Threk

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"I didn't want this vaccine. I felt like I had to take it."

His heart will never work right again. Four cylinders out of eight, and it will never get back to eight.

Three years on: nobody has taken responsibility. No compensation has been paid.

Jason, in his own words.

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The three cards that wouldn't fit above.

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In August 1997 a retired pathologist flew to a village on the Alaskan coast, paid for the trip out of his own savings account, and dug seven feet into permafrost until he found a woman who had died in 1918. Her lungs were still frozen.

He cut them out with his wife's garden shears, put her back in the ground, and mailed the tissue to Washington in four separate packages so that losing one would not end it.

He named her Lucy. There is no photograph of her.

Eight years later the United States government used what was inside her to rebuild the virus that killed her. A molecular biologist called the result, in print, perhaps the most effective bioweapons agent now known.

Every line of this is from CDC's own published account and the journals. Sources in the thread.

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IV. WHO PAID, AND WHERE IT IS NOW

14. On funding, CDC has said three different things, so we are printing all three and letting you decide. Its 2005 press release: the work “was supported in part with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health.” Its Q&A page: the work “was conducted at and supported by CDC,” with USDA, NIH and AFIP supporting “many other aspects.” Its 2018 retrospective: the reconstruction “was approved by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which partially funded the project.”

15. Fifteen days after the paper ran, on 20 October 2005, HHS added the reconstructed 1918 virus to the select agent list. It had not been a select agent while the work was being done.

16. CDC's Q&A says the virus used in those experiments “has since been destroyed at CDC and does not pose any ongoing risk to the public.” Reconstructed 1918 influenza is nonetheless still listed today on the federal Select Agents and Toxins List, and CDC published further experiments using the reconstructed virus in 2007. We found no public statement naming which laboratories hold it now. We are not going to tell you that it is gone, and we are not going to tell you where it is.

17. Johan Hultin died on 22 January 2022, aged 97. Of the 1997 dig he said the elders “gave us the opportunity to do something good — not just for themselves but for the whole world.”

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If safe means potential fever and cytokine storm as Fauci and Walensky expressed through text message on January 25th, 2001.

As you should know, these can produce increased risk or miscarriage or fetal death, disruption of embryonic development, preterm labor and delivery, and long-term neurodevelopmental impacts.

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IV. ONE MORE PATTERN

16. 1911 — Standard Oil is dissolved by the Supreme Court.

17. 1913 — The Rockefeller Foundation is chartered.

18. 1999 — Findings of Fact, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, paragraph 33, verbatim: “Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market.”

19. 2000 — The Gates Foundation appears in the annual report as a single entity.

Because we are not going to overstate it: the 2000 order breaking Microsoft in two was vacated in full on appeal in 2001 and the trial judge was removed. The monopoly finding largely survived. The breakup never happened.

We are not telling you what any of it means. We are telling you where to read it.

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“Leaders should encourage compliance.”

Bill Gates wrote that in a private memo in April 2020. The sentence before it is about people who want the restrictions lifted.

He emailed the memo to Anthony Fauci for edits, then sent it to the WHO and to policymakers.

Twenty months later he sent Fauci the manuscript of his book. Fauci spent that Saturday marking it up and emailed it back.

A private citizen was writing pandemic policy. The director of a federal agency was his editor. Neither of them was elected to anything.

All of it is in the thread below, and all of it came out of a 1,375-page package released by the U.S. Senate.

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III. WHERE THIS COMES FROM

13. Every quote above is from a 1,375-page package released by Chairman Rand Paul, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 31 July 2026. Every page carries the stamp “Released by Chairman Rand Paul.”

14. We read it ourselves. The April 2020 email is page 4. The memo runs from page 5. The book exchange is pages 871 to 875.

15. In the same investigation the Chairman wrote to the Secretary of Energy asking whether William Henry Gates III had ever held a Department of Energy “Q” clearance. That letter is page 2. We have read the question. We have not read the answer, so we are not going to tell you what it was.

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@NFL @Bengals @NFLPlus Missing from 38 in a stadium built entirely for people who kick things for a living. Somewhere in Madrid a man is screaming into a scarf.

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@NBA He talks himself out of proving people wrong and lands right back on it by the end of the sentence. Most honest quote of the season.

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@NFL @NFLPlus He makes it look easy, I pulled a hamstring getting out of the chair to watch it.

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@NFL @NFLPlus Somewhere a Bernabeu groundskeeper is watching them paint yard lines on his pitch and aging in real time.

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@historyinmemes Said the man who charged people by the hour to do it for them.

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@historyinmemes Somebody's entire job was putting smoke in the sky so the blast had something to push against. Quietly the best gig of the Cold War.

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@historyinmemes At some point the insurance company just started closing its eyes.