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.
A doctor treats Palestinian patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital, Gaza, Dec. 4, 2023. | Photo: X/ @QudsNen
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On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan predicted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be tried as a war criminal in a manner similar to that in which former Serbian President Slobodan Milosvic (1941-2006) was tried.
“Netanyahu, who is now the ‘Butcher of Gaza’, beyond being a war criminal, will definitely be tried as the Butcher of Gaza just as Milosevic was judged,” Erdogan said while opening the meeting of the Economic and Trade Cooperation Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC) in Istanbul.
Milosevic was arrested in 2001 and accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of being responsible for war crimes and genocide that occurred during the Balkan war in the early 1990s. The trial against him, however, was never completed due to his death in prison in The Hague in 2006.
Erdogan also criticized Western countries for giving “unconditional support to Israel to kill more children” and blamed the United Nations for being an institution incapable of bringing peace or hope to humanity.
A video documents the moment of the bombing of a residential building in Gaza.
At the COMCEC meeting, the Turkish Leader also referred to the regional danger posed by Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons.
“We are not going to let the issue of Israel having nuclear weapons be forgotten. Does Israel have an atomic bomb? They do, but if you ask, they say ‘no’. “We know very well what that means,” Erdogan stressed.
“I would like to remind the Israeli rulers who pursue different ambitions once again that Gaza is Palestinian territory. Gaza belongs to Palestinians and it will remain so forever,” he said, as reporte by TRT World.
Since the bombing of Gaza began on October 7, Israeli occupation forces have injured 41,316 people and killed over 15,000 Palestinians, with 75 percent of them being children, women, and the elderly.
Engraved Etruscan hand mirror depicting Judgement of Paris
Episode 10 Etruscan Homes
The Mysterious Etruscans
Dr Steven L Tuck (2016)
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The Greeks considered the Etruscans “barbarians,” in large part because they regarded women as equal to men (in marriage, but not in public spaces). The Etruscans, in turn, read Greek literature and incorporated Greek mythology into their art, jewelry and household decorations and furnishings. According to Tuck, the years 700-600 BC were the “orientalizing” period of Etruscan art, during which Greek and Near East (Assyrian) influences were incorporated into their imagery.*
The Etruscans were highly sophisticated metal workers, and all but the poorest Etruscan women had bronze hand mirrors engraved with scenes from Greek mythology. Wealthy Etruscan women also had engraved cosmetic and jewelry containers.
As late as the 4th century BC, the Etruscans ran an engraving industry in Rome, incorporating Greek metallurgical techniques. Although common in tombs and sanctuaries, images for household and personal accessories rarely depicted bloody battles or death. The Judgement of Paris** seems to have been the most popular Greek myth found in Etruscan household engravings .
Other Greek myths commonly displayed in Etruscan art include the birth of Helen (her father Zeus seduced a swan named Leda, which meant Helen was hatched out of an egg) and the birth of of the Greek goddess of wisdom Minerva (Zeus swallowed her pregnant mother, causing Minerva to burst forth fully grown from his skull).
*The Greek poet Homer recorded the epic poem The Odyssey (which had been passed down orally for 500 years) around 720 BC.
**In Greek mythology Zeus appointed Paris of Troy to chose whether Zeus’s wife Hera or Aphrodite was most beautiful. Aphrodite bribed him by promising him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world (Helen). Unfortunately to claim his prize, he had to abduct her from her Spartan husband Menelaus, triggering the Trojan War.
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A 56-year-old man was arrested this afternoon in relation to the “unauthorised disclosure and misuse of data”, police said.
He is charged with accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes and will appear in Wellington District Court tomorrow.
“As the case is before the court, police cannot comment further,” police said.
A man believed to be a Te Whatu Ora staff member was interviewed on a New Zealand conspiracy theory site last week. He claimed he developed a database for the vaccine rollout and quoted from that work.
Former TV presenter and conspiracy theorist Liz Gunn took to X, formerly Twitter, this afternoon to report police surrounded the “whistleblower’s” house at 2.15pm and that an arrest was imminent.
“The idea that these clowns [could be] using my loved ones’ deaths as so-called proof that the jab kills, when it simply doesn’t, is truly distressing to me.”
Earlier tonight, the ministry said the staff member had no clinical background or expert vaccine knowledge, and there was no evidence vaccination was responsible for “excess mortality in New Zealand”.
It’s alleged an individual downloaded a large amount of vaccine-related information, Te Whatu Ora chief executive Margie Apa said.
“The data, as published on an overseas site, appears to have been anonymised. Analysis of the released data is ongoing, but work so far has not found any National Health Index Numbers or personally identifiable information.”
Apa said an injunction had been used to have information taken down from an overseas website and cyber security specialists are continuing to scan extensively for any other places where the information may appear.
“We sought and were granted an injunction through the Employment Relations Authority that prevents any publication of the data to ensure that we can take all steps to protect the privacy of individuals.”
An employment investigation was also underway and the person was no longer at work, Apa said.
“The individual has worked in the health system for a number of years. He was authorised to access data as part of his work and was locked out of our systems as soon as we became aware of the unauthorised use,” Apa said.
He had been employed since the inception of Te Whatu Ora last year.
She said the organisation took data security very seriously. It was “extremely disappointed at this gross breach of trust” and the alleged spreading of harmful misinformation.
“We can assure the public that we are doing everything we can to respond to this incident and to safeguard their information.”
She said a thorough investigation is under way.
“What this individual is trying to claim about vaccines is completely wrong and ill-informed, and their comments demonstrate this. The person has no clinical background or expert vaccine knowledge and appears to be trying to spread misinformation,” Apa said.
“Vaccination is safe and effective, and everyone should keep up to date with their shots to protect themselves, whānau and their communities.”
She assured people there was no evidence whatsoever that vaccination is responsible for excess mortality in New Zealand.
“We have had a team working through the weekend to respond to this incident and are working closely with other agencies, including the National Cyber Security Centre, police, Department of Internal Affairs and Office of the Privacy Commissioner,” Apa said.
“We have also been offering advice and support to some individual pharmacies and vaccination sites that were identified in an early video published in relation to the unauthorised disclosure and misuse of data.”
Time and time again throughout 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci, stood at the podium, the bright lights of the cameras blinding him as he faced the nation. With a steady hand, he held up a vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, promising it would be the key to protecting America and its children from the “deadly” COVID-19 disease supposedly ravaging the country.
But little did the public know, the truth about the Covid vaccine’s safety had been buried deep within Fauci’s own lies and deceit and confidential U.S. Government and Pfizer documents.
Fauci used propaganda, lies and manipulation to coerce parents into getting their children vaccinated.
But the weight of the lives lost has quickly come crashing down on him and the nation, as a secret Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report has revealed that nearly half a million children and young adults died within a year of his fateful announcement with over 118,000 of those deaths suspected to be due to the Covid-19 vaccine’s dangerous side effects.
The CDC report should spark widespread outrage and be on the front page of every single major newspaper. But instead, it has been and will continue to be met with a deafening silence. Despite the staggering death toll the report will be buried and swept under the carpet.
The mainstream media, consumed with working overtime to distract the public with propaganda on the war in Ukraine, alleged climate change and the cost of living crisis, has paid and will pay no attention to the devastating consequences of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s deception.
The public will continue to be kept in the dark, and the U.S. Government will move quickly to cover up its own involvement in the tragedy. With Dr Fauci quietly announcing his “retirement” in August 2022.
It’s all business as usual and simply just another day at the office. But it is also a shocking failure of transparency and accountability, and the people of the United States should be forever haunted by the lives lost due to the Covid-19 vaccine scandal.
Compared to other countries, the U.S. Government has been terrible at publishing relevant and up-to-date data allowing us to analyse the consequences of rolling out the Covid-19 injections. However, we have finally managed to stumble upon it thanks to an institution known as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC).
The OEC is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. And for some reason, they host a wealth of data on excess deaths. You can find that data for yourself here.
The following chart has been created using the figures found in the OEC database. Figures that have been provided to the OEC by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). And it shows excess deaths among children and young adults aged 0-44 across the USA by week in 2020 and 2021.
The official figures reveal that there was a slight increase in excess deaths among children and young adults when the alleged Covid-19 pandemic hit the US in early 2020.
However, with the introduction of a Covid-19 injection, one would have expected deaths to have fallen significantly among the age group in 2021. But instead, the opposite happened.
Excess deaths among children and young adults were significantly higher every single week in 2021 than they were in 2020 except for weeks 29 and 30. But then in week 31, something drastic happened to cause excess deaths to rise significantly among children and young adults.
And official figures provided by the CDC, unfortunately, show that trend has continued in 2022.
The most recent data released by the CDC covers up to week 40, the week ending October 9th, and it should be noted that the last few weeks of data are subject to change. But as you can see from the above, 2022 has also been a significant year for excess deaths among children and young adults.
Just for comparison, here’s how the figures for 2022 so far compare to the figures up to week 40 in 2020 and 2021.
The CDC has confirmed that there have been 7,680 more excess deaths among children and young adults in 2022 so far than there were during the same time frame in 2020 at the height of the alleged Covid-19 pandemic.
The year 2021, was by and far the worst, however, with 27,227 more excess deaths by week 40 following the roll-out of the Covid-19 injection than what occurred in 2020 at the height of the alleged Covid-19 pandemic.
The following chart shows the official CDC figures for all deaths and excess deaths among children and young adults across the USA prior to the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine, and after the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccines on the 14th Dec. 2020.
The above figures reveal that the year 2022 so far has only seen 1,352 fewer excess deaths among 0-44-year-olds by week 40 than what occurred by week 51 in 2022, despite the year 2020 being the alleged height of the COVID pandemic and also including an extra 11 weeks worth of deaths.
But the most concerning figures revealed in the above chart are the overall number of deaths and excess deaths among children and young adults since the roll-out of the Covid-19 injections.
Nearly half a million people aged 0 to 44 have sadly died since week 51 of 2020, and this has resulted in an astounding 117,719 excess deaths against the 2015-2019 five-year average.
The average life expectancy in the USA as of 2020 was 77.28 years. If we are to believe the official narrative that Covid-19 is a deadly disease then we could perhaps agree that 231,987 children and young adults up to the age of 44 dying in 2020 resulting in 40,365 excess deaths was an unfortunate consequence of this disease.
But if we are to believe the official narrative that Covid-19 injections are safe and effective, then how can one explain the further increase in death among children and young adults in both 2021 and 2022?
Because we know millions of Americans were coerced into getting the injections, and we know millions of parents were coerced into forcing their children to also get the same injections.
The answer lies in the fact that the official narrative is an outright lie. The Covid-19 vaccines are neither.
The data provided by the CDC, which has been incredibly hard to find, only gives us clues as to this being the case with so many deaths among young Americans. But further data published by the UK Government confirms it.
One of the pieces of evidence confirming this is a report published on the 6th of July 2022, by the UK’s Office for National Statistics, which is a UK Government agency.
In every single month since the beginning of 2022, partly vaccinated and double vaccinated 18-39-year-olds have been more likely to die than unvaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds. Triple vaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds however have had a mortality rate that has worsened by the month following the mass Booster campaign that occurred in the UK in December 2021.
In January, triple vaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds were ever so slightly less likely to die than unvaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds, with a mortality rate of 29.8 per 100,000 among the unvaccinated and 28.1 per 100,000 among the triple vaccinated.
But this all changed from February onwards. In February, triple vaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds were 27% more likely to die than unvaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds, with a mortality rate of 26.7 per 100k among the triple vaccinated and 21 per 100k among the unvaccinated.
Things. unfortunately, got even worse for the triple vaccinated by May 2022 though. The data shows that triple vaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds were 52% more likely to die than unvaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds in May, with a mortality rate of 21.4 per 100k among the triple vaccinated and 14.1 among the unvaccinated.
The worst figures so far though are among the partly vaccinated, with May seeing partly vaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds 202% more likely to die than unvaccinated 18 to 39-year-olds.
That same report also reveals the mortality rates for children, although the UK Government did try to hide them.
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In regard to Covid-19 deaths, the ONS reveals that the mortality rate among unvaccinated children aged 10 to 14 equates to 0.31. But in regards to one-dose vaccinated children the mortality rate equates to 3.24 per 100,000 person-years, and in regards to triple vaccinated children the mortality rate equates to a shocking 41.29 per 100,000 person-years.
Unfortunately, there is little improvement when it comes to non-Covid-19 deaths.
The all-cause death mortality rate equates to 6.39 per 100,000 person-years among unvaccinated children, and is ever so slightly higher at 6.48 among partly vaccinated children.
However, the rate goes from bad to worse following the administration of each injection. The all-cause death mortality rate equates to 97.28 among double-vaccinated children, and a shocking 289.02 per 100,000 person-years among triple-vaccinated children.
This means, according to the UK Governments’ own official data, double vaccinated children are 1422% / 15.22x more likely to die of any cause than unvaccinated children. Whilst triple vaccinated children are 4423% / 45.23x more likely to die of any cause than unvaccinated children.
The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.
Al Jaber also said a phase-out of fossil fuels would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
The comments were “incredibly concerning” and “verging on climate denial”, scientists said, and they were at odds with the position of the UN secretary general, António Guterres.
Al Jaber made the comments in ill-tempered responses to questions from Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change, during a live online event on 21 November. As well as running Cop28 in Dubai, Al Jaber is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil company, Adnoc, which many observers see as a serious conflict of interest.
More than 100 countries already support a phase-out of fossil fuels and whether the final Cop28 agreement calls for this or uses weaker language such as “phase-down” is one of the most fiercely fought issues at the summit and may be the key determinant of its success. Deep and rapid cuts are needed to bring fossil fuel emissions to zero and limit fast-worsening climate impacts.
Al Jaber spoke with Robinson at a She Changes Climate event. Robinson said: “We’re in an absolute crisis that is hurting women and children more than anyone … and it’s because we have not yet committed to phasing out fossil fuel. That is the one decision that Cop28 can take and in many ways, because you’re head of Adnoc, you could actually take it with more credibility.”
Al Jaber said: “I accepted to come to this meeting to have a sober and mature conversation. I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.”
Robinson challenged him further, saying: “I read that your company is investing in a lot more fossil fuel in the future.” Al Jaber responded: “You’re reading your own media, which is biased and wrong. I am telling you I am the man in charge.”
Al Jaber then said: “Please help me, show me the roadmap for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into caves.”
“I don’t think [you] will be able to help solve the climate problem by pointing fingers or contributing to the polarisation and the divide that is already happening in the world. Show me the solutions. Stop the pointing of fingers. Stop it,” Al Jaber said.
Guterres told Cop28 delegates on Friday: “The science is clear: The 1.5C limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce, not abate. Phase out, with a clear timeframe.”
Bill Hare, the chief executive of Climate Analytics, said: “This is an extraordinary, revealing, worrying and belligerent exchange. ‘Sending us back to caves’ is the oldest of fossil fuel industry tropes: it’s verging on climate denial.”
“Al Jaber is asking for a 1.5C roadmap – anyone who cares can find that in the International Energy Agency’s latest net zero emissions scenario, which says there cannot be any new fossil fuel development. The science is absolutely clear [and] that absolutely means a phase-out by mid-century, which will enhance the lives of all of humanity.”
Prof Sir David King, the chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and a former UK chief scientific adviser, said: “It is incredibly concerning and surprising to hear the Cop28 president defend the use of fossil fuels. It is undeniable that to limit global warming to 1.5C we must all rapidly reduce carbon emissions and phase-out the use of fossil fuels by 2035 at the latest. The alternative is an unmanageable future for humanity.”
Dr Friederike Otto, of Imperial College London, UK, said: “The science of climate change has been clear for decades: we need to stop burning fossil fuels. A failure to phase out fossil fuels at Cop28 will put several millions more vulnerable people in the firing line of climate change. This would be a terrible legacy for Cop28.”
Otto also rejected the claim that fossil fuels were necessary for development in poorer countries, saying that the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “shows that the UN’s sustainable development goals are not achievable by continuing the current fossil-driven high emission economies. [There are] massive co-benefits that come with changing to a fossil-free world”.
A spokesperson for Cop28 said: “The IEA and IPCC 1.5C scenarios clearly state that fossil fuels will have to play a role in the future energy system, albeit a smaller one. The Cop president was quoting the science, and leading climate experts.
“He has clearly said that the oil and gas industry must tackle scope 1 and 2 emissions [from their operations], must invest in clean energy and clean technologies to address scope 3 emissions [from burning fuels], and that all industry must align around keeping the north star of 1.5C within reach.
“Once again, this is clearly part of a continued effort to undermine the Cop presidency’s tangible achievements and a misrepresentation of our position and successes to date.”
The spokesperson said the presidency had operationalised the loss and damage fund with more than $700m, launched a $30bn private market climate vehicle, and brought 51 oil companies to agree decarbonisation targets and 119 countries to sign a pledge to triple renewable energy. “This is just the beginning,” the spokesperson said.
Al Jaber is also head of Masdar, the UAE’s renewable energy company, but his appointment as Cop28 president has been controversial. Shortly before the summit, leaked documents showed that the UAE had planned to use climate meetings with governments to promote oil and gas deals. Al Jaber denied having seen or used the talking points in the documents. Adnoc also has the largest net-zero-busting expansion plans for oil and gas, according to independent analysis.
The issue of a phase-out or phase-down is complicated by the terms not having agreed definitions and by the highly uncertain role of technologies to “abate” emissions, such as carbon capture and storage. “Keeping the Paris agreement targets alive will require a full fossil fuel phase-out, not a vague phase-down relying on unproven technologies,” said Otto.
More than 100 African, European, Pacific and Caribbean countries back a phase-out of unabated fossil fuels. The US, the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, also backs a phase-out. Others, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and China, reject the call. Both options are on the table at Cop28, as well as proposals to only mention coal, or to not say anything at all about fossil fuels.
This week an interview with a Ministry of Health employee under the pseudonym Winston Smith, who leaked data to former journalist and recent political candidate Liz Gunn, caused an international sensation. A data set of four million vaccination records was briefly available for download and scrutiny from vaccine critic Steve Kirsch’s site. Many of you have no doubt watched the hour long interview by Liz Gunn by now. Kirsch independently promised his readers that international statistics experts would be publishing analysis of the data shortly.
The Wasabi site hosting the data for download acted rapidly to cancel Steve Kirsch’s account, and YouTube took down the video within minutes (it is still up on Rumble). The Ministry of Health issued a statement, widely reported in the New Zealand press, labelling the leak as misinformation. They announced that they had sacked the whistleblower and called in the police.
Dr. Shane Reti, our newly appointed Minister of Health, issued a statement:
“There are many conspiracy theorists out there who unfortunately disseminate harmful disinformation, however, as Minister and as a physician, the public can and should continue to have confidence in vaccines. I am reassured by experts confirming that there is no evidence supporting the allegations that have been made.”
So the government feels that we should all be reassured by unnamed experts who say there is nothing to see here without discussing any specific points in the data leak. If you have been reading our reports here and here, you will know that there is a great deal of evidence published in reputable journals, including from New Zealand, indicating vaccine harm. As a result, we have consistently called for the release of data comparing health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated, but access was consistently denied by the previous government.
It now appears the incoming government is also going to tell us to look the other way.
If health data shows that there is no harm from Covid vaccines why would the government deny access to the relevant data?
In fact, more than two years ago the government granted unfettered access to New Zealand Covid vaccine health data to vaccinologist Dr. Petousis-Harris Co-Director of the Global Vaccine Data Network. She promised to publish data on vaccine safety within months but has published no results since, and has publicly stated that she will not be getting another Covid vaccine. So what do you make of that?
Last week the relative of a friend phoned them with some bad news from Australia. They had been diagnosed with pericarditis. “Don’t worry,” they said “I have seen a specialist and I should be able to come through it OK”. The specialist told them it was “due to a prior Covid infection”, “but I haven’t had Covid, I’ve had the vaccine” responded the patient. “Ah”, said the doctor, “you must have had Covid, it can’t be due to the vaccine.”
You get the picture don’t you? Pericarditis is a recognised adverse effect of mRNA Covid vaccination but medical experts are telling patients it can’t happen. I wonder what our experts are telling Dr. Shane Reti? It is ‘show and tell’ time at medical kindergarten. Can Dr Reti show us the full data or is he going to continue with the absurd and dictatorial ‘one podium of truth’ lie of the last administration?
More on the data leak
The whistleblower was reportedly a computer systems programmer at the Ministry of Health who designed the computer payment system for vaccine providers. In the video he appeared visibly distressed by the rate of deaths among those who had received vaccinations. There were a number of charts displayed showing for example that some South Island vaccination sites had been disproportionately affected by deaths subsequent to vaccination. It was immediately clear from the names of the providers that these sites serviced the elderly, an obvious and unfortunate data bias which has garnered some criticisms.
Clearly the collection of vaccination data by the Ministry of Health has been a little haphazard and contains inconsistencies. There have been indications of this in earlier data, but in general the records leaked stand as authentic if incomplete. Statistically speaking, the main problem is the lack of sufficient data to make exact assessments of safety. In other words, a comparison of health outcomes between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated will be necessary. Precisely the data the Ministry of Health has refused to release. Unfortunately, the whistleblower only had access to data from the vaccinated.
That doesn’t mean the data leak is invalid, a conspiracy theory, or irrelevant. There were some very real and concerning questions raised which need answers. The reaction of the Ministry of Health and the Minister actually points to a conspiracy of silence on their part, not to the whistleblower. We do have whistleblower protection legislation in New Zealand. It states that:
“An employee can make a protected disclosure (sometimes called ‘whistle blowing’) when they report serious wrongdoing in the workplace that they reasonably believe is true or likely to be true.”
The whistleblower was in the position that many people holding positions of responsibility in New Zealand now find themselves. We believe he acted responsibly because he disclosed very concerning information that the Ministry of Health has been withholding from public view.
We have unprecedented record high rates of excess deaths and hospitalisation which are continuing long past the peaks of Covid infection yet virtually no one among the media, the medical profession, and the government wants to talk about it. Instead, they are conspiring (yes, I do mean to use the term and don’t do so lightly) to hide the figures that will demonstrate the exact extent of COVID-19 vaccine harm.
This is all the more concerning since a rapidly growing number of recently published scientific papers we have been regularly reporting are pointing to a wide range of long term mRNA Covid harms including heart disease and immune deficiency,cancers, strokes and mental illness.
The message that most resonated with me during the interview was the heartfelt plea from the whistleblower for others to speak up. I encourage all those with inside knowledge to speak up if you haven’t already done so. We can’t continue with the disastrous censorship of health information enforced by the previous government. The health and longevity of the whole population is at stake.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that it was recalling its ambassador in Madrid, Rodica Radian-Gordon, for consultations after comments made by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez about the ongoing war. Madrid’s ambassador in Tel Aviv was also summoned for a protest.
Speaking with the Spanish broadcaster TVE, Sanchez said he had “serious doubt” that Israel was in compliance with international humanitarian law while waging war on the Palestinian group, given the imagery coming from the enclave and the “growing numbers of children dying.”
“Because of the outrageous remarks by the Spanish prime minister, who again repeated baseless claims, I have decided to summon the Israeli ambassador in Spain for consultations in Jerusalem,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on X (formerly Twitter).
“Israel is acting, and will continue to act, according to international law, and will continue the war until all the hostages are returned and Hamas is eliminated from Gaza,” Cohen added.
Sanchez also urged the European Union to recognize the Palestinian state as a political solution to the current crisis. “It is in Europe’s interest to address this issue out of moral conviction because what we are seeing in Gaza is not acceptable,” he told TVE.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office also denounced the Spanish PM’s “shameful remark on a day in which Hamas terrorists murdered Israelis in our capital Jerusalem.” Three civilians were killed and at least eight others injured in a bus stop shooting for which the Palestinian group has claimed responsibility.
Sanchez incited Israel’s ire last week, when he accused Netanyahu’s government of the “indiscriminate killing” of Palestinian civilians and suggested that Madrid might recognize Palestinian statehood unilaterally. He made these comments at a press conference with his Belgian colleague Alexander De Croo, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza.
Israel declared war on Hamas after the Palestinian group’s October 7 incursion, which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 Israelis in settlements bordering Gaza. Since then, Israeli air and artillery strikes have left more than 15,000 Palestinians dead, according to health authorities in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
The US has also warned Netanyahu about the conflict, according to Israel’s Channel 12. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Israeli War Cabinet they don’t have enough “credit” to keep the war going for months and insisted they need to stop targeting the UN and civilians when they move against southern Gaza.
The disappearance of videotapes of witness interviews conducted by the Democratic-led House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has alarmed the chairman of the House panel that replaced it.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee that is currently investigating security lapses connected to the Capitol riot and potential ramifications for upcoming criminal trials, is questioning the disappearance of the video evidence.
“All of the videotapes of all depositions are gone,” Mr. Loudermilk told the “Just the News, No Noise” television show Thursday night.
“We found out about this early in the investigation when I received a call from someone who was looking for some information off one of the videotapes, and we started searching, and we had none,” Mr. Loudermilk explained.
“I wrote a letter to Bennie Thompson asking for them. And he confirmed that they did not preserve those types. He didn’t feel that they had to.”
According to Mr. Loudermilk, the videotapes met the requirements for congressional evidence under House rules because some of the segments were shown at hearings, and the now-defunct J6 committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss), ought to have kept all of the recordings.
“According to House rules, you have to preserve any data and information and documents that are used in an official proceeding, which they did. They (J6 Democrats) actually aired portions of these tapes on their televised hearings, which means they had to keep those,” Mr. Loudermilk said.
“Yet he chose not to.”
The lawmaker explained why he believes this is an important piece of evidence to maintain, citing that some witnesses, such as former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, have changed their testimony over time, and even transcripts might not be sufficient to obtain a full understanding of the testimony.
“I want to see what her body language is when she gave her original testimony,” Mr. Loudermilk said of the former White House staffer. “I want to see what her voice inflection is, was she very confident in what she was saying at that time, but then later decided to change it?
“This is why it’s so important that we have those videotapes and I believe that’s probably why we don’t have them … I believe they exist somewhere. We’ve just got to find where all these videos are.”
Mr. Thompson’s office did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.
The disclosure may also affect the criminal proceedings that are taking place in federal court in Washington, and state court in Georgia, where former President Donald Trump and his associates are accused of crimes connected to the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
A court recently denied President Trump’s legal team’s request for specific material from the Jan. 6 committee. District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan turned down the former president, saying his requests were essentially a fishing expedition.
In her seven-page ruling, she reprimanded President Trump for his demands, claiming that they were too broad and too unclear. It further claimed that he was abusing his authority by trying to get information that was available through other channels in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 17.
“Defendant has not met his burdens with respect to his proposed Rule 17(c) subpoenas,” Judge Chutkan said.
“He has not sufficiently justified his requests for either the ‘Missing Materials’ themselves or the other five categories of documents related to them.”
The judge went on to quote United States v. Cuthbertson, adding that the “broad scope of the records that defendant seeks, and his vague description of their potential relevance, resemble less ‘a good faith effort to obtain identified evidence’ than they do ‘a general fishing expedition that attempts to use the [Rule 17(c) subpoena] as a discovery device.'”
The leadership of the NZMH chose to look the other way when their own employee notified them of a serious safety issue. Instead of doing their duty to investigate his allegations, they decided to besmirch him instead. They should be charged with criminal negligence.
Steve Kirsch
Executive summary
Earlier this week, a courageous whistleblower sent an email to the New Zealand Ministry of Health (NZMH) officials notifying them that the data that they have in their possession can only be explained if the COVID vaccines are killing thousands of New Zealanders.
The NZMH authorities didn’t publish a cohort time-series analysis to confirm or deny the leaker’s accusation. They did no analysis whatsoever on their own data.
Instead, the officials resorted to ad hominem attacks on the leaker to besmirch him and try to distract the public.
The NZMH has a duty to investigate the leaker’s allegations by doing a simple analysis that anyone can do. It takes about 15 minutes of effort. I know that because I’ve done it myself on the NZMH data. It shows the vaccines should be immediately stopped. The NZMH officials chose not to spend the 15 minutes and not to look. There’s a term for that; it’s called criminal negligence.
They’ve been notified of a serious problem and they chose to look the other way. It’s time for criminal charges to be brought the leadership.
You don’t have to take my word for it. You can now download the NZMH data and verify this for yourself.
The New Zealand mainstream media is asleep at the wheel. They are simply parroting whatever the NZMH officials say and not asking any questions.
Here are two articles from the New Zealand press showing that instead of showing the definitive time-series cohort analysis data, the NZMH officials simply claimed that the leaker was a spreader of misinformation and the press eats it up without asking any questions!!! What ever happened to investigative journalism?
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The leaker’s data has been validated by two of the world’s most highly respected experts on data, risk, and epidemiology
See the slide deck, slides 85 and 86 for what they said. They basically said that this data removes all doubt about the vaccines killing massive numbers of people.
The cohort time series analysis is trivial to do. It shows the COVID vaccines killed on average 1 person per 1,000 shots
I did the analysis on the New Zealand data. It’s crystal clear that the shots are kill shots for anyone with a modicum of skill in the field.
So on average 1 death per 1,000 doses. There were 12M doses given in New Zealand. So that’s an estimated excess death of 12,000 people in New Zealand.
So now we finally know what caused over 10,000 excess deaths in New Zealand since the shots rolled out, don’t we? Mystery solved!
Why isn’t the New Zealand mainstream media demanding to see the cohort time-series analysis from the NZMH?
The New Zealand press should be asking the NZMH for the cohort time-series analysis so they can do their own independent analysis of the data and determine whether the NZMH was telling the truth or not.
Instead, the New Zealand press simply accepts ad hominem attacks with no data.
Impressive!
The NZMH should be opening an investigation, but not into the leaker. They should be doing an internal investigation as to how they screwed up so badly and missed this HUGE HUGE safety signal.
The leaker is a hero. The villain in this story is how the NZMH epidemiologists were all asleep at the wheel and not looking at the data. Those epidemiologists have blood on their hands for refusing to look at the data.
They can’t lie about the data anymore. We know exactly what it says.
The epidemiologists at the NZMH have blood on their hands for not reporting this.
Built by Etruscans, the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (509 BC) is the largest Etruscan-style temple in the world
Episode 9 Sanctuaries and Temples
The Mysterious Etruscans
Dr Steven L Tuck (2016)
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Etruscan rulers spent massive amounts on religious sanctuaries, with many dating from the 6th century BC. Ceverteri on the west coast of central Italy, was one of the largest. It was dedicated to Une/Astarte. A goddess equivalent to the Semitic goddess Ishtar, Une was her Etruscan name, and Astarte her Phoenician name (Ceverteri was visited frequently by Phoenician traders).
The Etruscans overthrew the kings and aristocrats who ruled them in the 6th century BC, and the building of religious sanctuaries was part of the public works programs started by their new republican leaders.
They were extremely competitive with their Greek neighbors in the size of their sanctuaries and some had multiple temples. Smaller than those of the Greeks, their temples were built of wood (as opposed to marble) and covered with terra cotta tiles to protect them from rain damage. The Romans went on to build Etruscan-style temples in Egypt and Morocco.
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By: Benjamin Plummer
