Quiver #2

Here is the latest list of interesting links I’ve come across, selected from zillions.

Enjoy!

• First (and this is kind of a public service announcement, so I’m going to repeat it in the next edition of The Arrow), root through your medicine cabinet and discard any EzriCare Artificial Tears, Delsam Pharma Artificial Tears and/or Delsam Pharma Artificial Ointment. These products—made by Global Pharma in India—have been responsible for the loss of four eyes, fourteen cases of vision loss, and four deaths. There have been 81 people who have had issues in 18 states (CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, IL, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SD, TX, WA, and WI). These products have been contaminated with a drug-resistant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa never before reported in the US. If you’ve used any of these products and have developed eye issues of any kind, seek medical care immediately. Here is how investigators tracked down the culprits.

• Want to make $2,500 quick and easy? Just provide Steve Kirsch with the names of more than five unvaccinated Amish people in Lancaster, PA who died from Covid during the pandemic, and do so by May 30. Learn how to claim your funds here.

• Dr. Peter McCullough writes “the COVID-19 vaccines do not stop SARS-CoV-2 infection, transmission, nor do they reduce the severity of disease or prevent hospitalization or death. For that reason, the risks of heart damage, blood clots, and other cardiovascular events far outweigh the benefits. In the elderly with baseline heart disease, any degree of cardiovascular injury could be disastrous as published by Yamamoto et al in an 81 year old man after his fifth mRNA shot.

  “The authors report this man decompensated within a day of his fifth shot and required defibrillation, mechanical ventilation, and full life support measures for myocarditis which precipitated the cardiac arrest, conduction defects, and heart failure. He stayed in the hospital over a month.”

• Would you like to be taller? Well, thanks to the marvels of modern medicine you can be…for a mere six-figure fee and a lot of pain.

• A Freedom of Information request to the Scottish authorities revealed that “over a three-year period in Scotland, there were zero deaths from ‘the Covid–19 virus’ amongst the employment sectors most in contact with the public (including doctors, nurses, shop workers, police, and primary and secondary school teachers). It is now unarguable that these data demonstrate a ‘pandemic’ of fear and hysteria, not backed by science or evidence.” The journalist requesting the FoI, continues: “As a Scotsman, and in light of these unreported and (to me) jaw-dropping facts, I cannot escape the uneasy feeling that we are witnessing something truly grotesque occurring in our country and that ‘the virus’ has been and is still being used by our government in lockstep with unelected NGOs to instill dangerous behaviours and permanent changes in society that will not ever be in the public interest.” I feel pretty much the same way about what’s happened in the US.

• “New York City will begin tracking the carbon footprint of household food consumption and putting caps on how much red meat can be served in public institutions as part of a sweeping initiative to achieve a 33% reduction in carbon emissions from food by 2030.” Yes, please. Let’s take steps harmful to the health of our citizens to make a minuscule effect, at best, on a slight temperature rise over the next half century as predicted by notoriously inaccurate modeling. I hate to say it, but we’ve got morons on our team.

• From The Scroll: A YouTuber’s 2021 plane crash left him with incredible footage when he parachuted out of his aircraft and managed to float down to safety in the Los Padres National Forest in California. With several cameras outfitted around the plane, and a selfie stick to film the whole ordeal in real time, Trevor Daniel Jacob racked up major views of the crash on his YouTube channel. But that footage proved essential in the case federal prosecutors made against Jacob, who pled guilty on charges of faking the crash and obstructing authorities from investigating what really happened. Originally claiming that the engine failed and that he couldn’t remember where the crash occurred, Jacob had led a helicopter to the crash site, recovered the aircraft, and dismantled the plane into parts he deposited in various garbage bins around an airport. Already stripped of his pilot’s license after the investigation began, Jacob now faces up to 20 years in prison as he awaits his sentence.” Here is his YouTube of the crash. Wonder if the views he got were worth it. I’ve got to admit, though, that it does take some courage to bail out over a mountainous area.

• Excess deaths soar in England and Wales. “There were 67,724 extra deaths in England and Wales between April 30, 2022 and April 28, 2023. That is 12.8 percent above the pre- pandemic five-year average. Unexpected deaths are more than 10 percent higher than the pre-Covid average, with experts warning we are facing “a catastrophe of equal proportion to the pandemic itself”.

• The confirmation bias is hard to overcome. Woman’s 47-year-old husband gets the Covid vaccine and has a stroke the next day. She casts about looking for any other reason it could possible be and settles on one that while she did not attribute it to the jab, it well could have been. Most chilling sentence in the article: “When his first stroke happened, my husband and I thought we’d never understand why. Still, we got our young sons vaccinated, despite our uncertainty.” Let me get this straight. Your young husband has a stroke the day after his jab, which, rightly, in my view, generated some uncertainty. Yet you decide to get your two young sons vaccinated when their risk for a bad outcome from Covid is virtually zero? What kind of moron would do that? Oh, of course, a Stanford professor. Jesus wept.

• The Wall Street Journal reports on CIA-made video to recruit disaffected Russians. Another WSJ article says the effort has been successful. Sounds to me more like a PSYOP designed to screw with the Russians. I would be very careful in my dealings with any fruit from this labor. The Russians may be corrupt to the bone, but are definitely not amateurs when it comes to these sorts of things.

• Incredible story in Wired about catfishing on an industrial scale. All kinds of people are hired for a pittance from all over the world to present fake identities to folks desperate for love and companionship. Just goes to show you never know who you’re chatting with online. Buyer beware.

• Then there was the New York Times editorial yesterday about women and the A.I. lovers. So, who’s your (sugar) daddy? Some struggling college student in Ireland working for peanuts pretending to be a suave romantic? Or a totally fake A.I. lover. But buyer beware, as Jeff Childers, an attorney in Florida, pointed out in his Substack today, everything you commit to print is discoverable in a lawsuit (by maybe a pissed off spouse, or who knows). You need to figure out how to use the phone for either of the above. They have to get a warrant to wiretap your phone.

• Anheuser-Busch’s screw up still not going away. The Toronto Sun reports on one retailer who is giving a $20 rebate on cases of Bud Light, which sell for $19.98. Essentially take these 24 cans of Bud Light for free, and we’ll throw in two cents for your trouble. The Born On dates must be looming.

• In a rare outbreak of good sense (an unexpectedly in these times of college administrative cowardice) the Georgetown University’s (of all places) School of Foreign Service snubbed students’ demands that Dasha Navalnaya, daughter of imprisoned Putin foe Alexei Navalny, not be allowed to speak at commencement ceremonies. The students were upset about her father’s past statements about immigrants, Crimea, and Georgia. “The students petitioned the SFS to remove her from graduation, but laudably SFS Dean Joel Hellman said: “We do not disinvite speakers on the Georgetown campus, and we don’t dissuade speakers from speaking.”” Apparently, the graduation went on without a hitch.

• Today’s Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Western States Agree to Cut Use of Water From Colorado River.” It’s all about how the seven Basin states have come to an agreement (California grudgingly) to share water from the Colorado River. Without going into all the history (which the WSJ did not mention), California has priority over the water from the Colorado River, which is why I wrote ‘grudgingly’ above. Why the big hoorah over this now? “The cuts were triggered last year after the nation’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, fell below a federal threshold. Lake Mead and Lake Powell have shrunk dramatically over a more than two-decade drought in the Southwest.

  The 1,450-mile Colorado River is a lifeblood for the Southwest, supplying drinking water to 40 million people, irrigating 5.5 million acres of farmland and accounting for an estimated 16 million jobs. However, its flow has steadily declined over the past two decades amid the worst drought to hit the region in 1,200 years, according to a University of California, Los Angeles-led study earlier this year.” Hmmm. One wonders what caused that drought 1,200 years ago? What caused it this time? Do you really have to ask? “President Biden called the deal “an important step forward in our efforts to protect the stability of the Colorado River System in the face of climate change…” The part about this entire “emergency” that I find insane is that California probably has more coastline than any other state (maybe Florida beats it—I don’t know), and California suffers droughts all the time, so why not build desalination plants all up and down the coast. Problem solved. Forever. Unless I’m missing something.

• Speaking of climate change…In The Arrow #123 I posted a video Ivor Cummins put up on his Twitter feed showing, based on ice core samples, that meteorologists started accurately measuring global temperatures at their lowest point in the last 8,000 years of history. Which, of course, would imply that the earth has been heating since then. I expected outrage from all the opposing viewpoints, but haven’t seen anything yet but a good, solid ignoring. Which usually tells you you’re over the target or are so completely off target that folks don’t bother trying to refute. Given the credentials of the scientist in the video, I suspect the former. One other Substack writer feels the same and has posted additional compelling info.

• Another interesting Substack starts off this way:

  “In a draft of my Ph.D. Physics thesis, I had written:

  “These data obviously show …”

  “(Those Data DID, I’m sure! Whatever they were.)

  “Bob Pollock, IUCF Laboratory Director, my thesis advisor, crossed those most-beautiful words out, and scribbled in: “Just show the data; let the reader decide”.

  “So, below are raw data from official government agencies from four countries for the CoVid-Injection-Rates, and Death or All-Cause-Mortality Rates. The solid curves are the 4 week running averages. No Statistics, no Analysis, and no Conclusions. And these aren’t my Data — I have no skin in the game. Think what you will.”

  He then shows a series of graphs, most of which look like the one below of the United Kingdom:

  

  The implication is that the Covid vaccines are the driving force behind the increase in excess deaths seen worldwide. Which they well may be. Or may be a part of the cause. But a lot of things went on during the pandemic that could also be responsible for the increase in excess deaths, most notably the lockdown and all the sequelae.

• Medscape report on carbs and bone health shows “higher blood glucose concentrations induced by a higher dietary glycemic index can have deleterious effects on osteoblasts, the cells important for bone formation, and increases bone loss through production of advanced glycation end products that affect the cross linking of collagen in bone (important for bone strength) as well as calcium loss in urine. This was recently reported in a study by Garcia-Gavilan and others, in which the authors showed that high dietary glycemic index and dietary glucose load are associated with a higher risk for osteoporosis-related fractures in an older Mediterranean population who are at high risk for cardiovascular events. Similar data were reported by Nouri and co-authors in a study from Iran.” But, the doc presenting this data also says protein intake re bone density is controversial. Really? She hasn’t kept up with the literature on that one. The idea that protein, being acid, leaches calcium from bones is deader than a doornail and has been for decades.

• We’ve all seen the ubiquitous media reports about how low-carb/ketogenic diets increase the risk for heart disease stemming from this report in Circulation, the lead author of which is a vegetarian. My friend Nina Teicholz undertakes a masterful analysis of the situation on her Substack. One penetrating paragraph among many:

  “For instance, keto, as the virtual opposite of the official recommendations of these groups (AHA and ACC, as well as the US. Dietary Guidelines for Americans), must trigger intellectual and cognitive dissonance for experts who have ‘known’ differently for their entire careers. Also, it feels cynical to say but is nonetheless undeniably true that because keto allows people to get off many or all of their medications, the diet poses a clear threat to pharmaceutical companies. Chronic diseases that require lifelong medications are a sweet spot of assured revenue for this industry. After all, pharmaceutical companies spent more than $8 billion on media advertising last year (up from $6 billion in 2020), and their aim is not for you to consume fewer of their products. This fact may also go some ways towards explaining why many media outlets are so quick to publish non-existent keto findings.”

• Nice review—in a way—of the fairly recent Nature paper that called BS on all the academic bad mouthing of red meat that’s been going on for years decades. The guy who puts together this site is a conventional thinker, which is illustrated by one of the quotes he chose to highlight:

  “The evidence for a direct vascular or heath risk from eating meat regularly is very low, to the point that there is probably no risk,” commented Dr. Steven Novella, a Yale neurologist and president of the New England Skeptical Society. “There is, however, more evidence for a health risk from eating too few vegetables. That is really the risk of a high-meat diet, those meat calories are displacing vegetable calories.”

  Give me a break. Meat is bad only because it displaces vegetables from the diet?!?! What kind of moron would believe that? I guess a Yale neurologist. Meat, of any kind, is vastly more nutritionally dense than any vegetable you could choose. Geez…

• Finally, a site that tracks tagged Great White sharks and a few other sea creatures. You can now take a look before you take the plunge. If the site shows the place you’re planning on swimming to be shark free, just remember that only a tiny fraction of sharks are tagged. Happy swimming.

  Okay, that’s about it for this issue of the Quiver. Hope you enjoyed my choices from the many items I’ve pored over the past week or so.

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