Capitalism’s 26th of May milestones:
“Just one day before the [Senate] hearing, likely for preemptive damage control purposes, the FDA quietly updated its myocarditis warning on Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines, expanding the risk category to males aged 16 to 25 and citing an incidence of 8 cases per million doses for the 2023–2024 formulations,” Nicolas Hulscher wrote on Thursday for Focal Points. “Unfortunately, no mention of death was added — despite robust, peer-reviewed autopsy evidence confirming fatal vaccine-induced myocarditis.”
Hulscher’s short article focuses on the testimony of Dr. Peter McCullough at the hearing, which was held on Wednesday.
In direct response to claims made by Senator Richard Blumenthal during the hearing that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives, Dr. McCullough was unequivocal: “I don’t want America to be fooled by this hearing today thinking that the vaccines saved lives — because they didn’t.”
Dr. McCullough’s testimony was clear, data-driven, and difficult to ignore.
He made the case that public health agencies minimized known harms, failed to act on early warning signs, and still have not provided the public with full transparency.
The hearing was the first Senator Ron Johnson conducted as the new chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The senator began by asserting that the Biden administration had known about the mRNA “vaccines’” myocarditis problem early, but kept mum.
“Johnson released newly subpoenaed records exposing a detailed timeline of what officials knew and when,” The Vigilant Fox summarizes on Substack. “While Pfizer and Moderna received insider updates, doctors and citizens who raised concerns were silenced.”
In February 2021, Israeli health officials warned the CDC of “large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people” following Pfizer injections, just two and a half months after the vaccine received emergency use authorization.
By April, the CDC was already reviewing myocarditis data from Israel and the Department of Defense. But instead of alerting the public, they stayed quiet.
It now seems possible that the full truth about the coronavirus pandemic will come out, though few if any insiders are likely to be brought to justice.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
Ben Jonson, Sejanus (1603), Act 1.
On May 25, 1878, Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London. (Image is a detail from an 1879 theater poster.)
On the same date in 1895, playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde was convicted of “committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons” and sentenced to serve two years in prison — becoming history’s most famous prosecutions for homosexual activity.
In 1895 on the 25th of May, the Republic of Formosa was formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president. It lasted less than half a year, dissolving upon conquest by Japan.
“New Hampshire joins a growing list of states that mandate some level of local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement,” The Epoch Times tells us.
New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed a pair of bills into law that ban so-called “sanctuary” policies designed to keep local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
“There will be no sanctuary cities in New Hampshire,” Ayotte declared at the bill-signing ceremony, flanked by lawmakers and sheriffs from across the state. “Period. End of story.”
At issue are two bill, HB511 and SB62. These curb local governments under the corporate control of the sovereign state from defying federal law on the matter of immigration — that is, “unless expressly prohibited by state or federal law, local governmental entities may not prohibit or impede any state or federal law enforcement agency from complying with federal immigration laws,” etc.
“New Hampshire now joins a growing list of states that have enacted anti-sanctuary laws,” The Epoch Times goes on to explain. “According to legal advocacy group Immigrant Legal Resource Center, more than 20 states, including Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Georgia, have laws mandating at least some level of local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.”
The idea of the state nullification of federal law — James Madison called it “interposition,” and it was a key idea of the early Jeffersonians — has been on the rise in recent years. (Cannabis legalization is a good example.) This movement of the states to rein in the “sanctuary city” movement goes in the other direction, forcing compliance with the federal government.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act V, scene 1, line 34.
On May 24, 1689, the English Parliament passed the Act of Toleration, protecting dissenting Protestants.
Pointedly, Roman Catholics were excluded from this official tolerance.
It turns out that “Obama, Biden and Clinton did not explicitly name Trump,” admits the Post’s senior national political correspondent, though he argues “their message was unmistakable.”
Wait. The three former opposition party presidents bravely took on President Donald Trump but not one has enough courage to mention him by name?
Bad communication skills — no wonder why Trump is president.
“The three Democrats said, as much by their presence as their words,” writes Bendavid, “that these are unusual times for American democracy, that norms are being disregarded and extraordinary measures are required.”
Today’s Washington journalist!
More a psychic diviner of the deep inner meaning of a former president’s mere presence than mere observer.
Bendavid failed, however, to detail any specifics from the former commanders in chief as to the “extraordinary measures” that are somehow now “required.”
“Think of [former presidents] as a sort of advisory council to the people of the United States,” he quotes a historian from Columbia University. “And when the advisory council sounds the alarm, the people should listen.”
Wake up, people! Your former leaders have spoken: Trump = bad.
Thus we witness the national press corps continuing to miss the point. The people are not moved by these ex-presidents — at least not in their direction.
From political heavy-weights to legacy media newsmen, the more the DC establishment attacks President Trump, the more a sizable group of voters like him.
Trump is validated as the outsider.
The more popular outsider.
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Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
George MacDonald, from “Life” in Unspoken Sermons Series II (1886).
On May 23, 1813, South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela.
Other May 23 events include:
1788: South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in a Civil War battle fought 37 years prior, in 1863.
1958: Birthday of American comedian and game show host Drew Carey.