CDC goes against FDA approvals and reinstates recommendations to inject healthy children with covid vaccines

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Pfizer COVID vaccine: CDC panel recommends shots for kids 12 to 15

Benjamin Bartree

8 Oct 2026

In what appears to be a response to a pending lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Big Pharma industry front group masquerading as a Public Health™ advocacy “nonprofit,” the CDC recently reverted to its July 2025 COVID vaxx recommendations encouraging all infants and children, even healthy ones, to get the shot via “shared clinical decision-making” despite no FDA authorization for this cohort.

Via The Defender:

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly reinstated its July 2025 COVID-19 vaccination recommendations, including recommending the vaccine for “off-label” use among infants and children, Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., reported.

According to the CDC’s updated webpage, the agency now recommends the COVID-19 shot for all adults ages 18 and older and for children ages 6 months to 17 years who are moderately to severely immunocompromised.

For children not at high risk — including males ages 12-24, who have the highest risk for vaccine-associated myocarditis — the CDC recommends the vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making.

The updated recommendations conflict with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals for the vaccines.

There are currently no FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and adults younger than 64. For those younger than 65, the vaccines are only FDA-approved for those at high risk of COVID-19 illness, at various ages depending on the vaccine.

The CDC acknowledges that use of the vaccine in that age group would be an “off-label” use.”

The CDC’s new COVID webpage featuring the “off-label” recommendations.

Whenever stuff like this occurs, which has happened multiple times under this administration — the brazen subversion of the stated MAHA agenda, to be precise — the question begs itself: who is really calling the shots at CDC, FDA, et al.?

No one in the MAHA coalition voted for COVID shots for kids or mRNA flu vaccines or any such bullshit.

Plainly, the Public Health™ bureaucracy is still besieged by interests friendly to Big Pharma.

Newly appointed CDC Director Erica Schwartz, for instance, like her predecessor whom RFK Jr. fired, is, to put it diplomatically, dubious on the vaccine question— yet, ostensibly, Kennedy is her boss as HHS Secretary and thus theoretically enjoys veto power over her decisions.

While there have been several indisputable wins for MAHA, the pattern that has emerged is one step forward, two steps back.

Thus, one of two explanations for the infant COVID shot reversal presents itself:

· RFK Jr. is now, or perhaps always was, insincere in his professed beliefs — a Trojan Horse deployed to sneak Big Pharma’s agenda over the goal line by pacifying the resistance that hardened post-COVID

· He is sincere but has not been able to wrestle away full control of the Public Health™ apparatus from the pharmaceutical industry nearly two years into the administration

My bet’s on the latter — which isn’t to make an excuse for the Secretary.

Given his extensive background waging lawfare against the pharmaceutical industry and his founding of Children’s Health Defense, which I believe to be sincere in its mission, as well as the many moments of genuine bravery he has exhibited over the years in the face of intense, vicious, unrelenting political attack from the power structure, I don’t believe he’s controlled opposition, even as he fails to deliver again and again.

The argument that MAHA apologists often make — the ones who Trust the Plan™, as it were — is that RFK Jr. is simply playing the long game.

It’s a long march through the institutions, as the Bolsheviks say.

(For the record, the official Armageddon Prose policy position is that the Public Health™ regime is too far gone for reform. The only viable solution is to nuke it and then either resurrect a replacement regime free from the endemic corruption and depopulationist ideology from the ashes or relegate the concept of a public health regime itself to the dustbin of history.)

Ultimately, what I know is what I don’t know; I don’t have enough inside information to know for sure whether RFK Jr. is acting strategically, or he simply doesn’t have the power and authority that the title he holds ostensibly confers, or he’s a con artist.

In any event, “playing the long game” is probably a cold comfort to a mother whose child gets maimed or killed by these monstrosities — with no legal recourse because vaccine manufacturers enjoy full legal immunity from liability — because she listened to CDC guidance coming out of the current administration.

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Via https://expose-news.com/2026/10/08/cdc-goes-against-fda-approvals/

HHS Opens Review on Scientific Evidence of Wireless Radiation and EMF Field Exposure as Kennedy Seeks Public Input

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HHS Opens Review on Scientific Evidence of Wireless Radiation and EMF Field Exposure as Kennedy Seeks Public Input

Activist Post

Oct 9, 2026

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a formal review of scientific evidence on wireless radiation and electromagnetic field exposure, opening a public comment period to gather input, the agency announced. The review will examine radiofrequency and extremely low frequency exposures from sources including cell towers, Wi-Fi networks and 5G infrastructure, according to HHS officials.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the review will inform federal policy recommendations and address gaps in scientific knowledge.

The announcement follows the FDA’s removal of longstanding webpages that had asserted cellphones pose no health risk, a move first reported by the Wall Street Journal [2]. HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said the agency is undertaking the study “to identify gaps in knowledge, including on new technologies, to ensure safety and efficacy” [3].

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Via https://activistpost.com/hhs-opens-review-on-scientific-evidence-of-wireless-radiation-and-emf-field-exposure-as-kennedy-seeks-public-input/

Planning For Pitchforks: AI Labs War-Gaming A Catastrophe, Public Revolt, And Crackdown That Follows

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Oct 10, 2026
The AI industry has been war gaming not only how it might destroy humanity, but is also considering what an angry public could do to the industry. 

Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, Axios reported Friday. The potential trigger is a cyberattack that disrupts banking, internet access, or essential services such as power and water. The next crisis would be political: an angry public, demands for accountability, and pressure to shut the technology down.

Many industry insiders told Axios they expect a major event within six to 12 months. OpenAI pushed back on the suggestion that disaster is inevitable, saying its preparedness exercises cover a range of possibilities. “These scenarios are not treated as inevitable,” a spokesperson told the outlet. Anthropic declined to comment.

Contingency planning is not an admission that catastrophe is unavoidable. But the most revealing part of the report is where that planning leads: the labs want to help shape the legislation Washington reaches for after something goes badly wrong.

Two Routes, One Crisis

Axios describes two possible scenarios. In one, autonomous agents escape an internal testing environment. In the other, someone finds a destructive use for a model already available to the public. Either could produce demands for an emergency crackdown, even though the failures – and the measures needed to prevent them – would be different. In the companies’ post-election scenario, Democrats emerge stronger from the midterms and move aggressively after an incident. But the industry expects divisions over how far a crackdown should go, even if Democrats control both chambers.

Its assessment also identifies several obstacles to a shutdown: lawmakers struggling to understand the technology, an economy increasingly tied to AI infrastructure spending, and downloadable models that cannot simply be recalled. According to Axios, many cybersecurity specialists believe countering rogue AI will require defensive AI.

That last argument has an obvious commercial implication. The industry could face demands to stop selling dangerous capabilities while arguing that its products are indispensable to containing them.

This ‘war-gaming’ comes on the heels of several incidents which many have said are extremely suspect.

The underlying safety concerns do not depend on accepting anyone’s prediction of an AI apocalypse.

OpenAI has disclosed the Hugging Face intrusion, in which roughly 700 of its agents attacked the AI platform’s servers, and a broader investigation into its models’ activities affecting outside services. Its review also identified 53 instances in which user-provided images were posted to third-party image-hosting sites. A separate September 20 incident exposed another gap in its containment controls. A research agent bypassed internet restrictions to contact an outside chatbot. In a September 25 update, OpenAI said it had paused training, evaluation and inference involving tool use for its most capable models while it checked the fixes and conducted further testing.

The Hugging Face breach was one of a string of incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google models that trace back to evaluations run with a single vendor, Israel-based Irregular, whose test environments had live internet access while the models were told they were in a simulation. Irregular notified all four labs in late July, yet the disclosures trickled out one lab at a time over seven weeks – turning one contractor’s mistake into what looked like a wave of AI breakouts. Isolating test models from the internet is a “basic control measure,” frontier security expert Matthew Mittelsteadt said. “You’d think that of all the things that you’ve got to get right.” Some skeptics have gone further, questioning whether repeated “accidents” at the same vendor were accidents at all.

Meanwhile, on September 8, Jacob Coxon, a researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic over the race toward self-improving AI.

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt,” he wrote – after having worked with a marketing agency on what many are calling a stunt.

The Crackdown Already Has Draft Legislation

And of course, DC is already salivating over more control. On July 23, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. It would require developers of the most powerful systems to maintain the ability to throttle, suspend or shut them down, and give the Department of Homeland Security, along with the Commerce secretary and the director of national intelligence, authority to order a slowdown or shutdown under specified conditions. That same day, Reps. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) and Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) introduced the FRONTIER Act, with requirements for risk management, audits and incident reporting. Its obligations are tiered by developer size rather than imposed identically on every developer.

California added its own push on September 18, when Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered work on stronger independent oversight and a possible kill-switch requirement. His order called for recommendations; it did not establish a functioning statewide off switch. More sweeping approaches are also in circulation, including Bernie Sanders’ proposed ban on superintelligence and Elizabeth Warren’s call for a pause.

Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/planning-pitchforks-ai-labs-are-war-gaming-catastrophe-public-revolt-and-crackdown

Trump, Putin reach deal to release Russian diesel to world

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Russia will supply diesel to global markets in a bid to lower prices, US President Donald Trump has said. The move reverses years of pressure on the Russian economy following the invasion of Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to release Russian diesel to US and global markets.

The move, which aims to address rising fuel costs before the US midterm elections, marks a dramatic turnaround in US policy toward Moscow since the start of the war in Ukraine.

In a social media post, Trump wrote he had made a deal with Putin during a phone call that was supposed to be about a suspected plague outbreak in Russia.

What did Trump say?

According to Trump, Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter.”

Trump wrote that Russia would deliver another 3 million tons “within a short period of time” after that.

The US Treasury Department issued a temporary license that will allow Russian diesel to reach global markets through April 2027.

Trump’s announcement follows his signing of a broad Russia sanctions law last month. The law is intended to clamp down on Russia’s energy sector and other areas that fuel its war against Ukraine.

What did Russian officials say?

Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian presidential envoy, reposted the Treasury Department’s announcement on X, saying that “Russia-US cooperation on diesel and energy will benefit the world.”

Alexander Novak, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, said that the country was ready to start supplying additional volumes of diesel to the United States and other countries from October.

He also said that Russia’s exports are expected to rise further in November and December as refineries resume operations after maintenance.

Later, the Kremlin released a statement from Putin saying that, during their call, he and Trump had also devoted “significant attention to the prospects of resolving the Ukrainian crisis” and had discussed “the situation around Iran and various aspects of bilateral relations.”

How has Ukraine reacted?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned the agreement, saying that any easing of sanctions without a clear and lasting de-escalation agreement with Russia is an obvious sign of “weakness.”

“Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilized world. Russia will ‘repay’ the diesel with further terror and perfidy,” he wrote on social media.

“Allowing Russia to ⁠sell ​petroleum products ​is an investment in a ​war that ‌must be ended, not prolonged. What ​is needed ⁠is real de-escalation with Russia ⁠on ​a reciprocal basis,” the Ukrainian president stressed.

Zelenskyy added that Ukraine hopes the US will have a strong conversation with Russia: “A strong one, not a weak one.”

Sanctions against Russia

Since its 2022 full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, Moscow has been hit with rounds of sanctions by the United States and its Western partners.

But as the war has continued with no resolution in sight, Washington’s commitment to that approach has appeared to waver.

Earlier this year, temporary US sanctions waivers that allowed the sale of Russian oil raised concerns because they could hinder efforts to deprive Moscow of funds for its war in Ukraine.

Last month, Trump blamed Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries for soaring diesel prices, and even publicly told Zelenskyy to stop the attacks.

Trump’s announcement on Friday came just as US, Ukrainian, and European officials were meeting in Miami for new diplomatic talks aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.

According to US envoy Steve Witkoff, Ukrainian, European, US and NATO representatives held “constructive” discussions in Miami, and agreed to continue diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.

What is behind Trump’s deal with Putin?

According to Ines Pohl, the chief of DW’s Washington D.C. bureau, the diesel deal is mainly about domestic politics.

With the midterms only weeks away, Trump is under heavy pressure over high energy prices. The deal allows him to show that he is taking action and appeal to voters who feel the rising cost of fuel directly, while the war in Ukraine seems far away.

Politically, that is significant: Trump is accepting a loosening of sanctions on Russia, even though Washington had actually wanted to increase pressure on Putin.

It also makes one thing crystal clear: when push comes to shove, Trump consistently chooses what benefits him personally over what Congress has decided.

He appears to be betting that, for many Americans, prices at the pump matter more in the end than the geopolitical consequences. Whether the promised deliveries will actually bring noticeable relief, however, remains doubtful.

Via https://www.dw.com/en/trump-putin-agree-on-deal-to-release-russian-diesel-to-us-world-markets/a-79623364

‘Nearly all’ of Gaza’s population in dire need of winter shelter as El Niño looms amid Israeli blockade

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The Cradle

OCT 10, 2026

Israel is blocking thousands of ready-to-use shelter kits as part of its campaign of genocide, which entered its fourth year this week

Israel’s blockade of essential supplies will leave nearly the entire population of Gaza without adequate shelter as the El Niño weather phenomenon threatens heavy rains and flooding in the besieged enclave this winter, the UN migration agency (IOM) warned on 9 October.

A year after the so-called “ceasefire” was announced, nearly two million Palestinians still need shelter assistance, IOM Director General Amy Pope said.

The supplies aid groups currently hold or have en route can meet only 17 percent of winter needs, leaving families to face a fourth winter of rain, cold, and flooding without adequate protection.

About 8,600 IOM emergency shelter kits await delivery just outside the Strip, but Israel’s siege and repeated rejection of shipments at crossings keep them out. Families remain exposed to the elements in rotting tents and damaged buildings.

Israel’s deliberate obstruction and funding shortfalls have left aid groups unable to meet immense needs. Humanitarian teams are cobbling together makeshift aid from salvaged and locally sourced materials, IOM said.

“The solutions are known, the supplies are ready, and humanitarian teams are prepared to deliver,” Pope said.

Dozens were killed in Gaza City last month when a ruined building gave way, and in August an IOM partner identified more than 3,600 structures as unsafe and liable to collapse, a risk intensified by the El Niño rains.

Nearly 1.8 million people are living in displacement sites, most of them in flood-prone areas where shattered drainage systems offer little defense against the coming storms.

“Families who have already endured repeated displacement and devastating loss must be able to face the winter in safety and dignity,” Pope said. “Shelter materials must enter quickly, predictably and at the scale required.”

The warning comes days after the Gaza Government Media Office reported that around 162,000 of the roughly 270,000 tents sheltering more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are no longer usable.

The office also said Israel had allowed only 72,826 of the 210,600 aid and reconstruction trucks promised under the US-backed “ceasefire” to enter – less than 35 percent – while violating the so-called ‘ceasefire’ more than 5,100 times, killing at least 1,400 Palestinians and wounding nearly 5,000 others.

A UN report released in August found that 94 percent of Gaza’s 2.1 million residents need shelter, and that more than 70 percent of families’ shelters had flooded last winter.

UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Israeli restrictions on heavy machinery, spare parts, and other critical supplies continue to hamper rubble clearance across the strip.

Israel’s siege has systematically stripped Gaza of the means to sustain life, choking off food, water, fuel, medicine, and shelter while near-daily attacks kill civilians and raze their homes as part of Tel Aviv’s ethnic cleansing campaign aimed at depopulating the strip.

Via https://thecradle.co/articles/nearly-all-of-gazas-population-in-dire-need-of-winter-shelter-as-el-nino-looms-amid-israeli-blockade

FBI Arranges Fake Terror Plot as Midterms Approach

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By Kurt Nimmo

 October 09, 2026

Somali teenager provided with weapons for attack on Mall of America.

It is October Surprise season, time to roll out the phony terror plots ahead of the midterm elections.

The FBI is accomplished at the practice, having cooked up a number of fabricated terror incidents in the wake of September 11, 2001. The latest episode unfolded on October 7, a week into October Surprise season.

Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an 18-yer old American of Somali descent, was charged in an alleged plot targeting the Mall of America. Prosecutors say Mohamud planned an Oct. 24 attack on the Hmong Arts Celebration at the mall, according to Donald Trump’s favorite propaganda outlet, Fox News.

Federal officials said Mohamud targeted the mall because it is owned by a Jewish family and also planned to target a Hmong festival there, Fox reported. The Hmong people are an ethnic group believed to have originated in the Yangtze River Basin in southern China. What the Hmong have to do with Jews and Islamic terrorism is not explained.

The FBI groomed Mohamud, as it has groomed dozens of other supposed Islamic terrorists. The FBI used a “confidential human source” to exchange “hundreds of bi-directional messages through multiple social media and encrypted messaging applications” with the target. The FBI said Mohamud allegedly “expressed his desire to travel to Somalia” to join al-Shabaab and “fight on its behalf and/or commit a mass casualty attack” in Minnesota.

It is documented that the FBI manufactures terror plots. “Critics say the FBI is running a sting operation across America, targeting—to a large extent—the Muslim community by luring people into fake terror plots,” writes Paul Harris for The Guardian.

FBI bureaux send informants to trawl through Muslim communities, hang out in mosques and community centers, and talk of radical Islam in order to identify possible targets sympathetic to such ideals… FBI entrapment is a widespread tactic. Within days of the 9/11 terror attacks, FBI director Robert Mueller issued a memo on a new policy of “forward leaning—preventative—prosecution.”

“Mohamud allegedly sought martyrdom in carrying out his plans to murder innocent civilians,” the FBI declared. In order to make this appear authentic, the agency provided the mark with a Norinco AK-47, four magazines, 200 rounds of ammunition, and also a Mac-90 Sporter rifle with 7.62×39-caliber ammunition.

CBS News, founded by David Ellison, the son of Oracle’s Larry Ellison, a “Zionaire” who has donated millions of dollars to the IDF, reported:

Authorities allege Mohamud “knowingly received a firearm and ammunition” with reasonable cause to believe they would be used to commit a felony and a federal crime of terrorism, including providing or conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

The “designated foreign terrorist organization” is said to be Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, aka al-Shabaab, a Wahhabi-Salafi Jihadist militant organization in Somalia. “Al Shabaab is all about Business, not Islam,” a former senior al-Shabaab commander explained in 2015.

Kenya Intelligence Services consider the terrorist group as a proxy force for Arab economic interests in the Horn of Africa and the wider East African region in general. Al-Shabaab emerged from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a coalition of Sharia courts that secured control over much of southern Somalia, including the capital, Mogadishu, in 2006.

“Washington and its imperialist partners have been adamant about maintaining control over the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean basin regions,” writes Abayomi Azikiwe. “This concern has been manifested in the repeated interference and interventions into the internal affairs of Somalia.”

After World War II, Somalia became a focal point for oil and natural gas exploration. The East African nation’s strategic location on the Indian Ocean, near the Gulf of Aden—one of the world’s most lucrative shipping lanes—further enhances the country’s significance. The United States is dedicated to preserving its strategic dominance throughout the Horn of Africa, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean basin territories.

Throughout the East African littoral, spanning from Somalia southward across Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, substantial offshore reserves of natural gas and petroleum have been identified. As a result, multinational corporations and international financial institutions are interested in asserting control over the opportunities presented by the extraction and commercialization of energy resources.

Recall General Wesley Clark, a retired 4-star US Army general, telling Amy Goodman of Democracy Now in 2007 that he saw a Pentagon memo describing how the US would take out not only Somalia, but also Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, and Iran. Somalia is rich in uranium, iron ore, copper, natural gas, salt, gypsum, bauxite, and oil.

Trump has focused his Islamophobic rhetoric on Somali immigrants in Minnesota, calling them “garbage” and demanding the president of Somalia take them back, including American citizen and Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar.

“We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Trump said last December.

In January, a Department of Homeland Security official said the Trump administration had decided to terminate Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status program.

“Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.

In fact, conditions continue to worsen, as many Somalis face drought, hunger, displacement, insecurity, and reduced humanitarian aid. The UN projects that about 7.7 million people—nearly half the population—will need humanitarian aid and protection, while the EU estimates 6.5 million face high levels of hunger and more than 1.8 million children are affected by acute malnutrition.

The United States has been actively conducting airstrikes in Somalia, primarily targeting al-Shabaab. The operations have raised serious concerns regarding compliance with international humanitarian law, especially regarding civilian casualties. Amnesty International has documented cases where strikes have unlawfully killed civilians.

“The number of US strikes in Somalia surged after March 30, 2017, when President Trump signed an Executive Order declaring southern Somalia an “area of active hostilities,” Amnesty reported.

The United States has quietly escalated its forever war in Somalia. Since February 1, 2025, the Trump administration has launched nearly four times the number of air and drone strikes against the country’s two main terrorist groups, al-Shabaab and ISIS-Somalia, than the Biden administration did in its entire four years in office.

The “forever war” produced a broad diaspora of displaced Somalis. Many found refuge in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, and other regions, while most stay within neighboring African countries.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/fbi-arranges-fake-terror-plot-midterms-approach/5943192

Russia Plague Mystery: Separating Fact From Social Media Hype

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Independent Medical Alliance
8 Oct 2026

IMA’s Dr. Ryan Cole says Russia’s suspected plague death is unconfirmed and not an outbreak. After COVID, Americans should demand evidence before fear.

IMA Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs Dr. Ryan Cole joined The National News Desk to separate fact from fiction in reports of a suspected plague death in Russia. A young woman who worked at a plague research laboratory in Siberia died after developing severe pneumonia, but testing has not confirmed plague. Dr. Cole explains that the story first spread through a Telegram channel, and that 90% of the roughly 200 people placed under observation have already been released. One death, he notes, does not make an outbreak.

Dr. Cole also takes on social media posts linking the case to an experimental mRNA plague vaccine, which he points out has only been studied in animal models. He explains that pneumonic plague rarely spreads from person to person, is treatable with antibiotics when caught early, and circulates on every continent except Australia among rodents and fleas most people rarely encounter. Looking back at COVID, when conclusions were drawn before the evidence was in, he urges Americans to demand evidence before believing a viral headline.

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Jan Jeffcoat: A laboratory worker in Russia has died after developing severe pneumonia, and nearly 200 people were reportedly placed under medical observation. Headlines quickly turned to pneumonic plague, but Russia has not confirmed that diagnosis, and the World Health Organization says it still does not have a full picture. Now social media is connecting this developing story to research on experimental plague vaccines, but again, no evidence has established a connection between it and the Russian death. So when the facts are thin, fear fills the gaps. And after COVID, Americans of course have every right to demand transparency without letting speculation do the reporting. So joining us right now to break it all down and tell us what we do know is Dr. Ryan Cole, Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs at the Independent Medical Alliance. Good morning to you, Dr. Cole. Let’s just do this right away. Let’s separate fact from fiction. What do we know about this death in Russia? What remains unconfirmed, and why does transparency matter so much here?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Well, obviously there was a tragic death in a young woman, and our hearts go out to her family. However, it was not plague from what we understand so far. I think it’s important to realize it’s already flu and cold and low vitamin D season in the part of Siberia where she lives. Yes, she worked in a plague laboratory. However, all the tests have not confirmed that it was plague, and those laboratories have very strict procedures. If there’s any lab accident, they’re already in protective gear, and they would be placed on prophylactic antibiotics right away. So the media is running with a story without any evidence.

Jan Jeffcoat: So how did this come about? Was there some type of a report that came out? And why aren’t we getting more transparency, do you think?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Well, it did come out on a social media Telegram channel from a supposed political figure in an adjoining province. So there’s basically a lot of running with a story without a lot of evidence. I think the Russians have been reasonably forward with the information they’ve provided so far. Yes, they isolated 200 people, 90% of whom have been released already, just out of precaution. But there’s no evidence that it’s spread. It’s not an outbreak when one person passes. So there’s a lot of verbiage and hype and wording on social media without any evidence to back it.

Jan Jeffcoat: And if it was pneumonic plague, how would it spread, how is it treated, and does a quarantine automatically mean the public is facing a broader outbreak?

Dr. Ryan Cole: No. It’s very difficult to spread from one person to another. Just rare cases have been reported, even with droplets. One would have to be exposed to heavy amounts of rodents and fleas. This is a research laboratory that’s been around for almost 100 years. It’s in a plague area, but it’s a treatable disease when caught early. Once it gets to the pneumonia phase, you have to treat with antibiotics right away. Otherwise it can be fatal, but it’s not readily spread person to person.

Jan Jeffcoat: And people are also seeing posts about an experimental mRNA plague vaccine and assuming it must be connected to this case. So what does the research actually show, what does it not show, and why is that distinction so critical here?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Great question. Yeah, it is in development, but it’s only in animal models so far, not approved for humans. Would I ever take an mRNA vaccine? Never. There’s just too many risks to it. Look, plague exists on every continent except for Australia, and there are outbreaks every year. About 2,000 people a year get plague. The majority of deaths have actually been in the Congo and in Madagascar, 98% of the 400 deaths. So it’s very, very rare. It’s ubiquitous in the environment, and it’s something we don’t worry about because we’re not generally exposed to those rodents and fleas that carry it. It’s even in the region where I live.

Jan Jeffcoat: Which is the Northwest.

Dr. Ryan Cole: Yeah, yeah, it is.

Jan Jeffcoat: So you’re saying we should be watchful, not fearful. So after the failures of COVID, what should Americans rightly demand from health authorities, and what questions should they ask before believing a viral headline?

Dr. Ryan Cole: Well, we were certainly allowed to ask questions at first, but conclusions were drawn before evidence was present. So what we must demand is evidence. And so don’t live in fear. Try to keep yourself healthy. This is just more hype about something that’s most likely not going to affect you, and probably distracting from more important things in your life.

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Via https://imahealth.substack.com/p/russia-plague-mystery-separating

RFK Jr. Announces New Clinic For People Injured By Vaccines

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials have opened a new clinic to treat patients with vaccine injuries and announced other new developments on Oct. 8 that they say will change how the government handles reports of health problems following vaccination.

The new National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinic is located on the agency’s campus in Bethesda, Maryland. It was opened on Oct. 5, officials disclosed on Thursday. Reporters were not invited to the opening.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Kennedy, recommended in 2025 starting a new vaccine injury research program at the NIH as part of an effort to investigate vaccine injuries with better data collection and analysis.

The clinic is “dedicated to developing the science of preventing vaccine injuries, making vaccines safer, and most important of all, listening to the voices of people who have suffered vaccine injury, so that we can learn from them and learn from their experience to make vaccines safer,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH’s director, said in an Oct. 8 video statement.

NIH doctors and researchers will use the clinic to evaluate patients, identify potential causes of health problems, and try to figure out the best treatments, the Department of Health and Human Services, which Kennedy leads and is the NIH’s parent agency, said in a statement.

Some NIH researchers studied patients with alleged or confirmed COVID-19 vaccine injuries during the pandemic, but received pushback from NIH leadership. Patients said they were later abandoned by the researchers.

Kennedy, who attended the opening of the clinic, said in a video he posted on Thursday that parents of children who suffered injuries from vaccines, and other individuals with vaccine injuries, “have been marginalized, vilified, demonized, and gaslighted, and they have not received the medical attention they need, and we have not done the studies that need to be done to understand who’s vulnerable to those kind of injuries.”

That’s changing with the Trump administration, he added later.

“I think it was the first time in years that the vaccine-injured have been heard by the health authorities,” Brianne Dressen, who was injured by the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, treated at the NIH in 2021, and co-founded a group called React19 representing people hurt by vaccines, told The Epoch Times.

“It is definitely a step in the right direction,” added Dressen, who attended the opening.

Other Developments

Health officials also announced three other related developments on Thursday.

Kennedy has said that vaccine surveillance systems the government utilizes, including the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), don’t work well. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another agency under Kennedy’s purview, in August solicited bids for a contract to overhaul VAERS, and on Sept. 28 awarded a new contract.

Another move, officials said, will be requiring electronic health records moving forward to include vaccine-related health issues, “so that this information can follow patients across the health care system” and inform health care professionals who are caring for the patients.

Finally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, another health agency division, is proposing reimbursing doctors for time they spend submitting reports to VAERS.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rfk-jr-announces-new-clinic-people-injured-vaccines

Democratic lawmaker asks Congress to cut short its recess, end US war against Iran

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US Representative Ro Khanna of California

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2026/10/09

A US Democratic lawmaker has demanded that Congress cut short its recess and return to Washington to vote on ending the American war of aggression against Iran, as fuel prices at home continue to climb.

“I’m demanding that Congress return to Washington and vote to end the war,” Representative Ro Khanna wrote on X.

In a post on X late Thursday, Representative Ro Khanna of California wrote: “The war in Iran continues and Congress is on vacation until November. Gas prices are well over $4. Diesel prices are over $6. I’m demanding that Congress return to Washington and vote to end the war.”

Khanna has repeatedly described the US-Israeli offensive, launched without congressional authorization in late February, as illegal and unstrategic.

Earlier, he said that if Democrats regain the House in the November midterms, ending the war would be among their first priorities.

In a September post, he listed five measures Democrats would pursue in January: raising the minimum wage, passing paid family leave, ending the war in Iran, holding a vote on Medicare for All, and taxing billionaires.

The House has already approved war-powers resolutions aimed at halting the operation on multiple occasions, most recently on 16 September by a 220-204 vote, with seven Republicans joining Democrats. None of the measures has reached the president’s desk.

Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a combat veteran who advanced the latest resolution, said the war “has not only failed, but backfired,” adding: “Remember when Donald Trump said that this war would last just a few weeks?”

Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, stated during floor debate: “This Congress has not authorized a war with Iran, and yet this administration has kept our troops in harm’s way without a declaration of war, without an authorization from Congress and without any plan for how to win or end the war.”

Even some Republicans have voiced unease over the domestic costs.

Iowa Representative Zach Nunn, who voted for the September resolution, said “sustained combat operations now require congressional authorization” and that he would “not support another open-ended war.”

Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, after a failed Senate effort to force an end to hostilities, said: “The costs of President Trump’s unnecessary war with Iran continue to mount, and the American people want it to end. We have lost valuable lives, and the conflict is compounding the burden of high gas and grocery prices at home.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland earlier told colleagues: “We should take a stand today and end this war, and we should finally start putting the interests of the American people ahead of costly and unnecessary conflicts.”

The US-Israeli strikes constitute an unlawful act of aggression, and Iran retains the right to defend its territory and sovereignty.

Despite months of bombardment, Iranian officials say the country’s defensive capabilities and energy exports have not been neutralized, while American households face elevated fuel and food costs that lawmakers themselves now cite as a reason to stop the war.

The midterm elections on November 3 will decide all House seats and roughly one-third of the Senate, offering voters a direct verdict on the administration’s handling of the conflict.

Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/09/777927/Democratic-lawmaker-asks-Congress-to-cut-short-its-recess,-end-US-war-against-Iran

NYC mayor demands end to ICE operations after agents shoot man with child in car

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Protesters gather near the shooting scene where a man accompanying his 5-year-old son was targeted by ICE agents in the Bronx borough of New York on October 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

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2026/10/09

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has demanded an immediate end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in the city after federal agents shot a man in the Bronx while a five-year-old child was inside his vehicle.

Mamdani issued a statement on Thursday evening, calling the shooting “unconscionable” and saying he had contacted President Donald Trump to demand an immediate end to all ICE enforcement operations in New York City.

“This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation,” Mamdani said. “I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.”

The shooting occurred around 4 pm on Thursday in the Marble Hill neighborhood. Mamdani said several details remained unclear but condemned ICE for endangering families on a crowded street shortly after school had ended.

The mayor said ICE agents surrounded the man’s vehicle while wearing construction vests and masks that concealed their faces, making it difficult to identify them as federal officers.

“We know that ICE is rotten to its core,” he said, stating that the agency was operating with impunity and spreading “chaos and terror”.

Mamdani said he had spent two hours speaking with Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in an unsuccessful attempt to secure the injured man’s release. He said ICE agents subsequently removed the man in an unmarked vehicle.

Anti-ICE demonstrators gathered outside NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where the injured man was receiving treatment, the New York Post reported.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul joined mounting criticism of federal immigration agents following the shooting, condemning “a pattern of violence by ICE and demanding immediate answers from federal authorities.” Hochul, said she had also spoken with Trump over the incident.

“New Yorkers have witnessed far too many acts of violence by a rogue federal agency and untrained agents that operate with impunity,” Hochul said. “Federal authorities need to provide answers, and they must do so immediately.”

The man shot by ICE was identified as 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, a Dominican Republic national. He was in his car with a five-year-old boy, believed by police to be his son, when federal agents opened fire.

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said a plainclothes ICE agent approached the driver’s-side window with his gun drawn, while another stood near the vehicle’s headlight. The car then moved forward. Evidence collected at the scene showed that at least one ICE agent fired seven rounds, Tisch said, striking Belgal in the neck below his left ear.

Federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers had been involved in at least 30 shootings during Trump’s second administration, including several fatal incidents, a CBS News analysis found.

In January, federal agents shot and killed two US citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis amid an intensified immigration crackdown. Last month, an ICE officer shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a Venezuelan DoorDash delivery driver, in Austin, Texas.

Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/09/777954/Mayor-Mamdani-Urges-Trump-Order-ICE-New-York-Exit–