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

HALF of all young men who got jabbed for COVID and developed myocarditis now have PERMANENT heart damage

HALF of all young men who got jabbed for COVID and developed myocarditis now have PERMANENT heart damage

Dr Eddy Betterman

In a recent appearance on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, Dr. Drew Pinsky talked about the “breathtaking” findings of a new study showing that 50 percent of all young men who got “vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) and developed myocarditis as a result now have a permanently damaged heart.

You may recall that public health authorities, after first insisting that the COVID jab-myocarditis link was a conspiracy theory, eventually fessed up to the fact that the Operation Warp Speed shots do, in fact, cause heart damage – but only temporarily, they claimed. We now know that they were lying about this, too.

“It took my breath away,” Dr. Drew told Kelly, expressing how perplexed he is that the study’s findings are not national news – watch the clip below:

Dr. Drew says young men who were injured by COVID jabs should SUE any school that mandated them

Published in the journal Circulationthe study Dr. Drew referenced is “excellent,” appearing in what Dr. Drew described as “a major cardia cardiology journal” – meaning it is widely respected, as well as peer-reviewed.

“It’s a large study, and it showed that about approximately half of the young males that got myocarditis had permanent heart damage,” Dr. Drew stated.

“That means that we don’t know what percentage are going to be disabled by this as they get older or develop heart failure, or are going to need cardiac transplants, some of them. It’s breathtaking, this study. And why it wasn’t a big headline … I don’t understand why people aren’t reacting to it.”

As with most damning studies such as this, the mainstream media is burying it and pretending as though it does not even exist. Many of them promoted the things, after all, and to admit that they lied to the public would mean opening themselves up to widespread litigation.

“I think – put your legal head on for a second – that universities are going to be in big trouble for having mandated young people to get that vaccine because people are going to get sick, they’re going to have long-term consequences, and they should sue those schools for having forced them to take a medical intervention,” Dr. Drew said.

“One hundred percent they should sue.”

To young people who have not yet been jabbed for COVID but who are being told they have to in order to continue their education, Kelly urged them to purchase a fake vaccination card.

“If anybody tries to force you from this point forward [to get jabbed], get a fake card,” she said. “It’s not that hard. Go ahead, Google it, get a fake card. Don’t comply.”

Dr. Drew responded to this in seeming agreement, adding that there are other ways to keep oneself safe from disease than getting jabbed with an experimental drug.

“I’m just saying, [if] you have to say you’ve gotten a shot to get in, get a fake one,” Kelly continued. “Just Google it on the internet. It’s b******t. If they’re going to create these b******t rules, you can create your b******t way around them.”

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2023/10/31/half-young-men-vaccinated-covid-permanent-heart-damage/

UK Police Arrest Women Who Attended Gaza Protest Wearing Paraglider-Print Shirts

hamas gliders london

Oliver JJ Lane

Breitbart

London police have made the latest in a series of arrests related to the repeated Gaza and Hamas protests in recent weeks, now arresting two women on suspicion of terrorism offences for wearing prints of paragliders stuck to their clothing at a rally.

Two women, aged 29 and 44 years old surrendered themselves to police and were arrested “on suspicion of inviting support for a proscribed organisation” under the Terrorism Act after the Metropolitan Police published their images in an appeal for information. The pair are being held at a police station, the force said.

Images of four people had been published by police on the 27th relating to “Pro-Palestine” protests on October 14th and 21st, with three of those being women wearing print-outs of paragliders taped to their clothes. The fourth was a man carrying a “I fully support Hamas” placard.

The paraglider has rapidly become a symbol alluding to the October 7th Hamas attack against Israel, one of the most deadly terrorist attacks in history, in which over 1,400 residents of and visitors to Israel were killed, some in the most brutal circumstances. Paragliders were used by Hamas terrorists to cross undetected into Israeli territory in large numbers, launching attacks against civilians once they landed.

Two people remain outstanding from the police’s appeal. In an update issued overnight, the force described the third woman who has not yet come forward as “dark skinned, wearing light brown trousers and a long-sleeved red top. She initially had a blue denim jacket tied around her waist and later put this on over her red top. She is wearing a light blue medical face mask and a dark scarf or bandana around her head. She also has a dark red shoulder bag.”

Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said of the appeal: “If the people in the pictures recognise themselves, I urge them to come forward so we can speak with them.”

The man waving the pro-Hamas placard is described as: “He has short hair, light skin and is wearing a blue jacket with a light top underneath, a light stripy scarf around his neck, and light trousers or jeans.”

Hamas is what the UK government calls a proscribed organisation in Britain, which is to say supporting it is banned. This is a reasonably recent development, it was only in 2021 this ban was put into force, and it only applies to the so-called military wing of Hamas, meaning support for what the British government calls “the so called political [wing]” remains legal.

Hamas is not the only proscribed group in the UK that focuses on the destruction of Israel: the British government also bans the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, the Abu Nidal Organisation, Al Qa’ida, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Hizballah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The paraglider-clothing women are not the only arrests made in London over the recent wave of Gaza protests. On Sunday, two women were arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after another similar appeal, with London broadcaster LBC reporting they had been filmed chanting about “an ancient massacre of Jewish people in the Middle East” referenced in the Koran at the Battle of Khaybar in 628AD at a protest on Saturday.

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Via https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/31/uk-police-arrest-women-who-attended-gaza-protest-wearing-paraglider-print-shirts/

Russian Socialism Before Marx

Episode 6 Revolutionary Russias

The Rise of Communism from Marx to Lenin

Dr Vejas Gabriel Liulevius (2019)

Film Review

In the summer of 1874, three years after the Paris Commune, populist, pro-revolution university students from St Petersburg traveled to the countryside to work alongside Russian peasants in the hope of using subversive pamphlets to persuade them about the need for revolution. For the most part, the peasant ignored their pamphlets, listened passively or turned them into the secret police.

Marx believed revolution was only possible in Germany, France, the UK or the US because these were the only Western countries with an industrial working class. He believed revolution was impossible in Russia because the population was 80% rural and engaged in primitive agriculture and only 50% ethnic Russian. Although the serfs had been freed under Alexander II, the scarcity of factory jobs left them no choice but to continue working for their feudal lords. In addition, unlike most of Europe, Russia was still ruled by an autocratic emperor who ruled by divine right and brutally suppressed any efforts at reform

The 1860s saw the rise of the Russian nihilists, inspired by the 1863 novel by Nikolai Chernyshevsy What is to Be Done. Chernyshevsy’s main character is a totally dedicated revolutionary. Russian populists (aka narodniks) and nihilists, who came to be called Socialist Revolutionaries, disagreed with Marx’s view that a successful revolution required significant evolution from feudalism towards modernity.

The Socialists Revolutionaries advocated using anarchist tactics to pursue their vision of a peasant utopia. In 1881, Czar Alexander II was assassination by an anarchist group called The People”s Will.*

Plekhanov, a populist revolutionary exiled to Switzerland in 1880, established the first Russian Marxist group and the first Marxist newsletter Iskra (The Spark). In 1998, Russia’s Social Democratic Party.

in January 1905, Russia experienced a totally spontaneous revolution, following a series of major government blunders. In 1904, Russia declared war again Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and North Korea. After Japan sank two Russian fleets, 100,000 workers protested outside the czar’s palace demanding reform. The czar’s troops fired on peaceful protestors, leading to major strikes across Russia, as well as a mutiny by the Russian army and navy (which sank the battleship Potemkin). Railway workers totally shut down national communications. Peasants burned the manor houses of their feudal lords, and police discarded their uniforms and refused to report for duty.

In factories, workers established the first soviets (worker councils), as did the Russian Army. The Marxist Leon Trotsky created a central council of soviets in St Petersburg, placing the whole city under worker control.

In his October Manifesto, Nicholas II responded with a number of reforms, including the creation of a Duma (parliament) with limited powers. After more moderate revolutionaries capitulated, government forces invaded the central soviet and imprisoned Trotsky.


*According to Matthew Ehret of the Rising Tide Foundation, British agents played a major role in numerous “anarchist” assassinations of world leaders in the late 19th and early 20th century (including Alexanader II and US presidents Garfield and McKinley. See https://risingtidefoundation.net/2023/03/20/kropotkin-the-anarchist-international-and-the-assassination-of-czar-alexander-ii-and-president-mckinley/

Film can be viewed free with a library card.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/11239598/11239611

Bill Gates Pushes Digital ID for Newborns in Kenya as Critics Warn of Surveillance Risk

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is continuing its global push to support government-backed digital ID programs — this time setting its sights on Kenya, where it will advise the government on that country’s “Maisha Namba” digital ID initiative currently under development, Reclaim the Net reports.

According to the Kenyan Daily Post, Gates’ role in assisting the Kenyan government in its development and rollout of Maisha Namba was announced after a recent series of “closed-door meetings” with Kenyan President William Ruto.

“The billionaire, who is known to champion GMO [genetically modified organism] foods, has met Ruto in a series of meetings since he came to power with most of the engagements shrouded in secrecy,” the Kenyan Daily Post wrote.

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The identification number attached to Maisha Namba “will also be used to register for government services, including education, health insurance, tax and social security.”

But some experts said they believe the Maisha Namba program has other, unannounced, aims. Dr. Wahome Ngare, chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association, told The Defender that Maisha Namba will operate as a vaccination tracking program.

“Maisha Namba — Kiswahili for ‘life number’ — is a biometric vaccination system for newborns that will replace birth certificates and help track children from birth to 5 years of age,” Ngare said. “It will be used to monitor and ensure all children receive their vaccines.”

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Ngare was referring to amendments to the existing International Health Regulations, currently under negotiation by WHO members alongside a proposed “pandemic treaty.”

The ID2020 Alliance previously promoted the development of digital ID and vaccine passports. Microsoft is a founding member of the ID2020 Alliance, as are Gavi, the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, Accenture and the Rockefeller Foundation.

“If all goes according to plan, Bill Gates will not only inject billions of Africans with his mRNA vaccines,” Ngare said. “He has created a digital ID system for governments around the world to ensure nobody misses their vaccines and that those who refuse vaccination can be restricted from traveling or from accessing government services.”

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Other experts also expressed concerns similar to those of Ngare. California-based privacy attorney Greg Glaser told The Defender, “Vaccine passports were a test run for global biometric ID,” adding:

“Biometric ID is to future dystopian society as batteries are to your TV’s remote control. Without the batteries, the remote control does nothing. Without biometric ID, dystopian technology fails: social credit scores, central bank digital currencies [CBDCs], smart devices in the Internet of Things.

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Similarly, Irene Polansky, a citizen who routinely participates in the National Call for Safe Technology hosted by Wired Broadband Inc. and Virginians for Safe Technology, told The Defender that COVID-19 was “a beta (compliance) test for what’s to come,” and to be wary of the touted benefits of new technologies such as digital ID.

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Digital ID for newborns part of ‘vast opportunities’ Gates sees in Africa

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According to Business Daily Africa, such assistance to the Kenyan government is part of what the Gates Foundation sees as “vast opportunities that can be unlocked through the existence of a digital identity in Kenya.”

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But the Gates Foundation is not the only global actor involved in the rollout of Maisha Namba. According to Kenya’s Capital News, the Kenyan government and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) signed a memorandum of understanding in August to support the fledgling digital ID program.

According to Reclaim the Net, “The plan envisages every newborn being assigned a Maisha Namba, which stays with them throughout their life.” Nyandarua County Deputy Commissioner Rukia Chitechi said, “The system shall be run through schools by ensuring every child born is assigned a maisha namba.”

Target 16.9 of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for the provision of a digital legal identity for all, including newborns, by 2030.

According to Glaser, “The UN’s SDG Target 16.9 confirms that governments will be issuing everyone biometric ID by the year 2030, including babies … That means the UN is partnering with corporations and local governments to issue you and your children a biometric ID by 2030, whether you want the IDs or not.”

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Hancock said she was concerned about how a “long-term, persistent identifier” could “be used to track people and create a surveillance state or be compromised over time by a bad actor looking to leak information tied to these unique identifiers.”

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Concerns digital ID will lead to ‘permanent structure for state-level surveillance’

According to Biometric Update, “As the government seeks to win the trust and confidence of the population with regard to the Maisha Card, it has also clarified that its issuance will not be compulsory,” but will instead be accepted as proof of legal ID alongside existing identification documents.

Yet, a separate Biometric Update report states, “A two-to-three-year transition is planned, with legacy national IDs being phased out.”

Hancock said she prefers “ephemeral IDs for transactions and the ability to discard them or change them when they get compromised.” She is “also concerned about mandates around digital ID and it possibly leading to a permanent structure for state-level surveillance.”

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The Kenyan government claims the implementation of Maisha Namba is also intended to bring the country into compliance with international standards on global travel as determined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and other agencies.

Maisha Namba is funded with a budget of 1 billion Kenyan shillings (approximately $6.8 million), Biometric Update reports. The program was initially set to launch on Oct. 2, according to Business Daily Africa, but its rollout was postponed on Sept. 29.

According to Reclaim the Net, Kenyan officials “stress that the new system is aimed at addressing a host of issues such as the authentication of citizens, protection of primary identification documents, improved governance of social programs and operations, and simplification of access to services such as healthcare, education, taxation, and social security,” but public concerns may have contributed to the postponed launch.

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Glaser also criticized public-private partnerships. “As I researched biometric ID, I learned that governments are not at the top of the food chain. It’s actually private companies at the top — such as Microsoft, Oracle, Accenture — because they create and own the technology and they manage the data at the top.

Some Kenyans ‘very worried and suspicious’ of Gates’ endeavors in Kenya

Kenyan officials have sought to reassure the public that their personal information would be safe on the new digital platform.

Kenyan National Registration Bureau Registrar for the Kipipiri region, Joel Muchunu, said the Maisha Namba program will incorporate advanced security features, including cryptographic technology for data security, Kenya News Agency reported.

Irungu Houghton, executive director of Amnesty International, “applauded” the Maisha Namba program and the Kenyan government’s digital transformation efforts, according to Biometric Update, but “raised concerns about the safety of data that will be collected for the Maisha Namba scheme” and said it is important Kenyans are “comfortable they understand and are aware of the opportunities of this digital platform.”

Such reassurances have not convinced all Kenyans, however. According to Reclaim the Net, “There is an evident wave of skepticism,” with activists from certain regions “expressing concerns about inadequate infrastructure, unreliable network access, and privacy and civil liberties concerns.”

Some activists argued that the Maisha Namba is indistinguishable from a previous digital ID effort attempted by the Kenyan government, the Huduma Namba, according to Kenyan outlet The Star. That program was declared unconstitutional by Kenya’s High Court in October 2021, for conflicting with the country’s Data Protection Act.

Ngare said Huduma Namba “failed because [the government] intended to include DNA.”

Other activist groups, led by the Kenyan Human Rights Commission, are “calling for a stronger legislative basis” and “warn of the possibility of discrimination and the erosion of privacy,” warning that public engagement has been “lacking,” as have “procedural and legal safeguards,” Biometric Update reported.

Other activists “accused the government of backtracking on its promise to do away with vetting for persons seeking identification cards” and claimed “rogue government officials were using the vetting exercise to demand bribes,” according to The Star.

Kenyan officials claimed the country “is lagging behind” in digital implementation, “putting Kenya at risk of non-compliance with international enforcement agencies’ standards.”

Ngare said the Kenyan public at large isn’t highly familiar with Gates, but those who are familiar with him “are very worried and suspicious.” He said there isn’t extensive opposition to Maisha Namba “because at face value, it sounds like a good idea.”

“Most people don’t know the dark side of Bill Gates and his link to the depopulation agenda,” he said. “To the beneficiaries of the NGOs [non-governmental organizations] his foundation supports and some beneficiaries of his philanthropy, he is admired. To those who know the deeper undertones of the eugenics agenda, he is loathed.”

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Ngare said that Gates’ involvement with Maisha Namba is just one of his many interests in Africa, having previously been involved with “The clandestine administration of fertility regulating Tetatus vaccines to Kenyan women in 2014-2015, facilitated by Gavi and the WHO,” which he says “is still fresh in our minds.”

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The Gates Foundation is also “spearheading the funding to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria” in Africa, Ngare said, and is “injecting more funds ‘to advance access to mRNA research and vaccine manufacturing technology that will support low- and middle-income countries’ … capacity to develop high-quality, lifesaving vaccines at scale.”

“He is heavily invested in vaccine development, production and distribution through Gavi … and makes the vaccines ‘available’ to ‘low-income countries’ at affordable or subsidized prices,” Ngare added. “The U.S. and European governments fund the vaccine development that enriches the developers and sponsors such as Gates.”

“Expanding the mRNA technology to tuberculosis, malaria and HIV would afford Gates an opportunity to develop vaccines specifically targeted at Africans,” Ngare said.

Kenyan author Nanjala Nyabola, author of “Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya,” said “Digital identity systems will only make governments more efficient at what they are already doing,” according to The Financial Times, adding that digital IDs could be used as a tool to suppress or discriminate against certain citizens.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-foundation-digital-id-newborns-kenya-surveillance/

US Sees Massive Retail Closures Amid Negative Economic Trends

A Rite Aid store in the U.S., 2023.

A Rite Aid store in the U.S., 2023. | Photo: X/ @NewsHour

teleSUR

50,000 retail stores would close out of the current base of 940,000 stores in the U.S. by 2027.

Thousands of stores are closing across the United States this year, with some citing increased crimes as a reason, but industry experts said crime isn’t the full story.

Rite Aid, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the country, has joined the growing list of retailers to shed locations. The company filed for bankruptcy this month and is set to close more than 100 drug stores as the first step while negotiating a bankruptcy deal.

Following Rite Aid’s announcement, Target, a leading U.S. retailer, shut nine stores in four states, where the company said, “theft and organized retail crime” lead to “unsustainable business performance.”

In June, retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond declared bankruptcy and closed 896 stores, followed by Foot Locker, which is shutting more than 500 stores by 2026 as part of a shift away from shopping malls. Other retailers like Walmart, BestBuy, Party City have also announced closures of 20 to 30 stores.

So far this year, at least 20 major retailers in the United States have said they have closed or are set to close more than 2,800 stores across the country, according to a tally by Insider.

All told, there have already been more bankruptcies of retail companies in 2023 by the end of October than in the full year 2022 or 2021.

Retailers have recently been blaming what they said is a rising tide of theft and retail crime. Their trade association, the Washington D.C.-based National Retail Federation (NRF), said retailers have seen a dramatic jump in financial losses associated with theft.

In its September report, the NRF said that the losses reached US$112.1 billion last year, up from US493.9 billion in 2021; while shrink, a measure of retail losses that includes external theft as well as other sources of loss, reached 1.6 percent of sales in 2022.

Experts said the closures aren’t just about theft and crime. Still, several trends have contributed, including the slowdown in consumer spending, a reduction of credit availability, the continued shift to e-commerce, and higher costs to operate retail stores.

When store prices keep rising, consumers will mostly stop spending on discretionary goods and keep it solely essentials, said consumer behavior experts. Worsening inflation concerns continue to weigh on U.S. consumers, as shown by the latest consumer survey.

Consumers have a more pessimistic economic outlook this month than in September, according to the Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment. It also found that high-income consumers showed the biggest drop in confidence, showing that spending could slow.

There’s a concern that consumer expectations of inflation could prompt the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates high. The Federal Reserve has engaged in a series of interest rate hikes in an effort to bring inflation down to a target annual rate of 2 percent.

Higher interest rates can result in higher cost of doing business for retailers, said experts, as this can increase the cost of credit and mortgages.

Investment bank UBS’s retail analyst Michael Lasser estimated that 50,000 retail stores would close out of the current base of 940,000 stores in the United States by 2027. Store closings could accelerate to 70,000 to 90,000 if retail sales turn out to be weaker than expected.

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Via https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Sees-Massive-Retail-Closures-Amid-Negative-Economic-Trends-20231030-0003.html

Four Professional International Cyclists Forced to Retire Due to “Cardiac Issues.” Many Amateur Cyclists Dying Suddenly

Dr William Makis

Oct. 23, 2023 – 28 year old Danish rider Niklas Eg has been forced to retire due to inexplicable instances of irregular heart rate during his training sessions. His medical team has still not determined the cause of the irregular heart rate.

Sep. 24, 2023 – Argentina – 50 year old cyclist Gustavo Lopreste finished a cycling race 20 minutes after the end of the race he got dizzy, collapsed and died suddenly from cardiac arrest on Sep. 24, 2023.

Sep. 20, 2023 – 20 year old Evelyn Mae Sorensen was found dead in her dorm room of Middlebury College at 10pm on Sep. 20, 2023. She was very athletic and had recently taken up cycling.

Sep. 12, 2023 – 27 year old Belgian professional cyclist Nathan van Hooydonck was forced to retire due to “heart problems”. He was involved in a car accident last week when he fell ill at the wheel and had a medical emergency.

Sep. 10, 2023 – London, UK – 63 year old David Graney who was participating in a charity bike ride collapsed with a cardiac arrest during the London to Brighton bike ride on Sep. 10, 2023 and was saved by doctors who were riding behind him.

Aug. 29, 2023 – Netherlands – 32 year old road racing cyclist, Wesley Kreder had a cardiac arrest on Aug. 29, 2023. He was diagnosed with “Myocarditis that can lead to cardiac arrest”. He will never race again.

Aug 12, 2023 – Nicoya, Costa Rica – 37 year old professional cyclist Sergio Andres Campos Rodriguez died suddenly on August 12, 2023 from a cardiac arrest he suffered during a cycling race, 3km from the finish line.

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July 30, 2023 – Belfast, Ireland – Doctor & leading cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Simon MacGowan died in his sleep on July 29/30, 2023. “He had ridden a six-day tour of the Alps, from Geneva to Nice when he died in his sleep in Nice on completion of the trip.

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July 29, 2023 – 48 year old Irish Triathlete Sarah Fagan, from Dundalk in Co Louth, tragically died in France on Saturday, July 29 after going into cardiorespiratory arrest while competing in the Alpe d’Huez Triathlon on Friday, July 28.

July 18, 2023 – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – Clark Campbell, teacher of physical education died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest during a mountain biking trip on July 18, 2023.

July 15, 2023 – Cala Regina, Italy – 48 year old cyclist Andrea Sechi collapsed with cardiac arrest while cycling on a seaside road and died suddenly from “climate change” on July 15, 2023.

July 7, 2023 – 34 year old Belgian professional cyclist Sep Vanmarcke has announced his retirement due to cardiac MRI showing cardiac scar tissue he didn’t know he had.

May 17, 2023 – 24 year old Kazakh professional road racing cyclist Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev died unexpectedly of “acute heart failure” on May 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA.

May 6, 2023 – 56 year old Francois Beaulieu, New Brunswick’s top Energy Regulator, died suddenly on May 6, 2023. He had a sudden cardiac arrest while cycling on Saturday and died. Wife: “He was doing what he loved, cycling. His heart stopped but mine has not.”

My Take… 

Athletes continue to collapse from sudden cardiac arrests and I believe we are starting to see long term cardiac damage caused by COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines.

For example, 34 year old Belgian professional cyclist Sep Vanmarcke announced his retirement because he had a cardiac MRI that confirmed the presence of scarring that he was not aware of. He had only recently started having an abnormally high heart rate that prompted the cardiac MRI.

Most amateur athletes are unable to get a cardiac MRI or cardiac PET to check for scarring that would predispose them to sudden cardiac death. But it could mean the difference between life and sudden death.

From Ethical Skeptic, sudden cardiac death in ages 0 to 54 remains at all time highs:

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/four-professional-international-cyclists-forced-retire-due-cardiac-issues-many-amateur-cyclists-dying-suddenly/5838030

Wider War Will Bring Inevitable Attempts At Martial Law In America


By Brandon Smith

Alt-Market.US

Not long ago at the height of fear over the global pandemic the US underwent a change that many people argued would never happen. For years I have heard people say that authoritarian controls in America are “tinfoil hat conspiracy theory” and doom mongering – All the prepping, all the talk of community organizing, all the guns and the gear and the training were for nothing. Then…the covid agenda hit like a freight train.

Our constitutional rights were no longer set in stone, but mere guidelines that government officials could bend or break in the name of “public health safety.” Laws no longer had to be passed through a series of checks and balances; mandates could be implemented as if they were laws without public oversight and enforced unilaterally.

There was talk (primarily among Democrats) of severe punishments for people who refused the pointless covid vaccines. They wanted vaccine passports, they wanted prison time for those that spoke publicly against the vax, they wanted people’s jobs taken away, they wanted their children taken away, and there were even plans to build covid detention centers to segregate and lock up “vax deniers.”

It boggles the mind, but this was serious debate within the US and it was all triggered in the span of a year. Nearly half the country was willing to abandon the Bill of Rights over a virus with a survival rate of 99.8%. The conspiracy theorists were right all along; our freedoms rest on a razor’s edge and preparing to survive and fight for those freedoms is perfectly rational.

Luckily, the covid agenda failed. The mandates were ultimately blocked by red states and in many rural areas they were barely enforced at all. Biden’s vaccine passport attempt was stopped cold by the Supreme Court, but I have long believed that the Supreme Court made this decision exactly because of the level of public resistance.  They knew if they pressed the issue, civil war was on the table.

Medical authoritarianism collapsed because conservatives and independents were not onboard and they could not be shamed into compliance. But what happens when there is a crisis that DOES scare conservatives? What happens when the political right perceives a true threat? Does freedom then become untenable?

Viruses frighten progressives (most things frighten progressives), but what frightens conservatives?

Well, it’s not a hard fast rule, but generally speaking conservatives are most disturbed by the threat of invasion. Ask any conservative if they were worried about covid or worried about the crisis on the southern border during the pandemic and the vast majority of them would say the border without hesitation. Conservatives fear cultural infiltration and co-option, they fear the steady and deliberate whittling away of their American heritage and by extension their freedoms by alien impostors. And, they fear the certain blitzkrieg of the US by organized terrorism should the borders remain open.

The question is, are they willing to assuage their fears by sacrificing the very freedoms they want to protect?

In 2001 after 9/11, the conservative movement was a much different animal than it is today. This was pre-Ron Paul and pre-Libertarian influence. The Neo-cons ruled the roost and had far reaching power over public perception, making the push for the dismissal of constitutional rights unprecedented. The Patriot Act mentality was widespread and the thirst for war was palpable. I have seen conservatives stray from the Bill of Rights in the past in the name of fighting against a possible invasion.  I remember this vividly.

Today, the elements in play are not the same as 2001. Anyone who argues otherwise was likely a child during the 9/11 era or has a skewed understanding of the changes that have taken place among conservatives since those days. The Ron Paul movement changed a lot for the better, but primarily within the conservative constituency. Regular people changed their thinking on what it means to trade liberty for security. The GOP? It’s a pipe dream to think we could ever completely change the GOP.  At least covid proved we have allies at the state and local level

The real problem is in the old guard of Neo-cons still influencing the path of the Republican Party. These are people who happily ally with Democrats behind the scenes, they have close ties to establishment elites and their loyalty rests in the hands of globalists. If the globalists want war, then the Neo-cons want war and they will do anything to get it, including create it. That’s how it works.

And this time around I think they’re going to get what they want. The Ukraine event failed to lure Americans into supporting direct intervention (a majority of Americans don’t even support funding for Ukraine), but Israel is another matter. There are very old and tribal implications than pull on the souls of conservatives when it comes to the conflicts in the Middle East. There are religious factors, yes, but I suspect this is overblown by critics who think evangelicals are running the show. This is not reality.

The Christian mandate has nowhere near the same influence it did back in 2001. In fact, churches have become so weak that they are now being overtaken by LGBT infiltration and trans activism. This never would have been tolerated 20 years ago – They would have tarred and feathered such activists back then. If this sort of thing is being allowed to happen right in our backyards today then you can be damn sure that religion is not the driving force for war overseas.

No, when it comes to Israel and the implications of war the concern is once again rooted in cultural erasure. To be fair, it’s not a paranoid delusion.  Western culture is in fact being systematically dismantled and mass immigration is a part of that agenda. It’s also true that Islamic ideology is completely incompatible with western beliefs including the concept of individualism. Muslim systems are authoritarian in nature, that is what Sharia Law is.

So, when conservatives see the potential for the fall of Israel they associate this with the fall of the west, and they will seek to stop it if they can. Beyond Israel is the concern that an invasion of Muslim extremists is already well underway in the US with open border policies becoming the norm under Joe Biden. And here is where the trap is set…

Martial law in the US would only ever work if a majority of conservatives support it. This is a fact. Without our backing martial law will fail, just as the covid mandates failed. Keep in mind, Biden and his globalist friends have used every possible tactic to make martial law an inevitability. Economic instability and stagflation have created a spike in violent crime and looting. Mass illegal migration is dragging down state welfare systems and is creating a trend of cultural dilution. Open borders have allowed any number of possible foreign hostiles into the US.

In the midst of war the government desire to control information and public discourse will be at its apex.  However, as we have seen during covid and the Ukraine war, they have not proven effective at accomplishing this.  As long as the internet is in place it does not matter what kind of algorithms Big Tech applies to stifle the truth, the truth still finds a way.  This means that the establishment will have to pursue extreme measures that could only be achieved within a martial law environment.

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Via https://alt-market.us/wider-war-will-bring-inevitable-attempts-at-martial-law-in-america/

George Soros ‘funded’ groups behind pro-Hamas rallies in New York

George Soros funds pro-Hamas organisations.

 

George Soros and his son Alex have a long history of supporting the most radical organisations across the planet, and that includes pro-Hamas organisations that support the most heinous kind of behaviour – Dan Schneider

Hungarian-American business magnate George Soros since 2016 has funded more than $15 million to pro-Palestinian groups which organised protests in support of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel at New York’s Bryant Park, reported the New York Post.

According to The Post Open Society Foundations records shows “Soros’ grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who’ve justified Hamas’ bloody attacks”.

The advocacy group has claimed that Palestinians were the real “victims” in the hands of the Jewish state.

One of the beneficiaries of Tides Centre includes the Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which posted a photo on Instagram on the day Hamas attacked Israel’s southern territory.

“Israeli colonisers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison … no cage goes unchallenged,” the post reportedly read.

Palestinian advocacy group members occupied California Representative Ro Khanna’s office on October 20 to demand he sign a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Adalah’s members also co-sponsored a rally that same day in Bryant Park where hostile demonstrators spewed antisemitic chants and waved a sign that read “I DO NOT CONDEMN HAMAS,” according to the New York Post.

According to the report, Open Society Foundations, founded by Soros, also gave $30,000 in 2020 to Desis Rising Up and Moving, “another co-sponsor of the Bryant Park protest where 139 people were arrested, financial records show”.

Soros’ Foundations “gave $60,000 in 2018 to the Arab American Association of New York, a group co-founded by politically connected activist Linda Sarsour that helped plan a hate-filled “Flood Brooklyn for Palestine” protest in Bay Ridge on October 21”, according to The Post.

In the agitation protesters reportedly called for the “eradication of Israel and held a sign of the Israeli flag in a bin that read “Please keep the world clean!”

Other Soros-backed, Palestinian advocacy groups whose members have been organising rallies since the massacre carried out by Hamas include “Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now, which received $650,000 and $400,000, respectively”.

Both, according to the New York Post, “co-sponsored the Bryant Park rally, and its members were among the protesters who converged on the US Capitol complex October 18.”

Jewish Voice for Peace was also involved in occupying Khanna’s office and blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks by writing on its website: “Israeli apartheid and occupation—and United States complicity in that oppression—are the source of all this violence.”

The Open Society Foundations also granted $1.5 million to Adalah’s parent organisation, Adalah—The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, with only $800,000 of the grant being disbursed before the legal centre severed its relationship with the American organisation in 2018. The legal centre is dedicated to advancing human rights in Israel as its primary mission.

Dan Schneider, vice president of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center, told the New York Post that Soros—a Holocaust survivor whose loyal lieutenants have scored unmatched access to President Biden’s White House—has a long history of standing against Israel and backing groups who champion terrorists.

“George Soros and his son Alex have a long history of supporting the most radical organisations across the planet, and that includes pro-Hamas organisations that support the most heinous kind of behaviour,” said Schneider, who recently co-authored a letter with MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell demanding Soros cease funding to pro-Hamas groups told New York Post.

“We’ve called on George Soros to withdraw this funding, but he seems very determined to continue supporting antisemitic organisations that want to upend western civilisation,” he added. – Times of India, 29 October 2023

Via https://bharatabharati.in/2023/10/30/george-soros-funded-groups-behind-pro-hamas-rallies-in-nyc-toi/

Israel Faces ‘Near Impossible Task’ in Gaza

An Israeli army soldier advances during a drill at a position in the upper Galilee region of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon - Sputnik International, 1920, 29.10.2023Scott Ritter

Sputnik

Israel has conducted a series of ground incursions into Gaza over the course of the past week, each one building on the other, increasing in scope and scale. This appears to be part of an Israeli strategy to lean gradually into an operation that, when finished, falls just short of a general assault on Gaza.

At the end of the day, however, Israel will most likely not be able to defeat the military forces of Hamas and other Palestinian resistance forces defending Gaza. Israel will have to either seek to defeat Hamas by laying siege to the Gaza Strip or commit to a full-scale attack on Gaza designed to clear the territory of all Hamas fighters.

The example of Operation Hubertus, the final German assault on Stalingrad, stands out. The Germans brought in elements of seven elite “Pioneer” battalions — combat engineers with extensive experience in urban warfare, having paved the way for prior German victories in Rostov and Voronezh. The Pioneers were the masters of military demolition, highly trained specialists in house-to-house fighting and the use of explosives and flame throwers.

Around 1,800 of these elite assault engineers were assembled for the final drive to push the defending Soviet soldiers from Stalingrad. On the first day of operations, the Pioneers suffered nearly 30% casualties. After several days of fierce fighting, the Pioneers were stopped less than 100 meters from their objective. However, their forces suffered between 60-70% casualties, and could not proceed further. Operation Hubertus was doomed to fail from the beginning.

According to an account of the fighting, “The constant bombardment and artillery shelling created a battlefield in which the Soviet defenders largely held the advantage over the assaulting Germans. The fields of rubble and craters were perfectly designed for defensive actions and could be improved with relatively little effort. This also provided ample hunting ground for the ever-present Soviet snipers.”

A similar observation can be made regarding the Allied attacks on Monte Casino, in Italy, in early 1944. A massive aerial bombardment destroyed a 6th century abbey. Elite German paratroopers dug into the rubble, and for months successfully held off repeated attacks. There can be no doubt that the excessive bombardment of Monte Casino ended up strengthening the positions of the German defenders.
 
In the battle of Iwo Jima, it took US Marines more than a month to secure the tiny island, largely because the Japanese had dug some 18 kilometers of tunnels into the 21-square kilometer island, some of which were more than 70 meters underground, from which they rode out heavy bombing and shelling, only to emerge and ambush the advancing Marines.
 
If one combined the above ground rubble of Monte Casino with the below-ground tunnel network of Iwo Jima, you might approximate the hellish scenario awaiting Israel in Gaza. Over 500 kilometers of tunnels dug in under the 360 square kilometers that comprise the Gaza Strip, these tunnels are purpose built, designed to serve as transportation corridors, command centers, supply depots, dormitories and hospitals, defensive positions, and in support of offensive action.
 
Simply put, there has never been a military operation against a target such as the one presented by Hamas in Gaza. Israel has trained a small number of its elite special forces to carry out limited-scope operations in an underground environment. These operations, typically involving hostage rescue or direct action (i.e., eliminating a high value target), are conducted under very controlled circumstances, with the attacking forces proceeding only when the circumstances support a favorable outcome. As such, the experiences of these troops are counterproductive when it comes to transferring knowledge to the conventional forces that would bear the brunt of any Israeli assault on Gaza.
 
Simply trying to navigate the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza will be a nearly impossible task for the Israeli troops. The going will be slow, and the Israeli infantry will have to operate dismounted, exposing themselves to sniper fire and ambushes. Israeli vehicles will find themselves hemmed in without the ability to maneuver, making themselves vulnerable to mines, improvised explosive devices, and anti-tank weaponry.
 
Close air support under these If Israel does not sync its above-ground actions with a simultaneous effort to defeat Hamas’ underground tunnel-based defenses, then the situation above ground will become even more precarious, with Hamas emerging from tunnels behind the Israeli forces, cutting them off and inflicting heavy casualties.
 
But Israel is going to be operating largely blind underground, probing into a tunnel network designed by Hamas to protect against any such effort. Israel’s best bet would be to simply locate tunnel entrances and seal them off, leaving the Hamas forces underground to die of thirst, hunger, oxygen deprivation, or disease. But this will require the physical occupation of every square meter of the city, an immensely difficult problem from both a logistical and operational standpoint. It will also expose more Israeli forces to harm, resulting in a dramatic increase in casualties.
 
By reacting to the Hamas attack of October 7 in the way it has, Israel has literally walked into a trap designed by Hamas to defeat any Israeli incursion. Israeli forces are neither trained, equipped, organized, nor motivated to carry out the kind of brutal, bloody, and physically demanding combat that will be required to defeat Hamas above and below the ground in Gaza. Israeli political and military leaders have boxed themselves into a corner with their aggressive winner-take-all rhetoric.
 
But now that the time has come to pay the price of their collective verbiage, the question becomes is this a price Israel is willing and able to pay? The answer is probably no. Israel has defined victory as being predicated on the total defeat of Hamas as a military organization. This is most probably a mission impossible. Hamas, therefore, emerges victorious simply by surviving.
 
Given the strong defensive position Hamas finds itself in, through a combination of its immense tunnel network and the destroyed urban environment brought on by Israeli bombardment, it is highly likely that Hamas will be able to hold off a concerted Israeli assault until which time the Israel Defense Forces, like the German Pioneer battalions in Stalingrad, exhaust themselves on the field of battle.
 
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5,000 US troops involved in Gaza offensive

5,000 US troops involved in Gaza offensive – Iranian media

RT

Several thousand US troops have taken part in Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, the Iran-based Tasnim News Agency reported on Saturday. The Pentagon has recently announced plans to significantly reinforce its military presence in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas conflict and tensions with Iran.

According to the agency’s security sources, Israel’s assault on Gaza involved three divisions and several brigades and was also underpinned by 5,000 US military personnel. The outlet, however, did not provide any details about which troops took part in the offensive or what functions they performed.

Tasnim said that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attempted to enter the enclave from several areas in the north, west, and southwest “to split the Gaza Strip into two or three sections and cut off the connection among the Palestinian resistance forces before launching the next stage of the war.” The agency did not specify what results the Israeli military had achieved so far.

However, Hamas said on Saturday that it had managed to thwart Israel’s assault, claiming to have repelled it with heavy losses. Meanwhile, the IDF stated that it was “advancing through the stages of the war” in Gaza, with fighting still ongoing. It noted that no soldiers had been injured in the “expanded” ground operations.

After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, the US military scrambled to reinforce its presence in the region. The Pentagon has sent two aircraft carriers with supporting vessels to the area, as well as “activated the deployment” of THAAD and Patriot air defense systems.

Last week, it also said it had ordered more than 2,000 additional troops to prepare to deploy in support of Israel in its conflict with Hamas. On Thursday, it said that it would deploy 900 soldiers to the Middle East. US officials, however, insisted, that none of the troops would go to Israel, and are rather “intended to support regional deterrence efforts and further bolster US force protection capabilities.”

The decision to send reinforcements also came as the US conducted airstrikes on two facilities in eastern Syria allegedly used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups. US President Joe Biden said it was a response to recurring attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria. Tehran maintains that militant groups in those countries are acting independently.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/586049-us-israel-gaza-offensive/