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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.

Medieval Religious Struggles in Age of Faith

Episode 21 Religious Struggles in an Age of Faith

The Middle Ages Around the World

Dr Joyce E Salisbury

Film Review

In 1275, Pope Innocent III called the Lateran Council, the official founders of the Inquisition. The failure of the Catholic Church and religious belief to curb an increase in hunger and disease had led to an increase in mysticism, in which people reached out to God directly rather than going through a priest. The Inquisition’s response was to label mystics heretics and burn them at the stake.

The English scholastic John Wycliffe (1328-1384) was a groundbreaking Bible translator at a time when the church only allowed priests to read the Bible in Latin or Greek and interpret it for their parishioners. Wycliffe claimed there was no Biblical basis for the Pope’s earthly authority and called on popes to renounce their earthy power and leave governance to kings.

This mistrust of papal authority eventually led French king Philip IV to challenge the Pope’s right to tax church land and prosecute French clergy charged with crimes. Following Pope Benedict XI’s death in 1305, Philip persuaded the college of cardinals to appoint a French archbishop pope. Clement V and the popes who succeeded him ruled from Avignon (France) for 72 years.

The European plague epidemic beginning in 1346 left the Catholic church in relative turmoil. A shortage of priests to perform last rights, combined with a big increase in deaths, led many Catholics to be buried in mass graves in unconsecrated ground. It also resulted in mass pogroms against Jews (accused of causing plague by poisoning wells), especially in Germany. Feudal lords, who were often in debt to Jewish moneylenders, encouraged the pogroms.

In 1375 a nun who saw visions, Catherine of Siena, wrote the French pope persuading him to return to Rome. When he died in 1378, there were two popes, one in Rome and one in Avignon.

In 1409, the Council of Pisa deposed both popes and appointed a new one in Rome. When the first two popes refused to step down, there were three popes. in 1418, the Council of Constance in Germany deposed all three popes and elected Martin V, the first Renaissance Pope.

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

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/13172786/13172832

New Zealand’s “Disinformation Project” Shuts Down Amid Accusations of Silencing Opposition

Pop art collage with speech bubbles, red and yellow stars, UK flag elements, and abstract blue background.

The Disinformation Project, launched in early 2020 in New Zealand as a “disinformation research” group, but slammed by critics as seeking to usher in ideological censorship, is no more.

The project is the product of the Covid era, initially focused on what was at the time considered “disinformation” but then branching out to things like vaccine skepticism in general, climate change – and, apparently, even local politics.

The group, which coordinated with the New Zealand government, described its activities as research and analyses of all manner of “extreme conspiratorial beliefs” as well as their compatriots’ “descent” into those.

Critics, however, point out that silencing the opposition, including by supporting “hate speech” laws, was among the activities of the now-shut-down endeavor that was led by Kate Hannah.

These critics accuse the Disinformation Project of moving from being a handy tool for the New Zealand government to spread its narratives promoting COVID-19 measures (some of the most restrictive in the world), to becoming a political weapon promoting a certain agenda.

Back in April, some commentators were concerned about where the Disinformation Project’s shift from the “abandoned pandemic” to political influencing might lead.

We now know that it has led to the group’s demise – but it is only one of the many similar efforts that appeared during the Covid era around the world.

A specific accusation against this one comes from New Zealand-based journalist Chris Lynch, who claims that Hannah, along with Sanjana Hattotuwa, attempted to effectively manipulate the 2023 election in the country by influencing the media via “secretive briefings.”

This didn’t succeed in this instance because they got “called out” – but over the past four years, the Disinformation Project has been accused of getting increasingly desperate to stay relevant, and finding ways to do that, with the policies it pushed accepted without critical examination by the legacy media.

Lynch is optimistic that the demise of this project and the rise of some that challenge the established media-political narratives means that New Zealand has turned the corner when it comes to censorship disguised as concern for democracy and the fight against “disinformation.”

However, it’s equally possible that where one such outfit exits the scene, another, under a different name and leadership but with the same purpose, might take its place.

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Via https://reclaimthenet.org/new-zealands-disinformation-project-shuts-down-amid-accusations-of-silencing-opposition

Putin says Gaza war must end with establishment of Palestinian State

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with executives of leading BRICS media organizations within the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow, Russia on October 18, 2024. [KREMLIN PRESS OFFICE – Anadolu Agency]

Middle East Monitor

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said on Friday that the war in the Gaza Strip must end with the establishment of a “full-fledged” Palestinian State, urging the Middle East Quartet to be reactivated in order to resume mediation efforts in the region, Anadolu Agency reports.

“The primary solution to the Palestinian problem is the establishment of a fully-fledged Palestinian State. The Russian side has upheld this position since the Soviet era,” he remarked during a meeting with BRICS media managers in Moscow.

Putin stressed reactivating the Middle East Quartet, a group of international organisations that includes the UN, US, UN and Russia, to resume efforts to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and initiate a peace process.

“It was a mistake by the US to disrupt the work of the Quartet […] It would have been easier to coordinate all the positions. The US took over, monopolised the peace efforts, assuming full responsibility and, in the end, it failed,” Putin said.

He stressed that Palestinians “will not leave” the Gaza Strip, warning that the region’s humanitarian crisis will only increase the number of those determined to “defend their interests”.

The upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan, from 22-24 October, will include discussions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as it remains a significant global issue, he added.

Israel dramatically escalated its massive bombing campaign across Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since 23 September, killing at least 1,437 people, injuring over 4,123 others, and displacing more than 1.34 million people.

The aerial campaign is an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. More than 42,400 people, most of them women and children, have been killed since the war began in the wake of Hamas’s 7 October, 2023 cross-border attack on Israel.

Israel further expanded the escalation, invading Lebanon on 1 October.

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Via https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241018-putin-says-gaza-war-must-end-with-establishment-of-palestinian-state/

45% of Dementia Preventable: The Risk Factors You Need to Know

Dr. Joseph Mercola

Story at a glance

  • Dementia is not a normal part of aging, yet cases are increasing today. By 2060, an estimated 14 million adults over 65 will have dementia, nearly triple the number from a decade ago
  • Sensory impairments, particularly hearing and vision loss, are associated with increased dementia risk. Addressing these issues early could help reduce your risk of cognitive decline
  • Using hearing aids decreases the risk of cognitive decline by 19% and improves cognitive test scores by 3%, according to recent studies
  • Protecting your eye health involves proper nutrition. Carotenoids like lutein and zeaxanthin, and the antioxidant astaxanthin have significant benefits for both vision and brain health
  • Modifiable risk factors for dementia include smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, physical inactivity and poor diet. Addressing these factors can prevent up to 45% of dementia cases

Dementia is not a normal part of aging, contrary to what some people believe. In fact, many healthy individuals live their entire lives without developing any form of dementia — yet today, more and more people are gradually experiencing poor cognitive function as they age.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),1 the number of dementia cases among adults 65 years and older is expected to balloon to 14 million by 2060 — that’s nearly a threefold increase from 10 years ago. This makes it even more important to implement strategies that may help protect against this disease.

In August 2024, The Lancet journal2 released a report detailing new evidence about dementia care and prevention, identifying some modifiable risk factors. According to the report, sensory impairments, even those that are mild to moderate, are associated with developing dementia later in life.

Hearing Loss Identified as a Risk Factor for Dementia

Hearing loss or “presbycusis” is one of the risk factors listed by the featured report. An estimated 20% of people worldwide suffer from this condition, and of those affected, 62% are around 50 years old or older.3

The study authors looked at five meta-analyses and determined that all found a link between hearing loss and dementia. The meta-analyses also indicate that as hearing loss progresses, the dementia risk becomes higher, saying that “the magnitude of this risk increase varied between studies, from a 4% increase to a 24% increase in dementia risk per 10 dB [decibels] decrease in hearing ability.”4

A separate review published in the Neuroscientist journal5 looked at the sensory impairments associated with dementia, and pinpointed several mechanisms by which hearing loss may lead to cognitive decline. These include brain changes in the hearing pathway and mental overload that occurs when a hard-of-hearing person strains to understand what’s being said. According to the researchers:

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The Lancet Adds Vision Loss to Its List of Modifiable Risk Factors

The Lancet report also included vision loss as a sensory impairment associated with dementia. This addition was done after they acquired “considerable new evidence” connecting these two conditions. Based on their findings, nearly 2% of dementia cases were linked to having untreated vision loss in a person’s senior years.7

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In 2023, a review published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences noted that glaucoma,9 the second-leading cause of blindness worldwide, shares some biomarkers with Alzheimer’s disease.

According to the researchers, “[t]he pathophysiological process underlying AD is in many aspects similar to that of glaucoma. Numerous epidemiological studies using immunohistochemical and animal data support the link between the two diseases.”10

The ‘Use It or Lose It’ Principle Applies to Brain Tissue

In an article published in The New York Times,11 the researchers provided a simple explanation as to why sensory impairments may be associated with dementia, and it has something to do with how you use your brain tissue.

Basically, if you have sensory loss, there’s less input coming into your brain. As a result, your brain undergoes less stimulation, which can lead to more atrophy — this means you either use your brain tissue or you lose it.

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Sensory impairments during adulthood can also lead to social withdrawal, as many people who struggle with these disorders tend to stop engaging with others. This increases loneliness, which is also a risk factor for dementia.

Dr. Gill Livingston, a professor of psychiatry at University College London and the lead author of The Lancet report, shares that people who are in the early stages of dementia may also develop symptoms faster when they lose their sense of hearing or vision. This is because they typically use up more brain power when trying to recognize blurry vision or garbled sounds, leaving fewer resources for everyday memory and cognition.13

She also highlights the importance of addressing these sensory impairments early on, to reduce your dementia risk. Dementia has currently no known treatment or cure, which is why understanding the link between these two modifiable risk factors and dementia may help researchers develop new management or treatment strategies.

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Excessive Noise Can Lead to Hearing Loss

Your sense of hearing can deteriorate naturally and may even start during early adulthood. There are numerous factors that may lead to this condition, although in some people, the deterioration occurs faster, possibly due to genetics or, more commonly, constant exposure to noise and loud sounds.

“Isolation and Dementia — Why We Should Protect Our Ears,” a documentary from the German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), embedded above, tackles the topic of hearing damage brought on by noise pollution. It highlights some of the day-to-day situations wherein people are inevitably exposed to excessive amounts of noise — working in nightclubs, busy kitchens and even doing landscape work, and how it has affected their health.

Thomas Sünder, a 49-year-old who worked as a full-time DJ, shares how his health gradually deteriorated after being exposed to over 100 decibels of continuous noise and music every night. He suddenly collapsed due to a severe vertigo attack in the middle of a gig. Soon after, he experienced tinnitus (a ringing sound in the ear), followed by sudden hearing loss.

“I woke up and suddenly felt like I had cotton in my ear. But there was none, and everything was muffled on one side,” he said. As a result, he can no longer stand staying in places with too much noise. Even while wearing custom ear plugs for protection, he says the noise in the club is still unbearable. “It’s so loud that my body is reacting and I’m nervous about my ears, because my ears are already my weak point and it makes me super uncomfortable,” he shares.

Sünder’s condition isn’t an isolated case. In fact, more than 1 billion people worldwide are now at high risk of hearing loss due to constant exposure to noise pollution.15 And when hearing loss occurs, brain deterioration follows.

Dr. Bernhard Junge-Hülsing, an ear, nose, and throat specialist, explains that your brain deteriorates faster if you can’t hear well. It also deteriorates when you’re not interacting with others or are not participating in life.

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Using Hearing Aids May Help Protect Your Cognitive Health

Sünder has since quit being a DJ and is now working as a hearing aid acoustician in Hamburg, helping other people who are also dealing with hearing loss. He also assists people in finding the appropriate hearing restorative devices to improve their hearing. With modern technology now coming up with better designs and more sophisticated modifications, there could soon be more efficient ways for these devices to address functional hearing loss.

In the U.S., around 38 million adults are dealing with hearing loss; 29 million of them could benefit from using hearing aids.16 What’s more, studies have found that using these tools may help with brain health, protecting against the onset of dementia.

A 2023 meta-analysis published in the journal JAMA Neurology found that using hearing restorative devices led to a 19% decrease in risk factors related to cognitive decline, and a 3% improvement in cognitive test scores.17

Similar findings were seen during a three-year, multicenter, randomized controlled trial, dubbed the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study.18 

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Other Strategies to Protect Your Sense of Hearing

Prevention is always better than treatment after the fact and, in the case of hearing loss, is particularly important. This is because, as the featured documentary mentions, your sense of hearing does not regenerate, unlike your other organs. It’s crucial to take the necessary measures to protect your ears, to reduce your risk of hearing loss and avoid the need for hearing aids in the first place.

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Nutrients That Nourish Your Eyes

As for your vision, remember that the health of your eyes largely depends on your lifestyle; one important aspect that you need to take care of is your diet. Providing your eyes with the proper nourishment can go a long way toward keeping them healthy well into your senior years.

Carotenoids like lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin are plant compounds with potent antioxidant qualities. They protect your macula, the part of your retina that’s responsible for your vision, from blue light and harmful ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun and other light sources. Your body cannot produce these nutrients, which is why you need to get them from your diet. Some of the best sources include:

  • Green leafy vegetables like spinach, kale and broccoli
  • Orange- and yellow-colored fruits and vegetables like squash and bell peppers
  • Eggs from free-range, pastured hens (choose those with bright orange yolks, which indicate elevated levels of lutein and zeaxanthin)

However, there’s another valuable antioxidant that’s far superior to these — astaxanthin. Previous studies have supported its protective effects against eye-related disorders, such as cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (ARMD),23 which is why many researchers believe it to be the most powerful antioxidant ever discovered for eye health.

Astaxanthin easily crosses into the tissues of your eye and exerts its effects safely and with more potency than any of the other carotenoids, without adverse reactions. Specifically, astaxanthin has been shown to ameliorate or prevent light-induced damage, photoreceptor cell damage,24 ganglion cell damage and damage to the neurons of the inner retinal layers.

Apart from its positive effects on vision health, a 2024 review published in the journal Nutrients also found that astaxanthin may have profound benefits for your brain and may protect against neurodegeneration:25

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Avoid Linoleic Acid and Blue Light to Protect Your Vision

Polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) like linoleic acid (LA) can severely damage your vision — and your overall health, for that matter — which is why it’s crucial to ignore the mainstream advice to consume seed oils or vegetable oils, which are loaded with these harmful fats. In fact, I believe that LA is the most destructive ingredient in your diet and is largely responsible for the epidemic of modern diseases that are rampant today.

LA is found in virtually every processed food, including fast foods, restaurant foods and even salad dressings. Seemingly healthy food like chicken and pork are also be loaded with LA, unless they’ve been raised on special low-PUFA diets. For more information about this topic, I recommend reading my article, “Linoleic Acid — The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your Diet.”

I also advise avoiding blue light, particularly from digital devices, as it can trigger eye strain and contribute to the development of ARMD.

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Sensory Impairments Are Just One Risk Factor

The bottom line is that aging is not tantamount to developing dementia. There are ways to protect your cognitive health and keep your mind sharp even as you reach your golden years. I recommend making the necessary changes to your day-to-day habits, geared towards improving these modifiable risk factors. As mentioned by The Lancet:

“Overall, around 45% of cases of dementia are potentially preventable by addressing the 14 modifiable risk factors at different stages during the life course.”27

For example, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are two risk factors that can be immediately avoided. Physical inactivity can be addressed by implementing a regular exercise routine. Depression, also a risk factor, can be avoided through socialization and by implementing stress-busting techniques, such as meditation and mindfulness, and by doing the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).

Lastly, make sure to consume a balanced diet composed of high-quality, whole foods, and avoid processed foods, seed oils and junk foods that contribute to diseases like diabetes and obesity.

10,000 Body Bags Weren’t Enough – Updates from on the Ground in North Carolina Disaster Relief

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Hannah Stutts is the owner of JAKS Stables, in Wendell, North Carolina.

When Hurricane Helene ripped through the area, Hannah joined forces with other local residents to start the Western Carolina Emergency Network, which is running a huge operation center in Western North Carolina, where Hannah has served as the dispatch of relief efforts in isolated towns that still need help.

Hannah recently gave an impassioned plea from her on-the-ground perspective, where she stated that 10,000 body bags were supplied to the relief efforts in the area, but that there is now a request for even more.

I was very concerned today when I found several copies of her recent video, without even identifying her or pointing people to her organization where help was needed.

As far as I can tell, this YouTube channel was the first to publish this video on October 14th, where Michael Matsoukas wrote: “This is from an email that I received (from the girl in the video) after inquiring how to help.”

To his credit, Michael published links on where to help, whereas other videos I saw, mostly on Rumble, did not, and seemed to only be content with what she was saying to get more clicks.

I have put Hannah’s plea together with an earlier video she did at the operation center where she describes the kind of work they are doing.

I really appreciate Hannah’s communication about what is currently happening in North Carolina, without getting involved in blaming who or what caused this storm, or placing blame on other rescue efforts by getting involved in partisan politics.

I have a lot of experience in the past in working with disaster relief, including heading up a major relief program in South Western Turkey in 1991 after the Gulf War, just north of Iraq, working with Kurdish refugees who had been forced from their homes.

I can tell you from previous experience that people who drop everything they are doing to start working in disaster relief have primarily one single purpose and mindset, and that is to rescue lives and tend to the suffering.

When you are putting in 18-20 hours a day rescuing and ministering to people, you don’t have time to find out what your co-workers political or religious views are, because it doesn’t matter. Everyone is there for a single purpose, and works together to fulfill that mission.

I do not give out recommendations on who or what organizations to support in these situations, because you have to do that work yourself, by investigating what they are doing, who they are working with, and how they are spending money.

The one thing I will say, is to beware of the national organizations that are not local to the area, and that includes Christian ones.

Samaritan’s Purse, for example, has a history during COVID of vaccinating their patients with the COVID-19 experimental “vaccines,” as well as prescribing Remdesivir, which was shown to kill 25% of the patients who took it. See:

Fully Vaccinated Franklin Graham Has Heart Surgery for Pericarditis as Samaritan’s Purse Helps Inject People with COVID-19 Shots

The vaccine-pushers funded by Government “health” agencies have a long history of rushing into disaster areas to start pushing deadly vaccines on the victims, especially children, as we recently saw in Gaza where both sides agreed to stop fighting for a while to push vaccines on children. See:

Infanticide in Gaza: UN to Vaccinate Over Half a Million Children with Deadly Polio Vaccine Over Fake Polio “Outbreak”

In most of these disaster relief programs there are solicitations for “medicines” and usually medical doctors get involved. And some medications are certainly necessary for these victims, such as insulin for diabetics.

But if you work with local groups, let them know your feelings about accepting vaccines from government sources, and let them know that you do NOT want your contributions to go towards any mass-vaccination campaigns, which will ALWAYS involve dangerous Government organizations, such UNICEF globally, or the CDC locally in the U.S. working through local health departments, or possibly through FEMA or other Government organizations.

What good does it do if you help victims get food and help them rebuild their homes and lives, if then some government health official comes in and starts vaccinating them for COVID or other diseases, where they end up injured and crippled for life, or even worse, dead, after they survived the initial storm?

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Via https://vaccineimpact.com/2024/10000-body-bags-were-not-enough-updates-from-on-the-ground-in-north-carolina-disaster-relief/

RFK Jr. proposes subsidizing organic food, not Ozempic, as solution to obesity “for half the price”

RFK Jr. proposes subsidizing organic food, not Ozempic, as solution to obesity “for half the price”

Dr Eddy Betterman

At a recent roundtable on American health and nutrition, 2024 vice-presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for some serious changes to the way food is produced and sold in the United States.

Rather than subsidizing junk food like GMO (genetically modified) corn and soybeans, Kennedy would rather see that money going into the production of organic food, which he says will slim down America a lot better and less expensively than today’s popular weight-loss medications.

“For half the price of Ozempic, we could purchase organic food for every American, three meals a day, and a gym membership for every obese American,” Kennedy told the room – watch below:

U.S. government wants Americans to be sick and dependent on Big Pharma

The United States is one of the only countries on earth that pushes pharmaceuticals and surgery over nutrition and exercise as the solution to obesity and other chronic health problems. In Denmark, for instance, where the company that makes Ozempic is located, the government recommends “a change in diet and exercise to treat obesity.”

“Why are members of Congress doing the bidding of this Danish company instead of standing up for American farmers and children?” Kennedy asked about this sudden societal push across America for everyone who is fat to take Ozempic for weight-loss purposes.

“We could literally subsidize healthy food for every American, three meals a day, but the government wants to put you on a pill for twice the price instead. If that doesn’t scream corruption, I don’t know what does.”

If you are interested in watching the entire roundtable, which also featured speeches by Jillian Michaels, Jordan Peterson, and Calley Means, you can do so at The Highwire‘s Twitter / X page:

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RFK Jr. proposes subsidizing organic food, not Ozempic, as solution to obesity “for half the price”

The Alliance of Sahel States and BRICS: Prospects

Sahel and BRICS

Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov

With the BRICS Summit in Kazan approaching and interest in one of the main multipolar world order international structures growing steadily, it is worth addressing the joint interaction – and even integration – of new African countries into the alliance, while keeping in mind who should be a priority.

There is little time left before the start of the 2024BRICS Summit, which will be held in our country. In addition to the serious agenda in various areas of mutual interest that the current members of the organization will be in charge of at the said summit, many observers are naturally interested by the question of the further expansion of the international structure representing multipolarity, including, of course, vis-à-vis African countries.

Pan-African values and BRICS

As of today, three African states are already full-fledged members of the BRICS bloc: South Africa (since 2011), Ethiopia and Egypt (since 2024). In general, BRICS maintains privileged relations of strategic nature with the African continent and the states of the Global South. Regardless of whether a new stage of BRICS enlargement will be announced this year in Russia, especially since the modalities of interaction between the organization and the candidate countries can vary (like within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with the status of dialogue partners or observers), the main thing is that the strengthening of the alliance between BRICS and the countries of the Global South will continue to move forward. This, of course, includes African states as well.

At the same time, today and more than ever, an extremely important point must be taken into account. The further expansion of BRICS should be done only with countries that fully share the organization’s agenda, including in the framework of supporting the multipolar world. This is perhaps even the key point. Ultimately, there is no point in repeating the past mistake, when Argentina was invited among the candidates for BRICS membership from Latin American states, but then a change of government followed and a clownish pro-Western president took power. Of course, Brazil had a special interest in Argentina’s membership at that time and during that period it was perfectly justified, but given the instability of the Argentine political system, it is obvious that such mistakes must not be repeated. Especially since in Latin America there are absolutely worthy candidates, such as Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia.

Regarding Africa, it is now obviously appropriate to give priority first to those states that conduct their policies and development paths in full compliance with Pan-African values and that are unconditional allies of the multipolar world order. There are a significant number of such countries on the African continent today and this applies particularly to the member states of the Alliance-Confederation of Sahel States (AES, Alliance-Confédération des Etats du Sahel), , composed of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

AES: a reliable ally of the multipolar world

Indeed, these states of the Sahel region have already proven, not only in words, but also and above all through deeds, that they are reliable and worthy allies of the powers that defend and promote the contemporary multipolar world order. In addition, one more important point should be mentioned. Already being a full-fledged regional alliance, currently composed of three states, the full integration of the AES into BRICS projects will further strengthen the processes at the international level, which are today in the interests of all the multipolar era supporters, as well as the very direction of active interaction between all international and regional structures that support the multipolar world.

Regardless of the initial status of such integration (as partner states, observers or full members), it will give a strong impetus to many other countries of the African continent to realize that this is indeed the path worth taking. Ultimately, today and more than ever, the Western planetary minority is enraged, including because of contemporary geoeconomic processes . Processes that are also taking place on the African continent, for which reason it is necessary to put an end to the neocolonial ambitions of the arrogant Western minority by using the entire economic power of BRICS and the global majority.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/the-alliance-of-sahel-states-and-brics-prospects/

The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity

Naomi Klein

Our book, The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity, was published two days ago; it is already a bestseller. This is a book that three governments — the US, the UK and Australia — all sought to suppress. The story of how it came to be is extraordinary — 3250 highly credentialed doctors and scientists under the leadership of one extraordinary woman, Amy Kelly, worked for two years on the 450,000 internal Pfizer documents released under court order by a successful lawsuit by attorney Aaron Siri. In the process these volunteers confirmed the greatest crime against humanity of all time. Read on.

This book in your hands is the result of an extraordinary set of confluences. It also presents, in a format available in bookstores for the first time, material that has already changed history.

You are about to embark as a reader on a journey through an extraordinary story—one whose elements almost defy belief.

The Pfizer Papers is the result of a group of strangers—ordinary people with extraordinary skills, located in different places around the world, with different backgrounds and interests—who all came together, for no money or professional recompense at all; out of the goodness of their hearts, and motivated by love for true medicine and true science—to undertake a rigorous, painfully detailed, and complex research project, which spanned the years 2022 to the present, and which continues to this day.

The material they read through and analyzed involved 450,000 pages of documents, all written in extremely dense, technical language.

This far-flung, relentlessly pursued research project—under the leadership of DailyClout’s COO, the remarkably gifted project director Amy Kelly—brought one of the largest and most corrupt institutions in the world, Pfizer, to its knees. This project, pursued by 3,250 strangers who worked virtually and became friends and colleagues, drove a global pharmaceutical behemoth to lose billions of dollars in revenue. It balked the plans of the most powerful politicians on earth. It bypassed the censorship of the most powerful tech companies on earth.

This is the ultimate David and Goliath story.

The story began when lawyer Aaron Siri successfully sued the Food and Drug Administration, to compel them to release “The Pfizer Documents.” These are Pfizer’s internal documents—as noted above, 450,000 pages in number—that detail the clinical trials Pfizer conducted in relation to its COVID mRNA injection. These trials were undertaken to secure the ultimate prize for a pharmaceutical company, the “EUA,” or Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA. The FDA awarded EUA for ages 16+ to Pfizer in December 2020. The “pandemic,” of course (a crisis in public health that a book of mine, The Bodies of Others, confirmed, involved hyped and manipulated “infections” data and skewed mortality documentation) became the pretext for the “urgency” that led the FDA to bestow EUA on Pfizer’s (and Moderna’s) novel drug. The EUA is the hall pass, essentially, allowing Pfizer to race right to market with a not-fully-tested product.

The Pfizer Papers also contains documentation of what happened in “post-marketing,” meaning in the three months, December 2020 to February 2021, as the vaccine was rolled out upon the public. All leading spokespeople, and bought-off media, called the injection “safe and effective,” reading from what was a centralized script.

Many people who took this injection, as it was launched in 2020–2021–2022 and to the present, did not realize that normal testing for safety of a new vaccine—testing that typically takes ten to twelve years—had simply been bypassed via the mechanisms of a “state of emergency” and the FDA’s “Emergency Use Authorization.” They did not understand that the real “testing” was in fact Pfizer and the FDA observing whatever was happening to them and their loved ones, after these citizens rolled up their sleeves and submitted to the shot. As we can never forget, many millions of these people who submitted to the injection were “mandated” to take it, facing the threat of job loss, suspension of their education, or loss of their military positions if they refused; in some US states and overseas countries, people also faced the suspension of their rights to take transportation, cross borders, go to school or college, receive certain medical procedures, or enter buildings such as churches and synagogues, restaurants and gyms—if they refused.

The FDA asked the judge in the Aaron Siri lawsuit to withhold the release of the Pfizer documents for seventy-five years. Why would a government agency wish to conceal certain material until the present generation, those affected by what is in these documents, is dead and gone? There can be no good answer to that question.

Fortunately for history, and fortunately for millions of people whose lives were saved by this decision, the judge refused the FDA’s request, and compelled the release of the documents; a tranche of 55,000 pages per month.

When I heard about this, though, I was concerned as a journalist. I knew that no reporter had the bandwidth to go through material of this volume. I also understood that virtually no reporter had the training or skill sets required to understand the multidimensional, technically highly specialized language of the reports. In order to understand the reports, one would need a background in immunology; statistics; biostatistics; pathology; oncology; sports medicine; obstetrics; neurology; cardiology; pharmacology; cellular biology; chemistry; and many other specialties. In addition to doctors and scientists, in order to understand what was really happening in the Pfizer documents, you would also need people deeply knowledgeable about government and pharmaceutical industry regulatory processes; you would need people who understood the FDA approval process; you would need medical fraud specialists; and eventually, in order to understand what crimes were committed in the Papers, you would need lawyers.

I was worried that without people with all of those skill sets reading through the documents, their volume and complexity would lead them to vanish down “the memory hole.”

Enter Steve Bannon, the former Naval Officer, former Goldman Sachs investment banker, former advisor to President Trump, and current host of the most popular political podcast in America and one of the most listened-to worldwide, WarRoom.

He and I come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. I had been a lifelong Democrat, an advisor to President Bill Clinton’s reelection campaign, and to Al Gore’s presidential campaign. He, of course, is a staunch Republican-turned-MAGA. I had been deplatformed in June 2021, before the Pfizer documents came out, for the crime of warning that women were reporting menstrual dysregulation upon having received the mRNA injections. As a career-long writer on women’s sexual and reproductive health issues, I knew that this was a serious danger signal and that this side effect would affect fertility. (Any eighth grader should be able to foresee that as well.) Upon my having posted this warning, I was banned from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms. I was attacked globally, all at once, as an “anti-vaxxer” and “conspiracy theorist”; and my life as a well-known, bestselling feminist author, within the legacy media, ended. No one in that world would talk to me anymore, publish my work, or return my calls. I was un-personed.

(It turned out, upon two successful lawsuits in 2023 by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general, that it was actually the White House, the CDC, and senior leaders of other government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, that unlawfully pressured Twitter and Facebook to remove that cautionary tweet of mine, to shut me down, and to “BOLO” or Be On the Lookout for similar posts. This suppression is now the subject of a pending Supreme Court decision on whether or not it violated the First Amendment.)

In this dark time in my life, to my surprise, I received a text from Steve Bannon’s producer, who invited me onto WarRoom. I brought forward my concerns about women’s reproductive health in the wake of mRNA injection, and to my surprise he was respectful, thoughtful about the implications, and took the issue very seriously. I returned again and again, to bring that and other concerns that were emerging in relation to the mRNA injections to his audience. I was relieved to have a platform on which I could share these urgent warnings. At the same time, I was sad that the Left, which was supposed to champion feminism, seemed not to care at all about serious risks to women and unborn babies. I recognized the irony that a person whom I had been taught to believe was the Devil Incarnate, actually cared more about women and babies than did all of my right-on former colleagues, including the feminist health establishment, who had always spoken so loudly about women’s wellbeing and women’s rights.

Given my appearances on WarRoom leading up to 2022, it was natural that the subject of the Pfizer documents came up on that show when the documents were released. I shared my concern that they would be lost to history due to their volume and technical language. Bannon said something like, “Well, you will crowdsource a project to read through them.”

I was taken aback, as I had zero skills related to, or knowledge about how possibly to do such a thing. I answered something like, “Of course.”

So, my news and opinion platform DailyClout was deluged with offers from around the world, from WarRoom listeners with the skill sets needed, to decipher the Pfizer documents. I was terrified. It was chaos. I had excellent people on my team. But none of us knew how to manage or even organize the deluge of emails; we did not know how to evaluate the thousands of CVs; and even once we had “onboarded” these thousands of people, in different time zones, to “the project,” our inboxes became even more terrifying, as it was literally impossible to organize 3,250 experts into an organization chart that could systematically work through these documents. Emails were getting tangled or went unanswered. People asked questions we could not answer. We had no idea what structure could allow such a huge number of disparate experts to work through the vast trove of material.

A few weeks in, as I was in despair, Bannon had me on again. He asked about the progress of the project, and I replied, more upbeat than I felt, that many people had joined us, and they were starting to read. “Of course, you will begin delivering reports,” he prompted. “Of course,” I answered, horrified at being in so far over my head.

I have never had a corporate job, so it had not even occurred to me that a series of reports was the format that the analyses of the documents should take.

Then something happened that I can only describe as providential. We put out a call to the volunteers for a project manager, and Amy Kelly reached out. Ms. Kelly is a Six Sigma-certified project manager, with extensive experience in telecommunications and tech project management. She is also a simply inexplicably effective leader. The day that she put her hand to the chaos in the inboxes, the waters were stilled. Peace and productivity prevailed. Ms. Kelly somehow effortlessly organized the volunteers into six working groups, with a supra-committee at the head of each, and the proper work began.

I can only explain the scope and smoothness and effectiveness of the work that followed, as occurring in a state of grace.

In the two years since Ms. Kelly and the volunteers have been working together, they have gone through 2,369 documents and data files totaling hundreds of thousands of pages and have issued almost one hundred reports. I taught the volunteers to write these in a language that everyone could understand—which I thought was very important to maximize their impact. And Amy Kelly meticulously revised almost all, and edited all, of them.

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Via https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/the-pfizer-papers-prizers-crimes

Venezuelan Prison Gang Seizes Multiple Apartment Buildings In Texas

Zero Hedge

A new shocking report has found that Venezuelan transnational gang Tren de Aragua has taken over at least four apartment building complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as thousands of its illegal alien gangsters run amok nationwide, sparking crime and chaos from Colorado to Texas to New York City. Many of the members of the armed migrant prison gang invaded the nation through Biden-Harris’ open southern borders.

DailyMail revealed:

A dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The report confirmed that Palatia Apartments was one apartment complex where TdA members were operating out. This complex was the scene of a recent raid… 

Just last week a small army of police officers raided an apartment complex in San Antonio and arrested 19 individuals – including four gang members.

Law enforcement sources confirmed TdA had been operating at the Palatia Apartments for five to six months – squatting in empty units they either rented out to other migrants, used as a base to deal cocaine or, most horrifically, as prostitution dens to pimp out women and children.

But now DailyMail.com can reveal that this apartment invasion is just the tip of the iceberg in the major southern Texas city, with at least three other rental properties also occupied by the criminal organization. 

While Palatia Apartments was one complex full of TdA members, the other three buildings were not named in the report because of ongoing police investigations.

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The US Army warned in leaked documents that as many as 5,000 TdA members have invaded the nation, many of which are armed.

DailyMail noted that TdA’s command and control center shifted north to just below the US border in the Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez. The armed group is rapidly expanding turf nationwide. This may ignite gang warfare with native US gangs.

 

In recent weeks, police sources told the NYPost that TdA was recruiting their members and victims straight out of NYC-run migrant shelters.

In the Big Apple, Tren de Aragua is trying to recruit foot soldiers to force women into sex trafficking — in the hopes that it will become a main source of income for the gang, according to the leaked memo. -NYPost

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/venezuelan-prison-gang-seizes-four-apartment-buildings-texas

Are Medical Errors On the Rise Due To Cognitive Impacts Of mRNA Vaccine?

Dr Pierre Kory

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As the title of this post reflects, I recently developed a growing concern that health care providers are “not as sharp” as they used to be and, as you will learn from the cases I will present below, that may be putting it mildly.

Why would I hypothesize about a sudden deterioration in the cognitive and technical abilities of health care providers? Couple of reasons;

  1. The most mRNA vaccinated sub-population in the United States are almost certainly our health care providers. They make up the entire class of employees mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that governs the two federal/state health insurance plans for the elderly and poor. Recall that 25 states fought back against CMS by issuing injunctions against the mandate until the Supreme Court granted CMS the authority to do so. Which meant that all CMS facility employees (every hospital, nursing home, and home health agency employee in the country) had to get the mRNA vaccine otherwise they would not be eligible for reimbursement for their services from those entities. That does not make for a valuable employee.
  2. The mRNA “vaccine,” like Covid itself, causes immense amounts of cognitive dysfunction, i.e. “brain fog” and worse. In my Leading Edge Clinic specialty practice where we treat Long Covid/Long Vax (70% are Long Vax) of the almost 1500 chronically ill patients we have encountered, the vast majority report new-onset cognitive dysfunction.

The real tragedy is that the mandate from CMS specified that “accommodations” (i.e. exemptions) should be offerred by the involved health care facilities, however, as we well know, in the vast majority of facilities, exemptions were nearly impossible to obtain. Numerous lawsuits are ongoing to address the horrific negative consequences of the mass firings that resulted. The bright side is that I am hearing from my Covid litigation experts that these cases are now being regularly won .

However, the behavior of the many corporate health systems around the country effectively “weeded out” all unvaccinated employees. Although a number of centers apparently now welcome back their former unvaccinated employees, it appears that not many as hoped wanted to return to a former employer that treated them that way. Thus, I maintain that the vast majority of those currently working in the system are vaccinated, and heavily vaccinated at that.

So, if they are so heavily vaccinated, what is the probability that they are suffering cognitive issues? Well, from my recent (surprisingly popular) post about the goings on at Ohio State Medical Center, apparently numerous docs were retiring or going out on disability due to “neurological issues.”

The “anecdotes” I cited in that post are further supported by two recent papers out of South Korea which found shocking negative impacts on cognitive abilities in those who underwent mRNA vaccination. A Midwestern Doctor did an excellent job in not only analyzing that paper but also putting the Korean studies into the context of what we already know about the cognitive impacts of the mRNA platform. I am going to bullet some of the numerous data points AMD cited, beginning with the South Korea studies which analyzed a large database of the inhabitants of Seoul where vaccination status was accurately recorded. It’s not good:

  1. One of their papers published in Nature (one of the top medical journals) found a 68% increase in depression, a 44% increase in anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, and somatoform disorders, a 93.4% increase in sleep disorders, a 77% decrease in schizophrenia, and a 32.8% decrease in bipolar disorder.
  2. Another of their analyses was published by the senior author, again in a mainstream journal. It analyzed individuals over 65 and found COVID vaccination increased the risk of mild cognitive impairment 138% and the risk of Alzheimer’s by 23%, and a smaller increase in vascular dementia and Parkinson’s disease the authors did not deem to be significant.

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I myself had a close colleague who, in 2021, had to stop rounding in the ICU for several months after the mRNA vaccine because they couldn’t remember critical details. Another colleague, Dr. Robert Jackson in Missouri, is a truly brilliant rheumatologist who has helped me develop and refine my therapeutic approaches in my Long Covid/Long Vax practice. He relayed to me that when he got Covid in late 2020, he developed “brain fog” that was somewhat manageable, but then after his vaccine in Feb. 2021, the cognitive deficits were greatly amplified (think spike in brain). The symptoms became so pronounced that he thought he was going to have to retire. He told me he would stare off into space, could not remember critical details, could not process or organize tasks etc. Luckily he found therapies which reversed this issue and he did not have to retire.

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF COGNITIVE HARMS

Lets go through some more of the evidence of cognitive harm, some of which I compiled myself, but I also liberally borrowed from AMD’s comprehensive review titled, “We Now Have Proof The COVID Vaccines Damage Cognition.”

I will bullet some of the major data sources they found:

  • VAERS detected a massive spike in cognitive issues being reported to it after the COVID vaccines hit the market.

I own a small business and deal with many people and other small businesses. Most provided reliable service, would remember appointments, followed up on issues, and so on. I noticed that lately, some people have become less capable cognitively. They forget essential appointments, cannot concentrate, make crazy-stupid mistakes, and so on.

Igor’s anecdote above was also supported by one of my best and oldest friends who is the mayor of a village of over 3,000 inhabitants. He reported to me that he finds he has to do a lot more tasks at town hall because things he used to be able to delegate kept not getting done or got done incorrectly.

  • Igor Chudov also identified another dataset from the Netherlands which further corroborated a massive cognitive decline:

In the first quarter of 2023, there was a 24% increase in GP [general practioner] visits related to memory and concentration problems among adults (age 25 years and older) compared to the same period in 2020. This is evidenced by the latest quarterly research update from the GOR Network.

More specifically they found:
•No increase was observed in adults under 25 years old.
•A 31% increase was observed in those 24-44 years old.
•A 40% increase was observed in those 45-74 years old.
•A 18% increase was observed in those over 75 years old.

Now, although I have not yet presented the anecdotes of the medical errors reported to me yet, I initially questioned whether they were “Vaxxidents.” One of the reasons I used the word “Vaxxident” is that I have been aware for a while now that motor vehicle accidents greatly increased during the pandemic. Since they started to increase in 2020 before the jabs, obviously that suggests that Long Covid may be a significant contributor, but the greater increases in 2021 suggest the jabs may have compounded the issue, almost like the case of Dr. Robert Jackson above:.

The above chart and the below comments are taken from the Substack of the brilliant actuary Mary Pat Campbell from her posts on the rise in motor vehicle accidents. Note that she hypothesizes that the rise was largely due to less people on roads and thus faster speeds, but, as you can tell, my hypothesis is a bit different. Anyway, she wrote:

The low for the period above occurred in February 2010, when there was only an average of 77.9 motor vehicle accident deaths per day.

Before that, the local high had been in July 2007, at a high of 141.6 deaths/day. The most recent high occurred in October 2022, at 144.6 deaths/day. Interesting it took 15 years to get back to that level… and that’s not a good thing.

Then I picked out January 2022 — it was a low point for 2022, and January tends to be a low point for most years.

But I picked it out specifically so you could compare it against the rates in 2018 and 2019. That low in 2022 is only a few percentage points below the high from the pre-pandemic rates.

Also, per Brave Browser AI: “Record high in 2022: Fatal car crashes reached a record high in early 2022, with road safety experts attributing this to pandemic-fueled risky driving behaviors such as fewer seat belts, more speeding, and impaired driving.”

If you look at the full historical data on traffic fatalities in Wikipedia, one data point jumped out at me, which is that in 2021 there was an 11.1% increase in per capita traffic fatalities compared to 2020. Not since 1945 has there been a double digit percent increase in this metric from one year to the next.

AMD’s post even included a quote from me, which I will include (thus I am citing someone who is citing myself – weird 🙂

In my practice of treating vaccine injuries, one of the three most common symptoms I see is brain fog. So many of my patients had been in the prime of their lives, can now barely function, have significant cognitive impairment and need a lot of help from our nurses to carry out their treatment plans. I never imagined I would see any of this in people far younger than me and instead I see it every day. I bear witness to an immense amount of suffering on a daily basis that is hard to put into words.

PATIENT REPORTS OF PROVIDER ERRORS

Now, to the point of this post, I will present a few cases of poor medical care which I think may have resulted from the adverse impacts of the mRNA vaccines. Let me state from the outset that I have no direct evidence that in these cases the physicians were vaccinated or that they had cognitive deficits from the vaccine and I also must recognize that Long Covid can cause cognitive issues/brain fog as well. However, like the three Uruguayan soccer players who collapsed within a week of each other (presented in my last post), the four cases below came to my attention in a three day span.

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Via https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/are-medical-errors-on-the-rise-due