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Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.

12 Facts About America’s Dindustrialization that Will Blow Your Mind

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By Michael Snyder

The United States is rapidly becoming a “post-industrial” nation.  All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers left them, but the pace at which America is doing this is absolutely breathtaking.  Nobody can deny that our economy is a complete and utter mess right now, and we only have ourselves to blame.

It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.  It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes.  It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.  In fact, the primary reason why we won World War II is because we simply outproduced our enemies.

But now we are witnessing the deindustrialization of America.  Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States over the past several decades.  Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost during that same time period.  The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces very little.  Do you know what one of our biggest exports is today?  Waste paper.  Yes, trash has literally become one of our top exports as we voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us.

The United States has become bloated and spoiled, and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was.  Once upon a time America could literally outproduce the rest of the world combined.  Today that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world.  If the deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children and our grandchildren?

Throughout history, every great nation has been great at making things.  So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a staggering pace, how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be a great nation?  We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to sustainable.  Every single month America goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.

So what happens when our debt bubble finally implodes?

The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in this country.  Sadly, the truth is that most Americans do not have any idea what is really going on out there.

If you know people like that, take this article and print it out and hand it to them.  Perhaps what they will read below will shock them badly enough to awaken them out of their slumber.

The following are 12 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind…

#1 According to Google AI, our nation has lost almost 70,000 factories since the year 2000…

The United States has lost nearly 70,000 factories since 2000. This is part of a larger decline in the US manufacturing sector that has also resulted in the loss of over 5 million jobs.

#2 In July 1979, 19.5 million Americans had manufacturing jobs.  Today, only 12.8 million Americans have manufacturing jobs even though our population is much larger than it was in 1979.

#3 According to a survey that was recently conducted by the Pew Research Center, 59 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. has lot more than it has gained from free trade.

#4 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of all U.S. economic output.  At the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008, manufacturing represented only 11.5 percent of all U.S. economic output.  Today, manufacturing represents just 10.3 percent of all U.S. economic output.

#5 More than a billion cellphones are sold worldwide each year.  Only a few thousand of them are actually manufactured in the United States.

#6 The size of our trade deficit with China in 2024 was $295,000,000,000.

#7 At this point, China produces approximately 4 times as many vehicles each year than the United States does.

#8 In the early days of the industry, 100 percent of all semiconductors were manufactured in the United States.  Today, that number is down to just 8 percent.

#9 Russia is producing three times as many artillery shells as the U.S. and Europe combined.

#10 The United States spends approximately $3.00 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.

#11 Our stores are absolutely overflowing with products that are made in China.  Meanwhile, soybeans are the number one export from the U.S. to China.

#12 More than 36 million Americans are now living in poverty, homelessness in the U.S. is at an all-time record high, and demand at food banks in the U.S. is at record levels all over the nation.

Are you starting to get the picture?

How many more factories do we need to lose before we do something about it?

How many more Americans are going to lose manufacturing jobs before we all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?

How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave this country before we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?

How many once great manufacturing cities like Gary, Indiana and Youngstown, Ohio are going to become rotting, decaying hellholes before we understand that we are committing national economic suicide?

The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis.  It needs to be treated like one.

Can anyone can out there possibly explain how a deindustrialized America has any kind of viable economic future?

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Via https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/12-facts-about-the-deindustrialization-of-america-that-will-blow-your-mind/

America’s Second Class Citizens

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What was the Black Panther Party? | Live Science

Second Class Citizens

Press TV (2024)

Film Review

https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2024/07/13/729252/Racial-Discrimination-U-S–History-Documentary-PressTV

This is a fascinating Iranian-produced documentary about Contelpro and the FBI war on the Black Panther Party (BPP) during the 1970s. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was formed in 1966, the same year that Marvel comics brought out a new superhero called Black Panther.* Their initial goal was to help protect Black men against arbitrary police violence. Members openly carried rifles to protect themselves and and other Black men against unprovoked police assaults.

The BPP gained national attention following a well publicized attack by Governor Ronald Reagan when they attended a California legislative hearing about a proposing law making making it a misdemeanor to publicly display a rifle. The wide publicity promoting the formation of BPP chapter across the country. By this point, they had a 10-point program to not only end police violence, but to guarantee African Americans equal access to health, education, housing, employment and justice (ie the right to a fair trial).

It also resulted in national media attention, with prominent Black intellectual Eldridge Cleaver appearing on William F Buckley’s Firing Line.

Fairly quickly the BPP shifted their focus to improving the wellbeing of African Americans, launching free clinics for women, children and addicts; educational programs for young people; meals for the poor; free breakfasts for school children and free acupuncture treatments for addicts. Their program for monitoring (often fatal) sickle cell anemia inspired Nixon to initiate a similar program.

In September 1967, the police framed BPP founder Huey Newton was for killing the cop who shot him (although the conviction was reversed on appeal). After nearly dying in the hospital, Newton spent three years in jail. When Oakland police killed a 17-year old BPP member two days after the 1968 assassination, BPP leader Eldridge Cleaver fled to Algeria.

The same year FBI director J Edgar Hoover proclaimed the Black Panther Party the single greatest threat to US domestic security, launching his his Cointelpro operation targeting BPP members nationwide with wiretapping, infiltrating their groups, framing them for fictitious crimes and planting negative news stories.

In April 2, 1968, 21 members of the New York Black Panther Party were framed for fake bomb plots. On December 8 1969, the Los Angeles police raided the Los Angeles BPP headquarters and arrested all its members. A day later, the Chicago police raided the apartment of BPP leader Fred Hampton and killed him in his sleep.

As mainstream media switched from covering their inspirational social programs to portraying them as terrorists, Marvel comics dropped their Black Panther superhero. Owing to successful infiltration, federal undercover agents assumed most of the party’s top leadership roles, BPP activities steadily declined. In 1982 the organization was officially dissolved.

Influenced by the Black Panthers community-based medical support programs, communities in Japan, India, German, France, South Africa and England all started similar community run medical clinics. Vietnam started the Yellow Panthers.

* In the US, the panther is a traditional symbol of Black empowerment. The Black Panthers DID NOT name themselves after the Marvel superhero.

Whangārei District Councilorsl risk imprisonment as they continue to defy government fluoridation order

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WDC councillor Gavin Benney, centre rear in blue shirt, talks with anti fluoride campaigners at the council's December meeting.

WDC councillor Gavin Benney, centre rear in blue shirt, talks with anti fluoride campaigners at the council’s December meeting. (Source: Local Democracy Reporting)

1News

Whangārei District Council is risking imprisonment for its politicians as it continues to defy a government fluoridation order, lawyers have warned.

At an urgent short-notice extraordinary meeting, the council today moved to continue its fight against fluoride.

The often testy two-hour plus meeting was called after a very sternly-worded letter from Director General of Health Dr Diana Sarfati.

In the letter, Sarfati threatened to step in with a High Court legal order enabling her to override Whangārei District Council (WDC)’s November decision not to add fluoride to the district’s drinking water.

Whangārei District Council must fluoridate its drinking water for 80,000 residents by March 28 or risk being charged with breaking the law.

Lawyers advising the council have warned politicians were at risk of imprisonment as a result of the council not fluoridating by then.

Other consequences included the government sacking the council and appointing commissioners or an observer.

These are alongside the prospect of councillors being individually liable for up to $200,000 in fines for defying the fluoridation directive, plus $10,000 a day for every day after that.

Whangārei Mayor Vince Cocurullo said the council was not yet breaking any law as there was still more than a month before the directive came into force.

Whangārei Mayor Vince Cocurullo.

Whangārei Mayor Vince Cocurullo. (Source: Local Democracy Reporting)

But Cocurullo said he would go to prison for democracy, if the consequences of not meeting the March 28 decision reached that point.

He said the community needed to be able to have its say on whether fluoridation should happen and this was not the case at present.

Today’s council vote comes as ratepayers face the prospect of $5 million in potential extra WDC costs after councillors voted against fluoridating.

Whangārei District is the only council in New Zealand refusing to fluoridate among 14 nationwide ordered to do so by outgoing Director General of Health Sir Ashley Bloomfield in 2022.

Whangārei District councillor Gavin Benney led today’s council’s recommitment to the decision not to fluoridate, made via a 7:7 split vote where Cocurullo again used his casting vote.

Deputy Mayor Phil Halse and councillors Benney, Jayne Golightly, Marie Olsen, Simon Reid and Phoenix Ruka also voted in favour of this.

Meanwhile, councillors Nick Connop, Ken Couper, Deb Harding, Patrick Holmes, Scott McKenzie, Carol Peters and Paul Yovich were against.

Taking the refusal to the High Court

The council decided today to launch a High Court challenge against Sarfati’s fluoridation directive.

It will seek a declaration proceeding, which is a hearing where the court is presented with evidence on the safety or otherwise of fluoride from scientific experts and makes a judgement.

Cocurullo said the High Court should rule on the safety and science behind the government’s fluoridation push. There was science, including from New Zealand’s government science advisors, supporting both sides of the polarised argument.

It was up to the High Court to rule on what should be used as a basis for directing WDC to fluoridate.

The council will also seek “urgent interim relief” so it can delay its hands-on preparations for full fluoridation by the March deadline.

At today’s council meeting, Mayor Cocurullo ejected councillor Ken Couper — who voted against continuing with the anti-fluoridation stance — for 10 minutes for failing to stop his line of questioning during debate. Security was called and the meeting adjourned as Couper refused to depart.

The new legal moves decided on by the council superceded its mid-December decision to apply for an injunction, after lawyers indicated this was unlikely to succeed.

They will cost the Whangārei District Council at least $200,000 of unbudgeted funds with increased rates, or cutting planned council work.

Sarfati has requested a letter confirming today’s meeting decision before the end of the week.

Director General of Health Dr Diana Sarfati has warned WDC of major consequences of defying its fluoridation directive.

Director General of Health Dr Diana Sarfati has warned WDC of major consequences of defying its fluoridation directive. (Source: Local Democracy Reporting)

She has signalled Whangārei District faces a High Court legal order known as a writ of mandamus if it continues to defy her fluoridation directive.

Cocurullo said the council’s resistance was for two reasons. The first was questioning the safety of fluoride.

The second was about democracy, where one person could order a council to fluoridate, without asking the public for its thoughts.

Whangārei District councillor Deb Harding today pushed for greater community say in the decision, via councillors supporting New Zealand First’s ‘Fluoridation (Referendum) Legislation Bill’ which seeks to repeal the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2021 that grants centralised authority to the Direct General of Health and mandates the fluoridation of local water supplies.

The Bill would also amend the Local Government Act 2002 and Health Act 1956 mandating local authorities to hold a binding referendum on water fluoridation.

New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters said the Bill reinstated communities’ fundamental right to determine through democracy whether or not their water supply was fluoridated.

“Important public health measures such as this should be decided with transparency, debate, and local voices, not by overreaching Wellington-based bureaucrats,” Peters said.

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Via https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/12/whangarei-councillors-risk-jail-as-rebel-fluoride-stance-reaffirmed

New Report Contradicts Telecom Industry Claim Wireless Radiation Safe

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Suzanne Burdick PhD

The basis for the wireless industry’s claim that radiation is safe for humans is scientifically erroneous, according to the author of a new peer-reviewed scientific report.

Paul Héroux, Ph.D., authored the report, which was published Jan. 30 in Heliyon, one of Elsevier’s journals on its ScienceDirect platform.

Héroux, an associate professor of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a medical scientist in McGill University Health Center’s surgery department, has years of experience in physics and electrical engineering.

He is also vice chair of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF), a “consortium of scientists, doctors and researchers” who study wireless radiation and make recommendations for wireless radiation exposure guidelines “based on the best peer-reviewed research publications.”

Héroux told The Defender:

“Industry’s most important argument to deny the health impacts of electromagnetic radiation has been that these health effects are impossible based on solid physics, specifically that the radiation is ‘non-ionizing.”

Héroux detailed the scientific faultiness of that argument:

“Ionization by the radiation itself is irrelevant because life processes produce ionization within the body itself.

“In fact, the basic laws of physics (Maxwell’s Equations and the Second Law of Thermodynamics) together with established biology confirm that health effects of electromagnetic radiation are in fact inevitable, and at levels much lower than those considered safe by industry.”

Dr. Robert Brown, a diagnostic radiologist with more than 30 years of experience and the vice president of Scientific Research and Clinical Affairs for the Environmental Health Trust (EHT), praised Héroux’s report.

Brown said the report “effectively outlines a mechanism by which non-ionizing radiation can disrupt the biology of living systems” — even at levels much lower than what’s needed to heat tissues.

Fariha Husain, manager of Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless Program, called the report “groundbreaking.”

“Héroux’s report fundamentally challenges the flawed ‘thermal-only paradigm,’ which falsely claims that non-ionizing radiation — including radiofrequency (RF) radiation emitted by Wi-Fi routers, cell towers, smart meters and cellphones — can harm biological tissue only via excessive heating,” Husain said.

The report is novel in that it systematically breaks down the flawed industry arguments used to justify the thermal-only paradigm.

“But the truth of the matter is that the harm caused by RF radiation has been known for decades,” Husain said. “Unfortunately, this knowledge has been intentionally suppressed by industry.”

The wireless industry and regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) andthe International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), contend that harm can occur only at radiation levels high enough to cause tissue heating.

Lawyers with CHD and EHT in 2021 successfully showed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the FCC ignored massive scientific evidence suggesting that RF radiation has negative biological effects at levels currently allowed by the FCC.

CHD and EHT’s historic case alleged that the FCC failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its current RF exposure guidelines — which haven’t been updated since 1996 — adequately protect against the harmful effects of exposure to RF radiation.

The FCC has yet to comply with the court’s mandate to explain how the agency determined that its current guidelines adequately protect humans and the environment against the harmful effects of exposure to wireless radiation.

Studies on dead tissues can’t detect health effects

In the report, Héroux provides a scientific rationale for why biological harm occurs at non-thermal levels of RF radiation.

Brown summarized key parts of that rationale:

“Héroux initially explains the difference in physical distance between redox reactions occurring in inorganic matter and those occurring in living systems. The ongoing processes of glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation require electrons and protons to continually engage long pathways in mitochondria to produce chemical energy from the breakdown of sugars.

“He clearly details why it is this increased distance that makes living systems vulnerable to the effects of non-ionizing radiation.

“I believe Dr. Héroux has presented a compelling case that non-ionizing radiation can impact the path of these charged particles and affect not only the efficiency of energy production in the cell but also increase the production of reactive oxygen species, which can lead to cellular oxidative stress.”

Oxidative stress due to RF radiation exposure has been “clearly documented” in the scientific literature, Brown added.

Héroux said his report also shows that the FCC’s safety assessments of RF radiation failed to consider basic physics in addition to its biological effects.

The current regulatory limits “completely ignore” this science, Husain said. “The expansion of wireless technology is in direct conflict with protecting public health and the environment and it is long overdue for regulators to acknowledge the growing body of evidence and take immediate action to establish safety standards that protect both human health and the environment.”

The report also explains why health effects from non-ionizing radiation cannot be detected in experiments performed on dead tissue.

“No electron transport occurs in dead tissue, regardless of whether or not it is ‘fresh.’” Brown said. “Research performed on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on dead tissue has led to erroneous conclusions in many in vitro scientific studies.”

Scientists call out WHO-funded study for ‘serious flaws’

Héroux published his report just weeks after he and other scientists with ICBE-EMF published a scathing letter to the editor of Environmental International criticizing a recent systematic review funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) that claimed it found no link between cellphone use and brain cancer.

The study — part of a WHO-commissioned series of scientific reviews of the possible health risks of wireless radiation — was available online Aug. 30, 2024, in Environmental International.

In their letter, the IBCE-EMF scientists said the WHO’s study had “serious flaws” that undermined the validity of the study’s conclusions.

“It is dishonest to assure the public that cell phones and wireless radiation are safe based upon such a flawed review,” said Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., in an ICBE-EMF press release.

Moskowitz is director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and an ICBE-EMF member.

The WHO commissioned 10 systematic reviews on the evidence of the health risks from wireless radiation, according to the ICBE-EMF.

So far, nine have been published. All “suffer from serious methodological problems and seem biased to dismiss the substantial evidence of health risk reported in the peer-reviewed scientific literature,” Moskowitz said in a Sept. 30, 2024, presentation.

Once all 10 are published, the WHO plans to use the reviews as the basis for updating its 1993 “Environmental Health Criteria Monograph” on RF-EMF, ICBE-EMF said.

“A monograph is a report which overviews the scientific evidence on biological effects, identifies gaps in knowledge to direct future research and provides information for health authorities and regulatory agencies regarding public health,” according to ICBE-EMF.

In a post on his Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website, Moskowitz noted that all of the WHO’s scientific review teams have one or more ICNIRP members.

ICNIRP, which Moskowitz called a “cartel,” is a German nonprofit that issues RF radiation exposure limits “produced by its own members, their former students and close colleagues.”

According to EHT, ICNIRP is an invite-only group with “deep industry ties” and no oversight.

Scientists in 2020 sent a letter to the WHO’s leadership asking how the research teams were selected but did not receive a response, according to EHT.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/new-report-contradicts-telecom-industry-claim-wireless-radiation-safe/

Musk Backs Ron Paul as Federal Reserve Chairman

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HP McLovincraft

Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) could make a great Federal Reserve chairman, Department of Government Efficiency task force leader Elon Musk suggested Monday.

Responding to remarks from TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk that Paul, who has for years questioned the legitimacy of the Fed, would “make a great next Chairman of the Federal Reserve,” Musk replied, “Great idea!”

The supportive comment was Musk’s second endorsement of the notion over the weekend.

That exchange was seen by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) who told his audience: “Raise your hand if you’d like to see @RonPaul as Federal Reserve chairman.”

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Via https://hellboundanddown.com/2025/02/11/musk-backs-ron-paul-as-federal-reserve-chairman/

Trump Suspends Funding to CIA Front Called the National Endowment for Democracy

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The Chaos Cat

The Trump administration has frozen funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA-funded organization that meddles in elections and pushes regime change around the world in the name of “promoting democracy.”

According to The Free Press, an order from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the US Treasury Department that blocked the disbursement of funds to the NED has crippled the organization’s activities.

Trump Suspends Funding to the National Endowment for Democracy

He’s going to fold it into the State Department, just like he did with USAID (see NED document)!

Senate Confirms RFK Jr

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Nathaniel Weixel

Longtime vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now the nation’s top health official, after the Senate on Thursday voted almost entirely on party lines to confirm him atop a department of nearly 100,000 employees that runs 13 agencies.

The 52-48 confirmation vote for the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services brings to a close a contentious three-month confirmation fight that served as a significant test of the Republican Party’s loyalty to President Trump.

Only Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cast a GOP vote against Kennedy’s confirmation, after previously bucking his party on Trump’s Defense secretary and national intelligence director.

The founder of one of the country’s most prominent anti-vaccine groups will now run the nation’s vaccine policy, which is just one part of the nearly $2 trillion federal health portfolio.

The final vote was essentially a formality after the Senate Finance Committee last week sent Kennedy’s nomination to the floor on a party-line vote. The full chamber on Wednesday voted 53 to 47 along party lines to end debate and advance the nomination.

Four Republicans would have needed to break with their party and vote with every Democrat for Kennedy’s nomination to fail. Instead, only one did. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who opposed Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, this week said they would support Kennedy despite their lingering concerns over his stance on vaccines.

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Via https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5141880-robert-f-kennedy-jr-confirmed/

Trump 2.0 Agenda Could Result in “Millions of Deaths

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Blogging Hounds

[Ed Note: Bill Gates greed and vaccine experimentation already causing millions of deaths]

The billionaire and so-called “philanthropist” made this ominous statement on ABC’s The View while discussing Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exposing corruption within USAID—an agency Gates has heavily partnered with for years.

Gates admitted he’s “a little worried particularly with” the MAGA movement dismantling USAID, openly complaining that Elon Musk’s influence in the Trump administration is “insane.”

“My foundation partners with USAID on nutrition and getting vaccines out… So, hopefully we’ll get some of that work back in shape. In fact, if we don’t, you could have literally millions of deaths.”

Gates then pivoted to his favorite fearmongering tactic: pushing the next pandemic.

“Oh, certainly we’ll have one in the next 25 years. There’s even some pathogens out there that we’re watching over right now. So, maybe 10% chance in the next four years.”

With public knowledge of USAID’s ties to the Wuhan biolab, Gates’ words now carry a far more sinister weight.

He also expressed “hope” that Trump’s return to the White House “doesn’t interrupt” his global health agenda.

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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2025/02/13/report-bill-gates-has-issued-a-chilling-new-warning-to-musk-trump-and-america-saying-that-the-trump-2-0-agenda-could-result-in-millions-of-deaths/

Grocery Chains Ration Eggs After Mass Chicken Slaughter For Bird Flu

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Ben Bartee

The Democrats have been running the “what about egg prices?” line of attack against Trump hot and heavy lately, making the argument that egg prices are still astronomical and growing despite Trump promising to bring them down and having a full three weeks to reverse five years of economic sabotage by his predecessor.

Related: Trump to Halt Gain-of-Function Viral Research Via Executive Order, Per Report

What they conveniently leave out of the egg price narrative is that the Public Health™ authorities have been busy slaughtering poultry by the hundreds of millions for at least three years now.

Via CBS News (emphasis added):

Whether it’s ducks or chickens, since the current strain of bird flu, H5N1, reached the United States in 2022, over 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized.

“It’s a staggering number, there is no doubt,” said Jodie Guest, a professor of epidemiology with Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta. “But it is, and always has been a policy across administrations, with the USDA, that this is how they handle infections like this among poultry. And as we’ve seen bird flu move [across] species, it becomes even more important to try to contain that infection in the flocks that it’s in, so that we don’t continue to see spread.”

Related: Bird Flu Engineered to Infect Humans Could Be Lab-Produced ‘in Months,’ Former CDC Director Says

Now major grocers have begun limiting egg purchases due to these shortages.

Look at the deceptive framing by even allegedly conservative Fox Business.

Via Fox Business (emphasis added):

Costco, Kroger and Whole Foods are among the growing list of grocers that are putting a purchasing limit on eggs as supply shortages persist.

Companies started imposing limits on the product as the shortage caused by outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)*, or bird flu, persists, causing a frenzy among shoppers. Droves of viral videos have surfaced in recent weeks, showing shoppers stockpiling eggs. One video posted on TikTok claimed that an entire section of eggs at a Costco was gone in less than 10 minutes.

Amazon-owned Whole Foods posted signs on its shelves notifying customers that customers can only buy three cartons of eggs at one time.

“We are currently experiencing difficulty sourcing eggs that meet our strict animal welfare standards,” a sign posted at one of its stores in New York City read.

*It wasn’t bird flu that killed hundreds of millions of chickens — it was the Public Health™ response to the alleged bird flu positives (scared up through inaccurate and often fraudulent PCR testing). This is the exact same scam they ran with COVID: lock everyone down, destroy the economy and society, and blame a virus instead of draconian government policy.

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Via https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/02/11/grocers-ration-eggs-after-mass-chicken-slaughter-for-bird-flu-n4936908

Gaza ceasefire in peril as Israel’s non-compliance sparks diplomatic crisis with Qatar

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United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States on February 04, 2025 [Kyle Mazza - Anadolu Agency]
Middle East Monitor

Qatar has issued a stark warning to Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct is jeopardising the current hostage deal, as mounting evidence reveals multiple violations of the ceasefire violations by the occupation state.

According to Haaretz, Qatar has conveyed “angry messages” to Israel after Netanyahu’s controversial statements about ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and his failure to send a high-level delegation to Doha for negotiations. The Qataris emphasised that their role is guarantors of the agreement and they are not merely intermediaries between Israel and Hamas.

Israel’s violations of the ceasefire terms are extensive and well-documented. The agreed humanitarian aid target of 12,000 trucks has fallen dramatically short, with only 8,500 reaching Gaza. The shelter crisis continues as Israel has delivered just 10 per cent of the promised 200,000 tents, while none of the pledged 60,000 mobile homes have materialised.

The medical evacuation programme has largely failed, with only 120 patients permitted to leave Gaza instead of the anticipated 1,000. Gaza’s Health Ministry reports ongoing Palestinian casualties during the ceasefire period, while Israel continues to block both the return of displaced persons to northern Gaza and the entry of essential equipment needed for the removal of debris and the recovery of dead bodies. At least 48,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, mainly women and children, and thousands more are missing, believed dead, under the rubble.

Israel’s violations of the ceasefire agreement have been confirmed by three Israeli officials and two mediators. Speaking anonymously to the New York Times they said that Hamas’s claims about Israel’s non-compliance with the agreement terms were accurate.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has taken the unusual step of publicly condemning Netanyahu’s recent television interview proposing the transfer of Gaza’s Palestinian population to Saudi Arabia, describing it as “a flagrant violation of international law.” The diplomatic crisis deepens as Hamas threatens to pause the implementation of the agreement which in turn has been met with threats by US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu.

US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff is scheduled to visit the region, including stops in Israel and Doha, to assess the deteriorating situation first hand. Sources suggest that without swift progress in negotiations for the second stage, further delays in hostage releases could lead to a complete collapse of the agreement’s first phase.

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Via https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250212-gaza-ceasefire-in-peril-as-israels-non-compliance-sparks-diplomatic-crisis-with-qatar/