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Today’s News: October 19, 2022

WORLD NEWS

Over 150 Feet of Nord Stream Pipeline Gone as Denmark Confirms Explosion

Around 164 feet of the Nord Stream One pipeline is reportedly gone following the alleged sabotage of the pipelines as Danish authorities confirm the damage was caused by an explosion.

The damage to the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines was caused by explosions, according to Danish police, who, along with the intelligence service PET and the Danish Armed Forces, announced that investigations at the sites revealed the damage had been caused by powerful blasts.

Putin brings in martial law in annexed Ukrainian territory amid fears he will move to full war footing and detonate a nuke over Black Sea – as ‘General Armageddon’ evacuates 60,000 people before Battle of Kherson

Vladimir Putin has declared martial law in the occupied regions of Ukraine as officials began evacuating civilians from the city of Kherson, with a battle for control of the stronghold now looming. 

Putin said the order will come into effect from midnight in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions – giving him sweeping powers to curtail the freedoms of civilians, repurpose industries, and press-gang Ukrainians into his armed forces to fight their fellow countrymen, though it is unclear if all these powers will be used.

The order also affects occupied Crimea and Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, and Rostov, all of which are on Russia’s own territory bordering Ukraine. It is unclear e

Two USAF F-16s race to intercept two Russian bombers flying near Alaska before escorting them out of air defense zone amid heightened tension with Moscow

The US Air Force intercepted and escorted two Russian bomber jets flying near Alaska as tensions heighten with Moscow.

The two Tu-95 Bear-H bombers were ‘positively’ identified flying in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Monday, according to NORAD – a combined defense organization between America and Canada.

Two USAF F-16 jets intercepted it before it could enter American or Canadian airspace, but the planes ‘remained in international airspace.’

Have we learned nothing? 40 new biochemical labs that handle dangerous viruses are being built around the world after the Covid pandemic — with 15 in Russia alone

The Coronavirus pandemic has prompted a global surge in laboratories that handle dangerous viruses — despite concerns Covid may have been the result of the risky experiments.

More than 40 facilities certified as biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) or BSL-4 have either been built or have gone into construction since 2020, predominantly across Asia.

Many countries believe they were caught flat-footed by Covid and want to get ahead of the next devastating outbreak by studying pathogens that pose a threat to humans.

People delay turning heating on as UK inflation soars

The rate at which prices rose in September has returned to a 40-year high as a BBC survey uncovers growing concern about the squeeze on finances.

The price of cereals, milk and cheese all went up along with energy bills and transport costs.

Some 85% of those asked are now worried about the rising cost of living, up from 69% in a similar poll in January.

As a result, nine in 10 people are trying to save money by delaying putting the heating on.

The rising cost of food, fuel and energy dominate fears about rising costs, the survey of 4,132 shows.

Almost half of people (47%) polled in the Savanta Comres survey for the BBC said that energy bills were the most significant increase in cost seen by their household.

Trains canceled and schools affected as nationwide strikes hit France

Only about half the trains on regional and intercity lines were running Tuesday in France and Eurostar canceled some services between London and Paris, as a strike by energy workers spilled over into other sectors of the economy.

One in two trains were canceled on some suburban rail lines in Paris and Eurostar canceled four services between the French and British capitals on Tuesday and Wednesday, blaming strike action.

French unions called for a nationwide strike on Tuesday, expanding a weeks-long refineries strike that has caused fuel shortages and miles-long lines at gas stations. Workers, who now also include teachers, are asking for higher salaries amid rising living costs.

Related: France braces for more fuel shortages as union votes to extend strikes

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is facing the biggest challenge of his second term as long-running oil depot and refinery blockades create fuel shortages, transport workers join the strike for higher wages and the government prepares to force its budget through parliament without a vote, unable to find a compromise with the opposition.

The leftwing CGT union on Tuesday voted to extend stoppages at several oil refineries and depots operated by the French energy giant TotalEnergies, as they demanded an immediate 10% pay rise to counter the cost of living crisis and a share of companies’ profits amid the surge in energy prices heightened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Biden to announce emergency oil sales to prevent price spikes

U.S. President Joe Biden will announce a plan on Wednesday to sell off the last portion of his release from the nation’s emergency oil reserve by year’s end and detail a strategy to refill the stockpile when prices drop, administration officials said.

‘What is wrong with this state?’ Video shows stunned Floridians arrested for voting

When police went to arrest Tony Patterson outside his Tampa home in August, he couldn’t believe the reason.

“What is wrong with this state, man?” Patterson protested as he was being escorted to a police car in handcuffs. “Voter fraud? Y’all said anybody with a felony could vote, man.”

Body-worn camera footage recorded by local police captured the confusion and outrage of Hillsborough County residents who found themselves in handcuffs for casting a ballot following investigations by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new Office of Election Crimes and Security.

The Aug. 18 arrests — conducted hours before DeSantis called a news conference to tout his crackdown on alleged voter fraud — were carried out by state police officers accompanied by local law enforcement.

The never-before-seen footage, obtained by the Herald/Times through public records requests, offers a personal glimpse of the effects of DeSantis’ efforts to root out perceived voter fraud.

“They’re going to pay the price,” DeSantis said during the news conference announcing the arrests.

Early 2022 Voting Outpaces Normal Midterm Election Numbers, Comparable to 2018: Data

About 2.7 million people have already voted in more than a dozen states that include early voting options, according to data released this week by a university. That figure is on par with the record turnout during the 2018 midterm elections, a professor concluded.

Of that figure, 2,353,531 people voted via mail-in ballots, while 337,852 cast their ballots in person, data from the University of Florida’s U.S. Elections Project shows. About a third of the early votes recorded so far have been cast in Florida alone, as more than 600,000 in the Sunshine State have cast ballots.

“It’s clear that we are above the 2018 midterm at the same point in time in states where we have comparable data to look at,” Michael McDonald, a professor at the University of Florida, told ABC News. “We can see the sorts of indicators that would suggest that we’re in for a high-turnout election, much like we had in 2018. And 2018 was the highest midterm turnout rate since 1914.”

Florida, which has a Republican governor and a Republican-controlled legislature, is leading the way so far, the data shows.

“Quite remarkable … considering that early voting is going on in many other states,” McDonald told ABC News. “Florida has been piling on another 100,000 every day, at this point. Florida’s really why the numbers have moved so quickly.”

EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Is Hiding How It’s Complying with Biden’s Voter Registration Drive, Rep. Norman Says

Congressman says Biden’s order to expand voting access has no legal basis

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) is demanding answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) after the agency refused to release all documents regarding how it intended to implement a 2021 executive order on expanding voter access. Republicans have opposed this order as an unlawful exercise of federal power over elections.

In March last year, President Joe Biden signed an executive order (EO 14019) directing the head of every federal agency, including the DOJ, to come up with a strategic plan on how to “promote voter registration and voter participation.” Their plans should be submitted to Susan Rice, the president’s domestic policy advisor.

The executive order also mandates these agencies work with “approved” third-party organizations to provide voter registration services on federal agency premises.

Since then, Republican lawmakers have questioned whether the administration has constitutional and statutory authority to enact such an order. Meanwhile, government watchdogs, including Florida-based public policy think tank the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), have filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with federal agencies seeking documents relating to Biden’s order.

Mom Ambushes School Board by Wearing Drag Queen Costume to Give Them a ‘Taste of Their Own Medicine’

The Iowa mom who donned a drag queen outfit and verbally ripped into members of Ankeny Community School District said the stunt was designed to spark awareness about inappropriate sexualized content in schools. The protest came after a drag show that happened at Ankeny High School in May.

Footage of the costumed ambush blew up online as the mom had hoped.

On Oct. 3, Kimberly Reicks, 40, founder of parent rights group Iowa Mama Bears, demanded answers regarding the outcome of a school board-led investigation involving the drag show—hosted by the Gay Straight Alliance club—that took place after-hours in the school auditorium.

She and two other parents had complained to the board right after the show. The board responded that the performance was “unauthorized” by the building administration, “did not follow the correct protocols,” and was “currently under investigation.”

“They did not follow up,” Reicks told The Epoch Times. “And that’s why I dressed the way I did, right in front of the school board, 130 days later.”

According to Reicks, certain authorization must have been obtained for the dancers and attendees to gain access to the auditorium, lighting equipment, and sound system; she added that two teachers were in attendance along with several students, including one 12-year-old.

“I as a parent cannot even go into a school and eat lunch with my child without a full background check, but some guy can just walk in the back door without any background checks,” Reicks said. “And because he’s part of the LGBTQ community he somehow is not held to the same standard as I am as a parent with a child.”

Key Source for Anti-Trump Dossier Acquitted on All Counts

A key source for the anti-Donald Trump Steele dossier was acquitted on all counts by jurors in Virginia on Oct. 18.

Igor Danchenko, a Russian national, was acquitted on four counts of lying to the government after about 10 hours of deliberations.

“We’ve known all along that Mr. Danchenko was innocent. We’re happy the American public now knows that as well,” Stuart Sears, a lawyer representing Danchenko, told reporters outside the Albert V. Bryan courthouse in Alexandria.

Danchenko, 44, has bragged that he was the primary source for the dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who was paid by Democrats including Hillary Clinton.

Special counsel John Durham prosecuted the case.

“While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service. I also want to recognize and thank the investigators and the prosecution team for their dedicated efforts in seeking truth and justice in this case,” Durham said in a statement.

The only other trial for Durham’s team also ended in a not guilty verdict.

Texas mother-of-two is infected with incurable STD after janitor at doctor’s office where she works ‘stuck his penis in her water bottle and peed in it’: 11 others have come forward and are being tested

A Texas mother has been infected with an STD after a janitor allegedly stuck his penis in her water bottle and urinated in it.

The Houston mother-of-two, who did not want to be identified, discovered the horrifying events after installing a spy camera in her office. 

Janitor, Lucio Diaz, 50, allegedly stuck his genitals into her drink about ‘halfway’ before ’tilting the bottle back and basically rinsing his penis in my water,’ the woman, 54, told ABC 13.

‘This individual is a sick man,’ she said. Eleven others have come forward, according to KHOU 11, and all of them are being tested for STDs.

The woman said: ‘I want this to go to trial. I want him to be exposed for who he is, and I want him to pay for what he’s done to me and then be deported.’

Former Oath Keeper Testifies That His January 6 Behavior Was ‘Naive’

A former Oath Keeper member testified on Oct. 18 that he regrets his actions during the January 6 events.

Jason Dolan, 46, from Wellington, Fla., who served in the Marines for 20 years, said he pleaded guilty to conspiring and obstructing an official proceeding to demonstrate accountability for his “naive and stupid” actions.

As part of his plea obligation, Dolan told the court he had “to testify and tell the truth” at the Oath Keepers’ trial.

Dolan testified as part of the seditious conspiracy trial against five defendants, including four members of the Oath Keepers.

Dolan does not know his sentence and risks up to six years in prison. He testified that the government didn’t make any promises to him and that he is aware that the judge will decide his sentence. He pleaded guilty in a separate case before Judge Amid Mehta, who is presiding over the Oath Keepers’ trial.

“I pled guilty because I helped plan and coordinate a trip to D.C.,” Dolan told Jeffrey Nestler, a prosecutor, “wanting to stop what I saw as an illegitimate government from taking power.”

George Floyd’s daughter announces $250M lawsuit against Kanye West

The mother of George Floyd’s daughter announced they are filing a $250 million lawsuit against Kanye West over his recent statements about Floyd’s death. The rapper, who goes by Ye, erroneously declared on a podcast that Floyd died from fentanyl, not as the result of police brutality.

“Kanye’s comments are a repugnant attempt to discount George Floyd’s life and to profit from his inhumane death,” attorney Pat D. Dixon III said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the goal with the lawsuit is to “hold Mr. West accountable” for his “flagrant remarks.”

The lawsuit will go after West’s “business partners” and “associates” as the comments caused “harassment, misappropriation, defamation, and infliction of emotional distress.” Gianna is the sole beneficiary of Floyd’s estate.

“The interests of the child are priority. George Floyd’s daughter is being retraumatized by Kanye West’s comments and he’s creating an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her,” added Attorney Nuru Witherspoon.

Roxie Washington, acting on behalf of her and Floyd’s child, Gianna, retained the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law. They fired off a cease and desist to West.

“Mr. Floyd’s cause of death is well-settled through evidence presented in courts of law during the criminal and civil trials that were the result of his untimely and horrific death. Nevertheless, you have maliciously made statements that are inaccurate and unfounded, causing damage to Mr. Floyd’s estate and his family,” the letter reads, which was obtained by Yahoo Entertainment.

West brought up Floyd on the Drink Champs podcast while touting conservative pundit Candace Owens’s documentary The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM.

ECONOMY & BUSINESS 

Be Ready for ‘Stagflationary Crisis,’ Economist Roubini Warns

The U.S. and global economies might be embarking upon a new era of “Great Stagflation Instability,” according to famed economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed “Dr. Doom” for correctly predicting the 2008 financial crisis.

Roubini, a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business, wrote an opinion piece for Time magazine, in which he warned that the inflationary pressures that have popped up worldwide over the past year are unlikely to be a short-term challenge.

He thinks that the shocks hitting the economy could originate from the supply side rather than from evolving demand, much like what occurred during the 1970s amid two negative oil shocks. When this occurs, energy and production costs skyrocket, resulting in lower economic growth for countries that import fuel and food, triggering an environment of high inflation and a possible recession.

“If the response to this negative supply shock is loose monetary and fiscal policy—banks setting low interest rates to encourage borrowing—to prevent the slowdown in growth, you feed the inflation flames by stimulating rather than cooling demand for goods and labor,” he wrote. “Then you end up with persistent stagflation: a recession with high inflation.”

Many economists and market analysts have been warning about such an economic climate of high inflation and anemic growth.

Biden to release 15M barrels from oil reserve, more possible

President Joe Biden will announce the release of 15 million barrels of oil from the U.S. strategic reserve Wednesday as part of a response to recent production cuts announced by OPEC+ nations, and he will say more drawdowns are possible this winter, as his administration rushes to be seen as pulling out all the stops ahead of next month’s midterm elections.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 

Boston University Defends Controversial Study on COVID Hybrid Strain With ’80 Percent’ Mortality Rate in Mice

Boston University issued a statement Tuesday defending its research of a COVID-19 Omicron strain when they took the variant’s spike protein and attached it to the original COVID-19 strain, leading to a higher mortality rate in a certain species of mice, triggering concern among lawmakers.

“The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor-binding motif… while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent,” the preprint study said.

One lawmaker, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), said that the research entailed “lethal gain of function virus research” that creates the “potential to kill more people than any singular nuclear weapon.” Marshal, a doctor, added that “viruses have managed to escape even the most secure labs” and said such “research must stop immediately while the risks and benefits can be investigated.”

Electric Nightmare: EV Owner Details 15-Hour Trek to Travel 178 Miles

An electric vehicle (EV) owner who takes road trips between Cheyenne and Casper in Wyoming has revealed that his first trip of 178 miles took a staggering 15 hours to complete in his electric Nissan Leaf.

“It was very difficult. For example, [it took] 15 hours to get from Cheyenne to Casper,” Alan O’Hashi told Cowboy State Daily, adding that this particular trip wasn’t taken in the beginning of the EV era. It was in May 2022.

SURVEILLANCE STATE 

Mass Monitoring: A Digital Dictatorship on the Horizon?

A little over a year ago President Biden proposed the establishment of a new biomedical research agency modeled after the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to propel cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other diseases

That agency — the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) — is now well on its way to being and up and running, with a $1 billion budget from Congress

ARPA-H appears to merge national security with health “security” in a way that could lead to the criminalization of illness and general “wrong-think”

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is now recommending that all U.S. adults aged 65 and younger should be screened for mental health issues

The screening recommendation falls right in line with the original intent behind ARPA-H, which was to monitor Americans for neuropsychiatric warning signs by harvesting private data from consumer electronic devices and health care providers. AI would then be used to predict whether an individual might commit a crime, so that it could be stopped before it happens

Biden’s Cryptocurrency Reports Highlight a Government Culture of Surveillance

or further evidence of the U.S. government’s embrace of a culture of financial surveillance and control, one need only look at recent cryptocurrency reports written by the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice.

The cryptocurrency reports were issued in response to an executive order from President Biden in March — an order that required a host of agencies to issue reports on competition, consumer protection, illicit finance, and the future of the U.S. dollar and cryptocurrencies, alike. Although some people were cheering the president for his decision to seek out more information, the executive order was far from a hall pass for the nascent industry — cryptocurrency users, developers, and businesses were still very much in lawmakers’ crosshairs. At best, it merely bought time.

Now, six months later, several of the executive order’s required reports have been released and few people are still cheering.

TikTok Caught Tracking Keystrokes, Including Passwords

Apps such as Instagram, TikTok and Facebook inject JavaScript code into third party websites that cause potential security and privacy risks to the user

Without your consent, when you click on a link to an external website from an app, code may be inserted that allows the app to monitor every button or link you tap, text you select, screenshots you take and anything you input into the site

When comparing several iOS apps, including Amazon, Facebook Messenger and Robinhood, only TikTok neglected to offer users an option to switch from in-app browsing to using an external browser when viewing third-party sites

TikTok’s parent company is ByteDance, which has ties to the Chinese Communist party, which means the app’s surveillance capabilities could potentially be used for industrial espionage purposes

No matter what app you’re using, you should assume that someone, or some entity, may be watching you

HEALTH

Antidepressants Overprescribed, Linked to Suicide Risk

Cases of depression and anxiety increased by 25 percent in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic alone by some counts, up from 1 in 20 adults worldwide, and the use of antidepressants has become more common. However, studies have found that antidepressants have unexpected risks.

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Study: Marijuana Use at Record Levels for Young Adults

A new study shows that marijuana use has reached record levels for young adults and may soon become a practice among the majority.

According to a recent Monitoring the Future study by scientists at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, marijuana and hallucinogen use has steadily climbed among young adults between 19 and 30 compared to just ten years ago:

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Chronic and Mysterious Symptoms May Be Autoimmunity

Autoimmunity can take years to diagnose—all too often after serious damage has been done

While heart disease and cancer dominate the media, millions more people suffer from a barrage of miserable and sometimes debilitating “mystery” symptoms. These symptoms can rob them of their energy, motivation, ability to function, livelihood, relationships, and even their hope.

It takes most patients many years of visiting multiple doctors before they finally find out that an autoimmune disease is causing their symptoms.

Until then, they’re told they’re “perfectly healthy,” accused of making up symptoms that “don’t exist,” or prescribed antidepressants. Never mind that they can’t get out of bed, they hurt all over, their brain barely functions, they have lost motivation to do anything, they can’t lose weight but are losing hair, or they have a myriad of other unexplainable health issues.

When these patients find their way to functional medicine, testing shows that many of them suffer from the early stages of autoimmune reactivity, a condition in which an imbalanced immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys a person’s own body tissue, usually slowly over many years. Autoimmunity can attack any tissue, enzyme, hormone, or cell in the body, depending on a person’s genetic predisposition and their unique inflammatory triggers.

Common examples of autoimmune diseases include Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, vitiligo, celiac disease, Graves’ disease, Type 1 diabetes, lupus, and some inflammatory bowel diseases.

Normally our immune system defends us against bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens. However, immune imbalances and chronic inflammation can cause it to attack the body’s tissues, organs, and glands, too. This is called “autoimmunity” or “self-attack immunity.” In the early stages of autoimmunity, our immune system makes immune antibodies that erroneously stick to our own tissue instead of attaching to foreign invaders.

When these antibodies attach to our own tissue, this signals our immune system to send out destructive immune cells called natural killer cells to destroy the tissue just as it would destroy a pathogen.

Millions of people suffer for years or decades without treatment because insurance companies don’t approve screening for autoimmunity until the patient shows significant signs of organ or tissue destruction. At this point, the patient can be prescribed some type of immune-suppressing treatment.

However, a patient’s ever-worsening symptoms and declining function can go on for years before diagnosis. Until then, doctors continue to tell patients they’re perfectly healthy.

Autoimmune management requires a personalized approach of overhauling your diet so that it’s anti-inflammatory, removing other inflammatory triggers from your life (they’re different for everyone), getting daily physical activity but not overtraining, getting plenty of good quality sleep every night, and avoiding toxins, including toxic situations and people.

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  • Glutathione. Glutathione is your body’s most potent antioxidant, playing a key role in detoxification by binding and eliminating toxins. 
  • Vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is an increasingly well-known concern world-wide.
  • Curcumin
  • Probiotics
  • Resveratrol

Frequent use of chemical hair straighteners and hair dyes linked to increased risk of cancer

A first-of-its-kind study finds an increased risk of hormonal cancers in Black women who use chemical hair products.

When most models featured on boxes of well-known Black hair straightening products began coming forward on social media and admitting that they had never used the products, it was a watershed moment online.

Now, a recent study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found a link between the frequent use of those and other chemical hair-altering products and an increased risk of certain types of hormonal cancers including uterine, ovarian, and breast cancers.

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the study focused on hair products such as dyes and straighteners and found an increased risk to Black women based on their frequent use of these types of products, often in tandem with each other.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Thorium Insiders Explain What’s Holding It Back From Wider Use

Thorium energy experts at the Thorium Energy Alliance Conference told The Epoch Times what they believe has limited the use of the mildly radioactive element, long touted as a potential alternative or complement to plutonium and enriched uranium in nuclear reactors.

Unlike uranium-235, the isotope in enriched uranium that sustains a nuclear chain reaction, thorium is fertile, not fissile. It must be bombarded with neutrons to produce a fissile isotope, uranium-233.

“We don’t have a practical way in this country to use thorium profitably in reactors that exist,” Mark Nelson, managing director of the consultancy Radiant Energy Group, said in an Oct. 13 interview with The Epoch Times. “We are unlikely to have it in the next 10 years unless we find a way to start licensing and building heavy-water reactors in this country, like Canada’s CANDU [Canadian Deuterium Uranium].”

Nelson was at the Oct. 13–14 conference to speak on behalf of Clean Core, a Chicago-based nuclear energy firm.

Clean Core has collaborated with Texas A&M University, the Department of Energy, and the Idaho National Laboratory to develop a new thorium- and uranium-based fuel that is suited to a well-established type of heavy-water CANDU reactor.

GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING

How to Start Seeds Indoors

Gardening can be an expensive hobby if you purchase all your plants as potted nursery specimens. Fortunately, most vegetables and ornamental plants can be started from seeds, which offers a much less expensive way to populate your garden. Many vegetables and annual flowers are especially easy to grow from seeds. Perennial flowers can be harder to start from seeds, but the cost-savings can be even greater since perennials tend to cost considerably more when purchased as potted nursery plants. Each type of plant has its own particular needs for starting seeds indoors. Seed depth, type of growing medium, and water and light exposure needs will all vary depending on the species. But the general process is the same for growing seedlings you can transplant into the outdoor garden.

COVID RELATED NEWS

COVID-19 Vaccine Injury, Syndrome Not a Disease: FLCCC Conference Shares How to Treat It

The complex myriad of symptoms in people suspecting of COVID-19 vaccine injury has been given a new name and an extensive treatment protocol:

“Post-COVID-19 vaccines syndrome,” said Dr. Paul Marik, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), on Oct. 15 at a conference in Orlando, Florida, aimed at education and sharing information on treating spike protein-induced health issues.

Marik and 15 other experts including pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole, FLCCC co-founder Dr. Pierre Kory, and Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, presented their research and findings.

Intended as an educational conference for health practitioners, the event attracted health providers cross-country, including Florida, New York, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and many more.

Several international doctors were also in attendance, including physicians from Australia and the Philippines.

Endocrinologist Dr. Flavio Cadegiani from Brazil, was both an attendee and a presenter. The conference was preceded by a sold-out networking dinner the night before, and was met with fervent enthusiasm by the attendees.

Post-vaccine injury syndrome is “a multi-system syndrome … it’s not a disease,” Marik said. The condition does not fit a disease model, and therefore rather than targeting the symptoms, the entire body must be treated holistically

CANCEL CULTURE

Vermont School District Suspends Father of Girl Who Pushed Back Against Biological Male in Her Locker Room

A Vermont school district under fire for allowing a biologically male student to use the girls’ locker room has suspended a father from his position as soccer coach for using male pronouns to refer to the trans-identifying student.

Travis Allen has been suspended without pay from his job as the Randolph Union Middle School girls soccer coach, Orange Southwest School District Superintendent Layne Millington said in a Tuesday letter. His suspension follows a Daily Signal report highlighting his daughter’s discomfort at a biological male using her locker room while she was changing.

The superintendent, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal, said that Allen was being punished because he “misgendered a transgender student in our district.”

Allen’s daughter Blake is one of several young ladies who said they were in the Randolph Union High School locker room changing when the trans-identifying student, a biological male, entered the locker room.

Several girls who spoke with The Daily Signal said they asked the student to leave, but that the student did not immediately do so. The girls said that the student stood in the corner and looked at them while they were changing, causing them to feel uncomfortable.

Censoring Truthful Speech About Judges Violates the First Amendment

Can the government censor you for wishing a judge happy birthday? It may seem absurd, but a bill that would allow exactly that was recently added to the National Defense Authorization Act. If passed into law, every American would risk facing mandatory takedown orders for posting basic facts about federal judges online, including their birthdates, the colleges attended by their children, and the jobs of their spouses. The bill stifles access to relevant information about public officials, arbitrarily limits its restrictions to the internet but not other media, and allows speech to be suppressed even if it poses no possible security threat. For all these reasons, as I wrote late last year in the Wall Street Journal, this law would clearly violate the First Amendment.

PET NEWS

Is your pet stressed out? Don’t go looking for this product after Idaho crackdown

It doesn’t take much to stress out local dog owner Christy Burnam’s border collie-pitbull mix. The pup is terrified of thunderstorms, fireworks and even weekend car trips.

To help with her dog’s anxiety, Burnam buys special CBD products made for pets.

“She calms right down,” Burnham said.

As a cannabis extract, part of CBD’s popularity is that, unlike its cannabis cousin THC, it isn’t psychoactive, so it allows users to get the purported health benefits of the plant without the high. Advocates of pet CBD say it can ease anxiety, pain and seizures in animals.

GOOD NEWS

Register Today to Watch ‘The Real Anthony Fauci,’ a 2-Part Documentary Based on RFK, Jr.’s Runaway Bestseller

“The Real Anthony Fauci,” a full-length feature documentary based on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s runaway bestseller, will be available to watch free — for 10 days only — beginning Oct. 18 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern.

This article was originally published by The Defender – Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website

“The Real Anthony Fauci,” a full-length, two-part feature documentary based on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s runaway bestseller — “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” — will be available to watch free, for 10 days only, beginning Oct. 18 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern.

Register here to watch the documentary.

ICYMI

CDC Advisers Poised for Major Vote on COVID-19 Vaccines for Children

Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled to vote on adding COVID-19 vaccines to a program for children.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an advisory panel to the centers (CDC), will vote on Oct. 19 on adding COVID-19 vaccines to the Vaccines For Children program, according to a draft agenda (pdf) for the meeting.

The taxpayer-funded program provides vaccines for free to children who “might not otherwise be vaccinated because of inability to pay,” according to the CDC.

Advisers are also poised to vote on Thursday on the 2023 vaccination schedules for children and adolescents.

The agenda does not make clear whether advisers will consider adding COVID-19 vaccines to the immunization schedules, but experts say that vaccines that are recommended for the Vaccines For Children program must be part of the schedules.

The timing of the votes “is persuasive for the ACIP adding the COVID vaccine to the recommended schedule this week, whether officially licensed by FDA for young children or not, because vaccines covered by VFC have to be on the CDC recommended schedule,” Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine I

The CDC is Quietly Pushing Annual Covid Shots for Children So That Big Pharma Gets Complete Liability Protection

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to convene the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in order to decide on the recommended regimen for childhood vaccinations.

The committee’s decision will be highly consequential not only for the children who will be subjected to a long-term regime of mRNA shots for Covid-19, regardless of their risk factors or known adverse effects, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, but it will be a boon to pharmaceutical companies that are seeking liability protection once-and-for-all for the Covid shots.

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