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THREAD: Continuation of thread on BBC's The Trick
https://t.co/vtClrPO1iI
68/ here's a screengrab of police analyst supposedly pointing out comment at Climate Audit which contained the original link to the Climategate zipfile. Take a look, especially old-time blog readers. Image
69/ next, the analyst points to a picture of not-me and a woman who is not-my-wife and says, This is Steve McIntyre. The picture in my Twitter avatar (which is 16 years old now) also shows me in front of a tree. ImageImage
70/ back to the screengrab of Climate Audit. It contains multiple forgeries and/or emulations, some of which say something about programmers. Some are poetic licence, some though are insulting. I'll distinguish. The header is similar to CA header, but deleted "by Steve McIntyre" Image
71/ when I go to Climate Audit, the head post comes up and one has to scroll down to comments. In their screengrab, the comments follow the header. They don't show and appear to have removed right sidebar showing New Statesman 50 People Who Mattered 2010 web.archive.org/web/2021082315… Image
72/ The left sidebar mostly copies the actual sidebar: they leave out the Tip Jar and truncate my name from Contact Steve Mc.

Don't worry that these are tiny: it gets more fun, but I like to begin at beginning.
73/ they mostly replicate articles but substitute some imaginary article for McIntyre/McKitrick 2003. They left MM05(GRL), not being aware, I guess, that this was a McMc article. Their blogroll is fictitious. Image
74/ now for the interesting bit: look at the comments themselves. I've highlighted the "A miracle has happened". They've redacted the names of the commenters to make it appear like this is a grab of the real page. But it's entirely forged and fabricated. ImageImage
75/ here's a deception. The Trick shows url in comment to http://eastangliaemails[.]com. There was no hyperlink in body of original comment (which is why no one noticed) only underneath RC which actually went to www.realclimate[.]org/FOIA.zip - off-message to narrative. Image
76/ the screenshot purporting to show the comment page containing the "A miracle has happened" link was also fabricated. Image
77/ in June 2018, CA contributor RomanM climateaudit.org/2008/06/18/ear… published article sneering at CBS story claiming destructive ability of earthquakes increas[ing] alarmingly fast .. unless problem of global warming urgently addressed…global seismic activity increasing" h/t @TvOat Image
78/ RomanM's article continued with further lengthy quotes from the risible article that CBS News had credulously publicized as further global warming scare-the-masses Image
79/ @RyanMaue, an extremely able meteorologist, pointed out in a comment that this nonsense had been top Science article at both CBS and MSNBC and originated from AP climateaudit.org/2008/06/18/ear… Image
80/ In comment #4, Bill Drissel linked to webpage johnstonsarchive.net/other/quake1.h…
which showed "Relative annual energy release from earthquakes, magnitude 6 or greater, 1900-2008", noting that, "acc[ording] to this graph we’re below the 1900-1920 level". ImageImageImage
81/ 1st comment in Trick screengrab begins "Ok Bill #4" as does comment #5 to blog. But Trick replaced Jim Arndt comment on TSI and gravitational pulls with fabrication that "concept of global warming was developed by powerful nations to halt the progress of developing nations" ImageImageImage
82/ next Trick comment is also forged: "snow in winter? The world is upside down" with inline response "ryanm... Matt spiked the story to the trashcan..."
Real comment # 6: "it’s on Drudge Report too ...How long before our various elected officials start quoting this paper?" Image
83/ other 4 comments in Trick screengrab from same thread sneering at CBS nonsense. They deleted my comment "Another Jor-El wannabe" (harking back to previous controversy with James Hansen), replacing it with their forgery of "RC" comment that linked to realclimate[.]org/FOIZ.zip Image
84/ term "Jor-El wannabe" would be familiar to ClimateAudit readers from 2007 blog in which Hansen fulminated about "Destruction of Creation" while backhandedly conceding that GISS demotion of 1934 as warmest year arose from computer error that I spotted climateaudit.org/2007/08/20/com… Image
85/ in Hansen's Jor-El wannabe diatribe, he refused to cite my identification of the GISS error, later saying that refusal of credit was intentional, not accidental. I chaffed him in Say My Name post climateaudit.org/2008/09/22/say… citing Knowles 2007, Mathers et al and Jones et al 1996 ImageImage
85B/ I've collected the thoughts in this subthread on the strange BBC forgery into a blog post at Climate Audit climateaudit.org/2021/10/25/bbc… I'm working on a thrad and article on the fake premise underlying The Trick.

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Jun 8
in 2019 and 2020, there was a huge amount of interest in the Strzok-Page texts, but almost no attention was paid to the fact that the texts had been heavily "curated" before reaching the public and that some key topics were missing.

One of the key topics that was missing from the Strzok-Page texts (as curated) was any mention of the interview of Steele's Primary Sub-Source in late January 2017. Given that the FBI had insisted on inclusion of Steele dossier allegations in the Intelligence Community Assessment dated January 6, 2017, this was a central FBI issue at the time and the lack of any reference in the Strzok-Page texts as originally presented is noteworthy.

Readers may recall that the very first tranche of Strzok-Page texts, released in Feb 2018, contained a long gap from mid-December 2017 to mid-May 2018 - from the ICA to appointment of Mueller. This is the very period in which the Crossfire investigation metastasized into the lawfare that undermined the incoming administration. The fact that this period was separately missing from both Strzok and Lisa Page has never been adequately explained. As an aside, it seems odd that the FBI can retrieve emails and texts from targets, but not from their own employees.

Subsequently, a tranche of texts from the missing period was released, but these were also heavily curated and contained no texts that relate to the Primary Subsource.

However, from an an exhibit in the Flynn case , we //KNOW// that, in the late evening of January 13, 2017, Strzok and Page texted about the Primary Subsource, less than two weeks prior to the interview (which began on January 24, 2017). The message wasn't interpretable in real time, but we (Hans Mahncke) were subsequently able to connect it to the Danchenko interview via the reference to the "Womble" law firm, with which Danchenko's lawyer, Mark Schamel, was then associated. We also learned that Schamel was friends with and namedropped Lisa Monaco.

But other than this single excerpt from the Flynn exhibits, I haven't located anything in any of the other Strzok texts than can be plausibly connected to the critical interviews of the Primary Subsource.

I think that there are some Strzok emails from Jan 19 and Jan 22, 2017 that may refer to the pending Primary Subsource interview, that I'll discuss next.

One useful thing that the Weaponization Committee could do would be to publish a complete and unexpurgated set of Strzok-Page texts. Given the interest created by the highly expurgated version, one wonders what an expurgated and unbowdlerized version might yield.courtlistener.com/docket/6234142…Image
In the volume of Strzok emails released on October 31, 2019, there was an almost entirely redacted thread dated January 19 and January 22, 2017, a couple of days before the Primary Subsource interview on January 24, 2017, which look to me like they have a good chance of relating to the PSS interview.

The thread began with an email from FBI Office of General Council (OGC) - Sally Anne Moyer or Kevin Clinesmith - to Strzok and a CD subordinate, with a very short subject line.

We know that the PSS interview was lawyered up and carried out under a sweetheart queen-for-a-day deal that was usually only available to highly placed Democrats (Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills etc.) So involvement of OGC in negotiation of the PSS interview is expected.Image
at 6:47 pm on Thursday, Jan 19, 2017, Strzok's CD subordinate wrote back that "here's what we have to decide ASAP". The issue is totally redacted, naturally. (This is one day before inauguration.) Image
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May 12
in April 2022, Mark Steyn, on his GB News show
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commented on recently released UK COVID data, claiming "the third booster shots so zealously promoted by the British state, and its groupthink media has failed, and in fact exposed you to significantly greater risk of infection, hospitalization and death."
Steyn showed images of five tables from official statistical publications to support his claims.
In April 2023, Ofcom, which, in addition to its ordinary regulatory role, had taken a special interest in vaccine advocacy, ruled that Steyn's "presentation of UK Health Security Agency data
and their use to draw conclusions materially misled the audience. In breach of Rule 2.2 of the Broadcasting Code" - a very damaging finding that Steyn has appealed.


I haven't followed this case. However, as it happens, I had taken an interest in UK COVID data about 3 months earlier, as it was one of the few jurisdictions that published case and hospitalization rates by vaccination status.


Also, to refresh readers on the contemporary context, early 2022 was the period in which COVID lockdowns and overall alarm began to decline.

At the time, I observed that the UK data showed that the case rate for triple vax was //higher// than among unvax. Three months later, Steyn (as discussed below) made a similar claim, for which he was censured.

Although the UK authorities conspicuously refrained from including this result in their summary or conclusions, they were obviously aware of the conundrum, since their publication included a curious disclaimer by UK authorities that actual case data "should not be used" to estimate vaccine effectiveness. I pointed this odd disclaimer out in this earlier thread, also noting that health authorities in Ontario and elsewhere had previously used such data to promote vaccine uptake and that the reasoning behind this disclaimer needed to be closely examined and parsed.

All of these issues turned up later in the Ofcom decision re Steyn.

Ofcom ruled that Steyn's presentation was "materially misleading" because
(1) he failed to take account of "fundamental biases" in age structure of vax and unvax groups i.e. unvax group was skewed younger, vax group skewed older; and
(2) he failed to include the disclaimer that "This raw data should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness as the data does not take into account inherent biases present such as differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations”.steynonline.com/mark-steyn-sho…
ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/…
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in this thread, I'll re-examine Steyn's analysis. I've transcribed all the numbers in the tables and done further calculations to check his claims.

First, case rates. Steyn first showed an important table showing the population by 5-year age group and vax status, observing that the total population of triply vax (boosted) was approximately equal to the population of unboosted, observing that this facilitated comparison. Steyn: "Let's take a look at this, as you can see from a pool of 63 million down at the bottom there, 63 million, there are 32 million who are triple vaccinated. That leaves just under 31 million, who are either double single or unvaccinated. So we have two groups of similar size, 31, 32 million. So it's relatively easy to weigh the merits of the third shot upon Group A versus group B."

He then showed a table of cases by age group and vax status, pointing out that the total number of boosted cases was approximately double the number of unboosted cases: "So the triple vaccinated in March were responsible for just over a million COVID cases and everybody else 475,000 COVID cases. So the triple vaccinated are contracting COVID at approximately twice the rate of the double, single and unvaccinated. Got that? If you get the booster shot, you've got twice as high a chance of getting the COVID. In the United Kingdom, there's twice as many people with the third booster shot who got the COVID, as the people who never had the booster shot."Image
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Ofcom purported to rebut Steyn's analysis as shown in excerpt below. They observed that proportion of unvax in younger age groups was much higher than in older age groups and that the "simple comparison between the two groups made by Mark Steyn failed to take into account these inherent biases".

However, Ofcom failed to show that there would be a different outcome in the more complex analysis in which age groups were allowed for.

As it turns out, in regard to case rates, Steyn's conclusions, if anything, under-stated the phenomenon, as shown next.Image
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Apr 19
here is a thread from 2023 in which Eric Ciaramella's "yikes" is placed in a more detailed context.

In this thread, I suggested that the linkage was connected to Jan 21, 2016 meeting of Ukrainian prosecutors with State Dept officials, noting that Jamie Gusack (reporting to Bridget Brink) had distributing the first demand for Shokin's head (Nov 22 TPs)Image
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as pointed out in that thread, Gusack (State Dept) had been coordinating with Ciaramella (NSC) prior to arrival of Ukr prosecutors in Jan 2016, referring to Shokin replacement.

State Dept cited "diamond prosecutors case" as big deal. But what happened to it next? A long story. Image
Bridget Brink, Jamie Gusack's boss, reported to Victoria Nuland. Brink was appointed Ambassador to Ukraine in April 2022. Unanimous approval by Senate in early days of war at the exact time that US and UK were sabotaging the peace deal negotiated in Istanbul Image
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Mar 17
as observed yesterday, , after 2014 US coup, the tsunami of billion dollar US/IMF loans was associated with unprecedented embezzlement by Ukr oligarchs thru corrupt Ukr banking system. Rescues of failed banks (mostly unnoticed in west) were markers
in today's thread, I'll provide a short bibliography of articles (mostly Ukrainian language via google translate) on the Ukr banking corruption crisis that began and exploded after the 2014 US coup, while Biden, Blinken, Nuland et al were running Ukraine
once one searches specifically for the topic, there are interesting references, but the topic has received essentially next to zero coverage in the west. I'll take myself as an example. Despite following Ukr affairs quite closely, my prior knowledge was three vignettes.
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Mar 16
May 25, 2021: US DOJ announced indictment & arrest of Austrian banker Peter Weinzierl


Mar 13, 2024: we learn that Alexander Smirnov was an FBI informant against Weinzierl and had lured Weinzierl to UK on behalf of FBI for arrest justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/t…
archive.is/zO1rt

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the DOJ charges against Austrian banker Weinzierl, filed during first six months of Biden admin, pertained to allegations that payments made via Meinl Bank in Austria by Brazilian construction company Odebrecht were connected to evasion of taxes in Brazil. Image
if the concern of US DOJ and FBI with administration of Brazilian tax collection seems somewhat quirky, there may be an ulterior motive: Meinl Bank had a central role in the looting of Ukrainian banks during the 2014-2016 Biden administration of Ukraine. Image
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Mar 3
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, named by NYT as architect of 2014 post-Maidan takeover of Ukrainian intelligence by CIA, is former head of Ukrainian SBU. His comments on Biden corruption deserve attention, but have been ignored.archive.is/zXXQV
on October 10, 2019, early in the Trump impeachment saga, Nalyvaichenko published an op ed in Wall St Journal saying "alliance with US depends on answering questions about Bidens and election interference" [by Ukraine] archive.is/wsrjP
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in that editorial, Naluvaichenko, the former SBU hear, stated that Ukraine had responsibility to investigate allegations that Ukraine interfered in 2016 election (a separate issue from Russian interference) and whether Burisma hired Hunter Biden for "cynical purposes". Image
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