I have never understood not only why Chat gpt and other kinds of AI should be used, but why anyone should read anything if there is a suspicion that there is an algorithm behind it.
Then I saw a provocative video made with AI in which they imagine the country in which, if nothing changes, European children and grandchildren will live. And it was more realistic than any newspaper article.
Paris, 2050. Thirty seconds.
-The Eiffel Tower with its esplanade dotted with Muslims in prayer and adorned with a green flag with Arabic characters
-The Champs Élysées like an Arab bazaar
-The purchase or consumption of pork prohibited in supermarkets
-The brown and salty Seine and a huge flag with the words “Purity through Obedience” waving on the Notre Dame Cathedral
-And in the background you can always hear the calls of the muezzin.
-Drones buzzing through the streets to monitor daily life in accordance with Sharia.
Wonders of artificial intelligence. Much better than the fashion brand Merrachi, which made an advert depicting the Eiffel Tower wrapped in a hijab. Funny, if it weren’t for the fact that the situation is terribly serious.
I don’t know if artificial intelligence could do better than another video from the second largest city in France. Marseille wakes up with the muezzin. Today, Marseille is between 30 and 40 percent Muslim. This is also certified by George Soros’ Open Society, which writes that “between 30 and 40 percent of the population of Marseille is Muslim” (the report is from 2011, so the data is already old and needs to be increased).
There are 80 Islamic places of worship listed in Marseille, to which should be added a brand new 2,500 square meter mosque in the second arrondissement, “but we are often forced to refuse people, we overflow,” says the Islamic Association of Marseille. 15 of the 80 mosques in the city are Salafi. For ten years, Mohammed has been the most common name among newborns in Marseille.
If you ask Wikipedia, the great lying and manipulated encyclopedia, how many Muslims there are in France, it will answer “from 3 to 5.7 million”. The census says 6 million. Too bad there are at least 9 million, as the French Prime Minister François Bayrou himself admitted. And between 6 and 9 million there is quite a difference.
In Emil Cioran’s time, these numbers and artificial intelligence did not yet exist, but it did not stop the great Romanian philosopher exiled in Paris from writing in 1987: “It is certain that in fifty years French society will have a completely different appearance, even unimaginable… I believe, for example, that Notre-Dame will be a mosque. You know what happened at the end of the Roman Empire.”
Almost fifty years have passed since then and who knows, maybe one day some historian will include the AI video on Paris in his chronicle of the last days of Europe.
Tomasz Sakiewicz iwhose company owns independent conservative broadcaster TV Republika was outraged by the decision of a Warsaw court to revoke his television channel’s terrestrial TV license. Wikimedia Commons, Tomasz Molina, CC-BY-SA-4.0
A Warsaw court has revoked the licences of two independent conservative television channels, TV Republika and wPolsce24.
The Administrative Court (WSA) has overturned a decision taken by the State broadcasting regulator (KRRiT) that, in June 2024, granted terrestrial broadcasting licence rights to the two independent channels.
On April 9, the court announced its ruling on the complaint against the decision by KRRiTV annulling both the licences, calling on the State regulator to hold the pitch for available broadcast licenses again . It awarded costs to the petitioner, MWE Networks Group, a broadcaster that had unsuccessfully pitched for one of the licences.
The KRRiTV’s decision was challenged by one of the body’s board members, Professor Tadeusz Kowalski.
He claimed there was” insufficient information about the applicants”, even though both TV Republika and wPolsce24 were long-established broadcasters on the internet and both were backed by media companies with a long track record in the Polish market.
TV Republika and wPolsce24 have announced they would appeal against the court’s ruling. KRRiTV issued a statement saying: “Everything was done in accordance with the law” and that the applications were “analysed thoroughly on financial and substantive grounds” before the decision to grant licences was taken.
Commenting on the court’s verdict, Tomasz Sakiewicz, whose company owns TV Republika, said: “This court judge will go down in history and hopefully will one day be held to account for such decisions.”
“We won’t allow TV Republika to be closed by such abuses of the law by a judge who simply does not understand the documents before her.”
“We haven’t had such a decision in Poland before but will cope, and so will our viewers. If need be we’ll broadcast from abroad if they do manage to take our licenses away,” Sakiewicz said.
TV Republika is currently Poland’s most popular news channel with a 5.6 per cent share of the total television audience, topping the long-time leader TVN24, which has a 5.2 per cent share of the market.
The independent, conservative channel has risen rapidly during the lifetime of the current centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, from a low market share of 0.2 per cent back in December 2023 to where it is today.
After it was granted a terrestrial TV licence, TV Republika doubled its audience share in a space of just a few months.
WPolsce24 has also recorded an impressive rise, from 0.1 per cent market share back in late 2023 to 1.1 per cent of the total TV audience in March of this year.
Both TV Republika and wPolsce24 have benefited from viewers moving away from the state broadcaster TVP Info, which was taken over by the Tusk government along with the rest of the public media just before Christmas of 2023.
Before the takeover of Polish state television, TVP Info was recording a market share of more than 5 per cent. That slumped dramatically to just over 1 per cent of the total TV audience by early 2024 and has only recovered slightly to reach 1.8 per cent in March of this year.
Most of the journalists who worked for TVP Info before the Tusk takeover have now moved to work for TV Republika and wPolsce24.
Both of the independent television channels have been criticised by the ruling Tusk coalition for alleged hostility towards the current government and bias in favour of the opposition Conservatives (PiS).
Reporters from both TV Republika and wPolsce24 have, on occasion, been debarred from government press briefings.
Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz promised to “move” the country “forward again,” as he presented his incoming coalition government’s programme on Wednesday, April 9th—but a closer look at his plans suggest that little will change.
The centre-right CDU—led by Merz—and its sister party, the Bavarian CSU, struck a deal with the Social Democrats (SPD) earlier in the day to renew their so-called ‘grand coalition’ (2005-09 and 2013-21) which was instrumental in igniting Germany’s economic and industrial downfall, as well as paving the way for the country to welcome millions of illegal migrants.
During the party leaders’ press conference, Merz pledged to make Germany “stable, safer, and economically stronger again,” and vowed to “largely end irregular migration.”
The fact that Merz used the word “largely” suggests that his campaign promise to turn back illegal migrants and undocumented asylum seekers at Germany’s borders will not be followed through with concrete actions.
The CDU leader campaigned on a tough anti-immigration platform but has since backtracked on almost all of his promises. His party has lost a lot of its support since the elections on February 23rd, as Merz has gradually caved in to the demands of the pro-migration SPD.
Instead of sticking to his guns and simply rejecting illegal migrants at the border, the government programme proposes to do so “in coordination with our European neighbours.” As both Austria and Poland have refused to take back migrants from Germany, the plan seems to be unaccomplishable.
Rather than imposing a “de facto entry ban” on migrants without valid entry documents, the government will only enforce an entry and residency ban only after a illegal migrant has been allowed into Germany, deporting them (in theory) at a later date. The fundamental right of asylum would remain untouched.
The new cabinet will also keep a bill designed by the outgoing left-wing government, under which migrants and asylum seekers are eligible for naturalisation after just five years of residency. The only minor change to be implemented will be that applicants who demonstrate “special integration achievements” will now not be allowed to gain German citizenship after only three years.
Merz’s government will at least continue to enforce temporary border checks, and refugees with limited protection status will not be allowed to bring family members to Germany for two years. The coalition also plans to expand the list of safe countries of origin.
The centrist-leftist government also wants to continue to crack down on free speech and enforce the EU’s censorship tool, the Digital Services Act. Critical voices, called ‘hate speech’ by the coalition, will be deleted from social media platforms, if the government has its way.
“Zero tolerance” will be applied to “enemies of democracy,” and the spread of “right-wing extremist thoughts” will be “systematically combated”—ie. attempts at silencing and possibly banning AfD, currently the most popular party in Germany, will continue. Politicians who have been convicted of incitement to hatred, such as the leader of the AfD’s Thuringia branch Björn Höcke, could be deprived of the right to stand for election.
In the incoming government, the CDU party will take control of the foreign office, the economy ministry, as well as the ministries for health, transport, digitalisation, and education. The SPD will take charge of finance, justice, labour and social affairs, defence, environment, and development aid and construction. The CSU is getting the interior ministry, research and technology, and agriculture.
In the eastern German state of Saxony, a Syrian migrant has been arrested for stabbing a man in front of a supermarket, sparking large-scale protests for such a small town.
Only 16,700 people live in Heidenau, but like many locations across Germany, it is no longer immune to knife attacks and extreme violence.
Police stated that a 24-year-old and 43-year-old man became engaged in an argument in front of the supermarket at Schneller-Straße at 6:50 p.m., when the 24-year-old Syrian pulled out a knife and stabbed the other man, resulting in serious injuries.
🇩🇪"Our response is remigration, remigration by the millions!"
A Syrian migrant brutally stabbed a man outside a supermarket in Saxony, an eastern stronghold of the AfD party. The victim suffered serious injuries.
The Syrian appears to not be the only man involved in the attack either.
“When passersby intervened, another man came running with a baseball bat, but fled shortly afterwards in a Daewoo,” said police spokesman Marko Laske.
Police arrested the suspect shortly after the attack. His apparent accomplice who was armed with a baseball bat was also arrested, a 26-year-old Syrian, according to police.
The attack prompted a march from the small party “Free Saxony,” which is popular in the state but not active in any other state. They registered a demonstration on Tuesday, which managed to gather 300 participants despite the town’s small size.
The party wrote: “One day after a Syrian stabbed a man in Heidenau, causing a bloodbath, hundreds of citizens took to the streets. The banners of the White-Green Freedom Movement carry a clear message: We will not tolerate West German conditions in Saxon Switzerland. Our response is remigration, remigration by the millions!”
Saxon Switzerland is a region in Saxony known for its natural beauty.
Saxony is not only a stronghold of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, but it is also highly opposed to mass immigration in general.
In a poll, known as the Saxony Monitor and conducted every year by the Saxon government, 64 percent are of the opinion that Germany is “dangerously infested with foreigners,” which is 24 percentage points more than two years ago.
It also found that 82 percent of residents of the state, which features Dresden as its capital, have little or no trust in the ruling left-liberal government, which represents a drop of 26 percent since the last poll conducted in 2022.
Meanwhile, the AfD has now become the most popular party in the country for the first time ever, overtaking the Christian Democrats and scoring 25 percent of the vote.
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The AfD party is now the strongest party in Germany for the first time in history. pic.twitter.com/7bL2KgyW6p
NCF director Peter Whittle spoke some home truths to Oxford students recently. They did not like it. The very legitimacy of the British state hangs in the balance after the shocking betrayal of thousands of white working class girls by successive governments. Now after Labour refuses any enquiries, that betrayal is complete.
The European veil of leftist intellectual and moral superiority is starting to crumble. In recent weeks, we’ve seen Europe begin to take responsibility for its defense, the climate crazies seeing many of their goals collapsing under the weight of the twin realities of science and economics, and the rise of conservative politicians who are seeking an end to the immigration invasion. Zeitenwende in German means the end of an era or turning point in history. Europe’s possible return to sanity will be our story today.
Europe is now fully awake to the fact that the U.S. is not their on-call military, and they are now genuinely worried, not just performatively so, about Russia. European nations know now that they are, for all intents and purposes, at war, primarily armed with a checkbook and too little actual military hardware. Thanks to decades of cradle-to-grave benefits, in addition to their reliance on the U.S. for their defense, Europe essentially has no functional militaries.
As just one example of how this works, in 2014, when a hijacked aircraft was about to fly over Swiss territory, Switzerland was unable to police its own territory, relying instead on the French and Italians. In fact, when the French military called the Swiss to have them intercept the airliner, they got an answering service saying they were closed for the weekend and asking them to leave a message. That one anecdote explains so much more.
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Another aberration: Germany, Denmark, and Sweden allow their soldiers to join labor unions! You can’t make this up. Reality Bites.
When it comes to funding their defense, EU countries have two fundamental problems: 1. They all have low birth rates within their established native populations. 2. Their ability to provide those cradle-to-the-grave benefits has meant that European nations do not have money for guns and butter. Today, Europe is a paper tiger unable to wage modern sustained warfare.
European nations are trying to change, but it may be too little, too late. Germany has approved a €1 trillion spending package, marking its most ambitious defense initiative since World War II. EU-wide efforts include the “ReArm Europe Plan,” which aims to mobilize €800 billion for defense by 2030. This plan focuses on enhancing military readiness and supporting the European defense industry. NATO nations have increased their defense budgets, with 23 out of 32 members meeting the alliance’s 2% GDP spending guideline by the end of 2024.
As another example of the European leftist mindset, one unanchored to reality, let’s talk about the grand pronouncement from government-subsidized Airbus and the EU that, by 2050, new aircraft would be required to be zero emission. To those knowledgeable about airplanes and their development, this was always nonsense. Aviation Week published as much in its Viewpoint editorial.
After Europe and the rest of the world have spent tens of billions of dollars/Euros on electric, hydrogen, and clean fuel initiatives such as SAF, the balloon is bursting with the realities of science and economics. Airbus is giving up on hydrogen, and several other electric/battery technology companies are declaring bankruptcy.
The reality is that less than 2% of aviation fuels are SAF today, and the cost is as much as 4-10 times more than the jet-A fuel it replaces. Europe, being Europe, doesn’t see a problem. Reduced to its essentials, the Europeans said, “We’ll tax tickets to subsidize SAF.”
French authorities have admitted this will cause a massive drop in passenger traffic. Tres bon! Fewer passengers mean fewer flights and planes and further the green crazies who want to see an end to taking trips by plane anyway. Predictably, this nonsense is reaching its natural point of failure. The Emperor is now standing naked in front of all.
Finally, although those in power are fighting viciously, the European people are moving from center-left to center-right, especially regarding immigration. The center-right victor in Germany’s recent elections, Friedrich Merz, promised a radical crackdown on migration during his campaign, proposing that all illegal aliens be turned away at the border. Jens Spahn, a German parliament member, emphasized the need to “secure Europe’s external borders“ and strengthen Frontex’s mandate to ensure freedom within the Schengen area.
Greece and Croatia have been accused of forcibly returning migrants, a practice known as “pushbacks.” The Poland-Belarus border reports highlight systemic pushbacks, with migrants being forcibly returned to Belarus under harsh conditions. This reflects Poland’s firm stance on controlling illegal crossings. Some European nations have introduced laws to expedite deportations and limit asylum applications, signaling a shift towards stricter immigration policies.
One last thing. Trump’s recent tariff moves have scared Europeans. With a trade imbalance of over $200 billion, Europe has little choice but to negotiate from a position of weakness. Europe is dependent on a lot of U.S. tech, banking, and military hardware—Europe’s inability to rise to challenges further cements America’s advantage.
Say what you will, but you can thank President Trump for getting Europe on the move!
Barely six weeks after the German federal elections, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has topped a voter survey for the first time ever.
On April 9, Ipsos published the results of its latest survey that revealed a quarter of the German electorate would now cast their vote for the AfD. The Conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which won the February 28 elections with 29 per cent of the vote, was down to 24 per cent.
That followed the criticised performance of CDU leader Friedrich Merz in the coalition talks with the left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Merz had previously ruled out any co-operation with AfD even though many of his election promises – primarily to curb illegal immigration and migrant crime – were similar to the right-wing programme.
That made Merz vulnerable to excessive demands from the SDP, to which in the eyes of many Conservatives he did not put up enough resistance.
The Ipsos surveying service dated back to 2016, based on an online panel of at least 1,000 respondents.
The pollsters correctly predicted the result of the February election, including the 21 per cent share for the AfD. In the last survey before the current one, published on March 7, CDU still scored 29 per cent and the AfD 22 per cent.
The latest poll also showed rising support for the hard-left Die Linke party, the successor to the former East German Communist party. Die Linke was up from 9 per cent at the ballot box to 11 per cent in the Ipsos survey.
The results were particularly damning for Merz as CDU leader.
When he first ran for the party leadership in 2018 – unsuccessfully – he said the party could “again reach up to 40 per cent of the vote and halve AfD”.
The voter dynamic is now moving in the opposite direction.
What happened with Marine Le Pen, the most popular politician in France who was just banned from standing for election on the flimsiest of pretenses, is no exception. It’s becoming the rule around the West and in other places, too, where being outside the mainstream of authorized establishment left-leaning globalist politics has become criminalized. In some places, like the UK and Spain, it takes the form of persecuting people for saying things that those in power don’t want to hear. In other places, like Germany, upstart populist parties that earned a significant number of votes are informally, and sometimes formally, marginalized and threatened with being banned. But it’s the criminal persecution of leaders that is becoming the go-to. It happened to Bolsonaro in Brazil, Netanyahu in Israel, Georgescu in Romania, and Le Pen in France. In each of these cases, the establishment authoritarians essentially attempted to frame a politician they couldn’t beat at the ballot box. Of course, their American analogs tried to do the same thing to Donald Trump here, and when that didn’t work, their allies tried to murder him. Thankfully, they failed at both – with the people who instigated these atrocities too dumb to know that they are the ones who should be the most thankful they failed.
These are not the acts of strong and confident leaders who believe in the strength and popularity of their ideology. These are the cowardly acts of authoritarians who differ from Putin not in their nature but only in their extent. They haven’t thrown anybody out of a fifth-story window yet that we know of, though we don’t know if they actively put the murderer who tried to kill Trump in Butler up to it – the one who tried to ambush him in Florida was an active member of their collective – but they would’ve cheered if either attempt had succeeded. Thankfully, America was not so far gone that the people’s choice could not prevail, though the resisters in the judiciary, the regime media, and elsewhere are doing everything they can to ensure that the man the people elected to govern can’t actually exercise the powers of office.
The European authoritarians, however, still have the ability to crush dissent. There are several reasons why, including the fact that most of the good Europeans long ago left for America, and the ones who remain are largely degraded and pathetic people. After all, Europe is an exhausted culture, too weak both morally and spiritually to come to its own defense. Its glorious cathedrals are museums now, and its armies are jokes. They can’t find the will or the courage to defend themselves, and Europeans have turned over their governance to corrupt, globalist fools who invite the Third World in to complete the destruction of what was the mother of civilization.
Americans are saddened and sickened by them. It’s difficult to explain to Americans why we should spend our treasure and put our blood on the line for nations that oppress their own people and embrace sham democracy. Even the UK, the father of our democracy, has turned into a political deadbeat dad. Why should we have a special relationship with a country that sends cops to the house of parents complaining about school policies? Under the Democrats, they tried to do that here, and we rejected it. We demonstrated at least a modicum of manhood in the face of this petty tyranny. But until the Europeans demonstrate their commitment to doing something about their own enslavement, it’s unclear how we might help. We certainly shouldn’t be protecting them from other European dictatorships – we have no interest in refereeing among oppressors. The fact that they need us to do so reflects their decision to essentially disarm and become pathetic welfare states teaming with foreign parasites and native cowards.
In short, America cannot be expected to – and is not going to – care more about Europe than the Europeans do.
Our response as Americans to fascist acts like the framing of Le Pen should be loud and bold condemnation and contempt. What they are doing is truly disgusting – and dangerous, too. We should say so, especially since their citizens can’t without fear of a knock on the door. The European ruling class hates hearing it, especially when JD Vance goes overseas and tells them the truth to their smug, pale faces. Their fussy fury when he exposes their fake democracy and lies about freedom is hilarious. But all they should get from us is talk. We should let them fend for themselves. They are unworthy of a special relationship, and it’s impossible to frame a coherent or compelling explanation of why a single American paratrooper should die in defense of any country that refuses to allow its most popular politician to run because the establishment dislikes her platform.
We should certainly learn the lesson here about what’s going on over there, although, as we’ve seen, the Democrats have tried many of the same tactics. That they’ve been defeated so far is a testament to the fact that Americans are not yet completely broken. We’re not ready to be serfs, and the fact that we have more guns than people provides a powerful backstop against the kind of tyranny the globalist left would love to impose in America as well.
I shudder to think of what would have happened if Trump had been murdered or if they had succeeded in knocking him off the ballot. But I’m not shuddering for my sake. If the stuff hits the fan, I and those like me will prevail. I’m shuttering over the fate of the morons whose greed, corruption, and stupidity would have sparked a conflict they are utterly unprepared to fight. And I do mean fight. That’s what happens when the ruling class uses a corrupt system to block the expression of the people’s will and leaves no peaceful path for it to be heard. We are very far from that here, but if it came to that, patriots would fight for our Constitution and our freedom. The elite and their minions? Who exactly would do their fighting? Who is willing to die to enact the Green New Deal, to impose DEI, or to allow dudes in girls’ toilets? Harry Sisson would flee to Canada to be a sex pest at the local Tim Horton’s before he ever picked up a rifle.
Will there be a revolution in Europe? France was once famous for its revolting people. There’s a lot of anger, but there aren’t a lot of weapons left among the citizenry – never, ever, give up your guns and, in fact, go buy guns and ammunition. On the other hand, there aren’t a lot of troops either for the governments to use to suppress their own people and force the people to accept the dictatorship should the Euro masses decide to leave their tiny, squalid apartments and take to the streets. The ugly truth is that civil wars don’t necessarily require guns. Hundreds of thousands of people were butchered in Rwanda with knives and machetes. Maybe Keir Starmer was thinking ahead when he banned ninja swords.
Civil wars are the least civil kind of wars. They are best avoided.
Or maybe they will just accept a picture of the future that is a wizened EU crone’s Gucci slipper stamping on a human face forever. Maybe manipulating the judicial system to ensure that the supporters of popular leaders are disenfranchised won’t cause any more reaction among the people than some grumbling in their bizarre foreign languages. But, if you’re familiar with history, and most of our elite no longer is, you might remember Julius Caesar and his crossing of the Rubicon. The Rubicon was the border to Italy that a Roman proconsul serving abroad could not cross at the head of his armed troops. Caesar knew that if he laid down his imperium and returned to Rome as a civilian, his political enemies would use the judiciary to destroy him. So, he didn’t lay down his imperium when he returned to Rome. He brought his legionnaires.
Now, one might point out that Caesar’s political enemies did eventually murder him after he essentially became a dictator in fact, if not title. That’s true. Caesar was famously merciful to his enemies. Several of the men who slaughtered him had received his pardon. The guy who came after him didn’t make that mistake. Caesar’s heir hunted down those murderers and killed them, along with a lot of other people. Augustus then made himself emperor, again in fact if not title.
In the end, the elite probably would have been better off not messing with Caesar and addressing the concerns of the plebs who adored him. Perhaps history is teaching us that today’s popular leaders like Donald Trump and Marine La Pen are not the people’s last chance. They are the globalist’s last chance.
A new meta-analysis covering 85 million people has found more evidence linking the COVID-19 vaccines to serious medical harms, although the authors appear to downplay the significance of their own findings in what one analyst calls the price of publication.
The study, published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine, analyzes the findings of 15 previous studies covering almost 46 million vaccinated individuals and 40 unvaccinated ones. The effects overwhelmingly concern the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots.
“Bayesian meta-analysis revealed a link between vaccines and CAD risk (OR, 1.70; 95% CrI: 1.11-2.57), particularly after BNT162b2 (OR, 1.64; 95% CrI: 1.06-2.55) and second dose (OR, 3.44; 95% CrI: 1.99-5.98),” the paper summarizes. “No increased risk of heart attack, arrhythmia, or stroke was observed post-COVID-19 vaccination. As the only noteworthy point, a protective effect on stroke (OR, 0.19; 95% CrI: 0.10-0.39) and myocardial infarction (OR, 0.003; 95% CrI: 0.001-0.006) was observed after the third dose of the vaccine.”
However, digging into the study’s actual data reveals a 70% increased overall risk of coronary artery disease (CAD); a 286% increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) after second doses; a 240% increased risk of stroke after a first dose; and a 199% increased risk of arrhythmia after a first dose.
The authors conclude that the “association of COVID-19 vaccination with the risk of coronary artery disease should be considered in future vaccine technologies for the next pandemic,” but curiously argue that “(w)hile acknowledging potential side effects, our findings support the overall safety of the COVID-19 vaccine concerning cardiovascular complications such as myocardial infarction, stroke, and arrhythmia.”
Commenting on the study, McCullough Foundation epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher argued that the discrepancy between the “actual data” and “how the authors spin it for publication” was to be expected, as “most will say anything to get the paper published” given the pervading biases among the medical establishment.
The data adds to a significant body of evidence behind ambivalence to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports 38,541 deaths, 220,494 hospitalizations, 22,247 heart attacks, and 28,908 myocarditis and pericarditis cases as of March 28, among other ailments. U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) researchers have recognized a “high verification rate of reports of myocarditis to VAERS after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination,” leading to the conclusion that “under-reporting is more likely” than over-reporting.
An analysis of 99 million people across eight countries published in the journal Vaccine “observed significantly higher risks of myocarditis following the first, second and third doses” of mRNA-based COVID vaccines, as well as signs of increased risk of “pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis,” and other “potential safety signals that require further investigation.” In April 2024, the CDC was forced to release by court order 780,000 previously undisclosed reports of serious adverse reactions, and a study out of Japan found “statistically significant increases” in cancer deaths after third doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, and offered several theories for a causal link.
In January, a long-awaited Florida grand jury report on the COVID vaccine manufacturers found that while only a miniscule percentage of the millions of vaccinations resulted in serious harm based on the data it had access to, such events do occur, and there are “profound and serious issues” in pharmaceutical companies’ review process, including reluctance to share what evidence of adverse events they did find.
All eyes are currently on President Donald Trump and his health team, helmed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. As one of the country’s most vocal critics of the COVID establishment and vaccines more generally, his nomination brought hope that the second Trump administration will take a critical reassessment of the shots that the returning president has previously embraced, although most of Kennedy’s comments since joining Trump have focused on other issues, such as conventional vaccines and harmful food additives, and during confirmation hearings he called Operation Warp Speed an “extraordinary accomplishment.”
A trans-identified male sex offender who attempted to enroll at a local high school in Oregon has been sentenced to 20 days in jail and two years’ probation. Alec Ray Craig, who uses the name Makayla Craig, 27, was arrested last December after an officer at at South Albany High School reported him for pretending to be a 15 year-old girl in order to register as a student.
Craig has told school administrators that his name was Madison and provided a false date of birth. Upon his arrest, it was discovered that Craig is a registered sex offender. He was then arrested on charges of computer crimes, forgery, and false swearing.
“The person appeared to be an adult but was portraying themselves as a 15-year-old girl. After further investigation, the individual gave a false name and date of birth attempting to enroll in high school,” a statement from Albany Police Department read. When announcing Craig’s arrest online, law enforcement turned off comments in response to what they regarded as “hate speech.”
Many replies expressed frustration that the authorities had not included a photo of the sex offender, who was convicted of sexually abusing a minor in 2023. Details regarding his prior conviction were also noticeably absent.
Craig appeared before Linn County Court on April 4, where prosecutors requested a jail sentence of 40 days.
“She, as a registered sex offender, is trying to pretend that she is a juvenile… to become- to be involved with other juveniles in the high school system,” said prosecutor Coleen Cerda.
However, Craig’s defense counsel argued that this period of time in jail would not “serve the purpose that we want” and proposed that community service would be sufficient.
“I don’t know that jail really serves the purpose that perhaps we want,” defense attorney Erik Moeller countered. “And compensatory service, or community service, would better serve the community.”
Craig was ultimately sentenced to 20 days in jail, two years’ probation and was ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from schools.
On social media, Craig uses various terms associated with online fetish communities to describe himself. He has referred to himself as a “femboi,” a label synonymous with the transgender community, as well as a “furry” and a “therian,” indicating that he identifies as a non-human animal. In June 2022, Craig posted a “transfeline Pride” flag to his account, indicating that he identifies as a cat.
Multiple local news outlets reported on Craig’s case while referring to the child sexual abuser as simply a “woman.”
