Some Of The Most Absurd Things That Have Happened In Recent Weeks

• Sheila Lewis, a terminally-ill woman in Alberta who had been denied a place on an organ transplant list because she was not vaccinated against COVID-19, has passed away. This marks the second publicly reported death of a patient who had been denied an organ transplant due to their COVID-19 vaccination status.
• Two months after the federal government revealed plans to make questioning the narrative of unmarked mass graves near residential schools illegal by categorizing these thoughts as “hate speech,” a four-week excavation at a former Manitoba residential school “mass grave” finds only underground rocks. To this day, no human remains have been found at any of the “mass graves” near former residential schools in Canada.
• “Contrary to what you constantly hear in the media, global(ly,) fire in 2023 has so far burned less than normal.” Danish academic and environmental economist Bjørn Lomborg published online with supported data. While the Canadian Government has claimed climate change is the reason for Canada’s forest fires, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the US have had the lowest forest fire burn per acre in over 10 years (data can be viewed at tinyurl.com/5n88t6cs).

• Blackstone acquires Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion, giving the world’s largest private equity firm total ownership of all DNA from every person who’s ever used the service.
• Study finds that paper straws, which are being pushed as an eco-friendly alternative to plastic versions, contain “forever chemicals” that are both harmful to humans and possibly even more harmful to the environment than their much-vilified plastic counterparts. The study, published in the journal Food Additives & Contaminants, noted that the poly and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in paper straws can remain in the environment for thousands of years. The chemicals dissolve in water, meaning they could leach into beverages, and have been associated with health issues including liver damage, birth defects, and cancer.
• FatCon, the first conference to celebrate overweight people, is set to be hosted in Philadelphia this October and will be featuring Sonalee Rashatwar, a “non-binary therapist” who claims that “Fatphobia” has “white supremacist origins.”
• A Brazilian mother has been fined and threatened with losing custody of her son for homeschooling him. Regiane Cichelero decided to educate her 12-year-old son at home to teach him better values, despite homeschooling being illegal.
• Kimberly Neudorf, a stay-at-home mom, has been fined $37K for organizing two anti-restrictions protests in Aylmer, Ontario back in 2020. One rally drew in over a hundred, and the other, over a thousand, at a time when only groups of 25 were allowed to be outside. Around the time of Kimberly’s rallies, there was a Black Lives Matter march in the area where no one got ticketed.
• Aylmer Ontario’s Church of God Pastor, Henry Hildebrandt, pleaded guilty to violating COVID-19 rules and was fined $65,000. During police surveillance, it was claimed that in June 2021, almost 200 individuals congregated at the church during an outside service, with no adherence to social distancing or mask-wearing.
• In a fresh blow to free speech, American satirist and playwright C.J. Hopkins has been handed a punishment order: jail for 60 days or a €3600 fine. His crime? Using an almost invisible image of a swastika on a mask on the front cover of his book, “The Rise to the New Normal Reich,” which is a critique of Germany’s authoritarian, Nazi-like response to COVID.
• Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk faces allegations of both causing and concealing a surge in suicidal incidents among users of their new, popular weight loss drug Ozempic. While there’s a well-documented link between monoamine neurotransmitters (the class of drugs to which Ozempic belongs) and suicidal tendencies, Novo Nordisk’s studies failed to track suicidal thoughts. Furthermore, they excluded participants with a history of mental disorders and those showing behaviour associated with suicidal ideations. As of now, Ozempic packaging lacks a warning about potential suicidal thoughts.
• Biden pledged $700 per household for victims of the Maui fires, and, in the next breath, he asked Congress for an additional $20B for Ukraine. Prior to Biden’s additional $20B request, The Heritage Foundation found that the United States’ $113B in aid to Ukraine has cost Americans $900 per household.
• The alarming trend of debanking customers who think differently continues: Dr. Joseph Mercola, prominent vaccine freedom advocate and founder of natural health website Mercola.com, announced that, after 18 years with Chase Bank, they suddenly and unexpectedly shut down his business account, as well as the accounts of his employees. Also in America, Indigenous Advance Ministries, a Memphis-based Christian charity, claims it has been unjustly debanked by banking giant Bank of America due to its religious ideologies, which includes advocating for pro-life and traditional marriage.
• Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC announce their plans to go completely cashless. The fast-food chain’s parent company, Yum Brands plan is for transactions to be 100% digital in the future to aid in order automation and AI integration (with the unmentioned added benefit of increased consumer tracking).
• The death toll in 2023 is nearing pandemic levels, with UK government data suggesting that the number of extra fatalities this year is on path to surpass that of 2020 (source: https://tinyurl.com/2vucnjee). According to experts, “of particular concern is the 15 to 44 age group, where cumulative deaths are tracking above all recent years, including 2020.” Additionally, disability is also rising in the working age. The UK’s Office of National Statistics disability data shows that, over the last three years, the percent of the UK population who were approved for PIP disability payments rose from 0.74% to 1.27%.
• The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect, which means online platforms in the EU are now legally required to implement mechanisms for preempting and eliminating posts containing “hate speech” and “disinformation.”
• Dr. Paul Offit, leading vaccine advocate, vaccine developer, and member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee has finally admitted that “there certainly is a causal link between [COVID-19] vaccine and myocarditis. No doubt about it.” Offit noted that antibodies in the bloodstream seem to be attacking the heart and, as noted in various studies, “fully vaccinated individuals demonstrated an average of 50-fold higher antibody levels than naturally infected unvaccinated individuals” in the blood (Meyers et al.). Naturally acquired immunity, on the other hand, results in more mucosal antibodies, which is also why natural immunity results in less transmission compared to vaccine “immunity.” According to the Cleveland Clinic website, “almost 20% of sudden deaths in young people have a connection to myocarditis” and the 5-year survival rate is only 50%.
• The American Board of Internal Medicine’s Credentials and Certification Committee has put forth that Dr. Paul Marik, one of the most published doctors in the field of critical care medicine (who also wrote the Critical Care Medicine textbook used in medical school) and his colleague, Dr. Pierre Kory, be stripped of their credentials for allegedly disseminating, what the committee deems to be, flawed or inaccurate medical information online. Dr. Marik and Dr. Kory, who both worked in critical care units during the pandemic, have been raising awareness about using ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 since 2020.
• A judge has rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s request for a temporary restraining order against YouTube for censoring his presidential campaign due to his “anti-vaccine” beliefs.