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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.

Statins Increase Diabetes Risk by 38%

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Dr Joseph Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • Data from one study showed people taking statin medications have a 38% increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Scientists have identified several factors that may play a part in elevating risk, including impaired insulin sensitivity and the impact on epigenetics that influence insulin traits
  • Data released in early 2021 have also shown that people taking statin medications have an increased risk of cardiovascular events in all but the highest risk group
  • In a presentation at the University of Sydney and in a peer-reviewed narrative review, Maryanne Demasi looked at the evidence that has divided medical professionals over statins and shows how by simply revising definitions and hiding data, the industry has misled consumers and pocketed billions
  • Instead of relying on cholesterol numbers that have little benefit unless the total is over 300, consider evaluating your cholesterol-to-HDL and triglyceride-to-HDL ratios, as well as your ferritin and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) levels

According to a 2020 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,1 34.1 million U.S. adults had diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes in 2018. There were slightly more men than women, and more white, non-Hispanic people with diabetes than Black, Asian or Hispanic people combined.

Just two years later, these numbers have gone up, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,2 with 37.3 million people having diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes. A total of 96 million over the age of 18 have prediabetes, which is 38% of the U.S. adult population.

These numbers demonstrate that diabetes is already at epidemic proportions in the U.S. A study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology3 found that adults taking statin medications to control cholesterol levels have a higher risk of developing insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes than the general population. However, researchers have repeatedly failed to find evidence that high cholesterol is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

As I have discussed in many previous articles, three factors have a far greater influence on your cardiovascular disease risk and, to some degree, are interrelated. These are insulin resistance,4 chronic inflammation5 and high iron levels.6 Unfortunately, these primary contributors are rarely the focus of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment in conventional medicine.

Instead, statins, also called cholesterol-lowering drugs, are the go-to defense in Western medicine, which led to the drug once holding the infamous title of the most profitable drug. Dr. Malcolm Kendrick7 is a general practitioner in Cheshire, England, and the author of three books, including “A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-Health World.” He estimates that the pharmaceutical industry has grossed more than $1 trillion from statins.

Statins Increase Risk of Diabetes by 38%

A team at Erasmus University Medical Center in The Netherlands published the study found in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.8 The researchers wrote that several epidemiological studies had shown an association between statins and diabetes, but this team sought to analyze the associated glycemic traits with Type 2 diabetes.

They included 9,535 people in the Rotterdam Study who did not have diabetes at the start of the study. They followed the participants for 15 years and found those who used statin medications had a higher concentration of serum fasting insulin and insulin resistance as compared to those who had never used a statin.

This was associated with a 38% increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. The researchers concluded, “Individuals using statins may be at higher risk for hyperglycemia, insulin resistance and, eventually, Type 2 diabetes. Rigorous preventive strategies such as glucose control and weight reduction in patients when initiating statin therapy might help minimize the risk of diabetes.”

Unfortunately, the mechanism by which statins trigger Type 2 diabetes has not been fully identified and may not be related to obesity. Scientists have also identified a health condition called metabolically obese but normal weight (MONW),9 which is a subgroup of the population that has impaired insulin sensitivity and a higher risk of diabetes while being normal weight.

In this condition, the patient would appear to have a normal weight but have impaired insulin sensitivity, so weight reduction would not be an effective means of reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes. Recent research has also found the same results — individuals taking statin medications have a higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Scientists have proposed multiple reasons10 for the increased risk of diabetes in those taking statins, including impaired insulin sensitivity and reduced secretion of insulin from pancreatic beta cells. One paper published in the International Journal of Molecular Science11 in 2020, reviewed the mechanisms by which statins appear to increase the risk. These included the impact on epigenetics through differential expression of microRNAs.

Another study12 published in the same year investigated the role of epigenetics by comparing DNA methylation in patients using statins against those who did not. They gathered evidence from five cohort studies that included 8,270 participants and found evidence that DNA methylation contributed to the effect that statin medications had on insulin traits.

Statins Also Raise Your Risk of Cardiovascular Events

A third retrospective cohort study13 looked at the results from 13,698 patients that were evenly split between statin users and non-statin users. Participants did not have atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or diabetes in 2005 when the study began. The group was followed until 2013 and evaluated for the risk of Type 2 diabetes.

The results revealed that statin users had a significantly greater risk of new-onset Type 2 diabetes than non-users. The researchers separated the risk by statin medication and found that five-year use was associated with a higher risk for those taking simvastatin (Zocor), followed closely by atorvastatin (Lipitor).14

In January 2021, when the pandemic media storm was in full swing, a study15 was published in the journal Atherosclerosis that showed people taking statin medications have a higher rate of cardiovascular events than those who were not on statins. This is significant since statins are supposed to reduce the rate of cardiovascular events.

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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/06/29/statins-increase-diabetes-risk.aspx

Fauci Gets COVID Again After Taking Pfizer’s Treatment — the Drug That Cost Taxpayers $10.5 Billion

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By  Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday he is experiencing a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking Paxlovid, Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral pill. Taxpayers are on the hook for $10.5 billion worth of the experimental treatment, under a deal the White House cut with Pfizer.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to President Biden, said Tuesday he is experiencing a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking Paxlovid, Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral pill, Bloomberg reported.

Fauci tested positive for COVID-19 on June 15, despite being quadruple-vaccinated, initially experiencing “mild symptoms,” according to the NIAID.

Due to his age — 81 — which put him at high risk for developing complications, Fauci was prescribed Paxlovid.

The drug, which is made from a combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, in December 2021 was granted Emergency Use Authorization to treat COVID-19.

“After I finished the five days of Paxlovid, I reverted to negative on an antigen test for three days in a row,” Fauci said Tuesday in a remote interview during the Foreign Policy’s Global Health Forum.

“And then on the fourth day, just to be absolutely certain, I tested myself again. I reverted back to positive.”

“It was sort of what people are referring to as a Paxlovid rebound,” Fauci said. Over the next day, he began to feel “really poorly,” and “much worse than in the first go-around,” he added.

CDC and NIH investigate relapses after Paxlovid 

COVID-19 can make a comeback after an infected person has gone through a round of Paxlovid, according to a May 24 advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

According to the CDC:

“Recent case reports document that some patients with normal immune response who have completed a five-day course of Paxlovid for laboratory-confirmed infection and have recovered can experience recurrent illness two to eight days later, including patients who have been vaccinated and/or boosted.”

The agency continued to recommend the oral antiviral drug as a treatment despite the possibility of recurrences, Reuters reported.

In late April, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers said they will investigate how often and why coronavirus levels rebound in some patients who complete a five-day course of Paxlovid.

“It is a priority,” Dr. Clifford Lane, deputy director for clinical research at the NIAID, told Bloomberg. It’s “a pretty urgent thing for us to get a handle on.”

On May 17, political commentator Kim Iversen weighed in on reports that NIH researchers were investigating how often and why coronavirus levels rebound in some patients.

“Turns out the treatment drug Paxolvid, which is made by Pfizer, has a problem,” Iversen told viewers of The Hill’s “Rising.”

“Pfizer says its real-world data indicates the relapses occur in fewer than 1 in 3,000 patients, but again, we’ve heard this phrase throughout the pandemic — that something is ‘extremely rare,’ like getting the virus after being vaccinated or having a case of myocarditis … it turns out these events are more common than they first appear,” Iversen said.

Iversen criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its rushed approval of drugs such as Paxlovid while denying the public access to older, often less-expensive treatments.

U.S. taxpayers pay $10.6 billion for the ‘free’ medication

While U.S. government researchers seek ‘urgent’ data to explain why patients who take Paxlovid relapse, health officials continue to recommend Pfizer’s drug despite evidence showing other treatments may be more effective — and less costly.

Paxlovid retails for $700 for a five-day course, but the U.S. government cut a deal to pay half that.

In November 2021, the U.S. government sealed a business deal with Pfizer to the tune of $5.3 billion for 10 million treatment courses of the experimental antiviral treatment.

Then in January, the government doubled its order to 20 million courses of Paxlovid, bringing the U.S. taxpayer bill to $10.6 billion.

Two months later, Biden announced a new “Test to Treat” initiative, which allows Americans who test positive for COVID-19 at a pharmacy to obtain free antiviral pills “on the spot.”

Biden said he ordered “millions of pills” from Pfizer, paid for by U.S. tax dollars, to allow them to be passed out “for free.”

Dr. David Gortler, pharmacologist, pharmacist, FDA and healthcare policy oversight fellow and FDA reform advocate at the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday questioned why the government continues to invest in Paxlovid, given what he called the drug’s “lackluster” performance.

In an article published on CD Media, Gortler said:

“In December 2021 Pfizer claimed initial study findings showed that Paxlovid cut the risk of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in people with mild to moderate coronavirus infections.

“Without context this statement is grossly misleading.

“Just about everyone who gets the existing COVID-19 mutation will have mild or moderate disease, yet the drugmaker limited its study to people who were unvaccinated and who faced the greatest risk from the virus due to age or health problems, such as obesity.

“An updated more recent analysis from 1,153 patients (out of a possible 2,246 patients) showed a lackluster, non-significant 51% relative risk reduction.”

Gortler added:

“A sub-group analysis of 721 vaccinated adults with at least one risk factor for progression to severe COVID-19 showed a non-significant relative risk reduction in hospitalization or death (treatment arm: 3/361; placebo: 7/360).”

Gortler pointed out that the Senate’s $10 billion COVID-19 relief bill includes a requirement that at least half the money be spent on therapeutics.

“But why did Biden gamble every dollar on one, single drug from one single drugmaker [original emphasis]? Gortler asked. “Why was Pfizer chosen to satisfy the therapeutics clause by itself?

By trusting Pfizer and making a considerable gamble with taxpayer funds, the White House flushed $5.3 billion taxpayer dollars largely down the drain, Gortler said.

“The White House is now on the hook for an additional $5.3 billion for a total of $10.6 billion for an ineffective COVID-19 treatment that Pfizer had already developed, when they could have spent almost nothing and promoted the established safety and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin with an established, superior outcome.”

Pfizer stands to make $54 billion in sales in 2022 from its vaccine and Paxlovid, The Defender reported in March.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fauci-covid-rebound-pfizer-paxlovid-taxpayers/

Latest survey shows COVID vaccines are a disaster: ~750,000 dead in US

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Steve Kirsch

Executive summary

Our latest poll is devastating for the official narrative:

  1. a 6.6% rate of heart injury (>10M Americans)
  2. 2.7% are unable to work after being vaccinated (>5M Americans),
  3. 6.3% had to be hospitalized (>10M Americans)
  4. you were more likely to die from COVID if you’ve taken the vaccine.
  5. Almost as many (77.4%) households lost someone from the vaccines as from COVID. If you believe that 1M people in the US have died from COVID, then this survey indicates that ~750,000 people died from the vaccine (10.18/13.15*1M) with a 95% confidence of at least 600,000 deaths.

The error bar computation on each question is here.

We will be re-running this with a 5,000 sample size soon which will have smaller error bars. But the key point is that even if we choose the most conservative data points, the survey results are inconsistent with the “safe and effective” narrative.

For example, the CDC hasn’t found anyone who has died from the mRNA vaccines and our survey shows at least 600,000 people have died. That’s a big gap. Someone isn’t telling you the truth. Why do we get such a high number every time we run our poll to a different audience?

Anyone can run our poll for $500 if you don’t believe us. I predict nobody in mainstream media will touch this because they don’t want to know the truth.

This is a poll that nobody who is pro-vaccine wants you to see.

The poll will be ignored by the mainstream media, even when we rerun it with 8,000 people and get the same results. You can bank on that.

Introduction

We used a professional to draft most of the survey questions and skip logic for our Jun 25 survey.

Here are the key takeaways from the Jun 25 survey. We use “stratified counts” throughout since these are “normalized” based on the US demographics:

  1. 380 of the 500 people who took the poll were vaccinated after normalization [Q1]
  2. Only 34% of Americans are drinking the Kool-Aid and getting >2 doses [Q1]
  3. 2.63% of the households (13.15/500) had someone who died from the COVID virus [Q19]
  4. 2.03% [1.7%-2.4%] of the households (10.18[8.6-11.8]/500) reported a death from the vaccine in their household [Q15]. This is stunning because it shows that the vaccine has killed almost as many people as the COVID virus has. The authorities say that COVID has killed over 1M people in the US so this suggests that 774,000 people were killed by the vaccine (10.18[8.6-11.8]/13.15[12.3-14.0]=77.4% [64.2%-90.5%]). How can that be a “safe” vaccine? The 95% confidence intervals say over 600,000 Americans have been killed by the vaccine. Even if this is overestimated by a factor of 10X, this is devastating for the vaccine narrative. There is simply no way to spin this. This is why the “fact checkers” and mainstream media will avoid this survey.
  5. 2.7% of the people who took the vaccine (10.43/380) are so injured they are unable to work [Q7A2]. This is a disaster. So this is 2.7% of the 200M vaccinated people ages 18 and older: >5M severely injured people who can’t work. I don’t know how they will spin this as a positive.
  6. 16.7% (63.7/380) of the people who took the vaccine consider themselves vaccine injured [Q2]. So that’s >30M vaccine injured. I don’t know how they will spin this as a positive.
  7. The survey shows a 6.6% rate of heart injury post-vaccine according to the poll (24.97/380 [Q3]). This is stunning because these are of the people taking the survey reporting their own injury. Nobody could know this better than the survey taker. This is 1,000X higher than the CDC told us. Per Gavi, “The CDC researchers estimated there might be a maximum of 70 cases of myocarditis out of a million second doses given to boys ages 12 to 17.” How could the CDC underestimate this severe adverse event by 3 orders of magnitude?!!? There is something seriously wrong here. Our survey is well within 1 order of magnitude with other rates we’ve been told. This represents 13.3M million people who are seriously injured, probably for life.
  8. 9.2% (35/380) of the people who took the vaccine had to seek medical help for their injury. [Q4]. That’s 18M doctor visits.
  9. 6.3% (23.83/380) of the people who took the vaccine had to be hospitalized for their vaccine injury [Q5] That’s over 12M hospitalizations.
  10. 3.7% (18.83/500) of the households had a person with a heart condition due to the vaccine [Q14]. Since there are 123M households, this is 4.5M new heart conditions. This is a lower estimate than the direct injury above suggesting that people answering this question were answering it for people other than themselves (since otherwise the rate would be higher than the 6.6% direct rate above). So this is another estimate on the number of new heart conditions.
  11. If you got a COVID infection, it’s 17% (36.4/30.98) [Q17] more likely that you were vaccinated, suggesting the vaccine could be making things worse.
  12. If you died from COVID, it was 72% more likely you died after getting the vaccine (6.81/3.95) [Q22]. We were told the opposite by the government.
  13. 46% are planning on getting more vaccines [Q23]. A total of 24.6% of all people are sheep, i.e., even if they are told the vaccine has a good chance of disabling them for life, they will do what the government recommends. These percentages are approximately what is predicted by mass formation theory.
  14. Most people (65%) believed that the hospital treatments for COVID may be responsible for killing people that they lost to COVID, not COVID [Q20]

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Via https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/latest-survey-shows-the-covid-vaccines

Rockefeller Foundation Doomsday Document Predicted Food Shortages Two Years Ago

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Dr Joseph Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • We’re told looming food shortages are primarily the result of climate change and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Yet in July 2020, The Rockefeller Foundation had already predicted it, and was calling for a revamp of the food system as a whole to address it
  • “Reset the Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System,” published by The Rockefeller Foundation July 28, 2020, describes how the COVID pandemic caused “a hunger and nutrition crisis” in the U.S. “unlike any this country has seen in generations”
  • According to The Rockefeller Foundation, the pandemic revealed deep problems in the U.S. food system that need to be “reset.” “Reset the Table” was published just one month after the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially announced its plans for a “Great Reset,” and many of the contributors to the Foundation’s paper are WEF members
  • While the report stresses the need for “healthy diets” and “sustainable” food production, the words “natural,” “organic” or “grass fed” are absent, so that’s not what they’re referring to
  • The WEF has, for years, promoted the idea that insects should be recognized as a healthy, sustainable protein alternative that can save the environment and solve world hunger

It seems nothing escapes the prophetic minds of the self-proclaimed designers of the future. They accurately foresee “natural disasters” and foretell coincidental “acts of God.” They know everything before it happens. Perhaps they truly are prophets. Or, perhaps they’re simply describing the inevitable outcomes of their own actions.

Right now, we’re told looming food shortages are primarily the result of climate change and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Yet, back in July 2020, The Rockefeller Foundation had already predicted it, and was calling for a revamp of the food system as a whole to address it.

‘Reset the Table’ Is Part of The Great Reset

The document in question, titled “Reset the Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System,”1 published by The Rockefeller Foundation July 28, 2020, describes how the COVID pandemic had caused “a hunger and nutrition crisis” in the U.S. “unlike any this country has seen in generations.”

Mind you, COVID was declared a pandemic March 11, 2020, so by the time this Rockefeller report was published, the pandemic had only existed for four months, and while certain high-risk groups did experience food insecurity, such as children whose primary meal is a school lunch, widespread food shortages, in terms of empty shelves, were not widely prevalent or particularly severe in the U.S.

The report also notes that it grew out of “video-conference discussions in May and June 2020,” so we’re to believe that two months into the pandemic, these prophetic minds already had the future all figured out. According to the Foundation, the pandemic revealed deep problems in the U.S. food system that need to be “reset.”

As noted by ThreadsIrish on Substack,2 “Reset the Table” was published just one month after the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially announced its plans for a “Great Reset,” and many of the contributors to the Foundation’s paper are WEF members.

In the foreword,3 Rockefeller Foundation president Dr. Rajiv Shah also stresses that “a comprehensive playbook” to address the food system would also need to address other issues, “such as living wages, housing and transportation,” and that “all of us” — meaning the self-proclaimed designers of the future — “need to write that playbook together over the coming year.”

Problem, Reaction, Solution

There are interesting tidbits in this document. For example, on page 3, it states that “94% of deaths from COVID-19 among individuals with an underlying condition, the majority of which are diet-related.” This is surprising, considering diet and nutrition were essentially absent from public discussions and reporting about the infection.

Equally surprising is that, on page 4, the Foundation actually admits its role in creating the problems currently plaguing our food system:

“The Green Revolution — which The Rockefeller Foundation played a role in seeding and scaling — was effective and successful in addressing calorie-based hunger and averting mass starvation. But it left a legacy that we see clearly today, including overemphasis of staple grains at the expense of more nutrient-rich foods, reliance on chemical fertilizers that deplete the soil, and overuse of water.”

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How They Intend to Seize Control of the Supply Chain

“Reset the Table” basically describes how they intend to seize control of the food supply and the supply chain under the guise of “equity,” “fairness” and “environmental protection.” One key to this enterprise is data collection. They want to collect data on everyone’s spending and eating habits. Expanding broadband access is part of that.

“Forty-two million Americans lack broadband access that is essential to shifts to online enrollment, online purchasing of food, direct farm-to-consumer purchasing, telemedicine, teleconsultations, as well as education, finance, and employment,” the paper5 notes, adding, “This is a fundamental resiliency and equity gap, and we need to close it, urgently.”

As you can see from these paragraphs alone, they want everything to shift into an online environment, including education, medicine and the buying of food. This, of course, makes everything you do far easier to monitor and track. Another key is to make sure global WEF partners in multiple sectors work in tandem to form a “collaborative advocacy movement.”

A third key to success is “changes to policies, practices and norms,” and those changes are “numerous.” The end goal is to centralize control of the food supply into a single executive office, which is right in line with the idea of a “one world government.” As WEF member Henry Kissinger once said, “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”

What’s Their Definition of ‘Healthy Diet’?

As for the “healthy and protective diets” the Foundation is calling for, we’ve already been told what that is. For the past several years, the WEF has been promoting the idea that we should get used to eating weeds and bugs and drinking reclaimed sewage.

US Exposed as “Secret Partner” in Israeli Airstrikes Against Syria that Violate International Law

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Israel’s F-15 fighter jets in the air over Mount Hermon in Israel near the Syrian border. [Source: rt.com]

Jeremy Kuzmarov

Covert Action Magazine

Dirty war in Syria continues as media attention focuses elsewhere

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Israel secretly coordinates with the U.S, on many of the airstrikes it carries out in eastern Syria near the al-Tanf military base, a U.S. outpost near the Syria-Jordan border.

Since 2017, the Israeli Air Force has cleared all planned flights with the U.S. Central Command, which conducts an assessment. The command also reports details of planned flights to the U.S. Defense Secretary and others, who can also choose to conduct assessments.

The Israeli strikes are illegal under international law and, according to the Russian ambassador to Syria, Alexander Yefimov, “leave human casualties, cause tangible material damage, violate Syria’s sovereignty, pose a threat to international civil aviation, and in general increase tension in the already escalating military-political situation.”

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Map of Israeli airstrikes in Syria between 2020 and 2022 based on public reports. The “x” is the spot of the al-Tanf air base. [Source: wsj.com]

Officially, the purpose of the strikes is to interrupt Tehran’s flow of weapons to Lebanese Hezbollah—which established a “Golan liberation brigade” in support of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad”—and to diminish Iran’s military forces and proxies in Syria.

The U.S. claims that it wants to ensure that Israeli bombing raids do not interfere with the U.S.-led military campaign against Islamic State militants.

However, the Islamic State is the main opposition force to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom both Washington and Israel have long tried to overthrow.

The location of the strikes underscores an ulterior agenda, furthermore, which is to help sustain the U.S. military outpost at al-Tanf which has been targeted in drone attacks.

Al-Tanf is located strategically near oil fields; U.S. troops were positioned there to “keep Syria’s oil,” as Donald Trump acknowledged when he was president.

In August 2020, Trump granted a sanctions waiver to a Delaware-based oil company, Delta Crescent Energy LLC with close ties to his administration, allowing it to develop oil fields that had been captured from the Islamic State by the Syrian Democratic Forces, Washington’s proxy troops consisting mainly of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.

The U.S. military trucked in components for two modular refineries to assist the company in exploiting and marketing Syrian oil.

Though the Biden administration rescinded the sanctions waiver, it has sustained at least 900 troops in Syria and bombed targets in Syria near the Iraqi border allegedly targeting pro-Iranian militias.

Syria’s Foreign Ministry told the official SANA news agency that the air raids—which killed a child on the Iraqi side of the border—demonstrated “the recklessness of U.S. policies and the need for Washington to withdraw its aggressor forces” from the region.

Washington’s Long War on Syria

As the World Socialist website put it, U.S. imperialism has been at war in Syria since launching a regime-change operation in 2011, using CIA-backed Islamist militias as its proxies in a bid to topple Assad’s government and impose a U.S. puppet government in Damascus.

The Obama administration launched a direct military intervention in Syria as well as Iraq on the pretext of combating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an offshoot of the very Islamist militias that it had previously armed and funded. The toll of these interventions is exemplified by the hundreds of thousands of dead and the millions of displaced.

Now the U.S. remains in Syria for the purpose of controlling and exploiting the country’s oil, as part of a broader military campaign to “impose a neo-colonial U.S. hegemony in the Middle East at the expense of Iran, and the countries the Pentagon defines as ‘great power’ rivals, China and Russia”—which is allied with Assad.

Working Together to Hemorrhage Syria to Death

For the Israelis, the overthrow of the Assad government would represent the final death of the Arab nationalist threat that has overhung the Jewish state since the early 1950s.

Such an outcome would also facilitate much greater freedom of action for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the region, with Syrian ballistic missiles, chemical weapons and air defenses all having for decades been directed primarily at restraining Israel’s military power.

Israel furthermore wants to strike a blow at Hezbollah and Iran, which is allied with Assad, a Shia Allawite. Moshe Ya’alon, Israeli Defense Minister from 2013-2016, stated that, “in Syria, if it is a choice between Iran and the Islamic State, I choose the Islamic State … Our greatest enemy is the Iranian regime that has declared war on us.”

Former Israeli Consul General in New York Alon Pinkas told The New York Times in 2013 that, for Jerusalem, “this is a playoff situation in which you need both teams to lose, but at least you don’t want one to win [Syrian government forces]—we’ll settle for a tie. Let them both bleed, hemorrhage to death: that’s the strategic thinking here. As long as this lingers, there’s no real threat from Syria.” : al-monitor.com]

These latter comments help to explain the purpose of the recent airstrikes better than anything and why the U.S. would assist with them.

By bleeding and hemorrhaging Syria to death—including also through the imposition of devastating sanctions—the U.S. could ensure that Assad remains isolated and Syria weak. Then it will remain unable to project its influence and revive the Pan-Arab project that several generations ago had begun to challenge U.S. primacy in the Middle East.

Via https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/29/u-s-exposed-as-secret-partner-in-israeli-airstrikes-against-syria-that-violate-international-law/

Big Pharma Desperate to Get COVID Shots on Childhood Schedule Before ‘Emergency’ Ends

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By  Dr. Joseph Mercola

Once the COVID-19 vaccine is on the childhood vaccination schedule, the vaccine makers are permanently shielded from liability for injuries and deaths that occur in any age group, including adults.

Story at a glance:

  • The rate of COVID-19-associated hospitalization among children aged 5 to 11 is just 0.0008%. In real-world terms, that’s so close to zero you basically cannot lower it any further.
  • Despite that, the vaccine advisory panel — the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) — of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 15 unanimously approved granting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID shots for infants and young children.
  • Pfizer’s EUA is for a three-dose regimen (3-microgram shots) for children 6 months to 5 years old; Moderna’s EUA is for a two-dose regimen (25-microgram shots) for children 6 months to 6 years.
  • In granting this EUA, the FDA again ignored injury and death data and swept medical ethics aside.
  • The drug companies need this last remaining age group to be included under the EUA, because once the emergency is finally declared “over,” the next phase of liability shielding requires that the shots receive approval by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Once the vaccine is on the childhood vaccination schedule, the vaccine makers are permanently shielded from liability for injuries and deaths that occur in any age group, including adults.

Statistics show the rate of COVID-19-associated hospitalization among children aged 5 to 11 is 0.0008%. In real-world terms, that’s so close to zero you basically cannot lower it any further.

Yet, despite such reassuring data, children in this age group are urged to get two to three doses of the COVID jab, even though side effects of the injection could harm them for life, or kill them.

As noted by the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation in the video below, myocarditis — one of the recognized effects of the COVID jab — “has a mortality rate of 25% to 56% within three to 10 years, owing to progressive heart failure and sudden cardiac death.”

Sudden cardiac death is what the media and public health agencies are now glibly referring to as “sudden adult death syndrome” or SADS.

The older and more appropriate description for SADS is “sudden arrhythmic death syndrome,” but they don’t even want to use the word “arrhythmic” anymore, as that tells you what the death is really caused by, and many are now aware that the jab can cause heart inflammation.

By avoiding the word “arrhythmic,” it’s easier for them to pretend as though people are dying for no apparent reason, and certainly not because of the COVID shots. Still, real-world facts tell us that SADS didn’t take off until after the shots were rolled out, and the vast majority of young healthy people who suddenly die for no apparent reason have been jabbed.

Also, understand that if your child or you are injured by the shot, you cannot sue the drug company for damages and, so far, the U.S. government has rejected all but one of the claims filed with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.

At the current pace of about 18 claims a month, it would take 38 years just to get through the current backlog, Reuters has noted. Basically, many may die before their case even gets through review.

COVID jab authorization granted for babies

As if the situation were not bad enough already, on June 15, the FDA’s vaccine advisory panel — the VRBPAC — unanimously approved (21-0) to grant EUA to both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID shots for infants and young children.

Pfizer’s EUA is for a three-dose regimen (3-microgram shots) for children 6 months to 5 years old, while Moderna’s EUA is for a two-dose regimen (25-microgram shots) for children 6 months to 6 years.

In the video at the top of the page, Steve Kirsch, president of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, interviews reporter Toby Rogers, who endured the entire nine-hour day of the recent VRBPAC meeting.

The day before that meeting, June 14, Rogers published a written summary of Pfizer’s trial on young children, which he referred to as “an embarrassment.” “Any VRBPAC member who votes Aye on this junk science application should be removed from his/her job,” he wrote. Apparently, they all need to go.

In the interview, Rogers laments the fact that the VRBPAC members remain “locked in their information bubble” and won’t allow any conflicting data to influence their preconceived biases.

As noted by Rogers, they have a sacred duty to protect public health, and they’re being flippant about it.

They’re ignoring data, they’re ignoring the pleas of the vaccine injured, they’re ignoring serious questions, they’re ignoring everything except the flimsiest bits and pieces upon which their narrative is built. Rogers called the experience “heartbreaking.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/big-pharma-covid-vaccine-child-immunization-schedule-cola/

Court Again Blocks COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers

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By  Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

The Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees will remain blocked until at least September after a federal appeals court on Monday agreed to reconsider its previous decision to reinstate the mandate.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will revisit its April ruling by a three-judge panel that the administration has the legal authority to require federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, The Associated Press reported.

The new injunction will remain until the case can be argued before the full court’s 17 judges. According to The Epoch Times, the court has tentatively scheduled the en banc oral arguments for the week of Sept. 12.

Back-and-forth rulings on federal worker vaccine mandate since January 

Biden introduced Executive Order 14043 in September 2021, requiring more than 3.5 million federal executive branch workers to undergo vaccination unless they secured approved medical or religious exemptions. The order did not allow workers to choose regular testing in place of getting the vaccine.

In December 2021, Feds for Medical Freedom — a grassroots organization with about 6,000 members throughout the federal civil service — sued the Biden administration and several federal agencies.

Other parties to the lawsuit included the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 918, a union representing employees in the Federal Protective Service and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and several other individuals and federal contractors.

The groups sought to block two COVID-19 vaccine mandates: one covering federal employees and the other for federal contractors.

Lawyers representing the Biden administration argued the Constitution gives the president, as the head of the federal workforce, the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation, and that therefore mandating vaccination was under the president’s authority.

The plaintiffs disagreed, countering that such action oversteps a president’s powers.

“The main thrust of the argument [of the plaintiffs],” attorney Bruce Castor Jr. told The Epoch Times in February, “is that the president doesn’t have the authority to issue an order like this, pursuant to the powers granted him in Article Two of the United States Constitution, and that’s the same argument that won the day in the Supreme Court regarding the 100 or more employees; the president doesn’t have that authority.”

Castor, a lawyer with the law firm van der Veen, Hartshorn & Levin, which represented the AFGE union, added:

“Instead of going through the checks and balances of congressional approval, which includes feedback from the public, the executive order cuts all that out. It just says, ‘My way or the highway.’

“Certainly, the Constitution grants powers like that to the president in foreign affairs and protecting the nation from aggression from foreign powers. But he doesn’t have the authority, with a sweep of the pen, to affect the lives of millions of people, bypassing Congress.”

In January, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown blocked the mandate, stating in his 20-page ruling that the president and his administration did not have the authority to impose such a mandate.

Brown questioned the president’s power to mandate federal employees undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment, writing in his decision:

“This case is not about whether folks should get vaccinated against COVID-19 — the court believes they should. It is not even about the federal government’s power, exercised properly, to mandate vaccination of its employees.

“It is instead about whether the president can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment.

“That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.”

In February, a 5th Circuit panel of judges refused to block Brown’s ruling pending appeal.

But after hearing arguments in March, a different panel of judges ruled 2-1 in early April that Brown did not have jurisdiction in the case, overturning the lower court’s Jan. 21 injunction against the mandate and ordering the district court to dismiss the case.

Meanwhile, Biden’s vaccine mandate continues to draw fire from health freedom groups who alleged federal overreach. Four groups — including America’s Frontline Doctors and Airline Employees for Health Freedom — filed amicus briefs in June supporting the Feds for Medical Freedoms in the case, Law 360 said.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-administration-federal-covid-vaccine-mandate/

The US Government Is A Criminal Enterprise

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The prices of chickens and eggs are rapidly increasing because the US government is using PCR tests to justify the killing of tens of millions of chickens, geese, turkeys and ducks. The US government and the men who act as if it they owned it prepared the way for today’s misery starting back in 2009 when Dr Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin crossed bird flu with Spanish flu.

Dr Kawaoka then crossed his bird flu-Spanish flu mix with 3 of the most contagious human flus available. He successfully allowed bird flu to go from centering in the bird’s beak to its lungs. Today human beings in the US and China have caught bird flu. He was not arrested for waging germ warfare. He was given more than $20 million as a reward from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr Kawaoka is also an expert in Ebola.

Before February 24, 2022, the US had 26 biolabs in the Ukraine near the Russian border. The US had developed a drone which could spread bird flu to migrating birds and to domestic poultry.

Bill Gates is also heavily invested in African Swine flu research. Never know. There might be an outbreak in the US.

Prices are being pushed higher either by design or incompetence at the FDA. The FDA shut down baby formula production because they found bacteria inside the plant that was not in the formula. So today we import baby formula from Europe and Mexico.

There have been more than 95 highly suspicious fires at major food processing centers. This has hurt the supply chain, increased scarcity and raised prices.

The Biden administration has removed millions of acres of oil lease lands from potential production in order to raise the price of oil, diesel and natural gas. They are in the process of making it even harder for oil companies to build new refineries.

They have been working hard on another plan to impoverish the working and middle classes in America: Open Borders. Rents have increased to an average of $2,000 in the US. It is a lot more in areas impacted by immigration. Years ago I lived in an area in California where middle class Whites could afford to live. The rent today for a one bedroom apartment in my old neighborhood is $2,550 a month plus utilities.

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) went into effect on January 1, 1994. Since then the US lost 80,000 manufacturing plants. There are 3,143 counties in the 50 US states. That is a loss of over 24 manufacturing plants per county. At the time NAFTA was passed there were fewer than 100,000 people in an average American county.

The US government added 67 million people to the population since NAFTA while destroying millions of high paying jobs for working people. The government has encouraged oxycodone, methamphetamine, fentanyl and other illegal drugs to keep impoverished Americans from rebelling at the poverty created for them by the federal government in Washington DC and by the billionaires of Wall Street.

In 1994 the US M2 Money Supply (Cash, checking account deposits, and easily-convertible near money) was $3.474 trillion vs $21.728 trillion today. That is an increase of 625%. And your wholly compromised corporate media is wondering why prices are going up.

The loss of jobs and the increase in rents and taxes has put a terrible squeeze on family budgets. By printing tens of trillions of dollars and using them to buy free stuff from overseas, politicians in Washington pretended to be acting to do good things for their voters. Of course when, not if, the dollar dies, wages will be cut 60% permanently, 100% for those who lose their jobs in the coming Depression.

In the summer of 2001 George W Bush told his allies that he was going to war against Afghanistan. On September 10, 2001 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted on CBS Evening News that $2.3 trillion had gone “Missing” from the Pentagon. Neither he nor rabbi Dov Zakheim, the Comptroller of the DOD, could find that money. On the morning of September 11, 2001 more than 50 civilian and military auditors who had begun to look for the “Missing Money” were killed.

Also late in the evening of 9-10-2001 a billion dollars (in 2001 prices) of gold and silver bullion was moved out of the COMEX vault in Tower 4 of the Twin Towers. To date no politician and no paid corporate journalist has dared asked questions about who ordered the bullion to be moved and why.

To date no politician and no corporate journalist has asked either the FBI or the DOD for photos of the interior of the Pentagon taken in the aftermath of 911 so the public would know how the auditors were killed.

Dr Mark Skidmore proved from government sources that $21 trillion went missing from the DOD and HUD (Housing and Urban Development) from 1998 to 2015. He told the humorous story of the US Army one day receiving a check for $800 billion from the Treasury Department. They were told to plug the holes in their “Missing Money” accounts. Guess what? The generals lost the $800 billion!!

The US government decided to change Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) guidelines so that now if anyone asks how a billion dollars disappeared, the bureaucrat can claim “national Security” and legally refuse to answer.

Why did George W Bush want to go to war against Afghanistan prior to 9-11-2001? It might be because the Afghan conflict flooded America with so much heroin that at one time the average age of a first time heroin user was just 14 years.

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Via https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/the-us-government-is-a-criminal-enterprise/

Safe cures against COVID-19 being suppressed in favor of lethal clot shots

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Dr Eddy Betterman

An op-ed has expounded on the suppression of safe cures against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) in favor of the more dangerous vaccines.

“Every time a treatment was discovered that improved COVID-19 patients’ outcomes or prevented transmission of the virus, forces stepped in to prevent the treatment from being used,” wrote Rhoda Wilson in a June 22 piece published in the Daily Expose.

“A growing number of natural treatments that could have prevented the spread of this virus, including most of the serious infections, have been blocked by these controllers. Incredibly, a law was passed that prevented clinical physicians from even suggesting such treatments.”

Wilson pointed to the medical establishment’s suppression on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) during the early days of the pandemic, in collusion with the government.

“When it was revealed that early use of HCQ could significantly reduce the severity of the disease and prevent the need for a ventilator, reports immediately surfaced from government agencies declaring that the drug was of no use, was dangerous and should not be used.”

“This occurred despite reports of HCQ’s benefits from doctors actually treating patients. In some states, prescriptions for HCQ were banned,” wrote Wilson,.

New York-based family physician Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko was among the doctors who attested to the effectiveness of HCQ. He shared to Reawaken America Tour founder and Brighteon.TV host Clay Clark how the establishment blocked the use of the drug when it was found to work against COVID-19 infection.

“In March [2020], my treatment protocol was based on the use of HCQ, zinc and the antibiotic azithromycin. But what happened on March 27, 2020 [is that] the ghoul – what I call [former New York] Gov. Andrew Cuomo – issued an executive order (EO) blocking pharmacies in New York state from dispensing HCQ,” recounted the Ukraine-born American doctor. “[It] was approved for other indications and it was safe, so I couldn’t understand why that was obstructed. I lost a few patients because of that EO [since] they couldn’t get medicine.”

According to Zelenko, people die from COVID-19 because of “the moronic doctor who delays care and the tyrannical government that obstructs access to life-saving medication.” (Related: Dr. Zelenko shares how the MSM smeared him for revealing the cure to COVID.)

Ivermectin also suppressed despite its effectiveness

Wilson also cited the establishment’s suppression of ivermectin, another drug that has shown promise against COVID-19 infection. The writer zeroed in on the efforts of Dr. Pierre Kory, co-founder and president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), to promote ivermectin.

During a December 2021 Senate hearing, the pulmonary and critical care specialist told lawmakers that he and other FLCCC members have spent “tirelessly reviewing the scientific literature to gain insight into this virus and the disease process and to develop effective treatment protocols.” The I-MASK+ protocol to prevent and treat early COVID-19 served as the fruit of this endeavor.

“Ivermectin is highly safe, widely available and low-cost,” Kory said. “In the last three to four months, emerging publications provide conclusive data on the profound efficacy of the [anti-parasitic], anti-viral and anti-inflammatory [drug] called ivermectin in all stages of the [COVID-19] disease.”

The FLCCC president added: “We now have data from over 20 well-designed clinical studies – 10 of them randomized, controlled trials – with every study consistently reporting large magnitude and statistically significant benefits in decreasing transmission rates, shortening recovery times, decreasing hospitalizations, or large reductions in deaths.”

Wilson wrote that Kory “made a number of discoveries that dramatically improved the survival of patients with serious COVID-19 cases.” Unlike physicians who espouse vaccines, the FLCCC head “has spent his professional life treating some of the sickest in the intensive care unit (ICU) settings, including hundreds of COVID-19 patients.”

“There is evidence that early treatment before deterioration occurs, can reduce hospitalization by 85 percent. But each discovery [Kory] made was intensely resisted and rejected by the medical elite and bureaucracies, at least until the proof became so overwhelming that they could no longer deny it. In the interim, thousands died as a result of the elite controller’s intransigence.”

“We see the same thing with ivermectin, another highly effective and safe medication,” concluded Wilson. “As bad as all this is, what’s worse is the alignment of forces being used to prevent safe methods from being used to stop this virus.”

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2022/06/29/safe-cures-against-covid-19-suppressed-in-favor-lethal-clot-shots/

 

9th Century Islam: Cultural Synthesis and Gradual Islamification of the Steppes

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Episode 21: Muslim Merchants and Mystics in Central Asia

Barbarian Empires of the Steppes (2014)

Dr Kenneth Harl

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After their failure to conquer China (see How 751 Muslim War with China Left Steppes Under Turkish Control), the Abbassid Caliphate ceased its military expansion efforts for 300 years. Instead its leaders focused mainly on cultural synthesis of the new territories they had conquered. They hired mainly Persian administrators, and their new capitol Baghdad (and Islamic cities modeled after Baghdad) modeled itself on Persian culture and civilization, speaking and writing in Aramaic,* Persian and Greek, rather than Arabic.

In the 9th century, Arab scholars began to study Christianity, Judaism, Zororastrianism, as well as Aristotelian and Hindu medical and mathematical texts. Following a 811-13 civil war (over succession), the Baghdad court adopted the Persian custom of keeping harems and eunuchs.

In the early 9th century, political power was decentralized through the appointment of emirs to rule provincial cities and regions. The Samanid emirs, who ruled a border area encompassing eastern Persia and Uzbekistan, became particularly prominent They poured the fortunes they earned from the slave** trade into massive monument building (mainly mosques, madrassa*** and mausoleums). In many cases the latter were erected on top of former Buddhist and Christian monasteries. Under this process, the steppes of Transoxiana gradually took on an Arab/Muslim appearance.

Under Samanid influence, large numbers of Silk Road merchants began converting to Islam for three main reasons.

  1. Arabic had become the new commercial language, as both Persian and Turkic speakers adopted Arabic script for written communication.
  2. As Muslims, merchants were protected as members of the Ummah (Muslim community), even beyond the frontiers of the Caliphate.
  3. The Sufi mystics who traveled the Silk Road were very influential with Turks owing to their similarity to traditional nomadic shamans.

The success of Islam in winning over Turkic nomads would inspire Catherine the Great to establish Islam as an official Russian religion – in the hope of winning the allegiance of steppes nomads living within Russian borders.

*A Semitic language, Aramaic originated in ancient Mesopotamia and for 3,000 years was the language of public life and administration of ancient kingdoms and empires. The Old and New Testament were initially written in Aramaic. Jesus spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic.

**Increasingly, Arab regiments were replaced with Turkish mercenaries or slaves. This dramatically increased the need for Turkish slave solders.

***Early Madrassa carried out charitable work in addition to educating male students about the Koran and Islam.

Film can be viewed free with library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/5694984/5695028