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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.

George Mason Univ. Caves to Lawsuit, Grants COVID Vaccine Medical Exemption to Professor With Natural Immunity

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NCLA is delighted with Prof. Zywicki’s victory for freedom.

By  New Civil Liberties Alliance

George Mason University reversed its decision denying law professor Todd Zywicki a medical exemption from the university’s COVID vaccine mandate, after Zywicki and the New Civil Liberties Alliance sued the institution for violating Zywicki’s rights under Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

NCLA is delighted with Prof. Zywicki’s victory for freedom. His brave determination to fight the university’s misguided and scientifically unsound vaccination mandate has garnered nationwide attention.

GMU and other universities must stop ignoring science and cease forcing mandatory vaccines on even those with naturally acquired immunity (especially if only approved under a federal Emergency Use Authorization statute).

Strangely, despite solid scientific evidence, GMU continues to refuse to recognize that COVID-19 vaccination is medically unnecessary for ALL students, faculty and staff with naturally acquired immunity demonstrated with antibody testing.

At times GMU officials have appeared to deny that such a thing as naturally acquired immunity exists. This refusal is particularly odd, as the efficacy of the very vaccines GMU wishes to mandate are measured against levels of natural immunity acquired by those who have recovered from COVID-19.  For this reason, NCLA continues to explore litigation against GMU.

NCLA filed Zywicki’s complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia on Aug. 3, challenging GMU’s “reopening policy.” The policy, announced June 28, requires all faculty and staff members, including those who can demonstrate natural immunity through recovery from a prior COVID-19 infection, to disclose their vaccination status as “a prerequisite for eligibility for any merit pay increases,” unless they obtain a religious or medical exemption.

On July 22, GMU emailed the policy to students and employees and threatened disciplinary action — including termination of employment — against any who do not comply with the vaccine mandate. The university’s website describing its vaccination policy reiterated this threat.

Zywicki has already contracted and fully recovered from COVID-19. As a result, he has acquired robust natural immunity, confirmed unequivocally by multiple positive SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests conducted over the past year. In fact, Zywicki’s immunologist, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, has advised him that, based on his personal health and immunity status, it is medically unnecessary to get a COVID-19 vaccine — and that it violates medical ethics to order unnecessary procedures.

As a result of the exemption it granted, GMU is permitting Zywicki to remain unvaccinated for medical reasons. GMU has assured Zywicki that he will not be subject to disciplinary action, and that he will be allowed to hold office hours and attend in-person events provided he maintains six feet of distance.

He must get tested for COVID-19 once per week on campus at no cost to himself. This favorable result should encourage others to fight irrational vaccine mandates elsewhere on the same bases laid out in the Zywicki complaint against GMU.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/george-mason-university-lawsuit-covid-vaccine-medical-exemption/

The Right to Bodily Integrity: Nobody Wins and We All Lose in the COVID-19 Showdown

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Concerns about COVID-19 mandates and bodily integrity are part of a much larger debate over the ongoing power struggle between the citizenry and the government over our property “interest” in our bodies. For instance, who should get to decide how “we the people” care for our bodies? Are we masters over our most private of domains, our bodies? Or are we merely serfs who must answer to an overlord that gets the final say over whether and how we live or die?

John W. Whitehead's avatarJohn W. Whitehead, Constitutional Attorney

“We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a body cavity. In most of these cases, they were suspected only of possession or ingestion. Many of them were innocent… But these tactics aren’t about getting drugs off the street…These tactics are instead about degrading and humiliating a class of people that politicians and law enforcement have deemed the enemy.”—Radley Balko,The Washington Post

Freedom is never free.

There is always a price—always a sacrifice—that must be made in order to safeguard one’s freedoms.

Where that transaction becomes more complicated is when one has to balance the rights of…

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The Military Failures of General George Washington

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Frederick Kemmelmeyer (1755-1821) , General George ...

A Skeptic’s Guide to American History (2012)

Episode 4: Washington’s Failures and Real Accomplishments

By Gerald Stoler PhD (2012)

Film Review

Rarely taught in public schools, General George Washington’s military shortcomings during the US War of Independence are the main focus of this presentation.

Unlike most US generals, Washington wasn’t a professional soldier. A Virginia* planter and slave holder, he joined the Virginia colony militia in 1754 and inadvertently started the French and Indian War.**

The Continental Congress chose Washington to lead the Continental Army because they hope the involvement of a high profile Virginian would inspire other Southern colonies to support what began as a New England insurrection in 1775.

The first of Washington’s major military blunders included his 1775 order for his best general Benedict Arnold to take Quebec. More than a third of Arnold’s men were forced to turn back due to their inexperience navigating Canada’s swampy tangle of lakes, streams and rapids. When Arnold finally reached Quebec with 600 starving men and no canon or field artillery, he had no hope of capturing a fortified city and was forced to retreat.

Washington also came under heavy criticism for losing New York City and Philadelphia (to the British) in 1776. The British would make the city their headquarters for the war’s duration. Discontent with these and two other major defeats would lead to the formation of the Conway Cabal, in which senior officers in the Continental Army conspired to replace Washington with the more experienced general Horatio Gates.

General Benedict Arnold’s victory (Washington wasn’t involved) at Saratoga New York was clearly a turning point in the war. When it was followed by Washington’s victories at Trenton and Princeton, France committed military and naval support. In 1781, the combined forces achieved a decisive victory at Yorktown, ultimately convincing the British (who were also at war with France, Spain, Holland and the Holy Roman Empire) to surrender.

The major accomplishments Stoler attributes to Washington were mainly political:

  • Suppression of the Newburgh Conspiracy in 1783. This was an attempted coup by Continental Army officers against the Continental Congress.
  • Creation of a sound currency and fiscal structure to pay off the national debt incurred by the War of Independence (which I dispute as an accomplishment – see below).***
  • He successfully crushed the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion (1791-93), an insurrection against the federal tax Congress imposed on hard liquor.
  • He secured the US Western borders (in part via treaties with Britain and Spain, but largely by massacring Native Americans believed to threaten US security).

*The French and Indian War (1754-1763) pitted the French and their Native American allies against the British army for ultimate control of North America. The war started when Washington allowed a junior member of his militia to assassinate a captured French officer in cold blood.

**At the time of the War of Independence, the Virginia colony comprised modern day Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.

***The federal government didn’t create any currency (as stipulated in the Constitution) until Lincoln ordered the US Treasury to issue Greenbacks to fund the Civil War. In fact, the US had no standardized currency until Congress passed the National Banking Acts in 1863 and 1864. Until then, all state-chartered private banks issued their own currency. Federal taxes (on liquor and imports) could only be paid with currency issued by the First Bank of the United States. The latter was an 80% (70% foreign owned) privately owned central bank similar to the current Federal Reserve. Moreover the Washington administration paid off their war debts by borrowing more money from private banks, albeit at a lower rate of interest.

The film can be viewed free on Kanopy.

https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/video/washington-failures-and-real-accomplishments

Actress Sally Kirkland After Moderna Vaccine: In My 79 Years, I’ve Never Experienced This Level of Pain

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Actress Sally Kirkland: 'Like I know my own name, I would advise you not to do the vaccine.'

By  Children’s Health Defense Team

Immediately after her second Moderna shot, award-winning actress Sally Kirkland knew something was wrong — five months later, she remains in almost constant pain.

Sally Kirkland has been acting since she was 17, and has appeared in more than 250 movies. But she didn’t sign up for the role she’s playing now — an advocate for not getting the COVID vaccine.

In the most recent episode of “The People’s Testaments,” Kirkland told Polly Tommey, “Like I know my own name, I would advise you not to do the vaccine.”

Kirkland did get the vaccine. After seeing what a friend, who got the virus, went through, she got both doses of the Moderna vaccine.

Her friend recovered — but five months after her second Moderna shot, Kirkland remains in constant pain.

Kirkland, 79, said she was healthy before she took the vaccine. But almost immediately after the second shot, she experienced excruciating headaches, vertigo, nausea and joint pain.

Kirkland said some doctors refused to blame the vaccine for her symptoms, despite the timing of the symptoms. But others didn’t — including three doctors who told her the vaccine attacked the nerve in her brain that causes dizziness, vertigo and joint pain throughout her body.

At one point, alone late at night, the vertigo caused Kirkland to fall, resulting in a broken toe and sprained ankle.

Kirkland said she also has “terrible heart pain,” which makes her feel as though she’s having a heart attack.

Today, Kirkland takes multiple prescriptions for pain, nausea and vertigo, and alternates between applying moist hot packs and ice on her joints. Still, she continues to work, she said, because she needs to support herself.

During a recent acting job in New Orleans, Kirkland had to be rushed to a hospital where one doctor told her, “You’re not the first person. We’ve had other people who got the Moderna vaccine, which attacked the nerve in their brain, causing all these symptoms.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/the-peoples-testaments-polly-tommey-sally-kirkland-moderna-vaccine-constant-pain/

U.S. to Recommend Booster Shots for Most Americans 8 Months After Second Dose

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The Biden administration has decided most Americans should get a COVID vaccine booster dose eight months after they received their second shot.

By  Megan Redshaw

The Biden administration plans to offer Americans a third COVID booster dose by mid-September assuming Pfizer receives full FDA approval by then, despite health officials last month saying there wasn’t enough data to recommend a third dose.

The Biden administration has decided most Americans should get a COVID vaccine booster dose eight months after they received their second shot, despite consensus among U.S. health experts last month there wasn’t enough data to recommend boosters for the general population.

Officials are planning to announce the decision as early as this week and a third dose could be offered as early as mid-September, according to administration officials familiar with the discussions.

Doses would only begin to be administered widely once the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally approves the vaccines — an action expected to happen for the Pfizer vaccine within weeks.

The administration’s goal is to let Americans who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines know they will need additional protection against the Delta variant responsible for the surge of U.S. COVID cases.

The first boosters are likely to go to nursing home residents, healthcare workers and emergency workers, followed by older people who were near the front of the line when vaccinations began late last year and then the general population.

Federal health officials are waiting for more data before offering guidance for Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients. However, officials expect a booster will also be needed.

Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday a third dose is safe and elicits an antibody response at levels that “significantly exceed” those seen in individuals who receive two doses of the jab.

Federal health officials have been actively looking at whether booster doses for the vaccinated would be needed as early as this fall, reviewing case numbers in the U.S. and Israel, where preliminary studies suggest the vaccine’s protection against serious illness is waning among those vaccinated in January.

The announcement comes just days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted to recommend COVID booster shots for certain immunocompromised patients.

On Aug. 12, the FDA amended Emergency Use Authorization of Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID vaccines to authorize a booster shot for this population.

Pfizer CEO confident third dose will increase immunity, no phase 3 data

According to Kaiser Health News, Pfizer lacks late-stage clinical trial results to confirm a booster will work against COVID variants, including Delta — which now accounts for 93% of new infections across the U.S.

Pfizer in July announced its global phase 3 trial — which assesses the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of a third dose — but the trial’s completion date isn’t until 2022. Phase 3 results generally are required before regulatory approval.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-booster-shots-8-months-after-second-dose/

COVID Vaccines Initiate Immune Response Against Nerve Cells: Can Result In Nerve Disorders (Sciatica, Bell’s Palsy, Guillain-Barre)

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“The vaccine distribution to the sciatic nerves may lead to conditions like sciatica.”

In a recent post I talked about how COVID vaccines can enter platelets where spike protein can then be synthesized, leading to platelets undergoing an immune response – causing internal bleeding and blood clots. The paper below reiterates that:

Recently, vaccine distribution to the vasculature and interaction with circulatory platelets have been proposed as a likely mechanism for thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

This paper though focuses on nerve cells instead of blood cells (a platelet is a blood cell). It proposed a similar mechanism: vaccine enters nerve cell, spike protein is synthesized, nerve cells are attacked by immune system. The result here is pain and paralysis.

Rapid Response: Autoimmune Damage To The Nerves Following Covid Vaccines: EMA Issued Warning To Patients And Healthcare Professionals, BMJ, 14 August 2021.

EMA [European Medicines Agency] recently investigated the cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) following Covid vaccine AstraZeneca (AZ) and have issued a warning to raise awareness of healthcare professionals and the public about GBS cases following Covid vaccinations and recommended revising the product information for Covid vaccine AZ [1]. MHRA [ Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency] later also concluded that as a precautionary measure they will also be adding a warning for GBS in the product information [2]. A similar warning has been issued by the United States FDA for the GBS followed by Janssen (J&J) Covid vaccine [3].

GBS is a rare but serious condition in which the immune system starts attacking the body’s healthy nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system that can result in pain, numbness, muscle weakness usually in the feet, hands and limbs) that can also spread to the chest and the face. EMA has advised people to seek immediate medical attention if they develop weakness and paralysis in the extremities progressing to the chest or face following the Covid vaccine.

The EMA could not find enough evidence to confirm the association of GBS with the vaccine, however, this may be explained by the vaccine biodistribution to the nerves following intramuscular injection. The vaccine transfection* and translation in the nerves may spur an immune response against nerve cells potentially resulting in autoimmune nerve damage.

The preclinical evaluation of Covid vaccine AZ (study 514559) evidenced vaccine distribution) to various body tissues beyond injection site including sciatic nerves [4].

Study 514559 showed that the Covid vaccine AZ was distributed to sciatic nerves in almost all animals and the distributed fractions did not clear throughout the study. The last sample was taken on 29 days post-administration and sciatic nerves of 70% of animals were still tested positive at the end of the study.

The vaccine distribution to the sciatic nerves may lead to conditions like sciatica that has been previously linked to the viral infection of the sciatic nerve, such as herpes. The MHRA pharmacovigilance database reported ~187 cases of sciatica post-Covid vaccine AZ as of 28th July 2021. There were at least 127 other instances of nerve injury and 301 cases of various forms of neuropathies (including 207 cases of peripheral neuropathy) listed in the MHRA database [2].

The biodistribution of the vaccine to other nerves is not known as the study 514559 checked for sciatic nerves only being anatomically closer to the injection site (hind limb) in mice. The facial (cranial) nerves, on the contrary, are anatomically closer to the vaccine injection site in humans (deltoid muscle). The MHRA database listed ~1031 cases of facial cranial nerve disorders (527 cases of Bell’s palsy and 457 cases of facial paresis/paralysis), 20 cases of Miller Fisher syndrome and additional 372 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome (2 fatal) following AZ vaccine up until 28th July 2021.

It is worth noting that the Covid vaccine AZ clinical trials were paused twice and, on both occasions, the trial subjects developed a neurological condition, transverse myelitis. One of the subjects was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis [5], declared unrelated to the vaccine. Surprisingly, as of 28th July 2021, there are 77 cases of transverse myelitis, 16 cases of myelitis and another 13 cases of encephalomyelitis following Covid vaccine AZ in the MHRA database. Moreover, there are additional 56 cases of multiple sclerosis and another 49 cases reporting a relapse of multiple sclerosis within the MHRA database. The vaccine-induced multiple sclerosis (if proven) may also be an autoimmune response to the vaccine distribution and transfection to the nerves.

The biodistribution (study 514559) also evidenced the vaccine distribution via blood circulation to other tissues notably bone marrow, liver, mammary glands and spleen. The vaccine encoded gene transfection to distant tissues is likely to attract an immune response against various body tissues that can manifest into various autoimmune conditions. Recently, vaccine distribution to the vasculature and interaction with circulatory platelets have been proposed as a likely mechanism for thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) [6]. These autoimmune responses may well be transient in many healthy subjects, and the immune response is likely to be very selective towards vaccine transfected cells only, however, the possibility of developing a chronic autoimmune condition in some individuals cannot be overruled.

The regulatory authorities are, therefore, requested to review the cases of GBS in association with various other neuropathies and vaccine biodistribution data from preclinical trials. This will not only help in explaining a causal link but will also help take necessary precautionary measures in time for public safety. A similar issue has been reported with Janssen (J&J) Covid vaccine [7], and we anticipate other viral-vector Covid vaccines such as CanSinoBIO (China) and Sputnik V (Russia) are likely to pose a similar risk. The detailed tissue-specific distribution of mRNA vaccines encoding SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins (Pfizer or Moderna) is not fully known that could offer invaluable insights into the long-term safety of mRNA vaccines. However, the surrogate studies using similar formulations by Pfizer [8] and Moderna [9] did confirm a biodistribution of mRNA vaccines beyond the injection site.

We urge regulatory authorities to mandate manufacturers to perform adequate biodistribution studies on vaccine formulations and request further data to better understand the implications of vaccine transfection in distant tissues before mass vaccine rollout in children or recommending additional adult booster doses.

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Via https://fanaticcook.com/2021/08/17/covid-vaccines-initiate-immune-response-against-nerve-cells-can-result-in-nerve-disorders-sciatica-bells-palsey-guillain-barre/

Businesses Refusing to Enforce France’s Vaccine Passport

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By Paul Joseph Watson | Summit News | August 16, 2021

Anecdotal evidence detailed by former Google software engineer Mike Hearn strongly suggests that most restaurants, cafes and other businesses in France are not enforcing the country’s controversial vaccine passport system.

As we highlighted last week, on the first day the new program was in place, police were visibly patrolling bars and cafes demanding customers show proof they’ve had the jab.

However, this seems to have largely been a bluff as just days later, businesses and venues have become very lax at checking people’s papers despite the threat of large fines.

“I decided to do a simple experiment to find out: always present an expired test even though I had a valid negative one, and see what happens,” writes Hearn.

“Over a four day stay I was required to show a valid pass exactly zero times; that includes at the airports in both directions. Compliance is absolutely min viable and often lower.”

“At small businesses enforcement was non-existent: sometimes the pass requirement was ignored entirely, other times we were asked “do you have a pass” and our answer wasn’t checked. One restaurant had come up with a clever way to detect police stings without requiring customers to actually present a pass. As expected, enforcement was stricter by larger firms, however even there we saw the following:

– Test certificates being checked once and then swapped for a token that doesn’t expire.
– Expired tests being accepted.
– People accepting paper test certificates without scanning them.
– Scanning tests and then not looking at the screen to see the results.
– Accepting QR codes that failed to scan.”

Hearn also reveals how mask mandates in theme parks and other venues are also not being followed, despite signs everywhere ordering people to cover their faces, while social distancing is also a “forgotten memory.”

Images showing empty cafes and bars on the first day the system was introduced may have spooked venues into taking a hands off approach.

In passing the law but failing to ensure that it is enforced, France is following the same model as Israel, where the point of introducing the system wasn’t really to enforce it, but merely as a means of bullying young people into getting the vaccine.

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Via https://alethonews.com/2021/08/17/businesses-are-refusing-to-enforce-frances-vaccine-passport/

World stunned by 20 years of media and presidential lies about Afghanistan

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Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, fled Kabul escorted with cars filled with cash, a Russian Embassy spokesman told Sputnik on Monday.

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As recently as on July 6, 2021, US President Joe Biden dismissed all notions of a hasty American retreat from the advancing Taliban in Afghanistan.

“The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable,” Biden stressed.

But in true Vietnamese War style, American officials have been airlifted from the US embassy in Kabul in what seems to have been an inexplicable US intelligence blunder or a strange new back-room deal.

Doddering Joe Biden promised a different outcome in Afghanistan. Scenes of the desperate at Kabul airport trying to flee the country after their US friends abandoned them. Screenshots from YouTube Washington

“The…

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Teen who had heart attack after vaccine dose to receive $225,000

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Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are pictured in a General practitioners practice in Berlin, Germany, April 10, 2021. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
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Yahoo News

SINGAPORE — The 16-year-old teenager who suffered a heart attack six days after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine will be eligible for a one-time financial assistance of $225,000.

This will be provided under Singapore’s Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme (VIFAP), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday (16 August) in a press statement.

It added that medical investigations have found that the youth had developed acute severe myocarditis which led to the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

“The myocarditis was likely a serious adverse event arising from the COVID-19 vaccine he received, which might have been aggravated by his strenuous lifting of weights and his high consumption of caffeine through energy drinks and supplements,” it said.

The teenager is currently “recovering steadily” and undergoing inpatient rehabilitation, the MOH added.

“He is making good progress and can perform his activities of daily living without assistance,” it noted adding that the teenager will likely be discharged in the coming weeks. However, he will also likely require outpatient rehabilitation for some time before he can return to school and resume other activities.

The medical team will continue his treatment and monitor his condition, said the MOH.

“The independent clinical panel appointed to assess and adjudicate the VIFAP application found that while he has made good improvement, because his condition was severe and critical, he will require treatment and rehabilitation for some time yet to continue his recovery,” added the ministry.

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Via https://www.yahoo.com/news/teen-heart-attack-after-vaccine-dose-receive-225000-094655532.html