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

Dr Eddy Betterman

In the quest to uncover the origins for SARS-CoV-2, scientists did not have to look very far. For years, the National Institutes of Health, in cooperation with EcoHealth Alliance and the University of North Carolina conducted gain-of-function research specifically on coronaviruses. Much of this controversial work was off-shored to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, due to moratoriums on gain-of-function virology research in the US.

Some of the most notorious authoritarians in public health (Anthony Fauci) were directly involved in funding and overseeing coronavirus research, so it’s rather suspicious, to say the least, that Fauci himself would denounce any laboratory origins of SARS-CoV-2 as “conspiracy theory” as early as March 2020. If anyone should be more transparent, it should be him.

Scientists also did not have to look far to find out that Moderna (one of the covid-19 vaccine profiteers) patented a 19-nucleotide sequence in 2013, that somehow, randomly appeared in the Furin cleavage site of the covid-19 spike protein.

Moderna has been preparing for covid-19 mRNA vaccine experiments for years

In the leadup to 2020, a little-known biotech company called Moderna was granted up to $100 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new vaccine candidates using mRNA technology. From this platform, Moderna received hundreds of millions of dollars in new investments and even secured $1 billion from taxpayers in 2020 (Operation Warp Speed) for research and development into a vaccine for covid-19.

As far back as 2013, Moderna had already filed for a coronavirus patent, containing a 19-nucleotide sequence. This precise nucleotide sequence randomly appeared in the Furin cleavage site of the covid-19 spike protein. The genetic sequences of this spike protein (the alleged causative agent for covid-19) were ultimately used as a basis to develop an experimental mRNA vaccine through none other than — Moderna. The technology was also shared with Pfizer; however, Moderna is currently initiating legal challenges to secure their property rights over their patents on the mRNA and the spike protein sequences. Eventually, Moderna would receive another $1.525 billion from taxpayers, in an agreement that would ship 100 million doses of its mRNA vaccine candidate to pharmacies nationwide.

Scientists link Moderna’s patents to the most pathogenic part of SARS-CoV-2

Scientists from India, Switzerland, Italy and the US published an important paper titled, “MSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site.” The 19-nucleotide sequence (patented by Moderna) randomly appeared in the furin cleavage site of the spike protein (SARS-CoV-2). The scientists calculated the random chance of that happening as 1 in 3 trillion!

The scientists used the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool to search for the gene sequence, in a database that includes every gene sequence in nature known to man. They searched for the gene sequence, its reverse gene sequence and the complimentary gene sequence and its reverse sequence. They found the sequence in Moderna’s patents, in reverse compliment form: CTACGTGCCCGCCGAGGAG.

This precise gene letter sequence was the only nucleotide sequence in SARS-CoV-2 that had more than 3 nucleotides. Its closest natural relative was Bat Coronavirus RaTG13. It was included on the furin cleavage site, which is the part of the spike protein most associated with viral attachment and pathogenic potential. If the coronavirus spike protein was enhanced in a lab, then the furin cleavage site would be the best location to enhance its pathogenic potential. As the genetic evidence shows, Moderna was part of the planning and implementation of covid-19, gain-of-function experimentation, and vaccine profiteering.

Here are the patents:
US9149506B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding septin-4 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
Inventor: Tirtha Chakraborty, Antonin de Fougerolles

US9216205B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding granulysin – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.

US9255129B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding SIAH E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.

US9301993B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding apoptosis inducing factor 1 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.

US9587003B2: Modified polynucleotides for the production of oncology-related proteins and peptides – 2016-02-04 Application filed by ModernaTx Inc.

Inventor: Stephane Bancel, Tirtha Chakraborty, Antonin de Fougerolles, Sayda M. Elbashir, Matthias John, Atanu Roy, Susan Whoriskey, Kristy M. Wood, Paul Hatala, Jason P. Schrum, Kenechi Ejebe, Jeff Lynn Ellsworth, Justin Guild

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2022/11/01/moderna-patented-19-nucleotide-sequence-2013-matches-most-infectious-sequence-sars-cov-2/

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RT

Supplies of the fuel are at a 14-year low amid a ban on imports from Russia, portending further price spikes.

US diesel shortages are spreading along the East Coast amid a ban on imports from Russia, raising fears of further surges in prices for the fuel as consumers brace for the winter heating season.

Mansfield Energy, one of the nation’s major fuel distributors, instituted emergency measures on Tuesday and warned its customers that carriers were being forced to visit multiple terminals in some cases to find supplies, delaying deliveries. With shortages spreading from the Northeast to the Southeast, the company advised customers to give 72-hour notice for their orders to avoid having to pay above-market prices.

“In many areas, actual fuel prices are currently 30-80 cents higher than the posted market average because supply is tight,” said Mansfield, which delivers over three billion gallons of oil products annually. With the relatively low-cost suppliers running out of diesel, distributors are forced to draw from higher-cost sources, resulting in unusually wide spreads in pricing.

Diesel supplies in New England, the US region most reliant on distillate fuels for heating, have reportedly dwindled to about one-third of normal levels for this time of year. Nationwide, the US has only 25 days’ worth of diesel supplies, the lowest level since 2008.

Deese told Bloomberg that the US could tap its Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, which holds one million barrels of diesel for emergency use. But, as the Washington Post noted, demand for the fuel is so high in the Northeast that those reserves would be depleted in fewer than six hours. The White House has also considered banning or restricting exports of refined fuels – a strategy that industry trade groups claimed would backfire.

The shortages also put the US at risk of further spikes in prices if there’s a supply disruption, such as a refinery breakdown. Higher prices for the fuel would ripple through the US economy because 18-wheelers and other diesel-powered vehicles carry about 70% of the nation’s freight tonnage.

Diesel prices are currently averaging nearly $5.32 per gallon nationwide, down 8.6% from the all-time high set in June, according to the AAA auto club. By comparison, the average gasoline price has dropped 25% from its record high to $3.76 per gallon. Diesel prices are up 47% from a year ago.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/565399-us-diesel-shortage-spreads/

Episode 31: Southeast Asia – Vietnam

Foundations of Eastern Civilization

Dr Craig Benjamin (2013)

Film Review

In this lecture, Benjamin explores the history of Vietnam and its troubled relationship with China. Genetic and archeological evidence indicates the Nam Viet (People of the South) were ethnically distinct from the Chinese. Intermarrying with people of Khmer and Thai ethnicity, they preferred to live in nuclear families, rather than extended families like the Chinese. Owing to the absence of Confucian influence, Vietnamese women had a much stronger presence in public life.

For many centuries Vietnam controlled the Red River Valley, presently part of southern China. Despite periodic raids in which Chinese armies took control of isolated Vietnam villages, China met strong resistance in its efforts to colonize the country. Yet the close contact increased China-Vietnam trade and adoption of Chinese inventions by Vietnamese elites. The Nam Viet traded ivory, tortoise shell and aromatic wood for Chinese silk.

The Han emperor Wudi eventually conquered Vietnam (and Korea) in the 3rd century BC. By introducing irrigation to Vietnam, the Han Dynasty made Vietnam the most productive region in Asia. When direct political control gave way to a tributary relationship in 111 BC, Vietnamese elites continued traveling to China to study Confucianism and learning to read and write Chinese. Many converted to Buddhism.

Vietnamese peasants eventually revolted against their rulers for the barbaric treatment they received under Chinese domination. Vietnamese women, who had controlled Vietnamese markets for centuries, especially opposed the Confucian family system that subjected them to the authority of men. The Trung sisters, famous for leading the peasant army on war elephants, led one of the most famous revolts.

In 939 AD, the Vietnam finally won their independence after a 30-year war. Following independence, Vietnamese rulers adopted a Confucian-style civil service exam and a Confucian bureaucracy that allowed significant autonomy for village government. Given their high status, women frequently held political power.

Both the Ming dynasty and the Mongols failed in their efforts to reconquer Vietnam.  Between the 11th and 18th century, Vietnam drove the Cham,** their new adversaries, into the highlands and took over their territory on the coastal plans and Mekong Delta (in modern day Cambodia). Due to intermarriage of South Vietnamese with Cham and Khmer, there began to be important cultural differences between North and South Vietnamese.

During the 17th century, French missionaries rebuffed by Japan began to visit Vietnam, where they were initially welcomed. During the 18th century French-backed Nguyen warlords unified Vietnam for the first time in centuries. When the Vietnamese tried to oust the French missionaries, Napoleon III launched a 30-year naval campaign  (1858-1885) that brought the entire country under French control.

*Heavy Confucian influence and respect for elders led Chinese tradition to favor extended families and subject women to patriarchal control.

**The original Cham are believed to have arrived in Vietnam from Taiwan and Borneo in the first millennium BC.

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

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5808608/5808671

Zero Hedge

The United States on Saturday released the oldest prisoner who was held for two decades at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – after his arrest in Thailand in 2003 soon after the so-called “Global War on Terror” was launched.

75-year old Saifullah Paracha was transferred to his home country of Pakistan. Amazingly, he spent nearly 20 years in US detention at the high-secure military prison without trial, nor was he ever formally charged. He was suspected of being an al-Qaida financier.

“The Foreign Ministry completed an extensive inter-agency process to facilitate the repatriation of Mr Paracha,” Pakistan’s government said in a statement soon after his release. “We are glad that a Pakistani citizen detained abroad is finally reunited with his family.”

The US Department of Defense said Paracha’s transfer is part of broader efforts to close down the secretive Gitmo prison, saying on Saturday: “the United States appreciates the willingness of Pakistan and other partners to support ongoing U.S. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the Guantanamo Bay facility.”

According to scant details of Paracha’s suspected crimes:

Businessman Paracha was arrested in 2003 in Thailand and accused of financing the armed group, but he has maintained his innocence and claimed a love for the US.

In May, the US approved Paracha’s release concluding only that he was “not a continuing threat” to the US.

It remains that most inmates who spent years at the notorious facility were never actually charged or saw trial, with international outlets noting that out of a total 780 inmates held there throughout the post-9/11 war on terror, 732 have been ultimately released without charge.

According to more details via an English-language Pakistan media outlet:

Authorities claimed he helped two of the September 11 conspirators with a financial transaction as an Al Qaeda “facilitator” for the organization. However, despite having a number of illnesses, such as diabetes and heart disease, Paracha has denied any involvement in terrorism, claiming he was unaware the persons he was interacting with were members of Al-Qaeda.

However, the US has long claimed that under international laws of war, it is allowed to detain people without trial for an endless period of time. Paracha’s son had also been arrested on the charge of helping suspected militants to get into the US through faulty documents months before his father’s arrest.

He was sentenced to 30 years in jail in 2005 by the federal court in New York, however, a judge threw out witness accounts in March 2020.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gitmos-oldest-detainee-freed-after-20-years-no-charges

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

One of the most prestigious medical journals dealing with heart disease, the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), has published two new articles this month dealing with how to detect and treat COVID-19 vaccine induced heart disease (myocarditis, pericarditis, and myopericarditis). They are:

Vaccine‐Triggered Acute Autoimmune Myocarditis: Defining, Detecting, and Managing an Apparently Novel Condition

Myocarditis After COVID‐19 Vaccination in Pediatrics: A Proposed Pathway for Triage and Treatment

Medical journals are generally not written for the public, but for doctors and other medical professionals, so you will not hear about this in the corporate news which is heavily sponsored by the drug companies who produce the COVID vaccines, and would not want the general public to have this information.

The JAHA published studies admit to a difficult situation in treating what they refer to as a “novel” cardiac disease that is caused by COVID-19 vaccines without fueling “vaccine hesitancy” which would reduce the number of people getting COVID-19 vaccines, which of course they are obligated to believe are necessary to fight the COVID-19 “virus” disease.

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/medical-system-struggles-with-how-to-treat-heart-disease-caused-by-covid-vaccines/

Migrant minor working in agricultural activities in the United States. | Photo: Twitter/ @AwdehRaghid

The U.S. Government Accountability Office suggested that 100,000 child farmworkers are injured on the job every year.

The probe into the disappearance of a 13-year-old girl found her working at a manufacturing plant in Alabama, a shocking incident that revealed the secret child labor in the United States, the only country unwilling to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

WAY TOO YOUNG

The 13-year-old daughter of Pedro Tzi, an immigrant from Guatemala, was found by the police in Georgia, where the teenager and a 21-year-old Guatemalan migrant were looking for a job.

Worse still, Tzi’s daughter and her two underage brothers did not go to school earlier this year, but worked at SMART Alabama in Luverne, an automotive parts manufacturer supplying products to South Korean multinational Hyundai Motor Company.

According to a Reuters investigation this summer, the factory employed as many as 50 children, with the youngest only 12 years old, in violation of U.S. federal law prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from working in a stamping plant.

One former employee, named as Tabatha Moultry, worked on SMART’s assembly line for several years through 2019 and said that she remembered working with one migrant girl who “looked 11 or 12 years old.” The girl would come to work with her mother, Moultry said, adding that “she was way too young to be working in that plant, or any plant.”

In August, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) found child labor at another factory — SL Alabama, a Hyundai supplier in Alexander City, Alabama. In response, the DOL filed a complaint accusing the supplier of repeatedly violating labor regulations by “employing oppressive child labor” in hiring minors aged 13-15 to carry out hazardous work.

“In the U.S. system, oftentimes the monetary risk for labor rights violations is relatively small so it might be seen as a cost of doing business,” Dieter Waizenegger, executive director of SOC Investment Group, said.

“Exploitation of children is shameful,” President of the United Autoworkers Ray Curry said in a statement.

STARTLING FIGURES

Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history, and the number of child laborers across the country peaked in the early decades of the 20th century, according to The University of Iowa Labor Center.

Though the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938, it didn’t ban child labor in the U.S. where the issue remains startling today. Under U.S. labor law, children as young as 12 can work unlimited hours on farms of any size with parental permission, as long as they do not miss school. There is no minimum age for children to work on small farms or family farms.

“This is glaringly out of step with international standards,” Margaret Wurth, a senior researcher with the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, wrote in an article published last year. “The U.S. should examine child labor within its own borders with the same scrutiny.”

Estimates by the Association of Farmworker Opportunity programs, based on figures gathered by the DOL, suggested that there are approximately 500,000 child farmworkers in the United States. Many of these children start working as young as age 8, and 72-hour work weeks — more than 10 hours per day — are not uncommon.

Agricultural work is demanding and dangerous. Children are regularly exposed to pesticides, greatly increasing their risk for cancer. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that children are three times more susceptible to the pesticides’ carcinogenic effects than adults.

Environmental conditions, particularly extreme heat, and dangerous farming tools are even more immediate threats. A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office suggested that 100,000 child farmworkers are injured on the job every year and that children account for 20 percent of farming fatalities.

EPIC FAILURE

The United States is the only country in the world that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a comprehensive human rights treaty on children’s rights and notably the most widely ratified treaty since its introduction in 1989.

Rebecca London, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Catherine Ramstetter, founder of Successful Healthy Children, co-authored an opinion published by The Hill in June, saying that “probably many readers have never heard of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and did not know that the U.S. stands alone in its unwillingness to ratify it.”

“We have failed U.S. children and youth in so many ways on this human right,” they said. “It is an epic failure on the part of our country and one that could be rectified, if only we truly believed that children have rights: rights which deserve to be made explicit so as to be considered paramount in our institutions and policies.”

Michael Hancock, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law firm, said that “child labor is one of those invisible problems” in the United States.

“It’s not something that’s really obvious to the public at large. But it’s a real issue for the victims of child labor. It deprives them of an education. It puts them in harm’s way. They’re young, they’re still developing, they’re not fully mature, so there are a lot of things about child labor that will set these kids back in their development, both physical, intellectual and otherwise, for years and years,” said Hancock, who worked at the DOL for 20 years.

“It’s something we can’t lose sight of and it’s a priority we have to maintain,” said Hancock.

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Via https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Fails-Children-by-Not-Acting-on-Child-Labor-20221031-0005.html

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Megan Fox

PJ Media

A few moments ago, less than 24 hours after Elon Musk took over as Chief Twit of Twitter, a fact-check has been placed on one of Joe Biden’s @POTUS tweets because… he’s lying. Biden tweeted, “Let me give you the facts. In 2020, 55 corporations made $40 billion. And they paid zero in federal taxes. My Inflation Reduction Act puts an end to this.”Not so fast, homie. Twitter took the opportunity to add context that said, “Out of the 55 corporations the tweet referenced only 14 had earnings greater than $1 billion and would be eligible under Biden’s tax law.” LOLTwitter also linked Glen Kessler’s fact-check of the claim in the Washington Post in which he concluded, “This ’55 corporations’ number is probably in the ballpark but readers should be aware that it’s not based on actual tax returns but instead is an estimate of taxes paid based on corporate reports.” Though Kessler could not bring himself to call it what it is — a lie — he had to admit that it’s not accurate.