By Squawkbox

Religious group and anti-genocide campaigners condemn violent intrusion and baseless arrests

Quakers in Britain have strongly condemned the violation of their place of worship by a gang of Met Police officers last night, which they describe as “a direct result of stricter protest laws removing virtually all routes to challenge the status quo”.

The police, some armed with tasers, forced their way into the Quakers’ Westminster Meeting House and arrested six women campaigners who were meeting peacefully in a hired room – the first time in living memory that someone has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house, according to the religious group.

Police smashed the front door of the building without warning or attempting to gain peaceful entry first by simply ringing the bell. Young people’s anti-genocide group Youth Demand have also condemned the ‘insane’ assault on free speech and peaceful assembly, in a video statement by one of the young women at the event – who reported that police had seized laptops and phones despite only being there for supposed ‘conspiracy to commit public nuisance’. Three of the women remained in custody this afternoon:

The Quakers said:

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023 have criminalised many forms of protest and allow police to halt actions deemed too disruptive.

Meanwhile, changes in judicial procedures limit protesters’ ability to defend their actions in court. All this means that there are fewer and fewer ways to speak truth to power.

Quakers support the right to nonviolent public protest, acting themselves from a deep moral imperative to stand up against injustice and for our planet.

Many have taken nonviolent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of slavery to women’s suffrage and prison reform.

Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.

“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest.

“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy.”

The Starmer regime is waging an ever-escalating ‘lawfare’ war against peaceful protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza or to save the environment. Last night’s raid did not apparently invoke the Terrorism Act 2000 to seize and access the victims’ devices, but did so anyway. In many cases, the Terrorism Act is being misused to demonise peaceful protesters, with many arrested and those charged facing prison sentences of up to fourteen years as Starmer tries to silence resistance to Israel’s war crimes and demonise environmental protest while farmers who block roads and damage property in their protests remain unmolested.

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Via https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/28/30-met-police-smash-down-quaker-meeting-house-doors-to-raid-anti-genocide-gathering/

Zero Hedge

Texas administered 15,000 more measles vaccinations this year compared to 2024—and now there’s a growing measles outbreak that has surpassed the total number of cases reported across the entire United States last year.

The news follows this website’s February report that measles cases in Gaines County, Texas, had jumped 242% following a health district campaign to hand out free measles vaccines.

A measles outbreak after higher vaccination rates in Texas calls into question the shot’s claimed effectiveness and underlying design.

Timeline & Numbers

Between January 1 and March 16 last year, 158,000 measles vaccines were administered in the state, according to CBS News.

During the same time this year, 173,000 measles doses were given.

There are now more measles cases in Texas than there were across the United States in all of 2024.

On Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported 309 cases have been identified in the state since late January.

That’s compared to only 285 cases nationwide last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.

What’s worse, measles cases in West Texas are “still on the rise” and “local public health officials say they expect the virus to keep spreading for at least several more months and that the official case number is likely an undercount,” according to CBS.

The numbers don’t lie—Texas is witnessing a record-breaking measles outbreak in the wake of increased vaccination efforts.

Measles Vaccine Virus Is Product of Gain-of-Function & Can Shed Onto Unvaccinated

U.S. military biodefense experts confirm in a May 2016 publication in The Journal of Infectious Diseases that the live virus inside the measles (MMR) vaccine is engineered using “a technique that could be considered, by current definitions, GOF research.”

GOF (gain-of-function) experiments can cause viruses to become more infectious.

The wild-type measles virus (Montefiore 89 strain) purportedly found in nature mostly uses a receptor called CD150 to gain entry to and infect immune cells.

However, the vaccine strain (Edmonston strain) is manipulated in the laboratory to acquire the ability to bind another receptor called CD46, which is more abundant in the body and expressed on most human nucleated cells.

This means the measles virus injected into the MMR-vaccinated has the potential to enter many more cells compared to the wild-type virus, due to its acquired ability to use an additional cellular receptor.

The vaccine virus also sheds.

An August 2024 study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Virology confirms the measles vaccine virus sheds in recently vaccinated children for 29 days, meaning the vaccinated can spread the virus to the unvaccinated for about a month.

A 1995 CDC study found that 83% of vaccinated children had measles virus shed in their urine.

With a genetically modified vaccine virus capable of shedding for nearly a month and entering a broader range of human cells than the wild-type strain, the question becomes harder to ignore: Is the vaccine itself playing a role in the surge?

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/texas-gave-15000-more-mmr-shots-year-now-it-has-more-measles-cases-entire-us-had-2024

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today announced the creation of a new Administration for a Healthy America as part of a massive overhaul of the U.S. Department of Human Services (HHS), which includes reducing the number of divisions under HHS from 28 to 15 and the number of staff from about 82,000 to 62,000.

Kennedy said the department’s new priority will be to end “America’s epidemic of chronic illness by focusing on safe, wholesome food, clean water, and the elimination of environmental toxins” — priorities that “will be reflected in the reorganization of HHS.”

The Administration for a Healthy America will combine several agencies, including the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

In a statement, Kennedy said:

“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic. This Department will do more — a lot more — at a lower cost to the taxpayer. …

“Over time, bureaucracies like HHS become wasteful and inefficient even when most of their staff are dedicated and competent civil servants. This overhaul will be a win-win for taxpayers and for those that HHS serves. That’s the entire American public, because our goal is to Make America Healthy Again.”

Pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro said the changes will prioritize “a more streamlined and effective approach to addressing the tsunami of chronic diseases now affecting most Americans.”

“By consolidating the key agencies into the Administration for a Healthy America, we can restructure and better coordinate efforts in primary care, maternal and child health, mental health, and environmental health, which are areas that are pivotal to support the health of children and families,” Perro said.

Sayer Ji, co-founder of Stand for Health Freedom, said HHS had long been “a key architect of policies that have harmed countless individuals, especially during the recent public health crisis” and that “a bold restructuring was not only warranted but long overdue.”

“For too long, health agencies have operated in ‘silos’ with overlapping missions and excessive red tape that obstruct real progress,” said Kendall Mackintosh, a board-certified nutrition specialist. “A leaner, more accountable HHS has the potential to refocus resources on root-cause solutions, transparency and outcomes, not just policy maintenance and administrative overhead.”

As part of the restructuring, HHS’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the agency responsible for national public health emergency and disaster response, will shift to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

HHS will also create the Office of Strategy “to enhance research that informs the Secretary’s policies and improves the effectiveness of federal health programs.” A new assistant secretary for enforcement will help “combat waste, fraud, and abuse in federal health programs.”

HHS, with a $1.7 trillion budget, oversees 13 agencies, including the CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It also manages government healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

Mainstream news media coverage of the department’s restructuring focused on cuts to HHS staff and programs. According to NBC News, 10,000 full-time jobs across HHS agencies will be cut “as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to restructure many parts of the federal government.”

HHS said the cuts will save $1.8 billion annually. The changes will likely take effect May 27, CNN reported.

NBC News reported that HHS is “potentially jeopardizing public health” by implementing these changes.

But for Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist at Children’s Health Defense, though the focus in the media has been a lot on the number of departments, the number of field offices, or the number of jobs, “none of those are a metric of success. Secretary Kennedy’s tenure will be judged by the improvement of America’s health.”

HHS to gain control over special education, school meal programs

The HHS restructuring comes as the department is set to gain oversight over federal programs supporting special education programs and school meals.

Education Week reported last week that President Donald Trump announced plans to shift these programs to HHS, although a plan for the changes — which require congressional approval — has not been made public.

As part of these changes, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), first signed into law in 1975 and currently one of the U.S. Department of Education’s largest grant programs, would shift to HHS. The $14.2 billion program “helps schools pay for special education services for students with disabilities,” Education Week reported.

According to Education Week, the announced changes would bring IDEA’s early childhood program, Part C, “into the same agency that already oversees the national Head Start network of early childhood programs — a natural fit for collaboration.”

Shifting school meal programs to HHS “may be motivated in part by Kennedy’s pledge to eliminate processed food from school lunches,” Education Week reported, noting that HHS’ authority over school meals is limited to setting nutrition guidelines.

In a statement to reporters last week, Trump said HHS would oversee “special needs and all of the nutrition programs and everything else.”

“I think that will work out very well,” Trump said. “Those two elements will be taken out of the Department of Education, and then all we have to do is get the students to get guidance from the people that love them and cherish them, including their parents by the way, who will be totally involved in education along with boards and the governors and the states.”

In a post on X, Kennedy said HHS is “fully prepared to take on the responsibility of supporting individuals with special needs and overseeing nutrition programs.”

Zen Honeycutt, founding executive director of Moms Across America and the Neighborhood Food Network, welcomed the announcement. She said:

“Thirty million meals are served at public schools every day. Our children’s health and potential, both with special needs and those without, are greatly affected by the food they eat.

“We have identified widespread contamination of school lunches with heavy metals, pesticides, and veterinary drugs and hormones. The nutrient density is also abysmally low affecting their health, behavior and learning ability.”

Nominee to lead HHS’ Administration of Children and Families focused on child welfare in Idaho

On Tuesday, Trump announced the nomination of Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, as assistant secretary for the Administration for Children & Families (ACF) at HHS.

ACF oversees over 60 programs — including Head Start and the U.S. Children’s Bureau — and has a budget of more than $70 billion.

Adams has led the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare since June 2024. He previously served for five years as administrator of the Governor’s Division of Financial Management. He also was executive director of the Idaho Board of Pharmacy and interim director of the Idaho Public Charter School Commission.

During his tenure, Adams prioritized foster care and adoption and a reduction in regulations and bureaucratic processes. He also focused on expanding resources for childcare in Idaho and addressing the opioid crisis by training additional pharmacists, psychologists and nurse practitioners to provide treatment and prescribe medication.

“We felt like child welfare was that area to really hyperfocus on and make a meaningful difference,” Adams told Boise State Public Radio last year.

In a statement, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) said Adams has “a highly strategic and visionary approach” and “completely transformed and improved Idaho’s child welfare system.”

“I am confident that Adams will serve the American people with pro-family and health-focused policies in mind, and I believe him to be a man of integrity,” said Idaho nurse Laura Demaray.

Leslie Manookian, president and founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund, said Adams’ reforms in Idaho led to greater public input on health policies. She said:

“We have been fighting the health department for over 15 years because they’re always doing horrible things and overstepping their delegated authority and introducing rules that actually contradict code or overstep code.

“What’s actually really happened is now that members of the public of Idaho can actually testify and request that their legislators fix things, whereas before we were talking to a brick wall because they were in the administrative branch’s hands.”

In recent months, Idaho has enacted or pursued policies that health freedom activists have welcomed. In October 2024, Idaho’s Southwest District Health stopped offering COVID-19 vaccines at its 30 locations. Idaho is now considering legislation that would ban mRNA vaccines and prohibit vaccine and medical mandates.

It’s unclear what role Adams had, if any, in these developments.

According to the Idaho Capital Sun, the U.S. Senate received Adams’ nomination Monday, but it is not yet known when his confirmation hearing will be held.\

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Via https://tdefender.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-overhauls-hhs-launches-administration-healthy-america

L Todd Wood

Russian President Putin declared peace is next to impossible with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy in power. He questioned yesterday how Russia could negotiate with an illegitimate government that is not legally elected.

Putin suggested in the speech that the United Nations could be brought in to govern Ukraine, as there is precedence for this action.

Zelenskiy recently said Putin will die soon as negotiations are ongoing with Washington and Ukraine. These are not the actions of a Ukrainian leader who wants peace.

The EU and Zelenskiy, as well as elements within the U.S. government, are working to sabotage any effort by the Trump administration to secure a peace deal in Eastern Europe.

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Via https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2025/03/28/putin-says-no-peace-possible-with-zelenskiy-suggests-un-govern-ukraine-in-near-term/

Mahmood Issa

In a press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah in February, U.S. President Donald Trump touted his proposal that the United States should seize control of Gaza, empty it of its roughly two million residents, and redevelop the territory as a tourist area, a “Riviera of the Middle East.” Such a plan is a nonstarter among Arab countries. They perceive it as tantamount to accepting the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Put on the spot, Abdullah demurred and suggested that he awaited an alternative plan for Gaza, one that would be advanced by Egypt.

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The war in Gaza, however, offers Egypt a chance to regain the status it once had in the Arab world. On March 4, Egypt unveiled what it described as “a comprehensive vision for rebuilding Gaza while ensuring Palestinians remain on their land.” This reconstruction plan for Gaza was presented in a 112-page prospectus, complete with maps, AI-generated renderings, a phased five-year timeline, and an estimated budget of about $53 billion. It envisions redeveloped infrastructure, housing units for 1.6 million people, a commercial seaport, a technology hub, industrial zones, beach hotels, and an airport. And it insists, contrary to Trump’s claims, that such real estate development in Gaza is feasible without displacing its residents. Indeed, this was the plan’s principal purpose; its political prescriptions are deliberately vague, outlining a technocratic Palestinian interim administration of the territory, assisted by international peacekeepers. In separate meetings in early March, the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Countries backed the Egyptian plan. And the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom commended the plan as “realistic.”

Israel, whose right-wing government seems intent on forcing out the residents of Gaza, rejected the plan immediately. Washington offered mixed messages, with Trump initially dismissing it as unworkable before other administration officials welcomed the initiative. Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, called the plan “a good-faith first step from the Egyptians,” suggesting that the Arab proposal was not, in fact, dead on arrival.

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Just by advancing this peace plan for Gaza, Egypt has salvaged the Palestinian aspiration for statehood from Trump’s desire to conjure a showy real estate development deal.

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[Ed What this article doesn’t make clear is that this proposal would remove Hamas from power in Gaza, placing it under the political control of the Palestinian authority. Nor that Hamas is agreeing to the proposal, as they indicated in their meeting with hostage negotiator Adam Boehler. See https://www.jns.org/egypt-proposes-interim-governance-for-gaza-replacing-hamas/ and https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-welcomes-egypts-gaza-reconstruction-plan-2025-03-04/%5D

Via https://www.foreignaffairs.com/egypt/promise-egyptian-plan-gaza

(Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

By Will Mccurdy

Amazon Echo users are set to lose the option to store and process their Alexa requests locally, meaning all of their voice recordings will be sent to Amazon’s cloud.

After March 28, Amazon will discontinue the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” setting on Echo devices that support on-device voice recording storage. After that, all your voice recordings will be sent to Amazon’s cloud for processing.

In a recent email sent to customers, Amazon attributed the decision to its expansion of “Alexa’s capabilities with generative AI features that rely on the processing power of Amazon’s secure cloud.” That expansion is Alexa+, a supercharged version of the assistant that acts more like a human. It can search and summarize documents or emails you’ve shared or look up information. Alexa+ will be an Amazon Prime perk or $19.99 per month for non-Prime users.

However, these new Alexa+ features won’t be accessible for consumers who opt out of storing voice recordings with Amazon.

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Via https://au.pcmag.com/ai/110301/reminder-your-alexa-voice-recordings-will-soon-be-sent-to-amazon

An Unholy Triad Birth of a Plague Episode 6

Pure Media Australia (2025)

Film Review

This, the longest episode, delves more into collaboration by Russian, US and Chinese biowarfare research scientists into the gain of function research that produced the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Soviet contribution seems to have been inadvertent, as scores of Russian biowarfare researchers sought employment around the world following dissolution of the Soviet Union. The US/Chinese collaboration at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was deliberate.

US research in the weaponizing Chinese bat coronavirues occurred under the auspices of Project Defuse. The infamous spike protein, with its strong affinity for human cell receptors, originated from bat coronoviruses* from Mojang China after miners fell ill (with three dying) while clearing bat guano.

Independent research reveals immune system damage (resulting in large numbers of strokes, heart attacks, turbo cancers, autoimmune diseases and sudden deaths) is cumulative,  increasing with each successive mRNA booster.

Overall I was a little disappointed in the series because it failed to address some obvious questions:

1. Why do only a minority of mRNA vaccine recipients experience deadly and disabling side effects from Covid 19 vaccines? There seems to be substantial evidence that most of the deaths and disability were associated with specific lot numbers. What about these lots made them more dangerous?

2. Why are the side effects of Covid19 mRNA vaccine more dangerous that natural Covid19 infection?

3. What was the motivation of supposed enemies (China and the US) in collaborating in the production of biowarfare weapons to kill each other>

4. What about the 11,000 secret exemptions the New Zealand Labour government gave New Zealand health workers while they sacked the majority of doctors who sought exemption from the Pfizer mRNA Covid19 vaccine mandate? This would suggest some inside advanced knowledge of the jab’s deadly side effects.

By Ahmed Adel

The US is now the world’s laggard in warship construction, lagging behind most countries in the pace of building military vessels, the Wall Street Journal reported. The US Navy is not struggling alone, though, with close ally Britain not even able to sufficiently replace munitions sent to Ukraine.

“When a Wisconsin shipyard won the contract to build a new class of Navy frigate in 2020, the project was meant to address an embarrassing reality: The US is now the global laggard in building warships,” the article noted.

According to the publication, US military shipbuilding faces several challenges, including outdated equipment in shipyards and labor shortages. In addition, the 25% tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from all countries previously imposed by the US could likely increase the cost of domestically produced materials used by shipbuilders.

An interlocutor familiar with the work schedule told the newspaper that the construction of the new warship USS Constellation, which was supposed to be completed by 2026, is currently only 10% complete.

The Wall Street Journal stressed that the construction delays were caused by the intervention of the US Navy, which wanted to improve the design.

“A blizzard of design changes by the military have put production of the USS Constellation years behind schedule and millions over budget,” the article elaborated.

Furthermore, the publication added that the US is already behind most countries in building warships. Thus, the newspaper concluded that of the 20 different frigates constructed recently or nearly completed by other countries, all but one were or will be built faster than the USS Constellation.

It is recalled that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed on January 31 that the US Navy is struggling to keep its surface combat ships in good condition due to a lack of resources in recent years. The main problems include a shortage of spare parts and qualified personnel and the postponement of maintenance.

According to the report, the US Navy received only about $1 billion of the $24.9 billion requested for maintenance between 2020 and 2023. The difficulty continued throughout 2024.

“The Navy still faces persistent challenges sustaining combat surface ships, including limited spare parts, a lack of sufficient and qualified maintenance personnel, and a continual need to defer maintenance,” the report said.

Amid the US Navy’s difficulties, The National Interest magazine published an article that revealed Russian Project 885M Yasen-M submarines can suddenly fire at US submarines at close range.

“The Yasen-M is meant for close combat with rival submarines. Utilizing its ultra-quiet rigging, these sea monsters can tailgate American or NATO subs, perhaps completely undetected, and then spring an attack on them with their 533 mm torpedoes,” the article said.

The National Interest also believes the same can be said about attacks on surface ships.

“The US Navy (and the navies of its NATO allies) are totally outmatched by the firepower of the Russian Northern Fleet’s Yasen-M-class submarines,” the publication noted.

However, not only did the US Navy face significant issues but also major ally Britain, with the Royal Navy not even sufficiently armed.

Prospect Magazine reported last month that the Royal Navy’s munitions were “running perilously low” as those sent to Ukraine were not yet “adequately replaced,” adding that the fleet of surface ships is “threadbare” and the nuclear submarines “are aging, with Dreadnought-class replacements not expected until the 2030s.”

While the Royal Navy is “threadbare,” China, in comparison, has built ships with a combined displacement greater than the entire British Royal Navy in four years as Beijing becomes a global maritime power.

Between 2019 and 2023, four of China’s main shipyards produced at least 39 warships with a combined displacement of around 550,000 tons. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, this is more than the British Navy’s battle force fleet, which has 19 surface ships and 10 submarines with a total displacement of approximately 440,000 tons.

It is also worth noting that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy already has more military vessels than the US Navy and is on track to have a fleet of 425 units by 2030, significantly more than the 300 expected by the US. In 2022, the Chinese Navy operated a fleet of 351 combat force ships, compared with the US Navy’s 294. However, for now, the US holds an advantage in destroyers and guided missile cruisers.

Nonetheless, the struggles of the US and British navies show that the Anglo Alliance no longer rules the seas. While the US and Britain lag, the Russian and Chinese navies are burgeoning, and it does not appear that the situation will improve in the short term for the Anglo Alliance.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-loses-dominance-sea-slowest-warship-construction-pace/5882743