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CDC Accidentally Admits Masks Totally Useless

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Ten key lessons should have been learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the perceived failures and deceit of government actions and medical recommendations. The author strongly asserts that intelligent individuals should recognize these lessons to navigate COVID 2.0 with greater awareness and autonomy.

The government’s handling of the pandemic suggests that COVID orders are not intended to benefit the people and that compliance with tyranny only leads to further restrictions. They also dismiss the effectiveness of N95 masks, social distancing, and vaccines in preventing COVID transmission.

Furthermore, the article suggests that hospitals were financially incentivized to exaggerate COVID deaths and that COVID vaccines don’t prevent infections or transmission, claiming that these vaccines are part of a larger depopulation agenda. The globalists with a depopulation agenda influence the World Health Organization (WHO), and the government intentionally disrupts the food supply chain.

Intelligent individuals should resist blindly following government mandates and propaganda, asserting that those who refuse to believe the lies and comply with tyranny will be the ones to survive the ongoing crisis.

The distrust of government actions, vaccine efficacy, and broader intentions behind the pandemic response. Readers should reject mainstream narratives and adopt a skeptical approach, emphasizing the importance of independent thinking and non-compliance with perceived tyranny.

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Via https://nworeport.me/essential-lessons-from-covid-1-0-10-key-insights-for-navigating-covid-2-0-safely-with-intelligence/

‘Manipulation’ keeps Imran Khan in prison despite bail

Press TV – August 29, 2023

Via Aletho News

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has remained in prison despite the Islamabad High Court suspending his recent conviction on corruption charges, with his lawyers claiming that a “manipulation of justice” is keeping him behind bars.

Khan’s legal team said on Tuesday afternoon he remained in detention because of a previous arrest, made in secret, over a case alleging he had leaked classified state documents.

One of his lawyers told reporters outside the prison that Khan was “on judicial remand” and would appear before a special court in Islamabad on Wednesday.

“He was arrested prior to today’s court ruling. The exact date of his arrest remains unclear,” another lawyer, Gohar Khan, was quoted as saying.

Another, Muhammad Shoaib Shaheen, said that “his legal team was intentionally left uninformed and kept in the dark”. “This constitutes a manipulation of justice,” he said.

Pro-PTI lawyers held banners and chanted “Release Imran Khan!” and “Khan your devotees are countless!” outside the court as initial news of his sentence suspension broke.

Khan ally and former Speaker of National Assembly Asad Qaiser has said today’s verdict in the graft case was evidence Khan’s sentence and imprisonment were carried out in “haste”.

“If an attempt is made to arrest Chairman Imran Khan in other cases after his release, it will be an attempt to push the country towards anarchy. At this time, the only way to save the country from further crises is to have clean and transparent elections as soon as possible,” Qaiser posted on social media platform X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The Islamabad High Court overturned a lower court’s decision to jail him for three years, a judgment that kept him from contesting upcoming elections.

His lawyers said he was granted bail and they were initially hopeful he would be released from Attock Jail, a century-old prison around 60 kilometers west of Islamabad, where the 70-year-old has been held for three weeks.

Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party later said nine activists had been arrested outside Attock Jail.

The sentence was handed down this month by a judge who found him guilty of failing to properly declare gifts he received while in office.

The ex-PM’s legal team lodged the appeal against his conviction on the grounds that he was put to jail without being given the right to defend himself.

That was only one of more than 200 legal cases that have embroiled Pakistan’s most popular politician since he was ousted by a parliamentary vote last year.

The Islamabad High Court’s decision to suspend the conviction marks another victory for Khan and comes on the heels of the Balochistan High Court’s decision to dismiss sedition charges against him.

The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician lost a confidence vote in the parliament in April 2022. Since then, his ouster has been at the centre of political turmoil across Pakistan.

Khan believes that the cases lodged against him were politically motivated to keep him out of power. He alleges the country’s powerful military is behind these cases.

In the past months, Pakistani authorities have made widespread arrests targeting the PTI party in an attempt to allegedly crush his grassroots support.

No date for the polls has been announced. Khan surged to power in 2018 on a wave of popular support, through an anti-corruption manifesto.

Did the US ask for Khan’s removal after he visited Russia?

The US-based news outlet The Intercept earlier this month published what it claims to be the details of a diplomatic “cypher” – or a secret cable – that suggests the US administration wanted to remove Khan from power last year.

Khan alleged he knew of the “cypher” while he was in office which, according to him, proved the US hatched a conspiracy with the help of his political opponents and the Pakistani military to remove him.

The Intercept published purported details of a conversation between Pakistan’s then-ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed, and Donald Lu, the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, on March 7 last year.

In the meeting, Lu reportedly told Majeed the US and Europe were “quite concerned” about Khan visiting Russia and Pakistan taking an “aggressively neutral position” on Russia’s military operation against Ukraine

The conversation, according to the report, took place less than two weeks after Khan visited Moscow on February 24, the day Russia launched the operation.

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Via https://alethonews.com/2023/08/29/manipulation-keeps-imran-khan-in-prison-despite-bail-lawyers-say/

Employers Walk Back Mask Mandates Amid Employee, Public Backlash

By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Kaiser Permanente and Lionsgate Studios in California reversed mask mandate policies last week, just a few days after imposing them.

Kaiser Permanente, the largest healthcare provider in California, on Aug. 22 announced it had “reintroduced a mask mandate for physicians, staff, patients, members, and visitors in the hospital and medical offices in the Santa Rosa Service Area,” in a statement obtained by The Press Democrat.

Kaiser said the mandate was in response to an increase in the number of patients testing positive for COVID-19.

But just two days later, on Aug. 24, Kaiser officials told The Press Democrat the mask reinstatement applied only to physicians and staff, not to patients and visitors.

“Our intent was to communicate that as of Tuesday, we have expanded the masking requirement for our employees and physicians to medical offices and clinic settings; we apologize for any confusion among Press Democrat readers,” Kaiser said in its latest statement.

It also said, “We have not changed our masking requirements in the hospital, which have been in effect since April: employees and physicians are required to wear masks and we ask visitors to wear masks when in the hospital.”

But Kaiser also confirmed to Becker’s Hospital Review on Aug. 23 that it had reintroduced the mask mandate.

The Press Democrat reported the reversal happened after people noticed many visitors to the hospital were not masking.

Local media reported that some Northern California residents supported the mask mandate policy when it was first announced, but others were skeptical and frustrated in response to the mandate announcement.

“I think it’s more political than anything, just think they’re trying to do what they did in 2020,” said Carmichael resident Craig Roberts.

Lionsgate also reverses mandate

Lionsgate on Friday also notified employees that the mask mandate it had imposed about a week prior for employees on the third and fifth floors of the studio’s five-story office building in Santa Monica was over, Deadline reported.

Lionsgate imposed the mandate after multiple people in its Santa Monica headquarters came down with COVID-19. The company told Deadline it imposed the mandate in compliance with rules set by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Lionsgate told The Wrap the health department informed the company it could lift the mask requirement after several days of no new infections.

The company also distanced itself from responsibility for the mandate, stating that:

“Lionsgate never changed its own mask policy. The LA County Department of Health ordered us to institute the temporary masking requirement after we reported a cluster of COVID cases to them and we have an obligation to comply with their orders.”

In addition to mandating “a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95),” every Lionsgate employee was required to perform a daily self-screening before coming to the office and was told to stay home if they exhibited any symptoms or had traveled internationally in the last 10 days.

Lionsgate was conducting contact tracing and providing at home COVID-19 test kits. It is unclear if those practices are still required.

Reversals come amid pushback and more evidence of mask failures

The mask policy reversals come amid pushback from critics after a growing number of businesses and hospitals in recent weeks reinstituted mask mandates and social distancing requirements, and a new report warned that broader mandates may be coming this fall.

Many doctors have also called for mask mandates to return to healthcare settings.

Meanwhile, documents recently released from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed that public health officials privately questioned the effectiveness of masks and the guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promoting their use.

And an NIH study suggested surgical N95 masks, held up as the gold standard for COVID-19 protection, may expose users to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals, the Daily Mail reported.

The study found the chemicals released by these masks had 8 times the recommended safety limit of toxic volatile organic compounds, which can cause symptoms ranging from headaches and nausea to organ damage and cancer, with prolonged use.

Since the original mandates ended, several studies concluded the mandate policies failed to achieve their promised results.

The Wall Street Journal on Monday published an op-ed criticizing mask mandates.

And dissenters have taken to X (formerly Twitter), calling on people not to comply with mandates.

Mask mandates are returning.

These are unsupported by scientific evidence.

They are motivated by superstition and power.

This is a battle for freedom and truth.

Do not comply. pic.twitter.com/4p73ZtPi63

— Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) August 22, 2023

“This is what can be done when people stand together against tyrannical, unscientific and dangerous so-called public health policies,” author and health freedom activist Meryl Dorey wrote in a Substack post reporting on the policy reversals.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/employers-walk-back-mask-mandates-backlash/

Rutgers gets $600K Grant to Sway More Black Parents to Vaccinate Teens for HPV

  By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is funding research at Rutgers University on how to increase uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among Black adolescents, documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed.

HHS awarded the $600,000, three-year, grant, which will be administered by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), to Racquel Elizabeth Kohler, Ph.D.

It is one of nearly 50 grants identified by CHD in June — totaling more than $40 million — awarded by HHS to universities, healthcare systems and departments of public health to increase HPV vaccine uptake among adolescents.

The grant fits into a broader research program across HHS, including at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars toward creating “culturally tailored” strategies to increase vaccine uptake among “vaccine-hesitant” communities of color.

Kohler’s research seeks to overcome vaccine “hesitancy” by developing text messages, or “tailored interventions,” to send to Black families following an HPV vaccine recommendation by their provider.

The project hypothesizes that follow-up tailored text messages will increase vaccine confidence and motivate Black parents to vaccinate their children.

Kohler, who also is a co-investigator on a Merck grant to study “COVID-19 and vaccine confidence among underserved New Jersey communities,” received the funding as part of NCI’s Transition Career Development program, which helps develop skills for early career cancer researchers.

The approved grant proposal obtained by CHD notes that the study is a response to the Biden administration’s Cancer Moonshot program that seeks to cut cancer deaths in half by 2047.

The National Institutes of Health developed the HPV vaccine technology, which it licensed exclusively to Merck — the only pharmaceutical company licensed to produce the HPV vaccine in the U.S.

More than 80 lawsuits against Merck are pending in federal court for vaccine injuries associated with its Gardasil HPV vaccine.

Proposal builds on ‘announcement approach’ developed by Merck consultant

The proposal justifies the research based on the premise that black adolescents have the lowest rates of HPV vaccination relative to other racial and ethnic groups. But even the meta-analysis the application cites to support this claim said data supporting it are inconclusive.

And recent CDC data actually show Black adolescents have higher rates of HPV vaccination initiation and follow-through than white or Hispanic adolescents.

The proposal attributes the alleged low rates of HPV uptake to the problem of “vaccine hesitancy” among Black people, who have “low confidence in vaccine safety, low perceived HPV risk, lack of HPV knowledge, reliance on shared family decisions, high medical mistrust and racial discrimination experiences” that motivate their vaccination choices.

Other grant proposals analyzed by The Defender sought to develop and test the “announcement approach” as a primary method to overcome vaccine hesitancy.

In the “announcement approach,” providers skip having an “open-ended conversation” with families about whether they want their child vaccinated for HPV. Instead, they “presume” the family wants the vaccine and “announce” that the child will receive it as if it were a routine part of the office visit.

This research says the announcement approach has more limited efficacy with Black families, many of whom remain hesitant despite recommendations by healthcare providers because of “cultural beliefs” about vaccination and lower levels of trust in authorities than other racial or ethnic groups.

These claims match a large body of research on “vaccine hesitancy” among people of color that cites such “beliefs” that ought to be changed, instead of acknowledging that some people reject the vaccines on the basis of informed decision-making.

According to Kohler’s proposal, Black families that may not be responsive to the announcement approach alone are instead responsive to supplementary forms of communication — longer conversations with more information — and further interventions that follow provider recommendations in the office visit.

The grant implements a pilot study to develop text messages tailored to overcome “vaccine hesitancy” among Black families and aims to create a text intervention that can later be tested in a larger, definitive clinical trial.

Researchers will draft a bank of sample messages based on common concerns found to be held by Black “vaccine-hesitant” parents. Through focus groups with parents, researchers will identify the best prototype messages.

Parents will receive $50 for participating in the focus groups.

Next, researchers will conduct a randomized controlled trial comparing individually tailored interventions for Blacks against the untailored ones, collecting responses through online surveys for which parents will be compensated $25.

Follow-up interviews with parents will inform researchers’ understanding of which messages and supplemental resources were the most culturally appropriate, relevant and useful.

The researchers developed the intervention based on the “Increasing Vaccination” model, a psychological approach to increasing vaccine uptake that focuses on developing strategies for changing people’s thoughts and feelings to get them to take more vaccines.

This approach, like the announcement approach, was developed by Noel Brewer, the Merck Consultant and University of North Carolina behavioral psychologist who received millions in grant funding from the CDC, The Defender reported.

No proof HPV vaccines prevent cervical cancer

Kohler’s proposal cites 2014 CDC data showing Black women have the highest prevalence of HPV infection in the U.S., and a higher incidence and mortality rate of cervical cancer than white women.

But experts told The Defender there’s no proof that HPV vaccines reduce the risk of cervical cancer.

Studying HPV vaccine efficacy for eliminating cervical cancer is challenging due to the extended time — 23.5 years on average — between infection and the development of cancer, lack of adequate informed consent and the complex relationship between HPV infection and cervical cancer.

Vaccinated women, believing they are protected, may also engage in riskier behavior and therefore worsen the risk of cervical cancer.

According to James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., president and CEO of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, studies claiming the vaccine reduces cervical cancer are misleading for a number of reasons.

For example, some research has shown that because the HPV vaccine targets only specific HPV strains, it has led to an increase in more lethal types of HPV, replacing the less lethal types targeted by vaccination.

Lyons also pointed to other research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, showing that Phase 2 and Phase 3 efficacy trials themselves have been rife with methodological problems that undermine efficacy claims.

That research also points out that none of the trials were designed to detect the vaccine’s effectiveness against cervical cancer. And most trials tested HPV outcomes for people much older than children ages 9-13, when vaccination is typically offered.

Research shows that in all countries that performed smear screening, the pre-vaccination period from 1989 to 2007 was marked by a significant decrease in the incidence of cervical cancer. And that since vaccination began, that trend has reversed.

Also, despite Merck’s marketing of the HPV vaccine as “safe and effective,” many recipients have experienced serious side effects.

Some of the signature impacts observed following HPV vaccination include permanently disabling autoimmune and neurological conditions such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

There have been thousands of reports of adverse events worldwide, peer-reviewed scientific literature from the U.S., Australia, Denmark, Sweden, France and Japan, and statistics published by public health agencies in each of these countries that demonstrate associations between HPV vaccination and autoimmune conditions.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hhs-rutgers-hpv-vaccine-black-parents/

Will This Man Prevent World War Three?

Patrick MacFarlane What They’re Not Tellin’ You

In April, Tucker Carlson, the most popular show host in American news media, was unceremoniously fired from Fox News.

He has since taken to the platform “X,” formerly Twitter, to continue publishing his own program.

Last week, during the first Republican primary debates, Tucker posted an exclusive (softball) interview with former President Donald Trump.

The episode received 260 million “impressions” within the first day.

Although an “impression” on Twitter only counts as an appearance in someone’s feed, if only one-tenth of those impressions equated to one view, the viewership would still be 26 million people. In comparison, Tucker’s Fox News program, Tucker Carlson Tonight, averaged 3.25 million viewers in March 2023.

The exclusive interview with Trump was a master stroke by both figures. It allowed Donald Trump to get his message across in a long format without actually muddying himself on the debate stage. Meanwhile, Vivek Ramaswamy played, in effect, the role of Trump’s stand-in, but still won the debate in his own right.

Tucker walked away with incredible numbers, even if not as spectacular as the 230 million impressions would suggest.

Yesterday, RT reported that Tucker Carlson has “strongly” requested a meeting with Vladimir Putin, ostensibly to publish as an episode of his new program.

With all these developments, an attempt to decode the former Fox News host’s real role in the media landscape is akin to cracking a modern-day enigma.

Many laud Tucker as a rogue voice, fighting the establishment, using a microphone as a holy scepter.

It cannot be denied that on some critical issues like opposing escalation over Ukraine, Tucker Carlson’s voice is vitally important. But, Tucker Carlson has his own interests, and a background that does not suggest he is some populist hero, or an antiwar dove (of critical importance, he certainly is not on China).

That said, it would be immensely valuable for the West to see an intimate and honest one-on-one interview between Vladimir Putin and Western news media—one that was not intent on painting Putin as the new Hitler.

Maybe Tucker Carlson, though imperfect, is the figure best positioned to do it?

When America’s Commander-in-Chief, Joe Biden, still has not spoken with Putin since the February 2022 invasion, its puzzling that the job defaults to the United States’ most popular current events news host.

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Via https://www.libertyweekly.club/will-this-man-prevent-world-war-three/

Unease Over New Zealand Overtures to US in Pacific

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins in Wellington on July 27. (State Department, Chuck Kennedy, Public domain)

Mick Hall

New security-state documents show Wellington aligning its military with the “rules-based international order” while preparing Kiwis for war with key trading partner China

Recent reports from New Zealand’s security state have sparked protest after all but suggesting the country join the U.S.-led AUKUS military alliance, a move that would reverse years of New Zealand’s independent foreign and defence policy and put it on a collision course with China.

Ex-Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark lamented the loss of what would remain of the country’s military sovereignty. Clark blasted an “orchestrated campaign” by defence and security officials to join the U.S., Britain and Australia in AUKUS.

In a Twitter thread, she said the government was “abandoning its capacity to think for itself and is instead cutting & pasting from Five Eyes partners.” New Zealand is part of a five-nation intelligence sharing arrangement with Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States.

Clark tweeted that “there appears to be an orchestrated campaign on joining the so-called ‘Pillar 2’ of #AUKUS which is a new defence grouping in the Anglosphere with hard power based on nuclear weapons.” 

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Clark says, “IMHO NZ needs a full public debate on this & not an officialdom-driven realignment. … Furthermore, detachment is consistent with #NZ’s distinctive worldview …” 

Nuclear Free Act 1987

The direction of a growing New Zealand militarism could indeed raise questions over the future of the country’s nuclear free policy.

In 1984, after decades of campaigning against nuclear testing in the Pacific and increasing public objections to visiting U.S. warships, New Zealand under the then Labour Prime Minister David Lange, banned nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using its ports and waters.

Under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987, the country became a nuclear-free zone.

That legislation is seen as a defining exercise of national sovereignty and became part of New Zealanders’ cultural identity, particularly after French secret service agents in 1985 bombed Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior vessel, moored at Auckland harbour, to prevent it leaving for further protests against France’s nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll. One crew member was killed.

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The Road to AUKUS

The U.S. has been involved in efforts to contain China in its own backyard, while dangerously increasing tensions between Beijing and Taiwan. This has involved increased diplomatic support for the Taiwanese independence movement as well as concluding weapons deals with the self-governing island, which China sees as an integral part of its own territory.

Official U.S. policy also recognises Taiwan as part of the People’s Republic of China.

AUKUS could play a central role in a U.S. containment strategy. Australia confirmed in March it would buy three U.S.-manufactured nuclear submarines for A$368 billion over the next three decades, with an option of buying two more, as part of the AUKUS pact.

The AUKUS deal has been controversial in Australia. It increases tensions between Canberra and Beijing where before there were virtually none.  Australia’s decision to join AUKUS and enter into the submarine deal was concluded by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese without consultation with Parliament, let alone with the Australian people.

AUKUS has been blasted by former Australian Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating who said:

“We are now part of a containment policy against China. The Chinese government doesn’t want to attack anybody. They don’t want to attack us … We supply their iron ore which keeps their industrial base going, and there’s nowhere else but us to get it. Why would they attack? They don’t want to attack the Americans … It’s about one matter only:  the maintenance of U.S. strategic hegemony in East Asia. This is what this is all about.”

Blinken in New Zealand

After U.S.  Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Wellington last month, New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta told media the government was not contemplating joining AUKUS.

However, a new Defence Policy and Strategy document, one of a raft of recent government papers on the issue, says: “AUKUS Pillar Two may present an opportunity for New Zealand to cooperate with close security partners on emerging technologies.”

During his own press conference with Blinken, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the government was “open to conversations” about AUKUS membership.

Three decades after it took the country out of ANZUS (consisting of Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.), Labour would turn full circle if it signed up to the AUKUS pact while in power. The U.S. suspended its obligations to New Zealand under the 1951 ANZUS Treaty in retaliation for the nuclear-free policy introduced in 1987 by Labour.

A decision to join AUKUS will be one for the next government after October’s general election. According to recent polling, the country’s right-wing opposition party, National, could govern alongside the far-right, libertarian Act Party.

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Consortium News spoke with the National Party’s foreign affairs and defence spokesman Gerry Brownlee, who said that the ruling Labour Party’s position on AUKUS — and on defence in general — had shifted much closer to his own party in recent years.

He said New Zealand’s proposed involvement in AUKUS had yet to be defined and there would be no immediate moves to join the alliance.

He was cautious, however, about jeopardizing trade with China and emphasised a need to protect and promote what he called New Zealand’s  liberal democratic values.

“We don’t need to make enemies where enemies don’t exist, but we need to keep our eyes open and look at all the risks,” he said.

Former general-secretary of the Labour Party, Mike Smith, told Consortium News discussions within the Labour government over AUKUS were ongoing.

Smith said he didn’t believe the country’s nuclear free position was under immediate threat but he remained wary.

“I think there are some among our officials who think that New Zealand’s nuclear free legislation has passed its use-by date. I do not see any possibility of it being changed in the near term, but I think this view should be flushed out,” he said.

He backed former Labour Prime Minister Clark’s comments that the recent spate of security and defence documents were Five-Eyes “copy and paste” jobs.

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‘We Want Nothing To Do with AUKUS’

Indigenous party Te Pati Maori co-leader, Rawiri Waititi, agreed the security state documents were politically coloured in a way that did not present objective facts on the country’s security. “Government agencies and government bureaucrats are not apolitical,” he told Consortium News.

Waititi poured cold water on a New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) report that China should be a concern for New Zealand.

“There is no specific evidence supporting the narrative that Russia, North Korea and Peoples Republic of China (PRC) are interfering in Aotearoa’s [New Zealand] politics,” he said.

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The New Zealand spy agency also warned rising social and economic inequality — as inflation and a global downturn created further hardship — were expected to contribute to the radicalisation of violent extremists in New Zealand. It admitted the main threat of violent extremism came from white supremacists.

On the broader security and defence themes, Waititi was adamant.

“We want nothing to do with AUKUS. We want nothing to do with nuclear-powered or armed naval capacity,” he said.

“Our Nuclear Free Act 1987 is a guiding principle and military neutrality is a natural evolution of that policy. Internationally, Aotearoa must be friends to everybody and enemies to nobody,” Waititi said.

The Security State’s Arguments

NZSIS published its unclassified report on June 11, identifying what it calls rising strategic competition, technological innovation, global economic instability and falling public trust as factors driving violent extremism, foreign interference and espionage.

Following the U.S. line, the report claimed China, Russia and Iran were responsible for instances of foreign interference, mainly the monitoring of expatriate communities, posing a potential risk of significant harm.

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The agency said China’s efforts to expand its power in the Pacific was a “major factor driving strategic competition in our home region.”

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Little Consolation

A week earlier New Zealand Defence Minister Andrew Little had introduced three other security and defence documents to the public at Parliament in Wellington.

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Defence Policy & Strategy Statement

One of the documents, the 37-page Defence Policy and Strategy Statement, focused on the need to make the country’s military “operationally credible,” enabling it “to act earlier to prevent threats, for example through increased presence, as part of broader New Zealand efforts and in concert with international partners.”

“Where possible, Defence will seek to act to constrain hostile actions, will be prepared to employ military force, and engage in combat if required,” it added.

The statement stated the goal would be to prevent states that don’t share the country’s “values”  from establishing a “military or paramilitary presence” in the region. It advocated greater New Zealand military deployments in the Pacific region.Like the spy agency report, the document flagged China’s “political, economic, and security influence” in the Pacific, which it claimed was “at the expense of more traditional partners such as New Zealand and Australia.”

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The statement makes no mention of the steady build up of U.S. forces in the region, including new bases near China, such as in Australia and the Philippines, as well as naval assets patrolling the South China Sea. The statement does not entertain the possibility that China’s military activity is defensive in response to the growing U.S. presence.

A Future Force Design Principles document in addition sets out how the military would be reconfigured to meet these supposed new threats.

The release of these defence documents came after a Defence Policy Review, commissioned by the government in 2022.

National Security Strategy

A new, U.S.-style National Security Strategy, the first of its kind in New Zealand, delineated 12 main areas of concern to security agencies, including strategic competition, disinformation, foreign interference, terrorism, economic security, Pacific security and cyber, border, maritime and space security.

It pointed to potential flashpoints in Taiwan, the South China Sea and East China Sea.

The strategy noted China’s efforts to build ports and airports in the Pacific, which it said could have both civilian and military purposes.

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The document emphasised it was important for New Zealand to partner with other nations tied to the Five Eyes intelligence apparatus, as well as others, including Japan and South Korea.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/unease-over-new-zealand-overtures-to-us-in-pacific/

Indian Politics at the End of the 20th Century

Episode 35 Modernizing India

A History of India

Michael Fisher (2016)

Film Review

The 15-Year Reign of Indira Gandhi

Up until 1996, India was mainly governed by a central Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Born Indira Nehru, Nehru’s daughter separated from her husband Feroe Gandhi (no relation to Mahatma Gandhi) to serve as her father’s first lady during the final years of his presidency. She would become prime minister herself death in 1966 Immediately following Nehru’s death in 1964, Lal Bahadur served India’s second prime minister until his own death in 1966.

Indira Gandhi was a strong supporter of the Wall Street-driven Green Revolution, which brought industrial farming (with soil destroying monocrops, artificial fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and ultimately GMO crops to much of India.*

In 1971, she initiated a number of controversial reforms, including the abolition of personal property rights and the privy purses (a majority share of tax revenues) of the princely states, as well as the nationalization of banks, insurance companies and coal mines. This was the same year she ordered the Indian army to intervene in East Pakistan.

In 1974, she ordered the first underground test of an Indian nuclear devices.

The Rise of Indian Resistance Movements

In 1967 the states of West Bengal and Karala produced the first freely elected communist government and began a major, successful land distribution program. At the same time the anti-Brahmin Tamil Nationalist Movement (DMK) started their own secession movement in south India. Under Indira’s regime, the Maoist Naxalites in western India began a people’s revolution, a guerilla action in one-third of India’s rural districts.

Undone by Controversial Vasectomy Program

Owing to a number of campaign irregularities nullified her 1975 election. Ignoring the supreme court, she declared an internal national emergency that lasted nearly two years. In addition to suspending habeas corpus, she imprisoned 100,000 activists without, as well as (to slow India’s skyrocketing birth rate) and extremely controversial campaign to vasectomize all men with two or more children. All government departments had to persuade two employees a month to undergo vasectomy or face penalties. She also set up unsterile vasectomy camps that rounded up poor homeless people and prisoners.

In 1977, she released her opponents from prison and called for new elections. The Congress party promptly split into two factions with Gandhi representing Congress-I. A loose Janata** won, installing Moraji Desai as prime minister in 1977 and Charan Singh In 1979.

In 1980, Gandhi’s Congress (I) won by a two-thirds majority. In 1984, a Sikh separatist movement in Punjab became so violent that Gandhi ordered the Gold Temple in Khalistan destroyed with numerous worshipers inside. This led to her assassination by Sikh body guards four months later.

Rajiv Gandhi and the Rise of the BJP

Taking her place, her son deputy prime minister Rajiv Gandhi called for new elections, which he won thanks to his outreach to Muslim voters. This tactic led to significant rise in popular support for the Hindu nationalist BJP (Bharatiya Junata Party).

In 1987, he alienated most of India’ Tamil population by ordering 87,000 Indian “peacekeeping” troops to crush the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. He lost the 1989 election to Janata Dal, a minority part run by Vishwanath Pratup, in large part due to mysterious million dollar payments he made to a secret Swiss bank account.

In 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was once again headed for victory when he was assassinated by a Tamil suicide bomber. Congress-I ultimately won the election under the weak leadership of Narasunha Rao. Owing to poor harvests and a weak economy, Rao was forced to seek an IMF loan and agree to IMF structural adjustments,* which virtually collapsed the country’s economy.

Winning the 1996 election, the BJP’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee served as prime minister for six weeks. In 1988 he was reelected as head of an anti-Congress coalition, served as prime minister for 13 months and set off six nuclear tests. In 1999 he was elected for five years and privatized all Pakistan’s state-owned corporations.

In 2004 Rajiv’s ex-wife Sonia Gandhi (as head of the Indian National Congress) returned the Congress Party (heading up a coalition of 15 parties) returned the Congress party to parliament but declined to serve as prime minister. This post went to Manmohan Singh, who was re-elected in 2009.

In 2014, the BJP’s Narendra Modi was elected prime minister, a post he still holds.

*See Eco Activist Vendana Shiva and her Battle Against Multinational Corporations and GMOs

**The Janata party was an amalgam of parties opposed to Gandhi’s internal state of emergency.

**The structural adjustment policies imposed by the Wall Street-friendly IMF force indebted third world countries to sell off state industries to international corporations, eliminate tariffs deigned to protect their domestic industries and cut public service spending.

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Repeated COVID Shots Driving Dangerous Variants, Turbo Cancers

By  Rob Verkerk Ph.D.

According to vaccinologist Geert Vanden Bossche, DVM, Ph.D., continued mass COVID-19 vaccination is driving more infectious and potentially dangerous viral variants, increasing the risk of severe COVID-19, aggressive cancers and autoimmune diseases in vaccinated populations.

Pointed or pointless?

The public is understandably confused. On the one hand, major scientific journals, news outlets and authorities have used, and continue to use, superlatives to describe COVID-19 genetic vaccines.

The journal Science called the results of a Moderna trial “absolutely remarkable,” The Washington Post referred to them as “an extraordinary success story,” BuzzFeed claimed the vaccines “work way better than we had ever expected,” while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.K. National Health Service and other authorities continue to cite the mantra used for all approved vaccines, referring them as “safe and effective” (here and here, respectively).

Conflicting information about an uncertain and unpredictable interaction

Yet, on the other hand, the scientific literature is increasingly awash with articles that suggest something quite different.

The CDC is still telling U.S. citizens to “stay up to date” with their shots, yet a preprint study released in June shows that Cleveland Clinic staff who weren’t “up-to-date” with their COVID-19 shots fared better against COVID-19 than those who were.

As early as 2021, as indicated in an article in Nature Medicine, “viral variants began to stack up” only after the vaccines were rolled out.

An article published in Frontiers in Immunology in early 2022 details the multiple immune escape strategies used by the virus both following infection and vaccination.

Then there are people’s individual experiences, with many who have been heavily vaccinated not experiencing good outcomes, either in relation to COVID-19 disease, a concern noted in the recently published Cleveland Clinic study — but also in relation to other diseases or conditions, cancer and autoimmune diseases included.

Emergency over — or not?

For most people, the COVID-19 crisis is over. That’s largely a consequence of the World Health Organization’s declaration in May this year that the “public health emergency” was no longer.

There are at least two reasons it is likely wrong to think that the COVID-19 drama is behind us.

The first is that the virus is still very much out there, circulating to its non-existent heart’s content. While it remains at large, it is susceptible to natural selection of immune escape variants.

Secondly, it seems authorities have no inclination to sideline COVID-19 shots. By contrast, they want to keep using them, and no doubt will use any obvious waves of COVID-19 disease as we progress towards the northern winter to justify more vaccination.

There is no shortage of acclaimed “experts” who can confirm for you that SARS-CoV-2 hasn’t transitioned to an endemic, seasonal pattern, as naturally occurring respiratory viruses typically do after the pandemic phase.

It’s still very much around as you may have noticed in your own circles — it’s just not being surveilled with the same intensity via COVID-19 testing stations dotted around each and almost every industrialized country.

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Conflicting information doesn’t just create confusion. It creates cognitive dissonance. That’s an uncomfortable and unsettling feeling — and it drives people to find, and latch onto, what feels to them like a coherent, trusted view.

This causes division. Some still have trust in the authorities and the scientific establishment that remain steadfastly on the “vaccines-are-our-best-fix” podium. Others of us cannot support this view, seeing it as incoherent, both scientifically and experientially.

Many of us have lost trust in the scientific establishment, full stop. See here and here for our reasons why.

Any trust that we might have had prior to the COVID-19 crisis has since evaporated, largely because of the way the crisis and information relating to it was handled. That includes the mass censorship of dissenting scientific views.

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Geert Vanden Bossche — dedicated to better understanding the uncertainty

It is in this vein that I get to the main purpose of the present piece. It is to introduce you to a new article by a person who has been something of an icon for many of us who have been attempting to grapple with the complexity of our immune systems’ dance with the ever-changing SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Changes that have been undoubtedly amplified greatly by the global COVID-19 vaccine program.

The person to whom I refer is of course immunologist and vaccinologist, Geert Vanden Bossche, DVM, Ph.D., a person I admire greatly both for his scientific rigor and his resolve, but also for his bravery in the face of the monolith we might refer to as the scientific-medical-industrial complex. I am also humbled to regard Vanden Bossche as both an ally and a friend.

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Download Vanden Bossche’s latest report, “Immunological correlates of vaccine breakthrough infections caused by SARS-CoV-2 variants in highly C-19 vaccinated populations.”

 

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In a nutshell

In his article, Vanden Bossche sends a stark warning to those contemplating more COVID-19 shots later this year, as we proceed towards the northern hemisphere winter.

He explains in great detail how and why highly COVID-19-vaccinated populations will:

Serve to drive ever more infectious and potentially dangerous, immune escape, Omicron-derived variants.Be at greater risk of severe COVID-19 than less vaccinated or unvaccinated populations.How the risk of other conditions among highly vaccinated populations, including aggressive, early-onset, “turbo” cancers and autoimmune flare-ups, will likely increase significantly compared with those who choose to avoid further COVID-19 vaccination.

The evidence base pointing in this direction is becoming ever stronger (with many references being made to other literature in Vanden Bossche’s report).

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Knowing what we already know, it is a travesty that such large swathes of the public still have confidence in COVID-19 vaccines, the vehemence of this position in the public’s mind reflecting the power of the machine driving the agenda.

In the simplest terms I can muster, this is what Vanden Bossche is suggesting is going on, including the elements that are a well-known part of the immune cascade that occurs following infection or vaccination.

What Vanden Bossche argues is that if you keep vaccinating large cohorts of people while the mutation-prone virus continues to circulate (i.e. during a pandemic), the cascade of events moves in a different direction to that which occurs with natural infection from a virus that enters via the respiratory system.

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What has been revealed without any doubt over the last couple of years is that these all-important neutralizing antibodies don’t work effectively within the context of an immune escape pandemic.

That’s been especially the case since the Omicron variant evolved, itself being a response to the extreme immune selection pressure from mass vaccination.

The hope had been that when a vaccinated person becomes infected with the real virus, these neutralizing antibodies would bind primarily to the receptor-binding domain (RBD) displayed at the end of the coronavirus spikes around the surface of the virus.

These, in turn, block the ability of the virus to dock with ACE2 receptors even when the RBDs are in their primed, “open” position, and it is the ACE2 receptors on the epithelial cells of our bodies; these receptors provide the doorways that allow these viruses into our bodies, assuming they haven’t been blocked by the neutralizing antibodies.

 

But, in the case of large parts of the population being vaccinated while being exposed to the virus, these neutralizing antibodies do the job imperfectly because their affinity and/or titers (or: concentration in the blood) are still too low when they encounter the virus.

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Ongoing large-scale vaccine breakthrough infections due to more infectious Omicron descendants then place continuous immune selection pressure on circulating viruses that continue to try and work around the body’s defenses.

The lack of sterilizing immunity coupled with the immune selection pressure towards newly emerging immune escape variants means that a cycle is set up in highly vaccinated populations that have no mechanism to dampen out circulating infection.

More and new breakthrough variants are created, and the cycle goes on and on, with no development of true herd immunity.

This loop is something that wouldn’t have occurred if populations had not been massively vaccinated during this pandemic.

mRNA vaccines are only expediting immune escape as they promote immune refocusing (refer to Vanden Bossche’s book, “The Inescapable Immune Escape Pandemic,” published February 2023).

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/geert-vanden-bossche-covid-vaccine-cancer/

Republicans Adopt COVID Vaccine Ban Resolution in Nine Florida Counties

Posted BY: Jasmine | NwoReport

Republican executive committees in nine Florida counties affiliated with the Republican Party of Florida have taken a strong stance by adopting an 83-page resolution urging Governor Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers to ban the sale and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines within the state. The resolution also calls for the immediate seizure of remaining vaccine supplies and a thorough forensic analysis, with State Attorney General Ashley Moody tasked to oversee this process.

This movement, referred to as “Ban the Jab,” is gathering momentum to pressure the Governor, county sheriffs, and the Florida Legislature to enforce the vaccine ban. The resolution, authored by psychotherapist Joseph Sansone, first gained approval from the local Republican executive committee in Lee County and subsequently received support from Collier, Lake, Santa Rosa, Seminole, St. Johns Hillsborough, Brevard, and Franklin Counties. The resolution emphasizes the need to preserve the human race and presents over 140 exhibits as evidence to substantiate claims made by biomedical professionals and vaccine skeptics.

Key allegations against the vaccines include a statement from Francis A. Boyle, a human rights lawyer and international law professor, dubbed the vaccines “COVID frankenshots.” The resolution also cites the Global COVID Summit, which criticized current COVID-19 policies and their origins. Additionally, the resolution references the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), highlighting a significant increase in adverse event reports following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Governor DeSantis, in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, has already taken steps to counter vaccine mandates, such as impaneling a grand jury to investigate potential crimes related to the vaccine rollout. He has signed multiple medical freedom bills, including prohibiting vaccination status discrimination, banning vaccine passports, and safeguarding freedom of speech for medical professionals.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has aligned with DeSantis, advocating for transparent and ethical communication of medical interventions’ risks to patients. The Governor and his administration aim to illuminate the factors hindering truthful discourse about COVID-19 vaccines. The resolution’s adoption illustrates a deepening divide over vaccine policies, emphasizing the significant challenges in achieving a consensus on public health measures in a polarized environment.

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Via https://nworeport.me/covid-vaccine-ban-resolution-adopted-by-republicans-in-nine-florida-counties/

Republican Adopt COVID Vaccine Ban Resolution in Nine Florida Counties

Posted BY: Jasmine | NwoReport

Republican executive committees in nine Florida counties affiliated with the Republican Party of Florida have taken a strong stance by adopting an 83-page resolution urging Governor Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers to ban the sale and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines within the state. The resolution also calls for the immediate seizure of remaining vaccine supplies and a thorough forensic analysis, with State Attorney General Ashley Moody tasked to oversee this process.

This movement, referred to as “Ban the Jab,” is gathering momentum to pressure the Governor, county sheriffs, and the Florida Legislature to enforce the vaccine ban. The resolution, authored by psychotherapist Joseph Sansone, first gained approval from the local Republican executive committee in Lee County and subsequently received support from Collier, Lake, Santa Rosa, Seminole, St. Johns Hillsborough, Brevard, and Franklin Counties. The resolution emphasizes the need to preserve the human race and presents over 140 exhibits as evidence to substantiate claims made by biomedical professionals and vaccine skeptics.

Key allegations against the vaccines include a statement from Francis A. Boyle, a human rights lawyer and international law professor, dubbed the vaccines “COVID frankenshots.” The resolution also cites the Global COVID Summit, which criticized current COVID-19 policies and their origins. Additionally, the resolution references the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), highlighting a significant increase in adverse event reports following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Governor DeSantis, in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, has already taken steps to counter vaccine mandates, such as impaneling a grand jury to investigate potential crimes related to the vaccine rollout. He has signed multiple medical freedom bills, including prohibiting vaccination status discrimination, banning vaccine passports, and safeguarding freedom of speech for medical professionals.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has aligned with DeSantis, advocating for transparent and ethical communication of medical interventions’ risks to patients. The Governor and his administration aim to illuminate the factors hindering truthful discourse about COVID-19 vaccines. The resolution’s adoption illustrates a deepening divide over vaccine policies, emphasizing the significant challenges in achieving a consensus on public health measures in a polarized environment.

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Via https://nworeport.me/covid-vaccine-ban-resolution-adopted-by-republicans-in-nine-florida-counties/