Dawn Penguin

Mom to six great living kids (plus four in Heaven), homeschooler, procrastinator.

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@2micsandapiano That doesn't look like fruit...

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@Fat_Electrician Minimum wage hasn't changed since 2008. Everything else has. There's a problem there.

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@NuclearWinter69 @scrowder It means she finds women attractive

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@choffman12 @louisa40 @deancain The person is speaking literally... *Follow* as in go where they're working and get in their way.

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@Jonno2222 @Logjammin2112 @PKikos @elonmusk My understanding is that her district is nearly all Somalian, so of course they'll keep her in.

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@WeSee2024 @Phil_Lewis_ He didn't create the picture.

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@FaTaLiTy_XLR8 @elonmusk Snail mail and phone calls to your politicians would be more effective.

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@TroubleMayhem @Mawnstar1 @elonmusk I disagree. People don't get boob jobs and butt surgery because of "who they are" but because of "how they want to look" - and, personally, I think that's a poor choice, too. Hair dying is completely different, as it doesn't fundamentally change anything and it will grow out.

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@caringguy1957 @DonaldJTrumpJr If I understand it correctly, they could avoid the tariffs by not getting things from overseas...

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@Socialist_Crow @antikommunistic @StaceyThomp86 @OneReal83661 @elonmusk The facts - about weather and climate - have been out there for less than 200 years (recorded weather patterns and statistics).

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@clownworld Insurance

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@IsHere36 @SmithTobor911 @bonchieredstate One doesn't prove a negative. The accusers are unable to *prove* it's truth, either, so there we are.

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.@CocaCola you should totally bring back the "buy the world a Coke" commercial for a month or so to get it back in people's minds... The original song plays in grocery stores and those of us who remember it immediately think of Coke when it plays... Bring it to a new generation!

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These revelations should be no surprise, given that the entire vaccine development pipeline - every 'voice' in the process - is underwritten by Pharma.

I.e. the COVID vaccines were only allowed to be launched upon the public because of a long series of bribes to the relevant parties.

I did a deep dive on vaccine development in a new book* (1,400 citations). Here's how The Science is arrived at:

- The clinical trial scientists are paid by the vaccine-maker (naturally).

(The few independent trials have a much lower success rate than the Pharma-funded ones. And they identify many times the side effects.)

- The trials’ 'armslength' ‘oversight’ committees (ethics, data monitoring, etc) are typically paid by the vaccine-maker too.

- The resulting studies are published in journals kept afloat by the vaccine-maker & other drug companies, via advertising.

- The journals’ editors, individually, are also paid by Pharma, via 'fees'.

(In 2014, each editor of The Journal of the American College of Cardiology received, on average, $475,072. Plus another $119,407 for ‘research’.)

Most stages in the lab-to-jab pipeline have this double layer of 'insurance'.

- The vaccine is approved by a national regulatory agency. These get most of their revenue from Pharma, in the form of fees.

(E.g. Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration gets 96% of its funding from the drug & vaccine industry.)

- So do the regulators’ ‘armslength’, ‘independent’ advisory committees.

For example, Britain’s regulator has the Paediatric Medicines Expert Advisory Group, ‘an independent advisory committee’ that provides ‘impartial advice’ on child vaccines. Its impartial advice is funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

- If they regulate 'wisely', those who work in the agencies also do well—in the form of good Pharma jobs when they leave.

(In 4 separate studies of departing FDA employees, half to two-thirds went to work for a company whose drug they'd approved.)

- The politicians who appoint the agency directors—& who govern vaccine rollout—typically enjoy lavish campaign contributions from Pharma, & a retirement replete with directorships & paid speaking engagements.

(In the first Trump administration, the Health and Human Services secretary was the former president of Lilly USA, & the chief of the FDA resigned to work for Pfizer.)

- The 'studies' (& regulatory findings) are then cited by doctors—who are funded by those same drug companies.

(British GPs get £10,000 per annum on average, for ‘education’. At least 700 US specialists are paid a million dollars+ a year.)

Such largesse, when it flowed from Purdue Pharma to encourage doctors to prescribe OxyContin, helped to kick-start the American opioid epidemic.

- Doctors' professional colleges are likewise underwritten by Pharma. (The double layer again.)

- The vaccine will be spruiked by 'patient lobby groups'—the Cancer Council et al—which are generally bankrolled by Pharma.

- The vaccine will be lauded in the media—whose largest advertiser is Pharma.

Pharmaceutical ad spending in the US was one billion dollars per month in 2022. It made up 75% of the total ad spend on television.

“Pharma is the biggest advertiser on television. If Pfizer is sponsoring your show, you’re not going to question the facts. It’s that simple. And, of course, that’s why they’re the biggest advertiser—so they can shape news coverage. That’s the point.” - Tucker Carlson

- Social media—which reaps $15 billion p.a. from Pharma ads—won’t promote posts critical of vaccines, & takes them down in their tens of thousands when asked to by politicians & health bureaucrats (who are sponsored by Pharma).

- Then there are medical schools, biomedical research agencies, govt health services, contract research organisations… All on the same payroll.

- Finally, the copious injuries that result from all this are reported to the 'vaccine injury reporting system'—managed (in the US & UK) by a company whose main clients are drug & vaccine makers such as Pfizer. As a British MP put it:

“The contract has been given by the MHRA [the regulator]—who are 86% funded themselves by Big Pharma—to a company which is funded by Big Pharma, to investigate complaints against Big Pharma.”

In the book* I dub the impact of this long list of paid ‘voices’ 'the chorus effect'.

The objective is 'end-to-end narrative containment'.

Most of the pipeline’s stages are shrouded in sepulchral secrecy. For example:

· We only know through leaks that Pfizer made governments put up central bank reserves, military bases & embassy buildings to cover it against claims for vaccine side effects.

· In response to a lawsuit seeking data from its Pfizer vaccine assessment, the FDA offered a staged release—one small section per month—till the year 2097. (The plaintiffs declined, on the ground that those involved in the case will by then ‘have died of old age’.)

Its messages reach the public ear from a wide array of sources—expected & unexpected, central & marginal, official & unofficial—to create an impression of broad, & very diverse, support.

The 'chorus' is hired via a financial inducement to every player in the system—& even at its edges—from the one party with an overwhelming commercial interest in the outcome.

"I do, yes—it's ten thousand sterling."

— Matt Hancock, British health secretary who oversaw the COVID response—on being asked if he had a daily rate for serving on a corporate advisory board.

I call it 'the chorus effect'. Everyone is paid to say the same thing.

There are parallels in other industries - war, oil, media, et al.

It can't be fixed within our present political design.

It won't end with a new President or party - or if it does the reforms will likely be rolled back by the next President or party.

It will end with new democratic architecture.

*The Mechanics of Changing the World: Political Architecture to Roll Back State & Corporate Power. (Constitutional structures to billionaire-proof our societies.)

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@tremblay_gwyn @Timcast SNAP already doesn't pay for booze or cigarettes.

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@darkdude20001 @jeff_4_ever @Timcast Actually, it never had anything to do with farmers. Farmers work by the sun, not the clock. It was a WW (1 or 2... I think 2) thing for the factories.

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@cd8Tc @elonmusk Didn't last time... Why do people assume he will this time?

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@mommapancakess @ShadowofEzra The reporter said "he"
And there is definitely no pink shirt on that person

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@florida_zia @bbomber1 @jrsheahan @iamnot_elon Not everyone uses the public schools.

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@AbqDent @ShawnaNonna777 @PegasusRomeo @richiebee @iamnot_elon 32% of 190k = 60.8k
37% of 3mil = 1.11mil
Seems fair enough to me.