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Pathological Recriminations

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I’m not familiar with the context surrounding this controversy over pathologists researching patients who received the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus. I’m hoping that German readers who know more will weigh in on the issue in the comments.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the German-language service of the Epoch Times:

Reutlinger Pathology stops research on COVID-vaccinated people

After it was recently announced that the pathological examinations of COVID-vaccinated people will continue even after the death of Prof. Arne Burkhardt in Reutlingen, there is now an abrupt reversal. Late in the evening of August 14th, The Epoch Times received the sudden and unexpected news: “Pathology in Reutlingen is closed with immediate effect.”

Prof. Walter Lang, who had agreed to take over the medical direction of the research, is no longer available for the project.

The reason given was “legal pressure to fight through the dismissals of employees before the labor court” by the Association of Doctors and Scientists for Health, Freedom and Democracy (MWGFD). The association had supported the pathological examinations with donations.

MWGFD threatens to sue

In addition, the MWGFD, on whose board of directors is the well-known microbiologist Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, had threatened Prof. Lang with a lawsuit through a lawyer. As can be seen from the legal letter available to the Epoch Times, it was about the surrender of the laboratory equipment. These were given to Prof. Burkhardt by the MWGFD for research purposes.

The lawyer for MWGFD asserted the ownership rights of his clients “after the business basis had ceased to exist” as a result of Burkhardt’s death. The value of the medical-technical laboratory equipment is estimated at €132,220.90. Alternatively, Prof. Lang was offered the purchase of the equipment.

According to insider circles, this was the last straw that finally broke the camel’s back after months of quarrels with the MWGFD.

In a press release on August 9, the MWGFD announced that a new site for pathology examinations would be built. This was justified by the fact that the premises of the Reutlingen laboratory were part of the estate of the late Prof. Burkhardt.

The society has found an institute that will act as an intermediary to the existing pathological institutions and will have modern telepathology at its disposal so that the work can continue according to the methods used by Prof. Burkhardt.

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I wonder from which direction the pressure came that made Dr. Lang fold? A rogue who thinks that evil is afoot…

Paul Weston: “Question Everything”

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After an extended sabbatical — during which he decamped from Blighty and set up camp at an undisclosed location abroad — Paul Weston returns with this video about the Rainbow Curtain of Science that is now descending over the entire West and ushering in our totalitarian future:

Lula: We Must Brainwash the Children About the Climate!

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known simply as “Lula”, is the president of Brazil. In the following video Mr. Lula answers softball media questions about the climate crisis and its effect on the Amazon basin. He places particular emphasis on the importance of indoctrinating schoolchildren with the urgency of the looming climate catastrophe.

Many thanks to José Atento for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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A Bundle of Daffodils

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I mentioned a few days ago that a good friend of mine has died. Her death has been very hard for me, but nothing like it has been for her husband, who was my college roommate. They had been together for almost fifty years.

She was the same age as me, so you can’t really say that she died before her time, but it still feels that way. It prompted me to dig out this poem by Michael Roberts, a between-the-wars British poet who died in 1948 at the tender age of 46, and is no longer well-known. He had a terminal illness, and wrote the poem when he knew the end was near.

A side note: he joined the Communist Party in the 1920s, but was expelled from it. That little biographical detail endears him to me.

His poem is light and humorous, a good one to be remembered for (raccourci means “shortcut” in French):

Already Said My Host

by Michael Roberts

‘Already’, said my host. ‘You have arrived already?
But by what route, what ingenious raccourci?
I half expected you, it is true,
But I expected someone a little older,
Someone rather less arrogant and impulsive,
Someone a little embittered and despondent,
Someone, in short, not quite you.
And now you arrive by some unfair expedient,
Having neglected, no doubt, to pay proper attention to the view:
You arrive a little dazed and flushed,
And you find me hardly ready to receive you, hardly able to cope.
It was inconsiderate of you to die so suddenly,
Placing me in this ridiculous quandary.
I had predicted a great future for you,
A future without happiness or hope:
I had prepared a suitable mausoleum for your reception:
And now you arrive with a bundle of daffodils, a fox terrier,
And a still unfinished smile.
Really!’

Thanatopsis

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One of my very best friends died at noon today. She was the wife of another of my very best friends, who was my roommate during my senior year in college and has remained a close friend ever since.

His wife had been struggling for several years with a particularly nasty form of cancer. These last few weeks have been grim, as her condition grew progressively worse. A few days ago they had to take her off IV fluids because her veins could simply no longer handle it. She just lay there asleep, beyond even the twilight sleep that had been her lot for the preceding week. Then she just slipped away.

Old people mostly tend to die in the middle of the night, but she was an exception. Her personality was full of sunshine, and she died at midday.

In my age group (ultra-geezer), deaths among my cohort are becoming increasingly frequent. But this one has hit me particularly hard, because she truly was one of my very best friends. She was so kind and helpful to me during those awful months right after Dymphna died — I don’t know how I would have gotten through it without her.

I’m sort of acting as the communication hub on behalf of her husband, to make it easier for him during this horrible time when he has so much to deal with. I’ve spent most of the afternoon making phone calls and writing emails, and there will be more later. As a result, posting may be a bit light.

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The title of this post is borrowed from a poem with the same title by William Cullen Bryant. I don’t find the poem itself that notable, but I like the title.

A more appropriate epitaph for my friend would be the well-known Sonnet #73 by William Shakespeare:

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Question the COVID Narrative? It’s the Loony Bin For You!

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It seems the West has gone full Soviet in its use of psychiatric diagnoses to put troublemaking dissidents away in psychiatric institutions. The following case was sent by our Norwegian correspondent The Observer. All it took was the word of a doctor to get this dangerous “conspiracy theorist” committed.

The Haaland Case

By The Observer

On the 19th of July 2023 a Norwegian man, Trond Harald Haaland, was forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward for posting Covid-19 critical vaccine posts to his personal Facebook page. This happened in Stavanger, Norway’s fourth-largest city.

On the day in question, a doctor and a health care worker showed up at Haaland’s residence, accompanied by two uniformed police officers. After a short conversation, they informed Haaland he had to come with them, and subsequently escorted him to the psychiatric ward at the University hospital in Stavanger (SUS) where he spent the next nine days.

This drastic step was taken based on a ‘cause for concern’ report filed by an individual whose identity has not yet been released, but who has access to Haaland’s Facebook feed. This was ostensibly enough to have Haaland committed to a psychiatric ward.

Upon learning of Haaland’s fate, his family contacted a lawyer to represent him. And thus a review board hearing was scheduled for Friday, July 28th. And this is where things get interesting.

Here is some of the evidence that was used to have Haaland committed to a closed psychiatric ward: The doctor who made the decision based her judgment on Haaland’s Facebook posts. In her opinion Haaland displayed manic behaviour, was psychotic and paranoid, and his actions were deemed not to be rooted in reality. This conclusion was reached based on the frequency and the content of the various Facebook posts.

When Haaland’s lawyer asked the doctor if she had read the posts in question, the doctor admitted that she hadn’t, given that she is not on Facebook!

Upon hearing the evidence presented at the hearing, the jury, which consists of a doctor and two lay judges unanimously decided to discharge Haaland with immediate effect.

Haaland’s lawyer has so far been unsuccessful in obtaining the identity of the person who contacted the health authorities, and whose report subsequently led to Haaland’s ordeal.

I know this sounds like something straight out of George Orwell’s novel 1984, but this story has been corroborated by Haaland’s lawyer, Barbro Paulsen. It has also been covered by two independent and trustworthy Norwegian news sites, document.no and steigan.no.

The links to those articles are at the bottom of this essay. They are in Norwegian but can easily be run through Google translate for verification.

What we can take away from this case is that the authorities in Norway will in certain cases rely on a psychiatric diagnosis to stifle troublesome dissent. If they have a political gripe with someone, they’ll just whisper a few words in the ear of the local health authorities about their ‘concerns for the individual’s mental state’ and have the problematic person locked up in a psychiatric facility.

There are two cases that immediately jumped to mind when I first became aware of this story, and that is the ‘Breivik case’ and the ‘Gjesdal case’.

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No Reprieve For Holders of a Forged Vax Pass

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The “pandemic” may be over in Germany, but there will be no reprieve for offenders who held forged certificates for receiving the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Politics rejects amnesty

[But they want us to forgive and forget the crimes against humanity they have perpetrated. Why am I not surprised?]

Police continue to hunt down holders of fake corona vaccination cards

The state is not letting up on Corona: 26,000 procedures are now underway for fake vaccination cards. There are house searches and prison sentences. The police say that’s why investigations into other crimes have been left uncompleted.

Berlin

In the fight against fake vaccination certificates, the judiciary and police are still investigating at full speed. There are now 26,000 cases pending across Germany. Die Welt reports this with reference to information from the individual federal states.

The police union therefore complains that the investigators have a high workload. However, politicians reject an amnesty for people and doctors who tried to circumvent the quasi-obligatory vaccination by 3G with a wrong stamp in the vaccination card.

Fake vaccination cards: Three years in prison for a doctor

In Berlin alone there were 110 house searches. A doctor from Recklinghausen who certified 600 patients for a Corona vaccination without having carried it out has now been sentenced to 34 months in prison.

The investigators are getting a tailwind from the Federal Court of Justice. It had decided that if an accused could not be found guilty of forging health certificates, he would have to be prosecuted for forging documents.

Due to Corona investigations, other crimes remain untouched

The police union criticized the fact that colleagues were “taken out of the so-called regular organization” in order to clarify the cases of fake vaccination cards. The federal chairman Jochen Kopelke told Die Welt that these officials were neglecting the investigation of other crimes. “The backlog of issues to be processed is therefore immense.”

Not only does the federal government reject an amnesty, but also the opposition Union. “Anyone who forges an important medical document is acting criminally,” says the health policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Tino Sorge. The relief of the police should not play a role either. [Obviously, they don’t want the mass murder they helped perpetrate to be investigated. Instead attack those who wouldn’t/couldn’t become their victims. Go figure.]

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“We Have Been Lied To”

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Alexandra Henrion-Caude is an Anglo-French geneticist. She holds a doctorate in genetics from the University of Paris-Diderot.

In the following video Dr. Henrion-Caude lists a series of assertions that were made about the experimental mRNA treatments intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus, and later turned out to be false.

Many thanks to HeHa for verifying the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Oak Leaves

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I posted last week about a huge old oak tree in the back yard of Schloss Bodissey that fell down during a thunderstorm.

I found a guy who was willing to cut it up and haul it out of there. He wants the wood, so he’s doing it free of charge. He’s just leaving the small branches behind to be chipped up by the other tree man. Then a third guy will come in to grind up the stump.

After his first session, enough space had been cleared back there for me to be able to walk around the surviving oak tree and assess its condition from directly below. When the other tree fell, it broke several major branches off the surviving tree as it came down. They were all on the east side of the tree, which afterwards had almost no foliage left on that side. In the highest part of the tree, all the remaining branches were on the west side, overhanging the house. If that tree had fallen during a storm, it would almost certainly have at least clipped the corner of the Eyrie — which is where I’m sitting right now — as it fell.

There was no way to avoid it: the tree had to come down.

Early this morning the tree man took it down using his bucket truck. It was an impressive operation. I watched him up there in the bucket, lopping off pieces at the top of the tree and dropping them down into the yard where his assistant could pick them up and move them out of the way. Then he got to the upper section of the trunk, and cut it into short sections, dropping them right under the bucket, each landing with a deep WHUMP. Finally he tied a rope around the top of the remaining trunk and anchored it to the bucket truck. He did the standard two cuts at the base to get the tree to fall in the desired direction, and down it came. I was taking photos of the operation, and caught the split second just before the trunk hit the ground:

That was taken through the back door. The one below was taken about three seconds later, through the storm door:

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This is Getting Old

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Yesterday afternoon my phone and internet went out for no discernible reason. There was no storm. No wind. No rain. They just went down, and stayed down for more than 24 hours. Voice is still out.

I’m getting really annoyed with the phone company. I’m keeping a record now of all the hours that the phone and/or internet go down in any given month. The log is in Excel, so I can easily calculate the percentage that they need to use to prorate my bill. Last month voice was out for more than 15% of the time. That’s unconscionable.

What this means for Gates of Vienna readers is that I can no longer reasonably predict when I’ll be offline. It used to be that an approaching thunderstorm or snowstorm might prompt me to warn everybody that I might soon disappear. But that’s no longer practical in a lot of cases — there’s just no way to tell.

From now on, if I stop posting and comments stop being moderated, just assume I’m at the mercy of the phone company, and that I’ll be back as soon as they deign to let me have a signal.

Murphy Shows His Face Yet Again

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Gates of Vienna’s hosting service decided to do an internal server migration of some sort today (Thursday), knocking the site offline for about six hours. They say they sent me an email, but I never saw it, so I wasn’t able to post a warning before it happened.

The site just came back up (about 12:30am EDT). I’m too exhausted to try to gather material for a news feed and post it tonight, so I’ll just collect everything and post an extra-large feed tomorrow (Friday).

This is annoying. Murphy’s Law in action, yet again.

Great Was the Fall of It

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From time to time I’ve posted photos of the two huge oaks in the back yard of Schloss Bodissey. The photo above shows the northernmost of them. It was taken almost twenty years ago, in October of 2003, when the last rays of sunset were touching the top of the tree.

Below is the same tree early this morning:

It was difficult to get a view of the full length of the fallen oak. I had to set up a stepladder in the midst of the dogwood tree’s foliage to take the shot.

Here’s a view from ground level:

And from a window up here in the Eyrie:

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Sturm und Drang

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Here at Schloss Bodissey the sky is very dark and thunder is rumbling…

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for this area:

Prepare immediately for large hail and damaging winds. For your safety, move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Stay away from windows.

If this post is still on top late this evening, or tomorrow, you’ll know why. Given the combination of the phone company and the electric company, some sort of outage is to be expected.

The Defender of Europe

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I woke up this morning and learned that an attempted coup was underway against Vladimir Putin, staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group. Since I have no expertise whatsoever on internal Russian politics, I won’t be commenting on the situation myself (Putin’s speech is here).

I don’t generally post photos of myself, but I’ll make an exception in this case, due to the t-shirt I was wearing at the beach the day before yesterday:

The rain finally quit for a while, and the sun came out (sort of), enough for me to go down and put my feet into the surf.

That’s Matteo Salvini on my shirt, which was marketed back when he was Interior Minister, before he was betrayed by Giuseppe Conte and the 5-Star Movement. Dymphna gave me the shirt for Christmas in 2018 (her last Christmas). It’s the first time I’ve worn it to the beach. Actually, it’s the first time I’ve been to the beach in seventeen years. It was good to feel the sand between my toes.

I doubt that one American in 10,000 would recognize the image of Matteo Salvini. When someone asks who that is on my shirt, and I tell them, they’ve never even heard of him. So I launch into an explanation, but by the time I get to phrases such as “interior minister” and “coalition government” and “closed the ports to migrant-rescue vessels”, their eyes glaze over and I can tell they are only pretending to pay attention, just to be polite.

Mine is a specialized line of work.