By Diana Johnstone

Consortium News

A bunch of people who disagree with each other on a lot of things have actually gotten together to organize a big antiwar rally in Washington next Sunday.  I say, Bravo!

In a nation as divided as the United States is today, a large rally of people who agree with each other on everything is hardly imaginable.

A rally by people who disagree with each other gives hope that a movement to stop war can grow, and even shake the political system paralyzed by the military industrial congressional complex and confusion spread by its servile media.

Abroad, the United States has exploited deep political enmities to provoke a war in Ukraine intended to split Europe definitively, cutting Russia off totally from Germany and the EU, cementing permanent U.S. control of Western Europe.

This divisive policy is pursued in all sorts of sneaky ways that make it hard to uncover and explain. The war in Ukraine creates division between those who have understood what it’s all about and those who haven’t. A large movement is needed to spread discussion, understanding and opposition.

While supporting the war machine’s foreign policy of divide and rule, in recent years the American political class has also fostered internal divisions to an unprecedented extent — some of them real, some of them more or less artificial.

The degree of internal animosity echoes the international hatred fostered by U.S. President Joe Biden’s geopolitical mindset.  WE are the GOOD (democracy), THEY are BAD (not communism any more, rather, “autocracy”).

At home, Democrats and Republicans, left and right are two different species, one species born good and the other bad.  The bad are inherently bad, with a contagious badness, so we must not meet and try to persuade them.  We must have nothing to do with them, and a political apartheid might be the solution. A sort of moral/political racism, creating total division between US and THEM reigns both at home and abroad.

In such an atmosphere, it is no wonder that the Feb. 19 rally “Rage Against the War Machine,” its organizers and its speakers, are being attacked for not being good enough.

Organizers & Speakers

The main announced organizers of the Rage rally are two relatively weak political organizations: the People’s Party and the Libertarian Party.  Their weakness should be a positive signal. Inasmuch as neither has the strength to manage a really significant antiwar movement alone, these sponsors are voluntarily offering the movement as a gift to all who take it up. So grab it!

Inevitably, however, the rally itself is being attacked, even by some opponents of the current war, on grounds of the political deficiencies of the organizers.

Could veteran activists be so petty as to be jealous that somebody else got there first?  I hope not.

Veteran socialist and antiwar militant Jeff Mackler has strongly condemned the rally as “reactionary” mainly because it is backed by the Libertarian Party. Its success would be a defeat for all enemies of the capitalist system, he has claimed.  At one point he observes:

“The Libertarians’ call for a return to a capitalist society where ‘free competition’ prevails is pure fantasy.”

For one thing, that policy has nothing to do with the demands of the rally.  For another, if Libertarian Party socio-economic policies are indeed pure fantasy, totally inapplicable in today’s world, they are nothing to worry about.

Come to the rally, try to find a Libertarian and argue. Libertarians are against spending billions for war, this is a point of agreement that could start a fruitful discussion.

Leftist militants who believe a man can be transformed into a woman should have no trouble believing that a libertarian might be transformed into a socialist.  Such miracles do occur.

Guilt by Association  

Besides that, the presence of the People’s Party makes it clear that the Libertarians’ extreme free market policies are irrelevant to the rally.

The Libertarian Party quickly demonstrated its incapacity to lead the movement very far by its failure to support an important announced speaker against personal attacks — to the dismay, incidentally, of leading libertarians.  But the bandwagon rolls on.

Some critics of the rally trot out a favorite cliché of the self-righteous left according to which we must stay away in order not to “legitimize” rightwing participants. This “legitimize” threat is merely the other side of the “guilt by association” coin. Both are used to evade discussion of serious matters by treating political convictions as if they were incurable contagious diseases.

It is perfectly childish to claim that anyone is “legitimized” (or guilty) by random association, such as participation in an antiwar demonstration.

The Feb. 19 speakers’ list is very long, perhaps even too long for the time allotted. But the point is precisely to show a range of viewpoints.

However much I may disagree with this one or that one on somethings, or even on everything else, I am glad to see them getting together to stop the rush toward World War III.

When the subject is WAR, if you can join in opposition only with people who agree with you about everything else, you have lost the sense of common humanity.

The organizers’ list is short, too short.  It would be great to see ANSWER, Black Alliance for Peace, Code Pink and other longstanding antiwar organizations involved. No single one of them is strong enough to build a major mass movement alone — at least, so far, none of them have proposed anything as promising as Feb. 19.

The failure of Feb. 19 would not be their success. It would be a failure for all who oppose the war, showing that internal divisions can unravel every hope.

The rally is open. Everyone can share its success by crashing the party, arousing their supporters and friends, turning the rally into the broad, wide-open mass movement that can really begin to challenge the war machine. The need for peace is nobody’s private property.

Wherever you see popular resistance to war begin to come to life, go to it and make it belong to everybody.

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Via https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/14/diana-johnstone-demonstrate-together/

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Michael for the tremendous work and hundreds of hours spent compiling this important data from official medical sources: (Canadian Medical Association, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Provincial Medical Associations, Canadian Medical University Alumni Associations, Provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and online obituary aggregators), as well as Sonja, VA and everyone else who provided valuable contributions over time.

This data has been available to the Canadian Medical Association as well as the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Via https://makismd.substack.com/p/news-132-canadian-doctors-have-died-38e

Igor Chudov

I am pleasantly surprised to see the mainstream German publication Die Welt openly asserting that clinical trials of the “Pfizer COVID vaccine” were rife with fraud. (paywall-free German language link, PDF with English translation) What a change!

Again, click here for the English version saved as a PDF file.

The article explains that Pfizer unblinded and removed numerous patients who suffered adverse events from the Covid vaccine trial. It also gives examples of Pfizer subjects whose deaths were covered up. One of the victims described by Die Welt is Pfizer subject C4591001 1162 11621327, whose story I unearthed in July of 2022.

WELT has documents according to which patient no. 11621327 was found dead in his apartment three days after the 2nd dose, apparently a stroke. Patient #11521497 died 20 days after vaccination, diagnosis of cardiac arrest. “According to the current state of science, these two cases would be assigned to the vaccination,” says the Berlin pharmaceutical specialist Susanne Wagner, “especially since the US health authority CDC is currently investigating strokes in vaccinated people and it is known

As you remember, Pfizer’s investigators falsely ruled these deaths unrelated.

Die Welt also describes Argentine lawyer Augusto Roux, who remained alive, but whose sufferings were written off as “anxiety.”

Three weeks later, test candidate Roux received the second dose. He remained under observation for 40 minutes, then left the hospital feeling good. In the taxi home he felt uncomfortable, and later he had shortness of breath, burning chest pain, nausea and fever. His urine turned black like cola and he passed out. Three days later, Roux was in the Alemán Hospital, several PCR tests for Covid were negative. Senior physician Gisela di Stilio noted in the discharge report, which is available to WELT: “Adverse reaction to the coronavirus vaccine (high probability)”. The computer tomograph had provided images of fluid in Roux’s heart. A pericardial effusion.

Over the next few months, Roux lost 14 kilos, he had liver problems, and his heart sometimes beat irregularly. … The diagnosis for the symptoms after the second vaccination is very likely to be “pericarditis”, inflammation of the heart. All of this fits exactly with a clinical picture that the Paul Ehrlich Institute also has in its list of “rare side effects” for mRNA vaccines.

Note how Die Welt sarcastically puts “rare side events” in quotes.

… He found amazing things there. His story, one might think, should appear in Pfizer’s pivotal study papers, but it doesn’t. The pharmaceutical company’s papers say Roux informed the research team that he was hospitalized with pneumonia on both sides, following the initial report, which was classified as an “adverse event of toxicity level 1”. That could have nothing to do with the vaccine, the file goes on to say, it is probably a Covid infection. Not a word that Roux had tested negative for Corona in several PCR tests.

The paper finds more cases of Pfizer fraud:

Almost at the same time as the Roux case, there must have been an incident in the Buenos Aires test center. In one fell swoop, the test management said goodbye to 53 subjects on August 31, 2020. The test candidates were “unblinded”, which means they were informed about their vaccination status, a process that the Pfizer study protocol expressly only provides for “in emergencies”. But there is nothing about it in the approval study. In protocol documents that are available to WELT, and which are actually not intended for the public, those responsible get caught up in contradictions. “

Pfizer Fraud Discussed in Mainstream Press.

While Die Welt does an excellent job at exposing Pfizer’s trial fraud, which the FDA wanted to hide for 75 years, most of what it discussed is not new to us. What is new is that mainstream newspapers are now discussing it.

Die Welt mentions that Pfizer’s contracts included a liability waiver even for Pfizer’s negligence and for “fraud or bad faith on the part of Pfizer itself.”

I expect this “fraud waiver” will be litigated furiously in many countries. In the United States, liability for certain misdeeds, such as fraud, cannot be waived in advance because it would “violate public policy” and encourage fraud. Thus, I expect Ed Dowd’s “fraud vitiates all contracts” doctrine to prevail legally in many localities.

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Via https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/german-press-discusses-pfizer-vaccine

By Hope Sloop For Dailymail.Com

Flights are grounded and 9,000 residents are plunged into darkness as officials launch investigation

• The Oakland Airport in Northern California lost power Sunday evening 
• An outage in the area impacted roughly 50,000 customers after a fire at an electrical substation in Alameda County 
• Pacific Gas and Electric officials are investigating the incident, which comes after a series of attacks on substations across the U.S. in recent weeks 

Just after 3pm, a battalion chief with the Oakland Fire Department confirmed the blaze had been put out and that PG&E officials are working to determine a cause.

‘Approximately about one o’clock this afternoon we were called for a fire coming from inside the PG&E yard,’ the battalion chief said while speaking with local media.

‘We were able to gain access into the PG&E yard and found that there was a transformer actively burning,’ the Oakland Fire official said.

PG&E officials will have ‘to really look at all the equipment’ before a cause can be determined.

The damage had already been done, however, as hundreds of passengers were stuck at their gates and waiting in the security line due to the outage.

One video shared by a Twitter user named Matt Ashlock shows passengers at a standstill as security lines remain all but bare.

Incoming passengers also arrived to find that baggage claim was unavailable, resulting in even more hold ups inside the Northern California airport.

Just before 3pm, Ashlock tweeted that machines at security appeared to be back up and running and the line had begun moving again.

It’s unclear at this time how many flights were impacted by the outage.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit also cut down service to and from the airport Sunday due to the outage but resumed several hours later.

It’s still unclear if Sunday’s incident was a targeted attack however there have been multiple substation attacks in recent months across the entire U.S.

Over the last three months, at least nine substations spanning North Carolina, Washington, and Oregon have cut power to thousands of customers.

The attacks are worrisome for those in states and areas where a lack of power could turn deadly.

In December, unidentified individuals attacked two power substations in Moore County, North Carolina, where some 45,000 people lost power.

Some customers were without power for up to five days.

Just weeks later, another attack occurred in Randolph County, North Carolina.

In Washington state, two men were charged just after New Year’s Day for attacking four power stations on Christmas, leaving thousands in the dark and cold for the holidays.

The two men planned the attacks as a red herring so they could burglarize a local business, law enforcement officials said after the fact.

Between Washington and Oregon, there were six attacks on substations between mid-November and December in 2022.

The increasing number of attacks has caused some legislators to ring the alarm over the safety and security of substations across the country.

Bills have been proposed in states like North Carolina, South Carolina, and Arizona in recent weeks that would require 24-hour security at the power stations, or harsh penalties for attacks.

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Via https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11770247/Oakland-Airport-halts-flights-power-outage-50-000-without-power-Bay-Area.html

Matt Ehret

Episode 6 Poverty Point America’s Oldest City

Ancient Civilizations of North America

Dr Edwin Barnhart (2018)

Film Review

North America’s first city at Poverty Point (in modern northeast Louisiana) had a population of four to five thousand people. Dating from 3500 BP (Before Present), it demonstrates a clear knowledge of geometry and surveying skills and was clearly master planned by a centralized authority. Built by a large organized workforce, it featured a wide central plaza at the focus of six concentric semicircular embankments, each with hundreds of houses. Five causeways were cut through the embankments leading to the central plaza.

This first North American city also had a number of earthen pyramids located behind the semicircular embankments. Three were built along a perfect North-South axis, indicating a knowledge of astronomy. Archeologists have also found the remains of woodhenges,* in the form of wide post holes arranged in a circle.

Archeological evidence indicates the central plaza (encompassing hundreds of acres) excavated first and covered with a cap of cay to prevent erosion.

No actual houses have survived from Poverty Point, though many post holes and occasional wattle and daub** remain, as well as large mud-carrying baskets used to construct the semi-circular embankments.

Despite millions of artifacts found at Poverty Points, there are no human remains. Large middens found near the embankments suggests its residents were affluent hunter gatherers. In other words, food was so abundant they lived in permanent dwellings year round. Their diet mainly consisted of fish and reptiles, pecans, acorns and walnuts, cooked in simple pits with heated clay cooking balls.

The residents of Poverty Point had a vast trade network involving six major water ways including the Mississippi river. They imported hematite and magnetite (to weight their fishing nets), as well as soapstone bowls from Alabama and Georgia and harder minerals (such as quartz, chert and flint which they carved into jewelry and charms) from Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas and Oklahoma and copper and pottery from the Great Lakes.

Archeologists have also discovered numerous smaller population centers from 3500 BP scattered around Louisiana. All left behind similar cultural artifacts (pyramids, large central plazas, pottery, cooking balls and precious stone jewelry and charms).

The city at Poverty Point survived over 1000 years.

*A woodhenge is a Stone Age henge (ring shaped bank and ditch) and timber monument.

**Wattle and daub is a composite building method in which woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.

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

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/5713021/5712748

By Seemorerocks

The catastrophe from Cyclone Gabrielle in Hawkes Bay and the Bay of Plenty seems to be beyond anything one could imagine. For one, The devastation has all but destroyed from what we hear 50% or more of Hawkes Bay’s horticulture. They are not telling us any of that in the media. You can expect food shortages that may last years

GISBORNE & HAWKES BAY CRIPPLED

We are getting reports MSM are ignoring the worst stories.

There are 5,600 registered as missing.

From https://t.me/CounterspinMediaNZ/65

“Dead animals are building up and rotting & Napier residents have been without power, hot water, internet & phone signal since Mon night/Tues morning.”

“A lot of people have lost their houses, everything.”

“We were totally cut off from Napier in Hastings with many people being turned away from the only crossing available even though they were essential.”

“Looting, shooting, stabbing, killing, stealing, and hostage situations are going on. Gangs are out of control, holding people hostage and at gun point for their supplies.”

“The devastation has all but destroyed from what we hear 50% or more of Hawkes Bay’s horticulture.”

Comment on Telegram:

I have a friend in Napier.. she says as follows…. Napier has been devastated. The search and rescue teams have been working tirelessly, we know, our place is in the centre of the worst hit areas. Our impassable road plus others in the area have already been cleared so rescue teams can get in and residents get out. No small feat, you know how far we are from town and the road was blocked almost the entire length. That’s just our road. Power is slowly being restored, honestly that’s the least of people’s worries. Navy ships have bought in food and supplies as there was no road access into Napier. There is now road access via Palmerston North. Please squash the rumours, the police, ambulance,rescue teams and everyone helping have been doing an amazing job.

Such total carnage here, you have to see it to believe it,however, the most urgent matters have definately been taken care of in the appropriate order. I don’t believe for a second that we have been forgotten about, it’s just some people’s needs are far greater than others, and those people are the priority.