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September 10, 2022
Western Media Continues to Ignore Ukraine’s Public ‘Kill List’ Aimed at Those Who Question the Kiev Regime
The Mirotvorets list is an issue trending in independent and Russian media, but not in the mainstream international press.
This week, a number of international and Russian journalists convened in Moscow – with more joining by video link – to discuss the now-infamous Ukrainian Mirotvorets “kill list.” Many of them are included themselves.
While some don’t take it seriously, the horrific car-bombing murder of Darya Dugina on August 20 and the subsequent marking on her Mirotvorets entry as “liquidated” makes it fairly clear the people behind the list do, in fact, want people dead.
The same thing happened to the entry of Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin and many others listed and subsequently killed, including the Italian Andrea Rocchelli.
“September 8 is observed as International Day of Journalists’ Solidarity. On this day, the world commemorates members of the press who died in the line of duty…”*Oles Buzina was on Ukraine’s kill list…https://t.co/OCIyC0UEWTpic.twitter.com/rXQvxdKep4
— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) September 9, 2022
What it feels like to be on the list
The head of the Foundation to Battle Injustice, Mira Terada, who convened the panel, noted that of the thousands of names entered on the site, 341 are journalists and, shockingly, 327 are minors.
“Publishing personal data on minors is a crime. It’s like a menu for pedophiles or people doing human trafficking.”
While her concern is for the children, journalists, activists, political figures and even ordinary Ukrainians who have somehow angered the Kiev regime and those behind the list, Terada now needs to exercise some caution after she herself was added to the database.
An hour and a half after a July 21 press conference about children being placed on Mirotvorets, Mira found herself listed.
“This changed my life. I have to be vigilant 24/7,” she said.
Christelle Néant, a French war correspondent reporting from Donbass for the past six and a half years, mentioned to me before the panel began that some of the information on the site is not disclosed to the general public, and is password-locked.
Néant, who said she’s been receiving death threats for years, spoke of how it impacts her: “Every time I use my car, I check underneath it for any unpleasant surprise,” referring to a potential car bomb. “
I don’t publish any photos with people I live with or love. I have to be vigilant at all times.”
“I’m not a terrorist, not a criminal, I’m just a correspondent. This list must be closed and all of those involved must be held accountable.”
German journalist Thomas Röper rightly noted that Western media outlets prefer to look the other way.
“They could have reported on this, but they’re saying nothing.”
He also pointed out the silence of the German government, even when asked at press conferences.
“A state has a duty to protect its citizens, but I haven’t seen anything from my government to condemn the fact that Germans are on this list and one German national has been killed.”
And, in fact, rather than protect German journalists, the government is persecuting them, as is the case with Alina Lipp, whose bank account, and that of her mother, was closed after the German government launched a criminal case against her for her reporting from Donbass.
Russian journalist Veronika Naydenova, originally from Crimea but living in Germany, was added to the list in January, also after raising the inclusion of children, including 13-year-old Faina Savenkova, from the Lugansk People’s Republic.
“The same day my article was published, I was added to the list. But this hasn’t stopped me, I’ve written many articles since.”
She highlighted an additional, very real, threat: that of the refugees who’ve come to Germany from Ukraine, it isn’t possible to know who is merely a refugee and who holds Ukrainian nationalist extremist views. This is a very real fear for Naydenova, whose address is listed on Mirotvorets.
Dutch journalist Sonya van den Ende likewise fears returning home.
“I’m labeled an ‘enemy of the state’ now in the Netherlands. I cannot go back, it’s very dangerous for me to do so.”
Janus Putkonen, a Finnish journalist who has been living in Donbass since 2015, pointed out how the risk extends globally.
“Because the Mirotvorets kill list has not been stopped, people around the world are now in danger of falling victim to the state terrorism of Ukrainian Nazism, comparable to ISIS terrorism.”
But, most of all, it threatens Ukrainians within Ukraine, something British journalist Johnny Miller emphasized.
“If you’re a journalist, blogger, political figure, or a citizen in Ukraine who wants to criticize extremism in Ukraine, which there is a lot of, or if you want to criticize Ukrainian government policies, most likely you’re going to be put on that list. And be under serious threat of death.”
Miller, who has reported from areas of western Ukraine, raised another important point:
“There are so many people in Ukraine who want to push for peaceful negotiations with Russia. But if anybody in Ukrainian society wants to stand up and push this line, they’re most likely going to be put on that list. Mirotvorets is very much a symbol of the extremist elements in Ukraine at the moment.”
For myself, I’ve been on the list since 2019, after going to Crimea and reporting from areas of the DPR where civilians were being terrorized by Ukrainian shelling, houses destroyed “street by street” as a local told me.
Complicit media
For various reasons, I haven’t been in my native Canada since February 2020, and at this point, don’t know what fate I would face were I to go back.
Ottawa unconditionally supports the Kiev regime, including its war against the civilians of Donbass, which the country has abetted by sending money and weapons to Ukraine for years before Russia’s military operation began in February.
Canada has spent nearly a billion dollars to train Ukrainian forces since 2014, including Neo-Nazi Azov fighters.
“…all Canadian Liberal governments have supported the Ukrainian Banderites since the beginning of WW2…Worse still, the current Canadian government is composed of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, flanked by a Banderite deputy, Chrystia Freeland.”https://t.co/m7ZMZ3ulMt
— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) September 2, 2022
But in addition to that, the Canadian government knows about Mirotvorets. The state-run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in July ran a smear piece on me, using information apparently gleaned from my Mirotvorets entry, though it doesn’t mention the kill list by name.
Some interesting things about this video.1. CBC almost certainly became aware of Grigoriev’s Ukrainian war crimes tribunal after honest journalists of Maverick media contacted CBC about the kill list[see Maverick’s interview w me: https://t.co/6OWigJMVIv ]
— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) July 8, 2022
How do I think I know CBC was aware of the kill list entry on me? Their producer emailed me for an interview (which I did not concede to), mentioning my April participation in a Moscow-based panel on Ukraine’s war crimes. Except it wasn’t April, it was on March 11. The only other source for my participation being in April was, you guessed it, Mirotvorets.
Of course, there was no condemnation or call to shut down Mirotvorets (which independent Canadian media outlets previously interviewed me about and subsequently contacted the CBC about). Instead, they tried to spin my multiple reports on Ukraine’s war crimes in Donbass as a way to smear me as a Russian propagandist.
And now, the CBC has flagged my name to Ukrainian Nationalists in Canada who might otherwise not have known of me, and to Canadians who went to fight in Ukraine, became radicalized and indoctrinated, and could commit Azov-style crimes against journalists like me who have been reporting from the other side.
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State Senators And Frontline Doctor File Unprecedented GRAND JURY PETITION Against CDC
By Alicia Powe
Gateway Pundit
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THE GRAND JURY: A BULWARK AGAINST THE STATE
After dedicating nearly two years to investigating the CDC’s nefarious scheme that enabled the government to commit crimes against humanity, a frontline doctor, two state senators and their team of legal and medical experts, veteran data analysts, and certified death recording clerks are employing a legal apparatus that may finally hold the culprits to account.
“We’ve been [investigating the CDC] since March 12, 2020,” Ealy continued. “We collectively have put in over 25,000 hours of work on this. It culminated in a grand jury petition that we filed in the 9th Circuit Court on March 7, 2022. The wheels of justice turn very slow if they turn at all. The defendants that we named, are Rochelle Walensky, current director of the CDC, Xavier Becerra, the current secretary of HHS, Brian Moyer, the current head of the National Vital Statistics System, Alex Azar, the former HHS and Robert Redfield, a key player in this, the former head of the CDC.
“There is a tendency for us as Americans to blame the agency. And then who we let off the hook are the people in the agency that actually did it. We said no more of that. We are going to name the heads of this as defendants because they have to defend themselves. We deserve, after everything we’ve been through, we deserve an investigation into this. An independent investigation. They don’t get to police themselves.”
A massive pile of evidence uncovered by Ealy and his team of data analysts exhibits exactly how and when the CDC hyperinflated the death count to justify the state of emergency that ushered in lockdowns, social distancing, mask and vaccine mandates and facilitated the 2020 election theft.
Under the Administrative Procedures Act “every federal agency is required to follow the same rules: if they are making changes to data and how data is collected, how it’s published and how its analyzed, it is required to open up public comment. It’s also required to [inform] the Office and Management and Budget” of the changes for “internal oversight,” Ealy said. “When the agency wants to make a change, they are required to file in the federal registry… that is required by law under the Paperwork Reduction Act.”
The Information Quality Act was also allegedly breached by the CDC.
The federal policy “expressly states that a government agency cannot use data from an outside source — like the CDC used with all the projection models at the start — and that they have to publish accurate information that is easy for the public to understand,” the doctor said. “It’s very clear. Essentially, what they did was they cooked the books. They hyperinflated the death count so that they could declare an emergency” and thereby broke three federal laws and committed criminal data fraud.
An analysis conducted by certified death recording clerks deployed by the Ealy and the Energetic Health Institute estimates the CDC inflated the number of Covid deaths by “88.6 percent to 94.0 percent.”
“That means that there never was an emergency, this was never a cause for panic, lockdowns, masking.. experimental gene modification shots, anything like that,” Ealy said. When “a grand jury agrees that there is criminal data fraud, people will go to jail. If a grand jury agrees that there is willful misconduct following their investigation– something amazing happens — the protection from civil lawsuits that the pharmaceutical industry currently enjoys goes away. Now people who have been hurt by these shots can now sue.
“We have been working for two years to give people that we knew were getting hurt an opportunity to actually sue these industries out of existence. Will it happen, I don’t know but what I do know is we have a lot more cards to play.”
‘MY DOG WAS SICK’: WALENSKY ADMITS MAJOR COVID-19 ‘MISTAKES’ AND ANNOUNCES PLANS TO ‘RESET’ THE AGENCY
As the deadline approached for Walensky, Becerra, Moyer, Azar and Redfield to respond to the charges leveled in the grand jury petition, the CDC director suddenly admitted the agency made detrimental “mistakes” and would undergo restructuring.
“The work we have been doing behind the scenes is coinciding with some of these changes,” Ealy contends. “We filed [the petition] on March 7, 2022. By April 6, we started serving some of these folks, the CDC [subsequently] initiated their own internal investigation. They were required to respond to our petition of the court within 60 days…They asked for an additional 60 days and they got it. They asked for a specific day, Aug. 26 of this year, to file a motion to dismiss our petition. They then filed their motion to dismiss late. You can’t make this up — their excuse for filing it late was that their dog was sick!
“They are definitely not taking this seriously they don’t respect us. They will respect us before this is done — I assure you that.”
As the Gateway Pundit reported, Walensky announced on Aug. 17 that the agency would undergo a “reset” amid revelations major “mistakes” were made during the pandemic.
“To be frank, we are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes, from testing to data to communications,” Walensky confessed in an internal video memo, Walensky conceded. “This is our watershed moment. We must pivot.”
Rochelle Walensky just “admitted to fraud, yet again,” Ealy said. “This is the third time that the CDC has admitted to fraud.
Admitted “mistakes” with testing and communications do not put the federal agency in legal jeopardy, “those are not criminal,” he added. “It’s when she’s admitted data… you now admit that you violated the Information Quality Act.”
US Attorney Scott Asphaug acknowledged receipt of the grand jury petition on behalf of Sens. Linthicum, Thatcher and Dr. Ealy in August 2021. But instead of requesting a grand jury to investigate, he never fulfilled his duty. Instead, Asphaug issued a warning to the DOJ, notifying the deep state that a grand jury may actually be impaneled.
“He sent it to the DOJ and they basically told the senators to kick rocks,” Ealy said.
Remarkably, on June 27, Asphaug filed a motion on behalf of the CDC requesting more time for the agency to respond to the charges. Then on July 13, the DOJ audaciously relocated Asphaugh to Nairobi, Kenya.
“The same US attorney we asked to investigate this is the same one that is now defending the people that we are accusing of these crimes,” Ealy added. Then “they moved him out of the country and they put in a new US attorney in his place. That US attorney failed to file their response to our petition within the time they were requested — their excuse was my dog was sick.”
Ealy’s team estimates the CDC has misappropriated $3.5 trillion in damages by intentionally falsifying data.
“That’s not even counting the untold, incalculable damage that has been done to families, to people who lost loved ones — people that had no reason to get the shot, let alone being coerced or forced, mandated into it, and God, suffering the consequences of a product that has not completed any of the clinical trials despite what the FDA or the media tries to claim. All the clinical trials are still ongoing. All the clinical trials do not end until 2023 at the earliest and 2027 at the latest. There is no way any of these products can be approved until the trials are done. So, the release of this was just a capricious act of malfeasance.”
“There is an old saying when you are dealing with the law, ‘I don’t need a good attorney, I need a good judge.’ I need a good judge that has some integrity. I think we have one here with Marco Hernandez, time will tell in the next couple of weeks. We need a judge that has the courage to look at this situation and say something is wrong and we do need an investigation because that’s really what it comes down to.
“That’s a bigger argument for us. What we are doing here is saying let’s keep it simple on where this began. This began with you needing deaths to justify an emergency. And how did you get those deaths? You violated federal law to manipulate how death certificates were recorded to make it look like COVID was the cause of death when the cause of death was pre-existing conditions you wanted to de-emphasize.”
“THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE”
Grand juries are the unofficial fourth branch of the government that the authors of the Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution designed to check the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
“Our founding fathers were leaving tyranny,” Ealy noted. “They understood how devastating it was. They put a system in place to make sure that it would never happen again and we would not have to resort to civil [or revolutionary] war to take back control of our government. That’s what the grand jury system gives us the opportunity to do here and it’s needed right now.
“Grand juries are made up of people like me and you — just regular folks who may be biased… but when presented with the information have the ability to subpoena testimony, subpoena unredacted records and to produce indictments,” he explained. “All of us as citizens, under 18 U.S. Code § 3332 have a right to petition to address a grievance. You have to convince the court that you have standing, that you were harmed. With the help of Sen. Dennis Linthicum and Sen. Kim Thatcher, because they represent hundreds of thousands of people, they can carry their concerns forward. We can easily demonstrate that we, all of us, have been harmed.”
Dr. Henry Ealy, founder of the Energetic Health Institute and GOP Sens. Kim Thatcher and Dennis Linthicum filed a grand jury petition demanding an investigation of the CDC for “criminal fraud” and “willful misconduct.”
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Smart Meters — The Household Device That Spies on You 24/7
By Dr. Joseph MercolaThe data from smart meters reveal far more than you might think — and could even be used against you to control your individual energy use or, one day, to help ensure “net zero” compliance.
Story at a glance:
Smart meters measure and record electricity usage at least every hour, if not more, and provide the data to the utility company and consumer at least once a day.The data from smart meters reveal far more than you might think — and could even be used against you to control your individual energy use or, one day, to help ensure “net zero” compliance.Smart meters do more than measure your energy usage; they’re also capable of distinguishing what type of energy you’re using, such as doing laundry or watching TV.It’s an intensely personal form of surveillance — one that could easily be used against you, including to scrutinize your energy usage and even ration your energy.Smart meters should also be avoided because they’re yet another source of electromagnetic fields (EMFs), which include radio frequencies from smart meters, cellphones and Wi-Fi and dirty electricity.If you can, opt out of receiving a smart meter; be aware that you will likely be charged an extortion fee, in the form of one-time and monthly charges, to do so.Many people have embraced the convenience of wireless devices in their homes, but these devices come at a price — your privacy and your health.
With each smart device that you welcome to your home — such as connected alarm clocks, vehicles, refrigerators and doorbells — another layer of your personal life is revealed and your health is sabotaged by EMFs.
This is certainly true of smart meters, which are officially known in the U.S. as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) installations. In 2020, 102.9 million such smart meters were installed by U.S. electric utilities, about 88% of them in personal residences.
AMI meters measure and record electricity usage at least every hour, if not more, and provide the data to the utility company and consumer at least once a day.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, “AMI installations range from basic hourly interval meters to real-time meters with built-in two-way communication that is capable of recording and transmitting instantaneous data.”
Smart meters aren’t there for your benefit
Before smart meters were widely available, your electricity usage was recorded by a meter reader, who would visit your property once a month and manually record your energy usage. Now, this data is tracked at hourly or half-hour intervals, which energy companies are billing as a way to save you, the customer, money.
The U.K.’s Shell Energy, which describes smart meters as “the future of energy,” notes:
“Smart meters bring a whole host of benefits: they’ll tell you how much you’re spending in real time, which means there are no nasty surprises when your bill turns up. … But, perhaps best of all, smart meters give you real-time information on your energy use.
“They let you know exactly how much it’s costing you to boil that kettle or charge your phone. Armed with this knowledge, you can make a more informed decision about whether to turn up the heating, or put another load in the tumble dryer. …
“Smart meters are set to revolutionise the way we use electricity. They make it easier for suppliers like us to offer cheaper, off-peak rates for, say, charging your electric car. They tell us more about how you use your energy, which means we can offer you more suitable tariffs. It may be that, one day, you’re offered cheaper electricity on sunny or windy days, when clean energy is easier to come by.”
Smart Energy International also describes Comarch’s smart metering systems as a solution for “remote and automatic measurement of media consumption.”
Note that their smart meters once only measured electricity and now are available for other utilities, including water, gas and heat, “the consumption of which should be constantly monitored.”
Using the tactic of manufacturing fear, they spin smart meters as a necessity so that energy companies can keep close tabs on consumption and step in when needed:
“A whole new era of readings has come. Smart metering systems provide companies in the utilities sector with the ability to monitor media supply networks and efficiently respond to current events.
“Data can be obtained even from meters that are difficult to access and those located at long distances from each other. They are sent periodically, informing the end-user about the reading, transmission data, and possible failures and errors.
“This makes it possible to send teams almost immediately where they are needed at any given time. All this is to respond as quickly as possible if a problem arises.”
If they control the energy, they control you
The technocratic elite, including both BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Bill Gates, are pushing for “net zero” carbon emissions. While BlackRock is busy buying up houses, Gates is hard at work amassing farmland and is now the largest owner of farmland in the U.S.
Gates is pushing for drastic, fundamental changes by 2030, including widespread consumption of fake meat, adoption of next-generation nuclear energy and growing a fungus as a new type of nutritional protein.
The deadline Gates has given to reach net zero emissions is 2050, and smart meters are already being positioned as an essential part of this plan.
According to Shell Energy:
“Indeed, the government considers smart meters key to the UK cutting its emissions and reaching net-zero by 2050.
“The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has worked out that, if we all switch to smart meters, the UK can knock 45 million tonnes off its carbon emissions — the equivalent of taking 26 million cars off the road for a year.”
But according to many experts, including Vandana Shiva, new conditionalities are being created through net zero “nature-based” solutions in order to force the world to accept a new food and agricultural system, along with a new wave of colonization in the name of sustainability.
Navdanya’s report, “Earth Democracy: Connecting Rights of Mother Earth to Human Rights and Well-Being of All,” explains:
“‘Net Zero’ is a new strategy to get rid of small farmers … through the burden of fake carbon accounting. Carbon offsets and the new accounting trick of ‘net zero’ does not mean zero emissions.
“It means the rich polluters will continue to pollute and also grab the land and resources of those who have not polluted — indigenous people and small farmers — for carbon offsets.”
In other words, the elite will continue to consume resources as always, including indulgences like polluting private jets, but will be able to purchase carbon credits to offset the emissions they create.
Meanwhile, the average person will face increasing scrutiny of their energy usage, to the point that it may one day be rationed in the name of “climate compliance.”
Will smart meters be used to ration energy use?
Smart meters do more than measure your energy usage. They’re also capable of distinguishing what type of energy you’re using. So they know if you’re doing a load of laundry, watching TV or have left your home for the day.
While this might not sound nefarious on the surface, it’s an intensely personal form of surveillance — one that could easily be used against you, including to ration your energy.
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Another problem with smart meters — EMFs
Even if you put aside the surveillance and privacy issues and their potential for abuse, smart meters should be avoided because they’re yet another source of EMFs, which include radio frequencies from smart meters, cellphones and Wi-Fi.
Smart meters also have the additional challenge of emitting dirty electricity which consists of transient voltage spikes as a result of switching mode power supplies.
Adverse health effects linked to these EMF exposures include:
Excess oxidative stressOpening your blood-brain barrier, allowing toxins to enter your brainDNA damage and altered microbiomeImpaired proton flow and ATP productionAltered cellular function due to excessive chargeOne way to reduce your exposure is to refuse smart meters as long as you can. Note that some states already prohibit opt-outs while others allow them but will charge you an extortion fee, in the form of one-time and monthly charges, to do so.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures:
“In almost every case, customers who elect to opt-out of smart meter installation are charged to do so — often through a one-time ‘set-up fee,’ followed by monthly fees associated with the cost of sending out meter-readers.
“The fees can vary considerably. A utility in Rhode Island charges a one-time fee of $27, while a Texas utility’s one-time fee is $171. The monthly fees range from around $9 to $32.”
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/smart-meters-surveillance-control-energy-use-emf-cola/
September 9, 2022
NYC Mayor Breathes Life into Saudi-9/11 Connection
Russ Baker
New York City Mayor Eric Adams can’t keep the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf Tour out of the city, but he can become a big-name booster of the theory that the kingdom had something to do with 9/11. Photo credit: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York / Flickr (CC BY 2.0) and Steve Gardner / Flickr (CC BY 2.0 )
You could be forgiven for missing it, but in the depths of the dog days of August, with most everyone’s attention on the long Labor Day weekend, New York City Mayor Eric Adams dropped what can be interpreted as tacit acknowledgement that the government of Saudi Arabia — or at least, agents of the government — may have participated in the planning and execution of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Adams, who was a NYPD lieutenant in 2001 and worked a security detail at the World Trade Center wreckage that night, said he legally could not do anything. The Trump golf course is Trump’s; Trump can welcome anyone there he likes.
But then, instead of dismissing the 9/11 families’ specific concerns, Adams platformed them.
From a statement issued by Adams’s office on Friday, September 1 (emphasis mine):
I appreciated the opportunity to hear firsthand from the 9/11 community about what they have learned about these attacks in just the last few months since the Biden administration declassified thousands of documents. They were clear that they believe the new documents link members of the Saudi government directly to the hijackers, and my administration will closely review this information. They also made clear that the fight isn’t over, and we must continue seeking accountability for those who participated in these attacks.
Finally it is outrageous that the Trump organization agreed to host a tournament with this organization while knowing how much pain it would cause New Yorkers.
On Thursday, August 30, Adams met at New York City Hall with members of three advocacy groups representing 9/11 survivors and victims’ families. Alarmed by an October stop of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour at the Trump Organization-owned Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx — and convinced by recently declassified information that Saudi Arabian intelligence officials assisted al-Qaeda — the groups the tournament.
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Via https://russbaker.substack.com/p/nyc-mayor-breathes-life-into-saudi
COVID Vaccines Linked to Excess Deaths in Germany — Where’s the Investigation?
An analysis by two German university professors of government data implicates COVID-19 vaccination as a factor in excess deaths in Germany, however, public health officials in Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere continue to ignore safety signals.
Truth was the first casualty in the war on COVID-19.
Trusted sources of medical information became propaganda outlets and when that wasn’t enough, governments that controlled the raw data on which medical analysis was based withheld and even falsified that data.
All along, we have been piecing together indirect evidence. It paints a picture of a devastating toll from vaccine injuries in the past year.
No drug product in the past has come close to causing injuries on this scale. Injuries from the worst vaccines occurred at a rate of about 1/90th of the mRNA vaccines.
Thalidomide maimed tens of thousands of European babies, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was still protecting us in 1961. Compare this to 1.4 million vaccine injuries and 30,000 deaths in the last year-and-a-half, counting only those that were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS.
The only comparable drug disaster was oxycontin, which led to about 20,000 overdose deaths in its worst year.
The evidence is radioactive. No one in government wants to count up the deaths and injuries because of the political ramifications. Most medical researchers, even at universities, depend on money from the National Institutes of Health and the drug industry.
Hence, it’s refreshing to see an honest analysis of apparently honest government data. The analysis comes from Christof Kuhbandner and Matthias Reitzner, professors of sociology and mathematics, respectively, at two German universities.
The data is from the German Federal Statistical Office (Bundesamt für Statistik). I’m grateful to a fellow Substacker who writes under the pseudonym Eugyppius for calling my attention to this article and placing it in context.
Of course, what we would like to have is a count of deaths and hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and corresponding counts for deaths and hospitalizations due to the vaccines. This data has been disguised or deleted by governments around the world. The very definition of causality has been gamed for these two cases.
Draw your own conclusions.
But data on all-cause mortality are more difficult to disguise or reinterpret, as our two authors are quick to point out. This is a simple list of people who died, together with their age and sex, and with no overlaid story about how they met their demise.
The point is that we can find patterns in this data that hold implications for COVID-19 epidemiology and policy.
The data: Whatever started killing young, healthy people in Germany began in April 2021
Here’s the bottom line: In 2020, we see a slight excess of death in the oldest age group, too small to be significant. In 2021, we see a large excess of death in young and middle-aged people.
Credit: Christof Kuhbandner and Matthias ReitznerFigure 5 (above) from the paper shows that even though COVID-19 was ravaging the globe in 2020, and COVID-19 deaths were heavily concentrated in the elderly, we can barely detect a (statistically insignificant) rise in mortality in 2020, for the oldest of the old.
This suggests that in 2020, COVID-19 deaths were largely confined to people who were old and sick, and would probably have died of something else if the virus had not hit them first.
But look at mortality in 2021. We see excess mortality in all the younger age groups. Yet once again, for the second year of COVID-19, there was nothing significant in people over 80.
If we think of 2021 as “the year of the vaccine,” our first impression is that the vaccine was a wash for people over 80 — the vaccine cost about as many lives as it saved.
But for people younger than 80, the costs outweighed the benefits.
Governments and their mouthpieces in the media would like to attribute the 2021 excess deaths to COVID-19 and lockdown measures. But this theory has two major issues.
First, why would there be more deaths from lockdown measures in 2021, if the measures were more restrictive in 2020?
Second, why would COVID-19 be more lethal in 2021, if Germans were protected by a vaccine?
Is it possible the lockdowns took nine months before their effect was felt? If so, why were the young disproportionately affected?
The authors of the academic paper stick to “just the facts, ma’am.” Except for one understated paragraph, they never use the word “vaccine.”
But they demonstrate that whatever it was that started killing young, healthy people, it began in April 2021.
Credit: Christof Kuhbandner and Matthias ReitznerTable 5 (above) from the paper shows the difference between expected and observed mortality in Germans ages 15 to 59, from January 2020 through June 2022.
There are two jumps in excess mortality in 2021 — one began in April and the other in September.
Vaccination began in December 2020, with frontline medical workers and the elderly.
For younger, working people, vaccination began in earnest in April 2021. The first round of boosters arrived in the fall.
The authors also break down what happened in the older age groups:
Credit: Christof Kuhbandner and Matthias ReitznerThe graph above (fig. 9 from the paper) displays the cumulative number of excess deaths. We can see that the 80+ set received their first dose earlier than younger people (January 2021), and their death rates rose before the younger age group.
The superimposed blue arrows indicate where excess deaths begin to accrue more quickly in those 60- to 79-year-olds. Once again this occurs in the spring and autumn of 2021.
“Correlation is not proof of causation,” so draw your own conclusions.
What the actuarial tables reveal
I recommend the journal article as exceptionally readable and even-handed. The authors review other analyses of patterns in all-cause mortality. They point out that we are interested in departures from past trends, but there is no way to define those trends objectively.
To account for past trends quantitatively requires a computer model, and as we know, there are many ways to construct a computer model.
There are four moving parts to be accounted for:
Overall population is increasing.Overall death rates are decreasing.The proportions of the population in each age group are changing.The mortality rates of these different subpopulations were already changing before COVID-19.The authors acknowledge the strengths of previous analyses and note the places where one or more of these four adjustments were not part of the calculation.
They then proceed to their own analysis, based on actuarial tables.
You may already be familiar with how actuarial tables work. They are used to calculate insurance risk. Typically, they list probabilities of death for a one-year period, based on age, sex and sometimes race.
Insurance companies are motivated to make a profit, and they don’t mess around with fudge factors. That’s why it was so alarming when a number of insurance companies announced earlier this year that their group life policies had paid out higher benefits in the last half of 2021 — at an unprecedented level.
The authors track the trends in actuarial tables from the past several years and used them to construct tables for Germany in 2020 and 2021.
They combined these with census data for the number of Germans in each age group to create their estimates of how the actual number of deaths differed from expectations. That is the methodology that went into figure 5.
The database they used also includes dates for each death. The authors were able to track when the excess deaths among 30- to 79-year-olds occurred.
The answer: The excess deaths began in April 2021, and continued through most of the year. Deaths among people ages 60-79 were up 20% from April 2021 through March 2022.
In every age group, mortality was higher in the year of the vaccine
Most of the effort and the technical detail in the article is devoted to defining an expected mortality rate for each age group.
But for what we want to know, this is largely unnecessary — we can simply compare 2020 with 2021.
Credit: Josh Mitteldorf, Ph.D.[…]
Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-excess-deaths-germany/
Leaked Video Suggests Israeli Health Officials Covered Up Serious Safety Problems With Pfizer COVID Vaccine
A leaked video recording reveals researchers in June shared data with the Israeli Ministry of Health showing serious and long-term side effects associated with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, but Israeli health officials told the public in an August report that serious side effects were “rare” and short-term.
A leaked video recording reveals researchers in June shared data with the Israeli Ministry of Health (MOH) showing serious and long-term side effects associated with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
However, the MOH did not disclose the researchers’ findings to the expert committee that met later that month to decide on recommending the vaccine for children under age 5, or with leaders of Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine booster program.
Additionally, the MOH on Aug. 2 issued a report — on adverse events following the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Dec. 9, 2021, to May 31, 2022 — that contradicted the data presented during the early-June meeting.
“In fact, the report completely contradicts what was said in this discussion,” Retsef Levi, Ph.D., a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the Israeli Public Emergency Council for the Covid19 Crisis, told GB News in an Aug. 21 interview.
Yaffa Shir-Raz, Ph.D., health communication and pharmaceutical companies public relations strategy researcher at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel, translated the June meeting from Hebrew into English.
The English translation shows the research team warned MOH officials they should think carefully about how to present the researchers’ findings to the public because they posed a potential legal risk, as the findings contradicted MOH’s claims that serious side effects are rare and short-term.
Shir-Raz tweeted on Sept. 1 an excerpt from the recorded meeting in which the research team warned MOH seniors they would have to think of the legal ramifications of the team’s findings.
According to the video recording, the researchers informed MOH officials about the many reports of serious and long-term side effects of the Pfizer vaccine, including side effects Pfizer didn’t list on the patient information leaflet, such as digestive side effects — especially abdominal pain in children — and back pain.
Additionally, Levi told GB News:
“On the free text part of the form, where patients were allowed to report whatever they wanted to, they [the researchers] observed and got many, many reports of neurological side effects — some not currently listed by Pfizer as side effects of the vaccine.”
The researchers also noted many cases of what Levi called the “re-challenge phenomenon” — or the recurrence or worsening of a side effect following repeated doses of the vaccine — which the researchers said indicated there was most likely a causal link between the vaccine and many side effects.
“The research team repeatedly stressed during the discussion,” Shir-Raz said in her translation and summary in English, “that their findings indicate that — contrary to what we were told so far — in many cases, serious adverse events are long-term, that last weeks, months, a year, or even more, and in some cases — ongoing, so that the side effect still lasted when the study was over.”
The side effects included menstrual irregularities and various neurological side effects, muscle-skeletal injuries, GI problems and kidney and urinary system adverse events, Shir-Raz said.
According to Levi’s review of the meeting footage, the researchers expressed a sentiment of “concern” and felt their “conscience” bothered them by the reality of their findings.
The researchers told the MOH officials their findings contradicted the MOH’s prior messaging that the vaccine was safe and side effects were both rare and short-lasting.
In 50% of the reports in which a duration was specified by the individual, the researchers said, the duration was over six months, according to the video’s English subtitles.
Moreover, in 65% of the neurological cases that mentioned a duration, the individuals reported their symptoms were ongoing, Levi said.
“Now it turns out that the reality is not what the narrative was promoting,” Levi said. “The side effects are long-term and serious.”
The research team told the MOH officials:
“You have to think very very carefully about how you communicate this to the public because you may open yourself to legal lawsuits and liability issues because what you promoted is, in fact, not the reality in what we see in the reports.”
Despite the importance of this discussion, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services at MOH — and the person who signed the contract with Pfizer — was not present during the meeting. The researchers repeatedly asked MOH officials to make sure Dr. Alroy-Preis saw their findings
The MOH commissioned the Shamir Medical Center team of researchers with experience in pharmacovigilance to analyze the data from the adverse effects reporting system launched in Dec. 2021.
Although Israel began its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in 2020, it did not have an adverse effect reporting system until the end of 2021.
Steve Kirsch, executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, commented on the news in a Sept. 2 Substack post, asking, “Why didn’t they release the original presentation made by the safety team?”
“There needs to be an investigation ASAP into what happened, but the head of the MoH, Nitzan Horowitz, isn’t calling for one,” he said.
“The precautionary principle of medicine now demands an immediate halt to the COVID vaccination program,” Kirsch said.
Kirsch also commented on the lack of media coverage of the Israeli researchers’ findings:
“Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, the Health Ministry’s head of public services and a top COVID adviser to the Israeli government, issued no public statement.
“Leaders of our ‘trusted institutions’ all over the world said absolutely nothing after the news broke on August 20, 2022.
“This suggests that there is widespread corruption in the medical community, government agencies, among public health officials, the mainstream media, and social media companies worldwide: they will not acknowledge any event that goes against the mainstream narrative.
“This is a level of corruption that is unprecedented. The atrocities here are clear-cut.
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The Role of the Kushan Empire in the First Silk Road
Episode 18 – Lost Kushan Empire
Foundations of Eastern Civilization
Dr Craig Benjamin
Film Review
The Kushan, originally descended from Yuezhi nomads,* were the great Silk Road facilitators. Their empire extended from Uzbekistan in the north to Central India and from the Iranian Plateau to the Tarim Basin** in the East. By the early first century AD, the Han Empire had also expanded to incorporate much of Central Asia as tributary states. This brought them into direct contact with the Kushan, who eventually controlled all the east-west and north-south Silk Road trade routes.
Because the Kushan had no literature of their own, most of their history is reconstructed from historical accounts and their coins. Imprinted with a distinctive Bactrian script employing Sanskrit grammar and Greek letters, the latter frequently commemorated royal lines of succession, foreign conquest. and various religious icons of their subjects.
Major achievements if the Kushan Empire included creating a new dating system and subsidizing numerous schools of sculpture (based on Greco-Roman and Persian sculpture), which would have a major influence on all all Asian art. The Kushan are credited with creating the first sculptural likeness of the Buddha.
Major patrons of Buddhism, they also called the first world conference on Buddhism to consolidate Buddhist doctrine, which the Kushan government translated into Sanskrit for wide dissemination.
The demise of the Kushan Empire was triggered by an invasion by the new Sasssanian Empire in Persia, destroying their capitol and palaces. However the Gupta Empire, which reunified India in the 4th century AD retained many Kushan influences.
*Long time rivals of the Xiongu nomads, who forced the Yuezhi to migrate to the Central Steppes and resettle in Bactria in 130 BC (ten years prior to their visit from Han Dynasty envoy Zhang Xian).
**Aka the Taklamakan Desert
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September 8, 2022
Case Mounting for Inquiry into NZ Govt’s Management of Covid Pandemic
Point of Order
Only now are some of the true costs for New Zealanders of the Covid pandemic and the government’s imposition of lockdowns in those far-off days of 2020 and 2021 becoming apparent.
They are being felt daily in every household, and not just through the surge in the cost of living. They will be felt for years to come through servicing the big rise in the national debt incurred during those lockdowns
Not so obvious, but just as onerous. will be the impact of Covid on major construction projects. Only this week Dr Sean Sweeney, CEO of City Rail Link project, wrote in the NZ Herald of the direct impact of full lockdowns on the project’s sites and the ongoing impact of more than 280 days in which Auckland was either at lockdown level 3 with borders closed, or level 2 with restrictions to site operations.
Furthermore, there had been the impact of closed borders on site resources. The global supply chain was also severely disrupted.
Dr Sweeeny says these effects delayed the project and combined to lift building cost inflation to levels unheard since the high inflation years of the 1970s and 1980s.
CRL has been working with its design construction partner , the Link Alliance, to agree on what the actual time and cost impacts to the project are.
In April 2021,CRL advised its project sponsors, the Crown and Auckland Council, it could not give a revised project time and cost status. Since January 2020 it has been working with the Link Alliance to quantify all Covid costs and impact since June 2020.
It doesn’t expect this to be finished until the end of this year.
Just what will be the final cost of completing the CRL, (which will undoubtedly transform Auckland’s transport system) is anybody’s guess at the moment. The only thing certain is that it will be a shock for Auckland ratepayers.
The project back in 2019 had a cost estimate of $4.4bn. Anyone reading between the lines of Dr Sweeney’s article might think he was preparing Auckland ratepayers, the CRL’s customers, and taxpayers generally for the worst.
This reinforces the call for an inquiry which came from former politician Richard Prebble this week..
Prebble has his own slant on the need for the inquiry. He says it should not be to apportion blame—that serves no useful purpose — but says “we need an inquiry to be better prepared for the next pandemic”.
He argues the government needs to abandon the New Zealand model, the traffic lights, compulsory isolation and the mandates.
“Adopt the Swedish model. Trust the people to use their common sense”.
Prebble notes that internationally for the first two years of the pandemic, New Zealand’s response was praised.
He went on to observe that commentators often frame the discussion as New Zealand v Sweden.
“Sweden’s refusal to lockdown or issue mandates, relying instead on their citizens’ common sense, was scorned. Swedes pictured in April 2020 socialising in Stockholm while New Zealand was in lockdown. Sweden responded saying that in three years their infection and death rates from Covid will be no higher than countries that have locked down, quarantined and issued mandates. Sweden said they will not have deprived people of their liberties, damaged their children’s education or harmed their economy.
“Unlike New Zealand, Sweden has held an independent Corona Commission into its response. The Commission was critical of initial inadequate protection to those in care homes that resulted in 90 per cent of all Covid deaths.
“The Commission found that the Swedish Covid death rate was lower than European countries that locked down. The Commission determined the no lockdown strategy was correct, saying the state should only limit the liberty of citizens when absolutely necessary.”
The commission praised the decision to keep schools open, noting Swedish pupils have not had their education disrupted.
In contrast, international researchers have become increasingly critical of New Zealand’s response, Prebble says,
He cites epidemiologist and health economist at Stanford University School of Medicine, Professor Jay Bhattacharya:
“New Zealand’s Zero Covid strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure.”
The Stanford professor says New Zealand has experienced more Covid cases per capita throughout the pandemic than the US and
“… there are the enormous economic, psychological and additional health costs of lockdown that the population will pay out for over the coming year.”
Prebble reckons the cost of Labour’s failed zero Covid policy to citizens, the economy, health and to education has been huge.
The only country still following the New Zealand model of lockdowns, quarantines and mandates is the police state of communist China.
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Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less Than Cubans
Newsweek
Life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped sharply in the last two years, to the point that now the average Cuban will live nearly three years more than the average American.
The latest numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that, in 2021, U.S. life expectancy at birth is now 76.1 years, dropping by nearly a full year from the 2020 figure.
Life expectancy for men is now 73.2, and for women, it is 79.9.
The decline means that several countries have caught up with or surpassed the U.S. According to World Bank data, Cuba’s life expectancy is 78.9, and China’s is 77.1, although both figures are from 2020 rather than 2021.
Other countries that are ahead of the U.S. in terms of life expectancy include: Colombia, Uruguay and Chile; Costa Rica, Panama and Puerto Rico; and Turkey, Greece and Albania.
All of those countries have a GDP per head in dollar terms that is less than half of that of Americans.
The U.S. ranks around 50th in the world for life expectancy (depending on data and what is considered a country or territory), and this has dropped 2.7 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Via https://www.newsweek.com/americans-can-now-expect-live-three-years-less-cubans-1739507
Judge Gives Fauci 21 Days to Turn Over Emails With Social Media Giants
By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Dr. Anthony Fauci and the White House Press Secretary to hand over their communications with five social media giants. The ruling stems from a lawsuit alleging the Biden administration colluded with the companies to censor COVID-19 viewpoints that weren’t aligned with the administration’s official narrative.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered top-ranking Biden administration officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — to hand over their communications with five social media giants within 21 days.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed earlier this year by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeffrey Landry alleging the Biden administration colluded with Big Tech firms Twitter, Meta (Facebook’s parent company), Youtube, Instagram and LinkedIn to censor certain viewpoints under the guise of preventing the circulation of “misinformation” or “disinformation.”
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in July ordered the Biden administration to swiftly produce records requested by the plaintiffs as part of the discovery process.
On Aug. 2, Schmitt and Landry filed discovery requests seeking documents and information from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and its director, Fauci; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre; Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy; and former Disinformation Governance Board executive director Nina Jankowicz.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs also sent discovery requests to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its director, Jen Easterly; the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The requests resulted in a cache of documents revealing more than 50 Biden administration workers and 12 U.S. agencies had been involved in a censorship push over social media.
However, some government officials — including Fauci — refused to provide records or answer any questions posed by the plaintiffs, claiming the communications were protected under executive privilege.
The government claimed Fauci should not be required to answer the plaintiff’s questions or provide records related to his capacity as NIAID director or related to his capacity as Biden’s chief medical officer. Additionally, the government sought to withhold records and responses from Jean-Pierre.
Judge Doughty on Tuesday broke the stalemate by ruling that both Fauci and Jean-Pierre must comply with the interrogatories and hand over the requested records.
“First,” Judge Doughty said in the ruling, “the requested information is obviously very relevant to Plaintiffs’ claims. Dr. Fauci’s communications would be relevant to Plaintiffs’ allegations in reference to alleged suppression of speech relating to the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin, and to alleged suppression of speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns. Jean-Pierre’s communications as White House Press Secretary could be relevant to all of Plaintiffs’ examples.”
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According to Judge Doughty:
“Government Defendants are making a blanket assertion of all communications to social media platforms by Dr. Fauci, and Jean-Pierre based upon executive privilege and presidential communications privilege.
“Plaintiffs concede they are not asking for any internal White House communications, but only external communications between Dr. Fauci and/or Jean-Pierre and third-party social media platforms.
“This Court believes Plaintiffs are entitled to external communications by Jean-Pierre and Dr. Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms.”
Judge Doughty ordered Fauci and Jean-Pierre to comply within 21 days, and said Fauci must provide complete answers to questions about his role as NIAID director.
In response to the ruling, a Biden administration official defended the administration’s actions, telling Fox News, “As we have said over and over again since the beginning of the administration in our battle against COVID-19, it has been critical for the American people to have access to factual, accurate, science-based information.”
“We believe in and we support freedom of speech, and we also believe it is important for all media platforms, including social media, to represent factual scientific information and combat misinformation and disinformation that can cost lives,” the official concluded.
However, Mary Holland, president and general counsel of Children’s Health Defense, told The Defender the ruling is “really good news.”
Holland said:
“Up until now, Dr. Fauci has operated under this cloak of ‘untouchableness,’ thinking he has been above the law. He likely didn’t expect his emails to be made public.
“We can only imagine what this tranche of emails will likely reveal about Dr. Fauci’s bare-knuckled censorship — it won’t be pretty.”
Holland said Judge Doughty’s ruling was “even-handed” because he “granted some of the Plaintiff Attorney Generals’ discovery requests and denied others.”
For instance, Doughty denied the Plaintiffs’ request that the HHS conduct a search for relevant records among its 80,000 employees because it would be “unduly burdensome.” However, he said the HHS employees identified in the documents from Meta needed to respond to the discovery requests.
Holland added:
“Most importantly, the court ordered that Dr. Fauci’s and Karine Jean-Pierre’s external emails to social media platforms must be produced by September 27, within 21 days of the ruling.
“Stay tuned and get the popcorn. Those emails likely will reveal how the censorship has worked — and the path to ending it now.”
Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance and a lawyer for some of the Plaintiffs, told The Epoch Times:
“We know from the previous round of discovery that efforts to censor the speech of those who disagree with the government on covid policy have come from the top.
“Americans deserve to know Anthony Fauci’s participation in this enterprise, especially since he has publicly demanded that specific individuals, including two of our clients, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, be censored on social media.”
“It is time for Dr. Fauci to answer for his flagrant disregard for Americans’ constitutional rights and civil liberties,” Younes added.
New Civil Liberties Alliance in August joined the lawsuit, stating in its case summary that the suit also represents epidemiologists and co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, as well as Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and Jill Hines.
Plaintiffs push to interrogate other Biden officials, file amended complaint
As part of Tuesday’s ruling, Judge Doughty also granted the plaintiffs’ request to question additional government officials based on their review of the records obtained from their previous discovery request.
Although Fauci and Jean-Pierre did not comply with the initial discovery request, the government records that were obtained “unveiled an army of federal censorship bureaucrats, including officials arrayed at the White House, HHS, DHS, CISA, the CDC, NIAID, the Office of the Surgeon General, the Census Bureau, the FDA, the FBI, the State Department, the Treasury Department, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission,” the NCLA said in a Sept. 1 press release.
“Communications show these federal officials are fully aware that the pressure they exert is an effective and necessary way to induce social-media platforms to increase censorship. The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency even griped about the need to overcome social-media companies’ ‘hesitation’ to work with the government,” NCLA said.
The defendants identified 45 officials across five federal agencies as the officials who communicated with social media companies about misinformation and censorship.
However, email and other documents provided by Meta, Twitter and Google showed several other officials — including officials at other federal agencies and the White House — were involved in the effort.
Moreover, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently disclosed that the FBI contacted him about disinformation before the 2020 election — and that Facebook suppressed the circulation of the first Hunder Biden laptop story.
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