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.
New Hampshire has become the second U.S. state to potentially outlaw the spraying of aerosolized particulate matter into the skies – a phenomenon commonly referred to as “chemtrails.”
Texas made history last year when state representatives looked into changing the law to ban dangerous atmospheric aerosol spraying without prior approval and testing of the chemicals being sprayed.
According to New Hampwhire House Bill 1700 (HB1700)
[E]stablishes a regulatory process to prevent the intentional release of polluting emissions, in New Hampshire’s atmosphere and at ground level and provides penalties for violations. This bill requires reports of such violations to be made by state officials and members of the public to the department of environmental services air resources division of compliance and requires New Hampshire county sheriffs carry to enforce the provisions.
Granitegrok.com reports: What emissions? The intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation.
The general court finds that many atmospheric activities such as weather modification, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), solar radiation modification (SRM), and other forms of geoengineering, involving the intentional release of polluting emissions, harm human health and safety, the environment, agriculture, wildlife, aviation, state security, and the economy of the state of New Hampshire.
Without using the word chem-trails, which can trigger people, the bill does address a genuine set of circumstances. From public figures to leading universities, there is chatter about aerosolizing the atmosphere with material to block the sun. We have less information about what that means than we did about the COVID vaccines, and we can assume it is neither safe nor effective.
Absent the knowledge or understanding, knowing that the agents or agencies likely to suggest or attempt such a thing will lie about it. That our elites have, at best, a declining opinion of human life and, at worst, a commitment to end it in their depopulation quest, this is not a ridiculous piece of legislation.
One of the sponsors is a friend, so I’d expect them to offer some follow-up, but if I’m honest, I don’t know how far this bill will likely go. I hope we get some vigorous debate in the comments, but the current makeup of the State House and Senate do not suggest to me success with the understanding that you are guaranteed to miss 100% of the shots you never take.
There are factions who mean to spread things in the air above us. They are not shy about it, and if we lack any sense of transparency, limits, or regulation, we might find ourselves subject to man-caused atmospheric effects without knowledge of recourse.
The CEO of McDonald’s, Chris Kempczinski, said on 4 January that several markets in West Asia and some outside of the region were facing a “meaningful business impact” due to the war between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.
Kempczinski also said that “associated misinformation” about the company has been a reason for the financial issues the brand is facing, and that the misinformation surrounding McDonald’s was “disheartening and ill-founded.”
Western Israeli-linked fast food chains, including McDonald’s and Starbucks, have seen large grassroots boycott campaigns emerge over pro-Israel stances and alleged financial ties with Israel.
“In every country where we operate, including in Muslim countries, McDonald’s is proudly represented by local owner-operators who work tirelessly to serve and support their communities while employing thousands of their fellow citizens,” Kempczinski said in a social media post. “That local community connection is the genius of the McDonald’s system.”
West Asian locations of McDonald’s are part of the company’s international developmental licensed markets division, a section that generates around 10 percent of the company’s revenue.
McDonald’s franchisee in Malaysia, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Lionhorn Pte Ltd, filed a lawsuit against BDS Malaysia, accusing the group of “defamation,” and is seeking damages of over $1 million. Meanwhile, the Israel franchisee has supported the Israeli army by supplying its forces with free meals, according to BDS, “during the ongoing genocide of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.”
Starbucks, another Western, Israeli-linked company, has also come out to say that the negative views brought upon the brand have been “influenced by misrepresentation on social media of what we stand for.”
In December 2023, the losses of Starbucks, a Seattle-based company, stood at $11 billion in value during the last quarter, due to Palestinian solidarity boycotts and employee strikes.
The company tried to bounce back on losses by implementing a scheme during the holiday season that would allow consumers to receive a free holiday cup with every purchase.
When announcing the gimmick in mid-November last year, the company’s market share crashed by 8.96 percent, accounting for billions in losses, the lowest the company has experienced since 1992.
Episode 3: France’s Global Commerce and Colonization
Living the French Revolution and Age of Napoleon
Dr Suzanne M Desan
Film Review
One major development contributing to the French revolution was the massive debt (1.5 billion livres) the French government incurred through wars protecting their colonial possessions. In 1789, it eventually tipped France into bankruptcy.
Despite lagging behind the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch in their colonization efforts, the French eventually latched onto the Dutch invention of joint stock trading companies and global monopolies to facilitate overseas development.
Near Madagascar on the East Coast of Africa they conquered Mauritius and Reunion, which provided coffee and ports of call for ships crossing the Indian Ocean.
In India they became rivals of the English as the Mughal Empire disintegrated. However the French only established fortified trading outposts (as opposed to settler colonies) in India. After the English defeated them in the Seven Years War (aka the French and Indian War) they still retained a few ports on the East coast of India.
By 1700, France was acquiring a third of its textiles and all its spices from India (as the French discarded their woolens for cotton). To protect French textile manufacturers, the French made it illegal in 1686 to import India calico (although traders continued to smuggle it into the country.
Like England and Portugal, France developed a triangular trade involving Africa and the New World. In East Africa they traded cheap Indian cotton, rum, guns and cowrie shells* (from the Maldive islands) for slaves.** They transported the slaves to the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue,*** which they traded for sugar, indigo dye and coffee. In this way France provided 40% of Europe’s sugar, 50% of their indigo and 60% of their coffee. They traded their sugar to the Baltic states and Eastern Europe in return for iron, timber and grain.
By the late 18th century, Saint Domingue had 550,000 residents, of whom 30,000 were whites (mostly French). Twenty thousand were (mainly mixed race free people of color.
Prior to the French and Indian War, most of the interior US and Eastern Canada was occupied by the France. New France traded timber, dried fish and grain to the Caribbean for slaves and to Europe for manufactured goods.
In the 18th century, wars became global. During the Seven Years War, France, Spain, Austria, Russia and Sweden faced off against the UK, Prussia, Portugal and Hanover. (1756-1763). The France lost all their territories in India, the Caribbean, West Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Canada.
The French simultaneously ceded all their territories east of the Mississippi except for St Pierre and Miquelon (off the coast of Newfoundland). They ceded their territory west of the Mississippi (except for New Orleans and Louisiana) to Spain.
*In the Maldives, women divers collected cowrie shells. which were valued as currency by many West African tribes.
**The French philosopher Raynal argued that colonization increased the despotism of kings and human cruelty. He was the first European to campaign to end slavery). His writings led to the formation of a French abolition movement.
***Modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic. By 1700 the, indigenous inhabitants of the island had all died out, allegedly from European diseases.
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Between 2000 and 2021 at least 16 pathogens reportedly escaped from research laboratories, according to a new study published in The Lancet Microbe — but the study authors said their findings may “only represent the tip of the iceberg” in terms of numbers due to a lack of standard reporting requirements.
A team of researchers surveyed peer-reviewed articles and online reports in English, Chinese and German, looking for all indications that a pathogen accidentally “escaped” from a lab or that an infection was determined to be “laboratory-acquired” during the study period.
In addition to the 16 episodes of pathogenic “escape,” the researchers found 309 instances of lab-acquired infections caused by 51 different pathogens.
Seventy-seven percent of those infections were caused by bacterial pathogens, 13.9% were caused by viruses, 7.1% by parasites, 1.6% by fungi and less than 1% by a prion agent.
Eight of the cases were fatal, and six of those deaths were caused by bacteria, such as Yersinia pestis, which causes plague, or Neisseria meningitidis. One death was caused by Ebola virus.
The vast majority of infections occurred as an outcome of “procedural errors,” breaches of biosafety or risk mitigation procedures, which included using the wrong personal protective equipment, having inadequate training or mishandling samples.
Needlestick injuries, spills, splashes, open vials, animal bites or “unknown reasons” caused the remainder of the infections.
Most illnesses occurred in North America, Europe and Asia with the U.S. accounting for more than three-quarters of the infections. The majority of pathogen escapes were “internal,” meaning they were confined to the lab, but a few escaped into the broader community.
Laboratory-acquired infection case reports, including causal pathogens for each geographical region for the period from 2000 to 2021. Note that in 1 instance the geographic location of the LAI case was not stated. Credit: Stuart D. Blacksell et al.
Some of the more well-known examples of external escapes discussed in the report included a large-scale outbreak of Brucella in 2019, which leaked from a biopharmaceutical plant where the Chinese state produced animal brucellosis vaccines in Lanzou, China.
The factory had been using expired disinfectants and sanitizers, resulting in poor sanitization of the waste gas from its fermentation vats. The gas contained aerosolized Brucella, which the wind carried southeast toward the Veterinary Research Institute and nearby communities.
Initial brucellosis infections were identified at the research institute in November 2019 and the factory was shut down, but the spread could not be contained.
By November 2020, more than 10,000 people were infected with brucellosis, which causes fevers and muscular pain that can last from weeks to years.
In another highly-publicized incident of lab escape documented in the paper, a West Nile virus researcher — who had only 20 minutes of training in a P3 lab (or Biosafety Level 3, BSL3 lab) in Singapore — became infected in 2003 with the first SARS virus while working. The researcher exposed 84 contacts and risked reigniting the 2002-2004 SARS epidemic there, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Another SARS lab escape happened in the Taiwan Military Institute of Preventative Research of the National Defence University, a P4 (BSL4) lab, in 2003. In this case, a researcher was careless in cleanup because “he was in a hurry,” and contracted SARS.
“Generally speaking these lab leaks indicate that the respective labs are engaged in the research, development, testing and stockpiling of their respective offensive biological warfare weapons in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention and, here in the U.S., in violation of my Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.”
Boyle said that all BSL3 and BSL4 labs globally “must be shut down immediately before we have another COVID-19 pandemic.” He said he believes the pandemic originated as an offensive biological warfare weapon with gain-of-function properties that leaked out of the Wuhan BSL4, in cooperation with the University of North Carolina’s BSL3.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new book, “The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race,” provides “definitive proof in support of that proposition,” he added.
A brief history of high-profile lab infections and escapes
Lab-acquired infections were first recorded as early as 1915, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported, when a survey identified 47 infections largely occurring because researchers used their mouths to suck pathogenic material into pipettes.
But there also have been several likely or confirmed laboratory escapes of high-consequence pathogens resulting in transmission beyond laboratory personnel, according to medical historian Dr. Martin Furmanski.
For example, H1N1 swine influenza — which was considered to be extinct in 1957 — broke out at Fort Dix in New Jersey in 1976, resulting in 13 soldiers being hospitalized and one death. An effort was made to vaccinate all Americans against the virus, although the immunization program was halted after 25 people died from the vaccine and no pandemic broke out.
The human H1N1 virus appeared in the Russia and China in 1977. Researchers determined in 2010 that it had been a lab-released strain, likely from a lab attempting to make an attenuated H1N1 vaccine in response to the U.S. swine flu pandemic concerns.
H1N1 spread rapidly worldwide, although it affected only people under 20, according to Furmanski.
A leak in an anthrax production facility in Sverdlovsk, USSR, in 1979 caused the deaths of about 60 people, Dr. Meryl Nass reported on Substack.
Between 1963 and 1978 in the United Kingdom, there were 80 cases of smallpox and three deaths that were the results of three escapees from two different accredited research institutions.
In 1995, a severe outbreak of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, which was hypothesized to have come from a lab, infected 85,000 people in Venezuela and Colombia, killed 300, injured 3,000 and resulted in 10 miscarriages.
A foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the U.K. in 2007 that led to the culling of nearly 2,000 cows began four kilometers from a BSL4 lab, Furmanski reported, and was found to be carried into the broader community in contaminated mud stuck on construction vehicles.
And of course, the long controversy over the lab origins of COVID-19 has been raging for the last several years and is covered in detail in Kennedy’s book.
CDC labs have some of the ‘worst regulatory histories in the country’
In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jointly administer the Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP), which is meant to regulate work with dangerous and deadly pathogens.
Facilities from the public and private sector that work with 68 select agents and toxins must register with FSAP to be monitored, primarily through self-reporting and agency site visits.
Its website includes an annual report, which, among other things, includes a list of reported thefts, losses (failure to account for) and releases (infections/escapes). The 2022 report, for example, reports no thefts, six losses and 170 releases.
Since the program was created in 2003, there have been no thefts, deaths or cases of illness in the general public caused by the reporting entities, according to the website. But their reports do indicate that many people in the labs have required medical treatment.
Nass, a bioterrorism and anthrax expert and member of the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) scientific advisory committee, told The Defender there was a high incentive for countries and labs to cover up any outbreaks because the costs of revealing an outbreak are high — countries lose investment or must spend a lot of money on remediation and labs can be shut down.
Nass also raised concerns to The Defender about the CDC as the regulatory agency, given that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests showed the agency itself had its permits secretly suspended for serious safety violations while working with bioterror pathogens.
Its own labs have been referred six times since 2003 to the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which handles enforcement actions for select agent violations.
Examples of CDC violations included high-profile safety incidents at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta that involved anthrax, Ebola and a deadly strain of influenza in the mid-2010s
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In the history of the Selective Agent Program, only five labs have been suspended and another five faced repeated referrals for enforcement, the CDC reported to Congress.
The CDC’s own labs were part of this very small group, yet that information was kept hidden.
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The authors of the Lancet study warned that the numbers of infections and escapes in their own study should be “interpreted with caution due to potential biases in voluntary reporting.”
“Without globalised formal reporting requirements, the data summarised here could only represent the tip of the iceberg,” they wrote.
They added that lab-acquired infections may be underreported because it can be difficult to discriminate between them and infections present in the community.
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NIH director doubles down on commitment to gain-of-function research
U.S. health agencies, particularly the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its sub-agencies – like the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — have come under intense scrutiny as research has revealed that since 9/11 they have directed massive funding into dangerous gain-of-function research both in and outside of the country.
During this period, a plan was put in motion “to transform NIAID, under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency,” Kennedy detailed in “The Wuhan Cover-Up.”
Yet, U.S. health officials have continually downplayed risks associated with gain-of-function research.
Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, the new director of the NIH — the position formerly held by Dr. Francis Collins — recently told The New York Times she had no plans to change course on funding gain-of-function research.
Responding to a reporter’s question about whether, given concerns raised by experts about the risky research, she planned to make any changes in NIH’s strategy, she said:
“The gain-of-function research that you’re specifically referring to is modifications that are done of potential pandemic pathogens, right? What if we can develop a vaccine way before we ever have to see a new virus that’s going to be another Covid-19 virus? That would be a huge benefit.
“But if we’re going to do that kind of research, we have to make sure that the risks are absolutely minimized and always be mindful that the benefits justify the risks.”
Boyle told The Defender this response was the “standard propaganda for these death scientists.”
He added:
“We all know that gain-of-function is a euphemism for offensive biological warfare weapons work, like Covid-19. All gain of function must be terminated.
“She made it clear that NIH will go full steam ahead on gain-of-function. The alleged pretext she uses is that we could use a vaccine against the next Covid-19, which is offensive biowarfare work with gain-of-function that leaked out of the Wuhan BSL4 — China’s Fort Detrick — in cooperation with UNC’s BSL3.”
The whole framework of her argument is deceptive, Boyle said, because “They use gain-of-function to develop the offensive biological warfare weapon in the first place, then reverse engineer it to develop a ‘vaccine’ in the event of blowback.”
Steve Connolly, a disabled Iraq War combat veteran and recovering alcoholic in Massachusetts, was horrified by the number of deaths among his friends at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings starting in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. Experts said he made an astonishing data discovery that corroborates Ed Dowd and Pierre Kory’s work on vaccine-induced excess deaths in all 50 states.
Steve Connolly, an Iraq War combat veteran, was horrified by all the death and dying around him — not in the Iraq killing fields, but in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings starting in 2021, after the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out.
Connolly, a 61-year-old disabled vet and retired social worker who cared for the most severe and violent mentally ill patients in Massachusetts, said the formerly routine AA meetings became scenes of more suffering and carnage than he’d ever witnessed in war or among “the worst of the worst” in mental hospitals.
“In all of my time, I’ve never seen this many people that I know dropping dead in this span of time,” Connolly said.
Verne was in his 70s, relatively healthy and stable, Connolly said, “coughing on a Sunday, dead on Monday.” Big Rob was in his 30s, a little obese, and “died from myocarditis.”
Allie was in her 30s, a heavy girl, but healthy. “She got the jab, then had serious gallbladder issues and had it removed. She was found dead when she didn’t show up for work.”
A physician in AA, known as Dr. Michael, debated Connolly about the jab. “I tried to explain it to him. He didn’t believe me. Two weeks later, he got the booster. He died from a heart attack a few days later. Then they killed my friend, and I started to investigate.”
In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Connolly relayed how, driven by anger and pain over the unexplained scourge of deaths, he pored over “thousands and thousands and thousands” of obituaries and discovered that deaths reported as “suddenly” or “unexpectedly” on legacy.com obits soared more than 62% across the U.S. after the rollout of the mRNA vaccines.
Connolly’s data trove, assembled with the help of Massachusetts systems engineer and vaccine-death investigator John Beaudoin Sr., matches to a remarkable degree the unprecedented rise in U.S. excess deaths and disabilities in government data reported by former BlackRock hedge-fund manager Edward Dowd, Dr. Pierre Kory and others, Kory said.
Kory, president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance who treats COVID-19-vaccine-injured patients in his practice, has written extensively calling for the government, insurance companies, public health officials and major media to acknowledge and investigate the catastrophic health crisis of excess deaths and disabilities striking not just the U.S. but all countries where the vaccines were rolled out on a massive scale.
Kory last week discovered Connolly’s data, published in August 2023 on Beaudoin’s Substack, Coquin de Chien’s Newsletter (French for “Naughty Dog”), and wrote about it on his Substack.
“For those of us already fully aware of the massive excess deaths caused by the mRNA vaccines, it is difficult to be impressed with new data sources proving same,” Kory wrote.
“I thought the EMS data I posted yesterday was shocking,” Kory wrote. But Connolly’s “charts of his findings are beyond compelling and deserve wider sharing.”
Asked by The Defender to quantify the significance of Connolly’s data, Kory — who was a highly published University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of pulmonary critical care medicine and ran the intensive care units at two of the world’s top academic medical centers — said, “I would just say that, like all the other sources revealing such a tight temporal association, this also leads to no other explanation but the vaccines as the principal driver of the excess mortality.”
“It’s uncanny,” Connolly said. “I go to an AA meeting every day and people are dying around me, people I know and don’t know. Almost every meeting has new people talking about their relatives dying or having a stroke or another ailment like Guillain-Barré [syndrome] or heart attack. It’s unusual now that a medical event hasn’t befallen someone.”
When he hears the tragic stories, Connolly said, “I just point to my arm with my finger.”
Connolly, who lives in Hubbardston (pop. 4,300) in central Massachusetts, served two tours with the U.S. Army in Iraq and 13 years with the National Guard. Sober for 26 years, he relapsed after his second tour in Iraq and battled alcoholism for eight years but has been sober since Aug. 21, 2020.
During the 2020 lockdowns, he waited eight months for medical treatment for blood in his urine before bladder cancer surgery in November 2020.
“I’m pretty beat up,” he said. But the pandemic put him on high alert. “I was paying attention to the news quite intently. I’m former military and I wanted to make sure that I was prepared for whatever was coming.”
As a former case manager for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Connolly was responsible for advocating for the mentally ill including severe schizophrenics, bipolar and dual-diagnosis patients with substance abuse, and a client so violent he spent most of his life in Worcester State Hospital with a double lobotomy.
Connolly, who knew his way around hospitals and the medical system, was immediately suspicious of calls to lock down to “flatten the curve.”
“Something didn’t sit right with me,” he said. “I’m all about I get to do what I want to do because I’m a free man. I started driving to local hospitals to see them overrun and they were ghost towns.”
Connolly told The Defender:
“I spent a lot of time in hospitals with my clients. I wore masks and gowns and gloves depending on the contagion. But you don’t shut a hospital down. You don’t sequester healthy people if there’s something contagious going around. You isolate the sick.
“Things weren’t adding up for me — and then my friend got sick.”
Connolly had known his friend Keith, 59, in AA for 13 years. “He was a relatively healthy guy and had been sober for 13 years, and suddenly his abdomen began to distend, he was very, very sick.”
While battling his bladder cancer, Connolly served as Keith’s health proxy. He accompanied his friend to the doctor as he would with his clients as case manager, “responsible for every aspect of someone’s care — housing, food, medical, legal, everything.”
More things didn’t add up at the doctor’s office.
“The doctors told Keith he had liver cancer,” Connolly said. “But his death certificate said he died of end-stage liver disease, cirrhosis. But he was sober for 13 years. How the hell did cirrhosis kill him? Cirrhosis is a long, slow death.”
“I wasn’t there to argue with the doctors, but I was very suspicious. Keith died 60 days after getting the vaccine.”
After his friend’s death, Connolly devoured every scrap of information he could find about the post-vax excess death crisis from Dowd, Kory, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Ryan Cole and others. “I became an activist.”
Connolly did what seemingly no one else had thought to do. He “spent an enormous amount of time” obsessively reading obituaries of those who died too soon or of unknown causes, looking for clues.
“Ed Dowd was doing the actuary data and I’m not a big brain,” Connolly said. “I got a high school diploma, I worked my way up to a master’s level based on experience, very little college, self-taught. But I started seeing these guys with big brains, Ryan Cole, Dowd. I wanted to participate somehow.”
In December 2022, Connolly heard Beaudoin interviewed on CHD.TV by Dr. Meryl Nass. He was stunned by the Massachusetts man’s story and data.
Beaudoin, 59, is an electrical engineer and systems engineer whose son died in a motorcycle accident in 2018. He was sitting around depressed, “not working, not doing anything,” when COVID-19 hit and his middle son said, “It’s all B.S.”
“I said, Charlie, you got to take it seriously, so I went to prove him wrong — and within a week, I proved him right. I found CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] data and New York City data and the story wasn’t matching.”
Beaudoin enrolled in law school, but was thrown out for being unvaccinated. He sued Massachusetts and the federal government for vaccine data and the law school for tossing him out. In his new role as an activist, working with Steve Kirsch, Jessica Rose, Ph.D., and others, he struck gold with a Freedom of Information Act request that gave him the entire death certificate database of Massachusetts.
Beaudoin has been talking to groups and media ever since. His extensive analysis of 460,000 death certificates has made him “one of the unsung heroes of the pandemic.”
The death certificate data show a massive, illegal cover-up in Massachusetts of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine damage, Beaudoin said, that he will document in a forthcoming book.
“In Massachusetts alone in 2021 and 2022, there were 3,000 excess cardiac arrest deaths, 500 excess pulmonary embolism deaths, 400 excess cardiac arrhythmia deaths, hundreds of excess clotting and bleeding and blood vessel and stroke deaths.”
All were temporally associated with the mRNA vaccine rollout, Beaudoin said.
Beaudoin also produced data showing that COVID-19 killed Massachusetts residents in 2020, average age of 81, seasonally and with respiratory diseases. But far more Bay Staters have died since the 2021 vax rollout, now average age 65 with no seasonality, and a sudden shift “to circulatory and blood causes” of death.
For those who insist excess deaths are COVID-19-caused, Beaudoin said, “Diseases do not change how they kill, whom they kill and when they kill suddenly on a year boundary.”
Stunned by Beaudoin’s research, Connolly drove to rural Keene, New Hampshire, last Feb. 18 to hear Beaudoin give his death certificate presentation in the small Hope Chapel.
After the presentation, Connolly, stricken and hurting, approached Beaudoin and introduced himself.
“I felt really badly for him,” Beaudoin said in an interview with The Defender. “He was telling me about friends and acquaintances at Alcoholics Anonymous, all disappearing, this guy died, that guy died. He was angry at the COVID-19 vaccine situation, but wanted to do something positive to prevent others from being harmed or killed.”
The two men exchanged information. Connolly barraged Beaudoin for days with screen-captured obits he’d found on his phone with the words “suddenly” or “unexpectedly.” Beaudoin looked up the death certificates and told Connolly the official causes of death.
Then, “Steve came up with a great idea,” Beaudoin said. “He found an online data tool embedded in a national obituary website, Legacy.com. Steve utilized the website’s advanced search tool to filter obituaries for the keywords “suddenly” and “unexpectedly.” He then filtered by date range and U.S. state.”
Connolly populated a multi-use spreadsheet Beaudoin created with the number of instances of “suddenly” or “unexpectedly” for every U.S. state and the years 2015 through Aug. 21, 2023.
The results stunned both men.
“Steve has the heart and zeal of a lion,” Beaudoin said, and “the results are staggering and incontrovertible.”
He called Connolly’s data “strong pragmatic evidence, corroborative of the insurance data highlighted by Ed Dowd, that there is a public health emergency manifesting in an astronomical increase in sudden fatalities since 2021.”
The US military has “prepared options” for attacking Yemen, the Wall Street Journal reported, amid a major escalation of war throughout the Middle East. The Journalreported that “potential targets could include launchers for antiship missiles and drones, targeting infrastructure such as coastal radar installations, and storage facilities for munitions.”
In a threat to Yemen, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday the US will not “shrink from the task of defending ourselves, our interests, our partners, and the free flow of international commerce.”
He added,
“To accomplish these goals we have established and will continue to maintain a significant force presence in the Middle East. This includes an aircraft carrier strike group centered around the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, with its embarked air wing of some 80 aircraft, as well as an amphibious ready group with its embarked 26 Marine Expeditionary Unit.”
These ships, Kirby said, contain “more than 4,000 sailors and more than 50 aircraft.” He added,
“These ships and their Marines are augmented by three additional squadrons of fighter and attack aircraft that are based ashore and additional highly capable warships at sea.” These ships, Kirby said, represent “offensive … military power.”
The belligerent statements cap two days of major escalations of tensions throughout the Middle East. On Tuesday, Israel carried out a strike in Beirut, Lebanon, killing Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of Hamas’s political committee. While Israel denied its responsibility for the strike, US officials later confirmed to Al Jazeera that the attack was conducted by Israel.
The US effectively endorsed the murder of al-Arouri, with White House spokesman Kirby declaring that Israel “has a right and responsibility to go after the threat that Hamas poses, which means they have a right and a responsibility to go after the leadership of Hamas.” He added,
“I would just tell you that al-Arouri was a noted ‘designated global terrorist.’ And if he is, in fact, dead, nobody should be shedding a tear over his loss.”
Then, on Wednesday, over 100 people were killed at a memorial ceremony for Maj. Gen. Qassemi Soleimani, the Iranian general murdered by US President Donald Trump while on a diplomatic mission in Iraq four years ago. While Israel has for years carried out a string of bombings throughout Iran, in this case both the United States and Israel denied responsibility.
Mojataba Zolnouri, Iran’s deputy Parliament head, said that it was “clear from the style of the attacks that it is the Zionist regime” which is responsible for the bombing. But White House spokesman Kirby declared, “We have no indication that Israel was in any way involved in this.”
Last week, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed that Israel is at “war” with multiple countries.
“We are in a multi-front war. We are being attacked from seven fronts—Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), Iraq, Yemen and Iran,” he said. “We have already responded and acted on six of those fronts,” in a clear threat to Iran.
The US media continues to incite direct war against Iran. On the day in which 100 people were killed in a terror attack on Iran, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial calling Iran “the fulcrum of Mideast violence,” and declaring,
“Sooner or later the US and its allies will have to reestablish deterrence if they want a more stable Middle East, and that means dealing with Iran.”
This week, Israel announced that thousands of troops would be withdrawn from Gaza, raising the prospect that they will be used in an attack on Lebanon. Israel has evacuated 70,000 residents from its northern border with Lebanon and has amassed troops and tanks there. Israeli forces have launched daily bombardments across the Lebanese border since October 7.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will depart Thursday to the Middle East, including a trip to Israel. The death toll in Israel’s genocide is quickly nearing 30,000, with Gaza’s Government Media Office declaring that 29,313 people in Gaza are either killed or missing since October 7.
Against the backdrop of escalating war throughout the region, the US has been thrown into crisis by the Israeli regime’s openly genocidal rhetoric. In a statement on Tuesday, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield declared,
“There should be no mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, and we reject the recent inflammatory statements from Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.”
In a separate statement, the US State Department declared,
“The United States rejects recent statements from Israeli Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza. This rhetoric is inflammatory and irresponsible. We have been told repeatedly and consistently by the Government of Israel, including by the Prime Minister, that such statements do not reflect the policy of the Israeli government. They should stop immediately.”
Regardless of what the United States claims it was told in private, Netanyahu has categorically endorsed the ethnic cleansing of Gaza in public, telling a meeting of his parliamentary faction, “Regarding voluntary immigration… This is the direction we are going in.”
Of course, these statements do in fact represent the policies of the Israeli government, which is engaged in a conscious genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign against Gaza. The United States, which declares it has no “red lines” on what Israel is allowed to do, is fully complicit in this genocide.
On Thursday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that it will hold public hearings January 11 and 12 on South Africa’s accusation that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States, however, continues to deny that Israel is committing genocide and that the US is an accomplice to it. “We have not at this point seen acts that constitute genocide,” said State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
Asked to comment on the filing by South Africa with the ICJ, White House spokesman Kirby called the submission “meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”
(Unlike the International Criminal Court [ICC], which hears charges against individuals, the International Court of Justice hears charges by UN member states against other states. The US government does not recognize the ICC but does recognize the ICJ, and its current chair, Joan Donoghue, is an American.)
Public denunciations of Israel’s genocide by human rights experts are mounting. In a statement on Twitter, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, declared,
“Forcible transfer of Gazan population is an act of genocide especially given the high number of children.”
On Wednesday, the Euro-Med Human Rights monitor declared in a statement that “Israel is determined to carry out the forcible displacement of civilians in the Gaza Strip, beyond the bounds of international law.”
Over 200 active duty and retired service members are vowing to hold the Biden administration accountable for ‘trampling’ on their rights by enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
On New Year’s Day, over 200 service members declared that they will do ‘everything’ in their power to get accountability since not a single leader has resigned or been held to account despite the rollback of the vaccine mandate last year.
In a letter obtained by DailyMail.com, the current and former troops accuse Biden’s military brass of ‘continuing to ignore’ their pleas to correct the ‘injuries and laws that were broken.’
They are threatening to even force Biden’s top leaders to be brought out of retirement so they can be court-martialed and held to account.
‘While implementing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military leaders broke the law, trampled constitutional rights, denied informed consent, permitted unwilling medical experimentation, and suppressed the free exercise of religion,’ the letter states. (Daily Mail)
After the ad was discovered, digital rights advocates ran an experiment testing the limits of Facebook’s machine-learning moderation.
A series of advertisements dehumanizing and calling for violence against Palestinians, intended to test Facebook’s content moderation standards, were all approved by the social network, according to materials shared with The Intercept.
The submitted ads, in both Hebrew and Arabic, included flagrant violations of policies for Facebook and its parent company Meta. Some contained violent content directly calling for the murder of Palestinian civilians, like ads demanding a “holocaust for the Palestinians” and to wipe out “Gazan women and children and the elderly.” Other posts, like those describing kids from Gaza as “future terrorists” and a reference to “Arab pigs,” contained dehumanizing language.
“The approval of these ads is just the latest in a series of Meta’s failures towards the Palestinian people,” Nadim Nashif, founder of the Palestinian social media research and advocacy group 7amleh, which submitted the test ads, told The Intercept. “Throughout this crisis, we have seen a continued pattern of Meta’s clear bias and discrimination against Palestinians.”
7amleh’s idea to test Facebook’s machine-learning censorship apparatus arose last month, when Nashif discovered an ad on his Facebook feed explicitly calling for the assassination of American activist Paul Larudee, a co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement. Facebook’s automatic translation of the text ad read: “It’s time to assassinate Paul Larudi [sic], the anti-Semitic and ‘human rights’ terrorist from the United States.” Nashif reported the ad to Facebook, and it was taken down.
The ad had been placed by Ad Kan, a right-wing Israeli group founded by former Israel Defense Force and intelligence officers to combat “anti-Israeli organizations” whose funding comes from purportedly antisemitic sources, according to its website. (Neither Larudee nor Ad Kan immediately responded to requests for comment.)
Calling for the assassination of a political activist is a violation of Facebook’s advertising rules. That the post sponsored by Ad Kan appeared on the platform indicates Facebook approved it despite those rules. The ad likely passed through filtering by Facebook’s automated process, based on machine-learning, that allows its global advertising business to operate at a rapid clip.
“Our ad review system is designed to review all ads before they go live,” accordingOpens in a new tab to a Facebook ad policy overview. As Meta’s human-based moderation, which historically relied almost entirely on outsourced contractor labor, has drawn greater scrutiny and criticism, the company has come to lean more heavily on automated text-scanning software to enforce its speech rules and censorship policies.
While these technologies allow the company to skirt the labor issues associated with human moderators, they also obscure how moderation decisions are made behind secret algorithms.
Last year, an external audit commissioned by Meta found that while the company was routinely using algorithmic censorship to delete Arabic posts, the company had no equivalent algorithm in place to detect “Hebrew hostile speech” like racist rhetoric and violent incitement. Following the audit, Meta claimed it had “launched a Hebrew ‘hostile speech’ classifier to help us proactively detect more violating Hebrew content.” Content, that is, like an ad espousing murder.
Incitement to Violence on Facebook
Amid the Israeli war on Palestinians in Gaza, Nashif was troubled enough by the explicit call in the ad to murder Larudee that he worried similar paid posts might contribute to violence against Palestinians.
Large-scale incitement to violence jumping from social media into the real world is not a mere hypothetical: In 2018, United Nations investigators foundOpens in a new tab violently inflammatory Facebook posts played a “determining role” in Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide. (Last year, another group ran test ads inciting against Rohingya, a project along the same lines as 7amleh’s experiment; in that case, all the ads were also approvedOpens in a new tab.)
The quick removal of the Larudee post didn’t explain how the ad was approved in the first place. In light of assurances from Facebook that safeguards were in place, Nashif and 7amleh, which formally partners with Meta on censorship and free expression issues, were puzzled.
“Meta has a track record of not doing enough to protect marginalized communities.”
Curious if the approval was a fluke, 7amleh created and submitted 19 ads, in both Hebrew and Arabic, with text deliberately, flagrantly violating company rules — a test for Meta and Facebook. 7amleh’s ads were designed to test the approval process and see whether Meta’s ability to automatically screen violent and racist incitement had gotten better, even with unambiguous examples of violent incitement.
“We knew from the example of what happened to the Rohingya in Myanmar that Meta has a track record of not doing enough to protect marginalized communities,” Nashif said, “and that their ads manager system was particularly vulnerable.”
Meta’s appears to have failed 7amleh’s test.
The company’s Community Standards rulebook — which ads are supposed to comply with to be approved — prohibit not just text advocating for violence, but also any dehumanizing statements against people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality. Despite this, confirmation emails shared with The Intercept show Facebook approved every single ad.
Though 7amleh told The Intercept the organization had no intention to actually run these ads and was going to pull them before they were scheduled to appear, it believes their approval demonstrates the social platform remains fundamentally myopic around non-English speech — languages used by a great majority of its over 4 billion users. (Meta retroactively rejected 7amleh’s Hebrew ads after The Intercept brought them to the company’s attention, but the Arabic versions remain approved within Facebook’s ad system.)
Facebook spokesperson Erin McPike confirmed the ads had been approved accidentally. “Despite our ongoing investments, we know that there will be examples of things we miss or we take down in error, as both machines and people make mistakes,” she said. “That’s why ads can be reviewed multiple times, including once they go live.”
Just days after its own experimental ads were approved, 7amleh discovered an Arabic ad run by a group calling itself “Migrate Now” calling on “Arabs in Judea and Sumaria” — the name Israelis, particularly settlers, use to refer to the occupied Palestinian West Bank — to relocate to Jordan.
According to Facebook documentation>, automated, software-based screening is the “primary method” used to approve or deny ads. But it’s unclear if the “hostile speech” algorithms used to detect violent or racist posts are also used in the ad approval process. In its official response to last year’s audit, Facebook said its new Hebrew-language classifier would “significantly improve” its ability to handle “major spikes in violating content,” such as around flare-ups of conflict between Israel and Palestine. Based on 7amleh’s experiment, however, this classifier either doesn’t work very well or is for some reason not being used to screen advertisements. (McPike did not answer when asked if the approval of 7amleh’s ads reflected an underlying issue with the hostile speech classifier.)
Either way, according to Nashif, the fact that these ads were approved points to an overall problem: Meta claims it can effectively use machine learning to deter explicit incitement to violence, while it clearly cannot.
“We know that Meta’s Hebrew classifiers are not operating effectively, and we have not seen the company respond to almost any of our concerns,” Nashif said in his statement. “Due to this lack of action, we feel that Meta may hold at least partial responsibility for some of the harm and violence Palestinians are suffering on the ground.”
The approval of the Arabic versions of the ads come as a particular surprise following a recent report by the Wall Street JournalOpens in a new tab that Meta had lowered the level of certainty its algorithmic censorship system needed to remove Arabic posts — from 80 percent confidence that the post broke the rules, to just 25 percent. In other words, Meta was less sure that the Arabic posts it was suppressing or deleting actually contained policy violations.
Nashif said, “There have been sustained actions resulting in the silencing of Palestinian voices.”
In a statement released today, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, M.D., Ph.D., said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to adequately respond to questions he raised in a letter last month about mRNA technology delivering DNA contaminants into people’s cells.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, M.D., Ph.D., today called for a “halt in the use of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines” over safety concerns that the mRNA technology is delivering DNA contaminants into people’s cells.
In a statement released today by the Florida Department of Health, Ladapo said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to adequately respond to questions he raised about the issue in a letter sent last month to the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Ladapo asked the agencies to address the recent discovery of host cell DNA fragments in the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines. Scientists studying the vaccines found bacterial DNA left over from the microscopic plasmids used for multiplying DNA in the mRNA vaccine manufacturing process.
One of the gene therapy tools discovered in COVID-19 vaccines is SV40, which is known to be cancer-promoting.
Ladapo’s letter said the presence of these fragments was particularly concerning given that the mRNA shots use lipid nanoparticles, which he said are “an efficient vehicle for delivery of mRNA in the COVID-19 vaccines into human cells, and may therefore be an equally efficient vehicle for delivering contaminant DNA into human cells.”
He asked the agencies to explain whether the risks of contaminant DNA being integrated into human cells had been assessed, per the agencies’ own guidelines, especially given the new risk factors introduced by the use of lipid nanoparticles.
In the FDA’s response, Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, reiterated that the agency is “confident in the quality, safety, and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.”
Marks also said that “on first principle, it is quite ‘implausible’ that residual small DNA fragments” could “find their way into the nucleus,” of cells and be incorporated into chromosomal DNA. He added that the FDA’s pharmacovigilance data on hundreds of millions of individuals “indicate no evidence indicative of genotoxicity.”
The real challenge facing the FDA, Marks said, is “the ongoing proliferation of misinformation and disinformation about these vaccines which results in vaccine hesitancy that lowers vaccine uptake.”
Ladapo said the response did not sufficiently address his concerns.
“The FDA’s response does not provide data or evidence that the DNA integration assessments they recommended themselves have been performed,” Ladapo said. “Instead, they pointed to genotoxicity studies — which are inadequate assessments for DNA integration risk.”
In his statement, Ladapo reiterated that “DNA integration poses a unique and elevated risk to human health and to the integrity of the human genome, including the risk that DNA integrated into sperm or egg gametes could be passed onto offspring of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients.”
“If the risks of DNA integration have not been assessed for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, these vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings,” Ladapo said.
Ladapo, a distinguished graduate of Harvard Medical School and well-published medical researcher, gained prominence early in the pandemic for arguing that fear — not sound public health science — was driving public messaging around COVID-19.
He published a series of articles in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal criticizing lockdown measures and arguing the health system “would be less burdened if more patients were treated before they require hospitalization, and there are promising therapeutic options that patients can administer themselves at home.”
Since then, he has been vocal in challenging federal policies and recommendations related to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and calling for agency accountability.
He issued an alert in Feb. 2022 to the Florida healthcare sector and the public warning that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines caused a “substantial increase” in reports of adverse events in Florida.
In March 2022, Ladapo recommended against COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children, making Florida the first state to break with official guidance from the CDC.
Last year he recommended against anyone under the age of 65 getting new COVID-19 vaccine boosters.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased markedly over the past century (true);
human activities have contributed to that increase (true);
Earth has warmed by more than a degree since escaping the harsh Little Ice Age in the 19th century (also true, thank goodness!);
temperatures will continue to rise to dangerous, catastrophe-inducing levels (unproven, unknowable, and unlikely) unless human society is radically transformed by drastically curbing the human use of fossil fuels (a power-seeking agenda that would inflict widespread impoverishment and suffering on billions of human beings).
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Here are several recent examples of scientific dissent from the alarmist projections of the climate change cult:
In Hydrological Sciences Journal, Demetris Koutsoyiannis and Christos Vournas found that the post-1900 increase in the CO2 concentration (from 300 parts per million to 420 parts per million) “has not altered, in a discernible manner, the greenhouse effect, which remains dominated by the quantity of water vapour in the atmosphere.”
Writing in the journal Earth’s Future, W. Jackson Davis “documents an overall negative correlation between global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last 210 million years,” according to NoTricksZone.com. A “negative correlation” —i.e., when the atmospheric concentration of CO2 rises, more often than not temperatures fall.
Like other scientists in earlier years, Allan T. Emrén, writing in the International Journal of Global Warming, “found that the rate of change in CO2 concentration is controlled by global temperature rather than vice versa.”
Norwegians John K. Dagsvik and Sigmund H. Moen (a statistician and civil engineer, respectively), writing in a Statistics Norway discussion paper, concluded that “the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear strong enough to cause systematic changes in the temperature fluctuations during the last 200 years.”
Other scientists believe that the “hottest ever” summer that the climate change cult has hyped in 2023 (which actually, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data, was the 15th hottest since 1910 on mean temperatures and 22nd hottest for maximum temperatures) wasn’t triggered by CO2, but by a significant increase in solar radiation and/or by the 2022 eruption of the Tonga-Hunga volcano having caused a 10 percent increase in water vapor in the atmosphere.
Perhaps the greatest challenge to the climate change cultists’ belief that CO2 will cause catastrophic global warming is a study published in Nature partner journal Climate and Atmospheric Science by H. Nair and colleagues. Those scientists came to the arresting conclusion that “we would expect from a 100% switchover from fossil fuels to zero-emission renewables, the net radiative heating would increase drastically.”
This, according to NoTricksZone.com, is due to “a dramatic reduction in climate-cooling aerosol (pollution) emissions,“ and, ”because aerosol emissions have a relatively greater climate impact by reflecting shortwave radiation, the net effect of transitioning to renewables will be to ‘drastically’ increase Earth’s temperatures over the coming decades.”
The above examples of scientific studies running counter to climate-change-cult orthodoxy indicate that the science surrounding the issue is anything but settled in the alarmists’ favor.
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