HONG KONG — A Chinese citizen journalist who was jailed over her reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic was due to be released Monday after four years in prison, supporters said.

Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer from Shanghai, went to the central Chinese city of Wuhan in February 2020 to cover the growing outbreak and the government’s effort to contain it. Information was tightly controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party and reporting by citizen journalists like Zhang, now 40, drew widespread attention as the world braced for the virus to spread.

In May 2020, Zhang was arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vaguely defined crime that is often used to silence government critics. She was later sentenced to four years in prison by a Shanghai court.

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California lawmakers last week dealt a final blow to the state’s controversial “medical misinformation” law, which aimed to punish doctors for spreading COVID-19 “misinformation” or “disinformation.”

Assembly Bill 2098 (AB 2098) was quietly put to rest on Sept. 14 when lawmakers voted 35-1 to pass another bill, Senate Bill 815 (SB 815), which included a clause that repealed AB 2098. SB 815 reforms how the Medical Board of California must address patient complaints.

Commenting on the news, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) President Mary Holland said:

“The California legislature likely saw the writing on the wall — that their statute would be found unconstitutional — so they attempted to quietly scuttle it. This is an example of how legal wins can lead to legislative wins, and this is definitely a win when doctors can practice medicine freely.”

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This week the pretender hosted some kind of gay pride event at the White House.  It’s not the first time the people’s house has been bathed in rainbow lighting, hopefully it will be the last.  Why must we all be complicit in such behavior?  It’s universal?  No, regardless of how many times they say it, it’s not even close.  

There’s some TV commercial airing, maybe you’ve seen it.  It’s declaring pride month, or whatever, and there are about 20 or 30 logos flashed on the screen for about half a second.  Maybe they’re not all that proud after all.  Maybe they don’t want to become the next target for a boycott.

CNN wrote an article informing it’s readers that the fall in Target’s stock price had nothing to do with a consumer boycott.  It was just some right-wing publications trying to gin up emotions.  According to the article everything BUT a boycott was responsible for their cratered stock.  They never concede anything.

I’ve got to tell you about the Mexico soccer match.  Officials couldn’t get the fans to stop chanting “puto,” so they finally stopped the game with minutes remaining.  It appears all kinds of anti-discrimination wires were tripped.  There are international organizations you never heard of, and they’re not amused.  Anti-discrimination rules have been broken!  The crowd was warned, but couldn’t help themselves.  It must have been terrible! (/s)  They were calling the American goaltender a male prostitute, but a quote attributed to Yahoo sports says it translates as “faggot.”  Oh, the hurt feelings!  But wait. You mean, they’re not proud after all?   

The words that could not be spoken about the origin of COVID, turns out to be all true.  Not only that, they’re still conducting ridiculous experiments at our expense, every way you cut it.  It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that they try this again.  Why on earth are we financing off the wall “gain of function” research, illegal in this country, in some Chinese backwater?  Can somebody explain that?

Everybody knows President Trump has been indicted and arrested.  If you’ve followed it closely you know that there is every opportunity for him and his lawyers to hand these prosecutors their hind parts as the case moves forward.  Trump doesn’t look worried.  In fact he’s defiant. They’ve nearly exhausted every available avenue trying to besmirch Donald Trump.  Most of the guys who led the charge can barely show their faces, but they still stand behind whatever they said.  

Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Strozk, Page, and people we never heard of.  They must be very proud.  Seems like pride is not an attribute that you’d strive for.  It’s not going to win any points Upstairs!

There is apparently a group that Alan Dershowitz identifies that will bring spurious cases against any attorney who represents Trump.  They’ll make accusations to ruin somebody’s life, and keep them in court for the foreseeable future.  Just what a respectable lawyer signed up for.  So what’s left to make sure that Trump never gets another shot?  The mainstream media is deep in the tank, the corporations are on board.  We’re getting bombarded from all directions with this pride nonsense.  Let me be clear.  We don’t think it’s a game.  We’d rather our society not champion perversions to make God mad.  We don’t want to be Sodom or Gomorrah.  Thanks anyway.

Mark

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The hearings are not going well for the little doctor.  His coworkers, some of whom thought the Covid virus was engineered in a lab, were shut out of meetings according to sworn testimony before Congress.  Others who expressed their professional opinions that the virus could not have sprung from nature, got grants and millions in funding.  Soon, they did a 180 degree turn.  The little guy must be apoplectic that this has been aired publicly.  There are probably conference calls where everyone tries to get their stories straight.  Hopefully, it all comes out.

If you haven’t heard the speech Trump gave at the C-PAC gathering, I recommend it.  When you search for it online you’ll get Jimmy Kimmel and the View’s take, and it’ll make you mad. What is it with these search engines that bring up negative results about what you’re looking for?  Anything about Trump, and the mainstream just sneers.  Careful how you search, or you’ll come up with “pack of lies.”  Sure, the guy exaggerates for effect, but then we realize that’s what is going on and find it enjoyable.  Unless you just hate him, his vision of America moving forward is pretty inspiring, and often funny.

Apparently the Silicon Valley Bank has gone under.  A financial guru (who I never watch) advised his viewers to buy stock in the Silicon Valley Bank one month ago.  That was about the time when the principals were bailing out.  Now the bank has gone bust.  How can he keep a career in financial advice going?  With any luck, he can’t.  Will there be a contagion that rips through other financial institutions?  You can’t be on the internet without coming across all kinds of urgent financial warnings.  Today’s Drudge Report features a headline with a hundred dollar bill on fire.  

Checking on the news requires that you brace yourself.  Saudi Arabia is burying the hatchet with Iran, in negotiations brokered by the Chinese.  That would seem to complicate matters.

The news from Ukraine doesn’t look encouraging.  We still don’t have definitive proof as to who blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.  If it was done by the U. S. without Germany’s permission, things might get very complicated.  

I personally don’t believe what most news is telling us.  You see the January 6 footage that has recently been released, and you see that people were reverently sight-seeing in the Capitol.  We see the so-called Q-anon shaman being escorted down hallways by police.  He was facing 20 years, and was intimidated into accepting four, apparently without the benefit of the video we’ve all seen.  It looks as though we’ve got a full court press against everything we hold dear.  They’ve been deceiving everybody they can, and call the rest of us a lot of names.  

A couple of years ago my friend Murray Allatt told me that they were detonating perfectly good power plants in Australia.  Well, the trend has reached the U. S.  The public better not let this happen but that is apparently what’s planned, starting in New Mexico.  It’s green or bust.  We all know that these planet-saving energy sources are iffy at best.  But the green buffoons want to make sure there’s no going back.  This should be interesting!  

We hope that the U. S. can survive the onslaught, but who knows?  There’s going to be hell to pay for the many lies, the outright deception of those who purport to inform us. 

Mark

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Weekly Update

Greetings from Tyler,

There used to be some professions you could trust, within reason.  Medical doctors and scientists were above reproach.  They went to school and learned things the rest of us would just as soon not have to deal with.  But that earned them the lofty titles, and the respect of nearly everybody.

But it seems they are not immune to greed.  Doing the right thing comes with a hefty price tag, and nobody it seems, wants to rock the boat.  There’s enough money to go around if they won’t make waves.  Prominent doctors and scientists can become rich if they’re willing to spout the narrative.

We’ve seen basic rights curtailed, with untold implications. The government, state, federal or whoever, can mandate nonsense against your will?  It was in contravention of everything it means to be an American, but then you might die.  If you don’t comply, you’re probably a danger to all with whom you come into contact.  Fear was brought in to herd otherwise free Americans.  You’ve seen the examples of the businesses who lost it all on account of the “recommendations” of some national or international agency of repute.  Who did we think we were, daring to question the “science?”  If there’s anything you dare not question, it’s the accumulated knowledge of the highly educated.

It looks from here like they’ve squandered their credibility.  Do you think any scientists are employed who don’t pay lip service to global warming?  Are any doctors making a living on disputing the conventional wisdom on Covid?  Maybe two are.  When scientists and doctors lose their credibility…  We’ve been told whoppers by the anchors on national networks.  We’ve been fed a steady diet of the company line, and realized the networks are carrying water for the pharmaceutical outfits.  And government officials.  Maybe you’ve noticed.  Television funding comes from the advertisers.  Have you seen how many medical ads are playing?  Are they going to bite the hand…?

This has been a pretty rich week.  Watching the Attorney General of the United States playing dumb for all to see.  There was hardly a prosecution over looting and burning, all the uncivilized behavior we watched in horror.  But, if you’re in the public domain, you better not air any disagreement with the powers that be.  No, the agencies always apply the law without regard to any political influence whatever.  Complete with battering rams and swat teams.  The most dangerous thing you can do is disagree with the exercise of government power.  It’s enough to make you sick.  

There’s no end to the weapons and money we’re sending to Ukraine.  All but airplanes.  Every few days there’s another announcement of unfathomable sums awarded.  The pretender giving bear hugs to the recipient.  We witnessed the incongruous visit by Janet Yellen to award yet more, and then there were the clips.  “As long as it takes,” was uttered by all the top people.  Kamala’s intonation was real dramatic.  East Palestine, Ohio is flyover country as far as the bigwigs are concerned.  But Ukraine!  

The list of the goods squandered in Afghanistan has been published.  You can’t believe your eyes.  It’s mind boggling, and it goes on page after page.  Dozens of airplanes, helicopters, Humvee’s, tanks, millions of rounds of .50 caliber ammo, all the latest stuff.  Not to mention the airbase, one of the most sophisticated on earth, and our army evacuated in the most humiliating display since Saigon.  

If we don’t live in an age of mass deception!  Even when the masses have most of the corruption figured out, the media is there to tell us otherwise.  There’s not a chance we’re as dumb as the media make us out to be.  But so far, they keep banging on.  They apparently can’t admit their part in the deception.  

For two or three years it would get you banned from social media if you suspected the wrong thing in public.  Any difference with the vaunted “experts” would wear the label of “disinformation.”

So the head of the F.B.I. comes out and casually states that Covid may have come from a Chinese laboratory.  That kind of talk would get you suspended from social media until recently. He didn’t admit that Fauci funded it,  but he did.  What?  Yeah, no big deal.  You could get kicked off any number of media platforms, with government lawyers making the decisions, if you were to surmise such a thing.  

Hopefully sooner or later, we’ll find out what really went on.  It’s not pretty.  It feels like much that we hold dear is under attack.  Suddenly, the U. S. is getting its nose bloodied all around the world.  The mainstream tries to explain, but anybody can see this is not good.  It’s starting to look like “our national leaders” are not on the side of America. 

Mark

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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rand Paul is leading the charge to hold taxpayer-funded health institutions accountable for denying unvaccinated people critical care, including organ transplants.

Legislation introduced Tuesday from Paul, R-Ky., would bar federal funds from going to health care facilities that have denied patients care based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. It would also protect the rights of patients to make decisions about their health without being penalized.

“No American should be denied access to critical care based on a personal medical decision, yet tragically, many hospitals and other medical facilities continue to discriminate against those unvaccinated for COVID-19,” Paul told Fox News Digital.

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As described by Dr. Robert Malone, “The ICD classification system is run by the World Health Organization, not the US government.”  The vaccine status ICD codes were developed by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) some nine months ago, and CDC is implementing them.

The coding scheme, Z28.xxx, includes both vaccination status and possible reasons for the status. However, there does not appear to be a code for “fully vaccinated,” only for various states of “not fully vaccinated.”

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Source: https://brownstone.org/articles/us-icd-vaccine-passport-unconstitutionality/

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Last night an ambush video was aired showing an alleged Pfizer executive boasting that variants were being created with a vaccine ready to go, or words to that effect.  That’s before he realized that he’d been recorded and went full blown loony tunes. Surely the company will fire the guy and say they barely knew him.  But he did have an impressive title.  If he wasn’t talking through his hat, gain of function research is on the table, which doesn’t look right for the company selling vaccines.  He called the ploy “directed evolution.”   That’s before he called the police and then started rushing people.  We may see a lot of this before it’s over.  Newsweek has already published a “fact check” attempting to discredit the whole episode.  Pfizer has yet to comment. 

We found out this week that the United States is sending Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine.  Purely a defensive measure mind you.  It’s been explained that the U. S. had to send a battalion of tanks so Germany could in turn send twice as many Leopard tanks.  Is that how diplomacy works?  The argument is that Putin is on the ropes, and if he doesn’t win in Ukraine something will happen internally to take him down.  Apparently there isn’t any anti-war movement in Russia.  Putin’s successors might be even more aggressive.  His popularity doesn’t seem to be suffering, assuming you believe the polls.  But the tanks.  That seems to be ratcheting up our involvement in something that could turn ugly, as if it’s not ugly enough.  

The whole thing seems an exercise in playing chicken with W. W. III.  But nobody asked us.  Did they ask somebody?  Somebody’s going to have to tell me what the pretender said, because trying to decipher words and meanings has become impossible.  Who’s making these decisions, and are they the right ones?  The guys standing in the backdrop in uniforms and medals don’t inspire a lot of confidence either.

Where does this end up? Or does it? There are some things yet to happen. If the Davos crowd gets it’s way it would all happen at once.  It looks like they want to have the power over what people think, publicly at least.  Nobody would dare question global warming without severe punishment.  Or for that matter entertain any of the “conspiracy theories,” especially those that turn out to be true. If the media is any gauge, we must all believe the same things and speak with the same voice.  They’ve gone to great lengths already, but some of us aren’t buying in.

It’s not like the public doesn’t already know too much, on a whole range of subjects.  But the mainstream keeps banging on like the public agrees with their conventional wisdom.  Polls are conducted and released to banish any question about what the public believes.  We’ve got “analysts” that come on television to tell us what we believe.  It’s enough to make you talk back.  

Mark 

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Italy, which was the first nation in Europe to be hit hard by the virus in February 2020 after it emerged in China, is now the first to impose mandatory tests on people arriving from the Asian country grappling with a new wave.

Milan’s main airport, Malpensa, had already started testing passengers arriving from Beijing and Shanghai on Dec. 26, and the results showed almost one in two passengers was infected.

“The measure is essential to ensure surveillance and detection of possible variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population”, minister Orazio Schillaci said, announcing mandatory testing for all passengers.

The minister did not say what measures would be imposed on travellers testing positive, but the local health chiefs in the Lombardy region around Milan and the Lazio region around Rome said they would have to quarantine in buildings set aside by the local health authorities.

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Source: https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/29/health-coronavirus-china-italy

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A prominent physician in Australia – formerly president of the Australian Medical Association and a member of Parliament – has delivered explosive testimony to Parliament, declaring that she and her wife both have been seriously harmed by the COVID-19 vaccines.

Dr. Kerryn Phelps further contends the true rate of adverse events is much higher than the medical establishment and media are acknowledging, because of underreporting and “threats” from medical regulators, reports Australia’s News.au.com.

“This is an issue that I have witnessed first-hand with my wife who suffered a severe neurological reaction to her first Pfizer vaccine within minutes, including burning face and gums, paraesethesiae, and numb hands and feet, while under observation by myself, another doctor and a registered nurse at the time of immunisation,” Phelps, 65, told Parliament’s Long Covid inquiry

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