Israeli media outlets have cast doubt on the effectiveness of the recent Israeli attack on Iran, describing it as a largely symbolic move that failed to achieve any significant strategic goals. Reports from Kan and other sources highlighted a growing sense of dissatisfaction within “Israel” regarding the operation’s limited impact.

Arab Affairs correspondent Roy Kays suggested that if he were in [Sayyed Ali] Khamenei’s position, he would get back to sleep and assess the situation regarding the attack on Iran the following morning.

The recent attack on Iran was largely a showoff that failed to achieve any strategic objectives, as per Israeli media.

Furthermore, media reports suggested that the limited response to Iran was politically motivated, designed to reassure Prime Minister Netanyahu’s supporters that action had been taken.

Israeli media figure Rami Yitzhar, once a senior officer in the Israeli military police, believed that the attack on Iran, which he described as “minuscule and weak,” was a political trick by Netanyahu to show his supporters that he had done something against Tehran.

Commenting on the “explosive” statement of the Israeli army spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, about the attack, Yitzhar said it was “to some extent full of elements of false self-glorification, but his (Hagari’s) body language proves that he understands that it was just a show” and that “the sole purpose of this action was political: to show Netanyahu’s voters that we did something, and that is all.”

Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that former Mossad Intelligence Division chief Brigadier General (Res.) Amnon Sofrin warned that Iran possesses the capability to launch a highly potent operation against “Israel”.

Lapid, Liberman criticize Israeli response to Iran

Israeli Kan 11‘s political affairs commentator, Gili Cohen, reported on the initial political reactions to the attack on Iran, highlighting a harsh criticism from opposition leader Yair Lapid.

Lapid bashed the Israeli response, stressing it lacked sufficient force and significance. He labeled the decision not to strike strategic and economic targets as “misguided”, insisting that Iran should have faced much harsher consequences.

“The decision not to attack strategic and economic targets in Iran was a mistake. We could and should have imposed a much heavier price on Iran,” Lapid said in a post on X.

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman said “Israel”, with today’s attack, failed to “exact a real price” from the Islamic Republic.

“We cannot ignore the hard reality and the fact that the Iranians won’t stop here. They’ll continue their efforts to obtain nuclear weapons and they’ll continue to transfer the funds from the sale of oil and gas to Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Shiite militias, and various proxies,” the hawkish veteran politician says in a post on X.

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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-showoff—-weak—israeli-media-ridicule-attack-on-iran–bl

Episode 1: Why Are There So Many Families?

Language Families of the World

Dr John McWhorter

Film Review

In this introductory lecture, Columbia linguistics professor Dr John McWhorter asserts the world has roughly 7,000 languages, which according to best evidence, developed from a single language in East Africa where the human species first arose.  He believes that language probably developed at the same time as tools and art. Although Homo sapiens first appeared on the planet 300,000 years ago, we only have evidence of art dating back 100,000 years. It’s still possible art and language developed earlier and we have yet to find the evidence.

McWhorter attributes the large number of modern languages to the inherent changeability of human speech. Each new generation makes language sounds somewhat differently.

For example

• the “s’ sound can become “sh”, “zh” or “z”
• “ah” can become “aw” or even “oo” or the French “ieu” sound
• “k” can become a guttural “ch” as in German or “gh”

In addition words can get combined and shortened.

He gives the example of

• “slowly” (shortened from the expression “slow-like” )
• “only” (shortened from “one-like”)

and words derived from the Proto-IndoEuropean root word “mrecht meaning short

• bra – from the word “brachial” meaning the short upper part of the arm (the “m” sound has changed to “b”)
• merry – originally meaning short
• pretzel – meaning crossed short arms (the “m” sound has changed first to “b” and then to “p”)

He completes the lecture by identifying the various language families found on each continent:

• Europe (and parts of Asia) – Indo-European
• Africa – has four completely different language families, excluding the click languages, which consist of three completely different families
• Asia – has four completely different language families Altaic (Turkic), Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai
• Austronesian is one language family with 1000 different languages – the main ones are Hawaiian, Maori, Tagalog (spoken in the Philippines), Indonesian and Malagasy (spoken in Madagascar off the coast of Africa). The immense similarities between modern Austronesian languages suggest the populations speaking them only separated very recently.
• New Guinea – 25 different language families
• North America (pre-Columbian) – 10 different language families
• Mexico/Central America – seven completely different families
• South America – 15 different families
• Georgian languages (from the Caucasus mountains) – three different language families
• Basque – last living language from an extinct language family.

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

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/6120000/6120002

Dr Eddy Betterman

Dr. Heidi Klessig, M.D., appeared on Children’s Health Defense (CHD) TV the other day to warn people that registering to be an organ donor puts them in danger of having their organs harvested from their bodies while they are still alive.

When registering to become an organ donor at the DMV, well-meaning people are told that they are “giving the gift of life,” but Dr. Klessig says this is a complete misnomer based on what she knows about how the process really works.

“When you go to sign up to be an organ donor, you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles and you see the brightly-colored signs saying ‘give the gift of life,’ you’re not offered a consent form,” she explains in the video below.

“You’re never told that when you become a brain-dead organ donor, you are not biologically dead. These people have a beating heart. Their lungs are working. Their digestive system works. Their kidneys work.”

Braindead doesn’t mean dead

Because of how the word sounds, braindead can make it seem like a person is pretty much already dead and ready for their organs to be harvested and given to someone else in need. The truth, though, is that being braindead does not mean that a person is actually dead.

“People who have been declared braindead have delivered healthy babies,” Dr. Klessig says. “These people are in no way dead.”

In recent weeks, there have been two such cases of organ donors who were declared braindead before their organs were extracted for transplant. Both individuals may have been able to recover were it not for being taken advantage of, it appears, by the organ transplant industry.

A 19-year-old athlete named Terrance Howard was declared braindead following a serious motor vehicle accident that left him with a terrible brain injury. Howard’s parents have what Dr. Klessig describes as “shocking and horrible” video footage that they shared to social media begging medical professionals to help their son get better, but to no avail.

The other case involves 23-year-old Jamaican business student Amber Ebanks who, following her braindead diagnosis, was neglected and left to die of starvation. Ebanks suffered some kind of injury that prompted her to drive herself to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, only to 10 days later end up actually dead with her organs harvested by the hospital.

“She had a beating heart. She had lungs that were working. She looked like every other patient in the hospital that was getting better. And her family fought for her. They wanted care for her, but they were pressured almost every other day – doctors wanted to remove her life support.”

“The organ procurement team actually showed up the very first day after her procedure, even before she was declared braindead – you know, being interested in seeing her become an organ donor, which her family refused.”

If you are interested in watching the full video interview with Dr. Klessig, visit ChildrensHealthDefense.org.

“Once on, it’s not easy to get off,” someone on X wrote about becoming an organ donor. “You can’t just request it like you can to add. You can’t even do it online. You fill out a form and mail it. You never hear from anyone that it was completed. Then you go to renew and tell them you’re no longer a donor and they tell you computer says you are.”

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/10/06/hospitals-harvesting-organs-donors-still-alive/

A Midwestern Doctor

In that article, I provided extensive references for the following points:

•SIDS “mysteriously” clusters at 2 to 4 months of age—which is also when children happen to receive the vaccines most strongly associated with causing SIDS (e.g., the TDwP pertussis vaccine). Many doctors and patients noticed this, but it has been relentlessly dismissed by the medical industrial complex.

•As far back as 1933, case reports were produced of children experiencing brain damage and then infant death shortly after the TDwP shot. (e.g., a 1978 report that studied 15 million TDwP injections linked numerous cases of the vaccine to brain damage and death).

•In 1979, the CDC also completed its own analysis 1980 of 23 deaths within 28 days of DTwP vaccination, 12 (52.2 %) occurred within 24 hours, and 18 (78.3 %) occurred within one week. In 16 of the 23 deaths, autopsy findings were consistent with SIDS. Of the 16 SIDS deaths, 6 (37.5 %) occurred within 24 hours, and 12 (75 %) occurred within one week.

•A 1982 study that was inspired by observing 4 cases of SIDS within 19 hours of the TDwP vaccine that then studied 200 randomly selected SIDS cases. They found most of infants had been vaccinated prior to death (6.5% within 12 hours of vaccination, 26% within 3 days, 37% within a week, 61% within two weeks, and 70% within 3 weeks), with death typically following brief periods of irritability, crying, lethargy, upper respiratory tract symptoms, and sleep disturbance. Additionally, their autopsy findings were relatively consistent (e.g. petechiae of lung, pleura, pericardium, and thymus; vascular congestion; pulmonary edema; pneumonitis; and brain edema).

•In 2014, mass graves were unearthed for Irish orphans who coincidentally had been test subjects for the early diphtheria vaccine in the 1930s.

•In addition to there being countless cases of children receiving those vaccines and dying suddenly later in the night, many cases also exist of two twins both dying within 24 hours of the vaccine (e.g., the earliest was in 1946, while this article reviews 13 cases of simultaneous twin SIDS deaths)—something which is almost impossible to have occurred by chance. Additionally, in many cases (e.g., this 1987 one, this 2007 one, this 2010 one, and this 2013 one) of twins who died after vaccination and were found dead lying on their backs.

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•In 1957, an Australian MD (Archie Kalokerinos) worked with the Aboriginal community (who were poorly treated in Australia and had abysmal living conditions resulting in a 10% infant mortality rate—compared to 2% in the neighboring regions). He realized this death was largely due to widespread vitamin C deficiencies (as their native diets had been destroyed by colonialism). In many cases, he was able to rescue infants on the verge of death in minutes by giving them vitamin C. Likewise, he showed that vitamin C deficiency also explained the children’s widespread epidemic of pneumonia, severe ear infections, severe infant irritability, and a frequent inability to feed. He eventually ignited national controversy by successfully defending an Aboriginal woman accused of killing her child by proving the bruising on the child’s body was due to scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) rather than child abuse, and when he at last convinced the authorities to start giving vitamin C to Aboriginal children, all of these conditions dropped dramatically. Most importantly, he found that much in the same way an illness (e.g., pneumonia or sepsis) rapidly depleted vitamin C levels (which is essentially why IV vitamin C is so helpful for treating sepsis), vaccination would severely exacerbate an existing vitamin C deficiency. This was best shown by a vaccination campaign killing 50% of the children in one Aboriginal community (you read that correctly 50%), and that giving vitamin C to animals before vaccinating them prevented them from dying.

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• Japan’s decision to delay the scheduled DTwP vaccination by 20 months resulted in an 85-90% reduction in the instances of SIDS.

•When SIDS cases at morgues are examined, they cluster at precisely 2, 4, or 6 months of age (rather than spread throughout the 2 to 6 month period).

•Prior to the mass vaccination programs in America, SIDS was very rare (to the point few were even aware crib death occurred), but rapidly spiked (to the point a new diagnosis category had to be made) after national mass vaccination and before long became the leading cause of death in the first 12 months of life. For instance, between 1953 to 1992 in Olmstead County, Minnesota, the rate of SIDS went from 0.55% to 12.8% of live births (going from 2.5% to 17.9% of total infant deaths), with 85% occurring within the first 6 months of infancy. In contrast, during that same time, almost every other childhood disease was continually decreasing.

•A 2011 study showed there is a direct correlation between how many vaccines a country gives their children and their infant mortality rate.

•While the rates of SIDS steadily increased, once the TDwP vaccine was replaced with the safer TDaP vaccine between 1991-1996, it began to decrease. This reduction is commonly attributed to the Back to Sleep campaign, but this ignores the fact that the decline began before the campaign. That many infants (e.g., the twins) have been found dead lying on their backs, and that prior to the TDwP vaccine, sleeping on the back wasn’t an issue.

•When cases of SIDS are analyzed in VAERS, they cluster next to vaccination (e.g., 75% occur within 1 week of vaccination and comprise almost all infant deaths associated with vaccination).

•The National Vaccine Injury Act was passed in response to growing public outrage over DTwP deaths due to NBC airing a national story on the dangers of this vaccine (something which would never air in the more corrupt media of today):

•That documentary and the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act resulted in a safer DTwP vaccine (DTaP) being made (which still causes SIDS but not as frequently). Unfortunately, the DTwP vaccine is still used in Africa. When extensively studied, it was found to make children 5 times as likely to die (3.93 for boys and 9.98 for girls).
Note: while some died shortly after vaccination, the primary cause of their deaths was chronic immune suppression which made them more vulnerable to the numerous deadly infections existing in that region.

•When COVID happened, many in the vaccine safety community predicted the lockdowns would lead to a massive drop in SIDS cases (since children were skipping their non-essential vaccine appointments). As I show here, this indeed was what happened (and likewise happened shortly after in Florida once large numbers of parents opted out of routine vaccination). To this day, no explanation has ever been provided for this mysterious decline in SIDS.

Shaken Baby Syndrome

In 1971, the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome was created, which essentially argued that abusive parents/caretakers who violently shook their babies would cause diffuse bleeding and swelling in their brains. This diagnosis has been incredibly controversial because the evidence linking it is weak and inconsistent (e.g., the symptoms are non-specific), and in recent years, the medical consensus has gradually turned against the diagnosis (e.g., see this 2016 article and this 2017 review showing there is a severe lack of evidence substantiating this condition), resulting in more and more courts dropping convictions for shaken baby syndrome.

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Note: the unrelating encephalitis cry (which many parents of vaccine injured children notice begins after vaccination) was one of the first things that made me aware of the fact vaccines weren’t safe, as if you feel into it, you can tell rather than being unhappy, something is wrong with the infant. Remarkably, in the book Peter Hotez (one of the world’s leading proponents of vaccination) wrote to debunk the link between vaccination and autism, he stated that prior to his daughter becoming autistic, she had a piercing cry that could be heard throughout the neighborhood—which again illustrates how blind the medical things are to obvious things right in front of them (e.g., the association between shaken baby syndrome and infants crying is widely assumed to be due to the crying provoking the parents into shaking them to death in an attempt to quiet them).

In turn, over the years, many physicians (besides just Archie Kalokerinos) have argued that shaken baby syndrome was a misdiagnosis for SIDS. For example:

•This 2004 rapid response published in the BMJ which noted:

• A review where 9 children with the classic signs of shaken baby syndrome (subdural hemorrhages and retinal petechiae) had no suspicion by their doctors of having been abused that in the past.
• The symptoms attributed to shaken baby syndrome were previously diagnosed as Barlow’s disease and attributed to a lack of vitamin C.
• In the past, these signs of a clinical vitamin C deficiency in the mother were cited as a reason to terminate pregnancies (as the children would be at a risk of complications throughout life).
• Low vitamin C raised histamine levels (which causes vessel bleeding).
• When 437 outwardly normal adults in New York were tested, 3% were found to have dangerously low vitamin C levels and very high histamine levels.

•This 2006 paper noted that:

• The children in the original paper used to create the diagnosis of “shaken baby syndrome” all had the characteristics of infantile scurvy (vitamin C deficiency).
• That the histamine release trigged by the inflammation induced by vaccination could create the blood vessel leakage observed in those cases.
• That children in Japan (where vaccination is delayed) mysteriously are “shaken” at 4-7 months of age rather than at 2-4 months of age in the United States.
• That many bleeds that “result from shaking” were observed in children who could not have possibly been shaken (e.g., because they were still in the uterus or had just been born).

•This 2006 paper reviewed two cases of children with all the classic signs of shaken baby syndrome who had never been shaken, were vitamin C deficient, and had their symptoms emerge following vaccination (which in turn was followed by respiratory arrest).

•A physician who reviewed numerous cases of shaken baby syndrome found that in over half the cases, it was preceded by vaccination, signs of a vaccination injury and intense crying. He also noted that contrary to what the shaken baby syndrome experts claimed, there were a variety of medical conditions (besides shaking a baby) which could cause the classic signs of shaken baby syndrome.

Robert Roberson

A few hours ago, I found out about Robert Roberson’s case, which is presently being covered in the national media (including many liberal outlets) because it is viewed as an extremely unjust execution by the State of Texas (which is well-known for not granting clemency or stays of execution to convicted murders). His final appeal before his execution tomorrow night was denied.

If you view a brief video made about the situation, it should be clear why many (including the detective who originally convicted him) are extremely upset about this execution:

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Via https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/please-help-prevent-a-medical-miscarriage

NEWNERVE

The global financial landscape is on the brink of a significant transformation as 159 out of 193 countries have signed up to use the new BRICS settlement system, a direct competitor to the SWIFT payment network. This development not only signifies a shift in the balance of economic power but also poses a challenge to the long-standing dominance of the U.S. dollar in international trade and finance.

The Limitations of SWIFT and the Need for an Alternative

SWIFT has been a cornerstone of global finance, enabling secure and standardized financial transactions across borders. However, its role as a tool for economic sanctions has made it vulnerable, particularly for nations like Russia, Iran, and several African countries, which have faced severe sanctions imposed by the U.S. and some European nations. These sanctions have effectively frozen billions in assets, locking these countries out of the global financial system and crippling their ability to transact with other nations.In response to these financial restrictions, the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and its new members—have developed a new system designed to bypass the need for SWIFT entirely. This alternative payment system not only provides a means for countries to conduct international transactions without fear of sanctions but also marks a significant step toward the de-dollarization of the global economy.

Enabling Transactions in Local Currencies

The BRICS settlement system allows countries to settle trades and payments in their own currencies, reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar, which has long been the dominant global currency. This move addresses growing concerns among nations about the risks associated with holding and trading in dollars, especially under the threat of sanctions that could result in asset confiscation.The potential erosion of the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency could lead to a reconfiguration of the global financial order, challenging the hegemony that the U.S. has long enjoyed. For the U.S., the rise of this alternative settlement system poses a direct challenge to its economic influence, as the dominance of the dollar has facilitated its ability to impose sanctions and control global financial flows.

Implications for International Trade and Finance

The BRICS settlement system could significantly alter the current economic landscape by reducing dependency on the U.S. dollar and shifting economic power. International businesses may need to adapt to new trading practices if the BRICS currency gains traction, potentially streamlining imports and exports within BRICS nations.Adopting a new currency affects trade relations, as businesses might favor dealing with BRICS countries due to reduced currency exchange risks. However, non-BRICS countries may face trade imbalances and need strategies to mitigate these challenges.

A Multi-Currency Reserve System

The emergence of a multi-currency reserve system could diversify global financial stability, lessening the singular reliance on the U.S. dollar and providing more options for countries in economic crisis situations. A multi-currency system could create balanced economic relations, as countries trading in different currencies may experience fewer fluctuations, contributing to stable global trade.If successful, the BRICS currency may encourage other regional groups to consider similar initiatives. This diversification in reserve currencies has the potential to create a more equitable financial system, limiting the power of any single nation’s economy.

Challenges and Opportunities for the BRICS Bloc

The BRICS bloc, which now includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Iran, and Ethiopia, boasts a combined population of approximately 3.5 billion people. The economies of the BRICS nations are worth over $28.5 trillion, accounting for roughly 28% of the global economy.While the adoption of the BRICS settlement system presents opportunities for increased financial sovereignty and reduced impact from U.S. sanctions, it also introduces challenges. The transition to a new currency system may create global volatility as markets adjust, and the success of the BRICS system will depend on its widespread adoption and the stability of the new currency.

As the world watches the rollout of the new BRICS settlement system, the implications for global finance, trade, and the geopolitical landscape are enormous. This development marks a potential turning point in the history of international economics, as the global balance of power shifts away from traditional centers of influence toward a more diverse and distributed network of economic partnerships. The coming months will be critical in determining how this new system is adopted and how it impacts the longstanding dominance of the U.S. dollar in global finance.The BRICS settlement system is not merely a technical development; it is a statement of intent by many nations to challenge the existing economic order and assert their independence from Western-dominated financial institutions. As this system prepares to go live in October, it signals a significant shift in global economic power dynamics, paving the way for a more multipolar world.

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Via https://newnerve.com/159-countries-embrace-the-brics-settlement-system/