Stuart Jeanne Bramhall's Blog: The Most Revolutionary Act , page 40
July 21, 2025
Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of poop to pump underground to offset AI carbon emissions
Image credit: Vaulted Deep
By Jowi Morales
July 20, 2025
Microsoft wants to bury poop deep underground to counter all the pollution that its data centers generate.Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground.
According to Inc., the current cost of CO2 removal with the company is $350 per ton. If you multiply that by Microsoft’s contract, that makes it worth more than $1.7 billion. However, neither entity has disclosed the actual terms of the deal, and CEO Julia Reichelstein says the company expects its costs to drop over time, and that thThis isn’t the first time Redmond has paid another company to help offset its greenhouse gas emissions; Microsoft signed a deal with AtmosClear in April of this year to sequester 6.75 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. However, Vaulted’s technique is unique — instead of extracting carbon dioxide from the air or electricity production, it collects organic waste.
It combines it into a thick slurry, which is then injected about 5,000 feet underground. This prevents it from being dumped at a waste disposal site, where it would eventually decompose and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
“Generally, what happens to these wastes today is they go to a landfill, they get dumped in a waterway, or they’re just spread on land for the purpose of disposal. In all of those cases, they’re decomposing into CO2 and methane,” said Reichelstein to Inc. “That’s contributing to climate change. And then oftentimes, especially when it’s spread on land, all those pathogens are going directly into people’s groundwater.”
Projects such as these enable Microsoft and other tech giants to offset the massive amounts of carbon emissions produced by data centers, particularly as they consume a significant amount of electrical power, often generated from fossil fuels. For example, Musk is facing legal action in Memphis, Tennessee, after his company, xAI, is accused of polluting the air by using under-reported power generators at the Colossus Supercomputer. Aside from that, many companies, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, and others, are investing in small modular reactor research to establish their clean energy sources for their expanding data center businesses.
[…]
Senate Hearing on Vaccine Injuries Sparks Talk of Reforms
by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.July 16, 2025U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Ron Johnson broke “new ground” Tuesday at a subcommittee hearing on vaccine injury when they criticized liability protection for the pharmaceutical industry and discussed co-sponsoring a bill banning pharmaceutical ads on TV.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a staunch vaccine supporter, said he was “heartbroken” after hearing parents recount how their once-healthy children were injured or killed by vaccines.
The parents’ testimony, delivered during Tuesday’s U.S. Senate hearing, “Voices of the Vaccine Injured,” did little to sway Blumenthal from his belief that vaccines are “safe and effective” — but the gut-wrenching stories did lead the senator to suggest he may be willing to look into the issue of whether pharmaceutical companies should be held liable for injuries caused by their products.
“Maybe we ought to look at this system,” said Blumenthal, referring to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which established a government compensation program for people injured by vaccines while granting legal immunity to vaccine makers.
Since 1986, the only recourse parents have had if their child was injured is to file a claim through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) — a bureaucratic labyrinth that rejects nearly half of all claims.
Blumenthal, ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which held the hearing, said the parents’ testimony “makes me want to do something.”
After his remark sparked applause, he quickly added: “I’m not promising anything. So you might want to hold your applause.”
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), subcommittee chair, organized the hearing — the second this year to focus on vaccine injuries.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which provided background for the first hearing, helped organize Tuesday’s hearing. CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker, and Polly Tommey, program director for CHD.TV, both of whom have children injured by vaccines, were among the parents who testified Tuesday.
Johnson and Blumenthal were mostly at odds during the first hearing, which focused on myocarditis risks associated with COVID-19 vaccines.
However, the senators broke “new ground” Tuesday by addressing topics of possible collaboration, said CHD CEO Mary Holland, who attended both hearings. “Most remarkably, both senators criticized liability protection for the pharmaceutical industry,” Holland told The Defender.
Blumenthal, who worked as a prosecuting attorney before holding public office, said he wasn’t suggesting “what should be done about it,” but he did acknowledge that the liability shield is problematic for the vaccine-injured. He said he is “extremely suspicious” when an industry is given liability protection.
Johnson and Blumenthal also discussed co-sponsoring a bill to ban direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical ads and the need to reform the VICP, which is run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
While not committing to specifics on the liability protection issue or on reforming the VICP, Blumenthal did agree during Tuesday’s hearing to co-sponsor a bill with Johnson banning television advertising of pharmaceutical drugs, including vaccines.
Johnson told Blumenthal his team is in the “exploratory phase” of drafting legislation to address the failure of the VICP program.
On June 30, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in an interview with Tucker Carlson that he’s bringing in staff to “revolutionize” VICP. Kennedy didn’t provide details, and HHS hasn’t yet announced any changes to the program.
In 2024, 30 U.S. House representatives co-sponsored a bill that would end the broad protection from liability for injuries resulting from vaccines listed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule. The bill has yet to go up for a vote.
Johnson and Blumenthal did not mention the House bill.
‘Platform to those individuals and families who have been abandoned’
Emily Tarsell, whose daughter, Christina Tarsell, died at age 21 after getting Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccine, was one of the witnesses.
She told The Defender the hearing was a “monumental step toward publicly acknowledging serious risks from vaccination and embracing, rather than gaslighting,” the vaccine-injured.
“The public has been misled and misinformed about the risk and benefits of the HPV vaccine,” she said.
Dr. Robert Sullivan, an anesthesiologist injured by a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, and Krystle Cordingley, mother of Corbyn Cordingley, who died at age 1 after getting a flu vaccine, also testified Tuesday.
Hooker described how his son, Steven, developed multiple conditions, including severe autism, after receiving childhood vaccinations. Tommey told a similar story about how her son, Billy, developed autism after receiving a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
Both parents said their sons, who are now adults, will never be able to live independently.
Johnson said the hearing’s purpose was “very simple … to give a platform to those individuals and families who have been abandoned; their injuries and suffering dismissed and forgotten.”
Two other witnesses, Eric Stein and Serese Marotta, spoke about a family member who died after getting the flu.
‘When will enough be enough?’
Hooker said his son, now 27, “will never pay taxes … hold a job … play baseball … write a poem … go out on a date … he is a prisoner in his own body.”
Hooker tried for 16 years to get compensation through the federal vaccine injury compensation program, but received “absolutely no relief whatsoever.”
Tarsell also attempted to pursue justice through the program after her daughter’s death.
“After eight years of litigation, HHS conceded by preponderance of the evidence that Chris died from her HPV vaccinations,” she said.
Tommey said she heard thousands of accounts of vaccine injury from people across the U.S. during CHD’s “Vax-Unvax” bus tour.
There were “over 12,000 signatures on those two buses of death, death, death,” Tommey said. “When will enough be enough?”
Many vaccine-injured kids now require 24-hour care, according to Tommey.
“Who is going to look after our children when we, the parents, are no longer around?” she asked. “This is a national crisis that must be addressed.
CDC staff allegedly destroyed data linking MMR shot to autism risk
Later in the hearing, Hooker testified that CDC staff allegedly destroyed evidence showing a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
Hooker said that in September 2002, William Thompson, Ph.D., a CDC senior scientist, gave him CDC data that showed African American boys who got the MMR vaccine on time at age 1 were over three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than those who got the shot at 3 years old.
According to Hooker, Thompson told him that CDC staff involved in the study, including Colleen Boyle, Ph.D., and Dr. Frank DeStefano, were ordered to destroy the data.
Blumenthal called the destruction of documents “absolutely abhorrent.”
“It should be investigated and pursued, condemned … I think we can all agree on that point,” Blumenthal said.
Tarsell told The Defender she hopes the hearing will result in “real change,” including holding “Pharma accountable for injuries and deaths from their products.”
Watch the hearing here:
[…]
How Pharmaceutical Companies Medicate Normal
Medicating Normal
ENDEVR (2024)
Film Review
This films documents the growing problem with psychiatrists dispensing psychotropic medications without informing patients about severe withdrawal effects if they try to stop them.
Among the patients interviewed are
A career naval officer with two MIT masters degrees who was forced to retire on medical disability owing to his inability to taper and discontinue his lorazepam. Describing himself as an anxious, driven high achiever with relationship problems, he was given Zoloft and lorazepam. Despite initial relief, after eight months, he was much worse with low mood, sexual dysfunction and weird cogniitve effects. However every time he tried to discontinue the medication he was unable to get out of bed.The parents of a 13-year-old distressed over moving to a new school. After she failed to improve Zoloft, her psychiatrist changed her to Prozac and she began having visual and auditory hallucinations telling her to hurt herself. This necessitated seven psychiatric hospitalization and being started on antipsychotic and side effect pills.A waitress unable to sleep owing to night shift work was given 2 mg lorazepam twice a day and ended up taking it for six years because she couldn’t function if she tried to stop it.A female sergeant was medevaced from Iraq after developing nosebleeds, fainting spells and 40 pound weight loss from severe PTSD. Forced to take medical retirement, she went to the VA where she was given multiple cocktails. At one point she was on 16 medications and owing to severe withdrawals it took her 10 years to get.An Army psychologist is also interviewed at length. It’s her view that PTSD is grief that has been medicalized. She explains that most medications work really well short term. Nevertheless unless severe mental illness is present, there are few justifications for taking psychotropic medication longterm.
In a vignette near the end journalist Robert Whitaker describes how pharmaceutical companies rig psychotropic studies through cozy financial relationships with the psychiatrists who perform them and the medical journals that publish them. According to Whitaker, Big Pharma never funds long term studies. Despite clear short term relief from anxiety-related symptom, symptom nearly always worsen with long term use.
Xanax is a good example. In the very first Xanax trial, patients were better at 4 weeks but worse than placebo patients at 8 weeks. The way the company dealt with this was to only publish results up to 4 weeks.
Likewise Germany refused to approve Prozac owing to patient deterioration after two months. In the US they only published the first month of data to win FDA approval.
Deaths in drug trials are never published. Drug companies prefer to pay fines and law suit settlements because it’s cheaper than being honest – which could hurt profits.
July 20, 2025
Under 40% of Expecting and Young Parents Plan to Fully Immunize Their Children
The COVID-19 vaccine safety debacle has contributed to erosion in vaccine confidence. Additionally, the ever-increasing burden of vaccines coinciding with exploding rates of autism spectrum disorder are prompting parents to do their own research.
A report from Vasudevan et al from a survey performed among expecting and young parents found shocking results. Less than 40% expected to follow the full vaccine schedule. Conversely 60% were going to delay, refuse, or were undecided on routine childhood vaccinations.
This represents a giant shift from the >95% ACIP vaccine schedule acceptance from pre-pandemic years. Independent media and scholarship on the harms of vaccination can be credited with improved awareness.
[…]
Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/under-40-expecting-young-parents-plan-fully-immunize-children/5895304
In historic gathering, 12 countries announce Israel sanctions and renewed legal action to end Gaza genocide
Representatives of over 30 states from Africa, Asia, Europe, as well as North America and South America met at the Emergency Conference of The Hague Group in Bogota, Colombia on July 15 and 15, 2025. (Photo: Progressive International)<
By María F. Fitzgerald July 17, 2025 20
Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, representatives of Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, and South Africa announced sanctions against Israel to cut the flow of weapons facilitating genocide and war crimes in Gaza.
Speaking about Palestine is speaking about resistance in the heart of horror. That is how Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, summed it up at an emergency conference in Bogotá, Colombia. The same Albanese who is currently facing sanctions imposed by the U.S. government for, according to them, making antisemitic remarks, after repeatedly denouncing the brutalities committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.
Despite these accusations, Albanese remains firm in her denunciations. She reiterated on several occasions that we must not allow these actions to distract us from what truly matters: the genocide that, for the past twenty months, has escalated against the people of Gaza, and the massive human rights violations taking place across Palestine, which have left more than 60,000 people dead, most of them women and children.
“The global majority [also known as the Global South] has been the driving force behind actions against Israel’s genocide, with South Africa and Colombia playing key roles in this process,” she told Mondoweiss during a press conference on the first day of the Emergency Conference for Gaza, convened by the governments of Colombia and South Africa. “These actions have led to the creation of spaces for sanctions and resistance. What we’ve been insisting on all along is that more and more countries must join these efforts.”
The Hague Group coordinated this Emergency Conference, which brought together representatives from over 30 states, including China, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Turkey, and Qatar. Initially formed by Colombia and South Africa, the group seeks to establish specific sanctions against Israel that, according to Colombia’s Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, aim to move beyond discourse and into action.
Heads of state and their representatives emphasized that these sanctions are not retaliatory but are in full compliance with international humanitarian law. They are part of the international community’s commitment to ending the genocide. One of the central calls made was for more nations to join this effort and uphold their duty to defend human rights.
All 30 participating states unanimously agreed that “the era of impunity must end— and that international law must be enforced.” To begin this effort, 12 states from across the world — Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa — committed to implementing six key points:
1. Prevent the provision or transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel, as appropriate, to ensure that our industry does not contribute the tools to enable or facilitate genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international law.
2. Prevent the transit, docking, and servicing of vessels at any port, if applicable, within our territorial jurisdiction, while being fully compliant with applicable international law, including UNCLOS, in all cases where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel, to ensure that our territorial waters and ports do not serve as conduits for activities that enable or facilitate genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international law.
3. Prevent the carriage of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel on vessels bearing our flag, while being fully compliant with applicable international law, including UNCLOS, ensuring full accountability, including de-flagging, for non-compliance with this prohibition, not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
4. Commence an urgent review of all public contracts, in order to prevent public institutions and public funds, where applicable, from supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory which may entrench its unlawful presence in the territory, to ensure that our nationals, and companies and entities under our jurisdiction, as well as our authorities, do not act in any way that would entail recognition or provide aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
5. Comply with our obligations to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law through robust, impartial and independent investigations and prosecutions at national or international levels, in compliance with our obligation to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes.
6. Support universal jurisdiction mandates, as and where applicable in our legal constitutional frameworks and judiciaries, to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Both Jaramillo and Zane Dangor, Director-General of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation, emphasized that these actions must not be seen as reprisals, but rather as part of an international effort to break the global silence that has enabled atrocities in Palestine.
This decision is aligned with Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s renewed order to halt all coal exports from Colombia to Israel: “My government was betrayed, and that betrayal, among other things, cast doubt on my order to stop exporting coal to Israel. We are the world’s fifth-largest coal exporter, which means the country of life is helping to kill humanity. Colombian coal is still being shipped to Israel. We prohibited it, and yet we are being tricked into violating that decision. We cannot allow Colombian coal to be turned into bombs that help Israel kill children.”
In his closing speech, Petro reaffirmed that Colombia would break all arms trade relations with Israel and would continue to support the Palestinian people’s right to resist.
The legitimacy of the Hague Group and these decisions has also been backed by several multilateral organizations that have denounced the genocide. As Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Executive Secretary of the Hague Group, stated: “The International Criminal Court (ICC) has already clearly denounced the genocide. The United Nations has stated that Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth. What we lack now is not clarity, it’s courage. We need the bravery to take the necessary actions”.
These words were echoed by Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Mansour, who emphasized that, together with the Madrid Group (a coalition of over 20 European and Arab countries also taking action against Israel and led by Spain), they could be the key to breaking Israel’s siege of horror: “This will not be an exercise in theatrical politics. The time has come for concrete, effective action to stop the crimes and end the profiteering from genocide. We will defeat these crimes against humanity and give the children who are still alive in Palestine a future full of promise, independence, and dignity. Recognizing Palestine is not a symbolic gesture, it is a concrete act of resistance against colonial expansion”.
His statement was followed by that of Palestinian-American doctor Thaer Ahmad, who worked in Nasser Hospital in Gaza and left the territory two months ago. In his testimony, he said he is certain that official death tolls do not even come close to reality, that Gaza is currently hell on Earth, and that every day the genocide continues brings devastating consequences for Palestinian children: “How can we look ourselves in the mirror? When this ends, if it ends, what will we say? ‘Sorry, we did everything we could’? They can’t afford to keep waiting for vague responses. They are surviving genocide every day. So now, how do we ensure that the effort to erase Palestinians from history does not succeed?”
Although the agreed-upon actions are significant, even the attending delegations acknowledge that their efforts will not be enough. Broader and more forceful measures are required. Yet, one day earlier, standing at the podium of Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Francesca Albanese reaffirmed the historic importance of this event. She stated it could be: “A historical turning point that ends, with concrete measures, the genocide-based economy that has sustained Israel. I came to this meeting believing that the narrative is shifting. Hope must be a discipline that we all preserve.”
[…]
FDA stalls decision on petition to suspend mRNA injections, citing ‘other priorities
Mary Anne Demasi PhD
The US regulator quietly delays action on a petition calling for the suspension of mRNA injections—despite evidence of regulatory failure, DNA contamination, and a surge in cancers among young people.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has delayed its response to a formal petition demanding the suspension of the mRNA Covid-19 injections, citing “the existence of other FDA priorities.”
In a letter dated 17 July 2025, Dr Vinay Prasad—recently appointed Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)—acknowledged that the agency had “not yet reached resolution of the issues raised” in the petition.
Filed on 20 January 2025, the petition alleges that Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax were “unlawfully approved” in violation of federal regulatory requirements.
It calls for an immediate halt to the injections, independent testing of retained vials, and a full investigation into the approval process.
Fatal flaws in licensing mRNA productsSubmitted by lawyer Katie Ashby-Koppens of PJ O’Brien & Associates, and spearheaded by former barrister Julian Gillespie, the petition argues that the mRNA injections were misclassified from the outset.
Although the products meet the FDA’s own definition of gene therapy, they were not regulated as such—sidestepping the heightened oversight normally required for gene-based interventions.
Under U.S. law, gene therapies must undergo ‘Environmental Assessments,’ be reviewed by specialised advisory committees, and face a more rigorous public transparency process.
But by labelling the mRNA injections as conventional ‘vaccines,’ regulators were able to fast-track their approval through a separate, less stringent pathway—bypassing critical safeguards.
The petition also raises alarm over synthetic DNA fragments found in the final products. Independent testing by multiple laboratories—including the FDA’s own facility—revealed DNA contamination far exceeding the safety limits.
Because the DNA is encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles, it can bypass normal immune defences, enter human cells, and in some cases integrate into the genome. The potential consequences, the petition warns, include genomic instability, cancer, and heritable genetic damage.
One of the most serious findings is the presence of SV40 promoter sequences in Pfizer’s injection—elements known to interfere with tumour-suppressing pathways such as p53.
The petition accuses Pfizer of withholding this information from the FDA in breach of disclosure laws.
Interim letter, no timelineUnder federal law, the FDA was required to respond to the petition within 180 days.
Just before the deadline, it issued a standard interim letter—acknowledging the petitioners’ main concerns but offering no timeline for a final decision.
Nor did the agency indicate that any investigation had begun. “We will respond to your petition as soon as we have reached a decision on your request,” wrote Prasad.
The agency’s delay is not uncommon—but critics say it reflects a deeper reluctance to confront the scientific and regulatory implications head-on.
Fully addressing the petition would require a sweeping and uncomfortable re-evaluation of how mRNA technologies were developed, approved, and marketed under the guise of conventional ‘vaccines.’
If the products were unlawfully licensed—mislabelled as vaccines to circumvent gene therapy regulations—the fallout would be unprecedented.
The admission alone could expose governments to extraordinary legal and financial liability—including product withdrawals, class actions, long-term health monitoring, injury compensation, and potential criminal investigations.
Petitioners speak outGillespie said the FDA is caught “between a rock and a hard place”—but that doesn’t excuse inaction. He believes the recent surge in cancers among young people demands urgent scrutiny.
“There’s been a tremendous and continuing rise in cancers across the United States commensurate with the rollout of these products,” he said. “Government officials have seen the data… and are refusing to address the elephant in the room.”
Dr Jessica Rose, a computational biologist and co-author of the petition, said the public was never given accurate information about the nature of the products.
“The public was not told what they were being injected with,” she said. “And still to this day, they are not.”
She described the failure to distinguish gene-based therapies from traditional vaccines as “an existential crisis,” warning that “more and more people—including children and infants—are being exposed to the harms of foreign DNA.”
Dr David Speicher, a virologist and co-signatory on the petition, said the FDA’s letter amounts to bureaucratic minimisation.
“The number of vaccine-injured people continues to grow, and we do not all know the long-term harms caused by these genetic products,” he said. “Yet the FDA states that ‘other priorities’ are more important.”
He called for “an independent scientific team to examine the regulatory process, as well as to provide funding to researchers to explore biological mechanisms such as genomic integration.”
Pharmacy consultant and petitioner Maria Gutschi said the mRNA products represent a new therapeutic category “with no previous knowledge to leverage in assessing safety and efficacy.”
She argued that, given the novelty and risks, “the bar to suspend and/or mandate ‘black box’ warnings must be higher than for any previous therapeutic agent.” Gutschi urged the FDA to treat this as “THE priority” going forward.
A tale of two gene therapiesCritics say the FDA’s handling of mRNA harms stands in stark contrast to its swift response to safety concerns involving other gene therapies.
Yesterday, the agency announced a halt to clinical trials for Sarepta Therapeutics’ investigational gene therapy after the company reported another patient death—bringing the total to three deaths across two separate gene therapy products.
The treatment, developed for limb girdle muscular dystrophy, prompted immediate regulatory action.
“Today, we’ve shown that this FDA takes swift action when patient safety is at risk,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, declaring the agency is “not afraid to take immediate action when a serious safety signal emerges.”
In contrast, the FDA has remained inert on mRNA injections—which also deliver genetic material into human cells but were classified as “vaccines”—despite thousands of reported deaths and serious adverse events following administration.
According to the petitioners, the public was led to believe they were receiving a conventional vaccine—when in fact, they were being administered gene therapy.
By failing to recognise and regulate the products accordingly, the FDA violated public trust—bypassing transparency laws, concealing critical risks, and depriving individuals of the opportunity to make informed medical decisions.
[…]
Via https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/fda-stalls-decision-on-petition-to
Trump administration ordered to restore funding to US propaganda outlet
FILE PHOTO. © Sputnik / Alexey VitvitskyRT
Officials have sought to tackle “obscene overspending” in the media sphereA federal judge has ordered the administration of US President Donald Trump to restore funding for state-run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), ruling that the decision to stop the support was “unprecedented” and lacked any basis.
RFE/RL was a key tool for spreading Western propaganda in the Soviet bloc during the Cold War and was funded by the CIA. The outlet currently receives nearly all of its funding from Congress.
The Trump administration has sought to cut funding for RFE/RL and several other state-linked outlets. It has denounced the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the body that oversees state-funded media, saying it is “not salvageable,” while indulging in “obscene overspending.” The administration also claimed it is crawling with “spies and terrorist sympathizers.”
Consequently, the USAGM essentially froze funding for RFE/RL and refused to enter into a new contract with the outlet after the previous agreement expired in March. This led to staff furloughs and programming cuts, though the EU stepped in to fill the budgetary gap.
On Friday, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Trump administration lacks the legal authority to refuse Congress-approved funding of more than $70 million, arguing that they provided no clear basis for the move.
”It is unprecedented for an agency to demand that entirely new terms govern its decades-old working relationship with a grantee entity,” he wrote. He went on to rebuke the USAGM for a lack of responses to RFE/RL to negotiate a new agreement, describing it as “stonewalling” and adding that the agency went dark for days or even weeks.
The “USAGM’s flagrant disregard for its funding responsibilities” caused RFE/RL to suffer “mass furloughs, cancelation of programming, and inevitable damage to the global influence that RFE/RL has built over decades,” the ruling said.
RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus welcomed the court’s decision. “This victory provides our journalists with the momentum necessary to continue reaching the nearly 47 million people each week… With this ruling, RFE/RL can continue to advance US national security interests.”
[…]
Via https://www.rt.com/news/621713-trump-administration-ordered-restore-funding-rfe/
3 New Plaintiffs Ask to Join COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit Against Bill Gates
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.July 10, 2025Three people injured by COVID-19 vaccines today asked to join a Dutch lawsuit against Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and 15 other defendants. The lawsuit alleges the defendants knowingly misled the public about the safety of the vaccines.
Three injury victims are asking to join a Dutch lawsuit against Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and 15 other defendants, alleging they misled the public about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.
The lawsuit was filed last year by seven COVID-19 vaccine injury victims, one of whom has since died.
According to a filing by the plaintiffs’ attorney, Peter Stassen, the three new victims “were healthy people” who began experiencing health problems after receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
“The applicants are of the opinion that the serious side effects that occurred after having the Covid-19 (mRNA) injections are the direct result of the content / composition of these Covid-19 (mRNA) injections,” the filing states.
Doctors have repeatedly refused to diagnose a link between vaccination and their injuries, Stassen said.
During a hearing today at the District Court of North Netherlands in Leeuwarden, Stassen also asked the court to approve five expert witnesses who will testify about the risks and dangers of the COVID-19 shots:
Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and publisher of the Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development.Sasha Latypova, a former pharmaceutical research and development executive.Joseph Sansone, Ph.D., a psychotherapist who is litigating to prohibit mRNA vaccines in Florida.Katherine Watt, a researcher and paralegal.Mike Yeadon, Ph.D., a pharmacologist and former vice-president of Pfizer’s allergy and respiratory research unit.Another proposed witness, Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., who agreed in January to testify on behalf of the plaintiffs, has since died. Boyle was a professor of international law at the University of Illinois and a bioweapons expert who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.
According to Dutch newspaper De Andere Krant, eight attorneys attended today’s hearing on behalf of the defendants, who also include the Dutch state, former Dutch prime minister and current NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and several members of the Dutch government’s pandemic-era Outbreak Management Team.
Gates is a prominent investor in mRNA vaccine technology who invested in BioNTech, a German pharmaceutical company that partnered with Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Gates later sold his BioNTech shares at a significant profit.
The defendants’ lawyers argued that the court should not allow the proposed witnesses to testify. The lawyers questioned the expertise and impartiality of the proposed witnesses and argued that the “general scientific consensus” is that the COVID-19 vaccines are “safe and effective.”
“Scientific consensus? What is that, anyway?” Stassen asked the court, accusing the defense of using “false ad hominem arguments to undermine the expertise of his witnesses.”
Dutch journalist Ido Dijkstra, who attended the hearing, said the defendant’s arguments “ignored the obvious damage the vaccines made” — doing so in the presence of several of the vaccine injury victims who filed the lawsuit and were at the hearing.
Dijkstra said none of the plaintiffs spoke during the hearing.
Last year, attorneys for Gates sought dismissal of the lawsuit, claiming the court lacked jurisdiction.
However, in its Oct. 16, 2024, ruling, the court said it has jurisdiction over Gates, finding “sufficient evidence” that the claims against Gates and the other defendants are “connected” and based on the same “complex of facts.”
Mass COVID vaccination program ‘an unprecedented crime,’ plaintiffs argue
During the hearing, Stassen called the COVID-19 mass vaccination program “the greatest genocide of humanity ever” and “an unprecedented crime accompanied by coercion, deception, and even murder,” De Andere Krant reported.
Stassen said that if the court refused to allow the proposed expert witnesses to testify, it would mean “this court doesn’t want to know the truth.”
Stassen said:
“If you, as a judge, reject our request to hear these witnesses, which I doubt you will, then the blood already on the defendants’ hands will soon be on yours as well. This case must become a public debate that can only be resolved in court. Politics has already proven that it cannot do that.”
According to Dutch journalist Erica Krikke, who attended the hearing, attorneys for the defense did not speak much and largely refrained from commenting on Stassen’s statements.
Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst, who also attended the hearing, said Stassen “did quite well” in countering the defendants’ arguments. Terhorst noted that the defense attorneys included some of the Netherlands’ most prominent legal figures.
She also said she believes the court will allow the expert witnesses to testify.
“The law provides that the hearing of experts needs to be accepted, unless abuse of this legal right can be proven. In my view, because the argument of abuse was not made and also not proven, the court will have to allow the hearing to take place,” Terhorst said.
Attorney for the plaintiffs arrested last month ‘with considerable force’
The hearing took place a month after another attorney for the plaintiffs, Arno van Kessel, was arrested at his home “with considerable force,” as part of a nationwide sweep by Dutch police against alleged members of a “sovereign citizen” movement with a “potential intent to use violence” against the Dutch state.
De Andere Krant reported that since van Kessel’s June 11 arrest, he has been held at a high-security prison. He faces “vague allegations” and has not been allowed to communicate with anyone except his attorney.
Terhorst said van Kessel’s arrest was “quite spectacular and with no earlier precedent in the Netherlands, because the reasons for Mr Kessel’s arrest were not made public.” She added that van Kessel will be held for “another three months.”
According to Dijkstra, the Dutch Bar Association has suspended van Kessel, bypassing its usual procedures by not waiting until van Kessel is formally charged with a crime. The suspension prevents van Kessel from practicing law.
Dijkstra called van Kessel’s arrest an act of “intimidation.”
“Up until now, the public prosecutor’s office has provided absolutely zero evidence,” Dijkstra said. “They are trying to silence him.”
According to De Andere Krant, van Kessel’s arrest was not mentioned during the hearing. However, hundreds of supporters gathered both inside and outside the courtroom, giving Stassen “a hero’s welcome” after the hearing ended.
De Andere Krant reported that the court will issue a decision regarding the proposed witnesses within six weeks.
[…]
July 19, 2025
Methylene Blue for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Dementia
End All Disease
The blockbuster drug methylene blue is experimentally proven to restore brain function in people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other forms of dementia – but big pharma says you can’t have it!
Existing ‘approved’ drugs for dementia obviously don’t work or they would be curing people and the disease would vanish. But that doesn’t mean effective treatment’s don’t exist.
In this article you’re going to learn what’s happening in the brain of a person with dementia, and how the inexpensive drug methylene blue can help rejuvenate the aging brain. Methylene blue is so effective for dementia that some might even call it a cure.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
What Causes Dementia?Nitric Oxide Linked to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and DementiaMethylene Blue and The Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s DiseaseClinical Trial: Methylene Blue Boosts Brain of Dementia PatientsMethylene Blue 1% SolutionThe Ultimate Guide to Methylene BlueTreatment Dose for DementiaPhotodynamic Therapy: Methylene Blue + Red Light Therapy for DementiaMethylene Blue 1% SolutionConclusionReferencesWhat Causes Dementia?Mainstream medicine admits they don’t know what causes brain disorders like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
For the past 50 years, mainstream medical theory has suggested that genetic defects are the cause, but millions of dollars spent on research have resulted in no effective treatments, let alone cures.
Modern medicine’s commitment to finding a genetic causation of dementia has blinded them to the trail of scientific evidence showing the true cause of the disease.
Let’s dust off that trail now and shine a spotlight on the evidence.
A groundbreaking study from 2017 reports that as the brain ages, mitochondrial metabolism decreases and that this phenomenon is possibly the main culprit behind many neurological diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.[i]
What this means is that if your brain cells are metabolizing properly, dementia and other neurological diseases will not exist. All the criteria associated with a healthy brain – from memory retrieval speed, concentration, and focus – are dependent on adequate energy supply in the form of ATP (adenosine triphosphate).
As energy production (also known as the metabolic rate) within cells of the brain decline with age, so too does your ability to think, remember, and speak clearly.
Nitric Oxide Linked to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and DementiaOne of the dominant factors responsible for the curbing of energy production with age is nitric oxide.
Doctors and nurses are taught in medical training that nitric oxide is a ‘miracle molecule’ of anti-aging, brain health, athletic performance and overall health. But this theory is being increasingly disproven by evidence mounting in recent decades.
Nitric oxide is not a miracle molecule; it’s a toxic free radical found in air pollution, and its causative role in dementia-related disorders like Alzheimer’s disease is becoming increasingly clear. For example, NO was found to accumulate around the plaques inside the brain of Alzheimer’s patients,[ii] and it’s been hypothesized that NO could be responsible for brain cell death found in Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.[iii] The deleterious effects of NO suggest that nitric oxide inhibitors, like methylene blue, could be remarkably effective for treating dementia.
One fascinating and useful attribute of methylene blue for treating brain disorders is that it accumulates in the brain, making it of particular interest for dementia and all kinds of brain-related disorders.
According to Dr. Raymond Peat, “nitric oxide poisons the ability to oxidize glucose into carbon dioxide, increases lactic acid, and the cell has less energy and is more excited by the acetylcholine, so basically it becomes susceptible to dying in proportion to the overstimulation of acetylcholine.”
But what does nitric oxide have to do with methylene blue? Methylene blue happens to be one of the most potent nitric oxide inhibitors known. It is a tool that can powerfully reduce NO synthesis and scavenge existing nitric oxide from the blood and body.
Methylene Blue and The Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s DiseaseScientists studying the brains of Alzheimer’s patients have noticed commonalities among patients, including abnormally shaped tau proteins, or “neurofibrillary tangles” within brain cells called neurons. Let’s look at the impact of methylene blue on these hallmarks and determine if it can help resolve them.
Hallmark 1: Neurofibrillary “Tangles”
The brains of mice that’ve been genetically engineered to lack tau protein do not function properly, leading researchers to conclude the misshapen tau proteins found in brain cells of Alzheimer’s patients play a role in the disease.
A group of scientists from Gakushuin University and Keio University School of Medicine in Japan published a study in 2019 that reports methylene blue can repair the problem by inhibiting the formation of tau neurofibrillary tangles in the brain.[xii]
Hallmark 2: Beta Amyloid Plaques
Another hallmark of the Alzheimer’s-diseased brain is the appearance of beta amyloid plaque surrounding brain cells. Remarkably, methylene blue has been shown to prevent beta amyloid plaques from forming on the outside of neurons.[xiii]
Evidence suggests that methylene blue can help resolve both of the primary hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Not bad for a fabric dye!
But what about on actual Alzheimer’s patients outside the laboratory? Can methylene blue help actual patients with dementia?
Clinical Trial: Methylene Blue Boosts Brain of Dementia Patients
In a study on Alzheimer’s patients in 2019, scientists administered 8mg-16mg of methylene blue daily while monitoring their brain function. The methylene blue stopped Alzheimer’s disease dead in its tracks![x] [xi]
“Treatment with 8mg-16mg MB daily reduced cognitive decline by more than 85%! That is the perverted medical profession’s way of saying that MB effectively stopped AD in its tracks, or at least its cognitive symptoms, which is what this disease is all about. It is a type of dementia after all. Perhaps just as importantly, it found that drugs currently approved for managing symptoms of AD interfere with the therapeutic benefit of MB when administered together with it!”
– Georgi Dinkov
When a therapy stops cognitive decline by 85%, at what point do we say it cured the patient? I’m not going to make any claims here, but methylene blue is possibly as close to a cure as it gets.
For those interested in using methylene blue for Alzheimer’s, an important finding from the study was that a dose of 200mg of methylene blue had no greater benefit than a much smaller dose of 8mg.
The study concluded that methylene blue is expected to be therapeutic in doses up to 16mg, and patients would see no additional benefit from taking higher doses.
Photodynamic Therapy: Methylene Blue + Red Light Therapy for DementiaTo make methylene blue therapy even more effective, synergistic healing and cognitive enhancement can be achieved by combining methylene blue therapy with red light therapy.
Methylene blue and red light therapy are two widely studied approaches for improving brain mitochondrial respiration due to their ability to act directly on cellular metabolism and correct deficiencies therein.
According to scientists in a 2020 review, red light and methylene blue “have similar beneficial effects on mitochondrial function, oxidative damage, inflammation, and subsequent behavioral symptoms.”[xxi]
Combining methylene blue with red light therapy in a treatment protocol for dementia is one of the most promising techniques for synergistically maximizing therapeutic potency and accelerating recovery of metabolically defective brain cells.
ConclusionExisting ‘approved’ drugs for dementia don’t work, and effective therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are very much needed.
The blockbuster drug methylene blue is a powerful cognitive enhancing drug scientifically proven to restore brain function in people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other forms of dementia.
For those who like to take their health into their own hands, methylene blue is a scientifically validated, sane and rational treatment approach.
Methylene blue is so effective at remedying the hallmarks of dementia that some might even call it a cure.
[…]
Via https://endalldisease.com/methylene-blue-parkinsons-alzheimers-dementia/
World rallies behind Syria as Israel tears away at it
Immediate aftermath of Israeli attacks against the Syrian capital Damascus on July 16, 2025.
Press TV
July 18, 2025
International organizations and a whole host of countries have expressed outright condemnation of the Israeli regime’s escalating deadly and destructive attacks against Syria under the pretext of protecting the country’s Druze minority.
A torrent of statements followed the regime’s attack on various areas in the country on Wednesday, including areas lying in its south, in reported support for the Druze.
The attacks came as fighting between members of the minority and Bedouin tribes has killed hundreds of people, with the Israeli involvement being feared to be aimed at intensifying the confrontations and further destabilizing Syria.
UNSC calls for end to Israel’s ‘impunity’
Addressing the situation, Pakistan, which holds the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)’s rotating presidency, denounced the Israeli aggression.
Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad noted that the attacks resembled Tel Aviv’s atrocities against the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen, all of which violated the international law. The envoy also called for an end to the regime’s impunity.
Mohamed Khaled Khiari, UN assistant secretary-general, denounced the Israeli escalation on the part of the world body’s chief, Antonio Guterres.
He said the attacks amounted toa violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and further destabilized the country amid the already sensitive situation.
The official also advised that Tel Aviv respect the 1974 agreement that has mandated its refusal to conduct violations against the Arab nation.
China calls for Israeli withdrawal
Geng Shuang, China’s deputy UN ambassador, said Beijing called on “Israel to immediately cease its military strikes on Syria and withdraw from Syrian territory without delay.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian also said the attacks amounted to a flagrant violation of international law and Syria’s sovereignty, saying the Arab country had to be spared of whatever measure that could lead to further crisis and tension.
Turkey: ‘Terror state’ Israel using Druze as excuse
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the Israeli regime a “terror state.”
“Israel, using the Druze as an excuse, has been expanding its banditry into neighboring Syria over the past two days,” he said in a televised speech.
Erdogan said Turkey would not allow Syria’s partition, saying Tel Aviv’s actions showed it was not after peace.
PGCC: Israel after irresponsible escalation
The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council’s Secretary-General, Jasem Mohammed Albudaiw,i also said the Israeli regime’s atrocities indicated its efforts at irresponsible intensification of standing tensions.
The Israeli aggression, he added, also showed the regime’s disregard for the international community’s efforts at realizing stability and ensuring security in Syria.
Hamas: Israeli aggression ‘systematic terrorism’
The Palestinian resistance movements, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, called the atrocities “organized terrorism.”
The latter also said Tel Aviv was trying to fragment the region through violence, reaffirming solidarity with Syria and supporting its right to resist by all means.
Ansarullah: Israeli attacks part of ‘imperialist scheme’
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement denounced the Israeli strikes as part of a larger “imperialist scheme” to dominate the Arab and Muslim world.
It called for a unified Arab-Islamic response and an end to silence in the face of the aggression.
Muslim states hold intensive talks
Foreign ministers from various regional Muslim countries have, meanwhile, held intensive talks concerning the state of affairs.
The talks were held among top diplomats from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Egypt.
The discussions that were held with the aim of helping the countries in question adopt a unified stance in the face of the situation saw the officials reiterate support for Syria’s security, unity, stability, and sovereignty.
They called on the UNSC to assume its legal and moral duties towards guaranteeing the withdrawal of the Israeli regime from Syria, and bringing about an end to its aggression by obliging it to abide by the 1974 agreement.
Malaysia: Israel threatening international peace
Malaysia also called for the international community “not to tolerate the continued aggression by the Israeli Zionist regime against other countries, threatening regional and international peace and security.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said after decades of hardship, the Syrian people deserved peace, not further violence and external interference.
Norway’s foreign minister has also said he was “deeply concerned about recent Israeli airstrikes and rising domestic tensions.”
[…]
Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/18/751436/Israel-Syria-global-condemnation
The Most Revolutionary Act
- Stuart Jeanne Bramhall's profile
- 11 followers
