Not peer-reviewed yet, but pretty much conclusive:
Two separate studies debunk theory that vitamin D supplements offer greater protection against Covid-19
Like I’ve been saying: I appreciate the effort for heightening conscience about the dangers of Vitamin D deficiency in the northern hemisphere, but that’s it.
The working class should not fall for these New Age pseudo-science being touted by ex-hippie petty bourgeois from the USA. Stay at home, press your local government to keep paying your wages while the lockdown stays up, save your life and your family members’.

Posted by: vk | Mar 10 2021 18:20 utc | 3

Those curious about how the poor relations between Russia and the Outlaw Empire affect International Space Station operations and crewing will want to read this from TASS. As with political relations, there’s a lot of future uncertainty between NASA and Roscosmos.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2021 18:27 utc | 5

a most disturbing review of the government response to pharma demands that the government force those it governs to pay for and take the pharma offered vaccines. Basically I see it as a declaration of war against human rights

Texas is fighting back, they have removed the requirement of a mask.. and where I live, people have signs in heir front years which read “f**k the Vaccines”.

Posted by: snake | Mar 10 2021 18:35 utc | 7

re: #1
Thanks you for some actual news. Hard top come by these days

Posted by: c | Mar 10 2021 19:06 utc | 9

Interesting read by F William Engdahl

It’s no secret that Bill Gates and the advocates of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 are also devout promoters of human eugenics, the “thinning of the Human Herd” as Britain’s misanthropic Prince Philip once put it. Some such as Joachim Schnellnhuber, climate adviser to the Pope, openly welcome a human population below one billion as “sustainable.” Now serious research is emerging that one of the most effective reducers of the human population is being spread by so-called “modern scientific agriculture” through the select use of toxic agrochemicals, pesticides deemed safe which are anything but safe.

Will Mankind Be Extinct In a Few Years?

Posted by: Down South | Mar 10 2021 19:09 utc | 11

THE VIRUS and THE PARASITE
Some of you are missing the drama that has become CENTRAL today … the demise of the capitalist Western paradigm which the many other examples cited frequently by the MoA community now revolve around … that is, the showdown between the corona virus and the parasite of financialisation.
Time to Catch Up!
see Trial Site News and FLCCC

Posted by: Hemiola | Mar 10 2021 19:42 utc | 13

A game of cat and mouse has been going on today with the Russian telecom regulator announcing a slow down on all mobile platforms of Twitter, plus half the cable ones. The US publicly announced, no need to feel any compunction about it, that Russian sites are to be targeted. So after Roskomnadzor announced the Twitter slow down some government sites were temporarily unavailable. The liberal media: technical inability. Official media, no relation between incidents, some fire in a data center somewhere in France was the culprit. The debate is ongoing. Plus, contact line in Donbas is getting hot, rumors of a big escalation since the shooting never stopped, Frank Zappa came to my mind. Good that someone is daring the monopolist censors, an ongoing battle with sides clearly defined.

Posted by: Paco | Mar 10 2021 19:49 utc | 15

@vk

The working class should not fall for these New Age pseudo-science being touted by ex-hippie petty bourgeois from the USA. Stay at home, press your local government to keep paying your wages while the lockdown stays up, save your life and your family members’.

WORKING class or
STAYING AT HOME AFFRAID HERD?
Save my life is: let me free. No more useless lockdown, mask, social distancing and pseudo-science Government.

Posted by: Bernard F. | Mar 10 2021 19:54 utc | 17

In France they are now starting to sell the idea that children will also have to be vaccinated against covid, because you see, otherwise it would make some pockets of unvaxed and that would help the variants to develop…
Replacing natural herd immunity by an artificial one: the dream of Big Pharma comes true.
And all that to protect the middle-aged voters against the unemployed youth.

Posted by: Mina | Mar 10 2021 20:22 utc | 19

I like you folks. Thanks for all the help.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 10 2021 20:36 utc | 21

i see so much of my own journey and struggle in this saga i hope poor Meghan can afford the therapy she needs! Maybe we can all walk that royal journey of suffering and healing and reconciliation together, with Oprah’s favorite therapist, Dr Phil? Recovery is every step, Meghan, every public, openly-confessed Netflix-worthy step.
i’m updating Lou Reed’s “heroin” for the fentanyl age. fortunately they are both tri-syllabic words, so it’s not so hard, but not much rhymes with fentanyl.

Posted by: jason | Mar 10 2021 20:45 utc | 23

vk @ 3; Thanks for the info, a bit more of what’s up never hurts.
I continue to believe that the better your overall health is, the less you’re impacted by Covid-19. IMO, it impacts certain racial groups more because they continue to be the bulk of the working poor. And as such, eat mostly the food they can afford, which is fast food, that is total crap, loaded with sugar, and empty carbs.
The masking, plus distancing, IMO, also help. For those who want to make a political statement about not doing either, knock yourselves out.

Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 10 2021 20:58 utc | 25

Euro puppets attack RT media
https://www.dw.com/en/german-russian-relations-flare-up-over-state-run-tv-channel/a-56789631
People born in slavery can not imagine anything else than a US ruled world. Its like those animals refusing to leave a cage when the door gets opened.
They are too afraid of the outside world, which is so strange and disorderly, compared to the “order” of the cage, where they were raised. They do not know anything else.
You may also called it a european battered wife syndrome. They cower in fear in the presence of the Hegemon, and make excuses for him.

Posted by: Passer by | Mar 10 2021 21:03 utc | 27

snake @ 7; Texas has already shown the world through their latest energy SNAFU, what their decision making IQ is. Their latest decision to “open up”, will either work, or not. Reality will decide the “good”, or “bad” of their latest choice.

Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 10 2021 21:12 utc | 29

Auto correct got me. * then vitamin D*

Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 10 2021 21:28 utc | 31

The guy’s right about hippies. I grew up on a place called the Farm in the U$A. Not a political bone in their emaciated bodies. They still talk like they are the oldest commune today even though they ceased being a collective in 1980. Just a long haired subdivision of people who do nothing but smoke pot everyday.

Posted by: Bruce Lee Marvin Gay | Mar 10 2021 21:38 utc | 33

IMO, Ehret is onto something with this week’s article: “Nazi Healthcare Revived Across the Five Eyes: Killing Useless Eaters and Biden’s COVID Relief Bill.”
Often such a tabloid-like headline would prompt me to ignore it, but we live in different times so I decided to read since I’m now entering the “useless eater” part of my life as it’s seen by some very powerful people. Ehret includes this outtake toward the end of his essay to prove the historical precedent can–looks like–it’s being repeated:
“Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed [WW2 Holocaust], it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in basic attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as life not worthy to be lived. This attitude in its early stages concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually, the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the racially unwanted, then finally all non-Germans. But it is important to realize that the infinitely small wedged-in lever from which this entire trend of mind received its impetus was the attitude toward the non-rehabilitatable sick.” [My Emphasis]
For me having tended my Alzheimer’s afflicted mom until her demise, this is rather personal since I see life as being priceless–it cannot be bought or manufactured–and how is anyone to know what level of internal life remains within someone when they can no longer communicate such a self-assessment. Up to her end, mom reacted to music, aromas, familiar voices, and other stimuli, which is to say her life force was still functioning and in no way was I going to lessen her opportunity to live another day. And yes, I’ll admit it was very stressful dealing with it all; but even so after three years, I would rather be helping her live another day.
The biggest failing of the USA is its massive disregard for human life and human wellbeing, a tragedy we inherited from our British forbearers and have yet to cast-off. And to our great misfortune, that anti-life sentiment is deeply rooted in the Federal Government. Ehret exposes some of it; Max Blumenthal’s article on the genocidal sadist and Biden admin member Richard Nephew documents such behavior; couple it with Native American policy; mass killing of civilians in WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Central and South America, Southwest Asia, The Balkans, Ukraine, etc., and your damn right we ought to suspect the very worst from that government. Monsters do exist.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2021 21:51 utc | 35

Karlof1@35
It seems as if there is a coordinated campaign against the elderly. I see evidence of it even here. The level of callousness is appalling. I think of the Nazis when I see it and how dehumanization can happen.

Posted by: ld | Mar 10 2021 22:36 utc | 37

Pfizer vaccine does not kill – coincidence is the problem.
“The European Medicines Agency said on Wednesday there was no evidence so far linking AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to illnesses in two people who received it in Austria, one of whom died 10 days after being inoculated.
“The Austrian national health authority suspended the use of a batch of the vaccine after a person who was vaccinated was diagnosed with multiple thrombosis and later died, and another was hospitalised with pulmonary embolism.”
Maybe its a shamnic karma curse on the bottles?

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 22:54 utc | 39

VK @ 3:
I went over to that RT.com article you linked to and picked up these juicy morsels:

“… In the first study, researchers examined a database of nearly 450,000 mostly white people of European ancestry to understand whether giving them vitamin D supplements would lower the probability of contracting Covid-19.
The researchers, from 10 separate universities in Canada, Israel, Japan, Italy and the UK, looked at genetic markers that would leave people predisposed to vitamin D deficiencies. They concluded that “vitamin D supplementation as a means of protecting against worsened Covid outcomes is not supported by genetic evidence,” they wrote in the study. “Other therapeutic or preventative… avenues should be given higher priority for Covid-19 randomized controlled trials.” …”

Well of course … mostly white people of European ancestry are already well-adapted to living in physical environments with weak sunlight so giving them Vitamin D supplements is not going to make much difference to their chances of contracting COVID-19 or any other disease caused by viruses vulnerable to UV light.

“… In the second study debunking vitamin D’s usefulness against Covid, researchers from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece examined data on vitamin D deficiency from 24 European countries and compared it to data on Covid infections, recoveries and deaths.
The researchers, who did not include data from people living in nursing homes, looked at how vitamin D deficiency rates varied across European nations and compared that data to infection rates.
They concluded that the “prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was not significantly associated with either the number of infections, recoveries or mortality rate of Covid-19” across Europe …”

When the samples omit groups of people most likely to suffer Vitamin D deficiencies for various reasons (genetic, cultural, situational: darker skinned people living in environments where the sun rises only a couple of hours every day in winter may need Vitamin D supplementation; many of those people probably can only afford cheap food low in nutrients; they may be required by their cultures to dress modestly; folks in nursing homes may not be allowed outdoors in winter for their own safety), you have to wonder if the research was designed in such a way as to deliver pre-ordained results to discredit the use of Vitamin D supplementation.

Posted by: Jen | Mar 10 2021 22:57 utc | 41

naiverealist #40

It is my understanding that no Republican in either the house or senate voted for this law.

So there is nothing to stop the Dimratss putting forward Medicare For All and the $15 Minimum Wage bill.
They clearly will have the majority needed to win and they can simultaneously do wedge politics and win over all those Repugnant voters with a good deed for them.
What is stopping them?? Treachery exposed.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 23:13 utc | 43

Not peer-reviewed yet, but pretty much conclusive:
Two separate studies debunk theory that vitamin D supplements offer greater protection against Covid-19
Like I’ve been saying: I appreciate the effort for heightening conscience about the dangers of Vitamin D deficiency in the northern hemisphere, but that’s it.
I looked into them….. They prove nothing!!!
In no way do they compare those given Vit-D to those without.
In no way do they correlate Vit-D blood levels to COVID severity.
Instead, one goes off the reservation into genetic issues, none of which it correlates to anything relevant.
The other goes off the deep end into comparing Vit-D levels on a nationally averaged basis to infection rates…
Both did not reference much better designed studies, including those from Germany, which show significant reductions in COVID mortality in patients given sufficient supplementation with Vit-D.
This is crap!!
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Mar 10 2021 23:24 utc | 45

@ Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 22:54 utc | 39
Your linked article is about the AstraZeneca vaccine (chimpanzee adenovirus), not the Pfizer and Moderna ones (mRNA). Completely different cases.

Posted by: vk | Mar 10 2021 23:30 utc | 47

oldhippie #22
Dr. George W Oprisko #45

Both did not reference much better designed studies, including those from Germany, which show significant reductions in COVID mortality in patients given sufficient supplementation with Vit-D.
This is crap!!
Pure trash!

Thank you both for examining the entrails of this voodoo chicken that vk has thrown on the table.
Go straight to jail vk, do not pass go, do not collect your payment. Your antics are raising the background noise to disconcerting levels.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 23:37 utc | 49

for “through” please read “threw”. It makes a bit more sense!

Posted by: bevin | Mar 10 2021 23:50 utc | 51

It’s been around for awhile, UnHerd:
“UnHerd aims to do two things: to push back against the herd mentality with new and bold thinking, and to provide a platform for otherwise unheard ideas, people and places.”
I happened upon it via Alastair Crooke’s referencing the essays of one of its writer/editors, Aris Roussinos, from whom I can suggest three essays, the first two cited by Crooke, “Twilight of the American Empire” and “The Irresistible Rise of the Civilization State”, and one that describes the damage the Neoliberal Parasite’s done to the UK and USA, “The Ideology that Broke Britain”. He’s written many essays, and his partners have also produced a trove of which I’ve read none. There’s a reason Crooke cited the first two which you’ll discover when reading them.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 11 2021 0:01 utc | 53

@jason #23 re: fentanyl rhymes
I’m in a bit of a dark mood, so why not…
Pill Swill Spill Kill Jill Bill Windowsill Krill Still Will Nil Dill Gardasil Secanol (abstractly)

Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 0:10 utc | 55

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2021 19:52 utc | 16
and
Posted by: JB | Mar 10 2021 23:16 utc | 44
I encourage each of you to watch/read the other’s links. Max and Stacey make an explicit case that US banks and corporations are disencentivized to innovate and modernize payment systems and that as a result the USA is at least 10 years behind in the development of faster, decentralized blockchains (of which BTC is not one).
JB’s link furthers the case that Western corporations have turned to a new model in order to continue extracting profit and it involves integrating with governments (and central banks) to basically create and maintain monopolies (including on currency and payments, although not explicitly mentioned).
All of this is the perfect case for investing in and using Cardano ADA, the best, fastest and completely de-centralized blockchain and cryptocurrency. Seriously, Max and Stacey make direct arguments in favor of such a crypto but they apparently aren’t aware of Cardano/ADA yet. ADA is not only de-centralized, but it’s lightning quick (i.e. actually useful for transactions rather than hoarding like BTC) and it’s extremely energy efficient (being that it’s a proof of stake rather than proof of work, there is no “mining” which consumes vast amounts of energy).
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/cardano-becomes-a-multi-asset-blockchain-with-todays-hard-fork-2021-03-01
Myself, I recently went through the rigors of creating a Daedalus wallet and purchased a couple thousand ADA just for a long term investment and I encourage others to look into it if you’re seeing a future where we might need to be able to trade without the controls and surveillance of the big central banks.

Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 0:19 utc | 57

ld @37 & bevin @50–
Thanks for your reply and input, respectively. When we look at monsters like Richard Nephew and Pompeo and the fact that they’ve been allowed to exert power, we know that the incrementalism described in the excerpt I provided @35 is very much in play already within the Neoliberal world–non-performing stocks and companies get sold or liquidated so the same should be done with non-performing humans. That IMO is Genocide cloaked as euthanasia and is the exact opposite of the doctrine promoted by Putin and Xi where elders are to be venerated and helped to enjoy life as long as possible. IMO, any nation having a policy aimed at killing off a portion of its already existing population is an outlaw nation that must have those promoting and implementing such a policy tried for genocide, the nation occupied and its populous reeducated to destroy any notions of having any such policy, and then allowed to regain its sovereignty after two generations (40 years). Of course, the Outlaw US Empire well qualifies for that status, as does the UK, Sweden, and other Neoliberal nations. Unfortunately, such discipline is unlikely to happen.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 11 2021 0:26 utc | 59

About that Newlines Institute, if you look at their About pages and check their collaborators’ list, you’ll see scumbag jihadi propagandists like Hassan Hassan and Charles Lister. Yes, that Charles Lister that was so ridiculously blatant in his Syrian propaganda.
That entire thing is trash deserving a dumpster fire.

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Mar 11 2021 0:52 utc | 61

snake #54

did I hear uncle Tungsten @ 39 correctly> the Pfizer vaccine does not kill <=because it genetically alters existing cellular and system systems. it that what you are saying?
My apologies snake, it was my drole sarcasm. Pfizer and any mRNA formula is not on my wish list.
I wouldn’t use it on a rat. I got it wrong in that post as well but its within my one percent error range so I am back to drinking 😉