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March 7, 2023
‘Lockdown Files’: U.K. Health Officials Used ‘Guilt’ and ‘Fear’ — Not Science — to Control Public Behavior
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. Private WhatsApp messages shared with The Telegraph reveal how U.K. health officials, including former health secretary Matt Hancock, made COVID-19 policy decisions based on political expediency rather than science, as health officials claimed publicly.
The messages “raise vital new questions about the handling of the pandemic ahead of a public inquiry into the response to COVID-19” and reveal “devastating details about the pandemic response that had until now remained secret,” according to The Telegraph, which obtained the archive of more than 100,000 messages from — dubbed “The Lockdown Files” — from journalist Isabel Oakeshott.
Oakeshott is co-author of Hancock’s book, “Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle Against COVID.”
Hancock was the first member of the U.K. government to announce a lockdown, in statements made March 16, 2020, based on advice from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). The lockdown officially began a week later.
The messages expose how officials informally made decisions about lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing and isolation, quarantines, vaccine distribution and a host of other COVID-19-related issues, and how the decisions were politically motivated.
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Fear and guilt ‘vital tools’ to ensure compliance
One of the key revelations is how Hancock and other key U.K. government figures and advisers ensured public compliance with repeated lockdowns and other strict measures.
On Dec. 13, 2020, facing opposition within the ranks of his own Conservative Party over the prospect of a new lockdown and worries that Brexit talks would overshadow the COVID-19 narrative, one of Hancock’s media advisers, Damon Poole, suggested to Hancock, “We can roll pitch with the new strain” — referring to the recently identified Alpha variant of COVID-19.
Hancock responded, “We frighten the pants off everyone with the new strain,” to which Poole replied, “Yep that’s what will get proper bahviour [sic] change.”
In another message, Hancock asked his adviser, “When do we deploy the new variant?”
Discussions that followed after Christmas between Hancock and cabinet secretary Simon Case sought to identify ways to sell the strictest possible measures to the public.
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“Fear” and “guilt” were identified as “vital tools in ensuring compliance,” according to The Telegraph, as was mandatory mask wearing in “all settings,” because it had a “very visible impact.”
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The Behavioural Insights Team advised the U.K. government during the pandemic. The team shared members with the Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, a subgroup of SAGE — which strongly encouraged the use of “nudging.”
Previously, in summer 2020, with reported COVID-19 cases at low levels in the U.K. and dining set to reopen, Hancock and his advisers believed the threat of localized lockdowns would not be “unhelpful” to maintain a level of fear amongst the public, to which Hancock responded, “that’s no bad thing.”
Vaccines: ‘purely a comms/political thing’
“The Lockdown Files” also revealed that a host of COVID-19 policy decisions were made with political expediency, public image and future career prospects in mind — though the public was told that those decisions were based on “science.”
Early in the pandemic, on Jan. 29, 2020, Hancock sent a long message to an aide explaining to him how he could use “a crisis of this scale to propel [himself] into the next league.”
By mid-April 2020, just weeks into the first lockdown but months away from the release of the first COVID-19 vaccines, Hancock and media adviser Jamie Njoku-Goodwin discussed how “pushing on vaccine” and being “first out of the blocks on vaccine” would be “the most politically beneficial thing they do.”
Far from being based on “science,” this strategy was described as “purely a comms/political thing.”
During the second lockdown in 2020, Hancock angled to link his name to a government plan to supply Vitamin D to the vulnerable, telling Poole to “base it on ‘new evidence emerged and I’ve acted fast’ … swift & decisive.”
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‘We are going to own the exit’ from lockdowns
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In December 2020, as the first COVID-19 vaccines were about to roll out, Hancock and his advisers discussed how the government could come out ahead in the public eye. Hancock told Poole, “We are going to own the exit [from lockdowns]. That is the strategic imperative.”
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When U.K. government vaccines tsar Dame Kate Bingham suggested in October 2020 that COVID-19 vaccination of the entire population was “not going to happen” and that only “everyone at risk” would receive the jab, Hancock described her as “wacky” and “totally unreliable” in messages to his advisers.
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Many of the leaked messages pertain to the lockdowns themselves, revealing that Hancock and other cabinet members and advisers informally sought ways to garner support for such a measure — and often resorted to threats against the party’s own members and key scientists in order to ram through policies.
In March 2020, on the cusp of the U.K.’s first lockdown, Australian political strategist Isaac Levido met with Hancock and other members of the cabinet to discuss how to overcome opposition to lockdowns within the party’s ranks on the basis that they would be unpopular with the public.
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According to The Telegraph, these conversations occurred even as the public was told “ministers insisted all decisions were taken according to the science and on the advice of England’s two most senior advisers, Prof Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance,” adding that “it is unclear” which polls Hancock had been referring to.
Other messages revealed that Johnson wanted to end the first lockdown early, allowing dining to reopen ahead of the scheduled July 4, 2020, “freedom day,” but he was thwarted by two media strategists, Lee Cain and James Slack, with no scientific background. They said that this would be “too far ahead of public opinion.”
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Mask policy appeared to be based on similar considerations. On June 1, 2020, Cummings suggested introducing compulsory mask-wearing on public transport, as “It’s free, buys us some R, no real downside.” The policy was enacted three days later.
The leaks also revealed that in October 2020, Hancock and Baroness Dido Harding, the head of the U.K.’s Test and Trace program, sought to solidify government support for a second lockdown by developing a “do nothing death toll” — a projected number of COVID-19 deaths if the U.K. government took no measures.
Three weeks later, this resulted in modeling “projecting” 4,000 deaths. According to The Telegraph, this raises “questions about whether Mr Hancock was hoping to push the country into a second lockdown,” while Johnson himself, and other scientists, soon questioned the outdated data upon which the model — and lockdown — were based.
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Power politics also were employed against other politicians. In November 2020, on the cusp of the U.K.’s second lockdown, Hancock told Department of Health and Social Care special adviser Allan Nixon to warn a Conservative member of parliament intending to vote against the lockdown that funding for a new center for disabled children in his district would be withdrawn if he did so.
Other leaked messages revealed Hancock demanded the expulsion of Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the SAGE committee and director of the Wellcome Trust, for being openly critical of government policies such as Test and Trace.
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And on Dec. 18, 2020, with plans for the lockdown to be expanded past the holidays, Sunak suggested to Hancock that it should be ended by February, based on advice from SAGE.
But Hancock said, “This is not a SAGE call — it’s a political call,” telling Sunak that by February, only those in their late 70s and over will have been vaccinated.
Optics: social distancing, isolation, quarantine maintained despite the ‘science’
“The Lockdown Files” reveal that before the second U.K. lockdown, then-education secretary Sir Gavin Williamson was pressing to keep schools open, but Hancock fought to keep them shut.
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And despite being told by Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty that there were “no very strong reasons” for requiring school children to wear masks, Johnson opted for the advice of Cain and Case.
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Schools also maintained lateral flow tests for COVID-19 as the basis for keeping students in 10-day quarantine despite a reported high number of false positive results — often exceeding 50-60%, “The Lockdown Files” showed.
Hancock was warned of this “incredibly worrying” issue but opted against “unpicking” this policy. The government instead told the public the lateral flow tests were “99.9% accurate.”
The U.K. government also maintained “the rule of six,” which prevented gatherings of more than six people, despite knowing there was no “robust rationale” for it. Hancock was informed of this but replied that the government “[doesn’t] want to go there on this [and] also on curfew — they don’t want to shift an inch.”
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lockdown-files-united-kingdom-covid-pandemic-response/
Government Trying To Kill Us Now’: Low-Income Americans Fume after Pandemic Benefits End
Zero Hedge
Over the past year, 18 US states have officially ended pandemic-era states of emergency – including the covid food benefit, while a December mandate from Congress will end aid in March for the other 32 states, along with the District of Columbia, the US Virgin Islands and Guam.
The collective return to pre-pandemic policies includes enhanced unemployment benefits and child tax credits, as well as a rollback adjustment to Medicaid that boosted enrollment.
Now, people are waiting up to nine hours in mile-long lines for free food – some of whom say they can only afford to eat once per day, while others say they limit expensive food items such as meat for specific family members, such as growing teenage boys.
“I thought, ‘Wow, the government is trying to kill us now,” said 63-year-old Danny Blair of Kentucky. Blair, who lives in a mobile home with his wife, survives on his Social Security disability check, the Washington Post reports.
“They are going to starve us out,” Blair continued, apparently unaware that government assistance provided during the pandemic wasn’t permanent.
Blair and his wife hop into their truck twice a month at 4 a.m. to ensure they get a few staples at the Hazel Green Food Project’s giveaway. On a recent Friday, they waited nine hours until local prisoners on work duty started loading bags of meat and vegetables, potato chips and cookies into vehicles in one of the nation’s most impoverished communities.
From the front to the back of the line, the sea of despair and hardship along this desolate Kentucky highway foreshadowed what may be in store for millions of Americans as the federal government ended the remaining pandemic increase in monthly food stamp benefits this week. -WaPo
As the Post frames it, the pullback of pandemic-related aid could pose a setback to the Biden administration’s efforts to ‘slash poverty’ while building a ‘healthier and more sustainable middle class’ – none of which were the stated goals of the temporary aid.
“We saw positive benefits from this and less hardship, including for families with children,” said Dottie Rosenbaum, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who points out that all the free money helped reduce childhood poverty rates in 2021. “We can expect that to reverse now.”
Following the reduction in benefits, the average SNAP recipient’s benefits are expected to drop by around $90 per month, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. That said, an even greater reduction is in store for seniors and the working poor who receive assistance from other government programs, and will likely qualify for less.
In Kentucky, many seniors on food stamps saw their monthly benefit drop from $281 to $22 last year after the state ended the pandemic emergency in May, according to local food bank network, Feeding Kentucky.
Other states are preparing for the same
“We are bracing, and our agencies, member food banks, food pantries and soup kitchens are not prepared for what is about to hit them,” Said Ohio Association of Foodbanks executive director, Lisa Hamler-Fugitt. “This reduction, and end of the public health emergency, could not be coming at a worse time.”
Even before the benefits retired this month in Ohio, Hamler-Fugitt said demand at food banks soared last year as retail food prices rose by 11.4 percent nationwide, more than five times the historical annual average. She said Ohio charities and foodbanks served 3.1 million people in the last quarter of 2022, which she called a record and about 600,000 more than were served during the same period in 2021.
Now, Hamler-Fugitt expects many of the state’s 1.5 million recipients will also be scrambling to find food assistance, adding she projects the benefit reductions will remove $120 million from Ohio’s retail economy each month. -WaPo
“We estimate we would have to increase our distribution by 15 times to even begin to address this, and we don’t have the resources to do that,” said Hamler-Fugitt. “So hunger rates are going to increase among our seniors, and families, and our children are going to fall behind academically because they are not going to be able to concentrate on empty stomachs.”
Trump Praises Tucker Carlson for Debunking Insurrection Narrative With Jan. 6 Footage
Donald Trump heaped praise on Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson for releasing unseen footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol breach revealing that events which unfolded on the day were not as violent or part of an insurrection as portrayed by mainstream media.
The Jan. 6 committee investigating the breach as well as other lawmakers, including Republicans like former Rep. Liz Cheney, have been claiming that protestors were part of an insurrection campaign. Carlson pointed out that even though a few protestors inside the building were “hooligans” engaging in vandalism, many others were not. Some were even assisted by the police. One footage shows Jacob Chansley, also known as the “Qanon Shaman,” being calmly escorted by officers through the Capital. Trump praised Carlson for the exposé and for breaking the mainstream narrative.
“Congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest ‘scoops’ as a reporter in U.S. history. The New Surveillance Footage of the January 6th Events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened. The Unselect Committee was a giant SCAM, and has now unequivocally been stamped as CRIMINAL FABRICATORS OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY,” Trump said in a March 7 Truth Social post.
“Pelosi & McConnell failed on security. The Police story is sad and difficult to watch. ‘Trump’ and most others are totally innocent, LET THEM GO FREE, NOW!”
In another post, Trump praised the “great courage” shown by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in releasing the surveillance footage to Carlson.
Officer DeathOne clip revealed by Carlson concerns deceased Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. The New York Times had initially reported that Sicknick was beaten to death by a fire extinguisher during the breach—a claim the outlet retracted a month later.
However, Democrats like Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Kamala Harris, and President Joe Biden have continued to cite his death as proof of an insurrection at the Capitol.
According to Carlson, the new footage reveals that Sicknick was alive after the time when he was said to be allegedly killed by the protestors. The Jan. 6 committee members who had seen the footage are said to have refused to release it to the public.
The DC Medical Examiner’s office eventually cited natural causes as the reason behind Sicknick’s death—a conclusion accepted by the U.S. Capitol Police.
“Truth is beginning to be revealed. Thank you @SpeakerMcCarthy, @TuckerCarlson & company for showing America the rest of the Jan. 6 story. When will judges begin applying justice equally? Doesn’t look like ‘thousands of armed insurrectionists’ to me,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in a March 7 tweet.
In June 2021, Johnson wrote a letter to the acting chief of U.S. Capitol Police Yogananda Pittman, requesting information regarding unauthorized access to the Capitol via the upper west terrace doors on Jan. 6.
Criticism and Support For Footage ReleaseDemocrats have attacked McCarthy’s decision to hand over Jan. 6 footage to Carlson. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a former member of the Jan. 6 committee, called Carlson a “right-wing propagandist” who spreads “the Big Lie.”
McCarthy insists that the footage release is in the public’s interest as the American people have a right to know the truth of events that took place on Jan. 6.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) thanked McCarthy for releasing the footage. “J6 video tapes will also be available for all J6 defendants. All 42,000+ hours. Thank you Speaker McCarthy,” she said in a Feb. 20 tweet.
“For two years, the Department of Justice has selectively leaked footage to shape their preferred narratives. And for two years, Democrats in Congress worked to ‘establish’ their own narrative,” Jan. 6 defendant William Pope told The Epoch Times in February.
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Pilots and Flight Attendants Who Recently Had Cardiac Arrests In-flight and “Died Suddenly
William Makis MD
A flying instructor died in-flight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around (click here).
According to a newly published safety report on the incident, the pilot thought the instructor was pretending to be asleep as the pair flew a circuit near Blackpool Airport in Lancashire, England, on June 29, 2022.
Shortly after takeoff, the instructor’s head rolled back. The pilot knew the 57-year-old instructor well and thought he was just pretending to take a nap. However, when he landed the plane and his co-pilot was still resting on his shoulder and not responding, he realized something was amiss (click here).
A post-mortem examination concluded that the instructor died from acute cardiac failure. He had passed a medical four months earlier. The report found there was no indication that the instructor was unwell.
“People who had spoken to him on the morning of the incident said he was his normal cheerful self and there were no indications that he was feeling unwell,” the report said.
American Eagle (Envoy) pilot, age 54, died in-flight after departure from Chicago O’Hare (Nov.2022)n American Eagle flight 3556 operated by Envoy Air from Chicago to Columbus returned to O’Hare airport on November 20, 2022, after the captain passed out and became incapacitated not long after departure (click here).
Data shows that the flight was only 10 minutes from take-off when the situation arose. The captain in training was subsequently declared dead at the hospital.
Envoy did not comment on the cause of the medical emergency. The Air Line Pilots Association, the union which represents Envoy’s pilots, didn’t comment (click here)
One story reported that the 54 year old pilot, Patrick Ford, had a COVID-19 booster shot 2 days prior, and was feeling “lightheaded and dizzy” during take-off (click here).
Ikar Airlines Boeing pilot died in-flight across Russia (Sep.2022)
A pilot died suddenly during a flight between the Russian cities of Novokuznetsk and St.Petersburg on Sunday (Sep.18, 2022), officials told state-run media (click here)
Authorities told RIA Novosti that the unnamed pilot, identified as a flight commander, felt sick during the trip. The commander died before medical attention could be given to the pilot, officials said. Ikar Airlines is also known as Pegas Fly.
The cause of death of the pilot has not been revealed.
Citilink Indonesia Flight pilot, age 48, died after landing plane (July 2022)
Citilink Indonesia flight – an Airbus A320 carrying more than 100 passengers – had departed from Surabaya’s international airport in East Java province and was headed to Ujung Pandang city in South Sulawesi province on July 21, 2022 (click here)
The pilot, 48 year old Boy Awalia, suffered a health emergency 15 minutes after take-off and was forced to return to the airport before being rushed to a hospital where he later died (click here).
The airline said it had conducted health checks prior to the flight for all crew on duty and that they were “declared fit or airworthy,” according to a statement from Dewa Kadek Rai, the president director of PT Citilink Indonesia.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot, age 44, died in-flight after massive heart attack (Aug.2021)
Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, a pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, who suffered a massive heart attack while in command of a Muscat-Dhaka flight on August 30, 2021, died in an Indian hospital. He was 44.
Quaiyum was piloting a flight carrying 124 passengers. After he took ill, the plane was taken over by the co-pilot (click here).
Air Albania flight attendant, age 24, died suddenly in-flight after plane landed in the UK (Dec.2022)
Greta Dyrmishi, 24, a cabin crew member for Air Albania, was travelling from Tirana, the Albanian capital, to Essex in the UK, on December 21, 2022 when she suddenly fainted after the plane landed. Paramedics provided CPR but she died (click here).
A post-mortem found that the 24-year-old had died from sudden adult death syndrome (SADS).
A statement issued by Air Albania at the time of the flight attendant’s death said: “On December 21, after disembarking the passengers from our flight to London, one of our cabin crew Greta Dyrmishi had a heart attack.
“Even after all medical assistance was provided immediately, we still lost her.”
Gulf Air Flight attendant died from heart attack in-flight (Nov.2022)
Air steward Yasser Saleh Al Yazidi fell ill after the seven and a half hour Gulf Air flight took off from Bahrain en route to Paris (click here).
The pilots were forced to make an emergency landing just a few hours into the journey, in Erbil, Iraq. They had reached 34,000 feet in the air when the crew member suffered the heart attack, the director of Erbil airport said.
Despite the crew member being taken to hospital immediately after landing, Yasser was pronounced dead on arrival.
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Via https://makismd.substack.com/p/pilots-and-flight-attendants-who/
March 6, 2023
Mother Sues DC Doctor Who Gave Kids COVID Vaccines Without Consent
Children’s Health Defense is funding a lawsuit by a D.C. mother alleging a doctor vaccinated two of her children for COVID-19 without her consent after falsely telling the teens the shots were required for school.
The mother of two children who were given COVID-19 vaccines without the mother’s consent is suing the doctor who administered the vaccines.An attorney representing NaTonya McNeil last week filed a lawsuit in Superior Court for the District of Columbia against Janine A. Rethy, M.D., M.P.H.
According to the complaint, on Sept. 2, 2022, McNeil took her two older children, ages 15 and 17, to the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic/Ronald McDonald Care Mobile clinic, operated by Georgetown Hospital, to complete their required annual physical exam for the 2022-2023 school year.
The lawsuit alleges Rethy, director of the mobile clinic, held the children in the examination room longer than necessary for a regular check-up and vaccinated them against COVID-19 over their objections and without consulting their mother
In order to attempt to obtain the children’s consent — which they are not legally able to provide without a parent or guardian — the doctor falsely informed the children the COVID-19 vaccine was mandatory for school attendance and told them they could not lawfully decline it if they wanted to attend school.
The suit, filed by D.C. Attorney Matthew Hardin, seeks damages for false imprisonment, battery and fraud.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is financing the lawsuit because, according to CHD President and General Counsel Mary Holland, “CHD couldn’t just sit still and not allow this wrong to go unpunished and not bring this to the public’s attention.”
In an exclusive conversation with The Defender, McNeil explained why she is suing the the doctor:
“I just feel like people shouldn’t be able to do whatever they want to do to other people and especially not to children. As a mother, I feel like, ‘You all just took all my rights away from me to do what you wanted to do to my kids.’
“I do want justice to be done in this case. I feel like something needs to be done. This can’t just continue to happen.”
‘I feel violated’
According to the complaint, Rethy’s stated goal is to vaccinate all children against COVID-19. The complaint quotes her statement to the press:
“Our goal is to increase vaccination rates in children here in D.C. . . . For more than 30 years our role has been to be in the community to help address the problem of health disparities, bringing families care where they are.
“For this particular effort, we are glad to be partnering with DC Health to provide both regular childhood vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines to all children.”
In addition to her role as director of the mobile clinic, Rethy is chief of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Division of Community Pediatrics and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
McNeil said that when she took her older children to the clinic, she stayed outside the examination room to care for her infant. As soon as the children entered the doctor’s office, she called her daughter’s cellphone to let Rethy know she was just outside the door if the doctor needed to consult her for anything.
According to McNeil, the doctor did not ask or inform her about any vaccinations, and did not ask her to sign anything. At the end of the physical, Rethy came out to talk to her.
McNeil said the doctor explained her son’s asthma treatment plan, but that’s all they discussed.
As they were heading home, McNeil said she was shocked when her daughter complained that her arm hurt “pretty bad.” When McNeil asked her why it hurt, her daughter said she was given the COVID-19 shot, even though she told the doctor she didn’t want it.
When McNeil asked her why she allowed the doctor to administer the shot, her daughter said:
“When she had the needle in her hand and she was coming towards me, I backed up and I asked her what is that needle, and she said it was the COVID shot and I … told her I didn’t want it and she said, ‘Well it is mandatory, you have to get it in order to go to school.’”
Rethy allegedly administered the shot to her daughter, and then to her son. McNeil said:
“He’s 14 and he said they didn’t even ask him if he wanted it or not, but when they gave it to him, he said he thought he had to get it because his sister got it.”
According to the complaint, both children received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, authorized for emergency use, and the meningococcal vaccine. Her son was also injected with TDaP.
Both children were upset and angry they had been coerced into vaccination, the complaint says.
No school mandate, despite what clinic and doctor alleged
When she got home, McNeil said she called the doctor’s office, and asked them why they vaccinated her children without her consent.
“I would have never consented to you all vaccinating my children,” she said. “I’m not vaccinated and I’m not getting vaccinated and my kids were never supposed to be vaccinated for COVID period, under no circumstances.”
She said the person on the phone said they were supposed to get them for school.
After hanging up, McNeil said she was “so irritated I even started crying” because she couldn’t believe “they put this poison” into her children’s bodies.
In July 2022, D.C. public schools imposed a vaccine mandate for schoolchildren ages 12 and up for the 2022-2023 school year. But on Aug. 26, just weeks after imposing the mandate, officials walked it back, postponing it until 2023.
That means when McNeil’s children saw the doctor, there was no school vaccine mandate in place, despite what the Rethy allegedly told the children.
The age of consent
The District of Columbia in March 2021 enacted the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccination Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Minor Consent Act), allowing children 11 and older to consent to the administration of any vaccine — including COVID-19 shots — recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — without parental knowledge or consent if the medical provider believed “the minor is capable of meeting the informed consent standard.”
The law also required healthcare personnel to provide accurate immunization records to the Department of Health and to the student’s school, but not to parents with religious exemptions.
CHD and Parental Rights Foundation filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to declare the D.C. Act unconstitutional.
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 18, 2022, granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the D.C. mayor, Department of Health and public schools from enforcing the law.
That means at the time McNeil’s children visited the clinic, they could not legally provide consent to be vaccinated without their mother’s consent.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mother-sues-doctor-kids-covid-vaccines-without-consent/
Illegal Domestic Intelligence Gathering by Department of Homeland Security
A virtually unknown DHS program allowed officials to go directly to incarcerated people — circumventing their lawyers — for interviews, raising important civil liberties concerns, according to legal experts. | Susan Walsh/AP PhotoBy Betsy Woodruff SwanPOLITICOFor years, the Department of Homeland Security has run a virtually unknown program gathering domestic intelligence, one of many revelations in a wide-ranging tranche of internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.
Those documents also reveal that a significant number of employees in DHS’s intelligence office have raised concerns that the work they are doing could be illegal.
Under the domestic-intelligence program, officials are allowed to seek interviews with just about anyone in the United States. That includes people held in immigrant detention centers, local jails, and federal prison. DHS’s intelligence professionals have to say they’re conducting intelligence interviews, and they have to tell the people they seek to interview that their participation is voluntary. But the fact that they’re allowed to go directly to incarcerated people — circumventing their lawyers — raises important civil liberties concerns, according to legal experts.
That specific element of the program, which has been in place for years, was paused last year because of internal concerns. DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, which runs the program, uses it to gather information about threats to the U.S., including transnational drug trafficking and organized crime. But the fact that this low-profile office is collecting intelligence by questioning people in the U.S. is virtually unknown.
The inner workings of the program — called the “Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program” — are described in the large tranche of internal documents POLITICO reviewed from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Those documents and additional interviews revealed widespread internal concerns about legally questionable tactics and political pressure. The documents also show that people working there fear punishment if they speak out about mismanagement and abuses.
One unnamed employee — quoted in an April 2021 document — said leadership of I&A’s Office of Regional Intelligence “is ‘shady’ and ‘runs like a corrupt government.’” Another document said some employees worried so much about the legality of their activities that they wanted their employer to cover legal liability insurance.
Carrie Bachner, formerly the career senior legislative adviser to the DHS under secretary for intelligence, said the fact that the agency is directly questioning Americans as part of a domestic-intelligence program is deeply concerning, given the history of scandals related to past domestic-intelligence programs by the FBI.
Bachner, who served as a DHS liaison with Capitol Hill from 2006 to 2010, said she told members of Congress “adamantly” — over and over and over again — that I&A didn’t collect intelligence in the U.S.“I don’t know any counsel in their right mind that would sign off on that, and any member of Congress that would say, ‘That’s OK,’” said Bachner, who currently runs a consulting firm. “If these people are out there interviewing folks that still have constitutional privileges, without their lawyer present, that’s immoral.”
DHS Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Kenneth Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor who took the helm of I&A last June, said in a statement that his office is addressing its employees’ concerns. An I&A spokesperson provided POLITICO with a list of steps the office has taken since September 2020 to address internal complaints, including conducting a number of new trainings and hiring two full-time ombudsmen.
In its statement, I&A did not address the domestic-intelligence program. But POLITICO reviewed an email, sent last August, saying that the portion of the program involving interviews with prisoners who had received their Miranda rights was “temporarily halted” because of internal concerns.
“The true measure of a government organization is its ability to persevere through challenging times, openly acknowledge and learn from those challenges, and move forward in service of the American people,” Wainstein said in his statement. “The Office of Intelligence and Analysis has done just that over the past few years … Together, we will ensure that our work is completely free from politicization, that our workforce feels free to raise all views and concerns, and that we continue to deliver the quality, objective intelligence that is so vital to our homeland security partners.”
‘A loophole that we exploit’A key theme that emerges from internal documents is that in recent years, many people working at I&A have said they fear they are breaking the law.
POLITICO reviewed a slide deck titled “I&A Management Analysis & Assistance Program Survey Findings for FOD.” FOD refers to I&A’s Field Operations Division — now called the Office of Regional Intelligence — which is the largest part of the office, with personnel working around the country. Those officials work with state, local and private sector partners; collect intelligence; and analyze intelligence. When the U.S. faces a domestic crisis related to national security or public safety, people in this section are expected to be the first in I&A to know about it and then to relay what they learn to the office’s leadership. Their focuses include domestic terror attacks, cyber attacks, border security issues, and natural disasters, along with a host of other threats and challenges.
The survey described in the slide deck was conducted in April 2021. A person familiar with the survey said it asked respondents about events of 2020. Its findings were based on 126 responses. Half of the respondents said they’d alerted managers of their concerns that their work involved activity that was inappropriate or illegal. The slide deck seems to try to put a positive spin on this.
“There is an opportunity to work with employees to address concerns they have about the appropriateness or lawfulness of a work activity,” it reads.
“Half of the respondents have voiced to management a concern about this, many of whom feel their concern was not appropriately addressed.”
Other documents laid out concerns related to a specific internal dispute about how the law applies to I&A’s interactions with American citizens.
Three legal texts govern I&A’s activities: Title 50 of the U.S. Code, which lays out laws about national security; Executive Order 12333, which details how the Intelligence Community works; and the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which set up the Department of Homeland Security. The U.S. intelligence agencies governed by Title 50 face strict rules related to intelligence activity in the U.S. or targeting U.S. citizens. Internally, many I&A personnel have raised concerns that they get asked to take steps that are inappropriate for a Title 50 agency.
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Via https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/06/dhs-domestic-intelligence-program-00085544
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that he is considering running for President of the United States. Kennedy made the statement Friday at an event hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, a traditional stop for potential candidates. When asked if was considering running Kennedy said, “I am thinking about it, yes. I have passed the biggest hurdle, that my wife has greenlighted it.”
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We think RFKJ running for President is a great idea. The most probable candidates, at this point, for the two major political parties are obviously President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Both of whom have dismal records on vaccine rights, reforming the drug industry, and their management of the COVID crisis. At the very least, a Kennedy candidacy would force a light on issues Biden and Trump would prefer to leave in the dark, and at best could usher in a new age of desperately needed transformation.
If he runs Kennedy would challenge President Joe Biden (if he runs) and self-help author Marianne Williamson (the only declared candidate so far) for the nod of the Democratic Party.
After many years as a leading environmental issue litigator Kennedy became one of the leading voices in the world criticizing vaccine policy and politics.
Kennedy is the son of former Senator, US Attorney General, and 1968 Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., and nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
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Human Sacrifice in the Mississippian City of Cahokia
Episode 11: The MIssissippian City of Cahokia
Ancient Civilizations of North America
Dr Edwin Barnhart (2018)
Film Review
Cahokia (in present-day Illinois) flourished from 1050 – 1150 AD. It had an urban population of around 15,000, with another 30,000 living in satellite communities. It was the largest city north of Mexico until New York reached 50, during the 1700s.
Covering six square feet, in 1100 AD Cahokia had a grand plaza, surrounded by hundreds of family homes with thatched roofs, central hearths and sapling walls covered with mud daub. The city also had over 200 mounds, as well as a wood henge to the west of Monk’s Mound, the largest pre-Columbia earthwork in North America (and home to Cahokia’s paramount chief).
Cahokia’s other mounds contained hundreds of bodies showing clear evidence of ritual sacrifice, with death induced via strangulation, decapitation or bashed in skulls. All sacrifice victims show evidence of malnutrition, suggesting they represented Cahokia’s nderprivileged community.
Most early Cahokians were commoners and worked the corn fields surrounding the city. Early residents also grew sunflower seeds and pigweed, fished, hunted and gathered wild plants. Some engaged in craft production, though it’s unclear whether they were full or part time artisans. They left behind stone tools (including a stone hoe used to plant long straight rows of corn) and religious tokens, as well as copper tools and jewelry, pottery and textiles (for the elite).
Cahokia also featured a prominent chunkey field. The latter was a ritualized game dating from 600 AD, in which players rolled a stone disk while their opponents three spears at it.
Archeological evidence indicates the original village of Cahokia was razed in 1050 AD and totally rebuilt as a planned city, a project requiring at least 100,000 man hours and strong central leadership. Following the remodel, Cahokia’s population increased 10-fold in a decade. A rapid decline followed in 1150 AD. By 1250, there were only 5,000 residents total and by 1300, the city was abandoned.
Anthropologist David Graeber and archeologist David Wengrow shed some light on the demise of Cahokia in their 2021 masterpiece The Dawn of Everything. (Based on a multiplicity of religious badges and insignia found there) they attribute the Cahokia’s phenomenal growth to its centuries’ long role as a site of religious pilgrimage. They attribute the massive 1050 AD rebuild to the ruling priests’ deliberate destruction of the self-governing council that at one time ruled the city.
In addition, they assert that the major expansion at Cahokia followed an extensive period of warfare in which Cahokia seized control of neighboring villages. In their view the game of chunkey often served as a continuation, or even a substitute, for war.
They also find it significant that the human sacrifices in ancient Cahokia were so extremely horrific Cahokia’s descendants totally erased the from oral tradition. At the same time, the city’s brutal culture also played an essential role in spurring a resurgence of collective self-government (as an alternative to brutal hereditary rule).
*A wood henge was an astronomically aligned circle of wood posts used for religious functions.
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March 5, 2023
Global Food Prices Slide for 11th Month and Could Soon Show Up in Supermarket Savings
Zero Hedge
Inflation re-accelerated in the US and Europe last month, highlighting sticky price pressures that keep central banks ultra-hawkish and committed to increasing the terminal rate. Interest rate markets are still repricing the ‘about face’ in the disinflation narrative, which has caused cross-asset turmoil. Despite the lingering inflation storm, there is good news: global food prices in February declined for the eleventh consecutive month.
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index fell .6% last month to 129.8. Last month’s decline was driven by the price of slumping cooking oils and dairy products, while grain and meat prices were flat, and sugar prices climbed.
According to the data, the food supply crisis triggered by the Covid pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine is showing signs of improvement. The FAO’s index reached an all-time high following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but prices have since dropped by 18% from their peak. Nevertheless, prices are still 42% higher than their levels during the onset of the Covid outbreak.
Although global food prices peaked one year ago, consumers have complained supermarket prices are still high. This is because it takes time to filter through, while supermarkets deal with elevated transportation, energy, and labor costs.
However, there is more promising news. The largest US meat company, Tyson Foods, missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit last month for operating margins this year in the face of falling – yes, falling – beef prices, easing demand for pork, and an ongoing crash in chicken prices as a result of overproduction.
Fast food restaurant chain Wendy’s Co. reported commodity inflation in the mid-single digits this year and beef prices to be deflationary in its current fiscal year. And Kraft Heinz Co. said there would be no more price hikes in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Unless there is another global supply chain disruption or worsening of the war in Ukraine, food prices might not have just peaked, but declines could soon show up in supermarkets.
Taiwan Government Compensates Family After Child Dies Following Pfizer Jab
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Image source: Tony Blair Institute for Global Change “Time to vaccinate all children”
Brian Peckford
This story is important in light of my recent report on 96 Canadian childrenwho died suddenly or unexpectedly in the past 3 months (click here).
While there have been many stories of child deaths due to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, this is the first one that involves government compensation.
Taiwan awards compensation to 9 COVID vaccine deathsTaiwan News published this story on Feb.27, 2023 (click here).
One of the 9 compensated families was a girl aged 5 to 11, who died of fulminant myocarditis after receiving her 2nd shot of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
The girl lost consciousness 3 days after receiving her 2nd Pfizer vaccine, and a cardiac ultrasound scan showed preserved systolic function, suggesting fulminant myocarditis
A forensic autopsy found lymphocytic infiltration within her myocardial fibers. Considering the sequence of events, the committee agreed to offer the girl’s family the highest compensation amount for an adverse reaction after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine: NT$3.5 million (USD $114,829).
Another news source suggests she fell into a coma after her 2nd Pfizer vaccine and had an ultrasound scan just before she died (click here)
Her pathology findings are consistent with the James Gill paper called “Autopsy Histopathologic Cardiac Findings in 2 Adolescents Following the Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose” which describes 2 teenage boys who died with 3-4 days after receiving 2nd dose of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine (click here):
Vietnam: 5 children died after Pfizer mRNA vaccine:After Vietnam started vaccinating with Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccines on Nov.23, 2021, within two weeks, 5 children were dead and 120 hospitalized (click here)
17 yo girl (Trieu Phong, vaxxed Dec.2, died Dec.9, 2021) (click here)15 yo boy (Son La, vaxxed Dec.4, died Dec.6, 2021) (click here)12 yo boy (Binh Phuoc, vaxxed Nov.29, died Nov.30, 2021) (click here)16 yo boy (Bac Giang, vaxxed Nov.24, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)14 yo girl (Hanoi, vaxxed Nov.27, died Nov.28, 2021) (click here)Vietnam suspends Pfizer batch after 120 children hospitalized (click here)USA: Many children died after Pfizer mRNA vaccine:Michigan: 13 yo boy died in his sleep 3 days after 2nd vaccine dose (click here)
California: 9 yo girl died 2 weeks after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)
California: 16 yo boy died 3 weeks after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
Colorado: 15 yo boy died 2 days after Pfizer (click here)
16 yo Ernesto Ramirez Jr died 5 days after Pfizer (click here)
Two US teens died within 3-4 days of 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
Washington: 7 yo boy died 13 days after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)
Canada17 yo Sean Hartman died (Sep.27, 2021), 33 days after Pfizer (click here)
Other Countries:Ireland: 14 yo boy died 3 weeks after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)
New Zealand: teen died weeks after Pfizer dose (click here)
Malaysia: 13 yo boy died 18 days after 1st Pfizer dose (click here)
Barbados: 14 yo boy died 90 min after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
Guyana: 13 yo boy died 2hr after 2nd Pfizer dose (click here)
Brazil: teen died after Pfizer (click here)
My Take…This is the first case in the world that I am aware of, involving government compensation of a child death due to Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
When Canadian doctors who pushed mRNA vaccines attack me on the 96 Canadian children who died suddenly in the past 3 months, they do it for a reason. They want to maintain a false reality where COVID-19 vaccines are safe in children and have not killed any children. But in reality, mRNA is neither safe nor effective in children.
They don’t want people to remember that many children died in the US after taking Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, or that 5 kids died in Vietnam within 2 weeks of their Pfizer vaccine rollout. You will rarely hear any of these stories now.
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