WORLD NEWS
We, the medical doctors and scientists from all over the world, declare that there is an international medical crisis due to the diseases and deaths co-related to the administration of products known as “COVID-19 vaccines”.
We are currently witnessing an excess in mortality in those countries where the majority of the population has received the so called “COVID-19 vaccines”. To date, this excess mortality has neither been sufficiently investigated nor studied by national and international health institutions.
The large number of sudden deaths in previously healthy young people who were inoculated with these “vaccines”, is particularly worrying, as is the high incidence of miscarriages and perinatal deaths which have not been investigated.
A large number of adverse side effects, including hospitalisations, permanent disabilities and deaths related to the so-called “COVID-19 vaccines”, have been reported officially.
The registered number has no precedent in world vaccination history.
Examining the reports on CDC’s VAERS, the UK’s Yellow Card System, the Australian Adverse Event Monitoring System, Europe’s EudraVigilance System and the WHO’s VigiAccess Database, to date there have been more than 11 million reports of adverse effects and more than 70,000 deaths co-related to the inoculation of the products known as “covid vaccines”.
We know that these numbers just about represent between 1% and 10% of all real events.
1,850 Falun Gong Adherents Detained in 2 Months in China: Report
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began brutally suppressing believers of Falun Gong throughout the country in 1999, a campaign that continues to this day. From July 1 to August 31, at least 1,850 Falun Gong practitioners were harassed, detained, tortured, involuntarily had their blood tested, and were deprived of personal property and retirement pensions, according to a Sept. 13 report on Minghui.org.
Minghui.org is a digital information platform of Falun Gong that records the CCP’s persecution activities in China.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline for character improvement that uses five slow-moving and gentle exercises and moral teachings based on truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
According to the Minghui report, over two months, the communist regime raided the homes of 614 Falun Gong practitioners, suspended the superannuation of 14 senior Falun Gong practitioners, and forcibly collected blood and hair samples from 31 Falun Gong practitioners. The report says 18 Falun Gong practitioners died in detention or at home after release from prison due to the torture and harsh treatment they received.
‘Green’ Biden Arrives at Queen’s Funeral in Motorcade, Other Foreign Leaders and Royals Take Bus
U.S. President Joe Biden has arrived at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in a massive motorcade while other world leaders and foreign royalty took buses.
Joe Biden, supposedly a committed climate change activist, arrived at the Queen’s funeral on Monday in a massive motorcade, despite all foreign dignitaries having been told by the British authorities to leave their private cars and helicopters at home for the event.
Biden promises U.S. forces to defend Taiwan from ‘unprecedented’ attack
President Joe Biden affirmed that U.S. troops would move in to defend Taiwan in the event of an “unprecedented attack” in an interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” Sunday evening.
Biden’s comments represent the clearest statement from the U.S. on possible military intervention if something like a Chinese invasion occurred, seemingly diverting from decades of U.S. policy to avoid committing fully to Taiwan’s defense, CBS News reported.
“Would U.S. forces defend the island?” CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley asked the president.
“Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack,” Biden answered.
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
GOP Voters ‘Virtually Impossible to Poll’ After Biden’s ‘MAGA Republicans’ Speech: Top Pollster
Polls may significantly undercount Republican voters and supporters of former President Donald Trump following President Joe Biden’s speech that attacked “MAGA Republicans” earlier this month, according to a top independent pollster.
Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly wrote on Sept. 17 that Biden’s speech will make it more difficult to survey or even estimate Trump-aligned voters than in prior years. He noted that in 2016, a number of presidential polls and predictions regarding Trump and opponent Hillary Clinton proved to be inaccurate.
“In 2016, Trump supporters were called ‘Deplorables’ and other unflattering names,” Cahaly said on Twitter. “This was a major contributor to the ‘shy Trump voter’ phenomenon that ‘most’ polling missed, which resulted in a major loss in public confidence for polling flowing the election.”
In 2020, “people who supported Trump or espoused conservative values out of step with ‘Woke’ culture found themselves being ‘canceled’ or ‘doxed,’” he continued.
“This led to ‘hidden voters’ that ‘most’ polling under counted, therefore Trump support in key battleground states exceeded expectations. Now [the] Biden administration has essentially classified ‘MAGA Republicans’ as a threat to democracy marshaling federal law enforcement to focus on them,” the pollster wrote. “This move has created a new type of voter that will be even harder to poll or even estimate.”
He was referring to Biden’s Sept. 1 speech that targeted “MAGA Republicans” as a threat to U.S. institutions, just weeks after the FBI raided Trump’s Florida residence. Speaking in front of a red backdrop and flanked by two Marines, Biden claimed Trump and his supporters “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
More Illegal Immigrants Arrive Near VP Harris’s DC Residence, 3 More Buses Sent to NYC
Another bus carrying illegal immigrants arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s home in Washington, early on Sept. 17, according to video footage. Additionally, another wave of buses also arrived in New York City.
The District of Columbia busload reportedly carried men, women, and children, including newborns, mostly hailing from Venezuela and Nicaragua, an NBC reporter who filmed the group of immigrants getting off the bus said on Twitter.
Saturday’s early morning incident now marks the third bus that has been sent to Harris’s District of Columbia home this week.
According to Fox News, which first reported the Sept. 17 arrival, around 50 illegal immigrants got off the bus, and aid workers quickly collected the people and took them to a local shelter.
Meanwhile, media footage and photos from the network also show that three more buses arrived at New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal early on Saturday. According to the pictures, it wasn’t immediately clear how many people were on the buses.
In a statement last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state has currently bused over 7,900 illegal immigrants to the U.S. capital since April, and over 2,200 to New York City since early August. Several hundred immigrants have also been dropped off in Chicago as part of a mission to provide “much-needed relief to our overwhelmed border communities.”
Earlier this week, Abbott announced that two buses carrying “more than 100 migrants” who had been picked up by authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas, arrived at the U.S. Naval Observatory—which is the vice president’s residence.
Abbott said at the time that the buses were sent as retaliation to Harris’s recent comment, in which the vice president—who was tapped last year by President Joe Biden to oversee U.S. border security—claimed that America’s border with Mexico is “secure.”
The Republican governor hasn’t confirmed yet if the buses on Sept. 17 were also sent by him, though on Thursday, he said that the state “will continue sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C. until President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to secure the border.”
This week, the White House sharply criticized Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for transporting illegal immigrants to Harris’s residence and Martha’s Vineyard.
The Massachusetts governor’s office announced Friday that dozens of illegal immigrants who were transported to Martha’s Vineyard will be taken to a military base in Cape Cod, while some members of the National Guard will be activated.
The move comes as video footage and photos show the illegal aliens—of mostly Venezuelan descent—being transported on several buses from the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island that is popular among the rich and powerful Democrats.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s office announced Friday that it is going to mobilize 125 members of the National Guard and said that families and individuals will be housed at the Joint Base Cape Cod.
“We are grateful to the providers, volunteers, and local officials that stepped up on Martha’s Vineyard over the past few days to provide immediate services to these individuals,” Baker said in a statement. “Our administration has been working across state government to develop a plan to ensure these individuals will have access to the services they need going forward, and Joint Base Cape Cod is well equipped to serve these needs.”
The move by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, sparked outrage among left-wing commentators and pundits on social media. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, claimed the Department of Justice should investigate DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on human trafficking charges busing illegal immigrants.
But DeSantis argued Thursday that the Biden administration has failed in its duty to secure the border, while Abbott said that New York City, Chicago, and Washington D.C. are suitable locations for illegal immigrants due to their “sanctuary city” status. After the Martha’s Vineyard deployment, few Democrats made mention of the crisis that’s emerged along the U.S.–Mexico border or the White House’s immigration policies.
Sen. Cruz Urges DeSantis to Send Illegal Immigrants to 3 New Democrat-Run Areas
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) urged Republican governors to send illegal immigrants to three other Democrat-run areas after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s well-publicized move to send them to Martha’s Vineyard last week.
On Twitter, the Republican senator urged DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot to send illegal aliens to Nantucket, Massachusetts; Palo Alto, California; and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Like Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket is often used as a vacation spot for the wealthy and powerful. Rehoboth Beach is where President Joe Biden has a vacation house, and Palo Alto, a city located in Silicon Valley, is home to several large tech companies.
For months now, Abbott has been sending illegal immigrants from the U.S.–Mexico border to Democrat-run areas, including New York, Chicago, and Washington—all of which are “sanctuary” cities. The leaders in those areas have sounded the alarm and said their municipalities can’t handle the influx of illegal immigrants, prompting cries of hypocrisy.
On Sept. 15, Abbott sent several buses filled with illegal migrants to Washington before they were dropped off outside the official residence of Vice President Kamala Harris. At about the same time, DeSantis sent 50 illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, where former President Barack Obama has a sprawling estate. Within a day, the governor of Massachusetts activated the National Guard and transported the people to a military base on Cape Cod.
Top Democrats, including officials in the White House, have condemned the move, alleging that DeSantis and Abbott are engaging in human trafficking. But the two governors have said that their states can’t handle the massive surge in illegal immigration, that the federal government has the sole authority to carry out deportations, and that the Biden administration’s lax immigration rules are what caused the influx.
District of Columbia Repeals Gun Ammo Limit in Bid to Settle Second Amendment Lawsuit
The District of Columbia has gotten rid of its regulation limiting how much ammunition a concealed-carry handgun permit holder may carry after a local resident sued it in federal court.
This marks the second time in under a year that the local government in the nation’s capital city has been forced to amend its gun laws after being sued by Dick Heller, a civil rights activist whose multiple lawsuits have advanced the cause of Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia and throughout the nation.
A previous lawsuit Heller brought against the D.C. government resulted in the Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller that held that the Second Amendment protects “the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.” Two years later, the high court ruled in McDonald v. City of Chicago that this right “is fully applicable to the States.”
In the lawsuit filed on June 30 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Heller argued that a D.C. regulation preventing holders of concealed pistol carry licenses from carrying more than 20 rounds of ammunition at a time was unconstitutional. Such a limit violates the U.S. Constitution because there is no historical precedent for it, and it interferes with the right of a concealed carrier to properly use a firearm for self-defense in any public confrontations that may arise, according to the lawsuit, as The Epoch Times previously reported.
The legal action was one of many filed nationwide after the 6–3 ruling by the Supreme Court on June 23 in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which recognized a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. Importantly, the ruling found that gun restrictions must be deeply rooted in American history if they are to survive constitutional scrutiny.
On Sept. 14, Robert J. Contee III, chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, gave notice (pdf) to the court that on an emergency basis he had repealed the District’s ban on carrying more than 20 rounds, The Reload, a firearms policy and politics publication, reported.
The policy change heads off a pending injunction request against the regulation that Heller was pursuing under the new legal standards articulated in the Bruen decision.
FBI Makes 6,000 Arrests, Seizes Firearms in Summer-Long Operation
FBI agents arrested about 6,000 alleged violent criminals across the United States over the past four months and have seized more than 2,700 firearms and large quantities of fentanyl, the bureau announced Tuesday.
“Violent crime is on the minds of a lot of Americans right now and top of mind for police chiefs and sheriffs, who constantly tell me that the rising rate of gun and gang violence is one of their most important and difficult challenges,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a video message about the operation.
The FBI, which has faced increasing criticism about its targeting of former President Donald Trump and his supporters, said that its agents and local law enforcement officials arrested nearly 6,000 alleged violent criminals and gang members. It also seized more than 2,700 firearms connected to criminal conduct.
Those operations were carried out in California, Texas, Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico.
“The Los Angeles Metropolitan Task Force on Violent Gangs arrested 28 members and associates of the South Los Angeles-based Eastside Playboys street gang for alleged federal racketeering, firearms, and narcotics charges,” the FBI said in providing an example. “The task force seized approximately 47 firearms, almost 200 kilograms of methamphetamine, 27 kilograms of cocaine, more than 13 kilograms of fentanyl, and more than seven kilograms of heroin.”
The agency also said its gang task force executed 16 federal search warrants targeting prison and street gangs around Albuquerque, New Mexico. They “seized more than one million fentanyl pills, 142 pounds of methamphetamine, 37 firearms, nine ballistic vests, two hand grenades, and $1.8 million in cash,” the bureau said.
‘We Have to Start Valuing People Again,’ CompassCare CEO Says as Center Recovers From Firebombing
As CompassCare’s Buffalo office reopened months after being firebombed, Rev. Jim Harden, the president and CEO of the pregnancy service provider vows to continue their work and calls on Americans to value human lives.
“This is the most important cultural moment in 150 years,” he told The Epoch Times.
Respecting human lives including those unborn ones will not only benefit the United States economically but also help restore respect in society.
“There’s no sustainable economic model for a flat or declining population base in any nation. The basic unit of an economy is a human being,” he said. “[However] it’s not just we want healthy economies, it’s because we want healthy people, we have to start valuing people again. That’s when we’ll start to see these mass shootings start to go away, we’ll start to see respect for the police again, we’ll start to see respect again for ourselves, we will start to see suicide rates go down.”
The Buffalo office—which provides ethical medical care and comprehensive community support to women who are considering abortion—was firebombed by pro-abortion activists on June 7.
The building was heavily damaged by fire and vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti.
Harden said he has been receiving death threats too.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Saturday that the Lone Star state will keep transporting illegal immigrants to other locations both as a wake-up call to Washington and as a way of “fighting back” against the Biden administration’s lax border policies.
“They’ve been dumping people in America for a long time, a long time,” Patrick told Fox News in an interview that aired Sept. 17.
“And now Texas is saying, we’re fighting back. We’re going to send them to your neighborhood and we’re going to keep those buses coming until finally this administration wakes up,” he added.
Patrick said that Texas is now spending around $4 billion a year on border security, while normally the state spends around $400 million.
“This is a financial burden on us. But more importantly, it’s an invasion of our state,” he said.
Patrick’s remarks come as Texas has continued to bus illegal immigrants to locations out of state and as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent several migrant planes to the wealthy enclave of Martha’s Vineyard.
“Obviously there’s going to be buses like Texas is doing” and “there may be some more flights” containing illegal aliens, DeSantis told a news conference in Florida on Sept. 16.
New York City ‘Nearing Its Breaking Point’ With Influx of Illegal Immigrants From Texas: Mayor
New York City’s shelter system is close to being overwhelmed by the continued influx of illegal immigrants from Texas, the city’s mayor said on Sept. 14.
“In this new and unforeseen reality, where we expect thousands more to arrive every week going forward, the city’s system is nearing its breaking point,” Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said in a statement.
New York has recorded over 11,000 illegal immigrants entering its shelter system in the past several months, with others going into the homes of family members or friends. A number have come from Texas, which started bussing asylum seekers who were released by federal authorities to Democrat-run “sanctuary cities” earlier this year.
U.S. authorities tell the illegal immigrants to go to court at a later date for the asylum claims to be adjudicated. Most claims are denied and many immigrants don’t show up at court. Authorities rarely deport illegal immigrants, especially under Biden.
Pennsylvania County Sued Over Illegal Ballot Drop Box Usage Captured on Camera
A conservative legal group is suing the board of elections in Pennsylvania’s Chester County, citing surveillance camera footage that captured the illegal use of ballot drop boxes.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by America First Legal (AFL) on behalf of registered voters in Chester County. The group, founded by longtime Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, said this is meant to ensure that the board adheres to Pennsylvania’s election law regarding ballot drop boxes prior to this November’s election.
Under Pennsylvania’s election code, mailed and absentee ballots have to be returned either by mail or in person by the person to whom the ballot belongs, meaning one person cannot drop more than one ballot in a drop box.
During the May primary election, the Chester County Board of Elections placed 13 drop boxes. An instruction attached to each box by the board explicitly said that “you must only return your own ballot,” and that “you are prohibited from delivering or returning anyone else’s ballot, even if that person is your spouse, parent, child, grandparent, other relative, neighbor, or friend.”
However, only 11 of all 13 boxes were physically watched by a staff member and were only accessible at certain hours of the day, according to the complaint. The other two boxes, which were accessible 24 hours per day, remained unstaffed but monitored with surveillance cameras.
The surveillance camera footage, obtained through a Right-to-Know request from the board, showed multiple instances of individuals delivering more than two ballots. Together, some 300 individuals had dropped “invalid and void ballots” at that location, according to the AFL.
Cause of Car Crash That Killed Rep. Jackie Walorski Revealed
The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana revealed the cause of the car crash that killed Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) and three other people last month.
Zachery Potts, the driver of the Toyota RAV4 SUV, was found to be at fault, according to the sheriff’s office in a statement over the past weekend. The vehicle was driving left of the center median at excessive speeds when it hit a Buick.
The statement notes that Potts was trying to pass another vehicle on a two-lane roadway when the collision occurred.
A witness to the accident was “traveling northbound behind both the Toyota RAV4 and the unidentified truck,” according to the sheriff’s office.
“The Toyota was observed slowing, as what was described as creating distance between the truck and the Toyota. The Toyota was then observed accelerating to a high rate of speed, closing the distance to the unidentified truck. As the Toyota neared the rear of the truck, it swerved into the southbound lane at which it collided with the southbound Buick driven by Edith Schmucker,” according to sheriff’s officials.
The office also found that there was no evidence of cellphone usage or texting during the time of the accident by either Potts or the other driver, Edith Schmucker. The office also found no evidence of mechanical failure.
“The airbag control module data also showed that the driver of the Toyota RAV4 steered the vehicle left just prior to the crash. The amount of steering input was consistent with normal operation of the vehicle and was consistent with the eyewitness account,” the sheriff’s office stated.
Walorski, Potts, Schmucker, and Emma Thomson—another of the congresswoman’s staffers—all died in the crash, officials have said.
Biden Makes Emergency Declaration as Hurricane Fiona Strengthens
President Joe Biden on Sunday approved Puerto Rico’s emergency declaration as Fiona strengthened into a hurricane.
“The President’s action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts to alleviate the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population and to provide appropriate assistance, to save lives, to protect property, public health and safety and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all 78 municipalities in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,” said the declaration.
Hurricane Fiona, a Category 1 storm, strengthened to become a hurricane on Sunday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
“Heavy rains from Fiona will continue across Puerto Rico through tonight and occur over the Dominican Republic later today into Monday,” NWS said in an update. “These rainfall amounts will produce life-threatening flash floods and urban flooding across Puerto Rico and portions of the eastern Dominican Republic, along with mudslides and landslides in areas of higher terrain.”
The agency said a storm surge of 3 feet will be brought by the storm to Puerto Rico’s coast. More than 20 inches of rain is also expected to hit parts of the U.S. territory.
“Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours while Fiona moves near Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and over the southwestern Atlantic,” the U.S. hurricane center said. “Hurricane conditions are expected on Puerto Rico today, and are expected in portions of the eastern Dominican Republic tonight and Monday.”
Judge’s Latest Refusal to Grant Bail Looms Large for Jan. 6 Defendant Maced Twice by DC Jail Guard
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has referred to Ronald C. McAbee as a ‘terrorist’ who committed ‘insurrection’
Despite audio and video evidence showing former Tennessee sheriff’s deputy Ronald Colton McAbee did not assault a police officer on the Capitol steps on Jan. 6 as alleged by prosecutors, a federal judge again refused the defendant’s motion to be released from the District of Columbia jail pending trial.
The issue took on added urgency on Sept. 5 when McAbee, 28, was twice assaulted with chemical spray by a guard in the District of Columbia jail for not wearing a COVID mask, his wife Sarah told The Epoch Times
“This is just inhumane,” Sarah McAbee said. “It doesn’t even matter what your political beliefs are. You should never treat somebody that way.
“Are we living in the same universe?” she asked. “This is not the America I once knew.”
McAbee is charged by federal prosecutors with seven Jan. 6-related crimes: assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer; two counts of civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and committing an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.
McAbee was outside the Lower West Terrace tunnel during some of the worst violence on Jan. 6, 2021. Several times, he tried to render lifesaving aid to a dying Rosanne Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia. His interactions with Metropolitan Police Department officers resulted in most of the charges. They also served as justification for a U.S. District Court judge to reverse a Tennessee judge’s order and keep McAbee in jail for 397 days—and counting.
Fortify America by Abandoning ‘Victimhood Narratives’ and Embracing Excellence: Vivek Ramaswamy
Bestselling author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy made the case in an interview with EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders program that at the heart of true American identity is the dogged pursuit of excellence and simultaneous rejection of the perilous-yet-alluring siren song of victim culture.
There’s a tug of war taking place in the American soul between the archetype of the underdog, who seeks to prevail against the odds, and that of the victim, who’s defeated by hardship and sees life’s obstacles as too difficult to overcome, he said.
America’s national psyche has been battered by messages that encourage the adoption of victimhood narratives, said Ramaswamy, whose newest book is called “Nation of Victims.”
Corporate America is partly to blame, he said, as it exploits various narratives of victimhood and postmodern ideology to push more products to consumers. But it takes two to tango, he points out.
“What is it about our national psyche, the general population, that causes us to gobble up these victimhood narratives, to eat it up? And that’s a deeper question. It goes to the heart of the national identity crisis that we’re in, where today where everyone in America—black, white, left, center, right, doesn’t matter—views themselves as a victim,” he said.
In trying to answer that question, Ramaswamy said he discovered that an incentive structure had been created in America—one that rewards victimhood over victory.
Martha’s Vineyard Newspaper Lists 50 Job Ads Despite Claims of No Work on Island
While some locals have claimed that the illegal immigrants who arrived on this wealthy island should go elsewhere since there wouldn’t be work for them with the summer rush gone, the local newspaper has listed 50 help wanted ads in a recent issue, and the local supermarket chain has been known to need help all year long.
The classified section of the Vineyard Gazette listed more than 50 jobs in the same issue that ran a story about the illegal aliens, referring to them as “stranded migrants.” The job ads included positions for laborers, custodians, landscapers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, technicians, library assistant, and several retail positions.
The local YMCA also listed several job openings, including housekeepers, ice arena workers, and a front desk administrator. The spacious Y, located near where the illegal immigrants spent the night at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, shares a complex with Martha’s Vineyard Community Services (MVCS), which also ran a help wanted ad in the paper, including a job for administrative assistant, “bilingual preferred.”
MVCS didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time. The outreach center and the island’s homeless shelter told the media that they didn’t have room for the illegal aliens.
In the afternoon of Sept. 17, a Saturday, the large MVCS complex had several doors to its buildings wide open, but no staff could be found. One of the open buildings consisted of two floors with several empty rooms, including rooms with full kitchens and couches.
A group of friends enjoying an outdoor lunch at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport told The Epoch Times that while the plume of summer jobs is over, there are still enough job opportunities on the island.
The women, year-round residents who grew up on the island, pointed to Stop & Shop, a grocery store chain with three locations on the island. According to the women, the stores are always looking for help and they have worker dormitories, which they said are “now empty” with most of the summer help gone.
“Martha’s Vineyard is a tale of two cities,” said one of the women, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
But Charles Rus, music director at St. Andrew’s, the episcopal church in Edgartown where the illegal immigrants were housed, told The Epoch Times there weren’t any jobs for them on the island.
“There’s space, but there’s no job,” he said.
Rus had offered to put some of the illegal immigrants up in his two-bedroom apartment.
“If they had come four months earlier, every one of them would have had a $20 per hour job,” he said.
In response to criticism that the illegal aliens were forced off the island, Rus said the Venezuelans had to leave the island for “practical reasons,” including the need to attend scheduled court hearings.
According to a Sept. 16 story in the Vineyard Gazette, the Island Counseling Center provided each of the 50 illegal immigrants with individual legal
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Do they know something that they aren’t telling us? As you will see below, Walmart, Target and other major U.S. retailers are literally canceling billions of dollars in orders ahead of the coming holiday season. I have never heard of such a thing happening before, and under normal conditions it wouldn’t make any sense at all. The holiday season is typically the busiest time of the year for retailers, and at this time in 2021 there was actually a great deal of concern that there wouldn’t be enough inventory due to global supply chain problems. But now everything has changed. All of a sudden major retailers are feverishly canceling orders, and this would only make sense if a severe economic downturn was imminent.
For example, Walmart is admitting that it has canceled “billions of dollars in orders” as we approach the upcoming holiday season…
John David Rainey, Walmart’s EVP and CFO, said it had cleared most summer inventory, was reducing exposure in electronics, home and sporting goods, and canceled “billions of dollars in orders” to realign inventories. He said, “Our actions in Q3 will allow us to make significant progress toward rationalizing absolute levels and mix, which will enable our stores to be well positioned ahead of the holiday season.”
It is extremely odd that Walmart would decide to do such a thing.
Recently I had an opportunity to stroll through a Walmart, and there were plenty of inventory holes.
So what would make them suddenly cancel “billions of dollars” in orders that they thought that they were going to need for the holiday season?
Perhaps some enterprising reporter will be willing to ask them such a question.
Meanwhile, we just learned that Target has also canceled “more than $1.5 billion” in orders…
Target said it had reduced its “inventory exposure in discretionary categories” throughout Q2 by canceling more than $1.5 billion of orders in these categories and marking down products.
Target is much smaller than Walmart is, and so for Target to cancel so many orders is a really big deal.
And it turns out that Kohl’s and Under Armour have been canceling large numbers of orders as well…
Kohl’s has also pulled back on order receipts and increased promotions to get through an inventory glut.
“We have taken action to address inventory, including increasing promotions, being aggressive on clearing excess inventory and pulling back on receipts,” said Kohl’s CFO Jill Timm in a call with investors.
Under Armour also said it made some proactive cancellations due to supply chain constraints to ensure that “the right inventory was coming in at the right time,” said interim president and CEO Colin Browne in a call with investors.
These retailers are obviously scared that they will end up stuck with massive amounts of inventory that they cannot sell.
Do they believe that economic activity during the months ahead will be much lower than they originally anticipated?
California Governor Signs ‘Most Aggressive’ Package of Green Laws
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced a sweeping package of what he called the country’s “most aggressive” climate measures to “accelerate the state’s transition” to non-conventional energy sources.
The package includes 40 bills that appear to provide new green rules on laws related to things ranging from large-scale industry to the family home and private and public transportation.
The Democratic governor’s office said in a statement the package of climate change-focused measures aims to cut pollution and target “big polluters.”
It comes as America’s most populous state has struggled to provide stable electricity for residents amid a heat wave, which saw the state asking residents to use less power and suggest the best times to use air conditioners or charge electric cars.
“This month has been a wake-up call for all of us that later is too late to act on climate change. California isn’t waiting any more,” Newsom said in a statement. “Together with the Legislature, California is taking the most aggressive action on climate our nation has ever seen.”
“We’re cleaning the air we breathe, holding the big polluters accountable, and ushering in a new era for clean energy,” he continued. “That’s climate action done the California Way—and we’re not only doubling down, we’re just getting started.”
In July, Newsom called for “bold actions” to combat climate change. He declared his climate-focused vision for California involves a push to achieve 90 percent “clean energy” by 2035, “carbon neutrality” by 2045, “setback measures” to target oil drilling, carbon capture programs, and to “advance nature-based solutions” to remove carbon from “natural and working lands.”
Why ‘Leaving California’ Is Rapidly Growing in Popularity
Terry Gilliam, founder of the Facebook groups “Leaving California” and “Life After California,” has garnered more than 250,000 members combined who are looking to join the thousands fleeing the state or who have already left.
Since the first group was started in 2018, he said the groups have been rapidly gaining more members.
“I believe a million people will leave [California] this year. And I don’t see it slowing down if they keep doing what they’re doing,” Gilliam told EpochTV’s California Insider host Siyamak Khorrami in a Sept. 10 episode.
Around 367,000 people left California in the year leading up to July 2021, representing the highest domestic migration loss in the nation, according to Census data.
Gilliam said the reason people are moving is multifaceted. The cost of living, crime, homelessness, and climate policies are a few reasons families say they’re making the big move.
Nationwide, San Francisco and Los Angeles rank first and second, respectively, for cities with residents moving to other locations, Redfin reported in July. New York City, Washington, D.C., and Seattle round out the top five.
Major US City’s Basic Income Program Will Give Homeless People Thousands in Cash
More than 140 homeless people in Denver will be given up to $1,000 per month for up to one year as part of a basic income program, according to an announcement from the city in.
“Just as important as housing and shelter is a regular source of income for those experiencing homelessness,” Mayor Michael B. Hancock, a Democrat, said of the program. “This direct cash assistance will help more than 140 women and families currently in shelters move into stable housing, and provide support, so they can stay housed while opening space in our shelters to serve more people.”
Homeless people who are eligible have to be using the city’s shelter program, the city said.
According to the news release, the cash will be given monthly to “140 women, transgender and gender non-confirming individuals, and families in shelters.” The release did not mention homeless men.
A release issued by the city said that the $2 million to fund the program was sourced from the American Rescue Plan Act, which was backed by President Joe Biden and Democrats. The plan, which totals nearly $2 trillion, was signed into law in March 2021.
“The program will be evaluated by University of Denver’s Center for Housing and Homelessness Research using a randomized control trial, which will measure housing outcomes, utilization of shelter and other homeless services, improvements in psychological health and substance use for those who opt-in,” said the news release.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Electric Vehicles in the Sky: Air Canada Orders 30 Plug-In Planes
Electric vehicles are set to take to the skies, with Air Canada announcing on Thursday that it has ordered 30 plug-in planes from the Swedish electric aircraft startup company, Heart Aerospace. The electric planes are expected to have an operational range of just 124 to 248 miles per charge.
Air Canada will be acquiring 30 ES-30 electric-hybrid regional aircraft, which will have the capacity for up to 30 passengers to travel between 124 and 248 miles, the company said in a press release on Thursday.
Opposition to 5G is worldwide and for numerous significant issues associated with it including cybersecurity risks (see 1, 2). Despite ongoing expert warnings, plans for deployment and activation have continued, including at U.S. medical facilities. Now additional cybersecurity warnings were issued regarding its use and the use of other controversial technologies at U.S. hospitals.
From Environmental Health Trust:
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued an alert Sept. 8 warning about the security risks associated with AI, 5G networks, nanomedicine, smart hospitals and quantum computing.
In addition the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a notice outlining the security and patient safety risks associated with unpatched and legacy medical devices. The FBI has observed a recent uptick in medical device vulnerabilities. If exploited, threat actors can leverage outdated software and poor security features within medical devices to execute cyberattacks.
See the Cybersecurity powerpoint here https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/emerging-technology-security-hph.pdf
5G in Healthcare: Security Concerns
- In many ways, security threats for 5G-enabled healthcare technologies overlap with IoT threats:
- Need to secure medical devices as they connect to the network (authentication)
- Need to secure data as it is transmitted to/from medical devices (end-to-end encryption)
- Need to secure data on device (whole disk encryption or similar procedure)
- IoMT software/firmware development should include both trustworthiness and resilience
- Trustworthiness may require the use of authentication and encryption technology
- Resilience may require fallback to a safe mode in the case of a cyberattack
- Software design and update practices should be transparent
- The design and implementation of the software in medical devices should include a specification of cybersecurity features and validation of those features, as well as a Cybersecurity Bill of Materials (“CBOM”)
- Regularly employ static and/or dynamic vulnerability testing of the software on 5G devices
- Regularly update software on 5G devices in a secure manner • It will be absolutely critical to segment and monitor 5G networks
In regard to artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology, Internet of Things (IoT) technology (see 1, 2, 3), and wireless “Smart” medical devices, serious and sometimes life-threatening problems have been identified with them for years as well.
5G opposition has limited, slowed, and/or stopped deployment in some locations (see 1, 2) including near some U.S. airports due to aviation interference risks (see 1, 2, 3). Nevertheless, deployment and activation continues worldwide on a massive scale despite scary-as-hell research that also continues to be published about it (see 1, 2).
SURVEILLANCE STATE
WaPo: Customs officials Have Copied Americans’ Phone Data At Massive Scale
U.S. government officials are adding data from as many as 10,000 electronic devices each year to a massive database they’ve compiled from cellphones, iPads and computers seized from travelers at the country’s airports, seaports and border crossings, leaders of Customs and Border Protection told congressional staff in a briefing this summer.
The rapid expansion of the database and the ability of 2,700 CBP officers to access it without a warrant — two details not previously known about the database — have raised alarms in Congress about what use the government has made of the information, much of which is captured from people not suspected of any crime. CBP officials told congressional staff the data is maintained for 15 years.
Details of the database were revealed Thursday in a letter to CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who criticized the agency for “allowing indiscriminate rifling through Americans’ private records” and called for stronger privacy protections.
The revelations add new detail to what’s known about the expanding ways that federal investigators use technology that many Americans may not understand or consent to.
Agents from the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, another Department of Homeland Security agency, have run facial recognition searches on millions of Americans’ driver’s license photos. They have tapped private databases of people’s financial and utility records to learn where they live. And they have gleaned location data from license-plate reader databases that can be used to track where people drive.
CBP’s inspection of people’s phones, laptops, tablets and other electronic devices as they enter the country has long been a controversial practice that the agency has defended as a low-impact way to pursue possible security threats and determine an individual’s “intentions upon entry” into the U.S. But the revelation that thousands of agents have access to a searchable database without public oversight is a new development in what privacy advocates and some lawmakers warn could be an infringement of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.
The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime
Whitney Webb’s book, “One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein,” provides the framework to understand not just the role and function of Epstein, but also, more broadly, the mess we’re now finding ourselves in
Around the time of World War II, the intelligence community in the United States formalized its cooperation with organized crime syndicates in what was known as Operation Underworld, and the web of corruption grew from there
Sexual blackmail was used by organized crime before U.S. intelligence even existed. As criminal factions and intelligence agencies developed a symbiotic relationship, blackmail became a tool to achieve their individual ends
While it may appear as though organized crime is being combated, this is rarely ever the case. Stories of cracking down on organized crime are cover stories to hide what’s really happening, which is the consolidation of organized crime territory
The incentive behind all this criminal activity is not merely the hoarding of money to live in the lap of luxury. It’s about power and control over others. The good news is we can pull the plug on their plans
HEALTH
Truth Is Most Loving Response to Transgender Individuals, Say Women Who Had Gender Dysphoria
In kindergarten, Erin Brewer was a girl, but when she started first grade, she considered herself a boy.
“I was insistent, persistent, and consistent that I was a boy, when I started first grade,” Brewer said during a panel discussion titled “Loving People Affected by Transgender Ideology From Beginning to End,” at the Pray Vote Stand Summit, held this week at First Baptist Church of Atlanta in Georgia.
The summit is being hosted by FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of Family Research Council.
“Thankfully, I lived at a time when my teachers were very concerned about the changes that happened between kindergarten and first grade. In kindergarten, I was a pretty content kid. I came into first grade, and I was aggressive. I was acting like a boy. I was insisting on being called by the name Timothy. I wanted to go into the boys’ bathrooms.”
Her teacher arranged for Brewer to see the school psychologist.
“If I were a child today, my teachers would likely affirm that and say, ‘Yes, you are, in fact, a boy.’ And they would encourage that thinking,” Brewer said. “I’m incredibly thankful to my first grade teacher for referring me to the school psychologist, who instead of affirming that I was inherently flawed, and that I was born in the wrong body, helped me to understand that I had underlying causes that made me feel this way.”
‘The Detransition Diaries’: Film Explores the Lives of Ex-transgender Women
A new film featuring three ex-transgender women hopes to shed more light on the rapidly growing trend of transgenderism that is increasingly affecting young girls and women.
Jennifer Lahl, a former nurse and an independent film producer based in California, believes the “powerful testimonies” of these “detransitioners” about their gender confusion, doubt, and regret will resonate deeply with those who watch the documentary, “The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters.”
“I thought this is a great way to communicate to people what’s happening to children at the hands of medical professionals,” Lahl told the Epoch Times.
Although the transgender movement has also affected boys and men, Lahl said she deliberately narrowed her focus to women because of the “rapid increase of young girls thinking that they were born in the wrong body.”
One of the women, Grace Lidinsky, describes in the film how she felt after undergoing a double mastectomy: a sense of doubt and the eventual realization she would never become a man no matter how much surgery she had. Although she has learned to accept her body, Lidinsky recalls that right after the surgery she had a deep feeling of regret.
“I had been hit with these awful feelings of having made a huge mistake. Undeniable, just like, ‘Oh no, what have I done?’” she says. “I also don’t really feel like a man. I just feel like a woman who has had her breasts cut off.”
Helena Kerschner, another detransitioner, says that taking testosterone negatively impacted her health to such a degree that she never went through with any gender transition surgeries.
“I wasn’t really able to have the mental wherewithal to go through the process of calling surgeons, dealing with insurance,” she says. “I like, watched myself transform from like the young teenager to just like this really unhappy looking person and, honestly, like unwell looking person … it just finally hit me that, like, ‘Oh my God, this has all been a mistake … everything.”
Cat Cattinson, a singer who lost her voice to testosterone injections, has since learned to accept herself as a woman. She is now regaining her singing voice and wrote a song for the documentary.
“When I just realized how detrimental the changes to my voice had been and how devastated I was that I had made irreversible changes to myself, I just decided to hold off. So, I canceled the top surgery and I also canceled my legal name change,” she says in the film.
All three women had been depressed and obsessed over their body images after spending countless hours online and believed gender transition was the answer.
“They thought this would solve all their problems only to find out it didn’t,” said Lahl.
The Detransition Diaries is the latest of about 10 documentaries Lahl and her team at the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBC), an educational nonprofit, has produced. The trailer is available on the CBC Network’s Vimeo channel, where the full documentary will be released on Sept. 19, the same day as a live premiere screening in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Virginia Overhauls Transgender Student Policies on Pronouns, Bathrooms, and Sports
Virginia took a sharp turn on transgender student policies with new guidelines released on Sept. 16.
According to the new guidelines, public schools cannot affirm a student’s gender without parents’ written requests. In addition, bathroom and locker room use is to be based on students’ sex, defined as the biological sex at birth. Student sports participation should be sex-based as well unless federal laws require otherwise.
The new policies are is a complete reversal of the previous guidelines, which define transgender as a student’s “self-identifying term.” Those rules, which took effect in March 2021 under former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, ask schools to consider not disclosing a student’s gender identity to the parents “if a student is not ready or able to safely share” it with their family.
The new policies have common ground with the previous rules with regard to ensuring a safe learning environment without bullying, discrimination, or harassment for students. It lists the First and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution as primary evidence.
The new guidelines will enter a 30-day public comment period around Sept. 26 and take effect after the state superintendent approves the final version.
“The 2022 model policy posted delivers on the governor’s commitment to preserving parental rights and upholding the dignity and respect of all public school students,” Macaulay Porter, spokesperson for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times.
“It is not under a school’s or the government’s purview to impose a set of particular ideological beliefs on all students. Key decisions rest, first and foremost, with the parents.
“The previous policies implemented under the Northam Administration did not uphold constitutional principles and parental rights, and will be replaced.”
Virginia Del. Marcus Simon (D-Fairfax), who introduced the state House bill that became a 2020 law and the basis of the 2021 rules, said in a tweet on Sept. 16: “These new policies are cruel and not at all evidence-based. … If enacted, these policies will harm Virginia children. Stop bullying kids to score political points.”
How to Avoid the Leading Cause of Disability
Back pain is one of the most common health complaints across the globe and the No. 1 cause of job disability
Chronic back pain is also one of the most common reasons for opioid dependence, the side effects of which can be lethal. In fact, opioids are now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50. Up to 25% of opioid users also end up with other substance-abuse disorders
Research shows you can successfully reverse chronic back pain by retraining your brain to appropriately respond to nerve signals gone haywire through a technique called Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). PRT helps “rewire” neural pathways such that pain is deactivated
Staying active and minimizing sitting are two strategies that can go a long way toward preventing — and treating — back pain. Both will improve muscle strength and coordination, reduce stiffness and improve blood flow, which may reduce back pain and lower your risk of developing back pain in the first place
Other nondrug treatment alternatives for back pain include strategies addressing improper body mechanics, such as the Gokhale Method, Foundation Training and Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST), and chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, massage, compression breathing, stretching and techniques that address repressed emotions
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FDA Just Fast-Tracked a Vaccine for Alzheimer’s
A vaccine that targets amyloid beta in the brain to treat Alzheimer’s disease has been granted fast-track designation by the FDA.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track designation to UB-311, a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease made by biotechnology company Vaxxinity
- Aside from the potential problems that can arise when a vaccine is rushed to market, the vaccine may be problematic from the get-go because amyloid beta may be a symptom of Alzheimer’s, not the cause
- Researchers have even suggested that amyloid beta is a response to neuronal stress, one that functions as a protective adaptation to the disease
- Fast-tracking a vaccine that’s targeting an isolated element of Alzheimer’s disease that is not the underlying cause is destined to be a massive disaster
- Overall, nourishing your brain health is best done with a comprehensively healthy lifestyle, including the use of exercise, ketogenic diet, time-restricted eating, optimized vitamin D and other hormones, increased sleep, meditation, detoxification and elimination of gluten and processed food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast track designation to UB-311, a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease made by biotechnology company Vaxxinity.[1] The shot is an anti-amyloid beta immunotherapeutic vaccine that reportedly treats Alzheimer’s disease by targeting aggregated amyloid beta in the brain.[2]
Aside from the potential problems that can arise when a vaccine is rushed to market, the vaccine may be problematic from the get-go because amyloid beta may be a symptom of Alzheimer’s — not the cause — and could even have a protective role in the disease process.[3]
Fast-tracking a vaccine that’s targeting an isolated element of Alzheimer’s disease that is not the underlying cause is destined to be a massive disaster.
How Potassium Can Help Your High Blood Pressure
Nearly half — 47% — of all Americans have high blood pressure costing about $131 billion each year in direct medical costs
Many who have hypertension do not have it under control, which affects your microvascular system, triggering damage to your eyes, kidneys, heart and sexual performance
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Manuka Honey Helps Combat Antibiotic Resistant Lung Infection
The nectar from manuka flowers contains dihydroxyacetone, a precursor to methylglyoxal (MGO), an antimicrobial compound not found in most other honey
The presence of MGO is credited for much of manuka honey’s medicinal prowess, which includes the ability to combat complex antibiotic-resistant respiratory infections
All four varieties of manuka honey tested showed antimicrobial activity against Mycobacterium abscessus, a type of mycobacteria that often cause aggressive lung infections
When manuka honey was combined with antibiotics to treat Mycobacterium abscessus, the drug dosage was able to be cut by eightfold
Manuka honey is used for a variety of medical-grade applications, including honey gel, honey for wound dressings and nebulized honey used to treat asthma
What You Must Know About Gluten
Before you decide if a gluten-free diet is right for you, it’s important to understand how gluten and wheat may be affecting your health
Although gluten-free foods were once reserved for people with a wheat allergy or celiac disease, this style of eating has become increasingly popular among people who have no medical reason to avoid gluten
If you notice unpleasant physical symptoms such as headaches, joint pain or nausea after eating glutinous foods, you may want to consider if the consumption of gluten could be a factor in your symptoms
Switching to a gluten-free diet, especially if you tend to eat a lot of gluten-free processed foods that contain rice, may increase your exposure to arsenic
Due to the reality of cross-contamination, not all foods labeled as gluten-free actually test out as being free of gluten
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Police in the German capital of Berlin are preparing emergency plans in anticipation of a possible collapse of the energy grid over the winter.
The police force responsible for Berlin is currently drawing up emergency plans in the event of the city’s energy grid collapsing, with officers in Germany’s increasingly multicultural capital anticipating rioting and looting over the winter months if the worst should occur.
Other officials across Germany have already warned of possible social unrest over the coming months as people are left unable to heat their homes, with bigwigs frequently using the country’s right-wing as a scapegoat for the existential energy problems the German state is now facing as a result of green agenda policies and the Ukraine war.
According to a report by Die Welt, law enforcement in the country’s capital are now anticipating that they will be forced to deal with various levels of social unrest as a result of the ongoing crisis.
Under the plans, separate preparations have been made to help police deal with public backlash resulting from raised prices and energy rationing, both of which officials reportedly now view as being likely.
GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING
Elitists Are Building Megalopolis, Where Plebs Will Eat Insects
WE are at war in Europe. But not with Russia. The enemy does not have boots on the ground, tanks, machine guns or bombs; we cannot see it.
It is a devious, insidious many-headed hydra shaping our lives, aided by those who are meant to represent us. A critical battle line has opened up against this amorphous enemy in the heart of Europe. In the Netherlands.
Brave Dutch farmers have mobilised their tractors, their slurry tankers and their bales of straw; they have taken to the streets to protest, as we first reported here and they have not let up.
After a tumultuous summer of protests by farmers over so called ‘pollution’ regulations – the Dutch government’s edict that will require farmers to curb their nitrogen emissions by up to 70 per cent in the next eight years – the Dutch agriculture minister, Henk Staghouwer, has resigned after only nine months in office telling reporters that he wasn’t the right person for the job. Indeed.
We would do well to pay attention. They are protesting on our behalf. They are taking on what’s been aptly described as ‘a corporatised “sustainability” agenda crafted by a billionaire-backed “green” elite with no popular constituency’.
Invisible institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as a bevy of transnational corporations, are key ‘stakeholders’ in this closely-knit network. These are the unelected figures who are influencing government policy in supposedly sovereign states across the globe.
The Dutch government plans to spend 25billion euros expropriating 11,200 farms – allegedly to cut nitrogen emissions in half by 2030. This will mean the loss of 20 per cent of farms, while another 33 per cent will be forced to scale back and reduce livestock.
The madness of these cuts comes at a time of global food and fertiliser shortages, when Holland is the second-largest food exporter after the US. It now risks following Sri Lanka in becoming a major importer as opposed to an exporter of food.
As well as the timing, what makes Dutch farmers so suspicious is that the curb on nitrogen emissions falls disproportionately on farming, when industry and transport are also major polluters. There is however a logic to this if the specific motive for this appropriation of their land and livelihood is the Tristatecity.
The Tristatecity is a ‘smart city’ project which began to emerge as a concept in 2015. It is the vision of Peter Savelberg, a Dutch consultant, to create a giant megalopolis from Holland through Belgium to the Ruhr in Germany, incorporating 30million to 45million people.
How in this carbon-conscious age could such a project have survived the eco piety of the environment zealots? It is hardly obvious how building skyscrapers and covering large areas in concrete can be more sustainable than farmland, but the project boasts that it supports all of the United Nations sustainability goals.
Of course it does – on paper. It is also keen to promote agritech, centred on the region of Brabant, which includes vertical farming (eg hydroponics). It is possibly no coincidence that, according to the Financial Times, the Belgian government has also begun buying up farmland, allegedly to avoid the Dutch ‘crisis’. In other words, the Tristatecity is a classic World Economic Forum ‘fourth Industrial Revolution’ concept.
Peter Savelberg is backed by the Dutch employers’ organisation VNO-NCW, pension funds and property developers. They believe that Tristatecity, with its 45million inhabitants, would be able to better compete for investment and talent with other global megacities, particularly those in China. And so, inevitably, the Tristatecity needs Dutch farmland for housing.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the Tristatecity will presumably live on bugs – because there would be less farmland to produce food for them. Hence the need for vertical farming. There would be little other industry for them to work in, because the fossil fuels needed for industry to function are drying up.
COVID RELATED NEWS
Fauci ‘Clearly Misled Congress’ Over COVID-19 Origins: Former CDC Director
The former director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who has long suspected the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory, said that he believes White House adviser Anthony Fauci misled Congress about controversial gain-of-function research.
Dr. Robert Redfield asserted in a new interview that “everyone had to agree to the narrative” pushed by Fauci and other health officials that the virus came from a “wet market” in Wuhan in 2019 and not the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In an interview in early 2021 with CNN, Redfield, a longtime virologist, said the virus emerged from the lab, later sparking death threats against him and his family from prominent scientists.
And Fauci “may have overplayed his hand when he was so aggressive with Congress, saying that he was never involved in funding gain of function research,” said Redfield, referring to the controversial research to genetically alter an organism to enhance certain biological functions including transmissibility. “There’s too much evidence that’s just not true.”
“Fauci knows that he’s funded this research. He also knows that he misled Congress. They’re in protection mode,” he told Paul Thacker’s Disinformation Chronicle newsletter for Substack.
During hearings, Fauci has clashed with several Republican lawmakers and namely, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) over whether his agency provided funding to a third-party group to carry out gain-of-function research at the Wuhan laboratory.
In 2021, Fauci told a congressional panel that the National Institutes of Health did not provide money to researchers in Wuhan. However, documents released later that year revealed the agency funded gain-of-function research in China on bat coronaviruses.
“Yes, he clearly misled Congress,” Redfield said. “And then he went over the top taking on Rand Paul and others in an offensive way for a public servant. Tony and I are friends, but we don’t agree on this at all.”
Health Authorities ‘Strongly’ Advise Against Two COVID-19 Treatments
Global health authorities have issued “strong” recommendations against the use of two antibody therapies in patients with COVID-19, reversing previous conditional recommendations that endorsed their use.
The recommendation against the use of two therapies—sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab—came as part of an update to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) so-called “living guideline” on COVID-19 drugs, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
The two drugs, which were developed early in the pandemic, work by binding to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and neutralizing the ability of the virus to infect cells. However, recent evidence shows that sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab are unlikely to be effective against currently spreading COVID-19 variants.
“Today’s strong recommendation replaces previous conditional recommendations for their use and is based on emerging evidence from laboratory studies that these drugs are not likely to work against currently circulating variants, such as omicron,” BMJ said in a statement.
The recommendation to advise against the use of the two therapies in COVID-19 patients was made by the WHO Guideline Development Group of international experts.
“After weighing up all the evidence, the panel judged that almost all well informed patients would not choose to receive sotrovimab or casirivimab-imdevimab,” BMJ said.
Penny Ward, visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at King’s College London, told Reuters that the WHO recommendation is rather late in coming, given that that U.S. health regulators began to question the effectiveness of sotrovimab in February and pulled it from the U.S. market in April.
“Now WHO has issued this recommendation, it will be interesting to see how many other countries align with it,” she told the outlet.
In January, the FDA revised its policy on the use of casirivimab-imdevimab, limiting its use to a smaller group of patients, citing findings showing that it was less effective against Omicron.
European regulators continue to recommend the use of both therapies.
Adverse Effects of mRNA Vaccines Were Known Before COVID-19: Medical Doctor
Complications and adverse reactions occurring after administering mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been anticipated by doctors based on data and studies going back 15 years, said Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet.
When the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out, it was already known that the toxicity of the spike protein and the toxicity of another component of the vaccine could cause complications such as inflammation, blood clots, and disruption of the immune system, Vliet said in a recent interview for EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program.
“Over the first six months after the rollout of COVID-19 shots, I had a whole gamut of patients with all kinds of problems they had not had before,” she said, adding that the only common denominator of these cases was that they all had the COVID-19 vaccines.
Vliet runs an independent medical practice.
“Most of these people are people that have been my patients for 20 or 25 years. I even have some that I’ve seen for 30 years. And I knew their medical history,” she said.
Among disorders that Vliet observed in her patients were cognitive issues, memory loss, brain fog, mini strokes, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, and falling episodes.
The doctor mentioned two of her patients, a couple in their 70s who were healthy and fit and exercised regularly, walking 7 miles a day. They got the COVID-19 shot so they could travel to see their children and grandchildren.
Since then, the woman’s heart arrhythmia has been out of control and the man began having falling episodes that resulted in a broken hip, Vliet said.
Why Does the Omicron Booster Contain the Wuhan Strain? No, It’s Not for Higher Protection
On August 31, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to authorize the use of bivalent COVID-19 vaccines manufactured by both the companies as a single booster dose.
These bivalent vaccines contain the mRNA components of both the spike genes of SARS-CoV-2 virus ancestral strain and the BA.4/5 subvariants. However, the ancestral strain has long disappeared. So why should the new booster vaccines still incorporate half of the original strain’s mRNA, when the Omicron variants are currently the most prevalent?
What Are These Updated Boosters?
These bivalent vaccines are called “updated boosters” by the FDA. They contain two messenger RNA (mRNA) components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the culprit of the COVID-19 pandemic. One component is the ancestral strain of SARS-CoV-2, which was isolated and sequenced from Wuhan, China; and the other is the mRNA shared by the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages of the Omicron variant.
The mRNA in these vaccines is a specific piece of genetic material that instructs cells in the body to make the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that will trigger an immune response inside the body.
These new bivalent vaccines have been designed to mainly combat the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, as they are currently the most prevalent strains in the United States, as per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These subvariants are also predicted to circulate in the fall and winter of 2022. In June 2022, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted to include an Omicron component in the new COVID-19 booster vaccines.
The previous COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are “monovalent,” as they contain only the genetic recipe for the spike protein of the ancestral strain. These monovalent vaccines have been used for the primary vaccination series in the United States.
Finance ‘Guru’ Reveals Financial Collapse and COVID Jab Data
Edward Dowd is a hedge fund “guru” and former equity portfolio manager for the largest asset manager in the world, BlackRock. Over the past two years, Dowd has courageously come forward to awaken people to the collateral damage of the COVID pandemic
A global financial collapse is a mathematical certainty. Dowd predicts the collapse will begin in earnest within the next six to 24 months
COVID provided cover for central banks and governments, allowing them to temporarily hide the reality that the financial system is crashing
COVID also allowed for the erection of a control system to shield governments and central banks from the fallout from collapsing food, energy and finance systems. It allowed them to restrict travel and introduce digital IDs and central bank digital currencies by linking them together with vaccine passports
Insurance companies report a 40% increase in excess mortality among working-age adults during the fourth quarter of 2021. Millennials aged 25 to 44 had an 84% increase in excess mortality in that same timeframe. Since the rollout of the COVID jabs, the number of Americans who claim to be disabled has risen by at least 10%, possibly more
FACTS: Experimental COVID Injections and SADS
How many tens of millions of words have been written about SARS-CoV-2 commonly known as COVID-19? Well, likely tens of thousands by so-called “fact checkers” since roughly April 2020 who have no shame about the lies they repeat on a daily basis regarding COVID-19 and those experimental gene-editing technology injections which legally are not vaccines.
Which is why I refer to them both here in the US and other countries as the prostitute media. Like whores who walk the streets plying their trade, these so-called “fact checkers” are responsible for outright lying to the American people and keeping the truth from them for money. Ruining the reputations of doctors and scientists around the world who were/are desperately trying to warn people about those mRNA injections.
Who Fact Checks the Fact Checkers? A Report on Media Censorship // Facebook admits the truth: ‘Fact checks’ are really just (lefty) opinion
Back story regarding the use of the word vaccine because it’s critically important. Can You Sue Employer: Mandatory COVID-19 Injections Death or Injury? (Mine, Dec. 6, 2021):
“Pfizer BioNTech filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Dec. 31, 2019. See document here, pg 14 – 15:
“To our knowledge, there is no current precedent for an mRNA-based immunotherapy such as the type we are developing being approved for sale by the FDA, European Commission or any other regulatory agency elsewhere in the world. Although we expect to submit BLAs for our mRNA-based product candidates in the United States, and in the European Union, mRNA therapies have been classified as gene therapy medicinal products, other jurisdictions may consider our mRNA-based product candidates to be new drugs, not biologics or gene therapy medicinal products, and require different marketing applications.
“Any product candidates we develop may not be effective, may be only moderately effective, or may prove to have undesirable or unintended side effects, toxicities or other characteristics that may preclude our obtaining marketing approval or prevent or limit commercial use.”
Pg 16: “Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA…Our product candidates may not work as intended, may cause undesirable side effects or may have other properties that could delay or prevent their regulatory approval, limit the commercial profile of an approved label, or result in significant negative consequences following marketing approval, if any.”
“Vaccines normally take 10-15 years before getting approval for mass distribution. The first injections were rolled out in hospitals on Dec. 14, 2020. That SEC filing was last day of 2019 before production began. Clinical trials are scheduled through 2023, so yes, humans on this planet are being used as test subjects.
“How about Moderna and their SEC filing, June 30, 2020? “Regulatory requirements governing gene and cell therapy products have evolved and may continue to change in the future, and the implications for mRNA-based therapies are unknown…Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA.”
“Click on Table of Contents and go down to page 64; “Our pursuit of mRNA-1273, a potential vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, continues to be subject to completion of the required clinical trials and regulatory approval in the United States and elsewhere. We may be unable to produce a vaccine that successfully treats the virus in a timely manner, if at all…Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA.”
“On Moderna’s web site under EUA it says, “The Moderna COVID‑19 Vaccine has not been approved or licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA, under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‑19) for use in individuals 18 years of age and older. There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID‑19.”
What Is Gene Therapy? How Does It Work? – “Recognizing this, scientists have been working for decades on ways to modify genes or replace faulty genes with healthy ones to treat, cure or prevent a disease or medical condition.” *End* I did that column 10 months ago and look at the carnage – all those scientists and doctors, tragically have been right.
CANCEL CULTURE
Biden Asks Congress to End Social Media Immunity at White House Summit on ‘Hate-Fueled Violence’
At a summit at the White House on Thursday to address “hate-fueled violence,” President Joe Biden denounced white supremacists and urged lawmakers in Congress to end special immunity for social media companies.
Biden also called on Americans at large to speak out against racism and extremism at the event, dubbed the “United We Stand” summit, which was attended by bipartisan local leaders, experts, and survivors of hate-based violent attacks.
The event sought “to counter the destructive effects of hate-fueled violence on our democracy and public safety, mobilize diverse sectors of society and communities across the country to these dangers, and put forward a shared, inclusive, bipartisan vision for a more united America,” the Biden administration said on the summit event’s website.
“All forms of hate fueled by violence have no place in America,” the president said at Thursday’s summit, recalling various attacks, including a mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in 2016, and another at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York earlier this year.
“White supremacists will not have the last word,” Biden said, without mentioning any other groups that have incited violence and hate in the United States in recent years.
Biden briefly mentioned the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when the U.S. Capitol was breached, saying that the event didn’t reflect “who we are” as a nation.
He contended that the United States has long had a “through line of hate” against minority groups and that politics and the media have given it “too much oxygen” in recent years.
The Democrat said he wants Congress to “hold social media companies accountable for spreading hate.” The remarks received a standing ovation from attendees.
“I’m calling on Congress to get rid of special immunity for social media companies and impose much stronger transparency requirements on all of them,” Biden said, alluding to Section 230.
Court Rules Against Social Media Companies in Free Speech Censorship Fight
A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled in favor of a Texas law that seeks to rein in the power of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to censor free speech.
The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans (pdf), handed down on Sept. 16, upholds the constitutionality of a Texas law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott last year and delivers a victory to Republicans in their fight against big tech censorship of conservative viewpoints.
“Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” U.S. Circuit Court Judge Andrew Oldham wrote in the opinion.
“Because the district court held otherwise, we reverse its injunction and remand for further proceedings,” Oldham added, setting the stage for a showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court.
GOOD NEWS
At 16, Jacob Irving from Montgomery, Texas, has achieved an incredible feat by starting his own gourmet hotdog truck business, after garnering inspiration from his grandfather.
“I knew that I wanted to do something entrepreneurial and I knew I wanted to do it soon,” Irving told The Epoch Times.
The teen was determined that he didn’t want to wait and spend “a million dollars” in attending college and a few years on a degree that he wouldn’t use. So young Irving decided to start something with a low overhead and cheap startup cost: Pop Pop’s Dandy Dog.
Sharing more about the inspiration behind his venture, Irving said that his grandfather (“Pop Pop”) used to own a restaurant called Dandy Dog in Lewisville, Texas, in 1985. Since Irving’s grandfather had already completed most of the work on the front end almost 40 years ago, Irving just decided to take over his old logos, menu items, and recipes.
The truck gained significant media attention after being highlighted by a popular local concert promoter, whose social media post caught the eye of former Texas gubernatorial candidate Chad Prather.
Prather reposted the story to his more than 1 million followers, and visitors flocked to Pop Pop’s Dandy Dog to get a taste for themselves.
The business has meant a lot of hard work for Irving, who will begin his senior year at Lake Creek High School this fall.
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