World News
London warns Italy export ban on Covid-19 vaccine to Australia ‘endangers global efforts to fight virus’
RT – London has warned Brussels that export bans on Covid-19 doses to non-EU countries threaten the global jab rollout, after Italy stopped a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccine reaching Australia.
“We are all dependent on global supply chains, putting in place restrictions endangers global efforts to fight the virus,” Reuters quotes UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesperson as saying, explaining that the UK expects the EU to honour its commitments.
It emerged on Thursday that Italy had prevented 250,700 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine reaching Australia, in the first such move by an EU member state since new vaccine export rules took effect in January.
Digital Vaccine Passports Being Rolled Out Everywhere to Prove You’ve “Got Your Shots”
Organic Prepper – For those of you who thought the pandemic hysteria and the totalitarian results from it would magically disappear after Joe Biden’s inauguration, you were, well…
…wrong.
As I wrote about in this article, there are currently two existing vaccine passports options, one being operational in the United States right now:
- Common Pass: Created by Commons Project, this health pass has been in international use since October on United and Cathay Pacific flights between New York, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Common Pass operates via Apple’s Health app on iOS and CommonHealth for Android. It connects to 230 US health systems. It functions as a scannable QR code and can store a passenger’s test or vaccine data and travel plans. (It is not yet publicly available for download.)
- IATA Travel Pass: Expected to launch in early 2021, IATA Travel Pass, is currently under development by the International Transport Association. According to the IATA website, the digital pass for travelers is: A global and standardized solution to validate and authenticate all country regulations regarding COVID-19 passenger travel requirements.
If you’ve ever left a pet at a kennel while you travel, you may be familiar with the process of proving your animals have had their shots against things like rabies and kennel cough. Now, it appears that humans, too, will have to prove they’ve “gotten their shots.”
While we’re certainly not objecting to anyone who wants the vaccine being able to get it, this push to make it essential to live a somewhat normal life is concerning for a number of reasons.
New York has begun a pilot program for their vaccine passport.
Always the first to pounce on a new opportunity to stifle personal freedom protect people from Covid (unless they happen to be nursing home residents), New York has begun a trial of a vaccine passport app.
New York officials are testing a new mobile app that could be your ticket into places like Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center as the state slowly reopens venues for sports, concerts and other events.
The Excelsior Pass works much like a so-called “vaccine passport.” The app, developed in partnership with IBM, uses encrypted smartphone wallet technology to prove a person’s recent negative COVID-19 test or confirm they are fully vaccinated against the virus.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted the app as a way to fast-track the safe reopening of theaters, stadiums and other businesses that operate in densely populated settings.
“As we begin reopening the valves on different sectors of our economy, we are putting guidelines in place to ensure individuals attending events involving larger gatherings have tested negative for COVID or have been vaccinated to avoid an outbreak of the virus,” Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday. “The Excelsior Pass will play a critical role in getting information to venues and sites in a secure and streamlined way, allowing us to fast-track the reopening of these businesses and getting us one step closer to reaching a new normal.” (source)
Thus far the app was tested at Brooklyn Nets game at Barclays Center on Feb. 27 and again on Tuesday during the New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden.
Of course, your personal health data will be perfectly secure.
The global pandemic crackdown is continuing apace, particularly in the areas of travel
Denmark and Sweden are already announcing they are developing systems for “digital vaccine certification,” aka “vaccine passports.” These digital certifications allow travelers to prove they have received the COVID vaccine. The plan is to create and maintain a record of anyone who wants to travel both domestically and internationally to countries that require proof of vaccination.
Claims are the plan is to accelerate air travel and assist in the “revival of national economies.” Morten Bodskov, Denmark’s acting Finance Minister, has stated that an online registry will be operational by the end of February, and it should be fully in place by around June.
Thomas Bustrup of the Confederation of Danish Industry told CGTN Europe he saw the registry taking the form of a phone app. The app would include the following three pieces of information:
- Someone had had the vaccine
- Whether a person was tested and the result of the test
- Whether the person had COVID-19. If so, they may still have antibodies
Sweden is also looking at a similar plan and timeframe to Denmark. Sweden’s Digital Development Minister, Anders Ygeman, stated, “With a digital vaccine certificate, it will be quick and easy to prove a completed vaccination.”
Attendance at sporting and cultural events may require digital vaccine certificates
Both Sweden and Denmark stated the system’s scope could eventually be widened to include attendance at sporting events and “cultural events.”
As is typical when long-planned agendas unfold, other European nations are looking at rolling out the same system. Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain have all announced plans to unveil a similar vaccine passport system.
The European Council has also taken note of the system. However, it has yet to make any official decision, saying in a statement that: “Leaders agreed to work on a standardized and interoperable form of proof of vaccination for medical purposes. Leaders will determine at a later stage in what circumstances these certificates could be used.”
The British government is also considering a vaccine passport system
As The Evening Standard has reported, vaccine passports for travel are on the way.
A Covid vaccination certificate that could unlock holidays abroad is on the way, the Transport Secretary disclosed today.
Grant Shapps revealed that talks are under way with governments, including the United States and Singapore, and the United Nations aviation body about an international system to help people who have had the Covid-19 jab to fly.
“Just as we have things like the yellow fever card… I imagine that in the future there’ll be an international system where countries will want to know that you’ve been potentially vaccinated or had tests taken before flying, before you come in,” he told the BBC Radio Four Today programme.
But the Cabinet minister warned the public it is “too soon” to book summer holidays yet — and he even suggested that staycations in the UK could be in doubt.
“The truth is we just don’t know how the virus will respond to the vaccines,” he told Sky News.
There is concern that it’s too soon to plan for any travel yet
Indeed, the British government has taken contradictory stances on vaccine passports in the past several weeks.
However, CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg does not doubt that vaccine passports will be required to travel. “It will be required,” he said. “The real question is what technology will be available to create a universally acceptable and universally readable document that can’t be forged.”
“Some governments are doing it,” he added. “Denmark is creating a digital passport for citizens that will contain all your current medical information that can be updatable on that digital card.”
CNN has been promoting the idea as well. For instance, in a bizarrely written article where the author labels the concept of “vaccine passports” as “reassuring,” the article shows that documentation requiring vaccination to travel is something that is coming down the pike. CNN writes,
The words “vaccine passport” have a reassuring ring to them, perhaps conjuring up the image of a sleek, embossed document with watermarked pages and official stamps of approval. Flourished at border controls, it would open travel doors that, for so many of us, have been closed by Covid-19.
Some destinations — including the Seychelles, Cyprus, and Romania — have already lifted quarantine requirements to visitors able to prove they’re vaccinated. Others, such as Iceland and Hungary, have opened up to people who’ve recovered from Covid-19.
This raises the prospect that proof of inoculation or immunity could be the golden ticket to rebooting travel and seems good news for people eager to book summer vacations after months of lockdown, particularly as vaccine rollouts gather pace.
They could open up the restaurants, bars, cinemas, and other leisure and entertainment facilities whose closure over the past year have left many teetering on the edge of — or already victim to — financial ruin.
Required vaccines and other procedures are just the beginning
Requiring vaccines, biological manipulations, and medical procedures before allowing access to essential services, entertainment, or travel has been a long-held idea. In fact, conspiracy theorists tried to warn us about mandated vaccines. (See Brandon Turbeville’s previous article on the Social Credit System).
As early as May 2020, “Contact Tracer” and “Disease Investigator” jobs opened up across the United States, to track those who may have been exposed to COVID-19. Weekly COVID tests were reportedly in the works for the UK offering a “Passport to Freedom.”
Now we finally see a vaccine passport system being rolled out, and, for many, it is surreal. As costs and difficulty mount for “proving” that you’re healthy, it’s a concern of many that only those with money will find their lives returning to some type of “normal.”
At this point, all I can say is to hold on to your hats
What are your thoughts on required vaccines for travel? What about sporting events? Have you been vaccinated? If not, do you feel pressure or plan to do so?
China Abandons 24-Year Experiment With Open Hong Kong Elections
Newsmax – For almost a quarter of a century, Hong Kong stood as the one place under Beijing’s rule with open elections. A landslide loss just over a year ago may have finally convinced China to end the experiment in democracy.
In late 2019, Hong Kong’s democratic opposition rode the momentum of historic protests to win an unprecedented 85% of the seats on local district councils. More significantly, the victory gave them scores more votes on the 1,200-member committee that selects Hong Kong’s leader — making it harder for Beijing to guarantee a loyal replacement if Chief Executive Carrie Lam left office.
On Friday, China laid out sweeping plans to prevent similar surprises in future Hong Kong elections, requiring candidates for office to be “patriots” and reportedly removing district councilors from the next leadership vote. The proposal, which lawmakers in Beijing are expected to pass within days, signals a dramatic rejection of the democratic institutions China had tolerated in the former British colony since regaining sovereignty in 1997.
When the next election will even happen is unclear. Local media including the South China Morning Post reported that authorities would delay a vote to choose members of the city’s 70-seat Legislative Council until September 2022, after postponing it last year, ostensibly due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The Chinese authorities have reached the limit of their patience, and they’ll no longer accept an effective pro-democracy movement,” said Joseph Cheng, a democracy activist and former political science professor at the City University of Hong Kong who relocated to Australia last year. “They’ll no longer accept any serious checks and balances.”
The election overhaul is just the latest effort by Beijing to remake Hong Kong after the 2019 unrest, which saw as many as two million protesters join peaceful marches and increasingly radical pro-independence demonstrators clash with police. The National People’s Congress imposed a sweeping security law on the city last year, leading to the arrest of some 100 opposition figures and activists, prompting sanctions from the U.S.
Despite U.S. and U.K claims that China is violating its treaty commitments to maintain Hong Kong’s “high degree of autonomy” until 2047, President Xi Jinping has pushed to tighten control. The campaign illustrates the challenge China poses to President Joe Biden’s pledge to work with American allies to check the global erosion of democratic institutions.
Senior Chinese lawmaker Wang Chen told NPC deputies Friday that the election changes were necessary to prevent “anti-China forces” from “seizing the Legislative Council and seizing the jurisdiction over Hong Kong.” Lam, who was appointed by China, pledged in a statement to carry out the overhaul to make sure the government’s critics don’t “harm Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability.”
U.S. News, Politics & Government
Republican senator forces clerks to read Biden’s Covid bill for TEN HOURS, in last-ditch effort to block
RT – Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has infuriated Democrats by demanding that Senate clerks read each and every page of Joe Biden’s $2 trillion Covid-19 relief bill aloud. To some Dems, bills are better passed with no debate.
President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 relief bill, which passed the House of Representatives last week, weighs in at a whopping 628 pages. It offers relief checks of $1,400 to eligible Americans, though more than three quarters of its $1.9 trillion price tag funds other federal programs and state governments.
Republicans have accused Democrats of packing the bill with unnecessary pork, and when the Senate assembled to debate the bill on Thursday, Johnson objected to skipping a line-for-line reading of the bill, forcing two Senate clerks to spend the next ten hours reading it aloud.
“If they’re going to add nearly $2T to the national debt at least we should know what’s in the bill,” he tweeted.
Liberal commentators raged at Johnson for obstructing the bill’s passage, calling his maneuver “one of the dumbest stunts in Senate history.”
“For 10 hours, Ted Cruz wasn’t the most hated senator in Congress,” comedian Jimmy Fallon joked on Thursday’s ‘Tonight Show’.
By the time the bill was read, it was after 2am on Friday morning and Johnson was the only Senator still present. Despite his effort to highlight the bill’s apparent wastefulness, however, he may have inadvertently helped it pass. The reading cut into time that would be otherwise spent debating the bill, and a vote is planned for early Friday afternoon.
The bill’s passage is uncertain. Republicans have accused Democrats of using it to fund their own pet programs, with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calling it a “partisan spending spree.” The GOP’s opposition to the bill is likely moot though, as Democrats are using a special budget process to bypass the two-thirds majority that such a bill would usually need. If the party votes in unison, with Vice President Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote, the bill will make its way to Biden’s desk.
While the bill allocates more than $400 billion for relief checks, $246 billion to extended unemployment insurance and $143 billion to child tax credits, it also gives more than $350 billion to federal employees and state and local governments. With New York and California said to benefit disproportionately from this cash, Republicans have called the bill a “blue state bailout.”
White House won’t say if Biden will force Christian doctors to perform abortions, gender surgeries
WND – Would President Biden force doctors to perform abortions and “sex-reassignment” surgeries against their religious beliefs?
White House press secretary Jen Psaki would not say when asked by a reporter from the Catholic network EWTN on Tuesday.
The reporter noted concerns that “pregnancy discrimination” measures in the Equality Act, which has passed the House, “would force doctors to perform gender transition surgeries and sterilizations, again, even if it violates their conscience.”
“What does the president, President Biden, say about those concerns?” the reporter asked.
“The president’s been a long supporter of Roe v. Wade. It has been his consistent belief that should be law, and he will fight to continue to protect that as being law,” Psaki replied.
The reporter pressed further, asking, “Conscience concerns, is that a concern of his?”
“I think, again, I’m just going to state what the president’s policies are,” Psaki said. “Did you have another question?”
The reporter didn’t quit.
“Will President Biden keep the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at HHS, the office that was put in place under President Trump, keep it in place to receive conscience complaints from those doctors?”
“You’ll have to talk to a future Secretary Becerra once he is confirmed,” Psaki said.
‘Transgender medicine’ is ‘complex’
At a confirmation hearing last Thursday, WND reported, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., confronted Biden’s nominee for assistant secretary of Health and Human Services on the government’s support for “sex-change” treatment and surgery. The exchange was particularly significant because the nominee is Dr. Rachel Levine, who would become the first transgender U.S. official if confirmed.
Paul wanted to know whether or not the government should overrule the authority of parents and support children undergoing hormone treatment and “surgical destruction” of their genitalia.
“Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one’s sex?” Paul asked.
Levine dodged the question, replying, “Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research.”
Trump appointee arrested in connection with Capitol riot: Reports
The former mid-level aide is first member of Trump administration to face criminal charges for the January 6 breach.
Al Jazeera – The FBI has arrested a former State Department aide from the administration of former President Donald Trump in connection with the January 6 storming of the United States Capitol, according to US media.
Federico Klein was charged with unlawful entry, violent and disorderly conduct, and obstructing Congress and law enforcement, the New York Times reported.
He is the first member of the Trump administration to be implicated in the storming of the Capitol by supporters of the former president in an attempt to overturn the results of the November presidential election that was disputed by Trump.
The newspaper reported that 42-year-old Klein had worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and began working at the State Department shortly after Trump’s victory. The violence left five dead.
A former colleague told the Politico news site that Klein had worked with the office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs before being transferred to the office that handles Freedom of Information Act requests.
The Trump appointee was seen in videos of the riot assaulting officers with a stolen riot shield, federal investigators said in court documents obtained by the Times.
He is wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and is seen trying to push through a line of officers in a tunnel near the west terrace of the Capitol building and also tried to push through a doorway into the complex, “where he physically and verbally engaged with the officers holding the line”, the document says.
The FBI said Klein was still employed by the State Department at the time of the incident, and maintained top-secret security clearance.
The bureau had previously released Klein’s photo, and received tips identifying him.
Federal prosecutors have so far charged more than 300 people in connection with the US Capitol breach. Those include members of the far-right Proud Boys group and the Oath Keepers.
Eric Swalwell Sues Donald Trump and Allies over Capital Riots
Breitbart – Ex-House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell (D-CA) confirmed Friday he will sue former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Republican Rep. Mo Brooks in a second major lawsuit seeking to hold Trump and his allies accountable for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
Swalwell’s action follows a similar suit filed last month by Rep. Bennie Thompson against Trump, Giuliani and the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups.
Today, I filed a civil claim against Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudolph Giuliani, and Rep. Mo Brooks for inciting an attack against the Capitol that terrorized lawmakers and prevented us from certifying the votes of the American people.
My statement: pic.twitter.com/wmSMcEzeL6
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) March 5, 2021
Swalwell’s case echoes some of the same claims as Thompson’s — citing a civil rights law meant to counter the Ku Klux Klan’s intimidation of elected officials.
According to Axios, the lawsuit — filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., by the law firm KaiserDillon PLLC — accuses Trump and his allies of conspiring to violate the civil rights of the defendants.
- “As a direct and foreseeable consequence of the Defendants’ false and incendiary allegations of fraud and theft, and in direct response to the Defendants’ express calls for violence at the rally, a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol, ” the complaint alleges.
- Swalwell alleges the defendants, “by force, intimidation, or threat, agreed and conspired with one another to undertake a course of action to prevent” Joe Biden from being certified as the election winner and holding office.
- Trump and Brooks are being sued in their “personal capacity.” The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages and a requirement the defendants provide written notice seven days in advance of a rally or public event hosted on an election day.
CNN reports the new lawsuit and Thompson’s claims are likely to go hand-in-hand in D.C.’s federal trial court, potentially even before the same judge, Amit Mehta, who was appointed by Barack Obama.
Swalwell was one of the impeachment managers who attempted to persuade the U.S. Senate to block Trump from holding the office of president again, saying Trump incited the violence.
The Senate, though, voted to acquit Trump.
Swalwell has previously said Trump had “radicalized” his supporters the same way the late terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had, as Breitbart News reported.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti on Dr. Seuss: ‘There Is No Place for Racist Imagery’
Breitbart – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that “there is no place for racist imagery” when asked to respond to the ongoing controversy about Dr. Seuss, whom the city has honored in the past.
The company that handles Dr. Seuss’s books withdrew six of his books from publication this week over concerns about early caricatures, and the left has been critical of Dr. Seuss for preaching racial tolerance without concern for “structural power imbalances.”
Breitbart News asked Garcetti about the issue during a press briefing on Thursday night.
Of course, there are images that are blatantly racist that have no place in 2021. And you can’t just look at a book and say, “Hey, 99% of this is great,” and there is a blatantly racist picture of somebody who is presumed to be Chinese or African. So, I know there is this whole back-and-forth about whether people are canceling folks. This is not about canceling. This is about standing up against blatant racism where we see it, and just making sure that that no longer is part of our canon. And there’s lots of ways to work around that. People can take pages out, or change them — in fact, I think, a long time before this, it’s not a 2021 event, I think there was even a word changed in a Dr. Seuss book that made it a less offensive term. I’m not going to prescribe how it gets resolved, but there’s no place for racist imagery, racist language, in 2021 for our children.
Garcetti offered a hopeful assessment of L.A”s prospects as coronavirus cases declined and vaccinations increased, saying there was “light at the end of the tunnel.”
He said his favorite Dr. Seuss book was Yertle the Turtle.
Michelle Obama Urges Senate to Vote for HR1 – The Democrat Bill that Brings Communist Third World Voting Rules to US Elections
Gateway Pundit – Michelle Obama demands the US Senate pass a garbage bill on elections that will make the US a banana republic with tainted elections for the next 1,000 years.
Was literally every move made by the Obamas one that destroyed American and took it closer to communism? Name one that didn’t,
The Obamas’ latest effort is praising the outrageous HR1 bill just passed by Democrats in the US House. The bill is an American nightmare as we’ve reported for weeks.
So it is no surprise the Obamas support it and probably had something to do with writing it.
Yesterday Michelle Obama tweeted her support for the horribly unjust bill and demanded the Senate join in passing it.
According to FOX News:
H.R. 1 passed by a 220-210 vote along party lines. Senate Democrats will need to secure support from at least 10 Republicans in order to bypass the filibuster and pass the bill.
After stealing the 2020 election, the Democrats now want to lock in their power for centuries. The only people locked in should be all those involved in the stealing of the 2020 election from President Trump.
Bipartisan Senators Seek to Strip Biden of War Powers
Global Research – Senators Go After Endless Wars
In a long overdue effort Bipartisan Senators Introduce Bill to Strip Biden of War Powers.
Sens. Tim Kaine and Todd Young on Wednesday introduced bipartisan legislation that would repeal decades-old authorizations for the use of military force in the Middle East, amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran in the region.
Kaine (D-Va.) and Young (R-Ind.) unveiled the measure as lawmakers have expressed frustration with President Joe Biden’s decision to launch airstrikes in Syria last week without first seeking congressional approval. It also comes just hours after an Iraqi military base housing U.S. troops and civilian contractors was hit by rocket attacks.
The bill would repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations that cleared the way for a prolonged military conflict in Iraq, culminating in calls from Democrats and Republicans alike to end the so-called “forever wars” in the region.
Senators from across the ideological spectrum signed onto the Kaine-Young bill as co-sponsors on Wednesday, including Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
“Last week’s airstrikes in Syria show that the executive branch, regardless of party, will continue to stretch its war powers,” Kaine said. “Congress has a responsibility to not only vote to authorize new military action, but to repeal old authorizations that are no longer necessary.”
Biden angered congressional Democrats when he launched airstrikes against Iran-backed military installations in Syria, with lawmakers lamenting that the White House did not consult with Congress ahead of time and did not properly notify them about the strikes.
Congress has largely abdicated its constitutional authority to declare war, and presidents from both parties have used outdated authorizations to legally justify U.S. military action — including, and perhaps most notably, the 2001 authorization for the use of military force against al Qaeda and the Taliban, which was approved in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Kaine-Young bill, though, only deals with the 1991 and 2002 measures, which are entirely focused on Iraq.
No Longer Necessary?!
Not quite. Those bills were never necessary and never should have been passed at all, in any form.
Bush, Obama, and Trump all made terrible use of those bills.
Congress and Congress alone should authorize war and be damn careful when it does.
Warmongers on both sides, notably Hillary Clinton, agreed to fight a stupid second war with Iraq on what any reasonable person should have seen as a pack of lies by Bush and Cheney.
We are still there needlessly and senselessly.
Republicans would not strip Trump but some will be happy to strip Biden. Better late than never, but still not enough.
One Step Further
Congress should go one step further and set a timeline for all troops to return from everywhere starting with the Mideast and Cuba, preferably immediately.
Energy & Environment
World’s oldest known wild bird has another chick at age of 70
BBC – Wisdom the albatross, the world’s oldest known wild bird, has had a chick at the age of at least 70.
The Laysan albatross hatched the chick on 1 February in a wildlife refuge in the North Pacific Ocean, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has said.
Laysan albatrosses usually only live for 12-40 years. But Wisdom was first identified by researchers in 1956.
The father is Wisdom’s partner, Akeakamai, who she has been with since 2012, US wildlife officials said.
Albatrosses usually mate for life, but it is believed Wisdom had other partners in the past that she outlived.
Although Wisdom hatched her chick in February, the birth – which took place in the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge, in a US minor outlying island in the North Pacific – has only been reported this week.
“Wisdom laid her egg sometime during the last few days of November,” the USFWS wrote in its statement announcing the new arrival.
“Soon after, Wisdom returned to sea to forage and her mate Akeakamai took over incubation duties. Albatross parents share incubation duties and once the chick hatches, share feeding duties.”
The USFWS believes she has had at least 30 to 36 chicks in her lifetime. Albatrosses only hatch one egg every few years.
The Midway Atoll wildlife refuge is home to the largest colony of albatross in the world.
Science & Technology
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Almost 40% of university students surveyed are addicted to their phones.
Investment Watch Blog – A team of researchers at King’s College London has found that nearly 40% of students surveyed exhibited symptoms of addiction to their smartphone. In their paper published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, the researchers describe their study and what they found.
Smartphones have become pervasive in virtually all advanced societies around the world. And as features of the phone have become more advanced, people have begun to use them for longer periods of time. Some anecdotal evidence has even suggested that some people have become addicted to their phones. In this new effort, the researchers tested such claims by conducting a survey of 1,043 student respondents attending King’s College London.
Health
New Analysis: Pfizer Vaccine Killed ‘About 40 Times More Elderly Than the Disease Itself Would Have Killed’
Green Med Info – Pfizer’s vaccine killed ‘about 40 times more (elderly) people’ and ‘260 times’ more of the young than ‘what the COVID-19 virus would have claimed in the given time frame.’
While in January a group of independent doctors concluded that experimental COVID-19 vaccines are “not safer” than the virus itself, a new analysis of vaccine-related death rates in Israel demonstrates that this may indeed be the case to dramatic levels.
A re-analysis of published data from the Israeli Health Ministry by Dr. Hervé Seligmann, a member of the faculty of Medicine Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases at Aix-Marseille University, and engineer Haim Yativ reveal, in short, that the mRNA experimental vaccine from Pfizer killed “about 40 times more (elderly) people than the disease itself would have killed” during a recent five-week vaccination period. Among the younger class, these numbers are compounded to death rates at 260 times what the COVID-19 virus would have claimed in the given time frame.
While the full mathematical analysis may be found in the article itself, the authors demonstrate how among “those vaccinated and above 65, 0.2 percent … died during the three-week period between doses, hence about 200 among 100,000 vaccinated. This is to be compared to the 4.91 dead among 100,000 dying from COVID-19 without vaccination.”
“This scary picture also extends to those below 65,” the researchers continued. During the five-week vaccination process “0.05 percent, meaning 50 among 100,000, died. This is to be compared to the 0.19 per 100,000 dying from COVID-19 (who) are not vaccinated … Hence the death rate of this age group increased by 260 (times) during this five-week period of the vaccination process, as compared to their natural COVID-19 death rate.”
As reported by IsraelNationalNews (INN), Seligmann is of Israeli-Luxembourg nationality, has a biology degree from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has written more than 100 scientific publications. INN reports the researchers “have no conflicts or interests other than having children in Israel.”
Yativ and Seligmann stipulate that even these “estimated numbers of deaths from the vaccine are probably much lower than actual numbers as it accounts only for those defined as COVID-19 deaths for that short time period and does not include AVC and cardiac (and other) events resulting from the inflammatory reactions.”
Nor do these numbers “account for long-term complications,” they write.
In addition, within several months they expect “mid- and long-term adverse effects of the vaccination as ADE (Antibody-dependent Enhancement)” begins to become manifest in those who have received the experimental Pfizer vaccine.
As explained by America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), ADE “is when anti-COVID antibodies, created by a vaccine, instead of protecting the person, cause a more severe or lethal disease when the person is later exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in the wild. The vaccine amplifies the infection rather than preventing damage.”
AFLDS provides an example of a vaccine produced to fight the Dengue fever, which resulted in deaths of 600 children in the Philippines due to ADE, and the filing of criminal charges against the decisionmakers in 2019.
For these reasons and more, AFLDS and many other doctors strongly discourage the use of these experimental vaccines for most people while only acknowledging that it may be plausible for those over 70 years of age, yet acknowledging that such injections are “a higher risk than early or prophylactic treatment with established medications” (sources here, here, here, and here).
Given these death rates, Yativ and Seligmann also have harsh criticism for the severe pressure being imposed upon the population by Israeli authorities to receive these shots. According to INN, the researchers call these draconian efforts “a new Holocaust.”
In the past weeks, Israel’s government made headlines when they a “green pass” system, allowing people who have been injected to receive a green code, which then grants them entry into places such as entertainment and leisure facilities.
As the country reopens after a two-month lockdown, the green pass would be given only to those who had been injected, not to people who tested negative for the virus. The proposed benefits include access to “non-essential” businesses as well as not being required to self-isolate if identified as a close contact of a confirmed case of COVID-19, and not having to self-isolate after a return from a what the government calls a “red location.”
Despite there being no proof that these experimental vaccines actually prevent transmission of the virus, Israel’s minister for health, Yuli Edelstein, said upon the release of the vaccine “passport” that “(g)etting vaccinated is a moral duty. It is part of our mutual responsibility.” He went further, declaring, “Whoever does not get vaccinated will be left behind.”
The green pass needs renewing every six months, and despite holding one, an individual must still abide by masking and physical distancing rules. The Jerusalem Post also reported that legislation is being considered to grant employers the right to refuse unvaccinated people entry into the workplace.
Such measures prompted Business Insider to describe the country as “waging a war on the unvaccinated.” Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, has styled Israel’s vaccination response as “extraordinarily good.”
Doctor who mocked coronavirus vaccine refusers dies days after getting jabbed
NaturalNews – Just days after getting injected with a Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine, Dr. Witold Rogiewicz, a Polish physician who openly mocked vaccine skeptics, died from the jab.
The official story is that Dr. Rogiewicz died of “heart failure,” but it is painfully obvious that he suffered the most serious adverse event of all associated with the vaccine: death.
While he was getting injected, a masked Dr. Rogiewicz arrogantly told the camera:
“Vaccinate yourself to protect yourself, your loved ones, friends and also patients.”
He went on to make fun of “anti-vaxxers” and “anti-coviders” who take issue with the fact that Chinese virus vaccines have never been long-term safety tested, nor are their manufacturers liable in the event of injury or death.
“And to mention quickly, I have info for anti-vaxxers and anti-coviders,” he stated in Polish. “If you want to contact Bill Gates, you can do this through me. I can also provide for you from my organism the 5G network. I am sorry I hadn’t spoke for a bit but I was just getting autism.”
Dr. Rogiewicz thought he was being funny with these cringeworthy comments, but little did he know that the joke would be ultimately on him. Within just a few short days, Bill Gates’ experimental gene therapy injection ended Dr. Rogiewicz’s life.
“At night, our Friend and Collaborator, Dr. Witold Rogiewicz, suddenly passed away,” reads a post from the VIP Clinic where this pro-vaxxer worked.
“We are devastated by this news. We send our deepest sympathy to the family he loved very much. We cannot believe … Witek, we will miss you very much.”
The clinic’s post went on to explain that all of Dr. Rogiewicz’s patients will be contacted immediately so as to “not leave them without help.”
And who said God doesn’t have a sense of humor?
Much like how every death in 2020 was blamed on Covid-19, Dr. Rogiewicz’s death will be blamed on anything other than the vaccine. The same is true of all other deaths caused by Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines, which the mainstream media and the establishment will probably blame on anti-maskers.
As it turns out, far more people are being killed by the vaccine than from the “virus” itself, and yet such details are receiving zero media coverage because they break apart the entire phony plandemic narrative.
Hopefully Dr. Rogiewicz’s loved ones will connect the dots concerning his fate and skip the jab themselves, assuming they have not already received it. Perhaps his former patients will do the same so as to avoid potentially also dying from the injection.
All across social media, people from around the world are reporting similar patterns of post-vaccination death among their family members, most of whom probably did not mock others like Dr. Rogiewicz did, but who still bought into the plandemic lies due to fear and hysteria.
Whether coincidence or divine providence, Dr. Rogiewicz’s jesting serves as yet another lesson in that old biblical adage about pride coming before a fall. God is allowing those who are watching to see what this is all really about through incidents like this so they can make better choices than the one Dr. Rogiewicz made.
“Why do I oppose the vaccine so much? Because my uncle died at a young age when he was injected,” one person on Twitter wrote about why she opposes the Chinese virus vaccine. “His body could not take the vaccine’s side effects and passed away by cardiac arrest.”
“If it was so safe, my grandpa (who was healthy) wouldn’t have died immediately after getting the vaccine,” wrote another about how the WuFlu jab killed her grandfather.
FDA abandons informed consent after “emergency use” approval of JJ coronavirus vaccine, which SKIPPED large-scale safety testing
NaturalNews – Johnson and Johnson’s single dose coronavirus vaccine was recently granted “emergency use” approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This means J&J skipped large scale safety testing for their experimental biologic. To make matters worse, all previous attempts to create a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine (SARS and MERS) have failed and caused pathogenic priming. What makes this fast-tracked biologic any different? The short and long-term effects of the vaccine have not been observed or evaluated. The vaccine has only been studied for efficacy up until 28 days, post vaccination. In that short time, researchers found the vaccine to be 85 percent efficacious for preventing serious illness. The efficacy rate would plummet even further if more time was used to evaluate whether recipients became seriously ill. The vaccine wasn’t studied outside 28 days, most likely because the issue of pathogenic priming would result in more serious illness, hospitalization and death.
Informed consent suspended, as medical authorities push untested vaccine
Because the vaccine was given “emergency” use approval, informed consent is officially suspended for this biologic, as medical authorities abandon medical principles and push it forward into people’s arms. No one will adequately warn patients of the inherent risks of this experimental biologic. Instead, the vaccines are marketed up front as treating an “emergency” – as if healthy vaccine recipients are in some kind of imminent danger. This is a bold-faced lie for most age groups, because there are efficacious treatments and there is a low mortality rate for people younger than 65. Moreover, if there was more emphasis on what can be done to boost the immune system of individuals, then the theory of needing a perfect savior of a vaccine would be moot. And just to be clear, the concept of a perfect vaccine won’t ever exist for coronaviruses, due to the ever-evolving nature of this virus type.
Janet Woodcock, acting FDA commissioner said the authorization of the J&J vaccine is crucial in the fight against a pandemic, even though the virus has changed significantly over the past year, succumbing to the natural phenomenon of virus mutation and host adaptation. Nevertheless, Woodcock promoted the vaccine as “the best medical prevention method for covid-19,” even though reliable treatments are available, including convalescent plasma, a time-honored approach for facing emerging infectious diseases. Plasma donations harness antibodies from the survivors of an infectious disease to help vulnerable people recover and gain immunity.
FDA forces doctors to abandon their Hippocratic Oath
The J&J vaccine will quickly become the more popular option for covid vaccination, for it is recommended as a one-dose vaccine, unlike the Moderna and Pfizer inoculations, which require a minimum two-shot protocol. The J&J vaccine is designed like a traditional biologic, using an attenuated virus, grown in animal and aborted fetal cell lines. The Moderna and Pfizer experiments are based on a new type technology that inserts instructions into cells, forcing the body to create spike proteins from the coronavirus. The nano-particles in these vaccines must be preserved at extremely low temperatures or they will degrade. The J&J vaccine, on the other hand, introduces a foreign coronavirus antigen into the body, along with an adjuvant and other chemicals that are meant to augment an immune response. These biologics typically take 10-15 years to develop, and only 23 percent of vaccines ever make it through this tedious and time-consuming scientific process. The J&J vaccine was pushed through the large-scale safety studies, bypassing years of scientific research and evaluation.
By releasing this biologic without proper safety testing, the FDA is forfeiting informed consent and forcing medical authorities, doctors and nurses to go against their Hippocratic oath.
Soybean oil linked to brain damage
NaturalNews – New research has determined that soybean oil, which is added to nearly everything Americans eat these days, may be linked to brain damage.
Consuming soybean oil, the vast majority of which is genetically engineered (GMO), leads to neurological changes in the brain that researchers believe directly contribute to serious health conditions like dementia and autism, according to recent research.
Currently the most widely consumed oil in America, soybean oil is found in everything from salad dressing to chips to baby formula. All the major fast-food chains use it, as do most of the corporations that supply processed foods to the “middle aisles” of supermarkets.
It is difficult not to consume soybean oil even if you try not to – that is how prolific it is. And yet the latest science shows that it is a public health disaster – much worse, even, than the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have been studying the health effects of soybean oil for years. They previously determined that the highly refined industrial additive causes diabetes, obesity, heart disease — and a laundry list of other health conditions.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal Endocrinology, their latest paper demonstrates that the brain is likewise affected by the toxic oil, particularly in the hypothalamus, which is crucial for regulating mood and behavior.
In test mammals, soybean oil negatively altered more than 100 different genes, including the one that controls oxytocin, the so-called “love and bonding” hormone.
“Soybean-fed mice showed lower levels of oxytocin in the hypothalamus,” reports RT.
“Other genes affected had to do with metabolic and hormone pathways, including the insulin pathway, synonymous with diabetes. There was also upregulation of genes associated with anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia.”
Soybean oil consumption may increase risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
Based on the available evidence, it seems that soybean oil consumption may increase one’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and autism – all conditions that skyrocketed in prevalence after toxic industrial oils like that derived from soybeans went commercial.
“If there’s one message I want people to take away, it’s this: reduce consumption of soybean oil,” announced lead author Poonamjot Deol.
GMO soybean oil, which contains artificially lower levels of linoleic acid (LA), had similar detrimental effects. Mice who consumed the glyphosate-saturated oil suffered the same brain damage as mice that consumed non-GMO soybean oil.
Glyphosate, the primary active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, is also carcinogenic, meaning it causes cancer. This was confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and many other groups, which also found that Roundup is genotoxic.
This means that consumers of GMO soybean oil are not only incurring brain damage but also massively upping their risk of developing cancer.
Roundup also disrupts hormones, which could explain why rates of transgenderism and other gender-related mental illnesses are off the charts like never before.
Americans who consume fast food, processed food, and other “easy” foods are essentially killing themselves, thanks to the government-approved use of soybean oil and other toxins in their manufacture. This is the real public health threat that few seem to care about – not Chinese germs, legalized cannabis, and all of the other scapegoats that pearl-clutching politicians obsess over in their lust for power and control.
“The only oil that does not change structure during high temperature is coconut oil,” wrote one RT commenter, highlighting a beneficial oil that is rarely used in processed foods.
“Choose the odorless type, preferably organic. Stay away from the hydrogenated oils that contain trans fats. Most vegetable oils also contain too much omega-6. Virgin olive oil and virgin coconut oil are great, but not for frying.”
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