The Recovering Liberal: Recent Episodes
Tamara Young
Tamara Young shares her journey from left-winged liberalism, to the realization that it's not at all what she was sold on. She's an average American mom with a story to tell about how she woke up to the truth about what's happening in the world, and how she can make better-informed decisions for herself and her family.
Inherent to the U.S. healthcare system, and its most powerful industries, is the profit motive. In this episode, I speak with Garrett Riley, a former sales rep at a pharmaceutical company, about his experience in pharma sales, early on in his career. Where are the common ethical grey areas? Where are they prone to flat-out illegal fraud and misrepresentation of risks and benefits? How can pharmaceutical companies influence regulatory agencies and doctors...and ultimately, patients?
When I saw this story, my very first thought was, “Here we go…this is part of the agenda to further consolidate and centralize banking and financial power…and again, the powerful will line their pockets on the backs of ordinary people.”
What the government elite have made clear in this series of bailouts is:
- While they want to kill jobs to stifle inflation, they don’t want kill THESE banking and tech jobs. Their goal is the working class and small businesses. Not their rich friends in banking and tech.
- The federal government is blatantly creating incentive for people to take their funds out of smaller banks and deposit them at the big banks, by clearly signaling that they will only backstop the big banks…”because they are systemically critical”
This is part of a deeper agenda to further shift financial power away from ordinary Americans and into the hands of the elite. And in the process, further centralize banking and economic power.
This is only the beginning…do you see it yet? Let me know your thoughts!
This was a fun episode to record, mostly because it’s hard to take too seriously that scams like this are so deeply embedded in our media and the public perceptions which follow. I mean, when you learn about stuff like this, it’s just such a transparently sloppy attempt to control the information we see and believe.
Yet, here we are. Having to understand exactly how the media spoon-feeds us fraudulent information to manipulate our thinking.
If you’re in the media and you can’t or won’t debate a group of people’s points on their merit? No problem! Thankfully, you have scams like Hamilton 68 to give off the illusion of intelligence-driven information that proves they’re just all Russian bots! You don’t need to argue anything anymore, because you can just opt of the debate by claiming “Russian influence.”
Original Article: https://www.racket.news/p/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=98759956&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDE1MTA3MTAsInBvc3RfaWQiOjk4NzU5OTU2LCJpYXQiOjE2NzQ4NDIwNTcsImV4cCI6MTY3NzQzNDA1NywiaXNzIjoicHViLTEwNDIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.s56ny7pAFSlLKgNAJoXspmfpgm_C2U2j25Axx93Knno&utm_medium=email
I can’t answer definitively whether the FDA ultimately operates in the public’s best interest or not. I can only determine for myself the extent to which I trust the products marketed by the industries they are supposed to be regulating.
I CAN, however, shed some light on historical context, the drug & medical device industries’ track records, and the ways which the interests of the FDA, government, and industry have become entangled (to say the least).
In this episode, I explore those subjects through the lens of the medical device industry and a few case studies.
I also wrap it up with the latest Twitter Files revelations and what it tells us about industry influence over public discourse.
P.S. The CDC states that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. Even though this episode discusses important context for navigating today’s medical landscape, I am not giving medical advice. That’s between you and your trusted physician.
We are officially living in an upside-down world in which our own government and intelligence communities spread disinformation abroad and, through major tech platforms, target speech (by ordinary Americans and experts alike) which contradicts what they deem to be the preferred narrative. Around all the most important topics to us all - war, democracy & elections, corruption, COVID - they work behind the scenes to throttle any legitimate debate.
Here I cover my thoughts and takeaways from the latest 3 drops of the Twitter Files, which include:
Part 8: How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign (reported by Lee Fang)
- This story exposes the DoD working in conjunction with Twitter to cover their tracks around their own disinformation/propoganda campaign around the world (via fake accounts set up by the Pentagon)
Part 9: Twitter & ‘Other Government Agencies’ (reported by Matt Taibbi)
- This story shows the level of pressure applied by the CIA, along with the broader IC, on Twitter to “do something about” massive lists of accounts and tweets they provided to Twitter and claimed looked like foreign influence. Spoiler alert: They provided no evidence, they simply dumped their naughty lists to Twitter and pressured them to “take action” against those accounts and tweets, which all happened to question or factually contradict U.S. State preferred narratives.
Part 10: How Twitter Rigged the COVID Debate (reported by David Zweig)
- By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to the covid debate
- By discrediting doctors & other experts who disagreed
- By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s own data
For many people, the Twitter Files story gets dismissed with a roll of the eyes before they can even begin to grapple with the question of the implications of - for instance - the FBIs direct involvement in the censorship of Americans' speech on social media platforms.
I'd like to examine a few questions to consider to help people determine whether they should care about this at all, whether they can take it seriously, and what level of government and corporate censorship (if any) they are okay with.
I examine this through the lens of the latest Twitter Files drop - as published by independent journalist Matt Taibbi - where he outlines examples of the FBI's directing of Twitter's censorship and suppression efforts.
It sounds like a dystopian, 'this can't be real' kind of story, but it's unfortunately not the only time this has happened.
Children are being denied life-saving organ transplants at major transplant centers over their COVID-19 vaccination status. It appears, for all the scoffing many people did at the concern over what the CDC's addition of the COVID-19 vaccine to the child immunization schedule would mean, that it really does matter. At least when it comes to which kids now are allowed to get organ transplants.
This episode also dives into the AAP and a new op-ed entitled "The Hijacking of Pediatric Medicine." It illustrates, yet again, the gap between how most ordinary people imagine these institutions operate, versus the corrupt and inept way they ACTUALLY operate.
If you are just waking up, welcome. Do not be discouraged. It's worse than you think, but when you know, you can make so much better decisions than when you were in the dark.
P.S. According to the CDC, the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective. It's fantastic and everyone should get a few of them, at least.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/duke-university-surgeons-are-refusing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=363080&post_id=89048480&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email
https://www.commonsense.news/p/the-hijacking-of-pediatric-medicine
One look at the title of this episode, and you might be tempted to write me off as just another weirdo conspiracy theorist. I'm admittedly a bit of a weirdo, but the truth is that AT THE VERY LEAST:
1) Mainstream media is a coordinated, often-scripted-in-unison, narrative from the centralized "big 6" of media
2) Big tech censorship was just exposed in Matt Taibbi's reporting yesterday of "The Twitter Files" as being, at best, a haphazard partisan machine to serve as an arm of the Democratic party (in this case)
At this point, based on the raw facts of media centralization and now-transparent partisan motivations of major big tech platforms, the most logical and sane thing we can do as ordinary people is to disabuse ourselves of the idea that we can trust ANY major media outlet or pundit.
Where does that leave us? Ideally, in a position to band together by sharing, debating, and discerning information ourselves - information taken from independent journalists, raw data, and the actual lived experiences of other ordinary people.
This is organized thought control at the highest levels, and the choice to partake or not is ours.
This is the original article I cover here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-consortium-imposing-the-growing
The claim that the censorship industry is funded by big tech, the West’s security state, and politically-active billionairres like George Sorros is no "conspiracy theory" -- it's just fact.
This newly minted, self-proclaimed "disinformation" expertise, claims to have the right to decide what is true and what is false. The purpose? To not only justify censorship, but to make it morally necessary as they simultaneously work to sieze upon every crisis as an opportunity to further galvanize their ideologically-aligned base.
This country has become an "us versus them," "pro or anti" society of people who have drastically lost touch with nuance and the fact that there is a whole spectrum of stances in between "this" and "the others."
More references from this episode:
RNC sues google over email censorship
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/11/02/rnc-sues-google-over-email-censorship/
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-gop-asks-elon-musk-to-hand-over-info-on-twitter-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop/ar-AA13CrSo
https://ijr.com/musk-right-bombshell-leak-reveals-fired-twitter-exec-biden-admin/
Why did the CDC just add the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, when we know at this point:
- Young children are at a risk level that is statistically indistinguishable from zero
- There is no proven benefit of the vaccine limiting transmission (aka no benefit to the greater community, as required for vaccines to be recommended for children)
- Phizer and Moderna failed their all-cause mortality end points, accord to their own data (excess deaths in vaccine group compared to non-vaccine group, specifically cardiac events)
So if there is no benefit to this low-risk group, nor benefit to communities to prevent spread, why add it to the schedule?
Doing this happens to give pharmaceutical companies BLANKET IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY, even for adults who purchase the vaccines on the private market.
This is particularly great news for big Pharma, an industry to whom the CDC advisory committee members are beholden to for their livelihoods and career endeavors. As injuries and deaths pile up in VAERS, hundreds of thousands of people will remain unable to sue big Pharma, and the mechanisms to hold them accountable will be sparse and extremely difficult to pursue.
The U.S. is a country that sits 79th in the world in terms of health outcomes by country. 54% of our children today are permanently disordered (immune systems, neurological disorders, emotional problems, hormonal problems, allergies). Instead of dedicated our multi-billion-dollar health agency budget to figuring out why our children are sick, they continue to farm out taxpayer money to making new drugs to treat the conditions their own broken systems are creating in the first place.
Socializing the cost (taxes), privatizing the profits…sounds like a great plan.
So many young and otherwise healthy “working age” people have been dying since 2021 that we had to invent a new name for it - Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS). When you take a more comprehensive picture by looking at multiple buckets of data - Group Life losses, Disability, and Health Insurance data - it’s not a great portrayal for Phizer’s and Moderna’s cash cow of the pandemic. When you further overlay more studies being done around the world on sudden unexplained deaths, FOIA document revelations and anecdote after anecdote, it’s really difficult to look objectively at what’s happen and come to any other conclusion than this is bad and it was/is being covered up.
#bigpharma #covid #vaccine
Ed Dowd:
https://totalityofevidence.com/edward-dowd/
Sudden Unexplained Death (SUD) After COVID Vaccination: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35934244/
FOIA:
https://heartlanddailynews.com/2022/05/foia-document-release-shows-pfizer-anticipated-vaccine-adverse-events/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/horrifying-hidden-pfizer-data-show-unborn-babies-newborns-dying/
https://pa.childrenshealthdefense.org/news/pfizer-covid-vaccine-has-1291-side-effects-reveals-official-documents/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/317091
https://www.westernjournal.com/thanks-foia-request-cdc-just-made-biggest-admission-covid-yet/
"Follow the science."
"Defund the police."
"Anti-immigration is exclusive and racist."
Traditional Liberalism has been hijacked by a specific left-winged agenda that is ideologically driven and uses progressive rhetoric to drown out the actual issues taking place. Progressive rhetoric is a front for hypocritical practices and bad policies that end up hurting the exact populations they purport to "stand for" - women, children, middle class Americans, immigrants.
But the red herrings effectively draw a line in the sand so that you're either with them and their "virtuous objectives" or against them, and as reality deteriorates for most Americans, their power effectively increases and their elite corporate constituents' interests are served above all.
This episode provides a peek behind the curtain of big insurance, the vast amount of control they possess over the healthcare system, and how this ultimately heavily influences patient care and outcomes.
Reality check - how is the U.S. doing in terms of healthcare, compared to other developed nations?
- U.S. maternal death rate is higher than any other developed country and has been rising since 2000: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/nov/maternal-mortality-maternity-care-us-compared-10-countries
- Same with infant mortality, which is 71% higher than the comparable country average: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/infant-mortality-u-s-compare-countries/#Infant%20mortality%20per%201,000%20live%20births,%202017
- Other not-so-promising stats: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2019
Buckle up for a tour of what big insurance controls, how they do it, and the systems that determine what kind of care you can get.
We’ll also take the time machine back to the onset of the opioid epidemic and how the same playbook is still implemented today. Because I can’t make it through a full episode without harping on Big Pharma, too…
Lucky number 13! How are boosters, and the vaccine overall, working to prevent serious cases of COVID-19? A quick internet search will STILL return a slew of articles praising vaccine efficacy and trashing the half of Americans who still haven’t gotten in line and gotten vaccinated or boosted (if you’re an anti-vaxxer, the narrative is still that this is all your fault).
So here are just a few of the stories about how boosters are actually working (or rather, NOT working) so that you don’t have to dig so far to find what you need to make an informed decision.
Denmark’s new vaccination policy says that, despite anticipating a RISE in cases this coming Fall, they are now only offering vaccines/boosters to people over the age of 50 or at risk of serious illness.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/denmark-ends-covid-vaccinations-for-981
https://www.sst.dk/en/english/corona-eng/vaccination-against-covid-19
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2022057508/188025/Risk-of-Myopericarditis-After-COVID-19-Vaccination?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Britain’s latest data paints a grim picture of risk of COVID-19 hospitalization for those who have recently been boosted: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/do-boosters-save-people-from-getting
Australia’s latest all-cause mortality trends look drastically awful (they happen to have about 95% of their population vaccinated and boosted): https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-deaths-are-soaring-in-one/comments
Here is where I compared state-level booster rates in the U.S. against state-level COVID-19 hospitalizations:
- State booster rates: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/states-ranked-by-booster-rates.html
- State hospitalization rates: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-covid-19-hospitalization-rates-august-2.html
Here is the CDC saying that 44% of recent COVID-19 hospitalizations had their 3rd or 4th dose (or booster): https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/980351?src=mkm_ret_220912_mscpmrk_trdalrtuk03_int&uac=127834AR&impID=4631827&faf=1
Here are President Joe Biden’s remarks about how he has beaten Big Pharma (lol): https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/05/remarks-by-president-biden-celebrating-labor-day-and-the-dignity-of-american-workers/
Here is the list of the top 20 politicians big Pharma has donated to from 2019-2020, where Biden holds the top spot comfortably: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2020&ind=H04
Here are just a couple of many analyses of Biden’s policies by which he promises to lower Rx drug costs, which all ultimately conclude his policies will leave Big Pharma unscathed (shocker): https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/promise/1561/lower-cost-prescription-drugs/
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/biden-s-medicare-drug-price-negotiations-will-leave-pharma-mostly-unscathed-cbo
Arguably, the best data we have are all-cause mortality rates and birth rates. Because these numbers are the most “it is what it is” and the least susceptible to political tinkering.
The mortality and birth rate trends in highly vaccinated countries are providing us with signals that the scientific community at-large should be looking into on our behalf. The media seemed to only care about posting daily death counts when COVID deaths were increasing. Now that COVID deaths are no longer moving in an upward motion, yet deaths overall ARE moving in an upward motion, where’s the concern?
DEATH RATES IN EUROPE:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-new-paper-suggests-covid-mrna/comments
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/another-week-with-deaths-far-above
DEATH RATES IN New Zealand: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/do-people-under-30-die-at-above-normal
BIRTH RATES IN SINGAPORE:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/more-frightening-news-about-fertility?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
SPIKE PROTEIN LINGERING IN THE BODY: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/mrna-shots-are-the-gift-that-keeps?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
POORER IMMUNITY IN VACCINATED, EVEN AFTER ACQUIRING COVID: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-covid-vaccines-will-keep-you/comments
Alex Berenson was banned from Twitter for the last year+ for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, particularly about the vaccine. He was recently reinstated because he proved in court that everything he said was correct. He furthermore has a first amendment case on his hands, as emails released show that Twitter was pressured by the Biden Administration to ban him.
So what did he say that scared the United States government so much that they unconstitutionally pressured (allegedly) big tech to silence him?
#misinformation #covid19 #vaccine
Is DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION the average joe questioning a narrative on twitter, or is misinformation really dangerous when disseminated from an "official" position of power, when their own political and financial interests are tied up in that very topic? White House COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/07/16/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-july-16-2021/ Big Pharma Antidepressant misinformation: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/20/scientists-question-widespread-use-of-antidepressants-after-survey-on-serotonin Public Health agencies misinformation: https://www.commonsense.news/p/us-public-health-agencies-arent-following?r=abaxo&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Paxlovid misinformation: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11065467/COVID-reinfection-rate-treatment-Biden-taking-40-not-2-marketed.html The so-called "Inflation Reduction Act:" https://www.based-politics.com/2022/08/06/inflation-reduction-act-even-bernie-sanders-admits-its-a-joke/
Words are hard, apparently. The white house is doing everything in its power to avoid adopting the "r" word, and record-low July unemployment numbers are being propped up as PROOF that we are not, in fact, in a recession. Biden has gone so far as to say that "more people are working than at any point in American history." Yikes. That one isn't true, but this episode focuses on understanding employment numbers, as well as the bigger picture of economic indicators.
What do YOU think? Is our economy doing okay from your perspective? How is your community doing and feeling? What do you think about how profitable this economic period has been for major corporations? Is it encouraging that maybe they'll be the heroes and buffer us through to an economic boom, or are you concerned that corporations are capitalizing on high inflation and putting us in an artificial jobs bubble that might pop soon?
Given a media landscape dominated by all the same stuff and all the same agendas, here are a few stories I find important. None of the facts stories, of course, benefit the political and corporate interests funding the media.
- Farmers getting screwed - why independent farmers around the world are protesting and losing their sh$t
- Indiana shooting - how a story about a “good guy with a gun” quickly became a story about how “good guy with a gun is really a myth so let’s move on”
- https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/AttacksonAsylumSeekersStrandedinMexicoDuringBidenAdministration.3.15.2022.pdf
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/why-the-border-is-in-crisis-under-biden
- https://nypost.com/2022/06/10/cartels-exploiting-border-chaos-to-smuggle-fentanyl-into-us/
- https://nypost.com/2021/11/02/fentanyl-seizures-at-border-double-over-past-year-report/
- Child trafficking and drug trafficking - just a glimpse of the absolute human rights horrors this administration’s border policies have fueled
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-infection-rate/
- Vaccines & boosters - how data is manipulated to support the “vaccines make covid more mild” argument
In this episode, I pick on Nancy Pelosi as just ONE example of a long-term corrupt politician. She happens to be on the left side of the aisle, but I chose this topic to illustrate something we generally all KNOW exists but don't necessarily see in full view. Why? I discuss a few possible explanations: 1. Tachychinine in our brains, fueled by social isolation and probably partly responsible for the increased polarization and aggression. I offer a theory on the role of this brain chemical in the resistance to seeing truths that may disparage someone on your preferred side of the political aisle. 2. The limited peppering of sound bytes and interviews most of us hear, which may limit our awareness of completely contradictory and hypocritical actions of our politicians. 3. The nature of the news cycle...by the time we may get an inkling that a politician is lying through their teeth or doing something shady, the "next thing" overtakes the news cycle and we move on. Anyway, let's dive into Naughty Nancy.
The principle I'm operating off of here is this: If our jobs, finances, choices, social lives, economic freedoms and general rights to equal participation in society are being held hostage until we all comply with a medical intervention...The problem isn't whether or not the hostages comply with the demands. The problem is that the hostage-taker has the power to make those demands.
Let's talk about banding together and taking the keys back. It is, after all, supposed to be OUR house.
This isn't a partisan principle. It's a basic human one.
I bought the characterization of the "gun situation" hook, line and sinker...you know, the one that positions "common sense gun laws" as something that will work for the greater good, and positions gun rights advocates as gun-slinging, rebel-flag-wearing crazies. I bought it. And I'm no idiot. I bought it because I played into the hands of the manipulators of both emotions and of data. Here I discuss that BS liberal narrative and the sneaky shenanigans that pervert real data to support the BS narrative that advocates for stricter gun control and diverts attention away from difficult-to-solve socioeconomic and mental health problems, by claiming they are actually gun problems. Spoiler alert: They aren't gun problems. The real enemy of our public safety? Making gun ownership more difficult.
This is a tough one. Especially when you see both sides. But that's the problem...the majority of the voices speaking on this issue are decidedly pro-life or decidedly pro-choice, and it doesn't leave much room for the consideration of the massive gray area in the abortion conversation. I don't have all the answers to the policy or legislation questions, but I do have some understanding of how it can help to look at the uglier parts of this conversation that the mainstream voices tend to shield us from. I'd like to get past the emotional manipulation and have a real discussion.
The government, courtesy of the Biden administration and the FDA, is coming hard for nicotine. But why? Because nicotine makes cigarettes addictive, and cigarettes are bad for you? Because that reasoning seems to check out, right?
Wrong. The government doesn't care about how addictive cigarettes and vapes are. If they did, they wouldn't be going after nicotine, because similar policies in countries like Canada have proven that reducing nicotine levels just leads to more smoking, turning to more harmful alternatives, and ultimately WORSE public health.
So what do they care about? Let's look at what's happening with ivermectin, NAC supplements and other natural supplements the FDA has similarly banned to reclaim as a pharmaceutical ingredient.
Spoiler alert: It's about more money, not public health.
In the first "official" episode, we take a quick tour of history and how the tobacco industry wrote the playbook for creating and leveraging conflicts of interest to manipulate science, media, government and ultimately...consumers.
If they are invented this art form, Big Pharma has perfected it.
Here is the white paper referenced throughout this episode, entitled "Inventing Conflicts of Interest: A History of Tobacco Industry Tactics:" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/
For a full deep-dive into the world's largest and most profitable drug cartel (aka the pharmaceutical industry), I recommend John Abramson's new book, "Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It:" https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sickening-john-abramson?variant=39935390089250
Welcome to The Recovering Liberal, with Tamara Young. Tamara is a boring, average, everyday American mom. Join her as she shares her journey from staunch left-winged liberalism, to NOT that, and the truths she's uncovered along the way.