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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.

4 States Call in National Guard to Deal With Health Care Staffing Crisis

Epoch Times

At least four states in recent weeks have called in members of the National Guard to deal with health care staffing issues amid COVID-19 vaccine mandates for hospital and nursing home workers.

Late last week, Indiana became the latest state to deploy the National Guard to hospitals. The Indiana Department of Health confirmed to local media that Guard members were sent to 13 facilities after officials with Indiana University Health, the state’s largest hospital system, made the request.

Indiana University officials said it’s dealing with “all-time highs” of both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients. Earlier this year, about 125 Indiana University health care workers were fired for not complying with the system’s vaccine mandate, although the hospital said at the time that most fired workers were part-time.

“As COVID cases continue to increase and hospitalization of COVID and non-COVID patients reach all-time highs, the demand and strain on IU Health’s team members, nurses and providers has never been greater,” Indiana University Health said over the weekend, adding that it “will leverage all available resources and enlist members of Indiana’s National Guard, in conjunction with the Indiana Department of Health, to assist in areas of critical need.”

Six-person National Guard teams with both clinical and nonclinical members will be sent to Indiana University hospitals in two-week intervals, officials said.

In New Hampshire, authorities confirmed several days ago that about 70 Guard members would be deployed within the coming weeks to provide nonclinical support at medical care facilities.

“Primarily, we’re going to start with non-clinical care in the hospitals, and the primary reason why is—we’re a part-time force,” National Guard Maj. Gen. David Mikolaities told local media in a statement. “And for us to utilize our doctors and nurses and physician assistants, we don’t want to take away from the health care system that is already strained.”

That deployment will start on Dec. 12 or Dec. 13, he confirmed.

“If unfortunately during the winter months, the hospitalization rates continue to increase, we’ll be more than happy to provide additional resources,” Mikolaities said.

In Maine, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills said on Dec. 8 that she activated about 75 additional National Guard members. They’ll also be used to provide nonclinical support to health care facilities, coming months after the state issued a vaccine mandate for health workers that several courts refused to block.

Maine’s largest hospital—the Maine Medical Center—”has had no critical care beds available” during the past week, said CEO Joel Botler in a statement, adding that the hospital had to shut down six operating rooms in addition to the six that were previously closed.

And in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat, announced that the state’s National Guard would conduct a similar mission at state hospitals.

The Guard will deploy some 120 Army medics and Air Force medical technicians to 12 long-term facilities and nursing homes “to ease staffing shortages,” according to a statement from the National Guard. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, issued the order at the start of December, citing what she said is a seasonal rise in COVID-19 cases.

Service members are being sent to facilities in Goshen, Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, Buffalo, Utica, Plattsburgh, Uniondale, Liberty, Vestal, Olean, and Lyons, the Guard confirmed in a statement.

The decision came weeks after thousands of New York-based health care workers were placed on unpaid leave following the implementation of Hochul’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which caused staffing disruptions. Neither Hochul nor the Guard has mentioned the COVID-19 mandate amid the deployment.

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Via https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/4-states-call-in-national-guard-to-deal-with-healthcare-staffing-crisis_4152762.html

Ritual Humiliation in Germany: Kids are Forced to go to Front of Class and State Their Vaccination Status – the Vaccinated are Applauded

Children in Germany are put through the ritual humiliation of going to the front of their classroom and stating their vaccination status.

The vaccinated are applauded.

The unvaccinated have to explain why they haven’t taken the jab.

Journalist Alex Story reported on the ritual humiliation of children in Germany.

WATCH:

Last month it was reported a 12-year-old child in the district of Cuxhaven, Germany died two days after taking the Pfizer vaccine.

Because of the child’s death, officials pulled back on mandatory shots for children.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/ritual-humiliation-children-germany-kids-forced-go-front-class-state-vaccination-status-unvaccinated-applauded/

The tide is turning: former pro-vax PhDs are now refusing the booster

Why You Should Avoid Waking Up at 5 A.M. Every Day | Inc.com

By Steve Kirch

Substack

People are starting to wake up.

Recently, I received news that top researchers at multiple highly respected institutions (including Harvard) who had earlier been publicly promoting the vaccine have now changed their minds and are privately refusing to get the booster.

How is that possible? Did we finally convince them with the data? Most of my truthteller friends have been censored and/or deplatformed. So what is causing these people to shift their views so quickly?

Our best convincer is the vaccine itself

The credit for the attitude shift goes our best convincer: the vaccine itself.

These researchers are seeing first hand how dangerous the vaccine is because they are involved in studies in hospitalized and/or outpatients and they see the numbers first hand.

Of course, they can’t say anything officially since they would be fired or have their funding taken away.

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Via https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-tide-is-turning-former-pro-vax

Americans are smartening up about the boosters

By Meryl Nass, MD | December 11, 2021

According to the CDC, as of December 10, 2021:

“Overall, about 237.5 million people, or 71.5% of the total U.S. population, have received at least one dose of vaccine. 

About 200.7 million people, or 60.5% of the total U.S. population, have been fully vaccinated.* 

About 49.9 million additional/booster doses in fully vaccinated people have been reported.“

What does this really mean?

  • At least 16% of those who got their first dose of a two shot series decided not to go back for number 2, or perhaps died.
  • Less than 25% of those who did become fully vaccinated have gone back for a first booster.

I think a large chunk of the population was sucked into getting the vaccines initially, but a considerable number of them have seen through the vaccine propaganda and realize it is not solving the COVID problem, and is not providing vaccinated individuals much protection.

Perhaps some of them have noticed that Israel is already talking about shot #4.  Or they may have heard that if the Omicron strain continues to cause very mild disease, it will serve as as a natural vaccine, inoculating people who get it.

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Via https://alethonews.com/2021/12/11/americans-are-smartening-up-about-the-boosters/

The Importance of the Early Silk Road(s)

Silk Road Maps 2018 - Useful map of the ancient Silk Road ...

Episode 23: New Ideas Along the Silk Road

The Big History of Civilizations (2016)

Dr Craig G Benjamin

Film Review

In this lecture, Benjamin traces the shifting pattern of routes that comprised the “Silk Roads” that linked five empires between 100 BC and 400 AD: Roman, Parthian (modern day Iran), Kushan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal), Han (northern China) and Xiongnu (southern China). The robust trade this produced led to increased political stability in Rome (after 100 years of civil war) as agriculture flourished and coins were issued for the first time. Crossing enormous spans of desert, these trade routes arose following the domestication of the bactrian camel, with its two humps (consisting of stored fat) and tolerance for cold, drought and high altitude made the  possible.

The Romans imported silk, iron, cloves, nutmeg and cardamon from Asia, while the Han and Xiongnu empires imported grapes and glassware from Rome, art objects from India and Egypt and horses from the Central Asian steppes.

According to Benjamin, the collective learning spread by the Silk Roads was just as important as economic trade. Images the sculpted Roman deities would lead to the first sculpted rendition of Buddha in the Xiongnu and Han empires and the emergence of Mahayana Buddhism. The Silk Roads also facilitated the spread of Christianity by Paul of Tarsas between 35-55 AD.

Unfortunately they also facilitated the spread of epidemics of smallpox, bubonic plague and measles. The Roman population dropped from 60 to 40 million between 150-400 AD. This drastic decrease in population contributed to the eventual collapse of both the Roman and the Han (which experienced comparable losses) empires.

Sea trade also flourished during this period between Africa and East Asia, using the summer monsoon trade winds to travel east and the winter trade winds to return.

Vanishing after the collapse of the Roman and Han empires the Silk Roads were revived around 600 AD.

This film can be viewed free on Kanopy.

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/video/new-ideas-along-silk-road

Japan Health Ministry issues HEART WARNING for Pfizer and Moderna covid vaccines

You have to ask why the Japanese government didn’t ban the vaccines outright, especially as they have authorized early treatment of Covid with Ivermectin.

Myocarditis: symptoms, triggers, risks - iMS

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Friday, December 10, 2021 by: Lance D Johnson

(Natural News) The Japan Health Ministry has been receiving several reports ofyoung people developing severe heart inflammationafter taking the Pfizer or Modern mRNA vaccines. The public health officials recently held a meeting with a panel of experts to discuss the rate of myocarditis and pericarditis in young men and teenagers. All over the world, previously healthy athletes, coaches and referees have beencollapsing on the field with heart problems. Japan is seeing similar cardiovascular issues in young and middle aged men.

Japan Health Ministry warns about myocarditis coming from the mRNA vaccines

The Japan’s Health Ministry finds that the “the Moderna and Pfizer covid vaccines could cause heart-related side effects in younger males.” The agency is investigating an uptick in cases of heart inflammation that require hospitalization. Young teens and adults, who are at no risk to…

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The epidemic that wasn’t: In 2006, doctors used PCR testing to cause mass hysteria over “whooping cough” outbreak that didn’t exist

The epidemic that wasn’t: In 2006, doctors used PCR testing to cause mass hysteria over a “whooping cough” outbreak that didn’t even exist

Dr Eddy Betterman

It flew under most people’s radar at the time, but 15 years ago there was an alleged whooping cough epidemic that the medical industry warned was a major threat. The only problem is that it did not actually exist, having been the product of false PCR testing.

The same fraudulent tests being used today to identify the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) were also used in 2006 to pinpoint a fake whooping cough epidemic that scared a whole lot of health care workers into panicking, taking pharmaceutical drugs and getting injected with vaccines (sound familiar?).

The New York Times reported that nearly 1,000 health care workers at a hospital in Lebanon, N.H., tested “positive” using the PCR tests, resulting in them being furloughed from work. They were administered antibiotics and injected with chemicals, only to have the whole thing be blown open as a hoax eight months later.

“… health care workers were dumbfounded to receive an e-mail message from the hospital administration informing them that the whole thing was a false alarm,” the Timesreported in 2007 about the embarrassing incident.

“Not a single case of whooping cough was confirmed with the definitive test, growing the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis, in the laboratory. Instead, it appears the health care workers probably were afflicted with ordinary respiratory diseases like the common cold.”

PCR test inventor said it should never be used to try to identify disease

How could it be that people were mistakenly diagnosed with whooping cough when all they really had was the common cold? The answer is simple: PCR tests are not accurate and their results can easily be manipulated to push a narrative.

The only thing PCR tests do is magnify DNA particles in a sample until they become visible. Depending on how they are calibrated, they can pick up almost anything – even things that do not exist.

“The magnification in PCR is measured by the number of cycles needed to make the DNA visible. Known as the Cycle Threshold (Ct) or Quantification Cycle (Cq) number, the higher the number of cycles the lower the amount of DNA in the sample,” explains the Brownstone Institute.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2021/12/11/2006-doctors-used-pcr-testing-whooping-cough-outbreak-that-didnt-even-exist/

Putin Says Russian Government was Swarming with CIA Officers

Source: RT.com

In the 1990s and the early 2000s, the Russian government was swarming with CIA workers, and they eventually had to be “cleaned out” and sent back to the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Thursday.

Speaking to a meeting of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, Putin used the example of Americans within the Russian government to show how foreign countries attempt to interfere in the country’s internal affairs.

“In the early 2000s, I had already cleaned everyone out, but in the mid-1990s, we had, as it later turned out, cadres of the US Central Intelligence Agency sitting as advisers and even official employees of the Russian government,” Putin explained.

“They were later prosecuted in the United States for violating US law and taking part in privatization while they were CIA employees working for us,” the president claimed.

According to Putin, some American specialists were stationed at Russian nuclear weapons facilities and even sat at a desk with a US flag.

“They lived and worked there. They didn’t need such subtle instruments of interference in our political life because they controlled everything anyway,” he continued.

This isn’t the first time that Putin has accused America of interfering with Russia’s internal affairs, especially in the immediate aftermath following the fall of the Soviet Union and the privatization of government-owned assets. In 2013, the president claimed that CIA officers worked in the entourage of Anatoly Chubais, the deputy prime minister who oversaw the privatization process. He later went on to become Kremlin chief of staff.

Earlier this year, Ruslan Khasbulatov, the former chairman of Russia’s parliament, claimed that the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, was surrounded by “hundreds” of CIA agents who told him what to do throughout his tenure as leader. Khasbulatov even claimed that Yeltsin would send security officials and heads of departments to the US so the Americans could “examine them” and “give conclusions.”

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Via https://nworeport.me/2021/12/11/putin-says-russian-government-was-swarming-with-cia-officers/

EPIC HYPE FAIL: WHO admits omicron variant has so far caused ZERO deaths

WHO admits omicron variant has so far caused ZERO deaths

Dr Eddy Betterman

The World Health Organization (WHO) has admitted that the post-vaccine omicron variant of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) has not caused any deaths despite being present in at least 38 countries.

Writing for The New American, Selwyn Duke noted that the WHO’s admission is yet another proof that the post-vaccine wave is nothing more than an attempt by mainstream media, politicians, organizations and businesses to “ratchet up the fear” and increase the chances of COVID-19 lockdown policies being perpetuated. (Related: Should you be afraid of the omicron variant? The Resistance Chicks don’t think so – Brighteon.TV.)

The WHO stated that the agency will spend the next weeks or months researching the omicron variant. “We’re going to get the answers that everybody out there needs,” claimed Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s director of emergencies.

Ryan is ignoring the fact that many doctors have already stated that there is nothing to worry about.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, a South African doctor and one of the first health practitioners to identify the omicron variant, has already stated that patients with omicron had “extremely mild symptoms.”

The WHO’s answer to the evidence presented by Coetzee is to say that it could take a long time to figure out whether the variant leads to more severe illness. Ryan also wants to study how effective the current COVID-19 vaccines are against it.

Even some of the top scientists working for the WHO have argued that the world should not panic. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist of the WHO, admitted that the omicron variant could become the dominant strain of COVID-19.

“How worried should we be? We need to be prepared and cautious, not panic, because we’re in a different situation compared to a year ago,” she said.

Many of the world’s largest organizations have doubled down on their fearmongering tactic. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said she is worried that the spread of the omicron variant could slow down the global economic recovery just as the delta variant did.

“Even before the arrival of this new variant, we were concerned that the recovery, while it continues, is losing somewhat momentum,” she said. “A new variant that may spread very rapidly can dent confidence.”

US officials use spread of omicron to push vaccinations

The United States is one of the latest countries to confirm new, domestically spread cases of the post-vaccine omicron variant. U.S. officials reported on Sunday that the variant is now present in around a third of American states.

At least 17 states have reported omicron post-vaccine variant cases. These states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah each reported their first cases carrying the omicron variant on Friday, Dec. 3.

Louisiana is the latest state to report a case with the omicron variant. On Sunday, Dec. 5, health officials reported that an individual who most likely caught the variant domestically was the state’s first case.

Most of the cases were among fully vaccinated individuals. The remainder were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people infected by their fully vaccinated friends and loved ones. Health officials refused to report on whether or not the fully vaccinated individuals had received booster doses of the vaccines.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2021/12/10/who-admits-omicron-variant-has-so-far-caused-zero-deaths/

NZ Registered Nurse Suffers Pericarditis from Pfizer Shot – Put in Hospital Section for Vaccine Injured as She was 7th Patient Admitted That Day for Heart Issues Following COVID Shots

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Stallone Edmonds Tepania is a 33-year-old registered nurse and mother of 3 in New Zealand.

She recently went public on social media to share her story of being diagnosed with pericarditis, inflammation of the sac around the heart, after being injected with a second dose of a COVID-19 shot.

She doesn’t mention the manufacturer of the shot, but the government of New Zealand’s pamphlet on “COVID-19 Vaccine” only mentions Pfizer, and no other brand. (Source.)

While these tragic stories of people being injured, especially with heart issues, following COVID shots are all too common these days, what is remarkable about Stallone’s story is what she learned after being admitted to the hospital, and realizing that these vaccine injuries are not rare at all.

She states that she was actually placed in a section of the hospital that was treating vaccine injuries, and that she was the 7th person admitted that day suffering a heart problem following a Pfizer shot.

The nurse allegedly told her that they were not allowed to talk about these vaccine injuries. But they are certainly not rare.

Stallone was given strict instructions to not do anything strenuous to cause her heart rate to go up. This is why we are seeing so many athletes collapse in sporting events.

She was told that about one out of 10 people admitted to the hospital with these COVID-19 vaccine-caused damaged hearts were not surviving. They are dying from cardiac arrest.

She is not sure if she will have to live like this for the rest of her life, which now may be quite short, and stated “I feel trapped in my own skin.”

At certain points in the video she has to stop talking, being obviously in pain, and apparently suffering from heart palpitations or other discomforts.

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/registered-nurse-suffers-pericarditis-from-pfizer-shot-put-in-hospital-section-for-vaccine-injured-as-she-was-7th-patient-admitted-that-day-for-heart-issues-following-covid-shots/