I for one, am very happy substack exists. In 2020 I was still using mailchimp for my newsletters and MC was coming out with new policies on acceptable written material. It was around the same time that PayPal was not allowing people to have access to their own funds if they spoke out. I’m glad I found an alternative in substack.
Me too, Karen. Until Substack, the vast majority of my contrarian writing was restricted to posts on Facebook. And then, of course, I was banned from Facebook. But before that, I was submitting freelance articles to the few places that still accept freelance journalism. The vast majority of those stories were rejected. Once in a while, a site like The American Thinker would publish an article of mine, but they don't pay a penny.
There's really no where except Substack for an independent journalist to be able to 1) Write the stories you think are important and 2) Maybe get paid a little something for your efforts.
And I'm starting to wonder if the Censorship Industrial Complex is now focussing a little more on throttling dissent at Substack.
I’m sure they are or will in due time. But for now thankfully we have the freedom to speak the truth. I write directly in substack and realized I better copy and save my own posts in case it all gets taken down. Readers should also be copying posts they think are valuable for the same reason.
I was on FB briefly, when locally we were trying to recall the county sheriff, who was all for red flag laws. One of those I've never done anything but law enforcement and I am far better than you types.
Then I wrote a factual post about the injections and was censored. That was enough.
There is no human endeavor where money and power is at stake that won't eventually get co opted by the greedy, psychopathic and corrupt who operate for their own ends.
Apart from respecting free speech, hallelujah, Substack is a very good platform. It's easy to use and cleverly designed to promote engagement. Having had a lot of experience over two decades with other blogging platforms, to me Substack is an important improvement, but in some ways it's actually not as good. I won't delve into all that compare & contrast detail— my point is, yes, many of us, perhaps most of us who read and write about the counternarratives are here. But Substack never was the whole show, and still isn't. There are many influential bloggers out there on self-hosted wordpress and other platforms. In fact two of the most influential bloggers I'd categorize as writing counternarrative, both of whom have a large number of long-standing loyal readers, are James Howard Kunstler (self-hosted WordPress primarily, and Substack belatedly, a mirror site) and John Michael Greer (self-hosted dreamwidth plus a dreamwidth blog).
I would agree with you, Bill, that if some stories could go viral it would be a game changer with the general public. I know that many people remain clueless about the extent and nature of the jab deaths and injuries, and of the fraud and the psy-op. It seems to me that they are of the school of "if it's not in the newspaper or on TV it can't have happened." Sadly.
There's a secret reason I posted this story today. I'm really interested in how much a freelance journalist or "citizen journalist" could make if a story did go viral or semi-viral and was paid, say, 3 cents for every "read" their article generated world-wide.
I'm happy to see you agree with me that the most important stories are NOT "going viral."
Of course, the Deep State or the Powers that Be don't want this to change ... which is why it needs to change.
Oh, absolutely, I agree with you that the most important stories are not going viral. And as I often say, the censorship has been so heavy that even I, a researcher who has been surfing around the odd corners of the Internet every day for 3 years now, still come across things so huge, so basic, and they've just been languishing there in their little corner for many months... I'm gobsmacked. How could I not have seen them before? Ah, well, yeah, that's what censorship does.
P.S. These guys should be household names: Hedley Rees and Albert Benavides.
Their belief system is so ingrained I doubt whether it would be a game changer. Only those that have some doubts, but hesitate to accept reality. They would open up. The others have a screen to keep out anything that would rock their world of "reality."
I too, have thought about how all of us on Substack could reach and wake up more people.
I do think though, that Plato’s allegory of the cave applies to our current situation. When I tell people “things”, they look at me as if I’m an alien. They can’t believe me.
And when you think about it, Socrates, has warned society almost 2500 years ago about corrupt governments, and it seems no one has ever listened.
Earlier I read an article from John Leake on Substack and what stuck with me was his comment about the book Moby Dick and the last line: "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee."
Sadly, I think a show of peaceful civil disobedience is needed. Maybe something as simple as a calm booing or a simple “ Liar” sign when these DINOS/RINOS start in with their “shtick”…
No, but that would be a good project. I did email the story (several times) to the CDC, Ala. Dept. of Public Health and even UAB's department of infectious diseases. (The former director of this UAB health agency now has Fauci's job at the NIAID. She and her colleagues weren't interested or curious about the McCains' likely early cases.)
Your non-viral article about Tim and Brandie having a covid-like infection in late 2019 reminds me that I *definitely* heard the BBC news on my radio back in late 2019 interview a young British student in some city in China I had never heard of (that's what caught my attention - why was he attending an obscure Chinese university? Apparently, because it's really cheap). Anyway, this young man said that there was a new 'flu going round and people were being locked in their apartments by the authorities to try and stop it spreading. I think he was fretting because he didn't speak Chinese and would face difficulties if they closed his university. I remember thinking "those Chinese eh? overreacting to a cold virus!".
The BBC didn't seem to mention it again - I think the story was about British students going to Chinese universities rather than viruses.
You're right about needing the truth to go viral - 99.9% of the people I know are still unaware that there is a different narrative. All the over 75s I know in the UK are dutifully rolling up their sleeves for their Safe and Effective 9th Covid Booster. Nobody wants to talk about any of it - they all act like nothing happened over the last 4 years. Certainly here in the UK it needs the BBC to tell them the truth and that's very unlikely to happen. Substack is, unfortunately, merely an echo chamber where we Refuseniks have been safely corralled away from the obedient wider public.
Thanks, Stuffy. That anecdote about the Brit student in China is very interesting to me as I would like to see more believable reporting on how many people were sick in China pre official Covid. I know millions were sick in America. I'm currently finishing RFK, Jr.'s "The Wuhan Cover-Up" and in several places he mentions that the virus was circulating in Wuhan and China in early September if not August 2019. He talks about all the athletes who got sick at the World Military Games in October 2019 and the fact all the local hospitals had over-flowing parking lots (from satellite images) in September 2019. That tells me many people were sick in the early fall of 2019. The question for me is where were all the "Covid deaths" if this many people had been sick this early on? I think we had a contagious virus that was making many people sick, it just wasn't killing many people. So the virus wasn't "deadly." There was no need for lockdowns or the life-saving "vaccines."
I agree! It was definitely around in 2019 but it had no special name. I never believed it was some biblical plague which we had no defence against because the Chinese weren't all dead! Even if it was fiddled with in Wuhan by the dodgy scientists, they (luckily) failed to make it deadly. The big question really is why did the world overreact like it did? Why did people panic over a cold virus? I think access to the internet and social media played a big part in spreading the hysteria but the behaviour of the world authorities was just so odd. As for deaths - I know of one lady who "died of covid" but she was overweight with several co-morbidities which could have taken her out at any moment. She died in hospital in the intensive care unit so was presumably intubated. Had she died in 2019, it would have said something like influenza and pneumonia along with all her other life-threatening conditions on her death certificate. Instead, she only died of covid. Also, the only people I know who had covid were people who kept testing themselves on a daily basis (they mostly didn't get it until after they took the jabs!).
I was out posting byelection signs for the only conservative candidate not to vote for mandates and lockdowns. She was kicked out of the conservative party and started her own Ontario New Blue party.
She has a very wise candidate running here in the byelection. He stood up at the first all candidates meeting and said flat out that climate change is a hoax and cited the words of the nobel peace price winner in physics. His campaign manager was helping me with sign planting and told me how one of his sons took the jab and died shortly there after. His youngest son's girlfriend took the jab and ended up with brain damage before that. I think he might be pissed. So if you are in Ontario vote for the New Blue Party as aside from being anti covid vax they have the most common sense platform of any party.
We need thousands of candidates like this. Let us know the results. I also want to learn more about the efforts of Argentina's new president. He seems to be espousing a Great Purge of numerous sectors in society.
I will be interested in what this further attempt may be in getting the word out, but most importantly, believed. As I have said before, I have witnessed a few people - either friends or family members - that have some adverse event occur that to me, was directly caused by either the Pfizer or Moderna jabs. These people have been completely brainwashed by the media's barrage of statements regarding the vaccines. They have always listened with an open mind to various opinions - and, always listened to comments I have made on various topics.
This time, I can not even get them to open their minds an inch. I've provided evidence, studies, etc to no avail. Last October a friend and her husband - age 70 - who had all jabs offered - woke up one morning and one had to go to the er and had blood coagulation issues and the other a stroke! Both on the same morning. The wife still uses a walker as her right side was affected. She told me the doctor said that the mri showed she had had previous strokes - from clots in her brain. I cannot tell them about the clots shown by the morticians - it would be too much for them.
To go viral will be easier than to change their minds. Most will not be able to accept it. Their entire world would be rattled as who they thought they could trust, are quite the opposite.
Great post, Teri. Your friends clot issues are probably very common. I understand why you wouldn't want to share those stories about what the embalmers are finding inside so many bodies.
Anyone interested in the "back story" of my non-viral feature story on the McCains might enjoy this piece that uncoverDC published almost four years ago. The story first chronicles how no news organization would publish this very important story (until alternative media website uncoverDC finally did). Secondly, it documents how no official public health agency (or mainstream journalism organization) followed up on the story or questioned the McCains. I think this is when I first started having nightmares and understood that all the world's important stories will NOT be investigated.
On the bright side, over the past four years I have found many people I know that see through the lies and propaganda - many of whom are quite knowledgeable on the various subjects being used to repress us.
A major challenge to change the preplanned effort to herd the human race. The money and the governmental controls are in the hands of the elitists who believe they can change the direction of life on earth in a manner that benefits their personal goals!
I don't know. I do know Richard Hirschman, the embalmer I recently featured, is still saving hundreds of samples and is shipping them all over the world to a few scientists and doctors who are trying to find out what's causing these substances and how and why.
It does seem like the CDC and FDA might be interested in this question but .... nah.
My iron-clad maxim kicks in again:
"Never investigate that which you don't want to confirm."
I for one, am very happy substack exists. In 2020 I was still using mailchimp for my newsletters and MC was coming out with new policies on acceptable written material. It was around the same time that PayPal was not allowing people to have access to their own funds if they spoke out. I’m glad I found an alternative in substack.
Me too, Karen. Until Substack, the vast majority of my contrarian writing was restricted to posts on Facebook. And then, of course, I was banned from Facebook. But before that, I was submitting freelance articles to the few places that still accept freelance journalism. The vast majority of those stories were rejected. Once in a while, a site like The American Thinker would publish an article of mine, but they don't pay a penny.
There's really no where except Substack for an independent journalist to be able to 1) Write the stories you think are important and 2) Maybe get paid a little something for your efforts.
And I'm starting to wonder if the Censorship Industrial Complex is now focussing a little more on throttling dissent at Substack.
I’m sure they are or will in due time. But for now thankfully we have the freedom to speak the truth. I write directly in substack and realized I better copy and save my own posts in case it all gets taken down. Readers should also be copying posts they think are valuable for the same reason.
I was on FB briefly, when locally we were trying to recall the county sheriff, who was all for red flag laws. One of those I've never done anything but law enforcement and I am far better than you types.
Then I wrote a factual post about the injections and was censored. That was enough.
There is no human endeavor where money and power is at stake that won't eventually get co opted by the greedy, psychopathic and corrupt who operate for their own ends.
I say the same. I also dumped most things Google around that time as well.
Apart from respecting free speech, hallelujah, Substack is a very good platform. It's easy to use and cleverly designed to promote engagement. Having had a lot of experience over two decades with other blogging platforms, to me Substack is an important improvement, but in some ways it's actually not as good. I won't delve into all that compare & contrast detail— my point is, yes, many of us, perhaps most of us who read and write about the counternarratives are here. But Substack never was the whole show, and still isn't. There are many influential bloggers out there on self-hosted wordpress and other platforms. In fact two of the most influential bloggers I'd categorize as writing counternarrative, both of whom have a large number of long-standing loyal readers, are James Howard Kunstler (self-hosted WordPress primarily, and Substack belatedly, a mirror site) and John Michael Greer (self-hosted dreamwidth plus a dreamwidth blog).
I would agree with you, Bill, that if some stories could go viral it would be a game changer with the general public. I know that many people remain clueless about the extent and nature of the jab deaths and injuries, and of the fraud and the psy-op. It seems to me that they are of the school of "if it's not in the newspaper or on TV it can't have happened." Sadly.
[edited to correct typo]
There's a secret reason I posted this story today. I'm really interested in how much a freelance journalist or "citizen journalist" could make if a story did go viral or semi-viral and was paid, say, 3 cents for every "read" their article generated world-wide.
I'm happy to see you agree with me that the most important stories are NOT "going viral."
Of course, the Deep State or the Powers that Be don't want this to change ... which is why it needs to change.
Oh, absolutely, I agree with you that the most important stories are not going viral. And as I often say, the censorship has been so heavy that even I, a researcher who has been surfing around the odd corners of the Internet every day for 3 years now, still come across things so huge, so basic, and they've just been languishing there in their little corner for many months... I'm gobsmacked. How could I not have seen them before? Ah, well, yeah, that's what censorship does.
P.S. These guys should be household names: Hedley Rees and Albert Benavides.
No telling how many blockbuster stories/scoops we've all missed or don't appreciate how important they really are.
Their belief system is so ingrained I doubt whether it would be a game changer. Only those that have some doubts, but hesitate to accept reality. They would open up. The others have a screen to keep out anything that would rock their world of "reality."
So true. Unfortunately there is something that sometimes wakes people up, brutally, and that is to get a debilitating jab injury, plus gaslighting.
I too, have thought about how all of us on Substack could reach and wake up more people.
I do think though, that Plato’s allegory of the cave applies to our current situation. When I tell people “things”, they look at me as if I’m an alien. They can’t believe me.
And when you think about it, Socrates, has warned society almost 2500 years ago about corrupt governments, and it seems no one has ever listened.
Earlier I read an article from John Leake on Substack and what stuck with me was his comment about the book Moby Dick and the last line: "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee."
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/tucker-carlson-interviews-dr-naomi?r=1mk72h&utm_medium=ios
Is that us, the few awake people here on Substack?
KD, I totally hear you.
Sadly, I think a show of peaceful civil disobedience is needed. Maybe something as simple as a calm booing or a simple “ Liar” sign when these DINOS/RINOS start in with their “shtick”…
More confrontation.
Bill, have you mailed a print copy of, for example, your article on the McCains, to the CDC, NIH, or your state legislators?
I'd think something in an envelope is harder to ignore (certainly it's harder to delete) than an email message.
No, but that would be a good project. I did email the story (several times) to the CDC, Ala. Dept. of Public Health and even UAB's department of infectious diseases. (The former director of this UAB health agency now has Fauci's job at the NIAID. She and her colleagues weren't interested or curious about the McCains' likely early cases.)
Your non-viral article about Tim and Brandie having a covid-like infection in late 2019 reminds me that I *definitely* heard the BBC news on my radio back in late 2019 interview a young British student in some city in China I had never heard of (that's what caught my attention - why was he attending an obscure Chinese university? Apparently, because it's really cheap). Anyway, this young man said that there was a new 'flu going round and people were being locked in their apartments by the authorities to try and stop it spreading. I think he was fretting because he didn't speak Chinese and would face difficulties if they closed his university. I remember thinking "those Chinese eh? overreacting to a cold virus!".
The BBC didn't seem to mention it again - I think the story was about British students going to Chinese universities rather than viruses.
You're right about needing the truth to go viral - 99.9% of the people I know are still unaware that there is a different narrative. All the over 75s I know in the UK are dutifully rolling up their sleeves for their Safe and Effective 9th Covid Booster. Nobody wants to talk about any of it - they all act like nothing happened over the last 4 years. Certainly here in the UK it needs the BBC to tell them the truth and that's very unlikely to happen. Substack is, unfortunately, merely an echo chamber where we Refuseniks have been safely corralled away from the obedient wider public.
Thanks, Stuffy. That anecdote about the Brit student in China is very interesting to me as I would like to see more believable reporting on how many people were sick in China pre official Covid. I know millions were sick in America. I'm currently finishing RFK, Jr.'s "The Wuhan Cover-Up" and in several places he mentions that the virus was circulating in Wuhan and China in early September if not August 2019. He talks about all the athletes who got sick at the World Military Games in October 2019 and the fact all the local hospitals had over-flowing parking lots (from satellite images) in September 2019. That tells me many people were sick in the early fall of 2019. The question for me is where were all the "Covid deaths" if this many people had been sick this early on? I think we had a contagious virus that was making many people sick, it just wasn't killing many people. So the virus wasn't "deadly." There was no need for lockdowns or the life-saving "vaccines."
I agree! It was definitely around in 2019 but it had no special name. I never believed it was some biblical plague which we had no defence against because the Chinese weren't all dead! Even if it was fiddled with in Wuhan by the dodgy scientists, they (luckily) failed to make it deadly. The big question really is why did the world overreact like it did? Why did people panic over a cold virus? I think access to the internet and social media played a big part in spreading the hysteria but the behaviour of the world authorities was just so odd. As for deaths - I know of one lady who "died of covid" but she was overweight with several co-morbidities which could have taken her out at any moment. She died in hospital in the intensive care unit so was presumably intubated. Had she died in 2019, it would have said something like influenza and pneumonia along with all her other life-threatening conditions on her death certificate. Instead, she only died of covid. Also, the only people I know who had covid were people who kept testing themselves on a daily basis (they mostly didn't get it until after they took the jabs!).
Wonderful points and anecdotes. Thanks, Stuffy.
I was out posting byelection signs for the only conservative candidate not to vote for mandates and lockdowns. She was kicked out of the conservative party and started her own Ontario New Blue party.
She has a very wise candidate running here in the byelection. He stood up at the first all candidates meeting and said flat out that climate change is a hoax and cited the words of the nobel peace price winner in physics. His campaign manager was helping me with sign planting and told me how one of his sons took the jab and died shortly there after. His youngest son's girlfriend took the jab and ended up with brain damage before that. I think he might be pissed. So if you are in Ontario vote for the New Blue Party as aside from being anti covid vax they have the most common sense platform of any party.
We need thousands of candidates like this. Let us know the results. I also want to learn more about the efforts of Argentina's new president. He seems to be espousing a Great Purge of numerous sectors in society.
I will be interested in what this further attempt may be in getting the word out, but most importantly, believed. As I have said before, I have witnessed a few people - either friends or family members - that have some adverse event occur that to me, was directly caused by either the Pfizer or Moderna jabs. These people have been completely brainwashed by the media's barrage of statements regarding the vaccines. They have always listened with an open mind to various opinions - and, always listened to comments I have made on various topics.
This time, I can not even get them to open their minds an inch. I've provided evidence, studies, etc to no avail. Last October a friend and her husband - age 70 - who had all jabs offered - woke up one morning and one had to go to the er and had blood coagulation issues and the other a stroke! Both on the same morning. The wife still uses a walker as her right side was affected. She told me the doctor said that the mri showed she had had previous strokes - from clots in her brain. I cannot tell them about the clots shown by the morticians - it would be too much for them.
To go viral will be easier than to change their minds. Most will not be able to accept it. Their entire world would be rattled as who they thought they could trust, are quite the opposite.
Great post, Teri. Your friends clot issues are probably very common. I understand why you wouldn't want to share those stories about what the embalmers are finding inside so many bodies.
Anyone interested in the "back story" of my non-viral feature story on the McCains might enjoy this piece that uncoverDC published almost four years ago. The story first chronicles how no news organization would publish this very important story (until alternative media website uncoverDC finally did). Secondly, it documents how no official public health agency (or mainstream journalism organization) followed up on the story or questioned the McCains. I think this is when I first started having nightmares and understood that all the world's important stories will NOT be investigated.
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/07/13/covid-19-is-a-real-search-for-the-truth-now-taboo/
On the bright side, over the past four years I have found many people I know that see through the lies and propaganda - many of whom are quite knowledgeable on the various subjects being used to repress us.
What is required is a neutral search engine. Seems to me that the use of 'Artificial Intelligence' is compounding the problem.
We see the world through blinkers that are not of our own making.
Yandex.com is distinctly better than any American search engine at finding politically incorrect results.
That's what I use as well.
If you really want to go hard search in Russian.
A major challenge to change the preplanned effort to herd the human race. The money and the governmental controls are in the hands of the elitists who believe they can change the direction of life on earth in a manner that benefits their personal goals!
And another big story that needs to go viral Very Soon is the WHO'S pandemic treaty attempt! Good luck to you and your efforts:)
Totalitarianism American style with censorship by algorithms and programming by Pharma.
Here's food for thought:
https://youtu.be/CSE_0qNAcuU
Any association of familial alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency with those amyloid clots? Has this thesis been examined?
I don't know. I do know Richard Hirschman, the embalmer I recently featured, is still saving hundreds of samples and is shipping them all over the world to a few scientists and doctors who are trying to find out what's causing these substances and how and why.
It does seem like the CDC and FDA might be interested in this question but .... nah.
My iron-clad maxim kicks in again:
"Never investigate that which you don't want to confirm."