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

The Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople and the End of the Middle Ages

Episode 23 Medieval Empires Fall as Islam Revives

The Middle Ages Around the World

Dr Joyce E Salisbury

Film Review

In this final lecture Salisbury describes the new empires replacing the Mongol empire after plague, famine and violence shut down the Silk Road, namely the Ottoman, Mughal, Russian and short-lived Timurid empire:

  • In 1321-47 Osmian, an Ottoman Turk, captured Byzantine territory depopulated by the plague to found a small Ottoman kingdom on the Anatolian peninsula. Despite his Muslim faith, his religious  earned him the allegiance of the Jews and Orthodox Christians he ruled.
  • In 1381-45, Timur (aka Tamerlane)* led an army of 100,000 to establish an empire (between 1381-1405 extending from northern India to Kazakhstan). Although his empire was short lived, his defeat of the Golden Horde facilitated the founding of the Russian nation by the prince of Moscow.
  • In 1483, Tamerlane’s descendant Babur fulfilled Tamur’s dream of invading India and created the Mughal Empire, lasting until until the British arrived in India in the 18th century. This ended the Middle Ages in India.

The decline and instability of the Tamurid Empire opened the way for the Ottoman Empire, the longest ruling dynasty (600 years) in Islamic history.  Unlike prior Muslim rulers, the Ottomans tolerated all religions, including Sufi mystics like the Bektashi, as well as Christians and Jews hounded by the Inquisition.

Unable to breach its heavily fortified walls, it would take the Ottomans nearly a hundred years to conquer the Byzantine capitol, Constantinople (in 1453). Mehmed II, who became sultan at 18, who hired a Hungarian gunsmith to build him a 26 foot long 1000 pound canon (requiring 60-100 oxen to move and 700 men to operate). His army demolished the wall after firing massive boulders at it seven times a day for 53 days.

Mehmed renamed the city Istanbul.

Following the collapse of Constantinople, Ivan III married the the niece of the former Byzantine empire, declared Moscow the new Rome and began calling himself “Tsar” (meaning emperor).

The Turkish disruption of the Silk Road trade would lead European merchants and traders to finance a new Age of Exploration, seeking a sea route to Asia.

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


*Tamerlane was of mixed Turkic/Mongol ancestry.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/13172786/13172836

COVID Shot-Cancer Links – Understand Them To Defeat Them

Covid-19 Vaccine Side Effects: Your Questions Answered - The New York Times

By Dr Collen Huber

PART 1:  Statement of the problem

PART 2:  Mechanisms by which the COVID vaccines induce cancer and natural therapies that reverse these

PART 3:  Ivermectin’s roles against COVID vaccine-induced cancer

 

PART 1:  Statement of the problem

By October 2022, mainstream media could no longer ignore the enormous rise in fourteen different types of cancers in 44 countries around the world and most remarkably in young people. [1] [2] [3]  The American Cancer Society acknowledged that cancer mortality has doubled in young people from pre-2020 levels. [4] Pfizer’s 2022 safety report on the COVID-vaccines revealed thousands of cancers of hundreds of types following the injections. [5]  By June 2022, there were 3,711 cases reported by Pfizer under that heading.

Oncologists note stark difference in cancers from pre-2020 to the present

UK clinical oncologist Angus Dalgleish, one of the leading oncology researchers in the United Kingdom, sees an alarming number of cancer patients, long in remission, who “ . . . subsequently present with very aggressive relapse when they should have stayed in remission.  Sadly, I have yet to find a case where the patients have not received a covid booster vaccine from their GP or hospital because they are ‘at risk.’” [6]  His comment on cancer mortality developments around the world is that “the COVID vaccines are linked to cancer and death.” [7]

Canadian oncologist William Makis MD, who has diagnosed over 20,000 cancer patients over his career, says, “I’ve never seen anything like this. . . . I’ve never seen stage four breast cancers presenting in women in their twenties.  I’ve never seen stage four colon cancers presenting in men and women in their twenties and thirties  . . .These cancers would always present at stage four, and they would always kill them in a matter of a few months, and it was always less than a year. . .   ‘Turbo cancer’ is a term that people came up with to describe the extremely aggressive nature of these cancers in the COVID vaccinated, and these cancers behave extremely differently, unlike anything I’ve seen before in my career. . . . And the other feature of these cancers is that they are very resistant to conventional treatment; they’re resistant to radiation therapy, they’re resistant to chemotherapy, and patients seem to be doing very poorly with conventional treatments.  Oncologists are really baffled, and they don’t know what to do.“ [8]

Pathologist Ryan Cole MD, formerly of Mayo Clinic, specializes in postmortem examination.  He has criticized COVID vaccines for, among other dangers, the severe impairment of the immune system and impairment of the ability to fight cancer.  He says “People ask, ‘Do these shots cause cancer?  Well, they cause immune suppression. They cause a disruption and a dyregulation of your immune system that is normally what would fight cancer.  So that’s what we’re up against.  . . . As I travel the world and talk to doctors . . . they are seeing cancers in age groups they have never seen before, and it happened after the rollout of the CV19 shots . . .  In 2021, there was about a 6% or 7% increase in cancer.  In 2022, there was a 35% increase above average in cancer.  . . . People who have been clear of their cancer, 2, 3, 5, 10 and even 20 years, where, after the shots, their cancer aggressively came back, and the estimates are of 17 million people who have died of these mRNA injections. . . . This is a silent holocaust, and that’s what’s sad about this.  People were coerced into an experiment, and the deaths are being denied by the medical establishment. . .” [9]

Spike protein dosing from Pfizer and Moderna

The amount of mRNA dose in each Pfizer vaccine is 13 trillion mRNA molecules, and in Moderna is 40 trillion molecules, each enveloped in its own cationic lipid nanoparticle.  These figures were determined by molecular weight of each of the two vaccines. [10]  To put those numbers in perspective, there are about 30 trillion cells in the human body.  So one can imagine the impact of a maximally ubiquitous distribution throughout the whole body, in a roughly one-to-one or one-to-three ratio of payload unit to human cell.

Each of those two vaccines encoded whole spike proteins, and each of the trillions of lipid nano-particle (LNP) enveloped mRNA codes for spike protein. [11]

The Pfizer vaccine was not studied for carcinogenicity or genotoxicity (DNA damage potential) by Pfizer prior to rollout, as we can see from Pfizer’s own documentation to the FDA: [12]

Pfizer Worldwide Safety. 5.3.6 Cumulative analysis of post-authorization adverse event reports of P-07302048 (BNT162B2) received through 28 Feb 2021. P. 59.  https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/reissue_5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf

From very early on in the COVID vaccine heyday, February 2021, there was already evidence that COVID vaccines produced a vastly higher spike protein burden in the vaccinated individual than after natural infection.  Even within three weeks post-vaccination, the antibodies to spike proteins measured up to 100 times higher in the COVID-vaccinated than in the unvaccinated and previously COVID-infected. [13]  While some may interpret these antibodies as a sign of a more intense immune response to spike protein, it also indicates a larger and / or more impactful presence in the body of this known toxin.

Therefore, it is important to fully appreciate the spike protein burden in the vaccinated, in order to be able to find the best strategies to reverse the risk and the damage of this toxin.  Toward this end, this article explores the mechanisms of cancer risk from the spike protein.  The better we understand these processes, the better we will be able to defend patients and the public against the imminent coming years of record-breaking cancer rates.

It should be noted that the spike protein rarely appears intact more than 20 days after COVID virus infection, but the recombinant, that is, vaccine-generated, spike protein has been observed in the COVID vaccinated, from 69 to 187 days following vaccination.  [14]   That particular study stopped at 187 days, rather than being the point at which no more spike protein was observed, which implies that there may be a longer time period of spike presence in the bodies of vaccianted people.  This persistence includes both the injected mRNA enveloped in liposomes as well as its derivative spike protein. [15]  This is plenty of time for the initiation of cancer promoting pathways, and the inhibition of immune defenses against cancer to begin.  And it is certainly enough time for cardiovascular and heart damage to have begun, as well as breach of the blood brain barrier, as I discuss in other papers.  Peak uptake throughout the northern hemisphere was in spring of 2021.  So that is quite a long time for spike protein to persist in the bodies of vaccinated individuals, whereas the fragile mRNA that initiated such spike protein production degrades in weeks, after the payload has been delivered.

Epidemiology of cancer risk following the COVID vaccines

COVID vaccines are correlated with increased incidence of the following cancers.

Lymphomas are so closely correlated with mRNA injection that 45.7% of the studied lymphoma patients who were COVID-vaccinated developed lymphoma within only 30 days post-injection, rather than later. [16]  It is not surprising that this is one of the main cancers seen post-COVID vaccine, because the T and B cells of the lymphatic system are not only quickly reproducing, but as waste-drainers, lymph nodes are among the earliest of the body’s tissues to take up spike proteins.

Glioblastomas are pernicious cancers due to their easy accessibility to surrounding brain tissue, and their shielding from most potential treatments behind the blood brain barrier, among other challenges.  Pfizer reported hundreds of brain cancers and pre-cancerous conditions in their June 2022 update. [17]  Reduced Cytochrome C levels were found in glioma patients post-COVID vaccine, which seemed to be due to impaired oxidative phosphorylation and consequent lower ATP in the mitochondria.  [18]

Ovarian and breast cancers are also seen with increased incidence since COVID vaccine rollout, probably due to their p53 impact, yet the COVID vaccines have damaged this p53 gene, the “guardian of the genome” protector of DNA, which I discuss below.

Colorectal cancers have proliferated, and aggressively and among unprecedented young ages since the COVID vaccines.  William Dahut is the chief scientif officer of the American Cancer Society.  He says, “Colorectal cancer are also presenting with more aggressive disease and larger tumors at diagnosis; it’s more difficult to treat.”   Regarding this steep increase in colorectal cancer in youth, Harvard medical professor Kimmie Ng comments that “the steepest rises are in the very youngest people, those in their 20’s and 30’s.” [19]

Although the above are some of the most prominently increased cancers, there is no type of common cancer that has observed to stay flat in incidence since the rollout of the COVID vaccines. All have been listed in the Pfizer documentation. [20]

The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), which is overseen by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is a national surveillance system regarding adverse vaccine effects, for all vaccines given in the U.S., including the mRNA COVID vaccines.  For all of the entries regarding cancers in the year 2021, the researchers found that 96% of all the entries for any of the search terms related to cancer were specific to the COVID vaccines, and only 4% for all the other kinds of vaccines put together. [21]

Worldwide, cancer diagnoses and total excess deaths began to rise following the rollout of COVID vaccines, and then to accelerate following the boosters.  The findings are most remarkable in younger ages than are typically affected by cancer. [22]

CDC data on cancer mortality summarized below by The Ethical Skeptic shows a sharp inflection point in vastly increased cancer mortality (those with cancer listed as cause of death) in the United States beginning right at the time of the COVID vaccines rollout, the last week of December 2020.  In the following graph of cancer mortality in 0 to 54 year olds, the inflection point of when cancer began to increase beyond yearly averages is quite clear, beginning the week after December 14, 2020, when the vaccine first became available. [23]  Because this graph shows deviation from trend rather than actual numbers, the curve is often below zero through 2018 – 2020, as cancer mortality was somewhat lower than prior rates then.  My other observation is that the first spike after the vaccine rollout likely reflects those who already had fulminant cancer, now worsened by the toxicity of the vaccines, in which case, cancer would have been the default cause of death listed on the death certificate.  However, the continuing trend upward of the cancer mortality trend from 2021 to the present is a very strong indicator that a nationwide health-impact event in late 2020-early 2021 caused that sharp increase, and for that we know of only one.  All of the following data is derived from CDC reported data.

The Ethical Skeptic.  The state of things pandemic, we have a cancer emergency.  Week 38, 2024.  https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/10/02/the-state-of-things-pandemic-week-38-2024/

An enormous study of the entire Japanese population from national vital statistics showed that excess mortality was seen for all cancers examined, 20 types of cancer, each with over 95 or 99% of PI since the rollout of the COVID vaccines. [24]  The paper’s politically incorrect findings, based on uncomfortable data, earned its retraction by the journal Cureus.  At least 80% of the Japanese population had had two doses of mRNA vaccines and 68% of the population had received a third dose.  In that study of the Japanese population, the main cancers to increase following the COVID vaccine rollout were ovarian cancer, leukemia, prostate, lip / oral / pharynx and pancreatic cancers.  Breast cancers dipped lower at first, and then shifted to excess mortality also, though the last without statistical significance.

Skyrocketing cases of cancer in the UK have been attributed to smoking, [25] although smoking has drastically decreased in the UK in recent decades, as in the rest of the world.  Thirteen new cancers are now being attributed to smoking by the mainstream media, which is highly improbable.

Cancer’s attacks on the body are multi-faceted.  They are so complex that researchers Valdes and Perea write:            switched to tolerization, as two mechanisms most concerning to him by which the COVID vaccines induce or worsen cancer. [29]  The Pfizer COVID vaccine specifically was found to significantly reduce Type I interferon, also known as interferon alpha. [30] This causes a tremendous downstream effect of multiple pathologies, both infectious disease and malignant cancer.

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Via https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/covid-shot-cancer-links-understand

Date With Destiny – BRICS Offers Hope in a Time of War

BRICS in Kazan
Pepe Escobar
Sputnik News
This is it. A date with destiny. All set for the most crucial geopolitical/geoeconomic gathering of the year and arguably the decade: the BRICS Summit under the Russian presidency in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, where Sunni Tatars coexist in perfect harmony with Orthodox Christians.

All the excruciating work by sherpas and analysts throughout 2024 – supervised by the lead Russian diplomat in charge of BRICS, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov – converged to three final, separate key meetings in Moscow before the summit, grouping BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors, working groups, and the Business Council.

All that in a context that is now familiar for the Global Majority. The combined GDP of the current BRICS nations is over $60 trillion, way ahead of the G7; their average growth rate by the end of this year is projected to be 4%, higher than the 3.2% global average; and the bulk of economic growth for the near future will come from BRICS member-nations.

Even before the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was stressing that BRICS is keen to bypass “politicized” Western platforms – a subtle reference to the sanctions tsunami and the weaponization of the US dollar – as BRICS work to create their own, Global Majority-friendly international payments system.

The context for what will be decided in Kazan this week is no less than incandescent, as the uncontrolled chaos of the Hegemon’s Forever Wars – from Ukraine to West Asia – has even materially affected the heavy work of BRICS and the necessity to build a new international system of geoeconomic relations practically from scratch.

A credible war escalation scenario may have been thwarted by the leak of secret high-level intel to the Five Eyes on the preparations by Israel-US to strike Iran. The strike will eventually happen – with dire consequences – but probably not this week, when it could have been timed to explicitly, and completely, disrupt the summit in Kazan and expel it from global headlines.

The joint statement by the BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors may not sound too adventurous, but the constraints reflect not only caution when facing a dangerous, cornered Hegemon, but internal contradictions among BRICS members.

The statement recognizes “the need for a comprehensive reform of the global financial architecture to enhance the voice of developing countries and their representation.” Yet it remains clear the US has less than zero interest in a profound reform of the IMF, the World Bank and the Bretton Woods system. Russia and China, especially, are fully aware that what is needed is a post-Bretton Woods.

The statement is more forceful on the BRICS Cross-Border Payments Initiative, dubbed BCBPI, welcoming “the use of local currencies in international trade” and “the strengthening of banking networks” to enable them. Yet everything for the moment is only “voluntary and non-binding.” Kazan is expected to give the process some edge.

‘Not an Anti-Western Group, Just a Non-Western Group’

In his speech at the BRICS Business Council last Friday and in a subsequent roundtable with heads of media groups of BRICS members, President Putin in fact summed up all the major dossiers. Here are the highlights.

On the role of the Shanghai-based NDB, the BRICS bank: Russia “will expand the capabilities of the NDB”; the bank should become the main investor in major technological and infrastructure projects for BRICS members and the wider Global South. That makes total sense, with the NDB financing infrastructure development and commercially involved with local, private companies. Incidentally, the next president of the NDB will be Russian; the top candidate is Aleksei Mozhin, who was previously at the IMF.

On creating a single digital infrastructure for BRICS: already on. Russia is working on “the use of digital currencies in investment processes in the interests of other developing economies.” That ties up with BRICS work on their own version of SWIFT for international financial transactions. And also ties up with BRICS Pay – a debit card whose first trial run happened during the Business Council last week, not dissimilar to AliPay in China, and soon to be rolled out across BRICS members.

A BRICS single currency: “Not being considered yet, this issue is not ripe yet.” De-dollarization, Putin stressed, is proceeding step by step: “We’re taking individual steps, one after another. As regards finance, we did not drop the dollar. The dollar is the universal currency. But it wasn’t us – we were banned and barred from [using] it. And now 95% of all the external trade of Russia is denominated in national currencies. They did it themselves with their own hands. They thought we would collapse.”

The challenge for a unified BRICS currency: That “requires thorough economic integration (…) Apart from high level of integration among BRICS members, the introduction of a single BRICS currency would involve comparable monetary quality and volume (…) Otherwise, we will face even bigger issues than those that occurred in the EU.” Putin recalled that when the euro was introduced in the EU, their economies were neither comparable nor equal.

Putin will have at least 17 bilateral meetings in Kazan. He emphasized, once again, that “BRICS is not an anti-Western group, it’s just a non-Western group.”

And he named the key economic drivers in the near future: Southeast Asia and Africa. Development “will objectively take place primarily in BRICS member countries. This is the Global South. This is Southeast Asia. This is Africa. Positive growth will exist in powerful countries such as China, India, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, but the countries of Southeast Asia and Africa will show faster growth for several reasons.”

He also highlighted the top infrastructure development projects among BRICS and the Global South: the Northern Sea Route – which the Chinese define as the Arctic Silk Road – and the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), with the BRICS triad Russia-Iran-India as the key partners.

On the Northern Sea Route, Putin highlighted how “we are building an icebreaker fleet that has no peers in the world. It’s going to be a unique fleet, seven nuclear icebreakers and 34 diesel-propelled, high-class, heavy-duty icebreakers.”

On the Russia-China strategic partnership: it’s one of the key factors of stability in the world; in the relations between the two, “there are no elders or youngers.” On the Great Chessboard, “Russia does not interfere in relations between the USA and China,” even as “Europeans have been dragged into Asia through NATO. Nobody is asking the Europeans whether they want to spoil their relationship with China, whether they want to use NATO entities to enter Asia and to create a situation that would cause concern for the region, for China specifically. Still, they are dragged like puppies.”

Forever Wars Target BRICS

There will be a special session on Palestine in Kazan with BRICS members plus BRICS Outreach – as in partners (Turkiye is included). Putin believes that “dissolving the Middle East Quartet was a mistake.” The Quartet included Russia, US, UN, and EU. In theory, it should have mediated the Israel-Palestine peace process. In practice, it didn’t.

The notorious warmonger Tony Blair was part of the Quartet. Diplomatically, Putin said, “I do not intend to accuse the United States in every aspect here, but unfortunately it was a wrong thing to do to disband the four [the Quartet].”

He re-emphasized that “Russia has consistently maintained the view that the United Nations Security Council’s decision to establish two states – Israel and Palestine – should be implemented.” And, significantly, he added that “Russia is in ongoing contact with both Israel and Palestine.”

That may be interpreted as strategic mediation, and serious back-channel exchanges. Yet he did not venture head on into the fire, just saying he hopes the “endless exchange of blows” between Israel and Iran will stop, while adding that “searching for a compromise in the Arab-Israeli conflict is possible, but this is a very delicate area.”

All of the above is highly significant for the BRICS context because the Forever Wars in West Asia have been seriously interfering with the work within BRICS. And on top of it, the Forever Wars, cold, hybrid, and hot, are in fact essentially directed against three BRICS members, Russia, Iran and China – not by accident described as the Top Three existential threats to the Hegemon.

And that inevitably brings us to Ukraine. Putin emphasized, “the Russian army has become one of the most combat effective and high-tech armies in the world (…) When NATO will get tired of waging this war against us, just ask them. We were ready to continue fighting, to continue the struggle, and we will have the upper hand.”

Confirming what crack military analyst Andrei Martyanov has been studying for years, Putin explained how modern warfare is the war of mathematicians – something that totally escapes NATO armchair warriors: “I have heard from the people that fight on the ground that today’s war is the war of mathematicians. Radio-jamming devices would be effective against certain delivery vehicles and they would suppress them. The other side has, for example, calculated and reckoned what is the counterforce and reprograms the software of its striking assets in a week or three weeks.”

As for the battleground, with the “rules-based international order” meeting its humiliating demise in the black soil of Novorossiya, Putin could not be more emphatic on the “Nuclear Ukraine” gambit: “It is a dangerous provocation because any step in this direction will face a response (…) I will say it outright Russia will not allow this to happen no matter what.”

The stakes in Kazan could not be higher. By the end of the week, the Global Majority will know whether Kazan will go down in history as the landmark of a new, emerging system of international relations, or if crass divide and rule tactics will keep postponing the inexorable demise of the Old Order.

Comment: The Western media is generally ignoring that this major summit is taking place and where no one from the Western globalists’ – rules based order – G7 are present. Yet the meeting undermines the Western propaganda that Russia is isolated. Even the UN Secretary General is present as he mentioned the importance of being present since countries representing more than half the worlds populations are there.
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Bill Gates to Stand Trial in Netherlands in COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit

bill gates and gavel and covid vaccine bottles

A Netherlands court last week ruled that Bill Gates can stand trial in the Netherlands, in a case involving seven people injured by COVID-19 vaccines. Other defendants include Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, and the Dutch state.

A Netherlands court last week ruled that Bill Gates can stand trial in the Netherlands, in a case involving seven people injured by COVID-19 vaccines.

According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the seven “corona skeptics” sued Gates last year, along with former Dutch prime minister and newly appointed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and “several members” of the Dutch government’s COVID-19 “Outbreak Management Team.”

Other defendants include Albert Bourla, Ph.D., CEO of Pfizer, and the Dutch state.

“Because Bill Gates’ foundation was involved in combating the corona pandemic, he has also been summoned,” De Telegraaf reported.

According to Dutch independent news outlet Zebra Inspiratie, the plaintiffs allege that Gates, through his representatives, deliberately misled them about the safety of the COVID-19 shots, despite knowing “that these injections were not safe and effective.”

Dutch independent journalist Erica Krikke told The Defender that the seven plaintiffs — whose names are redacted in the lawsuit’s publicly available documents — “are ordinary Dutch people, and they have been jabbed and after the jabs they got sick.”

Krikke said that of the seven original plaintiffs, one has since died, leaving the other six plaintiffs to continue the lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Leeuwarden. According to De Telegraaf, “Gates had objected because, according to him, the judges did not have jurisdiction.” Accordingly, the court first “had to rule in the so-called incident procedure,” De Andere Krant reported.

Zebra Inspiratie reported that the hearing in this “incident procedure” took place on Sept. 18 and that Gates’ representatives disputed jurisdiction, but not the claim.

According to De Andere Krant, Gates was represented by the Pels Rijcken law firm, based in The Hague, described as “the largest and the premier litigation law firm in the Netherlands.” Gates did not appear at the Sept. 18 hearing, but attorneys for Gates argued that the court “had no jurisdiction over him because he lives in the United States.”

However, in its Oct. 16 ruling, the Leeuwarden court ruled it does have jurisdiction over Gates. De Andere Krant reported that the court found “sufficient evidence” that the claims against Gates and the other defendants are “connected” and based on the same “complex of facts.”

Other defendants who reside outside of the Netherlands, including Bourla, did not challenge the court’s jurisdiction.

The court ruled Gates must pay attorneys’ fees and additional legal costs totaling 1,406 euros (approximately $1,520). A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 27.

‘Even if … your name is Bill Gates, you still have to go to court’

In remarks shared with De Andere Krant, Arno van Kessel, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, welcomed the ruling. “In its verdict, the court has clearly recorded the basis of our conclusions of claim,” van Kessel said.

Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst told The Defender it is “quite interesting” that the plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in Leeuwarden instead of The Hague, where normally, all cases against the government related to COVID-19 are filed.

“In general, COVID-19 court cases have been very unsuccessful in the Netherlands,” Terhorst said. “There is a slim chance it will be successful.”

She added:

“I think most judges support the COVID-19 vaccination agenda and will find it hard to believe the vaccinations have caused injuries. So, we have a long way to go, regardless of the case.”

Krikke shared a more optimistic outlook, saying that the court sent a message that “even if you are rich and your name is Bill Gates, you still have to go to court.”

New Zealand-based independent journalist Penny Marie, who has closely followed the proceedings in this case, told The Defender she hopes the Oct. 16 ruling “will hopefully set a precedent and help plaintiffs in similar cases around the world regarding jurisdiction,” in cases “where the defendant does not reside in the country of the plaintiff.”

“For parties who make claims against those involved in the implementation of the Great Reset and other international actions, such as the COVID-19 emergency response initiated by the WEF [World

Father of vaccine-injured plaintiff made ‘emotional plea’ to the court

At the Sept. 18 hearing, plaintiffs also delivered statements. According to Zebra Inspiratie, “One of the victims, who is very ill, was also given the opportunity to make a plea. She was no longer able to speak and was represented by her father. It was an emotional plea.”

Krikke said the plaintiff’s father told the court that his daughter, who was previously healthy, fell ill after getting the COVID-19 vaccine and could no longer speak, telling the judge that he “would really like to speak to Bill Gates directly” to ask him what happened to his daughter.

“After that, the judge was really quiet,” Krikke said.

The Oct. 18 ruling also addressed the plaintiffs’ claims about Gates’ role in the WEF’s “Great Reset” project.

“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also affiliated with the World Economic Forum … an international organization whose statutory objective is to unite ‘leaders from business, governments, academia and society at large into a global community committed to improving the state of the world,’” the ruling states, adding:

“This is a project aimed at the total reorganization of societies in all countries that are members of the United Nations … as described by [WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab] in his book Covid-19: The Great Reset. …

“Characteristic of this political ideology is that this forced and planned change is presented as justified by pretending that the world is suffering from major crises that can only be solved by centralized, hard global intervention. One of these pretended major crises concerns the Covid-19 pandemic.”

The ruling also states, “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is affiliated with ‘Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance‘ … an international partnership in the field of vaccinations between various public and private entities.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-covid-vaccine-lawsuit-netherlands/

Scottish Doctor and PhD Nutritionist Win Libel Case Against British Media for Being Labeled as “Murderers” by Exposing Dangerous Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

In 2019, Health Impact News covered a story out of the UK where the British media launched an attack campaign against medical doctors and nutritionists who exposed the cholesterol myth, and the very profitable, and very dangerous, statin drugs that were being prescribed to artificially lower people’s cholesterol.

They were gaining so much popularity in the Alternative Media, including Health Impact News, that drug sales for statins were apparently declining.

So they brought out the attack dogs in the corporate media to smear them, calling them “statin deniers” who they said were responsible for murdering people because patients were not taking their statin drugs, that they claim prevent heart attacks.

These doctors and nutritionists were being compared to “vaccine deniers”, such as Andrew Wakefield, to vilify their reputations.

Doctors Exposing Cholesterol Myth Accused of Murder in British Press for Questioning Statin Drugs
There’s a media war going on in the UK involving the issue of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

The British Daily Mail’s health editor, Barney Calman, labeled two medical doctors and a PhD nutritionist as “statin deniers” for their efforts in educating the public and debunking the cholesterol-heart disease causation dogma while exposing statin drug dangers.

The two doctors are Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and Dr. Aseem Malhotra. The nutritionist is Zoe Harcombe, PhD.

The Daily Mail article is blaming their “propaganda” as convincing people to stop taking cholesterol-lowering drugs which they claim are leading more people to suffer heart attacks as a result.

Since this is another example of corporate-sponsored “mainstream” media presenting only the pharmaceutical position on their own products and seeking to censor anyone who opposes them, we are publishing the responses from those accused of murder for exposing the dangers of statin drugs, as well as questioning the “science” used for the most widely prescribed class of drugs in the world. (Full article.)

I would have linked to the original attack article at The Daily Mail, but it is gone now, and as of this writing Archive.org is still not back online, as they just suffered their second hack attack, and The Way Back Machine section is offline, again.

So when you click on the link to the original offending article that has now been ruled by a judge to be “libel”, you will instead seen an article with the headline reading:

Give patients waffles, put in a pub in every hospital and enforce a weight limit on nurses! Labour public consultation on NHS reform is deluged with ludicrous suggestions

which of course has nothing to do with the original libelous article.

Because now, some 5 years later, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick has reported that he and Zoë Harcombe have won a libel lawsuit against the The Mail.

A Win
21st October 2024

Finally, the dust settles. Zoë and I won our case against the Mail on Sunday. The judgement came out a few weeks ago, but the legal wrangling continued – and still continues. The Mail on Sunday did print an apology. Legally, they do not have to print an apology, but they did, which says something.

There is still a statement in open court to come (SIOC). What is a statement in open court?

‘A statement in open court on settlement of action is an important mechanism for vindication for the claimant in, inter alia, libel proceedings and also for the correction of false and/or defamatory statements.’ 1

It is a much longer thing, which lays out in more detail, what was wrong with the article, and may contain sections such as:

‘Mr Calman allowed the experts who had helped him to have “a very significant”, and “undue”, influence over the editorial process and the terms of the article. ‘

The SIOC has to be agreed by the judge, and this has not yet happened. Boy, do these things take ages. I have been sitting on my hands for months. I still am.

But some names are going to be named.

We know who you are.

The behind the scenes activity was quite outrageous. Eventually, all will be revealed. Because none of this is confidential anymore.

The rock was lifted to see the creatures squirming in unaccustomed sunlight. (Source.)

See our previous articles about Dr. Malcolm Kendrick.

In 2013, ABC Australia put out a 2-part series on cholesterol and statin drugs, hosted by Dr. Maryanne Demasi.

It was so well done, interviewing top doctors in their field exposing the cholesterol myth (over 1000 articles on Health Impact News), and the statin scam (over 500 articles on Health Impact News), that ABC Australia was quickly forced to take down these two videos from their website, and copies on YouTube were disappearing fast.

I have preserved both copies, and I will say of these two videos what I said over a decade ago: The information revealed in these two videos COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!

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Scottish Doctor and PhD Nutritionist Win Libel Case Against British Media for Being Labeled as “Murderers” by Exposing Dangerous Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs

Turkish Seattle to Istanbul flight makes emergency landing after pilot DIES SUDDENLY mid-flight

Turkish Airlines flight from Seattle to Istanbul makes emergency landing in NYC after pilot DIES SUDDENLY mid-flight

Dr Eddy Betterman

A 59-year-old commercial airline pilot dropped dead in the cockpit this week while navigating a Turkish Airlines flight from Seattle to Istanbul.

The incident occurred on October 7 when Captain ?lçehin Pehlivan suffered a medical emergency mid-flight. On board crew tried to administer first aid but were unsuccessful as Pehlivan was pronounced dead before the flight could make its unscheduled emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City around 6 a.m. the following day.

After Pehlivan collapsed suddenly during the flight, the flight crew quickly diverted the Airbus 350 craft to the nearest available and suitable airport so he could receive treatment. Pehlivan passed before that could happen, but at least the flight landed safely, allowing passengers to get rerouted on another flight to Turkey.

“?lçehin Pehlivan, the captain of our Airbus 350 aircraft with TC-LGR tail registration, which was operating the flight number TK204 between Seattle and Istanbul, fainted during the flight,” reported Turkish Airlines spokesman Yahya Üstün in an X / Twitter post.

“After the first medical evaluation to our captain on board was inconclusive, the cockpit crew … decided to make an emergency landing, but our captain died before landing.”

A pilot with Turkish Airlines since 2007, Pehlivan had previously passed a medical examination with flying colors. For him to drop dead like this unexpectedly came as a shock, as least to those who are unfamiliar with the massive and growing death toll from Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccines.”

Check out the below animation showing the flight path Pehlivan’s plane took amid the emergency:

(Related: A similar event took place last year when a 56-year-old LATAM pilot died suddenly while navigating a Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Miami to Chile.)

“How many Pfizer shots did he get?”

In the aftermath of Pehlivan’s passing, Turkish Airlines issued a public statement in honor of the pilot and his family:

“We wish God’s mercy upon our captain and patience to his grieving family, all his colleagues, and loved ones.”

Social media was quick to question what might have caused Pehlivan’s untimely death, most notably the chemical injections that were forced on the world through Operation Warp Speed.

“How many Pfizer shots did he get?” one on X / Twitter asked. “That should be the first question.”

Another questioned why the flight crew decided to make an emergency landing all the way across the country at JFK when there were plenty of Canadian airports and even U.S. airports in the Northwest and Midwest that were a whole lot closer.

“Are there no medical facilities in Canada?” this person wrote. “Seems a bit odd to go from the Arctic Circle across Canada to New York.”

Another pointed out that two other pilots died mid-flight in 2022 just like Pehlivan did this past week. One worked for Envoy Air and became “incapacitated” during an Ohio-bound flight before later dying while the other worked for Citilink Indonesia and died mid-flight over southeast Asia.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/10/22/turkish-airlines-emergency-landing-pilot-died-suddenly/

US Authorizes CIA Mercenaries to Run Biometric Concentration Camps in Gaza Strip

A private intelligence corporation billed as “Uber for war zones” is preparing to create what Israel hopes will be the model for supplanting Hamas rule in Gaza.

Dan Cohen

The Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubblescape into a high-tech dystopia.

Starting with Al-Atatra, a village in the northwestern Gaza Strip, the plan calls to build what the Israeli daily Ynet calls “humanitarian bubbles” – turning the remains of villages and neighborhoods into tiny concentration camps cut off from their environs and surrounded and controlled by mercenaries.

This comes as Israel carries out daily massacres and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, enacting the proposal known as The Generals’ Plan, originally crafted by former national security chief Giora Eiland to turn Gaza into “a place where no human being can exist.”

The plan, approved by White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, calls for the Israeli military to clear out pockets of Palestinian resistance, which it has failed to achieve, demonstrated by the recent killing of Israeli Colonel Ehasn Daksa, the highest ranking officer to lose his life in the year long war.

48 hours after stamping out resistance, they plan to erect separation walls around the neighborhood, forcing its residents, and no one else, to enter and exit using biometric identification under the CIA contractors’ control. Those who do not accept the biometric regime would be refused humanitarian aid.

This plan, first reported by Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar, allocates $90 million for the residents to rebuild their homes, and calls to appoint a “local sheikh” to the position of “head of the council.”

The plan is a 21st century reboot of Washington’s infamous, failed Strategic Hamlet Program during its war in Vietnam in the 1960s, updated with a modern biometric program the US military-industrial complex has incorporated into its operations since, in particular, the beginning of the so-called “War or Terror.” (The U.S. has even created a little known agency called the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency to advance this).

‘Uber for war zones’

The company at the forefront of this plan is called Global Delivery Company, described in its promotional materials as a “Uber for war zones.” Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana owns it and employs several top Israeli and American military intelligence officials, including retired U.S. Navy Captain Michael Durnan, retired U.S. Special Forces captain Justin Sapp, former Israeli military intelligence division head Yossi Kuperwasser, and former Israeli military chief intelligence officer David Tzur.

Kahana has played a key role in the dirty war against Syria in the 2010s and worked with the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army to provide food and medical care to militants and civilians alike. GDC has also been involved in Ukraine, where it collaborated with the Zionist organization, the American Joint Distribution Committee, to operate a refugee camp in Romania near its border with Ukraine. He has also been in negotiations to free the former Israeli military intelligence officer Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was detained in Iraq in 2023.
ImageMoti Kahana on left. Source: X

Kahana’s Gaza plan has been in the works since at least February, 2024. He presented the plan to establish these electronic cantons – what Jewish News referred to as “gated communities” – to the White House, State Department, and Defense Department, as well as Netanyahu. U.S. officials did not respond. While the Israeli military had agreed, the Israeli prime minister shot it down. “What’s the rush?” he quipped.

As I reported at the time, Dostri’s plan laid out four options for Gaza’s future: 1) an installed collaborator regime, 2) the renewal of Palestinian Authority administration, 3) an international or regional mandate in Gaza, or 4) a long-term direct Israeli military occupation, which he described as the optimal choice.

However, as Hamas has maintained its civil control throughout Gaza and Israel has failed to defeat armed resistance groups, the Netanyahu government is relying on the U.S. to do its bidding.

The latest plan appears to be a combination of various elements from Dostri’s paper, involving a long-term Israeli military occupation in combination with an international mandate. While the proposal called for the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, or Saudi Arabia to assume civilian control over the Gaza Strip, that has failed to materialize, prompting the United States to approve deployment of CIA contractors.

While Israel has forced thousands of Palestinian civilians to march south, Gaza’s still formidable armed resistance may stifle these plans.

The Israeli military has also been in talks with Kahana to deploy its mercenaries to secure the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip.

The GDC’s CIA mercenaries would be in full control of humanitarian aid, thereby supplanting Hamas and ending its governance, they figure, achieving a long-term goal of the Israeli war.

“If the pilot goes through successfully, it will be the model for the rehabilitation of Gaza and will result in the suppression of Hamas’s civilian control in the Strip,” notes Eldar.

The plan resembles a proposal published in the U.S. Department of Defense’s top journal, written by Likudnik think tanker Omer Dostri, who was appointed as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson in August 2024.

Israeli state broadcaster publishes footage of its ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza. They’re proud of their war crimes. https://t.co/ycPd4Zs0Zj

— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) October 21, 2024

Read ID First Step Towards Digital ID and CBDC

By Dr Joseph Sansone

In May of 2025 the TSA plans to start requiring the Real ID to fly on domestic flights in the United States. This is the creation of a National ID and a clear violation of basic Constitutional rights. State driver’s licenses IDs that are not Real ID complaint will no longer be valid to fly domestically. They must be Real ID compliant. It is clear that this is the first step to incrementally require a Real ID for all interactions with the Federal government and eventually all aspects of society.

The Real ID was created by an unpatriotic Congress and President in 2005 under the lie of national security. In the aftermath of the 911 false flag operation, the globalist puppet president George W. Bush and Republicans and Democrats, started two unpatriotic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, fleeced American tax dollars, and borrowed money from China to do it. These anti American zealots also created a surveillance police state with the Patriot Act, etc., and also created the dehumanizing NAZI modeled DHS and the TSA.

The TSA and DHS are government operated terrorist organizations. If you have ever been subjected to the TSA porno scanner and have had your genitalia groped and fondled by TSA thugs, then you have been terrorized and dehumanized by this organization. Remember when they said implementing the porno scanners would allow you not to be sexually molested to go on an airplane. They lied. Now you get both.

A Real ID will eventually allow the federal government to track American citizens, and at some point, will likely include medical information such as ‘vaccine’ status. Authoritarians are arguing that the Real ID should include vaccination status.

The PDF417 barcodes, used in REAL ID cards, have a large data capacity and are capable of storing medical information, including vaccine status. This could be a back door method for the federal government to track vaccine status and coerce vaccination to participate in society.

While many state Driver’s Licenses are already Real ID compliant, the new regulations give an indication of where this is going.

The new regulations state:

“The REAL ID Act of 2005 (the REAL ID Act) addressed the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the Federal Government “set standards for the issuance of . . . sources of identification, such as drivers licenses.”  (11) The REAL ID Act sets minimum security requirements for the issuance and production of DL/IDs issued by the States, territories, and the District of Columbia in order for Federal agencies to accept these documents for official purposes. (12) Official purposes include: (1) accessing Federal facilities, (2) boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, (3) entering nuclear power plants, and (4) any other purposes that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine. (13)”

Accessing federal facilities like the VA and apparently even your local  post office could require this National ID. Would interaction with any federal agency require the Real ID? What about facilities that receive federal funds. For instance, hospitals that take federal funds?

The kicker is the phrase for any other purposes the Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine. In the event of another manufactured crises or pandemic where the deep state, or international criminal class, if you prefer, (I do) unleashes a bioweapon and requires that you inject yourself with another mRNA bioweapon injection to avoid quarantine or move about freely, there is that pesky anti Constitutional DOD Directive where if called in by state or federal law enforcement (this includes DHS), where if ‘lives are in danger’ or in response to a ‘biological agent’, etc., the military can use deadly force against American citizens. This directive appears to pave the way for martial law.

The Secretary of Homeland Security could call in the military to assist with mass quarantines, and of course the use of deadly force is warranted since those that are not quarantining, or not getting the newest bioweapon injection, are allegedly endangering the lives of others.

The Secretary of Homeland security could require that American citizens have the Real ID with them at all times when they leave their home. When you consider the concentration of power into the Secretary of DHS, the Secretary could require that all transactions require a Real ID. Banking, grocery store. There appears to be no limit to this power. Amazing, since the DHS and TSA are clearly not Constitutionally authorized.

Twila Brase, RN, PHN, CCHF Co-founder and President, issued this stark warning:

 “TSA and DHS plan to make citizens suffer until they submit. REAL ID is more than just a government ID; it’s an unconstitutional usurpation of individual and states’ rights that gives the Secretary of Homeland Security unilateral authority to decide what it must be used for, far beyond access to commercial airlines.”

The Real ID is a usurpation of States Rights and Individual Rights. It is a further encroachment of a power hungry authoritarian federal government implementing a plan of enslavement to go along with overall depopulation goals.

To be clear: The data storage capability of the Real ID can track medical information, including vaccination status. Real IDs could be required for various transactions or access points, allowing quick scanning and verification of vaccination status. A centralized database of information from Real ID scans could be collected in a centralized database, enabling tracking of individuals’ movements based on where and when their IDs were scanned. Real IDs could be used to control access to public spaces, transportation, or services based on vaccination status. Some states are testing digital driver’s licenses, this could allow for real-time updates of vaccination status and easier data sharing.

The Real ID could potentially be utilized with a Centralized Digital Bank Currency. It is also possible to store a digital wallet address, transaction details, balance information, and encrypted payment data… It is possible then to restrict the ability to buy or sell based on vaccination status…

These are capabilities and are not actual current practice. Although, it seems that at every fork in the road, the decision is to move away from liberty and human dignity and to move toward authoritarian control. A Secretary of Homeland Security that can decide for what purposes a Real ID is required for, is not a public official, that is a ruler.

Ignore the fact that illegal aliens are being flown all across the country. Ignore the fact that the borders of the United States are wide open and unprotected. No national security risk there.

There is no benefit to humans for the government to have a Real ID system in place. It only removes basic human liberty and dignity. It provides no security. We could very easily see the Real ID syncing with quarantines and federal tacking of vaccine status. The Real ID will in no way help stop illegal immigration any more than it will make you safe. Police the border, do not create a police state.

Nobody has a right to track you or control you. Especially the government. Government has a bad track record when it comes to not oppressing or killing its people. Every action by government should be scrutinized and questioned.

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Via https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/the-real-id-is-a-real-problem

Smart TVs ‘Vast System of Digital Surveillance’ That Targets Everyone, Especially Kids

child watching tv, on tv screen is a digital surveillance eye

Calling it a “privacy nightmare,” the Center for Digital Democracy issued a report on how the streaming TV industry has evolved into a vast data-driven viewer surveillance apparatus, transforming people’s TVs into monitoring, tracking and targeting devices.

The streaming television industry has morphed into a vast data-driven viewer surveillance apparatus, transforming people’s TVs into tools for monitoring, tracking and targeting, according to a new report from the nonprofit Center for Digital Democracy.

The 48-page report, “How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era,” charts the evolution from broadcast, cable and satellite television to connected TV (CTV), a term that encompasses the wide range of content delivered through the internet to smart TVs.

CTV includes popular apps like YouTube TV, Free Advertiser-Supported TV (FAST) channels, and streaming services like Disney +, Netflix and Amazon Prime. It also includes Roku, smart TVs and smart TV devices themselves.

The report documents how CTV, whose surge in viewership is largely driven by young audiences, harvests user data through a “sophisticated and expansive commercial surveillance system” that privacy advocates argue undermines existing consumer protections.

“CTV has become a privacy nightmare for viewers,” said Jeff Chester, report co-author and executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, in a press release. “It is now a core asset for the vast system of digital surveillance that shapes most of our online experiences … as it gathers and uses sensitive data about health, children, race and political interests.”

Over the past five years, CTV corporations have teamed up with data brokers like Experian and TransUnion to create new data-mining tools that capture and aggregate everything an individual user does on their smart TV. This information can be integrated with data captured from other devices and real-world activities.

Existing privacy policies don’t explain or protect people from these new forms of data capture, the Center for Digital Democracy said — so viewers should disregard any promises companies make about not collecting or sharing user information.

These new data-capture practices form the foundation for a system with “unprecedented capabilities for surveillance and manipulation,” the report warns. “As a consequence, buying a smart TV set in today’s connected television marketplace is akin to bringing a digital Trojan Horse into one’s home.”

The Center for Digital Democracy submitted the report, along with letters to the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the California attorney general and the California Privacy Protection Agency, calling for an investigation into the industry.

How does CTV capture data?

According to the report, CTV saw a dramatic rise in viewership during the COVID-19 lockdowns “when hundreds of millions of Americans who were forced to stay in their homes found comfort and diversion in the vast number of channels offering a steady supply of movies, television series, sports, and other programming.”

The trend has continued, with streaming services expanding their audiences by offering lower-cost versions of their platforms that include advertising. These versions with ads are more profitable and provide more opportunities for data collection and ad targeting.

Through CTV partnerships, data brokers create extensive digital dossiers on each of hundreds of millions of individual viewers and TV owners, based on their identity information, viewing habits, and both online and offline shopping and other behaviors.

One new data-mining tool is a “cookieless ID” that tracks a person’s digital activity without third-party cookie providers, capturing user data directly and without the viewer’s knowledge or the ability to opt out.

Another method, ID graphs, aggregates user data from across all of a person’s devices logins and even real-world activity, enabling targeted advertising both on and offline.

Automatic content recognition (ACR) software, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, captures every frame of content displayed on a TV and creates a digital fingerprint. That content, matched to individual households, accounting for their location, subscription histories, gaming, type of content, etc., is then used by advertisers to control everything from the TV home screen to the ads viewers see.

In this new landscape, even TV manufacturers are collecting first-party data — data that comes directly from users. In many cases, users must consent to that data collection during TV setup. Software installed on the TV tracks and analyzes the content and advertising that appear on the screen.

While manufacturers say the data is anonymized, the report says the thousands of categories used for “precise audience targeting” reveal an extensive, highly granular, and intimate amount of information that, when combined with contemporary identity technologies, enables individual viewer tracking and ad targeting.

That targeting extends beyond product advertising — it is also used to manipulate people’s financial, political and health decision-making, the report said.

How CTV manipulates and harvests consumer health data

The U.S. is one of two countries globally that allows pharmaceutical companies to market directly to consumers. Research shows the ads significantly increase drug sales, although they tend to be biased, use misleading language and leave out key health information.

According to the Center for Digital Democracy report, pharmaceutical marketers are leveraging extensive data on people, including diagnostic and procedure codes, medical claims and prescribing behaviors.

CTV has opened avenues for the industry to become “even more powerful and intrusive,” combining existing health data with targeted pharmaceutical ads and then tracking its effectiveness to refine targeting methods even further.

Despite claims that health data for ad targeting is anonymized, the report said the industry can use other identity-tracking tools to target pharmaceutical ads to specific people on their smart TVs.

For example, a company called DeepIntent partners with LG for exclusive access to its automated content recognition data. The company can combine that data with other data points to target people for pharmaceutical ads relevant to their health concerns.

DeepIntent also partners with Roku to target “Silver Streamers,” people 55 and older who are more likely to have a diagnosed condition.

The companies target patients, caregivers and providers with sustained and repeated ads across multiple platforms.

Processed food companies use AI to target, collect data from kids

Food and beverage companies use CTV to target children and teens, who are part of what they call “Generation Stream.”

Companies like General Mills work with Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video to integrate their products in shows that resonate with the target audience. Big Food’s interest in this type of integration has spawned companies like BenLabs, whose sole purpose is integrating brands into TV, film, music and influencer content.

CTV also uses generative AI to show different ads to different audience segments watching the same show. Startup companies are developing technology to place different products in the same show for different audiences.

“Where one customer sees a Coca-Cola on the table,” the report said, quoting a marketing executive, “the other sees green tea. Where one customer sees a bag of chips, another sees a muesli bar … in the exact same scene.”

Companies like Amazon share their search and purchase data with the food and beverage industry, which makes it possible for brands to further refine their targeting.

For example, Hershey, an Amazon partner, has used the data to ensure its products always “win” in Amazon searches and has placed its products in Amazon shows.

Roku has partnered with Kroger to integrate data collected in the stores and through viewing habits, allowing brands to target supermarket shoppers while they watch CTV. The platform also provides advertisers with data to measure how exposure to streaming ads affects real-world purchases.

Kids, teens represent $28 billion market 

According to the report, kids and teens represent a market worth over $28 billion for purchases of food, toys, entertainment and technology. They also play an important role in determining what families stream and which streaming services they subscribe to.

While Disney claims not to advertise to kids, it collects data about them that it shares with marketers. For example, the company coordinated a project where children shared their “video ethnographies” about their favorite pastimes that it shared in a report.

Streaming channels also recycle popular content, like “SpongeBob,” “Dora the Explorer” and “Peppa Pig” on channels with streaming ads.

CTV programming aimed at young people is poised for a transformation through generative AI, which will be used to easily create animation and personalized ads and to churn out kid-targeted content faster and cheaper than ever before.

As this new media landscape unfolds, the Center for Digital Democracy argues there must be a comprehensive policy agenda to protect consumers and enhance democracy. That agenda should include privacy protections and digital marketing safeguards for health, children and politics.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/smart-tvs-digital-surveillance-targets-everyone-kids/

Former Pentagon Official: BRICS Response to Odious Western System

BRICS is a response to the ‘odious’ Western system – former Pentagon official
RT

Washington’s “weaponization” of the dollar will drive more countries toward the economic group, Michael Maloof has predicted

This week’s BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan will entice more countries to join the growing group, and Washington only has itself to blame, former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof told ex-British MP George Galloway on Sunday.

Speaking on Galloway’s Mother of All Talk Shows (MOATS), Maloof applauded Russian President Vladimir Putin for recognizing that countless states around the world are seeking a more inclusive economic system and looking, in Maloof’s words, “to get out from under the odious sanctions of the West and the financial system that has really encumbered them.”

“The United States is in charge of the ‘Rules Based Order’, which means that they can not only make the rules, but break them at will, and we’ve seen this constantly in its own decision making. And the world is saying ‘we’ve seen enough of this crap,’” he told Galloway.

”We’re going to be seeing challenges to the hegemony of the dollar, [and] the weaponization of the dollar and the Western system, and we’re already seeing mechanisms that will be offered at this summit this week,” he continued.

After it was effectively excommunicated from the Western financial system over the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Russia stepped up its efforts to settle foreign trade in rubles and other currencies. “We did not refuse to settle transactions in dollars. Rather, we were refused, and were simply forced to look for other options,” Putin explained at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok last month.

Putin noted that Russia and its BRICS partners are now using national currencies in 65% of mutual trade settlements. According to Reuters, Russia will propose a new blockchain-based international financial system at this week’s summit. While Moscow has not commented on Reuters’ report, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov previously told RT that Moscow and other BRICS countries are working on a new cross-border payment infrastructure independent of the Western SWIFT system.

The willingness of the US and its allies to weaponize the dollar and shut rival powers out of the Western system has pushed even Washington-friendly countries like Brazil, India, and the UAE to seek alternate arrangements, Maloof said. This, coupled with the fact that sanctions have driven Russia and China into an ever-closer partnership, demonstrates that “you don’t see strategic thinking coming out of the United States anymore,” he told Galloway.

BRICS was originally founded in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India, and China, with South Africa joining in 2011. Ethiopia, Egypt, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates joined in January 2024. Saudi Arabia has yet to ratify its membership after being invited to join.

Russia currently chairs the group. More than 30 nations, including NATO member Türkiye, have applied to join.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/606044-brics-response-us-dollar/