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They're Still Trying To Kill You

They’re Still Trying To Kill You
Published by digby on May 5, 2026


This is simply unconscionable:

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed.

The studies, which cost millions of dollars in public funds, were conducted by scientists at the agency, who worked with data firms to analyze millions of patient records. They found serious side effects to be very rare.

In October, the scientists were directed to withdraw two Covid-19 vaccine studies that had been accepted for publication in medical journals. In February, top F.D.A. officials did not sign off on submitting abstracts about studies of Shingrix, a shingles vaccine, to a major drug safety conference.

The withdrawal of the studies is the latest step by the administration to try to limit access to vaccines. It has sharply cut research funding for vaccine development, released unvetted information casting doubt on vaccines, and blocked other information supporting their safety, most recently a paper on Covid vaccine effectiveness by career scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


There’s no need to go over the stats for the COVID vaccine. We all know it. But SHINGRIX is now on the chopping block too? My god.

more...

https://digbysblog.net/2026/05/05/theyre-still-trying-to-kill-you/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221222548

Sometimes, there aren't such adherents to the religion of the Climate Cult that current events, security, and reason are able to overcome the strictures and deprivations that were previously imposed in the name of Gaia and all things Green.

Such is the case in Scandinavia, where the Norwegian government has made a couple of announcements that have people in Europe pretty excited, and given people in the United Kingdom one more reason to despise their Labour overlords the day before a nationwide local councils election.

The first big news out of Oslo was the announcement that the government was reopening three old oil and gas fields that had been closed since 1998.
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The fact that the Norwegians are drilling in the same seabed as the vaunted British North Sea oil industry used to - and were told there was 'none left' by none other than Minister Miliband - has not escaped notice.
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Miliband's nonsense about banning exploration and drilling licenses for lack of product is ringing especially hollow and creating a great deal of anger, as the Norwegian government had a second announcement to go along with the wells reopening that puts lie to everything Miliband has been claiming. The country is opening 70 new blocks of exploration, with some of those in the North Sea.

Climbed the ladder that others constructed for him
Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)
Tue May 5, 2026, 07:25 PM

Then pulled it up behind him.

A student group at Cornell University claims university president Michael Kotlikoff “hit us with his car” after a debate over Israel. Students for a Democratic Cornell call the incident a “violent response to student inquiry.”

It’s quite the story: The University refuses to allow open debate about Israel, and resorts to violence to silence dissent!

But video released by Cornell shows a different story: Students tried to stop Kotlikoff from leaving, and he tried, as slowly as possible, to exit.

Because he was in a car, that slow retreat was inherently dangerous to those trying to detain him, but Kotlikoff was still totally in the right.

There’s a legal principle in self-defense called the “duty to retreat.” If someone is 100 feet away from me and shouts, “I’m going to stab you,” I still probably shouldn’t shoot him. I should try to get away instead. In New York State, where Cornell is, that duty to retreat is actually written into law.

Notably, Kotlikoff was literally trying to retreat. ...