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About stuartbramhall

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

Telegram CEO Sells Out – Will Release User Data to Governments

(Bloomberg) — Messaging app Telegram will provide users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests, according to Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durovv [following his arrest in France].

The platform changed its terms of service to deter criminals from abusing it, Durov said in a post on Telegram Monday. The move comes less than a month after his arrest in France, where he faces charges of alleged complicity in the spread of child sexual abuse materials.

The move represents a marked difference from Telegram’s approach to government requests for data and its reputation for lax moderation. The United Arab Emirates-based platform has been notoriously non-responsive to takedown requests from governments around the world, and often ignored requests for information about suspected criminals.

The app, using artificial intelligence and a team of moderators, has now begun to conceal problematic content from its search results as part of its efforts prevent misuse, Durov said.

French prosecutors in August charged the Russian-born Durov in connection with alleged crimes committed on the app. The case portrays the billionaire CEO as the head of a company that refused to provide law enforcement with data to assist legal wiretaps on suspected criminals.

Durov, who has been ordered to remain in France during the investigation, denies the charges.

Under Durov, Telegram has drawn the ire of governments ranging from the European Union to authoritarian regimes in Russia and Iran. It has been used by protesters seeking to organize against the authorities, while also becoming a hub for conspiracy theorists and extremists.

White supremacists in the US, for instance, for years have used Telegram to coordinate attacks on power infrastructure.

The Kremlin in 2018 attempted to block Telegram, only to reverse course two years later after failing to shut down the service. When the ban was dropped, the Russian regulator said Durov had signaled that he would help counter extremism and terrorism.

Durov’s arrest has led to a number of policy changes at Telegram. Earlier this month, Telegram disabled new media uploads, which Durov said was aimed at stopping bots and scammers.

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Via https://finance.yahoo.com/news/telegram-ceo-durov-says-app-154632983.html

Low Blood Cholesterol Levels Associated Associated with Higher Death Rates

low blood cholesterol mortality risk

Dr Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • Low cholesterol levels are associated with increased mortality risk in older adults, challenging the “lower is better” paradigm
  • Cholesterol plays crucial roles in cell membrane structure, hormone production, vitamin D synthesis and nerve function. Adequate levels are essential for optimal health, especially in older individuals
  • Low cholesterol is linked to higher diabetes risk in older adults. Both very low and very high levels increase risk, with the lowest risk occurring at moderate levels
  • Maintaining adequate cholesterol levels is important for brain health, particularly in post-menopausal women. Low levels may disrupt lipid rafts and myelin production, potentially affecting cognitive function
  • Recent research indicates a relationship between low cholesterol and increased risk of blood cancers. Cholesterol has protective effects on immune function and regulation of cancer cell proliferation

You’ve likely heard that high cholesterol is bad for your health, however cholesterol is found in nearly every cell of your body and is vital for optimal functioning. If you have too little, your risk of health problems increases, including all-cause mortality.

Research published in Frontiers in Endocrinology found a revealing link between low total cholesterol (TC) levels and increased mortality risk in those aged 85 and above.1 This research challenges the conventional dogma that lower cholesterol is always better, especially for older adults.

The study, which analyzed data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, found that individuals with TC levels below 3.40 mmol/L (131 mg/dL) had a significantly higher risk of all-cause mortality compared to those with higher levels.2 In fact, the mortality risk increased by 12% for every 1 mmol/L reduction in TC.3 These findings suggest that maintaining higher cholesterol levels may benefit longevity in your later years.

Why Low Cholesterol Is Harmful in Late Life

Cholesterol, often misunderstood as merely harmful, plays several crucial roles in maintaining bodily functions. This waxy substance serves as a fundamental building block for cell membranes, providing structural integrity and fluidity. It acts as a precursor for various essential hormones and is vital in the production of vitamin D when your skin is exposed to sunlight, contributing to bone health and immune function.

In your digestive system, cholesterol aids in the formation of bile acids, which are necessary for the absorption of fats and fat-soluble vitamins. Further, cholesterol is integral to myelin sheath formation, enhancing nerve signal transmission throughout your body. A balanced amount of cholesterol is indispensable for optimal health and plays a protective role as you age.

As for why low cholesterol increases risk of all-cause mortality in older adults, low TC levels may compromise cell function and increase your vulnerability to infections and other health problems. Additionally, cholesterol helps regulate inflammatory markers in your body. With lower TC levels, you might experience enhanced inflammation, which is associated with numerous age-related diseases.

The study found the protective effect of higher cholesterol is independent of nutritional status or chronic health conditions, suggesting a direct biological link between TC levels and longevity in advanced age. The researchers explained:4

“Although the biological pathways that link TC to mortality are poorly understood, several mechanisms may explain this inverse association. For example, blood lipids, which are an important component of cell membranes, may affect cell electrophysiology by modulating the distribution and function of some ion channels.

Low TC levels may contribute to the pathogenesis of some common diseases in older people, such as atrial fibrillation. Another potential mechanism is that TC may regulate inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein and attenuate the biological response to inflammation. Therefore, individuals with low TC levels may be more vulnerable to physiological disorders because of enhanced inflammation.”

The study identified an optimal range for TC levels in those aged 85 years and over. Participants with TC levels between 3.40 and 4.39 mmol/L (131 to 170 mg/dL) and those with levels at or above 4.39 mmol/L (170 mg/dL) had significantly lower mortality risks compared to those with levels below 3.40 mmol/L.5

“Our findings contribute to the growing body of evidence challenging the ‘lower is better’ paradigm for cholesterol levels in older adults,” the researchers noted, proposing that the optimal TC range for older adults might lie between 3.40 and 5.18 mmol/L (131 to 200 mg/dL).6

Low Cholesterol Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk

Another important study of 3.26 million Chinese adults aged 65 and older also revealed the importance of properly optimizing your cholesterol. It found low cholesterol levels are associated with a higher risk of diabetes.7

The researchers observed a J-shaped relationship between total cholesterol and diabetes risk. This means that both very low and very high cholesterol levels were associated with increased diabetes risk, with the lowest risk occurring at moderate levels. Specifically, TC levels below 4.04 mmol/L (156 mg/dL) were linked to higher diabetes odds. This “cholesterol paradox” could further explain why low cholesterol contributes to increased mortality in late life.

The findings even held true for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often labeled as the “bad” cholesterol. The study found a similar J-shaped relationship between LDL cholesterol levels and diabetes risk. LDL cholesterol levels below 2.33 mmol/L (90 mg/dL) were associated with higher diabetes odds. For every 1 mmol/L increase in LDL cholesterol below this threshold, there was a 12% decrease in diabetes risk.8

This again challenges the “lower is better” approach to LDL management, especially for older adults. The protective effect of moderately higher LDL cholesterol levels could be another piece of the puzzle in understanding increased late-life mortality associated with low cholesterol — your body needs a certain level of LDL cholesterol for optimal health throughout life, including in your later years.

The Protective Role of Cholesterol in Brain Health

Maintaining adequate cholesterol levels is also crucial for your brain health, especially as you age. Cholesterol plays a vital role in the production and maintenance of cell membranes in your brain and is essential for the formation of lipid rafts, specialized regions in cell membranes that are crucial for synaptic function and plasticity.9

These processes are fundamental for learning and memory. When your cholesterol levels are too low, it can disrupt these lipid rafts, potentially affecting your memory consolidation and cognitive function. Additionally, cholesterol is necessary for myelin production, the protective sheath around nerve fibers that enables efficient signal transmission in your brain.

Low cholesterol levels might interfere with the repair and regeneration of myelin, leading to impaired information processing and potentially contributing to cognitive decline. Further, research indicates that women have a higher lifetime risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compared to men, and cholesterol levels may play a role in this difference.

The study focused specifically on post-menopausal women, finding that those with total cholesterol levels below 153 mg/dL had a significantly higher risk of developing dementia.10 Even women with cholesterol levels above 201 mg/dL had a reduced risk of developing dementia compared to those with the lowest levels.11

This suggests that maintaining adequate cholesterol levels may be particularly important for cognitive health in post-menopausal women. The researchers explained several reasons why low cholesterol may increase dementia risk in this population:12

“In neurons, lipid rafts are … believed to be involved in synaptic function and plasticity, which are essential for learning and memory processes. Low cholesterol caused by drugs or toxins may disrupt lipid rafts, subsequently affecting memory consolidation and cognitive function and finally resulting in dementia.

In addition to lipid raft disruption, demyelination caused by low cholesterol levels might also be another important factor that interferes with the regeneration of myeline; therefore, signal (information) transformation and consolidation become disrupted.

Several factors including hyperglycemia, hypertension, toxins, infections, and many other factors that induce free radicals, oxidation, and the inflammation of myeline results in the aging process or the destruction of myelin. In this situation, a higher cholesterol level might be a rate-limited process for repairment and remyelination.

Without intact functional lipid rafts and myeline, information in the brain for conduction, consolidation, or plasticity is not possible.”

Link Between Low Cholesterol and Blood Cancer Risk Unveiled

Recent research from the UK Biobank study has also uncovered an unexpected relationship between low cholesterol levels and an increased risk of plasma cell neoplasms, including multiple myeloma.13

This large-scale study followed 502,507 participants for up to 14 years, revealing that individuals with lower levels of total cholesterol, LDL, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and apolipoproteins had a higher likelihood of developing these blood cancers.14 While the exact mechanisms are not fully understood, this research points to the complex role of cholesterol in cellular health and immune function.

In the context of blood cancers, cholesterol appears to have protective effects. Higher levels of HDL and its associated apolipoprotein A have been linked to reduced inflammation and improved immune cell function. These lipids can regulate cancer cell proliferation and modify the function of macrophages and other immune cells.15

Additionally, cholesterol is crucial for the homeostasis of your hematopoietic system, which produces blood cells. The study suggests that very low cholesterol levels might disrupt this delicate balance, potentially increasing the risk of malignant transformations in plasma cells.16

The study found that the relationship between cholesterol and plasma cell neoplasms was particularly pronounced in males and individuals over 60 years old. The use of cholesterol-lowering medications didn’t reduce the risk of these blood cancers, suggesting that artificially lowering cholesterol levels does not provide the same protective effects as naturally occurring higher levels.

Statin cholesterol-lowering medications are among the most-prescribed drugs in the U.S., but the number of people taking them may soon decline significantly. Based on previous guidelines, 45.4 million adults meet the criteria to take statin drugs, but if updated guidelines from the American Heart Association are adopted, this will drop to 28.3 million.17

Optimizing Cholesterol Levels for Overall Health

Maintaining optimal cholesterol levels involves more than just focusing on the numbers. Your gut health plays a significant role in this complex equation. Oxygen-intolerant bacteria, which thrive in an oxygen-free gut environment, are vital for converting plant fibers into beneficial fats. However, modern lifestyle factors can disrupt this delicate balance, potentially leading to a shift toward oxygen-tolerant bacteria that produce more potent endotoxins.

This shift can have far-reaching implications for your health. Endotoxemia, often resulting from this bacterial imbalance, is a significant underlying cause of septic shock — a condition that may be more prevalent than commonly recognized.

In fact, it could be a leading cause of death, surpassing even heart disease and cancer in some estimations. Many cases of heart disease or heart failure might actually be triggered by endotoxemia, underscoring the interconnectedness of your gut health and cardiovascular system.

To truly optimize your cholesterol levels and overall health, it’s essential to look beyond conventional metrics and instead consider the following tests for a more comprehensive understanding of your heart disease risk:

Omega-3 index HDL/total cholesterol ratio
Fasting insulin level Fasting blood sugar level
Triglyceride/HDL ratio Iron level

This personalized approach, combined with strategies to improve mitochondrial function and maintain a healthy gut ecosystem, offers a more holistic path to cardiovascular health. By addressing these underlying factors, you can naturally optimize your cholesterol levels while supporting your overall well-being.

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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/09/23/low-blood-cholesterol-mortality-risk.aspx

Likely US Intelligence Role in Exploding Electronic Devices

Dmitry Orlov

Last week thousands of pagers exploded in Lebanon, maiming hundreds and killing dozens of people. This was a large-scale terrorist strike targeting members of Hezbollah — the Party of God, a Lebanese Shia Islamist party — while sparing doctors working at Lebanese hospitals, who had been alerted to turn in their pagers beforehand by parties yet unknown. The exploding pagers contained batteries that included a small amount of pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, a high explosive, which was incorporated as part of the battery manufacturing process. PETN is a nonvolatile powder and is very difficult to detect in small quantities, especially if it is encapsulated inside the plastic body of a battery.

However, just installing an explosive-charged battery in a standard production-line pager does not automatically a pager bomb make. There is also the crucial step of modifying the hardware and the firmware of the pager itself to provide the triggering mechanism. The simplest mechanism imaginable is a pattern matcher that waits for a certain text string to arrive as part of a page. Once the pattern matcher fires, it activates an electronic switch that short-circuits the battery, causing it to heat up and burst into flames (lithium-ion batteries heat up and can burst into flames or even explode when short-circuited).

This is what appears to have happened: the pagers started beeping all at once when they received the broadcast trigger message and then exploded a short time later. Since standard production-line pagers do not contain the hardware for short-circuiting the battery, these pagers must have been outfitted with custom electronics as well as an exploding battery.

Is that all? No, of course not! Broadcasting the trigger message to all the pagers required control of a base station located in Lebanon and somebody had to either be present to broadcast the page or to rig up electronics to do so remotely — more complexity and more hardware. And, of course, the entire technology suite had to be tested in some secret laboratory somewhere, to make sure that it would work right the first time.

Is that all? Not quite: there were also the exploding radios. They started exploding a day later. Apparently, the operation was not limited to just the pagers: similar tricks were performed with other types of battery-operated communications equipment, such as walkie-talkies. There weren’t as many of these, probably because, unlike the pagers, they hadn’t been purchased as a single large shipment. There were also many fewer of them. They were, however, an interesting proof of concept: now we know that your Android or iPhone or Tesla could be rigged to blow upon receiving a remote command just as easily as those pagers.

The entire operation, including setting up production for exploding batteries and for custom pager electronics able to short-circuit these batteries, assembling the pagers, programming the base station, delivering the pagers to Hezbollah buyers and setting up a local base station, all in a way that would not raise any suspicions, must have taken a great deal of time, effort and organizational acumen.

American propaganda sources (some people still use the phrase “media sources” to describe them) immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was the Israelis who were responsible for the exploding pagers. Anonymous American official sources (who but them, of course!) anonymously informed their pocket propaganda journos that the Israelis had warned them of the exploding pagers minutes before they started going off. Meanwhile, the Israelis themselves denied all responsibility.

However, my trusted anonymous sources (yeah, I can play this stupid game too, you know!) told me that it is unlikely that Israel could have pulled off the whole operation and that American intelligence operatives must have been involved. It would be interesting to find out who made the pagers, who sold the pagers to Hezbollah and who told the Lebanese doctors to turn in their pagers ahead of time. But it is highly unlikely that an investigation will ever be carried out to unearth such facts because one very important rule of conducting investigations is to avoid unearthing evidence that would incriminate the investigators.

Let’s assume, for the sake of the argument, that it was the Israelis who engineered and orchestrated the whole thing. Two reasonable questions immediately leap to mind: What were they trying to achieve? and Were they ready to take advantage of that achievement?

Perhaps the Israelis simply wanted to demoralize Hezbollah leadership or to behead the entire organization. But this is a bad guess; the Israelis are smart enough to know that Hezbollah fighters are natural-born martyrs, that their leadership structure is rather diffuse and self-repairing, and that such an attack would only encourage them to lob more missiles at Israel (which is what it did).

Or perhaps the Israelis intended the pager explosions to serve as a sort of artillery preparation for a ground invasion? In that case, what could possibly explain the absolutely dismal level of preparation for it? Days after the attack IDF was still moving equipment to the north, hastily pulling a tank brigade out of Gaza, and causing traffic jams all over Israel with haphazard troop and equipment movements. Even today IDF is nowhere near being able to take advantage of the element of surprise provided by the pager incident, which has been completely lost by now.

Or perhaps Israel is just a mad dog that is so mad that it bit itself? Overlapping with the genocidal disaster unfolding in Gaza, the pager incident, if cemented in the eyes of the world as being an Israeli operation, would further convince everyone that Israel is a terrorist state and withhold all cooperation and support from it. Perhaps the Israeli leadership no longer cares about such things, their one job being to keep Bibi Netanyahoo out of jail. But perhaps somebody else is very much interested in finding a good excuse for withholding all cooperation and support from Israel. And who might that be? Satan?

Satan (or “The Great Satan,” as the Iranians like to call it) is in sad shape. Its president is non compos mentis and his wife has taken over the chairmanship of White House cabinet meetings. It’s good that Biden has been sidelined; now he won’t be able to order any more huge terrorist acts like the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline. The Ukrainian operation is going nowhere and pretty soon Zelensky will be ready to walk on his knees to the gates of the Kremlin, dragging the fetid corpse of NATO behind him, and to commit seppuku once he gets there. The effort to get the Houthis in Yemen to unblock the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, is a dud: The Red Sea and the Suez remain blocked (except for Russian and Chinese vessels) and the Israeli port of Eilat on the Red Sea is bankrupt. There is a presidential election coming up soon, featuring a cackling idiotress from hell (who is hiding from even the most fawning American propagandists) and a tempestuous geriatric who wants to make America great again (which is a lot like sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun)

Is this a good time for Great Satan to escalate a military conflict, either with Russia or on behalf of Israel in the Middle East? Perhaps not! A forthcoming international conference of BRICS+ and friends in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation is likely to decide the fate of the US dollar as a reserve currency. Lots of people from around the world are coming to that conference, bringing nails to pound into the US dollar’s coffin. The Ukrainian fiasco can be terminated with just one simple headline: “Zelensky missing!” Ukrainian rats would then abandon the sinking ship, which would then, you guessed it, sink. But a bit of finesse is required to flush Israel down the pipes because of the power of the Israeli lobby which owns half the members of the US congress

Thanks to the emotive force of the exploding pager disaster, it will now be possible for US officials to interrupt the plaintive cries of Israeli lobbyists with urgent shouts of “What’s that horrible smell?” The Israelis already smelled quite bad because of the genocide in Gaza but, let’s face it, lots of people don’t really care about thousands of dead Palestinian women and children. The exploding pagers bring the bad smell factor to an entirely new level because that’s as clear a case of terrorism as anyone can imagine.

Not only that, but it’s indiscriminate terrorism because nobody can predict where it will strike next: Pandora’s Box has been opened. As you read this, you too may be looking askance at your portable computing device: could it have been tampered with by… Americans? You already knew that it eavesdrops on you and tracks your every movement. And now you know that it can also kill you or maim you when the time comes. Not a comforting thought, that…

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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/76b35b82-908f-41fb-9bab-4d47e7dbe182

Medieval Growth and Prosperity

The Australian Climate Sceptics Blog: Medieval Warm Period was real, global, & warmer than the ...

Episode 8 Medieval Growth and Prosperity

The Middle Ages Around the World

Dr Joyce E Salisbury

Film Review

Favorable climate (due to Medieval warm period) and new agricultural technologies led to an explosion of population, wealth and territorial expansion in the 11th and 12th century (known as the the High Middle Ages).

China

This upsurge of wealth began in China in 960 AD, when the Song dynasty moved it capitol to southern China to escape repeated nomadic invasions. The new coastal capitol Lin’an (now Hangzhou) was ideally suited for China’s thriving maritime trade from India – facilitated by the Chinese invention of the magnetic compass.*

New strains of rice from South Vietnam enabled Chinese farmers to grow two crops a years. This, in turn, opened up new arable land both to landless peasants tea and cotton production for export. Iron production also increased substantially as coal replaced charcoal in the smelting process. Likewise with Lin’an’s heavy emphasis on arts and the sciences, artisans grew almost as rich as merchants.

Currency was introduced as small copper coins punched with square holes that enabled them to be threaded onto strings. To further facilitate trade, in 1024 the Song dynasty introduced paper currency and a central bank system to regulate it.

Copper Coins 六帝铜钱

Europe

With most of the continent organized into centralized kingdoms by 1100 AD, Europe also florished. With the introduction of a padded horse collar that rested on the horse’s shoulders (rather than his neck), it became possible to use horses (who worked faster and longer than oxen) to pull plows. This also enabled the use of heavier plow with a colter** attachment enabling the cultivation of heavy clay.

It also enabled the change from a two-field(one in production, one fallow) to a three-field system (one spring, one fall an one fallow) system and the introduction of legumes, both to replace soil nitrogen and to add protein to peasant’s diets (after they were forbidden to hunt the landlord’s rabbits and other game). It also enabled the diversion of surplus land for sheep production and wool for export, especially after luxuriantly-coated Marino sheep were introduced from Africa via Spain.

After 1000 AD, European harnessed water and wind power (mainly to mill grain), based on Roman technology using gear to convert rotary to vertical motion.***

Between the 11th and 13th century, the European population doubled from 37 to 74 million. Owing to increased iron intake (leaching from iron cooking implements), maternal and infant mortality plummeted and women began outnumbering men.

Peasants were encouraged to move eastward (enabling landlords to expand their lands for sheep), leading to huge swaths of clear cut land in northern Germany to accommodate 3,000 new settlements.

Seljuk Turks

Beginning in the 11th century, Seljuk Turks from the Asian steppes migrated westward and came to dominate the Muslim world. In 1055 they conquered Baghdad, initiating the new title of “sultan” for Muslim leaders.

In 1071, they attacked the Byzantine empire, forcing Constantinople into a negotiated settlement in which they surrendered most of Asia Minor and the Anatolian peninsula (now modern day Turkey).


*The Chinese had been using magnets for divination for centuries.

**A colter (Latin ‘culter’ = ‘knife’) is a vertically mounted component of many plow that cuts an edge about 7 inches (18 cm) deep ahead of a ploughshare

***Windmills first developed in Persia (where the first medieval translation of Greek and Roman classics occurred).

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iPhone Now Collects Your Mental Health Data

Dr Robert Malone

True Story: The Health app built into iPhones is now collecting as much personal information on the mental health of each and every one of us as they can get a hold of.

Yet, a search on Google and Brave yielded no results on the dangers of sharing such information over the phone or internet. Seriously, no single MSM has done an article on why such data sharing might be a bad idea?

To start, in sharing such data, you aren’t just sharing your information, iphone knows exactly who your family members are. In many cases, those phones are connected via family plans.

iPhone mental health assessments not only ask questions about your mental health but can also infer the mental health status of family members, as demonstrated by the image publicly shared by phone on the benefits of a phone mental health assessment.


What could possibly go wrong?

Although iPhone has historically been known to keep user data “safe,” this is not a given, and there have been hacks and data breaches over the years.

Crowd Strike happened – from just a simple coding error. In 2015, all of my confidential data given to the DoD and the FBI in order to get a security clearance was harvested by the Chinese government, when they hacked into the government’s “super-secret”, and “super-secure” government data storage site. In response, the government offered me a credit report and monitoring of my credit score for a year. Yeah – thanks.

Bottom line- no data is 100% secure, and this is mental health data. Data that might be extremely embarrassing, career-damaging, or has the potential to disrupt family relationships. Remember, no one knows what new laws, regulations, or mores might come to pass years from now. This type of information should not be harvested and stored.

Furthermore, trusting that iPhone will never sell that data or pass it off to research groups is very naive. In fact, mental health data is already being mined.

Apple has partnered with various health organizations and academic institutions to conduct health-related studies, such as Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Michigan on various health studies. Apple also collaborates with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on a Digital Mental Health Study. This study likely utilizes data collected through Apple devices to investigate mental health patterns and outcomes. Trusting that the user identifiers have been completely stripped before that data is passed on is a risk that one takes when entering such information into an iPhone.

“Connect with resources.”

So how does Apple benefit? At this time, it appears that Apple is selling advertising of various mental health services by “connecting” services to people’s phones. Apple writes that “These assessments can help users determine their risk level, connect to resources available in their region, and create a PDF to share with their doctor.”

That might mean that one presses the depressed button in the mental health assessment, apple will place ads the search engine for anti-depressants or physicians that prescribe them.

Why would that example be relevant, and which pharmaceutical companies might benefit?

Iphone has developed their mental health assessment with an “educational grant” from Pfizer!

Pfizer manufactures and sells Zoloft, Effexor, Pristiq, and Sinequan formulations. Together the sales revenue for these drugs is in the billions each year:

From 2015 to 2018, 13.2% of American adults reported taking antidepressant medication within the past 30 days, with sertraline (Zoloft) being one of the most common. Even off-patent, there were 39.2 million prescriptions filled with an annual sales revenue of 470 million.

Effexor XR is an antidepressant medication that was originally developed by Wyeth (now part of Pfizer). In 2010, when the first generic version of Effexor XR was introduced in the United States, the brand name product had annual sales of approximately $2.75 billion. By 2013, due to generic competition, Pfizer’s sales of Effexor XR dropped to $440 million.

According to IMS Health data, in 2016, Pristiq (desvenlafaxine) had annual sales of approximately $883 million in the United States, although sales appear to have fluctuated over the years.

The bottom line is that Pfizer is not supplying educational grants to develop mental health assessment software for Apple out of the “goodness of their heart.” Mental health inventions via medication are a big business, and these companies are looking to profit.

This is just one way that Apple is using surveillance capitalism by data mining mental health status and then selling access to that data to big pharma, big-tech, physician and insurance companies, etc.

How this information, which once released or leaked, can never be returned with privacies intact, will be used in the future is unknown.

If the setting for sharing research on health conditions has not been deactivated, this information will go into a database somewhere. It is only Apple’s assurance that your identification has been stripped from the data. Further, your mental health information will be uploaded to the cloud and will be used as a behavioral future. To be shared, packaged, sold, used to influence your decision-making, etc.

I am wary of the highly profitable industry that has been built up around “mental disorders.” Over the years, the American Psychiatric Association and the fields of psychology and psychiatry have hurt individuals and families by both classifying diseases and disorders incorrectly and by developing treatments and therapies that were and are dangerous. Many are still in use. Here are a few examples:

  • There are estimates that 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the United States, with most occurring between 1949 and 1952. In 1949, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to António Egas Moniz for his development of the lobotomy procedure.
  • Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in 1952 with the publication of the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). It was listed under “sociopathic personality disturbance”. This classification remained in place until 1973.
  • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) are a widely prescribed class of antidepressant medications. There is a link between SSRIs and increased risk of violent crime convictions, and other research has shown an increase in self-harm and aggression in children and adolescents taking SSRIs.
  • The APA supports access to affirming and supportive treatment for “transgendered” children, including mental health services, puberty suppression and medical transition support.
  • The APA believes that gender identity develops in early childhood, and some children may not identify with their assigned sex at birth.
  • Asperger’s syndrome was merged into the broader category of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the DSM-5 in 2013. Since then, a large number of people face discrimination and barriers to entry into higher-paying positions. Children handed such a diagnosis also can suffer a lack of confidence in their ability to manage relationships effectively, which can easily carry on to adulthood.

These are just a few of the many, many ways the American Psychiatric Association and the fields of psychology and psychiatry have gotten things very wrong.

  • A survey of more than 500 social and personality psychologists published in 2012 found that only 6 percent identified as conservative overall, implying that 94% were liberal or moderate.
  • At a 2011 Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, when attendees were asked to identify their political views, only three hands out of about a thousand went up for “conservative or on the right

The liberal bias in psychology influences findings on conservative behaviors.

To bring this back to the use of software applications and the iphone mental health app in particular, be aware that these software programs are being developed by people with a liberal bias and who will view the beliefs of conservatives negatively. What this means for future use of this data is unknown, but it can’t be good.

If you do chose to use the mental health applications, which main stream media has nothing but praise for, be aware – there are alligators in those waters.

But sure that the data sharing mode, particularly giving data access to researchers is turned off. But even then, don’t be surprised in your phone begins planting messages about the benefits, or SSRIs or other anti-depressant drugs into your everyday searches. Or maybe your alcohol use or tobacco use data will be used to supply you with advertisements on the latest ways to reduce intake or how to find a good mental health facility. These messages may very well include neuro-lingustic programming methods and nudging, to push you into treatment modalities. But honestly, it is all for your “own good and for the benefit of your family.”

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Via https://www.malone.news/p/iphone-mental-health-assessments

Home Solar Systems Explode in Beirut

Lebanon officials are now reporting that multiple home solar energy systems have reportedly exploded in various neighborhoods across Beirut.

This attack follows closely on the heels of Tuesday’s pager blasts, which claimed the lives of 12 and left nearly 4,000 wounded in what is rapidly becoming an unparalleled security nightmare for the terrorist organization.

On Wednesday, walkie-talkies exploded simultaneously at various Hezbollah-controlled locations across the country.

Now, reports emerged from Lebanon’s Official News Agency detailing how home solar systems—often touted as the solution to climate change—were also going up in flames.

Al Jazeera reported, “Several blasts took place simultaneously, Hashem said, similar to what happened on Tuesday. “But this time, it was mostly walkie-talkies or radios [that exploded],” he said, adding that reports suggested that solar devices and some batteries in cars also exploded. Lebanon’s official news agency reported that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut.”

AP reported that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has announced the beginning of a “new phase” in the conflict as the country redirects its attention to the northern front, where Hezbollah militants in Lebanon pose a growing threat.

Gallant made the announcement while addressing Israeli troops on Wednesday, praising the army and security agencies for their operational successes in recent months. “The results are very impressive,” he said, acknowledging the accomplishments of the military in the fight against Hamas but emphasizing the need to pivot to the north.

“We are at the start of a new phase in the war — it requires courage, determination, and perseverance,” Gallant stated. While he did not directly address the recent mysterious explosions of electronic devices in Lebanon, his comments suggest that Israel’s military strategy will now focus on combating Hezbollah.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/home-solar-systems-explode-beirut-lebanon/5868304

Inland Revenue giving thousands of taxpayers’ details to social media platforms for ad campaigns

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Phil Pennington

Inland Revenue is giving hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ details to social media platforms for marketing campaigns, using an anonymisation tool that top international regulators say is inadequate at protecting people’s personal information.

David Buckingham, a Queenstown employment relations consultant who spotted the practice, said it was a mass “betrayal” of taxpayers.

Buckingham said taxpayers had no choice but to give many personal details and their tax status to Inland Revenue, only for the details to end up with Facebook and LinkedIn, bolstering individuals’ profiles that the big tech companies grew and traded.

Inland Revenue told him that neither he, nor anyone else, could opt out of having their details provided to the firms, he told RNZ.

In a statement, Inland Revenue said all the details were fully protected by anonymisation using a “hashing” process, in which letters are replaced by numbers.

“Inland Revenue generates between 30-50 custom audience lists a month which we use to target specific ads to customers on Facebook/Instagram, LinkedIn, or Google platforms,” it told RNZ.

“The lists uploaded monthly are for things like student loans where the overseas-based customer population is constantly changing with people moving overseas or returning home.”

Before a target audience was matched to, IRD’s privacy officer completed a privacy impact assessment and “agrees for us to use Facebook/Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google”.

“We have rejected the use of some platforms in the past because their data security was not up to the right standards,” the department said.

“The lists are of up to 500,000 customers each, with names, DOB, address, phone, and email contacts.

“The data is hashed as it is being uploaded to Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. We do not share any customer details directly with them.

However, in July, the United States Federal Commission said in a press release that hashing was not adequate protection.

“No, hashing still doesn’t make your data anonymous,” the headline of the statement said.

“Companies often claim that hashing allows them to preserve user privacy.

“This logic is as old as it is flawed – hashes aren’t ‘anonymous’ and can still be used to identify users, and their misuse can lead to harm. Companies should not act or claim as if hashing personal information renders it anonymised.”

European regulators who looked at hashing in 2019 concluded that there was a “re-identification problem” and several more steps had to be taken to protect data.

When RNZ asked Inland Revenue if it had taken the American and European conclusions into account, it did not say.

Its first statement said: “After hashing, the data cannot be decrypted and it’s safe for the matching process to take place.”

Later, it defaulted to relying on the companies’ integrity.

“Each social media platform has its own privacy principles in place that it must adhere to,” it said.

“These privacy principles were reviewed by Inland Revenue to ensure that customer information is protected and only used for the intended purpose.”

It was satisfied the platforms handled customer information “responsibly” and deleted it after the hashing, it said.

But Buckingham was not satisfied, especially given Inland Revenue’s privileged position.

“Look, Inland Revenue in particular has secrecy provisions. It makes it actually particularly egregious. No one agreed to any of this, and there’s no way to opt out.

“[Inland Revenue] has created a technical-techno gobbledygook smokescreen as a distraction from the fact that they’ve actually betrayed almost every New Zealander by disclosing” the nature of their tax status, he said.

“The information can’t be gotten back and we have no control over how that might be used.”

Regardless of hashing, social media companies were skilled at matching profiles, he added, and questioned why, if Inland Revenue was so confident in hashing, it chose not to share data with TikTok, despite the platform’s popularity among young people.

Inland Revenue said it was fully compliant with the Tax Administration Act and the Privacy Act.

Its privacy policy, available on its website, told the public it shared their details: “We sometimes provide hashed and fully anonymised information to social media channels when placing advertisements.”

It told RNZ: “Inland Revenue is not ‘giving up taxpayer details’. Audience lists up to 500,000 are not the norm. But lists of that size could be used for something like individual tax assessments when IR needs to get reminders out to many customers.”

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said anyone using hashing was accountable for making sure it was effective. Under the Privacy Act, the key question was whether a person remained “reasonably identifiable”.

“OPC does not have a general position on hashing, but it is something we would consider if there was a question about the use of anonymisation or hashing and the application of the Privacy Act, which could depend on the facts involved and the circumstance of its use,” it said.

“Should we have any concerns we may take a compliance approach as set out in our Compliance and Regulatory Action Framework.”

RNZ asked the Office if the Inland Revenue case might give it reason to consider the question of hashing, like US and European regulators did years ago. It did not say.

RNZ also asked if the Office had concerns about the scale of Inland Revenue interactions with Facebook and the others, but it did not say.

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Via https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/527419/inland-revenue-giving-thousands-of-taxpayers-details-to-social-media-platforms-for-ad-campaigns

FDA Warns Mpox Vaccine Can Cause Death in Both Vaccinated and People They Come in Contact With

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A vaccine approved in August by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people deemed to be at “high risk” for mpox infection may cause more harm than good, according to the FDA’s own medication guide for the product.

ACAM2000 — made by Emergent BioSolutions, a company specializing in vaccines for biochemical warfare threats such as anthrax and smallpox — was approved for smallpox in 2007.

However, on Aug. 29, the FDA issued an expanded supplement approval for ACAM2000’s use against mpox.

Since then, social media users have been posting clips of the FDA’s ACAM2000 medication guide, which warns the vaccine may cause “serious complications” in both the vaccinated person and those with whom they come into close contact up to 6 weeks after getting the shot.

Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D. — senior research scientist at Children’s Health Defense — told The Defender that the FDA’s approval of the shot is a “public hazard, not the practice of public health.”

“You can call ACAM2000 a ‘vaccine,’ but its impact on the United States will be as a ‘disease,’” Jablonowski said.

He added:

“For instance, the drug’s package insert reveals (see Table 3) that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found roughly 520 per million ACAM2000 recipients contracted myocarditis or pericarditis.

“That is about 1 in 2,000. But elsewhere in the package insert, the FDA acknowledges that — based on additional studies — the risk is actually 5.7 per 1,000 vaccinations.

“That’s about 1 in every 175 people. If the 262 million adults in the U.S. received this vaccine, an estimated 1,493,000 would contract the serious adverse reaction of myopericarditis.”

Myopericarditis is an umbrella term for myocarditis, inflammation of the heart, and pericarditis, inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart.

Dr. Meryl Nass, an internist and biological warfare expert, told The Defender that the CDC also acknowledged this same figure — myopericarditis in 5.7 per 1,000 primary ACAM2000 vaccinations — during a June 23, 2022, meeting.

“It’s a huge number,” Nass said. “The fact that the FDA and CDC are acknowledging it means no one should get the vaccine.”

She explained:

“Myopericarditis is a life-threatening condition. It lowers your life expectancy.

“Most people are never going to be exposed to mpox or smallpox. Vaccines are typically given to healthy people who are never even going to be exposed, therefore the risk posed by the vaccine needs to be low.

“That’s why vaccine safety is critical — even more than drugs, because drugs are given to people who are already sick.

“This risk — 1 in 175 — is higher than all other licensed vaccines for which the CDC acknowledges side effects. This is the worst.”

ACAM2000 can also cause fetal death when taken during pregnancy, the package insert states.

Additionally, the shot contains a “live vaccinia virus” that can be spread to — and possibly cause the death of — people who have close contact with the vaccinated person up to 6 weeks following vaccination, according to the medication guide.

The guide — which the FDA requires to be given to patients before they get the ACAM2000 vaccine — says, “ACAM2000 can cause serious complications in vaccinated individuals and in their close contacts to whom the vaccine virus has spread.”

Jablonowski said, “The spread of vaccinia virus is an infliction and an assault, as an unsuspecting person cannot possibly consent.”

“For good reasons you would not consent to this vaccine,” Jablonowski said, “even if you believed your benefits outweigh your risks, as you become a potential vector of a disease that is damaging to the heart and fatal to both fetus and infant.”

Risk of serious complications and death in vaccinated and those exposed to vaccinated individual

ACAM2000 is a single-dose vaccine administered using a bifurcated needle that’s been dipped into the vaccine solution, according to an Emergent BioSolutions press release.

In its Aug. 30 press release, the FDA stressed that “every person” who receives ACAM2000 is “required” to be given the drug’s FDA-approved medication guide.

“A Medication Guide is necessary,” the FDA said, “for safe and effective use of the vaccine because it could help prevent serious adverse events and inform the vaccine recipient of serious risks relative to benefit that could affect their decisions to be vaccinated.”

The guide lists serious possible complications, including: myocarditis, inflammation of the brain or spinal cord, serious skin infections, spreading the vaccine virus through the blood to other parts of the body and fetal death if taken during pregnancy.

According to the guide, “The risks for serious vaccine side effects are greater for people who:

  • have heart problems or a history of heart problems
  • are taking steroid eye drops or ointment
  • have a weakened immune system
  • have skin problems such as eczema, atopic dermatitis, burns, impetigo, contact dermatitis, chickenpox, shingles, psoriasis, or uncontrolled acne
  • are less than 1 year old
  • are pregnant or become pregnant within 6 weeks after vaccination.”

ACAM2000’s package insert warns of a longer list of possible serious complications, including:

“Myocarditis and/or pericarditis, encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, encephalopathy, progressive vaccinia (vaccinia necrosum), generalized vaccinia, severe vaccinial skin infections, erythema multiforme major (including Stevens-Johnson syndrome), eczema vaccinatum, accidental eye infection (ocular vaccinia) which can cause ocular complications including keratitis and corneal scarring that may lead to blindness, and fetal death in pregnant women.”

The insert also goes into more detail about the risk of death:

“Historically, death following vaccination with live vaccinia virus is a rare event; approximately 1 death per million primary vaccinations and 1 death per 4 million revaccinations have occurred after vaccination with live vaccinia virus.

“Death is most often the result of sudden cardiac death, post-vaccinial encephalitis, progressive vaccinia, or eczema vaccinatum.

“Death has also been reported in unvaccinated contacts accidentally infected by individuals who have been vaccinated.”

U.S. stockpile contains more than 100 million doses

The FDA’s approval of ACAM2000 for use against mpox followed just days after Emergent BioSolutions pledged to donate 50,000 doses to address the mpox outbreak in Africa.

On July 2, the U.S. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response at the HHS signed a $99.9 million deal with the drugmaker to obtain more ACAM2000 doses this year. Although the exact number of doses was not disclosed, Forbes on Sept. 8 reported that the U.S. currently has over 100 million doses.

HHS did not respond when The Defender asked if these doses are reserved for an emergency smallpox outbreak or are being made available as an mpox vaccine.

The Defender reached out to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) with the same question but was told by a CDC spokesperson, “We defer to the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) where the National Stockpile is housed.”

The CDC website on mpox vaccination states that ACAM2000 “has not been used in the ongoing clade II mpox outbreak that started in 2022″ but “has been made available for use against mpox in the clade II outbreak under an Expanded Access Investigational New Drug (EA-IND) protocol, which requires informed consent along with completing additional forms.”

When The Defender asked the CDC to clarify if the agency currently recommends ACAM2000 for mpox, an agency spokesperson said:

“It has not been used for U.S. civilians affected by the clade II global outbreak that began in 2022, and there are no plans to use it broadly during Mpox outbreaks.

“This is because JYNNEOS, the alternate to ACAM2000 in the United States, has fewer side effects.”

The Defender asked Emergent BioSolutions what it wants to tell members of the public who may be concerned about risks associated with ACAM2000 but did not receive a response by our deadline.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-acam2000-mpox-vaccine-warning-death-unvaccinated/

Trump Calls for Release of All Pfizer COVID Vaccine Safety Data

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Trump has slowly but importantly gotten on the right side of many issues, such as adult vaccine mandates and CBDC/centralized digital ID, which are inextricably linked. It is a fascinating evolution from being head cheerleader for “Operation Warpspeed” to a RFK Jr.-esque attack dog against mask mandates, lockdowns, and mandating the vaccines he himself helped create.

Now Trump has called for the release of all COVID vaccine safety data. The FDA and Pfizer are still fighting to keep clinical trials data secret in an ongoing lawsuit brought by whistleblower Brook Jackson.

Trump took his hard-line position on vaccine mandates in a video announcement in September 2023 saying:

“we will not comply so don’t even think about it we will not shut down our schools we will not accept your lockdowns we will not abide by your mask mandates and we will not tolerate your vaccine mandates…”

Trump: “We will not tolerate their vaccine mandates.” (View at Rumble)

In 2020, for the first time in history, state and local governments invoked obscure “health emergency” laws to order millions of businesses to close or submit to “social distancing” rules, based on a non-peer reviewed paper by a British professor, Neil Ferguson, who warned of 2.2 million people dead in the US in 2020 unless “mitigation” measures, i.e. lockdowns and “social distancing” were adopted.

But at present since 2021 the year of the vaccine roll-out, to deafening silence in the media, in the US over 1 million more people, or about 20% more people, have died over the average of previous recent years. The official death cause of “COVID” can only account for about half of these or less. In 2020 White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Deborah Birx famously admitted that COVID deaths would be counted liberally, and that openly admitting that “if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death,” whether COVID was the primary cause of death or not.

Autopsy evidence and official UK data suggests that most of those deaths have been primarily among the vaccinated. In June of 2024 the old and respected UK Telegraph opined that the COVID vaccines “may have helped fuel the rise” in excess deaths around the world.

Below: UK Telegraph headline June 4 2024

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Prof. Ferguson’s paper advising lockdowns and “social distancing,” referred to by many as simply “Report 9,” was roundly criticized as having nothing to do with science. The National Review wrote in May 2020:

“Ferguson’s Imperial College model has been proven wildly inaccurate. To cite just one example, it saw Sweden paying a huge price for no lockdown, with 40,000 COVID deaths by May 1, 2020 and 100,000 by June 2020. Sweden now has 2,854 deaths and peaked two weeks ago. As Fraser Nelson, editor of Britain’s Spectator, notes: “Imperial College’s model is wrong by an order of magnitude.””

Johan Giesecke, former chief scientist for the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has called Ferguson’s model “the most influential scientific paper” in memory. He also says it was “one of the most wrong.”

What very few people know is that the funding source behind Ferguson’s paper is Bill Gates, who donated $8 million to the British professor’s MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.

Below: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation page at the website UK Research and Innovation, funding Professor Neil Ferguson “Professor Lockdown” (expand image)

 

Trump Calls for COVID Vaccine Safety Data to be Released

In an interview in September 2023 with podcaster Tudo Dixon, Trump called on COVID vaccine manufacturers to release all safety data.

Dixon asked:

“So will you demand that the vaccine companies, that the pharmaceutical companies release their vaccine data to the public so that we can see what they’re actually seeing about the side effects of this vaccine?”

Trump answered:

“Well, they should do that. We’re all in this together, and they should be doing that,”

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As for CBDC- Central Bank Digital Currency – in January of 2024 in a speech, to raucous cheers from the audience, Trump vowed to block the creation of what would eventually become a cashless society, in which all transactions from the smallest to the largest are made with a Federal Reserve – controlled digital debit or credit, which can be monitored, approved of, or disapproved by government entities.

Trump said:

“I will never allow the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency” (CBDC).

Trump’s opposition to CBDC – Central Bank Digital Currency – and vaccine mandates drives a stake through the heart of globalist plans to once and for all to slap digital chains on most of humanity, in a system modeled on China where no business may be transacted by any citizen unless they are in good standing with the current government.

The Harris/Biden regime, on the other hand, has no qualms whatsoever with either COVID vaccine mandates or CBDC. Harris/Biden have aggressively advanced CBDC and now oversee the FedNow pilot program intended for full roll-out once their power is consolidated.

A column in mainstream Newsweek, “CBDCs Will Be the End of American Freedom” says:

“CBDCs would create an authoritarian surveillance state…“

Even the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, has said that CBDC would allow the federal government to “monitor every one of your transactions.” “I get why China would be interested. Why would the American people be for that?” – said Neel Kashkari.  Minneapolis is one of 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks.

In August 2024 Breitbart reported that the Harris campaign requires employees to be “up to date” with their COVID shots.

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Via https://coronanews123.wordpress.com/2024/09/20/the-real-reason-theyre-trying-to-kill-trump-stand-against-vaccine-mandates-covid-fearmongering-and-china-style-money-system-cbdc/

How to Keep Your Electronic Devices from Randomly Exploding

Why Smartphone Batteries Explode and How to Protect Yourself - Make Tech Easier
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After Israel launched it’s audacious terror attack in Lebanon, our media class giggled as stories came back of men being emasculated and nurses losing their fingers and children being left without eyeballs.

As the death toll reached thirty-seven, Zionists on social media kept asking their enemies if they have their pagers on them now. It all seemed like good-natured fun until we realised it was not only pagers that were exploding, it was walkie talkies and laptops and mobile phones and scooters and even frigging solar panels.

Israel has turned everything into a bomb, and while you might think you’re safe if you’re not an enemy of Israel, you are forgetting how easy it is to become an enemy of Israel.

For example, Sir Keir Starmer has supported every psychotic action Israel has taken since October 7th, even the policies that forced Palestinians to drink from puddles, but when he suspended 30 of 350 arms licences to appease the International Criminal Court, he was accused by Netanyahu of “undermining Israel”.

Earlier this year, Joe Biden was called “Hamas” because he was pretending Rafah would be a red line for him, even though he had no red lines. He was simply trying to save himself from an arrest warrant and now he’s got a personal phone handler because he’s too scared to answer calls. That call handler is certainly braver than I am!

Jeremy Corbyn has been on an Israeli hit list for years and all he said was the Israeli government are a bunch of brutal c@&#! who won’t stop murdering Palestinians and stealing their land. The fatal mistake Corbyn made was telling the truth about Israel. You must NEVER tell the truth about Israel!

Luckily for Corbyn, he never uses a laptop and he still uses one of those phones that you dial by sticking your fingers into the holes. Everyone over the age of 60 will know what I mean. Corbyn might be safe for now, but any politician with a smart phone could be in serious trouble.

It’s not just politicians who are finding this a minefield, the BBC has spent a year playing down every Israeli war crime, only for Israel to publish a fake report pretending the BBC supports Hamas. The BBC’s fatal mistake was that it sometimes pretends to be balanced and Israel has absolutely no time for balance.

Sensibly, Jeremy Bowen is calling Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon a “tactical triumph” because the alternative would mean giving up his devices and he really likes TikTok. It can be so fucking addictive.

It’s fair to say I’m the only journalist in the world who has never upset Israel and that’s because I’m impartial enough to repeat Israel’s propaganda verbatim. It’s physically impossible for an Israeli to read one of my articles without nodding along to every word. This means my phone will never randomly explode and rip my arm off, but you lot aren’t so safe.

Here is where I can help you out: Netanyahu has kindly offered to spare you from the risk of exploding devices, but only if you behave. He has helpfully asked me to pass on the following message:

In order to prevent your electronic device from randomly exploding like a pager in Beirut, you are legally obliged to copy and paste this message to all of your social media accounts. You have until 1st October 2024 to comply:

I fully support the actions of Israel, no matter what stupid shit it does next. Netanyahu is a war hero, not a war criminal. The International Criminal Court must be disbanded and all of its judges must be arrested for trying to apply the law to Israel. International law is only for countries we don’t like. Israel has a right to commit genocide and anyone who disagrees is a terrorist lover.

Follow these simple instructions and there is at least a 70% chance you will be safe. You see how easy it is to do the right thing?

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Via https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-promises-to-not-make-your