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Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million From Taxpayer and Gates Foundation Among Others to Promote Segregation in Public Schools

by Will Jones
16 October 2024 6:10 PM

Sharif El-Mekki, an adviser to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, is a black nationalist with family ties to Iran who supports school segregation and runs a nonprofit that has raked in nearly $20 million from the taxpayer and nonprofits, including the Gates Foundation. Francesca Block in the Free Press has more.

El-Mekki, a former middle and high school teacher and principal, founded the Centre for Black Educator Development (CBED) in 2019, which defines its vision as “a world where… all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers,” and where “all teachers demonstrate high levels of expertise in anti-racist mindsets”. CBED argues that employing black teachers to educate black students increases educational outcomes.

Since its founding, CBED has trained thousands of teachers across the U.S. in “education activism”, urging a “commitment to liberation education from the racism inherent in America’s institutions, including our schools”. A CBED information packet titled ‘The Anti-Racist Guide to Teacher Retention’, developed with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, defines education as “a political act” that “can upend white supremacy and a racist history of using education as an oppressive social force”. 

“Every lesson plan is a political document, and every classroom interaction a political statement,” the guide reads. 

El-Mekki’s nonprofit boasts more than $19.5 million in assets, boosted by funders including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which donated over $1.4 million between 2020 and 2021, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which gave over $1.1 million in 2022, according to public tax filings. Other backers include NBC Universal, Nike, the Bezos Family Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania School of Education and dozens more. In 2023 alone, CBED trained more than 1,700 educators. In its most recent tax filing from 2023, El-Mekki drew a salary of $233,410 from the organisation.

“He started up this organisation, which on paper sounds like a really wonderful endeavour, getting more black teachers in the classroom,” said Dr. Mika Hackner, a Senior Research Associate at the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, which drafted a report on El-Mekki’s extremist views and activism that she shared with the Free Press. “But if you scratch beneath the surface — not even beneath the surface, it’s on its website — he’s propagating some pretty dangerous and divisive ideas.” 

El-Mekki, she added, is “bringing in segregation by a different and more socially and politically acceptable name”. 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Anti-RacismBill and Melinda Gates FoundationBill GatesRacial SegregationRacismUnited StatesWoke Waste

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

Look what happened to “cases” in Israel after they launched their booster programme at the end of July.

Still, I expect that was just another cock-up.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Also look at the Deaths graph, same timescale.

Still, I’m sure it will all work out differently in the UK.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Am I reading the Y axis correctly? The death rate is running at 3 per million!!! Or 0.0003% and I assume that’s with people tested as positive. (I see that the typical person dying with Covid on the death certificate is 85 with 5 or more comorbidities. Or use to be known as dying of old age).

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

That’s why the Covideers hate absolute risk reduction figures.

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MTF
MTF
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

3 per million seems like a very small amount but remember that is every day.

Here’s a way of putting it in perspective.

The population of Israel is 9.2 million – so 3 per million per day is about 27 people a day.

In pre-Covid times Israel’s crude mortality rate was about 5.2 per thousand per year which works out as about 140 deaths a day. So 3 per million per day is about 20% of the usual crude mortality rate.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  MTF

That does after all assume COVID deaths are all additional and not substitute for those dying of other comorbidities.

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MTF
MTF
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

I don’t agree. If seems to me quite significant that 20% of deaths were from a different cause in 2021 than in previous years. The main point being that 20% of deaths is significant in most contexts.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  MTF

Ummm, so are you saying/hinting/implying/adducing that the “different cause” resulting in “20% of deaths” was “because of” CV19? Don’t think it is a straightforward as that with “official statistics”, is it, especially when you consider that the NHS, for example, is being less than open with the number of people in hospital infected with SARS COV2 – there appears to be no split between “vaccinated” or “unvaccinated”(I acknowledge I might have missed that stat) and they do not disclose, in the recent presentation of these data, how many people were hospitalised, vaccinated or unvaccinated, without infection and then acquired the infection …in hospital? ( I gather the NHS has these stats buried in the “small print” and have been ticked of more than once by the Statistics watchdog ). This is important when you consider the NHS stats confirm that – to date – less than 200 people have died of SARS COV2 derived CV19 with no co – morbidities and these data are now universally described on MSM as “deaths within 28 days of a positive test”.

May I ask if you are still of the opinion that the spike protein disappears from your body “in a couple of days”?

Of course , for some people it may well do; but that comment you made the other day was not qualified in any way so we are left to deduce that you refer to all jabbed individuals? And that is in the light of studies of which I cannot imagine you are unaware that show the spike protein can persist in the body for much much longer – testimony from Pathologists who carried out post mortem histologies being unimpeachable – as well as other studies which show that it IS the spike protein that causes the damage ( proved by contrasting the lack of evidence of an inflammatory response in subjects who had SARS COV2 injected with the S1 spike protein removed ) echoing the real world (pathologica)l experience of people such as Dr Ryan Cole..?

“Sincere according to truth” ( Noah Webster’s Dictionary ) – great if this was universally adopted but then I am very happy to be regarded as naive..

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Dobba
Dobba
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

As I saw someone point out on Twitter – those people declining the vaccine are probably not the demographic of people likely to getting tested all the time which you could argue means it’s the vaccinated that are testing positive (if indeed those tests are accurate and not just finding standard influenza or dead covid proteins).

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

Good point. If you are dumb enough to go out and get a test then you are certainly a candidate for being dumb enough to get a jab.

It would make a nice change if the stupidity of the population worked in our favour for once.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
3 years ago

As Dr Robert Malone says, “More is not better in vaccine world”. Overuse of a vaccine can seriously degrade the body’s own immune system.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

Just like antibiotics – they were being handed out like smarties for all kinds of very minor conditions by GP’s everywhere for many years (I know someone who got given antibiotics for a simple common cold) – then when a real big virus come along the antibiotics were next to useless because the viruses had become resistant to them.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
3 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Just a quick corrective – antibiotics were never useful for viruses – they are antibacterials. Otherwise your comment stands.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

i.e. the Jab’s failed, you need a another jab.

THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT INFECTION SPREAD (HERD IMMUNITY) IS FOR AS MANY OF THE NON VULNERABLE AS POSSIBLE TO GET COVID.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

I hereby appoint you as England’s Chief Medical Officer. Can you start this afternoon?

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

It didn’t need to be this way, the jabs could’ve worked for longer if there hadn’t been a mass rollout and they’d solely been used by the vulnerable (over 80s, diabetics).

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

A dim idea. The most vulnerable are also most vulnerable to the vaccines – a group for which there was no test data.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The point is though that mass jabbing caused the virus to evolve around the jab.

EVEN IF they worked (and you are correct, there’s no way to tell they didnt test on the old) jabbing everyone stopped them having any effect.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Can you patent herd immunity? Don’t think gates et al. would be interested if it’s not turning a profit.

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

How about a two week residential course where you are constantly exposed of the virus, and charge the same as hotel quarantine. That should bring a nice contribution.

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

some more of the ‘informed’ needed before informed consent…

French research showing that vaccines increase new infection and deaths in many countries including the UK: https://www.globalresearch.ca/Covid-19-vaccines-lead-to-new-infections-and-mortality-the-evidence/5746393

A comparison between 178 countries according to their vaccination rates versus death rates by a German author coming to very similar conclusions: https://coronakrise-blog.jimdofree.com/start/02-04-21-ist-die-wirkung-der-impfung-messbar-teil-4/

much much more information on vaccine safety here…

https://www.independentinformation.co.uk/resources/articles/covid-vaccines-safe-effective

ps – the author welcomes any comments as he seems to believe in the ‘old normal’ scientific way

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LovelyGirl
LovelyGirl
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

Keep’em coming, Major!

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ebygum
ebygum
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

Dr Clare Craig
@ClareCraigPath
·Case rates per 100,000 are now double in the double vaccinated population than the unvaccinated for people aged 40 to 79.

Prof Norman Fenton
@profnfenton
·Interesting. In fact, in EACH age category from 30 up the case rate is higher in the double vaccinated than the unvaccinated. Moreover, as we highlight here https://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/10/comparing-all-cause-mortality-rate-by.html… ONS may be underestimating number of unvaccinated so unvacc rates are likely even lower than stated



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Julian
Julian
3 years ago

This smacks of desperation. Perhaps they have gone barking mad. I think boosters every 6 months or annually would be widely accepted cf. Flu jabs. But if the frequency keeps being increased, people will start to wonder.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

You think boosters every 6 months would be accepted?
Jesus, and I thought I had a low opinion of the public.

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LovelyGirl
LovelyGirl
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

But sadly Julian is probably right, because it’s a belief system, that people don’t realise they are in. There will still be many left in it if they were told to take boosters every day, like aspirin…

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  LovelyGirl

They told us it was a good idea to take daily aspirin.

Then they told us it was a very bad idea.

See-saw, Margery Daw, Bozo has got a new master.

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Alkanet
Alkanet
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes undoubtedly they would be accepted as just another thing like annual flu jabs, except of course for a much more deadly disease and to protect overseas travel holiday ‘rights’. I think we should all support this (not the passport element obviously) but suggest each jab costs the patient £500 with a hefty donation from this going to help the ever ailing NHS. This might stem some of the enthusiasm…

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

Yes, if the unjabbed have to fund tests then the GMO should fund their jabs.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Clever way of phrasing it. They are cutting the “waiting time”. Cutting waiting times sounds like a good thing. Now you don’t have to wait as long. Brilliant.

I wonder if the Nazi’s ever walked into the barracks at Auschwitz and announced that they were cutting waiting times for the showers. Probably not. They were much less duplicitous.

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LovelyGirl
LovelyGirl
3 years ago

“The amount of time people must wait…”?! Are there people out there desperate to get a jab every day if they could?

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  LovelyGirl

It’s manipulation. This is all health and NHS related. And in that context ‘waiting times” are a bad thing and cutting waiting time is a good thing.

Some psych-ops person has worked on the wording to make it sound as if getting jabbed after 5 months instead of 6 months is a triumph, and not like the catastrophic failure it actually is.

You have to admire how good these people are being evil.

Oh, and despair at the crushingly low intellectual level at The Telegraph that just repeats the wording without spotting the con.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

But it’s great for Pfizer profits.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  LovelyGirl

Yes. Yes, there really are. Remember, people were “caught” obtaining clot-shots by lying about their social worth.

Here: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/covid-vaccine-queue-jump-it-loophole-b900458.html

And colonials Elizabeth Warrening their way to clot shots: https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/558933-white-millionaires-who-fraudulently-got-vaccines-meant-for

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago

Not so much “nudging”, as downright terrorism. We seem about to enter the “vaccine” equivalent of “Nacht und Nebel”.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

I have every confidence that the 93rd booster will be the definitive one.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Risen ne va plus!

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

That’s right. At 93 you become Covid. You can’t be infected with Covid because you already are Covid. In Buddhist terms it’s Arahant, comparable to falling into the depths of a cloud and disappearing.

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marcusc
marcusc
3 years ago

If at first you don’t succeed 🤣🤣

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

Totally off-topic (not), but i’m surprised statins don’t cure covid.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

Perhaps the Daily Mail could start publishing regular stories about things which cause or prevent Covid? You know, like they do with cancer:

https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/

Eventually (as with cancer) it would reach the stage where nearly everything could cause or cure Covid, or do both at the same time…

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

Could Your Handbag Give You Covid?

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Maximum protection.
Yeah.

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wendy
wendy
3 years ago

So 2 injections didn’t do the trick but the third one really, really, definitely, most certainly, absolutely will. First it just a primer, second at 8 weeks in some countries and 12 weeks in others is a good immunity builder and the third at 5 months, or is it 6 months, is definitely the full course of covid vaccine and you are fully vaccinated, good to go and all will be well for you from then on. No more vaccines needed!!

I think I have got that right, but do help me out as I my brain is finding it difficult to keep up with all the shifting vaccine claims?

We started with the premise of natural immunity isn’t a thing and is just crap even if it were because humans are just not as good as medico technology, then vaccines will end the pandemic, they went on to get the vaccination to protect the vulnerable, then on to it doesn’t stop infections but the vaxxed don’t spread, then oh they do spread but the vaxxed don’t go to hospital or die – oops sorry they do.

All this has definitely convinced me I was wrong to be hesitant. I’ll pop along and get my vaccine course now like a good citizen (when hell freezes over)! Oh I so trust our government now and am so certain they have my best interests at heart!!!

And even if I had been waiting for the Valneva traditional vaccine, I can’t have that because … I don’t know why?

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Lilacblue
Lilacblue
3 years ago
Reply to  wendy

Ah, Valneva, yes now that is a very odd story indeed.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Lilacblue

We can’t have them taking an actual vaccine to induce immunity. That’s not what vaccines are about!

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Margaret
Margaret
3 years ago
Reply to  Lilacblue

Yes! We wrote to our MP asking him to find out why Valneva had been cancelled. We have an appointment to meet with him at the end of November!

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Lilacblue
Lilacblue
3 years ago
Reply to  Margaret

He will be a hero if he finds out the truth of it. Keep us posted.

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Alkanet
Alkanet
3 years ago

Got into (when will I learn not to) a spat on Hull Daily Mail online (before all my comments were deactivated as is the norm) with someone who said of course vaccine efficacy wanes over time. When I questioned if three in one year didn’t suggest a new definition of waning over time, I was told lots of vaccines require multiple doses followed by an annual booster but of course each dose still leaves behind a significant % of protection that the unvaxxed don’t have.
It is pointless dealing with such people and they need to be left to their own delusions but not expect any sympathy or retribution when it all goes wrong for them.

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thinkcriticall
thinkcriticall
3 years ago

Covid vaccines will keep you from acquiring full immunity EVEN IF YOU ARE INFECTED AND RECOVER:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-covid-vaccines-will-keep-you/comments

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  thinkcriticall

But surely 4-5 boosters in you get it back again?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  thinkcriticall

gatomalo v good on this too – sensational if true. Claire Craig seems to think this is possible.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
3 years ago

Timing of this suggests it was an Instruction suggestion from Gates at the recent No10 dinner

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Gates is a coward. He hides behind the politicians who have to implement what he wants and so doesn’t have to deal with all the cr@p they have to deal with, but is probably metaphorically kicking the sh1t out of them behind the scenes.

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago

So there was medical advice over the six month wait, which is now being overridden.
They are making it up as they go along.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

For “must wait”, substitute “are permitted to delay”.

Nice social credit score you’ve built up there, citizen. It would be a shame if anything… happened to it.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

Congratulations everyone – this is an intelligence and endurance test and we’re still in the game. My wife’s grim prediction throughout has been that ultimately, we’ll be crawling over the piles of skeletons to collect, with our last vestiges of strength, a gold badge for not being stupid from the satanic overlords. She’s joking of course (sort of). Where’s this going to end?!

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago

Great news, crash your immune system quicker!

Because “protection” is strictly temporary and provided only by antibodies it would seem that the jabbed have no or little adaptive immunity protection whatsoever.
Good luck in relying on said antibodies protecting you for the rest of your life, jab after jab after jab.
A proliferation of antibodies ain’t a good thing. It’s an insult to the immune system.
I can only assume they’re trying for zero covid after all.
Good luck with that.

Natural immunity following infection seems to no longer exist, never mind the recovered (99.8%) having adaptive protection – IGA immunoglobulin, T and B cells etc.

Where the hell are all the experts who should and do know better.?

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
3 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

I read the online Jerusalem Post to keep track of what’s happening in Israel, as they seem to be the forerunner – the UK’s uptick in infections and vaxxed hospitalisation seems to be following the same pattern, I expect NL to follow suit as they start giving the 3rd wonder jab as of November.

In any event, there have been numerous articles in JPost singing the praises of this miraculous gazillion-fold increase in antibodies, each article more ridiculous than the last. It started out with exclamations of x-fold increases in the elderly and immonocompromised. It boasted a 43% increase in antibodies, which turned out to be 43% more people showed a higher number of antibodies from the very low number they started out with after jab 2. As time has gone by there have been articles boasting how research has shown that jab 3 increased antibodies by x% compared to jab 2, without bothering to say how it compared to jab 1. One article compared the number of antibodies raised by the various vaxxes, giving you a positive smorgasboard to choose from, depending on how many antibodies you wanted to be consuming on a given day.

I literally laugh out loud at these articles, as if somehow the more antibodies to one particular protein on one particular virus the better, even if its 1000x more than may be required for neutralisation of the virus. No discussion of whether focusing on one virus non-stop deregulates the immune system, will cause it to reat less well to other viruses, whether churning out such a large number of unnecessary antibodies might not be depleting energy that might be better used elsewhere, etc.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Exactly, all these boosters to continually create more antibodies is the equivalent of deploying a dozen armed soldiers (antibodies) to patrol the perimeter of your factory 24/7/365 when at much lower cost you could simply deploy motion sensors and an alarm system wired up to a security company (your B and T cells).

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

https://www.bitchute.com/video/z5OXWdO5n7wH/
Fantastic interview, if your resolve needs firming up at all.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
3 years ago

I don’t care if they cut it own to 5 mins – i still won’t be having it.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

What, the life expectancy after the 3rd jab?

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

They have gunk on the shelves and nobody wants it

Will be every five days soon

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Yep, sunk cost – so they must use it!

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Old Bill
Old Bill
3 years ago

I couldn’t help but laugh this morning, I saw a news report where a confirmed sheeple went for her third stab, and was mortally offended when she was offered a booster shot instead. To use her own words “I have done my research and the booster jabs don’t have as much in them as the real thing”.

So now the hysteria has reached such manic proportions that the terminally insane are arguing not about being poisoned, but about how much poison they are receiving in each stab!

He got more poison than me – I want my money back.

I would say God help us, but I don’t believe in God, so I am lost for words.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago

After Germany eliminated free antibody tests for the unvaccinated, the number of tests performed dropped by 2/3. That’s also one way to deal with the deadly pandemic.

But hey, all the kids are tested for free twice a week. I guess that should do it.

There was also an article how the (now sure to be late diagnosed) unvaccinated were filling up ICUs and costing the taxpayer great sums – because they tend to be younger now and refuse to die as quickly as they should after hospital admission.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

the current scariant doing the rounds is infecting people regardless of how often they’ve been jabbed with the clot shot.

I caught it from a double jabbed, but then so did three 2 others and they were double jabbed.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

“That’s also one way to deal with the deadly pandemic.” Who wants to deal with it? Not our government, that’s for sure. Nor many others, that I can see.

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Jo
Jo
3 years ago

Interesting form of words…. “waiting time” for the third covid jab…..

So have those who took the first two been “waiting”, which to me describes a state of expectation, to go and have some more? I don’t think so. There might be some who are now waiting, but the waiting time never started after the second injection as far as I can see. Smacks of an Orwellian re-writing of history.

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DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
3 years ago

I walked up and got my first two jabs in large part because I wanted to end the lockdown. I already had Covid in Spring 2020. Now I’m being asked to get jabbed again. At 51, very healthy and athletic, do I need it? Can they guarantee there is no longterm issues with it? If course not. With having had it once (it stunk but not even top 10 of such illnesses), knowing there are new treatments, why get a new jab? to be clear, I also got my flu shot.

i think many of us 50-60 age people like me are going to skip another jab. We know the risks and what it’s like to have Covid. So, why jab? Doesn’t matter if it’s 5 months or 6.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

My double jabbed parents in their 80s, (father recovered from prostate cancer), have both been invited for their flu jab and a third covid jab [not sure if it is 3rd jab or booster shot] both to be administered at the same time. I have managed to get them to delay getting them for about a week.

They are very much “with the programme” – they live on BBC news and think that we are in the middle of a dreadful pandemic. If they are determined to have both jabs the most I might be able to persuade them to do is to split them by perhaps a fortnight so that one jab is given on day 1 and the other 14 days later – but they aren’t the most assertive and wouldn’t want to “inconvenience” the GP surgery.

If I could persuade them, I would like them not to have either jab and instead rely on vitamin C, Vitamin D3, and quercetin and zinc – they eat well and exercise daily. On the other hand, if vax passports become a thing I wouldn’t like to see my elderly parents in a position where they had no access to food and medical treatment etc.

I am trying my best to help them. If anyone here can give me any advice I would really appreciate it.

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Aunty Jen
Aunty Jen
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Dear Milo

I’m sure your parents are glad you are concerned for their wellbeing and it’s clear you have their best interests at heart, and are considering their feelings. It is a difficult time and many people feel unsure about what is best to do.

To try and help I’d ask you a couple of questions.

1) What option do you think would make your parents happiest? You say they are known vulnerable, very much concerned about the risks from the pandemic, and already double jabbed. It sounds to me like getting the booster and the flu shot will definitely be the thing that gives them greatest comfort and allow them to relax over the winter.

2) When your father was diagnosed with prostate cancer (great to hear he is recovered), did you seek advice from anonymous strangers on a website about what the best treatment was? Or did you trust the oncologists to treat him in the best way they could? You trusted them then, and now he is recovered. Trust them again, I’m sure your father does. Ask him what his oncology team advise he should do. You do not know who anyone is on this website, you do not know their experience or their agenda.

Absolutely encourage your parents to ALSO take Vit C, Vit D, and zinc (but not mega-dosing), unless they have been specifically advised not to by their doctor. The NHS encourages everyone to take vitamin D over the winter and was even giving it out for free last winter to high risk people
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/people-at-higher-risk/free-vitamin-d-supplements-for-people-at-high-risk/

Also keep encouraging excercising, great to hear they do, strong muscle is important for all kinds of reasons and can be built even in the elderly.

Your parents have had two COVID vaccine doses already and no doubt also get yearly flu jabs. You know these did not harm them. Having them again this winter will not harm them either and might save their lives.

Ask your parents what they would like to do.

All the best.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Aunty Jen

Thankfully someone else, elsewhere on this site, has helpfully responded to my query, and empathised with the situation in which I find myself. I didn’t find your reply at all helpful and completely absent of any empathy. I would imagine that there are people like me up and down the country wondering how best to protect their elderly parents in this situation, so I am replying for them as much as anything else.

Your reply seems to fail to be in any way au fait with what is going on at the moment, and what has been happening over the last 18 months and more, not to mention the bulk of the information posted BTL on this site about the efficacy and more importantly the SAFETY of the jabs I sought advice about. Moreover, your questions did not help, for example, A) how will my parents be able to “relax” over the winter if being quadruple jabbed means they do not get to live as far as christmas? and B) considering neither of my parents can get an appointment to see their GP how on earth do you think my father would be able to access his oncology team to seek their advice? telepathy? What I would very much like to be able to ask his oncology team is the impact the covid jabs will have on his cancer status, particularly given the information which has emerged about the jabs interfering with that part of the immune system which is supposed to keep the replication of cancer cells in check.

And as for this “Your parents have had two COVID vaccine doses already and no doubt also get yearly flu jabs. You know these did not harm them. Having them again this winter will not harm them either and might save their lives.”? Well, yes, they have already been harmed by the covid jabs they have had. Which was why I raised my concerns here about a third covid jab.

Last edited 3 years ago by Milo
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Aunty Jen
Aunty Jen
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

If you would like to speak to a healthcare professional about your parent’s situation:

1) They will be able to speak to their GP, but have to accept this may be (initially at least) a phone consultation. Getting a GP appointment is often annoying, and you just have to keep trying.

2) Your father should have many letters from the hospital team. These should all have a department telephone number on them and may even have his consultant’s secretary’s number on them as well. Try ringing this and ask if he can have a short call with his consultant.

3) Some hospitals may have alternative arrangements for patients to contact the team. Look on the hospital department’s website to see if there is for example a single number to call.

4) Prostate cancer UK have a specialist nurse helpline you can call. It is at the top of this webpage:
https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information/coronavirus-covid-19-and-prostate-cancer/covid-19-vaccines/

You can find more specific information about prostate cancer and the COVID vaccines from:
https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information/coronavirus-covid-19-and-prostate-cancer/covid-19-vaccines/
https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/physical-side-effects/low-blood-counts/infections/covid-19-vaccines-in-people-with-cancer.html (see the Should cancer patients and survivors get the vaccine? section)
https://www.prostatescotland.org.uk/covid-19-prostate-cancer-and-some-faqs

Or can ask a question on one of the prostate cancer forums:
https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/prostate-cancer-forum
https://prostatecancer.net/forums
https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/alltopics
https://csn.cancer.org/forum/126

I do hope you find information that is helpful.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Very sorry to hear about the situation you’re in. ‘Aunty Jen’ is a fact checker and only ever ‘corrects’ other people’s comments, belittling and insulting them in the process. I’m not sure what his/her/their game is but your reply is spot on.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Thanks for the reply crisisgarden and the support. ‘Aunty Jen’ with her latest reply, (if I found her first to be sneering and patronising you can only imagine what I thought of the second – in short not worth responding to) has confirmed what I initially suspected – at best some kind of NHS lurker, probably sniffing out vaccine/booster hesitancy according to some kind of algorithm or at worst 77th.

Either way, I very much doubt that ANY of the organisations he/she cites would even be aware of, let alone be in a position to comment in depth on, the specific issue I raised, about the reports emerging from the autopsy studies which have been done that indicate that the jabs denude the component in the immune system which is designed to prevent the proliferation of cancer cells.

“Aunty Jen” seems determined to try to represent the way in which the health system is functioning at the moment, and has done for the last 19 months plus, as some kind of ‘normal’ when every one of us on here knows that this is as far from ‘normal’ as you could get – hence why else would desperate people like myself have to be seeking advice from “strangers on the internet” as he/she refers to us.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Our institutions have failed us and I think we all have to support each other in this context. It’s extremely hard to deprogram your parents’ generation, we’ve had a similar thing with my in-laws, and eventually my wife had to tell her mum quite assertively not to have the booster (both she and her husband had had some side effects from the first doses, as did many of their peers) I really hope you are able to get through to them and at least space out the jabs; it is criminal that they haven’t even bothered to do any studies into interactions between them. Good luck!

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  DoctorCOxford

Got my first two jabs…..Can they guarantee there is no longterm issues with it?

Stable, horse, bolted, door! A bit late to ask, really, eh?

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Alkanet
Alkanet
3 years ago

I can see into the future. Coming soon to a jabatoir near you ‘Not had your vaccines yet? Don’t worry no need to be left behind, we’re now offering all three -yes three!- plus a courtesy flu jab all on the same day in the same walk in no booking needed appointment and a £25 vegan food voucher as well’.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Looks like the ‘window of opportunity’ is getting smaller for them

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OliveTrees
OliveTrees
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

I suspect it’s always been five months. The flu jabs seem to last about five months. A recent study from Qatar implied about five months. Even the stinging campaigns in Revelation’s fifth trumpet are authorised for five months: https://txti.es/fifthtrumpet
I presume that’s some inherent nature of these type of viruses, which would explain why the flu jabs and coronavirus jabs only last a matter of months. I guess they mutate at around the same rate or something.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  OliveTrees

The flu jabs seem to last about five months

Are you asserting the flu jab works?

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OliveTrees
OliveTrees
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

I was referring to the chart below. Seems like they start at a pretty low base of “effectiveness” already, and decline to 0 “effectiveness” after 150 days. Or at least the ones referred to in the chart. Whether that means they “work” or not, I don’t know. Personally, it looks like they’re a bit useless, really, but millions of people seem to like ’em.

flujab.jpeg
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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago

From the link in Curzon’s ‘Stop Press’, this is wonderfully put:

‘So high rates of vaccination can’t reduce infections, and vaccinating the oldest and sickest hasn’t done very much for overall hospitalisations and deaths either. Yet our governments press on, not because the vaccines are working, but because they’re not. We’ve been through all of this before. Last year, large swathes of the developed world banned most of public life because everyone decided that this was the way to save lives. Wuhan convinced them that lockdowns work, in much the same way as the Pfizer/BioNTech trials convinced them that vaccines work. Except lockdowns didn’t work, and vaccines don’t really work either. Corona rages on, indifferent to the strange learned fantasies of our medical bureaucrats.

‘A consequence of these failures is raging cognitive dissonance among the elite, and a substitution of the means for the end. Last year, it was locking down itself that became the highest policy goal. Governments schemed less about how to get cases down, than about how to reduce the Google-certified mobility of their citizenry by margins great enough to satisfy their court astrologers. The same is now true of the vaccines, which in their failure to do much about anything, have become the focus of nearly all Corona policy everywhere in the world. All that our governments want to do now is vaccinate more and harder. They want to vaccinate all of the unvaccinated, and when that grows tiresome they will want to triple and quadruple vaccinate the already-vaccinated. And they especially want to vaccinate that last demographic that has so far remained largely exempt from vaccination, namely children.’

https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/maximum-vaccination

Last edited 3 years ago by Moderate Radical
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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago

Are the booster stabs required, because the first two stabs didn’t kill enough people?

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
3 years ago

My goodness, I feel better and better every day for not having taken that poison! Almost every person I know that’s taken it has had complications from it and now they’re supposed to go through it again.

But I probably won’t be saying this when they try to round the unvaccinated up into death quarantine camps. Still, it looks like there will be plenty of ‘formerly vaccinated’ people in there with me!

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