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How Trump’s Indictment Could Backfire on Biden

Jonathon Hurley

After last week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump relating to the 2020 election, CNN declared that the charges were “personal” for President Joe Biden, who previously said Trump’s words sounded like “sedition.”

Of course, Trump was not charged with sedition or even seditious conspiracy. Nor was he charged with conspiracy to incitement or insurrection, the grounds for his second impeachment.

However, if Biden does view this case as personal, as CNN suggests, he might be right for the wrong reason. That’s because the case being constructed against Trump by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith could prove a serious problem for Biden, too — particularly as the basis for a House impeachment inquiry.

The latest Trump indictment, based on little new evidence and even less established law, faces a major threshold challenge under the First Amendment. Smith is seeking to criminalize what constitutes disinformation, which not only runs against the grain of the First Amendment but also prior cases. That includes United States v. Alvarez, which overturned the conviction of a politician for knowingly lying about his military background.

The Justice Department acknowledges that the Constitution protects false statements made in political campaigns. Yet it maintains that Trump can be convicted for lying because he really did not believe what he said.

The problem is that the effect of these lies largely fueled the actions of third parties. If Trump were accused of using fraud for pecuniary gain or of lying to federal investigators, there would be no free-speech problem. The complaint, however, focuses on the lies rather than any larceny or standalone crime. It is diffuse in saying that raising doubts over the election undermined the value or results of voting. Previous challenges have been made to certification of presidential elections with little basis (including by Democrats) and even alternative sets of electors have been submitted without criminal charges.

This criminal intent is based on Trump being told by many people that the election was not stolen and he could not stop its certification. I was one of those who maintained that Trump was wrong on the election, Vice President Pence’s authority to void the results, and the Trump team’s challenges. However, Trump followed the advice of a second, albeit smaller, set of lawyers who told him there was a basis for challenging the election.

That is not a crime. It is, in my view, protected political speech. Presidents routinely lie on matters great and small. Many of those lies cost citizens dearly, from “keeping your doctor” under ObamaCare to losing your life in Vietnam. Criminalizing lies in campaigns because of the spread of disinformation or disorder is a slippery slope that vests unprecedented power in the Justice Department.

There is a wicked twist in all of this for Biden. The very controversial linchpin used against Trump could conceivably be used against Biden, particularly in the launching of an impeachment inquiry by House Republicans.

While third parties proceeded to take steps to challenge the election and offer alternative electors, Trump continued to publicly deny the election’s legitimacy and failed to effectively call them back. He is accused of seeking out those who would legitimize or enable his political spin on his 2020 defeat.

Not dissimilarly, Biden has long been accused of knowing disregard for constitutional limitations as his administration has pushed unconstitutional measures. For example, Biden conceded that his own White House counsel and trusted legal advisers uniformly told him that renewing a national eviction moratorium would be unconstitutional — but he listened instead to a Harvard law professor who reportedly assured him he had the authority. His eviction-ban order was quickly found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Far more serious are the accusations facing Biden over his response to a growing corruption scandal allegedly involving his son and others. It now seems clear that Biden has lied to the public for years on critical details of the scandal. Indeed, his denial of any knowledge or involvement in his son’s overseas business deals go back to the 2020 presidential debate.

Biden also denied that Hunter Biden received any money from China, which the Washington Post now declares to be manifestly untrue. For years, Biden has allowed his staff, including White House officials, to repeat his denials while opposing any further investigation.

That is why guilt by implication or association, as employed by special counsel Smith against Trump, could be a dangerous legal standard for Joe Biden.

Hunter Biden’s former friend and associate, Devon Archer, told House Oversight Committee investigators last week that they were indeed selling “the brand” and that Joe Biden was part of that brand.

Ironically, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) — who demolished Biden’s defense in an earlier House hearing with two IRS agents — repeated the same blunder during Archer’s closed-door committee appearance. In the previous hearing, Goldman bizarrely raised the instance of Joe Biden going to a lunch at the Four Seasons with Hunter and his Chinese business associates.

In his own committee appearance, Archer was careful not to overstate his knowledge of demands made on then-Vice President Biden and denied personal knowledge of any. Yet Goldman refused to leave a good answer alone and plowed forward into the unknown. He noted that Archer had said they discussed “niceties” — “Where are you, how’s the weather, how’s the fishing?” — in more than 20 phone calls with the senior Biden in the presence of Hunter’s foreign business partners. Goldman pressed Archer to expand, and Archer did, stating: “They were calls to talk about the weather, and that was signal enough to be powerful.”

In other words, the point was the call itself — the access — not the content of the calls.

Later, in a media interview, Archer reaffirmed that it is “categorically false” that Joe Biden had no role in or knowledge of his son’s business dealings, stating: “He was aware of Hunter’s business. He met with Hunter’s business partners.”

Archer also confirmed dinners long denied by Biden officials and the media. For example, prior reports of a 2015 dinner with Hunter’s business associates directly contradicted the president’s repeated denials of knowledge or involvement. A Biden 2020 campaign spokesman at the time insisted the story was false, and Politico reported that other officials also assured that it was all untrue; some suggested it was more “Russian disinformation.”

It turns out that denial also was a lie, because Archer confirmed that Biden “had dinner” with him and several others, including “Vadym P. from Burisma,” referring to an officer of a Ukrainian energy company. The senior Biden reportedly joined the dinner and engaged in discussions.

Biden surely knew his denials of knowledge and interactions were untrue, even as his aides misinformed the public and as congressional and federal investigations occurred.

Now, according to special counsel Smith, such knowing lies can be criminal matters, at least in the case of Donald Trump. For Congress, it could also trigger impeachment inquiries in the case of Joe Biden — and that would make this very personal indeed.

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Via https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/09/how-donald-trumps-indictment-could-backfire-on-joe-biden/

Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan

Benjamin Wetmore and Patty McMurray[

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The following is from the MI State Police report:

On 10/16/20 Muskegon City Clerk Ann Meisch and Deputy Clerk Kimberly Young contacted the Muskegon Police Department after noticing irregularities in voter registration applications received both in person and by mail.

The Muskegon city clerk became suspicious when the female, (whose name is redacted in the first part of the police report, but then later, is unredacted), hand-delivered thousands of voter registrations to her office, many of them in the same handwriting.

On 10/20/20 (deadline day for in-person voter registration applications) the suspect retumed to the *Muskegon City Clerk’s office to deliver additional registration forms in person. Meisch estimated that (suspect) brought an additional 2500 forms. Meisch contacted the Muskegon Police Department and Detective Logan Anderson and Captain Shawn Bride conducted a non-custodial interview with the suspect. 

Meisch stated that in her opinion a quantity of the voter registration forms were highly suspicious and possibly fraudulent.

Meisch’s opinion was based on the fact that numerous forms appeared to have been completed by the same writer and upon initial examination, addresses on multiple forms were invalid or non-existent.

Meisch investigated further and found that phone numbers on multiple forms were erroneous and signatures on multiple forms didn’t appear to match signatures on file with the Department of Secretary of State. Examples included an address in the and another in the [REDACTED]

Those addresses do not exist in the Muskegon City house numbering system. Another form listed 80 W. Southern Ave which is the address for Muskegon High School and is clearly not a residence.

Later in the report, the name of the female suspect was unredacted.

The MI State Police investigator assigned to the case spoke with the female suspect who explained that she was being paid $1150/week “to find un-registered voters and provide them with a form so they can get registered to vote or obtain their absentee ballot.” The only problem is, the handwriting on the voter registrations was the same on several of the registrations and many of the addresses were non-existent or fake.

MI Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is currently attempting to prosecute 15 senior citizens and the former MI GOP co-chair for casting an alternate set of electoral votes in the 2020 election, asked the MI State Police to join the Muskegon Police and AG’s investigation of the potentially massive, multi-city voter fraud operation.

Two members of AG Dana Nessel’s Criminal Investigation Division were assigned to the operation, yet curiously, she failed to mention the investigation to the public. To this day, Dana Nessel is still claiming there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Michigan, despite the fact that she knew her office and the office of her friend, Michigan’s crooked SOS Jocelyn Benson, were involved with the MI State Police in a large scale investigation that took place across the state before it was taken over by the FBI.

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Today, The Gateway Pundit and our close friends from Michigan are exposing this damning report. The evidence from this investigation exposes criminal election fraud involving thousands of fraudulent ballots in Michigan by an organization that set up temporary offices in several swing states prior to the 2020 election.

This explosive investigation was covered up and buried from the public, until today.

It should be noted that after documenting these crimes and investigating for weeks, the Michigan police turned their investigation over to the FBI who promptly buried the findings. Once again, the FBI apparently took no action—more on that in an upcoming report.

The police in Muskegon were investigating voter fraud in October 2020, a month prior to the general election.  The FBI failed to follow-up on the alleged election crimes according to Michigan election investigator Phil O’Halloran. O’Halloran is now the Election Integrity Chair of the Michigan Republican Party.

The police report has redactions throughout, but not all names were redacted. The police report names ‘GBI Strategies‘ as the organization running the scheme. The Tennessee-based group is heavily connected to the Biden campaign and various Democrat campaign committees. The released report also names “Brilus” as a primary person involved.

The police report from 2020 revealed that GBI Strategies has been in operation since 2014. And, the investigators found that GBI Strategies was paid $1,571,386 by the Doug Jones for Senate campaign back in 2018. That was just one race they were involved in.

The investigators also found that GBI Strategies was paid $188,000 by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2018. (paragraph 11)

The employees at GBI Strategies were being paid $15 an hour or $120 a day.   (paragraph 8)

A woman interviewed by police said she was paid $1150 per week and given a rental car.  She said she was given a “reloadable pay card.” (paragraph 3)

Police reported that hundreds of pre-paid cards from “different” companies, along with “dozens of new (burner?) phones were found in the Southfield raid in Michigan.

The police report noted that there were numerous job openings listed in Flint, Michigan and Regional Field Manager postings in Washington DC and Chicago, Illinois. This group had branches across the nation.

During their investigation, the police also found partially completed voter registration forms and police found “pelican cases in the room with semi-automatic rifles joined with suppressors and optics and customized pistols.” One case had “4 rifles and 4 pistols.”

The police report claims these weapons were determined to be legal and lawful after calling in the ATF to inspect the weapons.

The affiant (witness who filled out the affidavit) first witnessed minivans moving from a hotel in Grand Haven to the location of the business, a former California Eyecare location. The next day Detective Luker was notified. He went to the address where he found a bag of trash filled with information on employee agreements.

The affiant believed the records found at the location were crucial to determining the crime of Election Fraud Forgery and determining who may be criminally liable and who may have profited from the fraud.

The affiant later obtained a copy of the Mukegon PD Report 2020-19124 authored by Officer Foster with a supplemental report by Detective Logan Anderson along with a copy of the search warrant of the business location.

This next paragraph from the police document reveals that Muskegon City Clerk Ann Meisch and Deputy Clerk Kimberly Young first contacted the police on October 16, 2020.

Meisch and Young contacted police after receiving multiple “State of Michigan Voter Registration Application” forms which in their opinion appeared to be fraudulent. According to the report, Meisch based her opinion on the fact that some of the addresses on the applications appeared to be invalid or non-existent. Also, some of the phone numbers were invalid and some signatures did match those on file.

Meisch also noted that the handwriting on the ballots appeared to be the same with a similar signature and ALL OF THE BALLOTS appeared to come from the same company with two locations in Southfield and Auburn Hills.

Meisch told police some of the forms were dropped off in person to the Muskegon City Clerk’s office by a black female who identified herself as Brianna Hawkins. Miss Hawkins said her employment entailed registering voters and helping them obtain absentee ballots.

Meisch estimated that the leftist organization delivered approximately 8,000-10,000 voter registration forms to the Muskegon City Clerk’s office and provided a sampling of 42 suspected fraudulent applications to Officer Foster for examination. Meisch stated they identified by viewing her Facebook profile.

Employee Brianna Hawkins dropped off between 8K -10K registrations in ONE day!

The investigators found that “a number of voter applications forms were clearly fraudulent.”

The report notes that police found, “Dozens of new phones” and “Hundreds of pre-paid payment cards” – these items were clearly considered suspicious by the police in the report.

Also in the report: the left-wing ballot organizing group had suppressors (Silencers) and automatic weapons for some odd reason.

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The released police report has redactions throughout, but not all names were redacted. The police report names ‘GBI Strategies‘ as the organization engaged in what the report suggests is widespread, systemic, voter fraud in multiple locations around the state. The Tennessee group is heavily connected to the Biden campaign and various Democrat campaign committees. The released report also names “Brilus” as a primary person involved.

The police report also notes that the organization used rental cars around the state as part of its deployments, naming several of the field locations for their operations. On election night, a suspicious 3:30 AM van delivering the Biden Ballot Dump in Detroit at the facility formerly known as the TCF Center was accompanied by a vehicle registered to a rental car company.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/now-we-have-proof-tgp-exclusive-massive-2020/

Trump Reveals Jan 6 Committee Destroyed Their Records and Documents

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Jim Hoft

President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell report on his Truth Social platform that the sham committee overseeing the investigation of the January 6th Capitol riot has destroyed their documents and records illegally.

On Tuesday, Trump wrote:

President Trump: So now that I have full Subpoena Power because of the Freedom of Speech Sham Indictment by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and the DOJ, it has just been reported that the Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents. This is unthinkable, and the Fake Political Indictment against me must be immediately withdrawn. The system is Rigged & Corrupt, very much like the Presidential Election of 2020. We are a Nation in Decline!

Screenshot: @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes, during a recent interview, said that special counsel Jack Smith made a huge mistake in indicting Trump related to Jan. 6 incident because it gives him the power to subpoena people.

“They’ve made a huge mistake with this one, because even though we thought what was going to happen was they were going to go after him for treason or sedition, they did criminally charge him, but they didn’t go to that extreme. As a result, he has due process, so he can subpoena people and bring things in,” she said.

Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

Jack Smith’s latest indictment is a retread J6 committee garbage, free speech violations by the Biden DOJ, who should know better, and ESP-like assumptions and mind-reading nonsense.

It can be recalled that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) sent a letter to House January 6th Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) on November 2022 demanding preservation of committee records for the incoming Republican-controlled Congress next January 2023. McCarthy also said Republicans would hold hearings on why the Capitol was “not secure” on January 6, 2021.

Read the letter below:

Dear Chairman Thompson:

The American people chose Republicans to lead the 118th Congress. On January 3, 2023, your work as Chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol will come to an end. For those reasons, I remind you and your staff on the Committee to preserve all records collected and transcripts of testimony taken during your investigation in accordance with House Rule VII. As the Chairman, regardless of who may be directing the work of the Committee, you are responsible for the work done by its members and staff.

It is clear based on recent news reports that even your own members and staff of the Committee have no visibility into the totality of the investigation. Some reports suggest that entire swaths of findings will be left out of the Committee’s final report. You have spent a year and a half and millions of taxpayers’ dollars conducting this investigation. It is imperative that all information collected be preserved not just for institutional prerogatives but for transparency to the American people. The official Congressional Records do not belong to you or any member, but to the American people, and they are owed all of the information you gathered — not merely the information that comports with your political agenda. Although your Committee’s public hearings did not focus on why the Capitol complex was not secure on January 6, 2021, the Republican majority in the 118th Congress will hold hearings that do so. The American people have a right to know that the allegations you have made are supported by the facts and to be able to view the transcripts with an eye toward encouraged enforcement of 18 USC 1001.

Excerpt from 18 USC 1001:

(a)Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—
(1)falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2)makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3)makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be not more than 8 years.

According to Fox News, Democrat Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told House Republicans in a letter, stating, “Consistent with guidance from the Office of the Clerk and other authorities, the Select Committee did not archive temporary committee records that were not elevated by the Committee’s actions, such as use in hearings or official publications, or those that did not further its investigative activities.”

The letter continued, “Accordingly, and contrary to your letter’s implication, the Select Committee was not obligated to archive all video recordings of transcribed interviews or depositions. Based on guidance from House authorities, the Select Committee determined that the written transcripts provided by nonpartisan, professional official reporters, which the witnesses and Select Committee staff had the opportunity to review for errata, were the official, permanent records of transcribed interviews and depositions for the purposes of rule VII.”

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/breaking-president-trump-reveals-dirty-jan-6-committee/

Ohio Nurse Diagnosed With Transverse Myelitis After COVID Vaccine Sues Former Employer

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

An Ohio nurse permanently injured by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine after her employer threatened her with the loss of health benefits if she refused to be vaccinated is suing her former employer and Ohio’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, alleging her vaccine injuries were work-related.

Danielle Baker, a 44-year-old Ohio native, found fulfillment in her career as a certified hospice and palliative care registered nurse — a job she performed for two decades, including on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic — until her employer “encouraged” staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine in spring 2021.

Fearing for her job and future career, Baker reluctantly received the first of two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on June 4, 2021. Within 18 days of her first dose, she experienced extreme pain in her lower back — a kidney stone, she thought.

On June 26, 2021, Baker received her second dose. Almost immediately, her symptoms got much worse: shooting pain, tingling and numbness from neck to arm; excruciating back pain; brain fog and fatigue; and loss of physical coordination.

Today, Baker is permanently disabled and unable to work after being diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition causing inflammation of the spinal cord.

Baker’s vaccine injuries were the subject of a January interview with The Defender.

After speaking out publicly, Baker pursued a workers’ compensation claim that initially was denied. She appealed but also lost the appeal.

Now, she is taking further legal action. In April, she filed a lawsuit against her former employer, Ohio’s Hospice, and against Ohio’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), alleging her vaccine injuries were work-related. A hearing is scheduled for Jan. 30, 2024.

In a follow-up interview with The Defender, Baker discussed the Ohio workers’ compensation process and explained the next steps in her lawsuit. She also provided an update on her health and shared extensive documentation to corroborate her story.

‘Coerced’ to get the jab despite ‘trepidation and hesitation’

In spring 2021, Ohio’s Hospice started emailing employees “encouraging” them to get the vaccine. According to Baker, the emails not only promoted the “safe and effective” narrative but also offered incentives for getting the shots, such as cash and participation in drawings for larger prizes.

Employees also were told they would lose benefits, such as paid days off, if they opted not to get the vaccine.

Unvaccinated employees, who were subjected to what Baker described as “segregation” in the workplace, were required to be masked at all times.

Baker told The Defender in January that she felt “trepidation and hesitation” about getting the COVID-19 vaccine because she “didn’t trust how fast it was zoomed through, and that if you took the vaccine, you really had no idea what was going to happen.”

“I needed my career, I needed my income, I needed our insurance because I was the carrier,” Baker told CHD.TV in a January interview. “Worst decision I ever made.”

In her follow-up interview, Baker told The Defender the only reason she got vaccinated was for the health benefits, as Ohio’s Hospice had warned employees they would lose their benefits if they didn’t take the primary series of shots by July 2021.”

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Even with her reservations, she felt incredible pressure. “The propaganda, the constant emails telling us the narrative, the segregation, it was all piling on,” she said.

Doctors ‘didn’t put all the pieces together’ until months later

Baker said it took months for doctors to connect her health difficulties to the COVID-19 vaccination.

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The doctor reasoned that since she contracted COVID-19 at work, her weakened immune system plus the vaccines must have led to the transverse myelitis.

“Both of those things [long COVID and transverse myelitis] arise out of my employment,” Baker said.

Today, Baker remains unable to work and is experiencing further deterioration in her health. “I have started developing some cardiac issues that have been causing a lot of problems with my heart induction [rhythm] and my breathing,” she said.

Workers’ compensation claims offer potential recourse for vaccine injury victims

Baker said her injuries led her to initiate a workers’ compensation claim to try and help others, because “I thought it was a lost cause for me.”

Α chance meeting with a workers’ compensation attorney several months ago led her to believe her claim could succeed.

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In a series of interviews in 2022, several workers’ compensation attorneys told The Defender that such claims offer a potential means of recourse for vaccine injury victims who were vaccinated as a result of their employment.

The three attorneys — Ben Carlisle, Ray L. Flores II and Patrick R. Hollingsworth — are experienced in legal issues surrounding COVID-19 vaccine injuries. They said the workers’ compensation program — available in all 50 states — provides an option for employees of businesses that mandated COVID-19 vaccination.

Flores told The Defender in October 2022 that workers’ compensation is “a much easier system to navigate” than the PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act) of 2005 or the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. These are the traditional avenues for submitting claims related to vaccine injuries, but they are exceedingly difficult to navigate successfully.

The lawyers also said that filing a workers’ compensation claim doesn’t preclude an employee from filing claims via other legal channels. However, it does provide the potential to receive immediate financial relief and medical treatment and also — possibly — long-term support.

Because Ohio’s Hospice is self-insured and does not pay into Ohio’s statewide workers’ compensation system, the company told state authorities it will cover claims out of pocket.

As a result, Baker’s claim was heard by the Ohio Industrial Commission instead of the state’s BWC. Baker likened the Industrial Commission to a “little jury trial … with a presiding officer. … You present your case, they present their case, and then the presiding officer decides.”

Baker presented her case before the Industrial Commission twice, on Sept. 28, 2022, and on appeal on Jan. 20. In both instances, her claim was denied within days.

According to Baker, these denials were primarily based on an examination submitted by a doctor hired by her former employer.

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The denials also came despite medical statements from two of Baker’s doctors, documenting her transverse myelitis diagnosis and directly connecting it to her vaccination.

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“I worked for the company for 17 years. I dedicated myself — I thought I would retire with them. It’s been hurtful for me to know that a company that takes, or supposedly takes, a holistic community approach is so willing to just toss aside a nurse that had so much time invested into them and just blatantly argue against things that happened.”

Baker also says she and former colleagues were misled by her employer.

“When we got COVID-19, we were not encouraged to fill out the paperwork that we normally would for FMLA [the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993] or for a workplace injury,” Baker said. “We were told, ‘No, you’re a frontline worker, we believe you, you’ll get your coverage.’”

“If I had submitted that paperwork and done it the way that they normally do … then I would’ve had a paper trail. But I was discouraged from it,” she said.

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After initial denial of workers’ compensation claim, jury trial scheduled

The two denials at the Ohio Industrial Commission have now set the stage for Baker’s lawsuit against Ohio’s Hospice and the BWC. Baker explained why she decided to sue and what this stage of the process entails:

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The lawsuit, Danielle Baker v. Ohio’s Hospice, Inc., was filed on April 3 and is before Judge Jeannine N. Pratt of the Common Pleas Court of Miami County, Ohio.

Following Pratt’s refusal to dismiss the lawsuit, three key dates have been set: a settlement conference on Dec. 14, a final pre-trial conference on Jan. 11, 2024, and the trial on Jan. 31, 2024.

“We believe that we have a very strong case,” Baker said. “[The vaccination] wasn’t yet mandated, however, I did take it as a result of being an employee of theirs and for their benefit. So, we think that holds a lot of value.”

Hollingsworth, in a May 23, 2022, presentation, explained that employees also can file workers’ compensation claims in situations where, even without an explicit mandate, an employee faced “coercion, exclusion, discrimination,” where they were “ostracized by their co-workers or it was strongly suggested that they get the vaccine.”

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‘You don’t need a lawyer to file a claim’

In the event that Baker receives a favorable decision in her jury trial, the case “then goes back to workers’ compensation to oversee the payout,” Baker said.

“Generally, what you are entitled to is past and future lost wages,” she added. “Since I’m completely disabled, that means from now to retirement.”

If successful, Baker would also receive “medical coverage for long COVID, transverse myelitis and any side effects related to the shot.”

Baker said that, as part of a final settlement, there may also be some compensation for the emotional toll. “It has caused so much anxiety and depression and stress. … It has significantly affected us,” she said.

While she believes her former employer was “following the narrative” Baker pointed out, based on emails they sent, “their goal was to have 90% of their staff vaccinated.”

This would then confer financial benefits upon the company, according to Baker.

“From my memory, if you got 90% of your staff vaccinated, then the government would give you money,” she said. Baker later found out that because of the CARES Act, Ohio’s Hospice received $7.2 million. “So, I put the puzzle pieces together and there was a financial motivation,” she added.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/danielle-baker-pfizer-covid-vaccine-lawsuit/

Major Australian Banks Going Cashless – Forced Acceptance Of CBDCs Next?

Zero Hedge

The core problems of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have been addressed many times here, but it may bear repeating these two facts – First, in a cashless society all privacy in trade is lost, and second, banks and governments will control access to all of your money.  If such a system is allowed, it will act as a major stepping stone to technocratic authoritarianism.  It’s inevitable.

The Australian government and central bank have been involved in a beta test for the past year with the proliferation of CBDCs in mind.  Their partnership projects with the Bank for International Settlements and pilot programs with companies like Mastercard are about to wrap up this fall, and it looks as though Aussie bureaucrats are planning to implement their cashless system very quickly after the trial run is finished.

In defense of CBDCs officials suggest that Australians are already shifting into a cashless society, citing the fact that the population went from 32% using cash to only 16% using cash in the span of three years.  Of course, what they don’t mention is that Australia’s aggressive and draconian covid lockdowns and mandates since 2020 pushed the public into relying more on digital and online purchases.

Already, the top four banks in the country are removing over the counter cash withdrawals at most of their branches.  “Special centers” will be put in place for “more complex banking needs including cash” but the overall trend will be the reduction of paper money, forcing the populace to go fully digital.

The use of CBDCs by the establishment to control the flow of money is tied directly to social engineering programs.  As members of the World Economic Forum have openly admitted, governments could program CBDC usage to prevent purchases of items they deem to have a negative social impact.  These restricted items could be anything from ammunition to meat.  In other words, they don’t have to officially “ban” certain products, all they have to do is make it impossible to buy them.

But the micromanagement goes well beyond this.  There are plans to make CBDCs that “time out,” compelling the public to spend them before they expire.  There is also the issue of social credit scoring, which has been established in China and is creeping into western institutions.  What if one day the powers-that-be decide that certain speech and certain beliefs cause “harm” to the greater collective and must be suppressed through monetary penalties?  This could result in limitations on how you can use your bank account everytime you make a comment they don’t like on social media.  Or, it could result in your account being frozen for a period of time until you publicly apologize for your statements.

It makes sense that Australia would be one of the first western nations to adopt the cashless structure.  The government was rather successful in enforcing extreme covid lockdowns with minimal public resistance, to the point that citizens in cities were under house arrest and were not even allowed to go to the parks or beaches in many cases.  It’s likely the the establishment sees Australians as an easy target for the first volley of cashless controls.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/major-australian-banks-are-going-cashless-forced-acceptance-cbdcs-next

Pfizer Exec Admits Employees Got Private Batch of COVID Shots

By  Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

During Monday’s episode of “The Kim Iversen Show,” journalist and political commentator Kim Iversen played video clips of visibly outraged Australian senators grilling Pfizer executives who appeared to evade questions about COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy.

During a hearing held last week in the Australian Senate, Pfizer executives admitted Australia-based staff were provided a separate, private batch of the COVID-19 vaccine. They also conceded they don’t know why the vaccines cause myocarditis and pericarditis.

Pfizer Australia and New Zealand’s country medical director, Dr. Krishan Thiru, and head of regulatory sciences, Dr. Brian Hewitt, appeared before the Education and Employment Legislation Committee, which is investigating the COVID-19 vaccine rollout as part of the Australian parliamentary inquiry.

During Monday’s episode of “The Kim Iversen Show,” journalist and political commentator Kim Iversen played video clips of visibly outraged senators grilling the Pfizer executives — who often provided evasive answers — about issues related to the vaccine rollout.

In one clip, Senator Matthew Canavan asked repeatedly if Pfizer tested whether or not the vaccine could stop or reduce transmission prior to the vaccine rollout in 2020.

Thiru responded by doubling down on claims that the vaccine is “safe and effective.”

“Senator, as with all vaccines seeking regulatory authorization, the requirement is to demonstrate in robust clinical programs that the vaccine is safe and effective in preventing the infection and in this case in preventing severe disease and hospitalization,” he said.

Thiru refused to provide a “yes or no” response to Canavan’s repeated probes.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, in late 2020 said the pharma giant was “not certain” if those who receive its mRNA vaccine will be able to transmit COVID-19 to other people.

But in January 2021, Pfizer was promoting the idea that the vaccines stopped transmission. Chief Nerd retweeted Pfizer’s 2021 Tweet:

Sen. Matthew Canavan Grills Pfizer Execs on Their Transmission Claims Which Led to Thousands of Employees Losing Their Jobs (Receipts Included)

“You’re being very, very shifty here. You are not answering the very clear questions…My point here is that governments by late 2021… pic.twitter.com/7PiTjkJwMF

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 8, 2023

Senator Gerard Rennick asked the executives to explain their claim that the vaccines were “unequivocally safe” given that, according to the Pfizer non-clinical report:

“There were no carcinogenic tests, no genotoxic toxicity tests, no immunotoxicity tests, no iteration studies, interactions studies with other medicines, no longitudinal studies and I note that in regards to pregnancy and lactation that studies were conducted on rats.”

Hewitt insisted there had been a “very careful assessment of the benefits and risks.”

Rennick asked, given that Pfizer didn’t recognize myocarditis and pericarditis as side effects at the time of vaccine rollout, whether they now understand why the vaccine causes those conditions. If not, he added, how could Pfizer guarantee the vaccine isn’t also damaging other organs?

Thiru maintained that the number of reported cases of myocarditis and pericarditis remains small.

All medications have benefits and side effects, Thiru told the senators. “Looking at the totality of the evidence for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, regulatory authorities, health authorities, experts globally, including in Australia within the Department of Health and the TGA [Therapeutic Goods Administration], have maintained that the benefit-risk ratio [is favorable]… ”

But Thiru was unable to respond to Rennick’s question regarding the biochemical pathways that cause myocarditis and pericarditis.

Iversen said:

“The fact that they don’t know why it causes myocarditis and pericarditis is extremely alarming, because how can they then tell us confidently that these other vaccines they’re rolling out … ‘don’t worry it’s totally safe’?”

The next “bombshell,” Iversen said, came when they admitted that staff at Pfizer in Australia did not receive the same vaccine batch as the Australian general public.

The Australian TGA, which tested all of the COVID-19 vaccines in the country, did not test the vaccine given to Pfizer employees.

“Pfizer undertook to import our vaccines specifically for the employee vaccination program and that was so that no vaccine would be taken from government stocks that was being delivered to clinics as needed,” Hewitt explained.

Iversen said that meant no one has any idea what the Pfizer employees actually took — and she wondered why Pfizer might do that.

“We could only speculate but it’s odd, isn’t it, that they would give their Australian employees a version of the vaccine that was not tested by the Australian regulatory body,” she said.

Senator Malcolm Roberts asked whether any Pfizer employees who had refused to take the vaccine were fired as a result. The executives confirmed that “a small number of colleagues departed the company.”

But, Hewitt insisted that no one, anywhere, was forced to take the vaccine, despite Australia’s strict mandates.

Senator Pauline Hanson challenged Hewitt: “You were in Australia during COVID-19. You must have been fully aware that people — nurses, doctors, people — to have their jobs, to keep their jobs, were forced to have the vaccination,” she said.

“Now do you retract your statement that they were not forced?” she asked.

“I believe, firmly, that nobody was forced to have a vaccine,” Hewitt responded. He added:

“Vaccine requirements are determined by governments and health authorities. I believe everybody was offered an opportunity to get a vaccine or not get a vaccine. I don’t believe that anybody was forced to take a vaccine.”

“A lot of Australians would disagree with you,” Hanson said.

Iversen predicted there will be more hearings around the world as more people realize they were lied to.

“Things were not the way they were supposed to be and we ended up losing a lot of freedoms,” Iversen said. “We’re going to see more hearings like this with more angry lawmakers would be my guess.”

Thiru and Hewitt’s comments come just three weeks after the TGA announced it would stop providing reports on myocarditis and pericarditis following the COVID-19 vaccine because the rates have stabilized.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed that both myocarditis and pericarditis are considered side effects of mRNA vaccines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna.

Last month, a study published in the European Journal of Heart Failure found that 1 in 35 people in the study had myocarditis after receiving the COVID-19 booster.

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) shows 1,579,416 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 7, 2023. Of those, there are 5,322 reports of myocardial infarction.

The CDC uses a narrowed case definition of “myocarditis,” which excludes cases of cardiac arrest, ischemic strokes and deaths due to heart problems that occur before one has the chance to go to the emergency department.

In Australia, the total number of pericarditis cases resulting from a COVID-19 vaccine is 3,825, with six cases resulting in death, based on data from the Database of Adverse Event Notifications as of Aug. 8, according to Epoch Times reporting.

There have also been 1,334 cases of myocarditis to date, with 17 resulting in death.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/iversen-australia-pfizer-employees-private-batch-covid-vaccine/

Chlorine dioxide proven to kill hospital superbugs, including MRSA

By Dr Eddy Betterman

The Journal of Bacteriology & Mycology: Open Access published a study recently that highlights the efficacy of chlorine dioxide in eradicating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a common hospital “superbug.”

George Georgiou, a researcher from the Da Vinci BioSciences Research Centre in Cyprus, set out to determine new methods of fighting MRSA, which kills at least 50,000 people every year in the United States and Europe alone.

More than 10 percent of all bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus infections are caused by MRSA, Georgiou found, while several countries are seeing closer to 50 percent being caused by MRSA – and antibiotic-resistant strains of Staph only continue to rise right alongside antibiotic overuse and over-prescription.

It is becoming increasingly more difficult to treat infections using standard antibiotics precisely because superbugs are on the rise. The good news is that chlorine dioxide, a natural dietary supplement, is highly effective at destroying MRSA, and likely many other such superbugs.

“The compound chlorine dioxide (ClO2), now commercially important, is not a recent discovery,” Georgiou explains in his paper.

“The gas was first produced by Humphrey Davy in 1811 when reacting hydrochloric acid with potassium chlorate. This yielded ‘euchlorine,’ as it was then termed. Watt and Burgess, who invented alkaline pulp bleaching in 1834, mentioned euchlorine as a bleaching agent in their first patent.”

(Related: Researchers out of Pakistan found that adding chlorine dioxide to chicken feed produced healthier birds with no gut problems – and healed birds that already had gut problems.)

Chlorine dioxide is also powerfully effective against malaria and HIV

For a while, chlorine dioxide was mistakenly referred to as “bleach,” only to later be dubbed a “disinfectant.” It turns out that as a supplement, chlorine dioxide is bactericidal, virucidal, sporicidal, cysticidal, algicidal, and fungicidal – and the best part is that chlorine dioxide is safe, effective, and drug-free.

“It has been reported that chlorine dioxide, a strong oxidant, can inhibit or destroy microorganisms at concentrations ranging from 1 to 100 ppm which produced potent antiviral activity, inactivating > or = 99.9% of the viruses with a 15-sec treatment for sensitization,” Georgiou’s paper explains.

“Moreover, ClO2 can remove biofilms swiftly because it is highly soluble in water and unlike ozone, it does not react with the extracellular polysaccharides of the biofilm. This way ClO2 can penetrate biofilms rapidly to reach and kill the microbes living within the film – a huge advantage that is different to tackle for both Natural and Allopathic Medicine.”

In tests involving MRSA, Georgiou applied varying concentrations of MMS (miracle mineral supplement), as ClO2 is also called, to an MRSA solution for different time periods ranging from 30 seconds all the way to 30 minutes. The lowest concentration was 0.5 ppm for 30 seconds all the way up to 5 ppm for 30 minutes.

In all of the experiments, the ClO2 solution at all concentrations effectively inhibited the growth of MRSA by 99.99 percent.

“In these in vitro experiments, the efficacy of chlorine dioxide against MRSA has been shown consistently, with growth inhibition of 99.99% – 100% in even the smallest concentrations of 0.5 ppm,” the paper explains, adding that this is an incredible outcome considering the versatility and unpredictability of MRSA, which has a propensity to mutate its way out of being destroyed by traditional therapeutics.

“Given the proven safety of chlorine dioxide in animal and human experiments to date, there is an urgent need for high-quality clinical trials to determine the efficacy of chlorine dioxide with individuals infected with MRSA today.”

The paper also revealed that chlorine dioxide is being used to eradicate all sorts of other serious illnesses such as malaria and HIV, with plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that it works really well for such purposes, especially when nothing else does.

[…]

Via https://dreddymd.com/2023/08/07/chlorine-dioxide-proven-to-kill-hospital-superbugs-including-mrsa/

Will Insurance Costs Derail the EV Revolution?

Duggan Flanakin

Real Clear Wire

Four hundred ninety-eight electric vehicles (EVs) and over 3,200 other vehicles, including 350 Mercedes Benzes, were bound for Egypt on the Fremantle Highway when one or more of the EVs caught fire, costing at least one seaman his life and injuring several others. Curiously, the Dutch coast guard had initially reported that only 25 of the vehicles were battery-electric models.

At last report, the Dutch coast guard admitted that it has been unable to put out the fire and that the ship has taken on water and is “listing” and on a trajectory toward a capsize. Should the ship sink, the total loss would also threaten the Frisian island of Ameland, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is home to over 10,000 aquatic and terrestrial species and located near one of the world’s most important migratory-bird habitats.

On a global scale, of course, 3,000 vehicles are but a drop in the bucket, and in insurance terms, the loss of one 18,500–ton transport ship and one human life (all the wounded are expected to survive, despite broken bones, burns, and respiratory problems) is only so much. To compute a total cost, the ecological devastation would also have to be factored in, along with the cost of rescue, firefighting, and salvage operations.

But all in all, this was a freak accident, a one-off. This stuff never happens. Right?

Actually, it does. Just a year ago, the “Felicity Ace” sank as it was being towed from the site where 13 days earlier a fire had broken out on board. That ship, too, was transporting EVs and internal-combustion vehicles – including 15 Lamborghini Aventador LP 780-4 Ultimae supercars valued at half a million dollars apiece. Also lost were 1,117 Porches, 1,944 Audis, 561 Volkswagens, 189 Bentleys, and 70 other Lamborghinis.

And just a month ago, two firefighters died battling flames that broke out on another roll-on, roll-off (RORO) cargo ship docked at Port Newark in New Jersey. Firefighters arrived at the scene when just five to seven vehicles on the 10th floor of the ship were on fire, but the fire quickly spread to the 11th and 12th floors.

One commenter explained that on a RORO ship, vehicles are chain-shackled on all four wheels to the deck, creating trip hazards for firefighters. There are multiple decks, ramps, ladders, confined spaces, low overhead, and solid metal all around (like a gigantic oven). Fighting such fires is a very dangerous challenge, even if the deck plan of the ship is well known.

The port authority assured reporters that no EVs numbered among the 5,000 vehicles (bound for Africa) on board, but just imagine if the fire had begun with the ship far out at sea. Or imagine the horror should an EV fire break out on a ferry boat carrying hundreds of vehicles and thousands of passengers? Or in an underground parking garage in a New York high-rise?

Olivia Murray notes that automakers have largely replaced steel and metal with plastic, and that a huge fire could unleash immeasurable quantities of synthetic chemicals into the atmosphere from the burning plastic. A total capsize would send millions of pounds of debris and spilled motor oil (from the non-EV autos) to the sea floor along with any toxic flame retardants. The impact on sensitive marine life would not be known for years.

Even at $80,000 per vehicle (a low number, perhaps), the insurance loss for the nearly 4,000 vehicles on the “Felicity Ace” alone would be $320 million – and this does not include the loss to end-buyers of the opportunity to drive a vehicle that they may have already purchased.

But massive fires are not the only insurance concern with EVs. The New York Times recently reported the sad story of a Rivian owner whose electric pickup truck was involved in what would normally be considered “a minor fender bender.” The owner’s insurance company gladly offered to pay about $1,600 for the repairs, but the certified repair shop produced a bill for $42,000 – about half the cost of the vehicle.

The Times reporter explained: “A key reason is that the accident damaged a sleek panel that extends from the truck’s rear to front roof pillars.” To repair and repaint the vehicle, mechanics had to remove the interior ceiling material (the headliner) and the front windshield. Indeed, the State of New York’s consumer guide for auto insurance lists many models as “difficult-to-insure vehicles” simply because they are electric.

But that’s still better than the news reported in March that insurance companies are having to write off EVs with just a few miles – leading to higher premiums – because of the many EVs for which there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents. EV battery packs are ending up in junkyards in multiple countries.

According to the Agent Support Network of America, the intense impact of a crash can be much more devastating to EVs, increasing the likelihood of a totaled versus repairable car. EVs, according to Consumer Reports, may not withstand an accident as well as traditional gasoline-powered vehicles. EV batteries are vulnerable to damage, and with any indication of a compromised battery, insurance companies will likely declare an EV crash a total loss.

An overlooked insurance cost for EVs involves towing, which many insurance customers (and AAA members) take for granted as an inexpensive add-on to their policies. But EVs can be safely towed only on a flatbed truck with enough load capacity to handle the extra weight of the vehicle. Drivers are warned not to allow anyone to try to tow their EV with its wheels on the ground. Improper towing can damage, even total, the vehicle.

The higher costs for auto insurance only add to the already-higher costs of purchasing an EV, then procuring a personal charging station and spending more money to upgrade home wiring boxes (especially for older homes). The inconvenience of having your nearly new vehicle totaled – and then having to wait perhaps months for a replacement – further adds to the “buyer avoidance” that has frustrated those who demand an immediate end to the traditional gasoline-powered vehicles that most people around the world rely upon.

As automakers continue to lose money on EVs and consumers worldwide continue to prefer the vehicles they have learned to trust over decades, will EV mandates fall by the wayside – or will elites again double down, believing that “resistance is futile”?

[…]

Via https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/08/02/will_insurance_costs_derail_the_ev_revolution_970320.html

India’s 1857 Peoples Rebellion

Episode 25 Issues and Events of 1857

A History of India

Michael Fisher (2016)

The British call the rebellion of 1857 the Sepoy Rebellion. Indians refer to it as the Peoples Uprising.

As of 1857, the British East India Company had three separate armies controlling India’s British-occupied territories. The largest was in Bengal. The two smaller armies in Bombay and Madras weren’t involved in the uprising. Altogether 250,000 of the Company’s troops were Indian mercenaries (aka sepoys) and 40,000 were European.

The Bengal army consisted of high caste Brahmins whose family owned farms, rajputs (jati consisting of traditional warriors and kings) and Muslim light cavalry. All came from families who had served as mercenaries for the Mughal empire.

Some of their grievances against their British officers included

their inability to be promoted beyond the rank of petty officer or command white soldiersthe exclusion of mixed race Indians from the officer corpsa recent pay reductionlack of respect from white officersmandatory attendance at Christian servicesa ban on displaying symbols of their own religion while in uniformmandatory service in foreign territories despite Hindu taboos against traveling outside Indiahigher taxes on their farms following annexation by the British East India Companyloss of earlier privileges.

It would be the newly annexed territories that led the revolt. One example was Jhansi (in Deccan), where Rani Lakshmi Bai, the consort of a deceased rajput, whose territory was annexed when the British East India Company refused to acknowledge their son as his rightful heir. She led the successful defense of Jhansi against Company troops.

Another leading center of revolt was Awadh, which was annexed for “misgovernment” after the the kingdom loaned the British East India Company large sums of money they never repaid.

The uprising started in Meerut after the Bengal Army’s Third Light Cavalry rose up against their British officers. Its Hindu and Muslim members were being imprisoned or executed for refusing orders to bite open the paper gunpowder cartridges used to load their Enfield rifles.*

After liberating Meerut in May 1857, the rebels marched to Delhi to liberate the deposed king of the Red City (who was in prison) and restore him to his throne. On the way, they looted prisons, treasuries, post offices, telegraph offices and officers quarters. May disgruntled landlords and other civilians joined the rebellion.

In Bengal, Company officers intercepted armies on their way to China and marched them up the Ganges. After a month, they retook Banaras and Allahabad. They recaptured Delhi by September 1857 and Lucknow by early 1858. Gwalior and Jansi (in Deccan) weren’t liberated until June.

Immediately following the uprising, the British Parliament ended the British East India Company’s authority to govern in India and put all their troops under the direct command of the British monarch and transferred political control to the British-run Indian Civil Service. Britain simultaneously guaranteed the sovereignty of all princely states that didn’t rebel, which survived until Indian independence in 1947.

Technically that meant one quarter of the Indian population didn’t live under British rule. The largest independent principality was Hyderabad (the size of France). Despite their nominal independence the nawabs who ruled these “independent” states were supervised by British agents and could be deposed if they failed to implement British policies.

*Their British officers refused to identify the source of the grease used on the paper cartridges they had to put in their mouths. Pork fat would have defiled Muslims, while either beef or pork fat were an abomination to Hindus.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi was born in Porbander, as small kingdom of 70,000 in Gudjaret. Born into the Vaishya varna, he was descended from three generations of Gudjareti prime ministers. Historically his family were grocers (the meaning of the name Gandhi).

At the time of Gandhi’s rule, Porbandeer was not under direct British rule. However it came under indirect British rule during his father’s generation.* Thus it was the absolute control Britain had over Indian government and the Indian economy that persuaded Gandhi he needed to obtain an English education.

After entering into an arranged marriage at 13, Gandhi had his first son (who died) at 16. After having two more sons, he left his family at 18 to study in the UK.

In addition to qualifying as a barrister, he also studied dancing, violin and French to increase his acceptance in British society. He also concealed hi marriage in order to meet British women.

He returned to India at 21 but was unable to practice law because he couldn’t attract any clients.

At age 24, he again left his family to join the Indian diaspora in South Africa. At the time, modern day South Africa consisted of the Dutch colonies of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and the British colonies of Cape Colony and Natal. Gandhi would spend the next 20 years in Natal, the capitol of Durbin.

Following the abolition of slavery, Natal replaced their slaves with indentured servants from India. At the time Gandhi arrived, there were 40,000 Indians in Natal, which was roughly equal to the white population.

After the British government arbitrarily increased the term of indenture from five to ten years, as well as adding a special tax on Indian immigrants, Gandhi successfully organized to repeal the tax. Forming the Natal Indian Congress (named after the Indian National Congress**), he went to lead nonviolent protests against the first anti-Apartheid laws. As he and his supporters filled up the jails, the British authorities had no choice but to start releasing him.

He returned to India at age 46. One of the first campaigns he engaged in was in Chamaran in Behar in support of striking indigo farmers. Following his arrest, Gandhi used his own trial to force the police spies who were surveilling him to testify.

He subsequently went to Ahmedabad to support textile workers striking against Indian factory owners.*** During a a plague outbreak, they increased wages due to a shortage of workers and then decreased them after the plague passed. Gandhi used a threat to fast until death to force the factory owners to agree. This led to the formation of one of India’s first labor unions.

Gandhi was opposed to militant nationalist groups who used assassinations and bombings to pressure the British to leave. He called off a national strike when militants burned down a police station with officers inside, asserting that Indians weren’t morally ready for independence.

Despite reaching out to untouchables, he was unsuccessful in enlisting them in his movement because he opposed the special constituencies they sought (where only untouchables could run for office or vote). He was equally unsuccessful in recruiting Muslim to his independence movement (despite the fact a Hindu nationalist ultimately assassinated him for being too sympathetic to Muslims.

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***India’s textile industry was in the process of being killed off by cheap textile imports from Britain.