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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.

Fox News Scheming to Silence Tucker Carlson and Sideline Him Through 2024 Election

FILE - Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

Matthew Boyle

Breitbart

Fox News is trying to sideline former Tucker Carlson Tonight host Tucker Carlson through the 2024 election, multiple sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.

Carlson’s current contract runs through December 2024, and as of now three sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that executives at the network are trying to keep Carlson on contract and not release him until after the 2024 election. The shocking decision to cancel Carlson’s top-rated weeknight program came just days after the network shut down its top-rated weekend program with host Dan Bongino. What follows here is an insider account from people actually in the know after Breitbart News spent the past several days interviewing key players in the personnel matters at Fox News, asking what really happened.

Two things are clear from speaking to people who actually know what’s happening on the inside: First, the official narrative from the network is untrue. Second, and perhaps more importantly, many of the leaks and speculation that have poured out in the past couple days since the bombshell news of Carlson’s show getting canceled was announced are also simply untrue.

Nobody would speak on the record, for a number of reasons. First off, Fox News and the broader Murdoch empire are known for their ruthlessness against anyone who speaks the truth about what is actually happening there. Network spokeswoman Irena Briganti is believed to use outlets also owned by the Murdochs like the New York Post and Wall Street Journal to plant pieces that reflect poorly on foes of News Corporation.

Secondly, both Carlson and Bongino are technically still under contract by the network. Bongino’s contract runs through the end of April and Carlson’s through the 2024 general election. Both are, sources say, trying to negotiate exit packages—and even after they formally have those agreements in place, there will be non-disparagement clauses that prevent them from ever speaking the truth about this.

In response to requests for comment on this story, Fox News spokespersons just reissued to Breitbart News the same public statements that the network issued when announcing Carlson’s and Bongino’s departures.

“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the Fox News statement on Carlson reads. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”

“We thank Dan for his contributions and wish him success in his future endeavors,” the Fox News statement on Bongino reads.

The brazen power play by the Murdoch family—at the helm of which is elderly patriarch Rupert Murdoch, but rising in power are his sons Lachlan and James Murdoch—is like a scene out of the hit HBO show Succession.

They wiped out their biggest shows both on weekends and on weekdays to show the rest of the staff who’s the real boss, but in effect insiders say they have created a crisis that is quickly burgeoning out of control. In Succession, an aging media mogul, Logan Roy, navigates major business decisions for his sprawling empire while his children aggressively use whatever leverage they have to manipulate goings-on to advance their own positions. While Rupert Murdoch is said to hate the show, its plot is actually very close to what is happening in real life at Fox Corporation—Fox News’s parent company—as the adult children of Rupert Murdoch make moves in their bid to succeed their father.

“As of right now, the plan remains the same: pay out Carlson’s contract and keep him on the sidelines through the 2024 elections,” one source close to Fox News senior executives told Breitbart News. “They knew they would take a beating for this, but everyone — and I mean everyone — is pretty rattled. They weren’t expecting the blowback to be this bad. Hate to say it, but it’s clear that Rupert has lost a step or two.”

That is objectively true: The “blowback” has been severe this week, as evidenced by a steep drop in Fox News ratings in the 8:00 p.m. ET hour day over day:

In fact, replacement host Brian Kilmeade lost to MSNBC in all ratings–and lost to CNN and MSNBC in the key demographic–on Wednesday night.

Multiple other sources told Breitbart News this detail about Carlson’s contract. “He’s still not fired, you know that right?” another Fox News source said about Carlson. “His contract is still ongoing.”

A third source close to Carlson also said it, noting that the Murdochs may end up trying to hold Carlson in his contract through the next presidential election to effectively silence him and keep him from becoming serious competition to them, whatever he ends up doing.

Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly also reported that detail on her show on Thursday, saying that Carlson and Fox News are negotiating his exit and that while his show is canceled and he has been kicked out of his company email address, his contract is still in effect, which keeps him from doing something else.

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Via https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/27/exclusive-disarray-consumes-fox-news-as-murdochs-attempt-to-reassert-control-with-carlson-bongino-ousters/

ABC News censors presidential candidate’s vaccine comments

ABC News censors presidential candidate’s vaccine comments
RT

ABC News has censored an interview with US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Joe Biden’s top challenger for the Democratic Party’s 2024 nomination – by removing his allegedly false assertions about Covid-19 vaccines.

“We should note that during our conversation, Kennedy made false claims about the Covid-19 vaccines,” ABC anchor Linsey Davis said on Thursday after airing her interview with the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy.

She added that Kennedy made “misleading claims” contrary to research findings about a link between certain vaccines and autism. “We’ve used our editorial judgment in not including portions of that exchange in our interview.”

Davis sparred with Kennedy during the interview, saying his past claims about vaccines causing autism had been totally “debunked.” As the candidate began to explain why he believes major public health agencies, such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are “captive,” his comments were cut off. The clip then cuts to Davis pointing out that some of Kennedy’s family members disagree with his views on vaccines.

“I’m just curious, if you’re not able to get your own sisters to vote for you for president, how would you make that appeal to American voters?” the host asked. Kennedy replied that he has a large family with a tradition of openly discussing issues on which they disagree. “That’s something that I think is a lesson we ought to learn for this country. We can disagree with each other without hating each other, without marginalizing each other.” Davis shot back, “I’m just using your family’s words to call you dangerous, rather than saying that’s not like the typical family that might have disagreements around the kitchen table.”

Kennedy noted on Friday that federal law prohibits broadcasters from censoring presidential candidates.

“Instead of journalism, the public saw a hatchet job,” he said. “Instead of information, they got defamation and unsheathed pharma propaganda. Americans deserve to hear the full interview so they can make up their own minds. How can democracy function without a free and unbiased press?”

A Fox News poll released on Thursday showed that although President Biden’s rivals for the Democratic Party’s nomination are longshot candidates, Kennedy is gaining ground. While 62% of Democrat voters want the party to nominate Biden for re-election, 19% favor Kennedy. A previous poll indicated that Kennedy was supported by 14% of Democrats after entering the race earlier this month.

Kennedy is the nephew of John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963, and the son of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot dead on the campaign trail in 1968. He has pledged to end the “corrupt merger between state and corporate power” and has spoken out against Washington’s policy of using military power to enforce global hegemony. “The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the neocons’ short-lived ‘American Century,’” he said earlier this month.
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Celtic Art in Medieval Ireland

Celtic Art - Ireland

Episode 13 Celtic Art and Insular Art

The Celtic World

Dr Jennifer Paxton (2018)

Film Review

During the 5th century AD, Ireland experienced a late flowering of La Tene art.* The latter features stylized (as opposed to realistic) animals and abstract repeating patterns, especially interlacing curvilinear geometric shapes and spirals. If it originated after the Germanic invasion of Britain, this specific genre is returned to as Hiberno-Saxon or insular art.

Insular art seems to have reached Britain and Ireland (by sea) shortly before the arrival Christianity. More common in northern, rthan southern, Ireland, it differs slightly from European La Tene art (which died out after the Roman conquest). Incorporating gold filigree and other techniques introduced by Germanic invaders, insular art also displays classical vegetal (flowers, leaves, vines, etc) themes introduced by Christian missionaries.

During the 3rd and 4th century, Irish metal (used mainly in liturgical accessories) reflected trade with Roman Britain. Beginning in the 7th century, reliquaries (vessels containing the relics of deceased saints) were a common form of Irish metal work.

950 best Relics & Reliquaries images on Pinterest | Casket, Coffer and Double breasted

The Tara Brooch is the most famous piece of metal work from this period. In a time when there were no buttons or zippers, both men and women wore brooches to fasten their mantels.

The Tara Brooch 8th Century National Museum of Ireland Item #: R4015 | Accessories, Metal, Brooch

Extremely intricate manuscript illumination was also an important art form in wealthier 7th – 9th century monasteries.

Manuscript illuminations reflected many of the same motifs found in metal work and textiles. As medieval Ireland had few monumental buildings, it was typical for Irish elites to manifest their wealth through the intricately embroidered garments. Medieval embroiderers had a higher honor** price than the queen.

Stone carving was another medieval Irish art form although it’s harder to date and tends to be degraded by weather. Ireland’s earliest carvings are ogham*** inscriptions used as grave markers. As Ireland became Christianized, Latin grave inscriptions became more common.

18 best Ogham Stones images on Pinterest | Celtic art, Celtic mythology ...

High crosses, the best known Celtic stone work, developed simultaneously in Ireland and Britain. They feature a nimbus (circle) around the cross point. Since the 19th century Gaelic revival, they have been referred to as Celtic crosses.


*See European Celtic Art and Artifacts

**The honor price was the penalty paid in medieval Ireland for murdering someone.

***A script used to record ancient Celtic languages

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

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/5701024/5701050

WHO’s Proposed Limits Far Too Weak on Drinking Water PFAS

The World Health Organization’s draft drinking water guidelines for two “forever chemicals” reveal a “striking and inappropriate disregard of the best available science” and must be “extensively revised” to adequately protect public health.

So wrote former U.S. government scientists Betsy Southerland and Linda Birnbaum in an article published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology.

The stakes are extremely high, according to Southerland, the former director of science and technology at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Water, and Birnbaum, the former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

That’s because once finalized, the WHO’s regulatory framework for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water is likely to be adopted by many countries. The United Nations agency’s draft guidelines are much weaker than rules imposed in Denmark and advanced in Canada, and they could facilitate legal challenges to the U.S. EPA’s proposed standards, which are much more stringent albeit still insufficient according to many public health advocates.

PFAS are a class of hazardous synthetic compounds widely called “forever chemicals” because they persist in people’s bodies and the environment for years on end. Scientists have linked long-term PFAS exposure to numerous adverse health outcomes, including cancer, reproductive and developmental harms, immune system damage, and other negative effects. The substances—used in dozens of everyday household products, including ostensibly “green” and “nontoxic” children’s items, as well as firefighting foam—have been detected in the blood of 97% of Americans and in 100% of breast milk samples.

The WHO’s draft guidance recommends drinking water limits of 100 parts per trillion (ppt) individually for perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)—two of the most well-studied PFAS—and 500 ppt total for the 29 PFAS compounds that can be reliably measured, though this is a fraught topic. The WHO’s proposed limits on PFOS and PFOA are 25 times higher than those put forth last month by the U.S. EPA, and such a significant gap could hinder federal and state efforts to better regulate the nation’s drinking water.

What accounts for the glaring discrepancy between the two agencies? According to the new article, the WHO has proposed relatively weak PFAS limits because its working group contends that “there is significant uncertainty and lack of consensus on whether PFOA and PFOS can be linked to adverse health effects.”

Southerland and Birnbaum condemned the WHO’s conclusion as “a striking and inappropriate disregard for the best available science.” As the authors noted, numerous studies “link exposure to PFOA, PFOS, and other PFAS with multiple health effects, including immune effects, increased cholesterol, liver, and thyroid problems, reproductive and developmental harm, and multiple types of cancer.”

In addition to failing to “take into account the overwhelming global scientific evidence of serious health effects in epidemiological studies,” the WHO’s guidelines “misrepresent the effectiveness of affordable, readily available treatment technology,” Southerland and Birnbaum argued. “At the same time that the European Chemicals Agency is considering restrictions on the manufacture and use of all PFAS on the basis of the scientific evidence, it is stunning that the WHO maintains no health-based guidance values can be developed. To support the work of public health agencies worldwide providing people with safe drinking water, the WHO guidance levels need to be extensively revised.”

The new article comes almost six months after more than 100 scientists sent a letter calling on the WHO to completely overhaul or withdraw its draft guidance and to disclose authorship and potential conflicts of interest.

In response to that letter and other demands for transparency, the WHO published a list of contributors in January. However, it remains unclear if the list is comprehensive.

Moreover, the WHO has not yet disclosed the feedback it received during the public comment period, nor has the agency announced when it plans to finalize its proposed rules.

“It is critically important for the safety of drinking water worldwide,” wrote Southerland and Birnbaum, “that WHO recommendations are based on the best available science on the health effects of PFAS and the effectiveness of drinking water treatment technology.”

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Via https://www.commondreams.org/news/who-pfas-drinking-water-proposal

Pfizer’s Own Data Show Vaccines Never Safe for Pregnant Women

By David Bell, M.D.

Brownstone Institute

Pfizer elected not to follow up the vast majority of pregnancies in the original human trials, despite high miscarriage rates in the minority they did follow.

The mRNA vaccines were released globally in early 2021 with the slogan “safe and effective.” Unusually for a new class of medicine, they were soon recommended by public health authorities for pregnant women.

By late 2021, working-age women, including those who were pregnant, were being thrown out of employment for not agreeing to be injected.

Those who took the mRNA vaccines did so based on trust in health authorities — the assumption being that they would not have been approved if the evidence was not absolutely clear.

The role of regulatory agencies was to protect the public and, therefore, if they were approved, the “vaccines” were safe.

Recently, a lengthy vaccine evaluation report sponsored by Pfizer and submitted to the Australian regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) dated January 2021 was released under a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

The report contains significant new information that had been suppressed by the TGA and by Pfizer itself. Much of this relates directly to the issue of safety in pregnancy and its impacts on the fertility of women of childbearing age.

The whole report is important, but four key data points stand out:

  • The rapid decline in antibody and T cells in monkeys following the second dose.
  • Biodistribution studies (previously released in 2021 through a FOI request in Japan).
  • Data on the impact of fertility outcomes for rats.
  • Data on fetal abnormalities in rats.

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The first, as revealed in 2021, involved biodistribution studies of the lipid nanoparticle (LNP) carrier in rats, using a luciferase enzyme to substitute for the mRNA vaccine.

The study demonstrated that the vaccine will travel throughout the body after injection, and is found not only at the injection site but in all organs tested, with high concentration in the ovaries, liver, adrenal glands and spleen.

Authorities who assured vaccinated people in early 2021 that the vaccine stays in the arm were, as we have known for two years, lying.

Lipid concentration per gram, recalculated as percentage of injection site.

In terms of the impact on fertility and fetal abnormalities, the report includes a study of 44 rats and describes two main metrics, the pre-implantation loss rate and the number of abnormalities per fetus (also expressed per litter). In both cases, the metrics were significantly higher for vaccinated rats than for unvaccinated rats.

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In a case-control study, a doubling of pregnancy loss in the intervention group would represent a serious safety signal.

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A similar pattern is observed for fetal malformations with higher abnormality rate in each of the 12 categories studied. Of the 11 categories where Pfizer confirmed the data is correct, there are only two total abnormalities in the control group, versus 28 with the mRNA vaccine (BNT162b2).

In the category which Pfizer labeled as unreliable (supernumerary lumbar ribs), there were three abnormalities in the control group and 12 in the vaccinated group.

As with the increased pregnancy losses, Pfizer simply ignored the trend and compared the results with historical data from other rat populations. This is very significant as it is seen across every malformation category.

The case-control nature of the study design is again ignored, in order to apparently hide the negative outcomes demonstrated.

These data indicate that there is NO basis for saying the vaccine is safe in pregnancy.

The concentration of LNPs in ovaries, a doubled pregnancy loss rate and raised fetal abnormality rate across all measured categories indicate that designating a safe-in-pregnancy label (B1 category in Australia) was contrary to available evidence.

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Known unknowns and missing data:

Despite the negative nature of these outcomes, the classification of this medicine as a vaccine appears to have precluded further animal trials. Historically, new medicines, especially in classes never used in humans before, would require a very rigorous assessment.

Vaccines, however, have a lower burden of proof requirement than ordinary medicines.

Classifying mRNA injections as “vaccines,” ensured regulatory approval with significantly less stringent safety requirements, as the TGA itself notes.

In fact, mRNA gene therapies function more like medicines than vaccines in that they modify the internal functioning of cells, rather than stimulating an immune response to the presence of an antigen.

Labeling these gene therapy products as vaccines means that, as far as we are aware, even today no genotoxicity or carcinogenicity studies have been carried out.

This report, which was only released after a FOI request, is extremely disturbing as it shows that authorities knew of major risks with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination while simultaneously assuring populations that it was safe.

The fact that mainstream media has (as far as we are aware) completely ignored the newly released data should reinforce the need for caution when listening to the advice of public health messaging regarding COVID-19 vaccination.

Firstly, it is clear that regulators, drug companies and the government would have known that vaccine-induced immunity tails off very rapidly with this being observed in real-world data with efficacy against infection falling to zero.

Accordingly, the single point-in-time figures of 95% and 62% efficacy against cases quoted for Pfizer and ChAdOx1 (AstraZeneca) respectively meant almost nothing since a rapid decline was to be expected.

Similarly, the concept of a two-dose “course” was inaccurate as endless boosters would likely have been required given the rapid decline in antibodies and T-cells observed in the monkeys.

Most importantly, the data does not in any way support the “safe” conclusion with respect to pregnancy; a conclusion of dangerous would be more accurate. The assurances of safety were, therefore, completely misleading given the data disclosures in the recent freedom of information release.

Regulatory authorities knew that animal studies showed major red flags regarding both pregnancy loss and fetal abnormalities, consistent with the systemic distribution of the mRNA they had been hiding from the public.

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Pfizer elected not to follow up the vast majority of pregnancies in the original human trials, despite high miscarriage rates in the minority they did follow.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-covid-vaccine-pregnancy/

 

‘Tucker Twitter Files’ Reveal How WHO Helped Twitter Censor Tucker Carlson

The “Tucker Twitter files,” released Thursday by journalist Paul D. Thacker, show that in June 2021, Twitter sought to censor Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson after he published an op-ed stating that the COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous for children. Carlson cited information found on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website — information the WHO “stealth-edited” after Carlson’s commentary

Tucker Carlson made headlines this week for being suddenly ousted by Fox News — but in the latest release of the “Twitter files” the former news commentator made headlines for a different reason.

The documents, titled the “Tucker Twitter files,” released Thursday by investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker, show that in June 2021, Twitter sought to censor Carlson after he published an op-ed for Fox News saying that the COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous for children.

Carlson’s op-ed cited information that was, up until that point, publicly viewable on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website. However, after Carlson’s op-ed was published, that information disappeared from the site.

The files released Thursday also reveal that Twitter executives held internal debates over how best to censor the content in Carlson’s op-ed — an initiative that was led by a former press secretary for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

In an exclusive interview with The Defender on Thursday, Thacker expounded on the significance of these findings — and hinted at what the next “Twitter files” dump might reveal.

Twitter ‘clipping Tucker Carlson’s wings’

Thacker, who wrote about his findings on his Substack, said that the “bird factory” — referring to Twitter — engaged in “clipping Tucker Carlson’s wings” via its attempted censorship of his op-ed.

Despite being “controversial and polarizing,” Thacker said, Carlson was “One of the few Americans to challenge the official framework of acceptable narratives” and, as such, was “hated by the mainstream reporters for daring to throw darts at liberal pieties.”

“Why did Twitter censor Tucker Carlson? Better yet, who helped Twitter do that?” Thacker asked.

Thacker noted that while he was “reading an endless sea of #TwitterFiles” pertaining to efforts to “censor alleged ‘COVID misinformation,’” he unexpectedly discovered documents detailing attempts to censor Carlson.

These efforts appear to have begun on June 24, 2021, when Elizabeth Busby, a policy communications specialist with “Twitter Comms,” sent an email to colleagues inquiring if an op-ed Carlson had written the previous day should be flagged for COVID-19 “misinformation.”

In her email, Busby inquired whether links to Carlson’s op-ed “violate our COVID-19 misleading information policy and qualify for enforcement under our URL policy.” She added, “We’ve seen some Tweets with the link … and some that contain counterspeech.”

In the same message, Busby noted that “in the past,” Twitter had applied a boilerplate warning “to sites containing COVID-19 misinfo” and “Given Tucker’s visibility, we anticipate there may be some press interest regardless of the enforcement outcome.”

Thacker discovered that Busby was not just an ordinary Twitter employee. She joined Twitter in 2020, after leaving the U.S. Senate, where she worked as the deputy national press secretary to then-Senate Majority Leader Schumer.

According to Thacker, “Busby’s work history includes a stint at SKDKnickerbocker, a PR and lobby shop closely aligned with the Democratic party. Busby now leads ‘trust and safety communications’ at Twitch.”

He also noted that Schumer was “a frequent critic of Tucker Carlson.”

WHO ‘stealth-edited’ its COVID vaccine guidance for children after Carlson’s op-ed

What was all the fuss about? Carlson’s June 23, 2021, op-ed for Fox News — “The COVID vaccine is dangerous for kids, Big Tech doesn’t want you to know that” — referred to language available on the WHO’s website that explicitly did not recommend the COVID-19 vaccines for children.

In that op-ed, which was adapted from Carlson’s opening commentary on that day’s broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” he referred to then-new guidance from the WHO and also recommendations from medical experts.

Carlson said:

“Since the beginning of the pandemic, key pieces of medical guidance from the World Health Organization have proven to be disastrously false — false enough to cost lives. It was the WHO, you’ll remember, that told us COVID couldn’t be transmitted between people, even as the virus was spreading into the United States. It was the WHO that worked in stealth with the Chinese government to obscure the source of the outbreak at the beginning, and then hide its origins from the world. …

“… bureaucrats at the WHO published new vaccine guidance. Here’s what it says: Children should not take the coronavirus vaccine. Why? The drugs are too dangerous. There’s not nearly enough data to understand the long-term effects or to show that the benefits are worth the risk that they bring.

“This is terrible news, of course, for the pharmaceutical industry. Big Pharma has been planning to test the vaccine on 6-month-olds.”

According to Thacker, the WHO published an evaluation of vaccine safety and efficacy on April 8, 2021, for the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

For children, the WHO issued the following recommendation:

“Children should not be vaccinated for the moment. There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

“Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.”

Twitter sought to censor Carlson while avoiding ‘political risks’

According to Thacker, the day after the WHO “stealth-edited” its vaccine guidance, Twitter officials began discussing Tucker’s essay — after Busby brought it to their attention.

Twitter employee Brian Clarke responded to Busby’s June 24, 2021, email that same day, writing, “We are going to proceed with labeling any Tweets linking to the article we detect that advance the claim that WHO has deemed the vaccine dangerous for children.”

However, Clarke said, “Given that this article’s narrative is related to ‘big tech censorship’, I want to be mindful that taking action on the URL level could lead to this particular article gaining more traction rather than mitigating the harm associated with it.

“We’re going to keep an eye on any ongoing discussions related to the article and if it happens to gain traction we will review again under our URL guidelines,” Clarke added.

According to Thacker, “Twitter officials also discussed looping in top Twitter execs, such as the general counsel, due to the ‘political risks’ associated with such actions. Yoel Roth [then-head of Trust and Safety for Twitter] agreed with this approach to ‘escalate.’”

This included a recommendation that then-general counsel for Twitter Vijaya Gadde review any actions taken against Fox News, “given political risks,” while Roth stated that any action against Fox would be “escalated” internally within Twitter.

Joseph Guay, at the time Twitter’s senior policy specialist for “misinformation,” then shared an email with Busby, Clarke and other Twitter personnel, advising them on various options they had available to them to take action against tweets containing a link to Carlson’s op-ed, without directly censoring Fox News.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/twitter-files-world-health-organization-tucker-carlson/?utm_id=20230428

De-dollarization kicks into high gear

https://media.thecradle.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Putin-bin-Salman-Mbs-Xi.jpgPhoto Credit: The Cradle

Pepe Escobar

The Cradle

It is now established that the US dollar’s status as a global reserve currency is eroding. When corporate western media begins to attack the multipolar world’s de-dollarization narrative in earnest, you know the panic in Washington has fully set in.

The numbers: the dollar share of global reserves was 73 percent in 2001, 55 percent in 2021, and 47 percent in 2022. The key takeaway is that last year, the dollar share slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.

Now it is no longer far-fetched to project a global dollar share of only 30 percent by the end of 2024, coinciding with the next US presidential election.

The defining moment – the actual trigger leading to the Fall of the Hegemon – was in February 2022, when over $300 billion in Russian foreign reserves were “frozen” by the collective west, and every other country on the planet began fearing for their own dollar stores abroad. There was some comic relief in this absurd move, though: the EU “can’t find” most of it.

Now cue to some current essential developments on the trading front.

Over 70 percent of trade deals between Russia and China now use either the ruble or the yuan, according to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.

Russia and India are trading oil in rupees. Less than four weeks ago, Banco Bocom BBM became the first Latin American bank to sign up as a direct participant of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), which is the Chinese alternative to the western-led financial messaging system, SWIFT.

China’s CNOOC and France’s Total signed their first LNG trade in yuan via the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange.

The deal between Russia and Bangladesh for the construction of the Rooppur nuclear plant will also bypass the US dollar. The first $300 million payment will be in yuan, but Russia will try to switch the next ones to rubles.

Russia and Bolivia’s bilateral trade now accepts settlements in Boliviano. That’s extremely pertinent, considering Rosatom’s drive to be a crucial part of the development of lithium deposits in Bolivia.

Notably, many of those trades involve BRICS countries – and beyond. At least 19 nations have already requested to join BRICS+, the extended version of the 21st century’s major multipolar institution, whose founding members are Brazil, Russia, India, and China, then South Africa. The foreign ministers of the original five will start discussing the modalities of accession for new members in an upcoming June summit in Capetown.

BRICS, as it stands, is already more relevant to the global economy than the G7. The latest IMF figures reveal that the existing five BRICS nations will contribute 32.1 percent to global growth, compared to the G7’s 29.9 percent.

With Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Indonesia, and Mexico as possible new members, it is clear that key Global South players are starting to focus on the quintessential multilateral institution capable of smashing Western hegemony.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) are working in total sync as Moscow’s partnership with Riyadh in OPEC+ metastasizes into BRICS+, in parallel to the deepening Russia-Iran strategic partnership.

MbS has willfully steered Saudi Arabia toward Eurasia’s new power trio Russia-Iran-China (RIC), away from the US. The new game in West Asia is the incoming BRIICSS – featuring, remarkably, both Iran and Saudi Arabia, whose historic reconciliation was brokered by yet another BRICS heavyweight, China.

Importantly, the evolving Iran-Saudi rapprochement also implies a much closer relationship between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as a whole and the Russia-China strategic partnership.

This will translate into complementary roles – in terms of trade connectivity and payment systems – for the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), linking Russia-Iran-India, and the China-Central-Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor, a key plank of Beijing’s ambitious, multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Today, only Brazil, with its President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva caged by the Americans and an erratic foreign policy, runs the risk of being relegated by the BRICS to the status of a secondary player.

Beyond BRIICSS

The de-dollarization train has been propelled to high-speed status by the accumulated effects of Covid-linked supply chain chaos and collective western sanctions on Russia.

The essential point is this: The BRICS have the commodities, and the G7 controls finance. The latter can’t grow commodities, but the former can create currencies – especially when their value is linked to tangibles like gold, oil, minerals, and other natural resources.

Arguably the key swing factor is that pricing for oil and gold is already shifting to Russia, China, and West Asia.

In consequence, demand for dollar-denominated bonds is slowly but surely collapsing. Trillions of US dollars will inevitably start to go back home – shattering the dollar’s purchasing power and its exchange rate.

The fall of a weaponized currency will end up smashing the whole logic behind the US’ global network of 800+ military bases and their operating budgets.

Since mid-March, in Moscow, during the Economic Forum of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CSI) – one of the key inter-government organizations in Eurasia formed after the fall of the USSR – further integration is being actively discussed between the CSI, the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS.

Eurasian organizations coordinating the counterpunch to the current western-led system, which tramples on international law, was not by accident one of the key themes of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech at the UN earlier this week. It is also no accident that four member-states of the CIS – Russia and three Central Asian “stans” – founded the SCO along with China in June 2001.

The Davos/Great Reset globalist combo, for all practical purposes, declared war on oil immediately after the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine. They threatened OPEC+ to isolate Russia – or else, but failed humiliatingly. OPEC+, effectively run by Moscow-Riyadh, now rules the global oil market.

Western elites are in a panic. Especially after Lula’s bombshell on Chinese soil during his visit with Xi Jinping, when he called on the whole Global South to replace the US dollar with their own currencies in international trade.

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The petroyuan cometh

And that brings us back to de-dollarization and what will replace the hegemonic reserve currency of the world. Today, the GCC represents more than 25 percent of global oil exports (Saudi Arabia stands at 17 percent). More than 25 percent of China’s oil imports come from Riyadh. And China, predictably, is the GCC’s top trading partner.

The Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange went into business in March 2018. Any oil producer, from anywhere, can sell in Shanghai in yuan today. This means that the balance of power in the oil markets is already shifting from the US dollar to the yuan.

The catch is that most oil producers prefer not to keep large stashes of yuan; after all, everyone is still used to the petrodollar. Cue to Beijing linking crude futures in Shanghai to converting yuan into gold. And all that without touching China’s massive gold reserves.

This simple process happens via gold exchanges set up in Shanghai and Hong Kong. And not by accident, it lies at the heart of a new currency to bypass the dollar being discussed by the EAEU.

Dumping the dollar already has a mechanism: making full use of the Shanghai Energy Exchange’s future oil contracts in yuan. That’s the preferred path for the end of the petrodollar.

US global power projection is fundamentally based on controlling the global currency. Economic control underlies the Pentagon’s ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ doctrine. Yet now, even military projection is in shambles, with Russia maintaining an unreachable advance on hypersonic missiles and Russia-China-Iran able to deploy an array of carrier-killers.

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Via https://thecradle.co/article-view/24080/de-dollarization-kicks-into-high-gear

Comprehensive List of Post-Vaccination Resources

The Blogging Hounds

This article is a collection of resources, worldwide, which aims to help those who have been injured by “vaccines,” suspect they or someone they know has been vaccine injured or are concerned they are at risk of vaccine injury. 

Information in this article is NOT intended to serve as a substitute for diagnosis, treatment, or advice from a qualified, licensed medical professional. Any treatment protocol you undertake should be discussed with your doctor, physician or another licensed medical professional. Seek the advice of a medical professional for proper application of ANY material listed in this article.

We know that there are numerous resources available covering varying and multi-disciplinary aspects for vaccine injured covering anything from legal advice to community support to detox guides.  We cannot hope to collect them on our own.  So, if you are aware of any reliable resources that would be helpful, please share them in the comments below this article and we will update our list from time to time to include them.  This article will, therefore, hopefully, be an ever-growing list of resources. Thank you to our readers who have contributed to this list thus far.

When you share a resource, please briefly describe what sort of information it provides so others who read your comment can easily assess if it is the help they seek. Please also note whether the resource is country-specific, and if so which country, or worldwide.

Bear in mind that if you share a resource under a post that is not on one of our pages then we will not see it.  The most helpful way to share your resource is as a comment under this article on our website – not only for us but so others can see it irrespective of the social media platform they use.

Share Your Story

  1. Real not Rare HERE
  2. No More Silence HERE
  3. Covid Vaccine Injuries HERE
  4. Vaccine Injuries HERE
  5. Jab Injuries Global (previously Jab Injuries Australia) HERE
  6. Unerwuenscht (Switzerland), a film project HERE
  7. Adverse Reaction Report (Video) HERE
  8. Adverse on Odysee (Video) HERE.
  9. Scottish Vaccine injury Group HERE.

Help and Support

  1. People’s Health Alliance HERE.
  2. React19 – Science-based support for people suffering from long-term Covid vaccine effects HERE.
  3. UK CV Family – Covid Vaccine Injured HERE.
  4. Justice, Awareness and Basic Support (JABS) – UK support group for parents who believe their children have suffered severe harm or have died following childhood vaccinations HERE.
  5. Find Others – UK Families fighting for a bespoke compensation scheme for Covid-19 vaccine Injured and bereaved HERE.
  6. Post-Vaccine Syndrome (PVS) Switzerland, a self-help association to organise information and medical help for its members HERE
  7. Corona vaccine victim (Japan), guidance and support for vaccine-injured and victims discrimination HERE

Medical Resources

  1. Safe Blood – An international resource for recipients and donors of unvaccinated blood HERE
  2. Evidence-based doctors registry (USA) for patients HERE.  Evidence-based physicians (USA) can register HERE.  Note: Read Steve Kirsch’s article regarding a disclaimer in respect of California HERE.

Legal Tips

  1. The Daily Beagle article – Legal Strategies for Vaccine Victims.  A brief description of some laws that have been broken that may provide insight into the ways legal proceedings against perpetrators could be approached HERE.
  2. Faith Reporters article – When should medics be liable for their practice? A seven-part series of articles written by a lawyer giving insight on what grounds patients can sue for malpractice HERE.

Spike Protein Detox and Treatment Protocols

  1. C19Protocols – Post-Vaccination Protocols HERE.
  2. FLCCC Alliance – I-RECOVER: Post-Vaccine Treatment HERE.
  3. World Council for Health – Spike Protein Detox Guide HERE.
  4. Brave Survival Episode 6 (subscription only, free for a limited time) – Learn about the top protocols and treatments that world-renowned experts are currently using to treat vaccine-related injuries VIDEO HERE.  Find out more HERE.
  5. Unbreakable Series Episode 7 (subscription only) – Discover expert insight into the treatments and protocols you can follow to regain your health post-vaccine and detox your body from their gene-altering technology. Find out more HERE.
  6. Herbal Stuff n Things – Dandelion Inhibits Spike Protein Bonding (2021 study) VIDEO HERE.
  7. Orthomolecular Medicine News Service – Cancelling the Spike Protein HERE.
  8. Dr. Rima Laibow, Open Source Truth – The Spike Protein eBook, Read and Download HERE.

DNA Repair

  1. Dr. Henry Ealy, America out Loud – DNA Repair, Yes, It’s Possible to Heal from the Shots PODCAST HERE.

Graphene Detox

  1. The Exposé article – Zinc Inhibits Influenza Virus, Covid and Helps Our Body Detox from Graphene HERE.
  2. The Exposé article – How to Remove Graphene Oxide from The Body HERE.
  3. Dr. Louisa Williams, Wise Traditions – Detox from The Shot and Shedding PODCAST HERE.
  4. Dr. Ariyana Love – Detox Protocols for The Vaxxed and Unvaxxed HERE.

General Advice and Tips

  1. Spikeshot Detox, and Treatment for Covid-19 Spikeshot Injuries PDF HERE.
  2. The Exposé Letter to the Editor – A Comprehensive Collection of Articles That May Help Remedy Vaccine Injuries HERE.
  3. Dr. Alan Goldhamer – Healing Disease with Water Fasting and a Plant-Based Diet VIDEO HERE.

Autopsy Protocols

  1. Steve Kirsch article – The tests to assess whether a death was caused by the Covid vaccine HERE and Dr. Burkhardt’s protocol for autopsy HERE.

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You’ll find Dr Ardis’ suggested supplements right below.

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Via https://theblogginghounds.com/2023/04/28/a-list-of-post-vaccination-resources-help-us-to-help-you/

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump: The Left-Right Punch to Corporatist Fascism

Global Research

Corporatism, with its offspring Fascism and Nazism, is supported by totalitarians of the left and the right and its libertarian opponents also spring from the left and the right. On “the left” both “communists” and “welfare socialists” oppose corporatism and on “the right” democratic enterprise capitalists and small businesses fight corporatism.

The almost total irrelevance of the notions of “left” and “right” I set out in my 1988 book The Emancipated Society, advocating in place of the “horizontal” left right paradigm the “vertical” authoritarian-libertarian axis.

We now have in the USA two Presidential candidates who cut across the corrupted party system which – in all so called “democratic” western countries – have combined in a corporatist conspiracy against their peoples, giving them a vote but no choice.

The US Presidential system gives the people a better chance of voting for a complete philosophical change – or at least openly challenge the status quo. And at last we now have on both the traditional “left” (Democrat Party) and the traditional “right” (the Republican Party) individuals who threaten the corporatist Establishment – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump.

In his recent presidential candidacy launch speech in Boston Kennedy lambasted:

  • the partnerships of corporations and governments to swindle and gaslight the public;
  • the reckless military adventurism-for-profit campaign that has bankrupted the USA, now culminating in the Ukraine fiasco;
  • the botched response to Covid-19 and the corporate chicanery that induced it;
  • the financial corruption that is driving America into inflation and bankruptcy.

He recognises the State corporate axis which is increasingly unchallengeable democratically and the politicised media which silence dissent and alternatives in policy, science, intellectual life and medicine.

Like Donald Trump, who was banned from Twitter, Kennedy was banned from Youtube and Instagram. Trump was a reluctant COVID “Lockdowner’ and Kennedy points to the terrible consequences for health – lockdowns were:

“a war on American children,” citing a Brown University study that found toddlers lost 22 IQ points. “Children all over the country have missed their milestones” because of the lockdowns. “What is the CDC’s response? The CDC five months ago revised its milestones so that now a child no longer is expected to walk at 1 year … they walk at 18 months. And a child now does not have to have 50 words in 24 months, it’s 30 months. So instead of fixing the problem, they are trying to cover it up.”

Just as Donald Trump has been the victim of provenly fallacious deep state and msm scams like the Steele dossier, the Russian interference lie and “the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation” lie (as Mike Morell a former CIA director has just admitted) so Kennedy is accused of being an “anti vaxxer” and peddler of “misinformation”.

Kennedy reminded his audience of his father’s and his uncle’s treatment by the Deep state which they both sought to oppose and bring under democratic control – and both paying with their lives. John F. Kennedy had threatened “to shred the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the four winds”.

The hatred of some Establishment Republicans for Donald Trump, the disruptor on the “right”, mirrors Kennedy’s unpopularity among “the Left”.

Who said this?

“We are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.”

“For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.

“Washington flourished – but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.

While they celebrated in our nation’s Capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land”

Well those words could have been said by either Kennedy or Trump because they both identify the centralised, unchallengeable corporate State, run to the benefit of both left and right establishments as the enemy of the people in a country where democratic accountability has given way to corporatist fascism, both in domestic and international affairs. Both Trump and Kennedy oppose reckless foreign interventions and their enormous cost. Both would be peacemakers.

In fact the above words are from President Donald Trump’s Inauguration address.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/robert-f-kennedy-jr-donald-trump-left-right-punch-corporatist-fascism/5817333

Microplastics Detected in Human Testis and Semen — What Are the Risks?

By Huanjia Zhang

Environmental Health News

A new pilot study shows that microplastics — plastic particles that are smaller than five millimeters or close to the size of a short rice grain — can be found in human testis and semen, according to the paper published last month in Science of The Total Environment.

While experts believe more data are needed to confirm the findings, this study sheds light on the possible penetration of microplastics into the human reproductive system and the urgency for understanding their potential health impact.

Led by researchers from Peking University in China, the small-scale study analyzed six testis and 30 semen samples for the presence of microplastics using two different laboratory techniques.

Microplastics were detected in both human testis and semen, with the abundance in the testis significantly higher than that in semen.

The researchers found differences in the types of microplastics predominating in either testis or semen. While polystyrene, a main ingredient for plastic foams, was the most abundant polymer in the testis samples; polyethylene, which is commonly used for packaging and polyvinyl chloride, which makes PVC pipes, were predominant in the semen.

Additionally, they concluded that microplastics ranging from 20 micrometers to 100 micrometers, which is the average diameter of human hair, were the most common in testis, while those in semen had bigger sizes.

The fact that tiny plastic particles were found in human testis and semen is “no surprise,” Dick Vethaak, an ecotoxicologist and emeritus professor at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam who has been investigating microplastics but is not involved with this study, told Environmental Health News (EHN). However, whether it is true that the larger microplastics can penetrate the male reproductive organs, as reported in this study, still presents “quite a question mark.”

“It’s a pilot study that, in my opinion, provides preliminary evidence that microplastics are present in human testis,” Vethaak said. “But before we can draw any definite conclusions, I think we need more data.”

The paper’s lead authors did not respond to the interview requests by EHN.

How widespread are microplastics?

Typically derived from plastic breakdowns or used as an ingredient in commercial products, microplastics can be as ubiquitous as plastic products are. As microplastics transverse through the global environment — from the French Pyrenees to Arctic sea ice — these particles also permeate our daily lives, with traces found in drinking water, food and air.

Previously, Vethaak and his collaborators have identified microplastics in human blood.

“If it’s in the blood, it can in fact go everywhere in your body,” he said, adding that mounting scientific evidence has also indicated that microplastics can enter the human gut, lungs and placenta. Despite their omnipresence, the health impact of microplastics still remains unclear due to scant scientific evidence.

‘An important first step’

“I do think it’s an important first step,” Douglas Walker, an environmental health professor at Emory University who is not involved in this study, told EHN about the new paper.

“I think [the researchers] are establishing a foundation to show that they’re being detected in different types of tissues.”

Walker, whose lab has been trying to develop a scalable and reliable exposure assessment method for microplastics, said the authors in this study “did take acceptable steps” to ensure the microplastics measured in the analysis were actually present in the samples versus contaminations introduced during the experiment.

“One of the challenges that we face in developing methods to measure microplastics — and one of the reasons that they are so difficult to quantify — is that microplastics are everywhere,” Walker said.

“If you go into a research laboratory, one of the first things you’ll notice is that just about everything is plastic there.”

Still, echoing Vethaak’s point, Walker said the study’s results on the larger microplastics can be “a little concerning,” especially given that previous evidence has typically linked smaller particles to the human body uptake.

In addition, given the small sample size of this study, Walker warned against drawing conclusions on the potential health impact. “It shows the potential for microplastics to exert some effects on the male reproductive organs,” he said. “What that effect is, we can’t say at this point.”

Microplastics’ unknown health impact

Shanna Swan, who is a leading reproductive epidemiologist from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is not involved in the study, told EHN that, at this point, scientists “can only speculate” the impact of microplastics on human health based on the chemicals that have been studied in plastics — such as phthalates and polychlorinated biphenyls.

Swan is also an adjunct scientist with Environmental Health Sciences, the publisher of EHN.

“We know a lot about what those [chemicals] do individually, but what they do in the form of a microplastic or nanoplastic, we don’t know yet,” said Swan, whose research helped underpin that global human sperm counts and quality are declining at an alarming rate.

In addition, emerging studies in animal models, such as mice, also pointed to microplastic exposures to the potential adverse outcomes in spermatogenesis and sperm quality, hinting at the possible risk of these particles for male fertility health in mammalian organisms.

“We know testosterone levels are decreasing worldwide,” she said. “Is that related to the presence of microplastics in their organs? I don’t know — that is an open question.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/microplastics-male-reproductive-system-testis-semen-ehn/