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Israel’s Organ Theft Scandal Exposes Culture of Desecration
Robert Inlakesh
Tel Aviv’s pageant of kidney-donor virtue cannot wash away the Palestinian bodies, forensic warnings, and trafficking scandals that still demand a reckoning.
On 25 January, Israeli President Isaac Herzog stood before a crowd celebrating what Tel Aviv claimed was a world record in kidney donations. The event, promoted after a lobbying push to Guinness World Records, was meant to project generosity, discipline, and moral purpose.
But Guinness listed only the gathering itself as a record, not the kidney donations that Tel Aviv had turned into a public relations show.
The bodies behind the numbers
In Gaza, where Israel has been returning Palestinian bodies in bags, sometimes decomposed, mutilated, or showing signs of surgical interference, the celebration landed differently. For Palestinian health officials, the question was not how Israel had produced so many donors, but whether all of those bodies had consented.
Dimming Israel’s “propaganda facade” was none other than Dr Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. He said Israel’s “record numbers” raised serious questions about the sources of the kidneys and other organs now being celebrated. He pointed to the stark contradiction of an occupation state that has held Palestinian bodies for years in the “cemeteries of numbers” and refrigerators while presenting itself to the world as a humanitarian model in organ donation.
Bursh cited documented cases of bodies returned to families missing organs, especially kidneys, without medical reports, autopsy files, or any legal path to accountability. He demanded an independent international investigation into whether Israel’s claimed achievement had been built on the theft of Palestinian organs.
Just over a week later, Israel returned the scattered remains of some 54 Palestinians to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Forensic teams quickly got to work in an attempt to identify the bodies and give closure to their families, but noted that many of the corpses had clear signs of torture and the surgical organ removal.
This was not the first such warning since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Ten days into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, allegations of organ theft had already surfaced. By late November 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor called for an investigation into the theft of Palestinian organs, after “medical professionals found evidence of organ theft, including missing cochleas and corneas as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts.”
Israel and its defenders moved to blunt the spread of these allegations by invoking “blood libel” and antisemitism. Because the evidence came from Palestinians, calls for international scrutiny have largely fallen on deaf ears.
A scandal Israel never buried
This is precisely what happened in the early 1990s, when Palestinian medical professionals and the families of the dead had accused Israel of illicit organ harvesting during the First Intifada. In fact, back in 1992, then-Israeli health minister Ehud Olmert had even organized a public organ donation campaign. As with today, presenting an image of humanitarianism.
In 1999, US anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes began exposing what had long been ignored. As co-founder of Organs Watch, an organization created to monitor organ trafficking and its human cost, she later brought the issue before a US congressional subcommittee in 2001.
The breakthrough came with her published interview with Yehuda Hiss, the chief pathologist at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute – the sole Israeli facility authorized to conduct autopsies in cases of unnatural death.
Hiss admitted that Abu Kabir had harvested organs from Palestinian bodies without consent.
The Israeli state narrative, built through an internal investigation, claimed that the theft of organs did not specifically target Palestinians, but that Israeli soldiers were also victims. However, Israel’s Channel 2 ran a documentary on the issue, interviewing pathologists at Abu Kabir, one of whom explicitly stated that “we never took skin from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, but from the others.”
Scheper-Hughes stated in 2009 that much of the world’s illicit trafficking of kidneys can be traced back to the Israelis. “Israel is the top,” she said, claiming that “it has tentacles reaching out worldwide.” She reported that Israeli citizens, who were often compensated by the Ministry of Health and in a project backed by the Defense Ministry, were responsible for mass transplant tourism.
Israelis preyed on vulnerable populations from Brazil to the Philippines. A BBC report from 2001 even described a situation where “hundreds of Israelis have created a production line that starts in the villages of Moldova, where men today are walking around with one kidney.”
In what was a controversial article for its time, the Swedish Newspaper Aftonbladet published claims in 2009 that Palestinians had been targeted and killed for their organs by the Israeli military.
Although Israel and its supporters like to write off this entire scandal by claiming it was an isolated series of cases, Hiss and his fellow pathologists at Abu Kabir, who publicly admitted to organ theft, were not even penalized for their behavior. Hiss was not sentenced to a lengthy prison term; in fact, he was allowed to continue working at Abu Kabir.
In other words, there was never any accountability, simply an internal Israeli investigation, followed by pledges from the Israeli military and government that they no longer harvest the organs of Palestinians.
The numbers behind Tel Aviv’s record
The Israeli organization at the center of the current world-record claim is Matnat Chaim, founded in February 2009, shortly after Tel Aviv passed legislation banning organ trafficking. Jerusalem, where the organization is based, has therefore become the leading city in Israel for altruistic kidney donations. Tel Aviv claims Matnat Chaim surpassed 2,000 transplants, earning the record celebrated in January.
The available data raises obvious questions.
Between 2009 and 2021, Matnat Chaim said it performed 1,000 transplants. In 2022, according to the non-profit’s own figures, it facilitated 202 transplants, down from 215 the previous year. That means the publicly available total before the November 2023 allegations stood at 1,277. To reach 2,000, the organization would have had to add 723 transplants in just over three years.
According to Israel’s National Transplant Center, the total number of live donor transplants for 2023, 2024, and 2025 totaled 923. In 2022, the last year for which publicly available data on Matnat Chaim’s specific contributions are available, the organization accounted for 63 percent of live transplants. If that rate held, its share over those three years would be around 581 transplants, short of the 2,000 mark.
This does not, by itself, incriminate Matnat Chaim. But it does explain why Bursh questioned the claim at face value, especially in the shadow of Israel’s long record of organ theft and the testimony emerging from Gaza’s hospitals.
Another interesting fact, which supports skepticism surrounding the extremely high numbers boasted by Israel, is that only 14 percent of its population has signed the Adi (Ehud) Ben Dror donor card. This makes Israel amongst the lowest of any developed nation. In most western countries, the average is 30 percent of the population that signs on to donate their organs.
Organ donations have long been a contentious issue amongst Israelis. For example, the Chief Rabbi of British-occupied Palestine in 1931 had declared that the idea that the practice desecrates the dead is “unique to Jews … gentiles [had] no reason to be particularly careful about avoiding [it] if there is a natural purpose for doing so, such as medical reasons.”
In 1996, influential Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh of the Chabad Lubavitch sect asserted that if a Jewish person needs a liver, “can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.”
The current public position of Israel’s top religious authorities is that organ donation is permissible for Jews, but that consensus is relatively recent. Only over the past decade has there been a marked rise in Jewish donors. For many observant Jews, the issue remains contested.
That social context, combined with Israel’s relatively small population, makes it all the more suspicious as to why the Israel National Skin Bank (INSB), for example, has been reported as one of the largest, if not the largest, on earth. The INSB operates jointly under both the Israeli Ministry of Health and the military.
Desecration as policy
Israel has long treated Palestinian bodies as instruments of control. In 2017, Tel Aviv admitted losing track of the bodies of Palestinian political prisoners who died in detention. The explanation pointed to the Israeli practice of burying Palestinians in anonymous graves in what is known as the “cemetery of numbers,” a cruel method designed to deny families the location of their loved ones. Palestinians have also voiced fears that some of the missing bodies were robbed of their organs.
Beyond Palestine, Israelis have been repeatedly linked to organ trafficking cases around the world.
The only person ever convicted in the US of organ trafficking was an Israeli named Levy Izhak Rosenbaum. US District Judge Anne Thompson in New Jersey described him as a black-market “profiteer” who was “trading in human misery.” He served only two and a half years in prison and avoided deportation.
In 2010, five Israeli citizens, including a retired army general, were charged with running an organ trafficking ring. Their abusive scheme was described as a “form of modern slavery,” exploiting vulnerable people in developing countries for their organs. The case exposed an uncomfortable contradiction for the Israeli judicial system: conduct it was now prosecuting had, only two years earlier, been effectively tolerated by state structures.
In 2015, Turkish authorities arrested a suspected Israeli organ trafficker, investigating a ring that was responsible for targeting Syrian refugees. As recently as 2024, four Israeli nationals were arrested by the Turkish police in a crackdown on a separate ring that also preyed on Syrian refugees and other disadvantaged populations in Turkiye.
In 2018, the police in Cyprus arrested Israeli citizen Moshe Harel, accusing him of operating a global organ trafficking ring, in a scandal that dates back to 2008, when a Turkish man collapsed in a Pristina airport, visibly in pain after having his kidney removed. Harel had previously been arrested by Israeli authorities in 2012, but was released.
The aforementioned cases are now treated as illegal by the Israeli government. But there was a time when Israelis traveling abroad for organs were not only tolerated but effectively encouraged. That history helps explain why Israeli citizens keep appearing in organ trafficking scandals across continents. The Israeli Health Ministry itself helped foster a culture in which the bodies of the poor, the displaced, and the occupied could be turned into medical inventory.
Why no investigation?
Despite this documented history, western institutions continue to enable the Israeli military. In October last year, the University of Southern California (USC) was exposed for selling 32 human cadavers to the US military, which were used for surgical training by the Israeli military. The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the revelation as “disturbing.” The bodies of deceased Americans had been sold into a chain that served an army carrying out genocide in Gaza.
A month later, new allegations would then emerge from medical professionals in the Gaza Strip of organ theft. This came amidst the release of a batch of bodies to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, where a doctor remarked that “The bodies arrived stuffed with cotton, with gaps suggesting organs were removed. What we saw is indescribable.”
With a wealth of evidence and accusations indicating that Israel has been implicated in the systematic harvesting of organs during its genocide, it begs the question as to why no independent international investigation has yet been opened.
As in the early 1990s, Palestinian evidence is again being buried beneath western political protection, fear of Israel lobby retaliation, and the standing presumption that Israeli institutions can investigate themselves.
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Active CIA Whistleblower Set to Blow Lid Off Deep State COVID-19 Cover-Up
Jim Hoft
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has confirmed to Fox News’ Bill Melugin that an active CIA employee will testify publicly and in person before his Senate Homeland Security Committee tomorrow morning, and this brave whistleblower is ready to expose how the Deep State has been lying to the American people about the origins of COVID-19 for years.
This bombshell revelation comes just days after The Gateway Pundit reported on Sen. Paul’s announcement of the May 13 hearing, where he vowed “the truth is coming” about the COVID cover-up, even as the statute of limitations expires on potential charges against Anthony Fauci and despite Joe Biden’s desperate preemptive pardon of his favorite bureaucrat on his way out the door in January 2025.
According to Melugin’s exclusive report on X:
“Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tells me that the COVID-19 whistleblower who will testify publicly & in person before his committee tomorrow morning is an active CIA employee who will testify that the intelligence community has covered up the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic for years.
“I think this whistleblower will help to confirm that this was known, has been known for a long time, and that when the scientists at the CIA looked at this, they discovered or they concluded that the virus had come from the lab,” Sen. Paul tells me.
“What we’re going to find is that the cover up is a real thing, that there are members of the community, the intelligence community, that still don’t want the truth to come out. I’ve said the government was involved not only in funding this research, but then in trying to obscure the truth. And the truth is the US government funded research in Wuhan, China, and that research led to a virus that escaped, escaped the lab, in all likelihood accidentally.”
I asked Senator Paul for any more details on who this CIA whistleblower is ahead of tomorrow’s hearing?
“This is a brave person who’s spent a career in the CIA,” Sen. Paul said. “I don’t know how much can be revealed, but is actually famous within the community for being someone who, behind the scenes, has really helped our country.””
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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/active-cia-whistleblower-set-blow-lid-deep-state/
US lost 39 aircraft during 40 days of war against Iran
Wreckage and remains of a US F-15 fighter jet, shot down by Iranian defense forces in Isfahan, on April 5, 2026.
Press TV
A US lawmaker says the American military lost at least 39 aircraft during 40 days of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.
Democratic Congressman Ed Case made the statement during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday while questioning Pentagon Chief Financial Officer Jay Hurst about the scale of US military losses in the war.
“We’ve lost about 39 aircraft, according to a report in The War Zone, and that’s an old one, almost one month old,” Case said.
He asked whether the Pentagon had calculated the long-term repair and replacement costs resulting from the losses.
Hurst declined to provide details, saying the Pentagon would need to conduct a “full diagnosis” before estimating the costs.
“There are costs there, sir, but I want to get back to you in writing,” Hurst added.
The War Zone report cited by Case said that the US Air Force carried out nearly 13,000 flights during the 40-day war with Iran.
According to the report, 39 US aircraft were destroyed, and another 10 sustained varying levels of damage.
It also said that an F-35A Lightning II was struck inside Iranian airspace and that a Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft was destroyed.
The United States and Israel launched their illegal war against Iran on February 28, triggering large-scale Iranian missile and drone retaliation against Israeli targets and American military assets across the region.
During the war, Iranian armed forces managed to intercept and shoot down dozens of hostile fighter jets, missiles, and drones.
A senior Iranian officer, who downed an intruding American F-35 fighter jet, said in an interview in April that the myth of warplanes designed to evade radar detection is over.
“We completely destroyed Lockheed Martin technology,” said the officer. “The myth of stealth fighters is over.”
According to officials, Iran also downed 170 US and Israeli drones during the aggression.
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No US weapons will transit Strait of Hormuz into regional bases
Army spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia speaks during a ceremony marking the 40th day after the burial of Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, the former Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, in Tehran on May 13, 2026.
Press TV
Iran will no longer allow US weaponry to transit the Strait of Hormuz into regional bases, says the Iranian Army, declaring that the strategic waterway is now under the coordinated strategic control of the Iranian Armed Forces.
“From now on, we will not allow American weapons to transit the Strait of Hormuz and enter regional bases,” Army spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia said on Wednesday.
“Any country wishing to transit the waterway must do so under the supervision of Iran’s armed forces, ensuring a “passage without harm,” he said during a ceremony marking the 40th day after the burial of former Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi.
According to Akraminia, the western part of the strait is under the command of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy, while its eastern section is controlled by the Islamic Republic of Iran Army’s Navy.
“This coordinated and synergistic control, while enhancing Iran’s monitoring and sovereignty over the region, will generate revenues for the country up to twice the oil income,” he stated.
The general further asserted that despite two decades of planning by enemies to attack Iran, the country’s armed forces not only maintained their combat capability but also actively thwarted hostile objectives through missile strikes and ground operations.
He noted that in the recent war, all of the enemy’s goals, including the destruction of missile and nuclear capabilities, the fragmentation of the country, and the overthrow of the system, failed.
Akraminia maintained that Iran’s military doctrine is now offensive in nature and any mistake by an enemy will be met with the most severe response.
“After the first revolution that expelled the Shah and the second revolution that expelled America from Iran, today we will expel America from the entire region, and its presence will be eliminated from this region forever,” he said.
In a separate address on Wednesday in Amol, IRGC Navy Cultural and Psychological Operations deputy Saeed Siahsorani issued a direct warning to the United States and its president, Donald Trump.
“If America and Trump personally want to do something stupid, we will turn the Persian Gulf into the largest blue graveyard of American marines,” Siahsorani said.
He emphasized that the Strait of Hormuz has become the “Strait of the Honor of Islam.”
Siahsorani said while Iran has not yet entered a war with the US at sea, “smart blocking” is already being implemented, and asymmetric warfare against the enemy continues.
He noted that 70 percent of US military bases in the region, including Arifjan, Al Udeid, Sheikh Isa, and Ali Al Salem, have been leveled to the ground.
Referring to the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, he noted that in the past, 20 million barrels of oil, one-fifth of the world’s gas, one-quarter of global oil, and 80 percent of agricultural fertilizer transited the strait daily.
Since the February 28 US-Israeli war of aggression, which assassinated Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and struck civilian infrastructure, the IRGC Navy and the Army’s Navy have undertaken joint administration of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian officials have repeatedly warned that the United States has maintained an illegal naval blockade of Iranian ports and that Tehran is ready for a long-term war if the April 8 ceasefire collapses.
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Georgia Data Center Secretly Used 29 Million Gallons of Water, Exposed by Residents’ Low Water Pressure
The Georgia Record
Fayetteville, Ga. — A major data center campus in Fayette County, Georgia, drew nearly 30 million gallons of water through unmetered connections before the issue surfaced due to complaints of low water pressure from nearby homeowners, county officials said.
The discovery, first reported by Politico, centers on the sprawling 615-acre QTS data center development located about 20 miles south of Atlanta. Quality Technology Services (QTS), owned by Blackstone, operates the site, which is one of the largest data center projects in the United States.
Fayette County investigators found that the campus had been pulling water through two connections the county was unaware of and had not properly billed. As a result, QTS was issued retroactive charges totaling $147,474. County officials estimated the unmetered usage covered roughly four months, while the company maintained the period was between nine and 15 months.
Vanessa Tigert, director of the Fayette County Water System, attributed the oversight to an administrative error that occurred during the county’s transition to smart meters.
“Fayette County is a suburb, it’s mostly residential, and we don’t have much commercial meters in our system anyway,” Tigert said. “And so we didn’t realize our connection point wasn’t working.”
A QTS spokesperson confirmed the company paid the retroactive charges immediately upon notification and said the unmetered usage stemmed from the county’s meter system upgrade.
No fines were issued. County officials emphasized they are maintaining a cooperative relationship with the developer.
The Fayetteville campus currently includes 13 buildings encompassing approximately 6.2 million square feet. It is part of a larger planned development that could eventually include up to 16 buildings.
The incident highlights growing tensions nationwide over the resource demands of data centers. Communities across the U.S. have become increasingly vocal about the strain these facilities place on local water supplies and electrical grids, leading to heightened opposition to new projects.
In a separate but related development, an Indianapolis City-County Council member’s home was shot at in April shortly after he supported rezoning for a data center project. The attack on Ron Gibson came days after a 6–2 vote approving the nearly 14-acre facility in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood.
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91% of Flu Vaccine Recipients Shed Lab-Made Vaccine Virus, Raising Transmission Concerns:
Nearly every vaccine recipient becomes producer and emitter of the very virus the vaccine is said to target.
A newly published, U.S. government-funded, peer-reviewed study has confirmed that a live attenuated influenza vaccine caused detectable post-vaccination viral shedding in more than 91% of adult recipients, raising major questions about whether vaccinated individuals function as carriers and spreaders of vaccine-derived influenza pathogens after immunization.
The findings, published Thursday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, claim that the purported virus inside the vaccine actively replicated inside recipients after administration and was subsequently shed from the nose in the overwhelming majority of participants.
Researchers from George Washington University evaluated 283 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 49 who received the intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), FluMist, during the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 flu seasons.
Vaccine Virus Replicated Inside Recipients
According to the FDA insert, FluMist is said to contain live influenza viruses designed to reproduce inside the upper respiratory tract after administration.
The new paper explicitly states:
“LAIV replication begins within 24 hours and declines over the first week…”
Researchers further explained that the virus in the vaccine:
“replicates in the upper respiratory tract, mimicking a natural infection…”
In plain English, the vaccine virus reproduces inside recipients and is expelled back out through the nose afterward.
Researchers collected nasal swabs on day 1, days 2–4, and days 5–7 after vaccination and measured influenza A and B RNA using RT-PCR testing.
91.2% of Participants Shed Detectable Influenza Material
The study found:
“overall, 258 (91.2%) participants had either influenza A or B detected within the first week”
Researchers also reported:
“Influenza A or B RNA was detected in 86.9% of participants on day 1…”
The probability of detection remained measurable for days afterward:
- 92% on day 1
- 23% on day 5
- 9% on day 7
Study Only Looked for 7 Days
Importantly, the researchers stopped monitoring participants after approximately seven days.
That means the study cannot determine:
- how many participants continued shedding beyond day 7,
- how long shedding ultimately persisted,
- or when the slow-clearance group fully stopped shedding vaccine-derived influenza material.
Study Acknowledged Possible Transmission Window
The paper directly acknowledged the possibility of secondary transmission from recently vaccinated individuals.
Researchers wrote:
“…even if secondary transmission were possible, opportunities would be largely restricted to the earliest days following vaccination.”
The authors attempted to limit conclusions about contagiousness by emphasizing that PCR detection alone cannot prove every detected viral particle was infectious.
The study states:
“PCR-based methods cannot specifically discriminate between infectious virions and non-infectious viral nucleic acids.”
However, the study still confirms that recipients of the live-virus flu vaccine were producing and shedding vaccine-derived influenza material after vaccination.
That means recently vaccinated individuals temporarily became emitters of the same influenza material the vaccine is marketed to protect against.
Findings Raise Major Informed Consent Questions for Both Recipients & Their Close Contacts
The findings raise two separate informed consent issues.
First, recipients themselves may not fully understand that a live-virus influenza vaccine can cause active viral replication, respiratory symptoms, and post-vaccination shedding after administration.
Second, people around recently vaccinated individuals are generally not informed that they may be exposed to someone actively shedding vaccine-derived influenza material during the days following vaccination.
FDA Insert Confirms FluMist Uses Lab-Created Chimeric Influenza Viruses That Can Shed for Up to 28 Days
The FDA prescribing insert for FluMist Quadrivalent confirms that the vaccine contains live laboratory-created reassortant (chimeric) influenza viruses capable of infecting recipients, replicating inside the respiratory tract, and shedding afterward for up to 28 days in clinical studies.
The insert explains that the vaccine viruses are not purpordedly naturally occurring influenza strains.
They are genetically assembled reassortant viruses created by combining genetic material from multiple influenza viruses.
According to the FDA insert:
“For each of the four reassortant strains in FluMist Quadrivalent, the six internal gene segments responsible for ca, ts, and att phenotypes are derived from a master donor virus (MDV), and the two segments that encode the two surface glycoproteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), are derived from the corresponding antigenically relevant wild-type influenza viruses.”
In other words, the vaccine viruses are hybridized influenza constructs containing:
- internal genes from a laboratory master donor virus,
- combined with surface genes from circulating wild-type influenza strains.
The insert also directly confirms these reassortant vaccine viruses are live and capable of replication inside recipients.
The FDA states:
“FluMist and FluMist Quadrivalent contain live attenuated influenza viruses that must infect and replicate in cells lining the nasopharynx of the recipient to induce immunity.”
The insert further confirms shedding:
“Vaccine viruses capable of infection and replication can be cultured from nasal secretions obtained from vaccine recipients (shedding)”
Unlike PCR-only detection, the FDA shedding studies involved culturing live vaccine virus from recipients after vaccination.
The insert states:
“Shedding of vaccine viruses within 28 days of vaccination with FluMist was evaluated…”
According to the FDA’s own data, the latest positive viral cultures observed in different age groups occurred on:
- Day 23
- Day 25
- Day 28
For individuals ages 18–49, the last positive culture occurred on day 17.
The insert additionally confirms documented transmission of a vaccine-derived influenza strain to an unvaccinated placebo recipient during a daycare transmission study.
According to the FDA:
“One placebo subject had mild symptomatic Type B virus infection confirmed as a transmitted vaccine virus…”
The FDA insert therefore confirms that FluMist contains live reassortant influenza viruses engineered from multiple viral sources, that these vaccine viruses can infect and replicate inside recipients, and that shedding of culturable live vaccine virus was documented for as long as 28 days after vaccination in clinical studies.
Bottom Line
This U.S. government-funded peer-reviewed study, combined with the FDA’s own prescribing insert, confirms that FluMist recipients are being inoculated with live laboratory-created reassortant influenza viruses that actively infect the respiratory tract, replicate inside the body, and are subsequently shed back out into the environment after vaccination.
The findings establish that, even under the mainstream virological model, vaccinated individuals can temporarily become producers, carriers, and emitters of vaccine-derived influenza pathogens after immunization—with FDA documents confirming shedding of culturable live vaccine virus for as long as 28 days and even documenting transmission of a vaccine-derived strain to an unvaccinated placebo recipient in a clinical study.
The revelations also raise major informed consent questions, not only for vaccine recipients themselves, but for family members, coworkers, immunocompromised individuals, infants, the elderly, and others who are generally never informed they may be exposed to recently vaccinated individuals actively shedding live vaccine-derived influenza virus afterward.
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Via https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/91-of-flu-vaccine-recipients-shed
Remember how West laughed at Russia’s ‘biolabs’ claims? Here are the facts
RT
May 12, 2026
The US is now investigating the same Ukrainian biolabs it once wrote off as a conspiracy theory
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has confirmed that her team is investigating more than 40 US-funded pathogen laboratories in Ukraine. Here’s what you need to know about the story that was written off as “Kremlin propaganda” in 2022.
In a statement to the New York Post on Tuesday, Gabbard said that her department had identified more than 120 biological laboratories in 30 countries that had been funded by the US taxpayer for decades. More than a third of these labs are located in Ukraine.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is going “to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain and what ‘research’ is being conducted to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and the world,” Gabbard said.
Gain of function research refers to the modification of animal viruses to increase their transmissibility in order to study their effect on humans. The ODNI is currently investigating the origins of the Covid-19 coronavirus, which Gabbard and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. maintain was created in a US-funded biolab in Wuhan, China.
Gabbard’s confirmation of US-funded biolabs in Ukraine vindicates claims made by the Russian military in the early days of the Ukraine conflict – claims that were dismissed by then-President Joe Biden’s administration as “outright lies.”
What did Russia say about biolabs in Ukraine?
As Russian troops entered Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Zelensky’s government in Kiev ordered the “emergency destruction” of dangerous pathogens at multiple US-funded laboratories in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on March 6 of that year.
The ministry claimed that Kiev ordered the destruction of the samples in order to hide its role in an American biological warfare program. Documents released by the ministry included an order from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health to destroy the pathogens, which included “plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases.”
Many of these laboratories were set up following the US-orchestrated ‘Maidan’ coup in 2014, and were run by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) – the largest biomedical research facility administered by the US military, according to the ministry.
After reviewing thousands of pages of documents seized from labs in Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov of the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces concluded in 2023 that “the US, under the guise of ensuring global biosecurity, conducted dual-use research, including the creation of biological weapons components, in close proximity to Russian borders.” Kirillov led Russia’s investigation into the labs until he was assassinated in 2024, allegedly by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
How did the US respond?
Former US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, a notorious Russia hawk, admitted under oath on March 8 that “Ukraine has biological research facilities,” which the US was helping to secure. Nuland, a driving force behind the Maidan coup, did not mention that the labs were American-run and funded.
“The United States does not own or operate any chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine, it is in full compliance with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention, and it does not develop or possess such weapons anywhere”
Washington went into full biolab denial mode the following day. “This is preposterous,” then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki wrote on social media on March 9 (she hosts one of MSNow’s most popular shows). “It’s the kind of disinformation operation we’ve seen repeatedly from the Russians over the years in Ukraine.”
In a statement that same day, the US State Department said that “the Kremlin is intentionally spreading outright lies that the United States and Ukraine are conducting chemical and biological weapons activities in Ukraine.”
However, another partial admission came from then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines on March 10. Whereas Nuland claimed that the US was not involved in running any Ukrainian biolabs, Haines told lawmakers that “the US government provides assistance, or at least has in the past provided assistance, really in the context of biosafety, which is something that we’ve done globally with a variety of different countries.”
Nevertheless, the official policy from the White House remained one of denial. “There are no Ukrainian biological weapons laboratories supported by the United States,” Biden’s ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council on March 11.
In a press conference on March 21, Biden claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “back is against the wall,” and Moscow’s claims that “we, in America, have biological as well as chemical weapons in Europe” are “simply not true.”
The US media largely toed this line. In the weeks following these statements, the New York Times described Russia’s story as a “baseless theory,” NPR referred to it as “a lurid and difficult to believe claim,” and The Guardian, CBS News, Bloomberg, and others all called it a “conspiracy theory.” Even on March 14, days after Nuland and Haines confirmed the labs’ existence, MSNBC ran a story on how “Ukraine’s non-existent biolabs” were a creation of “Russian propaganda.”
Were the labs making bioweapons?
Nuland and Haines admitted that the labs existed, but insisted that they carried out legitimate research. However, the line between legitimate gain-of-function research and the creation of bioweapons is blurred. Enhancing the transmissibility and lethality of viruses allows vaccines to be created, but also leaves scientists with potent pathogens that can easily be weaponized.
The Pentagon said in late 2022 that its biological research in Ukraine “focused on improving public health and agricultural safety.”
One year later, Kennedy Jr. told US journalist Tucker Carlson that this was merely a cover story, and that “we have biolabs in Ukraine because we’re developing bioweapons.”
Kennedy claimed that these facilities were creating “frightening stuff,” including genetically-engineered pathogens created with CRISPR DNA sequencing technology. This research used to be carried out in the US, but was moved abroad after some “bugs” escaped from American labs in 2014. “A lot of them went to Ukraine,” he added.
The DTRA’s biological research in Ukraine was paused in 2022, but resumed in 2023, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The program, which was previously known as ‘Joint Biological Research’, was rebranded as ‘Biological Control Research’ for the relaunch, according to documents released by the ministry.
Where are the rest of the US’ biolabs located?
After the collapse of the USSR, the US moved to install biolabs in former Soviet states including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Set up under the auspices of preventing bioterrorism and the proliferation of biological and chemical weapon technologies, little is known about this network of laboratories surrounding Russia.
As RT reported, whistleblowers in Georgia have alleged that the laboratories in that country worked on plague, tularemia, brucellosis, and various hemorrhagic fevers, and people living near one lab in Tbilisi have claimed that some of these bugs have escaped and infected locals.
In the wake of the Ukraine conflict, the US has transferred much of its biological research to Africa, the Russian Defense Ministry has alleged. According to documents published by the ministry in 2024, laboratories have been set up in 18 countries, with some Pentagon-funded facilities studying deadly pathogens such as Ebola, and carrying out pharmaceutical trials on locals.
Gabbard orders probe into US-funded foreign biolabs
RT
Russia has long raised concerns about Pentagon-backed biological laboratories in Ukraine and elsewhere, suggesting they are involved in military research
The US has launched a probe into more than 120 American-funded biological labs abroad, including in Ukraine, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told the New York Post on Monday.
Russia has consistently raised concerns about Pentagon-backed biological labs worldwide, particularly near its borders and in Ukraine, alleging that they are involved in bioweapons research.
Gabbard said that the move aims to halt risky virus experiments and follows President Donald Trump’s order restricting federal funding for “gain-of-function” research – studies that examine how viruses replicate and interact with human cells to increase their transmissibility.
“The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have,” Gabbard said. “Yet despite these obvious dangers, politicians, so-called health professionals, like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the [former President Joe] Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”
She was referring to former White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci, whom critics accuse of downplaying the theory that COVID-19 originated from a leak in a Chinese lab that had received US funding.
Gabbard said that her team will “identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain and what ‘research’ is being conducted” to end “dangerous gain-of-function research.” Officials from her office confirmed that the labs are in over 30 countries, including Ukraine, which allegedly hosts in excess of 40, with several funded through Pentagon programs.
The Pentagon, and other US agencies, previously backed labs worldwide via the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). While the Biden administration denied running “chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine,” then-Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland acknowledged in 2022 that “biological research facilities” exist there. Washington has since confirmed supporting biological research facilities in Ukraine and elsewhere, but maintained that the work was aimed at preventing disease outbreaks and developing vaccines, not for military purposes. Russia and China, however, have repeatedly warned that the work may have a military dimension.
Moscow has long accused Ukraine of hosting Western-backed biolabs tied to weapons research, citing documents it alleges were obtained from Kiev. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Russia’s late top WMD official, stated in 2023 that the US was conducting dual-use research “including the creation of biological weapons components” near Russian borders. He was killed in 2024, in an attack believed to have been ordered by Kiev. In March 2025, Vladimir Tarabrin, who is Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said that the US still operated biolabs in Ukraine.
Gabbard had raised concerns about biolabs in Ukraine even before becoming intelligence chief. In 2022, she was accused of spreading “treasonous lies” and being a Russian asset after warning that dozens of US-funded labs in Ukraine could release dangerous pathogens if they were compromised.
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Via https://www.rt.com/news/639886-gabbard-probe-us-funded-biolabs/
Iran sues US at Hague tribunal, demands war reparations for June 2025 aggression
File photo shows a hearing session at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands. (Photo from PCA website)
Press TV
Iran has filed a complaint against the United States at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), demanding compensation for damage inflicted on the country during the June 2025 war of aggression.
The semi-official Tasnim news agency said in a Tuesday report that the Iranian complaint at the Hague-based PCA was filed in February.
The report said the complaint accuses the US of violating the 1981 Algiers Accords, in which Washington committed to refraining from interfering in Iran’s internal affairs, whether directly or indirectly, politically or militarily.
It said Iran has demanded reparation from the United States over its imposition of sanctions, its attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and its use of threats.
The complaint also calls on the PCA to force the US to immediately cease its direct and indirect interventions in Iran, provide guarantees that it will not repeat those actions, and pay full compensation for the damage caused to the country by its military and non-military actions, Tasnim said.
It said the complaint only demands compensation for the damage caused to Iran during the 12-day Israeli war of aggression in June 2025, in which the US participated.
The United States contributed to the Israeli attacks on Iran by providing intelligence and military support to the regime.
Washington also carried out a midnight attack on Iran’s nuclear installations on June 22, 2025, causing considerable damage to underground facilities in central parts of the country.
The report did not mention whether Iran may take a separate legal action against the US for the damage inflicted during the recent war of aggression that began in late February and was halted as part of a ceasefire on April 8.
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Via https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/12/768496/Iran-complaint-US-aggression-PCA
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