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May 11, 2025
US abandons ‘Hamas disarmament’ demands in Gaza truce talks
(Photo Credit: AP)The Cradle
The US government has dropped its demand for Hamas to disarm as a precondition for a ceasefire in Gaza, Egyptian sources revealed to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
“US negotiators conveyed to Egyptian intermediaries that the issue of Hamas’s disarmament could be addressed at a later stage, rather than being an immediate requirement for a ceasefire agreement,” the Qatari-owned news outlet reports.
The unnamed source added that US President Donald Trump’s “inner circle” is convinced of the “futility” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy to free the captives via military pressure, believing that no military option will help save the Israeli captives in Gaza.
Furthermore, US planners are reportedly aware of the “impracticality of forcibly exiling leaders and fighters from the armed wings of Hamas” and other Palestinian resistance factions due to “concerns from potential host countries and the large number of individuals Israel seeks to remove,” which number in the thousands.
The Egyptian source reported a “sense of optimism” among negotiators regarding the possibility of reaching a comprehensive solution in the near future, especially given Hamas’s readiness to release all Israeli detainees in Gaza simultaneously and the potential for an acceptable framework controlling the resistance’s weapons and the movement post-agreement.
Washington’s sudden shift follows reports in Hebrew media indicating that Trump has “lost patience” with Netanyahu and will not wait any longer for Israel before advancing US initiatives in West Asia.
Trump this week surprised his allies in Tel Aviv by announcing an end to the illegal war in Yemen as part of a ceasefire deal that excluded Israel. Moreover, Reuters reported on Thursday that the US president is no longer demanding that Saudi Arabia normalize ties with Israel as a condition before nuclear cooperation talks can proceed.
Trump is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar next week. As of press time, this trip does not include a stop in Israel.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday canceled his planned trip to Israel, which was set for Monday, to accompany President Trump on Air Force One for his trip to the Persian Gulf.
Despite the apparent cold shoulder from the White House, Israeli leaders say they are moving ahead with a large-scale military operation to “conquer” Gaza if no progress is made before Trump’s upcoming tour.
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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/us-abandons-hamas-disarmament-demands-in-gaza-truce-talks-report
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Introduces Bill to REPEAL PATRIOT ACT — Declares War on Surveillance State
By Jim Hoft
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has officially introduced legislation to repeal the infamous USA PATRIOT Act, a cornerstone of post-9/11 surveillance expansion that many constitutional conservatives have long blasted as an all-out assault on civil liberties.
Dubbed the “American Privacy Restoration Act,” the bill aims to undo the sweeping surveillance powers granted to the federal government under the original 2001 legislation, which turned American citizens into perpetual suspects in their own country.
“I introduced the “American Privacy Restoration Act” to FULLY REPEAL the Patriot Act and strip rogue intelligence officers of their extraordinary mass surveillance powers. Since the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the aftermath of 9/11, intelligence agency officials have used their mass surveillance tools to settle personal scores, interfere in elections, and spy on untold numbers of innocent Americans. This abuse must come to an end!”
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According to the press release:
“Today, U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) introduced the “American Privacy Restoration Act.” The legislation, if enacted, would fully repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, commonly referred to as simply the “Patriot Act,” a sweeping post-9/11 law long criticized for enabling an unprecedented expansion of government surveillance.
“For over two decades, rogue actors within our U.S. intelligence agencies have used the Patriot Act to create the most sophisticated, unaccountable surveillance apparatus in the Western world,” said Congresswoman Luna.
“My legislation will strip the deep state of these tools and protect every American’s fourth amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures. It’s past time to rein in our intelligence agencies and restore the right to privacy. Anyone trying to convince you otherwise is using ‘security’ as an excuse to erode your freedom.”
The USA PATRIOT Act, passed just over a month after the September 11 attacks, granted federal agencies broad authority to collect personal data, conduct surveillance, and detain individuals with limited judicial oversight. Since being enacted, there have been numerous whistleblower reports of rampant abuse of Patriot Act powers by U.S. intelligence agencies.
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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/rep-anna-paulina-luna-introduces-bill-repeal-usa/
China accelerates replacement of US products before China-US trade meeting
Bulk carrier Ever Radiance, fully loaded with Brazilian soybeans weighing 69,704 tons, slowly sails into the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port and docks at the terminal on April 24, 2025, in East China’s Zhejiang Province. Photo: VCG
Global Times
China and the US kicked off on Saturday a high-level meeting on economic and trade affairs in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting will continue on Sunday, a CGTN report revealed on Sunday.
China moved to accelerate the replacement of US products before the high-level China-US trade talks in Switzerland, Yuyuantantian, a social media account affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday.
China signed letters of intent with exporters of Argentina to purchase soybeans, corn, and vegetable oil shortly before the Geneva talks, according to Yuyuantantian. Rui Costa, chief of staff of the Presidency of Brazil, also visited China in late April, said the report.
Brazil expressed a desire to build sustainable, long-term, and actionable partnerships with China to jointly navigate an increasingly complex and volatile global environment, according to Yuyuantantian.
Earlier in April, China signed contracts to purchase at least 2.4 million tons of soybeans from Brazil—a volume equivalent to nearly one-third of China’s average monthly soybean imports, the Yuyuantantian report said.
The report noted that these moves underscore China’s efforts to secure alternative sources of US goods before the bilateral trade meeting started.
China signed a letter of intent with exporters in Argentina to buy about $900 million of soybeans, corn and vegetable oil, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
A delegation from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) visited Argentina on Wednesday and met with officials in charge of international trade and agricultural markets from the South American country, according to a statement posted on the council’s website Thursday.
The Chinese delegates also held talks with local business representatives, focusing on expanding bilateral economic and trade cooperation and defending the free trading system. CCPIT and the Argentine Chamber of Commerce for Asia and the Pacific also signed a memorandum of understanding, per the CCPIT statement.
Despite the headwinds posed by escalating US tariffs, China’s foreign trade performed better than expected in April.
According to data released by the General Administration of Customs, while exports to the US fell 21 percent year-on-year to about $33 billion last month, overall Chinese exports rose 8.1 percent, with exports to non-US markets increasing 13 percent.
Over the first four months of the year, the year-on-year increase in China’s exports to non-US markets was roughly 20 times the year-on-year decrease in exports to the US.
Florida Becomes Second State to Ban Fluoride in Public Drinking Water
In a press conference today, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida is ending fluoridation because, “When you do this in the water supply, you’re taking away a choice of someone who may not want to have overexposure to fluoride.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today said he will sign a bill banning the addition of fluoride to public drinking water, making Florida the second state to end the practice. The ban will take effect July 1.
Senate Bill 700, known as the “Florida Farm Bill,” passed the state House last week 88-27, sending the bill to the governor’s desk. The bill prevents “the use of certain additives in a water system.”
In a press conference, DeSantis said Florida is ending fluoridation because, “When you do this in the water supply, you’re taking away a choice of someone who may not want to have overexposure to fluoride.”
He said research shows the chemical has serious negative health consequences for children and pregnant women.
“We don’t want local governments unilaterally injecting a chemical into the water supply and exposing people to potentially harmful side effects,” he added.
He also said people can add fluoride to their water at home if they want to.
DeSantis was joined at the press conference by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
Last year, Ladapo advised governments across the state to stop adding fluoride to their water, citing the neuropsychiatric risks associated with the practice.
“Today we announce that drinking water will hydrate, not medicate,” Simpson said. “Florida water will be clean, it will be safe, and it will be medication-free.”
Ladapo also praised the decision. His office last year issued written guidance detailing the latest research showing that exposure to fluoridated water can lead to neurodevelopmental issues in children, including lower IQ.
Given that risk, along with the wide availability of toothpaste, mouthwash and other alternative sources of fluoride, Ladapo recommended ending community water fluoridation.
Ashley Malin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Florida’s Department of Epidemiology, also spoke at the press conference. She is the lead author of a recent study of women and children in Los Angeles that found children born to women exposed during pregnancy to fluoridated drinking water were more likely to have neurobehavioural problems.
Malin said there have been “major milestones” in research on fluoride’s effects on neurodevelopment in the last decade, and particularly in the last year. She added:
“With more and more studies finding associations of fluoride exposure with adverse neurological outcomes, even at levels that we commonly encounter in Florida, the findings of these studies point to an imminent need for policy change and the policy change happening in Miami-Dade today with the ultimate signing of this bill, is one that will protect the brains of children in Florida from unreasonable risk of harm for generations to come.”
DeSantis held the press conference in Miami, hours after the Miami-Dade commissioners voted for a second time to ban fluoridation there.
County commissioners voted last month to halt the county’s fluoridation program. But on April 11, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava vetoed the legislation. Earlier that day, county commissioners voted 8-4 to override her veto.
DeSantis’ announcement comes one day before Utah’s fluoride ban takes effect. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill in late March that prohibits adding the chemical to the state’s water systems, making Utah the first state to ban water fluoridation.
Starting tomorrow, local water managers in Utah will have to dispose of their remaining water fluoride chemicals — which are byproducts of phosphate fertilizer production — as hazardous waste.
When Ladapo recommended that Florida communities end fluoridation last year, he said a landmark ruling in September 2024 by a California federal judge prompted him to review the science.
In that ruling, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen concluded water fluoridation at current U.S. levels poses an “unreasonable risk” to children’s health. Chen ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take regulatory action in light of recent scientific findings.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed in 2017 by Fluoride Action Network, Moms Against Fluoridation, Food & Water Watch and individual parents and children.
It also followed the publication in August 2024 of a key report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program. The report concluded that higher levels of fluoride exposure in drinking water are consistently linked to lower IQ in kids.
In October 2024, an updated Cochrane Review concluded that adding fluoride to drinking water provides very limited, if any, dental benefits, especially compared with 50 years ago.
Since the ruling, more than 60 U.S. towns, counties and now states have voted to stop fluoridating their water, Rick North, board member of the Fluoride Action Network, told The Defender.
North said DeSantis’ announcement is more evidence that “the tide has turned throughout the country on water fluoridation, and that’s no play on words.”
“City by city, state by state, the U.S. is catching up to the 95% of the rest of the world that has already rejected fluoridation,” North said. “Call it what you like — a tipping point, a critical mass, a snowball, whatever. It’s happening, and there’s no stopping it.”
Despite that changing tide — and the overwhelming evidence of fluoride’s neurotoxic effects — pro-fluoridation organizations like the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Fluoridation Society and others continue to push water fluoridation, often attempting to intervene in local democratic processes to end the practice.
Commenting on those groups’ refusal to reexamine their position in light of new scientific evidence, Ladapo said they reminded him of Linus from Charlie Brown, who clung to his baby blanket:
“We have professionals, doctors, dentists, public health leaders who are holding onto fluoridation like that blanket. I mean, it doesn’t matter what the evidence shows, right?
“Whatever the studies show about potential harms in children and pregnant women, and who knows about the rest of us, you’re just holding onto it. And it’s OK when you’re a kid, but we’re grown-ups here. We’re adults. We’re responsible for the lives of other people. We need to make good decisions.”
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/florida-second-state-ban-fluoride-public-drinking-water/
Turning the Tide Mali: Africa’s New Directions
Turning the Tide Mali: Africa’s New Directions
Directed by Ousmahe Zorome Samassekou (2025)
Film Review
Mali has faced militant action from Tuareg separatists and Al Qaeda insurgents since the early 2000s.This led to three coups and the country is presently under military rule (the 2021 coup leader General Asimi Gorte has become transitional president).
The 2012 coup coincided with the infiltration of northern Mali by Al Qaeda affiliated jihadists, leading to extreme instability. The Mali government was pressured to accept the installation of French troops to “combat terrorism.”
As terrorism only increased with the presence of French troops, Gorte has expelled them and turned to Russia for military assistance. This has greatly improved security.
Northern Mali, home to Tuareg separatists, has a very spare population and hardly any government services (including schools). The filmmakers interview several Mali academics, who assertthe absence of jobs or productive activities contributes to lawlessness among the region’s young people.
Despite gaining political independence from France in 1960, Mali has never been allowed to profit from its rich natural resources (mainly oil, uranium, gold and diamonds). Contracts for resource extraction always favor France and other European countries. As in other resource-rich African countries, terrorist groups are always most active in resource-rich regions.
With security improved (terrorist activity continue, but at a much smaller scale) thanks to Russian military training and equipment, residents in northern Mali has resumed farming and fishing. Local communities play a crucial role in hosting displaced persons from areas of heavy fighting, with the Mali army helping to distribute food and water.
May 10, 2025
A Century of Evidence That Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Death
A Midwestern Doctor
Story at-a-glanceMultiple doctors have linked the DPT vaccine to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), noting that SIDS peaks coincide with vaccination schedules at 2, 4, and 6 monthsSince at least 1933, the medical community has known that vaccines cause infant deaths. To conceal this, those deaths were renamed “crib death” and then “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” (SIDS), eventually being attributed to infants not sleeping on their backsThis revisionism is not supported by the existing evidence nor the historical changes in the frequency of SIDS. Most recently, SIDS rates have had an unprecedented decrease in tandem with the COVID-19 lockdowns reducing vaccination ratesThe vaccine most strongly associated with SIDS, DPT, was protected for decades by the government despite knowing a large body of evidence around the world showed it killed infants — particularly when an inevitable hot lot was released. Eventually, so many injury lawsuits were filed that in 1986, the government had to give blanket immunity to the vaccine manufacturersThis article will review the body of evidence showing vaccines cause SIDS and reveal the mechanism modern research has now repeatedly proven causes vaccines to trigger infant deathWe’re always told that vaccines were a medical marvel that safely ended the dark age of infectious disease. However, when the actual records are examined, they often abjectly failed to prevent those diseases, and worse still, frequently caused outbreaks and severely injured many of the recipients.
This in part resulted from the inherent toxicity of vaccines and in part because manufacturing challenges regularly resulted in hot lots being released. Rather than address this, the vaccine industry chose to create a variety of strategies to conceal those issues, such as enshrining the dogma “all vaccines are safe” and giving blanket legal immunity to all the “safe” vaccines.
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Sudden Infant DeathsThis sadly also holds true for infant deaths, and since its creation, the diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) vaccine has been associated with those deaths.
For example, in 2014, unmarked mass graves belonging to Irish orphans were discovered which belonged to a group of 2,051 children upon whom an early diphtheria vaccine was covertly tested in the 1930s.1
Likewise, as detailed by Sir Graham Wilson,3 in the early 1900s, there were over a dozen cases in the medical literature (and likely far more that weren’t documented) where groups of children received an incorrectly prepared diphtheria vaccine, and collectively, thousands became severely ill, with hundreds suffering an agonizing death.
A wave of deaths hence followed DPT’s adoption, which like those following the COVID vaccines, became a “mysterious syndrome,” initially being called “crib death” and then “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” (SIDS). In turn, a few doctors saw this and spoke out against it.
• Robert Mendelsohn M.D. in his 1987 book “How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor“5 wrote:
“My suspicion, which is shared by others in my profession, is that the nearly 10,000 SIDS deaths that occur in the United States each year are related to one or more of the vaccines that are routinely given to children. The pertussis vaccine is the most likely villain, but it could also be one or more of the others.”
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After the infant death rate climbed to 50% following an infant vaccination campaign, he realized that in the same way infections depleted vitamin C, vaccines did too, and rapidly stopped the vaccination deaths with injected vitamin C. Additionally, he also discovered that vaccinating a child who was currently ill was frequently lethal (which, to varying degrees, has also been reported throughout the medical literature).
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In addition to causing death, the DPT vaccine frequently caused brain injuries. As the media had not yet been bought out by the pharmaceutical industry (due to a 1997 FTC decision legalizing pharmaceutical television advertisements), programs critical of vaccination would occasionally air such as a 1982 one highlighting the profound disability being caused by the DPT vaccine.
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Many parents with DPT injured children saw this program, called NBC and then were connected by NBC, forming “Dissatisfied Parents Together” one of the original vaccine safety groups, and in 1985, “DPT, A Shot in the Dark,” was published.11 DPT, A Shot in the Dark highlighted that:12
• As early as 1933, there were published reports of infant deaths shortly after DPT shots,13 including some where autopsies attributed the deaths to vaccination.14
• Simultaneous identical twin deaths are an extraordinarily rare event and are hence considered a gold standard for establishing causality, and in 1946, two twins died (on their backs) within 24 hours of their second DPT vaccine15 — something also shown in 1987,16 2006,17 2007,18 2010,19 and 201320 case reports.
• Researchers like Dr. William Torch (who analyzed 72 sequential SIDS cases21 and then over 200)22 showed that these deaths clustered shortly after vaccination — something which could not be explained by chance.
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• In 1978 to 1979, eleven infants in Tennessee died within eight days of receiving a DPT vaccine; nine had been vaccinated with the same lot — Wyeth #64201 — and five (four from that lot) died within 24 hours. Statistical analysis showed that such a clustering of deaths would occur by chance only 3% of the time; later estimates put the probability even lower — between 0.2% and 0.5%.
In June, CDC Director Dr. William Foege told the Surgeon General that while a causal link to those deaths couldn’t be confirmed, it also couldn’t be ruled out. Three weeks later, FDA official Harry Meyer cited Foege’s memo to reject Wyeth’s request to list SIDS-related risk factors as contraindications for the DPT vaccine, stating there was no medical basis or evidence that such labeling would prevent SIDS.
• Following this, in 1979 Wyeth’s senior leadership published a memo which stated future DPT lots needed to be distributed across the country (rather than sent to one place) so a repeat of the 1978 to 1979 incident would not occur again.
Additionally, another cluster of SIDS deaths in Fresno California led to the local newspaper conducting an investigation that revealed widespread issues with hot DPT lots, had doctors in the area providence evidence DPT was indeed causing SIDS, and disclosed that a 1978 study on the safety of the DPT vaccine was buried after researchers discovered adverse reactions within 48 hours of immunization were 5000% higher than expected.
This damning indictment of the DPT vaccine led to national vaccine safety legislation being passed in 198624 (which sadly subsequently got co-opted and became nothing but a blanket liability shield for industry) and the whole cell DTwP vaccine eventually being replaced with the safer acellular DTaP vaccine.
Whole Cell Pertussis in Africa[…]
Peter Aaby, a renowned vaccine scientist and promoter of vaccination, was commissioned by the WHO to study the effects of vaccines commonly utilized in charitable programs by the international community on infant mortality (studies which for context are almost never conducted). To his horror, Aaby discovered:26
“DPT was associated with 5-fold higher mortality than being unvaccinated [DTwP increased deaths 3.93 times in boys and 9.98 times in girls]. No prospective study has shown beneficial survival effects of DPT. Unfortunately, DPT is the most widely used vaccine, and the proportion of people who receive DPT is used globally as an indicator of a country’s vaccination program performance.
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Aaby’s 2017 results were, not surprisingly, buried, and due to Bill Gate’s “donations” vaccination (including with DTwP) has become a greater and greater focus of the WHO. However, in 2019 Peter Gøtzsche, M.D., a renowned expert on research fraud (who has been a critical reformer in evidence-based medicine), then conducted a systematic review of the DPT program27 which concluded:
“Evidence tells us that it is likely that the DPT vaccine increases total mortality in low-income countries.”
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Dose-Response RelationshipsA key metric for establishing causality is demonstrating a dose-response relationship (e.g., more vaccines causing more deaths).
On a national level, this has been shown by SIDS rates going up as the number of vaccines increased. Likewise, a 2011 study28 of the 34 nations with the lowest infant mortality rate (America being No. 34) showed an unmistakable relationship between total vaccinations and SIDS.
Giving multiple vaccinations simultaneously (e.g., hexavalent vaccines29 containing DTP + Polio + Haemophilus Influenza B + Hepatitis B) has also been repeatedly shown to increase the risk of SIDS. For example:
• When GSK’s hexavalent vaccine hit the market, SIDS cases were observed, eventually prompting a 2005 study of Germany’s adverse event database30 that found an increase in SIDS cases was associated with the vaccine.
• A 2011 study31 of Italy’s adverse event database found hexavalent vaccines increased the risk of infant death 2.2 times in the 14 days that followed.
• A judge then forced GSK to release their confidential safety data which showed 90% of reported infant deaths occurred immediately following vaccination (again strongly suggesting an association).32,33
• A later confidential 2015 report GSK gave to European regulators showed almost 52.5% of vaccine-linked deaths occurred within 3 days of vaccination, 82.2% within seven days, and 97.9% within ten days.34,35
• A 2012 VAERS analysis36 of all reported infant deaths found that infants who received twice as many vaccines at one time were roughly twice as likely to die or be hospitalized.
Similarly, since all infants receive the same vaccine dose, premature infants (being smaller) effectively receive a higher dose. In turn, that analysis37 also found the youngest infants were the most likely to die following vaccination.
Respiratory ArrestInfants can experience a cardiorespiratory event, such as an interruption of breathing or a significant slowing of the heart rate, following vaccination. In many cases, these events require CPR, and had the infant not been monitored at the hospital when it occurred, the infant would have likely died. This has been proven by decades of hospital studies of premature infants that all showed:
• Roughly a third of premature infants experienced a cardiorespiratory event following vaccination (whereas virtually none did beforehand), and about a third of those then required respiratory support.
• Those who were smaller or who had existing chronic diseases were more susceptible to these cardiopulmonary events (mirroring Kalokerinos’s observations).
• These events often recurred after subsequent vaccinations.
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As such, an Australian group developed a way to monitor infants at home continuously52 and, like many others, was able to demonstrate non-fatal disruptions of breathing spiked following DPT and Polio vaccination (this is the most likely cause of SIDS) and that this disruption continued for over six weeks post-vaccination53 (hence overlapping with the typical period of death that has been observed to follow vaccination).
Most importantly, the breathing often had not fully recovered by the time the next vaccine was given.54,55
[…]Note: Some package inserts56 for DTaP vaccines list SIDS as a possible side effect.
What Causes SIDS?When SIDS autopsies are conducted (detailed here), they typically find unusual changes such as acute congestion, edema and small hemorrhages in the brainstem and internal organs along with brain tissue infiltration by different immune cells.57,58,59,60
One of the greatest dangers with vaccines is that they cause blood cells to clump together, creating microstrokes in smaller blood vessels.63 Certain parts of the brain are more vulnerable to this, and as such, specific cranial nerves (e.g., 6 and 7) will frequently display observable deficits after vaccination (e.g., the eyes turning inwards).
Since a key area of the brain for ensuring automatic breathing is very close to the nuclei for the commonly affected cranial nerves, breathing is likely affected by those microstrokes as well.
[…]Since that time, the total infant death rate remained relatively unchanged, until in 2020 something extraordinary happened — the lockdowns led to America’s first significant drop in vaccination as well-child (vaccination) visits were “non-essential.” At the time, many in the vaccine safety community predicted this would lead to an unprecedented drop in SIDS rates. Vaccination rates indeed dropped, and in tandem, deaths did as well:64
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Furthermore, due to the political climate in Florida in 2021,65 the state’s childhood vaccination rate decreased from 93.4% in 2020 to 79.3% in 2021. At the same time, all-cause infant mortality under one year of age in Florida also reduced by 8.93% (a reversal of the 2020 trend, where infant mortality had increased by 0.67%).
A 14% decrease in vaccination coverage was associated with a 9% decrease in infant mortality, suggesting roughly half of the infant deaths in Florida could potentially be attributed to vaccinations.
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Establish National Center for Homeless Veterans, Redirects Funds Previously Spent on Housing Illegals
By Margaret Flavin
On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) signalling his administration’s prioritization of the nation’s veterans rather than illegals.
The EO will redirect funds from housing for illegals to establish the National Center for Warrior Independence. The Center will be located on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles.
A Trump administration official told Fox News, “The new National Center for Warrior Independence will help them and other veterans like them rebuild their lives.”
The initiative will focus and providing shelter, healthcare, and job training to veterans in need and will partner with private organizations to expand support and resources.
The center will allow veterans from around the nation to seek and receive care, benefits and services “to which they are entitled,” the White House said.
The order redirects funds previously spent on housing or other services for illegal aliens to constructing, establishing and maintaining the new center.
“The Center will promote self-sufficiency through housing, substance abuse treatment, and support for productive work for the veterans housed there,” the White House explained.
According to the White House, the goal is to house up to 6,000 homeless veterans at the center by 2028.
In addition, the order directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to use vouchers to support homeless veterans.
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May 9, 2025
US Administration Pressuring Israel to Sign Gaza Truce Deal Ahead of Trump’s Mideast Trip
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting where Trump announced nuclear talks with Iran, Washington, April.Credit: Kevin Mohatt / REUTERS
Liza Rosovsky
Trump’s administration has communicated to Jerusalem that if Israel does not move forward together with the United States toward an agreement with Hamas, it will be left on its own, according to a source
The Trump administration is heavily pressuring Israel to reach a deal with Hamas ahead of the president’s upcoming visit to the region, a source familiar with the details told Haaretz on Friday.
According to the source, the administration views this as a matter of great importance and is communicating to Jerusalem that if Israel does not move forward together with the United States toward an agreement, it will be left on its own. The office of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer declined to officially comment on the matter.
Trump is set to begin his regional visit on May 13, during which he is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Haaretz has also learned that Steve Witkoff is the senior American official who met earlier this week with families of the hostages and told them that military pressure endangers the captives.
Israel’s Channel 12 News reported on Thursday that Witkoff told the families: “If until now the hostages have paid the price for the war not ending, today the price will be much heavier for Israel, and not just for the hostages. President Trump is determined to move forward toward a significant deal with Saudi Arabia, even without Israeli involvement.”
A hostage deal protest featuring Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan and activist, on Saturday.Credit: Tomer Appelbaum
The source told Haaretz that Witkoff’s criticism of the Israeli government was leaked at his request. Witkoff’s office denied that the administration is pressuring Israel to reach a deal.
According to the report on Channel 12, Witkoff also told the families of the hostages that “the cease-fire agreement with the Houthis is just a prelude, and if Israel does not come to its senses, then even the ‘Deal of the Millennium’ [a deal with Saudi Arabia] will be made without it. We hope that Israel will seize the historic train that has already left the station, but the U.S. will not wait at the platform.
A senior Israeli security official said this week that the expansion of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, as approved by the cabinet, will not begin before U.S. President Donald Trump completes his visit to the Middle East, and that it will only be launched if no deal for the release of the hostages is reached by then.
According to the official, if by the end of Trump’s visit the negotiations for a hostage deal have not made progress, the Israeli operation will “begin with great force and will not stop until all its objectives are achieved.”
Reuters reported on Thursday that the United States will not require Saudi Arabia to sign a normalization agreement with Israel as a condition for negotiations on the kingdom’s civilian nuclear program, citing two sources familiar with the matter. In response, the Regional Security Coalition, which brings together more than 100 senior Israeli officials, said the report was “an urgent wake-up call for the government.”
Earlier this week, Trump announced that the U.S. would halt strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. “The Houthis have announced … that they don’t want to fight anymore,” the president said.
“They just don’t want to fight. And we will honor that. And we will we will stop the bombings. And they have capitulated,” he added. “They’ve said, ‘Please don’t bomb us anymore. We’re not going to attack your ships.'”
Israel’s defense establishment was surprised by Trump’s statement, and when Haaretz asked whether the Houthis’ commitment to cease attacks also includes missile launches at Israel, the White House replied that they had nothing to add at this time. Senior Houthi officials, following Trump’s statement, declared that they would continue aggression against Israel.
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Gulf diplomat claims Trump will announce US recognition of Palestinian state
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House.(photo credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS)Ali HussaiSaudi Arabia will host a Gulf-US summit in mid-May, part of US President Donald Trump’s first visit to Saudi Arabia during his second term. This follows the summit held on May 21, 2017, during Trump’s first term.For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org The summit, hosted by Saudi Arabia in its capital, Riyadh, was preceded by numerous predictions regarding the announcement that President Donald Trump referred to, describing it as a “very important announcement” during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House on Tuesday, May 6.
In addition to what US President Donald Trump intends to announce, the summit’s agenda and the deals and agreements expected to take place have become the talk of the town, ranging from security and military deals to technology deals and artificial intelligence deals.
All Gulf leaders are scheduled to participate in the Gulf-US summit, with the exception of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who has not participated in public events or meetings for a long time due to his health conditions.
Will Donald Trump recognize a Palestinian state?A Gulf diplomatic source, who declined to be named or disclose his position, told The Media Line, “President Donald Trump will issue a declaration regarding the State of Palestine and American recognition of it, and that there will be the establishment of a Palestinian state without the presence of Hamas.”
The source also added, “If an announcement of American recognition of the State of Palestine is made, it will be the most important declaration that will change the balance of power in the Middle East, and more countries will join the Abraham Accords.”
The source confirmed that economic agreements will certainly be present, but many of them have already been announced, and we may witness the Gulf states being exempted from tariffs.
Ahmed Al-Ibrahim, a former Gulf diplomat, told The Media Line, “I don’t expect it to be about Palestine. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan have not been invited. They are the two countries closest to Palestine, and it would be important for them to be present at any event like this.”
Al-Ibrahim also said, “There will be major deals coming, perhaps similar to what happened at the 2017 Gulf-US summit, with Saudi deals worth more than $400 billion. Let’s not forget that the UAE announced investments in the US worth more than $1 trillion, and Saudi Arabia announced investments worth more than $600 billion.”
He continued, “This is clear because President Donald Trump intends to visit the UAE and Qatar after concluding his visit to Saudi Arabia. These are two important economies with significant financial resources and major investments in the United States.”
Ahmed Boushouki, a Saudi political analyst, told The Media Line, “This is about major economic deals that will take place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Perhaps US President Donald Trump hinted at this when he told the American people to ‘buy stocks now, before his big announcement in the next two days.'”
Regarding the news of a peaceful US-Saudi nuclear cooperation to generate electricity in Saudi Arabia, Boushouki said, “Saudi Arabia has had a program announced since 2010, and it has been discussed several times before. International companies are now working to implement these projects in Saudi Arabia.”
Plans are currently underway in Saudi Arabia to build the kingdom’s first nuclear reactor, with several international companies competing to design and build the reactor. Meanwhile, the neighboring Gulf country, the United Arab Emirates, already owns the Barakah reactor and is the only Arab country with a four-reactor nuclear power plant, in collaboration with a Korean company.
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Trump Cuts Ties with Netanyahu over “Manipulation Concerns”: Report
(image from The New York Times)AlmanarUS President Donald Trump has reportedly decided to cut off direct contact with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a report said Thursday.
Yanir Cozin, a correspondent for Israeli Army Radio, said in a post on his X account that Trump made the decision after close associates told Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer that “the president believes that Netanyahu is manipulating him.”
An Israeli official added that Dermer’s tone during recent discussions with senior Republican figures about what Trump should do “was seen as arrogant and unhelpful.”
The official said that people around Trump told him that “Netanyahu was manipulating
“There is nothing Trump hates more than being portrayed as a fool or someone being played. That’s why he decided to cut contact with Netanyahu,” the official added.
Cozin pointed to the Israeli government’s “failure to present a concrete plan and timeline” regarding Iran and Yemen as a source of the worsening US-Israel relationship.
The Army Radio correspondent also highlighted that the Netanyahu government has failed to offer a concrete proposal on Gaza.
Meanwhile, Axios reported that Trump met Dermer on Thursday and discussed the nuclear talks with Iran and the war in Gaza, according to two sources briefed on the meeting.
The meeting at the White House, which was not made public by the US or the Zionist entity, took place ahead of the fourth round of nuclear talks between the US and Iran on Sunday in Muscat and Trump’s trip to the Middle East starting on Monday.
Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE on this trip but will skip the Zionist entity.
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