The Crisis of Motherhood Part 1

Press TV (2024)

Film Review

https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2025/01/26/741633/Birth-Rate-Decline-Crisis-Motherhood-Europe-East-Asia-Family-Growth-Future-Generations-Documentary-PressTV

This documentary concerns the declining birthrates in the industrial world, which the filmmakers attribute to declining fertility, improved birth control technology, worsening economic conditions, the changing social role of women and a pervasive depopulation ideology preaching that only reducing global population will solve the world’s environmental problems.

At present the average fertility rate in the West is 1.53 children per woman, well below the 2.0 rate required to maintain a stable population. One hundred countries (including China, India, Japan, Korea and the US) have fertility rates below the 2.0. Now that women have entered the job market in large numbers, women are delaying their reproductive years. In Western countries, the average maternal age for a firstborn child is 29.4. In the Middle East, it’s 31. In Italy, Luxembourg and Spain, it’s 31. As female fertility decreases significant after age 35, this has caused major problems for couples trying to conceive.

The surrogate mother industry (where couples pay women to carry their genetic offspring) turns over $1 billion annually. The filmmakers highlight the thriving surrogate industry in pre-war Ukraine, one of the few countries where surrogate pregnancy is still legal. Prior to the current war Ukrainian surrogates, foreign couples paid Ukrainian women $US37,000 each to give birth to 3,000 babies annually.

Most Western countries view a shrinking native population as a demographic crisis, as the younger working population becomes too small to support a growing elderly demographic. Several offer financial incentives for having children. Italy offers a free plot of land to couples who have a third child. Hungary offers a one-off grant of $30,000 euros to couples who pledge to have children.

Owing to the dominance of the fashion industry over the Western media, motherhood presently has a negative image. This is not helped by by a high profile depopulation campaign (spearheaded by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle who have committed to save the environment by stopping at two children). In part owing to this campaign, young Westerners (who filmmakers assert are “less resilient to life’s challenges”) decide having kids isn’t worth the trouble.

In recent years, growing numbers of Western women link having kids with perpetual under-employment, lost career opportunities and poverty [Ed Note Because the link is only too real in Western countries].

For the last half century, having children has become a choice, as the pioneering ideas of Dr Charles Knowlton have resulted in safe and effective birth control technology, enabling couples to separate intercourse from reproduction.

By Michael LaChance

North Carolina is still reeling from the massive damage caused by Hurricane Helene last fall. While the cleanup and rebuilding has been slow and steady, there is still a ton of work to do.

One group that has stepped in to lend their tremendous building skills is the Amish community. There are currently thousands of Amish people, mainly from Pennsylvania, who are helping to rebuild in the western part of the state, where the most damage is.

The national media has completely ignored this amazing contribution from the Amish. These people deserve praise for their help.

Local NBC affiliate WCNC has reported on it:

‘We still see tremendous damage’ | Amish community becomes part of Chimney Rock’s comeback story

It’s been more than six months since Hurricane Helene swept through western North Carolina, leaving behind destruction and hardship. Few places were hit as hard as Chimney Rock Village, but now, signs of progress are everywhere.

The recovery effort has been powered by an outpouring of support, with volunteers and donations helping to restore the beloved mountain town.

“When we look around, we still see tremendous damage and realize it will take a long time to build back,” Mayor Peter O’Leary said. “But at the same time, we have made tremendous progress, and that is very encouraging.”

Chimney Rock Village is not just rebuilding, it is redefining itself. Every business in the village sustained some level of damage. While full recovery will take time, Chimney Rock is finding its footing again through the kindness of others.

“We come out here every morning, working mostly in Chimney Rock and in Bat Cave,” Amos Stoltzfus, a volunteer with an Amish community from Pennsylvania called Great Needs Trust, said.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/thousands-members-amish-community-are-helping-rebuild-western/

Let’s go over each key point made by RFK Jr.:

The recommendation for children was always dubious. It was dubious because kids had almost no risk for COVID-19. Certain kids that had very profound morbidities may have a slight risk. Most kids don’t.

In the largest review to date on myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 infection vs. COVID-19 vaccination, Mead et al found that vaccine-induced myocarditis is not only significantly more common but also more severe—particularly in children and young males. Our findings make clear that the risks of the shots overwhelmingly outweigh any theoretical benefit:

The OpenSAFELY study included more than 1 million adolescents and children and found that myocarditis was documented ONLY in COVID-19 vaccinated groups and NOT after COVID-19 infection. There were NO COVID-19-related deaths in any group. A&E attendance and unplanned hospitalization were higher after first vaccination compared to unvaccinated groups:

So why are we giving this to tens of millions of kids when the vaccine itself does have profound risk? We’ve seen huge associations of myocarditis and pericarditis with strokes, with other injuries, with neurological injuries.

The two largest COVID-19 vaccine safety studies ever conducted, involving 99 million (Faksova et al) and 85 million people (Raheleh et al), confirm RFK Jr.’s concerns, documenting significantly increased risks of serious adverse events following vaccination, including:

1. Myocarditis (+510% after second dose)
2. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (+278% after first dose)
3. Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (+223% after first dose)
4. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (+149% after first dose)
5. Heart Attack (+286% after second dose)
6. Stroke (+240% after first dose)
7. Coronary Artery Disease (+244% after second dose)
8. Cardiac Arrhythmia (+199% after first dose)

And this was clear even in the clinical data that came out of Pfizer. There were actually more deaths. There were about 23% more deaths in the vaccine group than the placebo group. We need to ask questions and we need to consult with parents.

Actually, according to Pfizer’s clinical trial data, there were 43% more deaths in the vaccine group compared to the placebo group when post-unblinding deaths are included:

We need to give people informed consent, and we shouldn’t be making recommendations that are not good for the population.

Public acknowledgment of the grave harms of COVID-19 vaccines signals that real action is right around the corner. However, we must hope that action is taken for ALL age groups, as no one is spared from their life-reducing effects:

Alessandria et al (n=290,727, age > 10 years): People vaccinated with 2 doses lost 37% of life expectancy compared to the unvaccinated population during follow-up.

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Via https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-rfk-jr-launches-long-awaited

By Niamh Harris

Why would Pfizer tell COVID vaccinated men not to have sex?

According to Dr. Naomi Wolf in the book: the Pfizer Papers, Pfizer warns vaccinated men not to have intercourse with childbearing age women…. but they do not say why, except that it’s clear that something they fear in “exposure” to the vaccine is via sperm. This may be what Pfizer was afraid of.

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The Pfizer Papers written by WarRoom/DailyClout research volunteers, features new reports which are based on the primary source Pfizer clinical trial documents released under court order and on related medical literature.

The book shows in high relief that Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial was deeply flawed and that the pharmaceutical company knew by November 2020 that its vaccine was neither safe nor effective. The reports detail vaccine-induced harms throughout the human body, including to the reproductive system; show that women suffer vaccine-related adverse events at a 3:1 ratio; expose that vaccine-induced myocarditis is not rare, mild, or transient; and, shockingly, demonstrate that the mRNA vaccines have created a new category of multi-system, multi-organ disease, which is being called “CoVax Disease.”

Despite the fact that Pfizer committed in its own clinical trial protocol to follow the placebo arm of its trial for twenty-four months, Pfizer vaccinated approximately 95 percent of placebo recipients by March 2021, thus eliminating the trial’s control group and making it impossible for comparative safety determinations to be made.

Just as importantly, The Pfizer Papers makes it clear that the US Food and Drug Administration knew about the shortfalls of Pfizer’s clinical trial as well as the harms caused by the company’s mRNA COVID vaccine product, thus highlighting the FDA’s abject failure to fulfill its mission to “[protect] the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices.”

The Pfizer Papers offers an in-depth look at how Big Pharma, the US government, and healthcare entities stand protected behind the broad legal immunity provided by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) when creating, prescribing, and administering vaccines; and, under that shield of protection, do what is best for their bottom lines rather than for the health and well-being of Americans.

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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/pfizer-warns-vaxxed-men-not-to-have-sex-with-women-of-childbearing-age/

by Natalia Mittelstadt

Two service members have been denied religious exemptions to the flu vaccine and are at risk of being forced out of the military after they previously fought the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

A service member in the Marine Corps and another in the Air Force are facing separation from their respective military branches after submitting Religious Accommodation Requests (RARs) for the flu shot. Both men objected to the COVID vaccine mandate under the Biden administration and ultimately kept their jobs, but they may lose them under President Trump despite the routine approval of religious exemptions for vaccines before COVID.

Marine First Lieutenant Schuyler Skipper, who has served in the military for 15 years, submitted an RAR for the flu and tetanus/diphtheria shots in December 2022. It was denied in March 2023, according to a report of misconduct reviewed by Just the News. He appealed the denial the following month, and his appeal was denied in February 2024.

“No vaccine” affects deployment

The next month, Skipper was ordered to take the vaccines “within 10 working days,” the report reads. He then filed a complaint with the Headquarters of the Marine Corps Equal Employment Opportunity office alleging religious discrimination and requested an extension to the vaccine order. Skipper’s extension request was denied in April 2024, and he was informed that he had violated a lawful order. His attorney, R. Davis Younts, told Just the News on Thursday that the religious discrimination complaint was also denied.

Last month, Skipper was recommended for separation from the Marine Corps and “is in a nondeployable status due to his refusal to obtain required vaccinations.”

Younts, who is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Air Force Reserve and former Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) lawyer, said that if the Marine Corps continues with the separation process, then Skipper could be kicked out of the military within a few months.

Also, Skipper was a plaintiff in the first COVID vaccine mandate case that resulted in a federal injunction, Younts noted.

“It’s ironic that one of the individuals instrumental” in the COVID vaccine mandate fight is “now, a couple of years later, facing elimination from the Marines over the flu vaccine,” Younts said

Skipper’s “RAR was improperly denied,” Younts said, as there are “certainly means to accommodate” his exemption request. Younts added that there are multiple Marines in Skipper’s organization “who have medical exemptions to the flu vaccine, and are able to deploy and perform missions without restrictions” for not having the flu shot, “so what good faith basis is there to deny an RAR under these circumstances?”

The fight over the flu vaccine comes as the latest Cleveland Clinic study of its own employees found that the shot for this flu season had a negative efficacy of 27%, meaning infection is substantially more likely with the jab than without it. The study has yet to be peer-reviewed. However, the effectiveness of flu vaccines is a tossup every year.

This study raises the “question of whether it’s a lawful order” to require military members to receive the flu vaccine, Younts said, “because to be lawful, an order must be reasonably related” to “military necessity.”

But if the “flu vaccine demonstrated that negative efficacy, I’m not sure there’s justification for military members to receive medical treatment that may hamper their ability to do the job,” he added.<

Another service member facing separation from the military is Air Force Major Brennan Schilperoort, whose RAR for the flu vaccine wasn’t processed, and is facing separation from the military after 17 years of service.

Schilperoort was recommended for separation in October by a Board of Inquiry, which investigated the decision he made in December 2023 to not take the flu vaccine. Following the Board of Inquiry, Schilperoort was given 2.5 duty days’ notice last month that he would be placed on involuntary excess leave, which “means he goes into unpaid status” as his case is reviewed, according to Younts, who is representing him.

“In over 22 years of doing this, I’ve never seen a case where someone is in this stage of the process he’s in and is put on involuntary excess leave,” Younts said. “The only time I’ve seen it is when someone is convicted at a court-martial or in federal prison, and the military is going to discharge them because of a federal conviction. He’s available to work, has no reason to not fly, and no misconduct pending.”

Schilperoort’s case is under review, and it could take several months before he hears back about whether he will be honorably discharged from the military, his lawyer said.

Younts explained that Schilperoort’s RAR for the flu shot wasn’t processed by the Air Force because the RAR he submitted the prior year wasn’t denied until after the flu season ended. When he submitted another RAR for last year’s flu season, the Air Force “refused to process” it because “they said it took so long for the military to process the last one, that if he submits another and it takes the same length to process, then he’ll never get” the vaccine, Younts said. He added that the Air Force’s reasoning is “absurd” since it’s “their process.”

Also, Schilperoort “was a whistleblower over the COVID” vaccine, Younts explained, “and he was vocal, appropriately, to the chain of command,” and was a “conscientious objector to the COVID vaccine.”

“From my perspective, it looks like a pattern of denial – that the Department of Defense has learned nothing from what happened during COVID,” Younts said, noting that “there are some within the DOD and military branches that continue to seek retribution against those who objected to the COVID vaccine” as they “continue to disregard the Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act with vaccines.”

Younts noted that before COVID, military members’ RARs for the flu vaccine were accepted. “It was fairly common, not controversial, and medical exemptions were very common, too,” he said. “Part of my frustration as an attorney over COVID, was that pre-COVID, RARs to vaccines were not rare or unreasonable. People in the military prior to COVID had religious accommodations for all vaccines, so it was not unheard of.”

Regarding both Skipper’s and Schilperoort’s cases, Younts said they are “carefully considering” filing lawsuits. He is in talks with organizations like Stand With Warriors to see if they would be able to support these cases. “We are pursuing all options, but we may have no choice” but to file lawsuits in federal court, Younts said.

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Via https://tennesseestar.com/news/service-members-may-lose-jobs-after-religious-exemptions-for-flu-vax-denied-fought-covid-mandate/jtnews/2025/04/21/

By Dmitry Orlov

Although the topic of the former Ukraine is no longer being given much space in Western corporate media (there are more urgent concerns, such as the trade war with China, rapid deglobalization and the upcoming financial collapse of the US) there is still some effort being made to talk up peace negotiations (or cease fire negotiations) with the former Ukraine, as if it were an entity with which negotiations were even possible. I likewise plan to devote much less attention to the Ukraine, which has been hogging media space for a little too long, especially given that Russian victory has been a foregone conclusion for almost two years now, but before I do so I would like to explain to my readers why it is that the former Ukraine is not a subject of negotiations but a mere object — of abuse, degradation and genocide.

The Ukrainian state apparatus (federal as well as regional, since all regional authorities are appointed from Kiev) is made up of a few thousand people, starting with Zelensky. These people work under contract to a variety of criminal/mafia groups that are, in turn, owned and operated by an assortment of globalist groups which control much of the EU and half of the US. These people’s families have been evacuated to the West, their savings are in Western bank accounts and their other assets (real estate, investments) are likewise in the West. They invariably hold Western passports in addition to Ukrainian ones. They are on temporary assignment in the former Ukraine and they all have evacuation plans that can be put into effect on short notice.

They have two jobs: facilitating corruption and genocide. Corruption takes a multitude of forms, from reselling Western-provided weapons on the black market (they have been showing up everywhere, from Yemen to Mexico) to providing visiting Western officials with suitcases full of American cash, to take home in their diplomatic baggage, that the Biden administration most thoughtfully flew in for that purpose. Genocide is more simple: it is the task of herding together as many men (and some women) and sending them to die, mostly from artillery strikes and air strikes, and mostly on the few remaining Ukrainian-occupied patches of what is now Russian territory.

Below these few thousand Western servants there are a few tens of thousands of lower-rank officials: municipal heads, officers of federal agencies, army recruiters (who grab people off the streets and gang-press them into the army). They have also largely evacuated their families to the West and have plans to join them on a moment’s notice. What they are doing in the Ukraine is making money in any way they can. One of their main sources of income is accepting bribes for avoiding being conscripted, which are paid in US dollars, with prices now ranging as high as $10.000.

Millions of former Ukrainian residents who are able-bodied, sane and had some money have already fled the country. The people who have remained in the country are, essentially, unmotivated biomass: marginal people, pensioners, the poor, the chronically ill and the degenerates. They have been brainwashed, by means of relentless state propaganda, to be part of a suicide cult that now permeates all of Ukrainian society. To oppose it from the inside would be a futile act of insanity.

The people who own the Ukrainian government and the few tens of thousands of Ukrainian officials and control their finances, their capital and the logistics of their future escape from formerly Ukrainian territories, are the ones who decide what the former Ukraine will do. These owners are not some hierarchically organized, disciplined group, but a set of oligarchic bands, each controlling some piece of the overall structure, from Zelensky himself to a variety of terrorist organizations which he supposedly commands (but really doesn’t). Zelensky may “order” them to cease fire; some may obey while others will keep fighting, since their actual chain of command leads elsewhere. And none of them will obey orders issued by any American official, Trump especially. Who is he, anyway, but a temporary White House resident?

The former Ukraine is not a state. It is a golem animated by zombies and controlled by some secretive group of oligarchic owners. There is nobody to involve in cease fire talks, peace talks, negotiations, Trump’s famous “deals”, consultations… Meanwhile, Western media does its best to perpetuate the spurious notion that the former Ukraine is an actual nation that is a subject of international law and has national interests that should be taken into account. Nor are the former Ukraine’s oligarchic, globalist owners capable of any sort of negotiated settlement. What they are doing now is looking for the next Ukraine to turn into an externally controlled suicide cult that can be thrown at Russia. They seem to be pinning their hopes on Romania and Moldova. The Romanians don’t want to die; but then neither did the Ukrainians.

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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/8803e9d5-ad1d-4ea8-afde-f2f9190a00cb

President Donald Trump meets with the Japanese Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy Ryosei Akazawa and delegation in the Oval Office, Wednesday, April 16, 2025

By Bob Unruh

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt has confirmed that there is progress on President Donald Trump’s agenda to get fair international trade standards for American manufacturers and consumers alike.

The president launched a series of tariff battles because for years American producers have had to pay high tariffs to get their products and services into other nations, while those nation’s often have been given virtually free access to American markets.

The imbalance is what has caused America’s large trade deficit and other financial complications.

Trump’s tariffs have been producing results she said.

“We’re doing very well in respect to a potential trade deal with China. There have now been 18 proposals and more than 100 countries around the world who are wanting to make a deal with the United States of America,” Leavitt confirmed.

“The president and administration are setting the stage for a deal with China. … We feel everyone involved wants to see a trade deal happen — and the ball is moving in the right direction.”

The Daily Mail pointed out the Dow Jones Industrial Average rocketed up 600 points on the announcement. Actually, the market surged about 1,000 points on the news.

Fox News reported she continued, “You have Secretary Bessent, Secretary Lutnick, Ambassador Greer, NEC Director Hassett and Peter Navarro, the entire trade team meeting with 34 countries this week alone. We are moving at Trump speed to ensure these deals are made on behalf of the American worker and the American people.”

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Via https://www.wnd.com/2025/04/white-house-confirms-100-countries-want-a-trade-deal-with-u-s/

Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) http://www.swiss-image.ch/Photo by Remy Steinegger

By Jim Hoft

The architect of global elitism is finally facing the scrutiny he long deserved.

Klaus Schwab—the godfather of the World Economic Forum’s dystopian “Great Reset” agenda—has abruptly resigned from his throne of influence after a whistleblower letter accused him of financial misconduct, personal enrichment off globalist funds, and abuse of young staffers, according to the Wall Street Jounal.

According to the whistleblower complaint — reportedly penned by current and former employees of the WEF — Schwab used the Forum as his personal piggy bank. Among the accusations:

• Withdrew thousands in cash using junior staffers as gofers.
• Charged private hotel massages to WEF accounts.
• Allowed his wife to book luxurious vacations disguised as “business travel.”
• Utilized WEF property, Villa Mundi, as a private retreat while presenting it as a “conference center.”

The letter also raised red flags about a toxic workplace culture under Schwab’s reign, alleging decades of cover-ups, discrimination, and the silencing of women within the organization.

According to WSJ, the board, which includes virtue-signaling elites like Al Gore, global corporate titans, and celebrities, convened an emergency Easter Sunday meeting — and Schwab was ousted.

His hasty resignation is a massive departure from the WEF’s original transition plan, which would’ve allowed Schwab to linger in his throne until 2027.

Just weeks ago, Schwab announced plans to step down as nonexecutive chairman by 2027. The whistleblower letter obliterated that timeline, exposing the rot before he could slip away.

The board has now appointed Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the controversial former Nestlé CEO — infamous for stating that ‘water is not a human right’ — as interim chairman. Talk about trading one elitist globalist for another.

The New Supreme Leader of the World Economic Forum looks exactly like you thought pic.twitter.com/EnMjWCnQAd

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 22, 2025

The WEF’s statement confirms it has launched a full independent investigation with the guidance of external legal counsel.

The Schwabs, of course, deny everything. Through a spokesman, Klaus Schwab threatened to sue anyone ‘spreading these mistruths,’ while simultaneously insisting that any hotel massage bills were always reimbursed. Convenient. He also reportedly waived his 5 million Swiss franc pension — a last-ditch effort to spin himself as the honorable victim.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/davos-tyrant-falls-grace-as-wef-turns-its/

The First Colony Part II

Directed by Hassan Tavakoli (2025)

Film Review

The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was the first big wake-up call for Irish reunification. The second was the UK’s decision to leave the EU in 2016 (Ireland still belongs to the EU) and the decision by Boris Johnson to create a “hard” EU border between Northern Ireland the the UK. The third was Queen’s death in September 2022.  The unpopularity of her son Charles III led to new calls for Australia* to become a republic and dozens of books on Irish reunification.

Last year the power sharing government in Northern Ireland collapsed twice. The pro-unification party Sinn Fein has held a majority in the Northern Ireland assembly since 2022. However the until last year the protetant Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) refused to participate in a Sinn Fein government (with Michelle O’Neill as first minster) until last year.**

There has been a call (by both Sinn Fein and DUP supporters) for the Republic of Ireland to create an Ireland-wide citizens assembly to discuss reunification. In the past Ireland successfully used the citizens assembly model to resolve conflict over policies involving abortion and and same sex marriage.

The contentious Brexit vote (for the UK to eave the EU) in 2016 has influenced many former DUP supporters to favor reunification, especially with Northern Ireland’s deteriorating economic conditions resulting from declining inter-European trade.

*See Australia Abandons Plans to Have a Referendum on Replacing King Charles and Becoming Republic

**According to 2024 census data Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland by 42.3% to 30.5%

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/01/743698/The-First-Colony-British-Colonialism-Ireland-Documentary-PressTV