israel, it infected one out of every five of them in a matter of weeks.

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That infection rate is more or less the definition of complete vaccine failure. Which is why Israel - the only country in the world to offer a fourth mRNA dose widely - just went through its worst wave of Covid deaths yet, mostly in vaccinated people.

We are all incredibly lucky Omicron is milder overall than previous variants.

I suspect the health authorities (at least the smarter ones) know this, and thus the happy talk about my booster protecting you, or whatever lie they’re spinning today.

Wall Street knows the truth, though: Open / Comment

2022-02-23 00:07:10 Tell me you know boosters are useless without telling me you know boosters are useless

Once again, the Times walks up to the truth and then points the other way:

Know the real reason the public health authorities have given up on the fourth mRNA shot?

It probably has something to do with this Israeli study showing that even though a fourth jab increased anti-spike protein antibodies eightfold or more, it did NOTHING to keep people from being infected with Omicron only weeks after being given. (The negative confidence interval = nothing.)

“Next generation vaccine development” lol. The mRNA vaccines were SUPPOSED TO BE the next generation. That was less than two years ago.

Kids grow up so fast. Open / Comment

2022-02-17 00:31:07 The meeting was held in high-end real estate: the West Wing’s Room 223, up a flight of stairs from the Oval Office. During the Trump Administration, the deputy chief of staff had that room.

If you don’t remember hearing about this meeting, that’s because you didn’t.

Remember - in late July, the media was still almost completely on board with the mRNA success narrative. Bourla would have had almost entirely favorable press had he come to the White House publicly.

He didn’t, though. I can’t find a word about this trip.

So exactly what was important enough to get Bourla to Washington on a 93-degree day in July? The Israeli data showing collapsing mRNA shot efficacy? Annoying independent journalists and ways to deplatform them? Vaccine hesitancy and mandates? Boosters? All of the above?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Oh well, I’m sure they’ll tell us eventually. Open / Comment

2022-02-17 00:30:57 Funny story: guess who made a quiet trip to the White House in July 2021, as Covid vaccine efficacy was falling off a cliff?
Yes, Albert Bourla, everyone's favorite veterinarian and CEO of the world's largest drug company himself! And his general counsel.

So there I sat, looking through White House visitor logs - no particular reason! - and whose name did I see?

Why, one Albert N. Bourla, chairman and chief executive of Pfizer! You remember Pfizer? They’re the ones who cured Covid.

Bourla and Douglas Lankler, Pfizer’s general counsel, along with a third man, Scott Cochran, dropped by the White House for a chat on Wed., July 28, 2021. According to the log, the meeting was only scheduled the day before.

The visitor log claims Bourla met Farhana Hussain, the assistant to Jeffrey Zients, who is in charge of the Biden Administration’s Covid response. Hussain graduated from college in 2016, so no disrespect to her, but it seems far more likely that Zients was the person Bourla and Lankler came to see. Open / Comment

2022-02-16 21:04:21 By the way: After Judge Kahn allowed Taylor to pursue his claim of unfair competition, Twitter was so frightened about what might happen next that it appealed directly to the California Supreme Court - which then, without allowing Taylor’s attorneys to present arguments, issued a six-page ruling telling Kahn to reverse his ruling and dismiss the case.

True story.

Added bonus: Twitter argues that allowing me to make factually accurate tweets about Covid might upset the community, or something.

Meanwhile, right now on Twitter, you can watch a woman in New York get her head crushed by an SUV, as almost 600,000 people have in the last two days. (Be careful with this, it is awful.)

Snuff (or almost snuff) films? Sure.

Reporting Pfizer’s own clinical trial data? Not so much.

Find someone who loves you as much as Twitter loves its view of its Section 230 protection.

Stand with me. Stand against censorship. Open / Comment

2022-02-16 21:04:10 CAROME: And, in fact, as to Your Honor's question about could a First Amendment speaker choose by gender, or age, or something like that, in fact -- I mean Twitter would never, ever, ever do that; it's totally contrary to everything it does… [But] does the First Amendment provide that protection? Absolutely it does.

Okay then.

Carome is no first-year associate who misspoke under pressure. His biography describes him as "the nation’s preeminent advocate in litigation concerning Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the federal law that shields operators of online platforms from liability pertaining to publishing third-party content.” He is one of the lawyers helping defend Twitter from Donald Trump’s lawsuit against it.

This is Twitter’s view of its rights.

Are you okay with that? Should anyone be?

Transcript here Open / Comment