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January 13, 2023
Snowden Identifies Real Scandal Regarding Biden Classified Docs
Sott.netThe story about classified materials found in an office linked to the US president was suppressed days before the midterms.
US President Joe Biden has probably made off with more classified documents than many whistleblowers, but unlike them he will get away with it, former CIA and National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden suggested on Wednesday.
In a series of tweets, the whistleblower commented on a recent controversy surrounding sensitive Obama-era documents discovered at Biden’s vice-presidential office by his attorneys. The White House has acknowledged the incident and the US Justice Department is currently looking into the matter.
“Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers,” Snowden wrote, comparing the situation with the case of Reality Winner who “was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document.” The former NSA translator was convicted in 2018 of leaking a report about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US elections.
“Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus… these guys have dozens, hundreds [of documents]. No jail,” the whistleblower added.
Snowden went on to say that “the real scandal isn’t that Biden had classified documents coming out of his socks, because sadly they’ve all been doing it. The scandal is that the DOJ found out about it a week prior to the midterm elections and chose to suppress the story, conferring a partisan advantage.”
Snowden is known for leaking classified documents exposing Washington’s surveillance efforts that targeted American civilians.
The story about Biden’s documents was first broken by CBS News on Monday, which reported that the president’s personal attorneys had found the documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement of the University of Pennsylvania on November 2 and reported them to the authorities.
On Wednesday, NBC News reported, citing sources, that Biden aides had discovered at least one other batch of classified documents at another location.
This bombshell infuriated Republicans, with some drawing parallels with the FBI raid at the residence of former President Donald Trump in search of classified materials. The agency reportedly seized around 300 sensitive files from the ex-president’s estate.
The White House, however, insisted that the two cases are different, claiming that, unlike Trump, Biden had not been notified that he was in possession of the documents, nor had he been asked to return them. Rather, he swiftly revealed the discovery to the National Archives and turned over the papers.
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Via https://www.sott.net/article/476214-Snowden-identifies-real-scandal-regarding-Biden-classified-docs
Nearly 160 Organisations Urge Biden to Shut Infamous Guatanamo Prison
By TRT World
Global Research
A letter signed by “diverse group” of NGOs calls for closing Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, which was created after September 11, 2001 attacks but shortly thereafter became a site of “unrelenting human rights violations”.
More than 150 organisations have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden urging him to “prioritise closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”
The letter was signed by 159 organisations from the US and other countries who called themselves a “diverse group of non-governmental organisations” working on issues including international human rights, immigrants’ rights, racial justice and combating anti-Muslim discrimination.
“It is long past time for both a sea change in the United States’ approach to national and human security, and a meaningful reckoning with the full scope of damage that the post-9/11 approach has caused,” they wrote in the letter on Wednesday.
“Closing the Guantanamo detention facility, ending indefinite military detention of those held there, and never again using the military base for unlawful mass detention of any group of people are necessary steps towards those ends.”
“We urge you to act without delay, and in a just manner that considers the harm done to the men who have been detained indefinitely without charge or fair trials for two decades,” they added.
Often referred to as Gitmo, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was created after September 11, 2001 attacks to hold suspects captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
It became the focus of worldwide controversy over alleged violations of the legal rights of detainees and accusations of torture or abusive treatment of prisoners by US authorities.
Experts appointed by the UN have called Guantanamo Bay “a site of unparalleled notoriety, defined by the systematic use of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment against hundreds of men brought to the site and deprived of their most fundamental rights.”
‘It destroyed many Muslim lives’Meanwhile, a virtual rally was held on Wednesday to mark 21 years since the opening of the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay.
The virtual event was attended by many people from different locations, including activists, lawyers and human rights advocates, who demanded the closure of the notorious prison that the US leased from Cuba in 1903 as a coaling station and naval base.
Among the speakers were Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International USA’s Director of Security with Human Rights, Aliya Hana Hussain, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Andy Worthington of the Close Guantanamo campaign as well as other advocates, with Lu Aya, co-founder of The Peace Poets, the moderator.
The participants called on the US government to close Guantanamo prison while talking about the stories of injustice.
Besides calling for justice, the participants marked the 21st anniversary of Guantanamo by reading poems and singing tribute songs.
Like other speakers, Maha Hilal, an author and the co-director of Justice for Muslims Collective, called for the closure of Guantanamo because “it has destroyed the lives of so many Muslim men and boys.”
“As we call for the closure of Guantanamo, we call for the abolition of Guantanamo, and an end to Islamophobia,” she said.
The detention camp has held roughly 780 detainees since it was opened, most of them without charge or trial, with many said to have gone through unspeakable horrors.
Currently, 35 detainees remain and 20 of them are eligible for transfer.
Energy, Work and Transportation in Ancient Rome and Greece
Lecture 16: Harnessing Animal Power – Land Transportation
Understanding Greek and Roman Technology: From the Catapult to the Pantheon
Dr Stephen Ressler (2013)
Film Review
Ressler spends the first third of this lecture explaining the engineering concepts of machine, work and power.
Machine: assembly of moving or fixed parts used to perform work.Work: quantity of energy expended when a force moves through a distance.Power: rate at which work is down.Humanity owes our concept of simple machines to the third century BC Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. Although Archimedes didn’t invent the lever, pulley and screw, by deepening our understanding of their operation, he helped expand their usage.
Lever – a simple machine that magnifies applied force.Pulley – a simple machine that changes the direction of applied force
The Greeks and Romans employed three other simple machines not described by Archimedes. All were in wide usage before the classical period.
Wedge – a simple machine that converts a singular force into two opposing forces directed perpendicular to the wedge surfaces.
Land Transportation
According to Ressler, there were four main sources of power in ancient Greece and Rome: human beings, animals, water and wind. A mule has five times the power of a human (performs work five times faster), a mule seven times and an ox ten times. Although usually limited to pushing, pulling or carrying heavy burdens, wagons or plows, animals were occasionally used to power grain mills. Water power was used to mill grain and pump water and wind was used to sail ships.
Human porters can only carry 50-60 pounds for no more than a few yards. For heavy loads Greeks and Romans used donkeys (can carry 200 pounds) and mules (can carry 300 pounds). To carry heavy loads long distances, it’s more efficient to load them onto wheeled vehicles pulled by a team of animals.
Both Greeks and Romans commonly used two-wheeled vehicles to carry people.
Greek warrior chariot
Both Greeks and Romans used four wheeled vehicles drawn by pack animals to transport heavy loads. The Romans also had a four-wheeled passenger carriage.
The wheel was invented around the 4th millenium BC, and there is archeological evidence in the Near East of 3rd millenium military chariots with spoked wheels.
The Romans used solid wheels (for their simplicity and strength) for oxcarts and massive siege engines
Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.
https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/146678/146710
January 12, 2023
Facebook faces a future of more legal woes and falling revenues
Arthur Sullivan
DW
Meta, formerly Facebook, is in crisis mode as value plummets in 2022. Weak revenues, regulatory woes, and costly metaverse bet are to blame. 2023 doesn’t seem any better.
in October 2021, the company has lost more than two-thirds of its stock market value.
Its difficulties can’t all be attributed to the name change, but the “Meta era” has so far brought little but bad news for Mark Zuckerberg and his company’s shareholders.
Just over a month before the rebrand, Meta, which controls the platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, hit an all-time stock market high. Just a few weeks later, the revelations of whistleblower and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen proved hugely damaging.
Haugen leaked thousands of internal company documents to The Wall Street Journal, revealing the extent to which the company had prioritized profit over dealing with hate, violence and misinformation on its platforms.
In the midst of dealing with that, Facebook became Meta with Zuckerberg selling the change as a reflection of the company’s increased focus on the so-called “metaverse,” a hypothetical 3D network based on virtual and augmented reality.
Throughout 2022, the problems kept piling up. The share price has been on a sharp downward spiral for 15 months now. Its revenues and ad sales are falling while regulatory scrutiny is intensifying. Then there’s the massive spending on the metaverse, which is increasingly spooking investors.
Meta’s core businesses are Facebook, Instagram and WhatsAppImage: M. Chang/ZUMA Press/picture allianceHard numbersMeta was officially the worst performing company on the S&P 500 index in 2022. Amid a wider sell-off among the major tech firms, Meta is the one struggling most of all.
Its most recent quarterly results, posted at the end of October, revealed a 4% fall in revenues. That’s the slowest pace of growth in a decade and can be linked to Meta’s declining importance in the critical area of advertising.
Along with Google’s parent company Alphabet, Meta has dominated the digital advertising market for years. However, its share of overall ad revenues is falling fast amid rising competition from the likes of TikTok, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple.
As well as the competition, Meta has been hit by the fact that companies worldwide have slashed advertising budgets in response to soaring inflation and rising interest rates.
3D or not 3D, that is the questionDespite the poor numbers and difficult economic climate, Meta has continued to ramp up spending on its metaverse projects, worrying its investors in the process.
Meta has pumped tens of billions over the past few years into Reality Labs, its metaverse unit, although the exact number is not known. At the quarterly earnings results in October, Meta revealed that losses from Reality Labs would grow “significantly” in 2023, having already reached close to $10 billion (€9.29 billion) by the end of September 2022.
Zuckerberg told investors in a call at the time that the company would continue to invest heavily in the idea. The Financial Times quoted several investors who said they made their opposition to that course very clear on the call.
Zuckerberg has majority control of the company’s voting shares, however, and insists the company will stick with its metaverse bet.
The spiraling costs and a growing sense of uncertainty around the future viability and use case of the metaverse has added to doubts about Meta’s prospects in 2023 and beyond.
“There’s a lot of potential there, but unfortunately getting it off the ground is astronomically expensive,” Sophie Lund-Yates, an equity analyst with Hargreaves Lansdown, told DW. “What people are seeing is that actually you’re pouring money into an unproven concept and there’s not really any stringent plans around how things are going to work.”
Regulatory scrutiny and a societal backlashMeta is also under increasing legal pressure. In early January, the Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta almost €400 million ($430 million) for breaches of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in relation to both its Facebook and Instagram services.
The ruling ordered Meta to comply with EU law within three months, the latest example of the company’s uphill battle to maintain the way it uses its users’ data for targeted advertising.
Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist who has challenged Meta several times over the way it handles user data, said in response: “This is a huge blow to Meta’s profits in the EU. People now need to be asked if they want their data to be used for ads or not.”
The ruling came just weeks after Meta agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that argued the company had given third parties access to user data without their consent.
Shoshana Zuboff, the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” told DW that companies like Meta are increasingly facing a backlash from society over their use of private data.
“They are destroying our ability to communicate as a coherent people with common aims, common sense and common purpose,” she said. “And our populations are definitely registering their sense of outrage that this must be changed.”
Technically, 2023 will be Facebook’s 20th birthday. It was in 2003 when Zuckerberg built “FaceMash” at Harvard University, the platform which eventually was restarted as Facebook in 2004.
It will be a critical year. The company revealed last year that capital spending could be as high as $39 billion in 2023, as it seeks to intensify its investment in Reality Labs and the metaverse. The company’s shares fell by 25% in just one day when that news was revealed in October.
Overall spending is expecting to cross the $100-billion mark, despite the fact that the company is, in its own words, “making significant changes across the board to operate more efficiently.”
Meta already laid off more than 11,000 workers last November, and it has reportedly begun to rescind job offers already made as it initiates a hiring freeze.
The next big date for Meta observers is February 1, when the company will reveal its fourth-quarter and full year 2022 financial results.
Zuckerberg has made it clear that such results will not sway him from the path he has chosen for the company, despite growing clamor from the company’s backers to change course.
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The Catastrophic Rise of Egg Prices
Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse Blog
Do you remember when you could buy a dozen eggs for 99 cents? It seems like it was only yesterday, but unfortunately, those days are now gone for good. Thanks to a variety of factors, egg prices have risen to levels that we have never seen before, and in some areas of the country, significant shortages are being reported.
In fact, things are so bad that Whole Foods is apparently “now limiting egg carton purchases to two per person”. This is extremely alarming because millions of U.S. households have traditionally relied on eggs as a cheap source of protein. Unfortunately, it appears that eggs will not be “cheap” for the foreseeable future. According to an article that originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the average price of a dozen eggs in California actually reached $7.37 this week…
Egg cases were bare across Los Angeles County this week, from Trader Joe’s in Long Beach to Amazon Fresh in Inglewood, Target in MidCity to Ralphs in Glendale. Those such as Hodges who found cartons were shocked by the sudden spike in price.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Anna Sanchez, 32, who scoured the half-empty shelves at a Smart & Final in University Park looking for a dozen eggs for less than $10. “The cheaper ones just aren’t there.”
The average retail price for a dozen large eggs jumped to $7.37 in California this week, up from $4.83 at the beginning of December and just $2.35 at this time last year, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show.
Can you imagine paying 7 dollars for a carton of eggs?
I certainly cannot.
Thankfully, prices are not quite as high elsewhere in the nation. One of the reasons why egg prices in California are so absurd is because of a new law that went into effect last January…
Since the law went into effect last January, all eggs sold in California have to be produced in cage-free settings. But cage-free production takes much more space than conventional egg production, and California producers aren’t able to keep up with demand.
“They’re selling everything they can possibly grow,” Mattos said.
Of course egg prices have also been skyrocketing in states that do not have such laws.
All over the nation, people are now paying 4 or 5 dollars for a dozen eggs, and many believe that our ongoing bird flu pandemic is the primary factor that is causing prices to go completely nuts…
But egg prices are up significantly more than other foods — even more than chicken or turkey — because egg farmers were hit harder by the bird flu. More than 43 million of the 58 million birds slaughtered over the past year to control the virus have been egg-laying chickens, including some farms with more than a million birds apiece in major egg-producing states like Iowa.
More than 50 million chickens and turkeys have also been wiped out in Europe.
So when you combine the two totals, so far well over 100 million chickens and turkeys have been killed in just the United States and Europe.
And there is no end to the bird flu pandemic in sight.
This is a major crisis, but up to this point, the mainstream media has not been focusing on it very much.
On top of everything else, egg farmers have had to deal with rapidly rising costs in recent months.
In fact, there are some in the industry that insists that the huge cost increases that egg farmers have been hit with over the past year are even a bigger factor than the bird flu…
But the president and CEO of the American Egg Board trade group, Emily Metz, said she believes all the cost increases farmers have faced in the past year were a bigger factor in the price increases than bird flu.
“When you’re looking at fuel costs go up, and you’re looking at feed costs go up as much as 60%, labor costs, packaging costs — all of that … those are much much bigger factors than bird flu for sure,” Metz said.
Many anticipate that these costs will only go higher in 2023.
And that will mean even higher prices for the rest of us.
I really feel bad for small bakeries. They use lots and lots of eggs, and if egg prices continue to go up many small bakeries could soon be forced to close…
“Small businesses especially, you live and die by what your food costs are,” said Tracy Ann Devore, owner of KnowRealityPie in Eagle Rock, who recently let go a dishwasher to stem rising costs. “If this keeps up for another three to six months, it could be a tipping point for some bakeries to close.”
For Devore and many others, the new egg crisis, combined with uncertainty about when it could ebb, has been more unsettling than the gradual price creep of dairy products, flour and produce.
“At some point, you can’t raise the price anymore,” Devore said. “There’s been points where I’ve cried recently, because I thought, ‘How are we going to keep going with this?’”
Our food industry was stable for so many years, but now we are witnessing a dramatic shift.
Costs are going through the roof, and supply problems just keep popping up.
Just like we have witnessed at other times, empty shelves are starting to be reported at certain supermarkets around the nation…
Social media is brimming with reports of missing food items at Kroger supermarket locations across the country.
A repeat of early 2020 when toilet paper and other essentials ran bare, the start of 2023 is seeing “a lot of empty shelves” at Kroger, according to numerous reports, some containing video evidence of lingering supply chain problems.
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Via http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/lets-talk-about-the-catastrophic-rise-of-egg-prices/
Nixon Threatened to Reveal CIA Involvement in JFK Assassination
By Roger StoneA stunning, long-overlooked Nixon Watergate-era tape shows Richard Nixon warning CIA Director Richard Helms that he knows of CIA involvement in the murder of John F. Kennedy- “I know who shot John.”
This shocking new tape depicts Nixon increasingly besieged by Watergate but unaware that at least four of the Watergate burglars were still on the CIA payroll at the time of the break-in, and that the CIA had thus infiltrated the burglary team. Recently declassified documents reveal that Watergate Special Prosecutor Nick Akerman was aware of both the CIA’s advance knowledge and involvement in the break-in — but said and did nothing.
Senator Howard Baker, the Republican Leader on the Senate Watergate Committee and his counsel Fred Thompson himself, a future U.S. Senator from Tennessee, like Baker, stumbled on the CIA’s deep advanced knowledge and direct involvement in the Watergate break-in. Baker and Thompson both knew that at least four of the Watergate burglars were on the CIA payroll at the time of the break-in and that through CREEP Security Director James McCord, had infiltrated the burglary team. Senate Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin stoutly refused to allow Baker and the Committee Republicans including Edward J. Gurney of Florida the right to publish a Minority Report which noted this stunning information regarding the CIA.
Nixon deeply distrusted the CIA because he knew that President Eisenhower had ordered the agency to give top secret briefings to both Nixon and Kennedy after both were the certain nominees of their parties. Nixon was sore that Kennedy utilized the information in their debates, attacking Nixon for being “soft” on communist Cuba, knowing full well that Nixon had chaired a working group as Vice President overseeing preparations for the “Bay of Pigs” invasion. Nixon, of course, could not reveal this upcoming attempt to topple Castro in the details.
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Listen to tape at https://rogerstone.substack.com/p/nixon-threatened-to-reveal-the-cias#play
Why Has COVID Spared Africa?
Dr Joseph Mercola
Story at-a-glanceThere are clear contradictions between the World Health Organization’s directives regarding the need for COVID shots in Africa and the actual situation on the groundThe WHO is still calling on all countries to get the COVID jab into at least 70% of their populations, and warns that developing countries are at grave risk due to low jab rates. Meanwhile, Africa, where less than 6% of the population is jabbed, has fared far better than countries with high injection rates. A large-scale survey in Uganda also shows COVID is no longer a clinical issueVariants have also gotten milder (less pathogenic) with each iteration, yet the WHO warns that new variants may create “large waves of serious disease and death in populations with low vaccination coverage”The explanation for the disconnect between the WHO’s priorities and what’s happening in Africa can be explained when you look at the focus of the WHO’s Catastrophic Contagion exercise. It focused on getting African leadership trained in following the pandemic script. The WHO needs additional pandemics in order to justify its pandemic treaty, which will give it sole power to dictate countermeasures, and it needs to eliminate the African control group, which shows the COVID “vaccines” do more harm than goodThe WHO also has every intention of implementing climate lockdowns once it has the power to do so. To that aim, the WHO’s director of Environment and Health has suggested combining health and climate issues into oneIn the video above, John Campbell, Ph.D., a retired nurse educator, compares the contradictions between the World Health Organization’s directives regarding the need for COVID shots in Africa and the actual situation on the ground.
As of December 12, 2022, the WHO was still calling on all countries to get the COVID jab into at least 70% of their populations.1 Its original deadline for meeting this 70% threshold was mid-2022, but by June 2022, only 58 of 194 member states had reached this target.2
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Low Jab Rates Threaten Low-Income Countries, WHO Claims[…]
In short, the WHO is really concerned that countries with low COVID jab rates will suffer lest they meet or exceed the target goal of jabbing 70% of their populations. But what is that concern based on? Certainly not the real world.
WHO’s Statements Contradict Real-World SituationsThe statements made by the WHO contradict a number of real-world situations. For starters, while developed nations with high jab rates struggled with COVID-19 throughout much of 2021 and 2022, Africa avoided this fate, despite its single-digit jab rate.
Scientists are said to be “mystified” as to how Africa fared so well, completely ignoring data showing that the more COVID shots you get, the higher your risk of contracting COVID and ending up in the hospital.
Over the past year, researchers have been warning that the COVID jabs appear to be dysregulating and actually destroying people’s immune systems, leaving them vulnerable not only to COVID but also other infections.5 It stands to reason, then, that Africa with its low injection rate would not be burdened with COVID cases brought on by dysfunctional immune systems.
Secondly, variants have gotten milder (less pathogenic) with each iteration, albeit more infectious (i.e., they spread easier). So why is the WHO worried about “the risk of new variants creating large waves of serious disease and death in populations with low vaccination coverage”? What is that “risk” based on?
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As a reminder, according to a September 2, 2020 study in Annals of Internal Medicine, the overall noninstitutionalized infection fatality ratio for COVID was a mere 0.26%. Below 40 years of age, the infection fatality ratio was just 0.01%. Meanwhile, the estimated infection fatality rate for seasonal influenza is 0.8%.11
Report From UgandaCampbell goes on to cite a large-scale survey by a community health partner in Uganda, which surveyed doctors, nurses and medical officers across the country, and “basically, they don’t see any COVID anymore,” he says.
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What Uganda does need is malaria treatments, mosquito nets, clean drinking water and antibiotics. “That is what the priorities on the ground seem to be,” Campbell says. So, what’s with the apparent disconnect between the WHO’s priorities and what’s actually happening in areas with low COVID jab rates? The WHO’s Catastrophic Contagion exercise12,13 clues us in.
The Disconnect Reveals the WHO’s True IntentionsOctober 23, 2022, the WHO, Bill Gates and Johns Hopkins cohosted a global challenge exercise dubbed “Catastrophic Contagion,”14,15 involving the outbreak of a novel pathogen called “severe epidemic enterovirus respiratory syndrome 2025” (SEERS-25).
Tellingly, this tabletop exercise was focused on getting African leadership involved and trained in following the pandemic script. Participants included 10 current and former health ministers and senior public health officials from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Angola and Liberia. (Representatives from Singapore, India and Germany, as well as Gates himself, were also in attendance.)
African nations just so happened to go “off script” more often than others during the COVID pandemic and didn’t follow in the footsteps of developed nations when it came to pushing the jabs. As a result, vaccine makers now face the problem of having a huge control group, as the COVID jab uptake on the African continent was only 6%.16
[…]The WHO desperately needs to get rid of this control group, so they’re enlisting and training African leaders how to push for widespread vaccination using the WHO’s talking points. This, I believe, is the only reason the WHO is still speaking about COVID-19 in catastrophic terms.
The WHO Needs Additional Pandemics to Secure Its Power Grab[…]
So, the reason we can be sure there will be additional pandemics, whether manufactured using fear and hype alone or an actual bioweapon created for this very purpose, is because the takeover plan, aka The Great Reset, is based on the premise that we need global biosecurity surveillance and a centralized response.
Biosecurity, in turn, is the justification for an international vaccine passport, which the G20 just signed on to, and that passport will also be your digital identification. That digital ID, then, will be tied to your social credit score, personal carbon footprint tracker, medical records, educational records, work records, social media presence, purchase records, your bank accounts and a programmable central bank digital currency (CBDC).
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The WHO’s pandemic treaty is what sets this chain of events off, as it will have the power to implement vaccine passports globally once the treaty is signed. The WHO will also have the power to mandate vaccines, standardize medical care and issue travel restrictions.
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The Pandemic Treaty Is the Death Knell to Freedom Worldwide[…]
Once signed, all member nations will be subject to the WHO’s dictates. If the WHO says every person on the planet needs to have a vaccine passport and digital identity to ensure vaccination compliance, then that’s what every country will be forced to implement, even if the people have rejected such plans using local democratic processes.
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Officials Around the World Have Suggested Climate LockdownsAs noted by The Pulse, a number of officials around the world have voiced support for climate lockdowns, completely ignoring the devastating effects the COVID lockdowns have already had. This just goes to show lockdowns were never about public health and never will be.
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What Can You Do?Stopping the WHO pandemic treaty will be difficult, as the World Health Assembly may or may not even accept public comment before making a decision. Your best bet right now is to sign up for the World Council for Health’s (WCH) newsletter.
The last time the World Health Assembly met to discuss the treaty, the WCH issued links and instructions on how to submit your comment. You can subscribe at the bottom of this page, or on the WCH’s home page. I and the CHD will also share details if they become available, so subscribing to our newsletters can give you a heads-up as well.
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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/01/12/why-has-covid-spared-africa.aspx
January 11, 2023
7 Facts Fauci Knew But Hid from Public
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) this week listed seven key facts about the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s response to it that, according to Jordan, Dr. Anthony Fauci knew but didn’t tell the public.
Editor’s note: House Republicans on Monday commissioned a special investigative panel focused on the coronavirus pandemic during which they hope to press scientists and federal officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, about the origin of the public health crisis and the government’s response to it.
The following is a paraphrase of the opening round — the warning shot — by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Tuesday in which he used his time to outline seven facts that Dr. Anthony Fauci knew, and, more importantly, what Fauci did, and did not do, when he was made aware of these facts.
This does not bode well for Fauci and those involved in the cover-up.
Fauci understood that American tax dollars went to EcoHealth Alliance and that money was then funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab in China.Fauci knew EcoHealth Alliance was given an exemption from the pause on gain-of-function research.Fauci knew that the security standards at the WIV lab in China were deficient.Fauci knew that EcoHealth Alliance was not in compliance with its grant reporting requirements and wasn’t adhering to the contract.Fauci knew that gain-of-function research was in fact being conducted inthe WIV lab in China.Fauci knew that the standard P3CO interagency review process wasn’t followed in approving the grant to EcoHealth Alliance.Fauci knew that the virus likely came from the lab where U.S. taxpayer dollars were sent … the very city where that lab is at, a deadly virus breaks out that would ultimately kill six million people around the world.
Importantly, what did Fauci do when he had this information?
On Feb. 1, 2020, what did Fauci do with this information?
Did he tell the president of the U.S., commander in chief, and say hey we’ve got a deadly virus that’s broken out in China in Wuhan where we’ve been sending American tax dollars to a lab that’s not up to code that’s doing gain-of-function?
Did he tell the chief of staff?
Did he tell his boss, former Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar?
Did he tell Dr. Robert Redfield? Dr. Deborah Birx? Dr. Brett Giroir?
No, he organized a conference call Feb. 1, 2020, at 2 p.m., with him, Francis Collins and 11 virologists from around the world to who he had been handing out American tax dollars for years and years and years …
Before that call, virologists including Kristian Andersen said things like “virus looks engineered, virus not consistent with evolutionary theory.” On the day of the call, Andersen said, “I don’t know how this gets done in nature but it would be easy to do in a lab.”
On this conference call, they get their story straight and three days later the very people who said this thing came from a lab change their tune and say that anyone who thinks that is crazy …
In an email from EcoHealth Alliance, Fauci received gratitude: “This is terrific, we are happy to hear that our gain-of-function research funding pause has been lifted” …
Over the last several years, Fauci told us:
it wasn’t our tax dollars.it wasn’t gain-of-function.it wasn’t a lab leak.the vaccinated can’t get COVID-19.the vaccinated can’t transmit the virus.there is no such thing as natural immunity when it came to this virus.We can’t trust some of the folks who were supposed to give us accurate information because they didn’t … they knew from the start.
If you’ve got a government not giving it to you straight, that’s something that you have to make sure we understand so it doesn’t happen again.
Not only we don’t want a terrible virus to happen again, we don’t want the government misleading us about a virus that could happen.
Starting next month we’ll look into it. We’ll make sure the country gets the facts like they should have had on Feb. 1, three years ago.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/anthony-fauci-hid-covid-pandemic-facts/
Hundreds of ‘Tylenol Lawsuits’ Allege Retailers, Manufacturers Knew Acetaminophen During Pregnancy Could Cause Autism, ADHD
Hundreds of “Tylenol lawsuits” already have been filed against retailers and manufacturers of acetaminophen — but that number could soon reach into the thousands, according to an attorney who spoke to The Defender.
Hundreds of “Tylenol lawsuits” already have been filed against retailers and manufacturers alleging they sold products containing acetaminophen to pregnant women knowing the medications could harm the developing fetus — but the number of lawsuits could soon reach into the thousands, according to an attorney who spoke to The Defender.
Attorney W. Mark Lanier described the lawsuits, which allege acetaminophen use during pregnancy can cause children to be born with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), “some of the most important health litigation pending in the United States right now.”
Lanier, founder and CEO of the Houston-based Lanier Law Firm involved in several high-profile product litigation lawsuits, told The Defender:
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The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) late last year appointed Senior U.S. District Judge Denise Cote to oversee the growing number of lawsuits brought by families, resulting in all of the claims being transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Judge Cote last month appointed a special master to preside over all federal Tylenol autism and ADHD lawsuits.
The lawsuits allege retailers, including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and others, falsely advertised products that contain acetaminophen as being safe for pregnant women and did not warn them about the risks posed to fetal development.
Lawsuits also are expected against Johnson & Johnson for its alleged role in encouraging widespread acetaminophen use during pregnancy, which could send the number into the thousands.
Products that contain the drug include Tylenol, Alka-Seltzer Plus, DayQuil, Excedrin, Goody’s, Mucinex, NyQuil, Robitussin and some generic and store-brand equivalents.
The lawsuits allege the products have been marketed as safe for pregnant women since the 1950s, despite the existence of dozens of peer-reviewed studies showing acetaminophen poses serious risks to pregnant women and unborn children.
Lawsuits are being pursued on behalf of children under age 15 who were diagnosed with ASD between the ages of 1 and 10, and children under age 15 who were diagnosed with ADHD between the ages of 8 and 14.
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Lanier, one of the attorneys appointed as lead counsel in the Tylenol multidistrict litigation (MDL), told The Defender, “I think at this point we’re in the hundreds that have been filed. I think when all is said and done, we’ll be talking about thousands, tens of thousands” of cases.
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The growing number of lawsuits has captured the attention of renowned consumer advocate Erin Brockovich, spokeswoman for Autism Justice, who launched a project to help mothers sue the manufacturers and retailers of acetaminophen products.
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Studies clearly show link between acetaminophen and autism, ADHD
As previously reported by The Defender, referencing a JAMA Pediatrics research letter stating 1 in 30 children born in the U.S. in 2020 were diagnosed with autism, and there was a 53% increase in ASD among young Americans since 2017. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported similar statistics.
A growing number of scientific, peer-reviewed studies identified links between acetaminophen use by pregnant women and the onset of ASD and ADHD, and other developmental problems, in their children.
Acetaminophen became the preferred drug to treat fevers and pain in children in the early 1980s, after aspirin became associated with Reye’s syndrome. An increase in ASD has been documented as having begun during this time period.
In January 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an acetaminophen pregnancy warning, stating expectant mothers should be cautious when using such products. The FDA, however, claimed there is “not enough research” to confirm safety risks for unborn children from acetaminophen exposure.
However, numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies appear to show such a link:
Data from the ongoing Boston Birth Cohort Study, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has indicated that “exposure to acetaminophen in the womb may increase a child’s risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder.”A July 2022 study of acetaminophen published in Minerva Pediatrics “offers 17 lines of evidence that the commonly used remedy for pain and fever may be contributing to the autism epidemic,” as previously reported by The Defender. Dr. William Parker, lead researcher on the study, told The Defender at the time that “acetaminophen would never be approved for pediatric use by today’s regulatory standards.”A February 2022 study published in the European Journal of Pediatrics found that acetaminophen use in infants and children has never been shown to be safe for their neurodevelopment.In September 2021, a consensus of 91 scientists, clinicians and public health professionals published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology journal called for the FDA’s 2015 recommendations to be updated. The consensus stated that “increasing experimental and epidemiological research suggests that prenatal exposure to [acetaminophen] might alter fetal development, which could increase the risks of some neurodevelopmental, reproductive and urogenital disorders.” This study also found that acetaminophen was, in fact, never assessed for impact on neurodevelopment.A June 2021 study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology found that children exposed to Tylenol and acetaminophen during pregnancy were significantly more likely to develop ASD and ADHD symptoms.A September 2020 study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggested that the use of Tylenol and acetaminophen during pregnancy may impair the brain of a developing fetus. This could result in ADHD symptoms and other neurological disorders.A January 2020 study published in European Psychiatry found that girls whose mothers took acetaminophen during pregnancy were six times more likely to suffer from delayed language development, and used fewer words than normal by the age of 30 months.An October 2019 Johns Hopkins study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that exposure to acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase a child’s risk of developing autism and ADHD, as the children that had the highest acetaminophen metabolite levels in their blood showed the highest risk of developmental disorders. This study was published in JAMA Psychiatry.A November 2017 study published in Pediatrics, based on data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study, found that there is a possible association between short-term acetaminophen use during pregnancy and the risk of giving birth to a child who will later develop ADHD.An October 2017 NIH study linked acetaminophen use by pregnant women to “lower performance intelligence quotient (IQ) … autism spectrum disorder, neurodevelopmental problems (gross motor development, communication), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, poorer attention and executive function, and behavioral problems in childhood.”A 2017 study published in the Journal of International Medical Research by renowned autism researchers from Duke, Harvard and the University of Colorado found that “the long-term effects of acetaminophen exposure on neural development have never been evaluated in humans.” The study’s authors stated that even at very low doses, acetaminophen “triggers immune system activation and oxidative stress responses” — both potential warning signs of autism.An October 2016 study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggested that the side effects of acetaminophen, when used during pregnancy, may increase the risk of children being born with behavioral problems such as hyperactivity and emotional difficulties.A June 2016 study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was linked to a higher risk of autism among males, and an increased prevalence of ADHD cases among both boys and girls.An October 2013 study in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that children whose mothers took acetaminophen products during pregnancy for more than 28 days exhibited poorer than normal gross motor development, communication, externalizing behavior and internalizing behavior.A May 2013 study funded by the NIH found a link between circumcision-related acetaminophen use and the increased prevalence of autism.
Pentagon Controlled ‘Vaccines’ From the Start Under National Security Program
Armed Forces Press
New Docs Reveal Department of Defense Controlled COVID-19 Program from the Start. FDA Vaccine Approval Process was Theater. A combination of the PREP Act, Emergency Use Authorization, and Other Transactions Authority (OTA) Shielded Big Pharma, Agencies, and Medical Participants that Delivered Unregulated Vaccines from Any Liability
WASHINGTON, DC – According to congressionally passed statutes, research of active laws,and extra details obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the Department of Defense owns, implements, and oversees the COVID-19 vaccine program as a“Countermeasure” to foreign attack. While the public was bombarded with an orchestrated fear campaign, the U.S.Government managed the Covid response as a national security threat.
The research and documents were obtained by a former executive of a pharmaceutical Contract Research Organization (CRO), Sasha Latypova, and intensive legal researcher Katherine Watt.
The Three-Legged Stool
The undercover operation was orchestrated utilizing three critical legal maneuvers:
1. Emergency Use Authorization EUA.
2. Prep Act,
3. Other Transactions Authority
President Trump declared a Public Health Emergency (PHE) on March 13, 2020, under the Stafford Act, putting the National Security Council in charge of the Covid policy.Covid-19 vaccines are “medical countermeasures” – a grey area of products that are not regulated as vaccines or medicines.
“They put the National Security Council in charge and treated it as an act of war,” said Latypova.
According to Operation Warp Speed/ASPR reports, the DoD ordered, oversaw, and tightly managed the development, manufacture, and distribution of Covid countermeasures, mainly utilizing the DoD’s previously established network of military contractors and consortia.
Department of Defense, BARDA, and HHS ordered all Covid countermeasures, including “vaccines” as prototype demonstrations of large-scale manufacturing, avoiding regulations and transparency under Other Transaction Authority. As prototypes used under EUA during PHE, Covid countermeasures, including “vaccines,” need not comply with the U.S. laws for manufacturing quality, safety, and labeling.
“The implication is that the US.Government authorized and funded the deployment of noncompliant biological materials on Americans without clarifying their “prototype” legal status, making the materials not subject to normal regulatory oversight, all while maintaining a fraudulent pseudo-“regulatory” presentation to the public,” said Latypova.
“Most incredible is the fact that current Laws enacted by the United States Congress appear to make the coverup actions LEGAL!”
Under the PHE, medical countermeasures are not regulated or safeguarded as pharmaceutical products (21 USC 360bbb-3(k).
The American people were led to believe that the FDA, CDC, and figureheads like Anthony Fauci oversaw the COVID-19 vaccine program.Their involvement was an orchestrated information operation. All decisions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine research, materials acquisition, distribution, and information sharing were tightly controlled by the DoD.
Hundreds of Covid countermeasures contracts have been uncovered. Many disclosures are in redacted form. However, Latypova and Watt have found sources to fill in the details. A review of these contracts indicates a high degree of control by the U.S. Government (DoD/BARDA). It specifies the scope of deliverables as “demonstrations” and “prototypes” only while excluding clinical trials and manufacturing quality control from the scope of work paid for by the contracts. To ensure that the Pharma is free to conduct the fake clinical trials without financial risk, the contracts include the removal of all liability for the manufacturers and any contractors along the supply and distribution chain under the 2005 PREP Act and related federal legislation.
Why is no action by regulators or courts? According to Latypova and Watt, a combination of recently passed legislation and executive orders make it LEGAL to LIE! The HHS Secretary is accountable to no one if the Health National Emergency continues to be extended by Congress every three months.
A significant information operation was set in motion the minute COVID-19 hit. The U.S. government, the intelligence community, the media, and Big Tech colluded to orchestrate and implement an intense pressure campaign designed to get the vaccine legally designated under the Emergency Use Authorization Act while vilifying dissenting doctors, critics, and viable alternative treatments. This designation allowed for speedy manufacturing devoid of the standard safety and public health protocols.
For a vaccine to receive designation under the EUA, there can be no other known treatments or cures. Therefore, many proven treatments such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were blacklisted in the media and dismissed as “horse dewormers” when these cheap, readily available drugs were in the past heralded for their effectiveness.
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