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In this issue of the Report, we have an exclusive interview with Alexandria (Sasha) Latypova, MBA, a former pharmaceutical executive, and independent analyst. Her prior reports on TrialSite News that deaths reported in VAERS after COVID-19 vaccination are not randomly distributed according to manufacturing lots as they are with influenza vaccines. Instead, they are aggregated in specific “hot lots.”

For example, from data on 33 lots of the Pfizer vaccine, 80% of the deaths have arisen from 35% of the lots. For Moderna, only 24% of the lots account for 80% of the deaths. Lot sizes were small initially, and some contaminated the metallic beads used in the manufacturing process. This explains reports and videos of injection site magnetism early in the campaign and why over time, these claims dissipated.

The lot sizes became larger, and the rushed nature of vaccine manufacturing invariable loads specific lots with more viable intact mRNA, while others have considerably less genetic material and or broken fragments of mRNA. Under the existing government contracts, there is no FDA or third-party inspection of the products for safety, quality, or purity. Because the US Department of Defense, under the Emergency Use Authorization countermeasures program, is the ”developer” of the vaccines, there is a complex array of biological defense contractors that make the components of the vaccines.

Specifically, private contractors do the fill-and-finish manufacturing, and the DOD or its designees has material possession of the products until delivery at a vaccine center. At this stage, the vaccine companies (Pfizer, Moderna, JNJ, Novavax) are largely marketing shields for the military program.

Ms. Latypova makes it clear, by the US EUA regulations, COVID-19 mass vaccination is a DOD operation, and the signal to “go” is given by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Under Trump, it was Alex Azar, and now with Biden, it’s Xavier Becerra. Essentially if the HHS Secretary believes a national medical emergency exists, then DARPA, the branch of the military dealing with biological threats, is activated, and the process starts.

Here is a quote from the DARPA website:

“As part of the ADEPT program in 2011, DARPA began investing in nucleic acid vaccines. The hypothesis was that rather than delivering antigens to the immune system, we could deliver genes that encode the antigen and allow the human body to produce the antigen from its own cells, triggering a protective immune response. In December 2020, former ADEPT performer Moderna’s RNA vaccine received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approval for the prevention of COVID-19.”¹

So, it is fully disclosed that the genetic vaccines were not a product of Operation Warp Speed and developed in just a few months, as portrayed by the White House. In truth, DARPA has been working on genetic vaccines with companies such as Moderna since 2011.

What is the role of the FDA?² Latypova points out it is largely “theatre”. In other words, the FDA is giving sham approvals to versions of the vaccines as they move forward since they are powerless to stop it. This interview is gripping and a must-listen for those trying to comprehend the mild-blowing reality of forced vaccination resulting in record injuries, disabilities, and death.

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Via https://www.americaoutloud.com/department-of-defense-driving-mass-vaccination-while-fda-and-vaccine-companies-are-powerless-to-stop-it/

By Peter Elkind
ProPublica

The wireless industry is rolling out thousands of new transmitters amid a growing body of research that calls cellphone safety into question. Federal regulators say there’s nothing to worry about — even as they rely on standards established in 1996.

The health complaints started rolling in within weeks of the activation of a new cellphone tower in August 2020 in Pittsfield, an old factory town in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains.

Seventeen residents reported headaches, dizziness, insomnia or confusion. A few children had to sleep with “vomit buckets” by their beds.

Like many people, Bobbie Orsi had never paid close attention to questions about the health effects of cellphone technology. She mostly viewed it as an issue that had long ago been put to rest.

But after becoming the chair of Pittsfield’s Board of Health as the complaints emerged, Orsi, a 66-year-old registered nurse who had spent much of her career in public health, decided to educate herself.

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Over several months, Orsi went from curious, to concerned, to convinced, first, that radio-frequency emissions from Verizon’s 115-foot 4G tower were to blame for the problems in Pittsfield, and second, that growing evidence of harm from cellphones — everything from effects on fertility and fetal development to associations with cancer — has been downplayed in the U.S.

Orsi and the Pittsfield board decided to try to do something about Verizon’s tower. They quickly discovered that they would get no help from federal regulators.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has responsibility for protecting Americans from potential radiation hazards generated by wireless transmitters and cellphones, has repeatedly sided with the telecom industry in denying the possibility of virtually any human harm.

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Still, the lawyers for Orsi and her colleagues thought they saw a long-shot legal opening: They would argue that the FCC’s exclusive oversight role applied only to approving cell tower sites, not to health problems triggered after one was built and its transmitters switched on.

In April, the Pittsfield Health Board issued an emergency cease-and-desist order directing Verizon to shut down the tower as a “public nuisance” and “cause of sickness” that “renders dwellings unfit for human habitation.”

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On May 10, Verizon sued the city in federal court. The company contended that the Pittsfield residents’ medical complaints were bogus.

And, in any case, Verizon argued, the cease-and-desist order was barred because federal law gave the FCC the sole power to regulate wireless-radiation risks.

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The build-out of a new generation of wireless networks, known as 5G, is amping up the stakes of this conflict for localities across America.

It will require an estimated 800,000 new base stations, including both towers and densely spaced “small cell” transmitters mounted on rooftops and street poles.

That means nearly tripling the current number of transmitters, and many of them will be placed close to houses and apartments.

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In 2018, a massive, nearly-two-decade study by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), part of the National Institutes of Health, found “clear evidence” that cellphone radiation caused cancer in lab animals.

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Yet the FCC rejected the need for any such action when it reviewed its standards on cellphone radiation in 2019. The agency decided it would continue to rely on exposure limits it established in 1996, when Motorola’s StarTAC flip phone was considered cutting edge.

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Henry Lai, an emeritus professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, has compiled a database of 1,123 peer-reviewed studies published since 1990 investigating biological effects from wireless-radiation exposure.

Some 77% have found “significant” effects, according to Lai. By contrast, an earlier review by Lai found that 72% of industry-sponsored studies reported no biological effects.

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Studies have found impacts on fertility, fetal development, DNA, memory function and the nervous system, as well as an association with an array of cancers.

Several investigations reported a significantly increased risk of brain tumors, called gliomas, among the heaviest cellphone users.

And the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the World Health Organization, in 2011 classified wireless radiation as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”

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The American Academy of Pediatrics has written that the FCC’s safeguards “do not account for the unique vulnerability and use patterns specific to pregnant women and children.”

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Both the FCC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) websites dismiss the existence of any special health risk to children.

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By contrast, more than 20 foreign governments have adopted protective measures or recommended precautions.

France requires new phones to be sold with headsets and written guidance on limiting radiation exposures; it also bans phones marketed to small children and ads aimed at anyone younger than 14.

Greece and Switzerland routinely monitor radio-frequency radiation levels throughout the country. Britain, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, India and South Korea urge citizens to limit both their own exposure and cellphone use by children.

The European Environment Agency does too, noting: “There is sufficient evidence of risk to advise people, especially children, not to place the handset against their heads.”

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The NTP study was the biggest the agency had ever conducted and lasted over a decade. It used an unusually large number of rats and mice — some 3,000 — and involved both setting up a lab in Chicago and designing and constructing special radiation-exposure chambers for the rodents in Switzerland.

The final report was released in November 2018. The results were dramatic.

The study found “clear evidence” of rare cancerous heart tumors, called schwannomas, in male rats; “some evidence” of tumors in their brains and adrenal glands; and signs of DNA damage.

The percentage that developed tumors was small, but, as the study’s authors noted earlier, “Given the extremely large number of people who use wireless communication devices, even a very small increase in the incidence of disease resulting from exposure” could have “broad implications for public health.”

The federal government’s scientists had spoken. But the parts of the government charged with following the science and protecting people responded (in the case of the FCC) by publicly ignoring the results or (in the case of the FDA) pooh-poohing them.

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The NTP findings, combined with similar results that year from the Ramazzini research institute in Italy and other studies, demanded a strong response, according to three long-time former government experts who spoke to ProPublica.

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The former government officials believe the NTP findings should have led to a detailed statistical risk assessment by federal health agencies, spelling out the possible incidence of cancer in the general population; development of stricter FCC limits to address biological risks; prominent user warnings detailing simple steps people should take to minimize their exposure; and dramatically increased research funding.

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Over the six years that followed, 1,200 comments poured into the FCC’s docket, including scores of studies (and a briefing on the NTP findings); appeals for stronger protections signed by hundreds of international scientists; and 170 personal accounts of “electro-sensitivity” radiation sickness, similar to the complaints in Pittsfield, resulting from neighborhood cell towers.

An Interior Department letter voiced concern about the impact of radiation from towers on migrating birds, noting that the FCC’s limits “continue to be based on thermal heating, a criterion now nearly 30 years out of date and inapplicable today.”

The FCC was overwhelmed by the flood of comments, according to Mantiply, the agency official most involved in radio-frequency issues during this period. “We didn’t have the resources to even read all the comments,” he told ProPublica.

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So Mantiply, a soft-spoken physical scientist, decided to take action.

In 2017, as the FCC’s review of its wireless standards entered its fourth year, he said, he and three colleagues proposed hiring an outside consulting firm to conduct an environmental assessment, a detailed formal examination, of the submissions on the radiation safety limits.

But their boss, Julius Knapp, the head of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, summarily rejected the proposal, according to Mantiply.

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Mantiply’s proposal came at a time when the Trump White House and FCC commissioners were aggressively promoting 5G.

FCC leadership was “not really thrilled with us pushing these inquiries,” Mantiply said. “They just felt like it’d get a lot of attention, that it would be in The Washington Post.”

On his final day at the FCC in August 2018, as he was retiring after 42 years in government, Mantiply raised the issue with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel during a brief courtesy visit.

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Fifteen months later, the FCC voted unanimously to shut down its review after six years. There was no need to change anything, the commissioners concluded.

After examining the record, the FCC declared in a written order, it had seen no evidence that the science underlying its standards was “outdated or insufficient to protect human safety.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., disagreed.

Responding to a pair of lawsuits filed by the Environmental Health Trust and other activist groups, the court ruled in August 2021 that the FCC had failed to meet “even the low threshold of reasoned analysis” in finding that its limits “adequately protect against the harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency radiation unrelated to cancer.”

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The court wrote that it was taking “no position in the scientific debate” on wireless radiation’s effects, but it was scornful of the FCC’s heavy reliance on three “conclusory” statements from the FDA about safety.

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The FCC’s actions, the court wrote, waved off any concern about protections for children and ignored “substantive evidence of potential environmental harms.”

And the FCC had said nothing about the potential impacts of the many technological changes, including 5G, that had taken place since 1996.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fcc-cellphone-companies-emf-transmitters-public-safety/

HICGI News Agency

Melbourne, Australia – The recent death of Queen Elizabeth II has reignited a simmering republican debate in Australia, where the United Kingdom’s monarch is head of state, with Anthony Albanese’s government planning to put the issue to a vote.

Already committed to a referendum for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’, the government plans to hold a similar vote to test Australians’ appetite for a republic.

Assistant Minister for the Republic of Australia, Matt Thistlethwaite, told Al Jazeera that while “the priority for this government is the Voice to Parliament, the next natural progression for Australia is look to have one of our own as a head of state and we’d seek to do that in a second term if we are successful with the Voice in the first term.”

“Australians have always been willing to look to ways to improve our system of government and improve our country and our nation,” he said.

“This is an opportunity for us to build a new system to select our head of state and at the same time improve the rights of citizens in the choices that we have but also strengthen the democracy we have.”

With an Indigenous history stretching back more than 60,000 years, the continent now known as Australia was colonised in 1788 and, while politically independent, has remained part of the British monarchy.

Under the current system, the monarch is represented in Australia by the governor-general who plays a largely ceremonial role.

However, governor-generals retain constitutional and statutory powers, swearing in ministers and acting as the commander-in-chief of Australia’s Defence Forces.

They also have the power to dissolve parliament and sack the prime minister, most controversially done in 1975 when Gough Whitlam was removed.

The death of Queen Elizabeth in September came four months after Labor, long supporters of the republican movement, were elected to power in Canberra.

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Via https://hicginewsagency.com/2022/11/10/australia-plans-referendum-on-becoming-a-republic/

Dr Peter Doshi

Arun Walia

The Pulse

IN BRIEF

The Facts:

• • In a recent interview with German TV, senior editor at the British Medical Journal Dr. Peter Doshi expressed that that “Our legacy media has not done a good job in providing balanced coverage about the vaccines.”
  • He emphasized how “we’re not getting the information we need to make better choices and to have a more informed understanding of risk and benefit.”

Reflect On:

• • With so many scientists, doctors and published peer-reviewed science raising concerns, why haven’t these concerns been properly communicated to the citizenry?
  • Why has there been such a big campaign to censor these concerns and deem them a “conspiracy theory?”

Peter Doshi:

“Our legacy media has not done a good job in providing balanced coverage about the vaccines” and that “we’re not getting the information we need to make better choices and to have a more informed understanding of risk and benefit.

It was very unfortunate, that from the beginning, what was presented to us by public health officials was a picture of great certainty…but the reality was that there were extremely important unknowns. We entered a situation where essentially the stakes became too high to later present that uncertainty to people…I think that’s what set us off on the wrong foot. Public officials should have been a lot more forthright about the gaps in our knowledge.”

Doshi was part of an international group of eminent academics and physicians who went back and analyzed safety data from the original clinical trials that were the backbone of the FDA’s decision to authorize the mRNA vaccines in December 2020.  It was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Vaccine in September 2022.

The analysis showed that mRNA vaccines were associated with 1 additional serious adverse event for every 800 people vaccinated. This would normally have a vaccine taken off the market, and is in sharp contrast to the idea that serious adverse events are extremely rare as federal health regulatory agencies have commonly claimed with regards to COVID-19 vaccines. The authors also found that the trial data showed that the increase in serious adverse events following mRNA vaccination surpassed the reduction in risk of ending up hospitalized with COVID-19.

“They should immediately be warning people about this safety signal that we found, and they should immediately be replicating our analysis — the data are indicating there’s increased risk at a level that is much higher than has previously been realized.”

Beyond their analysis, it’s important to mention that vaccine injury surveillance and reporting systems around the world have recorded a record number of serious injuries (hospitalizations, deaths, permanent disabilities) that people believe to be a result of COVID-19 vaccines. Multiple papers have emerged explaining the possible mechanisms of action as to why these are occurring.

Many of these injuries and safety signals don’t seem to be properly investigated, and again, a proper discussion about this topic has not been had.

Even the BMJ was “fact checked” and censored for showing that Pfizer falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial for COVID vaccines. You can learn more about that here.

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been told to “trust the science” but Doshi says, “How can one recommend responsibly that these products are based on science if the data are not available?

Science is about sharing data. We’re in an era of open science, not secret science.”

Doshi and colleagues have written an open letter to the CEOs of the vaccine companies asking for the raw data, but as yet, they have not received a reply.

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Via https://thepulse.one/2022/11/02/senior-editor-of-british-medical-journal-speaks-out-about-covid-19-vaccine-safety-concerns/

The Origins of America’s Secret Police: The Ancient Roots of Occult Societies and Intelligence Operations

Produced by Jason Dahl (2022)

Film Review

Bitchute link in case YouTube takes the film down: https://www.bitchute.com/video/XRQFpzljKkk/

Narrated by Canadian Patriot Review historian Matthew Ehret, this film traces the the role of cults and secret societies in sustaining global oligarchies all the way back to the Cult of Apollo in ancient Rome.[1]

The film begins with the example of King Croesus of Lydia, whose kingdom was crushed after the Delphi oracle advised him to go to war against Persia.

In US history the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, founded by South Carolina British loyalists in 1801, has played an key role in the formation of role in the formation of America’s shadow government.[2]

Joining the Freemasons in 1920, FBI founder and 33 degree Scottish Rite Freemason, J Edgar Hoover was the second most revered member of the House of the Temple in Washington DC. Under his leadership, there was a masonic Fidelity Chapter within the FBI itself.

Historically the most revered Scottish Rite member was Confederate general Albert Pike, author of the groundbreaking Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (1872). The most troubling part of the film quotes extensively from Pike’s book about maintaining freemasonry “in the purity of Luciferian doctrine.” Pike refers to Lucifer as the true god and the god of “light and good.” He refers to Adonay (an Old Testament name for Yahweh) as the “god of evil,” claiming it’s the nature of all things to have a “light and dark” side.

The film traces the Hoover’s long political career, starting from his role in the 1917-1920 Red scare, in which he engaged in mass arrests and illegal deportations, as well as orchestrating government spies and provocateurs to instigate lynchings and other terrorist activities. In 1921, Hoover was appointed to the newly created Bureau of Investigation, which he transformed into the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935.

Serving under eight presidents and linked to numerous assassinations and unexplained deaths, Hoover’s powerful Masonic connections made him impossible to remove from power,

One of the first convenient deaths was that of Montana Senator Thomas J Walsh (1913-1933), selected by newly elected Franklyn D Roosevelt to run the Justice Department. In the Senate, Walsh had chaired a committee investigating illegal FBI activities. Walsh was allegedly poisoned by a woman he secretly married two weeks earlier.

Only days later, there was an assassination attempt on Roosevelt himself, in which Chicago’s mayor was killed.

The film also tells the story of Smedley Butler, the retired general approached by a cabal of Wall Street bankers to lead a fascist coup against FDR shortly after his 1933 inauguration. In 1934, the House on Unamerican Activities confirmed Butler’s evidence [3] after Hoover, who Butler approached first, declined to take any action.

It goes on to examine the case of Warren Commission member and House majority leader Hale Boggs. The latter’s plane disappeared in Alaska in 1972 after he asked Nixon’s Attorney John Mitchell to fire Hoover. Boggs had been concerned for some time about suppressed Warren Commission evidence that totally exonerated Lee Harvey Oswald as the alleged murdererer of John F Kennedy.[4]

[1] Although Ehret doesn’t mention it in this film, in other work he traces the origin of freemasonry to the same Roman oligarch families involved in the Cult of Apollo, who, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, made the city-state of Venice (ie the Republic of Venice 697 – 1797) the most powerful political force of medieval Europe).

[2] Ehrrt also writes extensively about the role of British intelligence in supporting the Southern Confederacy and American Scottish Rite Freemasonry.

[3] Instead of prosecuting them, FDR chose to use the committee’s findings to pressure Wall Street to agree to his New Deal legislation.

[4] Including a negative nitrate test by the Dallas Police Department indicating he hadn’t fired a gun the day he was arrested.

The Gateway Pundit

Voters in Mercer County, New Jersey, are facing a “county-wide system outage” in their election using Dominion Voting Machines.

The Gateway Pundit reported on this issue earlier today:

Here We Go Again: Dominion Machines in Mercer, NJ Experiencing “Programming Glitch”

Voters are not being turned away, but are being asked to fill out ballots manually and place them in the slot for manual counting later.

In 2020 Mercer was a +40 Biden county. In the 2021 Governor’s race, Democrats lost 9 points over their 2020 performance in the county of 387,000 people.  The turnout in 2021 was of course significantly less.

It’s not just New Jersey, either. The Gateway Pundit has reported election day anomalies and machine outages across the country.

In Maricopa county, tabulators did not work starting at 6 am when the polls opened:

Early Voting in Arizona Spells Doom for Democrats – Barring Major Fraud in the State, Expect WINS FOR MAGA CANDIDATES – Lake, Blake, Hamadeh, Finchem! #GetOutAndVote

In Texas, the machines are also not working:

BREAKING: TABULATORS IN TEXAS ALSO NOT WORKING! It’s Not Just Arizona!

In Illinois, voters are being told to use the provided sharpies, or their vote may not count!

SHARPIEGATE UPDATE: Reported Felt Tip Pens Forced Onto Voters Are BLEEDING THROUGH Ballots and Causing Ink Streaks that Are Reportedly CHANGING VOTES – Poll Worker Says “Probably 10-15%” Of Ballots Smearing

The Champaign County Illinois Clerk’s Office announced the computer server is under cyber-attack.

BREAKING: Champaign County Clerk Reports Cyber-Attacks on Servers – Voters Told to Stay in Line

The Gateway Pundit has also reported on massive issues and election irregularities across the country.

MASSIVE ISSUES REPORTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY: Here Are Several Concerns and Anomalies We Received from our TGP Tips…

Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/dominion-voting-machines-texas-arizona-new-jersey-voter-irregularities-reported/

Seemorerocks

It’s very easy to see where this is going.

ABC News Says “Red Mirage” Will Look Like Big Republican Win, But Vote Count Could Take “Weeks”

In a throwback to 2020, ABC News reports that a “red mirage” could make it look like Republicans are winning big on the night, but that a full vote count could take “weeks.”

The legacy news outlet has published an article titled ‘Early election night results might not indicate final tallies (and why that’s OK)’.

The piece explains how Republicans may “appear to be leading their Democratic opponents, even by large margins” in federal and statewide races, but that their leads “will dwindle, or crumble completely” after “dumps” of mail-in and absentee ballots are counted after election day, which could take “weeks”.

Why America can’t count all the votes on the night, as is done in countless other developed countries, isn’t explained.

“This phenomenon was popularized as the “red mirage” or the “blue shift” after the 2020 presidential election, when former President Donald Trump took a deceptive lead in several competitive states on Election Day due to delays in counting of Democrats’ mail-in ballots — their preferred method of voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic — only to eventually dissipate when the entire reserve of votes was totaled,” states the report.

However, the explanation that COVID-19 caused so many Democrats to use mail-in ballots on 2020 is also not a factor now given that all restrictions have been lifted and COVID is barely even a news story at this point.

Delaying the election result will almost certainly lead to a repeat of the chaos of 2020, and prompt more claims by Republicans of vote fraud and stolen elections.

Polls show that around 61 per cent of Republicans think Biden didn’t win legitimately in 2020, while nearly a third of Americans in total think Biden won thanks to voter fraud.

A recent Pew survey also found that a fairly slim majority of 56 per cent of Republicans think “the midterm elections in the U.S. will be administered very or somewhat well, with just 11% saying they will be run very well.”

According to the latest Washington Post forecast, Republicans are set to easily regain control of the House and will also flip the Senate, where they only need to gain one seat to claim victory.

Episode 35: Intellectual and Cultural Life of the Song

Foundations of Eastern Civilization

Dr Craig Benjamin (2013)

Film Review

The Southern Song Dynasty (960 -1279 AD) produced a culture of unprecedented wealth. At the same time, Song society was deeply divided, with rural peasants living in extreme poverty. When he visited the Song court in 1275 AD, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo gave the West their first glimpse of Song society. Towards the end of the thirteenth century, luxury Song exports traveled as far as Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East.

Byzantine, Muslim, Indian and Central Asian Silk Road merchants and foreign religions (Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity, Buddhism and Islam) were all well represented in Song cities. The generous support of Buddhism by northern China’s (Jurchin) Jin dynasty, as well as the growing wealth (and tax-free status*) of Buddhist temples under the southern Song led a reaction against Buddhism and the rise of Neo-Confucianism among scholars keen for a return to China’s more traditional values.

In competition with one another for preeminence, both Buddhist and Confucian doctrine changed during the thirteen century. Chan Buddhism (known as Son Buddhism in Korea and Zen Buddhism in Japan), tended to focus more on meditation and insight (like Daoism) and less on written text. Likewise Neo-Confucianism moved more towards Buddhist practice by exploring the individual;s role in the universe and other metaphysical questions.

The return of Confucian dominance over society prompted a return to family values and an increase in patriarchal control. It also led to an increase in scientific study, owing to the Neo-Confucian belief that it was only possibly to know oneself through an understanding of the natural world. There was an explosion in the fields of medicine (leading to inoculation for small pox), astronomy, chemistry, zoology, algebra and map making.

Although there were instances of widows managing inns and wives and widows gaining control of their own dowries, Song women on the whole tended to be better educated but less involved in the public space. Neo-Confucianism taught that women should have no desire to buy property or object to a husband taking a concubine. Elite women were veiled and expected to bind their feet.** Peasant women who farmed or engaged in silk weaving had to retain physical capacity for their work and didn’t bind their feet.

The Southern Song Dynasty collapsed in 1279 when invading Mongols from the north invaded southern China.

*Their tax-free status related to the storage of rice and grain Buddhist temples stored and released to the poor during famines.

**Presumably  to keep them small and dainty, footbinding had the additional impact of increasing their helplessness, as many lost the ability to walk.

Film can be viewed free on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5808608/5808677