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COP27 missses the boat on the real climate issue: EMFs that ultimately may destroy earth.

By S.A.F.E. Helps You

In order to navigate the Conference, reports Cellular Phone Task Force assistant Kathleen Burke from Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, one must have a cell phone out and on nearly at all times. For the United Nations’ 27th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, held this year at this resort city on the Red Sea, four fake palm trees have been erected on the grounds of the COP in order for the 40,000 conference attendees to all be on their cell phones at the same time, all day long, every day for two weeks. Each “tree”, captured in the foreground in the photo above, is simply a metal scaffolding for antennas.

The Safe and Sound Pro II radio frequency meter, which Kathleen brought to the COP in order to measure radiation levels, reads “Extreme” at all times everywhere on the grounds of the COP, inside and out. She may be the only person at the conference who does not have a cell phone.

The purpose of Kathleen’s participation as an observer at the COP is to begin to build bridges to the people who care most about the future of our world, who are not even aware of an existential threat that is even more urgent than the one they came to Egypt to address, and yet is intimately related to it. She is distributing the following letter to the delegates — a letter that I wrote and officially submitted to the COP 27 before she arrived. Kathleen delivered the letter by hand today to all the offices of the parties (the countries represented at the Conference), as well as the Environmental Defense Fund and the World Health Organization.

‘A blind spot must be filled   Outside of an atomic nucleus, there are only two fundamental forces in nature: gravity and electricity.

The electromagnetic force is  1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times stronger than the gravitational force. Yet much of western science pretends that it does not exist. This is now having terminal consequences for life on Earth. The consequences for life are being blamed on microorganisms. The consequences for the environment are being blamed on climate change.

This Conference is rightly concerned with halting the burning of fossil fuels. Unless that is stopped, the Earth will become uninhabitable.

But even if it is stopped, the Earth will not survive unless global electrosmog is also stopped — electrosmog from the wireless cloud and from satellites. And electrosmog is even more of an emergency than climate change. We have only years to stop it, not decades. In addition, many of the strategies for reducing our dependence on fossil fuels — solar power, wind power, the smart grid, electric vehicles, smart highways, smart cities, and so forth — are only making matters much worse. The methods used to gather information about altered animal habitats — GPS, radio tracking devices, etc. — are killing wildlife instead of saving them.

The following are a few of the facts that the United Nations must immediately recognize and take control of in order for our children to live to grow up:   Electricity, and no other force, is responsible for life. The study of electricity must be restored to biology, chemistry, and medicine.

Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) interfere with the flow of electrons in our nerves,our brains, and our hearts’ pacemakers. This is responsible for the recent huge increases in the prevalence of neurological diseases such as ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and autism, and the large increase in the incidence of heart attacks in young people.EMFs interfere with the flow of electrons from the food we eat to the oxygen we breathe, which occurs day and night in the mitochondria of every cell in order to make the energy necessary for life.This interference with metabolism — interference with the burning of sugars, fats and proteins for energy — has put all living things into a state of oxygen deprivation. This is occurring to every person, every animal, every insect, and every plant, without ceasing and without possibility of escape.The reduced ability of our cells to digest sugars is called diabetes.The reduced ability of our cells to digest fats causes them to be deposited in in our tissues, resulting in obesity. It causes them to be deposited in coronary arteries, resulting in heart disease.The reduced ability of our cells to utilize the oxygen we breathe causes them to revert to anaerobic (non-oxygen-using) metabolism, resulting in cancer.The extraordinary increases in these four pandemic diseases — obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer — are predominantly caused by constant radiation from personal wireless devices and the global infrastructure that supports them.In bees, which have a very high metabolism, this interference is quickly lethal. Colony collapse disorder is caused almost entirely by electrosmog.The 75% decline in flying insects in nature reserves throughout Germany, and the 98% to 99% decline in the number of crawling insects in a Puerto Rican rainforest — decreases that reflect what is globally being called “insect apocalypse” — are predominantly caused by the enormous increase in the intensity of radiation from the global wireless infrastructure.The unprecedented mass deaths of nesting birds worldwide in the spring and summer of 2022 was due to the tremendous global intensification of wireless infrastructure now occurring on land, in space, and in the oceans.The emissions from wireless devices are called radio frequency (RF) radiation. In addition to the general interference with electron flow in our bodies that occurs from any source of EMFs, RF radiation carries complex information from one wireless device to another in the form of frequencies and pulsation patterns. It carries the same information to the cells of our bodies, interfering with and drowning out the communication between our cells, and between our bodies and the Earth.This interferes with reproduction, growth, differentiation, maturation, healing, and normal functioning, and is responsible for the dramatic degradation of human health in the past two and a half decades.This interference with internal communication does not depend on dose. Even at near-zero power levels, RF radiation has been shown to alter brain waves and change the structure of DNA.Every wireless device and every antenna is responsible for electrosmog. None can ever be used safely, not even theoretically. Not cell towers, not cell phones, not WiFi, not Bluetooth, and not any of the 25 different wireless devices owned by the average household today.

Communication satellites, now being launched almost every other day, up to 54 at a time, by governments and private corporations, are massively polluting and altering the electromagnetic environment of the Earth itself. This is further degrading all of life below, because every living thing is part of the global electric circuit which flows at all times between the sky and the Earth.

There are 15 billion cell phones on Earth today emitting RF radiation, along with more than 6 million cell towers. At least 5,000 satellites are emitting radiation globally from space, with at least 100,000 more being scheduled and planned.

On behalf of my organization, the millions of people who support my work, and on behalf of humanity, all of life, and the Earth, I ask the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to recognize electrosmog as the emergency that it is, and a huge contributor to aspects of the degradation of life that have heretofore been blamed only on climate change. I further ask the United Nations to open an official discussion on this emergency threat to all nations and I propose the drawing up of a new treaty and the establishment of a Convention on Electrosmog. I, and the thousands of global experts with whom I communicate, are available to assist in this effort in any way that is required.”

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Via https://safehelpsyou.org/2022/11/18/cop-27-missses-the-boat-on-the-real-climate-issue-emfs-that-ultimately-may-destroy-earth/

Euthanasia Used in Canada to Get Rid of Poorest People

Orinoco Tribune

Euthanasia, also called “assisted death,” is a measure available in some countries that allows people suffering from incurable illnesses to request medical assistance for a painless death. However, in Canada, it is increasingly used by people living alone and in poverty, yet it is not an issue of concern for the Canadian government.

The Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Act is Canada’s legal basis for assisted death. It is currently in the eye of the storm because everything seems to indicate that it is being used to eliminate the poorest and most systemically marginalized people.

Alarm bells went off in May when two homeless women applied for assisted death and had their requests approved. While they had underlying illnesses, what pushed the women to choose death was that they no longer had the resources to afford to live.

“The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the ass,” one of the women said at the time. After spending two years unsuccessfully pleading for better living conditions, she applied for euthanasia.

Recent cases of poor Canadians choosing assisted death due to their inability to live with dignity have provoked disbelief and outrage. These cases have shed light on Canada’s right-to-die laws, which critics argue are being misused to punish the poorest and sickest.

Most Canadians support euthanasia, and the advocacy group Dying With Dignity says the procedure is “driven by compassion, an end to suffering and discrimination and desire for personal autonomy.” However, more and more poor people are dying by euthanasia as their miserable living situation worsens their illnesses. Since the MAiD Act came into force in 2016, its use has increased yearly.

There have been numerous instances where people sought to be killed because they were not getting adequate government support to live. Human rights experts have blasted Canadian authorities for their inaction over this matter.

Euthanasia “cannot be a default for Canada’s failure to fulfill its human rights obligations,” said Marie-Claude Landry, the head of the Human Rights Commission of Canada.

Landry said she shares the “grave concern” voiced last year by three UN human rights experts, who stated that Canada’s euthanasia law appeared to violate the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The experts commented that the law had a “discriminatory impact” on disabled people and was inconsistent with Canada’s obligations to uphold international human rights standards.

 

Landry called for social and economic rights to be enshrined in Canadian law to ensure that people can get adequate housing, healthcare, and support.

“In an era where we recognize the right to die with dignity, we must do more to guarantee the right to live with dignity,” said the human rights expert.

Some data in this regard:

From 2016 to December 2021, there were more than 31,000 assisted deaths in Canada.Last year there were 10,000 euthanasia deaths in Canada.Of that total, 1,740 people in Canada requested and were granted euthanasia solely because they were suffering from loneliness and isolation.Suicides associated with a lack of medical and psychiatric care must also be considered. By providing euthanasia to poor people suffering from illnesses, the government is killing them first so they do not commit suicide themselves.Assisted deaths constitute 3% of the total number of deaths in Canada per year.

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Via https://orinocotribune.com/euthanasia-used-in-canada-to-get-rid-of-poorest-people/

G20 Leaders Announce Your Freedoms Are Over: Vaccine Passports Coming

Celia Farber

G20 – BREAKING: leaders have just signed a declaration which states that vaccine passports will be adopted to “facilitate” all international travel

This means any vaccination the WHO determines you should have.

Changing your rights & freedoms forever.

Silence from the media. pic.twitter.com/0pHISCcVaM

— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) November 17, 2022

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BILL GATES – “People act like they have a choice”

He wasn’t joking he was warning you. The declaration by the G20 will attempt to ensure you all comply! With whatever they determine.

pic.twitter.com/5fczGe4CZz

— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) November 17, 2022

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Via https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/4dc

Elon Musk Purges Thousands More Twitter Employees – No One Notices The Difference

Zero Hedge

A good measure of the value of an employee to a company is if their absence makes things more difficult for everyone else, or their absence is barely noticed.  If an employee makes no difference and adds no value then there is no point in keeping them around.

Twitter is quickly becoming a blaring example of this issue.  Alleged leaks from within the company suggest that most employees under previous management barely worked and are devout “communists” (Ed: ??? from what I read, they were more likely ex-FBI or ex-CIA agents and I sincerely doubt they self-identify as communists) with a hatred of free speech.  The leaks also claim that Twitter employees were far more concerned with censoring anti-establishment voices than doing their jobs.

From comments made on social media by employees since Musk’s takeover, it appears that these rumors are correct.

For many years now Twitter has operated less like a company and more like a cult compound for liberal ideologues, with free lunches, yoga rooms, smoothie bars, wine bars, expresso bars, and minimal work buffered by pointless meetings and near zero productivity. The company runs a collectivist daycare for overgrown children; 7500 of them along with 5500 outside contractors.

Musk fired at least 3500 primary staff members and it is also recently reported that he has purged at least 4500 outside contractors, many of them moderators tasked with filtering “misinformation”.  Interestingly, Twitter users have not noticed much of a difference in terms of functionality for the platform despite the mass layoffs.  The only difference has been the ability to speak more freely.

Initial reports of the firings led people to speculate that Musk’s actions might be “heavy handed” and that, surely, a lot of employees have nothing to do with the politically motivated side of the platform.  However, employee comments suggest that an internal agenda to sabotage the site is underway, justified by purely political ideals, as well as angry reactions to basic responsibilities such as showing up to work for 40 hours a week.  Musk’s call for free speech on the platform has also elicited a flurry of vitriol, not only from former Twitter management but also a host of average workers.

The mainstream media argues that Musk’s firings of employees attacking his takeover is hypocritical because it runs contrary to his free speech ideals.  This is a rather ignorant notion often employed by liberals as a means to undermine otherwise logical and legitimate measures by free speech advocates to protect themselves from subversion.  Employees on the job do not have free speech rights, and are not protected from being fired if their goal is to throw a monkey wrench into the company’s functionality or survivability.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-purges-thousands-more-twitter-employees-no-one-notices-difference

 

 

 

What Doesn’t Fauci Want Us to Know? We May Soon Find Out.

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

A federal court has ruled that Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government officials must testify under oath about whether they colluded with Big Tech to censor certain users and viewpoints.

Story at a glance:

In the summer of 2022, a lawsuit was filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana against the federal government, including Dr. Anthony Fauci.The lawsuit alleges that the U.S. government colluded with Big Tech giants Twitter, Meta (Facebook), YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn to censor certain viewpoints by labeling them “misinformation” or “disinformation.”In September 2022, a federal judge ordered Fauci and other officials to turn over emails with five social media firms.Now, a federal court has taken it a step further, ruling that Fauci and other officials must testify under oath at depositions about whether they colluded with Big Tech to censor certain users.The suit gives multiple examples of Fauci’s roles in the suppression of free speech, including that related to the lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origin, COVID-19 shots and the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns.

Restriction of free speech excelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, when efforts to shut down public discussions and information that countered the official narrative were in full force.

In the summer of 2022, a lawsuit was filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana against the federal government, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

The lawsuit alleges that the U.S. government colluded with Big Tech giants Twitter, Meta (Facebook), YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn to censor certain viewpoints by labeling them “misinformation” or “disinformation.”

In September 2022, a federal judge ordered Fauci and other officials to turn over emails with five social media firms.

Fauci initially refused, stating that the communications were protected by executive privilege. However, the judge ordered that the documents be turned over within 21 days nonetheless. Fauci was also ordered to answer questions posed by the plaintiffs in full.

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Now, a federal court has taken it a step further, ruling that Fauci and other officials must testify under oath at depositions about whether they colluded with Big Tech to censor certain users.

U.S. government accused of suppressing free speech

The original lawsuit was filed in May 2022 by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.

What was the government trying to hide?

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Several examples are given of suppression of free speech. Among them:

The Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 presidential election — Evidence found on Hunter’s laptop suggests he helped secure “millions in funding” for Metabiota, a U.S. contractor in Ukraine “specializing in deadly pathogen research,” which is what the Russian government had claimed during a press conference March 24.

In addition, one of Metabiota’s investors is Rosemont Seneca, an investment fund co-managed by Hunter Biden.

Metabiota is also a core partner in the USAID PREDICT program, which funded laboratory equipment for the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China through grants to the EcoHealth Alliance and Shi Zhengli, a top coronavirus researcher at the WIV, also worked with PREDICT.

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Speech about the lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origin — The plaintiffs allege that Fauci censored “speech backed by great scientific credibility and with enormous potential nationwide impact.”

This includes information that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China.

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Speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns — Two plaintiffs in the case, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which scientifically critiqued the effects of prolonged lockdowns in response to COVID-19.

Collins sent an email to Fauci stating, “There needs to be a quick and devastating published take-down of its premises.”

In response, Fauci began to publicly criticize the Declaration, calling it “total nonsense” and “ridiculous.”

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which is part of the lawsuit, representing Bhattacharya and Kulldorff, stated:

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Fauci ordered to testify under oath[…]

In addition to Fauci, other officials ordered to testify include:

Former White House press secretary Jen PsakiDirector of White House Digital Strategy Rob FlahertySurgeon General Dr. Vivek MurthyCISA director Jen EasterlyFBI Supervisory special agent Elvis Chan

The depositions will cover many examples of a collusive relationship uncovered by the email exchanges.

Another example includes former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who was also a victim of the censorship hysteria; his Twitter account was suspended when he posted this scientifically accurate information about COVID-19 shots:

“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine. Think of it — at best — as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity.”

Berenson filed a lawsuit against Twitter for labeling the tweet as misleading and canceling his account.

The case has since been resolved, with Twitter acknowledging that the tweets should not have led to a suspension.

When his account was reinstated, Berenson tweeted the exact same message, which this time escaped Twitter’s “misinformation” flag.

However, it’s now been revealed that Fauci was involved in Berenson’s suspension.

According to the plaintiffs’ joint statement, “Dr. Fauci publicly described Berenson’s opinions on vaccines as ‘horrifying.’ President Biden followed Dr. Fauci’s steps and made a statement that ‘They’re killing people’ by not censoring vaccine ‘misinformation,’ to which Twitter subsequently permanently suspended Berenson from its platform.”

Will the truth finally be heard?

The request for depositions gave three reasons why Fauci, specifically, should be questioned under oath:

1. He refused to verify under oath his own interrogatory responses; instead, NIAID responses were verified by Dr. Jill Harper, who was not named in the complaint. Fauci has made no statements under oath regarding his communications with social media platforms.

2. Even if Fauci can prove he didn’t communicate with social media platforms, “there are compelling reasons that suggest Dr. Fauci has acted through intermediaries, and acted on behalf of others, in procuring the social-media censorship of credible scientific opinions.”

3. Fauci’s credibility on matters related to COVID-19 “misinformation” has been in question since 2020.On Aug. 22, Fauci announced he will resign from his roles as director of the NIAID — a position he’s held for 38 years — and chief medical adviser to the White House, come December.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/anthony-fauci-big-tech-collusion-cola/

How Blackrock’s Larry Fink Created the Energy Crisis

Larry Fink at Wilson Awards in 2010 / This file has been extracted from another file: Finkcalatrava.jpg / CC-BY-SA 3.0 , This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with some rights reserved, via Wikimedia Commons

By F. William Engdahl

15 November 2022

Most people are bewildered by what is a global energy crisis, with prices for oil, gas and coal simultaneously soaring and even forcing closure of major industrial plants such as chemicals or aluminum or steel. The Biden Administration and EU have insisted that all is because of Putin and Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. This is not the case. The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate and political circles to dismantle industrial economies in the name of a dystopian Green Agenda. That has its roots in the period years well before February 2022, when Russia launched its military action in Ukraine.

Blackwater pushes ESG

In January, 2020 on the eve of the economically and socially devastating covid lockdowns, the CEO of the world’s largest investment fund, Larry Fink of Blackrock, issued a letter to Wall Street colleagues and corporate CEOs on the future of investment flows. In the document, modestly titled “A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance”, Fink, who manages the world’s largest investment fund with some $7 trillion then under management, announced a radical departure for corporate investment. Money would “go green.” In his closely-followed 2020 letter Fink declared, “In the near future – and sooner than most anticipate – there will be a significant re-allocation of capital…Climate risk is investment risk.” Further he stated, “Every government, company, and shareholder must confront climate change.”

In a separate letter to Blackrock investor clients, Fink delivered the new agenda for capital investing. He declared that Blackrock will exit certain high-carbon investments such as coal, the largest source of electricity for the USA and many other countries. He added that Blackrock would screen new investment in oil, gas and coal to determine their adherence to the UN Agenda 2030 “sustainability.”

Fink made clear the world’s largest fund would begin to disinvest in oil, gas and coal. “Over time,” Fink wrote, “companies and governments that do not respond to stakeholders and address sustainability risks will encounter growing skepticism from the markets, and in turn, a higher cost of capital.” He added that, “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects… we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.”

From that point on the so-called ESG investing, penalizing CO2 emitting companies like ExxonMobil, has become all the fashion among hedge funds and Wall Street banks and investment funds including State Street and Vanguard. Such is the power of Blackrock. Fink was also able to get four new board members in ExxonMobil committed to end the company’s oil and gas business.

The January 2020 Fink letter was a declaration of war by big finance against the conventional energy industry. BlackRock was a founding member of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (the TCFD) and is a signatory of the UN PRI— Principles for Responsible Investing, a UN-supported network of investors pushing zero carbon investing using the highly-corrupt ESG criteria—Environmental, Social and Governance factors into investment decisions. There is no objective control over fak data for a company’s ESG. As well Blackrock signed the Vatican’s 2019 statement advocating carbon pricing regimes. BlackRock in 2020 also joined Climate Action 100, a coalition of almost 400 investment managers managing US$40 trillion.

With that fateful January 2020 CEO letter, Larry Fink set in motion a colossal disinvestment in the trillion-dollar global oil and gas sector. Notably, that same year BlackRock’s Fink was named to the Board of Trustees of Klaus Schwab’s dystopian World Economic Forum, the corporate and political nexus of the Zero Carbon UN Agenda 2030. In June 2019, the World Economic Forum and the United Nations signed a strategic partnership framework to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. WEF has a Strategic Intelligence platform which includes Agenda 2030’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

In his 2021 CEO letter, Fink doubled down on the attack on oil, gas and coal. “Given how central the energy transition will be to every company’s growth prospects, we are asking companies to disclose a plan for how their business model will be compatible with a net zero economy,” Fink wrote. Another BlackRock officer told a recent energy conference, “where BlackRock goes, others will follow.”

In just two years, by 2022 an estimated $1 trillion has exited investment in oil and gas exploration and development globally. Oil extraction is an expensive business and cut-off of external investment by BlackRock and other Wall Street investors spells the slow death of the industry.

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Via http://www.williamengdahl.com/gr15November2022.php

House Republicans Announce Investigation of Puppet Biden Crime Family

Posted BY: Jim Hoft

NWO Report

House Republicans announced on Thursday that they will investigate serial liar and crook Joe Biden.

Rep. Jame Comer (Oversight Committee Ranking Member): We’re releasing a report today that details what we’ve uncovered. We’re also sending letters to Biden Administration officials and Biden family associates renewing our request for voluntary production of documents relevant to this investigation. This is an investigation of Joe Biden. And why he lied to the American people about knowledge and participation in his family’s international business schemes.

House Republicans have been investigating the Biden Crime Family since at least as far back as 2020.

Republicans took control of the US House in the midterm elections.

NOW – Republicans announce an investigation into Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/qEaVgHwMI9

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 17, 2022

Via https://nworeport.me/2022/11/17/house-republicans-announce-investigation-of-puppet-biden-crime-family-video/

The Ming Empire Monopolizes Silver Bullion and Bans the Jesuits

Episode 36: The Great Treasure Ships of the Ming

Foundations of Eastern Civilization

Dr Craig Benjamin (2013)

Film Review

In the 16th century, China still ruled the East Asian oceans, with the massive naval expeditions Emperor Ming Lee launched under the command of seven-foot tall eunuch Admiral Zhang Hu. One of the latter’s expeditions featured 62 giant ships carrying 72,000 sailors, clerks, artisans and merchants. A number were naval fighting ships but the majority carried exports. Some were devoted solely to carrying horses or water.

Zhang, born the son of a Persian administrator, lost his parents in a Muslim uprising against Ming persecution. Captured by the Ming army at 11, Zhang was castrated at 13 and placed as a servant in the household of the Emperor’s fourth son. Inspired by the naval adventures of his Persian ancestors, Zheng became a military advisor to the prince.

Under Zheng’s command, Chinese trading ships visited Vietnam, Java, Malacha, Sri Lanka, the coast of India and eventually Mecca, Yemen Mogadishu and the Persia Gulf. They brought back ostriches, zebras, giraffes and camels. Zheng also suppressed pirate gangs in Sumatra and intervened in conflicts in Sri Lanka.

By 1555, the entire fleet had been abandoned – either burned or left to rot. The emperor’s political advisors argued the income generated failed to justify the enormous expense when the Ming needed to focus their military prowess against increasing incursions by steppes nomads. Arguing the naval expeditions violated Confucianism, a few classical scholars argued against any dealings with foreigners.

China continued to export silk, ceramics and tea along the Silk Road, for which they demanded payment in silver bullion (from European mines in Peru and Mexico). As the Ming had very few imports (wool, textiles and some birds), the Chinese monopoly on silver caused significant unrest among English political elites.

Simultaneously the Ming, extremely impressed with the Jesuits’ knowledge of science and technology (eg glass prisms and mechanical clocks) and their willingness to learn the Chinese language and Confuscianism, allowed an influx of Jesuit missionaries. Among the ploys the latter used in converting the Chinese elite were the claim Christianity was a purer form of Confucianism and the celebration of mass in Chinese rather than Latin.

Distrusting the exclusive nature of Christianity (ie Christians’ insistence there was only one true religion), very few Ming converted. It didn’t help that squabbles between Jesuits, Dominicans and Benedictine missionaries led to a papal order ending Chinese language masses and ancestor worship among Chinese Christians. This, in turn, led the emperor to expel all Christian missionaries.

The Jesuits’ sojourn in China substantially increased European knowledge of China, with the result many European countries adopted Chinese-style civil service bureaucracies in the 18th century.* It also led the 18th century enlightenment to look for alternatives to Christianity to inspire moral and ethical behavior.

*Ben Franklin was a big fan of Confucius and his ideas about government

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5808608/5808685

Workers Compensation: A Pathway to Immediate Relief for COVID Vaccine Injury Victims?Workers Compensation:

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

In interviews with The Defender, three lawyers discussed workers’ compensation strategies that may help private-sector employees who sustained COVID-19 vaccine injuries obtain financial relief.

Could employees injured by a COVID-19 vaccine that was mandated by their employer get relief under the U.S. workers’ compensation program?

Some lawyers think so — including three who spoke with The Defender about specific workers’ compensation strategies that may help private-sector employees who sustained COVID-19 vaccine injuries obtain financial relief.

The attorneys also suggested that the more people file claims for their COVID-19 vaccine injuries, the more employers — and their insurers — may feel pressure to reconsider employer-mandated vaccines in the future.

Noting that the number of workplace disability claims in the U.S. increased in early 2021 — the same time COVID-19 vaccines were rolling out — lawyers interviewed for this story detailed the steps involved, the benefits that may be available and the potential hurdles claimants may face, and how to overcome the challenges of locating a suitable attorney and doctor to assist with the claims.

In the U.S., the workers’ compensation program — available in all 50 states — provides an option for employees of companies and businesses that mandated COVID-19 vaccination.

Filing a workers’ compensation claim doesn’t preclude an employee from filing claims via other legal channels. But it does provide the potential to receive immediate financial relief and medical treatment and also, possibly, long-term support.

Workers’ compensation provides possible recourse for vaccine-injured workers

The three attorneys — Ben Carlisle, Ray L. Flores II and Patrick R. Hollingsworth — are experienced in legal areas of relevance to those injured by the COVID-19 vaccines. Carlisle and Hollingsworth’s firms specialize in workers’ compensation claims, while Flores is experienced in issues of health freedom rights.

Flores told The Defender that workers’ compensation is “a much easier system to navigate” than the PREP Act (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act) of 2005 or the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which are the traditional avenues to submit claims related to vaccine injuries.

Flores said the PREP system is “impossible to get through,” which has led to a situation where “everybody thinks there’s nothing that can be done.” However, he said, “I’ve cited in several places [that] PREP does not preclude workers’ compensation.”

In an Aug. 24 interview with CHD.TV’s “Good Morning CHD,” Hollingsworth said this means that “if you were mandated to take the COVID vaccine as a condition of employment and you were injured, you are entitled to file a workers’ compensation claim.”

Carlisle noted that the two legal avenues are “not mutually exclusive, it’s not one or the other,” but that workers’ compensation claims are “an avenue that’s a lot easier right now.”

Carlisle also pointed out that workers’ compensation “is a no-fault system” in states like New York, where he is licensed, “so there are a lot fewer hurdles you have to jump through.”

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Hollingsworth, in a May 23 presentation, explained that employees also can file workers’ compensation claims in situations where, even without an explicit mandate, an employee faced “coercion, exclusion, discrimination,” where they were “ostracized by their co-workers or it was strongly suggested that they get the vaccine.”

“I believe you would be able to show … causation there, whether your employer requested you to have it, mandated or not,” Hollingsworth said.

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Carlisle, who filed two such cases, said soon after mandates were implemented, he had tweeted a warning to employers that they might be liable for workers’ compensation claims in the future. “At the time, I think 10 people saw [that tweet],” he said.

However, “a million people have viewed” his Nov. 4 tweet about his first workers’ compensation hearing against an employer-mandated vaccine: “The judge found sufficient evidence to proceed. Trial set for January.”

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Flores said the PREP Act covers COVID-19 vaccine injury claims, as this act “is only for emergency medical countermeasures.” He added, “so everything falls under the PREP Act if there’s any injury.”

This makes a workers’ compensation claim more attractive for most vaccine injury victims, Flores said. “If you file a workers’ compensation claim, not only does the claim get started, there are initial payments that start being made right out of the gate.”

Hollingsworth said he and other workers’ compensation attorneys “work on contingency, so it doesn’t cost anything to file.” He told CHD.TV viewers in August that it’s a “no-lose situation” for applicants.

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File workers’ compensation claims as quickly as possible, attorneys say

Hollingsworth told The Defender that, in many states, such as California, potential applicants have one year from the date of knowledge of their injury to file a claim with their employer. In New York, however, the statute of limitations is two years, Carlisle said.

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“In New York and … probably a lot of states, you’ve got 30 days to provide notice of the injury. That doesn’t mean you’re bringing a claim. It just means you’ve got to tell your employer, ‘I took this shot, you made me take it, and now I’m missing time from work.’ That satisfies your notice requirement.”

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“It’s usually very easy to overcome the statute of limitations in workers’ compensation. That doesn’t mean you should sit on your rights forever. But it shouldn’t be a deterrent from at least attempting to bring a claim.”

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For federal employees, there is a separate federal worker’s compensation system. “The federal government is a little bit more difficult to navigate and less likely to be successful [because] they’re the ones mandating it all,” Hollingsworth said, “and finding an attorney for that unfortunately is going to be difficult.”

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How do you find a suitable attorney for your workers’ compensation claim?

Hollingsworth, speaking to CHD.TV in August 2022, emphasized the importance of hiring an attorney who specializes in workers’ compensation law, stating “You want to really make sure that they only specialize in workers’ compensation, as other attorneys aren’t really familiar with how workers’ compensation works.”

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Flores referred to legal resources compiled by Children’s Health Defense, including locating attorneys in their state who handle workers’ compensation cases (see attorney search engine, find legal help and find a lawyer by practice area and state), and also emphasized the importance of educating lawyers on such issues, telling The Defender:

“The more information that we have available to the injured party or to the attorneys, then that will reverberate so that they’re not going to turn away the business. That’s another benefit of what we’re trying to do, to educate the lawyers as well.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/workers-compensation-covid-vaccine-injury-victims/

 

Phthalate Chemicals in Everyday Products Activate Uterine Fibroid Tumors

Chemical-Free-Life.org

Scientists have demonstrated what they are calling a causal link between environmental phthalates (toxic chemicals found in everyday consumer products like personal care, food and home care products) and the increased growth of uterine fibroids, the most common tumors among women.What are phthalates?

Phthalates are endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC)* that are used in numerous industrial and consumer products, especially food packaging (where they migrate into the food), personal care products (like cosmetics, soaps and hair care products including shampoos), medical supplies and household products (like plastic shower curtains). Although they are known to be toxic, they are not banned in the U.S.  Phthalate chemicals have been linked in scientific studies to a variety of very serious health outcomes.**

Phthalate Chemicals and Uterine Fibroid Tumors

Up to 80% of all women may develop a fibroid tumor during their lifetime. One-quarter of these women become symptomatic with excessive and uncontrolled uterine bleeding, anemia, miscarriages, infertility and large abdominal tumors necessitating technically difficult surgeries.  Additionally, uterine leiomyoma (LM) is the most common tumor in women and causes severe morbidity in 15 to 30% of reproductive-age women. (More specifically, uterine leiomyoma (LM) is the most common gynecological benign smooth muscle tumor originating from the uterine myometrium.)  The new scientific study has found that phthalate chemicals in personal care products, household products and food may trigger these uterine fibroid tumors in women.

Bottom Line: The new study found women with a high exposure to certain phthalates such as DEHP (used as a plasticizer to increase the durability of products such as shower curtains, car upholstery, lunchboxes, shoes and more) and its metabolites have a high risk for developing a symptomatic fibroid tumor.

While prior epidemiological studies have consistently indicated an association between phthalate chemical exposure and uterine fibroid growth, this study explains the mechanisms behind that link–especially with regard to the phthalate chemical known as “DEHP”. The scientists discovered exposure to DEHP may activate a hormonal pathway that activates an environmentally responsive receptor (AHR) to bind to DNA and cause increased growth of fibroid tumors.

More about DEHP Phthalate Chemicals

“DEHP has been the most widely used phthalate chemical. Although there has been increased concern in the public and some regulatory restrictions in European Union countries, it is still widely used for the packaging of food and health products in the U.S. and across the world. DEHP can be gradually released from consumer products into indoor environments such as homes, schools, daycare centers, offices and cars. It settles on floors and other surfaces and can accumulate in dust and air. During pregnancy, DEHP can pass from mother to baby.

“The general public can also be exposed to DEHP through ingestion of food, drink, or dust that has come in contact with materials containing DEHP, or through inhalation of contaminated air. Individuals treated with medical products containing DEHP are at risk for exposure to high levels of DEHP.” (source)

Study overview

It was proposed that endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) of phthalate DEHP may affect LM (uterine tumor) growth by interfering with the action of estrogen and progesterone, two steroid hormones critical for LM growth.  Researchers determined the composition of the chemical mixtures based on urinary metabolite concentrations of phthalates reported in the Midlife Women’s Health Study (MWHS), which assessed the association between urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations and women’s health conditions in a prospective cohort of pre- and perimenopausal women from Baltimore and its surrounding counties. Urinary concentrations of these metabolites are measured to evaluate the exposure to DEHP. Studies have shown that DEHP and its metabolites influence steroid hormone levels and reproductive organ development and function. Recently, an association between phthalate exposure and LM (uterine tumor) growth has been established. Epidemiological studies have shown that higher urinary concentrations of phthalates, especially DEHP and its metabolites, correlate with an increase in total LM burden (uterine volume and LM size), increased risk of LM, and increased microRNA expression associated with cellular processes favoring LM growth.

Overall, the phthalate metabolite mixture was positively associated with prior LMs diagnoses, such that 10% increases in urinary concentrations of all nine metabolites were associated with 6.0% higher risk of prior LMs diagnosis.”  (source)

Takeaway

The findings indicated the phthalate chemical metabolite DEHP is a particularly high-risk factor for LM (uterine tumor) growth. The scientists demonstrated that exposure to mixtures of phthalate metabolites or the single compound–a major DEHP metabolite–can increase LM cell survival and risk of development of LMs (uterine tumors) or induction of their growth.

Solution

Read the ingredients labels of all personal care products (especially feminine care products) as well as home care products. Choose products that specifically say they are “Phthalate-Free” and avoid all products that list “DEHP” in the ingredients. Additionally, greatly minimize fast food and highly-processed foods sold in plastic containers–both of which have been found in laboratory studies to contain high levels of phthalate chemicals.

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Via https://chemical-free-life.org/2022/11/16/phthalate-chemicals-in-everyday-products-activate-uterine-fibroid-tumors/