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March 14, 2023
More Infant Vaccines Lead to Higher Infant Mortality
Dr Mercola
Story at-a-glanceIn 2011, Neil Miller, Ph.D., and Gary Goldman, Ph.D., published a paper in the journal Human & Experimental Toxicology showing infant mortality rates correlated with childhood vaccination rates, with high-uptake countries having higher child mortalityIn January 2022, Goldman discussed the CDC’s suppression of undesirable vaccine data in an interview. In December that year, the Miller Lab at Brigham Young University in Utah, as part of the BYU Bioinformatics Capstone course, reanalyzed the Miller-Goldman paper in an effort to debunk itIn response to the critique, Miller and Goldman conducted their own reanalysis, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cureus in early February 2023. The paper confirmed their 2011 conclusion that there’s a positive correlation between vaccine doses and infant mortality ratesData from the first few months of the pandemic seem to confirm this link, as the death rate for American children under 18 dropped during lockdowns, from an average of 700 per week to fewer than 500 per week during the months of April and May in 2020The decades-long work of Christine Stabell Benn, a clinical professor at University of Southern Denmark and her colleague Peter Aaby, a vaccine scientist, shows six of the 10 vaccines investigated increase infant mortality by rendering children more susceptible to other lethal diseasesDo childhood vaccines impact a child’s mortality risk? While controversy around this issue continues to swirl, peer-reviewed research suggests the answer is a yes.
In 2011, Neil Miller, Ph.D., and Gary Goldman, Ph.D., published a paper in the journal Human & Experimental Toxicology showing infant mortality rates correlated with childhood vaccination rates, with high-uptake countries having higher child mortality.
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Goldman had initially joined the CDC thinking that it was the gold standard in unbiased research, but over the years, he realized that wasn’t the case. The CDC barred him from publishing any findings that linked the vaccination program with negative health outcomes, which led to his resignation in 2002, as he did not want to participate in research fraud.
[…]Striking Decline in SIDS During COVIDIn 2020, health authorities bemoaned the fact that COVID fears and lockdowns had the “unfortunate” side effect of lowering routine childhood vaccination rates. Vaccine safety advocates, on the other hand, predicted the decline might actually have a positive impact.
Childhood vaccines have long been suspected of being a contributing factor to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).8 As noted by Australian researcher Viera Scheibner, Ph.D.:9
“Vaccination is undoubtedly the single biggest and most preventable cause of cot-death … The timing of 80% of the cot [crib] deaths occurring between the second and sixth months is due to the cumulative effect of infections, timing of immunizations and some inherent specifics in the baby’s early development.“
Interestingly, data from the first few months of the pandemic seemed to confirm this link. According to a white paper10,11 by Amy Becker and Mark Blaxill, published June 18, 2020, the death rate among children under the age of 18 in the U.S. mysteriously dropped during the lockdowns, from an average of 700 per week to fewer than 500 per week during the months of April and May, as shown in the following graph.
While Becker and Blaxill12 admitted there were “no specific data on the SIDS trend during the pandemic,” the data did show that the drop was related to a dramatic reduction in infant death specifically, not older children or teens.
What’s more, according to researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente, the sharp decline in infant vaccinations began in early March 2020 — the same month that infant deaths started declining.13 Is that coincidence or a sign of causality?
Controlled Trials Are NeededBecker’s and Blaxill’s findings were addressed in a June 16, 2020, BMJ commentary. Responding to the authors of a paper titled “Fewer American Infants Are Dying During the COVID-19 Lockdown. Why?” retired pediatrician Allan S. Cunningham wrote:14
“During the first 11 weeks of 2020 (through March 14) there were 209 fewer deaths in U.S. children <18 compared to the same period in 2019 (7024 vs 7233).
During the 11-week period following the emergency declaration (through May 30) there were 1465 fewer deaths in US children compared to 2019 (5923 vs 7388).15 The difference is statistically highly significant …
Becker and Blaxill emphasized that the most pronounced mortality decline occurred in infants <1 year. This is confirmed by reviewing the most recent data.16 There was a substantial and highly significant decline from 2020 weeks 5 through 11 to weeks 12 through 22 (367 to 309 infant deaths per week) …
Infant Vaccinations May Be Driving SIDS RatesThe suggestion that vaccinations could be one factor in the causation of SIDS is not new … until properly controlled trials are done we will be unable to confirm or exclude a causal role for vaccines.”
Some of strongest evidence linking SIDS and infant vaccines comes from Japan.17,18 Between 1970 and 1974, the Japanese compensation system paid out claims for 57 permanent vaccine injury cases related to the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and 37 deaths.
The cluster triggered a boycott of the vaccine by doctors in one of the prefectures. As a result of that boycott, the Japanese government raised the minimum age for DTP vaccination from 3 months to 2 years.19
In the six years that followed (1975 through 1980), Japan became known for having the lowest infant death rate in the world, and there were only eight severe reactions and three deaths following the DTP vaccine — an 85% and 90% reduction in severe injuries and deaths respectively.20
In contrast, the U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate — and the highest vaccination rate as well. If infant vaccinations improve health and save lives, why do statistics not support such claims? As noted in Miller’s and Goldman’s 2011 paper:21
“Prior to contemporary vaccination programs, ‘Crib death’ was so infrequent that it was not mentioned in infant mortality statistics. In the United States, national immunization campaigns were initiated in the 1960s …
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SIDS and SADS — Two Sides of the Same Coin?In the August 2022 Substack article “The Century of Evidence That Vaccines Cause Infant Deaths,” a doctor who goes by the moniker A Midwestern Doctor reviewed the link between vaccination and SIDS:22
“As best as I can tell from all the data that has been collected, is that the vaccines (especially TDP) cause microstrokes in the brain in the region that controls automatic respiration, so infants start having interrupted breath cycles, and unless they are at an ICU or somewhere else where they are monitored and can be resuscitated, once the breathing stops it is fatal …
In essence, this is identical to what has been observed with the COVID-19 vaccines — the reason the public’s attention has been drawn to this issue is because everyone can see the large number of sudden deaths they are causing even though many other side effects from the vaccines are much more common.
Six of 10 Vaccines Investigated Found to Increase MortalitySimilarly, much in the same way sudden infant death syndrome did not exist until DPT vaccination … sudden adult death syndrome was not a thing until the COVID-19 vaccines came out …”
Other compelling evidence linking vaccines and infant mortality comes from the decades-long work of Dr. Christine Stabell Benn, a clinical professor at University of Southern Denmark and her colleague Dr. Peter Aaby, a vaccine scientist and promoter of vaccination commissioned by the WHO to study the effects of vaccines used in charitable programs.
The decades-long work of Christine Stabell Benn and Peter Aaby shows six of the 10 vaccines investigated increase infant mortality by rendering children more susceptible to other lethal diseases.A review of their four decades of investigation was published in Clinical Microbiology and Infections in August 2019,23 and reported by Science News DK in December that year.24
Benn and Aaby also published a study25 in 2017, which showed the DTP program in Africa was a disaster, as vaccination was associated with a fivefold higher mortality, on average, than being unvaccinated — 3.93 times higher for boys and 9.98 times higher for girls.
In summary, Benn and Aaby, having studied the effects of 10 different vaccines on overall mortality, came to the shocking conclusion that six of the 10 increase mortality by rendering children more susceptible to other lethal diseases.
Overall, inactivated (non-live) vaccines increased mortality, especially among girls, even when they offered a high degree of protection against the target disease. This was true for the DTP, pentavalent vaccine, inactivated polio vaccine, H1N1 influenza vaccine and the hepatitis B vaccine.
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An analysis31 of data in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) by Miller, published in 2021, also found that “Of 2,605 infant deaths reported to VAERS from 1990 through 2019, 58 % clustered within three days post-vaccination and 78.3 % occurred within seven days post-vaccination, confirming that infant deaths tend to occur in temporal proximity to vaccine administration.”data?
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The Mongollon: The Southwest’s First Pottery Makers
Episode 15: The Mongollon Cuture
Ancient Civilizations of North America
Dr Edwin Barnhart (2018)
Film Review
The Mongollon thrived from 2100 BC to 1450 AD in southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas. They’re best known for their Mimbres Valley pottery (dating from 900 AD), painted with stylized animal and human figures and for burying their dead in a flexed seated position with a bowl on their head. The presence of fish bones and shells among their remains suggests they traded with coastal cultures.
They were the first in the Southwest to make pottery, using an advanced coil technique they most likely learned from Mexican trading partners. Most bowls, along with some pitchers, were used for food storage.
Round Mongollon pit houses date from 2100 BC, when their owners were first experimenting with growing corn. By 200 – 500 AD, they relied mainly on corn for food, although they were still gathering Napalese and prickly pear cactus and snaring rabbits with woven nets. Around 500 AD, their pit houses changed from round to rectangular, they were living in villages of rectangular pit houses and they they were building started building underground rectangular kivas for religious purposes.
By 500 AD the Mongollon had widely adopted the bow and arrow and were hunting dear.
Around 900 AD, Increased rainfall resulted in larger corn harvests and populations. The Mongollon began building new houses upland from the flood plain and adding on extra rooms for extended family members.They also began burning and rebuilding their stickand grass pit houses and kivas and rebuilding them from adobe or pueblo-style blocks.
With the arrival of a prolonged 12th century drought, the Mongollon once again burned their kivas and migrated to the northern Rio Grande valley in northern Arizona and Colorado. They would return to the desert 100 years later.
Sadado Polychrome pottery found in Kinishiba Ruins in eastern Arizona suggests some 13th century contact with Ancestral Pueblo peoples who had migrated south.
The 14th century town of Grasshopper, with a population of over 500 people, was occupied until 1450. Gila Cliff dwelling Mongollon built elaborate dwellings into the cliffs.
Film can be viewed with a library card on Kanopy.
March 13, 2023
Dept of Homeland Security Money Guzzling Failure
Newsweek
Twenty years ago this month, the U.S. government took a sharp turn toward surveillance, racial profiling, and an immigration policy based on fear.
In March 2003, the newly christened Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, opened its doors. The department took everything from immigration enforcement and counterterrorism to airport security and disaster response under one gargantuan bureaucracy.
Despite these wide-ranging missions, the department’s unifying logic in the post 9/11 era has been to wage the so-called war on terror at home. The result has been systemic abuse of minority communities, a dangerous militarization of American life, and a massive waste of money that sapped resources from addressing the real threats to our homeland.
From its earliest beginnings, DHS has been associated with some of our country’s worst scandals.
Ranging from the Bush administration’s creation of a “special registration” process for Muslim men from certain countries to the “Muslim ban” instituted by President Donald Trump, DHS has been a key executor of government policy that officially targets a specific religion. And it’s been a unique terror for immigrants and refugees from Latin America, separating migrant children from their parents even before Trump supercharged the abuse.These abuses aren’t peripheral to the department’s operations—they’re central. About a third of DHS funding goes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) alone.
Over the past 20 years, DHS has overseen the deportation of more than 5 million people, most of whom had broken no law other than being in the country. Those deportations represent countless family separations and lives disrupted for no discernable gain, and often at a great cost to local communities.
In a few extreme cases, an overzealous DHS has even deported U.S. citizens. But that’s just the beginning of its impact on U.S. communities.
DHS agencies have militarized U.S. streets, sending officers in tactical gear to respond to civilian protests and conducting surveillance of U.S. citizens engaged in constitutionally protected activities. There are stories of DHS drones surveilling Indigenous water and land protectors and DHS forces spying on Black Lives Matter protesters. DHS even monitored journalists who reported on the department’s tactics.
None of these abuses have come cheap.
Since its founding in 2003, the U.S. has spent $1.4 trillion on the agency. That’s more than seven times what the government spent over the same period on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the CDC’s COVID-19 pandemic response—and more than five times more than on the Environmental Protection Agency.
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J6 Defendant Pete Schwartz Writes Speaker McCarthy Requesting Access to J6 Video After He Was Denied the Evidence During Trial
Posted BY: Bill | NwoReport
Peter Schwartz, age 47 and a Kentucky welder, served his country in the Army Reserve. He was indicted after he was accused of pepper-spraying officers during the Jan. 6 protest. He was arrested on Feb. 2, 2021, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Pete was with his wife when 30 agents assaulted him with flashbang grenades, armored vehicles, and more than 10 assault rifles aimed at his chest.
“At no point did either my wife or I resist but we were both roughly handled and forced/dragged up the stairs after being shackled and handcuffed as we were shoved around,” Schwartz said.
Last year, the DC jury found Pete and his co-defendants guilty on every single charge. There were no victims. The prosecution presented no witnesses.
Pete Schwartz called The Gateway Pundit after he was found guilty on every single count. There were 11 counts against Pete and the two co-defendants that he had never seen in his life and never met before the trial. The jury did not even read over the evidence before they voted to sentence the three Trump supporters.
Pete was found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding despite the fact that he NEVER entered the US Capitol
Pete Schwartz told The Gateway Pundit that Juror #8 flipped him off as they read the guilty verdict against him, where he was found guilty on every single count.
Pete is back in prison. He has spent five months in the hole since his arrest. Pete says there are no rules and he never knows when he will be tossed in the hole.
Pete called The Gateway Pundit from the hole on Sunday.
** You can help and donate here: Patriot Pete Political Prisoner in DC
In a recent call, Pete said he was asking Congress and Speaker McCarthy to release the January 6 footage to himself, the J6 political prisoners, and their families.
The Gateway Pundit filed an official letter with Speaker McCarthy’s office last week requesting access to the footage.
Pete Schwartz recently sent a letter to Congressional leaders from his prison cell in Washington DC.
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Russian Military Operation Part of Global Investigation to Prosecute Pfizer for Deployment of mRNA Technology Bioweapons Falsely Promoted as ‘Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccines’
Karen Kingston
March 12, 2023: Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Russian Military Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, recently provided an update on the Russian military investigation into the US military’s dual-use-of-research bio-lab programs funded by the NIH and Pfizer’s involvement in developing, manufacturing, and deploying mRNA bioweapon injections, falsely referred to as ‘safe and effective vaccines’.
The Russian Military Chief cites the work of Project Veritas, the Stew Peters network, and specifically mentions my med-legal analysis, including citing the legal definition of mRNA technology as a bioweapon under 18 USC 175.
“Walker’s statements (Project Veritas) are backed up by those of former Pfizer employee Karen Kingston. She explicitly stated that the U.S. pharmaceutical company’s products, “are, by definition, biological weapons.” In doing so, she refers to the U.S. law, which defines a biological weapon as any biological agent, toxin, or delivery device, the definition of which includes vaccines with mRNA technology.” – Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of Russian Military Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops
You can view the briefing here.
The Russian investigation is part of a global operation to shut down the criminal biolabs research, development and deployment of bioweapons funded and orchestrated by treasonous members of the US military, NIH, private investors (Bill Gates), Big pharma and biotechnology companies. These co-conspirators are continually developing and deploying harmful and infectious biosynthetic pathogens under the guise of public health and safety, protection of national security, and the US biodefense program.
The Ministry of Russian Defense is also evaluating how Pfizer’s global deployment of and international contracts for the use of bioweapons on civilian populations through mandated criminal human experimentation under the guise of ‘safe and effective vaccines’ is in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, Geneva Code, and other international laws criminalizing the use of bioweapons on a civilian population.
There is NO law or contract that protects Pfizer from criminal prosecution for developing, manufacturing and deploying bioweapons[…]
Our government leaders are surrounded by expert advisors who have told them that the claim that mRNA vaccines contain bioweapon nanotechnologies is a ‘crazy conspiracy theory,’ and even if it was true; it would be ‘too dangerous’ to tell the American people the truth.
The mRNA bioweapons have resulted in the injury, disability, and death of tens of millions of adults and children, because the American people have continually been lied to about what the mRNA ‘vaccines’ ARE and CONTAIN. Yet, experts are advising our leaders that the truth is what is dangerous to the American people?
It is the the half-truths and lies the experts continue to tell the media, government officials, and the American people that is what is most dangerous. The truth is not dangerous to us, it’s dangerous to those who are involved in the development (inventing), deployment, and cover-up of this bioweapon attack.
There are hundreds of big pharma and government documents clearly describing mRNA vaccines as bioweapon nanotechnologies.[…]
Via https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/karen-kingstons-med-legal-analysis?r=1y5eog
Christians Call for Wealth Tax
Joy in Enough
With the government’s spring budget expected this week, Church Action for Tax Justice have delivered a call for new wealth tax to the chancellor. This would be a one-off tax on Britain’s richest 1%. It would raise funds from those most able to pay, while lowering taxes for the poorest and reducing inequality.
The call took the form of an open letter (see below), which has been signed by over 2,000 Christians, including former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who said: “Spiralling inequality is a major issue in our society, and all the evidence suggests that this is deeply damaging to our collective morale and trust. A wealth tax of the kind we are backing recognises that vastly disproportionate rewards for a very small number of citizens will not make for a cohesive and just national community.”
Church Action for Church Justice is a campaign from the Just Money movement, and you can find out more about their proposal here, along with a petition to sign.
Dear Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Re: The introduction of a wealth tax for the UK’s richest individuals
We are writing to draw your attention to the high, and deeply embedded, ‘wealth gap’ within the UK, and to urge the Government to introduce an initial one-off wealth tax on the country’s richest 1%, as proposed by Church Action for Tax Justice.
We also support calls for a review of the UK’s system of personal taxes, to take account of how different taxes relate to each other and to see how avoidance of any wealth tax can be prevented, so that an ongoing, progressive net wealth tax can be introduced in the near future. Wealth inequality in this country is high and the COVID pandemic has served only to increase this inequality.
In particular, the low paid and financially insecure are especially vulnerable (including those key workers who have kept this country going throughout the pandemic). Many find themselves caught in a perfect storm of reduced benefits, rising National Insurance Contributions, a cost-of-living crisis and often, uncertain job security. For some, it’s nothing short of a desperate time.
We believe that our elected leaders should be taking urgent action to protect the wellbeing of all – especially the most vulnerable. In a compassionate and caring society, it is important that those who can do so make a fair contribution to the common good; not least to help those who have lost out from the very circumstances that have boosted their own resources.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Via https://joyinenough.org/2023/03/13/christians-call-for-a-wealth-tax/
March 12, 2023
IRS Reminds Thieves They Must Pay Taxes on Stolen Property
Posted BY: | NwoReport
The Internal Revenue Service is now reminding thieves that they must report income gained through their crimes.
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t also a stark reminder of how normalized crimes like robbery and shoplifting have become in recent years.
It gets more difficult to distinguish between parody and reality every day.
The FOX Business Network reported:
Twitter users erupt at IRS’s calls for thieves to report stolen income: ‘Good to know’
The IRS’s bewildering rule about self-reporting income from crimes has caused some Twitter users to mock the federal agency.
According to IRS Publication 525, taxpayers are legally required to report the value of whatever property they stole during the tax year.
“If you steal property, you must report its FMV (Fair Market Value) in your income in the year you steal it, unless in the same year you return it to its rightful owner,” the rule reads.
The same rule applies to bribery, drug deals and other income-earning crimes.
The IRS purportedly uses the information solely for tax purposes and does not hand over any evidence to law enforcement.
The only situation where law enforcement may have access to the information is through court orders.
Remember, the IRS requires you to report all income from illegal activities pic.twitter.com/6I1ocQOzWL
— Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) March 6, 2023
Pablo Escobar’s Son Reveals Dad “Worked for CIA Selling Cocaine”
By Claire Bernish
Free Thought Project
Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, son of notorious Medellín cartel drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, now says his father “worked for the CIA.”
In a new book, “Pablo Escobar In Fraganti,” Escobar, who lives under the pseudonym, Juan Sebastián Marroquín, explains his “father worked for the CIA selling cocaine to finance the fight against Communism in Central America.”
“The drug business is very different than what we dreamed,” he continues. “What the CIA was doing was buying the controls to get the drug into their country and getting a wonderful deal.”
“He did not make the money alone,” Marroquín elaborated in an interview, “but with US agencies that allowed him access to this money. He had direct relations with the CIA.”
Notably, Marroquín added, “the person who sold the most drugs to the CIA was Pablo Escobar.”
Where his first book primarily covered Escobar, the man as a father, Marroquín’s second — which has just been released in Argentina — delves into the kingpin’s “international ties of corruption in which my father had an active participation, among them with the American CIA,” he said in a recent interview.
Those government associates “were practically his partners,” which allowed Escobar to defy the law, and gave him nearly the same power as a government.
Predictably, this information is conveniently absent from media headlines in America.
If the CIA trafficking cocaine into the United States sounds like some tin foil conspiracy theory, think again. Their alleged role in the drug trade was exposed in 1996 in an explosive investigative series “Dark Alliance” by Gary Webb for the San Jose Mercury News. The investigation, headed up by Webb revealed ties between the CIA, Nicaraguan contras and the crack cocaine trade ravaging African-American communities.
The investigation provoked massive protests and congressional hearings, as well as overt backlash from the mainstream media to discredit Webb’s reporting. However, decades later, officials would come forward to back Webb’s original investigation up.
Then-senator John Kerry even released a detailed report claiming that not only was there “considerable evidence” linking the Contra effort to trafficking of drugs and weapons — but that the U.S. government knew about it.
El Patron, as Escobar came to be known, amassed more wealth than almost any drug dealer in history — at one point raking in around $420 million a week in revenue — and reportedly supplied about 80 percent of the world’s cocaine. Escobar landed on Forbes’ list of international billionaires for seven straight years, and — though the nature of the business makes acquiring solid numbers impossible — his estimated worth was around $30 billion.
Escobar and the Medellín cartel smuggled 15 tons of cocaine into the U.S. — every day — and left a trail of thousands of dead bodies to do so.
“It was a nine-hundred-mile run from the north coast of Colombia and was simply wide-open,” journalist Ioan Grillo wrote in the book, “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency.” “The Colombians and their American counterparts would airdrop loads of blow out to sea, from where it would be rushed ashore in speedboats, or even fly it right onto the Florida mainland and let it crash down in the countryside.”
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Via https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/escobar-son-cia-cocaine
North America’s Earliest Southwest Cultures
Episode 14: The Ancient Southwest – Discovery of Diversity
Ancient Civilizations of North America
Dr Edwin Barnhart (2018)
Film Review
During the Archaic Period (10,000 – 3,000 BP), the Southwest was a patchwork of similar but distinct cultures extending far into Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. Although large populations clustered intermittently around the river systems of Tuscon and Phoenix, occasional droughts overwhelmed all irrigation strategies and drove them out of the region. Early Southwest cultures had far reaching trade networks with bison hunters on the Great Plains, coastal fishermen and possibly Central and South America. There’s no evidence of Mississippian contact, possibly due to extreme difficulty crossing the Texas desert.
By 3,000 BP (before present), the Southwest was home to four distinct cultures (comprising millions of people): the primary Hohokam culture in the Sonoran Desert (Arizona) along the Gila and Salt Rivers and Mongollon culture in the Mongollon mountains of modern day southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico and the secondary Patayan and the Fremont cultures.*
Between 1500 BC – 50 AD, the Mongollon and Hohokaum lived in camps and open caves, made baskets and engaged in seasonal hunting and gathering. Although corn first appeared in the Southwest around 2000 BC, it didn’t become a major crop (along the coast) until 1000 BC. Many inland peoples were planting it by 300 BC, settling into permanent pit houses and building irrigation canals to accommodate their two weeks of annual. Although they left behind grinding stones and the large flat baskets they carried corn in, they continued to rely heavily on hunting for subsistence.
Beginning around 400 AD the Mongollon and Hohokam gradually transitioned from pit houses to single story masonry homes. By 500 AD, they began to favor ceramics over baskets and were able to add beans (which must be soaked and boiled) to their diet. However it was the introduction of the bow and arrow that allowed them to establish year round settlements (it’s really hard to hit a bird with a spear). Villages from this period featured central plazas, steep oval depressions used as ball courts and enormous “great houses”** constructed on platform mounds.
There’s evidence both cultures participated in immense trade networks, providing them shells from California and copper, turquoise and obsidian from western Mexico. They are also known for exceptionally painted pottery bowls, small decorative stone pallets and elaborate figurines wearing clothes and jewelry.
Beginning from 750 AD, cultures identified as Ancestral Pueblo (or Anastasi***) appeared in the desert regions north of the Mogollon and Hohokam. The former lived in above ground adobe or stone built homes with flat roofs to catch water for storage. Their eventual adoption of irrigation reservoirs and canals led to increased agriculture production and population increase. Later settlements are known for multistory apartment complexes and (in Chaco Canyon and Ma Verde) wide well-built roads connecting villages.
Between 1130-1180 AD, Chaco Canyon experienced 50 years of drought, which worsened in the 1200s, leading to major emigration from the region.
After 1350 AD, the Pueblo returned to settle in large independent towns built around central plazas.
*The Patayan, settling west of the Hohokum and south of the Grand Canyon, lived in earth lodges, engaged in hunting and left behind rock trail markers. The Fremont were limited to the northern reaches of the Colorado plateau and lived in areas making up modern day Colorado, Utah and parts of Nevada. They engaged in hunting and extensive petroglyph art.
**Southwest great houses were large multi-room buildings that were either chief’s homes or charnal houses housing the remains of dead chiefs.
**Anastasi was a Navajo name (meaning ancient enemy) for Ancestral Pueblo culture and contemporary Pueblo reject the label.
The Mongollon lived big towns the same time as the Ancestral Pueblo (900-1150 AD), which they abandoned due to the severe 12th-13th century drought. Around 1300 AD they were re-inhabited by the Pueblo people.
*Cervesa De Vaca
March 11, 2023
Can We Still Trust the Doctor?
Alan Lash
Brownstone Institute
When I was growing up, I learned to trust my doctor. My parents never said that explicitly; I could see it in their actions.
I was in the hospital many times growing up, sometimes for very serious reasons. I have eight siblings, and I’m one of the elders, so I was there on the numerous occasions my mother gave birth. I was also there when my brother split his head open with the claw of a hammer, and of course, I was there for the stitches and broken bones I suffered myself.
Whenever we entered the hospital, we did so with the utmost respect and reverence. As the doctors and nurses busied themselves about with serious and commanding countenance, my father would marvel at the technology and the expertise required to marshal it all for the betterment of humanity.
Whatever the opinion, whatever the diagnosis, my parents would follow the doctor’s advice and prescription, to the letter.
Put succinctly, doctors and nurses were to be trusted, sometimes with our lives.
By contrast, my parents did not treat other professional activities with the same regard. My father depended on car mechanics at times, but he did so grudgingly. He was always suspicious that the diagnosis was incorrect, and that his own personal research into the issue was warranted before he accepted the conclusion. We had several shop manuals on our shelves in the garage.
Likewise, building contractors were treated with some suspicion. Do-it-yourself was always present as a valid option.
But question a doctor? Never.
Being healthy in my twenties, I didn’t make a trip to the hospital in the 80s, and it wasn’t until the late 90s that my awareness of medicine reemerged. My aging father had suffered a heart attack, and being overweight with high blood pressure, he was prescribed multiple medications. He trusted the doctor, and dutifully took his pills as instructed.
On a few occasions, he had a couple of his medications pulled for newly discovered side effects, and they were quickly replaced with others. This was only mildly concerning. But then in the 2000s we started hearing about the failure of many pharmaceutical drugs, some catastrophically so.
Doctors seemingly trusted the pharmaceutical companies, and we trusted doctors. Millions of people suffered and many died as a result.
Did the doctors question the pharmaceutical products before prescribing them to their patients? I’m sure many did, but unfortunately, it seems many more did not.
My father ultimately died in 2010 from his third heart attack. The surgical stents clearly prolonged his life. But did the medications prolong his life? It’s not clear.
Fast forward to today.
I went for a check-up in the fall, and the nurse asked me if I was interested in a Covid vaccination. If I had any questions I was to ask the doctor when he arrived. So I did. I asked somewhat searchingly, “What are your feelings about the vaccine with all that’s happened and all we found out in the past year?”
“Well, “ he responded with a straight face, “from all the medical research papers I have read, the vaccines are safe and effective.”
I sat in dumbfounded silence. At a bare minimum, he should know at least not to use that phrase.
Why again are we wearing masks when we are in the doctor’s office? They don’t work.
Then there are the endless emails from my health care provider promoting the vaccine for everyone: adults, children, compromised or not, comorbidities or not. There is no reference to any potential qualifiers. Everyone should get it.
Have they not been paying attention?
Here’s where my head is at.
In the last ten years, health care expenses have risen dramatically, almost tripling. Yes, the health of my family is the most important thing to me. But now I question the advice that I’m getting.
Like my dad with the car mechanics, now, every time I get advice or a prescription from the doctor, I have to look it up myself. This goes beyond a second opinion. And it goes beyond what’s even possible in the case of car problems or construction problems. For those problems, if I’m moderately lucky, I’ll find someone on the Internet who made that repair and follow their advice.
Prescription drugs? Not so easy. The information is there on the Internet, but it’s often contradictory, and sometimes nothing matches what your doctor said. Then there’s the sheer magnitude of prescription drugs available.
Do it yourself? Impossible. Trust the government to police the pharmaceutical companies? Impossible. We’ve seen the incest there.
There is only one solution. It’s the same answer as it was for my father: trust your doctor.
A simple message to doctors and nurses: Our lives are better when we trust you. But right now, many of us are hesitant; we have been burned by the Covid nonsense in the last three years. Our loved ones have suffered, and we don’t see common sense from the medical establishment.
Many of you stood up in the past three years, putting your careers on the line for the truth and the health of your patients. Thank you.
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Via https://brownstone.org/articles/can-we-still-trust-the-doctor/
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