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The Celtic History of Brittany and Galicia

Episode 11 Brittany and Galicia: Fringe of the Fringe

The Celtic World

Dr Jennifer Paxton (2018)

Film Review

Brittany (formerly known as Amorica*) has the largest concentration of megaliths in Europe although archeologists believe they pre-date Celtic culture (3000 BC). Cultures producing megaliths were always relatively prosperous. In the case of Amorica, this wealth most likely derived from sea trade.

Amorican megaliths

History of Brittany

Under Julius Caesar, some tribes favored Roman colonization, due to robust trade and infrastructure improvements that resulted. However most of the Amorican peninsula allied with Vercingetorix in his rebellion against Rome.

Up until the fifth century AD, most residents of the Amorican peninsula spoke Gallic and some were bilingual in Gallic and Latin. In the fifth and sixth century, instability in the British Isles (stemming from Rome’s collapse) led wealthy Celts from Cornwall and Devon to emigrate to Amorica. By 850 AD, these immigrants had established political and economic dominance over native tribes and their Brittonic language displaced native Gallic and Latin. Later in the 9th century, Norman occupation of northeast France stemmed the western advance of the region now known as Brittany. However border wars continued until the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066. When William the Conqueror brought Britain under Norman control, hundreds of Bretons fought alongside William at Hastings. Subsequently some remained as settlers.

During this lecture, Paxton also discusses Geoffrey of Monmouth, of mixed Breton and Welsh, who first wrote about the legendary Celtic king Arthur in his History of the Kings of Britain.

During a period when British kings controlled most of France’s eastern seaboard, the Bretons also adopted Arthur as their hero. Brittany would maintain their independence from France until the 15th century, when control of the region passed to a duchess who married the King of France.

In 1980, there were one million Breton speakers in Brittany. At present, that number has declined to 500,000.

History of Gallcia

Galicia, an autonomous Celtic community in northwest Spain, gets its name from the Galaeci tribe inhabiting the region in the first millennium BC. After being conquered (with the rest of Spain) by Julius Caesar, it was a Roman province until the 5th century AD, when it was conquered first by the Sueves and later by the Visigoths.

There are presently no Celtic speakers in Galicia, which historically spoke Q-Celtic like Ireland (supporting the theory that Irish Celts originated from Spain). However Galician music is very similar to that of Ireland.

The current dialect spoken in Galicia is closer to Portuguese than Spanish.

*During the second century BC, the three most prosperous Amorican tribes were the Veneti, the Riedones and the Namnetes, The modern cities of Vennes, Nantes and Rennes are named for them.

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/5701024/5701046

Fox Stock Loses $930 Million after Firing Tucker Carlson

BREAKING: Fox News Corp. has lost $930 MILLION in market value today since news of Tucker Carlson departing broke. https://t.co/ad24F64qa1

— TexasLindsay (@TexasLindsay_) April 24, 2023

Democrat RFK Jr. Says Tucker Carlson Is ‘Breathtakingly Courageous’ in Wake of Fox News Departure

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left), Tucker Carlson. Photo: Mike Pont/Getty for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; Jason Koerner/Getty

By Virginia Chamlee

People

RFK Jr., who just last week launched his 2024 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, suggested that Carlson’s Fox News exit came because of the host’s recent monologue about pharmaceutical companies

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing in on the bombshell announcement that Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, claiming on Twitter that the exit came because of the right wing personality’s “breathtakingly courageous” monologue about pharmaceutical companies.

Kennedy, who just last week launched his 2024 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, claimed that Carlson had been “fired” by Fox News, despite the network saying in a statement the two parties had “agreed to part ways.”

“Fox fires @tuckercarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers,” the 69-year-old nephew of late President John F. Kennedy and son of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy wrote on Twitter. “Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless.”

He continued: “For many years, Tucker has had the nation’s biggest audience averaging 3.5 million — 10 times the size of CNN. Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of Big Pharma.”

The tweet referenced an episode in which Carlson highlighted Kennedy’s presidential campaign and his previous comments about vaccines and criticism of former U.S. top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci‘s handling of the pandemic.

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In a January episode of his show, Carlson compared the vaccination effort during the COVID-19 pandemic to “what the imperial Japanese army and the Nazis did in their medical experiments,” The Guardian reported at the time.

In a statement on Monday morning, Fox News said the network and Carlson “have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”

Carlson’s last program was Friday. Beginning Monday evening, the network will air Fox News Tonight as an interim show helmed by rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is determined.

[…]Via https://people.com/politics/robert-kennedy-jr-weighs-in-tucker-carlson-exit/

The Creepy Secret Behind Online Therapy

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Tanmoy Goswami

Insider

How do you make money off people caught in a mental-health emergency?

Loris, a startup that helps companies improve their customer-service conversations, found a way. Founded in 2018, Loris used data generated from text conversations with people in distress to make “empathetic” customer-service software. The source for the data? Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit suicide-prevention hotline and the parent company of Loris.

Crisis Text Line, now in its 10th year of operations, uses artificial intelligence to respond to people experiencing emotional abuse, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. A Politico investigation last year explained how the help line created Loris to develop and sell AI software that could guide customer-service agents through live chats with customers using proven “de-escalation techniques, emotional-intelligence strategies, and training experience.”

At the heart of the arrangement was what Crisis Text Line called the “largest mental health data set in the world” — 219 million messages from more than 6.7 million conversations over text, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp.

Exploiting data for profit is par for the course in the modern technology business — search engines, social-media platforms, and streaming apps all gather and monetize the data they gain from users. But commercializing the data from a crisis line is vastly different from mining data on the binge-watching or online-shopping habits of customers. The data used for Loris came from people who were at the lowest point of their lives, when they may not have been able to truly understand and consent to how it would then be used.

After the Politico story sparked outrage, the companies claimed that they used only anonymized data — though research has found that anonymization is not fool-proof. Eventually, the furor became so great that Crisis Text Line severed all ties with Loris and told the company to delete any previously transferred information. But the Loris mess was just one of a growing number of mental-health-data fiascos.

Despite being touted as the fix for the broken healthcare system, the mushrooming tech-based mental-health industry has a dark side. In the past year, a flurry of reports have found that some of the most recognizable names in the industry have repeatedly engaged in creepy and harmful data-sharing practices that treat people in need of help as prospective sources of profit instead of as patients. Taken together, the reports reveal a dangerous cocktail of tech solutionism, abuse of consumer trust, and regulatory failure that puts highly vulnerable people at risk. And they raise important questions about the future of mental-health care and the role of technology in it.

The case for online mental health

Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide. One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Globally, an estimated 12 billion working days and $1 trillion are lost every year because of depression and anxiety. It’s a massive challenge that’s brought conventional mental-health care to its knees. Mental health gets less than 2% of national healthcare budgets on average, and there’s a dire shortage of trained therapists and psychiatrists. Only one in five people in high-income countries and one in 27 people in low- and lower-middle-income countries get minimally adequate treatment for depression. Add to this mix the unprecedented spike in demand for mental-health care caused by the pandemic, and the situation becomes immeasurably worse.

Enter: Silicon Valley-esque upstarts that believe tech can solve the world’s most complex problems. Venture-capital investments in mental-health startups grew from $2.3 billion in 2020 to a record $5.5 billion in 2021. Even as funding cooled in 2022 amid a broader tech-industry slowdown, mental health remained the highest-funded area in digital health.

Two types of companies have emerged in the frothy mental-health-startup scene. There are chatbot-based apps such as Woebot, which offer DIY “clinically tested tools and tactics” grounded in the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy to help users deal with everyday stress and emotional problems. The main attraction of these apps is the promise of immediate, 24/7 support.

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‘The vast majority of mental-health apps are exceptionally creepy’

BetterHelp, a poster child of online therapy founded in 2013, calls itself “the world’s largest therapy platform” and says it has over 2 million users. BetterHelp is also a poster child for the industry in another way: Last month, the US Federal Trade Commission reprimanded the company for “betraying consumers’ most personal health information for profit.”

The FTC said BetterHelp handed over sensitive user data — including emails, IP addresses, and replies to health questionnaires — to Facebook so the platform could use this information to run advertisements for BetterHelp that targeted similar users. The commission added that BetterHelp did this despite promising users their personal data would not be used or disclosed except for limited purposes, such as to provide counseling services. It also said that BetterHelp’s Facebook campaign helped it acquire tens of thousands of new paying users and millions of dollars in revenue. The FTC banned BetterHelp from sharing users’ private health data with third parties and ordered it to pay a $7.8 million fine that would go toward partial refunds to customers — the first time the commission has penalized a mental-health company for mishandling users’ private data. BetterHelp decided to settle, but it did not accept any wrongdoing and defended its methods as “industry-standard.”

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BetterHelp’s claim that its data-sharing practices were “industry-standard” is more of an indictment of the industry than exculpatory for the company. Days after the FTC order, news broke that Cerebral, another splashy online mental-health company, had admitted to sharing 3.1 million American patients’ private health information, including mental-health assessments, with advertisers and social-media platforms. (The company says it has since removed the data-tracking code from its apps.)

The mental-health startups Talkspace and BetterHelp, as well as dozens of others, were also named in a damning 2022 report by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit organization that describes its mission as working to keep the internet healthy. The report highlighted the unscrupulous security and privacy practices of mental-health apps, concluding that the vast majority of mental-health apps tracked, shared, and commercialized their users’ most intimate and vulnerable thoughts and feelings. The Mozilla Foundation characterized these practices as “extremely creepy.”

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Earlier this year, a study by Joanne Kim at Duke University’s Technology Policy Lab exposed the frightening extent to which mental-health data had been commoditized. While it isn’t clear where brokers get their mental-health data because of a lack of regulation, the study found that these brokers traded the data in the “open market, with seemingly minimal vetting of customers and seemingly few controls on the use of purchased data.”

Some data brokerage firms charged upward of $75,000 or $100,000 a year for access to data that they claimed included information on individuals’ mental-health conditions. One broker charged $275 for 5,000 aggregated counts of Americans’ mental-health records, the study found. Another “advertised highly sensitive mental health data to the author, including names and postal addresses of individuals with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety issues, panic disorder, cancer, PTSD, OCD, and personality disorder, as well as individuals who have had strokes and data on those people’s races and ethnicities,” the report added.

There are enough health-focused startups that have failed to keep private health data safe that, at this point, it’s clear the problem is industrywide.

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Legal gray areas

Following the Mozilla report in the summer, a group of US senators sent a letter to Talkspace and BetterHelp asking them to explain their data policies. The senators expressed concerns about how these companies shared confidential user data with “third-party Big Tech firms and data brokers, who have shown remarkably little interest in protecting vulnerable consumers and users.”

But the increased congressional scrutiny may not amount to much. While these activities sound illegal, they may not be. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, created in the 1990s, extends only to “covered entities” in the US, such as your doctor office or hospital, and their “business associates.” Digital-health tools occupy a gray area under HIPAA, a flaw that can be — and is — exploited by all manner of businesses, from virtual-therapy platforms to period trackers.

“As I understand it, HIPAA does not apply to direct-to-consumer healthcare products, which would include the vast majority of mental-health apps,” Piers Gooding, a researcher at the Melbourne Law School and associate editor of the International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law, told me. “The FDA and FTC may play roles in evaluating these direct-to-consumer technologies and their claims,” Gooding added. “But there remain gaps. For example, the FTC doesn’t seem to cover data gathered by nonprofit organizations, which was a concern raised in the Crisis Text Line case.”

When questioned about data violations, these companies often hide behind the excuse that they had secured their users’ “legal consent” by requiring they agree to the platforms’ terms and conditions when they signed up. In the real world, however, legal consent rarely translates to meaningful consent.

“Nearly all consent forms we come across on the internet are dense texts filled with inaccessible legal jargon,” Deepa Singh, an AI-ethics researcher at the University of Delhi, wrote after the Crisis Text Line controversy. On top of that, giving consent is usually a one-time event in the life cycle of a user using a particular service. Meaningful consent is more nuanced. It requires a clear understanding of what is being asked of the user, can change over time, and “does not hide behind obfuscation,” Singh argued.

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Via https://www.businessinsider.com/online-therapy-mental-health-apps-betterhelp-talkspace-cerebral-dark-side-2023-4

Will America’s Addiction to Computer Technology be it’s Downfall?

 

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

America is the most technology-dependent society in the world, by far.

As I reported last week, the United States has the ability to spy on its citizens at a greater percentage than even China, due to the fact that a higher percentage of U.S. citizens are connected through technology and their cell phones than citizens in China, where over one third of the people in China do not even own cell phones yet.

There is another way to measure America’s dependency on technology besides cell phone and Internet usage, and that is by looking at how many data centers are in the U.S. that host all the server hardware that is required to keep all this technology running.

Source: Statista.com

In this category, the U.S. has no serious competitors. In fact, the U.S. owns more data centers than almost all other countries of the world combined, according to Statista.com.

These physical computers, which are housed in physical buildings in physical locations, require tremendous resources to operate, which include energy resources and human resources, to keep it all running.

Almost everything connected to the Internet today is run by these data centers that provide Cloud Computing.

And all of these computers are primarily owned by three companies: Amazon.com and “Amazon Web Services” (AWS), Microsoft and “Microsoft Azure,” and Google with their Cloud Services.

If an enemy of the United States wanted to totally cripple our country, including military and intelligence operations, all they would have to do is take down the data centers owned by these three companies.

The physical locations of these data centers is a matter of public knowledge, and I was able to find lists of their physical locations by using their own search engines, in less than 5 minutes.

Amazon: AWSMicrosoft: AzureGoogle

AWS and Azure own most of the servers that contain data for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.

Do they keep that information on servers that are perhaps housed underground in bunkers to protect them from physical attacks against their data centers?

I am sure they do, but if their other servers in their data centers go down rendering the Internet unusable, it will do them little good, as only the people actually physically present in those data centers that might be housed in underground bunkers, will have access to that data, with limited means to communicate with the rest of the Internet down.

The economic chaos that would follow such a collapse of these data centers, which could also be crippled by a failure of the local electrical grid system that powers them, would be catastrophic.

Big Tech comprises the majority of stocks currently holding up Wall Street.

Apple is the #1 company currently listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) top 30 companies, with a $2.64 trillion market cap, and its next closest competitor is Amgen, a pharmaceutical company, at $130.06 billion. (Source.)

And 5 out of the top 6 “most active stocks by dollar volume” today are technology stocks: Tesla, Apple, Nividia, Amazon, and Microsoft. (Source.)

This is why traders on Wall Street are eyeing this week’s 2023 first quarter reports from the Big Tech companies with great interest.

Excerpts:

Earnings Watch: After putting up its largest annual loss on record last year, Amazon is expected to be essential to earnings growth; Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft also report in one of the biggest weeks of earnings season.

After huge pandemic-fueled growth, the nation’s biggest tech companies have been laying off workers in recent months as digital demand has plunged, while “pivoting” to a lot of talk about artificial intelligence.

This week, while the AI talk is sure to continue, Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc., and Microsoft Corp. will have to put some numbers behind their recent performance. And the outcome could determine the shape and severity of an expected earnings recession for corporate America this year.

Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft report Tuesday, Facebook parent Meta follows on Wednesday, and Amazon closes out the week on Thursday afternoon. While all of the tech companies in that bunch are massive enough on their own to have an outsize effect on the collective results of the S&P 500 index, Amazon could be the most influential.

The online-shopping and cloud-computing giant posted its worst annual loss on record last year, as the valuation of investment Rivian Automotive Inc., plunged and growth declined across its business.

Wall Street expects a huge rebound this year, and the S&P 500 is counting on it. (Full article.)

The Big Tech crash that started last year has led to over 173,880 layoffs so far this year, which is more than ALL of 2022. (Source.)

The main thing that is keeping the Technology sector going right now is all the hype over AI chat, where Big Tech is pouring in $BILLIONS to develop, and which still does not have a working model to produce any income yet.

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/will-americas-addiction-to-computer-technology-be-its-downfall/

5 reasons to believe global population is one billion people less than it was in January 2020

TheCOVIDBlog.com

The general consensus was that there were 7.84 billion people on Earth in January 2020. The United Nations reported that the global population eclipsed the 8 billion mark in November 2022. As of publishing, Worldometer has the current global population at 8.028 billion.

There have been 40 million births and 20 million deaths, for a net population growth of 20 million thus far in 2023, according to the same source.

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As of March 2023, there are two jobs available in the U.S. for every one unemployed worker. You don’t even need the ADP Workforce Vitality Reports to know that wages have been at all-time highs since Q4 2021. Just look around your local area, and you’ll see McDonald’s, Kum and Go, Circle K, Walmart, and all those former minimum wage jobs hiring at $15 per hour and up. They are forced to offer higher wages (or hire illegal immigrants) to entice what’s left of the U.S. workforce.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce acknowledged the ongoing labor shortage earlier this month. If every unemployed person got a job tomorrow, there would still be 4 million job openings. Mainstream media continually blame #ABV (Anything But the Vaccine) for this two years and counting labor dearth.

The bottom line is that millions of Americans have died or are severely maimed from the lethal mRNA and viral vector DNA injections, and physically cannot work. Further, U.S. birth rates in 2021 were the lowest since World War I. You cannot find a straight answer anywhere as to 2022 U.S. birth rates. They now “splain” it as fertility rates and ramble on about 2015-2019 instead of just giving straight statistics about birth rates in 2022.

It’s not just the United States. The COVID Blog® is confident in declaring that the global population has dropped from 7.8 billion in January 2020 to 6.8 billion today – about a 13% drop in 28 months since the vaccine rollout.

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1. Numerous countries reported record excess deaths, record-low births in 2021 and/or 2022

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We’ll never know the real numbers as to excess deaths across the globe due to the injections (until naked eye observations start speaking for themselves). But here is a list of countries that reported record-high excess deaths and/or record-low births in 2021 and 2022:

Japan: 1.58 million deaths in 2022 – the most since World War IINew Zealand: 38,574 deaths in 2022 – the most since 1918Australia: record-low births and record-high deaths in 2021U.K.: utilizing temporary morgues across the country due to “sharp rise in excess deaths“Netherlands: more deaths than births in 2022 – first time that’s happened since the year 1900Germany: virtually zero excess deaths in 2020, then the numbers skyrocketed in 2021 Nova Scotia (Canada): “unexpectedly high number of people are dying“Philippines: 768,504 deaths in 2021 – highest in one year since 1945.

That’s just a small sample. Further, Norway, Italy and Japan all experienced record-low births in 2022. In other words, a lot of people are dying and few are being born.

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2. There’s no way of knowing exactly what’s happening in China and India

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China does not regularly publish excess death statistics. And even when it does, they are laughably fake. China claimed only 4,600 excess deaths in 2021 (out of 1.4 billion people). Further, the United Nations reported that India will surpass China as the most populous country in the world by mid-2023. That’s mostly due to China’s reported 2022 plunge in births and a reduced population for the first time since 1961.

Search “India” on The COVID Blog®. People are literally dropping dead by the second there. India and China account for over 35% of all humanity. India started injecting its population in January 2021, mostly with the Covishield/AstraZeneca viral vector DNA injections, the most deadly of them all this side of Johnson & Johnson. As of March 2023, 95% of Indians age 12-plus have received at least one shot.

By April 2021, truckloads of dead bodies being transported to morgues were so full that bodies were falling from the trucks onto the roads. In Delhi, someone died every five minutes that month, according to one report. The mass cremation videos from India in 2021 are very disturbing.

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Mainstream media of course blamed “COVID.” The only reason the deaths slowed was India adopting Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine protocols in May 2021.

India, like China, is neither honest nor diligent about recording and reporting deaths. Based on the foregoing, our educated guess is at least 350 million total excess deaths in China and India from January 2020 to publishing today.

3. The kids die anonymously

The pattern is now well established. Vaxx zealot parents allow their children to be injected multiple times and/or they feed their babies vaxxed breast milk. The child dies. Most parents blame #ABV (Anything but the Vaccine) and play the ignorance victim card, like Jessica Day-Weaver.

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The bad is that more kids will die anonymously in Western countries. We’re already seeing many stories that simply state “6-year-old died suddenly” without naming names or providing further details.

Thus there are perhaps millions of kids dying that we will never know about in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.

4. How many Dominique de Silvas are out there?

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Ms. Dominique de Silva had everything going for her. She had just gotten married in May 2021 and was highly successful in her real estate career. She received just one Pfizer mRNA injection on March 18, 2021. Her entire existence was flipped upside down from there.

She essentially had severe Shawn Skelton Syndrome. Ms.De Silva hesitantly posted videos of herself in a wheelchair, with severe convulsions, etc. She wanted to warn others about the dangers of the lethal injections. But she was attacked relentlessly by vaxx zealot trolls who accused her of faking the injuries.

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Vaxx zealots also accused her of profiting from a fake injury. It got so bad that Ms. de Silva was forced to send GoFundMe medical records to prove her vaxx injuries. The proof was apparently satisfactory, as the GoFundMe page is still active today.

The last sign of life from Ms. de Silva came via Instagram on March 18, 2022 – one year after the Pfizer mRNA injection. It’s quite sad to read.

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High-profile cases, like Princess Bajrakitiyabha of Thailand, show just how far TPTB will go to coverup vaccine deaths. She collapsed on December 14, 2022 after suffering a heart attack while walking her dogs. We’re supposed to believe that Princess Bajrakitiyabha, 44, has been in a coma ever since the collapse. There have been no updates at all since January.

We also have no idea what’s going on with actor Jamie Foxx. He was hospitalized on April 12 in Atlanta due to an “unspecified health crisis.” However, it’s widely believed that the 55-year-old suffered a stroke. Mr. Foxx required all attendees at his book tour in 2021 to show proof of vaccination.

There have been no further updates on his condition as of publishing except that he is still hospitalized and “healing.”

5. Polio and famine in Africa

The World Health Organization declared that the two primary strains of “wild” polio were eradicated worldwide in 1999 and 2020, respectively. The third wild strain exists only in Pakistan and Afghanistan today. But headlines like the following have been everywhere since 2022.

Wild polio was declared eradicated from the entire African Continent in 2020. So where is all this polio coming from? Just ask Bill and Melinda Gates.

All polio cases in Africa today, which number in the untold millions, are derived from Bill Gates oral polio vaccines. These concoctions cause paralysis and/or death in God knows how many kids. It’s Africa, not the U.S. Wheelchairs, Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations, etc. do not exist in most of Africa. A paralyzed child who cannot gather water and food for themselves and their families are essentially dead.

Most Africans refused the mRNA and viral vector DNA injections. But Gates and company can still convince them to get oral polio vaccines. These genocidal madmen openly admit that they use Africans as guinea pigs for everything from mRNA injections to experimental AIDS treatments. These polio oral vaccines are open, blatant genocide. Yet nobody bats an eye.

Meanwhile, the Horn of Africa experienced the driest rainy season (severe drought) in over 70 years in 2022. We know TPTB could easily manipulate the weather, create rain, and save all those people. But they don’t and won’t do it.

In West Africa, more than 48 million people are on the verge of starvation, the most in over a decade. The nonprofit SOS Children’s Village estimates that a total of 227 million people are on the verge of starving to death across all of Africa today. That’s about one in five people across the Continent. Oxfam International estimates that one person starves to death every 48 seconds in Africa.

The combination of vaccine polio, severe drought, famine, perpetual war fighting over crumbs, and even a few mRNA and viral vector DNA deaths make an educated guess of 300 million excess deaths across the Continent since 2020 quite conservative.

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Via https://thecovidblog.com/2023/04/20/5-reasons-to-believe-the-global-population-is-already-one-billion-people-less-than-it-was-in-january-2020/

Winds of Change Blowing Through Damascus

The winds of change are blowing through Damascus, as the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived on April 18 in Damascus, Syria on his first visit since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria in 2011

By Steven Sahiounie

Global Research

Syria has suffered a decade-long regional isolation from the US-NATO attack on Syria for regime change, which utilized the Muslim Brotherhood as foot soldiers.  The Arab world has suffered from the western engineered “Arab Spring” and is now in the process of reclaiming independence and solidarity among those who had formerly met as brothers in the Arab League.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad traveled to Tunisia on April 17 and met with his counterpart Nabil Ammar shortly after his arrival.

Earlier this month, Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered the appointment of an ambassador to the Syrian capital, Damascus. It followed the decision of the Syrian government to reopen its embassy in Tunis and appoint an ambassador.

Tunisia was also the subject of a US-NATO attack for regime change which used the Muslim Brotherhood, until the current President has stopped the country from being controlled by Radical Islam.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrived on April 13 in Jeddah to meet Saudi Foreign Minister Farhan. Both countries are seeking “a political solution to the Syrian crisis that preserves the unity, security and stability of Syria.” This was the first visit to Saudi Arabia by a Syrian foreign minister since 2011.

Turkey and Syria Meeting in Moscow May Result in Peace Plan

The high level talks discussed “facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland, and securing humanitarian access to the affected areas in Syria”.

On April 14, delegates from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan met in Jeddah at Saudi Arabia’s request.  The discussion centered on Syria’s return to its position in the Arab League, which will meet on May 19 in Riyadh.  Qatar has voiced opposition to Syria returning to the group, and that stems from Qatar’s role as an American puppet used to finance the terrorists used in Syria.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) shocked the world on March 10 with a Saudi-Iran normalization agreement signed in China. Restoration of relations with Syria is a natural next step in the process of Vision 2030, the initiative designed by MbS which is based on peace and prosperity for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors.

Syrian President Assad has visited the UAE and Oman.

In March, Saudi Arabia and Syria began discussing restoration of diplomatic relations, bringing Syria back to the Arab League, and providing humanitarian aid to the earthquake victims since February 6.

Saudi Arabia has a long history of close relations with the US, and depending on them for security, which is by treaty.

However, both before and after taking office, President Donald Trump repeatedly ridiculed and humiliated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its leaders.

While MbS visited the US, Trump called the Saudi King and said, “King, we’re protecting you. You might not be there for two weeks without us. You have to pay for your military; you have to pay.”

Earlier, during Trump’s campaign for office, he told his followers that the Arab Gulf leaders are wealthy, and should be ‘milked like cows’ for cash, and when no longer needed, should be slaughtered.

Trump was not satisfied with the half a trillion dollars he took from Saudi Arabia during his visit there: he demanded more.

The American humiliation of Saudi Arabia, its King and his son, MbS, carries a clear threat. Saudi Arabia has controlled the world oil prices through OPEC, previously keeping it at a price that pleased Washington. However, when President Joe Biden visited MbS to ask for him to increase oil production from the OPEC levels, MbS held firm to his decision, and did not acquiesce, or bow down to pressure from Biden.

The current geopolitical shift championed by MbS is the result of many factors, and not taken lightly. When the Aramco facility was attacked and put out of production for months, the Kingdom had to wonder why the American security and defenses failed.

US President Barack Obama, pushed Riyadh to sign contracts valued at $115 billion between 2011 and 2015, which meant Saudi Arabia accounted for 10 percent of the total sales of American weapons. At the same time, Obama’s attack on Syria for regime change was using Saudi Arabia as a financier.

The US State Department has issued statements denouncing the restoration of Arab relations with Syria. The American regime change project ended in failure, and hundreds of thousands dead, injured and millions of refugees abroad.  Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria are just a few of the failed projects cooked up at the US State Department, what some people call the “Deep State”.

Saudi Arabia has a new vision, which depends on independence from foreign meddling and control. There is a new Middle East emerging, and it is nothing like what President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had demanded in 2006.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-foreign-minister-damascus/5816760

Epidemic of 15-19 year olds drop dead in schools and dorms across US and Canada in April 2023

Dr William Markis

Jena, LA – 15 year old Jena High School student Kameron Shelton died in class at 11am on April 18, 2023 (click here)

Milwaukee, WI – 19 year old Marquette University Student Kamrin Ray was found dead in residence on April 17, 2023

A Marquette University student died at a residence hall Monday night. First responders found him unresponsive on the bed by his roommate and pronounced him deceased. (click here)

Charlotte, NC – 18 year old Myers Park High School Senior Barron Alexander Harris died early morning of April 16, 2023 (click here)

Barron Alexander Harris was known by friends for “his loyalty, engaging personality, and loving spirit.” It’s not known how Harris died.

Montague, PEI – 16 year old high school (Ecole Francois-Buote) student Samuel Russell Campbell, died suddenly in school on April 14, 2023. (click here)

The École François-Buote community continued to mourn Saturday after a student at the Charlottetown school suffered a “sudden and unexpected death” on Friday.

Tipp City, OH – 17 year old Tippecanoe High School student Carson Robbins died on April 14, 2023 after a “brief illness” (click here)

Ithaca, NY – 19 year old Cornell University Student Matthew Friedman was found unresponsive in residence and died on April 12, 2023 (click here)

Bethesda, MD – Unnamed student at Walter Johnson High School passed away “very suddenly and unexpectedly” on April 12, 2023 (click here)

Boise, ID – 17 year old Timberline High School tennis player Justin Smith collapsed unexpectedly during tennis practice on April 10, 2023 and died in ER at 6:20pm. (click here)

Dallas, TX – Episcopal School of Dallas Student died overnight on April 5, 2023 (click here)

Berkeley, CA – 16 year old Berkeley High School student Lillia Bartlow went home from school on March 24, 2023 after suffering a migraine and died unexpectedly at home

Berkeley, CA – 16 year old Berkeley High School student Lillia Bartlow went home from school on March 24, 2023 after suffering a migraine and died unexpectedly at home

Mukilteo, WA – 18 year old high school student Chloe Nuttbrock died suddenly of aneurysm in early March 16, 2023 (click here)

Rice Lake, WI – 6 high school student deaths (posted on April 21, 2023)

Mukilteo, WA – 18 year old high school student Chloe Nuttbrock died suddenly of aneurysm in early March 16, 2023 (click here)

My Take…

Found dead in dorm or residence. Cardiac arrest and died while at school.

Died after having migraine at school.

Died in early morning hours.

Died after “brief illness”.

Died during tennis practice at school.

None of this is normal. All these deaths must be investigated for the possibility of post COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sudden cardiac death or any role that the jabs may have played in these deaths.

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Via https://makismd.substack.com/p/epidemic-of-15-19-year-olds-dropping/

House Judiciary FISA Hearing to Examine How Spy Powers Have Been ‘Weaponized Against’ Americans

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Sean Moran

Brietbart News

The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday will investigate how Section 702, a law that was designed to help combat terrorism, has been “weaponized against” Americans.

Breitbart News first reported that the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next week on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ahead of Section 702’s December reauthorization deadline.

Now, the hearing notice details more about the Thursday hearing:

The hearing, “Fixing FISA: How a Law Designed to Protect Americans Has Been Weaponized Against Them,” will examine the FBI’s abuses of its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities, discuss the FBI’s failures to implement meaningful reforms to prevent its abuses, and address the broad issue of warrantless mass surveillance on American citizens.

The witnesses for the hearing include:

Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, U.S. Department of JusticeSharon Bradford Franklin, Chair, U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight BoardBeth A. Williams, Board Member, U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

A routine audit recently found that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of National Director of Intelligence (ODNI) of Section 702 use found that FBI agents often had political overtones for their search queries of the FISA database. This includes “the names of a local political party” to see if it had links to foreign intelligence. The Justice Department reportedly claimed that FBI personnel “misunderstood” the search procedures and that they were “subsequently reminded of how to correctly apply the query rules.”

Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, dramatically revealed that he was the unnamed lawmaker that was surveilled by the FBI. The FBI said that that the surveillance was a defensive countermeasure to make sure the Illinois Republican was not the subject of a foreign influence operation.

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Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) and other lawmakers have pressed Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz over the FBI’s purchase of Americans’ geolocation data.

Cline asked Horowitz during a hearing in March if other parts of the Department of Justice (DOJ) are buying Americans’ private data, describing these reports as “disturbing.”

Reports have found that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have purchased Americans’ private data, in what could be considered a run around constitutional protections against warrantless searches.

Cline then pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland about this controversy.

Cline asked Garland if he agreed with Horowitz that purchasing Americans’ private data should not have happened post-Carpenter v. United States, a landmark 2018 Supreme Court ruling that held that the United States government needed a search warrant to track suspects for an extended period via cellphone carriers.

The attorney general said, “The Department [DOJ] has an internal investigation going on internally to find out which parts,” of the agency might still be engaging in this practice.

Sean Vitka, of Demand Progress, an online privacy and digital rights group, said, “FBI Director Wray’s admission that the FBI secretly purchased Americans’ location data ‘derived from internet advertising’ is both shocking and further proof of the need for Congress to take immediate action to rein in mass surveillance.”

[…]Via https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/22/house-judiciary-fisa-hearing-to-examine-how-spy-powers-have-been-weaponized-against-americans/

US Army Busy in Northeastern Syria Stealing Oil and Food

Arabi Souri

The NATO US Army is busy in northeastern Syria, business as usual, and no, it’s not combating ISIS or Al Qaeda, they’ll never destroy their best proxy army, they’re busy stealing the food and fuel of the Syrian people because they feel they’re entitled to steal while at the same time crying about the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

34 tankers loaded with oil stolen from Syrian oils wells followed by another convoy of 40 covered lorries guarded by armored vehicles of the US Army and its other proxy army, the Kurdish SDF separatist terrorists were spotted crossing from the Syrian territories into neighboring Iraq through one of the illegal border crossings.

The US Army maintains, officially, around a thousand troops in Syria, illegally deployed and operating in the country against international law, against the UN Charter, against every United Nations Security Council resolution the USA signed on in regard to Syria, and against the will of the Syrian government which calls them occupiers and oil thieves.

The Pentagon claims it operates in Syria to combat ISIS (ISIL – Daesh), but everything on the ground and in every statement by a US official, the fact that ISIS only continues to grow in strength wherever the US Army is deployed points out otherwise.

Even the former US Commander in Chief Donald Trump when giving the orders to keep the US troops in Syria he explicitly said to ‘keep the oil’ because he ‘ likes oil’ adding that his troops are not interested in any combat missions there.
It’s not a contradiction in US policies viz a viz Ukraine, I personally used to call it hypocrisy as it’s obviously so, but if you look closely, it’s the same forces in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Iraq, and everywhere there’s a conflict on this planet against the rest of the world, the US-led NATO ‘defensive’ alliance forces are present where they shouldn’t be, operating what they shouldn’t do, killing and maiming innocent people, displacing millions of people, destroying the infrastructure of other countries while claiming they are spreading democracy.

It’s not hypocrisy, from their point of view, when any diplomat or official or even reporter faces them with these blatant hypocritical acts, they don’t feel ashamed, on the contrary, the US officials and those of their satellite vassals like in the European Union, the UK, Gulfies, et al, feel proud their work is recognized.

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Via https://arabisouri.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/the-us-army-is-busy-in-northeastern-syria-stealing-oil-and-food/