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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.

German lab offers spike protein and plasmid DNA tests to help verify covid vaccine injuries

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Rhoda Wilson

The Institute of Molecular Diagnostics (Inmodia GmbH) is offering tests to establish whether a person’s body has vaccine spike protein or DNA plasmids.  The purpose of the tests is to allow people who believe they have been injured by a covid “vaccine” to present evidence in court, for example, to support their claims. Additionally, the tests will help collect evidence to support the argument for discontinuing the use of covid injections. 

The following information is according to Inmodia’s website.

Never before in the history of medicine has a vaccination been associated with such a high number of serious side effects and consequential harm, including deaths occurring simultaneously. This situation arises primarily because the covid-19 vaccine is not a vaccine as we know it but rather a novel gene-based product that utilises an untested technology in humans.

Two different forms of genetically engineered injections were used in the global covid vaccination campaign. In both cases, the injections forced our bodies’ cells to produce the foreign spike protein (SARS-CoV-2, Wuhan variant).

In the case of DNA-based injections (AstraZeneca, Janssen / Johnson & Johnson), the blueprint for the spike protein is available in the form of a DNA copy, which is introduced into the cells with the help of an adenovirus envelope. Once inside the cell, the DNA must first be transcribed into mRNA.

In the case of RNA-based injections (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna), the blueprint for the spike protein, which occurs naturally on the surface of coronavirus particles, is already available as mRNA, which is introduced into the cells with the help of an envelope of partly synthetic fat-like molecules (lipid nanoparticles, LNPs).

This “vaccine mRNA” is not natural but genetically modified (“modRNA”). The chemical composition of the modRNA has been modified by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna in many ways so that the end product no longer corresponds to a naturally occurring mRNA. The modRNA has a significantly extended lifespan and therefore leads to a maximum and long-lasting production of exogenous spike protein.

modRNA is synthesised based on a DNA template, which must be completely removed before the modRNA is packaged into the lipid nanoparticles (“LNPs”). It has since been found that the RNA-based injections are contaminated with significant amounts of DNA (plasmid DNA).

There are various conceivable mechanisms, including plasmid DNA impurities, for the triggering of serious adverse effects.

The best documented adverse effects are inflammations caused by the body’s own immune system reacting against the foreign spike protein produced in the body’s cells.   Particularly prominent are inflammations of blood vessels, heart muscle, lungs, skin, liver, kidneys and nervous system.

There are also indications that RNA-based injections weaken the immune system’s defence function. This is reflected in the increased number of cases of shingles and bacterial infections such as appendicitis, and wound and prosthesis infections.

Additionally, an increased number of fast-growing tumours, including malignant lymphomas and leukaemias, have been observed in vaccinated people. The exact mechanism of triggering these malignant diseases is not yet fully understood but both the spike protein and the nucleic acid precursors (modRNA and DNA) could play a role. The aforementioned immunosuppression is probably also involved.

For further information on covid vaccine harms, please refer to the book ‘mRNA Vaccines Toxicity’ published by Doctors for Covid Ethics (“D4CE”).

It is possible to detect certain components in covid “vaccines” even months after the injection using special tests of blood, cerebrospinal fluid or tissue samples (biopsy), which can be used as evidence of vaccine damage in an expert opinion.

“The documentation and, if necessary, publication of vaccine damage is particularly important because, among other things, it can be used to gather arguments against the further continuation and authorisation of the gene-based vaccine, which has not yet been fully tested, and thus possibly save other people similar suffering,” Inmodia says.

Inmodia offers three tests specifically for injection-derived components: detection of spike protein (Wuhan type), detection of spike-modRNA and detection of plasmid DNA.  However, specific detection methods for DNA-based injections are currently not offered, as they have hardly been used in Germany and only general spike protein detection is possible for the time being.

Inmodia recommends that people who would like to have tests done start with the detection of spike protein, which requires, if possible, the testing of tissue samples (biopsies), alternatively or additionally blood samples can be tested. This is because the detection of nucleic acids (modRNA and DNA) is significantly more time-consuming and cost-intensive and it should generally only be considered after positive detection of spike protein.

You can view a full list of possible tests and prices HERE.

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Via https://expose-news.com/2024/12/03/german-lab-offers-tests-for-spike-proteins/

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Emergency Martial Law

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Margaret Flavin

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared emergency martial law in the country after accusing the opposition party of “sympathizing with North Korea and of anti-state activities.”

“Through this martial law, I will rebuild and protect the free Republic of Korea, which is falling into the depths of national ruin,” he said during a late-night TV address on Tuesday

“I will eliminate anti-state forces as quickly as possible and normalize the country.”

He also asked people to believe him and tolerate “some inconveniences.”

Per CNN:

Yoon did not say what specific measures would be taken. He cited a motion by the opposition Democratic Party, which has a majority in parliament, to impeach top prosecutors and reject a government budget proposal.

Yoon labeled the opposition’s actions as “clear anti-state behavior aimed at inciting rebellion.” He further claimed these acts have “paralyzed state affairs and turned the National Assembly into a den of criminals.”

He describing martial law as a necessary measure to eradicate these “shameless pro-North anti-state forces.” He justified the decision as essential to protect the freedoms and safety of the people, ensure the country’s sustainability, and pass on a stable nation to future generations.

The parliament speaker is traveling to parliament and plans to convene a session, according to local broadcaster YTN TV. Yonhap news agency reported though that the entrance to parliament is blocked and lawmakers are unable to enter.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared emergency martial law, accusing the opposition of treason and collusion with North Korea.

Under the sweeping measures, violators can be arrested without warrants, and habeas corpus has been suspended.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/developing-south-koreas-president-yoon-suk-yeol-declares/

Drinking fluoridated water can cause more than 130 different health problems

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Drinking fluoridated water can cause more than 130 different health problems, peer-reviewed science shows

Dr Eddy Betterman

GreenMedInfo‘s Sayer Ji is calling for an immediate end to all water fluoridation across the United States based on a trove of science he has compiled to show that fluoridated water is highly toxic.

A quick search for the term “fluoride” in the GreenMedInfo science archives pulls up 136 diseases that exposure to fluoridated water can inflict on humans.

The first and most referenced health condition caused by fluoride is general fluoride toxicity, which can manifest with a variety of symptoms. One of them is lowered or impaired intelligence quotient (IQ) – fluoride makes people dumb, in other words.

Dental fluorosis is another common problem linked to fluoridated water. If you have ever seen someone whose teeth are stained with off-colored spots mixed in with their normal tooth color, that is dental fluorosis. What you are seeing, in fact, is damage to the teeth caused by fluoride chemicals rotting out the enamel, which is ironic considering the claim that drinking water must be fluoridated to protect people’s teeth from decay.

“End the outdated practice of fluoridation NOW,” Ji (@sayerjigmi) tweeted alongside a link to GreenMedInfo‘s fluoride science archive.

Avoid fluoridated water

Prenatal exposure to fluoride is also a problem, according to science. Expectant mothers who are exposed to it have an increased risk of bearing children with fluoride toxicity, which includes things like learning disorders, cognitive damage and behavioral problems.

Prolonged exposure to fluoride is also linked to infertility in both males and females. Chronic inflammation is part of the cause of this, science shows, with fluoride causing testicular injury in males.

Neurodevelopmental disorders can manifest due to exposure to fluoride, as can dental plaque and caries. In older people, neurodegenerative diseases can also manifest due to fluoride exposure.

There is also the DNA damage component, goiter, bone fractures, coronary artery ecstasia, osteoarthritis, pancreatic diseases, sleeping disorders, mitochondrial dysfunction, spleen damage, hypertension, arterial calcification, lead poisoning, bone diseases, diabetes, pineal gland calcification and iodine deficiency.

All sorts of metabolic diseases have been scientifically tied to fluoride exposure, as have cardiovascular conditions like strokes and heart attacks. Chronic kidney disease is another possible health effect of fluoride exposure, as are:

• Brain inflammation

• Chronic kidney disease (CKD)

• Dysbiosis

• Ovarian diseases

• Anxiety

• Cardiomyopathy

• Depression

• Heart failure

• Autism spectrum disorders

• Heavy metal toxicity

• Premature aging

• Low testosterone

• Atherosclerosis

• Autoimmune diseases

• Colitis

• Dementia

• Estrogen deficiency

• Gastrointestinal inflammation

• Mineral deficiencies

• Obesity

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

This is just a sampling, by the way, of the many health problems that fluoride exposure can cause. Take some time to look through the GreenMedInfo fluoride science archive to learn more about why you and your family would do best to avoid fluoridated water at all costs.

“Adding fluoride to water increases the risk of neuropsychiatric disease in children and reduces their IQ,” warns Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD, Florida’s surgeon general.

“We can strengthen teeth without consuming this neurotoxin. The data are consistent, adding fluoride to our communities’ water must stop,” Ladapo added, linking to this guidance for community water fluoridation in the Sunshine State.

The medical establishment, including X / Twitter veterans who only believe “the science” as the government defines it, is freaking out that Ladapo, Ji, and many others are speaking out against artificial water fluoridation, which most of the rest of the world rejects as pseudoscience.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/12/03/drinking-fluoridated-water-130-health-problems-science/

Australia Passes “Age Verification” Bill to Keep Children Under 16 Off of Social Media – Back Door to Digital ID Requirements for EVERYONE

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by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

From the perspective of the consumer who uses social media, however, it became obvious that “age verification” requirements to access online services effectively mean that EVERYONE then will eventually have to prove their age, NOT just children.

Last week, Australia became the first nation in the world to pass strict legislation prohibiting children under the age of 16 from using online social media.

The reaction from Big Tech was mostly negative, as the issue at hand that this legislation concerns is “age verification” software in order to comply with laws such as this.

While Australia is a small country when it comes to online social media users, most saw this as a “test case” and an issue that will soon spread to other countries as well.

What Australia’s Social Media Kids Ban Means for Tech

While U.S. tech executives were tucking into their turkey on Thursday or guzzling Koia shakes, Australian lawmakers were approving a law that bans children under 16 from having a social media account.

Whoa! Australia is a relatively small country whose revenue contribution to Meta Platforms, Snap or TikTok is likely minuscule. But investors have to consider the possibility that the land Down Under is the canary in the coal mine of social media regulation.

After all, the Australian law is a more aggressive variation on laws passed by many U.S. states over the past couple of years, all aimed at protecting children from the worst of social media.

The U.S. state laws vary widely: some states, such as Tennessee, require social media firms to verify that parents consent to their children having an account. Age verification, to ensure social media firms know when a child holds an account, is becoming more common.

It’s hard to say whether these efforts have had much of an impact. Then again, tech industry lobby groups have sued to block implementation of many of these laws.

Tech companies are also trying to dodge responsibility for verifying who’s a kid and who’s an adult. Meta argues that the responsibility should sit with the mobile app store providers, Apple and Google. Apple says the opposite, as this Wall Street Journal report detailed.

But last week, The Washington Post reported that two Republican congresspeople were preparing a federal bill making the app stores responsible.

Social media firms aren’t ignoring the broader issue. Meta, for instance, recently made Instagram accounts for teens private by default, which should make it a bit harder for creepy adults to stalk kids. But given the pressure—including from mothers, as The Information recently reported—such efforts aren’t likely to be enough for social media’s critics.

To be sure, how exactly Australia plans to enforce the law is very unclear, particularly as it says social media companies can’t require state IDs as an age verification tool. If politicians are as worried about kids’ safety online as they claim to be, they wouldn’t make it difficult for social media firms to verify ages.

Tech companies have to prepare for the possibility that Australian-style bans could spread to other countries.

That would be particularly damaging for Snap, whose Snapchat app skews younger than those of other social media firms. But it wouldn’t be good for TikTok, Meta or even Reddit either.

If nothing else, the Australian law adds to a growing assembly of international regulations that threaten to mire tech firms in an ever expanding bureaucratic bog. While engineers are tech’s most valuable source of talent today, one day soon lawyers may take precedence. (Source.)

From the perspective of the consumer who uses social media, however, it became obvious that “age verification” requirements to access online services effectively mean that EVERYONE then will eventually have to prove their age, NOT just children.

A few Australian lawmakers clearly saw this, and warned the public that this was a back door way of rolling out government-issued national IDs to everyone in Australia.

Here is a brief video (under 5 minutes) of their concerns and warnings.

Their voices were largely unheard and probably suppressed, as I saw nothing about this in the U.S. media until after the bill passed.

My Australian friend, Dr John Gideon Hartnett of Bible Science Forum, covered the implications of this bill in a recent article, stating that he had no intentions of complying with a requirement of a National ID in Australia, and encouraged others to not comply either.

Australia’s Controversial Social Media Age Verification Bill Now Law

The Australian government’s Social Media Age Verification Bill has been passed without debate, aiming to impose biometric digital ID on citizens aged 16 and over. Critics warn it represents a shift towards authoritarianism and encourage voters to oppose Labor and Liberal parties.

The Australian Labor government, with support from the Liberal Opposition, therefore the Uniparty, just passed into law the Social Media Age Verification Bill without any real debate.

No other country in the world has such draconian laws.

But I think it is a good thing, not because of the police state surveillance, but because it might wake up a sleeping mass against the imposition of the authoritarian state.

It is really about forcing us all onto the biometric digital ID blockchain.

Craig Kelly wrote on X

The Social Media Age Verification Bill is not about “protection the children” it‘s about forcing every Australian 16 and over to obtain biometric facial recognition digital ID.

And VPNs won’t save you, because the new law empowers ACMA to force global surveillance of social media to hunt down Australians using VPN’s – and force them to comply by obtaining biometric digital ID.

But Australians have one last chance to stop this at the next election, by voting for the Libertarians or One Nation.

For it you rock up to vote Labor or Liberal as you have always done – you are voting for the implementation of totalitarian state.

It is time to wake up Australians!

This is the progression towards the state described by George Orwell in his famous novel 1984.

He just got the year wrong by 40 years.

As far as I can tell BibleScienceForum should be unaffected by this denial of freedom of speech to Australian under-16-year-olds.

The issue of biometric facial-recognition and digital ID won’t affect me either because I WILL NOT COMPLY! Nor should you comply!

That might mean that I will not be able to post anything on social media (X.com, Telegram.com and Facebook.com etc) because I will not be applying for a digital ID. But if they force me off all forms of social media, so be it. (Full article.)

Age Verification IDs Online will NOT Protect Children, but Make them MORE Available to the Pedophiles!

As I have previously reported, these huge social media companies run by billionaires could care less about “free speech” and they are ALL involved in child sex trafficking.

Please read this article, especially the last part, that I recently published that shows the problem with child sex trafficking that ALL of these huge social media companies are involved in, and the many links I provided in that article: Do Big Tech Billionaires Promote “Free Speech” or Child Sex Trafficking? What is “Free Speech”?

With this new law in Australia, which is most certainly a test case to be rolled out to the U.S. and many other countries soon, young girls and young boys aged 16 and over can be listed in a hackable database along with an image of their face and other personal details.

Even if the software companies swear up and down that this information will remain private, you can be sure that it will not, as cyber security software and other security measures to prevent this still lag way behind in their abilities to keep this data private, as we see in the news most every day reading about how these hackers so easily obtain this data.

If you want to keep your children safe from online predators, your only solution is to keep them offline completely, or only allow them online in your own home with you or another trusted adult present with them during their entire online activities, and completely avoiding ALL social media sites, or any other sites that require your child to create an account.

This also means that if they leave your home without you present with them, not supplying them with a “smart” cell phone.

There are still flip phones available for concerned parents who want to keep in touch with their children when they are not present, that cannot connect to Internet sites. (One review of such cell phones here.)

I agree with Dr. Hartnett that everyone should RESIST and NOT comply with obtaining Government-issued digital IDs.

If enough people refuse to comply, they will not be able to accomplish their goals, because compliance is necessary for this to work.

And even if the majority of people do comply, there is no guarantee this will work either, because the technology will always be dependent upon people owning devices to access the Internet, an Internet that is stable and ALWAYS available, electricity to run it all, and many other things that are necessary, but are by no means certain, in the future.

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Via https://vaccineimpact.com/2024/australia-passes-age-verification-bill-to-keep-children-under-16-off-of-social-media-back-door-to-digital-id-requirements-for-everyone/

The failure of COP29: Does the “Green Agenda” have a future?

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COP29 deal not to everyone's liking - Vietnam Economic Times | VnEconomy
Raphael Machado

Some countries still seem unaware that this entire agenda has never been more than a new strategy by global elites to accumulate capital and impose new forms of social control.

Following the conclusion of the multilateral climate conference COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the atmosphere is one of defeat. Nearly an entire week of speeches and endless meetings did not suffice to reach a reasonable consensus on a series of practical measures that had been anticipated.

Specifically, the debate on funding climate policies sank. The so-called “developing countries” had expected an annual grant policy exceeding $1 trillion for energy transition and climate change mitigation policies, but only $300 billion per year will be allocated—optimistically. Moreover, this sum will not necessarily be in the form of grants but may include loans and other financing mechanisms that bring interest and debt.

India denounced the final result of COP29, supported by Bolivia, Cuba, and Nigeria, as a farce and an insult from developed countries to developing nations.

This financing debate will now be deferred to COP30, scheduled to take place in Brazil in 2025. However, the chances of COP30 succeeding where COP29 failed seem very slim.

While climate alarmism and eco-globalism are now part of Brazil’s official ideology, in the rest of the world, these postmodern beliefs are losing momentum.

Take, for example, the reasons why expanding funding for the “Green Agenda” has been impossible in “developed countries.” Observing European governments’ behavior since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, one can see increasing difficulty in advancing energy transition and net-zero carbon policies.

Germany, for instance, was once one of the main drivers of climate alarmism worldwide, even closing its nuclear power plants “for the environment” (despite nuclear plants being far less polluting than most other energy sources). Yet today, facing an energy crisis caused by the NordStream’s destruction, Germany is reopening its coal-fired power plants.

Sweden, long a leader in international climate activism, has reversed many of its previous environmental measures. The Ministry of the Environment has been dismantled, and the government now prioritizes ensuring cheap fuel.

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the previous administration of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suspended the ban on diesel car sales and decided to stop promoting the replacement of gas heaters. Similar examples can be found in several other countries.

Clearly, sanctions and the NordStream’s destruction have made Europe’s energy situation difficult enough to raise living costs, convincing European governments to roll back at least some environmental measures and dampen their enthusiasm for promoting global climate alarmism.

This retreat by European nations will be compounded by the fact that, starting in 2025, the United States will likely be governed by Donald Trump, who holds a critical stance toward climate alarmism and promises to intensify fracking for hydrocarbon extraction in the country. This is corroborated by the nominations of Chris Wright as Secretary of Energy and Lee Zeldin to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In Brazil, the media has revealed that Lula’s administration fears a lackluster COP30 in the Amazon region in 2025, with the U.S. under Trump’s administration. Naturally, for Brazilian patriots focused on safeguarding national sovereignty over the Amazon and exploring oil in the Equatorial Margin, this is good news.

Indeed, Brazil’s insistence on adhering to the “Green Agenda” is puzzling, considering it often serves as a geopolitical control tool favoring major powers at the expense of developing nations. The climate agenda frequently imposes disproportionate obligations on Brazil relative to its actual contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, which are significantly lower than those of more industrialized economies.

With a predominantly renewable energy matrix, Brazil is already an example of sustainability and energy efficiency worldwide. Approximately 84% of Brazil’s electricity is generated from clean sources, such as hydropower, wind, solar, and biomass—a level that countries like the United States and Germany have yet to achieve, despite leading global climate discourse.

Meanwhile, developed countries that built their wealth through the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources and environmental pollution now advocate environmental restrictions designed to limit the growth of emerging economies like Brazil. These impositions often harm strategic sectors such as oil and gas exploration, mining, and agribusiness, which are vital to national development and sovereignty.

In practice, we appear to be witnessing the crisis of the “Green Agenda” that has dominated global politics for years. Yet some countries still seem unaware that this entire agenda has never been more than a new strategy by global elites to accumulate capital and impose new forms of social control.

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Via https://straightlinelogic.com/2024/12/01/the-failure-of-cop29-does-the-green-agenda-have-a-future-by-raphael-machado/

Mass Desertions Could End War in Ukraine

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U.S. Medevac helicopter at An Khe, South Vietnam, 1970. Photo: Mike Hastie, Medic, Vietnam

Barbara G Ellis

NATO leaders have been dithering about Russia’s recent retaliation against Ukraine’s lofting one of Lockheed’s long-range missiles deep into its interior. Their emergency huddle was about Putin’s new multi-missile (“Oreshnik “) which traveled 10 times the speed of sound (range: 310-3,400 miles) to hit a former ICBM factory . So far, either side seems to have considered the one factor that could end their planet-destroying, nuclear game of chicken.

It’s the real possibility of monumental mutiny and desertions by those boots-on-the-ground that both sides count on to do the heavy lifting in WWIII.

Most soldiers may be willing to risk death by bullets and bombs, but not radiation exposure. Despite recent official assurances by U.S. war planners that nuclear weapons would be used only on battlefields, radiation drifts for thousands of miles. It ignores borders and body protections—as proved by Hiroshima in 1945 and the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.

Russian president Putin claimed Oreshnik’s speed makes NATO’s current defense systems powerless and said its production was imminent. But while the West’s missile designers set up a crash program to counter this latest escalation, these warhawks and their counterparts evidently still ignore the ever-expanding deserter numbers or silent mutinies abuilding in Ukraine and Russia. However, troops usually know military officials traditionally underestimate or conceal death rates lest it demoralize both them and the public to begin questioning the worth of continuing a war.

Current desertion rates in Russia by August were 18,000 and increasing daily, Newsweek reported. Russia’s death rate by September was said to be 71,000 by its independent media outlet Mediazona. The Economist in July put total casualties—dead/wounded/ captured—at between 462,000 and 728,000.

Small wonder then why Putin “borrowed” nearly 12,000 combat troops from North Korea in October for front-line duty. Equally, NATO members have promised troops as well. Many now on site as “advisors” for their equipment—tanks and munitions to aircraft—and infantry training.

Ukrainian desertions have now become legendary, along with increasing populations of neighboring Romania, Poland, and Germany. The Kyiv Post just reported some 60,000 alone are facing criminal charges of desertion since the war’s start in 2022. Thousands of others have not been caught nor wooed or forced back to the ranks. The Eurasian Review also noted Ukrainians on the 629-mile frontline were poorly armed and often out of ammunition. It commented:

“Ukraine’s military is now ‘Outgunned and Outnumbered’, struggling with low morale and high rate of desertions….This prolonged war nearing three years have near

decimated many Ukrainian infantry battalions, making the situation grim on the battle limes. Reinforcements are few and difficult to be created, leaving soldiers exhausted, demoralized and desert [ing].”

Not to mention the 44,000 draft-age Ukainian males who by August had slipped through border-police lines of other nations. The Wall Street Journal says 15,000 fled to mountainous Romania in particular.

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Mutiny and desertions are ancient. Never say soldiers lack courage in confronting officialdom over orders or a war’s justification. They risk certain death. But if a mutiny is successful, a “cause” has been won. So there’s much to be said for it.

Indeed, our country was founded by a nationwide mutiny against Britain’s King George III. The eight-year (1775-83) war’s costs in blood (25,000 to 70,000 dead), disease and treasure ($1.141 billion in 2024 dollars ) from both the wealthy rebels who signed the Declaration of Independence—and most anti-British colonists. The situation is almost the same when other countries’ nationalists attempt to wrest national independance from foreign occupiers and exploiters.

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Few Americans may know that by late 1780 George Washington’s bedraggled army of 26,000 suffered “desertions” by 11,000 tired of fights over pay, enlistment contracts, no clothing, and little food.

After three years of war, the fiery cause of independence could not keep them from going home or, worse, joining the British army for far better living and pay conditions. In early January 1781, Pennsylvania regiments led other states’ mutinous legions in a march to army headquarters in Princeton for redress about broken contracts, back pay, clothing—and immunity from court-martials.

They won by dint of numbers, leadership, organization, persistence, and the advantage of General George Washington’s desperate manpower needs and his fears of wholesale defections. That successful lesson also was learned in France through it took a blood-drenched revolution of 1793 to found a republic after centuries of kings.

Another great mutiny was equally bloody, but because of political differences among the rebels, it led to a civil war over leadership.

At WWI’s start in 1914, the long-brewing Russian revolution was quietly growing with both the war-weary, disheartened public and the army. Mutinous soldiers were committing large-scale internal sabotage: massive desertions, fraternization with

Germans and Austrians, theft of military and civilian supplies, drunkenness, and especially self-inflicted wounds. Some 350,000 were “finger-injured” out of the 2.6 million wounded.

Finally, in 1917 the revolution erupted March 8 with a great strike in Petrograd. Ordered to suppress strikers, the army refused and, instead, quickly joined them. That was the last straw for those on the Russian battle lines and trenches. They abruptly quit the war en masse and left for home, leaving the revolutionaries to liquidate the Romanoff rulers and replace them with a dictatorship of the Communists.

The greatest army mutiny in U.S history to date involved the 1955-75 Vietnam war. The troops and the American public were told repeatedly that the cause was to prevent a “domino effect” of Chinese Communism’s spread to Asia’s vast populations. “Better fight them there than here” was the government’s war cry to prop up Vietnam’s rulers and business leaders. But once the advance troops arrived, even buck privates could see an impoverished population ruled by a corrupt government in league with foreigners to export its rich natural resources .

Asians had been exploited for years by European colonialists. Vietnam’s rubber trees for France’s Michelin tires, for example, as well as rice, sugar cane, coal, iron ore, and tin. Mutiny by the Vietnamese against French control succeeded in May 1954, partitioning the country into north (Communist) and south (national) states. To “protect” the South’s resources from the North’s “reunion” plans, the U.S. intervened. It used over 543,000 troops by 1968 in the subsequent war that was to cost the U.S. 58,220 lives and a major defeat—all to retain business as usual in world markets.

Aside from opposing intervention in Asia after the Korean war—and with a draft—the basic cause of the army mutiny was the unfairness that always accompanies conscription even for a one-year “tour.” Exemptions went to students (especially divinity and medical), vital professions, conscientious-objectors, family men, the National Guard, and the physically and mentally unfit.

Add the traditional class separations of the privileged becoming officers; the poor, the uneducated, and minorities becoming infantry “cannon-fodder.” And race. Some 300,000 Blacks served (31% of ground troops), so that by 1965, thousands were militant and vocal against discrimination and their menial duties.

The huge anti-war movement in the States was more than matched by mutinous deeds of combat troops, marines, sailors, and airmen in Vietnam and U.S. bases around the world. Galvanized by those demonstrations and teach-ins at home, GIs organized informally to do the same, but at barrack conspiracies, discussions at nearby activist coffeehouses about resistance, and by hundreds of defiant underground newspapers (Fort Polk Puke, Semper Fi, A’bout Face, RITA Notes, The Bond, P.E.A.C.E., Duck Power, Aerospaced, etc.).

Overt actions ranged from thousands of combat refusals and do-nothing night patrols (“search and avoid”), incapacitation from narcotics and alcohol, and stockade riots to fraternizing with the enemy, disabling a ship by fire and dropping nuts, bolts, and chains into another’s main gear shaft. But above all—and viewed as the most effective—was “fragging” hated officers with fragmentation grenades. Secret warnings led to undermining their confidence and to field incompetence. Historically, wars have always had soldiers murdering officers perceived as endangering their comrades by incompetence or recklessness, as ISR associate editor Joel Grier points out.

Statistics on fragging incidents were not kept before 1969 and apparently it’s still difficult to pry any Pentagon forensics data about whether a shot in the back was from “friendly fire” or the Viet-Cong. And for good reason: low morale leads to depression and suicide or to mutiny and desertions. Hence, army fragging casualty numbers (incidents: 1,017; deaths: 86; wounded: 714) are still under dispute, though obviously undercounted by the Pentagon. After all, the unofficial rate was said to be at least one fragging per week.

The overall result of fragging was lax discipline by frightened officers and enraged and exhausted troops refusing to die—or suffer lifetime disabilities— for a cause few soldiers understood or believed in. Nor did most Americans at home. The choice troops made to mutiny de-escalated combat, and finally stopped the Vietnam War.

David Cortright, is a Vietnam veteran who authored perhaps the seminal book on the army’s resistance to that war (Soldiers in Revolt, 2005, Haymarket Books). He makes the timeless point to soldiers, civilians, Congressional warhawks, military officials—and particularly presidents, prime ministers and generals that:

“[The] central lesson of the GI movement…is that people need not be helpless before the power of illegitimate authority, that by getting together and acting upon their convictions people can change society and, in effect, make their own history” (243).

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Via https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/29/mass-desertions-over-radiation-could-end-the-war-in-ukraine/

Combination Routine Childhood Vaccination Associated with Development of Asthma and Eczema

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By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

The University of Nottingham published a study from the West Midlands General Practice Database (n=29,238) and gave a the world a rare look at how unvaccinated children compared to those who received combinations of vaccines DPPT (Diphtheria, Polio, Pertussis, Tetanus) at months 2, 3, 4 and MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) at 12 and 15 months.

The authors reported hazard ratios far in excess of two and attempted to adjust them by frequency of visits. I can tell you as an epidemiologist that the crude measures of association are far more important. For example, if an unvaccinated child is perfectly healthy without problems, then the visit rate to the clinic will be very low. In this group, there was a more than 10-fold increased risk with vaccination. Conversely vaccinated with asthma or eczema the visit rates will be higher.

As you can see from the table, both DPPT and MMR were significantly associated with the later development of asthma and eczema. These data suggest that children who undergo routine combination vaccination face higher risks of childhood allergic diseases. Conversely the unvaccinated have low or negligible risks. Going natural appears to be a healthier way to have a young child remain free of these common allergic diseases.

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Via https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/combination-routine-vaccination-associated

Sleepy Joe’s Hunter Pardon Is About Biolabs, Not Gun & Tax Charges

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It’s The Biolabs Stupid! Sleepy Joe’s Hunter Pardon Is Not About Gun & Tax Charges

By Kelen McBreen

If Joe Biden wanted to clear his son Hunter from being convicted of lying on a background check while purchasing a gun and evading taxes, he could have done just that.

However, Sleepy Joe suspiciously cleared Hunter of ANY CRIMES he committed “or may have committed or taken part in between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024.”

As popular 𝕏 account @WarClandestine noted, the pardon covers the time period when the CIA and U.S. State Department began their 2014 coup in Ukraine, the same year the Hunter Biden-funded biolab company Metabiota started working with the Department of Defense to do coronavirus research in Ukraine.

Clandestine also suggested the pardon is meant to cover up more than just Hunter’s involvement in the bizarre biolab network, as the operation is tied to the American and Chinese governments and the release of the COVID-19 bioweapon.

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Via https://hellboundanddown.com/2024/12/02/its-the-biolabs-stupid-sleepy-joes-hunter-pardon-is-not-about-gun-tax-charges/

Languages of the Silk Road and Beyond

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Episode 14 Languages of the Silk Road and Beyond

Language Families of the World

Dr John McWhorter

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Regions involved in the ancient Silk Road trade developed their own discrete languages belonging to the Altaic family (with Turkic, Mongolian and Tungasic being the main subfamilies). At some point, all three have been the official languages (employing Chinese script) of China.

All Altaic languages put the verb at the end of sentences and use suffixes more commonly than prefixes.

Genghis Khan used Turkic languages in the countries he conquered and ruled.

The Turkic language began in Mongolia and spread east and west with the Mongolian conquests. The Huns spoke Turkic, and the Mughals who conquered India spoke Turkic in preference to Persian.

The people of the Anatolian peninsula initially spoke Hittite, then Greek, then Seljik Turkic, then Ottoman Turkish. Turkic has many different dialects that shade into one another, with even more word similarities than the Romance languages.

Sekiz, the Turish word for 8 is

  • səkkis in Azerbaijani
  • sekis in Turkman
  • sakkis in Uzbek
  • segrz in Kazak
  • säkkiz in Uighur

Altaic languages incorporate “vowel harmony” which means the vowel suffix for plurals changes depending on where the main vowel is formed in in the mouth. They also have “suffix sandwiches,” in which suffixes are combined to make a sentence out of a single long word.

They also have many loan words from Persian and Arabic. For example Altaic speakers often use Persian expressions in complex academic writing (eg mathematical principles).

In 1920, the founder of modern Turkey Kemal Ataturk took steps to solidify Turkey’s Western identity by switching Turkish script from the Arabic to the Roman alphabet and by purging Turkish (and substituting Turkish of all its Arabic and Persian words.

Mongolian – Mongolian didn’t spread beyond the homeland despite all the Mongol conquests because Genghis Khan and his successors used Turkic languages to rule the territories they conquered.

  • Kalmyk – Turkic language spoken in Russia. Ewak, the invented language used in Return of the Jedi is based on Kalmyk. Has verb variations for hypothetical actions similar to the Indo-European subjunctive.
  • Tungasic languages – found in small scattered groups in Eastern China and Siberia. Manchu, the language of China’s ruling elite* for 300 years (until 1912) is a Tungasic language. Three hundred thousand residents of Xinjiang province still speak Manchu as a result of a Manchu garrison stationed there.

*Rather than requiring their Chinese subjects to learn Manchu, the Manchu dynasty made extensive use of interpreters.

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/6120000/6120030

Lost Kingdoms of Africa: Great Zimbabwe

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Lost Kingdoms of Africa: The Great Zimbabwe

BBC (2013)

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Art historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford begins his investigation of the Great Zimbabwe on the site of the ancient Swahili Coast, which in the 13th and 14th century was the world’s most foremost gold trading market.

Trade on the Swahili Coast was well established by the first century AD, long before the discovery of gold in the Great Zimbabwe. Pottery shards over 2000 years old and Greek historical texts indicate traders from India and Arabia* visited the coastal city of Rhapta prior to 100 AD – seeking ivory, rhinoceros horn and fine tortoiseshell, in return for spears, daggers and glass. The Arab chronicler Ibn bin Tuta visited the city-state of Kilwa-Kisiwan on an island off the Swahili in 1331 and described the presence of “black” Muslims and a palace full of gold, silver and precious stones. A 14th century Kilwa coin found in Great Zimbabwe indicates the two cultures were linked in a trade network.

Manyikeni (Bantu word meaning place where people can give to each other) south of Great Zimbabwe, was also part of this trade network. In the 1970s, archeologists found gold ornaments, copper wire and glass beads in burial sites, along with exquisitely designed mosques and palaces built of coral and finished with soft lime plaster made of powdered coral. The architecture features the same style of (mortar-less) stone walls found in Great Zimbabwe.

Many similar artifacts are found in Macungupwe (currently part of South Africa’s national park system) and a historical museum in Pretoria. The intricacy of some of the gold sculptures and ceramic pots suggests Macungupwe collapsed just before the rise of Great Zimbabwe, which was likely founded by Macungupwe survivors).

Casely-Hayford visits Zimbabwe last, the first BBC presenter to be allowed in the country for nine years. Between the 13th and 15th century, Great Zimbabwe, a city of 250,000 people and encompassing 720 hectares, controlled a kingdom encompassing much of modern Zimbabwe and parts of Mozambique and ran a trade network extending between the Limpopo and Zambezi River. They left behind stunning mortarless brick walls and palaces, gold bracelets, ceramics and glass beads from China and the Middle East

Both Great Zimbabwe and Kilwa collapsed in the 15th century.

*Swahili is the Arab word for coast.

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