Dr. Aseem Malhotra, Cardiologist and Medical Advisor, MAHA Action addresses delegates on day two of the Reform UK party conference at National Exhibition Centre on September 06, 2025 in Birmingham, England. Leon Neal/Getty Images

By Jordan King

A British cardiologist who advises Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s MAHA Action has said “it’s highly likely that the COVID vaccines have been a factor, a significant factor in the cancer of members of the royal family.”

Dr. Aseem Malhotra spoke at the Reform U.K. party conference in Birmingham on Saturday when he said he had been asked to relay a view from an oncologist that links King Charles III and Kate Middleton‘s cancer diagnoses to the virus vaccine.

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What To Know

Malhotra made his remarks at Reform U.K.’s annual conference while discussing alleged harms from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines; he said he was relaying the opinion of an expert he described as “one of Britain’s most eminent oncologists.”

“He thinks it’s highly likely that the COVID vaccines have been a factor in the cancer of members of the royal family,” said Malhotra.

The king’s diagnosis was announced by Buckingham Palace in February 2024, and the Princess of Wales announced she was undergoing treatment in March 2024 and later reported remission in January 2025

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Via https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-cancer-mrna-vaccine-royal-family-2125954

As Tel Aviv exploits the regional resurgence of anti-imperialist forces, its foothold in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile faces growing resistance from movements determined to push the occupation state out of Latin America.

Renato Velez

As condemnation of Israeli war crimes intensifies across the Global South, Tel Aviv is moving swiftly to secure footholds in Latin America, namely across Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. These are strategic offensives – and not diplomatic missions or economic ventures – designed to re-anchor the occupation state in a region historically hostile to its apartheid policies and colonial practices.

Tel Aviv’s American frontier

Israel’s advance comes amid the wreckage of Latin America’s “Pink Tide” – a decade-long wave of center-left, anti-imperialist governments that once challenged US dominance and Washington’s imposed neoliberal economics across the continent. Some of those governments also heralded an era of counter-hegemonic attempts by fostering national sovereignty and South–South relations, spearheaded by the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez (1999–2013) and Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva (2003–2011). While many of those gains were rolled back through coups, economic blackmail, and Atlanticist intervention paving the way for US-aligned conservative governments, the embers of that era are reigniting.

As recent events in Venezuela have shown, with American naval assets approaching its Caribbean shores to apparently launch a regime change operation disguised as a fight against “narco-terrorism,” the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has been retooled for confrontation, and the Axis of Resistance is expanding its influence beyond West Asia. Tel Aviv understands the clock is ticking. With growing regional solidarity against western imperialism, Israel is scrambling to lock in alliances and defense pacts before the next political rupture shuts it out once again. As in the time of the Cold War-era military juntas, Israel is taking advantage of the changing winds in Latin American politics, the growth of Christian Zionism among local Evangelicals, and US direct interventions to project its strategic depth into the Americas. The coming elections in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile will be decisive matches in this game.

Argentina: The occupation state’s southern embassy

Argentina is a country built thanks to immigration. At the beginning of the 20^th century, it received a large influx of Arab immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, mostly Syrian and Lebanese Christians; this was followed later by smaller waves of Muslim immigrants. It also hosts one of the biggest Jewish communities in the Americas. In the last four decades, Argentine relations with West Asia have been marred by two high-profile bombings: in 1992 against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires; and in 1994 against the Jewish community center, AMIA. Blame for both incidents has been repeatedly placed, without definitive evidence, on Hezbollah and Iran by Israeli, US, and some Argentine officials.

Under the rule of self-declared “libertarian” President Javier Milei, Argentina has become Tel Aviv’s most ardent ally in the region. But Milei’s support for Israel is not grounded in libertarian values, which traditionally emphasize non-interventionism and skepticism toward foreign entanglements. Rather, his is a messianic, evangelical Zionism that casts Argentina and Israel as joint stewards of “Judeo-Christian” civilization.

Milei’s political rise has been bankrolled by figures like prominent businessman Eduardo Elsztain and marked by overt religious zeal, including affiliations with the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement. His government has already begun selling off state assets, opening the door for Israeli firms like Merokot to take control of critical infrastructure under the guise of “efficiency.” While Merokot denies it will privatize Argentina’s water company AySA, it has openly agreed to “advise” on its operations. Argentinian Interior Minister Patricia Bullrich, a long-time pro-Israel hawk, has revived discredited narratives about Hezbollah’s alleged presence in the Tri-border Area to justify deepening Israeli security cooperation against “terrorist activities.” Bullrich’s past arms deals with Israel include drones, radars, and gunboats, and her circle is deeply embedded in Israeli lobbying networks.

In late June, just days before Tel Aviv’s direct military escalation against Iran, Milei visited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on “terrorism” and “antisemitism.” During his speech, Milei claimed in stark Messianic language that Argentina and Israel were both “beacons of light” in a world ruled by darkness. Milei even proposed launching the “American Friends of the Isaac Accords (AFOIA),” a vehicle to promote Israeli ties across Latin America. He also openly welcomed the Israeli-US assault on Iran, declaring in an interview that the Islamic Republic is “an enemy” of Argentina. Tehran took note of the remark in its formal complaint to the UN, warning that such rhetoric risked entangling Buenos Aires in a confrontation wholly unrelated to its national interests. Argentine opposition figures likewise condemned Milei’s remarks as reckless and dangerously subservient to a foreign agenda.

But Milei’s political survival is uncertain. With the economy in free fall, corruption probes commencing, and legislative elections looming in October, Argentina may soon witness Milei’s collapse, and with it, Tel Aviv’s strategic outpost.

Bolivia: From solidarity to subservience?

The last six years have been a downward spiral for Bolivian politics. After the 2019 coup that ousted former president Evo Morales, the country has suffered chronic political instability, impacting foreign policy too. Bolivia under Morales was a symbol of continental resistance. His decision to sever ties with Tel Aviv, the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in 2009, and denunciation of Israel as a “terrorist state” in 2014 sent a clear message. Morales aligned Bolivia with ALBA, BRICS+, and forged new partnerships with Iran, Russia, and China.

The 2019 US-backed coup that installed former president Jeanine Anez (2019–2020) reversed these gains. Her government not only restored ties with Israel, but requested its help to suppress indigenous-led protests, praising the occupation state’s “expertise” in dealing with “terrorists.” This principled position was quickly reversed by the 2019 coup, led by pro-American Christian fundamentalists. The Jeanine Anez de facto government restored full diplomatic relations with Israel, and her interior minister, Arturo Murillo, even invited Israeli assistance in crafting Bolivia’s new anti‑terrorism forces, declaring, “They’re used to dealing with terrorists. They know how to handle them.”

When the leftist coalition returned to power in 2020, with Morales’s finance minister Luis Arce now president, Bolivia reinstated some of Morales’s foreign policy direction, including a defense pact with Iran (which hinted at the possibility of Bolivia acquiring cutting-edge Iranian drones) and eventual severing of ties with Israel after its Gaza onslaught in 2023 – internal fractures have weakened the ruling MAS (Movement towards Socialism) party.

The first round of presidential elections this month ended in disaster for the left, with no MAS candidate making the runoff. The contest will now be between center-right Rodrigo Paz and far-right Tuto Quiroga, both staunchly pro-US and likely to restore military and intelligence ties with Tel Aviv. A victory for either will mark the end of Bolivia’s anti-imperialist foreign policy and hand Tel Aviv another foothold in the Andes.

Chile: The last resistance stronghold?

With the largest Palestinian diaspora outside the Arab world, Chile has been a key node in resisting Israeli normalization. Chile’s outgoing President Gabriel Boric publicly clashed with Israeli ambassador Gil Artzyeli, who aggressively targeted pro-Palestine voices across Chilean civil society and politics. Boric’s administration took real steps to sever ties. It co-sponsored genocide proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), banned Israeli arms companies from the FIDAE airshow, and began dismantling decades of defense cooperation. In March, Chile withdrew its military attaché from Tel Aviv and voiced support for an arms embargo, with officials openly considering Turkiye as a replacement supplier.

Still, many Chilean activists criticized Boric for refusing to fully break diplomatic ties. Now, with elections looming in November, those gains may be erased. As in the cases of Argentina and Bolivia, the coming Chilean administration will likely be headed by pro-Israel conservatives. The right-wing opposition forces criticized most of Boric’s decisions regarding Israel, claiming that losing such a “strategic partner” could jeopardize Chile’s national security.

Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast, a close ally of Milei and a favorite of the Trump camp, is leading the polls. One of his allied forces, the Social-Christian Party, is composed of staunch defenders of Christian Zionism. Kast has filled his party lists with ex-military officials aligned with Chile’s Pinochet-era military establishment, which enjoyed strong ties with Israel. If elected, Kast will almost certainly reverse Boric’s policies. His allies have already signaled plans to criminalize pro-Palestinian activism under the pretext of combating “antisemitism,” echoing recent accusations by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that Chile is “the most antisemitic country” in Latin America. Similar concerns have also been raised by the US State Department. Even more ominously, discussions are underway to formally designate Hezbollah as a terrorist group in Chile, mirroring recent moves by Argentina. In April, Patricia Bullrich travelled to Santiago to advocate for this agenda.

Argentina has become Tel Aviv’s forward base, Bolivia faces the prospect of reversal, and Chile could soon follow. What happens in these three states will decide whether the occupation state cements a durable presence in Latin America, or whether a resurgent continental resistance closes the door on its ambitions.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/the-growing-israeli-foothold-in-south-america-three-new-battlegrounds/

Young and Homeless in New York

Directed by Benjamin Alvarez Gruber (2024)

Film Review

This short film profiles a homeless family with a new baby. John, the father, works nights at a clinic but his wages are too low to afford an apartment. According to the director of a prion diversion program, apartments that cost $200 a month 10 years ago, cost $4,000 a month now.

John, his partner and their baby currently stay in a homeless shelter for families that provides them with a cubicle containing a stove, a sink and a bed.

At present 90,000 unhoused New Yorkers stay in shelters. One third are children.

Graeber also profiles a woman who works for the Avenues for Justice Program.She was referred there a a 16 year old facing state prison time for selling drugs. The program offers and after school support program for teenagers when home isn’t a sae space for them.

The more time children spend on screens, the higher their risk factors for cardiometabolic disease, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol and insulin resistance, according to a study published this month in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

The authors found that each extra hour of screen time — including watching movies or TV, gaming, and using cellphones, tablets or computers for leisure — increased youths’ overall cardiometabolic risk compared to the average for children their age.

“This was true even after accounting for diet, exercise and sleep,” David Horner, M.D., Ph.D., the study’s lead author, told The Defender.

The link between screen time and cardiometabolic risk was even stronger in youths with poor sleep habits.

“Poor sleep, shorter nights and later bedtimes” all amplified the risk, Horner said.

The analysis suggests screen use may reduce sleep duration or extend the time it takes for a person to fall asleep, possibly through blue light exposure or increased stress, Horner said.

“These findings don’t surprise me at all,” Dr. Holly Groh, a retired Louisiana ophthalmologist who has tracked research on screen time’s negative health impacts for years, told The Defender.

“Taking a child’s world and making it into a few small inches of stimulation” from an electronic screen has “far-reaching effects,” she said.

According to Groh, screen time affects not only a child’s heart and sleep, but their eyes, brain, mental health and hormonal system.

Screen time created a ‘metabolic signature’ in the blood

Screen habits leave measurable biological traces in the blood “before any disease is visible,” Horner said.

Using machine learning, the researchers found they could accurately predict which children had higher screen times by looking for certain biomarkers in their blood.

These biomarkers were a “metabolic signature” related to screen time, according to the authors’ report. It said:

“The identified metabolic signature included 37 biomarkers, many of which have previously been linked to obesity‐related traits and lipid metabolism, such as elevated triglycerides in various very low‐density lipoprotein subclasses and reduced large HDL cholesterol fractions.”

The study’s findings suggest that limiting recreational screen time in childhood and adolescence may “protect long-term heart and metabolic health,” Horner said in a press release.

“Recognizing and discussing screen habits during pediatric appointments could become part of broader lifestyle counseling, much like diet or physical activity,” he said.

Horner recommended that children avoid watching screens within two hours of bedtime, balance screen use with physical exercise, and build routines that include lots of offline activities.

How the research was conducted

The researchers examined data from over 1,000 Danish youths in two previous Danish cohort studies. One study gathered health data from 700 children from birth to age 10. The other gathered health data from roughly 400 children from birth to age 18.

Parents documented how many hours their child spent on recreational screen time on weekdays and weekends. The 18-year-olds reported their own hours.

At age 6, the average screen time was two hours a day. At ages 10 and 18, the averages were 3 and 6 hours, respectively.

The researchers also measured cardiometabolic risk factors, including waist circumference, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels, which they adjusted for age and sex. These factors influence a person’s risk of having a heart attack and stroke, according to Harvard Medical School.

The authors compiled the data to create a composite cardiometabolic risk score for each child or teen that reflected the youth’s overall risk compared to the average for children their age.

For 10-year-olds, the score rose by about 0.08 standard deviations. For 18-year-olds, it went up by 0.13 standard deviations.

A standard deviation is a measure of how dispersed data is in relation to an average, according to the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.

The change may look small, “but when screen time accumulates to three, five or even six hours a day, as we saw in many adolescents, that adds up,” Horner said. “Multiply that across a whole population of children, and you’re looking at a meaningful shift in early cardiometabolic risk that could carry into adulthood.”

It’s not just sitting around that makes time on screens harmful

Prior studies on the health impacts of screen time have attributed poor health outcomes to the sedentary nature of watching screens.

However, authors of the Danish study said sedentariness didn’t explain the symptoms they identified in their study. Their statistical model accounted for lifestyle factors, including the amount of time a child was sedentary and the child’s diet.

Screen time itself appeared to increase kids’ risk via “independent mechanisms,” such as “poor stress regulation and high sympathetic arousal,” they said.

What about wireless radiation?

The study report did not mention that most screens emit wireless radiation.

Dr. Robert Brown, vice president of Scientific Research and Clinical Affairs for the Environmental Health Trust, said, “We need to understand that unless a device is hardwired, the screen is irradiating its observer with radiofrequency radiation.”

This radiation causes oxidative stress in the body’s cells, “causing negative systemic health effects — both in our children and in adults,” he said.

The study authors said the research was observational, meaning it didn’t prove that screen time increased the risks. They also noted their results could be biased because parents and 18-year-olds may not have accurately reported their screen time use.

The authors called for future studies to confirm their findings.

Horner is a researcher at the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Numerous entities funded the study, including the Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark’s Ministry of Health, the Danish Council for Strategic Research, the Capital Region Research Foundation and the European Research Council.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/screen-time-increases-kids-risk-cardiometabolic-disease-jaha-study/

Saudi Vision Cable, laid in 2022, connects Jeddah, Yanbu, Dibba and Haql, the major subsea hubs in Red Sea cities of Saudi Arabia.

Zero Hedge

Undersea internet cables in the Red Sea have been cut, disrupting internet access to parts of Asia and the Middle East. The cause of the cuts weren’t immediately clear, though China does have a shiny new deep-sea cable cutter (which we’re sure a bunch of countries have too).

Associated Press (via NBC) seems to think (‘there has been concern’) that Houthi rebels from Yemen have been targeting the cables, which sounds absurd – though parts of the red sea are only as deep at 100m (330 ft).

While the Houthis might not have submarines, undersea robots, or the ability to hit the deepest parts of the Red Sea, it’s possible to inflict damage on subsea cables without the backing of a major navy.

In March 2013, three divers were arrested by the Egyptian Navy off the coast of Alexandria after cutting the SeaMeWe-4 cable by detonating underwater explosives. Internet speeds reportedly fell around 60 percent after the incident. A motive wasn’t revealed and it’s unclear if they were charged and/or sentenced for the damage.

In 2007, it was reported that police had seized more than 500km of telecom cable taken by fishing vessels to sell for scrap – including an 11km segment identified as belonging to the SeaMeWe-3 cable. –Data Center Dynamics

So, who knows – but AP (deep state) spends considerable ink on the Houthis

Undersea cables are a major component of the internet, along with satellite connections and land-based cables, with internet providers having multiple access points through which to reroute traffic if necessary.

According to Microsoft, the Mideast “may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea,” though it did not elaborate.

According to internet monitor NetKBlocks, a “series of subsea cable outages in the Red Sea has degraded internet connectivity in multiple countries,” which is says includes India and Pakistan. It blamed “failures affecting the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.”

In August of 2022, the ‘Saudi Vision Cable’ was laid near Jeddah.The Vision Cable spans 1,160km connecting Jeddah, Yanbu, Dibba and Haql, the major subsea hubs in Red Sea cities of Saudi Arabia, according to Submarine Cable Networks.

Beyond that, the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 cable (say that three times fast) is operated by Tata Communications – part of the Indian conglomerate, while the India-Middle East-Western Europe cable is operated by another consortium overseen by Alcatel-Lucent.

Pakistan Telecommunications Co. Ltd., a telecommunication giant in that country, noted that the cuts had taken place in a statement on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia did not immediately acknowledge the disruption and authorities there did not respond to a request for comment.

In the United Arab Emirates, home to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, internet users on the country’s state-owned Du and Etisalat networks complained of slower internet speeds. The government did not immediately acknowledge the disruption. -AP

Subsea cables can be cut by anchors dropped from ships, on purpose or otherwise. Repairs can take weeks, as a ship and crew must be dispatched to locate and repair the damaged cable.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/undersea-cable-cuts-kill-internet-parts-asia-mideast