Briefly – March 1, 2024

CDC-funded study reveals host of adverse events from Covid jab

A multinational study of nearly 100 million vaccinated people has identified higher incidences of neurological, cardiovascular, and blood disorder complications than what the researchers expected.

The peer-reviewed observational cohort study, published in the Vaccine journal on Feb. 12, aimed to evaluate the risk of 13 adverse events of special interest (AESI) following COVID-19 vaccination. The AESIs spanned three categories—neurological, hematologic (blood), and cardiovascular.

It reviewed data collected from more than 99 million vaccinated people from eight nations—Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand, and Scotland—looking at risks up to 42 days after getting the shots. The study looked at three vaccines—Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines as well as AstraZeneca’s viral vector jab. Researchers found higher than expected cases that met the threshold to be potential safety signals for multiple AESIs, including for Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), myocarditis, and pericarditis.

EV sales slump as Americans stick with gas

It appears the honeymoon is over between Americans and electric vehicles as a growing number of EV owners are filing for divorce and non-owners are breaking their engagement. Here are a few reasons why:

• EVs are still costly to produce and maintain.
• Many don’t hold their value like gasoline-powered cars do.
• Most consumers still can’t afford to buy them with an average $40,000 price tag.

And, good luck finding a charging station in the middle of nowhere.

Still, the Biden administration seems driven to replace gasoline vehicles with EVs by the next decade.

ADL: ‘all shooters’ are ‘right wing extremists’

The Anti-Defamation League claimed that right-wing extremists committed “all” the extremist-related murders in 2023, discounting the apparent extremism of Islamists, transgenders, and Marxists that have shot up Christian schools and churches, the overwhelmingly preferred targets of mass shooters in recent years–including 2023.

One example is Audrey Hale, the transgender shooter who pretended to be a male named “Aiden,” killed three adults and three students in March 2023 at The Covenant School in Nashville. The seemingly now-woke ADL called her “a right-wing extremist” because she used the word “faggots” in her manifesto. Never mind that she also used the phrase “wanna kill all you little crackers!!!,” the repeated word “crackers” being an epithet that echoes a Marxist talking point on “white privilege.”

As the other mass shootings, government officials and their compliant media have been quick to systematically bury any information that would betray shooters’ far-left leanings.

Surgeon likens ‘gender-affirming care’ to lobotomies:
‘In no way is this medicine’

A whistleblower who exposed a children’s hospital for lying about prescribing puberty blockers to children likened sex-change surgeries and hormone treatments to lobotomies, a procedure society eventually came to view as barbaric. General surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim said that after he exposed the hospital, federal agents showed up at his door to tell him that he was now under criminal investigation for his actions. Haim said he took an oath as a doctor to “do no harm” and felt a responsibility to do something.

In response to a question about how trans activists argue sex-change surgeries and puberty blockers are medically necessary for people suffering from gender dysphoria, Haim declared, “In no way is this medicine.”

The surgeon stated that it is not possible to treat a psychological issue with a “solution of the body,” likening so-called “gender-affirming care” to lobotomies. “The actual goal of medicine is to preserve and strengthen what has already been created.”

It’s been 30 years since food ate up this much of your income

Eating continues to cost more. Prices at restaurants and other eateries were up 5.1% last month compared with January 2023—and relief isn’t likely to arrive soon. Restaurant and food companies are still grappling with rising labor costs, ingredients getting more expensive—and there is no period you could point to where food prices went back down.

In the 1990s, when Democrat Bill Clinton was president, U.S. consumers spent 11.4% of their personal income on food, according to data from the USDA. At the time, households were still dealing with steep food-price increases following an inflationary period during Democrat President Jimmy Carter’s years in the 1970s.

Now under Democrat Joe Biden, more than three decades later, food spending has reattained that level, USDA data shows. In 2022, consumers spent 11.3% of their disposable income on food, according to the most recent USDA data available.

California budget deficit projected to skyrocket to record $73 billion under Newsom.