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August 5, 2023
RFK Jr Agrees (Again) to Interview with Max Blumenthal
RFK Jr has texted Jimmy Dore agreeing to interview with Max Blumenthal.
August 4, 2023
Despite 12 Deaths During Clinical Trials, CDC Signs Off on RSV Shots for Newborns
Medical experts criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Thursday decision to recommend a “new immunization” for newborns to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, calling the move unnecessary and not worth the known risks.
Beyfortus, also known as nirsevimab, is produced by pharma giants Sanofi and AstraZeneca.
In a press release, the CDC referred to the drug as a “powerful tool” and a “new immunization.” According to the agency:
“ACIP [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] voted to include nirsevimab in the Vaccines for Children program, which provides recommended vaccines and immunizations at no cost to about half of the nation’s children.
“CDC is currently working to make nirsevimab available through the Vaccines for Children program. Healthcare providers will be a key partner in CDC’s outreach efforts. Additional clinical guidance and healthcare provider education material will be provided by CDC in the coming months.”
According to The Associated Press (AP), the drug will be offered as a “one-time shot for infants born just before or during the RSV season and for those less than 8 months old before the season starts,” and for some high-risk 8-19-month-old infants.
Infants in the high-risk group include “immunocompromised children and those with chronic lung disease — as well as Native American and Alaska Native children, who have RSV hospitalization rates between four and 10 times that of the general population,” STAT News reported.
CDC’s ACIP approved the recommendations in a unanimous 10-0 vote. Although not bound by ACIP’s vote, CDC Director Mandy Cohen signed off on the recommendations later on Thursday, according to CNBC.
Beyfortus will be “broadly available for all infants regardless of whether they have a health condition,” CNBC reported, adding that it will be “administered as a single dose.”
Some medical experts criticized the recommendation, pointing to infant deaths that occurred during the clinical trial for Beyfortus and questioning the need for their widespread administration to this age group.
Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough told The Defender:
“While monoclonal antibodies are reasonably safe and effective, they are not clinically indicated nor medically necessary in all newborns.
“This new preventive strategy should be considered in rare cases with baseline lung disease such as severe asthma or cystic fibrosis. Injecting all newborns should be off the table and rejected by parents who want to avoid unnecessary drugs and potential harms.”
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., senior director of science and research for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), cited the significant number of infant deaths during Beyfortus’ clinical trial in his remarks:
“This is really too bad and seems to be a part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ scare tactics recently regarding RSV, which is generally a mild infection that finds its origin during the development of the polio vaccine.
“The efficacy of the antibodies from clinical trials is woefully low and the circulating half-life of such a therapeutic may be as low as two weeks.
“I’m also worried about allergic reactions in newborns, especially given the high dose of antibodies and especially given that 12 infants died in the experimental arm of the study.”
Some medical experts criticized the recommendation, pointing to infant deaths that occurred during the clinical trial for Beyfortus and questioning the need for their widespread administration to this age group.
Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough told The Defender:
“While monoclonal antibodies are reasonably safe and effective, they are not clinically indicated nor medically necessary in all newborns.
“This new preventive strategy should be considered in rare cases with baseline lung disease such as severe asthma or cystic fibrosis. Injecting all newborns should be off the table and rejected by parents who want to avoid unnecessary drugs and potential harms.”
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., senior director of science and research for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), cited the significant number of infant deaths during Beyfortus’ clinical trial in his remarks:
“This is really too bad and seems to be a part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ scare tactics recently regarding RSV, which is generally a mild infection that finds its origin during the development of the polio vaccine.
“The efficacy of the antibodies from clinical trials is woefully low and the circulating half-life of such a therapeutic may be as low as two weeks.
“I’m also worried about allergic reactions in newborns, especially given the high dose of antibodies and especially given that 12 infants died in the experimental arm of the clinical trial.”
Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist, biological warfare epidemiologist and member of the CHD scientific advisory committee, cited a CDC study indicating RSV’s low risk for babies.
She also cited the lack of demonstrated long-term efficacy for such monoclonal antibodies.
Nass also noted that there are risks associated with the administration of monoclonal antibodies more broadly, citing the Cleveland Clinic, which states that “Infusion reactions are common, and occur during or shortly after monoclonal antibody treatment.”
There are also “more serious but less common risks linked to unwanted immune system reactions, such as acute anaphylaxis, cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and serum sickness.”
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ACIP ignores ‘unrelated’ infant deaths during Beyfortus clinical trial
Several infant deaths — 12 in all — were reported during the clinical trial, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claimed during a June review were “unrelated” to the antibody. On Thursday, Jones repeated this claim during the ACIP meeting, stating that “no RSV-associated deaths were recorded.”
CNBC reported in June that of the 12 infants, “Four died from cardiac disease, two died from gastroenteritis, two died from unknown causes but were likely cases [of] sudden infant death syndrome, one died from a tumor, one died from COVID, one died from a skull fracture, and one died of pneumonia.”
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Perhaps partially acknowledging such concerns, STAT News reported that “experts cautioned that rolling the drug out across the country would be difficult. The U.S. has never before tried to give this type of medicine to nearly every infant.”
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-beyfortus-nirsevimab-rsv-shots-newborns/
Texas Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Private Covid Jab Mandates
Charlotte Scott
AUSTIN, Texas — The days of seeing Texas health care workers in full protective equipment in drive-thru COVID testing lines are long gone. But conversations about the deadly disease and vaccination against it are not.
What You Need To KnowRep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian, wants the governor to call a special session to ban COVID mandates at businessesDuring the 88th legislative session, Texas passed a bill that says government entities are prohibited from requiring COVID-related masks, vaccines or business shutdownsHarrison says it is needed to protect employees who may be let go if they refuse to get a COVID vaccinationCritics argue unvaccinated individuals are not a protected classWhen COVID vaccines were made available, some companies required their employees to get a shot. The fact that some businesses still mandate this is not OK with one Republican state representative.
“COVID vaccine mandates are tyrannical. They are violative of medical freedom. They have no place in the great state of Texas. And we’ve got to work to abolish them here, too,” said Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian.
CVS Health requires certain employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID and get booster shots. Meta, the platform that operates Facebook and Instagram, also requires a shot to work in the office.
Republicans should be fighting FOR medical freedom.
This #txlege session, the REPUBLICAN House Calendars Committee chose to protect COVID vaccine mandates.
Their decision is why COVID mandates are ruining careers in Texas today.
A Republican committee.
Let that sink in. https://t.co/0ioS7Crbwn
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) July 24, 2023
Ahead of the 88th legislative session, the governor said one of his priorities was to end COVID restrictions forever. Lawmakers almost achieved that by passing legislation that says government entities are prohibited from requiring COVID-related masks, vaccines or business shutdowns.
“That was a fine bill,” Rep. Harrison said. “I voted for it. It’s fine.”
But the law doesn’t touch the private sector, which means places like hospitals and schools can still have COVID vaccine mandates. Rep. Harrison wants the governor to call a special session to ban COVID mandates at businesses, but that’s unlikely to happen.
“Just as employees have the right to work where they want, employers have the right to hire who they want, as long as they’re not discriminating, right? So, people who are unvaccinated are not a protected class under federal law or state law,” said Carliss Chatman, an associate professor of law at Southern Methodist University. “I think a lot of politicians are trying to make it as if the unvaccinated are a protected class, but they’re not. It’s not the same as saying, ‘I’m not going to hire women, or I’m not going to hire people who are overweight, or I’m not going to hire people who don’t have straight hair.’”
Chatman adds if you don’t like the requirements of a job, you don’t have to take it.
“We all are adults, and we all have freedom of contract, and we all suffer the consequences or get the benefits of our economic decisions,” Chatman said. “And it’s not for the government to come in and mandate what a workplace should look like, beyond things that are patently discriminatory.”
Rep. Harrison calls himself a “small government guy” but says legislative action is needed to protect employees who may be let go if they refuse to get a COVID vaccination.
“I want government out of the affairs of business,” he said. “But the reason we have to do this is to correct a bad government action. It was the government that incentivized the private sector mandates by giving the employers liability protection if they mandated a vaccine on their employees. So we’ve got to pass a bill to protect medical freedom to undo the bad government distortions that created these mandates in the first place.”
The state legislature also passed a bill during the regular session that says businesses who do not require vaccination are not liable for “injury or death caused by the exposure of an individual to the pandemic disease through an employee or contractor of the business.”
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RFK Jr staff block Israel-Palestine dialogue
A day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed to a public discussion with Max Blumenthal on Israel-Palestine, his campaign walked back his words. RFK Jr. has pledged “unconditional support” to Israel while spouting vitriolic anti-Palestinian rheto r ic.
One day after Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed to comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore’s proposal that he engage with The Grayzone’s editor-in-chief, Max Blumenthal, in a public dialogue on Israel-Palestine, Kennedy’s campaign nixed the discussion.
During an August 1 phone call with Grayzone correspondent Liam Cosgrove, RFK Jr. campaign communications director, Stephanie Spear, declared: “[Kennedy’s] not debating Max Blumenthal… He’s not gonna debate anyone. He’s running for president.”
“You’re not hearing me,” she emphasized. “We’re not gonna do it, okay?”
Hours after her call with Cosgrove, Spear contacted Blumenthal directly to explain that Kennedy would not agree to any public discussion with The Grayzone editor until Spring 2024, once the first five primaries are over.
She offered Blumenthal an off-the-record phone conversation with the candidate as an apparent consolation.
Though Blumenthal never insisted on a formal debate, but rather, a live interview such as as the ones Kennedy has granted popular media figures like Dore, Glenn Greenwald and Briahna Joy Gray, Spear repeatedly stated that the candidate would not debate anyone except the President of the United States until the first five presidential primaries are over.
“We’re hitting different demographics, and we’re also hitting on the different issues,” Spear emphasized. “So, you know, it’s really a strategy thing, and – we want to debate President Biden. He’s a Democratic candidate, that’s what we’re waiting for.”
This June, however, Kennedy enthusiastically accepted podcaster Joe Rogan’s offer to participate in a live debate with Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and one of the country’s most vociferous boosters of Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates. Rogan pledged to donate $100,000 to a charity of Hotez’s choice if the doctor entered the octagon. Hotez, who provoked Rogan’s challenge by accusing him and RFK of “vaccine misinformation,” invited widespread mockery and scorn when he refused to debate.
But now, RFK is refusing to engage on an issue that he recently placed at the heart of his campaign, and which has shocked many supporters who believed he offered an alternative to the pro-war bipartisan consensus: his “unconditional support” for the state of Israel and its military’s conduct in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
During his conversation with Kennedy’s communications director, Cosgrove challenged Spear on the candidate’s sudden timidity. “RFK goes on all these interviews and says that he wants to debate people,” he stated, “so I’m a bit confused about why he says that, and you guys don’t want to debate. Is it your decision, or is it him saying that?”
“It’s the campaign’s decision, Liam,” Spear stated.
“He did not ask for a debate with Max,” she continued in an annoyed tone, “so maybe re-listen to that… We’re not gonna debate, I don’t know how many times I have to tell you that.”
Bombarded with antisemitism accusations, RFK Jr enlists in Israel’s propaganda army
@RobertKennedyJr agrees to debate @MaxBlumenthal over Israel-Palestine. pic.twitter.com/za8itc3wKv
— Post-duopolist (@dirtbagleft1) August 1, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to define himself as “the strongest peace and freedom candidate in two decades,” while denouncing “neocons and warmongers.” At the same time, he has zealously defended the conduct of Israel’s military and justified the country’s decades-long occupation of Palestinians – even denying that any military occupation exists.
Kennedy placed his Likudnik views on Israel-Palestine at the forefront of his campaign message after being bombarded with accusations of antisemitism stemming from comments he made at a private July 14 event in New York City. Over dinner, he responded to a question about the origins of Covid-19 by opining that “there is an argument” the virus did not affect Ashkenazi Jews and people of Chinese descent as strongly as “Caucasians and Black people.”
“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy qualified.
When a New York Post reporter who had been present at the dinner published the candidate’s comments, a maelstrom of manufactured outrage burst forth from Kennedy’s opponents within the Democratic establishment. While the Biden White House and a host of Jewish pressure groups condemned Kennedy as an antisemite, a letter signed by 100 Democratic members of Congress likened him to Adolph Hitler.
When Kennedy arrived on Capitol Hill for July 20 testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz predictably blasted him as a Jew hater. He attempted to push back by deploying ultra-Zionist talking points.
“I’m the only person that has publicly objected to that $2 billion payout that the Biden administration is now making to Iran, which is a genocidal program. I’ve fought more ferociously for Israel than anybody,” Kennedy claimed.
He was apparently referring to the $2.7 billion Iran received in gas and electric payments from Iraq – not the US – after the Biden administration granted the latter country’s request for a sanctions waiver. In other words, Kennedy was framing cross-border trade between two regional, sovereign neighbors as “genocidal.”
Kennedy escalated his warlike rhetoric during a July 23 New York City event hosted by Shmuley Boteach, a former reality show rabbi recruited by the late Likudnik oligarch Sheldon Adelson to advance the cause of Greater Israel within the United States. (Adelson was a top funder of Donald Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns).
During a 20-minute-long diatribe laden with anti-Palestinian venom and ultra-Zionist propaganda, Kennedy referred to hijabs as “habibs” and pronounced Chechnya as though he had not heard of the place until moments before the event. While pledging to prevent any country in the Middle East from obtaining nuclear weapons as president, the candidate seemed unaware that Israel possessed a secret nuclear arsenal.
There is an alarming trend in the Democratic Party to describe Israel as an apartheid state. This rhetoric is dangerous and inaccurate. @RepDWStweets. It’s time to set the record straight.
Thank you @RabbiShmuley for the opportunity. pic.twitter.com/hgDfOvHlBv
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 28, 2023
Later in the interview, Dore displayed a tweet by Blumenthal that featured video of Israeli fighter jets bombing Gaza’s Shorouk Tower, an office building that housed studios of local and international media outlets. When Dore read the tweet, in which Blumenthal explained that he had conducted several interviews inside the building and collaborated with Palestinian colleagues who worked there, Kennedy questioned The Grayzone editor’s credibility.
“I love Max Blumenthal,” the candidate began, “but I do not think he’s objective on Israel. His reporting on Israel – it needs to be questioned.”
Dore responded, “Ok, here’s what I would ask: just like Peter Hotez ducked you and Joe Rogan, I would love – because Max is the guy to talk to about this, not me. Would you do an interview with Max? Because he would be able to talk to you about this way better than I can.”
“Yeah, I would love to talk to Max,” Kennedy said in a seemingly sincere tone.
Within 24 hours, however, his communications director was frantically explaining why no such conversation could take place.
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Via https://thegrayzone.com/2023/08/03/rfk-jr-israel-palestine-dialogue/
Understanding Your Rights and Responsibilities in Childhood Vaccination: A Guide for Parents
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Dr Paul Thomas
With summer winding down and schools about to open, parents around the country (USA) have received or will receive letters of exclusion from their child’s school. The letter will state that your child is required to be up to date on their childhood immunizations according to the CDC, or they will not be allowed to attend school.
You are not told that other than a handful of states that have eliminated both the religious and the philosophical exemptions, you are free to do whatever you believe is best for your child. You can do some, all, or none of the childhood vaccines. Each state may have a different form or process but rest assured; it is the law of your state that you have this right; the freedom to choose.
To learn more about the specifics for your state, NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center) https://www.nvic.org has all the information you need.
National Vaccine Information Center
If you live in California, New York, West Virginia, Maine, and possibly Mississippi, the only exemption allowed is a medical exemption. All states allow medical exemptions, which is where a doctor writes a medical exemption.
The challenge for doctors is that the states only allow medical exemptions according to the CDC guidelines, which means you can only get exemptions for a vaccine that has caused death or a severe anaphylactic reaction. They essentially don’t allow exemptions for all vaccines. More importantly, doctors who write medical exemptions invite an investigation by their state medical board and risk losing their medical license. This has made medical exemptions something, in theory, one could hope to get, but in reality, and practically speaking, medical exemptions no longer exist.
So, what do you do if you live in one of the states that only allow medical exemptions?
Basically, you either must get your child up to date, home school, or leave the state for one that allows religious or philosophical exemptions. If you feel you have no choice but to get your child up to date, I highly recommend that you consult a medical provider to help you figure out the safest way to do this.
I am available for coaching at https://www.kidsfirst4ever.com. I don’t diagnose or treat as I am retired and relinquished my license.
Parents and guardians, there is nothing more important in your role to nurture and protect your children than how you handle the vaccine situation. There is no one size fits all that makes sense. Each vaccine should be looked at individually, and you should determine if it makes sense for your child, given the prevalence of the disease for which there is a vaccine and the risks and benefits of giving the vaccine or not giving the vaccine.
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Via https://kidfirst4ever.substack.com/p/understanding-your-rights-and-responsibilities
Early European Colonization of India
Episode 23 Competing European Empire
A History of India
Michael Fisher (2016)
Following the 1453 Ottoman seizure of the Eastern Roman empire, the Turks totally controlled land access to India’s highly prized spice and cotton trade. This, in turn, created intense pressure on European leaders to discover a sea route to India.
In 1494, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordeallas (with the Pope’s approval), awarding Portugal colonization rights in Brazil, Africa and southern Asia as far as Japan. The treaty granted Spain exclusive colonization rights everywhere else.
Four years later in 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasca da Gamma discovered a direct sea route Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. This would lead to the first European colonies in Asia (30 years before the Mughals arrived).
The first Portuguese to land at Calicut in the late 15th century thought all the non-Muslims they encountered were Christians praying to a dark-skinned version of the Virgin Mary. The Calicut natives, in turn, found the behavior of the first Portuguese explorers extremely shocking. Kitted out with canons, the Portuguese boats seized all the other vessels in the harbor, slaughtered all their crew and passengers and set fire to them.
With their small ship holds, early Portuguese exporters mainly on pepper, forcing the price down by blocking African and Ottoman traders from purchasing it. They also forced all ships leaving Calicut harbor to buy and display a Cartaz, a flag displaying a Christian cross. In addition to South American gold and silver, Portuguese traders also introduced tomatoes, potatoes, chili peppers, invasive species and disease and European-style cannon and other munitions to India. These innovations quickly spread to the interior.
In 1560, the Portuguese set up an Inquisition in India to pressure native Indians to convert to Catholicism. In 1632, Shah Jahan captured 400 Portuguese men and women in an effort to discourage further colonization. He released all those who converted to Islam and distributed the others to his courtiers as slaves.
Although Portugal continued to dominate European trade into the 1800s, by 1850 they only occupied coastal trading settlements in Surat, Goa, Calicut, Cochin and Galle (in modern day Sri Lanka). Diu, Daman and Goa remained Portuguese colonies until 1961, when they were annexed by the Republic of India.
Northern Europe pursued a different, ultimately superior approach to colonization by putting it under the control of the first capitalist corporations: the English East India corporation founded in 1600, the Dutch East India Company founded in 1602 and the French East India Company in 1664. This created more financial certainty for merchants underwriting ships to sail halfway around the world (half of which never returned).
In 1600, Elizabeth I chartered the British East India Company, granting it a monopoly on all English trade from Africa to the Philippines. The charter granted them the right to raise armies and use military force. Cotton, which was far more comfortable than the wool and linen available in Europe, was their export of choice.
Between 1670-1740, there was a 500% increase in Indian imports to England, while massive inflation from the heavy influx of New World gold and silver further destabilized the Mughal empire. By the end of the 17th century, it had fragmented into numerous small kingdoms.
In 1668, control of Bombay shifted from the Portuguese to Charles II of England after he married a Portuguese princess. Owing to the cost of shipping English troops 12,000 miles away, the English East India company recruited local sepoy mercenaries to defend their colonial holdings.
The French East India Company captured Madras in 1745, which they swapped for Louisbourg Canada in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
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August 3, 2023
Alberta to pause new solar and wind power projects for six months amid review of end-of-life rules
Emma GraneyAlberta is pausing all approvals for new wind and solar power projects larger than one megawatt for the next six months, as it reviews where they can be built, how the surge in renewables affects the province’s power grid and rules about what happens to installations when they reach the end of their life.
Alberta leads Canada in renewables growth. The multibillion-dollar boom in the province over the past few years has been driven by an abundance of sun, a rapid and dramatic drop in the cost of solar technology and Alberta’s unique power market structure, which makes it easy for companies to sign renewable power purchase agreements, thus helping them with their corporate emissions-reduction goals.
Alberta’s power grid capacity is about 18,000 megawatts. Just a few years ago, in 2015, coal generated close to two-thirds of the province’s power. That year, a suite of climate policies introduced by the newly elected NDP included a goal to get Alberta off coal power by 2030, which is now set to happen by the end of 2023. Currently, about one-third of the grid is renewable power.
But the United Conservative Party government says the surge in wind and solar projects means policies need to be updated to reflect the current state of the market.
Affordability and Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf said that could include mandatory security bonds that renewable developers must pay to ensure projects can be cleaned up when they reach the end of their life.
“When the electricity grid was set up 25 years ago, those were great policies, but the world’s changed. So we need to address this quickly and answer some of these challenges,” he told The Globe and Mail in an interview.
The pause on project approvals before the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) begins on Thursday, and runs until Feb. 29. Work on the policy review will begin immediately, led by the AUC. Microgeneration, projects under one megawatt and isolated generation projects will be exempted from the pause.
“The sooner we start with a defined process and timeline, the sooner we can resolve these items and move forward together,” Mr. Neudorf said.
“We think that transparency, as well as collaboration with industry, is going to set clear expectations, saying we all want to work together to a great end.”
There are 3,400 megawatts of wind and solar projects currently under construction in Alberta, worth more than $2.7-billion. They have brought jobs and a flood of new revenue for rural municipalities in the form of taxes.
But the developments have also caused consternation.
Rural municipalities worry that prime agricultural land is being used for solar panels rather than crops, and residents aren’t always fans of the wind turbines that spin on the horizon.
And energy projects have stung rural communities before. Orphaned oil and gas wells litter the province, left behind by bankrupt operators or run partially dry then sold to small companies that can’t – or won’t – pay to plug and mitigate them. Municipal councils and landowners don’t want to be stuck with a similar problem when it comes to solar and wind assets.
Renewable developers generally include terms to cover cleanup in contracts with landowners, but rural municipalities have said that’s not enough of a guarantee.
At the Rural Municipalities of Alberta fall convention last year, a resolution passed that urged the province to learn from its mistakes with fossil fuels and deal with the end-of-life issue for renewables before it’s too late. It asked the government to mandate the collection of adequate funds for a cleanup via, for example, a reclamation surety bond as a condition of project approval, with the amount of the bond based on data-driven projections of actual reclamation costs.
“We’re only expecting this industry to grow. The sooner we can actually get those expectations clearly defined and outlined for what happens at the end of life and reclamation, who pays how much, the better,” Mr. Neudorf said.
He said approximately 15 renewable projects will be affected by the pause.
The government has already spoken with around 200 individuals, Mr. Neudorf said, including landowners, stakeholder groups, consumer advocates and power providers that rely heavily on natural gas. He will meet with the Canadian Renewable Energy Association – the main group that advocates for wind, solar and energy storage solutions – later this week.
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Texas Becomes Latest State to Withdraw From Soros-Zuckerberg Funded Corrupt ERIC Voter Database
Clever Journeys
On July 20, Texas wisely became the eighth state to resign from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) in 2023, and the ninth state overall.
ERIC has been a powerful tool misused by Deep State operatives as data indicates it is another tool (like Dominion Voting machines, Runbeck Elections ballot printers, Konnech voting tabulation, running Mules, USPS Union, etc.) to control and manipulate elections.
ERIC was originally funded by the Soros Open Society to bloat the voter rolls. Evidence indicates ERIC is politically compromised. Although sold to states as a way to purge invalid and ineligible voters, facts show this is not so true.
Remember the revealing Dinesh D’Souza movie, “2000 Mules” which revealed massive numbers of operatives (mules) stuffing ballet boxes, especially in swing states.Those ballots were filled out by many people who have moved from the state, choose not to vote, or had died.
The “who moved and who died” are the richest lists for fake ballot submission.
Mules are documented by cell phones and security camerasThese phantom names show up on requests for mail-in ballots, mailing lists from state election officials, and even in the CVRs (counted vote records) after an election.
This is the kind of stuff put into voting drop boxes by the “Mules”on the midnight to 3 a.m. shift.
For instance, the number of Michigan’s registered voters climbed dangerously—and impossibly—to 104% of its Voting Aged Population (VAP).
After the suspicious 2020 Election, which placed Joe Biden in the White House, citizen’s groups, rightfully distrustful of mainstream media narratives and corrupted state elections, began performing their own investigation. They found thousands of votes mysteriously counted by people who had moved out of state, as well as ineligible and dead voters.
By June 17, 2022, Verityvote.us, led by citizen investigator Heather Honey, demonstrated that the left-wing organization had crossed a red line.
“The primary effect of ERIC is to grow the voter rolls by converting eligible-but-unregistered (EBU) persons into registered voters. States divulge to ERIC personally identifying information of unregistered residents, including people who have declined to register for privacy reasons. FOIAs reveal that ERIC is sharing EBU records with Zuckerberg-funded CEIR.”
At its height in 2022, 33 states were participating members in ERIC.
While ERIC describes its mission as “to assist states in improving the accuracy of America’s voter rolls and increasing access to voter registration for all eligible citizens,” evidence has shown it is a tool to manipulate elections.
Alicia Pierce, a representative for Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson, said compliance with Senate Bill 1070 was the reason for Texas’s withdrawal.
SB1070, which Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed on June 18, 2023, includes provisions that make compliance with ERIC’s bylaws effectively impossible and directs the Texas Secretary of State to develop a new voter registration data-sharing compact, or find a new program with annual dues less than $100,000.
The Texas State Senate approved SB1070 by a vote of 26-4 on April 12, and the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill 85-61 on May 23.
The withdrawal will become effective on Oct. 19.
The Texas Republican Party, which supports the state’s withdrawal from ERIC, said: “The ERIC membership agreement collects an extensive amount of personally identifiable information.”
These are the states that have so far withdrawn from using ERIC.
Louisiana (Effective November 9, 2022)Alabama (Effective April 18, 2023)Florida (Effective June 3, 2023)Missouri (Effective June 3, 2023)West Virginia (Effective June 3, 2023)Iowa (Effective June 16, 2023)Ohio (Effective June 16, 2023)Virginia (Effective August 9, 2023)Texas (Effective October 19, 2023)[…]
Former Editor: CIA Moderating Wikipedia
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RT
Wikipedia is one of many tools used by the US liberal establishment and its allies in the intelligence community to wage “information warfare,” the site’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, has told journalist Glenn Greenwald.
Speaking on Greenwald’s ‘System Update’ podcast, Sanger lamented how the site he helped found in 2001 has become an instrument of “control” in the hands of the left-liberal establishment, among which he counts the CIA, FBI, and other US intelligence agencies.
“We do have evidence that, as early as 2008, that CIA and FBI computers were used to edit Wikipedia,” he said. “Do you think that they stopped doing that back then?”
Activity by the CIA and FBI on Wikipedia was first made public by a programming student named Virgil Griffith in 2007. Griffith developed a program called WikiScanner that could trace the location of computers used to edit Wikipedia articles, and found that the CIA, FBI, and a host of large corporations and government agencies were scrubbing the online encyclopedia of incriminating information.
CIA computers were used to remove casualty counts from the Iraq War, while an FBI machine was used to remove aerial and satellite images of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. CIA computers were used to edit hundreds of articles, including entries on then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China’s nuclear program, and the Argentine navy.
Some edits were more petty, with former CIA chief William Colby apparently editing his own entry to expand his list of accomplishments.
“[The intelligence agencies] pay off the most influential people to push their agendas, which they’re already mostly in line with, or they just develop their own talent within the [intelligence] community, learn the Wikipedia game, and then push what they want to say with their own people,” Sanger told Greenwald.
“A great part of intelligence and information warfare is conducted online,” he continued, “on websites like Wikipedia.”
Earlier this year, X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk released a trove of documents showing how the platform’s former executives colluded with the FBI to remove content the agency wanted hidden, assisted the US military’s online influence campaigns, and censored “anti-Ukraine narratives” on behalf of multiple US intelligence agencies.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also admitted that Facebook, the biggest social media platform on Earth, censored accurate information that was damaging to President Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign at the direct request of the FBI.
How to Get Free and Fair US Elections
The image above gets it right on the basics: Eligible voters come to their voting station with valid ID and proot of residency, and paper trail exists to validate machine entry and processing. But there are some subtleties around the edges requiring management. For example, voter registration should be in advance of the voting process, and not on election day. Why? Because there’s no time to check for fake ID or residency. Later on is a post on why there must be an election day deadline, beyond which votes cannot be added to the count. But first a look at some international standards regarding elections and balloting.
A Practical Guide to Democratic Elections Best Practice from Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE). Below is the section on Balloting.
Right:
To Universal Suffrage, To Equal Suffrage, To Secret Ballot, To Fair Elections
Which Guarantee the Free Expression of the Will of the People
Balloting Best Practices:
• Voting procedures must be understandable so that voters are able to vote without difficulty
• Voting should take place in a polling station; however, other means of voting are permissible for voters who are physically unable to attend a polling station, but only where there are safeguards in place to prevent fraudulent voting
• Observers and representatives of candidates and political parties must be permitted to observe the delivery of election materials, preparation of the polling place, voting, and counting of ballots
• Members of the military should vote in the place of their permanent residency, or in a polling station near their duty station
• Voting must be in person, by secret ballot
• Voters must present adequate identification information and sign register in order to vote
• Only the voter may mark a ballot, except that a voter who requires assistance for physical reasons may be assisted by another voter who is not a member of the election administration or an observer
• Ballots and voting materials must be securely maintained before, during, and for a sufficient period of time after an election
• The entire counting process must be conducted in a transparent manner in the presence of observers and representatives of candidates, political parties, and the media
• There must be procedures for, in the presence of observers, independent verification of all elements of the counting and tabulation
• All results of voting, tabulations, and protocols must be publicly posted at the polling station and copies given to representatives of observers, and transmitted to higher levels of election commissions in a transparent manner
• Intermediate tabulations and protocols must be publicly posted at intermediate election commissions and copies given to representatives of observers
• All final voting results must be published in media as soon as possible after elections in such a manner that voters are able to check results at their polling places
• Legal measures must be in place to deter electoral fraud in the voting, counting, and tabulation processes
Navarro Report On the 2020 US Presidential ElectionThere is extensive evidence that the US 2020 election did not respect the above best practices. The 2021 Navarro Report (link in red above) provides the details summarized in this table:
The detailed report includes many documented events, including evidence under the heading Outright Voter Fraud:
Fake Ballot Manufacturing and Destruction of Legally Cast Real Ballots
Fake ballot manufacturing involves the fraudulent production of ballots on behalf of a candidate; and one of the most disturbing examples of possible fake ballot manufacturing involves a truck driver who has alleged in a sworn affidavit that he picked up large crates of ballots in New York and delivered them to a polling location in Pennsylvania. There may be well over 100,000 ballots involved, enough fake ballots alone to have swung the election to Biden in the Keystone State.
Likewise in Pennsylvania, there is both a Declaration and a photo that suggests a poll worker used an unsecured USB flash drive to dump an unusually large cache of votes onto vote tabulation machines. The resultant tabulations did not correlate with the mail-in ballots scanned into the machines.
Arguably the most flagrant example of possible fake ballot manufacturing on behalf of Joe Biden may have occurred at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. The possible perpetrators were caught in flagrante delicto on surveillance video. In one version of this story, poll watchers and observers as well as the media were asked to leave in the middle of the night after a suspicious water leak. Once the room was cleared, several election officials pulled out large boxes of ballots from underneath a draped table. They then proceeded to tabulate a quantity of fake manufactured ballots estimated to be in the range of tens of thousands
Finally, as an example of the possible destruction of legally cast real ballots there is this allegation from a court case filed in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona: Plaintiffs claim that over 75,000 absentee ballots were reported as unreturned when they were actually returned. These absentee ballots were then either lost or destroyed (consistent with allegations of Trump ballot destruction) and/or were replaced with blank ballots filled out by election workers or other third parties.
And so on, and so on. All of these worst practices were employed with impact because of a fundamental illegality that disqualifies any and all elections when it occurs. Jonathan Gault explains the problem in his American Thinker article Beware the ‘Long Count’. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Though barely campaigning, unable to speak, and drawing massive crowds, measured in dozens, waving to nobody, on the rare occasions when he was able to muster the energy to leave his basement, Joe Biden remarkably received the most votes of any candidate in US history. However, his historic popularity notwithstanding, his debatable victory nevertheless still required eking out miraculously close races in the hyper-partisan Democrat strongholds of Atlanta, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, each of which employed the Long Count.
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