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January 11, 2023
URGENT: WHO Meeting in Secret to convert themselves to Enforceable Law under EXISTING Treaty
The International Health Regulations Review Committee (IHRRC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to meet in secret from Monday, January 9, 2023 to Friday January 13, 2023. The IHRRC will be working to finalize what is now a 46 page document that includes proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).
The proposed amendments would:
Change the overall nature of the World Health Organization from an advisory organization that merely makes recommendations to a governing body whose proclamations would be legally-binding. (Article 1)Greatly expand the scope of the International Health Regulations to include scenarios that merely have a “potential to impact public health.”Seek to remove “respect for dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of people.” (Article 3)Give the Director General of the WHO control over the means of production through an “allocation plan for health products” to require developed states parties to supply pandemic response products as directed. (Article 13A)Give the WHO the authority to require medical examinations, proof of prophylaxis, proof of vaccine and to implement contact tracing, quarantine and TREATMENT. (Article 18)Institute a system of global health certificates in digital or paper format, including test certificates, vaccine certificates, prophylaxis certificates, recovery certificates, passenger locator forms and a traveller’s health declaration. (Articles 18, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31, 35, 36 and 44 and Annexes 6, 7 and 8)Redirect unspecified billions of dollars to the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex with no accountability. (Article 44A)Allow the disclosure of personal health data. (Article 45)Greatly expand the World Health Organization’s capacity to censor what they consider to be mis-information and dis-information. (Annex 1, page 36)Create an obligation to build, provide, and maintain, IHR infrastructure at points of entry TO ENABLE THE WHO TO UNDERTAKE THIS CENSORSHIP (Annex 10)The 76th World Health Assembly is scheduled to occur from Sunday May 21, 2023 to Tuesday May 30, 2023. In order for the proposed amendments to be considered during the 76th World Health Assembly, they must be submitted to the World Health Organization at least 4 months in advance.
The IHRRC plans to submit these proposed amendments to the WHO by Sunday, January 15, 2023.
The International Health Regulations are existing, legally-binding international law. If the proposed amendments are presented to the 76th World Health Assembly, they could be adopted by a simple majority of the 194 member nations. According to the already agreed upon rules of the IHR, if the proposed amendments are adopted, the member nations would not need to take any additional actions.
The United States Senate would not be required to provide a two-thirds vote to give their “advice and consent.” No signatures by national leaders would be needed.
Hal Turner Editorial Opinion
This is precisely how all the elected politicians around the world intend to FORCE Vaccines on everyone, FORCE Vaccine Passports, and FORCE quarantines; by DELEGATING those powers to unelected people at the World Health Organization, then telling YOU “Our hands are tied, this is required by International Law and Treaty, we have no power to stop it.”
Worse, the WHO deems to decide for you and me, what constitutes “disinformation and misinformation, and they are giving themselves power to not only decide that, but to be able to actively CENSOR all of us, to prevent us from getting information out to the public when WHO and their pals are all wrong . . . as in the just recently proved “COVID-19” nonsense, and their phony “vaccines” that are causing people to drop dead in public.
Because they are making changes within an EXISTING TREATY, no vote by the US Senate is needed and nothing can be done (other than abrogate the Treaty and quit the WHO) to stop these FORCED changes.
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JP Morgan Hit with Lawsuit for Facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s Crime Network
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO JP Morgan Chase
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Making headlines around the world last week was the news that the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Denise George, was fired just days after she filed a federal lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, charging it with facilitating the sex trafficking of children by Jeffrey Epstein. George was fired by the Governor of the Virgin Islands, Albert Bryan Jr.
Unfortunately, those headlines and the mainstream news articles that accompanied them, fail to capture the worst parts of this story, which includes the following:
the 30-page lawsuit filed by Attorney General George on December 27 in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York includes a “Sealed Document Placed in Vault” according to the Docket Sheet in the case; after the paragraph headlined as “JP Morgan Ignored Obvious Red Flags Relating to Epstein’s Accounts,” large segments of the lawsuit have been redacted with black lines covering full paragraphs; pages 15 through 22 of the lawsuit are completely white, with no black line redactions and no text; the case has been assigned to Judge Jed Rakoff, who lately seems to be the only Judge in that large courthouse that is allowed to oversee sensitive matters pertaining to JPMorgan Chase – the largest bank in the U.S. which has a rap sheet that reads like the Gambino crime family and which has racked up five criminal felony counts – to which it pleaded guilty. (See Judge Rakoff Signs a Dangerous Protective Order in Whistleblower Case Against 5-Count Felon JPMorgan Chase.)
In November, two Jane Doe cases were filed individually against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank for facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking. Those cases were also assigned to Judge Jed Rakoff and have now been consolidated with the Virgin Islands case. The lead attorney in both Jane Doe cases is the prominent attorney, David Boies, of law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP.
And, finally, the charges being leveled by the now sacked Attorney General of the Virgin Islands involving JPMorgan Chase facilitating the sex crimes of Jeffrey Epstein have a distinctly familiar ring to the charges brought in 2014 by the U.S. Department of Justice against JPMorgan Chase for facilitating the massive Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff. Compare the similarities:
Virgin Islands Attorney General’s lawsuit filed December 27, 2022:
“…JP Morgan knowingly facilitated, sustained, and concealed the human trafficking network operated by Jeffrey Epstein from his home and base in the Virgin Islands, and financially benefitted from this participation, directly or indirectly, by failing to comply with federal banking regulations. JP Morgan facilitated and concealed wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of—and were in fact part of—a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and girls in and beyond the Virgin Islands. Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JP Morgan.”
U.S. Department of Justice Charges filed on January 7, 2014:
“Since 1986, JPMorgan and its predecessor institutions served as the primary bank through which Madoff ran his Ponzi scheme. Madoff Securities maintained a series of linked checking and brokerage accounts at JPMorgan – collectively referred to as the ‘703 Account.’…Early on in its relationship with Madoff Securities, JPMorgan, because of its unique vantage point as the firm’s banker, had reason to be suspicious about Madoff. For example, in the early 1990s the Bank learned that Madoff and a prominent client of JPMorgan’s Private Bank (the ‘Private Bank Client’) were engaged in what looked like round-tripping, check-kiting transactions. Another bank involved in these transactions (‘Madoff Bank 2’) recognized them as suspicious and without any legitimate business purpose. In or about 1996, unlike JPMorgan, Madoff Bank 2 not only filed a suspicious activity report (SAR’) with law enforcement, but it actually closed down Madoff’s account. As a result, Madoff moved all of his accounts from Madoff Bank 2 to JPMorgan, where the size of these transactions became much larger. For example, in December 2001 alone, the Private Bank Client engaged in approximately $6.8 billion worth of transactions with Madoff through a series of circular $90 million transfers.”
Just like Madoff, Epstein held a multitude of accounts at JPMorgan Chase. Attorney General George wrote this in her lawsuit:
“This illicit association of Epstein, businesses, and his associates constitutes what is referred to herein as the ‘Epstein Enterprise.’ Specifically included in the Epstein Enterprise were the following companies and non-profit organizations, all of which had accounts with JP Morgan: 2013 Butterfly Trust, Coatue Enterprises, LLC, C.O.U.Q. Foundation, Enhanced Education, Financial Trust Company, Inc., HBRK Associates, Inc., Hyperion Air, Inc, JEGE, Inc., JEGE, LLC, NES, LLC, Plan D, LLC, Southern Financial, LLC, and Southern Trust Company.”
Attached to the lawsuit filed by ousted Attorney General George is an Exhibit 1, which is the text of the lawsuit the Virgin Islands recently settled against the Jeffrey Epstein estate. That lawsuit provides the following insight into the bank account operated by Southern Trust Company, which was supposed to be an information technology company:
“Despite having no visible clients and only one full-time employee working on information technology during the bulk of the period, Southern Trust Company reportedly generated net income of $50.3 million in 2013, $67.5 million in 2014, $52.8 million in 2015, and $4.8 million in 2016 and $17.1 million in 2017, with aggregate income of $117.8 million in 2014, $170.6 million in 2015, $175.3 million in 2016 and $192.4 million in 2017, or aggregate income for the period of $656 million…
“In fact, the main source of funds for the Epstein Enterprise came from Southern Trust. Between 2013 and 2017, Southern Trust reported approximately $184 million in revenues.
“Bank records show that virtually all of Southern Trust Company’s income came from a single source (including related entities).”
According to media reports, the vast majority of Southern Trust Company’s income came from Leon Black, the billionaire co-founder of private equity firm, Apollo Global Management. Black was sued last November by Cheri Pierson, who alleges he raped her at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in 2002. Another woman, Guzel Ganieva, has also alleged rape against Black.
Last November, Attorney General George settled her earlier lawsuit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein for $105 million in cash, plus half the proceeds from the sale of Little St. James, the notorious private island where Epstein lived and allegedly molested an endless stream of underage girls. The settlement includes the disgorgement of $80 million in tax benefits that the Southern Trust Company fraudulently obtained from the Virgin Islands by characterizing itself as a legitimate technology company.
Epstein died of a reported suicide in a Manhattan jail on August 10, 2019 as he awaited trial on charges of engaging in the sex trafficking of underage girls.
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The Engineering Marvel of Rome’s Public Baths
Caraculla Baths
Lecture 15: Paradigm and Paragon—Imperial Roman Baths
Understanding Greek and Roman Technology: From the Catapult to the Pantheon
Dr Stephen Ressler (2013)
Film Review
According to Ressler, the first public baths appeared in Minoan Crete during the Bronze Age (3500 – 1000 BC) and served a ritual function for the elite. The Greek city states built the first baths for the public at large. Numerous persons sat in individual tubs in the same room while an attendant poured cold water over them. Plato asserted that warm baths were only for the old and sick.
During the Hellenistic Period (post Alexander the Great 323 – 33 BC) public baths began offering saunas and bathtubs began appearing in private homes.
The first hot water baths in the Republic of Rome emerged during the third century BC in southern Italy, perhaps in imitation of nearby natural hot springs. Between 200 and 100 BC, public baths featuring a sauna, hot bath, cold plunge and massage became extremely popular. Emperors built baths to manifest their power and to curry public favor. By 30 BC, there were 170 baths in the city of Rome alone.
Today the best preserved Roman baths those in Caraculla, south of the Palatine Hill. Construction on the Caraculla baths, which were larger than four football fields, began in 213 AD. Opening in 216 AD and serving 6,000 bathers a day, they provided exercise areas and changing rooms, as well as saunas and communal baths with hot (calderia), tepid (tepidaria) and cold water (fridgidarium).
Structural engineer Janet Delaine has published detailed schemata of the complex process required to construct the baths, which Ressler recreates with detailed drawings and scale models. The first step was to build a new aqueduct to supply the sites cistern with three million gallons of water a day to mix the tons of cement required for the foundations and walls. Doubling as a retaining wall, the Carucalla cistern was an exception to the continuous flow featured in other public baths and fountains. Once the baths began operating, the cistern was filled at night to avoid disrupting the city’s water supply.
Construction workers began by digging a subterranean terrace they used to lay a 15-20 foot foundation made of standard opus testaceum.* They used a timber frame, which eventually rotted away, to pour concrete mixed with basalt for etra strength. Next came the bath’s subterranean structures: the sewer (a vaulted brick gallery), lead pipes to supply water, vertical drain pipes for rainwater and waste, maintenance galleries and multiple passage ways. The maintenance galleries were necessary to access the 50 furnaces heating the paths. They had to be 20 feet wide to support horse drawn wagons carrying wood, while simultaneously incorporating skylights for illumination, feedings troughs for horses and storage rooms accommodating 2,000 tons of firewood.
Next 4,000 masons and bricklayers and stone masons used wooden scaffolding to build the the 80 foot walls, which used embedded relieving above doors and windows to provide additional support. The walls also included built-in roof drain pipes, channel supply pipes, interior staircases and heating flues. Building used a wide variety of barrel vaults, groin vaults and semi-vaults supported by substantial buttress vaults to create separate bathing chambers.
The subterranean hypocaust (a central heating system used throughout the empire to heat public buildings and elite homes) comprised three elements: 1) a wood burning furnace, 2) a floor raised on stacks of bricks and 3) rectangular terracotta heating flues. embed into the walls.
The building was incredibly energy efficient, facing the southwest to receive direct sunlight and incorporating glazed glass windows to trap heat. After the calderium water cooled, it was rechanneled to the tepidarium with some wastewater diverted to public toilets. Some waste water was also to power a grain mill located an underground chamber.
Although the building employed no new technologies or innovations, existing technology made it possible to rely on mainly (85%) skilled labor to to complete the building.
*See https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/the-first-roads-in-the-ancient-world/
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January 10, 2023
House GOP to embark on sweeping probe of covid origin, U.S. response
Tony RammWashington PostHouse Republicans on Monday commissioned a special investigative panel focused on the coronavirus pandemic, hoping to leverage their new, powerful majority to press scientists and federal officials about the origin of the public health crisis and the government’s response to it.
Party lawmakers officially chartered the new effort in a sprawling package setting the chamber’s rules for the next two years, awarding it a sweeping mandate — from looking into vaccine development, school closures and other mitigation measures to examining the roughly $5 trillion in emergency federal aid approved since early 2020.
Republicans have long derided Democrats, public health experts and others who advocated for an aggressive government response to covid-19, which has claimed millions of lives globally. At the center of GOP criticism is the suspicion that the coronavirus originated out of laboratory experiments in Wuhan, China, potentially backed by U.S. money — a view at odds with peer-reviewed scientific papers pointing to a more likely origin in a Wuhan market.
In the process, Republican lawmakers also have clashed with scientists and doctors on a wide array of policies meant to arrest the spread of the virus — opposing vaccine mandates, blasting in-person capacity limits and rejecting new federal funding for tests, treatments and other tools.
With new control of the House, however, the GOP aims to surface those concerns in a more prominent setting, questioning a wide array of current and former government officials, potentially including Anthony S. Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The panel, officially named as the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, essentially replaces a Democrat-led legislative body that had focused its work on monitoring emergency coronavirus aid for fraud. Under Republicans, it does not yet have a leader, but it is expected to hold its first hearing in February.
“There’s a lot of confusion out there, there’s a lot of uncertainty out there, and I believe every American regardless of their political ideology would like to know the truth,” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is set to chair the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, under whose umbrella the covid panel will do its work.
Comer said that congressional investigators would “talk to the researchers,” including “all of the people that were involved” at the National Institutes of Health around the development of vaccines. In December, the congressman joined with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who is set to oversee other investigations of the Biden administration, to demand Fauci and NIH retain records involving “the origins of covid-19, the [Chinese government’s] efforts to cover it up, and all related national security risks.”
The new panel highlights the tectonic shift underway in Washington after two years of Democratic control of Congress and the White House. Even before the GOP officially captured the House, Republicans had made clear that they would embark on several politically charged probes — predominantly targeting Biden and his top aides and family members.
In recent months, GOP lawmakers have told the White House to preserve records related to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, the private Florida residence of former president Donald Trump. They have signaled other coming investigations of Biden’s domestic and foreign policies, including his 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. And they have set in motion an entire investigative body to look into the “weaponization of the federal government,” focused on law enforcement and national security agencies.
“We will hold the swamp accountable, from the withdrawal of Afghanistan to the origins of covid and to the weaponization of the FBI,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Saturday in his first remarks after winning the leadership post.
In an interview Monday, Comer stressed that the upcoming coronavirus inquiry would have a wide agenda, but he rejected the idea that its focus is political in nature.
“This isn’t about Joe Biden or Donald Trump. This is about covid-19,” he said, later adding: “We’re concerned about some government employees, and these employees were hired long before the previous two presidents. So I don’t think it’s political at all.”
The official charter for the 12-member subcommittee tasks it with exploring the origin of the pandemic as well as federal funding for “gain-of-function research.” The term refers to scientific efforts to create novel versions of pathogens to better understand how they work and, potentially, to combat them.
Republicans including Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky have charged for years that the U.S. government funded such research at a key lab in China, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, creating “super viruses” and potentially sparking the global spread of the coronavirus. Those accusations often have drawn sharp, public derision from Fauci, who once described Paul’s contention as “entirely and completely incorrect.”
To date, there is no evidence the novel coronavirus was in a laboratory before the outbreak, and Chinese scientists say they never had it in any of their facilities. Peer-reviewed scientific papers, meanwhile, have attributed the start of the pandemic to a market where the virus may have leaped from animals to humans. But Republicans have maintained otherwise and repeatedly signaled a desire to probe the matter further — setting up the new majority to force federal officials to testify on “gain of function” research and the “lab leak” theory.
Fauci, for his part, previously has expressed an openness to testifying in front of Congress. He did not respond to a request for comment.
Republicans also intend to explore capacity restrictions on schools and businesses, which experts for a time saw as necessary to curb the spread of the coronavirus, especially before vaccines and antivirals were available. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the chairman of the House Rules Committee, said during floor debate Monday that the focus would allow lawmakers to “finally look into the financial and societal impacts of shutdowns.”
And the House’s new, guiding rules indicated the select subcommittee would similarly probe the “development of vaccines and treatments,” with Comer on Monday citing an interest in the “effectiveness of the vaccines and the concerns that people are starting to raise with respect to side effects.”
In a sign of their commitment, Republicans late last year secured an end to a policy requiring that military service members be vaccinated against the coronavirus. They brokered the deal as part of a sweeping measure authorizing Pentagon spending, having previously threatened to shut down the government just to end the policy.
The GOP also pledged to probe the roughly $5 trillion in emergency federal spending adopted since the start of the pandemic. The relief packages — all but one of which was bipartisan in nature, and one of which was signed into law by Trump — helped unemployed workers and cash-starved businesses in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. But the money also enabled vast waste, fraud and abuse, with criminals taking advantage of lax federal regulations and some state officials, largely Republicans, put the money toward tax cuts, immigration crackdowns and other pet project.
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Via https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/01/09/house-covid-origin-investigation/
Childhood Obesity: Are Drugs and Surgery the Answer?
By The Defender Staff The American Academy of Pediatrics’ new clinical guidelines for treating childhood obesity recommend weight-loss drugs and surgery, prompting some to ask why the academy is focused on profit-generating treatments rather than addressing the root causes.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday issued new clinical guidelines for treating childhood obesity, recommending physicians offer weight-loss drugs and surgery to obese children.
“While we applaud the AAP for addressing the grave issue of childhood obesity, their newest recommendations are misguided and negate the root causes,” Dr. Michelle Perro told The Defender.
For many years, the AAP unsuccessfully promoted the “diet and exercise” mantra while obesity rates continued to soar, Perro said.
Perro, a pediatrician, executive director of GMO Science and author of “What’s Making Our Children Sick?: How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It,” added:
“What has not been addressed are the obesogens in American children’s meals, substances that produce obesity, lurking in their food at home as well as school, caused mostly by pesticides and plastics. The cause of the metabolic disorder of obesity is that it is an environmental disease.
“Unless we remove the pesticides and other toxicants, the promotion of drugs and surgery are panaceas, bandaids, and foster the ‘pill for ill’ model, rather than root-cause real solutions.”
Mary Lou Singleton, midwife and family nurse practitioner, told The Defender the new AAP guidelines “offered no meaningful analysis or explanation of what is driving the childhood obesity epidemic.”
Singleton added:
“I found no mention of the massive changes in the U.S. food supply that correlate with the skyrocketing rates of obesity among children and adults alike …
“The document fails to address the school lunch program, which is providing a significant amount of the calories U.S. schoolchildren are eating weekly. Most schoolchildren in the U.S. are fed plastic-wrapped, chemically-preserved, pesticide-laden food made in factories months or years earlier. In addition to the sugar, the chemicals in these foods have endocrine-disrupting obesogenic properties.”
The new AAP guidelines recommend against a “watchful waiting” approach that may delay treatment, instead directing pediatricians and other providers to treat obesity early — referring children ages 6 years and older and potentially those ages 2 to 5 years who are overweight or obese for intensive health behavior and lifestyle treatment.
The guidelines also recommend that obese children 12 and older be offered weight-loss medications alongside health behavior and lifestyle treatments and that doctors refer severely obese children 13 and older to surgeons to evaluate whether they would be good candidates for metabolic and bariatric surgery.
They also state that pediatricians may consider weight-loss medications for children as young as 8 to 11 years old.
Overweight and obese children and adolescents should also be evaluated for related comorbidities, the guidelines also state.
Devastating side effects for kids, big profits for Big Pharma
The guidelines offer consensus recommendations on the use of pharmacotherapy for children ages 8 and up, and provide a list of potential medications.
As of March 2021, the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved pharmacotherapies for obesity were orlistat and liraglutide in children 12 and older and phentermine in teens 16 and older, according to an AAP study.
GlaxoSmithKline’s orlistat, which blocks fat absorption, has shown “modest results” for weight loss in teens, but may cause intolerable gastrointestinal side effects and possible fat-soluble vitamin deficiency.
Phentermine is approved only for short-term therapy and may increase heart rate and blood pressure and cause irritability and insomnia. Long-term studies of their use in children are not available.
The AAP guidelines also recommend metformin, a diabetes drug approved for children ages 10 and up, which hasn’t been approved as a weight-loss drug, though it has been used off-label for that purpose in children.
Studies of metformin’s effect on weight loss in children have shown mixed results. Side effects include lactic acidosis, a metabolic condition that can be life-threatening. Up to 50% of patients who take metformin experience diarrhea.
One of the more recently approved drugs on the list being promoted for adolescents is an expensive, well-marketed, once-weekly injectable — semaglutide — sold under the brand name Wegovy and manufactured by Novo Nordisk.
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found Wegovy helped teens reduce their body mass index (BMI) — the measure used by doctors to detect excess fat — but it also reported a significant rate of gastrointestinal adverse events.
The study was funded by Novo Nordisk.
“Based on the study’s own findings, this drug should never be recommended for children despite the reduction in BMI,” Perro told The Defender, “because the risk outweighs the benefit.”
Perro said the study’s findings “ignore the adverse events … which seems to be a popular trend in the promotion of new drug therapies in children.”
This class of recommended drugs, known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists — which include exenatide, dulaglutide, and semaglutide — have been found to cause thyroid cancer in mice. The drugs also have been linked to pancreatitis and even pancreatic cancer in adults.
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists drugs are injectable medications administered weekly, so if a child is having a severe reaction the drug cannot be removed from their system, Singleton noted.
As The Defender reported in August 2022, as obesity rates rise — in children and adults — Big Pharma can expect windfall profits.
According to Fierce Pharma, analysts at Morgan Stanley Research told clients, “Drugmakers like Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are poised to unlock a global obesity market that could be worth more than $50 billion by the end of the decade.”
Wegovy helped fuel the forecasts.
It is not just high drug prices that make obesity a hot market. Since obesity in 2013 was officially classified as a chronic disease, it is now “on the cusp of moving into mainstream primary care management,” said Morgan Stanley — because it can be treated directly instead of treating its consequences, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Surgical treatments for kids, ‘safe and effective?’
Commenting on the AAP surgical recommendations, Singleton told The Defender, “I was shocked to see the AAP state ‘weight loss surgery is safe and effective for pediatric patients.’”
“While children are less likely to experience serious surgical complications than adults, the mortality rate for children undergoing weight loss-surgery is 1 in 500. Most parents would not consider this an insignificant risk,” she added.
According to a major study of pediatric weight loss surgery, the Teen-LABS study, 9.3% of children experienced complications severe enough to require a second surgery and 7.1% had life-threatening complications.
The two approved methods of weight loss surgery for children — sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass — entail removing or rendering permanently dysfunctional a large percentage of the stomach.
“These body parts are not redundant,” Singleton said. “They serve important purposes in the digestive process. ‘Bypassing’ them means children will permanently be left without the use of these organs. They can never be reintegrated into the digestive system.”
Possible long-term risks of such surgeries also include an increased risk of vitamin B12 deficiency, which can lead to pernicious anemia and increased risk of osteoporosis.
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Obesity in U.S. children increasing at an alarming rate
Obesity is one of the most common pediatric chronic diseases in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 5 U.S. children and teens are considered obese.
Childhood obesity rates are even higher among poorer children.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/childhood-obesity-aap-guidelines-drugs-surgery/
100 Reasons to Stop the New WHO Treaty
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This article is an in-depth, very serious analysis of both the proposed “Pandemic Treaty” and the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations.Please share this article with everyone you possibly can.
The World Health Organization is attempting a GLOBAL POWER GRAB by seeking to have the 194 member nations of the World Health Assembly adopt amendments to the International Health Regulations as well as adopt a completely new international agreement commonly referred to as the proposed “Pandemic Treaty.”.
The proposed amendments would make the WHO’s proclamations legally-binding rather than just advisory recommendations. The changes would institute global digital health certificates, dramatically increase the billions of dollars available to the WHO and enable nations to implement the regulations WITHOUT respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of people.
Agreement by a simple majority of the 194 member nations is all that is needed to adopt the amendments because, as amendments to an existing agreement, neither the advice and consent of the United States Senate, nor the signature of the President would be required.
These amendments are being negotiated in secret without any opportunity for comment by people from around the world.
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The West and the Majority of the World
The majority world (in red) | Photo: Stephen Sefton
By Stephen Sefton
Since its inception, the leaders of the ALBA countries have denounced North American and European imperialism’s brutal exploitation and domination and its gangster diplomacy of “Do what we want or else…”.
In 2004, Comandante Fidel Castro and Comandante Hugo Chávez founded what is now the Bolivarian Alliance of the peoples of our America, ALBA which now includes Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the Caribbean island nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda and Santa Lucía. A year earlier, in 2003, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formally constituted, which now includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, Pakistan and Iran. Both organizations share practically the same principles of solidarity, equality among their members and mutual respect for different ideologies. This suggests that, at that same time, in different poles of the majority world, a common decision arose to build a world free of the economic strangulation and neocolonial aggression of the United States and its allies.
Since its inception, the leaders of the ALBA countries have denounced North American and European imperialism’s brutal exploitation and domination and its gangster diplomacy of “Do what we want or else…”. In May of this year, President Comandante Daniel Ortega declared at the 21st ALBA-TCP Summit: “They have not stopped practicing the Monroe Doctrine, they have not renounced the Monroe Doctrine. In the name of democracy, they impose a tyrannical, imperialist, terrorist, international policy… imperialism has not changed, the essence of Imperialism is there, a totally criminal essence.”
At that same meeting, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expressed, “Enough is enough of the centuries of plunder, of invasions, of threats, of imperial hegemonism, this is our century! The 21st century… and our path is that of Latin America and the Caribbean, of ALBA, of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, this is our path, the path of equals, the path of respect, the path of inclusion, the path of unitary convocation, that is our path.”
At the same summit, Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz Canel also expressed the commitment of the ALBA countries to unity among diversity “In the face of attempts at exclusion and selectivity, it is urgent to strengthen the authentic mechanisms of Latin American and Caribbean to integrate and act in concert. Together we will be able to effectively defend our sovereignty and self-determination without interference or external pressures….We call to unite, not to divide; to contribute, not to subtract; to dialogue, not to confront; to respect, not to impose.”
After decades of increasingly aggressive provocations on the part of the United States and the European Union, in February of this year the Russian Federation finally acted to defend itself. And in his historic speech on September 30, President Vladimir Putin elaborated the vision of a multipolar world, based on the same principles of ALBA and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, genuine cooperation, respect between equals, unity in diversity, a commitment to dialogue and international law. The similarity between the ALBA country leaders’ vision and the vision expressed by President Putin in his speech is very striking.
He spoke of the faith of the majority world’s peoples in a multipolar world in order to “strengthen their sovereignty and, therefore, to acquire true freedom, historical perspective, the right to independent, creative, authentic development, to a harmonious process.” President Putin made clear that it is also about faith in the human capacity to overcome differences, collaborate for the common good and create a world of solidarity. He stated explicitly, “Our values are love for neighbor, mercy and compassion.”
The contrast of these common visions of the ALBA countries, of Russia, China and their allies, with the practice of the West could not be stronger. As President Putin puts it, “Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Everything is just the opposite: democracy becomes repression and exploitation; freedom, slavery and violence. The entire unipolar world order is inherently undemocratic and devoid of freedom. It is mendacious and hypocritical to the core.”
The truth of this categorical condemnation of the United States and its allies is self-evident in the colonial history of imperialism from its origins to its evolution over the last century to neo-colonialism. In the United States and Europe, since the introduction of universal suffrage last century enabled the Western elites to pass off their nations as democracies, in practice essentially, in exchange for guaranteeing their populations’ socio-economic development, those elites have been able to count on their countries’ peoples to collaborate in the looting of the majority world. This ensured that the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America paid the costs of the prosperity and development of Western nations as, one way or another, they continue to do.
However, the scope of geopolitical power and control of majority world resources by Western elites is now more limited. In part, this setback for the West results from the growing cooperation and commercial and financial power of the nations of the Eurasian space. In turn, the increasing economic and diplomatic activity of China, Russia and their allies has promoted the development of their relations with the nations in Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially with the countries and peoples committed to the defense of their sovereignty.
The desperate response to the relative decline of their global power on the part of the American and European oligarchies takes three main forms. First, in their own countries, the exploitation of the labor force and the repression of dissent are increasing. Secondly, they act with greater aggression of all kinds against Russia and China and their regional allies such as Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua or Syria, Iran and the Democratic Republic of Korea. And the third form of the Western reaction to their decline is to apply greater intimidation and harassment against countries vulnerable to economic pressure to ensure that they remain obedient.
In North America and Europe, neoliberal policies implemented since the 1980s have normalized repression and economic exploitation. In the United States there is a permanent political offensive against the social security system and investment in public services generally. In Europe, public services are being cut or privatized. In the United States and the European Union there have been huge transfers of wealth to corporate elites both during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and as part of the financial measures in response to the economic collapse caused by measures addressing Covid-19. At the same time, even the IMF recognizes that labor remuneration in the West has fallen in real terms. Likewise, the terms and conditions of work for people throughout the West are becoming increasingly precarious. Only 10% of the workforce in the United States is organized into unions. In European countries the average is 23% and generally much lower.
It is impossible to summarize concisely all the nuances of this reality. But among the main effects associated with increased domestic economic repression in Western countries and increased aggression overseas, have been censorship on social networks and suppression of information in the media, especially on international events. These practices reinforce the West’s extensive and intense psychological warfare against the majority world and facilitate the economic and military aggression and terrorism of the United States and its allies against any nation that tries to defend its sovereignty and independence.
This marks a deep and irreparable collapse of moral and intellectual integrity on the part of Western elites and their peoples, signaling a comprehensive, insidious spiritual defeat. On the other hand, a growing number of the majority world’s governments and peoples insist on their sovereign right to manage their international relations at the international so as to open up and promote new possibilities for national, regional and international development. Perhaps the most important expression of this faith in the future is the broad support for the so-called BRICS+ group of countries, originally organized by China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa, from countries around the world, including Iran, Algeria, Turkey, Argentina, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Thailand and even Nicaragua.
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Coca-Cola paid NAACP to call scientists who link soda pop to obesity “racist”
Citizens News
A former lobbyist at Coca-Cola has come forward with bombshell information about the junk food corporation’s deceptive, racist, and potentially criminal behavior. Calley Means, who worked on behalf of The Coca-Cola Company in years past, says the multinational purveyor of poison “food” paid the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to slander as “racist” any and all scientists, researchers, or other “opponents” whose work exposed Coke products as toxic.
Coke also paid off willing parties to produce pseudoscience “debunking” the link between soft drink consumption and diseases like obesity and diabetes.)
“Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding,” Means recently revealed. “I say Coke’s policies are evil because I saw inside the room.” “The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP and other civil rights groups to call opponents racist. Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation – both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association (ABA).”
As silly as it all sounds, these tactics worked. As the Farm Bill for 2011-2013 was being negotiated and finalized, thousands of articles flooded the news cycle that helped Coke avert soda taxes and possible removal from the food stamp program.
Aggressive lobbying and slander allowed Coke to lie to the public that soda pop is “one of the cheapest ways to get calories”
Means says Coca-Cola also partnered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to funnel money into “academia,” which used it to produce “research” claiming that soda taxes would harm low-income populations. “I watched as the FDA funneled money to professors at leading universities – as well as think tanks on the left and right – to create studies showing soda taxes hurt the poor,” Means says.
“They also paid for studies that say drinking soda didn’t cause obesity.” Coke was also able to get away with making the false and ludicrous claim that its soft drink products are “one of the cheapest ways to get calories,” which Means describes as “a flagrantly inaccurate statement when factoring in the health consequences.”
It was none other than the ABA that aided Coke in purveying the lie that taxing soda pop would hurt not just poor people but also “local businesses” while “unfairly targeting one product.”
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is also complicit in this racket, having put forth more lies claiming that “there are no bad foods, only bad diets.”
The entire regulatory structure of the United States has clearly been co-opted by Big Industry, which is steering all the “science” in its own favor. Coca-Cola is just one example among many of what an absolute joke this entire system has become – and that some would argue always was.
“The word ‘racist’ has lost all its meaning,” wrote a commenter about Coke’s flagrant abuse of the English language. “The word has been so overused that it lost its meaning.”
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New Zealand to Vaccinate People Against Monkeypox with Unapproved Vaccine
Sputnik International
New Zealand authorities are preparing to vaccinate the population against mpox, also known as monkeypox, with a vaccine that has not yet been approved, local media reported on Monday.
The authorities want to get a vaccine out as soon as possible, but Medsafe, New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority has asked for necessary documentation from the manufacturer, which means that the vaccine will be rolled out unapproved, New Zealand’s TV channel reported.
Since it is against the law to advertise unapproved medicines, there will be no big marketing campaign and the vaccine’s proprietary name will not be used, media reported.
“That’s right, we can’t [promote or advertise unapproved medicines]. But we are making sure that everyone has the opportunity for a funded visit with their medical practitioner to discuss whether the vaccine is right for them,” Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall stated.
In August 2022, media reports said the country’s authorities are considering the use of the Jynneos mpox vaccine recommended in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The report said only about 5,000 vials of the vaccine that is enough for immunization of nearly 20,000 people were so far obtained. The vaccine will be available from January 16.
Mpox is a rare viral disease that is usually transmitted to people from wild animals and is endemic in some African countries. The disease usually results in fever, rash and swollen lymph nodes. Since May 2022, mpox cases have been reported from countries where the disease is not endemic. The disease affected over 83,000 people in 110 countries, including 66 fatalities, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization. New Zealand has registered 41 confirmed cases.
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January 9, 2023
White House Colluded With Twitter to Censor RFK, Jr., Emails Reveal
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. A series of Jan. 6 tweets by newly sworn-in Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey detailed how Biden officials sought to censor tweets by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and others.
Citing documents and emails between social media employees and White House officials, Bailey exposed how the White House sought to censor Kennedy for a tweet questioning “suspicious” deaths of elderly individuals after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and seeking a good faith investigation into the true causes of the deaths.
The White House specifically targeted Kennedy’s Jan. 22, 2021, tweet about the then-recent death of baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, 18 days after he publicly received the Moderna vaccine.
#HankAaron's tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of #COVID #vaccines. He received the #Moderna vaccine on Jan. 5 to inspire other Black Americans to get the vaccine. #TheDefenderhttps://t.co/vbuHt22bJz
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) January 22, 2021
Facebook also told the White House how they could censor @RobertKennedyJR pic.twitter.com/aMDwN7c9KW
— Jeff Landry (@JeffLandry) January 7, 2023
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In a press release issued today, Landry said, “Government censorship is bipartisan; if they don’t like you, they will censor you — regardless of your political affiliation. No one is safe when the First Amendment is violated.”
Missouri and Louisiana in May 2022 sued President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other Biden administration officials, alleging they violated the First Amendment by colluding with social media platforms to censor COVID-19-related content and content related to the 2020 U.S. presidential elections that contradicted the official government narrative.
“Throughout our case, we have uncovered disturbing collusion between Big Tech and Big Government,” added Landry. “Today’s reveal is yet another example of the ongoing coercive efforts by the White House to pressure social media companies into censoring American citizens.”
Legal experts familiar with the ongoing Louisiana and Missouri lawsuit told The Defender that Biden administration and federal government officials have until now claimed during their depositions that they never explicitly directed social media companies to remove content.
Instead, they claimed the government provided these platforms with “the science,” with no expectation, partnership or knowledge of what they would do with it.
According to legal experts, Meta claimed Kennedy and CHD were never targeted by name in the federal government’s communications with the platform.
However, Bailey cited an email showing government officials clearly called for the removal of Kennedy’s tweet about Hank Aaron’s death.
White House wanted Kennedy tweet ‘removed ASAP’
Over a span of nine tweets posted Jan. 6, Bailey revealed several emails and documents showing how Biden officials tried to censor social media content that opposed the government’s COVID-19 narrative.
“When I took office, I swore that I would protect the Constitution. Here’s why,” Bailey tweeted. He followed up with this tweet:
When I took office, I swore that I would protect the Constitution. Here’s why.
(1/9)
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) January 7, 2023
The first example Bailey used to demonstrate collusion pertained to Kennedy:
Here, a White House employee asks Twitter to silence Robert Kennedy, Jr., a known critic of the White House’s COVID-19 narrative. (3/9) pic.twitter.com/kIVv60W8Gt
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) January 7, 2023
The tweet was accompanied by a screenshot of a Jan. 23, 2021, email by White House official Clarke Humphrey, digital director for the White House’s COVID-19 Response Team, to unidentified individuals at Twitter and copied to Robert Flaherty, White House director of Digital Strategy.
In the message, Humphrey “wanted to flag the below tweet” and asked about “the process for having it removed ASAP.”
Specifically, what Humphrey “flagged” in her email was a tweet by Kennedy from Jan. 22, 2021, addressing the death of baseball great Hank Aaron just days after he received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Kennedy’s tweet was accompanied by a link to a story about Aaron’s death published on Jan. 22, 2021, by The Defender.
Humphrey, in the same email, also suggested “we keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same ~[general] genre,” adding that this “would be great.”
When questions arose about Aaron’s death following his COVID-19 vaccination, the federal government and the media sought to quash that conversation, Kennedy told The Defender.
Kennedy said:
“The White House was working to suppress this, and the implication is that they didn’t want Blacks in particular to understand the risks of vaccination. And so, they asked Twitter to suppress such content.
“At that point, it became clear that I was being shadow banned at that time, because my account simply stopped growing. Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. And I had been growing my audience at a very, very high rate.”
A Jan. 31, 2021, “fact check” by The New York Times claimed that the Fulton County, Georgia, medical examiner determined Aaron’s death was not related to his vaccination.
However, Kennedy said that in a conversation he had with the Fulton County medical examiner subsequent to the publication of that article, the medical examiner claimed he had never examined Hank Aaron’s body. A subsequent letter Kennedy wrote to the Times was never published.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/white-house-censorship-twitter-rfk-jr/
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