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This is Why “Green Solutions” Are a Gigantic Scam

Dr Mercola

Story at-a-glanceAccording to the globalists, climate change is the No. 1 threat to humanity, necessitating radical quality of life sacrifices and the total relinquishing of privacy and freedomClimate change is also being used to explain away food shortages, justify the need to move people from the countrysides and suburbs into smart cities, and promote the replacement of beef with insects. The COVID-19 pandemic was even blamed on itGlobalists want health (which includes both medicine and food, under the new “food is medicine” agenda), climate action and energy control to be addressed not as three separate issues but as oneOne of the globalists’ fraudulent solutions to the purported climate crisis is Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing. A company’s ESG score is supposed to tell investors how socially conscious the company is, but recent scandals have revealed ESG is a scamCarbon trade refers to the buying and selling of credits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide. By buying credits from nonpolluters, industry can continue to pollute. Basically, like ESG investing, the carbon trade is a globalist scam intended to lower the living standards of the poor and usher humanity into carbon slavery

According to the globalists, climate change is the No. 1 threat to humanity, necessitating radical quality of life sacrifices and the total relinquishing of privacy and freedom. Germany’s health minister Karl Lauterbach, for example, in December 2020 proclaimed that addressing climate change will require restrictions on personal freedom, similar to those implemented to “flatten the curve” of COVID.1

Similarly, British economics professor Mariana Mazzucato in September 2020 warned that “In the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again — this time to tackle a climate emergency.”2 The World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations and the World Health Organization have also published articles stating their intent to “fight climate change” by shutting down society.3

Climate change is also being used to explain away food shortages, justify the need to move people from the countrysides and suburbs into smart cities, and promote the replacement of beef with insects. The COVID-19 pandemic was even blamed on it.

Health, Climate and Energy To Be Addressed as One Issue

Just about anything is now being justified on the basis that it helps address climate change. Indeed, dietary controls, energy control, carbon restrictions and climate change are increasingly tied together, whether it makes sense or not, and the reason for this can be found in a September 2022 WEF article4 co-written by the director of WHO’s Environment and Health Department.

In other words, health (which includes both medicine and food, as government has now launched a “food is medicine” agenda), climate action and energy control are to be addressed not as three separate issues but as one. The potential implications of this are enormous.

If the WHO ends up having sole power over global health, combining health, climate and energy issues into one will automatically give the WHO the de facto power to seize control over society in general.

They could issue climate lockdowns, for example, on the basis that lockdowns reduce pollution, hence improving public health. That the WHO will jump at the opportunity to implement climate lockdowns in particular can be seen in the WHO “Manifesto for a Healthy Recovery From COVID-19.5

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This manifesto also lays out many other aspects of The Great Reset agenda, including smart cities, travel restrictions, new food systems, a complete transition to green energy and more. But again, the thing that will really facilitate all of these changes is to have a centralized powerbase, and that is the WHO.

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However, while pollution is a reality that needs to be addressed, the solution the totalitarian cabal is offering is a gigantic scam designed to disempower and control everyone but the ones at the very top of the power pyramid, while accomplishing little in terms of producing a cleaner environment, let alone having a distinct effect on climate.

The ESG Scam

One of the globalists’ fraudulent solutions to the purported climate crisis is Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing, first popularized in 2004.7 In more recent years, ESG funds have gained steam and now make up about 10% of all invested assets.8

A company’s ESG score is supposed to tell investors how socially conscious the company is, based on its behavior within the environmental, social and corporate sphere. For example, does the company have safeguards in place to protect the environment or policies to address climate change?

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ESG investing is supposed to encourage companies to act responsibly, but it’s actually having the opposite effect. Somehow or other, companies are greasing the right hands and getting great ESG ratings, only to later turn out to have the worst governance possible and/or a track record of environmental destruction.9

One of the latest in a long line of scandals is that of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that went belly up overnight while its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried absconded with up to $2 billion of client funds.

John Ray, the appointed CEO of FTX’s bankruptcy stated: “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here.”

FTX’s ESG score really ought to have been nonexistent. Cryptocurrencies are extremely energy-intensive and wasteful (the “E” in the score), customer satisfaction (part of the “S” in the score) within the crypto space had been tanking for over a year, courtesy of the repeated evaporation of wealth.

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FTX isn’t alone in falling short of expectations though. According to a September 2021 report by climate change think tank InfluenceMap, more than half of the 723 funds marketed using ESG claims failed to meet the Paris Accord rules on carbon emissions and clean energy, and more than 70% of funds with broad ESG goals failed to meet global climate targets.11

Similarly, a May 2021 report12 by the Economist concluded some of the largest ESG funds in the world are “stuffed full of polluters and sin stocks.” A 2019 report by the Wall Street Journal13 also noted, “Eight of the 10 biggest U.S. sustainable funds are invested in oil-and-gas companies, which are regularly slammed by environmental activists.”

In short, the ESG investing scheme is yet another globalist scam that allows them to promote their own agenda outside of the democratic process.

Wind turbines, solar panels and electric-everything is touted as the answer to the purported climate crisis, yet most of these “green” solutions are far more environmentally destructive than oil and gas.14

Many also end up requiring more fuel rather than less. Importantly, there aren’t even enough minerals in the world to allow even a single country to go 100% electric. As just one example, to replace the 31.5 million vehicles in the U.K. with electric cars will require twice the global supply of cobalt!15 The math just doesn’t work.

So, are the globalists stupid? No. They’re fully aware they can’t replace all gas-powered cars with EVs, be it by 2030 or 2050. See, they know you won’t even be allowed to travel very far by the time the EV goals and mandates go into effect, so you won’t need a car in the first place.

Forcing states and countries to transition to EVs merely speeds up the end goal of preventing you from owning a car and driving anywhere. It also justifies the creation of “15-minute cities.”

Farmers Are Being Pushed Into Carbon Slavery

As Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., cofounder of the Indian NGO Navdanya, has warned, we are being ushered into carbon slavery.

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Bill Gates has alluded to this double-standard in responding to those who criticize him for the hypocrisy of being a serious polluter himself, with a 66,000 square-foot mansion, a private jet, 242,000 acres of farmland and investments in fossil fuel-dependent industries such as airlines, heavy machinery and cars.17

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Focusing solely on carbon reductionism also misses the point that lands, forests and ecosystems are more than just the carbon stored in them, and putting carbon conditions on small farmers will only make environmental injustices worse. As noted by Navdanya’s report, “Conditionalities put on the nonpolluters by the polluters who want to continue to pollute is unjust and ecologically, morally and ethically bankrupt.”

The Carbon Trade Scam

Carbon trade refers to the buying and selling of credits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide, and by buying credits from nonpolluters, industry can continue to pollute. Basically, like ESG investing, it’s nothing but a globalist scam that lowers the living standards of the poor while having no negative impact on the wealthy.

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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/04/07/energy-vehicle-of-control-war-on-carbon.asp/

Celtic Languages in the Ancient World

Episode 3 Celtic Languages and the Ancient World

The Celtic World

Dr Jennifer Paxton (2018)

Film Review

In this lecture, Paxton explains how a study of Celtic languages dispels earlier beliefs that the Celts originated in Central Europe and went on to conquer all of Western Europe, including the British Isles and Ireland.

According to Paxton, the Proto-Indo European language from which Pro-Celtic evolved arose about 6000 BC. Ancient inscriptions from western Spain, France and Ireland suggest the latter emerged as a distinct language around 3000 BC.

She supports the view that Celtic language and  culture originated on the west coast of Europe (in Ireland and western Spain and France) among cultures that traded heavily with one another and then spread eastward to central and northern Europe.

Paxton believes there’s no other way to explain the geographical distribution of Q-Celtic and P-Celtic languages. At some point, the Celtic language lost its P for some branches of Celtic speakers (ie the Brythonic speaking Welsh, Cornish and Breton).* She believes the P Celtic languages originated in Gaul, whose Gallic language was P-Celtic language. In contrast, the Q-Celtic languages of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Mann, seem to have originated in western Spain.

Aside from the total absence of archeological evidence suggesting European Gauls ever invade the British Isles, Paxton also cites the total absence of similarities between the Celtic language and Central European languages. If anything, Celtic is most similar to the Slavic and Baltic languages.***

*The Breton speakers of Brittany are descended from immigrants from the British Isles who emigrated to western France in the 5th century AD.

**There’s no verb for “have” in either Celtic or Russian. Instead both languages use the preposition “at” to indicate possession (eg “at me a cat” means “I have a cat.”). Recent DNA studies indicate two significant waves of migration to Ireland. The first occurred between 10,000 and 5,200 BC from southern Europe (mainly Spain and Sardinia) and the Middle East. The second occurred around 4,000 BC (and not 500 BC as previously believed) from people who originated in the steppe region of Russia and Ukraine and gradually migrated across Europe to the British Isles. The the Celts living in Ireland, Scotland and Wales aren’t directly descended from the European Keltoi described by the Greeks and Romans but likey shared common ancestors. See https://owlcation.com/stem/Irish-Blood-Genetic-Identity

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5701024/5701032

‘Simple Engineering Fixes’ Could Reduce Cellphone Radiation

By  Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

A few “simple engineering fixes” could dramatically reduce radiofrequency radiation (RFR) emitted by cellphones, according to scientists with the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF).

The team of researchers, whose peer-reviewed report was published April 4, said these low-cost software and hardware modifications are easy to implement, and in one case, the fix relies on technology already patented by the industry.

Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the report’s authors said in a statement:

“Given the growing evidence of the health effects of radiation from cellphones and cell towers, I believe the wireless industry is going to have to start competing on safety.”

Concern about the safety of cellphones and other wireless devices has moved into the mainstream, said Moskowitz.

Moskowitz — who does not endorse or promote any product in order to avoid conflicts of interest — said he is aware of at least one brand of wireless router designed to reduce wireless radiation exposure.

“I expect more and more products, including cellphones, that reduce wireless radiation exposure to come onto the market in the months and years ahead,” he said.

‘Common-sense’ changes ‘dramatically’ reduce wireless radiation from cellphones

Elizabeth Kelley, managing director of ICBE-EMF and also one of the authors of the peer-reviewed report, said the proposed “common-sense” changes can “quickly and dramatically reduce” RFR exposure from cellphones, thereby creating “a healthier environment for all of us — while still allowing us to stay connected to others and to the information we need daily.”

“Cellphones are constantly transmitting their location to cell towers, but when we are stationary, these constant transmissions — called ‘handshakes’ — are unnecessary,” she said.

Kelley added:

“Why not shut down these transmissions — which cause frequent radiation emissions — when our phones are stationary, such as when they are sitting on a bedside table as we sleep or on our desk next to us as we work?”

The authors said cellphones could be configured to shut off RFR emissions when a proximity sensor detects the presence of the human body.

Some wireless companies — including Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. — already hold patents for technologies that could be used to create improved antenna systems and reduce wireless radiation exposure, the authors said.

They pointed out that designing phones to make calls using Wi-Fi — rather than cell towers — wherever available would also dramatically reduce radiation emissions from the phone.

Moreover, the authors suggested cellphones could have software installed that would limit radiation exposure by controlling the cumulative dose of RFR.

“This makes sense, since much of the evidence regarding cancer and RFR has used cumulative exposure to establish links,” they said.

The authors added:

“Even if the placement of the phone was allowed against the head, users’ RFR exposure could be automatically controlled by a limit on phone call durations, particularly when base stations [or cell towers] are remote.”

‘We cannot and should not tell the public that we know cellphones are safe’

In their paper, the authors examined the history behind current cellphone emissions standards and found a trail of dated assumptions and poorly designed experiments and tests that don’t reflect how people use cellphones today.

Paul Héroux, Ph.D., the paper’s first author and a professor in the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, said:

“Our team of scientists and engineers has identified seven blind spots in the methods and experiments upon which our current cellphone radiation emission standards and guidelines are based.

“These blind spots call into serious question the validity of those standards.”

For example, experiments using wireless radiation exposures lasting 40-60 minutes are not representative of the “24/7 chronic exposures which all of us are and will be subject to for the rest of our lives,” he said.

“Another example,” Héroux said, “is testing designs that estimate exposure using the phone and the head. What’s missing, of course, is the hand holding the phone.”

Including the hand in the exposure test shows that most of the phone’s radiated emissions are absorbed by the body and little is actually available for wireless communications, he said.

These blindspots “tell us that our current cellphone emissions standards cannot be trusted,” Héroux said. “We cannot and should not tell the public that we know cellphones are safe.”

Moskowitz said we “will certainly hear from cellphone manufacturers that cellphones already comply with government standards.”

What we won’t hear, he said, is a cellphone manufacturer spokesperson saying, “My company guarantees that the radiation emitted by our cellphones is safe and will not harm users.”

“They won’t say it because they know better and because their lawyers have told them never to claim publicly that their cellphones are safe,” he said.

Some in the wireless industry may protest a move toward safer cellphones and other wireless devices by saying it’s costly and unnecessary, Moskowitz said, adding:

“But carmakers said the same thing when the public demanded safer cars and the government required them. Today, those same carmakers compete on safety.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/engineering-fixes-cellphone-radiation/

Trump Is Being Politically Persecuted To Prevent Him From Brokering Peace With Russia

Andrew Korybko

The indisputable desperation with which his opponents are trying to derail his re-election bid exposes their true intentions in politically crucifying him all these years. They regard him as the greatest threat to their liberal-globalist cult not just because of his polar opposite socio-cultural policies at home, but because his grand strategy prioritizes reaching a “New Détente” with Russia, which the “deep state” considers to be the embodiment of everything that their belief system is against.

Former US President and leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is facing 34 felony charges related to allegedly falsifying business records, which ordinarily would have just been a slew of misdemeanors had the prosecutor not “bumped them up” on a shadowy pretext. The domestic political context extends credence to criticisms that this is actually a persecution that’s also partially being carried out to galvanize the Democrats’ base, but there’s a crucial international dimension to all this too.

The argument can be made that the real reason why this witch hunt and all prior ones were commenced against him is due to his envisaged policy of brokering peace with Russia through a series of mutual compromises that can be referred to as a “New Détente”. It was this grand strategy that he campaigned on in 2016 and which prompted his opponent Hillary Clinton to concoct the Russiagate conspiracy theory falsely misportraying him as “Putin’s puppet”.

What Trump and his team had in mind wasn’t treasonous but pragmatic from the perspective of the US’ objective interests in that there’s a reasonable logic to de-escalating tensions with Russia in Europe so as to more effectively “contain” China in the Asia-Pacific. To that end, he sincerely wanted to compel Kiev into implementing the Minsk Accords but ultimately failed because influential figures in his country’s military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) were opposed to this.

These individuals and their European counterparts are unofficial members of the cult known as liberal–globalism, which preaches that their Western way of life – particularly its radical liberal variant thereof – must be imposed onto the rest of the world “for their own good”. Due to a combination of ideological and strategic reasons, they believed that the US should prioritize “containing” Russia over China, hence why they united to sabotage Trump’s well-intended plans that were explained above.

The NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine that began last February when Moscow was forced to resort to military means for protecting the integrity of its national security red lines after this US-led bloc clandestinely crossed them there could in theory have been prevented had Trump still been in office. At the same time, however, his prior capitulation to the “deep state’s” demands to impose more sanctions on Moscow challenges this prediction, but it’s still worth considering in any case.

Despite the aforesaid skepticism, Trump recently doubled down on his envisaged pragmatic approach towards Russia by proclaiming that he’d broker peace with it and Kiev through a deal that he hinted would recognize the ground realities by legitimizing Moscow’s control over former Ukrainian territory. While the felony charges against him were already being pursued behind the scenes before this, there’s no doubt that his policy reaffirmation gave his opponents an urgent impetus to derail his re-election bid.

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Via https://korybko.substack.com/p/trump-is-being-politically-persecuted

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files for Democratic Nomination for President

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People’s Pharma Movement

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed papers yesterday to enter the race for the Democratic Party nomination for President. We at People’s Pharma Movement are delighted with this news and we intend to fully support Kennedy in his race. And we hope you will too.

The COVID crisis has revealed the almost unimaginable depth of corruption and corporate control of our major institutions. Our future, and, more importantly, the future of our children, are dependent on rooting out that corruption. Kennedy is at the forefront of exposing the current rot, and leading efforts to replace our failed systems with the rule of law, individual liberty, and rational honest science.

Kennedy is one of the leading advocates in the world for policies that put the health of people, especially children, before protecting the careers of entrenched bureaucrats and corporate profits. He is relentless in his well-documented criticism of the federal agencies that are supposed to look out for our welfare but instead do the bidding of the corporate cartels that control most of our economy.

As a lawyer, Kennedy has filed hundreds of lawsuits, initially against polluters. Over time his targets expanded to include racketeering by drug and chemical companies. Since 2020 Kennedy has challenged gross violations of basic human rights, and pervasive censorship imposed by an unholy collaboration between the Biden administration, federal agencies, Big Tech, and the legacy media.

In recent years we have seen a complete abandonment by the Democratic Party of any criticism of the pharmaceutical industry, except for too high prices. The most draconian policies, supposedly to counter COVID, were greeted by almost all Democratic elected officials with either wild applause or silence. Kennedy’s courageous run demonstrates to everyone that the Democrats still have a conscience and the courage to fight the drug industry and the bureaucrats. Hopefully, Kennedy’s run will embolden other Democrats to come out of the pharmaceutical closet and take a stand. If we are going to achieve long-term goals of completely reforming the health systems in the United States, we will need allies in both parties. No single party will be able to do it alone.

Kennedy had a long and highly successful career as an environmental lawyer and activist when he began to speak out in the early 2000s about the health risks posed to American children by using mercury in vaccines. Fortunately for Kennedy, neither he nor any of his family members have suffered a vaccine injury, but he voluntarily entered a fray where the price for heresy is personal and professional destruction.

He could have backed down at any time and resumed his much-lauded career, but he has continued to press forward in the face of media attacks that would have stopped just about everyone. Despite the attacks he continues to fight for what is right and true. He repeatedly says to his many powerful and shrill critics, “Show me where I am wrong,” and they are never able to do it.

America needs someone with Kennedy’s dedication, intelligence, values, and willingness to fight for what is right. Please support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his run for the Democratic nomination.

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Via https://www.peoplespharmamovement.org/

Bombshell Finding: Any Level of Fluoride in Water is Unsafe

Dr Mercola

Story at-a-glanceThe release of the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) systematic review of fluoride’s neurotoxicity was blocked by government officials and concealed from the public since May 2022Fluoride Action Network’s lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the deliberate addition of fluoridating chemicals to U.S. drinking water has been on hold waiting for the release of the NTP reportPrior to the NTP report’s scheduled release in May 2022, it was shared with members of dental groups like the American Dental Association, which urged officials to alter the reportAfter a court order, the NTP report was released, showing that out of 55 studies included, 52 found that increased fluoride exposure was associated with decreases in child IQThe meta-analysis noted that no safe exposure level could be confirmed, including exposure to fluoride levels found in artificially fluoridated water

In 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labeled community water fluoridation as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.1 To this day, relatively few consumers are aware of water fluoridation’s sordid history or the battle that’s been going on behind the scenes to get this toxin out of U.S. drinking water.

I’ve been warning of the risks for well over a decade and have been ridiculed as a result. In one example from 2013, an article published by mainstream media outlet Slate scoffed at the idea of fluoride as a neurotoxin, insulting me directly in the process.2

Vindication is upon us, however, following the court-ordered release of the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) systematic review of fluoride’s neurotoxicity — a release that was blocked by government officials and concealed from the public since May 2022.3

Fluoride Lawsuit Delayed for Years, Waiting on NTP Report

Paul Connett, Ph.D., founder of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), and Stuart Cooper, the current executive director of FAN, have been instrumental in catalyzing the movement to remove fluoride from water supplies in the U.S. as well as internationally. FAN filed a historic lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court.

In 2016, FAN and coalition partners filed a petition asking the EPA to ban the deliberate addition of fluoridating chemicals to U.S. drinking water under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

The EPA dismissed FAN’s petition, prompting the lawsuit challenging the EPA’s denial. Although the EPA filed a motion to dismiss the case, the motion was denied by the court in 2017.4 The trial was held in June 2020, but the judge was unable to make a final ruling.5

At the time, he requested more information, including the NTP’s systematic review of fluoride’s neurotoxicity, as well as the benchmark dose analysis of fluoride’s neurotoxicity.6 Status hearings for the case have been delayed since.

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Multiple delays, including cancellations and rescheduling, followed, with the EPA continuing to ask that the trial be delayed indefinitely until NTP published the report.

Finally, at a January 2023 hearing, FAN reported, “the judge acknowledged that “justice delayed is justice denied,” ultimately ruling against them. The court directed the plaintiffs and defendants to start the process of adjudicating whether the final NTP report and accompanying agency comments ought to be made public in preparation for the final phase of the trial.”9

Dental Groups Urged Officials to Alter NTP Fluoride Report

Reports suggest that prior to the NTP report’s scheduled release in May 2022, it was shared with members of dental groups like the American Dental Association. Linda Birnbaum, who was NTP director until 2019, said the report was set to be released until, “They were blocked.”

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NTP Report — 52 of 55 Studies Link Fluoride to Lower IQ

So, what did the NTP report11 reveal about fluoride’s neurotoxicity? Out of 55 studies included in the review, 52 found that increased fluoride exposure was associated with decreases in child IQ.

“Our meta-analysis confirms results of previous meta-analyses and extends them by including newer, more precise studies … The data support a consistent inverse association between fluoride exposure and children’s IQ,” the report found.12 While some have stated that the data only apply to water fluoride concentrations above those commonly found in U.S. drinking water, NTP didn’t agree, stating:13

“We do not agree with this comment … our assessment considers fluoride exposures from all sources, not just water … because fluoride is also found in certain foods, dental products, some pharmaceuticals, and other sources … Even in the optimally fluoridated cities … individual exposure levels … suggest widely varying total exposures from water combined with fluoride from other sources.

… We have no basis on which to state that our findings are not relevant to some children or pregnant people in the United States … Several of the highest quality studies showing lower IQs in children were done in optimally fluoridated (0.7 mg/L) areas…many urinary fluoride measurements exceed those that would be expected from consuming water that contains fluoride at 1.5 mg/L.”

No Safe Level of Fluoride in Water

The report also identified a drop of about seven IQ points over a fluoride range of 0.2 to 1.5 mg/L, which a peer reviewer described as “substantial … That’s a big deal.”14 The meta-analysis noted that no safe exposure level could be confirmed, including exposure to fluoride levels found in artificially fluoridated water.15 The next hearing for FAN’s lawsuit against the EPA is set for April 11, 2023.16

FAN obtained documents via the Freedom of Information Act that further showed dental groups’ attempts to “water down the report.” FAN explained:17

“When the NTP held firm, these agencies got HHS Assistant Administrator Rachel Levine to block its release. Only one historical example exists of an NTP report being blocked from release, a report on the carcinogenicity of asbestos-contaminated talc.

Talc industry groups conducted an aggressive lobbying campaign, enlisting friendly congresspeople to intervene. FAN was able to force today’s release of the NTP report by using leverage from the ongoing lawsuit against the EPA.

Fluoridation defenders have falsely claimed draft versions of the report had been ‘rejected’ by a National Academies committee. In fact, the committee recommended that NTP clarify their methods and reasoning for reaching their conclusions because the issue was considered so contentious. The NTP has done that in the report …

There is now little question that a large body of scientific evidence supports a conclusion that fluoride can lower child’s IQ, including at exposure levels from fluoridated water … With the release of this report, dental interests may have to rethink their denial of the evidence that fluoridation can reduce children’s IQ.”

97% of Western Europe Has Rejected Water Fluoridation

If the U.S. got it wrong about water fluoridation after declaring it a top public health achievement, it makes you wonder what else they’re wrong about. And it’s important to understand that water fluoridation is not the norm worldwide. In fact, 97% of people living in western Europe drink nonfluoridated water, including those in:18

AustriaBelgiumDenmarkFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIcelandItalyLuxembourgNetherlandsNorthern IrelandNorwayPortugalScotlandSwedenSwitzerland

Fluoride in drinking water is an industrial waste product from the phosphate fertilizer industry.19 More than 300 studies have shown fluoride’s toxic effects on the brain,20 including 2006 National Research Council review that suggested fluoride exposure may be associated with brain damage, endocrine system disruption and bone cancer.21

In 2012, Harvard researchers also revealed that children living in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas22 and suggested high fluoride exposure may have an adverse effect on children’s neurodevelopment.

A study of Mexican women and children also raised concern, showing that higher exposure to fluoride while in utero is associated with lower scores on tests of cognitive function in childhood, both at the age of 4 and 6 to 12 years.23

Each 0.5 milligram per liter increase in pregnant women’s fluoride levels was associated with a reduction of 3.15 and 2.5 points on the children’s scores on the General Cognitive Index (GCI) of the McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities and the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI), respectively.

Fluorosilicic acid, which is the fluoride chemical added to drinking water, may also be contaminated with additional harmful compounds, including lead and arsenic. Children, in particular, are at risk from ingesting fluoride, but they are exposed to the same levels in drinking water as adults.

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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/04/06/report-linking-fluoride-to-brain-harm/

Urgent! Who Needs the WHO? A Fight for Sovereignty

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science

We have been calling for action on the imminent takeover of our lives and and our choices through the pandemic strategies by the World Health Organsiation (WHO), including changes to the International Health Regulations (IHR). There has been little if any public discussion about whether New Zealanders actually want to be ruled from afar by an un-elected body when it comes to our health decisions.

In effect those pulling the strings are trying to use a viral cold as an excuse to implement means by which our freedom and sovereignty can be severely curtailed.

Agreements are made in secret without our knowledge, or even that of our MPs, and they promise Chinese communist-style control and lockdowns of us all, under the guise of sustainability…net zero… and the greater good. Yes, good for a few very wealthy and powerful people right at the top.

Now a supporter and activist, Greg Rzesniowiecki, has set up petitions to Parliament on these issues so please support them and pass round your networks urgently.

For a deeper dive into the two avenues that the WHO and its funders are using to impose these draconian measures, see our summary here. Furthermore, it is with alarm that we read of the open letter from NZ specialists calling for a greater involvement of NZ with the WHO. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, these doctors may be completely unaware of who funds the WHO, what the changes to the IHR and the implementation of the WHO treaty mean.

As citizens we will need to fight to save our personal and national sovereignty. Complacency will see it taken away.

WHO Pandemic Treaty

Petition of Greg Rzesniowiecki: Hold a referendum before signing the proposed WHO pandemic treaty.

Petition request

That the House of Representatives urge the Government to hold a referendum before signing the proposed World Health Organization pandemic treaty.

Petition reason

The New Zealand Government is negotiating a pandemic treaty with WHO members. In my opinion, consultation has not been adequate. In my view, any pandemic treaty should not be signed before an audit has been undertaken on the New Zealand COVID-19 response and elimination strategy, including lockdowns and mRNA vaccination. In my opinion, mRNA products are toxic and are not safe nor effective at stopping transmission of infectious diseases.

Sign For Our Sovereignty Against the WHO Treaty HereProposed International Health Regulations amendments

Petition of Greg Rzesniowiecki: Hold a referendum before amending International Health Regulations.

Petition request

That the House of Representatives urge the Government to hold a referendum before adopting any amended International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization concerning the use of mRNA vaccinations in future pandemics.

Petition reason

The NZ Government is negotiating amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) of the WHO. In my opinion, this is occurring without public consultation, and before an audit of the NZ COVID-19 response. In my view, it is likely that the amended IHR will support the use of mRNA vaccines in future pandemics. In my opinion, mRNA products are toxic and are not safe or effective at stopping transmission of infectious disease. In my view, the public should give their consent to any changes.

Closing date: 13 May 2023

Via https://nzdsos.com/2023/04/05/urgent-who-needs-the-who/

Idaho bans puberty blockers, chemical castration and breast removal for trans-identified kids

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The Blogging Hounds

Idaho has become the latest state to pass a law prohibiting doctors from prescribing puberty blockers that many refer to as chemical castration and body mutilating surgeries for youth struggling with their sexual identities.

Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 71, also known as the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, into law on Tuesday, making Idaho the 12th state to ban such practices, joining Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia.

In a transmittal letter sent to Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle, Little explained that he signed the bill because he believed “our society plays a role in protecting minors from surgeries or treatments that can irreversibly damage their healthy bodies.”

“This bill is aptly named the Vulnerable Child Protection Act because it seeks to protect children with gender dysphoria from medical and surgical interventions that can cause permanent damage to their bodies before they are mature enough to make such serious health decisions,” wrote Little.

Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln, executive director of the LGBT activist group Add the Words, Idaho, released a statement claiming that the state was “watching parental rights being dismantled in the name of stigmatizing and harming our most vulnerable youth.”

“Little is supposed to be a champion and a defender of parental rights, especially when overseeing the medical decisions of our children. His signing of this bill flies in the face of those supposed values,” stated Gaona-Lincoln.

Terry Schilling, president of the socially conservative American Principles Project, released a statement saying it was “encouraging to see lawmakers nationwide taking action to protect children from the predatory transgender industry.”

“The vast majority of Americans recognize that children are too young to consent to these procedures, which will have permanent, potentially destructive consequences for their long-term health,” stated Schilling.

“We thank Gov. Little and the Idaho legislature for stepping up to protect their state’s families and kids. And we look forward to seeing more states join them in the weeks ahead.”

Introduced in February, HB 71 passed the Idaho House of Representatives by a vote of 58-12 and then in March passed the Idaho Senate by a vote of 22-12, with one abstention.

The new law makes it a felony for a doctor to, among other things, perform “surgeries that sterilize or mutilate, or artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the child’s biological sex,” such as surgeries involving castration or a vasectomy, on a minor.

It also bans doctors from providing minors with “medications that induce profound morphologic changes in the genitals of a child or induce transient or permanent infertility,” such as puberty blockers.

The legislation provides exemptions to this ban, including “a person acting in accordance with the good faith medical decision of a parent or guardian of a child born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development.”

In recent years, there has been growing concerns about the use of puberty blockers and irreversible surgeries to change the gender of youth suffering from gender dysphoria.

In 2021, for example, the long-running CBS news program “60 Minutes” aired a segment in which Lesley Stahl interviewed multiple young people who spoke about the harms of taking irreversible puberty blockers or going to the next level by having body mutilating surgeries to try and look more like the opposite sex.

Last November, The New York Times published a story detailing several medical professionals and formerly trans-identified individuals’ rising concerns regarding puberty blockers.

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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2023/04/05/idaho-bans-puberty-blockers-chemical-castration-and-breast-removal-for-trans-identified-kids/

 

 

Food Shortages & High Inflation Threaten Nation’s Food Supply

Source: LA Times

By Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

In what is still probably one of the most under-reported breaking news stories in the U.S. today, the situation with the flooding in California, which produces 50% of the nation’s agriculture, is going from bad to worse, while other parts of the nation are still in drought conditions which threaten the nation’s winter wheat crops, it was reported today.

And then there was this report published by the LA Times yesterday:

Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. Roughly eight times a day, its operations are replenished with a truckload of human waste from the residents of Los Angeles County.

Since 2016, the Tulare Lake Compost facility has been converting Southland sewage sludge into high-grade organic fertilizer, and sparing L.A. County the bother of burying its waste in local landfills.

But as epic Sierra Nevada snowpack threatens to overwhelm this phantom lake bed with spring runoff — inundating a region that has already suffered flooding from a series of powerful storms — some fear the facility could be transformed into an environmental disaster.

“When the southwest corner of Tulare Lake floods, thousands of tons of L.A. County sewage sludge, containing toxic heavy metals, will become part of the mix in the newly formed lake,” said Tom Frantz, a retired schoolteacher and environmental activist who once lived in the area but moved to San Luis Obispo three years ago.

“You can’t grow food for humans where this waste has been spread,” Frantz said. (Source.)

“Human waste” is a polite term to use for what this “sludge” is that now threatens $billions of food in California farmlands.

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And all of this “human waste” is in ADDITION TO the “waste” produced in Central California from huge dairy and poultry operations, which now also are in danger of spreading into California’s water supplies.

80,000-100,000 acres of Farmland Threatened to go Underwater as Record Snow Depths Melt in California Mountains

The California Department of Water Resources conducted a snow survey yesterday, stating that this year’s snowpack melt could top every record they’ve ever seen since the snow sensor network was established in the 1980s.

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California is the top milk producer in the United States, with most of the State’s large dairy farms residing in the Central Valley where all the flooding is taking place.

Over 100,000 cows have already been taken out of milk production because they had to be moved to higher ground into temporary facilities, and those facilities do not have milking machines to milk the cows.

The emphasis has just been on saving the cows, but those cows are not currently producing any milk. (Source.)

Some dairy farmers doubt whether they can stay in business.

 

Besides dairy farms, Central California is home to some of the largest beef processing plants in the nation.

One of the flooded counties, Kings County, is home to Central Valley Meats, which as of 2021 was processing 1,500 head of cattle a day, but has been expanding their operation to 4,500 head a day, and employs over 600,000 workers. (Source.)

I have not been able to find any news reports yet about how the floods have affected their operations, as they are a major supplier of beef to the fast food industry.

Inquiries by Health Impact News to Central Valley Meats have not been responded to, but they may be reluctant to respond to the media, as in the past whistleblowers have given them a bad reputation for how their animals are treated when being slaughtered.

Food Shortages and Inflation Set to Skyrocket

Since California produces so much of the nation’s food, the loss of agricultural products in California is going to cause shortages and higher prices.

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California also grows a lot of grains, not to sell in the retail market, but to feed their huge dairy and cattle industries in feed lots, and many of these grain fields are also under water now.

If they have to go outside the state to secure wheat and other grains, they may have a difficult time doing so based on a report published today about high prices of American winter wheat, due to droughts in the Midwest.

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To make matters even worse, the announcement by OPEC over the weekend to reduce oil production is going to lead to higher fuel prices, and farmers are already one of the largest consumers of diesel gasoline to run all their farm equipment, and now many of them would need to transport grains from far away just to keep their dairy and cattle farms operating, increasing their need for fuel.

This is a national disaster on the nation’s food supply that is an ongoing breaking news story that few yet fully understand.

I have been warning the public now for over 20 years that this nation’s food supply is too dependent on technology and is very fragile, and that the day would eventually come where Americans go their local grocery stores and find the shelves bare.

We may be approaching that day in the not-too-distant future.

We saw this for a limited time during the early days of lockdowns due to COVID in 2020, which caused online ecommerce retailers of food to see increases in online ordering for food.

Since then, however, many ecommerce companies are downsizing or going out of business due to the downturn in the Technology sector which is laying off hundreds of thousands of workers here in 2023.

And that includes food delivery services.

It was announced today that online bulk grocery retailer Boxed has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, for example.

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/disaster-food-shortages-high-inflation-for-contaminated-food-threaten-nations-food-supply/

The Role of the Celts in Ancient Greece and Rome

Episode 2 The Role of the Celts in the Classical World

The Celtic World

Dr Jennifer Paxton (2018)

Film Review

There is virtually nothing written by the Celts themselves regarding their interaction with Greek and Roman civilization. Legend has it that the Druids (prehistoric Celtic intellectuals) didn’t believe in written language both because it made people soft and because they wished to monopolize knowledge.

The word Celt (Keltoi) was first used by the Greeks for people who lived north of the Greek colony Massalia (currently the French city Marseilles). The Romans adopted the word as Celtae, though they also referred to residents of Gaul as Galli, derived from the Greek word (Galatae) for Celtic peoples who lived on the Anatolian peninsula. In English, the latter are known as Galations. Galatae is also the origin of the word Gaelic, used outside Ireland to refer to the Irish language.

Greek view of the Celts:

Aristotle characterized the Celts as having a “crazed belligerence” and being to prone to homosexual relationships.*Plato described the Celts as fierce warriors who were excessively prone to drunkenness.Ephorus, the ancient Greek historian wrote about a fitness test Celtic warrior had to pass to demonstrate they hadn’t put on excessive weight.Alexander the Great praised their fearlessness.

The Founding of Galatia

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 324 BC, the Celts invaded and conquered Macedonia. Splitting into two cohorts, one group of Celts went on to attack Delphi, where they were were defeated by the God Pan when their leader accidentally poisoned himself undiluted wine.

The other group marched into the Anatolian peninsula, where King Nicomedes of Bithnyia invited them to serve as mercenaries.** Hired to resist Roman conquest, Celtic bandits and kidnappers carved out the Galatian state for themselves on the Anatolian peninsula. Ironically they eventually allied with Rome, who allowed them to keep their state after conquering Asia Minor.

The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost sculpture from the Hellenistic period thought to have been cast in bronze. The original was commissioned some time between 230 and 220 BC by Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Galatians.

Roman view of the Celts

The historian Posidonius, who Julius Caesar quotes excessively in his writings, was the major authority on the Celts in the Roman Republic. According to Posidonius, they were were tall and blood, fought naked, treated their hair with lime paste to make it stand straight up, played war trumpets to intimidate their enemies, favored hand-to-hand combat and invited bards to recite poetry at their feasts.

According to Paxton, ancient Celtic speakers called the Lepontii, ancient Celtic speakers conquered northern Italy  around 400 BC. They adopted north Etruscan script** for written records. In 390 BC, they sacked Rome and, according to the historian Livy, had to be bribed to leave.

At the time of Julius Caesar, Celtic tribes controlled Transalpine Gaul (modern day France), and the Romans controlled Cisalpine Gaul (the Po Valley in modern Italy),*** After Caesar defeated Transalpine Gaul during the Gallic wars (58-50 BC), it also became a colony of Rome.

Celts in modern day Spain

There were also Celts living in the Iberian peninsula when Rome conquered Spain (which only came under firm Roman control in first century BC). The Romans divided Spain into three main regions – the Celts in the Northeast, the Iberians along the southeastern coast and the Celt Iberians sandwiched in between.

*This seems ironic given the exalted status of male homosexual relationships in ancient Greece.

**Celtic warriors were also enlisted as mercenaries in ancient Egypt and Macedonia.

***The Romans gained control of the Po Valley in northern Italy at the Battle of Telamon in 225 BC.

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