Common sense

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ― Mark Twain Fierce Mom. I Will Not Blink. Truth Prevails.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Dr. Ernie Fletcher, reportedly in the running for head of CDC, said Covid-19 “vaccine is a medical miracle” and “is safe, effective and our best hope of defeating COVID.” https://t.co/hBq1QekqD3

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself.

She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it.

6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on.

7:10am - Breakfast: a smoothie containing avocado. The avocado was grown in Michoacán, Mexico, on land where a pine forest was until 2019. It required approximately 320 litres of water to produce. It was flown to the UK. Chloe sprinkled hemp seeds on top. The hemp seeds came from China. Chloe felt connected to the earth.

8:00am - Got dressed. Polyester leggings, derived from crude oil. A bamboo top that was processed using carbon disulphide in a Taiwanese chemical plant. Trainers with a recycled plastic upper that sheds microplastics into waterways with every wash. Chloe's outfit today had a higher carbon footprint than a ribeye steak. Chloe does not know this either.

9:30am - Posted on Instagram about choosing compassion. The phone was manufactured in a Shenzhen factory using cobalt from the DRC, where mining operations have displaced local communities and killed an unknowable number of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. The algorithm served Chloe an ad for oat milk. Chloe liked it.

12:00pm - Lunch: tofu stir-fry. The soy was grown in Brazil. Brazil produces more soy than almost any country on earth. The primary reason is soybean oil: one of the most widely used industrial and culinary oils on the planet. The soymeal left over after oil extraction is fed to livestock as a byproduct. Chloe is aware of the livestock connection and finds it outrageous. She has not looked into why the soy was grown in the first place. The answer is the oil. The oil is in her salad dressing.

1:30pm - Drove to the garden centre. The car runs on petrol. Chloe has a Just Stop Oil sticker on the bumper. This is not being commented on further.

3:00pm - Bought a monstera. The monstera was grown in a Dutch greenhouse using natural gas heating. Chloe put it next to the pothos that is slowly poisoning the neighbourhood cats.

6:00pm - Dinner: pasta with cashew cream sauce. The cashews were processed in Vietnam, often by workers in conditions that would prompt significant commentary if they were in an abattoir.

8:00pm - Watched a documentary about factory farming. Wept. Posted about it. Caption: "We have to do better."

Chloe is, by every measure she has chosen to measure by, doing brilliantly.

By some of the others, the picture is more complicated.

Chloe has not chosen to measure by those.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

Round two. House lawmakers just advanced HR7567 to shield pesticide companies from liability. Apparently these companies don't think it is fair vaccine companies get to injure and kill with impunity and they don't.

Please contact your members of Congress and tell them you oppose HR 7567!

https://t.co/IyWojnrI2y

[Common sense @Commonsense0309]

@P4b57_0B4N @brockpierson Absolutely!

[Common sense @Commonsense0309]

@kacdnp91 Prescribed by veterinarians, too. After reading the public health authority notifications, I see there are symptoms of potential side effects and patients should be made aware and they should cease taking the drug. What about for dogs? How do they tell us they have symptoms?

[Common sense @Commonsense0309]

@RandPaul @_HeartofGrace_ It restores the 7th amendment

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

In 2023, long before the synchronised global rollout of under-16 social media bans, investigative journalist Whitney Webb outlined the WEF's plan to require digital ID to access the internet.

"People aren't necessarily going to consent to that unless they are made to believe that anonymity and privacy online are dangerous."

"So how exactly can you convince people that that needs to happen? Well, you have some sort of event where anonymous hackers do something online that causes major disruption globally."

"And then the consent can be manufactured through fear and panic."

Credit: @_whitneywebb @RedactedNews

[Common sense @Commonsense0309]

@ConceptJenius Hi - are these also valid concerns for dogs who take this ???

[Common sense @Commonsense0309]

@ConceptJenius Uggg -just looked at my dog’s prescription…
Any idea if these risks apply to veterinary use?
And I received no info from
The vet

[Del Bigtree @delbigtree]

A few days ago a judge decided he knows more about children's health than Robert Kennedy Jr. and every member of the ACIP committee... And everyone at HHS, the CDC, and other.. This is a judge with no medical degree, no pediatric expertise, and a lifetime appointment... and with one ruling, he erased the most meaningful attempt to protect American children this government has ever made.

Reuters called it "upending Kennedy's overhaul of childhood vaccine policies." Here's what actually happened.

RFK Jr. looked at peer nations (like Denmark and Germany) with healthy kids and functioning societies, and said let's see if there's a smarter schedule. What he found was that we give 54 shots of 72 vaccine doses. Denmark gives roughly half that. And Denmark has not seen measles come back, or polio come back, or smallpox come back.

None of the fear porn the American Academy of Pediatrics has been selling you has actually happened.

Meanwhile we went from 12% of American children with chronic disease in the 1980s to nearly 50% today. In 48 years, we have seen the greatest collapse of children's health in the history of this country, happening in perfect parallel with a vaccine schedule that grew from 12 vaccines to 54 shots.

You cannot look at the health of American children and call that program a success. You simply cannot.

So what did the judge do? He said RFK Jr. didn't run it by ACIP, the advisory committee that by everyone's understanding has always been advisory only. No binding authority, just an opinion, not a mandate. At least that's what they always told us when the committee was captured... And then when Kennedy moved to satisfy that requirement, the judge said he didn't recognize the current ACIP either.

There is no committee he recognizes. According to him there are no changes allowed in either direction, no new vaccines can be added, there can be no modifications for any reason, including a bioweapon attack. One judge has put the entire country in limbo to protect a rubber-stamp committee that has never once had a genuine skeptic in the room.

A committee where members like Paul Offit voted to add rotavirus vaccines to the childhood schedule while personally developing a rotavirus vaccine and didn't recuse himself. That's the balance they're defending.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, a trade organization funded by the pharmaceutical industry, went to court to make sure your doctor has no say in your child's vaccine schedule. They don't want pediatricians in the conversation. They want the government to decide.

This is what happens when you try to clean the swamp. The swamp has judges.

This case is not over. It's an injunction, not a final ruling. The Trump administration will appeal. And we will keep fighting.

Because the children of this country deserve better than what 40 years of this program has given them.

[Common sense @Commonsense0309]

@TrevorFitzgibb1 @jathorpmfm great news
Now I hope clinicians have the gumption and courage to use the new code

[BirthPowerBarb @BirthpowerBarb]

@HighWireTalk So a trade organization (AAP) is blocking the committee which is finally examining the safety of vaccines ?
Go figure!

[The HighWire @HighWireTalk]

🚨 Breaking today: a federal judge in Boston has blocked key parts of Secretary Kennedy’s effort to reform the childhood vaccine schedule, siding with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups who sued to stop the changes.

In January, the CDC reduced the number of vaccines routinely recommended for children from 17 to 11, leaving decisions about flu, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus, certain meningitis vaccines, and RSV to families and their doctors.  That guidance is now on hold.

The injunction stays the ACIP advisers’ appointments and any votes on further policy changes, though it does not prevent the panel from holding its scheduled meeting this week. 

This is the same judge (a Biden appointee) who wrote that HHS “removed all duly appointed members of ACIP and summarily replaced them without undertaking any of the rigorous screening that had been the hallmark of ACIP member selection for decades.” 

The American Academy of Pediatrics…Suing to keep more vaccines on the mandatory schedule for children. Let that sink in.

The pause is temporary as the lawsuit continues. This fight is far from over.

https://t.co/9QbtZZvmJ8

[Del Bigtree @delbigtree]

These numbers really hit me.

30% of the UK rejected this vaccine. This is the same number as in America, and the same number worldwide. Under the heaviest propaganda campaign in human history - under job threats, social pressure, guilt, and isolation - 30% of the world said no and held the line.

We think of 30% as a small number. It isn't. There is zero apathy in that 30%. Every single one of those people made a hard, conscious, costly decision, and they made it completely alone, with no idea their neighbor was doing the exact same thing.

That was the only thing that beat us. We weren't talking to each other.

The employees who stood together as the 30% and said "we walk out if you force this" kept their jobs. Every one of them.

Now think about the 70% who got it. How many of them actually believed in it? How many just broke under the pressure? At least half, I'd bet. Which means 50% of this world never wanted that vaccine.

They didn't win because they were right. They won because they made us feel alone.

You were never alone. You just didn't know it.

Start talking. You are the change.

[The Floridian @Floridianpress]

HUGE NEWS! 🚨

The FL Senate passed a bill allowing over-the-counter ivermectin for adults and creating a vaccine “conscience exemption” for schoolchildren.

The vote: 23–15.

#medicalfreedom

https://t.co/AWULTnKC3h

[The HighWire @HighWireTalk]

Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the godfather of vaccinology, sent @AaronSiriSG a letter.

He wrote that Siri's "shameful legacy" would be "dead and sick unvaccinated children" resulting from his "irresponsible anti-vaccination campaign."
Aaron Siri wrote back.

"Your dissatisfaction stems from the fact that our exchange revealed the damning gaps in the safety of childhood vaccines and that the discipline of vaccinology overall is unscientific and dangerous."

"Perhaps your biggest regret should be what was made clear in that deposition. Your approach to vaccinology is to presume vaccines are safe regardless of whether the evidence supports that presumption."

"I implore you to consider that those seriously injured, sometimes killed by vaccines, also matter. Their lives, their suffering, and their families - they matter."

And then the close:

"When the tide turns, and it will turn, you will be the face of that harm. That shall be your legacy unless you correct course. There is still time."

The deposition of Stanley Plotkin is one of the most important legal records in the history of this fight. 10 hours under oath. And it showed the world exactly what vaccinology is built on. We have uploaded the entire thing here on our X account.

We will never stop fighting for the families living with what that presumption of safety cost them.

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Yep, this would be me homeschooling my son as well… 😂

[Common sense @Commonsense0309]

@DaisyMayNot7 @thefoodbabe You can do both

[Vani Hari @thefoodbabe]

Announcing the largest food movement rally America has ever seen - to hold our government accountable for the corporate capture that is poisoning our children. Companies that are spraying our food with poison do not get immunity. See you on the steps of the Supreme Court on 4/27 and bring everyone you know. Please spread the word. #FoodBabeArmy

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

How to legally insider trade 101: Join Congress

You wake up at 5am. You put on a hard hat or a badge or scrubs. You drive to a job that doesn't care if you slept. You do it again tomorrow.

You've been putting $100 a month into your 401k since you were 26. You don't pick stocks. You buy an index fund because that's what they told you to do.

You get 8% a year if you're lucky. That's the deal. That's what regular people get.

Some months you check the balance and it's down and you feel it in your chest. That's your kid's college. That's your retirement. That's every time you told your wife "not this month."

You don't get to cheat. You don't know anyone. You just keep putting in the $100.

Congress doesn't play by those rules.

September 2008. Lehman Brothers just collapsed. The Treasury Secretary and the Fed chairman pull congressional leaders into an emergency room. So classified they take everyone's phones at the door. They tell the room the entire global financial system could collapse in days.

Congressman Spencer Bachus is in that room. He's the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee. Literally the guy in charge of overseeing Wall Street.

He walks out. Next morning he buys options that pay double when the market crashes.

Sells days later. Profit.

Same year, the Pelosis are sitting on shares of Visa they got at the IPO. She blocks a credit card reform bill. She's working for her bags. Visa pumps 2x. She makes bank. The market crashes 15%.

10 million families lost their homes. Housing dropped 27%. $4.2 trillion in household wealth just gone. Your parents' house is underwater. Your retirement is cut in half. People are losing everything.

Nobody in Congress lost anything.

Zero prosecutions. No consequences.

So what'd they do? They did it again.

January 2020. Classified Senate briefing on COVID. Most Americans haven't even heard the word yet.

Senator Richard Burr walks out and writes a public op-ed. America is "better prepared than ever." Everything's fine folks.

Then he dumps up to $1.7 million in stock. 33 trades. One day.

Your portfolio was at an all-time high that week. You didn't touch it. Why would you. You trusted the people running the country.

Two weeks later Burr is behind closed doors telling rich donors the truth. This virus is "much more aggressive than anything we've seen in recent history."

He told you it was fine. He told them to get out.

S&P 500 drops 34% in five weeks. Your savings of 20 years wiped in half. Just gone. Obliterated.

You're sanitizing groceries in the garage wondering if your parents are gonna make it.

Senator Kelly Loeffler is reallocating millions after her classified briefing. Senator Feinstein's husband dumps up to $6 million in late January.

1.1 million people died. And four senators were trading on classified pandemic briefings.

No hedge fund had that intel. No pension fund. No financial advisor. Nobody. Just them. Just the people in that room.

DOJ opened investigations. Quietly closed all of them. Burr finished his term. Retired with a full pension.

You buried your grandmother and watched your retirement account crater. They sold at the top.

Now look at this.

Your savings grow 8% a year.

Average hedge fund, where you need a million bucks just to get in the door. 6 to 11% a year.

Top 50 hedge funds on the planet. Smartest money alive. Billions in computing power. 12.4% a year.

Warren Buffett. Greatest investor who ever lived. 20% a year.

Nancy Pelosi walked into Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth $700,000. She's worth $240 million now. Her net worth is 40 times her entire lifetime government salary. 350x return.

In 2024 alone her portfolio gained 71%. The S&P did 25%. She beat all of them. Every hedge fund. Every quant. Buffett. Everyone. On a government salary.

Before they get power their returns are normal. After? Their trades start predicting earnings announcements before they happen.

ITS A RIGGED SYSTEM.

You get 8%.

They get whatever they want. Because they write the rules.

ABOVE THE LAW.

PERFECT CHEAT CODE.

Now think about this.

What if you insider trade once, whether on purpose or by accident?

A guy in Houston overheard his wife on a Zoom call about a company acquisition. Bought stock. Made $1.76 million. FBI showed up. Two years federal prison. Career gone. Wife gone. His lawyer told the judge he will never work again.

Martha Stewart. Avoided a $45,000 loss. Five months in prison.

Max sentence for insider trading is 20 years. Median is 30 months.

The penalty for a member of Congress who violates the STOCK Act. $200.

$200 fricking dollars.

78 members violated it in the last Congress alone.

Nobody got prosecuted.

Number of members of Congress ever prosecuted for trading on legislative knowledge in the entire history of the United States. Zero.

86% of Americans want to ban congressional stock trading.

Can't even get a vote on it.

Because the people who'd have to vote for the ban are the ones making money off it.

This whole economy. $30 trillion. Built by the people waking up early and putting in the $100 a month and wearing the hard hat and the badge and the scrubs.

You built it. You played by the rules. You got 8%.

535 people who never built a thing in their lives are skimming the top with information they didn't earn and immunity they gave themselves.

That's the system. Its pure crime. Hypocrisy of the highest level.

Insider trading for me. Prison for thee.

So you want to insider trade and maybe pay a $200 fine? Join Congress and work for your bags.