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September 15, 2023
Apple Tells Support Staff To Remain Silent On iPhone Radiation Concern
Apple plans to issue an over-the-air update in the coming days for iPhone 12 users in France after regulators ordered a halt in sales over concerns the device emits too much radiation.
“We will issue a software update for users in France to accommodate the protocol used by French regulators,” Apple told Reuters in a statement.
The company continued, “We look forward to iPhone 12 continuing to be available in France.”
Earlier this week, French regulators ordered a ban on iPhone 12 sales after a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) test – how much radio frequency is absorbed into a body from a device – exceeded European radiation exposure limits.
Besides the iPhone 12’s radiation levels, another controversy is brewing as Bloomberg said Apple instructed employees to stay ‘mum’ when customers ask about the radiation issue:
If customers inquire about the French government’s claim that the model exceeds standards for electromagnetic radiation, workers should say they don’t have anything to share, Apple employees have been told. Staff should also reject customers’ requests to return or exchange the phone unless it was purchased in the past two weeks — Apple’s normal return policy.
Customers asking if the phone is safe should be told that all Apple products go through rigorous testing to ensure that they’re safe, according to the guidance.
Apple dismissed the radiation claims, indicating “this is related to a specific testing protocol used by French regulators and not a safety concern” for customers. “The ANFR [French regulator] is preparing to quickly test this update,” Noel Barrot, France’s digital affairs minister, told Reuters.
The timing of the iPhone radiation concerns comes the same week Apple announced its all-new lineup of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro… Coincidence?
We’ve told readers over the years about radiation risks while using smartphones:
How Much Radiation Is Emitted By Popular Smartphones? These Phones Emit The Most (And Least) RadiationIn today’s digital age, handheld devices are brought everywhere, from the bedside to the kitchen table to the office and even to the bar. One has to wonder if radiation exposure from smartphones is supercharging certain types of cancers.
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The Role of the Jewish Anti-defamation League (ADL) in Spying on US Activists
On Sept 11, 2023, The New York Times came out with this broadside against Musk. It’s clear the establishment is enraged by Musk’s defiance, and is closing ranks to bring him to his knees. Smears is one of their favorite tools.
Mike Whitney Interview with Ron Unz
Question 1: The Nature of the ADL
Let’s talk about the ADL. Some of your readers may not know that you have written extensively on the ADL and that your analysis prompted Paul Craig Roberts to call you “ the bravest man I know.” What Roberts was referring to, I think, is your riveting 2018 account of the ADL’s shadowy history as well as its controversial activities and methods. Here’s a short excerpt from a piece you wrote in 2018 that helps to illustrate what I’m talking about:
In January 1993, the San Francisco Police Department reported that it had recently raided the Northern California headquarters of the ADL based upon information provided by the FBI.* The SFPD discovered that the organization had been keeping intelligence files on more than 600 civic organizations and 10,000 individuals, overwhelmingly of a liberal orientation, with the SFPD inspector estimating that 75% of the material had been illegally obtained, much of it by secret payments to police officials. This was merely the tip of the iceberg in what clearly amounted to the largest domestic spying operation by any private organization in American history, and according to some sources, ADL agents across the country had targeted over 1,000 political, religious, labor, and civil rights organizations, with the New York headquarters of the ADL maintaining active dossiers on more than a million Americans.”
This is shocking information that perhaps only a handful of Americans know anything about. The recent dust-up with Elon Musk has put the ADL’s methods under a microscope particularly their alleged role in censoring people on the Internet. So, my question to you is this: What is the ADL? Is it really a civil rights organization that “combats extremism and antisemitism” or is it something else altogether?
Ron Unz—Founded in 1913, the ADL—the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith—is a very formidable Jewish activist organization that has great influence over the media and other important elements of American society, and therefore is widely feared in elite circles. As I explained in my 2018 article:
In our modern era, there are surely few organizations that so terrify powerful Americans as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, a central organ of the organized Jewish community.
Mel Gibson had long been one of the most popular stars in Hollywood and his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ became among the most profitable in world history, yet the ADL and its allies destroyed his career/
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Because of its media influence, the ADL’s coverage has almost always been extremely favorable, portraying it as one of America’s leading watchdogs against dangerous extremism, especially anti-Semitism or racism. Given this powerful, positive image, the ADL successfully gained the role of content gatekeeper at some of America’s largest Internet companies, helping to determine what may or may not be said on such important platforms as Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter. Indeed, a few years ago Silicon Valley’s San Jose Mercury News profiled the ADL Director who was responsible for policing “hate speech” across the American-dominated global Internet.
Meanwhile, that same media influence has ensured that only very few people have ever become aware of the organization’s long history of illegal spying upon enormous numbers of Americans, including such notable figures as Martin Luther King. Jr. I discussed this in my 2018 article:
The choice of the ADL as the primary ideological overseer of America’s Internet may seem natural and appropriate to politically-ignorant Americans, a category that unfortunately includes the technology executives leading the companies involved. But this reflects the remarkable cowardice and dishonesty of the American media from which all these individuals derive their knowledge of our world. The true recent history of the ADL is actually a sordid and disreputable tale.
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Not long [after the 1993 SFPD raid], an ACLU official who had previously held a high-ranking position with the ADL revealed in an interview that his organization had been the actual source of the highly controversial 1960s surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr., which it had then provided to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. For many years Hoover had been furiously denounced in the national media headlines for his use of tapes and other secret information on King’s activities, but when a local San Francisco newspaper revealed that an ADL spying operation had actually been the source of all that sordid material, the bombshell revelation was totally ignored in the national media and only reported by fringe organizations, so that today almost no Americans are aware of that fact.
I know of no other private organization in American history that has been involved in even a sliver of such illegal domestic espionage activity, which appears to have been directed against almost all groups and prominent individuals—left, right, and center—suspected of being insufficiently aligned with Jewish and Israeli interests. Some of the illegal material found in the ADL’s possession even raised dark suspicions that it had played a role in domestic terrorist attacks and political assassinations directed against foreign leaders. I am no legal expert, but given the massive scale of such illegal ADL activities, I wonder whether a plausible case might have been made to prosecute the entire organization under RICO statutes and sentence all of its leaders to long prison terms.
Instead, the resulting government charges were quickly settled with merely a trivial fine and a legal slap on the wrist, demonstrating the near-total impunity provided by massive Jewish political power in modern American society.
In effect, the ADL seems to have long operated as a privatized version of our country’s secret political police, monitoring and enforcing its ideological doctrines on behalf of Jewish groups much as the Stasi did for the Communist rulers of East Germany. Given such a long history of criminal activity, allowing the ADL to extend its oversight to our largest Social Media platforms amounts to appointing the Mafia to supervise the FBI and the NSA, or taking a very large step towards implementing George Orwell’s ” Ministry of Truth” on behalf of Jewish interests.
*[DrB] It was from information gathered in this raid I learned that my group Citizens in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador had been spied on by the ADL since 1981.
Via https://www.greanvillepost.com/2023/09/13/elon-musk-and-the-true-history-of-the-adl/
Pentagon Funded Study: Biden’s Dementia Poses National Security Risk
US President Joe Biden
A Pentagon-funded think tank has warned that dementia impacting US President Joe Biden could pose a “national security risk.”
In a report on Tuesday, the American non-profit news organization The Intercept named several prominent US officials, including the US president, as those who could cause potential national security concern due to their dementia.
The report cited the results published in April of a first-of-its-kind study conducted by the National Security Research Division of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit global policy think tank and research institute.
The researchers were able to identify several instances where senior intelligence officials succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive brain disorder and the primary cause of dementia.
“Individuals who hold or held a security clearance and handled classified material could become a security threat if they develop dementia and unwittingly share government secrets,” said the non-partisan American research and development institute, which is mainly financed by the US government, in its study.
The study sounded the alert as high-ranking officials with current or former access to the nation’s most highly classified intelligence could pose threats to national security, citing the possibility that they may unwittingly disclose government secrets.
The research did not mention any US officials by name but its timing comes amid a simmering debate about gerontocracy, or rule by the elderly.
“Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who had a second freezing episode last month, enjoys the most privileged access to classified information of anyone in Congress as a member of the so-called Gang of Eight congressional leadership. Ninety-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., whose decline has seen her confused about how to vote and experiencing memory lapses — forgetting conversations and not recalling a months-long absence – was for years a member of the Gang of Eight and remains a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on which she has served since 2001,” The Intercept said in its report.
As commander in chief, 80-year-old Biden has demonstrated many instances of disorientation, trip-and-fall, and memory lapses. The president is the nation’s ultimate classification authority, with the extraordinary power to classify and declassify information broadly.
The president’s age has emerged as a clear concern to voters, including Democrats.
Biden is the oldest president in US history. In April, he announced his 2024 reelection campaign setting the scene for a rematch against his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, who has claimed Biden cannot pass a cognitive test.
The incumbent president has also faced growing questions about his age and whether he is up for a full campaign season and four more years in office.
Biden’s age makes his re-election bid a historic and risky gamble for the Democratic Party, which faces a tough election map to hold the Senate in 2024 and is currently the minority in the House of Representatives.
Last month, an Associated Press-NORC poll found that Democrats say Biden is “too old to effectively serve” another term.
A poll conducted in December had also found virtually 60 percent of registered voters in the US were seriously concerned about Biden’s mental fitness, citing frequent instances in which Biden had appeared to be completely disoriented in public.
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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/09/14/710861/Joe-Biden-dementia
September 14, 2023
Big Tech’s ‘Sinister Agenda’ Behind Getting Kids Hooked on Technology
By Paraschiva Florescu and Rob Verkerk Ph.D.
Alliance for Natural Health International
With babies developing with a tablet in their hands, the next logical step, ostensibly for the sake of everyone’s convenience, is to implant a cellular communications device — yes, a mini mobile phone — in the bodies of our children.
Tablets should be part of a baby’s world from birth,” claims Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a highly influential developmental and cognitive scientist whose study found that getting your toddler to scroll through a digital tablet actually improves their motor skills.And — I hear you ask: What about the accompanying risks? Shall we just ignore them? Let’s face it — our kids’ tablets provide such a useful means of keeping the little ones occupied, giving stressed parents a break.
Have you witnessed anything about children and their relationships with technology that makes you uncomfortable, bearing in mind the importance of subconscious programming during the early years of life?
Do they constantly pull their phone out of their pocket during a conversation? Do you see them scrolling, seemingly mindlessly?
What have you witnessed when walking in your local neighborhood: perhaps children with their heads buried in their devices and empty quiet parks?
Whichever way you cut it: family dynamics are changing rapidly as digital technologies take an ever more important role in our lives, and our children’s lives, and, courtesy of social media, human relationships are becoming increasingly virtual.
With babies developing with a tablet in their hands, the next logical step, ostensibly for the sake of everyone’s convenience, is to implant, a cellular communications device — yes, a mini mobile phone — in the bodies of our children.
This technology is a key part of the development of the currently emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution that includes everything from artificial intelligence (AI) to the Internet of things and robotics.
In fact, in case you think this idea is fanciful, it’s given as “Shift 1” in the book of the same name, by none other than Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Think just how many of today’s teenagers might be up for an implantable mobile device: imagine the convenience! No need to subscribe to any platforms, and they’ll never need to worry again about losing their mobile phone!
Mobile phones are becoming an extension of today’s youth. But is there a more sinister agenda unfolding?
How about this for an idea, the first part of which has been borrowed from the playbook of a number of industries, tobacco and opioids, to name just two: create digital addiction or extreme dependence, disconnect humans from each other and from the natural world around them and re-program them in ways that prevent them operating as independent, free-minded citizens and make them compatible with the grand masterplan of the world’s current puppet masters.
In the process, you’ll also be able to surveil their every move via the devices they use to communicate, shop with, bank, drive with, meditate with, recreate with. The mobile device, its associated apps, and its ever-improved camera and recording capabilities have literally become an extension of ourselves.
The notion that dependency or addiction is created on purpose to surveil and control us, is of course just a theory. But disconcertingly, there are a lot of facts along the way that suggest that our dependency on our handsets and computers might be part of a very deliberate plan that leads humanity — at least those that conform — into a transhuman and posthuman future.
This is the future of humanity that the likes of futurist and Google engineer, Ray Kurzweil, historian Yuval Noah Harari, Schwab, and many others in influential positions, are increasingly considering an inevitability. But, like most addictions and psychological re-programming — it is a choice, albeit one that might be difficult for many to avoid.
Defining the problem
Digital or social media addiction can be described as “being excessively concerned about SNSs [social networking sites], motivated by a strong desire to log in to or use SNSs, and devoting so much time and energy to SNSs that it impairs other social activities, studies/job, interpersonal relationships and/or psychological health and wellbeing.”
It’s fair to say that based on this definition, the vast majority of our youth could be considered to be addicted to social media.
The World Health Organization recognizes gaming addiction as a disorder, but not digital addiction (also known as technology overuse) more broadly.
Other studies disagree that digital technologies have a “standalone addictive power” and distinguish between true addictive disorders and negative side effects of social media use.
Even if one disagrees that it is a pathological addiction, just as disconcerting is the development of an extreme dependency on digital technologies to such an extent that a new term, nomophobia, entered the Collins Dictionary, as “a state of distress caused by having no access to or being unable to use one’s mobile phone.”
Whether our youths are addicted or “just” nomophobes, there is a sinister problem here, part of a bigger plan of Big Tech that’s been unfolding for some time.
Watch Paraschiva’s interview with David Charalambous
Paraschiva Florescu recently spoke to David Charalambous, founder of Reaching People and a behavior and communication dynamics expert about the very real issue of digital addiction in young people and how we can combat it. Or listen to the interview here.
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Big Tech’s big plan
Nothing that goes on social media platforms, data such as messages, photos, texts, etc. belongs to us anymore. It becomes the property of the platform itself. Data is currently one of the most valuable assets in the world.
The incessant attempts of big corporations to transform everything into data is a form of control.
It’s being used maliciously to feed into AI systems in order to understand our human behavior. How we think, what we buy, how many steps a day we take — all this is valuable information that Big Tech is gathering.
These AI systems are designed to control us.
Our data are also used to inform new developments such as neuromorphic computers, which are artificial “brains,” and “pervasive neurotechnology.”
It might not surprise you that the CEO of SharpBrains, one of the leaders in this field and an allegedly “independent market research firm,” is also on the panel of the WEF’s Council on the Future of Neurotechnology.
Data from social media sites are collected by business owners.
Eighty-six percent of business owners gather data from their customers, with 64% using data from social media sites, mainly Facebook and Instagram.
Our data are used to inform propaganda campaigns from voting to vaccination, as portrayed in the Netflix documentary “The Great Hack.”
Tristan Harris, tech “ethicist” featured in the movie “The Social Dilemma,” (see here and here) suggests in his piece at the Nobel Prize Summit 2023 that social media is about “re-wiring the flows of attention and information in our society.”
Think of it this way: life on this planet has always revolved around an energy exchange of some sort.
A carnivore eats a herbivore, yet the energy of the herbivore’s body returns to the ground to fuel other life forms, including the progeny of the herbivore. The currency of exchange for a beautiful work of art is typically money.
The transaction that occurs is typically regarded as a fair exchange for raw talent, years of experience and hours and hours of attention and creativity expression, a value that can be subsequently traded (recycled).
With social media, the exchange is often very unbalanced. We give to it (attention, time, ideas, creativity) and we get little more than a dopamine hit in return.
It leaves us feeling more empty and unfulfilled, a bit like trying to fill a bottomless bucket, but we go back for more dopamine. We are turning our youth into dopamine junkies.
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The perspective of big science
The formal science of evaluating the risks and benefits of social media appears to give the impression of balance. Some (see here and here) identify negative consequences of social media such as cyber-bullying, cyber-racism and issues relating to the exchange of sexually explicit content between minors.
Yet many papers deny or ignore any link between depression, anxiety, social disconnection, low self-esteem, poor self-image or body dysmorphic disorder with the amount of time spent on devices.
That’s despite these effects being frequently cited in the popular press, because they are widely observed, being supported by limited studies. On the contrary, the literature (that often in turn reflects the interests that fund research), frequently bigs up the benefits of digital technologies used almost ubiquitously by our youth.
For example, a recent review reminds us that social media is now the “primary mode of peer interactions and communication among adolescents,” this trend has been further magnified by the COVID-19 era.
Another review finds that “social gaming may also increase feelings of connection and sense of community.”
In Indigenous communities, “mobile phones are viewed as an extension of a person and may be shared by family members” whilst “forming community through social media can act as a process of uniting and healing for the Indigenous community,” finds Emma Rice, a researcher at Georgetown University.
Others go as far as saying that isolation in young people is more common among those who are disconnected from digital sources of entertainment and social media.
Yet, does social media offer genuine connection, and is a digital connection equivalent to a real-world connection?
Edward Hallowell, Harvard psychiatrist, writes in his paper about the “human moment” to illustrate meaningful connection as “an authentic psychological encounter that can happen only when two people share the same physical space.”
This might have something to do with our improved perception of non-verbal communication when we are in close proximity to one another.
But it may also be linked to the close interaction of proximal human biofields (the electromagnetic field that radiates beyond every living being). With digital technologies, we can all agree that we have connectivity, but perhaps we don’t experience connectedness.
This is the “Story of Separation” that contemporary thinker and philosopher, Charles Eisenstein, elaborates on in his book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible.”
In this story, we are led to believe that we are “separate individuals in a universe that is separate from you as well … you are a bubble of psychology, a mind (whether brain-based or not) separate from other minds and separate from matter.”
Technology of course is just viewed as a further (and inevitable) separation of ourselves from the natural world, with neurotechnologies and AI increasingly being sold to the youth as the champions in this adventure that we must embrace, not reject.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-tech-kids-cell-mobile-phone-tablet/
Report: Baby’s Death Resulted from Vaccines
By John-Michael Dumais The parents of 62-day-old Sawyer learned their baby’s blood contained 95 micrograms per liter of aluminum, a level that would be toxic for adults. The toxicologist who read Sawyer’s report said the aluminum and antigen levels in the blood were due to the vaccines.
A Maine couple last week finally got the answers they’d been seeking for nearly a year, ever since their 62-day-old son, Sawyer, died Oct. 28, 2022 — 34 hours after receiving his scheduled childhood vaccines.According to a toxicology report, Sawyer’s blood contained 95 micrograms per liter of aluminum, a level that would be toxic for adults.
A toxicologist told the couple the aluminum and antigen levels in the blood were due to the vaccines. She also said a viral infection Sawyer was being treated for could have been a contributing factor.
Sawyer’s parents, Melissa — a registered nurse — and her fiancé Nick shared their story last week with journalist Jennifer Margulis.
In an interview this week with The Defender, the couple detailed their search for truth, beginning with how Maine’s medical examiner refused repeated requests to perform lab tests that might have shown the culpability of the vaccines — and instead initially ruled Sawyer’s death “asphyxiation due to inappropriate sleep position and environment.”
The story of baby Sawyer
On Oct. 20, 2022, Melissa took Sawyer to a doctor for a persistent rash around his torso. The doctor diagnosed a viral infection, gave Melissa some medicinal cream and told her to monitor Sawyer’s temperature for possible fever.
Exactly one week later, Melissa went to the same pediatrician for a baby wellness checkup, where the doctor insisted Sawyer, despite Melissa’s reservations and the baby still having a rash, receive the scheduled childhood vaccines.
These included: RotaTeq (for rotavirus), Hib (for Haemophilus influenzae b), Prevnar 13 (for 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria) and Pediarix (for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and polio).
Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a pediatrician, told The Defender, “I don’t know of any official warnings against vaccinating sick children,” but “there are no upsides to vaccinating a sick child. There are only downsides.” He added, “And, there are no upsides to vaccinating any child.”
Melissa told The Defender that, despite her medical training, she became skeptical of vaccines just two days prior when she watched a video of a toxicologist talking about the dangers of vaccines for children. She discussed the upcoming vaccinations with her fiancé, and they decided to go ahead with them.
“We were afraid that the medical system was going to judge him and judge us and not let him into school,” Nick said. “We just hadn’t done any research on it.”
Nick has two daughters from a previous marriage, ages 11 and 19, who received all of their childhood vaccines “and nothing ever happened,” he said.
After the doctor’s visit, Sawyer arrived home screaming and Melissa gave him the baby Tylenol recommended by the doctor.
By the next day, the baby had calmed somewhat but was still acting “fussy and uncomfortable,” so Melissa gave him more Tylenol and some expressed breastmilk.
When Nick got home from work that day, they put Sawyer into his bassinet for a nap around 5:30. By 6:15 the baby was fussing, and with some help was able to get back to sleep. He slept off and on for another four hours, while his parents kept tabs on him via his baby monitor and visits to his room.
The last time Melissa checked on Sawyer, he wasn’t moving or breathing. She picked up his limp and lifeless body and started screaming. Nick rushed in to help but it was already too late.
Emergency medical technicians arrived after the couple called 911. They tried but were unable to revive Sawyer.
The county and state police also responded and, because it was an infant death, opened a formal investigation and ordered an autopsy.
Chief Medical Examiner Mark Flomenbaum performed the autopsy the next day. Although he found Sawyer to be “well developed” and without signs of injury or bruising, Flomenbaum filed a death certificate citing asphyxiation due to a “sub-optimal sleeping environment” — essentially blaming the parents.
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Melissa, grief-stricken, told everyone she could to investigate the possible role of vaccines in Sawyer’s death.
She first called the medical examiner to see if he would do testing to determine if sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) was responsible, but was told there was no need “because it wouldn’t show the cause of his passing,” she recalled being told.
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Finally, she discovered a suite of pathology tests that could determine whether vaccines played a role in Sawyer’s death.
The tests measure C-reactive protein (indicating brain inflammation), liver enzymes, aluminum and mercury in brain and blood tissue, formaldehyde and formalin (another name for formaldehyde). A cytokine panel would also identify various blood factors and vaccine titer levels.
Melissa mailed and emailed Flomenbaum’s office to formally request the full battery of tests. The doctor refused, dismissing her concerns and telling her that heavy metals do not cause SIDS.
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A friend of Melissa’s told her about Health Choice Maine, a statewide nonprofit working to protect health freedom and parental rights. There she met Tiffany Kreck, Health Choice Maine’s executive director, who helped Melissa organize her own investigation.
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Their primary goal was to find a competent pathologist to perform the lab tests Melissa had requested. They searched the entire country — even enlisting the help of Laura Bono, vice president of Children’s Health Defense, Kreck told The Defender — but came up empty.
Kreck told Melissa they would not be mentioning anything about vaccines to the prospective pathologists, so they would be less likely to reject the request.
The biggest obstacle was finding a doctor who was willing to order the tests.
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The toxicology report and next stepsFinally, they found someone in-state who, responding to Melissa’s grief, agreed to perform the tests on June 21. Although some of Sawyer’s tissue samples had degraded, the pathologist was able to perform enough tests to issue a definitive report last month.
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They had to hire a private toxicologist who could interpret the report. That second report arrived last week.
“And she was the one that called us the other day and told us that his aluminum levels were very high,” Melissa said, “and that we needed to seek some legal services.”
The report showed baby Sawyer had 95 micrograms of aluminum per liter of blood, a level that would be toxic for adults. The toxicologist told the couple the aluminum and antigen levels in the blood were due to the vaccines. She also said the baby’s illness could have been a contributing factor.
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The report also showed high levels of lead, which would not be due to vaccines, the toxicologist said, and asked about lead levels in their house or water. But given that the baby had only consumed breastmilk and was not yet old enough to crawl around on the floor, the question remains open.
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Melissa and Nick are planning to file a claim with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). She said she still feels skeptical “because I know how the government and the medical system are.”
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Health Choice Maine is also exploring options for a lawsuit challenging the finding on the state medical examiner’s death certificate.
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She also said that medical examiners should have the right to test for vaccine injuries during the autopsy and identify them as a cause on the death certificate. “The vaccines are killing people and babies and they’re trying to cover it up,” she said.
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Questions about the state medical examiner
Kreck told The Defender that state medical examiner Flomenbaum came from Massachusetts where he had been fired as the state medical examiner. “It looks like he tried to sue them for wrongful termination and lost,” Kreck said.
Flomenbaum earned a national reputation as a top medical examiner through his work identifying bodies in New York City after the 9/11 attack in 2001, according to an article in the Portland Press Herald.
He was fired from his Massachusetts position for losing a body and having a backlog of bodies waiting to be examined.
In 2019, the Maine attorney general’s office investigated and later cleared Flomenbaum over criticism that he was running a side business as a consultant in out-of-state death cases.
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Flomenbaum was reprimanded in 2021 by Maine Governor Mills for inappropriate and unprofessional behavior in the workplace, after which he announced he would not be seeking reassignment to the position.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/maine-baby-sawyer-vaccine-death-aluminum/
River of Freedom: The true account of the 2022 freedom protests in New Zealand
Emanuel E Garcia MD
I am certain that most of us who had gathered on the grounds of Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, as convoys snaking across the north and south islands converged on a sunny 9 February 2022, knew that mainstream media coverage of the convoy, the gathering and whatever unfolded in the time ahead would be slanderous and untruthful. As indeed it was.
Truth, however, like a river meander, proves unstoppable over time.
Some sixteen months after the peaceful assembly of people from all areas of our country was brutally invaded and dispersed by henchmen of the political State, an extraordinary documentary film has emerged: River of Freedom.
I attended the sold-out Wellington premiere on 7 September at the Embassy Theatre and was myself transported to that relatively brief but powerful time when the citizenry reclaimed their rights, stood their ground and created, in microcosm, a society of mutual sustenance — an ideal, as it were, founded upon by charity, compassion and tolerance, and united, despite considerable diversity.
Watching the images of the multitudes who had the audacity to oppose the government’s demolition of fundamental human rights and its imposition of divisive and, frankly, illegal mandates, I was reminded of the many kindly and generous people I met, the determination to assert our unalienable rights, our requests for someone — anyone — from the elected body of Parliament simply to meet with us and to discuss our concerns, and the monolithic refusal of our politicians to engage.
I was reminded too of the creative joys that emerged from the occupants of Parliament’s terrain as we waited for a ‘representative’ to do his or her duty, such as the makeshift basketball court where I spent many an hour while on my daily rounds, the tents where music poured forth, and the meals supplied for free to all and sundry.
On one particular evening as I wound my way around, I was stopped in my tracks by a live rendition of the song I had been yearning to hear for weeks: Tom Petty’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’.
I remember too the day when victims of the mandated Jab were memorialized by a string of white crosses hung across our stage. I was honored to have said a few words on their behalf.
As the days and weeks wore on and the government’s frustration with a strong and peaceful presence grew, police actions became more aggressive and attempts to undermine our ability to continue residence became bolder. And all of this occurred during a period when a ‘vax apartheid’ state had been declared and those of us who were unjabbed were not permitted access to restaurants, churches, theatres, barbers, cinemas or gyms …
On the first of March 2022 I was part of a team that had been assembled to negotiate a peaceable solution to a situation that had become very tense. A member of the police force was slated to join, but this representative never appeared. On my way home that afternoon I happened to notice that the street next to Wellington’s main police station was filled with unmarked vans. I concluded that the police would stage a raid the next morning and I informed everyone I knew — filmmakers, protest leaders, media personnel and the like. Most — not all — told me that my fears were unfounded. They were wrong.
Fortunately the filmmakers of River of Freedom were there to record the fascistic thuggery that took place on 2 March, which included the use of tear gas and 40 mm rubber bullets against peaceful citizens. An elderly man had his hip broken thanks to a police assault and the first ambulance called to assist refused to take him to hospital.
Such were the memories that crowded upon me as I viewed River of Freedom, as I watched a brilliant and beautifully shot and viscerally moving documentary bring us a ‘real news’ account of what happened.
At my barber’s the other day I chanced to mention the Parliament protests — he cuts hair within a stone’s throw of the area — and I could tell by his reaction that his view of the event was the one promulgated by Radio New Zealand and the Dominion Post and the State-funded TV stations and other organs of propaganda — that a bunch of dirty low-lifes had conspired to make unnecessary trouble. I suggested he see River of Freedom; whether he will or not is another matter.
I understand that cinemas around the country, cinemas in towns large and small, have been booked out for showings of the film and that plans are underway to make the documentary available to an international audience.
Director Gaylene Barnes, producers Jared Connon and Julian Arahanga, cinematographer Mark Lapwood, and the entirety of the team deserve to be commended for presenting a genuine history of one of New Zealand’s most significant political and social events — for correcting the record, for countering falsehood and for inspiring those of us who have fought for our rights to continue our fight.
Make no mistake: that coming together in early 2022 had consequences felt within the corridors of political power. We served them notice, with peace, dignity and strength.
And if they think they can pull another fast one, they should think again. We are better prepared.
Via https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/river-of-freedom-deluge-of-truth
Australian MPs Sign Letter of Support for Julian Assange
Demonstration in favor of the release of Julian Assange, 2023. | Photo: X/ @Michell45064244
NewsletterThe signatories denounced that his case has dragged on for more than a decade, which shows systematic political persecution against the Australian journalist.
On Wednesday, a delegation of Australian lawmakers announced that they will go to Washington next week to advocate against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
A group of 63 members of Australia’s House of Representatives and Senate signed a letter to support Assange, stressing that the United States must end the process of prosecuting and imprisoning Australian citizens.
The signatories denounced that Assange’s case has dragged on for more than a decade, which shows systematic political persecution against the Australian journalist, who has suffered very harsh detention conditions.
“It serves no purpose, it is unjust, and we say clearly – as friends should always be honest with friends – that the prolonged pursuit of Mr Assange wears away at the substantial foundation of regard and respect that Australians have for the justice system of the United States of America,” the letter said.
Journalists across the world are working tirelessly to report the truth
The persecution of Julian Assange has the potential to put all of them at risk
Defend Julian. Defend journalism. Defend freedom
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“Let there be no doubt that if Julian Assange is removed from the United Kingdom to the United States there will be a sharp and sustained outcry in Australia,” it added.
The next trip of Australian politicians to Washington aims to seek an end to the judicial persecution against Assange. Australian lawmakers will advocate against the journalist’s extradition through meetings with members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the State Department, and the Department of Justice.
In June 2022, the U.K approved Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he is accused of publishing hundreds of thousands of pages of secret military documents and confidential diplomatic cables. Using the Espionage Act, the US Justice Department presented a total of 18 charges against Assange and requested 175 years in prison for him.
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1973 Kennedy Assassination Thriller Starring Burt Lancaster
Executive Action
Directed by David Miller (1973)
Film Review
Until three days ago, I had no idea this film existed. I find it extraordinary that only 10 years after Kennedy’s murder, a major Hollywood studio publicly disclosed that the alleged perpetrator Lee Harvey Oswald was a known intelligence and FBI asset.
Based on a book of the same name by Mark Lane* and Donald Freed, the film was promoted as “fiction” incorporating “historical documented fact.” It depicts an eminently plausible scenario in which a network of business interests, rogue intelligence agents and sharpshooters conspire to kill President John F Kennedy.
In one scene, the conspirators review actual documents from Oswald’s military record revealing steps the CIA took (including training him in Russian) to create a suitable cover story to embed him in the Soviet Union as a double agent. Despite his dramatic renunciation of US citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow (and his promise to turn over classified military secrets), the Russians refused to bite. The conspirators then review how his handlers returned him to the US, first to New Orleans, then to Dallas where they find him a job at the Texas School Book Depository and pay him a small stipend as an FBI informant.
Other “documented fact” presented in the film include the absence of Kennedy’s entire cabinet from the US, except for Lyndon Johnson (who was with him in Dallas), Robert McNamara (secretary of defense) and Robert Kennedy (attorney in general). On November 22, 1963, the rest were airborne on their way to a major conference in Japan. The filmmakers also point out that the emergency code book mysteriously disappeared from their plane, that all phone lines were down in Washington DC in the hour following the shooting and that neither the secret service nor the Dallas police failed followed required procedures in safeguarding the president’s motorcade.
The film depicts three shooters (none of them Oswald), one each in the School Book Depository, the Records Building across the street and on the Grassy Knoll in front of the motorcade.
The primary “fictional” component of the film is the identity of the conspirators. I was surprised it presented no evidence from New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison’s 1967 prosecution of JFK assassination co-conspirator Clay Shaw. During Shaw’s trial, Garrison presented extensive evidence about the role Permindex* (responsible for numerous assassination attempts on late French president Charles De Gaulle) played in financing and orchestrating the assassination.
The film loosely portrays Kennedy’s killers as eugenicists keen on reducing the global population of dark skinned people, who are also deeply unhappy about the global nuclear test ban treaty, as well the president’s decision to withdraw all US troops from Vietnam by 1965.
There’s great archival footage of some of Kennedy’s more memorable speeches and Oswald’s interactions with reporters while in police custody. Claiming to be a “patsy,” Oswald insists he never killed anyone (neither the president nor police officer J D Tippett). Oswald was officially arrested and charged for murdering Tippett.
The film ends by scrolling through the names of 18 material witnesses (to the assassination) who died under mysterious circumstances between November 1963 and February 1967.
*Lane is best known for his number one bestselling 1966 critique of the Warren Commission report Rush to Judgement.
*Permindex, also referred to as Permanent Industrial Exposition or Permanent Industrial Expositions, was a trade organization French intelligence identified as orchestrating numerous assassination attempts on De Gaulle, as well as the successful assassination of John F Kennedy and numerous other world leaders.
September 13, 2023
CIA Offered Analysts Bribes to Change Covid Origin Findings
Newsweek
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower makes bombshell claims against the U.S. intelligence agency on Tuesday relating to the origins of COVID-19.
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence announced that members heard testimony from a CIA whistleblower who alleged that the CIA “offered six analysts significant monetary incentives to change their position on COVID-19’s origin.”
“The whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, alleges that of the seven members assigned to the CIA team tasked with analyzing COVID-19 origins, six officers concluded that the virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China,” the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said in a press release. “The CIA, then, however, allegedly offered financial incentives to six of the experts involved in the investigation to change their conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin.”
The announcement on Tuesday comes several months after the Wall Street Journal obtained classified intelligence reports in February, which found that the U.S. Department of Energy determined that COVID-19 likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.
“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner said in a joint statement.
Via https://www.newsweek.com/cia-whistleblower-bombshell-claim-covid-conspiracy-1826498
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Fact or Fiction
By John-Michael Dumais On a recent “Doctors & Scientists” episode on CHD.TV, Children’s Health Defense’s Brian Hooker, Ph.D., and Dr. Meryl Nass discussed the science related to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and Big Pharma’s new RSV immunization agenda.
Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, has been dominating the news since the recent approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of new RSV vaccines for infants, pregnant women and the elderly.
The new “therapies … are now sort of a boon” for Big Pharma, according to Dr. Meryl Nass, internist and member of the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) scientific advisory committee.
On a recent “Doctors & Scientists” episode on CHD.TV, Brian Hooker, Ph.D., CHD’s senior director of science and research, hosted Nass, who shared a presentation on the science behind RSV and Big Pharma’s new RSV immunization agenda.
Nass led the conversation, showing slides to highlight her main points. This article will summarize her presentation about RSV without attribution, except for comments and direct quotations from the two speakers, and to cite sources.
How dangerous is RSV?
RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild cold-like symptoms but in rare cases can lead to hospitalization and death in infants and the elderly.
The number of people who contract RSV is unknown because the virus is rarely diagnosed unless one comes to a hospital and is tested.
In very young infants, RSV can cause difficulty breathing, which may call for hospitalization, IV fluids and extra oxygen due to the thick fluid in the lungs.
“It turns out that virtually every baby, even if they’re hospitalized, will get over this with no chronic problems,” Nass said.
By the age of 2, 97% of all babies have been infected with the RSV virus, which confers partial immunity, making any subsequent episodes less severe.
According to a 2021 study from the CDC reviewing 12 years of data, out of approximately 4 million babies born in the U.S. each year, for infants under age 1 — the age group under 50 that carries the highest burden of death from RSV — 26 death certificates list RSV, and only 17 actually blame RSV as the underlying cause of death.
In 12 years there were 1,001 death certificates in all age groups in the entire U.S. that listed RSV. That represents fewer than 100 people per year.
Nass said the CDC’s graphs could be misleading because they represent 12 years of data, not one year.
“Now, why might CDC want to do that?” Nass asked. “Possibly because they knew that products to prevent RSV were in the pipeline and they wanted to help build a market for them.”
AstraZeneca’s new monoclonal antibody treatment for infants
Before 2023, there was one product to treat RSV, palivizumab, which costs thousands of dollars per dose and was rarely used.
New treatments for RSV include monoclonal antibodies given to newborns to prevent infection, and new vaccines for pregnant women, elderly adults and children.
Normally, a vaccine — or a natural infection — will cause our bodies to make antibodies, but the production of those could take two to four weeks to peak.
For someone with a life-threatening illness or who may be immunocompromised, monoclonal antibodies provide immediate immune system resistance to viruses.
For example, there are monoclonal antibodies for herpes zoster (shingles) and hepatitis B (liver inflammation) viruses, and for the treatment of some cancers and autoimmune diseases.
Some monoclonal products are made from hamster ovaries, which give the products a longer half-life. Monoclonal treatments can have significant side effects.
AstraZeneca’s new product Beyfortus, approved by the FDA in July, is a new monoclonal antibody product designed to be given to infants on the very first day of life and can be given to babies up to 8 months old.
The product has resulted in anaphylactic reactions and rashes in some babies, according to Nass, who expressed concern about giving monoclonal antibodies to newborns, which has not routinely been done before, “and certainly not on the first day of life,” she said.
In its deliberations over the drug, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was primarily concerned about whether insurance would cover the drug because it retails for $495 per dose.
“The hospitals do not want to front this money,” Nass said, “unless they know they’re going to be reimbursed. … The CDC has not been able to pressure the insurance companies enough, I guess, to start adding this product … to their insured list.”
Under current law, it can take up to 22 months for that to happen, a process complicated by the fact that Beyfortus is not a vaccine or a drug, but a biologic.
“And so CDC has to do some fancy footwork to, in some cases, call it a vaccine, and in other cases call it a drug in order to have it go through normal regulatory processes,” Nass said.
If a baby only received this treatment on day one and had side effects, the doctor or parent would have to report it to the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), and not to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which is co-managed by the CDC and FDA.
If, however, the baby received a shot like hepatitis B on the first day along with Beyfortus, it would be reported to VAERS, said Nass. Hooker commented that the confusion would likely result in even more underreporting than such systems currently experience.
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Nass pointed out that for the infant RSV vaccine trial, 20 babies died in the placebo group and eight died in the group that received the monoclonal antibodies, but that during the ACIP meeting, the briefer only said there was “a disparity in the deaths.”
She said this disparity “is a hint that somebody was throwing the sick babies into the placebo group” because “it would be extremely unusual, like maybe one in a million … to get this difference in deaths on the basis of chance.”
“So there was probably something wrong with the clinical trial and nobody wants to talk about that,” she said.
Pfizer’s new RSV vaccine for pregnant women
Pfizer has created an RSV vaccine for pregnant women called Abrysvo that claims to produce antibodies to RSV in newborns and provide up to six months of protection.
The FDA approved the drug in August, despite the concerns of some members of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) over the increase in preterm births in the clinical trial.
GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline) had been working on a similar RSV vaccine but halted its development last year when its trial revealed the same problem with premature births.
“I worry that if preterm births are in any way a consequence of this vaccine, that would be tragic in many ways,” Dr. Paul Offit said at the May VRBPAC meeting, where he voted against Abrysvo for pregnant women.
“What is the risk/benefit balance when you’re talking about 17 babies that die of RSV a year versus thousands more which will have a preterm delivery?” Nass asked, adding, “We know the babies are going to have more complications of other kinds as a result.”
Hooker expressed concern over pregnant women receiving this vaccine on top of a flu vaccine, the Tdap vaccine and possibly one or more COVID-19 vaccines.
Nass noted that the vaccine will be given during the last trimester of pregnancy.
“This will be the fourth shot in pregnancy. None of them have been proven to be safe. If you look at the labels, none of them claim safety and pregnancy,” Nass said while admitting she had not yet reviewed the label for Abrysvo.
RSV vaccines also available for the elderly
Abrysvo was approved by the FDA in May to protect the elderly from RSV. A similar vaccine called Arexvy was also approved in May.
The CDC claims these vaccines, targeted for adults ages 60 and older, will provide protection from RSV “for at least two winter seasons.”
“It might be 60% effective,” Nass said. “We’re not really sure because the efficacy in the real world is always lower than in clinical trials.”
The CDC claims thousands of elders die every year from RSV, “but it’s never been measured,” Nass said, adding “[These are] probably people who … have COPD [and] are very debilitated … very elderly.”
“Something’s going to knock them over to kill them in the end and it’s often a flu and it could be an RSV,” said Nass, “but were they going to die anyway within a few months, the next time they got a cold or a flu.”
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Big Pharma — and NIAID scientists — looking to cash in
There has been a very small market for RSV products because they generally only cause a cold, according to Nass. “But the analytics companies are saying that the RSV product market should be $9 billion by the end of this decade,” she said.
“Why did all of these products appear suddenly?” Nass asked.
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Nass said:
“And so NIAID and HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] are going to be getting royalties for these products. And every scientist’s name is on the patent can collect up to $150,000 per year on top of their salary for this product. And then HHS will keep the rest.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rsv-vaccine-pharma-agenda-chd-brian-hooker-meryl-nass/
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