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As a young girl dining nightly to TV images of GI's dragging their buddies out of the rice paddies of Vietnam, this engendered a certain notion that somehow the world should be a better place.
An Art and Design degree took me to Germany and India. Living in France for the past thirty years with my French husband, most of it within easy reach of Monet's Gardens. Toxic agricultural sprays eventualy forced us south to an area of uncultivated pastureland.
Looking forward to the day when blue skies, birds and bees return.
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
Questions for Lockdown Apologists SHARE
John Pospichal writes in Medium:
Surprisingly, however, these increases did not begin before the lockdowns were imposed, but after. Moreover, in almost every case, they began immediately after. Often, mortality numbers were on a downward trend before suddenly reversing course after lockdowns were decreed.
This is an astonishing finding. But before I discuss its full import, and pose some questions to those who still defend the utility of lockdowns, I want to present the data that proves it."
Questions for Lockdown Apologists SHARE
John Pospichal writes in Medium:
Surprisingly, however, these increases did not begin before the lockdowns were imposed, but after. Moreover, in almost every case, they began immediately after. Often, mortality numbers were on a downward trend before suddenly reversing course after lockdowns were decreed.
This is an astonishing finding. But before I discuss its full import, and pose some questions to those who still defend the utility of lockdowns, I want to present the data that proves it."
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Let's fact-check Reuters: they say DNA vaccines don't change your genetic makeup-true or false? SHARE
Noted independent medical journalist, Jon Rappoport writes:
“The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads, and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA. If all goes well, the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.”
The Times article taps Dr. David Baltimore for an opinion:
“Still, Dr. Baltimore says that he envisions that some people might be leery of a vaccination strategy that means altering their own DNA, even if it prevents a potentially fatal disease.”
So it’s a battle of the experts. The two men Reuters cited, versus the Times’ David Baltimore."
Let's fact-check Reuters: they say DNA vaccines don't change your genetic makeup-true or false? SHARE
Noted independent medical journalist, Jon Rappoport writes:
“The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads, and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA. If all goes well, the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.”
The Times article taps Dr. David Baltimore for an opinion:
“Still, Dr. Baltimore says that he envisions that some people might be leery of a vaccination strategy that means altering their own DNA, even if it prevents a potentially fatal disease.”
So it’s a battle of the experts. The two men Reuters cited, versus the Times’ David Baltimore."
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Electronic Frontier Foundation Needs Your Stories to Stop the Fitbit-Google Merger SHARE
B.N.Frank writes in Activist Post:
"There have been reports of Fitbits shocking wearers as well as causing rashes and other undesirable and scary issues. Of course, activity trackers emit Electromagnetic Radiation which can cause a multitude of bothersome as well as life threatening health issues (see 1, 2). Nevertheless, many people still wear these devices and strap them on their children. Doctors sometimes prescribe them to patients so they can remotely check their vital signs. Employers sometimes require employees to wear them. And nursing homes often require residents to wear them so that staff can more easily track them."
Electronic Frontier Foundation Needs Your Stories to Stop the Fitbit-Google Merger SHARE
B.N.Frank writes in Activist Post:
"There have been reports of Fitbits shocking wearers as well as causing rashes and other undesirable and scary issues. Of course, activity trackers emit Electromagnetic Radiation which can cause a multitude of bothersome as well as life threatening health issues (see 1, 2). Nevertheless, many people still wear these devices and strap them on their children. Doctors sometimes prescribe them to patients so they can remotely check their vital signs. Employers sometimes require employees to wear them. And nursing homes often require residents to wear them so that staff can more easily track them."
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
The Dummy's Guide to Authoritarianism (Or, the Long Kiss Goodbye to the Good Life) SHARE
Friom The Cogent - investigative journalism and blog:
The Smoking Gun
"Secondly, a record number of CEO’sstepped down from their posts between January and October 2019, with more than 1,332 CEO’s abandoning ship amidst robust corporate earnings and record stock market highs. Which by any stretch of the imagination is most unorthodox and counter-intuitive.
Thirdly, Bill Gates not only organised event 201, a table top exercise that simulated a global pandemic, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation purportedly negotiated a $100 Billion Contact Tracing Dealwith the Sponsor of the US CARES Bill, six months prior to the pandemic"
The Dummy's Guide to Authoritarianism (Or, the Long Kiss Goodbye to the Good Life) SHARE
Friom The Cogent - investigative journalism and blog:
The Smoking Gun
"Secondly, a record number of CEO’sstepped down from their posts between January and October 2019, with more than 1,332 CEO’s abandoning ship amidst robust corporate earnings and record stock market highs. Which by any stretch of the imagination is most unorthodox and counter-intuitive.
Thirdly, Bill Gates not only organised event 201, a table top exercise that simulated a global pandemic, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation purportedly negotiated a $100 Billion Contact Tracing Dealwith the Sponsor of the US CARES Bill, six months prior to the pandemic"
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Sunday, June 21, 2020
Could Trump Turn a Vaccine Into a Campaign Stunt? SHARE
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel & Paul A. Offit - Opinion, NYTimes:
In a desperate search for a boost, he could release a coronavirus vaccine that has not been shown to be safe and effective as an October surprise.
"Researchers are expecting that it will be likely to take at least another eight to 12 months to determine whether these coronavirus vaccines are effective. For comparison, the effectiveness trial for the rotavirus vaccines took about four years and the human papillomavirus vaccine studies to prevent cervical cancer took seven years."
Dr. Emanuel and Dr. Offit are professors at the University of Pennsylvania.
Could Trump Turn a Vaccine Into a Campaign Stunt? SHARE
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel & Paul A. Offit - Opinion, NYTimes:
In a desperate search for a boost, he could release a coronavirus vaccine that has not been shown to be safe and effective as an October surprise.
"Researchers are expecting that it will be likely to take at least another eight to 12 months to determine whether these coronavirus vaccines are effective. For comparison, the effectiveness trial for the rotavirus vaccines took about four years and the human papillomavirus vaccine studies to prevent cervical cancer took seven years."
Dr. Emanuel and Dr. Offit are professors at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Friday, June 19, 2020
WHO "Solidarity" and UK "Recovery" Clinical Trials of Hydroxychloroquine using Potentially Fatal Doses SHARE
By Meryl Nass, MD, writing in Age of Autism, a daily web newspaper:
"The Solidarity Trial is a WHO-led conglomeration of many national trials of treatments for Covid-19. Per the WHO:
As of 3 June 2020, more than 3500 patients have been recruited in 35 countries, with over 400 hospitals actively recruiting patients. Overall, over 100 countries have joined or expressed an interest in joining the trial, and WHO is actively supporting 60 of them...
Last week, I was alerted to the fact that India's ICMR, its official medical research agency, had written to the WHO, telling WHO that the hydroxychloroquine doses being used in the Solidarity trial were 4 times higher than the doses being used in India. Then I learned that Singapore had been hesitant to participate in the WHO trial due to the hydroxychloroquine dose."
WHO "Solidarity" and UK "Recovery" Clinical Trials of Hydroxychloroquine using Potentially Fatal Doses SHARE
By Meryl Nass, MD, writing in Age of Autism, a daily web newspaper:
"The Solidarity Trial is a WHO-led conglomeration of many national trials of treatments for Covid-19. Per the WHO:
As of 3 June 2020, more than 3500 patients have been recruited in 35 countries, with over 400 hospitals actively recruiting patients. Overall, over 100 countries have joined or expressed an interest in joining the trial, and WHO is actively supporting 60 of them...
Last week, I was alerted to the fact that India's ICMR, its official medical research agency, had written to the WHO, telling WHO that the hydroxychloroquine doses being used in the Solidarity trial were 4 times higher than the doses being used in India. Then I learned that Singapore had been hesitant to participate in the WHO trial due to the hydroxychloroquine dose."
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Thursday, June 18, 2020
What Is The Real Agenda Behind The Effort To Defund & Dismantle The Police? SHARE
Report conducted by the editor of Activist Post, Spiro Skouras:
"What drives the civil unrest we see unfolding in the streets today? Is this an organic form of resistance against an oppressive system of control? Or is there an ulterior motive striving to restructure the current system of control under the guise of social and racial injustice?
In this report Spiro is joined by Rosa Koire, a top expert on the United Nations Agenda 21 who authored the book titled Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21.
Spiro and Rosa Koire discuss and break down how the United Nations’ long standing global governance agendas are materializing before our eyes hidden just beneath the veil of global crisis and social injustice."
What Is The Real Agenda Behind The Effort To Defund & Dismantle The Police? SHARE
Report conducted by the editor of Activist Post, Spiro Skouras:
"What drives the civil unrest we see unfolding in the streets today? Is this an organic form of resistance against an oppressive system of control? Or is there an ulterior motive striving to restructure the current system of control under the guise of social and racial injustice?
In this report Spiro is joined by Rosa Koire, a top expert on the United Nations Agenda 21 who authored the book titled Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21.
Spiro and Rosa Koire discuss and break down how the United Nations’ long standing global governance agendas are materializing before our eyes hidden just beneath the veil of global crisis and social injustice."
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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr John Ioannidis of Stanford University | Episode 1 SHARE
This series examines the origins of the covid 19 virus, infection rates, economic fallout and hospital protocols. All one hour interviews by John Kirby of The Press and The Public Project and Journeyman Picture.
This gives a voice to experts and others in the front lines of the epidemic overlooked by mainstream media.
Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 1: Dealing with coronavirus, a fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.
Episode 6 interviews the two doctors from Bakersfield and episode 9 features the whistleblowing NYC ICU nurse.
All episodes are available through each video segment.
Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr John Ioannidis of Stanford University | Episode 1 SHARE
This series examines the origins of the covid 19 virus, infection rates, economic fallout and hospital protocols. All one hour interviews by John Kirby of The Press and The Public Project and Journeyman Picture.
This gives a voice to experts and others in the front lines of the epidemic overlooked by mainstream media.
Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 1: Dealing with coronavirus, a fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.
Episode 6 interviews the two doctors from Bakersfield and episode 9 features the whistleblowing NYC ICU nurse.
All episodes are available through each video segment.
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Friday, June 5, 2020
Surgisphere: governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company SHARE
From the Guardian:
"A tiny US company, Surgisphere, is behind flawed data which led to governments and the world health organisation changing health policy.
Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies.
The company’s LinkedIn page has fewer than 100 followers and last week listed just six employees. This was changed to three employees as of Wednesday."
Surgisphere: governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company SHARE
From the Guardian:
"A tiny US company, Surgisphere, is behind flawed data which led to governments and the world health organisation changing health policy.
Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies.
The company’s LinkedIn page has fewer than 100 followers and last week listed just six employees. This was changed to three employees as of Wednesday."
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Thursday, June 4, 2020
LOCKDOWN LUNACY: the thinking person's guide SHARE
J.B. Handley writes:
"Knowing what we know today about COVID-19’s Infection Fatality Rate, asymmetric impact by age and medical condition, non-transmissibility by asymptomatic people and in outdoor settings, near-zero fatality rate for children, and the basic understanding of viruses through Farr’s law, locking down society was a bone-headed policy decision so devastating to society that historians may judge it as the all-time worst decision ever made. Worse, as these clear facts have become available, many policy-makers haven’t shifted their positions, despite the fact that every hour under any stage of lockdown has a domino-effect of devastation to society. Meanwhile, the media—with a few notable exceptions—is oddly silent on all the good news."
LOCKDOWN LUNACY: the thinking person's guide SHARE
J.B. Handley writes:
"Knowing what we know today about COVID-19’s Infection Fatality Rate, asymmetric impact by age and medical condition, non-transmissibility by asymptomatic people and in outdoor settings, near-zero fatality rate for children, and the basic understanding of viruses through Farr’s law, locking down society was a bone-headed policy decision so devastating to society that historians may judge it as the all-time worst decision ever made. Worse, as these clear facts have become available, many policy-makers haven’t shifted their positions, despite the fact that every hour under any stage of lockdown has a domino-effect of devastation to society. Meanwhile, the media—with a few notable exceptions—is oddly silent on all the good news."
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Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Why The Public Should Rebel Against Forced Vaccinations SHARE
Brandon Smith covers the specifics of legal and moral arguments of vaccine mandates:
"In 2008, Swiss company Novartis tested a Bird Flu vaccine on the homeless and poor population of Poland. The vaccine trial paid participants $2, and they were told the inoculation was for the “normal flu”. According a homeless center in the area at least 21 people died right after they participated in the trial.
Smith concludes: "Frankly, the people in charge of the vaccine effort are not to be trusted, they have open ideological agendas that are questionable to say the least. Allowing them to dictate what goes into our bodies is akin to slavery at best, and possible mass death at worst"
Why The Public Should Rebel Against Forced Vaccinations SHARE
Brandon Smith covers the specifics of legal and moral arguments of vaccine mandates:
"In 2008, Swiss company Novartis tested a Bird Flu vaccine on the homeless and poor population of Poland. The vaccine trial paid participants $2, and they were told the inoculation was for the “normal flu”. According a homeless center in the area at least 21 people died right after they participated in the trial.
Smith concludes: "Frankly, the people in charge of the vaccine effort are not to be trusted, they have open ideological agendas that are questionable to say the least. Allowing them to dictate what goes into our bodies is akin to slavery at best, and possible mass death at worst"
Monday, June 1, 2020
This U.S.State Has Already Established Legal Means for Mandatory Vaccinations SHARE
Derrick Broze of The Last American Vagabond writes about Florida:
"The Last American Vagabond was recently sent the meme below which has been circulating the internet in recent days. The image claims that someone’s husband recently flew from Louisiana to Florida where he was handed a mandatory quarantine form to fill out. According to the post, the man was essentially forced to sign if he wanted to exit the plane. The image then shows a screenshot of a document which states that individuals who violate the quarantine will be subject to a $500 fine or a 60 day jail sentence. Furthermore, the meme states that, “the State Health Officer and Surgeon General can order any individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, isolated or quarantined for COVID-19″.
This U.S.State Has Already Established Legal Means for Mandatory Vaccinations SHARE
Derrick Broze of The Last American Vagabond writes about Florida:
"The Last American Vagabond was recently sent the meme below which has been circulating the internet in recent days. The image claims that someone’s husband recently flew from Louisiana to Florida where he was handed a mandatory quarantine form to fill out. According to the post, the man was essentially forced to sign if he wanted to exit the plane. The image then shows a screenshot of a document which states that individuals who violate the quarantine will be subject to a $500 fine or a 60 day jail sentence. Furthermore, the meme states that, “the State Health Officer and Surgeon General can order any individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, isolated or quarantined for COVID-19″.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
COVID vaccine: what else could they put in the shot? SHARE
Jon Rappoport explores a unique perspective on what nanotechnology employed in covid vaccines could really be about:
"I offer one speculation: the “promotion” of the social agenda of collectivist thought, through nanotech. Utilizing the Internet of Things, an attempt would be made to hook up and “harmonize” many, many brains with one another. Same basic feelings, same impulses—shared.
Who would be interested in such a program? Think Chinese government, DARPA (the technology arm of the Pentagon), and numerous other international actors. Think Rockefeller medical researchers. Think technocracy and Brave New World.
SUPPOSE, THROUGH A COVID VACCINE, NANOTECH COULD BE INSERTED INTO BODIES AND BRAINS OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION? As a grand control “experiment.” Is that too far-out an idea?"
COVID vaccine: what else could they put in the shot? SHARE
Jon Rappoport explores a unique perspective on what nanotechnology employed in covid vaccines could really be about:
"I offer one speculation: the “promotion” of the social agenda of collectivist thought, through nanotech. Utilizing the Internet of Things, an attempt would be made to hook up and “harmonize” many, many brains with one another. Same basic feelings, same impulses—shared.
Who would be interested in such a program? Think Chinese government, DARPA (the technology arm of the Pentagon), and numerous other international actors. Think Rockefeller medical researchers. Think technocracy and Brave New World.
SUPPOSE, THROUGH A COVID VACCINE, NANOTECH COULD BE INSERTED INTO BODIES AND BRAINS OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION? As a grand control “experiment.” Is that too far-out an idea?"
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Saturday, May 23, 2020
An Unproven Vaccine Is Too Risky SHARE
Opinion piece by Dr. Tim Lahey, an infectious-disease physician and vaccine researcher. He writes:
"Unproven vaccines have real risks. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was linked to a rare paralytic neurological illness called Guillain-Barré syndrome, arguably fueling vaccine mistrust that persists to this day. One novel H.I.V. trial was stopped early because certain vaccine recipients became more likely to be infected than placebo recipients. In trials of a vaccine against the syncytial respiratory virus, children who received the vaccine experienced enhanced disease that even lead to deaths. In each case, the immune response stimulated by the experimental vaccine was probably more harmful than helpful."
An Unproven Vaccine Is Too Risky SHARE
Opinion piece by Dr. Tim Lahey, an infectious-disease physician and vaccine researcher. He writes:
"Unproven vaccines have real risks. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was linked to a rare paralytic neurological illness called Guillain-Barré syndrome, arguably fueling vaccine mistrust that persists to this day. One novel H.I.V. trial was stopped early because certain vaccine recipients became more likely to be infected than placebo recipients. In trials of a vaccine against the syncytial respiratory virus, children who received the vaccine experienced enhanced disease that even lead to deaths. In each case, the immune response stimulated by the experimental vaccine was probably more harmful than helpful."
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Saturday, May 9, 2020
US Begins To Implement WHO "Contact Tracing" To Forcibly Remove People From Their Homes? SHARE
By Spiro Skouras
"This report is a follow-up to one where I cover how Michael Ryan of the WHO stated in a press briefing how the WHO (which is of course in the pocket of Bill Gates) now believes it is time to start removing people from their homes.
I know many people, especially those of you who are in the US, think that could never happen here … well, those are probably the same people who thought just a couple months ago that it would be impossible to lockdown the entire country because people would never put up with it and because we have rights… right? This is being said even as we are ON lockdown."
Addendum: H.R.6666 - COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act
US Begins To Implement WHO "Contact Tracing" To Forcibly Remove People From Their Homes? SHARE
By Spiro Skouras
"This report is a follow-up to one where I cover how Michael Ryan of the WHO stated in a press briefing how the WHO (which is of course in the pocket of Bill Gates) now believes it is time to start removing people from their homes.
I know many people, especially those of you who are in the US, think that could never happen here … well, those are probably the same people who thought just a couple months ago that it would be impossible to lockdown the entire country because people would never put up with it and because we have rights… right? This is being said even as we are ON lockdown."
Addendum: H.R.6666 - COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
Cuomo Announces Partnership with Bill Gates to "Revolutionize" NY Schools in Wake of Coronavirus SHARE
Op-Ed by Alan MacLeod
"Taking time off from mismanaging a pandemic and turning lifesaving masks sent from all over the country into an art installation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared yesterday that he would use the deadly COVID-19 virus as an opportunity to “revolutionize” the state’s school system, inviting Microsoft founder Bill Gates to implement his controversial ideas about education statewide. Cuomo did not divulge many details of what his imagined education revolution would look like but did mention virtual education and remote learning. However, Gates is best known for one thing in education: charter schools."
Cuomo Announces Partnership with Bill Gates to "Revolutionize" NY Schools in Wake of Coronavirus SHARE
Op-Ed by Alan MacLeod
"Taking time off from mismanaging a pandemic and turning lifesaving masks sent from all over the country into an art installation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared yesterday that he would use the deadly COVID-19 virus as an opportunity to “revolutionize” the state’s school system, inviting Microsoft founder Bill Gates to implement his controversial ideas about education statewide. Cuomo did not divulge many details of what his imagined education revolution would look like but did mention virtual education and remote learning. However, Gates is best known for one thing in education: charter schools."
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The Infection That's Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients SHARE
Important info - one is able to monitor oxygen levels with a pulse oximeter, easily purchased at any pharmacy:
"There is a way we could identify more patients who have Covid pneumonia sooner and treat them more effectively — and it would not require waiting for a coronavirus test at a hospital or doctor’s office. It requires detecting silent hypoxia early through a common medical device that can be purchased without a prescription at most pharmacies: a pulse oximeter."
The Infection That's Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients SHARE
Important info - one is able to monitor oxygen levels with a pulse oximeter, easily purchased at any pharmacy:
"There is a way we could identify more patients who have Covid pneumonia sooner and treat them more effectively — and it would not require waiting for a coronavirus test at a hospital or doctor’s office. It requires detecting silent hypoxia early through a common medical device that can be purchased without a prescription at most pharmacies: a pulse oximeter."
Monday, April 13, 2020
Argument for a 5G - COVID-19 Epidemic Causation Mechanism by Martin Pall, PhD SHARE
Professor Pall writes:
"The predominant cause of death in the COVID-19 epidemic, is pneumonia and each of these five effects also have roles in pneumonia, such that each of them is predicted to greatly increase the percent of people dying death in this epidemic. It seems highly plausible that 5G radiation is greatly increasing the spread of the epidemic and also the death rate in individuals that are infected."
Argument for a 5G - COVID-19 Epidemic Causation Mechanism by Martin Pall, PhD SHARE
Professor Pall writes:
"The predominant cause of death in the COVID-19 epidemic, is pneumonia and each of these five effects also have roles in pneumonia, such that each of them is predicted to greatly increase the percent of people dying death in this epidemic. It seems highly plausible that 5G radiation is greatly increasing the spread of the epidemic and also the death rate in individuals that are infected."
