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Posted on 12/12/2023 8:00:29 PM PST by ransomnote
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
Links to the news articles at the site.
https://www.wildworldofpolitics.com/post/today-s-news-november-30-2023
Today’s News, December 13, 2023
The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow
Larry Schweikart
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Morning Consult still has President Trump leading by 2, but when others are included, by 4.
2) Congress will take legal action to enforce subpoenas against Hunter Biteme.
3) A gym owner in Groomer City (SF) returned after Xi’s visit to find an “unrecognizable” den of homelessness and drug abuse. And that was just the mayor’s office!
4) White Lizzo declared himself a “Brian Kemp Republican.” And that’s supposed to be a good thing? By the way, when did Kemp eat Morocco? Not MorroCAN-—the whole country?
5) Rutabaga, being his evil clodhpper, chodesprinkling self, snubbed hostage families on Hanakkah.
6) Florida’s Attorney General launched an antitrust investigation against college football over the Florida State snub. Seriously? This is what your AG is spending time on?
7) . . . while Illinois’ AG has backed off pursuit of the state’s pro-life pregnancy centers.
8) A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation to force the presidents of Harvard and MIT to resign. I would strongly oppose this. The federal government should not be involved in education-—neither funding nor in telling schools who their leaders should be. This should be coming from donors, alumni and the board.
9) This is a great response by the Tuckster as to speculation he should be President Trump’s veep: “God would have to yell at me very loud.”
10) David Blackmon: the COP28 conference ended up saying there would be a “transition away” from fossil fuels but not a “phase out,” meaning nothing happened.
11) Interesting: this paper argues that U.S. reliance on China for intermediate goods is strong but “hidden,” but that Americans make most of our inputs ourselves, There are some product/industry-specific supply issues that need to be resolved.
12) A further discussion of this is found in my favorite Lib, Noah Smith’s point number 3 He argues that we still make most of our inputs ourselves. Then again, in point number 2, Smith still wants to argue that the economy is fine when working-class Americans in particular know it sucks. And it ain’t just the media as he argues.
13) U.S. students do terrible in math, but “okay” in other stuff compared to the rest of the world. Now here’s the bad news: the whole “rest of the world” is seeing test scores fall dramatically after the introduction of smart phones. I warned about his in my e-book (available at the www.wildworldofhistory.com) called All Thumbs: How Our Obsession with Phones and Devices is Damaging our Children). Anyway, here is the data on worldwide test score collapse.
14) Love it. A CNN hostette was visibly shaken by Rutabaga’s recent polling showing “non-engaged voters” preferrred Persident Trump by astounding levels: 26 points in Georgia and 40 in Michigan.
15) Harvard’s attorneys protected President Claudine Gay in October after questions of her plagiarism arose. Of course they did. Why should a black woman have to worry about standards?
16) The Supes have accepted the first Patriot Day (J6) case.
17) Predictably, the brainless bottleknockers at the White House got the meaning of Hanukkah totally wrong. Gee, you’d think they could at least read that usually false Wiki.
18) DeSoros blamed the satanic statue put in the Iowa statehouse not on his ally Gov. Kim Reynolds, who has control over the situation, but on President Trump. The DeSorosoids are truly deranged, far worse than the Cruzers were at this point.
19) The new filing by Count Dooku (Jack Smith) may be a part of a broad DoINJustice scandal of “missing” Secret Service texts.
20) Oregon cops made the biggest fentanyl bust in history, then released the ringleader.
21) A new Florida poll has DeSoros at an all-time low in the primary race, down to 18% in his home state, while Pres. Trump is nearly 60%.
22) DemoKKKrats staged a map-coup in New York where a court threw out the old map. This may give DemoKKKrats four more House seats in 2024.
23) Good old ERIC, that mass-voter data bank that many states are pulling out of, gave voter data to activist political groups.
24) “I been saying it and sayin’ it. Ain’t I been sayin’ it?” (”Russell Case,” Randy Quaid in “Independence Day”): libtoids are freaking out that in fact President Trump will win. The latest is from the Atlantic.
25) Good reason for the Atlantic to be worried, as Rutabaga’s job approval falls into the 30s.
26) New horrific footage of a brutal beating at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school that was the scene of a mass shooting in 2018.
27) File under “Say what?” A 32-year-old Boston social worker drawing $54,000 a year instead of doing her job posed as a 13-year-old high school student at THREE different high schools.
28) A company hired by New Kabul to feed the illegal criminal migrants and paid $432 million to do so threw away some 70,000 meals worth a half-million dollars.
29) The coming war between black residents of major cities and the illegal criminals: it starts in Benghazi-by-the-Lake where the head of the Illinois NAALCP faces calls for her removal after calling the illegals “rapist savages” taking resources from blacks.
30) BINGO. Harvard has fifty billion reasons it can afford to be antisemitic, haters, and racist.
IN TRANSOID NEWS
31) Florida fined a high school for letting a boy play on a girl’s team. Good . . . BUT . . . this won’t be solved by gubment. It must be solved by girls and by parents NOT tolerating this. Gubment is a bandaid.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
32) Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, said America is going to look like Mumbai before too long. Bob, it already is in Groomer City, Benghazi-by-the-Lake, and New Kabul.
22) Tesla has recalled nearly all American vehicles.
23) Rod Stewart listed his New Calcutta (LA) mansion for $80 million saying the city has a “toxic” culture. Yeah, duh. BTW, Rod, does that sale price include your amazing model railroad collection?
33) Yeah, this Rutabaga economy is just humming: JPMorgan-Chase exec says by mid-2024 most Americans will have less money in the bank than pre-pandemic. Er, dude, that was Trumptime, when the livin’ was easy.
34) ..The tallest hotel in Las Vegas, the Fountainbleu, finally opens after sitting unfinished for 10 years.
35) Sports Illustrated fired its CEO after the publication used AI to produce product reviews written by fake authors. Course, putting a transoid on the cover didn’t rate.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
36) The ChiCom economy falls into deeper deflation.
37) Israel started pumping sea water into the terror tunnels in Gaza. Good. Flush out all those murdering SOBs.
38) Remember when we didn’t have medical boards and med schools? We may be heading back that way. Canada wants docs to focus less on medical expertise and more on race consciousness.
39) Cambridge scientists have made a breakthrough in cancer treatments though a “Trojan Horse” procedure.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4203385/posts?page=1
Boston mayor under fire for ‘no whites’ Christmas party for city’s ‘Electeds of Color’
nypost ^ | 12/13/2023 | ryan king
Pharma Giant Paid ‘Elite’ Obesity Specialists $25.8 Million To Promote Weight Loss Drugs
Excerpt:
An “elite” and influential group of obesity specialists over the last decade pocketed at least $25.8 million in payments from Novo Nordisk, maker of weight loss drugs Wegovy and Saxenda, in exchange for promoting the drugs in their lectures, treatment guidelines, clinics and medical societies, according to an investigation by Reuters.
“Those payments are part of a campaign to convince U.S. doctors to make Wegovy one of the most widely prescribed drugs in history — and to persuade skeptical insurers to pay for it,” according to the report.
Wegovy and Saxenda have rapidly transformed the treatment of obesity in the U.S., with a boom in prescriptions so big in 2023 that JP Morgan doubled its 10-year sales projection, predicting sales of $71 million for the drugs by 2032.
Despite the drugs’ serious side effects — including major gastrointestinal issues, self-harm behaviors and cancers — the Association of American Pediatrics recommends the drugs in its new clinical guidelines, the American Medical Association urges insurance carriers to cover the drugs, and the mainstream and medical press heavily promote them.
n “elite” and influential group of obesity specialists over the last decade pocketed at least $25.8 million in payments from Novo Nordisk, maker of weight loss drugs Wegovy and Saxenda, in exchange for promoting the drugs in their lectures, treatment guidelines, clinics and medical societies, according to an investigation by Reuters.
“Those payments are part of a campaign to convince U.S. doctors to make Wegovy one of the most widely prescribed drugs in history — and to persuade skeptical insurers to pay for it,” according to the report.
Wegovy and Saxenda have rapidly transformed the treatment of obesity in the U.S., with a boom in prescriptions so big in 2023 that JP Morgan doubled its 10-year sales projection, predicting sales of $71 million for the drugs by 2032.
Despite the drugs’ serious side effects — including major gastrointestinal issues, self-harm behaviors and cancers — the Association of American Pediatrics recommends the drugs in its new clinical guidelines, the American Medical Association urges insurance carriers to cover the drugs, and the mainstream and medical press heavily promote them.
.....Dr. Arthur Kellermann, a health administrator and former dean of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, the U.S. military’s medical school, told Reuters the investigation sheds light on a long-standing problem in the drug industry.
He called the payments “morally and ethically way over the line,” adding:
“The pharmaceutical industry still sees value in paying medical thought leaders to promote their products, and too many of them are happy to sign up for a six- or seven-figure check …
”As sales grow, Medicare and the insurance industry come under intense pressure to pay for these hugely expensive drugs … The end result is that everybody’s healthcare costs go up.”
Another recent report by investigative journalist Lee Fang similarly found a wide network of celebrities, physicians, patient advocacy groups, public health experts, academics, and community leaders have appeared in dozens of media outlets to tout the drugs without disclosing their financial ties to Novo Nordisk.
Which doctors take money from Novo Nordisk?
For example, Novo paid Lee Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., chief of obesity medicine at Dartmouth’s medical school, former head of Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard, $1.4 million for consulting work and travel related to the two drugs between 2013 and 2022.
.....Another physician, Dr. Donna Ryan, former president of The Obesity Society and member of The Diplomate at the American Board of Obesity Medicine, has taken more than $1 million from Novo over the last decade, including $600,691 related to Wegovy and Saxenda.
Ryan was instrumental in persuading the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to cover Wegovy and similar drugs for millions of federal workers, an agency official told Reuters.
.....STOP medical director Dr. Scott Kahan, who will assist in writing The Obesity Society’s new “standards-of-care” guidelines that primary-care doctors commonly use as a quick-reference guide, has accepted more than $300,000 from Novo.
Dr. Jamy Ard, of Wake Forest University, the incoming president of The Obesity Society who will oversee the guideline writing, has taken over $200,000 from Novo.
She, Dr. Ryan, and obesity specialist Dr. Ken Fujioka, director of the Scripps Clinic Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center in San Diego, have taken 130 Novo-paid trips over the past decade, traveling to make speeches and do consulting.
.....The 2020 U.S. approval of Novo Nordisk’s Saxenda, a once-daily injection for weight loss, opened a new era of pharmaceutical-based weight management, The Defender reported.
This was followed, in June 2021, by the licensing of Wegovy, and less than a year later of Ozempic, which is indicated for Type 2 diabetes, but contains the same active ingredient, semaglutide, as Wegovy, and is prescribed off-label for weight loss.
Semaglutide drugs are taken as a once-weekly injection, which is considered a benefit compared to a once-daily jab. Liraglutide is a daily shot. Semaglutide is also available as a once-daily pill under the brand name Rybelsus, another Novo drug.
These drugs mimic the GLP-1 hormone, which assists patients in losing weight by regulating their appetite.
In November 2023, the FDA approved Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, another injectable diabetes drug, for weight loss. The active ingredient in Zepbound, tirzepatide, sets this drug apart from Wegovy and Ozempic but it works similarly through a weekly injection.
Tirzepatide is sold by Eli Lilly as a diabetes drug under the trade name Mounjaro.
.....The surging popularity of the medication led to shortages and made Novo Nordisk one of the most valuable global pharmaceutical companies, behind Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly.
The shortages raised concerns because the drugs are not made for short-term use. Studies show that when people stop taking them, they regain much of the weight they lost, or potentially gain even more weight. Most people who start taking the drugs and want the effects to last will have to stay on them long-term.
But recent pharmacy claims data shows that most people who start taking Wegovy stop taking it within a year, some because of side effects and some because of the high cost of the drugs.
In addition to suicidal ideation and thoughts of self-harm, pancreatic cancer and gastrointestinal disorders, other adverse effects linked to semaglutide are also becoming apparent. A study using data from EudraVigilance, also found metabolic, nutritional, eye, renal, urinary and cardiac disorders were also reported.
The drugs also carry serious and under-discussed risks for pregnant women.
Despite the high drug cost and the associated risks, there is an ongoing debate about whether insurance companies and Medicare should cover the cost of weight loss drugs, which would increase profits exponentially.
Reuters reported that Wegovy’s U.S. prescribing label recommends the drug for anyone with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher, the threshold for obesity and for people with a 27 BMI who also have a weight-related medical condition.
That would cover about 46% of American adults — about 120 million people, according to the report.
A study published in March in the NEJM estimated that if Medicare were compelled to cover Wegovy, with an estimated 23% discount, it would cost $27 billion to treat just 10% of patients with obesity enrolled in Medicare. That would equal nearly a fifth of the yearly spending for Medicare’s program covering prescription drugs.
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Once again our fast food nation seeking a quick fix to a self induced problem, obesity. This also crowds out the Type II diabetics that are the intended users of the medicine. Also in their rush to fix their obesity they ignore the potential side effects, which are severe for these drugs.
Side note: Had a family friend who is classified as obese have her GP prescibe Wegovy. Her doctor did but stated it was for weight loss, she is not a diabetic. Medicare denied the script. If she wanted it would have to be out of pocket to the tune of $1,098.00 every 30 days. Needless to she did not fill the script.
The Russian’s are now capturing Ukraine Soldiers in their 70’s and children as young as 13 forced to fight for their country.
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I’ve been avoiding reading about the Ukraine/Russia war. Thanks for posting.
Weight-loss drug Zepbound now available at U.S. pharmacies
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/12/06/weight-loss-drug-Zepbound/1501701897797/
Excerpt:
he newly approved weight-loss medication known as Zepbound is now available for patients to take, drugmaker Eli Lilly announced Tuesday.
“Today opens another chapter for adults living with obesity who have been looking for a new treatment option like Zepbound,” Rhonda Pacheco, group vice president of Lilly Diabetes and Obesity, U.S., said in a company news release.
.....It was only last month when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Zepbound as a weight-loss medication. Tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Zepbound, had already been approved by the FDA as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes called Mounjaro.
To trigger weight loss, tirzepatide mimics two hormones, GLP-1 and GIP, which stimulate the release of insulin in the body. It quells appetite and slows the rate at which food moves through the stomach, helping patients feel full. Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss medication, Wegovy, uses semaglutide, which only focuses on GLP-1.
That difference translated to greater weight loss with Zepbound than Wegovy, a recent study found. Zepbound has been found to prompt up to a 20.9% drop in weight at higher doses, while Wegovy patients typically see a 15% reduction in weight.
.....According to the FDA, Zepbound’s most common side effects include nausea, vomiting, constipation and diarrhea.
The drug’s label will also have warnings about the potential for inflammation of the pancreas, gallbladder problems, low blood sugar, acute kidney injury, damage to the retina in people with Type 2 diabetes, and suicidal behavior or thinking.
.....Medicare and Medicaid can’t cover obesity medications, but Lilly said it is offering a savings card for people with private insurance to get Zepbound for $25 for a one- or three-month prescription if their plans cover it. For those whose plans don’t cover Zepbound, the savings card would lower the cost to $550 per month, or roughly half the list price, the company said.
Amid skyrocketing demand for weight-loss drugs, many of these wildly popular drugs have faced supply shortages in recent months.
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Approved for weight loss but still has some potentially serious side effects. But our quick fix nation will rush out to use it if they can afford it or get someone else to pay for it.
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power
than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
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OUTSTANDING.
Someone has gone operational, since the fifties. The whole world is overthrown by community organizing.
I thought that was a joke!
But they DID get the White Rabbit in there...
What a nice Thanksgiving you had.
Congrats!!!
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‘A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very very dangerous man who has it under voluntary control.’ -Jordan Peterson
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 12/02/2023 Vol.481, Q Day 2226, Farcesensitive wrote: rn: EXCERPTING FROM YOUR POST
David Icke
@davidicke
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Of course Alex Jones is back on Twitter/X. As I have been writing here, the ‘poll’ and waiting for God Elon’s pronouncement, has all been a GAME to hijack your perception and that of the Mainstream Alternative Media (MAM). You are being had, people, but most will never get that. They only see what is in front of their eyes, not what is weaved through what they think they see.rn: Personally, I think Trump uses similar tactics to get the conversation going. In this instance (Elon allowing AJ back on Twitter), it may be to drive the 'free speech' hypocrasy to the surface.
I believe Jones has served the Mossad, and likely still does.
But if I say Jones should not be allowed to speak, I join hands with the MSM and corrupt Congress and Jurists who believe that they can justify denying Trump airtime because 'orange man bad.' I believe Jones should be exposed or false information or world views should be debated and forced to survive the heat of public critique.
I recall one of the bigger MSM networks defending their rationale for not granting Trump equal time was that he is a liar and they couldn't in good conscience give him a platform to spread his lies. This, from the state controlled media? Oh, the irony!
As conservatives we win by having the better argument, not by refusing to engage any opinion but our own. The left's capacity to defend their believes started off atrophied and may no longer exist. The public square is where the weakest argument, and it's proponents are found insufficient and therefore rejected.
I agree.
My concern is with all the people that will not be allowed back on Twitter under Musk even though AJ is allowed back on.
Vox Day applied to be reinstated when Musk took over and said for people to apply to get back on and he never even got a response.
I know of others with greater or lesser reach in the same boat.
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