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• The Muslim Doctor Behind the First Cocaine-Laced Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant

• Britain’s vellum industry is booming (quietly)

• Golden daze: 50 years on from the Summer of Love

Horseshit

• Faster internet access has weakened civic participation in Britain

COVID / VaxCult

• People locked out of Japan by Covid

• Do Vaccine Mandates Work?

• Immunity against Omicron from breakthrough infection could be a matter of timing

• Covid parenting has passed the point of absurdity

• Pfizer CEO sees annual Covid vaccine rather than frequent boosters

• Natural immunity six times stronger than vaccines alone during delta wave

• Lives saved and lost in the first six month of the US COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective cost-benefit analysis

  We conclude that the number of lives saved by the spring-summer lockdowns and other COVID-19-mitigation was greater than the number of lives potentially lost due to the economic downturn.

• Where do we stand with Omicron

• Experts seriously doubt whether patent waivers on Covid-19 vaccines will ever come to be

• Early non-neutralizing antibody responses associated w. Covid-19 severity

• Researchers Worry COVID Will Quickly Develop Resistance To New Pills From Pfizer And Merck | ZeroHedge

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• UW issues list of banned words including “minority”,”grandfather”

TechSuck

• IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts

• Alabama farmer sues John Deere for ‘right to repair’

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Bitcoin Price Falls Below $35,000 in Tandem with Stock Selloff

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• White House mocked for Tom Hanks cameo that ‘The Simpsons’ predicted

• After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Why shoplifting is soaring across the US — and will only get worse

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Russia and China’s plans for a new world order

• UKRAINE CRISIS: US ‘Toolboxes’ Are Empty

• Report: U.S. Marines Returned Fire After Suicide Bombing, but No Enemies Were Shooting at Them

• Report: RT and Sputnik’s Role in Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

World

• Germany Roiled By "Political Earthquake": Navy Chief Resigns After Saying "Putin Deserves Respect", Warning China Is "Not A Nice Country" | ZeroHedge

Health / Medicine

• Oral Immunotherapy Induces Remission of Peanut Allergy in Some Young Children

• Author Sam Quinones on how fentanyl saturated the US

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing

• To survive climate change, Venice needs to rethink its outdated flood defenses

• New Nuclear Power Plants Are Unlikely to Stop the Climate Crisis