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  • Peter Thiel's 'House Philosopher' Proposes 'Humane Alternative to Genocide' | Patrick Wood

    "The ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma." —Curtis Yarvin, 2008

    https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/peter-thiels-house-philosopher-proposed?utm_source=youtube

    "Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma. Perfection cannot be achieved on both these counts, but we can get closer than most might think. The best humane alternative to genocide I can think of is not to liquidate the wards — either metaphorically or literally — but to virtualize them. A virtualized human is in permanent solitary confinement, waxed like a bee larva into a cell which is sealed except for emergencies. This would drive him insane, except that the cell contains an immersive virtual-reality interface which allows him to experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world." —Curtis Yarvin, 2008

    YARVIN's VISION

    Why, I asked Patrick Wood during our interview about his latest book 'The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America'', would anyone care what Curtis Yarvin thinks?

    Turns out we should care a lot since Peter Thiel regards Yarvin as his 'House Philosopher.' And Thiel is not the only one among the billionaire technocrats who has taken a liking to the philosophy of Dark Enlightenment.

    But does Thiel share Yarvin's vision of a 'humane alternative to genocide'?

    Maybe. It certainly doesn't bode well that NYT podcaster Ross Douthat had to ask him three times during an interview last year if Thiel wanted humanity to continue. H

    e got only silence as response until, when asked with much urgency, for a third time, Thiel relented with a 'Yes, but…'

    The 'but' was: let them survive - but not without some desperately needed technical enhancements inside their bodies and brains.

    CHAPTERS 0:00:04 – Intro, Curtis Yarvin "Humane Alternative to Genocide" Passage 0:01:41 – Who Is Curtis Yarvin? Dark Enlightenment and Silicon Valley Influence 0:08:56 – Peter Thiel's Role: Funding Yarvin, Technocracy, and Monopoly Mindset 0:14:03 – Post‑9/11 Surveillance, Total Information Awareness, and Birth of Palantir 0:17:40 – Democracy vs Freedom? Thiel, Yarvin, and Technocratic Alternatives 0:23:17 – "You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy": Virtual Bubbles and WEF‑Style Dystopia 0:30:15 – Monarch CEO, Sovereign Corporations, and the End of Private Property 0:32:48 – AI as De Facto Ruler: Centralized Data, Palantir, and Weaponized Governance 0:43:53 – Bilderberg Power: Thiel, Karp, AI Agendas, and Choosing Leaders 0:46:13 – Technocracy as an Economic System: Eliminating Politics and Politicians 0:50:43 – Trump, Technocrats in DC, and Yarvin's RAGE Doctrine (Retire All Government Employees) 0:54:22 – Marxism, Bolshevism, Nazi Germany, China: Historical Roots of Technocratic Control 1:02:11 – AI as New Religion: AI God, Thiel's Antichrist Lectures, and Inverted Theology 1:06:40 – Data Centers, Compute, and Building a Global AI Control Infrastructure 1:18:13 – Why Harvest All This Data? From Wearables and Smartphones to Total Control 1:21:32 – Politicians Behind the Curve and AI's Rapid Capture of Government 1:26:29 – Will the AI Bubble Burst? Societal Strain vs Oligarchs' Race to Finish 1:32:44 – COVID‑19, Lack of Accountability, and the Illusion of Rights in a Technocratic Order

    RESOURCES

    Patrick Wood: The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America https://www.amazon.com/Final-Betrayal-Technocracy-Destroyed-America/dp/B0GD2LCBSB/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&sr=1-1

    Patrick Wood's Technocracy News: https://www.technocracy.news/

    Nick Land: The Dark Enlightenment https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Enlightenment-Imperium-Press/dp/192260268X/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1

    Curtis Yarvin/Mencius Moldbug: Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-2-profit-strategies-for-our/

    1 hr 36 min
  • FDA's fraudulent BLA Approval of Pfizer's and Moderna's Covid Shots | Sasha Latypova

    Imagine the following: you wake up one morning to the news that the federal government declared sewage to be in compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).

    https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/fdas-fraudulent-bla-approval-of-pfizers?utm_source=youtube

    *** It's all pretty confusing with these toxic mRNA Covid shots. At first they were under Emergency Use Authorization, then the FDA gave them BLA approval but continued to give the EUA shots for more than a year after BLA approval to most Americans. And what role does the PREP act play in all this?

    To quickly understand the basic concept of the BLA approval game that the FDA has played, imagine the following: you wake up one morning to the news that the federal government declared sewage to be in compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). And the EPA has confirmed that sewage complies with the agency's established health-based standards for contaminants in public drinking water.

    You turn on your faucet. And, sure enough, sewage comes flowing out of it.

    If you decided to drink it, you wouldn't be able to sue the government when you get sick because sewage has been declared a medical countermeasure under the protection of the PREP act, granting freedom of liability to all municipalities, waterworks etc. in the entire country.

    This analogy only goes so far though: after all, before the government declared sewage to be compliant with the Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn't put sewage under some kind of Emergency Use Authorization and it didn't mandate you to drink it in order to keep your job.

    PS: This analogy is only meant to highlight the difference in regulatory pathways between EUA authorized and BLA licensed biologics. That's all. Because the BLA Covid shots are as toxic as the EUA shots. They served us sewage from the start.

    CHAPTERS 0:00:05 CHD's Citizen Petition To Revoke Pfizer And Moderna BLAs 0:05:07 Public Response And Record Comment Numbers 0:11:06 What Are Biologics? Basic FDA Categories 0:15:18 From Traditional Biologics To mRNA "Biologics" 0:21:52 NDA vs BLA And Biologics Carve‑outs 0:27:49 Biologics, Vaccines, And Industry Incentives 0:31:19 Growth Of Biologic Drugs And Vaccine Focus 0:31:41 EUA Timeline And 2021 BLA Approvals 0:33:45 Comirnaty Rollout In US vs Europe And Relabeling Claims 0:36:15 Confusion Among Public And Doctors About EUA vs BLA 0:37:28 FOIA Delays And EUA vs EAU Confusion 0:39:40 EUA As Countermeasure Outside Normal FDA Rules 0:43:42 Sewage vs Drinking Water Analogy For EUA vs BLA

    RESOURCES CHD's Citizen Petition: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/FDA-2025-P-6831-0001_attachment_1.pdf

    Tell the FDA to Revoke Licenses on COVID Vaccines: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community/tell-the-fda-to-revoke-licenses-on-covid-vaccines/

    Sasha Latypova Breaking: Citizen Petition to the FDA filed by Children's Health Defense with my input. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/breaking-citizen-petition-to-the

    Biologics License Applications (BLA) Process (CBER): https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/development-approval-process-cber/biologics-license-applications-bla-process-cber

    52 min
  • Vanished Study Finds Synthetic mRNA from the Pfizer Shots in Placentas of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Women | Tom Haviland

    "The link is gone. The paper has been pulled. But there's no information about it. Nothing. It's just gone."

    ***

    https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/vanished-study-finds-synthetic-mrna

    An Israeli study titled 'Detection of Pfizer BioNTech Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Human Blood, Placenta and Semen' was published by Gavin Publishers mid October 2025 and made headlines in independent media.

    However, the paper didn't see the light of day for long. In early December it vanished. It was not retracted, it just quietly disappeared without any explanation whatsoever.

    After my interview with Haviland, I discovered the paper on the Wayback machine as an archived snapshot from December 5, 2025, shortly before it disappeared:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20251205172931/https://www.gavinpublishers.com/assets/articles_pdf/Detection-of-Pfizer-BioNTech-Messenger-RNA-COVID-19-Vaccine-in-Human-Blood-Placenta-and-Semen.pdf

    CHAPTERS

    0:00:56 Article Removal and Initial Reactions

    0:01:57 Study Overview and Israeli Vaccination Context

    0:04:27 Early Findings on mRNA Persistence

    0:06:37 Groundbreaking Detection in Placenta

    0:07:36 Nested PCR Method Explanation

    0:10:29 Sample Collection Timeline

    0:12:28 Delays in Publication and Data Analysis

    0:15:31 Lipid Nanoparticles and Systemic Distribution

    0:18:28 Detection Rates by Time Since Vaccination

    0:23:33 Shedding Hypothesis and Children's Mortality Analysis

    0:27:20 Vaccination Timing and Pregnancy Outcomes

    0:32:07 mRNA Presence in Male Reproductive Cells

    0:36:17 Correlation of Detection with Days Since Last Dose

    0:37:04 Discussion: Transplacental Transfer and Limitations

    0:40:15 Unusual Fetal Deaths and Placental Issues

    0:41:07 PCR Method Limitations and Need for Further Research

    RESOURCES
    • 'Detection of Pfizer BioNTech Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Human Blood, Placenta and Semen'

    • Laura Kasner's Substack: Clotastrophe

    49 min
  • How America & Europe Manipulate Child Excess Mortality: Hervé Seligmann

    This is the third part of my interview with biologist Hervé Seligmann.

    "The structure of these biases is so complex: It's affected by age, by severity rank, it's for missing data, for publication delay. And it always goes in the same direction: hiding injury & death." - Seligmann

    We discuss how EuroMOMO and VAERS Hide excess deaths in children during the Covid years.

    CHAPTERS

    0:00:05 Euromomo Data and Excess Children Mortality

    0:02:31 Age Groups and Vaccine Rollout Timelines

    0:03:14 Changing Data and Baseline Comparisons Over Time

    0:06:09 Critique of Data Modeling and Information Confusion

    0:12:10 Analysis of CDC State-Level Excess Mortality and VAERS Correlations

    0:17:03 Missing Data Issues in VAERS Reports

    0:20:00 Bias in Administrative Handling of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting

    0:24:30 Evidence of Hiding Severe Harms in Children's Vaccine Reporting

    0:32:11 Preview of Upcoming Unpublished Results and Future Discussion

    RESOURCES
    • Google Scholar - Hervé Seligmann

    • COVID Vaccination and Age-Stratified All-Cause Mortality Risk, 2025-09-17

    • ScholarGPS

    • Albert Benavides: VAERSAware

    • EuroMOMO

    34 min
  • "When you kill over a million people in a hospital system, maybe that should be news." | Ken McCarthy

    The System That Made the Hospital Murders Possible and Declared Them Covid Deaths Is Still in Place Today.

    This is the second part of my interview with Ken McCarthy, author of the book 'What the Nurses Saw: An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic.' Here is the first part.

    One thing that people should definitely take away from the Covid 'pandemic' is that governments should never be in charge of healthcare because this provides them with a potential tool of democide.

    A lavish incentive structure was created by the U.S. federal health agencies to boost Covid diagnoses and ensure that hospitals would follow the NIH issued treatment protocols which almost always ended in death.

    For his book 'What the Nurses Saw,' Ken did an in-depth interview with AJ DePriest who researched the treatment protocols' money trail.

    DePriest found that hospitals in all 50 states received massive payments for every single patient who was admitted to the hospital as a Covid case. No wonder, they'd run the PCR tests over and over again until they got a positive result.

    What's interesting is that the payout amount for hospital Covid cases varied dramatically from state to state with West Virginia leading them all with almost half a million of dollars paid to hospitals for each admitted case.

    CHAPTERS

    0:00:05 Hospital COVID Payment Disparities Across States

    0:01:25 Additional Financial Incentives and State Differences

    0:02:30 Incentives for Admitting Medicaid and Medicare Patients

    0:04:06 Socioeconomic Factors, High-Cost Patients, and Targeting

    0:08:24 Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Tests and Policy Impact

    0:10:20 Profiteering from COVID Tests and Government Response

    0:13:05 History of Military Involvement in Public Health

    0:17:23 U.S. Defense Spending and Economic Implications

    0:18:05 Ken's Book "Diabolical Errors" and Systemic Medical Issues

    0:24:18 Regulatory Framework, Patient Bill of Rights, and Hospital Abuse

    RESOURCES

    Ken McCarthy: What the Nurses Saw: An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic

    'What The Nurses Saw' Website

    Ken McCarthy: Excerpts from Diabolical Errors: The Strange and Unsettling History of Vaccine Science (Medical System Corruption)

    Ken McCarthy: Fauci's First Fraud: The Foundation of Medical Totalitarianism in America (Medical System Corruption)

    28 min
  • Deadly Hospital Protocols Caused Almost 20% Excess Deaths in 2020 | John Beaudoin

    Many people believe that there were no excess deaths in the United States in 2020. But is this correct?

    https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/deadly-hospital-protocols-caused?utm_source=youtube

    In this episode of my interview with John Beaudoin, we look at the CDC's mortality data from 2018 to 2023 to find out how many people died in 2020, the first Covid year and the last Covid vaccine free year, and compare those deaths with the ones in 2021.

    "In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

    CHAPTERS 0:00:05 US Mortality Rate in 2020 0:00:53 Excess Deaths 0:02:02 Interpreting Death Data 0:02:29 Treatment Protocol Deaths 0:04:34 NIH's Hospital Treatment Guidelines 0:05:02 Vaccine Impact on Mortality

    RESOURCES They Weren't Dying of COVID: A System Built to Kill | Ken McCarthy: https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/they-werent-dying-of-covid-a-system

    The Code That Doesn't Exist: How CDC Disappears COVID Vaccine Deaths | John Beaudoin: https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/the-code-that-doesnt-exist-how-cdc

    The Data Trick Masking a Surge in Kidney Failure Deaths | John Beaudoin: https://flashlightsproductions.substack.com/p/the-data-trick-masking-a-surge-in

    John Beaudoin's Substack: https://therealcdc.substack.com/

    The Real CdC COVID: Facts for Regular People: https://www.amazon.com/Real-CdC-COVID-Regular-People/dp/B0CZMGB3R7/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1

    Ken McCarthy: What the Nurses Saw, https://www.amazon.com/What-Nurses-Saw-Investigation-Corruption/dp/B0CPQVTDRT/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1

    Albert Benavides website: https://www.vaersaware.com/

    10 min
  • They Weren't Dying of COVID: A System Built to Kill | Ken McCarthy

    McCarthy is the author of the book 'What the Nurses Saw.' I asked him: "What do you think: In 50 years and 100 years, will anybody know that this happened?"

    This is the first part of a three part interview with author Ken McCarthy about his book "What the Nurses Saw: An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic and the Nurses Who Fought Back to Save Their Patients."

    McCarthy, who became known in the 1990s for commercializing the internet and making crucial contributions to the development of online marketing, told me: "Specifically in the US, they incentivized a protocol which virtually guaranteed that people that came to the hospital with respiratory problems were going to die. Not everyone died, but over a million people died in US hospitals."

    And he adds: "It was systematized and it was incentivized by the federal government of the United States."

    One of the people that McCarthy interviewed for his book was AJ DePriest, a medical administrator and researcher who followed the money trail that led to the death of so many Americans.

    DePriest told him about the waivers that most people do not know about to this day. She told him that "CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) issued a series of waivers in early 2020 that allowed hospitals to do things for which they would have been sued and had the funding guts ripped out of them if they had done these things before COVID."

    What kind of things did these waivers enable the hospitals to do? For example hiring doctors and nurses for ICU units who were in no way qualified to work there. Or banning family members from visiting their loved ones. Or suspending the Patients' Bill of Rights and not giving water and food to Covid patients.

    "They had nurses working in the ICUs that hadn't even gotten their nursing degree yet. They were still students," he said.

    The hospital death protocols were systematized via the regulatory frameworks of the PREP Act and Emergency Use Authorizations for the PRC Test, Remdesivir and ventilators.

    And they were executed through the command chain from federal health agencies to hospital conglomerates to hospital administrators and from there down to doctors and nurses.

    DePriest told McCarthy when he interviewed her for his book: "We started following the CARES Act money to see where it was going, and we followed it trickling down through Health and Human Services to, eventually, the NIH. We discovered that the NIH published their protocols for inpatient treatment of COVID. From there, we started documenting the medications that were listed in the NIH protocols: remdesivir, Actemra, dexamethasone, baricitinib."

    Doctors and nurses who didn't play along, lost their jobs. All the nurses McCarthy talked to for his book "What the Nurses Saw" were fired.

    But almost everyone complied with the protocols. Nurses from other states who applied to work where help was needed received salaries of $10,000 per week. They were hired by medical contractor companies who also made a killing by contracting the nurses.

    McCarthy learnt from AJ DePriest that the contracted nurses were paid by Homeland Security. He said:

    "And I guess there were big pots of money available in Homeland Security. And the way it worked was there were private contractors who would arrange for the labor. They would recruit and hire and deliver the workers. Homeland Security would pay those contractors and then the contractors would pay the nurses. So the money ultimately came from Homeland Security."

    How the Death Protocols Were Incentivized

    Deaths were incentivized through a plethora of payments and bonuses. McCarthy told me: "They created a financial incentive system that incentivized medical procedures that made no medical, scientific or logical sense that were unprecedented in the history of medicine… I think that's where the vast majority of people I say were killed."

    For example, hospitals received huge payments for simply admitting people as Covid cases. West Virginia topped all the states with almost half a million dollars payout per Covid case.

    Then there were payments for administering Remdesivir, intubating people and keeping them intubated for a long time. In fact, usually until death since almost everyone intubated died: "The federal government of the United States and the medical bureaucracy and what I call medical dictatorship decreed that A, hospitals would get paid if they put somebody in intubation and B, they'd get an additional bonus if they kept them on intubation for more than 96 hours."

    Remdesivir also usually ended in death. Nicole Sirotek, a Nevada based nurse who came to New York City in the spring of 2020, refused to give the drug to patients and that's why she was removed from the ICU of the hospital where she worked. McCarthy said: "She refused after a short time. She said, everybody we give this drug to dies. I'm not giving anybody else this drug anymore."

    Sirotek was fired - like everyone else who spoke out against the protocols and refused to go along.

    The carnage in the NYC hospitals was likely the worst in the entire country.

    Another nurse that McCarthy interviewed, Erin Olszewski, had come to NYC from Florida in March of 2020 and began working at the ICU at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Both Sirotek and Olzsewski told McCarthy that patients did not die from Covid but were killed by long periods of intubation and the drug Remdesivir.

    New York City's Role During The Pandemic

    According to McCarthy, NYC had two important roles during the so-called pandemic: It was the test case for the country - as Italy had been for Europe. And the many deaths in New York City were needed to whip the rest of America into a panic about the deadliness of Covid-19.

    What's interesting in this context is that Anthony Fauci, Ken McCarthy said, "not only had a direct line to the governor of the state of New York, he also had a direct line to many of the highest level medical people in Northern Italy based on the fact that so many of them received training at NIH, specifically with him because, you know, he's Italian American, they're Italian, and there was this natural affinity."

    Fauci did in fact maintain collegial relationships with many Italian infectious‑disease specialists. During COVID, Italian physicians in Lombardy, for example, consulted him. And Italy's president awarded him the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for his "exceptional career" and contribution to the COVID‑19 response.

    "So is it a coincidence that Northern Italy was the first place, and they would have been getting their advice personally, directly from Doctor Fauci?," McCarthy asked.

    Ken also told me that Fauci and the late NY Governor Mario Cuomo, the father of former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, knew each other well: "Anthony Fauci and Mario Cuomo, the father, were very close. Anthony Fauci was friends of the Cuomo family for decades, and knew the boys, Andrew [and Chris]... Nobody knows this. And they were literally on the phone with Fauci on a daily basis."

    No Accountability For The Mass Killings In US Hospitals

    To this day, nobody has been held accountable for the murder of countless people in NYC hospitals and other US states. Not a single official of the federal government, not one member of the military or the medical establishment.

    It's not even a topic of discussion. Many Americans are probably unaware of what happened in the hospitals during Covid.

    So I asked McCarthy: "What do you think: In 50 years and 100 years, will anybody know that this happened?"

    His answer: "Well, if they read my book, they'll know… Which is one of my motivations for writing it. But there's a lot of things that happen in this world that are never documented. And that old saying: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did it really fall? Does it matter?"

    CHAPTERS

    0:05:04 Motivation Behind "What the Nurses Saw"

    0:09:28 Twitter Suspension and Social Media Challenges

    0:11:30 The Book's Timing and Institutional Neglect

    0:13:49 Nurse Whistleblowers: Nicole Serotek and Erin Olszewski

    0:15:33 Nicole's Viral Testimony: ICU Conditions and Advocacy

    0:20:45 Medical Response Manipulation and Context of the Pandemic Spread

    0:28:02 Unqualified Medical Staff and Government Waivers

    0:29:11 Introduction to AJ DePriest: Financial Incentives and Waivers

    0:34:20 Patient Rights Suspended: Hospital Waivers During COVID

    0:39:13 Homeland Security, Private Contractors, and Staffing

    0:44:32 Financial Incentives and Deadly Hospital Protocols

    0:49:13 Remdesivir, Intubation, and Incentive Structures

    0:55:53 Dangers and Improper Use of Invasive Ventilation

    1:01:17 Emergency Use Authorizations and Ventilator Surge

    1:03:50 Media Hysteria, Ventilator Demand, and Policy Connections

    1:05:53 Anthony Fauci's Influence and the Italy Connection

    1:06:58 International Ties and Political Factors in the Pandemic

    RESOURCES

    Ken McCarthy: What the Nurses Saw: An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic

    'What The Nurses Saw' Website

    Ken McCarthy: Excerpts from Diabolical Errors: The Strange and Unsettling History of Vaccine Science (Medical System Corruption)

    Ken McCarthy: Fauci's First Fraud: The Foundation of Medical Totalitarianism in America (Medical System Corruption)

    1 hr 8 min
  • The Code That Doesn't Exist: How CDC Disappears COVID Vaccine Deaths | John Beaudoin

    "CDC is nefarious because they set up the system and they know there are a lot more deaths than they're telling the people through data." —John Beaudoin

    In this interview, John Beaudoin and I dive into the CDC's mortality database that is part of its WONDER platform and find things in there that are, well, wondrous.

    But only in the sense that what you find makes you wonder. And way more than that: what you find are glaring signs of something horrific being covered up.

    WONDER, in case you're wondering, is a web based public platform where anyone can query and download U.S. public-health data.

    The acronym stands for 'Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research.' They must have started with the oh so cute acronym and then done some serious brainstorming to find a string of words to match.

    According to WONDER's mortality data, not one American died of adverse effects of the Covid-19 vaccines. Not a single one. Isn't that wonderful?

    VAERS, The CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is also part of WONDER. But according to VAERS, around 50,000 people so far died of the Covid-19 vaccines.

    And VAERS has an underreporting factor estimated to be something between 30 and 100.

    The number of vaccine related deaths exploded in VAERS in 2021 and is way higher than for all vaccine deaths taken together since 1990 when VAERS saw the light of the day.

    Now, how can it possibly be that there are no Covid-19 vaccine deaths to be found in the U.S. official mortality data and at the same time there are 50,000 Covid-19 vaccine deaths reported, mostly by healthcare professionals, in VAERS?

    It's simple. In January of 2021, the WHO issued new ICD-10 codes to cover the new mRNA Covid vaccines. And the code U12.9 was designated to be used for vaccine adverse events caused by them.

    ICD‑10 stands for 'International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10.' It's maintained by the World Health Organization.

    The ICD system is vast: it contains ~70,000 diagnosis codes, and about the same number of procedure codes. These standardized alphanumeric codes are used worldwide to classify diseases as well as causes of death for statistical and billing purposes.

    But when you search the CDC's WONDER database, there is not a single death listed under U12.9.

    In fact, it is impossible for a U12.9 coded death to exist in the WONDER database.

    And the reason for that is that the WONDER database does not contain the code U12.9 that the WHO especially issued in order for countries around the world to mark deaths as Covid-19 vaccine deaths.

    And not only that: none of the codes that the WHO added for Covid-19 are to be found in WONDER. Not one: not code U07.1 ('COVID-10, virus identified'), not code U07.2 ('COVID-19, virus not identified'), not code U08.9 ('Personal history of COVID-19, unspecified') and not code U09.9 ('Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified').

    And because U12.9 is not in WONDER, health officials across the United States could proclaim that there was not a single Covid-19 vaccine death. For example, the chief of the Bureau of Statistics of New Hampshire said publicly without batting an eye that there are no Covid vaccine related deaths in New Hampshire, zero.

    But then, you ask, how are Covid-19 vaccine deaths coded if not with U12.9? Because there were some brave doctors who dared to list the mRNA vaccines as cause of death on the death certificate.

    Such deaths are coded with U12.9's parent code which is Y59.0. Which is meant to be used for adverse events of viral vaccines. Which the mRNA vaccines are not.

    Death by the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines were simply thrown in with viral vaccines. And thus it's impossible to distinguish whether death was caused by a viral vaccine or an mRNA vaccine.

    Well then, how many deaths are in WONDER for viral vaccines?

    And that's another miracle: Before Covid, almost none. That's right, according to U.S. mortality data, almost nobody in the United States died from vaccine adverse events pre-Covid. To be precise: 11 deaths between 1999 and 2020 were coded with Y59.0 as Underlying Cause of Death (UCoD). Eleven. About one every other year.

    If you run the same query for Multiple Cause of Death (MCoD), then you get 30 deaths (in case you're not familiar with the distinction between the two, watch my previous interview with John Beaudoin 'The Data Trick Masking a Surge in Kidney Failure Deaths.' The link is below under 'Resources').

    Does that number match up with what is in VAERS? Of course not.

    However, in 2021 something extraordinary happens in WONDER: the viral vaccine deaths increase dramatically.

    In 2020, the number of deaths coded with Y59.0 was so small that it was suppressed in WONDER. For privacy reasons, numbers are not shown when they are between 1 and 9. In 2020, the number of deaths coded with Y59.0 was minuscule, something between 1 and 6.

    But in 2021, an absolutely astonishing number of deaths is coded with Y59.0: 195. More than all the deaths coded as viral vaccine deaths taken together in the years 1999 to 2020.

    Granted, the number is still ridiculously tiny but compared to the 0, 1 and 2 yearly deaths in 2020 and prior, it's virtually an explosion.

    This is a clear signal that something terrible happened in 2021. A signal that those running the CDC could not suppress entirely.

    CHAPTERS

    0:00:04 Introduction and Overview of ICD-10 Codes for COVID-19 Vaccines

    0:01:25 International Use and Limitations of Code U12.9

    0:02:02 Origin of Codes and WHO's Role

    0:03:41 Coding Differences: Hospital vs. Death Records

    0:05:50 Coding Challenges and the CDC's Role in the US

    0:08:38 Centralized vs. Decentralized Death Certificate Coding (Germany vs. US)

    0:10:22 Explanation of Y59.0 and Code Subcategories

    0:11:51 Defining "Viral Vaccine": mRNA and Legal Perspectives

    0:14:07 Legal Definitions and Public Perception of Vaccines

    0:17:13 Parsing Errors and Misclassification on Death Records

    0:18:30 Examining Data: Coding COVID-19 Vaccine Deaths

    0:20:05 Historical Trends: Vaccine Death Reporting 1999–2020

    0:21:49 Underlying vs. Multiple Causes of Death: CDC WONDER Query

    0:24:50 Navigating CDC WONDER Query Options

    0:31:15 Discrepancies Between Underlying and Multiple Cause Numbers

    0:35:09 Coding Suppression and Data Editing Concerns

    0:42:24 Comparing CDC Data with VAERS and VAERS-Aware Dashboard

    0:44:04 Analysis of VAERS Reports: Deaths and Serious Adverse Events

    0:46:47 Underreporting Factors and Regional Differences

    0:48:23 Legal Risks, Advocacy, and Summary

    RESOURCES:

    • CDC WONDER

    • John Beaudoin's Substack

    • The Data Trick Masking a Surge in Kidney Failure Deaths | John Beaudoin

    53 min
  • The Data Trick Masking a Surge in Kidney Failure Deaths | John Beaudoin

    "The incentives drove the acute kidney injury. My graphs show that very clearly. The acute kidney injury has been around for years. They should have known it. I've been talking about it for three and a half years." — John Beaudoin

    ***

    John Beaudoin has been alerting the CDC and other health agencies about the catastrophic increase in renal failure deaths for more than three years. But he didn't get any interest from the CDC or any other federal health agency or scientists working for any such agency.

    He thinks, he said to me, that "it's purposeful that they haven't picked up on it. I think they know it and they're afraid because… I can show the timing to the week that this happened and it didn't happen with COVID. It happened with a human intervention, not just when the drugs were approved, but months later when the drugs were incentivized by the federal government with big, big piles of money."

    Incentivized drugs like Remdesivir that is known to cause kidney failure.

    And incentivized devices like ventilators that were a death sentence for huge numbers of people who tested positive and were intubated unnecessarily.

    Both Remdesivir and ventilators were declared medical countermeasures covered under the PREP Act declaration for COVID-19 - and, shockingly, they still are to this very day.

    When they cause death, nobody can be held responsible, nobody can be sued. Not the doctor, not the nurse, not the manufacturer - nobody.

    Beaudoin is in possession of 1.6 million non-redacted death certificates from the Covid years that he received through multiple FOIA requests.

    He read thousands of them and that's why he knows how doctors fill them out. Large numbers of death certificates, he told me, are filled out incorrectly or are incomplete.

    Beaudoin also knows which ICD-10 codes (International Classification of Disease) the death certificates came back with from the CDC's central parser and whether these codes correspond to what doctors or medical examiners wrote.

    And he understands how CDC analysts are hiding alarming signals in death records related to COVID treatment protocols and mRNA Covid shots.

    Mortality data in the CDC's WONDER database can be analyzed either by what is called 'Underlying Cause of Death' (UCoD), which is row D in Part 1 on American death certificates - or by 'Multiple Causes of Death' (MCoD) which are listed in Part 2.

    Analyzing mortality data by looking just at the UCoD doesn't give you a truthful picture of what drives mortality, he says: "I only track MCoD. I stopped using UCoD long ago when I recognized in the death records that it's not a fair and accurate representation and it could really mess up the signals."

    How can he be so sure that analyzing mortality records in the US based on the underlying cause of death is obscuring what people really die from?

    He said: "I'm the only one that has 1.6 million non-redacted death records where I can read what the death certifier wrote… I spent three and a half years [looking at them]. I've probably seen 10,000 and, from my experience, that's how I was able to determine the value and integrity of the data of UCoD. And there's not much value in it. There's not much value in it at all, which is why I stopped using it three years ago."

    However, CDC analysts and many other researchers, according to Beaudoin, use the Underlying Cause of Death to analyze causes of death and by doing so miss the real story.

    His prime example is the development of renal failure deaths in the United States: according to UCoD, renal failure deaths increased significantly in 2020 and again in 2021 and remained very high.

    However, this increase pales in comparison to the picture that emerges when MCoD is used to analyze death records: kidney failure exploded in the COVID years and far exceeds the increase shown by looking at UCoD alone.

    0:00:05 Underlying and Multiple Causes of Death

    0:00:36 Death Certificates and Data Integrity

    0:01:12 Structure of US Death Certificates

    0:02:23 Walking Through a Sample Death Certificate

    0:06:22 Challenges with Properly Filling Death Certificates

    0:09:00 CDC Coding Software and Issues with UCoD

    0:12:00 Examples of Misrepresentation and Errors in Death Records

    0:14:20 Influence of Doctor Habits and Patterns on Death Data

    0:17:02 Handling Missing Values When Assigning UCoD

    0:18:00 Data Integrity, State Variability, and UCoD vs. MCoD

    0:21:30 Meaning of Multiple Causes of Death and Coding Implications

    0:24:20 Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease on Death Certificates

    0:28:54 Epidemiological Trends—Increase in Kidney Failure Deaths

    0:32:16 Data Analysis—MCoD vs. UCoD, Broader Implications

    0:33:10 Reverse Chronology and Doctor Confusion in Death Certificates

    0:34:31 ICD-10 and Data Systems

    36 min
  • Using Barry Young's Leaked Data, Hervé Seligmann Shows How Covid Injections Increase Annual Mortality Rates

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    In the second part of my interview with biologist Hervé Seligmann we talk about his analysis of New Zealand's health data records that were leaked in late 2023 by whistleblower Barry Young.

    Young worked as database administrator for New Zealand's health agency. He was arrested in December, 2023, and is facing 7 years in prison.

    When Seligmann analysed the leaked treasure trove of over 1 million health records, he found that the mRNA Covid "injections accelerate the annual mortality rate which you can call or interpret as the rate of aging."

    The data showed that the injections cause aging to accelerate by 2–3 times in people over 50 and that the death exponent increased from 0.07 to 0.11 after two doses.

    This finding, he told me, "might mean that your physiological age is...greater or you age physiologically faster than if you were not injected. That's very possible, but it's not 100% sure."

    Shedding effects are also a possibility, however: "The other thing is that we are shedding. It's possible that after two, three years, the non-injected get the same as the injected people… All these options are possible."

    Seligmann emphasizes he does not know how long accelerated aging and accelerated mortality rates will last: "I'm not sure that this effect is long term. It could be, but we don't have data like those from Barry Young for 2024 and 2025… It might be that there is no long-term effect and that you see an increased rate of death, an acceleration of aging for two or three years after the shots but not after five years and maybe not after 10 years."

    We also talked about the extreme unreliability of the PCR tests. In Luxembourg, someone very unusual was done with positive PCR tests: every single one of them was retested within 24 hours in Luxembourg's national reference lab. The population was not told about these mysterious retests for years.

    Using Luxembourg's version of a Freedom of Information request, a friend of Seligmann did eventually receive the retest results for his positive Covid tests: "And he saw that at least one, I don't remember, one or two of his tests were negative the next day or the same day. But he had been asked to stay 10 days at home and so on. So he was very angry: If someone knew that he was negative on the same day, [then] why did he stay 10 days at home twice?"

    Seligmann and his friend then asked all of their friends to submit freedom of information requests to the Luxembourg authorities to get their retest results: "And in the end, we had in total about 120 people who got that second result… So, on the background of a first positive test, we got a retest test and the retest was in over 80% of the second test negative."

    In September of 2022, they sent this result to all newspapers in Luxembourg as well as to Luxembourg's Supreme Court and to all members of the government. There was no reaction from anyone - silence from the media, the court and politicians: "We did not get any answer, any reaction from anyone… so it's like we didn't do it. Literally like we didn't do it. No one speaks about it."

    Another particularity in Luxembourg was that the delay between the first and second mRNA Covid injections was longer than in other countries. Seligmann told me, this longer window between successive injections might have resulted in fewer adverse events in Luxembourg: "It's strange that we have so few very bad...adverse effects in Luxembourg, relative to other countries."

    Perhaps, he said, officials intentionally delayed the second shot: "And maybe by precaution or because they knew, they tried to minimize the number of adverse events in Luxembourg, because we have, of course, adverse events, but not so many… If the delay is longer, that doesn't mean you won't have any adverse effects. You will simply have fewer."

    CHAPTERS

    0:00:05 Accelerated Aging and Death Rates Linked to Injections

    0:06:07 Discussion on Short- and Long-Term Effects of Injections

    0:08:35 Barry Young, Data Leaks, and Legal Consequences

    0:09:34 Reiner Fuellmich; PCR Testing in Luxembourg

    0:13:36 Manipulation and Official Responses to PCR Data

    0:16:16 Technical Discussion: PCR Testing Accuracy and Cycle Thresholds

    0:21:06 Vaccination Timing, Adverse Events, and Data Sharing in Luxembourg

    0:23:51 Presentation and Impact of Excess Mortality Data

    0:26:18 Patterns in Mortality Spikes and Public Health Policies

    0:29:09 Vitamin D and COVID-19 Severity

    0:31:08 Hospital Treatment Practices and Vitamin D Deficiency

    0:33:01 Low Mortality in Early 2020, Professor Homburg's Analysis, and Suppressed Data

    RESOURCES:
    • Google Scholar - Hervé Seligmann

    • COVID Vaccination and Age-Stratified All-Cause Mortality Risk, 2025-09-17

    • ScholarGPS

    36 min

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