WORLD NEWS
Canadian Lawmakers Vote Unanimously to Make Anti-Forced Organ Harvesting Bill Law
MPs of all political stripes have unanimously voted in favour of a Senate bill that would create new offences in relation to forced organ harvesting and trafficking abroad—passing it after nearly 15 years of legislative efforts with similar bills.
In the House of Commons on Dec. 14, MPs across party lines cast their vote in support of Bill S-223, an anti-forced organ harvesting legislation introduced by Sen. Salma Ataullahjan last November.
Once the bill receives royal assent and officially becomes an act of Parliament, Canada will join the ranks of countries such as the UK, Italy, Israel, Belgium, Norway, Spain, South Korea, and Taiwan that have passed legislation to combat forced organ harvesting, organ transplant tourism, and organ trafficking.
“This is a critical step towards putting a stop to the global practise of people being killed or exploited for their organs,” Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, the sponsor of the bill in the House, said on Twitter moments after the bill passed.
Australian Cardiologist Calls to Halt mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines, Citing Heart Damage
Melanie Leffler, a mother of two in Sydney, Australia, had four COVID-19 vaccines. But on Nov. 19, 2022, after coming down with a sore throat and a runny nose, Leffler tested positive for COVID. She said goodnight to her family—her husband, Mick Hogan, and their two daughters, Clemmie (age four) and Lottie (9 months).
They would never speak to her again.
South Africa’s Electricity CEO Resigns After Blackouts, Political Abuse
Andre de Ruyter, the chief executive officer of South Africa’s beleaguered state power company, Eskom, resigned Wednesday after he was scapegoated by the ruling African National Congress for ongoing blackouts.
De Ruyter, who is known for turning around failing companies, took the job in 2020 and began trying to save the country’s power generation capacity from further deterioration amid increasing electricity shortages.
Spectre of Blackouts Loom as Cold Weather Threatens German Energy Savings Plan
The spectre of future energy blackouts is once again looming in Germany, with the country’s plan to cut consumption falling significantly short amid cold winter weather.
A cold snap that has hit the north of Europe is now seriously threatening Germany’s energy security, with the country now reportedly falling far short of hitting gas savings targets of 20 per cent needed to avoid rolling blackouts.
China Sends 18 Nuclear-Capable Bombers to Harass Taiwan
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday that, during the previous 24 hours, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China sent 18 Xian H-6 nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) — a record number of bombers in a single day for China’s intimidating flights across the Strait of Taiwan.
The Taiwanese military said the H-6 bombers were accompanied by a Shaanxi Y-8 propeller transport aircraft configured for anti-submarine warfare, another Y-8 configured for reconnaissance, and a Shenyang J-11 air superiority fighter. Three surface warships and eight other military aircraft were detected in the area.
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Bill of Rights Day: a Day of Celebration or of Mourning? by Bob Adelmann December 16, 2011
The Cato Institute’s newspaper ad reminding citizens that December 15th was Bill of Rights Day summarized the desperate shape those first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States is in, thanks to an overweening government and an uninformed citizenry. Reviewing each of the amendments, Cato pointed to specific infringements of each of them, concluding that “It’s a disturbing picture, to be sure, but not one the Framers of the Constitution would have found altogether surprising. They would sometimes refer to written constitutions as mere “parchment barriers” [to totalitarian government].
The erection of the original “parchment barrier,” the Bill of Rights, was initially considered unnecessary because the language of the Constitution explicitly enumerated limited powers to the newly created government and why should further protections against powers not even granted be needed? As “Brutus,” one of the authors of the Anti-Federalist Papers, wrote:
If everything which is not given is reserved, what propriety is there in these exceptions?…With equal truth it may be said, that all the powers which the bills of rights guard against the abuse of, are contained or implied in the general ones granted by this Constitution.
This was the argument which ran aground in the face of opposition by George Mason, the Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Mason demanded an explicit list of a Bill of Rights be added before he would ratify the Constitution. Ratification only succeeded when the states were assured that a Bill of Rights would be added immediately after ratification. Twelve amendments were offered, and ten of them were adopted, with final passage on December 15, 1791. Initially opposed to a Bill of Rights, Thomas Jefferson changed his mind and concluded that “A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
In his memorial of Bill of Rights Day 2011, Richard Schwartzman, editor of Chadds Ford Live, wrote that “The Bill of Rights does not grant any rights to any person. It guarantees the rights that belong to all mankind. The source of those rights may be presumed to be God…Thomas Jefferson cited the “Creator” as the source of those rights. And he referred to them as ‘inalienable’ rights, meaning that they can’t be separated or taken from us.”
But 220 years later, government overreach has effectively neutralized most of those guarantees so carefully crafted by the founders. As Schwartzman noted, “The wars on terror and…drugs have virtually gutted the provisions of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments.” He cites the Supreme Court case of Kelo v. The City of New London (reviewed here) which allowed private property to be taken from an owner and given to another, under “eminent domain.”
Schwartzman points to the passage by overwhelming margins in the House and Senate of the vicious, anti-freedom National Defense Authorization Act, which “would allow the military to pick up U.S. citizens on American streets strictly on suspicion, without charging them with any crime, and then lock them up in places like Guantanamo for an indefinite period of time.” Cato calls such infringements “preventive detention” which deliberately does away with due process, another right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. As Cato noted: “The Republican presidential aspirants seem to have only the smallest concern about any of this dismembering of the Bill of Rights…”
John Whitehead, writing for the Rutherford Institute, expressed his discouragement: “The First Amendment is supposed to protect the freedom to speak your mind … but students are often stripped of their rights for such things as wearing a t-shirt that school officials find offensive.” Four high school athletes were recently suspended for “Tebowing” in the halls of Riverhead High School on Long Island. Peace activists exercising their rights peaceably to assemble are arrested and investigated by the FBI, journalists are threatened with jail time for reporting on government misbehavior and not revealing their sources. The list goes on.
It’s Bill of Rights Day. Do you know where your freedoms are? By John W. Whitehead
We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to protect the people against government tyranny, is still our governing document, but the reality of life in the American police state tells a different story.
Here is what the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, really stands for today:
- First Amendment: You can be persecuted for criticizing the government; prosecuted for reporting on government wrongdoing; fined and jailed for exercising your religious beliefs; tear-gassed, beaten and arrested for protesting in public; and stymied in your efforts to hold the government accountable to the rule of law.
- Second Amendment: Owning a gun can get you put on a government watch list.
- Third Amendment: Militarized police now serve as a standing army on American soil.
- Fourth Amendment: Has been all but eviscerated by an unwarranted expansion of police powers, the outsourcing of otherwise illegal activities to private contractors, asset forfeiture schemes, and technological advances that allow the government to spy on Americans’ activities, movements and communications.
- The Fifth and Sixth Amendments: If the government can arbitrarily freeze, seize or lay claim to your property (money, land or possessions) under government asset forfeiture schemes, you have no true rights.
- Seventh Amendment: Juries ignorant of the Constitution provide little protection against injustice.
- Eighth Amendment: The government’s bar for “cruel and unusual” punishment slips lower every year.
- Ninth Amendment: The power to govern no longer flows upward from the people.
- Tenth Amendment: A system of government in which power is divided among local, state and national entities has long since been rendered moot by the centralized Washington, DC, power elite.
Clearly, the government does whatever it wants, with no thought for our freedoms.
Father of The Bill of Rights By Paul Engel
We know the Constitution has a Bill of Rights. But do you know the man most responsible for that document?
After writing about the Virginia Bill of Rights, I wanted to learn more about the man who brought us that document.
Learning about the struggles George Mason went through to give us that document, I see he has earned the title Father of the Bill of Rights.
El Paso to get $6 million in advanced federal funding for migrant response
The city is expected to receive $6 million from FEMA to address the migrant surge the borderland is experiencing.
The finds will come from FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program – the funds were approved Tuesday and are expected to become available to the city in coming days.
The funding comes at the heels of the visit from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the border on Tuesday.
El Paso has seen a dramatic rise in migrants crossing the border starting Sunday, and with Title 42 scheduled to be lifted next week local leaders worry that the surge of migrants could get worse and that the city may not have enough funds to address the problem.
According to the city, FEMA has identified $3.8 million for partial reimbursement of the city’s request for its third-quarter expenses of $5.13 million.
DHS Says It Will Close Gaps Along Southwest Border Wall as End of Title 42 Looms
Nearly two years after newly elected President Joe Biden ordered a halt to construction on the project, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Dec. 13 that it will work to close gaps along the southwest border of the wall between the United States and Mexico.
Biden’s 2020 campaign promise was that he would not build “one more foot” of the border wall, which was one of former president Donald Trump’s most prominent objectives.
The Biden administration is confronted with finding solutions to address the end of Title 42, which is set to expire on Dec. 21. DHS has said that could lead to an estimated 9,000 to 14,000 illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico into the United States every day.
Created as part of the Public Health Service Act under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Title 42 was designed to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases in the United States.
Arizona Senator Files Lawsuit, Seeks to ‘Nullify the Results’ of Maricopa County’s Election
An Arizona state senator and several voters in Mohave County filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State and Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County officials over the Nov. 8 midterm elections, drawing a rebuke from a Maricopa supervisor.
Backed by the Mohave Republican Party, the lawsuit was filed by Borrelli in the Mohave County Superior Court against, Hobbs, a Democrat who is the top election official in Arizona, as well as Maricopa Recorder Stephen Richer, Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates, and other members of the board.
His lawsuit aims to “nullify the results” of the Nov. 8 gubernatorial election in Maricopa County, echoing similar legal challenge filed last week by GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
“Because of multiple systemic failures in the conduct of the election in Maricopa County, Arizona … the voting strength of residents in Mohave County, Arizona, was diluted and their constitutional rights were violated,” the suit said, in part.
Other than Borrelli, several unnamed Mohave County voters joined the lawsuit. The suit listed “Jane and John Doe, et al” as plaintiffs alongside the state senator.
After closing arguments in a week-long trial, a jury found a Jan. 6 prisoner guilty on six charges related to possession of unregistered firearms, grenades, and a classified document.
After deliberating for just over five and a half hours, a jury found Jeremy Brown of Tampa, Florida, guilty of six of 10 charges in an indictment (pdf) related to items seized in his recreational vehicle and residence during the execution of a search warrant (pdf) as part of an ongoing investigation into his connection to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.
Presiding over the Dec. 12 trial at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida was District Judge Susan Bucklew.
US to Pay Pfizer $2 Billion for 3.7 Million More Courses of PaxlovidThe United States has struck a deal with Pfizer to pay the pharmaceutical giant almost $2 billion for 3.7 million more courses of Paxlovid.
“The additional 3.7 million treatment courses are planned for delivery by early 2023,” the company announced.
The Defense Department announced on Dec. 13 that Pfizer was awarded a $1,959,999,848 contract for Paxlovid. “Work will be performed in New York, New York, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2028,” according to the Pentagon.
“Fiscal 2021 Coronavirus Preparedness Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act funds in the amount of $1,959,999,848 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity,” the announcement reads.
Man Allegedly Attacks Armed Driver at McDonald’s, Gets Shot Dead
Thirty-six-year-old Brandon Turner was shot and killed Sunday about 8:30 p.m. in Port John, Florida, after he allegedly attacked an armed driver in a McDonald’s parking lot.
Turner allegedly walked up the driver, as he sat in his car eating, and began attacking him, FOX News reported.
Iowa Parents Accused of Drowning Newborn Daughter in Bathtub Moments After Birth
An Iowa father and mother are accused of drowning their newborn daughter in the bathtub moments after the child was born.
Brandon Thoma, 31, and Taylor Blaha, 24, were charged on December 7 with first-degree murder, according to the Fort Dodge Police Department. Thoma is also facing an abuse of corpse charge.
Parents Push Back as Liberal Foundations Fund Woke Education Programs
Parent organizations are pushing back after learning that Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and others were bankrolling woke education programs.
Over two dozen groups of parents are requesting that five different organizations stop funding social emotional learning (SEL) and race-based education programs in public schools, a report from Fox News explains.
Ohio Man Charged With Leaving Threatening Voicemails for Arizona Election Official
A 44-year-old man was charged on Wednesday for allegedly leaving threatening voicemails for an unnamed election official with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office in August.
Joshua Russell of Bucyrus, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Phoenix, Ariz., and charged with three counts of making a threatening interstate communication and three counts of making a threatening interstate telephone call.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), on or around Aug. 2, Russell allegedly left a voicemail with the secretary of state’s office saying: “This message is for traitor [Victim-1’s full name]. You’ve drug your feet, you’ve done nothing, to protect our election for 2020. You’re committing election fraud, you’re starting to do it again, from day one. You’re the enemy of the United States, you’re a traitor to this country, and you better put your sh[inaudible], your [expletive] affairs in order, ’cause your days [inaudible] are extremely numbered. America’s coming for you, and you will pay with your life, you communist [expletive] traitor [expletive].”
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
In FTX hearing, ‘The OC’ actor Schenkkan rips cryptocurrency as ‘largest Ponzi scheme in history’
Author and actor Ben McKenzie Schenkkan says at FTX hearing, cryptocurrency investors ‘have been lied to in ways both big and small’
Committee members are probing how cryptocurrency should be regulated in the wake of crypto exchange FTX’s bankruptcy and the criminal charges filed against its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. Schenkkan compared Bankman-Fried to infamous financial fraudster Bernie Madoff, noting that Madoff ripped off about 37,000 clients. FTX claimed a customer base that is 32 times larger in the U.S. alone, he said.
“According to FTX, some 1.2 million retail traders, a.k.a. regular folks, and five million worldwide, have lost access to the money they entrusted to FTX. It is unclear when, if ever, they will get any of that money back,” Schenkkan said.
Referring to FTX customers as “investors,” he said the estimated 40 million Americans who have invested in cryptocurrency “have been sold a bill of goods.”
“They have been lied to in ways both big and small, by a once seemingly mighty crypto industry whose entire existence in fact depends on misinformation, hype, and yes, fraud,” Schenkkan asserted.
“Cryptocurrencies are not currencies by any reasonable economic definition,” he continued. “Even anyone with even an undergraduate degree in economics such as myself can tell you that money serves three functions. Medium of change, unit of account and store value. Cryptocurrencies cannot do any of the three well, and they have no hope of ever doing so.”
The actor told lawmakers that digital currency assets are more akin to investment securities and disputed their value as such. He said crypto adds “no overall value to our economy or any other” and compared buying and selling digital coins to gambling.
Fed Raises Interest Rates by 0.5 Percentage Point to 15-Year High
Federal Reserve policymakers voted on Dec. 14 to raise the benchmark federal funds rate by 50 basis points to a target range of 4.25–4.5 percent, the highest level since late 2007.
The Fed’s policy-making arm, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), has boosted interest rates seven times since March, totaling 425 basis points.
During a post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said there’s still a long way to go in the fight against inflation. Most officials now anticipate raising rates above 5 percent next year, which is higher than previously projected.
“I wouldn’t see us considering rate cuts until the committee is confident that inflation is moving down to 2 percent in a sustained way,” Powell said.
In order to establish the pace of rate hikes, the central bank will look at cumulative tightening, economic and financial developments, and policy lags.
“Recent indicators point to modest growth in spending and production. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated, reflecting supply and demand imbalances related to the pandemic, higher food and energy prices, and broader price pressures,” the FOMC said in a statement.
“Russia’s war against Ukraine is causing tremendous human and economic hardship. The war and related events are contributing to upward pressure on inflation and are weighing on global economic activity. The committee is highly attentive to inflation risks.”
New Poll: 87% of Americans Worry about the Cost of Housing, 76% Say Now Is a Bad Time to Buy a Home
69% worry their kids and grandkids won’t be able to afford a home, 64% would support building more homes if it helped making housing more affordable
The Cato 2022 Housing Affordability Survey, a new national poll of 2,000 U.S. adults, finds that 87% of Americans are concerned about the cost of housing. With housing prices up more than 40% nationally since 2019 and interest rates on the rise, it’s no surprise that 76% of Americans say that now is a bad time to buy a house. Moreover, more than two‐thirds (69%) worry their children and grandchildren won’t be able to afford a home. For most Americans, it seems like a dream that is slipping out of reach.
Retail Sales Declined Sharply in November
High inflation and anxiety over a looming recession may have weighed down holiday spending in November.
The Commerce Department said retail sales fell by a sharp 0.6 percent in November, following a surge of 1.3 percent in October. The numbers are seasonally adjusted but not adjusted for price changes. On Tuesday, the Department of Labor said consumer prices were up 0.1 percent for the month.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jim Jordan Demands Big Tech Documents About Censorship
Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to big tech companies demanding documents relating to their censorship practices.
Jordan wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Alphabeth CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:
Big Tech is out to get conservatives, and is increasingly willing to undermine First Amendment values by complying with the Biden Administration’s directives that suppress freedom of speech online. This approach undermines fundamental American principles and allows powerful government actors to silence political opponents and stifle opposing viewpoints. Publicly available information suggests that your companies’ treatment of certain speakers and content may stem from government directives or guidance designed to suppress dissenting views. Therefore, we write to request more information about the nature and extent of your companies’ collusion with the Biden Administration.
Big Tech’s role in shaping national and international public discourse today is well-known. In some cases, Big Tech’s “heavy-handed censorship” has been “use[d] to silence prominent voices” and to “stifle views that disagree with the prevailing progressive consensus.”
Because of Big Tech’s wide reach, it can serve as a powerful and effective partisan arm of the “woke speech police.” Although the full extent of Big Tech’s collusion with the Biden Administration is unknown, there are prominent examples and strong indications of Big Tech censorship following directives or pressure from executive branch entities. These examples raise serious concerns about how and why tech companies suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers. The collusion of Big Tech and Big Government to advance censorship undeniably undermines liberty and jeopardizes our country’s First Amendment values and protections.
SURVEILLANCE STATE
Twitter Suspends Accounts Tracking Private Jets, Changes Doxxing Policy Over ‘Risk of Physical Harm’
Twitter has suspended multiple accounts that tracked the movements of private planes—including those belonging to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—and announced changes to its doxxing policy, prohibiting sharing of real-time location information or linking to external sources that share such data, citing a “risk of physical harm.”
Twitter Safety said in a series of posts on Dec. 15 that the social media platform had updated its Private Information policy that bans sharing someone else’s live location “in most cases.”
“When someone shares an individual’s live location on Twitter, there is an increased risk of physical harm. Moving forward, we’ll remove Tweets that share this information, and accounts dedicated to sharing someone else’s live location will be suspended,” the Twitter Safety account stated.
Users will still be able to share their own live location on Twitter, and content that shares live location information pertaining to public events or engagements, such as concerts, will also be allowed.
“Tweets that share someone else’s historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy,” Twitter Safety said.
In line with the new policy, Twitter has suspended the jet tracking accounts of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk.
HEALTH
Fermented Foods and Fiber Can Help Reduce Your Stress
Because your gut and brain communicate via your gut-brain axis, altering microbes in your gut can influence your mood and mental health
Eating a psychobiotic diet, which is high in prebiotic and fermented foods, led to a reduction in perceived stress after four weeks
Those who followed the psychobiotic diet the most had the greatest decreases in stress
The psychobiotic diet included fruits and vegetables high in prebiotic fiber, including onions, leeks, cabbage, apples and bananas, along with fermented foods, such as sauerkraut and kefir
Fermented foods include kefir, natto, kimchi, miso, tempeh, pickles, sauerkraut, olives and other fermented vegetables, but you’ll need to purchase raw varieties or make them yourself to gain optimal health benefits
This Colorful Spice Can Help Treat Anxiety and Depression
The spice saffron may benefit health conditions like depression, memory loss, anxiety, premenstrual syndrome, spatial learning impairment due to chronic-induced stress and liver cancer
Studies indicate that saffron’s active components have anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory and antitumor effects and serve as radical scavengers
In studies with both major depressive disorder and mild to moderate depression, saffron was as effective as antidepressants
Like antidepressants, saffron is thought to inhibit dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake
Saffron has fewer adverse effects than antidepressants, even in the elderly and those with coronary artery disease
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
GOP Sen. Kennedy: Elon Musk Has ‘Got Oranges the Size of Beach Balls’
Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) praised new Twitter head Elon Musk for taking on his political foes and exposing the perceived bias rampant among those who run Big Tech platforms.
The Louisiana Republican senator admitted his admiration for Musk and praised his fortitude in the wake of his skirmish with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whose documentary on climate change appears to have bombed.
“The movie about Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, Sean, makes me appreciate Elon Musk that much more,” he said. “And here’s what I mean by that. The people who have made the congresswoman’s movie, she had another one before that was on Netflix, a part of what I call the media entertainment industrial complex. They’re not only entertainers. I’m including many digital newspapers, many paper newspapers, many mainstream television networks, these are folks who only present to the American people one point of view, and that’s the point of view of Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.”
“Many of the congresswoman supporters don’t like America,” Kennedy continued. “They think America was wicked when it was founded. It’s even more wicked today. They think the American people or at least millions of them, are racist and misogynistic and ignorant. Many of these supporters of the congresswoman assign people to a status. They don’t see us as individuals. The all-white people, for example, they think are racist. All Black people they think are victims. All women are powerless. They don’t see us as individuals. That’s why I appreciate what Elon Musk has done so much. He’s taken a very courageous stand for the First Amendment.”
“The man — they’re beating on him like he stole Christmas, but he’s tough. He’s tough as a pine nut, and the man’s got guts. He’s got — he’s got oranges the size of beach balls, and thanks — thanks to Elon Musk. Thanks to Elon Musk. We’re going to have to get some new conspiracy theories because the old ones turned out all to be true. They told us — they told us that they weren’t censoring on Twitter, and it was all a conspiracy theory. Well, Elon Musk has demonstrated otherwise, and I just said give a tip of the hat to him.”
GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING
7th Grader Works on Family Farm 7 Days a Week, Supplies Fresh Produce to Town: ‘I Love Farming’
The transformation of a tiny seed into a tree still amazes this 12-year-old farmer who works hard after school to provide fresh produce to his community. His passion for farming started very early in childhood, and his optimistic approach to life makes him a joy to be around.
Meet Brayden Nadeau, the seventh grader who loves tending to plants on his grandparents’ 28-acre farm in Minot, Maine. In an interview with The Epoch Times, the young producer recalled the days when he’d sit on his grandfather’s lap and ride his tractor.
COVID RELATED NEWS
Is Immunity Debt Real, or Should You Keep Kids in a Bubble?
Children who aren’t exposed to germs on a regular basis have different microbiomes than those who are. The microbiome, in turn, plays a decisive role in how well one’s immune system works
Exposure to nonpathogenic microorganisms helps prevent immune-mediated chronic disorders, as they act as immunomodulatory signaling agents. They basically train your immune system to function normally and not react excessively or unnecessarily
There’s also evidence suggesting that certain childhood infections may reduce your risk of certain chronic illnesses. Measles infection, for example, could potentially lower your risk of cancer in the future
In August 2021, a French group of pediatric infectious disease experts warned that “immunity debt” caused by a lack of exposure to common viruses and bacteria during COVID lockdowns and school closures may predispose children to suffer more infections in the future
The potential benefits of natural infections have fallen by the wayside as the single-minded focus on vaccination has taken over. We now see the medical industry trying to erase knowledge about the lifelong benefits associated with infections, especially childhood infections
mRNA Behind the Reoccurrence of COVID-19 Symptoms in Fully Vaccinated Individuals?
One of the curious findings from the original randomized trials of mRNA vaccines was an explosive rate of early infection after the first injection as compared with placebo.
In a recent paper from Sfera et al, the description of pathological syncytia or fusion between immune cells is described: “The LNP technology, to put it simply, mimics viral envelopes with externalized phosphatidylserine (ePS), a universal “eat me” signal, that directs immune cells to engulf the particle.
Researchers Decry Censorship in COVID Policy During Meeting With Gov. DeSantis
Michelle Utter, a health care worker and single mother of grown sons who are active-duty military, said she was in great physical shape—running, working out, and martial arts—until she took the Pfizer vaccine for COVID.
Utter described the ordeal she’s been through for the last two years—physically, trying to do her job and facing resistance and silencing from the Florida hospital that employs her. She’s not allowed to say, “vaccine injury.” She’s been on IV infusions for 17 months.
Another vaccine victim, Steven Ordonia, a retired law enforcement officer and military veteran, talked about his ordeal, which began when he received the Pfizer booster shot in December 2021.
“And from that day on, my life has been turned upside down,” with numerous trips to the emergency room, joint pain, muscle twitching, and convulsions.
“I was convinced at the time I was having a mental breakdown, and that’s what was causing all the symptoms. I contemplated suicide several times.”
As a reminder to all that public health policy has real consequences, the two spoke at a round table on Dec. 13 led by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
CANCEL CULTURE
Facebook REVERSES Link Ban After Filing of TEXIT’s Class Action Lawsuit
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has reversed its censorship of TEXIT after the Texas Nationalist Movement filed a class action lawsuit under Texas’ new anti-censorship legislation.
The lawsuit, which according to legal scholars, had “tech lawyers running scared” was filed in State District Court in Jefferson County. Meta’s attorneys have recently requested that the suit be moved from state court to federal court.
Shortly after the request for removal, Meta’s attorneys called the TNM’s attorney, Paul Davis, and let him know that Meta has removed the ban on TEXIT (texitnow.org) links from being posted on Facebook.
TNM had filed the lawsuit following Facebook’s repeated censorship of posts from TEXIT supporters containing links to TNM’s website, claiming it violated community standards.
“They clearly know that what they were doing was not only wrong but also a violation of Texas law,” explained TNM President Daniel Miller. “We look forward to receiving a settlement from Meta for our attorney’s fees, and we look forward to a public apology.”
“Tech giants like Facebook claim to care about ‘protecting democracy’ but when they censor online discussions about TEXIT, it actually endangers the very thing they claim to protect by engaging in clear viewpoint discrimination,” Miller continued. “Censorship by tech oligarchs will not be tolerated here in Texas — it’s against the law.”
Founder and Creator of BitChute Has Bank Account Frozen in Blatant Act of Theft and Censorship
BitChute was created out of a need for free-speech absolutism during a time when YouTube was busy working on tweaking their algorithms to shadow ban voices with whom they disagree.
Big tech has now taken this battle to another level by freezing the funds of the BitChute bank account in yet another attempt to silence voices they don’t like!
In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth interviews Ray Vahey, the founder and chief executive of BitChute, about his bank account being frozen, why free-speech absolutism is important and most importantly where he sees things going for BitChute into 2023.
GOOD NEWS
‘I Heard My Baby Sucked Out’: Teen Tormented After Being Forced to Get Abortion Finds Healing in JesusA self-described daddy’s girl, Serena Dye wasn’t allowed to have boyfriends when she was 15 and still in high school.When she missed her period and tried to hide her pregnancy from her parents, her best friend’s mom let it slip, and her father flew into an uncontrollable rage.
Now 38 and a mother of five, Dye is the regional executive director of a pro-life pregnancy center in Illinois, where she grew up. She believes that had the abortionist she was taken to as a scared teen brought her parents back to see the ultrasound, and the truth that was growing inside her, they wouldn’t carry such awful remorse today.
Their being of Indian descent had something to do with her dad’s reaction, Dye believes. She described a “very scary conversation” after her parents learned the news.
“He started yelling and telling me, ‘You’re going to have an abortion right away,’” she told The Epoch Times. “At first, my mom was resistant to that and she told me that she would help me and that that wouldn’t happen. But my dad continued with his outrageous behavior, just very angry, for a week of nonstop yelling.”
She recalled her dad telling her mom he would divorce her if Dye didn’t go through with the abortion.
“He was our main source of income. We lived in a very nice lifestyle,” Dye said. “And so my mom, after a week of this pressure, came to me and begged me to have the abortion.”
Dye said she tried to remain strong in resisting them until he eventually threatened to get a gun and end his own life.
“I felt very numb because of all the abuse coming toward me and all the pressure,” she said. “I gave in and decided to go through with the abortion. I didn’t even feel like myself anymore. I just felt no emotion at all.”
Looking back, she sees the cultural roots being a factor in this; you could be killed in certain villages if something like that were to happen, she said.
“We went to the Planned Parenthood of Iowa City and when I walked into the waiting area it was very dark, very dingy, very not clean,” she said. “There were several women in the waiting room and I just remember looking around and seeing all of them. And they were all having their heads down and I just began to cry.”
She cried so hard that her mom asked to have her taken back into the room ahead of her turn. When the nurse spoke to her, Dye admitted she didn’t want to go through with it. The nurse then said they couldn’t move forward unless she was consenting, so the family was sent away.
Dye’s dad hollered at her the whole car ride home, she said. That was followed by another week of him “yelling and screaming,” before she gave in a second time.
This time, the abortionist, at a different clinic, had her sign the papers first, as Dye’s parents informed them what happened the time before. She described the procedure:
I was taken back to the abortion room. And I had two women with me, workers, there and they strapped me to the bed. And they each held my hand and the abortion doctor came in, and he didn’t look at me or speak to me at all. He talked to the nurses, and he inserted the abortion instruments into my body and turned on the machine, and my stomach started pumping up and down like a balloon with air.
It was very painful. I was crying. And I heard when my baby was sucked out of my body, I heard the noise. And I heard when it went into the canister of the vacuum machine. And then he turned it off, and he left.
After the abortion, Dye and her dad’s relationship got back on track, though he would later express regret for what he had done, as did her mom. Dye’s forgiving them would come with time, after she found her faith. Forgiving herself would take a far more painful process. When a member of her church decided to write a book of abortion experience accounts, they contacted Dye and managed to draw out some of her undealt-with raw injuries.
“I would end up on the floor in the fetal position and in so much pain, emotional pain, as I relived those moments and talked about these things,” Dye said. “But talking about them was the best thing that I ever did because it put everything in the light that was hiding deep down inside my heart.”
Thus, her healing began.
A lot of prayer followed, she said. The only reason she can talk about her story now is that she had her post-abortive healing, and was “set free by Jesus.” At the age of 21, she accepted her Lord and Savior.
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