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The January 6th Memorial Farce

1/11/2022

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So a bunch of boomers meandered through the capital building taking selfies for a few hours a year ago on January 6th. A date that, had it not been for the deaths, would have lived in hilarity. Remember, these terrorists make sure to stay within the velvet ropes.

January 6. Unarmed, peaceful “insurrectionists” casually stroll between the velvet ropes on their Capitol tour as police stand by... pic.twitter.com/X6aL6OZ1sD

— EARTH AID CONCERT (@earthaidconcert) August 5, 2021
These "insurrectionists" (who left on their own after the coup leader told them to leave while making no attempt to seize the government or hold the capital building and with no real plan to speak of) were clearly on the precipice of taking over 'merica and imposing a megafascist Nazi regime. I mean, watch Qanon Shaman make his move to destroy muh democracy if you can bear to stomach the horror:

Just saw this @NewYorker video for the first time of the moment Q-Shaman temporarily ascended to the presidency of the Senate. pic.twitter.com/ka916CyWNt

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 19, 2021
In response to whatever the Hell that was, vice president Kamala Harris gave us this:
Here's the money quote:
Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory: December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021,
Just for those keeping score, here are the kill counts for the following three events. (Note I said kill counts, so the Japanese pilots don't count for Pearl Harbor nor do the hijackers for 9/11 or rioters for January 6th.)

- Pearl Harbor: 2403
- 9/11: 2977
- January 6th: 0

Unfortunately, Harris is not alone in this delusion. President Biden likened January 6th to the Civil War. The liberal press has been talking about almost nothing else other than Covid and January 6th since, well, January 6th, 2021. For the one year anniversary of this insurrectionary attack on our precious democracy, the Democrats held this utterly embarrassing candlelight vigil:
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The media was no better. The Rolling Stone, for its part, took a break from lying about rapes on campus and Ivermectin victims overburdening hospitals to complain that "‘Back-The-Blue’ Republicans Bail on Moment of Silence for Fallen Capitol Police Officers." 

Of course, no capital police officers were killed on January 6th.  The New York Times lied, errr, made a mistake regarding Brian Sicknick. Of the other three officers who were honored, two committed suicide and officer Billy Evans was killed by black nationalist Noah Green on April 2nd, 2021. So yeah, it would seem this little moment of silence was just a wee bit cynical.

And of course, this has been going on for over a year now. Remember Alexandria Ocasio Cortez accused Ted Cruz of trying to "have her killed." AOC was, of course, in a different building a block away.

In no way was January 6th a coup or that wonderfully nebulous term, "insurrection." It was just a riot on the capital. Which is bad, because rioting is bad.

Four people died, all Trump supporters. Five died if you include Sicknick who had a stroke later that night. Of those, the only one who was killed was Ashley Babbit; who was unarmed and shot from over five feet away while crawling through a window with additional cops both behind and in front of the officer who shot her. Remember when police brutality used to matter?

Of course, if January 6th was just a riot, well, who cares? Leftists had been doing that all the previous Summer, including in DC and around the White House. Real Clear Investigations put together a great breakdown , which also include d the 2017 riot by leftists during Trump's inauguration.
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Riots are bad and the deaths and injuries are tragic. The rioters who committed crimes deserved to be punished for those crimes. But January 6th was little more than a farce. Not as big a farce as the media's and Democrats' reaction to it has been, of course, but a farce nonetheless.

And that is even if the FBI had nothing to do with the riot, which is something that two pieces by Revolver (here and here) cast a lot of doubt on (as well as a cursory knowledge of the history of the FBI).

But this hysteria serves a purpose. Not only does it gin up ratings for struggling post-Trump media conglomerates, but it also allows the feds to pursue what some have called "War on Terror 2.0." Indeed, the surveillance state and police state keep growing and everything I hear about how the January 6th prisoners (none of whom have been charged with "insurrection") are being treated is just awful.

So the madness continues. All I can say is that hopefully the blatantly manipulative and over-the-top nature of these lies wakes more people up to the dishonesty of the corporate media and national security state. We shall see.
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Is Omicron Also a Lab Leak?

1/3/2022

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Back when the OG version of Covid dropped, it was considered sacrosanct that the virus emerged naturally. It was one of those evil "conspiracy theories" to even hint that it may have leaked from a lab and Facebook and YouTube went so far as to censor any discussion of that possibility.

Then Nicholas Wade's 10,000+ word expose blew the lid off of that nonsense. Now most people accept that Covid-19 probably leaked from a lab after a gain-of-function research project (partially funded by the US government) went wrong and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Today, the Omicron variant has displaced the Delta variant in many places. Omicron appears much more likely than previous variants to infect vaccinated individuals (possibly more likely than for the unvaccinated in general). Fortunately, it also appears to be substantially more mild. Omicron may be that final "endemic" stage of a pandemic when a virus (usually) mutates to become more infectious and less virulent as would be to its greatest advantage evolutionarily speaking.

Either way though, evidence is accumulating that Omicron is, like its predecessor, a human invention that leaked out of a lab. This time, assuming this theory is correct, it was at least a lab working on potential solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic instead of an insane gain-of-function experiment.

As PhD data scientist Jonatan Pallesen points out:​

1. It is based on a variant last seen in mid-2020. That is a very odd path for a virus to evolve naturally. But a normal one if it was investigated in a lab since then. pic.twitter.com/TfzDErQqwG

— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) December 30, 2021

3. There are many indicators that it has a mouse origin.

It could be from wild mice. But Bayesianly, given that it's exactly mice and not some other animal, this makes lab origin more likely.https://t.co/9dqGZksdcc

— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) December 30, 2021

Animal reservoir could be a possibility. The old variant would be passed to the animal reservoir, and then later back again.

But given 1-3 above, lab leak seems more likely overall.

— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) December 30, 2021
Of course, I can't say for certain myself and am no expert on the matter. Perhaps Omicron went from humans to mice then back to humans naturally, as one recent paper suggests. But that also describes a lab leak. Jonatan's case is compelling and it lines up with the arguments of popular Substack medical writers Eugyppius and el gato malo. 

It would also, sadly, make sense given the glaring recklessness of the global medical research establishment. If Covid and the subsequent response has proven anything, it would be that.
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