NYTimes | “I
do feel it’s inappropriate to seek that office after you’re 80 or in
your 80s,” said David Gergen, a top adviser to four presidents. “I have
just turned 80 and I have found over the last two or three years I think
it would have been unwise for me to try to run any organization. You’re
not quite as sharp as you once were.”
Everyone
ages differently, of course, and some experts put Mr. Biden in a
category of “super-agers” who remain unusually fit as they advance in
years.
“Right now, there’s no evidence
that the age of Biden should matter one ounce,” said S. Jay Olshansky, a
longevity specialist at the University of Illinois Chicago who studied
the candidates’ ages in 2020. “If people don’t like his policies, they
don’t like what he says, that’s fine, they can vote for someone else.
But it’s got nothing to do with how old he is.”
Still,
Professor Olshansky said it was legitimate to wonder if that would
remain so at 86. “That’s the right question to be asking,” he said. “You
can’t sugarcoat aging. Things go wrong as we get older and the risks
rise the older we get.”
The White
House rejected the idea that Mr. Biden was anything other than a
seven-day commander in chief. “President Biden works every day and
because chief executives can perform their duties from anywhere in the
world, it has long been common for them to spend weekends away from the
White House,” Andrew Bates, a deputy press secretary, said after this
article was published online.
The president’s medical report
in November indicated he had atrial fibrillation but that it was stable
and asymptomatic. Mr. Biden’s “ambulatory gait is perceptibly stiffer
and less fluid than it was a year or so ago,” the report said, and
gastroesophageal reflux causes him to cough and clear his throat,
symptoms that “certainly seem to be more frequent and more pronounced.”
But overall, Dr. Kevin C. O’Connor, the president’s physician, pronounced him “a healthy, vigorous 78-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
Questions about Mr. Biden’s fitness have nonetheless taken a toll on his public standing. In a June survey
by Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies and the Harris Poll,
64 percent of voters believed he was showing that he is too old to be
president, including 60 percent of respondents 65 or older.
Mr.
Biden’s public appearances have fueled that perception. His speeches
can be flat and listless. He sometimes loses his train of thought, has
trouble summoning names or appears momentarily confused. More than once,
he has promoted Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her “President
Harris.” Mr. Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter, stumbles over
words like “kleptocracy.” He has said Iranian when he meant Ukrainian
and several times called Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia,
“John,” confusing him with the late Republican senator of that name from
Virginia.
Republicans and
conservative media gleefully highlight such moments, posting viral
videos, sometimes exaggerated or distorted to make Mr. Biden look even
worse. But the White House has had to walk back some of his ad-libbed
comments, such as when he vowed a military response if China attacks Taiwan or declared that President Vladimir V. Putin “cannot remain in power” in Russia.
Mr. Biden was famously prone to gaffes
even as a younger man, and aides point to his marathon meetings with
families of mass shooting victims or his working the rope line during a
trip to Cleveland this past week as evidence of stamina.
Globalresearch | Hunger must be sustained to exploit manual labor, contends George Kent, a professor at the University of Hawaii’s political science department. who authored the November 2021 UN the document.
“We sometimes talk about hunger in the
world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished,
viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view
prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger.
Hunger has great positive value to many people,” Kent notes. “Indeed, it
is fundamental to the working of the world’s economy. Hungry people are
the most productive people, especially where there is need for manual
labour.”
Without “the threat of hunger,” essential
low-paying jobs would become vacant, a labor shortage would emerge and
the global economy would cease to exist, Kent continues.
“We in developed countries sometimes see
poor people by the roadside holding up signs saying ‘Will Work For
Food.” Actually, most people work for food. It is mainly because people
need food to survive that they work so hard either in producing food for
themselves in subsistence-level production, or by selling their
services to others in exchange for money. How many of us would sell our
services if it were not for the threat of hunger?
“More importantly, how many of us would
sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger?
When we sell ourselves cheaply, we enrich others, those who own
factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who
work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap
labour, hunger is the foundation of wealth.”
According to the U.N., assumptions attributing poverty and low-paying
jobs to hunger are “nonsense” because people deprived of nourishment
have stronger incentive to work.
“Who would have established massive
biofuel production operations in Brazil if they did not know there were
thousands of hungry people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they
would offer?” Kent asserts. “Who would build any sort of factory if they
did not know that many people would be available to take the jobs at
low-pay rates?
“Much of the hunger literature talks
about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that
they can be more productive. That is nonsense. No one works harder than
hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have
greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished
people are far less willing to do that work.”
“Slaves to hunger” are “assets” to “people at the high end,” Kent concludes:
The non-governmental organization Free
the Slaves defines slaves as people who are not allowed to walk away
from their jobs. It estimates that there are about 27 million slaves in
the world, including those who are literally locked into workrooms and
held as bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include
people who might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who
are free to walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to.
Maybe most people who work are slaves to hunger?
For those of us at the high end
of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If
there were no hunger in the in the world, who would plow the
fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the
rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce
our own food and clean our toilets. No wonder people at the high end are
not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.
The decades-oldop-ed was removed from the United Nation’s website on Wednesday hours it went viral.
The United Nation’s Chronicle subsequently issued a statement claiming the article is “satire.”
A 2020 report published by The Rockefeller Foundation that outlines a
globalist plan to transform the food system is underway began
circulating across the internet on Monday.
The report also calls for “numerous changes to policies, practices
and norms” to modify the U.S. food supply, including data collection and
online surveillance to track people’s the dietary habits.
michaelshellenberger |Sri Lanka has fallen. Protesters breached the official
residences of Sri Lanka's Prime Minister and President, who have fled to
undisclosed locations out of fear of death. The proximate reason is
that the nation is bankrupt, suffering its worst financial crisis in decades.
Millions are struggling to purchase food, medicine and fuel. Energy
shortages and inflation were major factors behind the crisis. Inflation
in June in Sri Lanka was over 50%. Food prices rose by 80%. And a half-million people fell into poverty over the last year.
But
the underlying reason for the fall of Sri Lanka is that its leaders
fell under the spell of Western green elites peddling organic
agriculture and “ESG,” which refers to investments made following
supposedly higher Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria. Sri
Lanka has a near-perfect ESG score (98) which is higher than Sweden (96) or the United States (51), notes a commentator.
To be sure, there were other factors behind Sri Lanka’s fall. COVID-19 lockdowns and a 2019 bombing hurt tourism, a $3 billion to 5 billion-per-year industry. Sri Lanka’s leaders insisted on paying China back
for various “Belt and Road” infrastructure projects when other nations
refused to do so. And higher oil prices meant transportation prices rose 128% since May.
But
the biggest and main problem causing Sri Lanka’s fall was its ban on
chemical fertilizers in April 2021. Over 90% of Sri Lanka’s farmers had
used chemical fertilizers and, after the ban, 85% experienced crop losses. After the fertilizer ban, rice production fell 20% and prices skyrocketed 50 percent
in just six months. Sri Lanka had to import $450 million worth of rice
despite having been self-sufficient in the grain just months earlier.
The price of carrots and tomatoes rose
five-fold. Tea, the nation’s main export, also suffered, thereby
undermining the nation’s foreign currency and ability to purchase
products from abroad.
While there are 2 million farmers in Sri Lanka, 70% of the nation’s 22 million people are directly or indirectly dependent on farming. “We are furious!” said one rice farmer in May. “Angry! Not just me - but all the farmers who cultivated here are angry.”
expose-news | Dr. Nathan Wolfe was a founding citizen of Ghislaine Maxwell’s
TerraMar Project; a member of the Edge Foundation; a self-proclaimed
“virus hunter” whose area of research is zoonotic diseases with a
special focus on bats; with links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and
EcoHealth Alliance; who previously bungled epidemic responses while
selling pandemic insurance; whose company Metabiota which is funded by
Rosemont Seneca, Google, The Skoll Foundation, among others, was awarded
a sub-contract with the US Military’s DTRA program for work in
Ukrainian biolabs.
A few days before the end of March
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marija Zakharova published a
timeline of US-Ukraine bioresearch headed “BioBiden.” Of the 23
timeline points she listed, Nathan Wolfe or organisations associated
with him – Metabiota and Global Viral – were explicitly mentioned in 8
of them:
2007 – US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral
Forecasting Institute (subsequently – Global Viral), a biomedical
company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of
transborder infections, including in China.
2014 – Metabiota, a
private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic
risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche,
employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are
appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to
get funding from the US Department of Defence.
2014 – Metabiota
shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to “assert Ukraine’s
cultural & economic independence from Russia”.
2014 – Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed “science project in Ukraine”.
2014
– Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin
full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.
2014-2016 – Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.
2016 – former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota’s global partnerships department.
2016
– EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe’s structure,
is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research
centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.
Considering the accusation is US
political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in
Ukraine, it perhaps indicates Moscow has identified Nathan Wolfe as a
person of interest in what Zakharova termed “this truly diabolical
plan.”
“If an alien
visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend
most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our
planet –microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.”
Nathan Wolfe, Business Continuity and The Pandemic Threat Robert A Clark (2016)
From 1999 to 2006 Wolfe conducted
research as a postdoctoral student and then as an assistant professor at
Johns Hopkins University. There he worked with American epidemiologist
Donald Burke, who suspected that the practice of hunting bushmeat in
Africa had exposed a source of HIV. Based in Cameroon, Wolfe studied the
local hunters and their hunting practices. In 2004 he and his
colleagues found that 1% of bushmeat hunters were infected with the
simian foamy virus – a virus that is closely related to HIV and carried
by nonhuman primates.
In 2006 he joined the department of
epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began
pursuing ways to monitor, predict, and prevent animal-to-human transfer
of viruses and conducted projects in Africa and Southeast Asia. In
China, he collaborated with scientists to investigate wet markets (food
markets that sell live animals) as a source of zoonoses (diseases from
wild animals).
U.N. | We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge
that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the
plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips
with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to
many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's
economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where
there is a need for manual labour.
We in developed countries sometimes see poor people by the roadside
holding up signs saying "Will Work for Food". Actually, most people work
for food. It is mainly because people need food to survive that they
work so hard either in producing food for themselves in
subsistence-level production, or by selling their services to others in
exchange for money. How many of us would sell our services if it were
not for the threat of hunger? More importantly, how many of us would
sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger?
When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the
factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who
work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap
labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.
The conventional thinking is that hunger is caused by low-paying
jobs. For example, an article reports on "Brazil's ethanol slaves:
200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom".1
While it is true that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs, we need to
understand that hunger at the same time causes low-paying jobs to be
created. Who would have established massive biofuel production
operations in Brazil if they did not know there were thousands of hungry
people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they would offer? Who
would build any sort of factory if they did not know that many people
would be available to take the jobs at low-pay rates?
Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to
assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive.
That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people
who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical
activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that
work.
The non-governmental organization Free the Slaves defines slaves as
people who are not allowed to walk away from their jobs. It estimates
that there are about 27 million slaves in the world,2
including those who are literally locked into workrooms and held as
bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include people who
might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to
walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most
people who work are slaves to hunger?
For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger
globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who
would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work
in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to
produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the
high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us,
hunger is not a problem, but an asset.
lefteast | Amid the geopolitical and humanitarian crisis generated by the war in
Ukraine, another crisis is unfolding globally which is also heavily
affected by the war. Global food supply problems
could cause food shortages and famine in several low-income countries
in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Global food prices,
increasing since the early 2000s, had already reached new peaks in the
last years. Owing to the important role of Ukraine and Russia in the
global food system (they are both among the largest grain exporters in
the world, and Russia has a significant role in the fertilizer industry
as well), they are expected to further accelerate to highest-ever
levels. The war also reveals how important local food systems
are in providing nutrition in Ukraine: people fleeing the cities are
depending at the moment on food produced by small family farms. The
solidarity of Romanian farmers providing Ukrainian family farms with
seeds also shows the power of alternative ways of thinking outside the
logic of the global food system.
The growing food crisis points to characteristics of the global food
system that has emerged in relationship to the capitalist economy. The
global food system’s dependence on fossil fuels, commercial seeds, and
chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides), and its devastating
societal effects in certain parts of the world make the system
unsustainable. Rural societies in general, but more specifically small
producers and rural communities in peripheral and semi-peripheral
regions, are affected by the global food system in a way that is
inherently unjust. The marginalization of small producers and peasant
communities who lack the capacity to successfully integrate into the
global food system (but are also unable to remove themselves from it ),
and inequalities in access to land and natural resources caused by land
concentration or land grabbing are significant consequences of the
global food system. The global division of labor means that while
peripheral and semi-peripheral regions more frequently specialize in the
more labor-intensive and less profitable activities in the global
commodity chain, core countries are generally involved with more capital
and technology-intensive production and more profitable activities,
reproducing global inequalities in the accumulation of capital.
Liberalization of the land market in semi-peripheries and peripheries,
rather than aiding small or medium farms, has tended to benefit mostly
the local elite (a minority of the rural society) or multinational
corporations based in core countries. In semi-peripheral Hungary, the
food-processing industry and supermarkets, which realize a great amount
of profit from the food commodity chain are also to a significant extent
operated by foreign capital.
The global food system has negative effects on society and more
broadly a damaging impact on the environment. It is a main culprit in
the loss of biodiversity and a major driver of climate change. Negative
environmental effects like the emergence of herbicide-resistant
superweeds, the loss of pollinators, and the increasingly prevalent
droughts hit back at the global food system. Requiring costly
interventions in agroecosystems such as new pesticides, artificial
pollination, and irrigation, they contribute to higher food prices.
The concept of food sovereignty was developed and propagated by the
international peasant movement La Via Campesina (The Peasant Way).
Originally rooted in autonomous peasant organizations in Latin America,
the movement later became global, and now has members from Africa, Asia,
North America, and Europe. La Via Campesina centers its work around
claims of social justice, the right of peasants to produce food, and
more equal access to lands and other resources (like water or seed). It
also focuses on the localization of food systems and emphasizes the
right to control one’s food and the right to access healthy, culturally
appropriate food instead of producing for and consuming the products of
the profit-focused global food system. Food sovereignty not only
concentrates on the health of people, but the health of the environment
as well, it argues for ecologically sound and sustainable agriculture.
In its thematic issue on food sovereignty
(#29), the Hungarian critical journal Fordulat addresses how the
operation of the global food system affects rural society and ecosystems
in Hungary and discusses the struggles and strategies of small
producers, including those of women who work in agriculture. The first
part of the issue contains five original articles and a translation,
tied together by the concept of food sovereignty and what it entails. It
gathers theoretical and empirical works that show how the history of
struggles of rural societies for more fair distribution of land and
natural resources and environmental degradation have developed in tandem
with capitalism, focusing specifically on transformations in Hungary’s
agriculture. It shows how the dialectical relationship between nature,
society, and the capitalist system to a large extent shapes rural life
in this semi-peripheral context today. The second part of the issue
presents three book reviews that reintroduce anthropological works
discussing local conditions, practices, and the changing meanings of
food and farming as well as resistance and struggle, amid the capitalist
and socialist transformations of the food systems in peripheral and
semi-peripheral places. While these books were written several decades
ago, they still hold relevance for understanding struggles in these
rural areas today.
John Helmer has an excellent article on the MH 17 "trial" in Holland and the
Dutch farmers' revolt. He traces the latter to the failure of Dutch
agribusiness plans to colonise ukraine and export its production,
employing cheap Ukrainian labour.
And, of course, being given the land cheaply.
"...Dutch analysts accuse Rutte of a Ukrainian
boomerang: the calculation was for Dutch agroindustries to invest in
Ukrainian farmland and crops with cheap labour and weak environmental
controls, with the dividends to flow back to The Netherlands
in cash. The Russian special military operation has killed that plan; instead, the Dutch died in MH17
and Ukrainian migrants are now moving into the country to take up state
money and drive the farmers off their land..."
The real beneficiaries of the Russian special military operation are going to be the people of Ukraine
whose government is intent on selling the nation's birthright for a few
billion delivered to offshore accounts. ...here's the link:
thesaker.is | The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
continues analysing the military-biological activity of the USA and its
allies in Ukraine and other regions of the world in view of new
information received at the liberated territories
and at the branch offices of the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
that form a unified information network.
We have previously stated that the Ukrainian
project of the Pentagon do not meet the pertinent healthcare problems of
Ukraine, while their implementation has not led to any improvement of
the sanitary-epidemiological situation.
The special military operation has led to forming the final report on DTRA activity dated from 2005 to 2016.
The document contains the data on evaluation of
healthcare, veterinary and biosecurity system efficiency prepared by a
group of U.S. experts in 2016.
This report is a concept document designed for
further planification of military-biological activity of the Pentagon in
Ukraine that contains conclusions on implementation of the programme
guidelines.
Despite the more than 10-year-long period of
cooperation in the alleged '...reduction of biological threats...', the
experts have stated:
'...There is no legislation on the control of
highly dangerous pathogens in the country, there are significant
deficiencies in biosafety... The current state of resources makes it
impossible for laboratories to respond effectively to public
health emergencies...'
The document emphasises that '...over the past five
years, Ukraine has shown no progress in implementing international
health regulations of the World Health Organisation'.
The report pays particular attention to
non-compliance with biosafety requirements when working and storing
microbial collections.
It has been stated '...that most facilities are
characterised by numerous gross violations, such as unlocked fencing
systems, unlatching windows, broken or inactive pathogen restriction
systems, lack of alarm systems...' The results of
the review conclude that there is no system for protecting dangerous
pathogens in Ukraine.
At the same time, the activities of the Defence
Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) have been assessed positively: the
organisation has managed to bring the national collection of
microorganisms to the United States, to organise biological assessment
work and to implement projects to study particularly dangerous and
economically significant infections that could cause a worsening
(changing) epidemic situation.
The report makes the case for continuing this work on behalf of the Pentagon that has cost more than $250 million since 2005.
The document is annexed with ambiguous comments
about the sponsors and implementers of the Biological Threat Reduction
Programme in Ukraine that have nothing to do with biosecurity issues. In
particular, the Soros Foundation is mentioned
with the notation '...contributed to the development of an open and
democratic society...'
It confirms again that the official activities of
the Pentagon in Ukraine are just a front for illegal military and
biological research.
We have repeatedly mentioned the role of U.S.
Democratic Party representatives in funding bioweapons activities in
Ukraine and the intermediary organisations that have been used for this
purpose.
I would like to refer to one of the key Pentagon contractors receiving money from Hunter Biden's investment fund, Metabiota.
The available data suggests that the company is
merely a front for internationally dubious purposes and is used by the
U.S. political elite to carry out opaque financial activities in various
parts of the world.
There is a specific example: Metabiota was involved
in the response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. The activities of
the company's employees have raised questions from the World Health
Organisation (WHO) in terms of their compliance
with biosafety requirements.
This is the report of the international panel of
experts from the Haemorrhagic Fever Consortium who were involved in the
fight against Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone in 2015.
According to the document, Metabiota staff had
failed to comply with handling procedures and concealed the involvement
of Pentagon staff who were using the company as a front. The main
purpose of these activities was to isolate highly virulent
variants of the virus from sick and dead people, as well as to export
its strains to the USA.
In view of the apparent failure of Metabiota's
activities to meet the goals of controlling the spread of the disease,
the World Health Organisation's Ebola coordinator, Philippe Barbosa,
recommended to recall the staff of the company saying
he was extremely concerned about the potential risks of such
collaboration to WHO's reputation.
The U.S. military contractor's heightened interest
in the Ebola virus is not a coincidence: the disease is one of the most
pathogenic to humans. During the outbreak that began in 2014, 28,000
people were contaminated, over 11,000 of them
died, the mortality rate was around 40%.
The special military operation has led to receiving
documents that reveals the plans of Metabiota and the Ukrainian
Scientific-Technological Centre to study the Ebola virus in Ukraine.
This is the request for U.S. funding to diagnose
highly dangerous pathogens in Ukraine, including Ebola virus. This kind
of requests are part of U.S. strategy to redeploy high-risk work with
dangerous pathogens to third countries.
The research was to be carried out at the Mechnikov
Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa. As the disease is not endemic and has
never been recorded in Ukraine indeed, there is a legitimate question
about the need for such research and its true
purpose.
We have already noted that Ukraine and other
post-Soviet states have become a testing ground for biological weapons
not only for the USA, but also for its NATO allies; on the first place,
Germany. Various projects have been carried out
on behalf of the Joint Medical Service of the German Armed Forces.
Bundeswehr professionals paid particular attention
to the Congo-Crimean fever pathogen. A large-scale screening of the
susceptibility of the local population to this infection was carried out
and included summarising demographic, epidemiological
and clinical data. This kind of approaches allows to identify new
regional virus genotypes and to select strains that cause latent
clinical forms.
The study of natural foci of Crimean-Congo fever
was carried out under the pretext of improving the Ukrainian
epidemiological surveillance system, with the participation of the
Institute of Veterinary Medicine in Kiev and the Mechnikov
Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa.
Bundeswehr's interest in Crimean-Congo fever stems
from the fact that mortality can be as high as 30% and its outbreaks
create a need for lengthy and costly treatment, preventive and special
handling measures.
This is a quote from Bundeswehr's instructions:
'...pay particular attention to fatal cases of infection with
Crimean-Congo fever as it allows the virus strains with maximum
pathogenicity and virulence for humans to be extracted from the
dead individuals...'
Apart from Germany, microbiologists from the USA
have shown a keen interest in tick-borne infections; research in this
area has been funded by DTRA through the UP-1 and UP-8 projects.
A separate project on ixodid ticks that are vectors
of a number of highly dangerous infections (tularemia, West Nile fever,
Congo-Crimean fever) has been implemented by the University of Texas.
Ticks used to be collected in the south-eastern
regions of Ukraine, where natural foci of infections characteristic of
the territory of the Russian Federation are located. At the same time,
the period of implementing this work coincided
with a rapid increase in the incidence of tick-borne borreliosis among
the Ukrainian population, as well as the increase in the number of ticks
in various regions of Russia bordering Ukraine.
This issue is being studied by competent Russian
professionals in coordination with professionals from the Ministry of
Defence of Russia.
We have previously pointed out the significance of
the results of the military-biological projects codenamed UP for the
Pentagon.
Note the report prepared for the U.S. Defence
Department by Black & Veatch and Metabiota. According to the
document, Veterinary Projects codenamed 'TAP' were implemented
simultaneously with the UP projects in Ukraine.
Their main guideline lies in economically
significant quarantine infections capable of damaging the agriculture of
several countries and entire regions, such as glanders, African swine
fever (ASF), classical swine fever, highly pathogenic
avian influenza and Newcastle disease.
African swine fever with two projects dedicated to this pathogen represented particular interest to U.S. military biologists.
The TAP-3 project was aimed to study the spread of
ASF pathogen through wild animals. The migration routes of wild boar
through Ukraine had been examining within its framework. The TAP-6
project scaled this process up to Eastern European
countries.
The study of vector populations of dangerous
zoonotic infections was carried out by staff of the Institute of New
Pathogens of the University of Florida (Gainesville) in Volyn, Rovno,
Zhitomir and Chernigov regions of Ukraine, as well as
in the areas bordering Belarus and Russia.
Note the worsening situation of African swine fever
in Eastern European countries: According to the International Office of
Epizootics, since 2014, outbreaks have been recorded in Latvia (4,021
cases), Estonia (3,814) and Lithuania (4,201).
In Poland, more than 13,000 cases of ASF have been detected, and
agricultural losses from the disease have exceeded 2.4 billion euro.
We have already emphasised the use of biological
weapons in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, I would like to focus on
U.S. military-biological activities during the Korean War.
In March 2022, the U.S. Army Strategic Studies
Institute published a report on the U.S. chemical and biological weapons
programme during the Korean War. This report was aimed to create a
possible line of defence against allegations of illegal
activities carried out by U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine.
The document attempts to refute the testimony of 38
U.S. military pilots who have admitted using biological weapons in
China and Korea.
According to the document, while preparing for the
Korean campaign, '...the U.S. Air Force secured additional funds to
purchase large quantities of chemical and biological munitions, obtained
a testing range for them in Canada and carried
out an extensive conceptual work on their use...'
At that time, the Americans considered brucellosis
pathogens and economically important infections, including wheat stem
rust, as priority biological agents. 2,500 munitions of this type the
U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command planned
to use, including '...to attack Soviet grain crops...'
Analysis of the data mentioned in the report shows
that the U.S. command uses the results of the research received from the
Japanese military-biological programme and a certain 'continuity' of
the works previously carried out by the Detachment
731 led by Shiro Ishii.
This is the record of the closed session of CIA,
State Department and the Pentagon representatives dated July 7, 1953.
The document clearly shows that the Americans are focusing on techniques
to manipulate public opinion and launch an aggressive
counter-attack within their strategies aimed to defend from
allegations.
The report states that the officials are reluctant
to actual investigations of chemical and biological incidents due to
fears of revealing the activities carried out by the U.S. Eighth Army.
Thus, the comparative analysis of U.S. activities
during the Korean War and currently in Ukraine demonstrates the
persistence of the U.S. policy of building up its own military and
biological capabilities in circumvention of international
agreements.
In conclusion, I would like to present real data on
the health condition of the voluntarily surrendered Ukrainian
servicemen. This diapositive presents the data on presence of antibodies
to contagious disease agents without mentioning personal
data of these servicemen.
The results are as follows: 33% of the examined
servicemen had had hepatitis A, over 4% had renal syndrome fever and 20%
had West Nile fever. The figures are significantly higher than the
statistical average. In view of active research
of these diseases held by the Pentagon within the Ukrainian projects,
there is reason to believe that servicemen of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine (AFU) were involved as volunteers in experiments to assess the
tolerance of dangerous infectious diseases.
The lack of therapeutic effect of antibacterial
medication has been reported during in-patient treatment of AFU
servicemen in medical facilities. High concentrations of antibiotics,
including sulphonyl amides and fluoroquinolones, have
been detected in their blood.
This fact may indicate preventive use of
antibiotics and preparation of personnel for operating in conditions of
biological contamination, such as cholera agent, that indirectly proves
the information of the Russian Defence Ministry that
Ukrainian special units were planning to use biological agents.
The data will be included in the U.S. military-biological dossier and we will continue to examine it and keep you informed.
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NTD | Minutes after Berenson posted for the first time following his reinstatement, he re-posted the words that triggered the ban.
“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a
vaccine. Think of it—at best—as a therapeutic with a limited window of
efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE
OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity,” he wrote.
Berenson was referring to the COVID-19 vaccines, which have proven increasingly unable to prevent infection from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Also known as the SARS-CoV-2, the virus causes COVID-19.
Though the vaccines have been authorized and approved for prevention
of the virus, they’re actually recommended primarily for helping prevent
severe disease among those who contract the illness.
Twitter had initially claimed that Berenson’s post was “misleading,”
even though the company acknowledged that “studies indicate a reduction
in vaccine effectiveness against the Omicron variant” of the virus.
Studies show that the Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson
shots—the only three available in the United States—provide little
protection against Omicron, and that the protection quickly wanes.
Some studies indicate that the vaccinated are more likely to contract
the virus after certain periods of time elapse following vaccination.
U.S. health authorities still recommend vaccination for virtually all Americans.
Berenson sued Twitter after being banned, claiming the company breached its contract with him as a user.
A federal judge tossed all of the claims except for the breach of contract one. Berenson and Twitter recently announced they’d agreed on a settlement in principle.
The details of the settlement have not yet been entered into the
court docket, with the parties saying they’re still negotiating.
According to court filings, Berenson was told by a senior Twitter
executive that posts that sparked controversy would not lead to him
being banned from the platform. But Twitter began taking action against
him after Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to President Joe Biden, said
some of Berenson’s remarks were “horrifying,” first locking him out of
his account and eventually enacting the ban.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee, said in a
recent ruling that Berenson “plausibly avers that Twitter’s conduct here
modified its contract with plaintiff and then breached that contract by
failing to abide by its own five-strike policy and its specific
commitments set forth through its vice president.”
NEJM | Social media and other digital platforms provide the opportunity to collect data on vaccine hesitancy in nearly real time70,71; they also allow new methods of analysis72
and the opportunity to investigate the effect of vaccine sentiment on
actual vaccine uptake and vaccine-preventable diseases. Facebook
collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of
Maryland to collect survey data on a wide variety of behaviors related
to the Covid-19 pandemic.73
Starting in January 2021, Facebook users who agreed to participate in
the survey were asked about their attitudes toward Covid-19 vaccines and
reasons underlying vaccine hesitancy.
Although
data collected on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube, may not be representative, since the users of the platform are
not a random sample of the population, the data have aligned well with
other, less frequently compiled survey data that are available for
select topics and populations. In addition, sometimes data collected
through online platforms are the only available information about
vaccine hesitancy (e.g., when large-scale surveys have not been
conducted). Furthermore, the large samples and the speed with which data
are collected and made available make real-time analysis possible for
what has become a volatile topic. As data collected through social media
platforms become more widely used, we anticipate that validation
studies will be conducted, with improvements made in the sampling,
weighting, and interpretation of the data.
The
large volume of timely data on vaccine hesitancy has provided an
opportunity to develop spatially detailed estimates of vaccine hesitancy
(i.e., mapping by location). For the United States, surveys
administered through Facebook have been used to estimate vaccine
hesitancy according to week and ZIP code. These spatial analyses show
that vaccine hesitancy varies substantially within a county. For
example, vaccine hesitancy ranges from 7 to 49% across ZIP codes within
the rural Stearns County, Minnesota. Such widespread variation within a
county is common in all U.S. states (Figure 2).
Spatially refined estimates of vaccine hesitancy have proved to be useful in local efforts to increase vaccination rates.75,76
The information has been used by community outreach programs to tailor
their efforts to local areas that have the greatest need. Other groups
have used local patterns to help to decide where to provide mobile
vaccination clinics and where to initiate other measures for reducing
barriers to vaccination. Local information can also be used to monitor
the effect of local interventions, including the effect of various types
of vaccination mandates.
In the future, large and
complex data sets on vaccine hesitancy, often referred to as big data,
can be analyzed according to spatial identifiers such as ZIP code and
various individual characteristics, including race or ethnic group, age,
sex, and occupation, which can help to further microtarget vaccination
outreach efforts. This information is also potentially critical for
monitoring progress toward vaccine equity.
One of
the various challenges in taking such an approach to scale and applying
it globally is the inequity in the access to and reach of digital media.
As the digital revolution unfolds globally, the global health community
must keep pace. The consequences of not doing so are loud and clear, as
we have seen in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic with regard to the
rapid spread of misinformation and consequent vaccine hesitancy.
nature | Vaccine mandates do risk overly politicizing health policy, says
MacDonald. But it is hard to accurately quantify the consequences such
as social exclusion, loss of public trust or inequitable outcomes.
Numerous other factors are at play, such as the way a government handled
the pandemic overall, wider political campaigns against vaccination or
mandates, or frustrations with the way that a mandate was implemented.
Another crucial aspect of whether mandates are successful is the
political skill and messaging used to introduce them.
Opposition
to vaccines — and mandates — can also be a way of expressing displeasure
with other aspects of civil society, says Heidi Larson, an
anthropologist and founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project
at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “All of a
sudden everyone who had an issue with government has an issue with
vaccines,” she says. Oliu-Barton says that some mandates seem like a
referendum: “Do you like the government? You can say, ’no’, by not
getting a shot.”
Ward has tried to gauge how the French public
reacted to vaccination policies by using questionnaires. When asked if
they felt relief, anger or regret when they got vaccinated, respondents
who were vaccinated in early 2021 said they mostly felt relief. But most
of those vaccinated later, especially after the government imposed
health-pass requirements, reported anger or regret6.
In a later poll conducted in March this year, more than 60% of
respondents said they had felt at least somewhat ‘constrained’ to get
vaccinated. Ward’s future work will further dissect why and how.
In Germany, Katrin Schmelz, a psychologist at the University of
Konstanz, has led a unique series of surveys that tracked the evolving
views of nearly 2,000 German residents over the course of the pandemic7.
The
questionnaire showed that only around 3% of the population consistently
opposed vaccination if it was voluntary. By contrast, each survey
revealed that around 16% of people opposed mandatory vaccination —
crucially, however, it was not always the same 16% of respondents who
felt this way. Roughly half of respondents changed their minds over time
— and the shifting variables most closely tied to support for mandates
were trust in government and belief in vaccine effectiveness.
“Mandates
are an essential part of public health policies,” says Schmelz, but her
work also suggests that it was a good decision to make vaccination a
personal choice initially. Polling before vaccines were available showed
that 73% of German adults were OK with getting vaccinated voluntarily8
— which corresponded almost exactly to the fraction who were vaccinated
before mandates were introduced. Schmelz says she believes that a sense
of moral autonomy motivated these people to help battle the virus, and
that mandating vaccination earlier would probably have reduced this
motivation. “People respond to feeling distrusted by lowering their
effort,” she says.
A major concern is that if a substantial
proportion of society has lost trust in public institutions, this will
make public-health policies harder to implement — in particular, other
ongoing vaccine programmes. “Sentiments around vaccines are hugely tied
to trust in government,” says Larson. “What’s the knock-on effect of
this COVID experience on routine vaccination?”
Deciphering those
longer trends might take time. Larson is awaiting the results of the
Vaccine Confidence Project’s latest survey of overall attitudes to
vaccines, which she thinks will be an indicator of how views have
shifted.
Like so many aspects of the pandemic, decisions about
mandates and their implementation have occurred at speed — amid a
constantly shifting crisis. The legal requirements now being studied
were introduced in the summer of 2021, when anxieties about the pandemic
still ran deep, and such measures were more palatable. Available
vaccines also offered protection against infection, not just against
serious illness. With people becoming less afraid of COVID-19 and
vaccines offering less protection against infection by Omicron variants,
plans this spring to introduce new nationwide mandates in Austria and
Germany, for example, were rejected or never enforced.
As concerns
about the pandemic wane in many countries, researchers fear that
research fatigue is setting in, too, not least when it comes to
analysing the complex behavioural responses of people to the virus and
mitigation strategies. Yet behavioural science is an essential part of
the response to this pandemic and future ones. “People are tired,”
MacDonald says, “I think everybody wants this done.” But what she’s more
tired of is seeing governments not learning the lessons of previous
public-health emergencies. “We need this analysis done.”
FT | “We do not like to get left behind when it comes to new technology,” she said.
The promise of cryptocurrencies as a wealth builder has been supercharged by celebrity endorsements, sponsorships and advertising.
Prominent black Americans including the musicians Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg, the boxer Floyd Mayweather, the actor Jamie Foxx and the film-maker Spike Lee have promoted crypto to their communities.
Lee appeared in commercials for crypto ATM operator Coin Cloud last year, saying that “old money is not going to pick us up; it pushes us down” and “systematically oppresses”, whereas digital assets are “positive, inclusive”.
Last month, Jay-Z announced a partnership with former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey to launch a “Bitcoin Academy” literacy programme in the Brooklyn public housing complex where he grew up.
Such celebrity endorsers have faced heavy criticism for getting paid to sell high-risk investments to people who may not have the resources to weather crypto’s volatility.
“Ninety-eight per cent of these cryptocurrencies were not designed to do anything other than extract money from people’s bank accounts,” said Najah Roberts, a former financial adviser and the founder of cryptocurrency education centre Crypto Blockchain Plug.
“This is not ‘get rich quick’,’’ Roberts added. “There are massive targeting ads that are targeting our community.”
Bellanton said it is not adverts but the prospect of financial freedom, a lack of the investment minimums common for mutual funds, and a feeling that the blockchain distributed ledger is more transparent than big banks that draws in first-time investors.
“The reason that minorities at a higher rate than others are adopting crypto is precisely because if you’re not already rich, it’s way cheaper to send [USD Coin, a stablecoin asset] than to send a wire,” said Brian Brooks, chief executive of blockchain company Bitfury, at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month. “It’s just cheaper.
The entire system is cheaper and faster. It doesn’t have all these entry barriers where you can only get it if you’re already rich.”
Despite the risk of losses, many black investors are staying invested in the market. Dennis McKinley, 41, has been buying the dip against the advice of his financial adviser. He said his crypto coins now constitute roughly 30 per cent of his overall portfolio, held alongside equities.
“Young black America is just now getting to a point where we have the amount of freedom to have the opportunity to invest in alternative strategies besides just real estate,” said McKinley, a small-business owner in Atlanta. “I think that it’s important to learn and get out there.”
ibankcoin | Crypto currency Bitconnect (BCC) plunged from $321 to a tad over $35
today, a drop of more than 86% after regulators from state authorities
issued cease and desist letters for unauthorized sale of securities.
That’s right. Just because your shit is on the blockchain, that doesn’t
mean you get to solicit your fucking Ponzi scheme to people in America.
State regulators will have something to say about that.
Via the company’s website, as per the reasons for shutting down.
The reason for halt of lending and exchange platform has many reasons as follow:
The continuous bad press has made community members uneasy and created a lack of confidence in the platform.
We have received two Cease and Desist letters, one from the Texas State
Securities Board, and one from the North Carolina Secretary of State
Securities Division. These actions have become a hindrance for the legal
continuation of the platform.
Outside forces have performed DDos attacks on platform several times
and have made it clear that these will continue. These interruptions in
service have made the platform unstable and have created more panic
inside the community.
Price action.
What did Bitconnect do? They quite literally ran a Ponzi scheme. Look
at one of their brochures, promising investors 40% returns, PER MONTH.
Via Tech Crunch:
Many in the cryptocurrency community have openly accused
Bitconnnect of running a Ponzi scheme, including Ethereum founder
Vitalik Buterin.
The platform was powered by a token called BCC (not to be confused
with BCH, or Bitcoin Cash), which is essentially useless now that the
trading platform has shut down. In the last The token has plummeted more
than 80% to about $37, down from over $200 just a few hours ago.
If you aren’t familiar with the platform, Bitconnect was an
anonymously-run site where users could loan their cryptocurrency to the
company in exchange for outsized returns depending on how long the loan
was for. For example, a $10,000 loan for 180 days would purportedly give
you ~40% returns each month, with a .20% daily bonus.
Bitconnect also had a thriving multi-level referral feature, which
also made it somewhat akin to a pyramid scheme with thousands of social
media users trying to drive signups using their referral code.
The platform said it generated returns for users using Bitconnnect’s
trading bot and “volatility trading software”, which usually averaged
around 1% per day.
Of course profiting from market fluctuations and volatility is a
legitimate trading strategy, and one used by many hedge funds and
institutional traders. But Bitconnect’s promise (and payment) of
outsized and guaranteed returns led many to believe it was a ponzi
scheme that was paying out existing loan interest with newly pledged
loans.
The requirement of having BCC to participate in the lending program
led to a natural spike in demand (and price) of BCC. In less than a year
the currency went from being worth less than a dollar (with a market
cap in the millions) to a all-time high of ~$430.00 with a market cap
above $2.6B.
Lenders into the Bitconnect Exchange have revealed the company is
closing out accounts, issuing BCC in exchange for their dollars — which
is causing the price to plummet.
Bitconnect is officially closing up. They sent me
33 BCC for my $11k+ in loans. Worth $6600 and dropping by the second.
Their exchange is down so the only option is to send the BCC to an
external exchange.
TechnologyReview | Sports betting in Africa is not an entirely digital phenomenon: dingy
betting parlors filled with underemployed youth have long been fixtures
of the urban landscape. Increasingly, though, gambling has moved
online, aided by the rapid spread of technologies like smartphones,
high-speed internet, and mobile money platforms, which enable payments
via phones without a bank account. Today, gambling happens almost
anywhere: on college campuses, in far-flung villages, or even, as Kirwa
admits with a hint of embarrassment, behind the wheel while driving.
Experts say this ease of access is driving up participation and making
betting more addictive across Africa—in economic powerhouses like
Nigeria and South Africa; in poorer, more fragile states like the
Democratic Republic of the Congo; and in soccer meccas such as Senegal,
home to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations champions, where online betting
got a late start but is now growing by 50% each year.
Nowhere,
though, is the craze as acute as it is in Kenya, the country that gave
birth to the continent’s first mobile money service, M-Pesa, and is
often called Africa’s “Silicon Savannah” for its status as a regional
tech powerhouse. While the country’s mobile money revolution has played a
well-documented role in encouraging savings and democratizing access to
finance, M-Pesa’s role in betting presents something of a paradox.
Today, it’s easier than ever for those in fragile economic circumstances
to squander everything. Although estimates on the prevalence of
gambling vary, a December 2021 survey by the US research firm GeoPoll
found that 84% of Kenyan youth polled had tried betting, and one-third
of those reported betting on at least a daily basis. The vast majority,
like Kirwa, do so on their smartphones using mobile money.
“Most people who bet in Kenya are not doing it for recreation—they’re
doing it because they want to make money,” says Fabio Ogachi, a
professor of psychology at Nairobi’s Kenyatta University. Ogachi says a
significant proportion of Kenyans who bet show signs of gambling
addiction—behaviors that include betting to recover lost funds, staking
increasing amounts, and lying about one’s habit. Technology, he adds,
has been a major driver of the sports-betting phenomenon: “We’ve been
using mobile money for so many years, it’s become part and parcel of how
we conduct business. When online betting came along, it found this
ideal system was in place.”
When financial inclusion isn’t enough
That
mobile money would become so ubiquitous in Africa—let alone fuel a
betting epidemic—is in many ways an accident of history. The technology
has its roots in a 2006 experiment, conducted by the telecom firms
Vodafone of the UK, and Safaricom of Kenya, that sought ways to increase
access to finance among those who’d previously been excluded from
traditional banking.
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"We will never be fully vaccinated against Covid-19."
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says Canadians need to be "up-to-date" on their vaccines, which he describes as getting the Covid vaccine every nine months. #cdnpolipic.twitter.com/pjuPGbORQa
bombthrower | Despite increasingly compelling data and peer reviewed studies
coming out detailing the harms and side-effects of vaccinations,
Canada’s Liberal-Socialist coalition government is doubling down on
vaccinations, and appear ready to move the goalposts on what constitutes
vaccine compliance.
Canadians will be required to get a Covid shot every nine months for the foreseeable future, says Health Minister . Previous definitions of “fully vaccinated” made no sense, he told reporters.
“Nine months is very clear and will help people understand why
‘up to date’ is the right way to think about vaccination now,” said
Duclos. “‘Fully vaccinated’ makes no sense now. It’s about ‘up to
date.’ So am I up to date in my vaccination? Have I received a
vaccination in the last nine months?”
Duclos previously called for the provinces to make vaccinations mandatory and when asked by reporters if mandates would return this fall, he replied “We must continue to fight against Covid.”
Canada seems to be one of the few countries outside Communist China
who is frantically clinging to the COVID narrative, relentlessly pushing
largely ineffective (and arguably dangerous) vaccines on an
increasingly fed up population.
The Trudeau regime is increasingly unpopular, a recent Angus Reid poll
finding those who “strongly support” the government falling into single
digits. The largest single category was “strongly disapprove” at 41%, Reeling with numerous scandals, corruption and gaffes, Justin Trudeau
holds power solely through the merger of his party with the Canada’s
Socialist NDP, headed by millionaire Jagmeet Singh.
The deal ostensibly keeps him in office until 2025. Singh is also on the
ropes, frequently being jeered in public even among his base
constituency in Brampton, Ontario. His brother lost his seat in the
recent Ontario election, and Singh himself was run out of a campaign stop by enraged Sikhs who called him “a sell out”.
amidwesterndoctor |Most of the injuries I saw reported here overlapped with the ones I encountered and documented within my own adverse event log.
Additionally, there were dozens of respondents (primarily healthcare
workers) who had observed a large number of individuals with vaccine
injuries; meaning that my experience is not at all unique. The most
commonly reported injuries were as follows:
•Strokes and blood clots. •Fatal heart attacks and less frequently myocarditis or heart failure. •Cancers that often emerge spontaneously, shock the doctor, and were highly aggressive (frequently killing the individual). •Sudden severe cases of COVID-19. •Cases of sudden death (i.e. a wife heard a thump upstairs, ran up, and found her husband dead on the floor). •Rapid
progression towards dementia in an elder relative (typically resulting
in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, although in one case Lewy body
dementia occurred). •Other neurological conditions
One
thing I have noticed in reviewing reports of adverse reactions to
vaccines is that a large number of them go underreported (even within
these reporting surveys) because they represent common diseases people
develop rather than something very noteworthy. For example, I believe
new autoimmune diseases or exacerbation of pre-existing autoimmune
diseases are the most common adverse event that occurs following
vaccination, as that seems to be the case for around 20-40% of the
patients in many rheumatology practices (see this testimony for example) and this report of a survey conducted by the Israel ministry of health.
However,
despite this being the case, I only saw a few reports of autoimmune
conditions resulting from the mRNA vaccines within these survey
responses. This is relevant because adverse reactions always distribute
on a bell curve and the more extreme ones, therefore, are much rare than
the less severe. ones. This means the adverse reactions that are
noteworthy enough for someone to notice and share likely only represent
the tip of the iceberg for adverse events occurring. A recent article showing there has been a 10% spike in disability within the US population so
far is the best dataset I have come across to suggest something very
concerning on a more chronic level throughout the population is
happening.
Many of these cases were very sad, and it is
difficult to even begin to imagine what the survey respondents had gone
through during this process. Cancer is a particularly terrible disease
given the death process associated with it, and despite coming across
numerous cases of this happening, I was a bit surprised at how
frequently respondents reported these cases. I likewise can understand
why continually seeing these types of reports has motivated Steve Kirsch
to spend every waking moment he has to bring attention to this issue.
Other conditions were less commonly reported. I took particular note of the following:
•Seven
cases of liver failure (or something similar), along with additional
cases of cancers rapidly metastasizing to the liver and causing liver
failure. •Six Reports of Lou Gehrig's disease (also known as ALS) •Three Reports of Fatal Prion Diseases (two of which were specified to be CJD, the third most likely was as well). •A
few reports of birth defects in vital organs with ACE-2 receptors such
as the heart (it is harder to draw a correlation here since those
defects sometimes happen otherwise, but given that I know one case where
this almost certainly happened, I suspect these may have been linked as
well).
I learned a few major lessons from these reports.
The
first is that one respondent made it very clear he and another
individual had had a mild Covid infection they were dealing with, but
once they became vaccinated, the infection went out of control and
rapidly landed them in the hospital. I have been trying to come up with
an explanation for a while over why it is so common to see individuals
be vaccinated and then rapidly be hospitalized or died from severe
Covid. I now suspect that being vaccinated while you are infected alters
the immune response and makes COVID much more likely to progress
towards being a fatal condition. This is unfortunate because those
deaths are often used to justify the urgency of vaccinating.
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