WORLD NEWS
Dutch Farmers Rebel: UN’s 2030 Agenda Is Behind Draconian AG Shutdown
State control over food production and distribution facilitates deep control over people, Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek said while discussing the Dutch farmers’ protests in an interview aired on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.
Dutch farmers are protesting the government’s attempts to restrict their operations as part of its “climate change” agenda.
Vlaardingerbroek explained the Dutch government’s pretexts for restricting Dutch farmers’ animal husbandry.
“Our government is following a climate agenda — the 2030 Agenda, more broadly speaking — and they’re saying that the Netherlands has nitrogen and ammonia emissions that are too high, threatening the climate [and] local nature, and that they need to be cut down.”
She continued, “For some reason, they’re not coming after the airlines. They’re not coming after any other industry that actually is a contributor in these emissions, apart from the Dutch farmers.”
UN 2030 Agenda’s Lust For Control Is Behind Global Energy Shortages
The European Commission on Wednesday asserted “there is no reason to believe this pattern will change” regarding diminishing Russian natural gas flows ahead of winter, issuing a new sweeping plan in a press communique that calls on member states to immediately and ‘voluntarily’ slash gas consumption.
It proposes a significant cut in gas consumption by 15% over the next eight months, and will require drastic action across industries, power producers and even citizens in their households, according to Bloomberg.
The EU executive noted that initial cuts would be voluntary cuts; however, in an unprecedented proposal the Commission has requested that in the scenario of an EU-wide alert “when there is a substantial risk of a severe gas shortage or an exceptionally high demand of gas occurs, which results in a significant deterioration of the gas supply situation” – that it possess the power to impose mandatory reductions.
The “Save gas for a safe winter” communique is introduced by blaming and condemning the Kremlin’s “weaponisization of gas exports”, per the document:
The European Union faces the risk of further gas supply cuts from Russia, due to the Kremlin’s weaponisation of gas exports, with almost half of our Member States already affected by reduced deliveries. Taking action now can reduce both the risk and the costs for Europe in case of further or full disruption, strengthening European energy resilience.
The Commission is therefore proposing today a new legislative tool and a European Gas Demand Reduction Plan, to reduce gas use in Europe by 15% until next spring. All consumers, public administrations, households, owners of public buildings, power suppliers and industry can and should take measures to save gas. The Commission will also accelerate work on supply diversification, including joint purchasing of gas to strengthen the EU’s possibility of sourcing alternative gas deliveries.
As for the proposed “right” to declare a union-wide alert which would trigger mandatory powers exercised by the European executive, this language is contained in the following section:
The Commission is proposing a new Council Regulation on Coordinated Demand Reduction Measures for Gas, based on Article 122 of the Treaty. The new Regulation would set a target for all Member States to reduce gas demand by 15% between 1 August 2022 and 31 March 2023. The new Regulation would also give the Commission the possibility to declare, after consulting Member States, a ‘Union Alert’ on security of supply, imposing a mandatory gas demand reduction on all Member States.
The Union Alert can be triggered when there is a substantial risk of a severe gas shortage or an exceptionally high gas demand. Member States should update their national emergency plans by the end of September to show how they intend to meet the reduction target, and should report to the Commission on progress every two months. Member States requesting solidarity gas supplies will be required to demonstrate the measures they have taken to reduce demand domestically.
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Republican Mayra Flores Accuses Democrat Opponent of Paying Blogger for Racist Posts
Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores responded to racial stereotypes and crude language used to describe her by a South Texas blogger paid with campaign money from Congressman Vicente Gonzales, her Democratic opponent in the Texas District 34 midterm election.
In a Twitter post on Monday, Flores accused the Gonzales campaign of paying for a blogger to “run hateful and racist ads” against her. The posts that appeared in the McHale Report blog referred to her as “Miss Frijoles,” “Miss Menudo,” “Miss Enchiladas,” and a “cotton-pickin’ liar.”
“I am disgusted that Vicente Gonzalez has hired a creepy blogger to attack my Mexican heritage and sexually degrade me, but I won’t let this distract me from my work,” she told The Epoch Times via text. “Vicente Gonzalez is an example of everything that’s wrong with Washington. It’s truly sick,” she said.
Biden’s cancer claim shocks Twitter users: Either ‘biggest bombshell’ or ‘biggest gaffe’
A clip of President Biden on Wednesday appearing to claim in a speech that he has cancer sparked alarm on Twitter.
Biden was visiting a former coal power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, to discuss new executive orders to fight climate change.
While discussing the harm caused by emissions from oil refineries, Biden referenced his childhood home in Delaware and said that he and many other people he grew up with now “have” cancer.
“My mother drove us rather than us being able to walk and guess what? The first frost, you know what was happening? You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” Biden said.
Various Twitter users immediately jumped on the clip wondering whether the comment was another gaffe or a bombshell admission.
“Cancer? This is either the biggest bombshell in presidential history or the biggest gaffe,” RealClearPolitics founder Tom Bevan tweeted.
Independent Women’s Forum senior fellow Beverly Hallberg wrote, “Pro Tip: Don’t say you have cancer when you don’t.”
Conservative writer Chad Felix Greene tweeted, “From the people who hyperventilated over demanding Trump told people to inject themselves with bleach, they sure are trying hard to avoid, ‘I and so many people my age have cancer because of windshield wipers cleaning oil off my car.'”
Washington Times columnist Tim Young joked, “Maybe Joe Biden meant to say that he, himself is a cancer to America.”
Pennsylvania Lawmaker Issues Report Detailing ‘Myriad of Election Issues’
More than two months after Pennsylvania’s May 17 primary election, the Department of State still has not certified the election results. It’s an administrative failure that undermines confidence in the state’s election system, according to Republican state Rep. Seth Grove, chairman of the State Government Committee.
That is one of numerous examples Grove described at the state capital building in Harrisburg during a July 19 press conference in which he released a 186-page report (pdf) with the long title, “Election Reform in Pennsylvania: Missed Opportunities and Continued Chaos-an Interim Report on The Status of Elections in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania After the Veto of House Bill 1300.”
Grove is still advocating for something like HB 1300, which Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed in June 2021. It was a package of election reforms that called for voter identification and provided for early in-person voting; moved the voter registration deadline back from 15 days to 30 days before the election; established a state bureau of election audits; allowed for pre-canvassing of mailed ballots; and would have made it easier for older and disabled voters by moving them to the front of the line or providing curbside voting so they could remain in their car.
The bill also introduced stiffer fines and longer possible prison terms for election tampering.
Brick by Brick, Courts Build a Roadblock Against Biden’s Administrative State
As the Biden administration reels from a string of recent legal defeats, political analysts hail the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling, West Virginia v. EPA, as but one component of a new, broad-based approach that the courts are taking to halt a century-long effort by progressives to empower the administrative state and rule Americans by bureaucratic decree.
Dating back to President Woodrow Wilson 100 years ago, progressive presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, have worked to transfer law-making authority from Congress to their executive agencies. Wilson, the father of modern-day progressives, believed the Constitution, with its separation of powers, was an outdated document and that professional bureaucrats were superior at decision-making, compared to the time-consuming and compromise-ridden process of passing laws through elected representatives.
Wilson wrote in the 1887 article “The Study of Administration” that “the many, the people, who are sovereign [under the Constitution] have no single ear which one can approach, and are selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn or foolish.”
“The greatest revolution since the Constitution in many ways has been this movement away from legislatures into agencies,” Matthew Spalding, Dean of Hillsdale College’s Graduate School of Government, told The Epoch Times. “The crisis here is the movement away from consent,” as Americans increasingly lose their right to have a voice in setting the laws and regulations that control their lives.
In 1984, for example, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that came to be known as the Chevron Doctrine, ruling that federal agencies had the authority to decide the scope of their power in situations where congressional authorization was ambiguous. Since this ruling, Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council, the courts have sided with federal agencies in cases where the authority of agencies was challenged.
Now, for the first time in a century, a series of rulings from federal courts have put up a roadblock to halt administrative encroachment. Two factors have brought about this change. First, the appointment by the Trump administration of 234 federal judges, including three Supreme Court justices. And second, the Biden administration’s unusually brazen attempts to push federal agencies well beyond their legal authority in order to impose a left-wing agenda on the United States without popular consent.
Brick by Brick, Courts Build a Roadblock Against Biden’s Administrative State
A prosecution witness in the case against former White House aide Steve Bannon acknowledged on the stand on July 20 that she has known one of the prosecutors for some time.
The witness, Kristen Amerling, said she and one of the prosecutors “overlapped” on the House Oversight Committee while it was under the leadership of former Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).
Amerling said she’s also been part of a book club for five years of which the prosecutor, Molly Gaston, is a member.
The club primarily comprises former aides to Waxman, she said.
Gaston did not respond to a request for comment.
Amerling said that neither of the women has attended the club at the same time in a long time.
Amerling is a lawyer working for the House of Representatives special committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. She has donated to Democrats before.
Earlier in the day, Amerling said that one of the sources of the claims presented in a letter to Bannon—who worked for the White House in the early days of the Trump administration—was a book by reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa called “Peril.” It is depicted as a nonfiction account of the transition from former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden.
“Do you read nonfiction in your book club?” asked Evan Corcoran, one of Bannon’s lawyers.
The club “generally reads fiction,” Amerling said, noting she has not participated in more than a year. “I don’t even know what they are reading now.”
After an objection was overruled, Corcoran asked if the club ever discusses “the political topics of the day.”
Members discuss “a whole range of topics,” Amerling said. “Given the careers of the folks involved in the book club, it is not unusual that we talk about politics one way or another.”
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Billionaire CEO Warns About Food Prices, Shortages, Expects Peak Prices in September
As fuel prices remain high and the U.S. annual inflation rate reached its highest level in decades, a billionaire CEO warned that Americans should be more concerned with rising food prices.
In an interview with Fox Business, United Refining Company and Gristedes CEO John Catsimatidis uttered similar worries as BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who recently cautioned that the dramatic spikes in oil and mineral prices have distracted investors from the increase in food prices.
“You need optimism from the White House point of view to the American people, because everything that’s been done lately has hurt the American people and helped the rest of the world,” Catsimatidis told the network. “There is a problem in food prices that could happen as interest rates go up, as there will be shortages of certain products.”
Although the average price of gas in the United States has dropped since hitting a record high on June 14, Catsimatidis notified the worst part of inflation is yet to come.
“Food prices will peak out. We’ll reach peak prices in September, because there’s a lag between oil and food prices as they go up,” the businessman explained. “There’s always a maybe 90-day lag in food, a 30-day lag in prices at the gas station from crude oil.”
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Florida Jury Awards $10.5M in Case of Teens Killed in Horrific Tesla Fireball
A Florida jury has awarded the families of two teens killed in a fiery Tesla crash $10.5 million. The lawsuit claimed that the teens survived the car crash but were killed when the Tesla’s batteries caught on fire. The father of one teen also claimed Elon Musk’s company removed a speed limiter from the car without his permission.
NBC News reports that a federal jury in Florida has found Tesla partially negligent in a 2018 crash that killed two teens and also found one of the teens 90 percent responsible for his role in the collision.
HEALTH
Could Fixing Your Gut Health Help Treat Your Depression?
For the first time, a randomized controlled trial demonstrated that high-dose probiotic supplementation is beneficial for people with depression
An improvement in mood was noted among all of the patients, but those in the probiotic group had significantly greater improvements, along with an increased abundance of beneficial Lactobacillus in their gut
An increase in grey matter volume was also noted in the people taking probiotics, along with changes in brain activity
Targeting the microbiota-gut-brain (MGB) axis, which plays a role in the physiological and behavioral functions that are often affected in depression, may be key to improving depression
Artificially Sweetened Drinks Can Lead to an Early Grave
In a study analyzing data from 451,743 people from 10 countries over 20 years, researchers found that those who drank artificially sweetened drinks suffered a higher all-cause mortality — specifically from circulatory disease — while those drinking sugar-sweetened drinks had a higher risk of death from digestive disease
These associations remained constant, even when the researchers removed confounding factors such as higher body mass index, smoking and other mortality risks
One of the most commonly used artificial sweeteners is aspartame, which is associated with increased risk of obesity, as it appears to encourage sugar cravings and does not activate the brain’s reward pathway in the same way natural sweeteners do. Research also links aspartame with neurobehavioral symptoms such as insomnia, depression, headaches and seizures
Alterations in gut bacteria by artificial sweeteners may contribute to weight gain and insulin resistance. The American Beverage Association is pushing back as the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Heart Association call for federal and state policy changes to protect children and adolescents from marketing targeted at them
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Biden Says ‘Climate Change Is an Emergency,’ Stops Short of Formal Declaration
President Joe Biden on July 20 stated that “climate change is an emergency,” leaving open the possibility of additional executive actions aimed at mitigating climate-related issues after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) ended negotiations on climate and energy programs advocated by other Democrats.
“Climate change is an emergency and, in the coming weeks, I’m going to use the power I have as president to turn these words into formal official government actions through the appropriate proclamations, executive orders, and regulatory power that the president possesses,” Biden said during a brief speech that he delivered at Brayton Point Power Station, a former coal-fired power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts.
The president announced the opening of offshore areas in the Gulf of Mexico to wind power.
“These areas cover 700,000 acres and have the potential to power over 3 million homes,” an accompanying White House fact sheet read.
In addition, Biden noted that he would allocate $2.3 billion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, for what he described as infrastructure to withstand “extreme heat, drought, flooding, hurricanes, [and] tornadoes.”
He also drew attention to $385 million in spending for the Department of Health and Human Services, largely for community cooling centers and air conditioners.
Biden spoke after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ruled out an immediate emergency declaration during a July 19 press conference.
“I would not plan an announcement this week on [a] national climate emergency. Everything’s on the table. It’s just not going to be this week on that decision,” she said.
“Taking action is something he will do if Congress won’t.”
Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and others also released a letter concurrent with Biden’s speech, asking the president to declare a climate emergency.
Talk of a climate emergency has met with pushback from Republicans and other skeptics of expanded government power through climate-inspired mandates.
“Biden is using climate change as another excuse for the government to insert more control into your lives,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) wrote in a July 20 post on Twitter.
“The Atlantic [magazine] freaked out in 2019 over what Trump could do if he declared a national emergency: Martial law, control internet traffic, freeze financial assets,” commentator Glenn Beck wrote on Twitter, also on July 20.
“Weird how the media is now silent about what Biden could do to ‘climate deniers’ under a climate emergency.”
GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING
Alex Newman Explains UN Agenda 2030 Behind Farming Restrictions
The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for sustainable development informs government policies to restrict farming and transform the food systems in different parts of the world, said Alex Newman, an award-winning international journalist who has covered this issue for over a decade.
The 2030 Agenda is a plan of action devised by the United Nations (U.N.) to achieve 17 sustainable development goals (SDG). The goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development were adopted by all UN member states in 2015.
Then-Secretary General of the U.N. Ban Ki-moon called the 2030 Agenda “the global declaration of interdependence,” (pdf) Newman said in a recent interview on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program.
“In my opinion, [it] was a direct swipe at our Declaration of Independence … So instead of being independent nations, we will all be now interdependent.”
The 2030 Agenda “covers every element of human life, every element of the economy,” including global wealth redistribution not only within the nations but also among the nations, Newman commented. The Agenda “specifically says that we need to change the way that we consume and produce goods,” he added.
Goal number two on the 2030 Agenda deals specifically with food, Newman said.
In September 2021, the U.N. held the Food Systems Summit, which emphasized the need “to leverage the power of food systems” for the purpose of achieving all 17 sustainable development goals by 2030, according to a U.N. statement.
“Everyone, everywhere, must take action and work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks about food,” the statement said.
Keeping the best meat duck has been on the rise in the United States for several years.
While factory farms have long supplied gourmet chefs with the best duck meat, more folks are starting to raise these fabulous birds not only for the large and creamy eggs they produce but for their tender beef on small farms and homesteads, as well.
While any duck can be kept and harvested for its meat, certain breeds offer more meat and additional flavor and less grease than others.
When raising these poultry birds specifically for their meat, it is always best to choose a duck breed from the “heavyweight” class.
A large breed tends to develop better muscle tone, which is beneficial when breeding and raising ducks for meat. Some duck breeds have been deemed multi-purpose or dual-purpose.
This means they are generally equally adept at producing both meat and eggs. Raising dual-purpose duck breeds on your homestead gives you the best of both worlds.
Purchasing a duck breed prone to maturing quickly will also cut down on the cost associated with meat duck husbandry.
The sooner the birds are ready to butcher, the less time and money you will have to raise them. My favorite duck breed to grow is the Pekin.
It is one of the prime breeds that fit all of the above categories – it proliferates and produces excellent quality meat and a high egg yield.
COVID RELATED NEWS
Biden tests positive for COVID – Biden, who is fully vaccinated with two boosters, has tested positive for COVID
Why BA.5 Is the King of Coronavirus Variants
Rapid mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was expected and predicted, as vaccinating against any highly mutable virus, such as the coronavirus, pressures the virus to adapt. Omicron initially arose in “fully vaccinated” patients, raising suspicions that the mass vaccination campaign itself was driving the rapid mutation of the virus
One of the latest variants, BA.5 — now believed to be the cause of nearly all COVID infections — is tied with (and may even surpass) measles in terms of its infectiousness and transmissibility. That makes it the most infectious of all SARS-CoV-2 variants, and one of the most infectious viruses known to man
Fortunately, it’s also considerably less deadly than the original Wuhan strain
Even if you’ve had COVID before, got the jab and all your boosters, and even if you have hybrid immunity (meaning you’ve had both past infection and the COVID jab), chances are you’ll probably catch BA.5, as it seems particularly adept at circumventing all previous defenses
The likelihood of reinfection is the fodder fearmongerers needed to reignite calls for COVID restrictions such as lockdowns and stripping people of their inherent rights and freedoms, and, of course, more boosters
The antibodies triggered by COVID-19 vaccines are interfering with people’s immune systems as newer virus variants emerge, Dr. Harvey Risch said.
The two most widely-used vaccines in the United States, produced by Pfizer and Moderna, both work by sending messenger RNA into muscle cells, where they produce a piece of the spike protein from the virus that causes COVID-19. The spike protein triggers the production of antibodies, which are believed to help prevent infection by SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, and fight illness if one still gets infected.
But the vaccines are based on the spike protein from the original virus variant, which was displaced early in the pandemic. Since then, a series of newer strains have become dominant around the world, with the latest being BA.5.
“The vaccines only make a very narrow range of antibodies to the spike protein,” compared to the broader exposure experienced when one gets infected, Risch, an epidemiology professor at the Yale School of Public Health, told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”
“The problem with that is, of course, that when the spike protein changes because of new strains of the virus, that the ability of the immune system to make antibodies that correlate to the new strains becomes reduced to the point where it may be almost ineffective over longer periods of time,” he added.
That leads to the antibodies being triggered by the vaccines not binding strongly enough to neutralize.
“What that means is they become interfering antibodies, instead of neutralizing antibodies,” Risch said. “And that’s the reason I believe that we’ve seen what’s called negative benefit—negative vaccine efficacy over longer time—over four to six to eight months after the last vaccine dose, that one sees the benefit of the vaccines turn negative.”
The Growing Hubris Of Pandemic And The Great Panic Of 2020
Based on the previous articles, as well as some new information, it is possible to draw a large number of possible conclusions.
This is a summary of those conclusions. It is not exhaustive by any means.
- COVID-19 is not the disease the public has been told that it is. Far from being a simple respiratory disease, it is, in fact, a virus that attacks human vascular walls, occasionally triggering oxidative stress and severe sepsis. However, its lethality overall appears very limited, especially in younger individuals with a healthy vascular endothelium.
- The best way to counteract COVID-19 is actually chronic exercise and a balanced, antioxidant-rich, endothelial support diet, particularly a diet high in Vitamin D, dietary nitrate, selenium, and other master redox regulators that support endothelial health.
- Comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity cause SARS-CoV-2 to replicate faster by altering gene expression and the redox environment in the body to favor the virus.
- Ventilators and steroids alone are insufficient to treat COVID-19 sepsis, which entails aggressive lipid peroxidation, ferroptosis, parthanatos, and DAMP accumulation in the tissues, which O2 merely accelerates by creating more damaging radicals, and then, those damaging radicals go on to make the tissues steroid-insensitive by interfering with glucocorticoid receptors, resulting in inflammatory rebound. This is a catch-22, since people need O2 to survive, of course.
- COVID-19 vaccines were all rushed and use barely-tested, Pentagon-funded gene transfection techniques to get human cells to act as bioreactors and produce viral proteins, with unknown and potentially lethal consequences for those cells.
New study: COVID booster significantly delays end of infection
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)* has demonstrated that people who are triple-vaccinated (boosted) against COVID recover significantly more slowly from COVID infection and remain contagious for longer than people who are not vaccinated at all.
The study did not deal with the severity of illness with or without a vaccine.
Researchers swabbed infected people and cultured the swabs, repeating the process for over two weeks until viral replication was not observed.
At five days post-infection, less than 25 percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious, whereas around 70 percent of boosted people were still carrying viable virus particles. For those partially vaccinated, around 50 percent were still contagious at this point.
Even more strikingly, at ten days post-infection, one-third of boosted people (31 percent) were found to still be carrying live, culturable virus. By contrast, just six percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious at day 10.
CANCEL CULTURE
‘Child Abuse:’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams Trans Kids Agenda After Twitter Censors Her
Twitter has censored the official congressional account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she criticized transgender Biden administration official “Rachel” Levine for supporting what he calls “gender affirmation treatment” for youths. Greene told Breitbart News that, “Corporate communism is destroying America. Who’s going to suffer in the end? Right now, corporations are shoving their political ideas and policies down their employees’ and their customers’ throats, and people are getting sick and tired of it. That is what Big Tech has led the charge on. They have been the leaders in corporate communism, and Twitter has been one the biggest abusers.”
“We must do everything we can to prevent Dr. Dick Levine’s pre-tween #WeenieChop” said Rep. Greene on Twitter, in a tweet that was later censored by the far-left platform.
ICYMI
Ivana Trump Laid to Rest During NYC Funeral as President Trump and Children Attend
Former President Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, was laid to rest at a funeral in New York on July 20, coming days after she died at age 73.
Trump, his current wife Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Barron Trump were in attendance. The service was closed to the public, but Getty photographers captured the Trumps entering the St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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