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August 18, 2025
End System of Choice for Rich and Mercury for Poor — Support Mercury-Free Dentistry!
Video linkAnalysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaStory at-a-glanceDespite being called “silver fillings,” dental amalgam is actually 50% mercury, a toxic heavy metal that can reach the brain, kidneys, and breast milkAmalgam is now banned across Europe and several other countries, with both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and World Health Organization (WHO) switching from supporters to opponents of mercury fillingsWhile modern dentists avoid amalgam, it’s still used on servicemembers, Native Americans, institutionalized individuals, and low-income families without choiceConsumers for Dental Choice is working to make federal and state programs mercury-free, including military, Medicaid, and Indian Health Service dental careThe Minamata Convention on Mercury is set to reconvene in November 2025 and will aim to mandate a worldwide phase-out of dental amalgam, with growing international support for the banConsumers for Dental Choice has engineered a tectonic shift in dentistry — modern dentists no longer place mercury-based fillings (dental amalgam) — and aware consumers shun them. Unlike a decade ago, neither the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nor the World Health Organization (WHO) defends amalgam — and the major dental products companies stopped making amalgam.
Consumers for Dental Choice and I are in our 15th year of partnership. I have watched my friend Charlie Brown build a powerhouse national and international force, changing dentistry 180 degrees from mercury-based to mercury-free.
But the government bureaucracies (federal and state) and the insurance behemoths have not changed. Amalgam continues for the powerless — our servicewomen and servicemen, the institutionalized, low-income families, and Native Americans.
To end this morally unacceptable system of choice for the rich and mercury for the poor, once again, I put my money where my mouth is. Until midnight on August 23, 2025, I will match your gift to Consumers for Dental Choice — dollar for dollar. I’m in this cause full bore — and ask you to join me.
Those Gray-Colored Dental Fillings Are 50% MercuryIn an audacious move of brazen deception, the American Dental Association (ADA) — an amalgam patentholder — promoted dental amalgam as “silver fillings” and doubled down on the cover-up by adopting a rule of conduct forbidding dentists from discussing the (obvious) toxicity of mercury.
• The truth behind silver fillings — Well, I’m here to tell you that “silver” filling is actually a mercury filling. Mercury is not only toxic, but the most vaporous of heavy metals. So, that means mercury can reach the brain, the kidneys, the placenta, and the breast milk.
• The status quo is enforced — The ADA’s callous and irresponsible promotion of mercury-based dentistry — when the alternatives are technically better now and much more tooth friendly — continues to have severe health, workplace, and environmental consequences.
• Vote with your wallet — Modern dentists never use dental amalgam. If your dentist still places amalgam in any dental patient, it’s time to take your business elsewhere.
Consumers for Dental Choice Brought a Revolution to American DentistryWhen Charlie and I started working together, the federal government and the states sat firmly on dentistry matters, in the pocket of the ADA — similarly, international agencies are in the pocket of the pro-mercury Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI) World Dental Federation.
• Major victories have been won — With tenacity, Charlie built a worldwide nonprofit powerhouse — and with strategic brilliance, found the path to dismantle the pro-amalgam machine. Amalgam is now banned across Europe, and in several African and Asian nations.
Both the FDA and the WHO switched from amalgam advocates to amalgam opponents. Readers, convincing either the FDA or WHO to switch from support to opposition of a product is extremely rare; changing both of these impenetrable colossi is, well, unprecedented in my experience.
• Countless lives were saved from mercury — Millions and millions of American consumers — and billions worldwide — were spared from the health risk of mercury-based fillings. Three decades ago, the late mercury-free dental pioneer Dr. Hal Huggins asked Charlie to help a billion people — it now appears he has done so.
• There are still battles to be fought — But as I explain below, we do not have mercury-free dentistry for all. We need to keep the momentum going to banish use of this primitive, pre-Civil War pollutant from our planet.
So, for the 15th consecutive year, I am stepping up to match every dollar donated to Consumers for Dental Choice from now until midnight your time on August 23, 2025 (up to $150,000 total). Let’s give Consumers for Dental Choice the resources it needs and merits. You may click this button below to donate online:
Or you may mail a check to:
Consumers for Dental Choice
727 15th St. NW, Suite 701
Washington, DC 20005
Testifying before Congress a few years ago, the witness for esteemed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said American dentistry is “choice for the rich and mercury for the poor.” Consumers for Dental Choice was created with the vision that if consumers have a choice — an informed choice — they’ll reject the mercury filling in favor of the nontoxic one.
• The choice still isn’t given to all — Many consumers are powerless to choose. Soldiers and sailors, institutionalized individuals, people stuck in government programs like the Indian Health Service (IHS), and people saddled with cut-rate insurance plans that favor mercury.
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Here’s some highlights from the agenda of Consumers for Dental Choice to end amalgam for all:
Consumers for Dental Choice’s Initiative to Make Federal Government Programs Mercury-FreeDespite the FDA safety communication warning against amalgam use in children and other high-risk populations, the single biggest purchaser of amalgam in the U.S. is our own government. Its dental programs continue to implant dental mercury into American Indians, into our soldiers and sailors, into institutionalized persons, and into families on Medicaid.
• Authorities finally gathered and listened — After years of pounding on doors, Consumers for Dental Choice finally got the government to the table for an entire day last year in Washington, DC to talk about ending amalgam.
Assembled were government officials representing the FDA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the State Department, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the IHS who met with a broad range of environmental, medical, dental, science, and consumer leaders.
• New programs have been created — Now, we see results. Consumers for Dental Choice convinced the IHS to publish its “Plan to Phase Down the Use of Dental Amalgam among American Indians/Alaska Natives 2010 – 2030 (or until dental amalgam is phased out in the U.S.).”
It includes such effective measures as “Provide guidance to IHS, tribal, and urban dental programs to cease the use of dental amalgam on deciduous (primary) teeth,” “Conduct a national webinar for IHS dental providers regarding the 2020 FDA Safety Communication and this phase-down plan,” and “Develop policies that reduce the amount of dental amalgam purchased by IHS service units.”
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Consumers for Dental Choice’s Initiative to Make State Government Programs Mercury-FreeTo effect change in our federal constitutional system, it takes initiatives both in Washington and in state capitals. So, Consumers for Dental Choice has launched three state projects to serve as models for the rest of the country:
• Florida — Assembling four national organizations, Consumers for Dental Choice filed a petition to Tallahassee to end amalgam use in Florida Medicaid. They had a Zoom meeting with my friend, renowned Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. More than a dozen Florida dentists signed a letter asking for action.
• Rhode Island — Consumers for Dental Choice is building a grassroots movement in the Ocean State, finding real interest among environmental groups, racial justice advocates, and dental professionals.
• California — Consumers for Dental Choice is working with the Alameda County (Oakland) Consumer Affairs Commission to empower consumer choice.
Cleaning Up the Dental IndustryIt’s not enough to work with government authorities in phasing out dental amalgam. It’s important to target and transform the amalgam market, too. In that regard, Consumers for Dental Choice has scored major victories:
• Cutting off amalgam supply — Consumers for Dental Choice already pushed major U.S. dental products makers Dentsply and Envista (Kerr) out of the amalgam business. Today, the major American companies make only mercury-free fillings.
• Cutting off amalgam demand — As Consumers for Dental Choice wins bans and restrictions on amalgam, the demand for this mercury product continues to drop. Countries banning amalgam sweep across Asia, notably the Philippines and Indonesia. In Africa, Tanzania and Gabon have also banned amalgam, as well as in the Caribbean (St. Kitts and Nevis).
• Cutting off the amalgam trade — The recent European Union (EU) law not only bans amalgam use, but also bans amalgam imports and exports, cutting off dental mercury peddlers — both in the EU and abroad — from many markets.
Winning Amalgam BansWhen Charlie went to Brussels in 2011 to launch the campaign that led to victory, things were bad — only two countries in the EU were interested in mercury-free dentistry.
• Europe was the largest user of amalgam in the world — Governmental officials read from talking points supplied by the pro-mercury Council of European Dentists (CED). Charlie assembled a team from the 27 member nations. His team returned repeatedly to the federal capital, Brussels, went to the national capitals, and organized a response to a European Commission poll demonstrating that 88% of Europeans want mercury-free dentistry.
• Hard work and perseverance pay off — To run the campaign in Europe, Charlie appointed Florian Schulze, leader of an exciting new non-governmental organization (NGO) in Berlin, the European Network for Environmental Medicine. Florian and his NGO engineered the breakthrough our cause needed — a law in 2017 banning amalgam for children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers.
The goal, then, upshifted to mercury-free dentistry for all — a path requiring a Biblical seven more years of grueling challenges. The result in 2024 — a vote to ban amalgam was 27 nations for, zero nations against. What started with two countries in support in 2011 morphed into unanimity in 2024. The European Parliament supported the ban 98% to 2% — imagine such a near-unanimity from a legislative body!
• Governments around the world are following — In addition to the growing number of countries banning all amalgam, many countries — from Vietnam to Mauritius to Tunisia — have banned amalgam use for high-risk populations like children.
Now, another major country, China, has joined them. China issued a new regulation in 2024 that in translation says, “Dental amalgam is prohibited for use in dental treatment of deciduous teeth, patients under 15 years of age, and pregnant and lactating women, unless the dentist deems it necessary based on the needs of the patient.”
Showdown in NovemberThe World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, the international coalition Charlie chairs, has convinced the governments to shift the focus of the Minamata Convention on Mercury from “phase down amalgam” to “phase out amalgam.”
• Preparing for the faceoff — In 2022, the Parties adopted the Children’s Amendment addressing an end date for amalgam for children and for pregnant and breastfeeding women. In 2023 the Parties adopted a phase out of dental amalgam as a worldwide goal.
In November 2025, the Minamata Convention on Mercury reconvenes — at the top of the agenda is whether to shift treaty language from phase out amalgam as a goal to phase out of amalgam as a legal mandate. Both the Africa continent, by unanimity, and the European Union have already called for support of this amendment — and support is growing across the globe.
• The fight to ban amalgam comes to a head — Charlie will lead a civil society delegation from 13 nations at the upcoming conference of the parties, coming 3 to 7 November in Geneva. The voice of mercury-free dentistry will be well-represented.
Your Help Makes a Big DifferenceConsumers for Dental Choice is an amazing nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to advocating mercury-free dentistry. Its talented team of consumer advocates, environmentalists, and health professionals work tirelessly — and effectively — to continue the fight against dental mercury around the world.
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Facing troop shortages, Israel Eyes Recruitment from US and France
Israeli soldiers cry during the funeral of a soldier killed in the Gaza Strip on June 26, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Press TV
Israel’s military is considering a plan to recruit young Jews from abroad as it grapples with a severe shortage of soldiers amid its ongoing genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to Israel’s Army Radio on Monday, the proposal would target major Jewish communities overseas, particularly in the United States and France, with the aim of enlisting around 700 recruits annually.
The shortage has compounded wider problems for Israel’s armed forces, including equipment deficits and a reserve system strained by months of fighting in Gaza.
Many reservists have also reported psychological issues and exhaustion linked to the genocidal war.
The move comes as the military struggles with a shortfall of 10,000 to 12,000 troops, driven largely by the refusal of ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim, to serve.
For decades, Haredi men who account for about 13 percent of Israel’s population of 10 million have been exempt from Israel’s mandatory military service to pursue full-time religious studies.
However, a 2023 ruling by Israel’s high court ended these broad exemptions, prompting the military to begin enforcing draft orders amid growing troop shortages.
Haredi leaders have accused the Israeli regime of violating their religious beliefs and threatening their way of life.
In July, the Israeli daily Maariv said senior commanders had, for the first time, admitted to the scale of the depletion, estimating a gap of about 7,500 soldiers. Battalion leaders cited crushing workloads, with some signaling plans for early retirement.
The Israeli regime was also reportedly luring around 30,000 asylum seekers from African countries to the army by offering them permanent residency in the occupied territories.
An Israeli military investigation has found a rise in suicides among its soldiers, with the majority of the cases being directly linked to the profound psychological trauma and exposure to extreme conditions experienced during the genocidal war in Gaza.
The findings indicated that most suicides stemmed from prolonged exposure to combat, traumatic battlefield experiences, and the psychological toll of losing comrades.
Despite attempts by the Israeli army to censor reports of suicides and the surrounding circumstances, evidence continues to emerge of a sharp increase in such cases. Media outlets have suggested that the actual number of suicides may be even higher than reported.
The army has reportedly been burying some of these soldiers without military funerals or public announcements, in a desperate effort to conceal the extent of the crisis.
In recent months, a growing manpower shortage has prompted the Israeli army to recall soldiers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The reports have highlighted a deeper mental health crisis within the Israeli army, revealing that thousands of soldiers have sought assistance from military mental health clinics or field psychologists.
With Israel’s war in Gaza entering its 22nd month, soldiers increasingly report experiences of war trauma, family issues, and psychological distress.
Abu Obeida, spokesman for the military wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, recently warned that if Israel chooses to continue with the “war of extermination,” it will face increasing funerals for its soldiers and officers.
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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/18/753330/Palestine-Gaza-Israel-US-France-Africa-
Sam Altman Admits AI Isn’t Profitable and an AI Bubble Exists
Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Excerpts from The Information (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedances-upcoming-world-model-altmans-thoughts-gpt-5-fiasco-profitability-going-public?rc=ie9o9i):
Altman ruled out building anime-style sexual chatbots the way xAI has. He said he believes the easiest way for lagging companies to gain AI adoption is through engagement-bait bots, though OpenAI won’t pursue them.
On the AI market, he agreed there is a bubble, with investors overhyping valuations, and predicted both major successes and significant failures.
Financially, he said OpenAI is “close” to profitable on serving its AI in apps like ChatGPT, excluding the high training costs of developing the AI, and COO Brad Lightcap said the company is nearly profitable on its sales of models to developers.
Fair enough, but OpenAI has recently projected it will burn $8 billion this year—about $1 billion more cash burn than it had projected earlier in the year.
The Big Picture: EU Puppet Show
The Big Picture: The EU Puppet Show
Directed by Alekandr Avilov (2025)
Film Review
https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/2104-the-big-picture-eu-puppet-show
This documentary begins with an observation by the late Henry Kissinger that current European leaders lack the vision of former leaders, such as De Gaulle, Willie Brandt, Helmut Kohl, Jack Chirac or Schoeder. It then shows a clip of Putin echoing these sentiments, stating the continent’s current leaders are a “disaster for Europe.”
Host Jelena Norkunaite explores these observations with Aleksey Zubets, director of the Centre for Social Economics Research, and Nikolay Novik, deputy director of the Institute of World Military Economics and Strategy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Their dialogue is interspersed with humorous clips of the leaders they discuss. At least three are of Boris Johnson riding his bicycle.
Both agree on the following analysis:
Current European leaders are merely front men – “hand puppets” or “cardboard figures” with limited education. Their main purpose is to push the agenda of the “real leaders” and secure votes for a “shadow state” where the real power lie. Both agree that people in modern society find it hard to vote for someone smarter than they are. Also that the US deep state has significant influence over European appointments.
They focus mainly on the example on Ursula van der Leyen. In addition to being president of the EU Commission, van der Leyen is Germany’s defense minister. As she clearly knows nothing about running an army (she’s a gynecologist), her main role is lobbying for for US and German defense contractors.
As president of the EU commission, she plays a major role in setting EU policies and managing the EU budget. She has also issued a decree forbidding Slovakia’s prime minister from meeting with Trump. Prior to Trump’s election in 2024, the EU’s main unifying ideology was the Green movement. At present it’s war with Russia.
The commentators also single out Britain’s last four prime ministers, noting that Covid plunged the UK into a deep recession from which it never recovered. They observe that British industry to continues to abandon Britain for the US and Asia. Also that covert intelligence activities (particularly the ability to start conflicts and arrange provocations) remains Britain’s most successful industry.
Boris Johnson – a cuddly buffoonish character who rode his bicycle everywhere and was forced to resign for “corruption” (mostly the parties he held during the Covid lockdowns).Liz Truss – apparently unable to grasp or explain basic political, economic or geographical concepts. When Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met with her as UK foreign secretary he described it “like the mute talking with the deaf.”Rishi Sumak – professional financier who lost interest in fixing the economy when he discovered he was incapable of fixing the British economy.Keith Starmer – extremely low approval rating.The panelists also make the interesting assertion that Brexit was “a US project to split up Europe.”
August 17, 2025
Meet the Normans
This intriguing documentary has two chapters: the first describes the Norman conquest of northeaster France, the second the Norman conquest of England.
Beginning in the 8th century AD, Normans from Denmark raided northeastern France every summer. From 790 on, they traveled down the Seine, sacking the Rouen in 840. In 845, they threatened to sack Paris but the Carolingian king of West Francia Charles the Bald paid them to withdraw. In 851, the Normans overwintered in France for the first time.
In 852, they sacked the Fontanelle Abbey and burnt it to the ground, in 876 under Rollo, the Vikings sacked Rouen. In 911 Rollo laid siege to Chartres and withdrew under the terms of the Treaty of Saint Clair sur Epte, which resulted in his marriage to the daughter of Charles III and a promise to convert to Christianity. Under the treaty he became a vassal (Duke of Normandy) of Charles III. He and 100 retainers were baptized a Christians in Rouen cathedral in 912. During his reign, he built the famous Mont St Michel monastery.
His son William Longsword succeeded him when he died in 927. Longsword expanded the duchy of Normandy slightly to the West and was assassinated by the Count of Flanders in 942.
In he was succeed by Richard I, an illegitimate on from a Breton concubine who had to be sent to Bayeux to learn Norse. He’s best known for the English/Irish slave market he operated (at the time contrary to Christian teachings).
In 996, his son Richard II succeeded him and married his sister to the king of England.
In 1026, his son Richard III succeeded him, only to be poisoned by his brother Robert a year later.
Robert was Duke of Normandy from 1027-1043, when his son William the Bastard (born of a concubine) succeeded him. The latter’s generation would be the last to speak Norse. Ironically between 912 and William’s accession to the dukedom, Normandy would be the only peaceful area of Europe.
As William was only 7 at the time of his father’s death, he spent much of his early reign putting down rebellion including one in 1057 backed by King Henry the first.
In 1066 when the childless king of England Edward the Confessor died, William (his cousin once removed via the sister of Richard II) was one of the main contenders for the throne. Edward’s 14 year old nephew was the closest heir, but for some reason no one took his claim seriously. The other contenders were the Earl of Wessex Harold Godwinson, Edward’s brother-in-law, and Harold the Viking, a distant relative of the Viking king Cnute, who ruled England from 1016 to 1035
Harold Godwinson was coronated on January 6 1066. In September 1066 Harold the Viking invaded with 200 long boats and marched to York where he confronted Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. After Harold the Viking was killed, William the Bastard loaded his cavalry onto dozen of ships and crossed the English channel. In October 14, 1066 Battle of Hastings 8,000 horseless Anglo-Saxon troops confronted William’s 8,000 Norman, French, Breton and Flemish troops protected by cavalry. After a nine hour battle, the Normans were victorious, killing King Harold. By Christmas day, William had conquered most of southeastern England and was the first to be crowned king in Westminster Abbey.
It would take William six years to consolidate power:
1067 was a year of numerous small rebellions1068 saw major rebellions in the West Country and the Midlands1069 saw two rebellions in the north, supported by a Danish invasion. William ended the rebellions by laying waste to northern England. Known as the Harrying of the North, this resulted in a severe famine that killed 100,000 people and forced many northerners to sell themselves into slavery to survive.William further consolidated his power by removing all the Anglo Saxon landholder and rewarding his military leaders with their lands. The Anglo-Saxon peasants who worked their lands became virtual serfs (slaves), causing William to be credited with establishing feudalism in Europe. He also appointed Normans to head England’s Catholic Church.
? explores the the role of the Bayeux tapestry and William’s Domesday Book in recording this history. In the latter, William required every estate in every English town to be recorded, along with the number of plows, mills and slaves they owned (for purposes of taxation.
William return to France in 1087 because the French king Phillip I was retaking peripheral Norman land. He died of a wound the same year and is buried at Caen. He bequeathed the Norman dukedom to his older son Robert and the throne of England to his younger son William Rufus.
FDA lifts pause on vaccine against the virus in China sparking global epidemic fears
By CASSIDY MORRISON, US SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER
12 August 2025
The FDA has lifted a pause on the administration of a vaccine for the chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness currently spreading from China.
The Ixchiq single-dose vaccine was approved for adults 18 and up at risk of exposure to the virus in 2023, when the CDC had recorded 152 travel-associated cases of the virus, the highest rate in four years.
But administrations of the shot to adults aged 60 and older were paused in May of this year, triggered by reports of 17 serious side effects following vaccination, including two deaths.
Most of the reported issues were neurological or cardiac, and all involved people over 60. Six cases were reported in the US, with the remaining cases among the tens of thousands of people vaccinated worldwide.
However, on August 7, the FDA greenlit the vaccine again for adults 60 and up. While the agency did not say whether the lifted pause is related to an uptick in infections, the chikungunya virus is spreading globally.
Cases are currently rising in China, with more than 10,000 recorded, and the virus is spreading to nearby countries, as well as Europe.
As of August 5, the CDC reports 46 cases of chikungunya virus in the US this year, all contracted by travelers returning from high-risk areas. No deaths have been reported.
The CDC recommends Americans traveling to high-risk chikungunya countries receive one of the two FDA-approved vaccines. However, the FDA changed its guidelines from recommending the shot to travelers and scientists at ‘increased risk’ to those at ‘high risk.’
An FDA spokesperson told DailyMail.com: ‘FDA has completed an updated benefit-risk assessment of Ixchiq, including for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.
‘Based on the available data and its benefit-risk assessment, FDA has removed the recommended pause in the use of Ixchiq in individuals 60 years of age and older.’
While there’s no specific number for how many Americans have been vaccinated for chikungunya, it’s known that around 43,000 people have received the vaccine globally.
The reported adverse reactions to the Ixchiq vaccine included severe headaches, dizziness, intense nerve pain, trouble with balance, fainting, extreme muscle aches, and severe joint and back pain.
The virus, meanwhile, causes flu-like symptoms within three to seven days of being bitten by a mosquito. A high fever is typical, as is joint pain in the hands, wrists, ankles and knees.
It also causes muscle pain, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, swollen joints and swollen lymph nodes.
Joint damage can be severe and long-lasting, potentially for years. Deaths are rare, but certain groups can experience life-threatening illness.
Newborns, the elderly, and people with chronic health conditions, including obesity and diabetes, are more susceptible to seizures and brain swelling, heart problems, and kidney or liver damage.
While the vaccine’s labeling has been changed to stipulate that only people at high risk of exposure should get the shot, limitations of use have been added.
A worker is shown spraying insecticide near a residential property in Hong Kong, where the first case of chikungunya was announced last week in a 12-year-old boy
The Ixchiq vaccine has been plagued by reports of severe neurological and cardiac side effects, including two deaths
The labeling now says: ‘Vaccination with Ixchiq is not advisable for most US travelers. For most US travelers, the risk of exposure to CHIKV is low.
‘The decision to administer Ixchiq should take into consideration an individual’s risk of severe or chronic disease outcomes if infected with CHIKV and risks of serious, severe, or prolonged chikungunya-like illness caused by vaccination with Ixchiq.’
The European vaccine company Valneva developed Ixchiq, the first-ever vaccine to prevent the chikungunya virus, in 2023.
But the shot has been plagued by reports of more than a dozen serious adverse events, including two deaths, in adults 62 to 89.
The European Medicines Agency suspended its use in May and the FDA soon followed.
A second chikungunya vaccine, Vimkunya, was approved by the FDA in February 2025.
The Ixchiq vaccine contains a weakened form of the virus, which may cause symptoms of chikungunya.
Federal officials said some of the severe adverse events reported are similar to severe complications from the disease.
According to Valneva, the FDA has received its petition to expand its availability to teenagers.
Chikungunya spreads through bites from the Aedes mosquito species, typically in countries where the virus is common, primarily those in Africa and Asia.
Twelve Americans were infected within US borders in 2014, while one infection was acquired in 2015. Since then, all US infections have been contracted abroad.
There have been about 220,000 Chikungunya virus cases and 80 related deaths in 14 countries since the beginning of 2025, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
While it remains unclear in which countries American patients contracted the virus, the federal government has issued an elevated risk of exposure notice for Brazil, China Colombia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand.
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Digital ID Last Step toward Full Enslavement
By Peter Koenig and Dr. Mike Yeadon
Decisions about digital IDs, also called e-IDs, will be made across the board by all countries (193 UN member-states) within short, or have already been made. In some cases, like Switzerland, people will have a choice, they will be able to vote on the decision, see below.
In other countries, the governments, or those who pull the strings behind their governments, will take the decision without consulting the people.
A digital ID would be your last step to full enslavement – even if it is sold to you as a “benefit,” an “all-in-one” ID, that allows you passage to everything. What it does not say is that this “passage” comes at a high cost of liberty. It is granted only if you comply fully with the conditions of the e-ID and the linked QR code.
It is an infamous QR code that follows you everywhere and controls every move you are making; and what’s worse, it can block you from making any move, from using your money, from traveling, from simply living because it can impose on you a potentially harmful or deadly “vaccination” mandate (remember the covid vaxxes).
Stay away from any QR code as much as you can.
In other words, the e-ID requires complete compliance, complete obedience – complete submission. Only then, may it let you pass, buy what you want, and travel where you want.
Complete Submission by e-ID and QR CodeThe WHO has now full authority to decide over any country’s health sovereignty, including deciding on pandemics (plandemics, rather), imposing vaccinations, at their will. This applies to any country that has not opted out from accepting the revised IHR by 19 July 2025. Switzerland among many other WHO members (total 194) has not opted out. The new, revised IHR will enter into effect on 19 September 2025.
The United States, Austria, Italy, Serbia – and others – have opted out of the new revised IHR.
Therefore, if you can vote, say NO, a resounding NO, to the digital ID, the e-ID, as it may otherwise be your last chance to express your opinion freely.India’s “Playing Hard to Get” with America by Letting the AIIB Fund China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)Please watch below Michael Yeadon’s, former Vice President of Research, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, short but concise and compelling statement about e-IDs.
In Switzerland, at its meeting on 21 May 2025, the Swiss Federal Council decided to put the the digital ID to a popular vote on 28 September 2025:
Federal Act of 20 December 2024 on electronic identification and other electronic means of authentication (eID Act, eIDG) (FF 2025 20).
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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/digital-id-last-step-full-enslavement/5897050
FBI Investigating 19 Clinton Foundation Bank Accounts For Campaign Finance Fraud Before DOJ Shut Down Probe
Joseph Sohm – Shutterstock.comBy LifeZette News Staff
August 17, 2025
A newly declassified FBI internal timeline reveals that the bureau’s Los Angeles Field Office was investigating 19 Clinton Foundation bank accounts for potential campaign finance fraud in 2016 before the Justice Department ordered the probe closed.
The disclosure, stemming from documents released this week, provides fresh detail on how federal investigators handled matters involving the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 presidential election cycle.
The records show that FBI investigators had been examining multiple bank accounts tied to the foundation as part of a broader campaign finance fraud investigation.
Thanks to Judicial Watch, the American public was made aware of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Hillary Clinton conducted official business on a non-government server so she could hide her Clinton Foundation pay-to-play while she was head of the Department of State.
According to emails obtained by Judicial Watch, Hillary Clinton gave preferential treatment to Clinton Foundation donors while she was Secretary of State.
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Trump launches ‘Manhattan Project’ as one of America’s largest companies set to be nationalized
Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan at the company’s Annual Manufacturing Technology Conference earlier this year
By Liz Acton-Taylor
The Trump administration has launched their own ‘Manhattan Project’ amid reports one of America’s largest companies is set to be nationalized.
Intel, the largest chip fabricator in the US, has been in talks with Donald Trump over a potential government stake in the company.
While the percentage stake the government is asking for has not been made public, nationalizing a company is typically reserved for emergencies.
The government nationalized a number of banks after the 2008 financial crisis and key logistics companies during World War II.
It comes amid concerns that America relies too heavily on TSCM, a chip manufacturer in Taiwan. China has repeatedly threatened to invade the island nation.
If China were to invade, it would throttle America’s ability to compete in the booming chipmaking industry that is being driven by artificial intelligence.
While Intel’s AI chips are considered inferior to those designed by Nvidia and AMD, the company is unique in that it not only designs its chips but it manufactures them. Trump wants to protect America by onshoring chip manufacturing.
‘This feels like the Manhattan Project – or the run-up to World War II,’ MIT AI computer scientist Dave Blundin said. ‘It’s every bit as important as the space race was, as the nuclear arms race was. Actually, it’s more important.’
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Bill Gates’ Beyond Meat Faces Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as Plant-Based Meat Market Collapses
Beyond Meat appears headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reporting that second-quarter revenue was down by 20% as the veggie patty meat alternative market has had declining sales across the industry. The company is currently holding $1.2 billion in debt, and the stock price has plummeted by 97% of its peak value.
Plant-based protein patties and meat alternatives made by companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are, by definition, Ultra Processed Foods (UPF). A definition provided by Michael J. Gibney, published in Current Developments in Nature, states that processed foods are “industrial formations typically with five or more and usually many ingredients. Besides salt, sugar, oils, and fats, ingredients of ultra-processed foods include food substances not commonly used in culinary preparations, such as hydrolyzed protein, modified starches, and hydrogenated or interesterified oils, and additives whose purpose is to imitate sensorial qualities of unprocessed or minimally processed foods and their culinary preparations or to disguise undesirable qualities of the final product, such as colorants, flavorings, nonsugar sweeteners, emulsifiers, humectants, sequestrants, and firming, bulking, de-foaming, anticaking, and glazing agents.”
A study published last fall in The Lancet found a positive correlation between ultra-processed food consumption and increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD). The authors wrote “Sulphites, 14 emulsifiers, 7 thickeners, 8 and sweeteners 11 are associated with cardiac tissue damage, metabolic syndrome-inducing microbiota alterations, inflammation, and pro-atherogenic apolipoproteins, respectively.” The Beyond Burger contains 2% or less of Methylcellulose, which is a thickener and emulsifier.
The authors wrote that excess calories, added sugars, sodium, and unhealthy fats in UPFs may contribute to CVD. The Beyond Burger has excess sodium with 310mg per serving, a 20% decrease from its previous formulation, and a small amount of fiber compared to whole food alternatives.
A 2025 Purdue University survey found that 30% of consumers consider all UPFs to be unhealthy and should be avoided. 61% of consumers acknowledged the unhealthiness of UPFs, yet they believe some of the foods in this category can be part of a healthy diet. Whole-grain sliced bread and low-fat yogurt are the examples provided by the lead author, Joseph Balagtas.
Last year, Beyond Meat announced a new reformulation that reduced the sodium and saturated fat by removing refined coconut oil in favor of avocado oil. The company was already experiencing declining sales and said the reformulation was an attempt to provide a more nutritious, better product.
Avocado oil has a 12:1 omega-6 to omega-3 ratio when the ideal ratio for the human diet is 1:1. When omega-6 is significantly higher than omega-3 in a person’s diet, this can lead to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness suggested that his company may create a burger that is 50% beef, as they are struggling to find enough consumers to support the current plant-based offerings.
Beyond Meat agreed to pay a $7.5 million settlement in a class-action suit for overstating the amount of protein in the company’s products and misrepresenting the quality of the ingredients used. One lawsuit accused Beyond Meat of making false “all-natural” claims while including Methylcellulose, a synthetic emulsifier.
Beyond Meat has a blog post explaining that the label of “ultra-processed food” is misleading and not a fair way to gauge how healthy or unhealthy a product is for consumers. Dr. Nicola Guess says it is not reasonable to lump Beyond Burgers in with sweets and pastries in terms of detrimental health effects.
Earlier this year, Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown said, “the Beyond value proposition remains obscured in doubt and misinformation.” He added that Beyond Meat is “a very clean source of protein” and that the company’s priority is dispelling misinformation about its products.
Bill Gates invested initially in both Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods as an alternative to animal-based agriculture. Gates sold all of his Beyond Meat stock in 2019 before it crashed.
Jeffery Jaxen reported on the decline of the plant-based meat alternatives in a segment last year, including several lawsuits that were pending against the company. The HighWire has reported on other initiatives that local and state governments have enacted to encourage less meat consumption in an attempt to reduce the effects of animal agriculture on the climate.
Lab-grown meat is being slowly rolled out in local markets, but has also been banned in several states. Texas banned lab-grown meat earlier this summer and became the seventh state to do so. In addition, a company named Moolec inserted genes into plants to create GMO hybrid Piggy Sooy, which received USDA approval last year.
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