About stuartbramhall

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 Gov’t Admits There Was No Pandemic

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartbramhall

Huge news out of Germany as the federal government have been forced to admit that so-called "conspiracy theorists" were right about everything during the Covid pandemic.

Baxter Dmitry April 2, 2024

Huge news out of Germany as the federal government have been forced to admit that so-called “conspiracy theorists” were right about everything during the Covid pandemic.

In fact, according to the German government data, there was no pandemic at all, just a tightly choreographed military grade psy-op to brainwash the masses into accepting an experimental vaccine with disastrous consequences.

These secret German government documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request and subsequent lawsuit have blown the lid of the global elite’s Covid lies and the it’s vitally important that as many people as possible are made aware of the truth.

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More and more people all over the world are waking up and seeing the global elite for what they always have been: deranged psychopaths hell bent on destruction and domination.

Germany is no different. The German population suffered some of the most brutal lockdowns and vaccine mandates in all of Europe and now the people are rising up and demanding accountability.

Step forward Paul Schreyer and Multipolar magazine who launched a Freedom of Information request and then launched a lawsuit against the German government when they tried every trick in the book to keep the secret documents under lock and key.

As Professor Steven Homburg explains, the results are stunning, and represent total vindication for everyone who dared to question the narrative of lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates.

The secret government documents – all 2,000 pages of them – reveal that we were right about nearly everything and the so-called “pandemic” was all fraud.

These facts are damning and prove the official narrative about Covid, pushed by world governments and mainstream media, is completely bogus.

Which makes the tyranny we experienced during the so-called pandemic even harder to swallow, as Professor Homburg explains.

The data also reveals that Sweden, which was the only European country free of masks and lockdowns, performed much better than Germany. Which raises the question, what were the tyrannical lockdowns and mandates really about?

Professor Homburg has the answer – and as it turns out, we were right all along.

Breaking down vaccine hesitancy through brutal lockdowns was always the goal of the global elite. Unfortunately, for those who did not see through the psy-op at the time, the health consequences are dire. Serious questions must be asked.

Unfortunately for the vaxxed, the bad news doesn’t end there. Japanese researchers have linked Covid vaccines to hundreds of diseases.

While a new study out of the US has found that those who have been vaccinated and boosted can expect to meet their maker far sooner than they would have expected.

A disturbing new study has revealed that people who have been “fully vaccinated” with Covid mRNA injections can expect to lose a staggering 25 years from their life expectancy.

Researchers analyzed data from the CDC, Cleveland Clinic Data, and insurance company risk assessment data and uncovered a disturbing trend of plummeting life expediencies among those who had multiple doses of mRNA.

Unfortunately for the vaxxed, the news gets even worse. The chronic damage to health caused by each dose of mRNA does not lessen over time, as previously believed.

In reality, the negative health effects appear to continue indefinitely.

According to the researchers, CDC All-Cause Mortality data reveals that each jab increased mortality by 7% in the year 2022 compared to the mortality in 2021.

This means that people who have had 5 doses – that’s two doses and three boosters – were 35% more likely to die in 2022 than they were in 2021.

Correlating with the German information, the study also confirmed that people who are not vaccinated were no more likely to die in 2022 than in 2021.

These numbers are damning. But anybody paying attention can see that something is very wrong with the vaccinated. They are dropping like flies with heart problems and turbo cancer all over the world.

Professional athletes are supposed to be among the healthiest people on the planet but in the past few years thousands have collapsed with sudden and inexplicable heart conditions.

Fully vaccinated professional athletes are continuing to drop like flies, with four professional soccer players have collapsed suddenly, clutching their hearts, in the last week alone.

Egyptian star Ahmed Refeat became the third professional soccer play to suffer cardiac arrest in front of live TV cameras, with doctors later admitting they “hadn’t seen something like this before.”

Orlando Pirates midfielder Makhelene Makhaula was the second football star to collapse on the field this week, as medical staff were seen desperately attempting to revive the South African star.

Listen as the stunned announcer admits, in his own words, that footballers are dropping like flies all over the world since the vaccine roll out.

On Sunday in the Argentinian top flight, Estudiantes’ Javier Altamirano suffered a seizure and collapsed suddenly in the big match against Boca Juniors, one of the biggest clubs in South America.

It’s not just professional athletes dropping like flies. People from all walks of life, including popular social media influencers, are being struck down with heart conditions and rare forms of cancer at unprecedented rates.

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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/german-govt-admits-there-was-no-pandemic/

RFK Jr and the Hope of Monetary Reform

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartbramhall

End the Fed March – 14 By Steve Rhodes Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED

By Robert C Cook Sept 23, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has based his presidential campaign on honestly facing the fact that gigantic global corporations have taken over and rule the U.S. today. He is, of course, right.

I would also like to point out that the largest, most aggressive, and least conscionable of these corporations are the financial ones: the banks, like J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo; the investment companies, like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Berkshire Hathaway; and the holding companies and hedge funds like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. The military-industrial complex is also in their grip. For instance, the latter three are majority owners of Lockheed Martin, the largest U.S. defense firm.

These companies have one goal: making money, no matter what—legally or illegally, no matter the cost to public health, well-being, or even survival. In fact, the most favorable scenario to them is wartime, as shown by the soaring profits coming from U.S. expenditures on weapons provided to the Kiev regime during the conflict in Ukraine.

These are the institutional forces Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is bravely facing down. President John F. Kennedy launched a similar campaign when he sought to restore New Deal principles for a strong national economy, including low interest rates and national investments for improving productivity.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has an able backer in former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, his campaign manager. Kucinich won a rare victory against big finance when he rescued Cleveland’s municipal electric utility from their grip while mayor decades ago. He wrote of this real-life drama in his recent book, Division of Light and Power.

While in Congress, Kucinich authored the most important monetary reform legislation of the last century in his NEED Act, proposed in 2011 before he was gerrymandered out of office. This legislation, which I’ll explain shortly, stands ready to become part of Kennedy’s platform when the time comes.

Let me offer some personal information. After 32 years of federal government service as an analyst for several civilian agencies, including the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department, I retired and began to publish books and articles on public policy issues.

One of my books was We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform. Based on a deep study of our monetary system going back to colonial days, I documented how the authority reserved to Congress by our Constitution to create and control money had been usurped by the private bankers. This unconstitutional usurpation of power culminated in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

The banks from the beginning of our republic operated as a force outside control of the government. They had usurped the power to create money “out of thin air” by the practice of “fractional reserve banking.” This meant lending far in excess of value held in reserve as cash or precious metals. The banks then lent its printed paper at usurious rates of interest to anyone they thought could repay at a profit to them. Much of this power of lending went into land, stock market, and currency speculation that crashed markets and led to periodic “panics” that continue today. These took place when the banks’ depositors tried to withdraw their money from the banks’ empty vaults. Waves of individual and business bankruptcies and foreclosures were the result.

The biggest “panic” was the Great Depression—at least until the Great Recession of 2008-2009. Today, with a public debt of $33.1 trillion, all derived from government borrowing through the banking system, we again face a national disaster. The disaster will be even worse than 2008-2009, as the government’s ability to extract purchase of Treasury bonds from foreigners, who must use the dollar as a reserve currency, declines in the face of de-dollarization due to BRICS.

So what is the solution?

Let me take you back to when I first began to study monetary reform when I worked in the Carter White House under Esther Peterson, whom some of you senior citizens might remember as Carter’s renowned special assistant for consumer affairs.

Back then, as Democrats, we all still worked under the diminishing influence of Keynesian economics. We were feeling the pressure of what became “supply-side economics,” which was essentially to privatize all public functions, including utilities, and leave it to the private sector to sort out issues of economic equity, which we knew would never happen.

I then discovered that back in the 1920s and 1930s there was a notable alternative to the theories propounded by Keynes. This was the National Dividend proposals put forth by British engineer C.H. Douglas. While in 1936, Keynes published his famous The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Douglas had published the first edition of his book Economic Democracy in 1920.

The banks were enamored of Keynes, because the massive government bond issues he favored would always result in bank profits. And the government bond issues could be used to augment the reserve base for bank lending. To the bankers, it’s always the more debt the better, regardless of the source.

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At one time, the world’s reserve currency was the British pound. After World War II it was the U.S. dollar, an outcome brought about at Bretton Woods in 1944 that later manifested as the “petrodollar” after the international gold standard was dropped in 1971.

Then, if other means failed, a nation would attempt to enforce its requirement for a net inflow of cash, or purchasing power, by means of coercion, possibly leading to war. From this point of view, Douglas had explained the inevitable financial imperative of the British, and later, the American Empire. He had in fact explained the driving force for World Wars I and II, where Great Britain had fought to the death against Germany for commercial motives.

Finally, still facing an insufficiency of purchasing power, a nation would attempt to fill the gap by bank lending, using the fractional reserve system to create the purchasing power through book entries subject to future liquidation upon repayment. Of course, the banking system would skim a large proportion of lending off the top by means of usury; i.e., compound interest. The banking system therefore works to make a bad situation much worse and eventually empties a nation of its purchasing power. This is where the U.S. finds itself today. Increasingly, individuals and families can only pay their bills by running up ever-increasing credit card debt.

It is obvious from this description why the modern economic system, overseen in particular first by Britain, and then the U.S., was doomed to crash periodically. Such events, disastrous to society at large, were accompanied by a constant state of warfare among nations and individuals through Thomas Hobbes “war of each against all.”

Why had no one seen and understood any of this? The answer is that many people have. But today’s failed economic system works to the advantage of so many powerful people, starting with the financiers, but also including the military-industrial complex, the political class who get rich from war, and organized crime. Thus systemic change has proven impossible to bring about.

But how should the gap between production and income be filled, if not through ruinous international competition, warfare, and lending? Douglas pointed out that viewed positively, the gap can be seen as a celebration of society’s prowess in creating useful things for all people. But people have to be issued the money to fill the gap, either as what Douglas called a “National Dividend,” or by price subsidies, what he called a “Compensated Price,” both provided by the central government.

A complementary approach would be for the government to cease borrowing to meet its obligations by what today is called “direct payment.” Thus money would be issued by the government and distributed exactly as the U.S. printed and issued Greenbacks during and after the American Civil War.

The money would be spent into existence against a dividend account created neither by taxes nor government borrowing. The money would be a true, legitimate fiat currency backed by the productive capacity of the nation’s physical plant. Every nation could do the same. International trade would take place not as a predatory act, but among equal trading partners.

The most effective means of direct payment would be to build infrastructure, where the federal government would take charge of creating the physical underpinnings of the economy by direct funding of roads, bridges, the electrical grid, clean air and water, internet services, and the working system of public transportation that we lack today. The work, of course, would be done by the private sector with employees receiving a respectable living wage.

Back now to my personal story…After President Carter succumbed to the “Reagan Revolution” in the 1980 election and after Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker devastated the U.S. producing economy with 20 percent interest rates in the 1979-1982 recession, I gradually learned of the long history of the takeover of the U.S. financial system by the banks. I developed and taught courses on this history to my colleagues. Along the way, I came to know Stephen Zarlenga (1941-2017), the most important monetary reformer in modern history.

Zarlenga had concluded that our financial system based on private control of banking and the creation of credit through fractional reserve lending showed a total misunderstanding of the nature of money and that the real beneficiaries of this misunderstanding are the financiers. In 1996, Zarlenga founded the American Monetary Institute as a vehicle for his research. In 2002 he published his magnum opus: The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money, The Story of Power, a 756-page masterpiece.

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In 2005, Zarlenga and I began to work with Congressman Kucinich. We had just finished writing a draft of the American Monetary Act to embody the principles of monetary reform.

Congressman Kucinich then decided to turn our draft into congressional legislation, to be titled the National Emergency Employment Defense—NEED—Act, filed with Congress in 2011. It was and remains the most important piece of monetary legislation since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the most comprehensive piece of monetary reform legislation in US history. It was later adopted as part of the platform of the Green Party. While space prevents reprinting here, it can easily be read in one sitting.

More than any other reform, the NEED Act would return the US to its founding principles. It would create a sustainable financial system whereby the US would no longer have to ransack other nations and our own population to keep its privately-owned financial system afloat. When reviewing the NEED Act, we should bear in mind the following:

The NEED Act would abolish the Federal Reserve System and replace it with a Monetary Authority within the U.S. Department of Treasury. The Monetary Authority would serve as a depository for federal funds and a point of origin for direct issuance of US currency.

The NEED Act would restore to constitutional government the sovereign power to create money. The private banking system could only lend money beyond its deposit base by borrowing it first from the Monetary Authority according to established guidelines. Bank issuances would also be in US currency.

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Via https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and-the-hope-of-monetary-reform

For the WEF, the Brain is the Battlefield of the Future

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartbramhall

By Peter Koenig

DARPA Neurologist and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC, Dr. James Giordano, who is also a weapons expert, started his presentation at West Point NY Military Academy by saying, “The brain is and will be the 21^st Century battlefield. End of story.”

Dr. Giordano talks about how Directed Energy can be and is being weaponized. Individuals’ brains can be targeted by microwaves, the type of 5G and soon to come 6G, of which you see antennas growing like mushrooms all over the word.

They tell you, it is to make your internet, and ever more sophisticated computers and smart phones faster, with more outreach capacity – and to help advance digitization.

This may all be true to some extent, but the real reason behind these microwave towers is to target YOU, the individual.

Why? From other sources we know that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is in full implementation.

Klaus Schwab, eternal CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF), published his book, “Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, already in 2018.

In it he writes about such significant topics as Embedding Values in Technologies; The Internet of Things; Data Ethics; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; and a special chapter on “Altering the Human Being”.

In this chapter, Schwab addresses biotechnologies, and neurotechnologies, transhumanism – precisely the science that Dr. Giordano was talking about in 2018 at the West Point Military Academy, and which is in full implementation.

If we connect the dots, we realize that the “Brain as the Battlefield of the Future” is NOW and that we were warned way ahead. According to Dr. Giordano, the science of neurotechnologies has started some 40 years ago and he, Giordano, has been part of it for at least 35 years. Therefore, warnings have been all over the place, at the latest by Klaus Schwab’s “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (available from Amazon).

The Death Cult has again given people warnings, according to its “rules” – way ahead of time, so, They may be successful.

Why is it, that we never take note of such warnings?

Because we do not believe in so much built-in evil in humanity? Or, because we do not want to leave our “comfort zone”, our dystopian view of a “safe world”? They know it. And we MUST break that boundary between comfort and reality. If not, we are doomed.

“If you are targeted there is virtually nothing you can do,” says William Binney, ex-NSA Technical Director and whistleblower. The NSA is the US National Security Agency, one of 15 US Intelligence Agencies.

If you want a lead-demonstrator to stop demonstrating, you target his brain with ultra-shortwaves.

We by now know them as 5G. You make them depressed, so they do not want to demonstrate anymore; you make them suicidal and the problem is resolved. You do this as many times as you want and create an ambiance of depression. These are paraphrased words of Barry Trower, ex-MI5 Microwave scientist and whistleblower.

Mr. Trower adds, that low-level micro-waves can cause all sorts of cancers and leukemias and further elaborates that for the past 40 years or so the UK Government, plus basically all the Anglosaxon governments, have been lying to their people, to protect not only the high-flying profits of these “industries of death”, but perhaps more importantly for not divulging the evil objective of total surveillance and enslavement that they have planned.

Today, we gradually see what this “plan” entails.

Through “Electronic Telepathy”, Trower adds, we are able to monitor the brain. If at one point, technology foresaw that tiny, hardly visible chip-implants were necessary in the brain to be able to electronically access individuals’ thinking – hence the highly magnetic graphene oxide in many of the covid vaxx-injections – this may no longer be necessary.

In other words, we are all vulnerable – vaxxed or unvaxxed – to mind interference through the worldwide coverage of 5G shortwaves. And the worst is, we may not even notice when it “hits” us.

Mind manipulations may take many forms. One of them is that people physically hear voices – it is not that people are imagining voices, but they can physically hear voices… it can be anything, anything you want to hear, or you are scared to hear, angelic voices or diabolical voices; to repeat the words of neuroscientists.

This technology may have been applied to the US Embassy personnel in Havana, first reported by US and Canadian Embassy staff in Havana, Cuba. The so-called Havana Syndrome, of 2016. This may be a cluster of idiopathic symptoms experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel. The symptoms range in severity from pain and ringing in the ears to cognitive dysfunction.

The Havana Syndrome has apparently now also been reported by US Embassy staff in China.

DARPA let a couple of contracts in 2011 / 2012 with the University of California for what is called “electronic telepathy”, to be able to monitor the brains of people at distance and to determine what they are thinking.

Under a separate contract the university was to investigate sending in signals to the brain of a person, literally sending them messages saying what they must think – and do. This is where the technology is today.

This could be used in your private life, as well as your professional life. It means, already today, they could make you do and behave as whatever they would like. They could make you a murderer, a cheater or just simply obedient to orders that may follow.

To repeat: “What you must know is that the brain is and will be the 21st Century’s battlefield”, says Dr. James Giordano, DARPA neurologist, during his talk at the Modern War Institute at West Point NY.

It is important to remember, especially since we should pay more attention to our surroundings, to people’s behavior, than what we are used to. We may deduct many lessons. So, that we may continue and expanding the field of connecting the dots.

In the video below, you will see a chart, indicating that Neuroscience, Neurotechnology in the Narcotics and Special Investigation Division (NSID), part of DARPA, has been “Valid, valuable and already in NSID use since 2014.”

The technology could be used to prompt you to commit mass murder. Are some of the “sudden and unexpected” school and shopping mall mass shootings are triggered by such mechanisms?

This is a distinct possibility, because in most cases the shooter is not apprehended and brought to justice, but immediately killed on the scene by the police, lest he might recall what happened to him and divulge the secret in court, the NSID use of the brain as a battlefield. In most cases the police simply say the “culprit” was know to the police, and / or had already a police record. This is to disguise you from thinking further.

Why are they doing it? They, being the “monsters”, which cannot easily be called humans.

To create terror, constant fear, to keep you on your toes. To get you used to terror and violence, as worse, much worse is to come, if they have their way. And we just comply, become depressed and passive, instead of rebelling in unison and Peace, but strongly rejecting the dominion of a few over us, the many.

Curiously, the Fourth Industrial Revolution does not give one single valid reason why all digitization, transhumanism, total control of humanity is good for humanity and for Mother Earth; nor does the Great Reset, nor does UN Agenda 2030.

We must stop this abuse of humanity, the human enslavement for the benefit of a few. For example, we can do so, among other actions, by collectively and in solidarity disabling the 5G / 6G antennas; by staying away as much as possible from vaxxes, from medication altering your brain activities, like causing depression, and extreme cheerfulness. Stay away from mainstream medication and especially from short-wave antennas.

Remember, scared people are easier manipulated. And that is one of the end goals, to manipulate you according to their will.

The DARPA expert, Giordano, who is also a prominent scientist in the US Health and Human Service Department – that speaks for itself – also talks about non-invasive technologies, such as the so-called “N3 Program”, the neurosurgical, neuromodulation and narcotics program.

“The idea is to put minimal size electrodes in your brain, for only minimal intervention to be able to read and write into the brain function. In real time. Remotely….. influencing in ways that are kinetic and non-kinetic the attitudes, believes, thoughts, emotions, activities; look at the power and tools that brain sciences afford.”

This was the level of science in 2018, when Dr. Giordano gave his infamous speech at West Point. In the meantime, neuroscience has leaped forward, so that implants are no longer necessary.

Ex-MI5 Microwave scientist, Barry Tower, explains how they destroy a targeted individual. He says,

“If you want to cause a specific psychiatric illness, you would have the microwave beam always target a specific gland, or a specific part of the brain, or an eye, or a heart…” And there is nothing you can do. “If that doesn’t work, they can always send the FBI, take a photo, and then take you out in other ways.”

Intelligence communities, even those within governments, with the help of their algorithm-assisted surveillance tools, become so powerful that they escape the boundaries of the state for which they are working, become independent, and control the state that should control them.

We are moving in warp speed towards a Nazi-Stasi State which we see coming, but are incapable of doing anything against it, because we are not connected with each other, we are kept apart as individuals, with our little individual advantages and special treats – keeping us on individual leashes, purposefully away from uniting with others.

“Stasi” – for those, too young to remember, is a colloquial term to describe the East-German Ministry of State Security.

This affects not only the United States, but countries all around the world, especially the western world, which is still intent to remain THE Empire, emerging into a One World Order (OWO).

This can happen only with (i) a massively reduced population, to reduce resistance; (ii) with a scared-to-death population; and eventually, (iii) with the survivors transformed into easily manipulable transhumans.

How that works has very eloquently been demonstrated in the video above. Below is a summary version but equally explicit (23 min. video).

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/brain-battlefield-future/5822326

A Voice for the People: Trump Websites to Make Policy and Nominee Recommendations

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartbramhall

Both websites are built in the discussion forum format for citizens to make their recommendations on policy and nominees for the future Trump Administration.

Link to Trump’s policy agenda platform (Agenda 47): https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform

Trump Disinvites Haley and Pompeo From His Administration

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartbramhall

Robert Spencer

On Saturday evening, Donald Trump gave a strong signal of what his second term would be like, writing on Truth Social: “I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation. I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” This was an unusual move that many ascribed to Trump’s personal pique against both, but there was more to it than that.

The New York Post reported Saturday that “since winning Tuesday’s election in a landslide victory against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump and his team have been working behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago to staff the 47th president’s administration, with loyalty the primary job requirement.” Neither Haley nor Pompeo has been even close to loyal to Trump, and so that may be all there is to the kiss-off they got from the once and future president on Saturday, but the gulf between the incoming commander-in-chief and these two establishment Republicans is wider than a matter of personal loyalty.

As recently as Oct. 29, Haley, despite professing her support for Trump, criticized his campaign for being “overly masculine.” According to the Daily Beast, “Haley not only said that the bashing of Puerto Rico that occurred at Trump’s rally over the weekend was problematic, but that the campaign also ‘needs to look at how they are talking about women.’”

The “bashing of Puerto Rico” was a major Harris campaign talking point in the waning days of the campaign, as leftists once again proved that they were humorless prigs who couldn’t take even the mildest jest. Why was Haley repeating, endorsing, and amplifying a claim that the Harris campaign was using as a weapon against the candidate she supposedly supported?

Haley added: “This bromance and this masculinity stuff—it borders on edgy to the point that it’s going to make women uncomfortable. You’ve got affiliated PACs that are doing commercials about calling Kamala [Harris] the c-word, or you had speakers at Madison Square Garden referring to her and her ‘pimps.’ That is not the way to win women. That is not the way to win people who are concerned about Trump’s style.” What? Where were commercials running calling Harris “the c-word”? If such a thing existed, what network would even have run it? In any case, Trump has made clear his rejection of trans madness and the left’s related insanities. Why should he bring on board someone who shares the left’s hatred of masculinity?

That wasn’t the first time that Haley had repeated Democrat talking points. Politico reported in Aug. 2020 that Haley had claimed in her memoir to have been “deeply disturbed” when Trump said that there were “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville protest, and still stood by her statements. Old Joe Biden, of course, made the lie that Trump had called National Socialists “fine people” a cornerstone of his 2020 campaign, and repeated this frequently throughout his presidency. Yet Trump in the same remarks in which he said that there had been “fine people” at the Charlottesville rally, also said: “I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch.”

Thus the claim that he called Nazis “fine people” was always false, and Haley should have known that. Her tendency to endorse leftist claims without hesitation or due consideration places her in precisely the group Trump is signaling he wants to avoid this time around: Republicans who allow Democrats to set the agenda and even dictate the rules of the game, and simply raise minor objections here and there if they aren’t just rubber-stamping the whole leftist program.

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Via https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/11/10/trump-says-pompeo-and-haley-wont-get-jobs-in-new-administration-haley-responds-n4934164

The Hidden Dangers of Aluminum Foil

Posted on November 10, 2024 by stuartbramhall

Dr Mercola

Story at-a-glance

Using aluminum foil in cooking significantly increases aluminum exposure, with studies showing an 8.1% increase in urinary aluminum concentrations during high-exposure periods
Cooking with aluminum foil leads to aluminum leaching into food, even exceeding safety limits at times. Factors like acidity, salt content, fat, temperature and cooking time affect leaching rates
Aluminum accumulation in your body is linked to neurological issues, including Alzheimer’s, autism, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. It also affects bone health and causes anemia
Symptoms of aluminum toxicity include memory loss, confusion, coordination difficulties, bone pain, kidney dysfunction and respiratory issues. Early recognition and reducing your exposure are crucial for health
To reduce aluminum exposure, avoid cooking with aluminum foil and cookware, choose alternative cookware materials, limit processed foods, use aluminum-free personal care products, avoid aluminum-containing vaccines and filter your water if aluminum levels are high

Aluminum is everywhere in our modern world, from cookware to food packaging. But did you know that your everyday use of aluminum foil could be significantly increasing your exposure to this harmful metal? Research published in Environment International revealed aluminum foil and containers used in food preparation contribute to your body’s aluminum burden,¹ with serious risks to your health.

While aluminum is naturally present in the environment, its widespread use in consumer products has led to increased human exposure. Your body doesn’t need aluminum for any biological processes, and accumulation over time is dangerous.

Aluminum has been linked to various health issues, including neurological problems and bone disorders. What’s more, your body may struggle to eliminate excess aluminum, especially if you have impaired kidney function. Minimizing your exposure to this pervasive metal in your daily life, the new study shows, may start right in your kitchen.

Using Aluminum Foil Boosts Your Body’s Metal Burden

The research, a first-of-its-kind human intervention study, explored whether consuming food prepared with aluminum foil and containers leads to increased aluminum levels in the body. The study involved 11 healthy participants who followed a controlled diet for 30 days.

During the middle 10 days, their meals were prepared using aluminum foil and stored in aluminum containers. Urine samples were collected twice daily throughout the study to measure aluminum excretion. This rigorous design allowed researchers to detect even small changes in aluminum levels and determine if any increases were reversible.

The findings were clear: consuming food prepared with aluminum foil and containers led to a measurable increase in aluminum levels in the body.² On average, participants experienced an 8.1% increase in their urinary aluminum concentrations during the exposure phase.

This increase was reversible in healthy adults with normal kidney function — once the exposure to aluminum cookware ceased, aluminum levels returned to baseline within days. However, this reversibility might not apply to everyone, especially those with compromised kidney function.

The estimated additional aluminum intake from this high-exposure scenario represented about 4.4% of the tolerable weekly intake set by European food safety authorities. However, aluminum exposure is cumulative and comes from multiple sources in your environment.

Even small increases in aluminum exposure could contribute to a higher body burden over time, and current safety guidelines may not account for the most vulnerable populations or the effects of lifelong exposure.

The Hidden Dangers of Cooking with Aluminum Foil

A study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health also found aluminum leaches into your food when you cook with aluminum foil.³ Researchers examined the aluminum content in meat and fish wrapped in aluminum foil and cooked in an oven.

The use of aluminum foil significantly increased aluminum levels in the food. For instance, chicken and fish cooked with aluminum foil and seasoning showed aluminum concentrations as high as 40 to 42 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg). When cooked without seasoning, the aluminum levels were still notably elevated compared to food cooked without foil.

These findings are particularly concerning because the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has established a tolerable weekly intake (TWI) of 1 mg of aluminum per kg of body weight. The study suggests that regular consumption of foods cooked in aluminum foil could lead to exceeding this recommended limit, especially when combined with other sources of aluminum.

Factors Affecting Aluminum Leaching

Several factors influence the amount of aluminum that leaches into your food when cooking with foil. The study revealed that pH levels, salinity, fat content, temperature and exposure time all play roles in this process.⁴ Acidic foods, those high in salt and fatty foods tend to increase aluminum migration from the foil into your food.

In some cases, such as with beef, cooking without seasoning led to higher aluminum levels. This unexpected result was attributed to the high fat content in beef, which may interact with organic acids present in the meat, resulting in increased aluminum uptake from the foil.

The study also noted that the thickness of the aluminum foil used affects the amount of metal released. While the research used one of the thinnest foils available on the market, preliminary tests suggested that thicker foils might lead to even greater aluminum release into food.

To further illustrate the aluminum leaching process, researchers examined used aluminum foil under a scanning electron microscope. The results were striking. Foil that had been in direct contact with food showed significant deterioration, with numerous holes ranging from 100 to 150 micrometers in diameter.⁵ Foil used to cook food with seasoning showed even more extensive damage, with larger and more numerous holes.

This visible degradation of the foil’s surface provides clear evidence of aluminum migration into the food. Even portions of the foil not in direct contact with the food showed some deterioration, albeit to a lesser extent. These microscopic observations offer a tangible representation of how cooking with aluminum foil leads to the transfer of aluminum into your food.

Food Cooked in Foil May Have 40 Times More Aluminum

In another study exploring how cooking different foods in aluminum foil affects aluminum levels, significant increases in aluminum content across various food types were found, especially those that were marinated.⁶

For example, marinated mackerel wrapped in foil and baked showed aluminum levels up to 49.34 mg/kg — over 40 times higher than the control samples. Even without marinade, foods like salmon and duck breast still saw noticeable increases in aluminum. The study authors concluded that “excessive consumption of food prepared by baking in aluminum foil can carry a health risk.”⁷

Again, the study found the amount of aluminum that migrates into your food depends on several factors. Temperature plays a key role — higher cooking temperatures lead to more leaching. In this study, foods were baked at 220°C (428°F) for 40 minutes, resulting in significant aluminum increases.⁸

The acidity and salt content of food also impact aluminum transfer. Marinated foods consistently showed higher aluminum levels compared to their non-marinated counterparts. For instance, marinated duck breast without skin reached levels of 45.18 mg/kg when cooked in foil, while the non-marinated version only increased to 0.61 mg/kg.⁹ Interestingly, the presence of skin seemed to provide some protective effect.

Duck breast with skin showed lower aluminum levels than skinless samples, suggesting the skin may act as a barrier. The specific type of aluminum foil used can also influence leaching. The study tested five different commercial foils and found variations in their aluminum transfer rates, revealing that not all foils are created equal when it comes to food safety.

Aluminum Accumulates in Your Brain, Contributes to Alzheimer’s Disease

Aluminum has been linked to several serious health conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and autism. It’s considered a neurotoxin and accumulates in various tissues, including bones, your parathyroid gland and your brain.

For instance, studies have found higher concentrations of aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients compared to people without Alzheimer’s, particularly in areas like the hippocampus and temporal lobes.¹⁰

Drinking water with high aluminum levels (over 0.1 mg/L) was also associated with two to three times higher Alzheimer’s prevalence in long-term studies,¹¹ while reducing aluminum burden through silicon-rich mineral water consumption improved cognitive function in some Alzheimer’s patients. Silicon appears to be a natural antagonist to aluminum, helping reduce its absorption and accumulation.

Meanwhile, autism rates have risen dramatically since the late 1990s, with some researchers attributing 75% to 80% of this increase to environmental factors rather than just improved diagnosis. Multiple studies have found higher aluminum concentrations in hair and urine samples of autistic children,¹² and autism may involve impaired ability to metabolize and excrete aluminum.

Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease: More Evidence of Aluminum’s Neurotoxicity

Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients also show higher aluminum levels in brain tissue compared to controls. One study found MS patients had urinary aluminum excretion comparable to those undergoing metal chelation therapy, suggesting their bodies are actively trying to eliminate excess aluminum.¹³

Silicon-rich mineral water consumption increased aluminum excretion in MS patients, potentially reducing its accumulation.¹⁴ For Parkinson’s disease (PD), occupational exposure to aluminum appears to double the risk. Miners with respiratory aluminum exposure, for instance, had 30% higher PD incidence.¹⁵

Aluminum accumulates in the substantia nigra and Lewy bodies, disrupting dopamine production. It may also affect genes related to PD. Combining aluminum exposure with other metals or pesticides seems to have synergistic negative effects. Early PD diagnosis may be possible by analyzing serum aluminum levels along with other element imbalances.

Aluminum’s Toxic Effects Throughout Your Body

When you’re exposed to aluminum through food, water or other sources, it accumulates in various organs and tissues, leading to a range of health issues. As mentioned, in your brain, aluminum interferes with gene expression and enzyme function, contributing to neurodegenerative diseases. It disrupts mitochondrial function, depleting adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels and causing cell death.¹⁶

In your bones, aluminum replaces calcium, leading to weakened bones and increased fracture risk. It inhibits the enzyme that activates vitamin D, further compromising bone health. Aluminum accumulation in your bone marrow causes anemia by interfering with hemoglobin synthesis. In your liver, aluminum disrupts iron metabolism and mitochondrial function, contributing to fatty liver disease and metabolic disorders.¹⁷

The symptoms of aluminum toxicity can be subtle at first but become more severe as exposure continues. You may experience memory loss, confusion and difficulty with coordination and speech. In advanced cases, this progresses to seizures and even coma.

Aluminum also impacts your musculoskeletal system, causing bone pain, fractures and muscle weakness. Your kidneys may struggle to filter aluminum, leading to kidney dysfunction and increased risk of kidney stones. Respiratory issues like asthma, chronic bronchitis and pulmonary fibrosis can develop, especially in occupational settings with high aluminum exposure.¹⁸

You might also experience changes in your blood cells, leading to anemia and increased susceptibility to infections. Liver function is also compromised by excess aluminum, resulting in abnormal enzyme levels and liver disease. These diverse symptoms underscore the importance of recognizing and addressing aluminum toxicity early¹⁹ — and taking steps to reduce your exposure.

How to Reduce Your Aluminum Exposure

To protect yourself from aluminum’s harmful effects, start by examining your diet and lifestyle. Avoid cooking with aluminum foil or cookware and storing foods in aluminum containers, as this poses the risk of leaching. Opt for stainless steel, glass or ceramic cookware instead.

While I don’t recommend cooking your food in foil, if you do be sure to avoid cooking acidic or salty foods in it, as these increase aluminum leaching. Reducing cooking temperatures and times when using foil may also help limit transfer. If you’re preparing food for young children, it’s especially important to avoid using aluminum foil. Children under 3 years of age, in particular, are considered a high-risk group.²⁰

Avoiding processed foods and beverages is also important, as many contain aluminum additives. Check your personal care products, especially antiperspirants, as well and choose aluminum-free alternatives. Have your water tested for aluminum and consider using a reverse osmosis filter if levels are high.

To further reduce your exposure, avoid aluminum-based antacids and be aware that aluminum is the most commonly used vaccine adjuvant,²¹ making vaccines another route of exposure.

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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/11/06/aluminum-foil-aluminum-exposure.aspx

Common Solvent DMSO Good for Pain, Cancer, infection and Inflammation?

Posted on November 10, 2024 by stuartbramhall

Dr Mercola

Story at-a-glance

DMSO is an organosulfur compound used as a topical pain reliever and anti-inflammatory agent. It activates cellular stress responses at low to moderate levels, boosting resilience against future threats
Research shows DMSO inhibits cancer cell growth and triggers apoptosis in various cancer cell lines, suggesting promise as a targeted therapy for slowing or stopping cancer progression
In a mouse model of Alzheimer’s, low-dose DMSO improved visual function, likely due to its antioxidant properties. It may be useful as an early intervention in neurodegenerative diseases
DMSO is related to MSM, which has shown benefits for joint health. It also exhibits antibacterial properties, inhibiting growth of various bacterial strains at relatively low concentrations
While promising, DMSO has side effects including garlic-like odor and skin irritation. It increases absorption of other substances and may interact with certain medications, necessitating caution in its use

You may have heard of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), an organosulfur compound, as a remedy for joint pain or inflammation. DMSO is produced both naturally and synthetically. It’s found in trace amounts in certain foods and widely used as a solvent in scientific research and industrial processes due to its ability to dissolve organic compounds.

In medicine, DMSO is used as a topical pain reliever and anti-inflammatory agent. It’s approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of interstitial cystitis, also known as bladder pain syndrome, a chronic condition that causes bladder pain, pressure and discomfort.¹

DMSO is also used as a cryoprotectant to prevent cell damage during freezing.² This compound shows promise for benefitting many health conditions, but it has a complex relationship with your cells. Recent research on yeast cells, for instance, reveals that DMSO’s effects depend heavily on concentration and exposure time, influencing whether the compound is healing or harmful.³

DMSO: A Cellular Stressor That Builds Resilience

At low and moderate levels, DMSO activates cellular stress responses that boost your resilience. However, at higher concentrations or with prolonged exposure, it impairs cell growth and may even prove toxic. Too little DMSO didn’t trigger the response, while too much overwhelmed the cells’ defenses.

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At higher doses though, DMSO began to interfere with cell division and survival. Your cells’ preferred energy source plays a surprisingly important role in how well they tolerate DMSO. The study found that yeast cells using primarily aerobic respiration, which relies heavily on oxygen, were most sensitive to DMSO’s toxic effects. In

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An Ally in the Fight Against Cancer

Studies reveal DMSO has another unexpected benefit: fighting cancer. Researchers investigated DMSO’s impact on both leukemia cells (representing blood cancers) and epithelial cancer cells (representing solid tumors).⁵ They found that DMSO significantly inhibited cell growth in all tested cancer cell lines, including MV4-11 and TF-1a leukemia cells, as well as Hep-G2 liver cancer cells and MCF7 breast cancer cells.

[…]The higher the DMSO concentration, the more pronounced these effects became. Even the adherent epithelial cancer cells, which normally form a smooth monolayer in culture, began to detach and cluster when exposed to DMSO. These observations suggest that DMSO could be triggering the cancer cells’ built-in self-destruct mechanisms.

DMSO Activates Cancer Cells’ Self-Destruct Sequence

Digging deeper into the molecular mechanisms, the researchers uncovered how DMSO sets off a cascade of events leading to cancer cell death. They found that DMSO significantly decreased levels of CDK2 and cyclin A — crucial proteins that regulate cell division. The CDK2-cyclin A complex, which plays a key role in driving cells from one phase of the cell cycle to the next, was particularly affected.⁷

By disrupting these regulators, DMSO effectively puts the brakes on cancer cell proliferation. But perhaps most tellingly, DMSO triggered DNA fragmentation in the treated cancer cells. This is considered a definitive sign of apoptosis, as it represents the cell systematically destroying its own genetic material. The researchers confirmed this by detecting increased levels of activated caspase 3, an enzyme central to the execution of apoptosis.

Interestingly, they didn’t see activation of caspase 9, suggesting that DMSO triggers apoptosis through the extrinsic pathway rather than the intrinsic mitochondrial pathway. This specific mechanism could be crucial in developing targeted cancer therapies that don’t harm healthy cells.

The study suggests that even at relatively low concentrations, DMSO has profound effects on cancer cell health and survival. Moreover, because DMSO is already widely used and well-tolerated in many medical contexts, it could potentially be fast-tracked for cancer treatment studies.

DMSO Improves Visual Function in Alzheimer’s Model

Early animal studies raised some concerns about DMSO causing eye problems, particularly affecting the lens. These findings were not found to translate to humans,⁸ however, and recent research offers a more reassuring perspective for those considering DMSO as part of their health regimen.

Research using a mouse model of Alzheimer’s revealed that DMSO, even at very low concentrations, significantly improves visual function.⁹ The study focused on 5xFAD mice, which are genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer’s-like symptoms. These mice typically experience a decline in contrast sensitivity, an important aspect of vision that’s also affected in human Alzheimer’s patients.

Remarkably, when treated with just .01% DMSO in their drinking water, the mice showed a marked improvement in their contrast sensitivity. This improvement was comparable to the effects seen with R-carvedilol, a drug specifically being investigated for Alzheimer’s treatment.

The fact that such a low dose of DMSO could produce these benefits is particularly intriguing, as it suggests DMSO’s therapeutic effects may have been underestimated in previous research where it was used merely as a vehicle for other drugs.

Early Intervention Potential with DMSO

The study’s findings point to DMSO’s antioxidant properties as a mechanism for its beneficial effects. DMSO is well-known as a powerful scavenger of hydroxyl free radicals, which contribute to oxidative stress, a factor in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers observed that DMSO treatment corrected abnormalities in the retina that are associated with oxidative stress.

Specifically, they found that DMSO normalized the thickness of a particular layer in the retina (the ELM-RPE layer) that becomes contracted in the presence of oxidative stress. This correction suggests that DMSO is actively combating oxidative damage in the retinal tissue. Given that your retina is essentially an extension of your brain, these findings imply that DMSO could be providing similar protective effects throughout the central nervous system.

This is particularly exciting because oxidative stress is believed to be one of the earliest events in the development of Alzheimer’s, occurring even before the appearance of characteristic amyloid plaques and tau tangles.

Given these findings, there’s potential for DMSO as an early intervention in Alzheimer’s disease. The study focused on relatively young mice (4 months old) that were just beginning to show signs of visual impairment.¹⁰ The fact that DMSO was able to improve function at this early stage suggests it could be particularly valuable as a preventative measure or early treatment.

Early intervention is crucial in Alzheimer’s disease, as by the time cognitive symptoms become apparent, significant brain damage has often already occurred. If DMSO can help protect against oxidative stress and maintain neuronal health from the earliest stages of the disease process, it could slow or even prevent the progression to full-blown Alzheimer’s.

Moreover, the safety profile of DMSO at low doses is well-established, making it an attractive option for long-term use in at-risk individuals.

Beyond the Brain: DMSO’s Wider Implications

While this study focused on visual function and retinal health, its implications reach far beyond Alzheimer’s disease. The protective effects of DMSO observed in the retina extend to other tissues and organs throughout your body. Oxidative stress is implicated in a wide range of age-related conditions, from cardiovascular disease to arthritis.

For instance, DMSO is closely related to another compound that could benefit your joint health: methylsulfonylmethane (MSM). DMSO is a precursor to MSM, and both compounds share similar sulfur-based structures. Like DMSO, MSM has been shown to have significant anti-inflammatory effects, especially for joint pain. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Japan explored the effects of MSM on mild knee joint pain in healthy individuals.¹¹

Participants who took 2 grams of MSM daily for 12 weeks experienced significant improvements in their knee health compared to those taking a placebo. The study used a comprehensive measure of knee health (the Japanese Knee Osteoarthritis Measure) and found that MSM not only improved knee-specific symptoms but also enhanced overall health conditions.

This research suggests the sulfur-containing compounds in both DMSO and MSM may offer a range of health benefits, from neuroprotection to joint pain relief.

Given that DMSO can be converted to MSM in your body, using DMSO might provide some of the joint health benefits associated with MSM, in addition to its neuroprotective effects and anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. These actions make DMSO an intriguing compound for overall health maintenance as you age.

DMSO’s ability to inhibit and kill a range of bacteria — even at low concentrations — has also been known for decades. Researchers tested DMSO against several bacterial strains, including Staphylococcus aureus, β-hemolytic streptococci, Corynebacterium acnes, Escherichia coli and Proteus species.¹²

They found that a 20% concentration of DMSO was enough to inhibit the growth of all these bacteria. So, even at relatively low concentrations, DMSO can effectively stop bacterial reproduction.

DMSO Risks, Dosing Suggestions and Other Considerations

While DMSO shows promising benefits, it’s important to approach its use with caution and awareness. As with any supplement or treatment, DMSO has side effects and contraindications that you need to be aware of. The most common side effect is a garlic-like taste or breath odor, which occurs because DMSO breaks down into dimethyl sulfide in your body. Some people may also experience skin irritation when DMSO is applied topically.

DMSO also increases the absorption of other substances through your skin, amplifying the effects of medications. This means you need to be careful about what comes into contact with your skin when using DMSO topically. It’s also important to note that DMSO interacts with certain medications, including blood thinners and steroids.

Additionally, high concentrations may cause liver damage if used improperly. Pregnant women and those with liver disease should use caution when considering DMSO. As always, I recommend consulting with a holistic health care practitioner to determine if DMSO is right for you.

Proper product selection and dosing are key to getting the best results. A Midwestern Doctor recommends looking for DMSO that has at least 99.9% purity and, if liquid, is stored in glass. For topical dosing, start with 70% and dilute it 50/50 with water. Gradually work your way up to the full-strength product as long as no skin irritation occurs. You can also progress to a 100% DMSO product if you have thick scars or are using it for specific health conditions.

For oral dosage, a typical starting dose is 0.5 to 1 teaspoon (of 70% or 100%). You may gradually increase the dose as long as you are tolerating it well. The maximum safe dosage is up for debate, but generally 3 teaspoons is considered the upper limit. Keep in mind that since DMSO has an unpleasant taste, you’ll likely want to mix it with milk or juice when consuming it orally. Be sure to mix it well so the DMSO doesn’t settle at the bottom.

Remember, while DMSO shows promise, it’s not a miracle cure. It should be considered as part of a holistic approach to health, including a nutrient-dense diet, regular exercise, stress management and other lifestyle factors that support your overall well-being. Used responsibly and under proper guidance, DMSO could be a valuable tool in your health arsenal, particularly for its antioxidant, neuroprotective, anticancer and anti-inflammatory properties.

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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/11/08/dimethyl-sulfoxide-dmso-benefits-side-effects.aspx

White House Legalizes All Gain-of-Function Research to Build More Bioweapons

Posted on November 10, 2024 by stuartbramhall

White House legalizes all gain-of-function research to build more BIOWEAPONS Dr Eddy Betterman

The regime of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has revealed that formerly illegal gain-of-function research is now fully legal, meaning the bioweapons industry is free to start churning out more plagues like the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).

Entitled “United States Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential,” a new White House document explains how “certain types of federally funded life sciences research on biological agents and toxins” is now legal, including the kind of biological agents and toxins that “when enhanced, have the potential to pose risks to public health, agriculture, food security, economic security, or national security.”

The new rules are to replace those established in 2012 and 2014, which at that time did not allow for gain-of-function research to take place on United States soil – back then, gain-of-function was only supposed to take place in China, Ukraine, or elsewhere.

Part of the new plan is to have the appropriate federal agencies complete “an interagency review” of the situation in order to “strengthen responsible conduct for biological research” moving forward.

“This Policy has also been issued pursuant to Section 2315 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (42 U.S.C. § 6627) to achieve consistent review and oversight of life sciences research proposed for federal funding that may be reasonably anticipated to involve the creation, transfer, or use of pathogens with enhanced pandemic potential (PEPPs),” reads the “Purpose” section of the new rules.

Will there be more COVID-like bioweapons in 2025?

Starting in early 2025, the federal government will need to make any necessary updates to its guidance concerning this area of research so it reflects the changes. Research involving biological agents and toxins “is essential to the scientific advances that underpin improvements in the health and safety of the public, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, and the environment,” the document states.

“The intent of research oversight is to increase the awareness of researchers, research institutions, and federal funding agencies about the biosafety and biosecurity concerns associated with certain types of research to ensure that appropriate risk mitigation measures are in place to prevent biosafety incidents (e.g., unintended personal exposure or release of an agent outside of containment) or biosecurity incidents (e.g., theft or intentional misuse of information, knowledge, products, or technology).”

Everything laid out in the White House document makes gain-of-function research sound important and essential to both the well-being and perpetuity of humanity itself. We know, however, from what happened with COVID that tampering with disease is a recipe for disaster.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center published a notice about the changes that make it sound as if the White House is “tightening” the research rules for gain-of-function rather than expanding them.

“The White House is tightening federal oversight of so-called gain-of-function (GOF) studies that could enhance risky viruses in ways that increase their ability to cause a pandemic,” the Center says. “It is also overhauling rules for a broader category of federally funded research on dangerous pathogens that is considered ‘dual use,’ because the results could be used as bioweapons.”

According to the Center, the new rules, released by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), “are narrower” than the ones floated last year. Scientists feared that the initial rules would “complicate studies on low-risk pathogens such as cold viruses and herpesviruses,” so they were replaced with new rules that “will expand the number of studies that must undergo special review” as part of the gain-of-function bioweapons development process.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/11/07/white-house-legalizes-gain-function-research-bioweapons/

Fascist Is as Fascist Does

Posted on November 10, 2024 by stuartbramhall

Eric Hussey

Tis the season for name calling. It’s election season. Data analysis and historical analysis of policy proposals that haven’t worked in the past, but are proposed again since “we’ll do it better this time” take second place to throwing around invectives such as “Nazi,” “Hitler,” and “fascist.” Name-calling. That’s all it is. Name-calling.

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One of the favorite slanders to try to gain votes is to attach an opposing candidate to Adolf Hitler. “This guy wants to have the military only be responsible to him, just like Hitler.” “This person is a fascist waiting to take over the country and take your freedoms away.” Seldom does anyone actually define terms.

It’s much easier to just yell an emotional insult that hopefully can be repeated as an emotional tagline to discredit a candidate. Emotion tags memory, so if the emotion can be strong enough, especially negative emotion, then the memory pops into your conscious mind quickly. The memory and the negative emotion ride into consciousness together, so it’s a valuable tool in the non-data, non-analytical world of politics.

Since the name-calling term of the season is “fascist,” it seems like maybe we could modify young Forrest’s comment into “Fascist is as fascist does.” That led to me trying to reconcile the name-calling with what we’ve been through in the past couple of years: lockdowns. I thought we should see if anyone other than a presidential candidate might fit the title, “fascist;” but fit it in actions versus having someone from the opposing party name-call.

Early in the year of 2020, the governor of the state of Washington locked down the state. By mandate, without input from the public, but certainly lots of input from “experts” and a relatively small cadre of advisors, including advisors on a national scale such as Dr. Fauci, Governor Jay Inslee doomed many small businesses, fired long-serving first responders, stole up to two years of schooling from the state’s children, possibly negatively affected child neurological development, probably caused discomfort for those suffering from Alzheimer’s as ability to see facial detail was impaired by demanded masking, and may have contributed to the epidemic of myopia.

As I documented here, between NIAID and the Washington State Department of Health, about 2,600 purported public health experts couldn’t figure out that we may have permanently injured children’s visual neurological (as well as other neurological such as speech) development.

Wow. Talk about a record of “achievement.”

The governor was aided in this by a state Department of Health that generated data to advise him and provide graphical representations for public discussion that were rife with errors, distorting the truth and thereby misguiding public policy decision-makers producing “devastating effects” in the populace.

Those decisions were suggested by the state to be helping rather than devastating. I’ve documented my thoughts on my economic devastation here. Those who supported lockdowns probably didn’t have out-of-pocket losses that seemed devastating. As I said here, “cheering the sacrifice of the other guy…has always been downright comfortable for the non-sacrificed.”

The governor limited the size of groups who could openly meet, in contradistinction to the guarantees of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The State of Washington constitution after being grateful to the “Supreme Ruler of the universe for our liberties” acknowledges the US Constitution as the supreme law of the land.

The state constitution goes on to guarantee religious freedoms as well as prohibiting special “privileges or immunities” that don’t “belong equally to all citizens, or corporations.” Since my small (“nano”) business was shut down while Costco and Amazon were governmentally chosen to take care of the masses, the equal privileges and immunities guarantee seems remarkably easily forgotten – or ignored – by the governor.

The governor barred groups of more than 250 from assembling. If barring meetings of groups of more than 250 can be considered an assault on religious freedom, that assault fits nicely with a truly global assault on religion. Two hundred fifty people is a moderate church size in my area, I suspect. But demanding churches turn people away starting at number 251 is anti-religion.

The sad news is the number of churches who fell for that, often using the Apostle Paul’s admonitions to “…submit to the governing authorities since there is no authority except from God. So, then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves.” Rom 13:1-2 and “never put a stumbling block or pitfall in the way of your brother or sister.” Rom 14:13 (Christian Standard Bible). Some smaller churches will never recover since their congregations often are older.

Many of those abuses will never be reversed. They probably can’t be at this point. They certainly will never be acknowledged as errors, nor will there likely be an apology, as might be suggested on page 74 of this critique.

At least for the state of Washington, some analysis has been done on what decisions were made, and what contributed to those decisions. Those decisions and the data used as reasoning for those decisions can be compared, then, to the ultimate definition of fascism, “The Doctrine of Fascism” as written by Benito Mussolini in 1932.

Perhaps by comparing the two, we can get a handle on who might or might not be a fascist. Importantly, my intention is not necessarily to call the governor of Washington State a fascist. I’m not joining in with the name-calling. What I am suggesting is that, if we can extrapolate Forrest Gump’s adage that stupid is as stupid does, all the way from stupidity to fascism, then we can evaluate fascist is as fascist does. From that premise, we may see actions that were taken that parallel the doctrines of fascism.

We can start with an easier point to analyze: religion. If we categorize barring assembling of people as part of the global assault on religion, then that action of the governor of Washington has to be classified as more communist than fascist. Karl Marx is credited as saying religion is the opiate of the masses whereas Mussolini says fascism “respects the God…[of the] primitive heart of the people, the God to whom their prayers are raised.”

Looking at a selected scattering of fascist sub-doctrines might find a few commonalities between the actions of the governor of the State of Washington and fascism. For example, according to Mussolini, “…The State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people.” “…It is the purest form of democracy if the nation be considered from the point of view of…the conscience and will of the few, if not, indeed of one…”

The governor, in closing schools and “non-essential” businesses, no doubt paid attention to some counsel, including the lieutenant governor, health department, and national figures such as Dr. Fauci, but certainly did not look to broad counsel. (In fairness to that point, if broad council means the people, many had been scared out of their wits by – in part – the misuse of data.)

The governor considered himself and his advisors as the quality conscience the people needed. Dissenting voices were actively suppressed. They still are. Besides, [fascism] “denies the right of numbers [of people] to govern by means of…universal suffrage.” We’re kidding ourselves if we thought we had a say.

Speaking of “the will of the few” – the evaluation of the data from the Washington State Department of Health mentioned above shows possibly a remarkable level of incompetence. But if we take it a step further, “the conscience and will of the few” (here, a data-analysis-incompetent Department of Health), reporting to the “one” (the governor) we see the fascist expression of “the purest form of democracy.”

A few people have assumed control of everything for all of the rest of us and determined how the state (and country) will go.

Some may argue that they were all doing the best they could; that although they invalidated and corrupted almost all data used to demand behaviors of the people, whether by misclassifying data, ignoring testing cycle recommendations, ignoring base rates and seasonality of illness, misclassifying people as unvaccinated, or changing methodology on the fly, they still were doing the best they could in a bad situation.

However, the post-pandemic analysis states “the WA DOH classification errors carried the…risks of distorting the truth and misguiding public policy decision makers who used the WA DOH data and distorted [data] visualizations [used] as a basis for decisions that affected the citizens of Washington State, and in many cases, with devastating effects [results].”

The potential for devastating effects on the population of Washington State is not an issue in the fascist view of democracy. But, since ‘fascism is not only a system of government, but also and above all a system of thought”…relating to a “higher law…transcending the individual,” who “by self-sacrifice [and] the renunciation of self-interest”…can achieve “his value as a man [person],” devastating effects are OK.

In a fascist context, the devastating effects of the demands of the governor of Washington supported by the incompetent and rigged data of the state Department of Health are not to be viewed negatively, but as part and parcel of the “purest form of democracy.”

“The state [is] the expression of the conscience and will of the people.” Fascism “reasserts…the state” rather than the individual. “The only liberty worth having [is] the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State.” “The state is all embracing, outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist.”

Pandemic demands, then, reflected into the framework of fascism are justifiable. The state was in charge. “The Fascist State…sums up all the manifestations of the moral and intellectual life of man.” “Fascism…enforces discipline and uses authority with undisputed sway.”

Therefore, the three threats to my license to practice, with no opportunity to face my accusers or to even know accurately what my pandemic lockdown transgressions were, fit remarkably well into a fascist system of governmental practice. “Fascism believes…in acts in which no economic motive…is at work.” So, my financial losses mean nothing in a fascist context. “Fascism denies the materialistic conception of happiness as a possibility.” OK. Got it.

Fascism “discards pacifism.” “War alone keys up all human energies to their maximum…and sets the seal of nobility on those peoples who have the courage to face it.” (emphasis mine). We don’t need to look far to see the lionization of those people who pushed the pandemic into war status (Dr. Fauci, President Biden, and on and on). The seal of nobility has been impressed on them, as they trampled individuals under foot. “Life…means duty…lived…above all for others.” Duty to live for others, not freedom to help others. So, we accept the trampling as the duty of the individual within the structure of the state.

If after all this we want to move to the federal level, we need look no further than the words of Herman Goering (from prison after the war) who was responsible for planning the controlled economy that was the economy of Nazi Germany:

Your America is doing many things in the economic field which we found out caused us so much trouble. You are trying to control people’s wages and prices – people’s work. If you do that you must control people’s lives. And no country can do that part way. I tried it and failed. Nor can any country do it all the way either. I tried that too and it failed. You are no better planners than we. I should think your economists would read what happened here…Will it be as it always has been that countries will not learn from the mistakes of others and will continue to make the mistakes of others all over again and again?

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Via https://brownstone.org/articles/fascist-is-as-fascist-does/

Could Israel Become a Failed State?

Posted on November 10, 2024 by stuartbramhall

Could Israel Become a Failed State?

Interview by Aaron Bastani (2024)

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Author of a Very Short History of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict, Ilan Pape describes the deep division between Israel’s secular Jews and those who support Messianic Zionism. This demographic crisis is worsened by the departure of 600,000 members of Israel’s economic and cultural elite (European Jews with dual passports) since October 2023. Translating into major brain drain (with the loss of many of Israel’s high tech engineers) and capitol flight (they took their money with them), it’s led Moody’s to downgrade Israel’s financial rating to “junk” status, ie unsafe for investment.

Along with an unwinnable war on three fronts, this has begun a slow motion economic collapse. According to Pape, in 15-20 years Israel will likely be a failed state like Libya, Syria and Yemen.

Netanyahu himself isn’t a Messianic Zionist. He supports Israel’s current military agenda because he believes it will keep him in power. However the loss of much of Israel’s economic/political elite means the there will be no viable opposition to offer an alternative at the next election.

The demographic supporting what Pape calls the “state of Judea” (a theocratic state in which laws are based on God’s law) consists of 1) Messianic Zionists who believe the current war in Israel signals impending Armageddon 2) 700,000 West Bank settlers representing both secular and ultra-orthodox Jews** and increasingly 3) Mizrati Jews (the Arabic Jews indigenous to Palestine).

Paper believes current birth rates (with ultra orthodox Jews producing an average of 6 kid to the 1.5 kids produced by educated liberals) makes the current effort to convert Israel into a theocracy inevitable. He also believes this internal division is a bigger threat to Israel than Iran. There is no support whatsoever in Europe or the US for a theocratic state of Judea, except for a small contingent of fundamentalist Zionist Christians.

For me, one of the most interesting parts of the interview was the history of Jordan and its recent support for the attacks on Gaza. The Hashimite princes*** founded the state of Trans-Jordan in the 1920s after the Arab Revolt drove them out of the Arabian peninsula. British spy T. E Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) had promised Hashimite leader Sharif Hussein ibn Ali that his sons would be kings of the new states the French and English would create (Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Lebanon) after conquering the former Ottoman empire during World War I.

The Zionist Jews arriving from Europe helped them consolidate the Transjordan state, and the Hashimites’ failure to oppose the 1948 Nakba led Israel to support Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank 1950. In 1988 (a year after Palestinians launched the first Intifada), Jordan officially ceded the West Bank to Israel.

*Moody’s Cuts Israel’s Rating: Warns of Drop to Junk Status

**Excludes Neturai Carter – ultra orthodox Jews who support the state of Palestine.

***Descendants of Mohammad who ruled Mecca for more than 700 years. Jordan opposes Israel’s current attacks on Lebanon. See Jordan Reiterates Full Support of Lebanon: Condems Israeli Aggression

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