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Today’s News: October 14, 2022

WORLD NEWS

Finland Preparing To Evacuate Citizens Along Russian Border Should War Arise

As tensions remain high due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Finnish Defence Forces and others are preparing to evacuate residents along the Russian border in the event of a possible conflict.

The Finnish Defence Forces and other authorities may go as far as going door to door in the event of war to help evacuate those living along the border with Russia and gave a presentation on the issue in the eastern town of Lieksa this week.

Macron Suggests France Will Not Retaliate with Nukes Against Russia if Putin Uses Them Against Ukraine

President Emmanuel Macron suggested that France would not use nuclear weapons against Russia should Vladimir Putin launch nuclear strikes against Ukraine.

In an interview with the France 2 television network on Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron hinted that he would refrain from a retaliatory nuclear strike against Russia should nuclear weapons be deployed in the war in Eastern Europe as it would not fall in line with his government’s nuclear deterrence doctrine, which only requires a nuclear response should France itself be attacked and not in the case of an allied nation such as Ukraine.

Ukraine Joining NATO Would Spark ‘World War III’, Threatens Russian Security Official

Allowing Ukraine to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would result in a “guaranteed escalation to World War Three”, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Alexander Venediktov said on Thursday.

Following last month’s annexation of four breakaway regions in the Donbas region of Easter Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky requested a “fast-tracked” admission into the US-led NATO military alliance.

Sweden: Security Police Warn of Increased Risk of Sabotage of Electric Grid

The Swedish Security Police (Sapo) has warned that the country faces an increased risk of sabotage of Sweden’s electricity grid and has called for more resources to monitor the energy sector.

Both Sapo and the Swedish Energy Agency have sounded the alarm that the country’s energy supply may be at heightened risk of sabotage and have sent out letters to companies that operate the electrical grid to be more vigilant for any possible sabotage attempts.

Jacinda Ardern’s ‘Fart Tax’ Fuels Rightward Shift in Local New Zealand Elections

The UK Guardian on Monday found ominous portents for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s far-left Labour party in the latest round of local elections, which looked like a grassroots taxpayer revolt against the once-popular PM and her authoritarian policies — or a “lurch to the right in most major centers,” as the Guardian put it.

The remarkable thing about these elections was that merely identifying candidates as members of Ardern’s party was apparently enough to sink them. Instead of painting mustaches or scribbling dirty words on campaign posters for Ardern’s candidates, vandals simply wrote “LABOUR” on them, as though the very name of the party had become an obscenity. Left-wing candidates who were not actually members of the Labour Party denounced the labels as a scurrilous “attack tactic,” which suggests they knew it would work.

WEF Strategy: Young Global Leaders, Global Shapers, New Champions

In recent months, the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, Global Shapers, and New Champions have gathered in support of the Davos mission. Who exactly are these groups and what do they represent?

While the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program has become familiar to many people in recent months, equally important and influential programs such as the Global Shapers and New Champions are less well known. However, a look into these initiatives offers further insight into the plans of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the globalist politicians who support them.

According to their official site, the Young Global Leaders is an “accelerator for a dynamic community of exceptional people with the vision, courage, and influence to drive positive change in the world”. The YGL claim to have more than 1,400 members and alumni from more than 120 nations. They say their membership is made up of business innovators, entrepreneurs, technology pioneers, educators, activists, artists, journalists, and more. Since they area a creation of the WEF, they also say they “seek to drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest”.

“Klaus Schwab became the heir to Henry Kissinger’s most important project, the infiltration of individuals and organizations in countries around the world with the aim of creating globalist-aligned governments built within the framework of an outdated and soulless conceptualization of American imperialism.”

As Klaus Schwab himself has made perfectly clear, the role of the YGL is to “penetrate” the cabinets of national government to promote the vision of stakeholder capitalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Jan. 6 Committee Votes to Subpoena Trump

The House Jan. 6 Committee on Oct. 13 voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump over his role in the events of Jan. 6.

The resolution, submitted by Ranking Member Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), was passed by the committee unanimously in a 9–0 vote.

“Our duty today is to our country, our duty, and our Constitution,” Cheney said. “We can act now to protect our republic. So this afternoon, I am requesting that the chairman issue a subpoena for documents and testimony from Donald Trump about the January 6 attack on the Capitol.”

The panel “wants to hear from him,” Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said ahead of the vote. “The committee needs to do everything in our power to tell the most complete story possible and provide recommendations to help ensure nothing like Jan. 6 ever happens again.”

“He is required to answer for his actions,” Thompson added.

Thompson said the committee recognized how “extraordinary” the step was, and that the committee was anxious to “take this step in full view of the American people.”

Cheney based the motion on the refusal of several Trump officials and allies, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former advisor Steve Bannon, to testify.

“Mr. Chairman, our committee now has sufficient information to answer many of the critical questions posed by Congress at the outset. We have sufficient information to consider criminal referrals for multiple individuals and to recommend a range of legislative proposals to guard against another January 6,” Cheney said. “But a key task remains. We must seek the testimony, under oath, of January 6’s central plater.”

“More than 30 witnesses in our investigation have invoked their 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination, and several of those did so specifically in response to questions about their dealings with Donald Trump directly.”

The normal Justice Department process, Cheney said, is too slow.

“Mr. Chairman, at some point, the Department of Justice may well unearth the fact that these and other witnesses are concealing,” Cheney said. “But our duty today is to our country and our children and our Constitution. We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion, and every American is entitled to those answers so we can act now to protect our republic.”

After presenting the motion, all nine members of the committee voted to take the almost unprecedented step of subpoenaing a former president.

Supreme Court Rejects Trump Request in Mar-a-Lago Records Case

The Supreme Court on Oct. 13 turned down a request from former President Donald Trump related to records that were seized by FBI agents from his Florida estate.

Trump filed an emergency application to vacate a stay entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. That stay is preventing both Trump’s lawyers and the special master in the case from accessing all of the records with classified markings.

Justice Clarence Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, referred the application to the full court. The court announced on Oct. 13 that it was denying the request.

The court didn’t list how each justice voted on the request nor the final vote tally.

Applications are directed to a certain justice, with each justice being responsible for one or more appeals courts. Those justices can then rule on the application themselves or refer the application to the full court for consideration.

Four criteria must be satisfied for a court to grant a stay, including that irreparable harm will result from the denial of a stay and that, upon review, the full court will decide the decision being challenged was erroneous.

Trump lodged the application on Oct. 4, about two weeks after the appeals court issued its ruling.

Lawyers for the former president said the appeals court didn’t have jurisdiction to curtail the special master review. The Department of Justice disagreed, telling the court to reject Trump’s application.

After FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago in August, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, inserted U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, a Reagan appointee, as a third-party special master to review the materials and help adjudicate disputes over privilege and other matters.

Agents seized about 100 records with classified markings from Mar-a-Lago, as well as roughly 11,200 nonclassified materials, according to the latest inventory lists from the government.

While the appeals court ruling blocked Trump’s attorneys and Dearie from viewing the materials marked classified, the government still had to produce copies of the nonclassified records to the lawyers and the special master. That process has been completed, a lawyer for the government informed Cannon on Oct. 12.

Retired Tennessee Judge Shares Thoughts on What to Expect in the Supreme Court’s Next Session

The U.S. Supreme Court has returned to work after a three-month summer break. As this will be the first term with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the bench, one retired judge shares his thoughts on what to expect.

According to an NPR report, the Supreme Court is the most conservative it has been in 90 years, with an unprecedented 62 percent of its rulings in the 2021–2022 term falling on the conservative side of the scales. However, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s support for progressive ideologies has stirred concern among some conservatives.

Judge Rules Federal Ban on Guns With Removed Serial Numbers Is Unconstitutional

A judge has ruled that a federal law banning guns that have had their serial numbers removed is unconstitutional.

The law at issue prohibits any person from transporting a gun with the serial number “altered, obliterated, or removed,” across state lines. It also prohibits them from possessing such a gun if it has ever been transported across state lines.

Serial numbers were first required by the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 to allow guns to be traced. They were adopted in an effort to prevent illegal gun sales.

The decision filed on Oct. 12 (pdf), written by U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in Charleston, West Virginia, blocks the law from taking effect.

The decision comes in a criminal case involving an Ohio man, Randy Price, whose gun that had its serial number removed was found in his car at a traffic stop in Charleston. He was charged with illegally possessing a gun without a serial number, and also with illegally possessing a gun as a felon. Price had previously been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery. Goodwin dismissed the former charge, but left in place the latter.

Chicago Fifth-Grade Teacher Allegedly Made ‘Kill List’ of Students, Teachers: Police

A fifth-grade teacher in East Chicago, Indiana, has been detained by police after it was discovered that she had a “kill list,” of individuals which included her own students and school staff members.

Teacher Angelica Carrasquillo-Torres, 25, worked at St. Stanislaus School in East Chicago, the East Chicago Police Department said in a statement published on Thursday.

On Oct. 12 at approximately 5 p.m., law enforcement officers were called to the school due to a “threatening report” that had allegedly been made.

Upon arrival at St. Stanislaus, officers spoke with the principal and the assistant principal of the school who claimed that Carrasquillo-Torres allegedly told a fifth-grade student about the list and informed them that he/she was on the bottom of that list.

Police said the student had originally told their student counselor about Carrasquillo-Torres’s list and that the fifth-grader claimed the teacher had also made comments about killing ” herself, students, and staff ” at the school.

More National Security Threats Come From Domestic Left-Wing Extremists: Experts

News Analysis

National security analysts, scholars, and a federal indictment reveal that threats from left-wing extremist groups in the United States are more dangerous than right-wing and “MAGA Republican” groups recently cited by the Biden administration as “threats to democracy.”

According to the U.S. government, some of the left-wing groups are being funded by Russian influence operations to “sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in elections within the United States.”

On July 29, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of a Russian national for working on behalf of the Russian government to sow discord in the United States.

“From at least December 2014 until March 2022, Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, a resident of Moscow, together with at least three Russian officials, engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States” the indictment alleged.

A DOJ press release stated, “Ionov—working under the supervision of the FSB [Russia’s Federal Security Services] and with the Russian government’s support—recruited political groups within the United States, including U.S. Political Group 1 in Florida, U.S. Political Group 2 in Georgia, and U.S. Political Group 3 in California, and exercised direction or control over them on behalf of the FSB.”

US Embassy Issues Travel Warning to Americans Visiting South Africa

The U.S. Embassy in South Africa is urging Americans to be “situationally aware” when traveling to the country’s famed Kruger National Park and to only make stops at designated areas.

“Due to an increase in crime, to include the recent murder of a foreign tourist, the U.S. Embassy in South Africa recommends that U.S. Citizens avoid Numbi Gate at Kruger National Park and instead use either Paul Kruger or Phabeni gates when entering and leaving the park,” the embassy said in an Oct. 11 statement.

A German tourist was shot and killed in a robbery in Kruger National Park, according to reports last week. Officials told Deutsche Welle that a tour group was stopped by armed assailants as they made their way to Numbi Gate.

When the suspects demanded that they open their doors, the driver locked the car, local police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala told the media outlet. One of the suspects then shot the German tourist, killing him, according to reports.

The U.S. Embassy called for U.S. citizens to be aware when traveling in the area and only make stops at designated areas, such as service stations and garages.

“Be mindful that protests and road closures are frequent in the area. It is recommended that everyone contact their lodge or hotel before travel to understand current road and travel conditions,” the statement reads. “If you encounter issues, contact the Police or your lodge.”

South Africa’s crime rate has soared in recent years amid exceptionally high unemployment rates.

Can Infowars host Alex Jones pay nearly $965M verdict for Sandy Hook lies? He spent $80K to get to trial, bankruptcy filings show

Infowars host and founder Alex Jones called the $965 million verdict against him a “joke” during his broadcast Wednesday and suggested that defamation plaintiffs who sued him for lying about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting massacre in Connecticut won’t be able to collect.

“Do these people actually think they’re getting any money?” Jones asked before seeking to raise money from his audience, the New York Times reports. “For hundreds of thousands of dollars, I can keep them in court for years. I can appeal this stuff,” he said.

Jurors on Wednesday found Jones liable for claiming that mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, was a staged hoax intended to restrict gun rights, report the Washington Post, Law360 and a second New York Times story. Twenty first graders and six school staff members were killed.

According to the New York Times, Jones likely does not have the money to pay the verdict. His business empire has been estimated to be worth no more than $270 million. And Jones’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, claims in a bankruptcy document that it owes $54 million.

Sandy Hook families claim in bankruptcy filings that Jones is hiding assets to avoid paying judgments, the New York Times reports in other stories here and here. The families are challenging as a fraudulent transfer the series of $54 million in payments that Free Speech Systems made to another company owned “directly and indirectly by Mr. Jones and his parents,” according to the New York Times.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez in the Southern District of Texas expanded the duties of the bankruptcy trustee monitoring the case last month after criticizing high personal spending by Jones and a lack of candor by his company, the New York Times reported at the time.

As an example of lavish spending, Lopez said Jones spent $80,000, supposedly for security, in connection with his Connecticut trial. According to the New York Times, Jones “and his entourage flew to Waterbury in a private jet; they stayed in a rented villa with a pool and tennis court.”

Alex Jones Likely Doesn’t Have $1 Billion. He Does Own Five Homes In Texas, Though

It’s very unlikely that Jones, who runs the website InfoWars, has a ten-figure fortune to spare. In fact, while reacting to the verdict on his radio show on Wednesday, Jones claimed he’s worth no more than $2 million and quipped, “That’s hilarious… Do these people really think they’re getting their money?” Because Jones lacks the funds to pay his fine, legal experts say his personal assets could be on the line, including a significant real estate portfolio owned by the InfoWars host in Texas.

Forbes identified five homes collectively worth an estimated $7.5 million linked to Jones in Austin, including two condos in the downtown-adjacent South Lamar neighborhood; a luxurious waterfront property overlooking the Colorado river with a private boat dock, sauna and basketball court; a four-bedroom home just outside the city; and an almost 5,500 square foot Spanish villa style home overlooking Austin’s famous Barton Creek Greenbelt.

As The New York Post first reported in August, Jones transferred ownership of the most valuable of these properties, the Spanish-style estate by Barton Creek, which is worth an estimated $3.5 million, to his wife Erika Wulff Jones, in February as multiple defamation cases against him neared trial. One of the two condos in South Lamar has Jones’ father, David Jones, listed as a beneficiary. 

U.S. Supreme Court Gives Police the Green Light To Preemptively Shoot and Kill Drivers They Fear Could Pose a Danger to Others With Their Car

The U.S. Supreme Court has given a green light to police officers to use deadly force against drivers if police suspect they might pose a danger to others with their car.

In refusing to hear an appeal in Gordon v. Bierenga, the Supreme Court has let stand the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that granted qualified immunity to a Michigan police officer who shot and killed a man in a drive-thru lane at a White Castle after observing the driver make a series of traffic violations that nearly caused collisions. Although Antonino Gordon had not caused an accident or injured anyone while being observed or followed in his car by the police officer for almost 30 minutes, the Sixth Circuit concluded that police can use excessive force preemptively against a driver if they fear he might endanger others.

Cops who feel empowered to act as judge, jury and executioner are not making America any safer,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “This is yet another chilling reminder that in the American police state, ‘we the people’ are at the mercy of police officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with those they were appointed to protect.”

Report: 5 Dead, Including Off-Duty Officer, After Juvenile Opens Fire in Raleigh

Five people were killed, including an off-duty officer, when a juvenile reportedly opened fire in Raleigh, North Carolina, around 5 p.m. Thursday.

ABC 11 reports that the off-duty officer and four others were killed during the shooting.

ECONOMY & BUSINESS 

Five people were killed, including an off-duty officer, when a juvenile reportedly opened fire in Raleigh, North Carolina, around 5 p.m. Thursday.  ABC 11 reports that the off-duty officer and four others were killed during the shooting.

The U.S. annual inflation rate came in at 8.2 percent in September, down from 8.3 percent in August, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was higher than the market expectation of 8.1 percent.

Core inflation, which strips the volatile food and energy sectors, rose to a 6.6 percent annual rate, a new four-decade high. This was up from 6.3 percent in August and higher than the market forecast of 6.5 percent.

On a monthly basis, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4 percent, while the core CPI surged 0.6 percent.

The major contributors to September inflation were increases in shelter, food, and medical care costs.

Trouble Brewing in US Housing Market as Mortgage Rates Hit 20-Year Highs

Mortgage rates hit their highest levels in 20 years this week with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging near 6.92 percent—up from 6.66 percent the week prior, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey.

It’s the highest average rate since April 2002. The 30-year fixed rate stood at about 3.05 percent one year ago.

“We continue to see a tale of two economies in the data,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, said in a report. “Strong job and wage growth are keeping consumers’ balance sheets positive, while lingering inflation, recession fears, and housing affordability are driving housing demand down precipitously.”

The report said the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged about 6.09 percent, up from 5.90 percent a week ago. A year ago around this time, the 15-year rate averaged 2.30 percent, Freddie Mac stated.

U.S. Foreclosure Activity Continues to Increase Quarterly Nearing Pre-Pandemic Levels

ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released its Q3 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 92,634 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — up 3 percent from the previous quarter and 104 percent from a year ago.

The report also shows there were a total of 31,836 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in September 2022, down 8 percent from the previous month but up 62 percent from September 2021.

HEALTH

‘Thank God For Narcan’: Schools Fight Fentanyl Crisis With Medication, Education

K-12 school districts are implementing initiatives such as educational services to fight the fentanyl crisis. 

Reversal drugs such as Narcan are being put in schools while nurses and school resource officers are being trained to administer the drug in the event of an overdose.

“I’m very appreciative and very supportive of Narcan,” former head of DEA’s special operations division Derek Maltz told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I would like to see Narcan everywhere. But it’s a very powerful indication of how widespread and how bad this problem is.”

Eat This Surprising Spice To Boost Your Neuroplasticity & Brain Health

There are so many ways to support brain health and harness neuroplasticity as we get older, from getting enough omega-3s, to staying active and getting consistent sleep. And if you’re familiar with all the benefits of turmeric, you’ll be happy to know it, too, can support your brain as you age.* Here’s what to know, according to experts.

How turmeric supports neuroplasticity.

As health and science journalist and New York Times bestselling author Max Lugavere explained on a recent episode of the mindbodygreen podcast, turmeric boasts neuroprotective properties and contains something called aromatic turmerone, a compound that’s been shown in preclinical evidence to support the production of neural stem cells.* “So [it’s] good for supporting neuroplasticity, which is important for anybody concerned with brain health,”* he said.

Board-certified nutrition specialist and gut health expert Brooke Scheller, DCN, CNS, adds that “Turmeric can help to build, restore, and reestablish new pathways, new habits, and really the learning and adaptation of our brain.”* She notes that turmeric also helps to combat free radicals in the body, which is good news for your brain.* Plus, one of its key bioactives, curcumin, has been shown in animal studies to help normalize the activity of neurotransmitters involved in the production of feel-good hormones, like serotonin and dopamine.*

“So turmeric is potentially supporting neurotransmitter production as well, and again, reducing these overall stress markers that make our brains have more difficulty in functioning or processing,”* Scheller explains.

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10 Deeper Causes of Tinnitus, and How to Treat It

Harvard Medicine stated that evaluating the underlying problems for treating tinnitus is vital “Tinnitus can be a side effect of many medications, especially when taken at higher doses.”

The study also showed that musculoskeletal factors, such as jaw clenching and tightening, tooth grinding, or muscle tension in the neck, could aggravate tinnitus symptoms.

Healthline discussed several ways of treatment for tinnitus, including lifestyle changes, noise reduction machines, prescribed medication, mindfulness practice, and alternative medicine such as nutritional supplements and acupuncture.

Dr. Wu expressed that there are challenges in treating hearing damage clinically. There are no blood tests or developed equipment available yet to give a proper diagnosis.

The other reason is that tinnitus is a complex topic, as other illnesses usually trigger it. To treat ear ringing, we must find the root cause of it.

Dr. Wu said physicians must tend to other symptoms within each patient’s body to treat tinnitus effectively.

While many symptoms might look as if they are irrelevant, they can be the key to the treatment. The following 10 medical case studies show how Dr. Wu treats his patients and improves tinnitus, partial deafness, difficulty hearing, or ear blockage, using acupuncture over time.

Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Pills Trigger Heart Damage

Commonly prescribed to treat pain, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are linked to an increased risk of heart failure in people with Type 2 diabetes

Data show people with diabetes have twice the risk of heart failure without using NSAIDs, and have a higher risk of chronic low back pain and degenerative lumbar spine disorders, which may increase the potential they use NSAIDs

Decades of research have not supported a correlation between cholesterol and heart disease; Dr. Malcolm Kendrick asserts there is a thrombogenic pathology responsible for heart attacks. He recommends avoiding NSAIDs as they trigger platelet aggregation, making blood clots more likely

Heart failure occurs when the heart muscle doesn’t function efficiently. Data show that supplementation with omega-3 fats and vitamin D lower complications from, and risk of heart failure

Anti-inflammatory properties of some foods and supplements have demonstrated efficacy similar to diclofenac, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug commonly prescribed for mild to moderate arthritis. Consider curcumin, Frankincense, capsaicin, omega-3 fats and fermented and cultured foods to help lower inflammation and control pain

Biden to Sign Order to Lower Prescription Drug Costs

President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Friday pushing federal officials to drive prescription drug costs down during a pre-election trip designed to promote Democrats’ health policies, an official said.

The order requires the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to outline within 90 days how it will use new models of care and payment to cut drug costs, according to the White House official, who declined to be identified previewing the president’s action.

Biden plans to sign the order during a trip that includes stops in California on Friday and Oregon on Saturday as he positions his party as a champion of lower healthcare costs ahead of Nov. 8 midterm elections at a time that inflation ranks among voters’ top concerns.

In the Name of Science: How Modern Medicine Reduced the Art of Healing

“[The doctors] just see the disease, not me as a person,” a diabetic patient lamented to Dr. Rajeev Kurapati, Medical Director of Integrative Oncology and Hospitality at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Kentucky.

The patient, alias Walter, had been in the hospital for a few weeks from complications of diabetes, including kidney failure, infections in his lower limbs, and near blindness from problems in his nerves.

Apart from Kurapati, Walter had many medical specialists to tackle each of his symptoms. This included a cardiologist, a nephrologist, and an infection specialist.

Initially admitted to the hospital as a rather pleasant man in his middle ages, Walter was soon leached of his charms as insomnia—another complication of his chronic disease—emerged and became another contending ailment.

Walter soon became anxious and desperate from not being able to sleep, so a psychiatrist was arranged for his suffering mental health, yet his insomnia persisted.

Kurapati’s book titled “Physician: How Science Transformed the Art of Medicine,” set the scene on current hospital medicine by starting the first chapter with this patient.

Kurapati’s book was based on a phenomenon he observed as he advanced in his medical practice. He discovered that doctors, fixating on the objective aspect of medicine, often place more emphasis on the treatment, thinking that this will heal the patient and make them better.

Yet healing and recovery are separate, and healing can therefore happen without physical recovery.

Therefore, a fixation on treatment can lead to physicians neglecting the focus of medicine, which is the patient.

This phenomenon has been observed and cautioned against by many physicians, with many asserting that treating patients “as disease” could compromise patient care.

COVID RELATED NEWS

Doctors Warn Pfizer COVID Treatment Paxlovid Can Interact With Common Medications

The COVID-19 drug Paxlovid can have dangerous interactions with common medications used to treat cardiovascular disease, including certain statins, warned doctors in a new review paper.

A paper published Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows the combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, or Pfizer’s Paxlovid, can interact with a number of commonly prescribed cardiovascular medications. Ritonavir, first approved to treat HIV in 1996, impacts the CYP450 pathway that’s involved in metabolizing a number of medications—as well as the P-glycoprotein drug efflux pump, according to the paper.

“Co-administration of [Paxlovid] with medications commonly used to manage cardiovascular conditions can potentially cause significant drug-drug interactions and may lead to severe adverse effects,” said an abstract. “It is crucial to be aware of such interactions and take appropriate measures to avoid them.”

The review paper said interactions between Paxlovid and some blood thinners can cause a higher risk of bleeding, and interactions between Paxlovid and cholesterol medications, like statins, can be toxic, according to CNN, citing the research paper. Researchers also warned that certain blood pressure medications combined with Paxlovid can lead to adverse reactions.

“Awareness of the presence of drug-drug interactions of Paxlovid with common cardiovascular drugs is key. System-level interventions by integrating drug-drug interactions into electronic medical records could help avoid related adverse events,” Sarju Ganatra, MD, with Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, and the senior author of the review, told news outlets.

Ganatra added that “Paxlovid could be incorporated into an order set, which allows physicians, whether it be primary care physicians or cardiology providers, to consciously rule out any contraindications to the co-administration of Paxlovid.,” but he said there needs to be “consultation” with health care providers and pharmacists.

“A health care provider’s fundamental understanding of the drug-drug interactions with cardiovascular medications is key,” he said.

Kaiser Permanente Sued for Wrongful Death After California Husband’s Remdesivir Treatment Fails

Before Rodney Briones’ physicians at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center in California treated him with Remdesivir, they allegedly did not disclose the risks to him or to his wife, Christina, and did not obtain informed consent, according to a complaint filed by the Briones family.

The couple had gone to the managed care consortium for help after Rodney developed COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive twice for SARS-CoV-2.

A five-day course of treatment with the controversial drug and other allegedly contraindicated, high-risk medications allegedly led to kidney failure for the 50-year-old Briones, who was subsequently placed on a ventilator. During this time, Kaiser Riverside reportedly refused to allow the man’s wife or family to see him. He died on Sept. 12.

“My husband was murdered because of government [expletive],” Christina Briones told The Epoch Times. “I never thought this could happen.”

Kaiser Permanente and Gilead Sciences, the maker of Remdesivir, did not respond to requests for comment.

The grieving wife sued Kaiser in Riverside Superior Court alleging the wrongful death of her husband due to hospital protocol that included administering Remdesvir, which, according to the lawsuit, is a failed Ebola drug that was found to be terminally toxic to the kidneys. The drug was pulled from an Ebola study because more than 53 percent of Remdesivir recipients died, the lawsuit states.

How Cancer Deaths From the COVID Jabs Are Being Hidden

Analysis of U.S. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) data suggests the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been filtering and redesignating cancer deaths as COVID deaths since April 2021 to eliminate the cancer signal

The signal is being hidden by swapping the underlying cause of death with main cause of death

Uncontrollable turbo-charged cancers the medical establishment had never seen before only started to occur after the rollout of the COVID jabs

Before it was manipulated to eliminate the safety signal, data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) showed cancer rates among military personnel and their families tripled after the rollout of the shots

After the rollout of the COVID jabs in 2021, cancer patients have gotten younger, with the largest increase occurring among 30- to 50-year-olds, tumor sizes are dramatically larger, multiple tumors in multiple organs are becoming more common, and recurrence and metastasis are increasing

Fauci Edited Paper by NIH-Funded Group Tied to Wuhan Lab

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), edited a research paper by the group that worked with a high-profile lab in Wuhan, China, to study dangerous bat viruses while pushing back on concerns that the facility could be the source of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The paper, titled “Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans,” was funded by eight federal programs, half of which were from the NIAID that Fauci will lead until December.

Members of the nonprofit research group EcoHealth Alliance, which became a conduit for the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct risky bat research using U.S. taxpayer dollars, make up over half of the roughly two dozen authors on the paper.

Fauci edited the paper in 2020 after receiving it for review that Jan. 8, two weeks before COVID-19 brought Wuhan to a complete lockdown. The peer-reviewed scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, better known as PNAS, approved it in September 2020 and published it two months later.

The extent of Fauci’s input into the paper is unclear. As a public servant for four decades, Fauci has edited scientific papers, notably on the subject of HIV. But his editorial role, given the group’s history of ties with the Wuhan lab and the funding it received from his agency, nonetheless raised eyebrows among critics.

Tristan Daedalus, the government affairs director for White Coat Waste Project that has been tracking the EcoHealth and Wuhan lab’s collaboration, saw in the case a “self-licking ice cream cone.”

“First, Fauci champions dangerous animal experiments to balloon his $6 billion budget. Next, he doles it out via grants to EcoHealth and other white coats in the U.S. and abroad. He and his colleagues then personally edit and approve the experiments they funded for publication in scientific journals—then claim success because of the publication record. Finally, he renews the payouts to fuel the government gravy train,” Daedalus said in a statement to The Epoch Times. “Fauci isn’t following the science, but EcoHealth sure is following the money.”

As the virus spread to other parts of the world, Fauci made repeated efforts to promote a natural COVID-19 origin narrative while downplaying the prospect of a lab leak both privately and in public.

Peter Daszak, a co-author of the PNAS paper and president of EcoHealth, thanked Fauci for backing a natural origin theory in an April 2020 email, according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) records since released through a Freedom of Information Act request (pdf).

“I just wanted to say a personal thankyou [sic] on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he wrote on April 18, 2020, a day after Fauci told reporters that all available evidence on the virus was “totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”

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Exclusive–Rep. Issa Demands PayPal Disclose Government Communications on ‘Disinformation Policy’

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is demanding PayPal provide answers about new language added and then removed from its user agreement — asking specifically if the payment processing giant consulted with the Biden administration on the policy.

PayPal this week announced that it would deduct $2,500 from users who violate its policy on “misinformation,” “hate,” or speech the company deemed “unfit for publication,” but then quickly pivoted to reverse the move following backlash.

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Hilarious Yard Signs That Will Make You Laugh-Out-Loud

In the past, people used their yards to increase curb appeal. But now, people have popularized yard signs to make statements – and boy, have they taken them to new and sometimes downright outrageous heights! Some yard signs have been so hilarious that neighbors haven’t been able to control their laughter. Coming up are hands down the funniest yard signs you’ve ever seen…

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The Battle of Athens, Tennessee

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Social Security Announces Biggest Payment Boost in 40 Years: Here’s When You’ll Get It

Social Security benefits will increase by 8.7 percent in 2023, the biggest boost in 40 years, the Social Security Administration announced on Oct. 13.

The cost-of-living (COLA) adjustment will bolster retirees’ monthly payments by an average of more than $140 per month.

“The 8.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits payable to more than 65 million Social Security beneficiaries in January 2023,” the Social Security Administration (SSA) stated.

In addition, “increased payments to more than 7 million [Supplemental Security Income] beneficiaries will begin on December 30, 2022,” it said, noting that some people receive both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income.

The increase, amid surging inflation, tops this year’s 5.9 percent adjustment, which at the time was the highest in decades. It’s the biggest jump since the SSA in 1981 announced an 11.2 percent increase, which had followed a 14.3 percent boost in 1980, data shows.

“Medicare premiums are going down and Social Security benefits are going up in 2023, which will give seniors more peace of mind and breathing room,” Social Security Administration Acting Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi said in a statement. “This year’s substantial Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is the first time in over a decade that Medicare premiums are not rising and shows that we can provide more support to older Americans who count on the benefits they have earned.”

The agency announces its COLA increases every October and ties them to the release of Consumer Price Index data, a key metric for inflation. On Oct. 13, the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released the data for September, showing the CPI was up 8.2 percent year-over-year.

The McMinn County War: A CASE STUDY IN HOW SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS CAN PROTECT FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOMS

In 1946, a group of soldiers returning to their hometown of Athens, Tennessee after World War II became fed up with the corruption and brutality of the county’s Democratic political machine. Under the leadership of boss E.H. Crump, the machine dominated politics by intimidating, assaulting, and outlawing the opposition—in one instance, abolishing the independent judicial review of election results and giving the job of counting ballots to the Sheriff’s Department, which was run by Crump’s cronies.

The sheriff’s office operated on a fee system whereby deputies were paid for each citation they issued and suspect they booked. Deputies often cited or arrested citizens on falsified charges for a quick buck—sometimes more than $100 per week—and frequently stopped buses on their way through the county in order to charge every sleeping passenger with public drunkenness. Others demanded payoffs from local businesses to ignore gambling or prostitution on the premises.

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