Biomedical. Dr Sam Bailey interviews a statistician who’s with the The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, abbreviated INSEE or Insee, which is the national statistics bureau of France., responsible for the production and analysis of official statistics in France. He’s got some amazing stuff.
Dr Sam Bailey, 6/25/24. 55 minutes.
Pierre Chaillot is a statistician and author from France who has been exposing the data related to COVID-19 since early 2020. Using official French figures he meticulously demonstrated that even on their own terms there was no “infectious disease” pandemic and it was all a show. In his book COVID-19 – Decoding Official Data, [Link]he explains how the public’s perception was manipulated with the promotion of statistics, some of which had been completely disconnected from the concept of health.
Pierre’s ultimate conclusion from his analysis of the numbers was that ‘SARS-CoV-2’ did not exist as claimed. This revelation led him to start investigating the statistics related to other claimed “viral” diseases such influenza. In analysing decades of data one thing became clear: the patterns do not support the virus model or the concept of contagion.
The mainstream media and “fact-checkers” did their best to smear his work but Pierre’s book (“Covid 19, ce que révèlent les chiffres officiels”) became a surprising best-seller in France where it sold over 50,000 copies. I had the great honour of writing a foreword for the English version of the book which is available here.
References [Links at the page]
My comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 6/25/24.
WOW! Writing here as someone who taught statistics (and math) at UC Berkeley for over 36 years (non-faculty instructor): it is really heart-warming to see the science of statistics to debunk the "COVID" Psy Op and the Virology fraud in total. Great job, Pierre, and Sam!
What really stood out was the lack of evidence of *spread*, which transmission is all about after all. Peaks in different nations were *simultaneous*.
And striking, how 90% of the people at the National Institute of Statistics just kept going along, in the face of what they saw from you. Intimidated into silence and complicity. The sad thing is that i see similar complicity on the part of people in the "freedom" movement who just don't wanna question the notion of this virus (SARS-CoV-2) or viruses in general, totally lacking in self confidence in their ability to do anything, and also not wanting to discredit the movement celebrities they've been following . Conformity masquerading as rebellion.
And, Eric Francis Coppolino has re-posted a classic item he put together back in November 2020 regarding a gathering he was a part of.
Recording of full day workshop near Hudson, New York, from Nov. 15, 2020, a week before the lock down officially ended in New York State. Eric Francis Coppolino, 6/25/24.
Go To Recordings [Link to the Planet Waves dot FM page, where there are several audio files, one for each segment]
Dear Friend and Listener:
Here is a little stroll down memory lane. One of the roles of Chiron Return - Planet Waves FM has been to chronicle events associated with the “pandemic” scenario. We did this with the hybrid projects Covid19 News and the chronology. However, I worked in physical space as much as possible, documenting as many events as I could get to. It’s necessary for those who consider themselves jouranlists to get up from their computer.
Thank you.
Recording Technician at Arklight
In November 2020, I was asked to be the recording technician at what was intended as an important event: rebel doctors Tom Cowan and Andy Kaufman would be speaking together for the first time at a place called Arklight in Ghent, NY. It may not seem like much now, but for me personally it was a significant turning point. On that day, with gatherings still illegal, I was still unsure whether there was a virus circulating. I knew the problems with the PCR tool being used as a test, but I was still uncertain about the existence of a virus.
Questioning that was a big step to take. It still is for many people. It turns out to be pretty easy to sort, and now the work has been done and confirmed.
The Virology Underground
On Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, about 100 people gathered at the unusual large, round, hand-built home of Dale Hartka, which came to be known as Arklight. There were no markings on the driveway; the location was somehow not in GPS; phones had to be left in the car. The speakers were Cowan and Kaufman.
I thought of this as the Virology Underground. How radical! People gathering to discuss medical science! It’s not the ‘60s anymore…
After the insanity that began in March — nearly nine months of social distancing, masking, shutdowns of businesses, closings of schools and colleges, empty streets, sanitizing shopping carts and subway cars, etc., people wearing gloves and goggles and the rest of it — suddenly everyone was gathered like nothing special was happening. It was quite amazing, for something so ordinary.
Ladies, Gentlemen, Children of All Ages
Men and women of all ages, boys and girls, little babies, dogs (and cats hiding in upstairs rooms) were sitting in an audience, interacting without any concerns whatsoever: no masks, no distancing, lots of people hugging and kissing their friends, all kinds of “breathing together,” sharing food at an ordinary (first class) potluck, and so on.
It was a shock to be around a LOT of people who were not worried about germs, and not worried for their kids, either. That was the thing: no anxiety at all. While I attended as the recording tech (and photographer), part of my intent was to immerse my body into a crowd and see if I caught a disease. I was, at least, confident enough to ignore everything Anthony Fauci was saying and get amongst some people and see what happened.
Needless to say, I didn’t catch anything. For the following year, as I sorted out the issues, I kept going back to Arklight and asking if anyone ever did; they did not. Eventually, with help, I pieced together the problems with germ theory. [Link]
With love,
My comment at the page,
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 6/26/24.
The people there were WAY ahead of where i was, a product of my being isolated in hard core Covidian Berkeley, with the only other people around i could affiliate with being worshipers of the "health freedom" celebrities. It took till Jan 2021 when i saw an article by Torsten Engelbrecht, Stefano Scoglio and Konstantin Demeter, that i really started questioning fundamentals. Glad you were around and that i eventually managed to come across you all and hook up.
And, an item common to both Biomedical and 4IR, some startling audacious statements made by Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr,’s VP running mate. See Alison McDowell’s latest blog entry, 6/22/24, which i discussed in the last edition, 6/24/24,
I watched the first and main embedded video. Gets into Woo Woo land quite often,, she seems determined to pack as many words into each minute as possible.:-) But in one good segment, she discusses this video below she has made out of segments from an interview with Shanahan. Basically, what McDowell says is that the RFK Jr/Shanahan government reform plan which Shanahan pushes is about turning government into a Blockchain platform, run by AI, using Bitcoin as its financial blood and using public health as a key legitimation tool.. This is a 10 minutes segment starting around 50:00 more or less. The video can be viewed at
The video she has made of a playlist of select clips from Ian Carroll’s interview with RFK Jr.’s vice presidential running mate and AI legal technologist Nicole Shanahan is here.
4IR. Starting with a BIG item, upsurge in Kenya in response to IMF-mandated austerity. First came this item yesterday.
Several killed as Kenyan police open fire on anti-tax bill protesters. Parts of Parliament building set ablaze as protesters storm the complex in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. 6/25/24.
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Several people have been killed after police fired live rounds at protesters trying to storm Kenya’s legislature, where lawmakers voted to pass a contentious finance bill that would hike taxes. Thousands of people joined the youth-led demonstration in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday to demand that lawmakers vote against the bill amid soaring tensions over a cost-of-living crisis in the country. But legislators voted to pass the bill, and some then fled the chamber as protesters breached the complex of the Parliament of Kenya. Parts of the Parliament building were set ablaze.
Police eventually managed to drive the protesters from the building amid clouds of tear gas and the sound of gunfire. The lawmakers were evacuated through underground tunnels, local media reported. At least five people were killed and 31 others were wounded, the Kenya Medical Association and several other NGOs said in a statement on Tuesday. It said that of the wounded, 13 had been shot with live bullets and four with rubber bullets. “Despite the assurance by the government that the right to assembly would be protected and facilitated, today’s protests have spiraled into violence,” the groups said.
Kenyan President William Ruto said that the security of Kenyans remained his “utmost priority”. Ruto called the deadly protests “treasonous”, adding that the debate over the tax increases had been “hijacked by dangerous people”.
Police opened fire after tear gas and water cannon failed to disperse the crowds. Kenya’s army has been deployed to support the police in controlling the “security emergency” which has resulted in the “destruction and breaching of critical infrastructure”, Defence Minister Aden Duale said in the official gazette. Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb, reporting from outside the Parliament building in central Nairobi, said on Tuesday that he had seen “the body of a young man who was carrying a Kenyan flag” a short while ago. “He had a bullet hole right in the centre of his forehead,” Webb said.
“Around us, we can see groups of uniformed police, some carrying weapons for tear gas – of which a lot has been fired – as well as many plainclothes security operators carrying guns,” he said. “We saw some of them earlier shooting into the crowds.” Internet monitor NetBlocks said on Tuesday that the country’s internet network service is experiencing a major disruption “amidst a deadly crackdown by police”.[SNIP]…..”
And, a startling turnaround today by President Ruto.
Kenya’s Ruto says finance bill to be withdrawn after deadly protests. President William Ruto says he rejects a finance bill that would have imposed a series of tax hikes after protesters stormed the Parliament of Kenya.. 6/26/24
Kenya’s President William Ruto has said he will not sign a finance bill that led protesters to storm Parliament in anger over rising costs, adding that the bill containing tax hikes would “be withdrawn”. “I concede and therefore I will not sign the 2024 finance bill and it shall subsequently be withdrawn,” Ruto said in a televised address on Wednesday. “The people have spoken.”
Ruto said he would now start a dialogue with Kenyan young people, without going into details, and work on austerity measures – starting with cuts to the budget of the presidency – to make up the difference in the country’s finances. His comments came after dozens of people were reported killed and scores more wounded as police broke up rallies against the contentious bill.
The move will be seen as a major victory for the week-old protest movement that grew from online condemnations of the proposed tax increases into mass rallies demanding a political overhaul, in the most serious crisis of Ruto’s two-year-old presidency. Shortly before Ruto’s address, activists called for new protests in Kenya. They called on demonstrators to return “peacefully” to the streets to honour those killed. “You cannot kill all of us. Tomorrow we march peacefully again as we wear white, for all our fallen people,” Hanifa Adan, a prominent organiser of the youth-led demonstrations, posted on X. “You will not be forgotten!!!”
And, analysis from a source totally outside mainstream media, Winter Oak.
Young Kenyans rise up against the global criminocracy! 6/26/24. LOTS of photos.
UPDATE. President Ruto has just announced that the Finance Bill will be withdrawn. It looks like victory for the young protesters, though calls are still being made for him to resign]
Tumultuous events have been unfolding in Kenya this week. Thousands upon thousands of young people have been taking to the streets across the east African country in protest at the Finance Bill being imposed by the government of President William Ruto. It was passed by parliament on Tuesday June 25, with opponents warning that it “will raise the cost of living despite many people already struggling to put food on the table”.
Although a number of the unpopular proposals were withdrawn at the last minute, this was not enough to quell public anger. In dramatic scenes, protesters stormed parliament buildings in Nairobi, starting a fire. And the police opened fire on the crowds with live bullets. A CNN reporter described how he “saw police shoot dead unarmed young men in front of Kenya’s parliament” and reports say at least five were killed in the capital. By 5.45am on Wednesday June 26, 157 casualties were recorded at Kenyatta National Hospital alone. In Githurai at least 22 people were said to have been shot dead by police.
If this brutal response seems reminiscent of the violence of past colonial repression, then that is because the same evil empire is behind it. The day before parliament was stormed, US President Joe Biden officially designated Kenya a Major Non-NATO Ally, “a powerful symbol of the country’s strategic importance to the United States, offering Kenya a range of military and financial advantages”. And the Finance Bill resulted from the fact that Kenya is currently submitted to “structural reforms” by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund – in other words by the global criminocracy.
As ever, debt is the tool of domination, with the “need” to pay off the imperial usurers used as the excuse to “gut the middle class” and “drive more people into poverty”, as one recent article put it. Kenyan people are being hit with a range of new taxes, which the government says are “to fund development programmes and cut public debt” – in other words to line the criminocrats’ pockets!
The murderous violence deployed by Ruto and his regime is hardly like to calm the situation. At the time of writing, the “7 days of rage” proposed by the protest movement had not ended, with calls for main roads to be blocked and President Ruto’s State House to be occupied on Thursday June 27.
A new hashtag has been trending on social media – #tupatanethursday, a mix of Swahili and English meaning “see you on Thursday”. And there are signs that other Africans could be inspired by the Kenyan revolt to rise up against the death grip of the global financial empire. As one Nigerian observer commented: “The bravery of the people of Kenya is an inspiration to the rest of Africa”.
And, from Winter Oak, the one really good section of the new issue of The Acorn, which like the site in general has unfortunately lost a lot of its quality over the last several months.
Electoral fraud: the illusion of democracy, Paul Cudunec, 6/25/24.
With big elections looming up all over the place, I thought this would be a good moment to remind people of what a fraud they are, on many levels.
i. Captured parties.
It has become very obvious to very many people, particularly since Covid, that the main political parties everywhere are all controlled by the criminocracy. No politicians are allowed anywhere near power unless they are signed up to the whole agenda of totalitarian “sustainable development”, public-private “partnership”, pouring money into Ukraine and pretending that Israel is not carrying out mass murder in Gaza. Control of the political parties has been in place for a very long time indeed, not just by means of bribery and blackmail but also through infiltration by the public-funded “intelligence” services set up to serve the criminocrats’ interests. Even the smallest and most insignificant political group is targeted and it is only a matter of time before any new initiative, no matter how genuine, will be taken over. If it cannot be successfully turned in a direction that suits the powers-that-shouldn’t-be, it will be destroyed from the inside by bitter disputes and splits, playing on existing fault lines and personal weaknesses.
ii. Why parties anyway?
A month or two ago, some friends and I secured a meeting with our local deputé (member of parliament), who is in the main left-wing opposition party, La France insoumise, to ask him some questions. High on our list was the threat of the WHO treaty, giving unprecedented control to a global body in the case of a future “pandemic”. Since he hadn’t even heard of the issue, one of our group explained it all to him and then asked him whether he agreed with us, in principle, that this was a worrying prospect. He wouldn’t give a personal opinion, insisting that he was committed to a collective outlook and that, basically, he would have to go and find out what the party line was before he could answer. This raises the question of to what extent an MP belonging to a political party really represents the people who elected him, or whether he in fact represents the party whose line he defends and which is in turn controlled by other interests. What is the purpose of the party system if not to prevent representatives from speaking and voting from their own convictions, or in response to the views of their constituents?
iii. The problem with representation
A deeper problem here is that of representation itself. When a population accepts to be “represented” by a politician they are essentially handing him a blank cheque to act as he (or his party) sees fit. He is under no legal obligation to carry out the promises on which he got elected and, when some new issue arises, is not expected to return to his constituents to seek their opinion. This clearly does not amount to democracy. One of the big demands of the Gilets Jaunes here in France in 2018-19 was for citizens to have the right to call for a referendum on important issues, with the direct voice of the public thus taking precedence over the indirect filter of the controlled “representative”.
iv. The shaping of opinion
There are issues even with this notion of direct democracy, though. One of these is the way that public opinion is itself moulded by mass media that are owned by the same criminocrats who control the political parties and, thus, the elected representatives. Covid showed us how effectively the majority can be conned by constant full-spectrum propaganda. These techniques could equally be used to sway a referendum. At election times, “opinion polls” relayed by corporate media form part of the manipulation, their real aim being not to reflect public opinion, but to shape it. If, for instance, a “problem” party was doing well and clearly had a chance of coming to power, the polls would announce instead that they had virtually no support and that people would do better to vote for one of the lesser-of-two-evils options. No real democracy seems possible without an independent media to properly inform the public.
v. Centralised society
A further barrier to democracy is the centralised nature of our societies – centralised nationally, transnationally (such as Europe) and globally. Power flows from the top downwards, not from the people upwards, as would be the case in an actual democracy. Agendas are imposed, institutionally, and elected representatives on any level can do very little to affect them, even if they wanted to. The prime example of this is the “development” and “economic growth” which is the motor of the criminocracy’s expanding wealth and power. The “need” for this has been written into the structure of our social organisation to the extent that public opposition to some new proposed monstrosity will always come up against a centrally-imposed brick wall. (For more on this, see this article). Real democracy would involve the localisation of decision-making, the end of global corporate imperialism and the restoration to communities everywhere of the right to shape their own destinies.
vi. A rigged game
Given everything I have been describing, do the criminocrats ever need to physically “fix” an election? I don’t know, but I am sure that if they felt the need, and had the ability, they would do so. We should not be so naïve as to imagine that they would simply stand back and watch, with a wistful shrug, if a population anywhere voted in a government that represented a genuine threat to their power and interests. If the worst comes to the worst, there is always the option of assassinating troublesome political leaders. Or of declaring yet another “emergency”, suspending elections and switching to the kind of direct authoritarian rule favoured in Nazi Germany or the USSR. At the end of the day, their “democracy” is merely a device with which to distract and control us and, while it is has served their purposes well, they do not consider it indispensable.
And, Julian Assange is no longer under arrest, but at a big price for him and the world in general.
TALK THREAD: Assange Gets a Plea Deal, 6/25/24.
Late last night it was suddenly reported that after five years in Belmarsh Prison – and seven years essentially under house arrest in the Ecuadorian embassy – Julian Assange was pleading guilty as part a deal to secure his release. The reported terms of the deal are that Assange will plead guilty to an infringement of the US Espionage Act, in return for a five year time-served sentence and the freedom to return home to Australia.
A plane carrying Assange reported left the UK late last night, bound for the US protectorate of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific. After a hearing there, he will be flying to Australia. Although his family/team have posted photos and video to social media, Assange has yet to make a public comment.
A potential plea deal looked on the cards when the mainstream attitude to Assange notably softened last month. It’s middle-ground between the outright conviction and much-talked-about pardon (although a pardon is still possible, even with a plea deal, and Stella Assange told the media they intend to pursue one.).
If all is as it appears, and Assange is indeed being freed after 12 years of confinement without conviction, that is a deserved victory for Assange and his family. The question is, is it a victory in principle for free speech? After all, he has not been declared innocent. The plea deal still admits to wrong-doing, and still sets the precedent of convicting journalists and publishers simply for reporting facts. That’s a bad precedent. Another in a line of bad precedents the Assange case has been used to push – from detention without trial to trials in absentia.
Whatever happens it will be interesting to see the story develop, and to see what role – if any – Julian Assange will look to take in the alt-media landscape moving forward. But what do you think? Feel free to discuss in the comments below.
My comment at the page
Jeffrey Strahl, Jun 25, 2024 6:45 PM [UT]
He pleaded guilty, thus setting a precedent. That’s the core of the matter. The consequences are a different matter altogether.
Ending this segment and this edition, some startling numbers about the effects of CO2., from the Royal Netherlands Institute For Sea Research.
CO2 puts heavier stamp on temperature than thought, 6/21/24.
A doubling of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause an increase in the average temperature on earth from 7 to even a maximum of 14 degrees. [ degrees C, per EU standard] That is shown in the analysis of sediments from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, by researchers at NIOZ and the Universities of Utrecht and Bristol. The results were published in this week’s Nature Communications. “The temperature rise we found is much larger than the 2.3 to 4.5 degrees that the UN climate panel, IPCC, has been estimating so far”, said the first author, Caitlyn Witkowski.
45-year-old drill core
The researchers used a 45-year-old drill core extracted from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. “I realized that this core is very attractive for researchers, because the ocean floor at that spot has had oxygen-free conditions for many millions of years,” said Professor Jaap Sinninghe Damsté, senior scientist at NIOZ and professor of organic geochemistry at Utrecht University. “As a result, organic matter is not broken down as quickly by microbes and more carbon is preserved,” Damsté said. He was also the supervisor of Witkowski, whose doctorate thesis included this research.
Unique time series
“CO2 over the past 15 million years has never before been examined from a single location,” Witkowski said. The upper thousand meters of the drill core correspond to the past 18 million years. From this record, the researchers were able to extract an indication of the past seawater temperature and an indiction of ancient atmospheric CO2 levels, using a new approach.
Derived temperature
The researchers derived the temperature using a method developed 20 years ago at NIOZ, called the TEX86 method. “That method uses specific substances that are present in the membrane of archaea, a distinct class of microorganisms,” Damsté explains. “Those archaea optimize the chemical composition of their membrane depending on the temperature of the water in the upper 200 meters of the ocean. Substances from that membrane can be found as molecular fossils in the ocean sediments, and analyzed to this day.”
CO2 from chlorophyll and cholesterol
The researchers developed a new approach to derive atmospheric CO2 content by using the chemical composition of two specific substances commonly found in algae: chlorophyll and cholesterol. This is the first study to use cholesterol for quantitative CO2 and the first study to use chlorophyll for this time period. To create these substances, algae must absorb CO2 from the water and fix it via photosynthesis.
Damsté: “A very small fraction of the carbon on Earth occurs in a 'heavy form,' 13C instead of the usual 12C. Algae have a clear preference for 12C. However: the lower the CO2 concentration in the water, the more algae will also use the rare 13C. Thus, the 13C content of these two substances is a measure of the CO2 content of the ocean water. And that in turn, according to solubility laws, correlates with the CO2 content of the atmosphere.”
Using this new method, it appears that the CO2 concentration dropped from about 650 parts per million, 15 million years back, to 280 just before the industrial revolution.
Stronger relationship
When the researchers plot the derived temperature and atmospheric CO2 levels of the past 15 million years against each other, they find a strong relationship. The average temperature 15 million years back was over 18 degrees: 4 degrees warmer than today and about the level that the UN climate panel, IPCC, predicts for the year 2100 in the most extreme scenario.[In other words, the current IPCC estimate, which as is stated at the beginning is WAY too low]“So, this research gives us a glimpse of what the future could hold if we take too few measures to reduce CO2 emissions and also implement few technological innovations to offset emissions,” Damsté said. “The clear warning from this research is: CO2 concentration is likely to have a stronger impact on temperature than we are currently taking into account!”
Lots of new stuff to digest. Dontcha you just hate it when the dinosaurs were warmer than we are? No high heating bill for them!