Saturday, July 16, 2022

Study: Unvaccinated individuals are not a burden to medical systems



The advocacy group’s founder Robert Verkerk and his team analyzed data on more than 18,000 unvaccinated people from around the world. “Only 74 respondents out of the 5,196 (1.

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PURE POISON: Covid Shots Affected NEARLY HALF (42%) of Women’s Menstrual Cycles (Updated)

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Can you imagine any other product with side effects of excessive bleeding and affecting 42% of menstruating women allowed on the market?

They are poisoning the women!

And the men have lowered sperm counts.

Yet, Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and Big Pharma are still pushing these poison shots.

The latest study on the COVID vaccines found that nearly half of women’s menstruation cycles were affected.

9News reported:

COVID-19 vaccines were found to affect about 42 per cent of women’s menstrual cycles in a new study run by Washington University.

The study, which sought to shed light on reports of unusual menstrual bleeding after receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, surveyed more than 39,129 adults online after they were double-vaccinated against the virus.

It found that 42 per cent of people with regular menstrual cycles bled more heavily during their period after having the vaccinations than they had previously.

It further found that some people who do not usually menstruate, such as those on long-acting reversible contraceptives or gender-affirming hormones and those who have experienced menopause, reported breakthrough bleeding.

As we reported earlier today — In April 2021, The Gateway Pundit first reported on the tens of thousands of women who complained about irregular menstruation after taking the COVID vaccines.

Researchers are investigating the link between COVID and menstruation after THOUSANDS of women reported changes to their cycle after getting the coronavirus vaccine.

NBC Chicago reported:

Thousands of women have reported changes to their monthly cycle after getting the COVID vaccine.

Anne Thompson received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine April 12, on what should have been the last day of her period.

“I continued to have spotting the entire time. And now two weeks post getting the vaccine, I think it was three days ago, I started my period again,” Thompson said.

Her next period came a week a half early, prompting Thompson to wonder if the vaccine had somehow impacted her menstrual cycle.

It’s a question researcher Katherine Lee asked after her own experience.

”I had spotting when I normally don’t have any sort of menstrual symptoms, because I have the Mirena IUD,” said Lee, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Lee reached out to Kate Clancy, an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, who then tweeted about it.

“That tweet was sent February 24th, and I’m still getting, like, every minute an additional 20 notifications, that have some kind of engagement with that thread two months later,” Clancy said.

The overwhelming response prompted the researchers to create a survey, which they posted on social media. In all, 59,000 people have started the survey, describing varying experiences.

“People are reporting some differences in the timing of their cycle,” Lee said. “Some people report much lighter periods and other people report a much heavier period.”

Clancy said researchers have also heard about bleeding and spotting for postmenopausal women.

One woman emailed NBC 5’s Lauren Petty and said she has been menopausal for nine years. She got her first Pfizer dose in March, started bleeding that night, and it continued for 10 days.

“I honestly haven’t had many of my patients complain about any irregularities in their menstruation,” said Dr. Elizabeth Yepez, a gynecologist at Rush University Medical Center.

It has now been a year and the scientific community is now reporting on this vaccine side effect.

Here’s another related report on the vaccines’

Dept. of Defense Study Shows Pregnant Female Soldiers Are Experiencing “Absolutely Catastrophic Rate of Abnormalities and Fetal Problems” – Dr. Naomi Wolf Drops a Bomb on the War Room (VIDEO)  

What else are they not telling you?

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NY Times FINALLY Admits a Year After Gateway Pundit that the Experimental COVID Vaccine May Affect Menstruation

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It may take months or years but every once in a while The New York Times will actually publish a factual report or a partly factual report on the COVID vaccines.

The New York Times reported on a “new” study — the largest to date — that shows how the experimental COVID vaccines may affect menstruation. The NY Times then insists that – based on the findings – there is no cause for alarm.

That is clearly an assumption and not a fact.

A new study — the largest to date — shows how the Covid vaccine may affect menstruation. Experts say, based on the findings, there is no cause for alarm. https://t.co/V5MvxkHwYU

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 15, 2022

In April 2021, The Gateway Pundit first reported on the tens of thousands of women who complained about irregular menstruation after taking the COVID vaccines.

Researchers are investigating the link between COVID and menstruation after THOUSANDS of women reported changes to their cycle after getting the coronavirus vaccine.

NBC Chicago reported:

Thousands of women have reported changes to their monthly cycle after getting the COVID vaccine.

Anne Thompson received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine April 12, on what should have been the last day of her period.

“I continued to have spotting the entire time. And now two weeks post getting the vaccine, I think it was three days ago, I started my period again,” Thompson said.

Her next period came a week a half early, prompting Thompson to wonder if the vaccine had somehow impacted her menstrual cycle.

It’s a question researcher Katherine Lee asked after her own experience.

”I had spotting when I normally don’t have any sort of menstrual symptoms, because I have the Mirena IUD,” said Lee, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Lee reached out to Kate Clancy, an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, who then tweeted about it.

“That tweet was sent February 24th, and I’m still getting, like, every minute an additional 20 notifications, that have some kind of engagement with that thread two months later,” Clancy said.

The overwhelming response prompted the researchers to create a survey, which they posted on social media. In all, 59,000 people have started the survey, describing varying experiences.

“People are reporting some differences in the timing of their cycle,” Lee said. “Some people report much lighter periods and other people report a much heavier period.”

Clancy said researchers have also heard about bleeding and spotting for postmenopausal women.

One woman emailed NBC 5’s Lauren Petty and said she has been menopausal for nine years. She got her first Pfizer dose in March, started bleeding that night, and it continued for 10 days.

“I honestly haven’t had many of my patients complain about any irregularities in their menstruation,” said Dr. Elizabeth Yepez, a gynecologist at Rush University Medical Center.

It has now been a year and the scientific community is now reporting on this vaccine side effect.

Here’s another related report on the vaccines’

Dept. of Defense Study Shows Pregnant Female Soldiers Are Experiencing “Absolutely Catastrophic Rate of Abnormalities and Fetal Problems” – Dr. Naomi Wolf Drops a Bomb on the War Room (VIDEO)  

What else are they not telling you?

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NIH, FDA & CDC Employees Quitting In Droves Over Infant Covid Vaccines

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Doctors and scientists at the top levels of the NIH, FDA and CDC are leaving their positions in the federal government over the recent approval of Covid shots for infants and boosters for kids.

Moderna's vaccine had a 4 (four) percent efficacy against asymp Covid in kids 6mo-2yrs of age. I admire the many health experts within the NIH & CDC who are outraged and spoke to me. Our liberty as physicians to speak up should always be sacred & protected https://t.co/qNksowUOmn

— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) July 15, 2022

An article published Thursday by Johns Hopkins professor Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. and consultant epidemiologist with Florida Department of Health Tracy Beth Høeg M.D., Ph.D. detailed the concerns of the health experts.

A senior FDA official told the doctors, “It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch and I can’t close my eyes. People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.”

The “bad advice” the FDA doctor referred to is the lack of clinical data supporting the use of Covid jabs in Americans aged 6 months to five years old.

The FDA doctor was also upset the agency bypassed external experts in authorizing booster shots for kids.

The article continued to note top officials at the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center have quit over the past year, including the director, deputy director and chief medical officer.

An NIH scientist told Makary and Høeg, “There’s an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions.”

A pair of CDC officials said their agency is also suffering from low morale and that employees are tired of the politicization of their work.

“There’s been a large amount of turnover. Morale is low,” a high-level CDC official noted. “Things have become so political, so what are we there for?” 

A CDC scientist told the doctors, “I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed.”

Explaining why the experts would be “embarrassed,” the article stated, “The heads of their agencies are using weak or flawed data to make critically important public health decisions.”

One of the CDC scientists who talked with the doctors said the agency “failed to balance the risks of Covid with other risks that come from closing schools. Learning loss, mental health exacerbations were obvious early on and those worsened as the guidance insisted on keeping schools virtual. CDC guidance worsened racial equity for generations to come. It failed this generation of children.”

The top issue voiced by the whistleblowers inside the federal government was the weak data used to support vaccinating kids and infants with the experimental Covid shots.

“You can inject them with it or squirt it in their face, and you’ll get the same benefit,” a top CDC employee joked when discussing the efficacy of the Pfizer shot.

“It seems criminal that we put out the recommendation to give mRNA Covid vaccines to babies without good data. We really don’t know what the risks are yet. So why push it so hard?” a CDC physician asked the doctors.

A high-level FDA official made a similar comment, telling Makary and Høeg, “The public has no idea how bad this data really is. It would not pass muster for any other authorization.”

In addition to being highly concerned about the rollout of the mRNA shots for babies and children, agency officials, scientists and doctors are worried they’ll be punished for speaking out.

“There’s a silence, an unwillingness for agency scientists to say anything. Even though they know that some of what’s being said out of the agency is absurd,” an NIH scientist said.

A workplace environment where employees are afraid to speak about things like natural immunity or weak clinical data does not reflect an organization that follows science.

On Friday, Dr. Peter McCullough posted a clip of Fox News host Tucker Carlson exposing the CDC, FDA, NIH failures throughout the Covid pandemic.

CDC/FDA/NIH has been wrong on virtually every aspect of pandemic response, yet no one has admitted to a weary American public so they can move on, close this chapter. Current illness indistinguishable from recurrent common cold, worse for duped #jected. @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/fpKnx9ESp1

— Peter McCullough, MD MPH (@P_McCulloughMD) July 15, 2022

Perhaps it’s time for some of these anonymous individuals to go public because the health of America’s youth may be on the line.




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Friday, July 15, 2022

Over 40 Percent of World’s Rivers Contain Harmful Levels of Pharmaceutical Drug Pollution

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By Paul Anthony Taylor

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A disturbing new analysis has revealed that over 40 percent of the world’s rivers may now contain harmful levels of pollution from pharmaceutical drugs. Published in the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry journal, the study found that around 461 of 1,052 sites monitored across 104 countries had drug concentrations considered to be of concern. Concluding that pharmaceutical pollution is a global problem, the researchers say that work is urgently needed to reduce concentrations in rivers down to acceptable levels.

To assess the effects in rivers across the world, the analysis utilizes the results of a global monitoring study of 61 active pharmaceutical ingredients examined alongside available ecotoxicological and pharmaceutical data. Worryingly, not only did 43.5 percent of the sites sampled have drug concentrations considered to be of concern, but 23 of the substances measured occurred in concentrations exceeding those currently claimed to be “safe”. Such substances included drugs from the antidepressant, antimicrobial, antihistamine, beta-blocker, anticonvulsant, antihyperglycemic, antimalarial, antifungal, calcium channel blocker, benzodiazepine, painkiller, and progestin classes. The drugs most frequently detected were carbamazepine (an anticonvulsant) and metformin (a diabetes medication).

The global ecotoxicological effects of drugs

Pointing out that there are now over 1,900 pharmaceutical compounds in use in human and veterinary medicine, the researchers say it is inevitable that these will be emitted to the natural environment during their manufacture, use, and disposal. Summarizing the growing evidence that pharmaceutical compounds can negatively affect the health of ecosystems, the paper cites a notable decline in vulture populations on the Indian subcontinent, effects on the behavior of fish, and a rise in drug-resistant bacteria as examples of the damage that is occurring. The highest cumulative concentrations of pharmaceuticals in surface waters were found in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South America, with Lahore in Pakistan being the most polluted system.

The researchers say that while their study provides a major step forward in our understanding of the potential global ecotoxicological effects of pharmaceuticals, there is still much to do. Given the sheer number of drugs now being used in so-called ‘modern medicine’, and the fact that the study only looked at 61 of them, the researchers recognize that their analysis may well be underestimating the actual impacts on aquatic systems around the world. They additionally note that the rivers that were monitored will contain not just pharmaceuticals but also other pollutants such as industrial chemicals, pesticides, and metals. These too will inevitably be having ecotoxicological effects.

An environmentally unsustainable industry

In the conclusion to their study, the researchers point out that current ecotoxicological risk assessments have mainly been carried out using single-compound approaches. In other words, they essentially ignore the negative synergistic effects that drugs and chemicals have when present in combinations. This approach clearly has to change. Research from Denmark has already confirmed the dangers of chemical cocktails in foods. As a result, for example, we now know that even small doses of pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can amplify each other’s negative effects when present in combinations. The same will undoubtedly also be true for the numerous drugs and chemicals that are polluting the environment.

Even prior to the publication of this latest study it was already clear that the pharmaceutical ‘business with disease’ is both scientifically and economically unsustainable. Through deliberately developing drugs that only treat the symptoms of diseases and avoid addressing their root causes, the pharmaceutical industry’s annual global income is forecast to reach $1.8 trillion by 2026. Illustrating how this business model has the potential to bankrupt entire economies, research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently estimated that close to half of all new brand-name prescription drugs launched in the United States in 2020 and 2021 came with an original price tag of at least $150,000 a year.

But as if even this wasn’t bad enough, evidence of the ecotoxicological damage that pharmaceutical companies are wreaking on the planet clearly shows that drug-based medicine is environmentally unsustainable as well. Replacing the pharmaceutical ‘business with disease’ with natural systems of healthcare based on nutritional and Cellular Medicine approaches will therefore not only benefit the health of humanity, but that of the environment also. It is time for environmentalists and ‘green’ campaign organizations worldwide to recognize this and join together with natural health advocates in working for healthcare reform.

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New twist in J6 investigation: Missing Secret Service texts

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The newest turn in the "investigation" going on into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol may be the most interesting yet.

It turns out the Secret Secret deleted its text messages from that time period, after being asked for them.

Other developments have included wild claims by the government that ordinary citizens protesting what they viewed as an unfair 2020 election were trying to overthrow the government that day.

And that the mostly wide-eyed tourists in the Capitol that day actually were intent on killing people.

And much more, all being investigated by Nancy Pelosi's partisan committee that has been interviewing people and staging public performances of select testimony that fits the narrative that President Trump was to blame for everything.

Critics view the committee's work as Pelosi's third attempt at "impeaching-and-removing" Trump – with the goal of making sure he doesn't run again in 2024. Her two earlier attempts during and after his term both failed.

Now the Intercept confirmed the Secret Service erased text messages dated January 5 and January 6.

That's from a letter given to the January 6 committee and reviewed by The Intercept.

"The letter was originally sent by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to the House and Senate homeland security committees. Though the Secret Service maintains that the text messages were lost as a result of a 'device-replacement program,' the letter says the erasure took place shortly after oversight officials requested the agency’s electronic communications," the report said.

A spokesman for the Secret Service claimed that the IG request for the messages came in February, weeks after they were deleted.

The report noted the Secret Service is taking on a high profile in the disputed claims being made to, and by, the committee.

For example, one unidentified official claimed that Vice President Mike Pence refused Secret Service orders to flee the Capitol, where he later took part in the process to certify the 2020 election.

The report said, "Had Pence entered the vice presidential limo, he would have been taken to a secure location where he would have been unable to certify the presidential election results, plunging the U.S. into uncharted waters."

The Office of Inspector General now explains that key evidence from that day – the agency's communications – may be lost forever.

"The Department of Homeland Security — the Secret Service’s parent agency — is subject to oversight from the DHS Office of Inspector General, which had requested records of electronic communications from the Secret Service between January 5 and January 6, 2021, before being informed that they had been erased," the report said.

The DHS IG declined to comment to The Intercept.

Also involving the Secret Service was testimony from ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson whose claims that Trump tried to commandeer a limousine to go to the Capitol were immediately debunked by other witnesses.

Throwing doubt on Hutchinson's claims were members of the Secret Service themselves, the report said.


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Thursday, July 14, 2022

Poke and Sniff: A Lesson from 1906

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In 1906, Upton Sinclair came out with his book The Jungle, and it shocked the nation by documenting the horror of the meat-packing industry. People were being boiled in vats and sent to larders. Rat waste was mixed with meat. And so on.

As a result, the Federal Meat Inspection Act passed Congress, and consumers were saved from ghastly diseases. The lesson is that government is essential to stop enterprise from poisoning us with its food.

To some extent, this mythology accounts for the wide support for government’s involvement in stopping disease spread today, including Covid and the catastrophic response.

Not only that, but the story is also the basis for the US Department of Agriculture’s food inspection efforts, the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of medical drugs, the central plan that governs food production, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the legions of bureaucrats who inspect and badger us every step of the way. It is the founding template for why government is involved in our food and health at all.

It’s all premised on the implausible idea that people who make and sell us food have no concern as to whether it makes us sick. It only takes a quick second, though, to realize that this idea just isn’t true. So long as there is a functioning, consumer-driven marketplace, customer focus, which presumably includes not killing you, is the best regulator. Producer reputation has been a huge feature of profitability, too. And hygiene was a huge feature of reputation — long before Yelp.

Sinclair’s book was not intended as a factual account. It was a fantasy rendered as an ideological screed. It did drum up support for regulation, but the real reason for the act’s passage was that the large Chicago meat packers realized that regulation would hurt their smaller competitors more than themselves. Meat inspections imposed costs that cartelized the industry.

That’s why the largest players were the law’s biggest promoters. Such laws almost have more to do with benefiting elites than protecting the public. It was not really about safety, the best scholarship shows, but exclusionary regulation to raise competitors’ costs of doing business.

Still, there is more to this little-known history that speaks to the entire basis for government management of health. The legislation required federal inspectors to be on site at all hours in every meat-packing plant. At the time, regulators came up with a shabby method for detecting bad meat, namely poking a rod into the meat and smelling the rod. If it came out smelling clean, they would poke the same rod into the next piece of meat and smell it again. They would do this throughout the entire plant.

But as Baylen J. Linnekin points out in “The Food-Safety Fallacy: More Regulation Doesn’t Necessarily Make Food Safer” (Northeastern University Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 1), this method was fundamentally flawed. You can’t necessarily detect pathogens in meat by smell. It takes a long time for bacteria to begin to stink. In the meantime, bacteria can spread disease through touch. The rod could pick up bacteria and transmit it from one piece of meat to another, and there was no way for inspectors to know about it. This method of testing meat most certainly spread any pathogens from bad meat to good meat, assuring that an entire plant became a house of pathogens rather than having them restricted to just one carcass.

As Linnekin explains:

USDA inspectors undoubtedly transmitted harmful bacteria from one contaminated piece of meat to other uncontaminated pieces in untold quantities and, consequently, were directly responsible for sickening untold numbers of Americans by their actions.

Poke-and-sniff — incredibly a centerpiece of the USDA’s meat inspection program until the late 1990s — was, in terms of its sheer efficiency at transmitting pathogens from infected meat to clean meat, nearly the ideal device.

Add to this the fact that the USDA’s own inspectors were critical of the inspection regime from the start, and that the USDA abdicated its inspection role at hundreds of meat processors for nearly three decades, and it becomes quite apparent that instead of making food safer, poke-and-sniff made food and consumers less safe.

Poke-and-sniff began in 1906 and was common until the 1990s. The USDA’s own website recounts the career of one meat inspector who praised the shift from the old practice, a practice that persisted longer than even Soviet communism.

When people teach about this history in a conventional classroom environment, they tell the story of meat-packing horror and the act’s passage. But there the story ends. There is a pervasive lack of curiosity about what happened next. Did the regulations achieve their aims? Did the situation improve, and, if so, was this improvement due to the regulations or to private innovations? Or did the problem get worse, and, if so, can the worsening be traced to the regulations themselves?

These are the sorts of questions we need to ask not only about the long-ago past but our own experiences with government-managed disease control.

As for why bad practices last and don’t get weeded out through experimentation, this is the way it is with such agencies. Once a rule is in place, no one can seem to stop it, no matter how little sense it makes. You know this if you have ever been in the TSA line at the airport.

The sheer irrationality strikes me every time — and it strikes the TSA employees, too. They are taking away bottles of shampoo but allowing lighters on planes. Sometimes they confiscate a corkscrew and other times not. They test your hands to make sure you haven’t been handling bombs, but the sheer implausibility is so apparent that the inspectors themselves can hardly keep a straight face.

It was this way with vaccine mandates, which stayed in place long after the public-health rationale for them had vanished. It became very clear that they neither stopped infection nor transmission, so there was no point in mandating them at all. Even after all benefit seem doubtful and reports of adverse effects exploded, people were still fired for refusing them. They still are.

So too with masks. And “social distancing.” And school closures. And domestic capacity restrictions. And travel restrictions. And curfews.

Whenever government imposes a rule, it begins to operate as if on autopilot. No matter how brainless, damaging, irrational, or outmoded it happens to be, the rule ends up trumping the reasoning of the human mind.

This becomes a very serious matter regarding health. Ruling this sector of life, you don’t want an overlord who is unresponsive to new information and new evidence and innovation — a regime that specializes in following a routine, no matter how bad, rather than improving itself with a testable goal in mind.

This is why in societies where such scoleric agencies rule, all things slip into a frozen state. This is why even today Cuba seems like a tableau of the 1950s. This is why when the curtain was pulled back on East Germany and the old Soviet Union, we found societies that seemed stuck in the past. This is why the postal service can’t seem to innovate and why public schools are still structured as if it were the 1970s. Once a government plan is established, it tends to stick, even when it is not achieving its aims.

The case of poke-and-sniff in meat-packing should serve as a warning for all measures that claim to improve our health, whether designed to protect us from disease, balance our diet, or bring us safety or any other reason. We live in a world of change and of growing knowledge. Our lives and well-being depend on economic systems that can respond to change, extract that growing knowledge, and enable it to be used in ways that serve human needs.



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BEWARE OF MARKETS FULL OF FOOL’S GOLD



Fool’s Gold comes in many guises, whether it is in fake paper money, Ponzi investment schemes, fake and manipulated gold derivatives, Bitcoin or just fake gold discoveries in Uganda, all of which are discussed in this article. The elegant and understated courtesy of the English is well known.

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Eight great films for those with eyes wide open

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If you’re a daily reader here, I figure that, like me, you’re utterly disgusted by the anti-human crud now gushing, more than ever, out of Hollywood (I still wake up screaming from The Power of the Dog), and so are always looking for some movies that affirm humanity, so as to help us through this daily horror.

Now, there are countless films, and TV shows, that bring us back to life, with stories, told exquisitely, of worlds in no way like the one we’re living in. Those are restorative indeed, and I could recommend so many that I’d have to sit here listing them for days. I just (almost) finished bingeing on John Ford’s work (reading Joseph McBride’s superb biography), and rewatched Shtisel a few months ago (it’s on Netflix); and there are many, many works of that sort.

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And then there are those movies that don’t just lift us way up out of the peculiar hell we’re living in, but that actually reflect on it, in one way or another—by anticipating it, as certain older movies have, or by presenting it somewhat obliquely. Whether they were made decades ago (with actors who, perhaps, don’t “get it” under COVID), or came out fairly recently, these are, or were, the works of kindred spirits, reassuring us that we are not alone, that others also understand— and, therefore, that we will prevail at last.

Here, then, are some movies that (I hope) will entertain you in that oddly bracing way:

Coma (1978), a thriller that now seems astonishingly prescient:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, both the 1956 and 1978 versions. (I can’t recommend Abel Ferrara’s 1993 remake.) The first one, by Don Siegel, is a masterpiece, worth watching for itself, but also as the template of Phil Kaufman’s sequel, which relocates the story from a small town in California to New Age San Francisco—foretelling the absorption of “the left” (including “natural medicine,” organic food coops, yoga studios, etc.) into the bio-fascist juggernaut now shadowing the Earth.

The Stepford Wives (1975), another masterpiece, about a prior version of transhumanist misogyny. Katherine Ross shines. (I wonder where and how she is today.) Note how Disney figures in the story. (I strongly urge you not to watch the heinous remake from 2004, starring bug-eater Nicole Kidman.)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick’s last film (not quite finished), on the ritual depravity, and all-pervasive power, of our overlords. (As Kubrick clearly worked himself to death, I for one don’t think They murdered him, but that they left it to the New York Times et al. to slime him, and the film, on its release.) Though Kubrick said he based his vision on what he had seen in Hollywood decades before, it’s clearly based on something bigger still—and whose depravity is now quite obvious to everyone with eyes wide open. Tom Cruise is great in it—and so, it must be said, is Nicole Kidman. (The artist is one thing, the work another.)

A Hidden Life (2019), Terrence Malick’s story (“inspired by true events”) of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who, conscripted into fighting for the Nazis, refused to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler. This film was so quietly released (was it released at all?) that I never even heard of it until a good friend praised it to the skies, and rightly so. The ordeal of that lonely hero speaks to all of us now saying “no” to you-know-what.

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Shaka King’s extraordinarily bold and accurate retelling of the story of the murder of Fred Hampton by the FBI, and his betrayal by an informant. To see how radical this movie is—a cinematic tribute equal to its subject—compare this unabashed portrayal of Hampton’s pointedly colorblind activism (he organized Appalachian whites and Hispanic street gangs along with blacks) with The Trial of the Chicago Seven, Aaron Sorkin’s narcissistic “woke” revision of that “iconic” Sixties episode. A minor character in that abysmal film, Hampton is a sullen, utterly uncharismatic BLM-type before his time, contradicting everything the real man did and stood for. In any case, this movie is especially germane to what the FBI’s still doing to prevent “all power to the people.”

Inside (2021), on Netflix—a dazzling one-man musical comedy, all of it the awesome work of comic genius Bo Burnham, who made it while in hiding from “the virus.” On the devastation—cultural, social, psychological—wrought by digital technology, this work is in a class all by itself, and should be part of any thorough college course on all such issues (assuming that there are such classes anywhere).

Enjoy! And please feel free to post your own suggestions in the comments.

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Big Tech and Corporate Media Silence on Hunter Biden Leaks Shows Who They Really Serve—Not the People



Over the weekend, internet sleuths on 4Chan’s /pol/ message board claimed to have decrypted Hunter Biden’s iPhone account using a tool called Backup Extractor. A subsequent storm of videos, photos, and other damning information was then posted on the internet.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

FDA Colluded With Moderna to Bypass COVID Vaccine Safety Standards, Documents Reveal



Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free. According to an ex-pharmaceutical industry and biotech executive, documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine suggest the U.S.

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Fauci Admits Vaccines Don't Protect "Overly Well" Against COVID Infection

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Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged during an appearance on Fox News that while vaccines may protect from symptoms of the virus, they “don’t protect overly well” when it comes to transmission of COVID.

Fauci made the comments on ‘Your World’ while talking to host Neil Cavuto.

Cavuto asked Fauci to respond to Americans who are unsure about taking another round of the vaccine.

“And they’re beginning to wonder about the regimen for treating it, whether you get two vaccination shots, whether you get a booster, another booster. They just don’t know. What do you tell them?” he asked.

“One of the things that’s clear from the data is that, even though vaccines, because of the high degree of transmissibility of this virus, don’t protect overly well, as it were, against infection, they protect quite well against severe disease leading to hospitalization and death,” Fauci responded.

It’s important to remember that we’re not far removed from a time when authorities insisted that vaccines were “100 per cent safe and effective” and anyone who challenged that narrative was demonized as an anti-vaxxer.

Fauci is in a good position to know that vaccines don’t protect against COVID infections.

As we previously highlighted, Fauci tested positive for the virus back in June despite being quadruple vaccinated.

He then caught COVID again for the second time in the space of a fortnight after completing a course of Paxlovid.

But yeah, “100 per cent safe and effective!”

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The Latest News Foretells American Collapse

The Latest News Foretells American Collapse

California Democrat Governor Newsom intends to phase out gasoline powered cars by 2035 and replace them with battery powered cars that have to be continually recharged with electricity.

Orwellian : New Emails Confirm CDC Officials Scrambled to Change "Problematic" Definition of 'Vaccine, Vaccinated' Because Experimental mRNA Jab Did Not Qualify Under Old Definition

Orwellian : New Emails Confirm CDC Officials Scrambled to Change "Problematic" Definition of 'Vaccine, Vaccinated' Because Experimental mRNA Jab Did Not Qualify Under Old Definition

In September 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was caught stealthily changing the definition of the word “vaccine,” as well as what it means to be “fully vaccinated,” because the experimental mRNA jab was not meeting the well-established criteria under the old def

Canary In The Car Mine: Repos From Auto Loans That Originated In 2020 And 2021 Are Skyrocketing



If you're looking for proof that we're already in the midst of a meaningful deleveraging, look no further than car repos. In fact, the industry is a "underappreciated ticking time bomb", according to Barron's.

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Video: Superstar MLB Catcher Doubles Down On Vaccination Stance, Refuses To Play In Canada



J.T. Realmuto, MLB’s highest-paid catcher, is unable to play with the Philadelphia Phillies against the Toronto Blue Jays this week because of his refusal to get vaccinated.

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Jacinda Ardern Left Reeling As New Zealand Police Look at Investigating COVID Jab Deaths

Jacinda Ardern Left Reeling As New Zealand Police Look at Investigating COVID Jab Deaths

Jacinda Arden has been left reeling after New Zealand police look set to launch a possible probe into the unusually high number of deaths that have occurred since Covid jabs were rolled out across the country.

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

US Army Cuts Pay For 60,000 Soldiers Who Refuse To Get Vaccinated

US Army Cuts Pay For 60,000 Soldiers Who Refuse To Get Vaccinated

Twelve percent of reservists and thirteen percent of guard members had remained unvaccinated at the start of the month. Now, the US Army is taking a hardline stance against them as the US Army cuts pay for 60,000 soldiers who refuse to get vaccinated.

The Best Mask Study Yet

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The case for masking by the general public has quite obviously always been weak, considering there was no pre-pandemic planning that suggested masking would ever be beneficial.

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China bank collapse under way; Saudi Arabia distances from the petro dollar to join BRICS monetary order

China bank collapse under way; Saudi Arabia distances from the petro dollar to join BRICS monetary order

(Natural News) Chaos and collapse are spreading. Sri Lanka now has 2-3 days of bread left on store shelves, and both the government and the economy there are in a state of total collapse. Via DNAIndia.com:

CDC finds glyphosate in 80% of US urine samples—as reported by 0% of "our free press"

CDC finds glyphosate in 80% of US urine samples—as reported by 0% of "our free press"

This silence, shocking though it is, should come as no surprise, from a “free press” that’s been meticulously, militantly blacking out the toll of those “vaccines”—as well as (let us not forget) the many real vaccines that have been killing/sickening/crippling us for decades; countless o

Former JAG says military leaders are overruling physicians, revoking COVID exemptions

Former JAG says military leaders are overruling physicians, revoking COVID exemptions

A former Army JAG now in private practice told The Star News Network that he has seen senior military commanders overrule physicians, pressure them to reverse their opinions, and rescind COVID-19 vaccine exemptions from service members who had been granted them.

FBI Confidential Human Source INFILTRATED Proud Boys, Ran FBI Operation on J-6, Reported They Were INNOCENT! : See Texts and Documents IN FULL!!

FBI Confidential Human Source INFILTRATED Proud Boys, Ran FBI Operation on J-6, Reported They Were INNOCENT! : See Texts and Documents IN FULL!!

Will this be the end of Chris Wray?  It should be. The FBI and the Department of Injustice continue to viciously politically persecute American Citizens and terrorize the public.

Don't vaccinate your children with covid-vaccines! Ever!

Don't vaccinate your children with covid-vaccines! Ever!

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The Best Mask Study Yet



School masking has undoubtedly been one of the COVID’s most infuriating issues. The case for masking by the general public has quite obviously always been weak, considering there was no pre-pandemic planning that suggested masking would ever be beneficial.

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Bill Gross Blasts "Ignorant" Fed For Enabling "Global Supernova", Says Hike Rates ASAP, But...

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3.5% ASAP

Back in 2013 I wrote a rather prescient Investment Outlook entitled “Credit Supernova”. It characterized the U.S. and developed global economies economy as “credit based”, especially since 1971 when Nixon broke the gold standard and central banks and private lending institutions were free to expand credit without a firm foundation of gold. Economist Hyman Minsky around the same time created a model which nearly 40 years later led to what became famously known, thanks to Paul McCulley, as a “Minsky moment”. That “moment” was the cause of the 2007-2009 Great Recession and was unique in that it involved the internal implosion of the financial system itself without outside triggers such as war, OPEC, or stringent fiscal policies which had formed the basis of prior Keynesian models.

Minsky’s system categorized three stages of monetary evolution from what he called “hedge finance” to “speculative finance” and finally to “Ponzi Finance”, with each stage requiring more and more credit growth to keep nominal GDP at acceptable levels but with accelerating inflation and the possible “implosion” (supernova) of a fragile debt-ladened economy as the end result.

My 2013 Investment Outlook noted (thankfully) that this supernova metaphor was more instructive than literal at that time. The end of the global monetary system was not nigh but it was losing energy and was entropic, because more and more credit growth would be needed to sustain an acceptable level of economic growth. Credit creation was moving more and more into speculative financial assets as opposed to investment in the real economy.

This turned out to be true over the next 10 years up to the present date. Do I dare mention near historic P/E ratios for profitless stocks, NFTs, meme stocks and cryptocurrencies as proof? Or that in the past few years beginning with Covid, that outstanding credit in the U.S. has expanded from $75 trillion to $90.5 trillion in a misguided effort to stabilize asset prices, inflation, and economic growth? This annualized 9% growth rate in government and private debt (mortgages, credit cards, corporate, etc.) was more than historic. It resembled a supernova star explosion, nearly double prior growth rates.

Responsible culprits of course were Washington’s multi-trillion-dollar deficits, an ignorant – yes ignorant -- Federal Reserve that kept yields near zero and even bought Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds until May of this year, and of course a willing investment public characterized by “meme apes” and their “to the moon” hyped forecasts. We now have bear markets in most financial assets and a strong possibility of recession – duration and magnitude uncertain.

But spilt milk or certainly spilt credit does us little good in forecasting what lies ahead. Since we still have a functioning credit-based system and not yet a “black hole” which is the end result of a supernova in the real world, it is important to theorize or predict what interest rate, how much fiscal spending, and what level of investor confidence is required to stabilize markets, economic growth and inflation going forward. The latter two considerations, while critical, I will leave for another day due to the reader’s time and ennui. But the appropriate neutral interest rate, which Fed governors have demonstrated little expertise in finding, will be the topic of these remaining paragraphs.

The neutral interest rate as defined by the Fed itself is the real short-term rate (and by extension) the 10 year Treasury rate that stabilizes real economic growth at 2-3% and inflation at 2% going forward. The Fed and other central banks have struggled with this for decades employing and then discarding what is known as the Taylor Rule and a multitude of other historical aids to guide them. But rarely have they had to contend with such an uncertain outlook on future inflation which of course is critical in determining the future level of real and then numerical short-term yields.

I, of course, having been away from the professional markets for several years, am no more credible than Jerome Powell on this topic, but I at least can afford to be a little more honest.

First of all, it’s important to acknowledge that our domestic and global supernova represents a highly levered system, as investors have found out in the last 6 months. Raising interest rates to a “neutral” level must consider this much like a drug addict would consider the steps for a healthy withdrawal. “Cold turkey” in this case is definitely out, no matter what Powell says about inflation being his “top” and nearly only policy consideration. This is not a time for Volcker-like policies. Raising rates too high, too soon, would not only threaten the long-term U.S. economic outlook but that of the rest of the world via a too-strong dollar. So how high should rates go?

To answer this, I have analyzed prior tightening cycles via what is known as Bollinger Bands, a model which uses standard deviations from historical levels of Fed funds to determine how much and how fast the Fed can go to safely create a mild recession that in turn will gradually lower inflation. The brief answer in today’s economy? Stop at 3.5% but get there ASAP.

Investment implications?

Bonds are at levels which represent diminished risk but little reward. Don’t buy them.

Stocks must contend with future earnings disappointments and are not as cheap as they appear. Don’t buy them just yet.

Commodities are out of gas.

Alternatives?

Well Jim Cramer famously says there’s always a bull market somewhere but I’m straining to find one now.

Be patient.

12 month Treasuries at 2.7% are better than your money market fund and almost all other alternatives.

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Investigation finds that big pharma money permeates drug regulatory agencies throughout the world



(Natural News) One of the biggest scandals in modern medicine is not the fact that more people die in hospitals, by far, than by gun homicides and car accidents every year, but rather the amount of big pharma money spread throughout drug regulatory agencies the world over.

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UK Rulers Quietly Published Report Confirming the Vaxxed Account for 94% of all COVID-19 Deaths

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The rulers of the United Kingdom quietly published a report confirming that the COVID-19 “vaccinated” account for 94% of all COVID-19 deaths since April of 2022, and a whopping 90% of those were either triple or quadruple jabbed.  That means with every shot, your chances of dying of the disease the shots are supposed to prevent increases.

That looks like ADE or antibody-dependent enhancement. The body now requires a continual injection of the spike proteins introduced in order to stay alive, however, at the same time the immune system is failing to the point of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) which means eventually, there won’t be enough shots to keep those who have been injected alive.

A report that was quietly published by the UK Government, just hours before Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation, reveals that Covid-19 deaths have risen dramatically among the triple vaccinated population in England over the past couple of months whilst declining drastically among the unvaccinated population. The “timely” release of this information makes it look like Jonshon’s resignation is a distraction from the biggest scam in human history (other than government itself.)

Back in March, the UK Health Security Agency announced that from April 1st, 2022, they would no longer publish the vaccination status of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in England. At the time, the UKHSA claimed this was because the UK Government had ended free universal Covid-19 testing and this, therefore, affected their “ability to robustly monitor Covid-19 cases by vaccination status”.

However, we know the real reason why the ruling classes are all refusing to break down deaths by vaccine status. It throws a wrench in the official narrative that these shots are helping prevent deaths and hospitalizations, which most of us knew right off the bat was a bald-faced lie.

The UK Health Security Agency had been looking for an excuse for months to stop publishing the data because it clearly showed the vaccinated population were suffering immense immune system damage, with case, hospitalization, and death rates per 100,000 highest among the fully vaccinated population. -The Exposé

The most recent figures are showing that the vaccinated population in England accounted for a shocking 94% of all Covid-19 Deaths in April and May, and 90% of those deaths were among the triple/quadruple vaccinated population.

In March 2022, there were 321 Covid-19 deaths within 60 days of a positive test among the unvaccinated population according to the UKHSA Week 13 Vaccine Surveillance Report, as detailed in the following chart using data extracted from table 13b of the report.

This means there were 33 fewer deaths among the unvaccinated over two months (April and May) than there were in the whole of March.

We have been lied to about this “pandemic” and the “cure” since it all began. We can plainly see that those who bought into this hoax from the get-go have been the sickest and those who submitted to the will of their masters and rulers are now having to face the repercussions of blind obedience.



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Pfizer Petitions Court For Dismissal Of Whistleblower Lawsuit

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Pfizer has petitioned the court to dismiss a lawsuit brought forth by a whistleblower alleging criminal misconduct. Pfizer says the courts should dismiss the lawsuit because the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the “vaccine” knowing the clinical trials were fraudulent.

Not to mention, the United States government has already said Big Pharma companies won’t be held liable for the damages, up to and including death, their “vaccines” cause. So why would they side with a whistleblower?

Also, keep in mind, that Pfizer’s CEO says if you don’t like his product, you’re the criminal, not them for injecting several hundred million people with a concoction tested using fraudulent safety trials. Over 12.1 billion shots have been administered worldwide, and surely a large chunk of those are Pfizer’s.

The lawyer for whistleblower Brook Jackson told The Defender that in its argument, Pfizer essentially admitted to wrongdoing but says there should be no consequences because the United States government’s FDA gave its blessing to the fraudulent clinical trials.

Whistleblower: Pfizer’s Main Goal Is To Weaponize The Immune System

Pfizer Knew Their mRNA Injection Caused Immunosuppression or AIDS

Under the False Claims Act, which is the means through which Jackson’s lawsuit was filed, whistleblowers can be rewarded for confidentially disclosing fraud that results in financial losses for the federal government.

A possible roadblock to this, and Pfizer’s latest defense, is a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded the scope of a legal principle known as “materiality.” This resulted in a series of federal court decisions in which fraud claims brought under the False Claims Act were dismissed.

“As interpreted by the Supreme Court, if the government continued paying a contractor despite the contractor’s fraudulent activity, the fraud was not considered ‘material’ to the contract,” reports The Defender. –Natural News

Attorney Robert Barnes says that Pfizer’s argument maintains that the company can get away with fraud as long as the government continues writing checks despite knowing about it. “Pfizer, one of the most criminally fined drug companies in the world, wants to weaken the laws that hold them accountable,” Barnes told The Defender.

“This case will determine if Big Pharma can rip off the American people using a dangerous drug that harms millions without any legal remedy because they claim the government was in on the scam,” Barnes says.

“This case will determine if Big Pharma can rip off the American people using a dangerous drug that harms millions without any legal remedy because they claim the government was in on the scam,” Barnes says. “Brook [Jackson] brought a Qui Tam action and a retaliatory discharge case against Pfizer and others for fraud on the people concerning Pfizer’s false certifications to the U.S. Department of Defense about the safety and efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccine.”

A Qui Tam case, by the way, allows individuals and other entities with evidence of fraud against federal programs or contracts to sue the wrongdoer on behalf of the United States government.

That’s where all of this gets sticky. The government knew about it. It’s obvious because they already gave immunity to big pharma companies while they were rolling out the vaccines. No matter what the clinical trials said, they had every intention of forcing these injections into as many living humans as possible. The goal is to inject people regardless of the outcomes.

“[Jackson] was part of the clinical trials, witnessed extraordinary malfeasance, blew the whistle, and was quickly fired after she blew the whistle,” Barnes added.

This is fraud by both the government and Pfizer. What’s that term when corporations are controlled by the government and opposition is not allowed? Oh yeah, that’s called fascism. A merger of state and corporate power to rule over everyone else and forces products on people. Interesting that some still believe the fairy tale that they are “free.”



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US Small Business Optimism Outlook Crashes To Record Low, Yield Curve Inverts Most Since 2007

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Shortly after German investor confidence collapsed to its weakest since the 2011 debt crisis (as the country faces the growing prospect of a recession and risks mount that it’s shut off from Russian energy supplies), US Small Business optimism plummeted more than expected in June with inflation topping the factors driving fear into American entrepreneurs.

Headline optimism among US small-business owners slumped in June to the lowest level since early 2013 (down 3.6 to 89.5, well below 92.5 exp), but a net minus 61% of owners last month said they expect better business conditions over the coming six months, down 7 percentage points from May and the worst result in the survey’s 48-year history.

Source: Bloomberg

All 10 sub-components worsened in June...

Inflation continues to be a top problem for small businesses with 34% of owners reporting it was their single most important problem in operating their business, an increase of six points from May and the highest level since quarter four in 1980.

As inflation continues to dominate business decisions, small business owners’ expectations for better business conditions have reached a new low,” said Bill Dunkelberg, NFIB chief economist.

“On top of the immediate challenges facing small-business owners including inflation and worker shortages, the outlook for economic policy is not encouraging either.”

The record low outlook is strongly indicating bad times for the economy to come. In concurrence, those expecting real sales growth is also historically low, expected better credit conditions has deteriorated and only 3% of small business owners think the current period is a good time to expand their business.

The NFIB concludes rather ominously, "these indicators make a very strong case for a decline in economic activity. How long and how severe is now the question. It appears that real GDP growth was negative in the first two quarters of the year, some say that is a recession. But employment has yet to yield to the forces of decline, a good sign..."

We note that the yield curve (2s10s) has collapsed to its most inverted since 2007 this morning...

"However this plays out, small business owners are bracing for challenging times ahead."

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‘Head-Spinning’: FDA Quietly Grants Full Approval of Pfizer Comirnaty Vaccine for Adolescents



Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday granted full approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents 12 through 15 years old.

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Monday, July 11, 2022

EPA Officials Exposed Whistleblowers Three Minutes After Receiving Confidential Complaint

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Within minutes of receiving a complaint from four Environmental Protection Agency whistleblowers in late June, an agency official shared the document with six EPA staffers, including at least one who was named in it, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The records – more than 1,000 pages of internal emails – also show that within 24 hours EPA officials sent the whistleblowers' complaint to other staff members who had been named in it. Two days later, the named employees met to discuss it. The scientists' disclosure laid out allegations of corruption within the EPA's New Chemicals Division and provided detailed evidence that managers and high-level agency officials had deliberately tampered with numerous chemical assessments, sometimes deleting hazards from them and altering their conclusions. The four scientists who worked in the division decided to speak up about the behavior they had witnessed because they feared it could have public health consequences. And they hoped that by carefully documenting and making public their allegations they would spark a thorough investigation and bring an end to the problems. While the sharing of the disclosure widely within the agency was not a violation of law, several experts in the handling of whistleblower complaints said it was troubling. "Sending it around to everybody who's mentioned in it, that's insane," said Adam Arnold ... at the Government Accountability Project.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption from reliable major media sources.



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Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

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Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak. The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO's hacking spyware, Pegasus. Pegasus is a malware that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones. The leak contains a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, it is believed, have been identified as those of people of interest by clients of NSO since 2016. The numbers of more than 180 journalists are listed in the data, including reporters, editors and executives at the Financial Times, CNN, the New York Times, France 24, the Economist, Associated Press and Reuters. The phone number of a freelance Mexican reporter, Cecilio Pineda Birto, was found in the list, apparently of interest to a Mexican client in the weeks leading up to his murder, when his killers were able to locate him at a carwash. He was among at least 25 Mexican journalists apparently selected as candidates for surveillance. The broad array of numbers in the list belonging to people who seemingly have no connection to criminality suggests some NSO clients are breaching their contracts with the company, spying on pro-democracy activists and journalists.

Note: Read more about how NSO Group spyware was used against journalists and activists by the Mexican government. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on intelligence agency corruption and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources.



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124,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Uber Spread "F**king Illegal" Ride-Sharing Globally

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A treasure trove of more than 124,000 confidential documents known as "The Uber Files" reveals the inside story of how Uber aggressively pushed into international markets

The unprecedented leak to The Guardian and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and other media outlets shows how the ride-sharing service wooed prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, and oligarchs for access to their home markets between 2013-17. 

The files cover Uber's operations across 40 countries during a period in which the company became a global behemoth, bulldozing its cab-hailing service into many of the cities in which it still operates today. -- The Guardian

Uber's history of disregarding local laws and regulations and even conducting law-breaking activities were detailed in the cache of files containing emails, iMessage, and WhatsApp messages, including conversations with co-founder Travis Kalanick and top-level execs. 

In a 2014 message to a coworker, Uber's former head of global communications, Nairi Hourdajian, reportedly stated: "Sometimes we have problems because, well, we're just fucking illegal."

In an exchange between Kalanick and execs, the co-founder overlooked concerns about sending French Uber drivers to demonstrate against the taxi industry. "I think it's worth it ... Violence guarantee[s] success," Kalanick wrote to colleagues. 

There were also messages between Kalanick and Emmanuel Macron, who helped the company into the French market -- it was noted that Macron, then economy minister, secretly brokered deals with opponents in the French cabinet to allow the company to disrupt Europe's taxi industry. 

In 2016, Kalanick met with then-U.S. Vice President Biden at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He messaged his staff about Biden's tardiness: "I've had my people let him know that every minute late he is, is one less minute he will have with me." 

Detailed in The Uber Files, company execs held 100 meetings worldwide in 17 countries. 

The documents reveal for the first time Uber's $90 million-a-year lobbying and public relations push to disrupt the global taxi industry

In response to the data dump, Uber spokesperson Jill Hazelbaker admitted mistakes were made when Kalanick ran the company. However, his replacement, Dara Khosrowshahi, has been "tasked with transforming every aspect of how Uber operates" and has "installed the rigorous controls and compliance necessary to operate as a public company."

"We have not and will not make excuses for past behavior that is clearly not in line with our present values. Instead, we ask the public to judge us by what we've done over the last five years and what we will do in the years to come," Hazelbaker said.

One document revealed Uber developed a "kill switch" so that when authorities raided offices around the world, law enforcement seeking information on the company's practices would be cut from access to the company's data systems, thus preventing evidence gathering. 

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Systemic Harms to our Children



I recently had a parent write to me that the overnight camp that they were going to send their child to (fees already paid), had just notified them that mask use was to be required of students at all times.

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THEY ALL LIED AND WE HAVE PROOF! Highly Sensitive DOJ Jan 6. Documents Leaked to The Gateway Pundit – FBI Confidential Human Source INFILTRATED Proud Boys, Ran FBI Operation on J-6, Reported They Were INNOCENT! — See Texts and Documents IN FULL!!

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Will this be the end of Chris Wray?  It should be.

The FBI and the Department of Injustice continue to viciously politically persecute American Citizens and terrorize the public.

Now they’ve been caught.

Shame on the McCarthy-like January 6th Unselect Committee for abusing their power and using groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers as fall guys so they can punish their political opposition!

This is not the United States we were promised.

Their lies are being exposed.

A whistleblower has leaked a treasure trove of documents and text messages, some marked “Highly Sensitive”, to the Gateway Pundit. These documents contain incredible exculpatory evidence proving the Department of Justice was aware that a group of Indicted Proud Boys were innocent- yet are prosecuting them anyway.

You can find the entire dump of documents below, which includes hundreds of pages of transcripts of audio-recorded interviews with an Assisting United States Attorney, FBI Agents and their “Confidential Human Source”. The Confidential Human Source, or CHS, infiltrated the Kansas City Proud Boy Group for over a year and a half before the January 6th event and kept the FBI goons informed on the group’s activity.

Our source who is familiar with the FBI informant and has identified him as James Ehren Knowles.

According to the source, Knowles had gained the group’s total trust and was included in all group communications.

Alleged FBI Confidential Human Source  James Ehren Knowles that infiltrated the Proud Boys on January 6th. 

READ THE INFORMANT’S LEAKED REPORT BY CLICKING HERE!!

The informant told his handlers at the FBI that the Kansas City Proud Boy Group he was infiltrating and accompanied to the Capitol on January 6th were not involved in, nor did they inspire the breaking of the barriers at the Capitol building. CHS describe the scene as the crowd doing it as a “herd mentality,” and that it was not organized. The crowd was shouting “stop the vote,” as they made their way to the Capitol building…

...There were no overt threats of violence made at that time.”

Not only that, but the informant also testifies to the FBI that Proud Boys planned to come to Washington DC to risk their own safety to protect average Trump Supporters from Antifa attacks so MAGA folk could enjoy the day and “get back to their hotels safely”. Meanwhile, the drinking fraternity, along with the ex-military/law enforcement group the “Oath Keepers”, have become the fall guys along with President Trump for the entire phony “Insurrection.”

READ THE INFORMANT’S LEAKED REPORT BY CLICKING HERE!!

Every single Kansas City Proud Boy and other individuals that the rat reported to his handlers in the document dump are indicted and facing decades in prison EVEN THOUGH THE FBI INFORMANT THAT WAS WITH THEM THAT DAY REPORTED THEIR INNOCENCE! One of the men (William Chrestman) has been detained at DC Gitmo in pre-trial detention for over a year and a half to date. A total of six people (including a woman who was pregnant at the time) are being charged with Conspiracy, Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting (this carries a maximum 20 year penalty), Obstruction of Law Enforcement During Civil Disorder and Aiding and Abetting, Threatening a Federal Officer, Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds and Carrying a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon.

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For background, there are currently two existing Proud Boy Group Indictments- the Seditious Conspiracy one involving Enrique Tarrio and other leaders, and the Kansas City Proud Boy Indictment involving the group that the FBI informant infiltrated.

The FBI Plant made it clear to his bosses that the Proud Boys and their friends had no idea what they were walking into, there was NO CONSPIRACY or pre-planning to enter the Capitol, and Proud Boys helped law enforcement inside the Capitol.

He reported that the members of the groups never mentioned: “stopping the electoral college or certification of the election” as the FBI clearly was hoping he would report.

The agents press him throughout his interviews (see full dump of audio recording transcripts below) and obviously did not like what they were hearing as it did not fit their narrative.

** These documents would be buried forever and never see the light of day if they were not leaked to us by a brave whistleblower.

According to page 15 of the FBI’s CHS “Reporting Document”:

Confidential Human Source (CHS), a collaborative source with direct and indirect access, most of whose reporting has been corroborated , stated the following on 1/6/2021:

CHS stated the Proud Boys were not involved in, nor did they inspire the breaking of the barriers at the Capitol building. CHS describe the scene as the crowd doing it as a “herd mentality,” and that it was not organized. The crowd was shouting “stop the vote,” as they made their way to the Capitol building. There were no overt threats of violence made at that time.

CHS stated that the KC Proud Boys (KCPB) in attendance at the rally entered the Capitol building 30 minutes after the building was breached to help deescalate Trump supporters and law enforcement. Once KCPB entered the building, they told people to stop acting like anarchists and leave. KCPB told the people to start bagging trash from where trash cans were thrown at law enforcement, along with a woman who was saying the same thing to protestors. KCPB told protestors to stop at the doors of the House of Representatives, and that their voice was heard and it was time to go. A law enforcement officer gave a thumbs up to KCPB, as they were trying to clear the area of people trying to fight law enforcement.

No one from KCPB were involved with the battery of a law enforcement officer, nor did anyone damage property in the capital building. KCPB then went back to a rental house and adhered to the curfew in place. CHS stated law enforcement seemed grateful as KCPB ushered individuals out of the building.

One member of KCPB told an older “hefty” white law enforcement that the “Proud Boys deescalated downstairs, they are clearing out.”

Synopsis:

Stop the Steal Rally Update 1/6/21

Please see the entirety of the document here, and scroll down to approximately page 15 where it gets juicy and read till the end.

READ THE INFORMANT’S LEAKED REPORT BY CLICKING HERE!!

The informant was also sending texts to his handlers throughout the day. The whistleblower sent us the text message correspondences between the informant on the day of January 6th like the one below.

The FBI informant’s correspondence with the FBI on January 6th.

See the FULL TEXT MESSAGE DUMP HERE!! Text messages 1Text messages 2 , Text messages 3 , Text messages 4 , Text messages 5 , Text messages 6 , Text messages 7

While the informant does provide an honest assessment of the activity of the group, the videos and photos he took all day long of the group and sent back to his bosses were ultimately used to conjure up a case to present before a Grand Jury and Indict these individuals. The photos and videos he provided- along with names, location and phone numbers- ultimately landed these folks raided by the FBI and arrested. See the photos HERE that the snitch sent to the FBI that the whistleblower leaked to us marked “Highly Sensitive”.

READ THE INFORMANT’S LEAKED REPORT BY CLICKING HERE!!

“The Department of Injustice has proven that they will stop at nothing to crush innocent and ordinary American Citizens like ants to fulfill their agenda,” said Tina Ryan of Citizens Against Political Persecution. “To them, Trump Supporters are collateral damage. They will ruin lives, destroy real families, hide exculpatory evidence from the public. Interfere in trials by publicizing false information about groups like the Proud Boys. It is only a matter of time before they come after you and me if we don’t stand up for our fellow American Citizens and demand justice.”

The informant also confirms the authenticity of the story we broke last week by reporting to his FBI bosses that Proud Boy leadership like Chairman Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean and others instructed the thousands of Proud Boys underneath them to be non-violent and ‘defensive and not offensive’ on January 6th. They were told to bring no weapons to the protest. According to the FBI infiltrator, there was no preplanning whatsoever to go inside the Capitol by leadership. The plan was always to defend against Antifa and peacefully march with other chapters.

“This leak is unbelievable,” said Newsmax Host and J6 advocate John Tabacco. “I literally can’t believe what I am reading. It blows my mind that this is real. The extent of evil at play is just mind blowing.”

READ THE INFORMANT’S LEAKED REPORT BY CLICKING HERE!!

FBI agents admitting on the record that January 6th defendants have no shot at a fair trial in D.C.

For transparency, we have attached the “Highly Sensitive” transcripts of the informant’s full audio interviews with the DOJ and FBI below. We encourage other journalists to use these in their fair reporting. We encourage every citizen to read them as a lesson that the government will prosecute innocent American citizens and treat them like terrorists- regardless of the exculpatory evidence available to them- if it benefits their agenda.

Please see the four “Highly Sensitive” audio transcripts the DOJ has hidden from the public here: 1- Transcript.01.13.21, 2- Transcript.04.05.21, 3- Transcript.8.11.2021.Part 1,  4- Transcript.8.11.2021.Part 2

These transcripts contain hundreds of pages of FBI agents interviewing their informant, who reports to them over and over again that the Proud Boys did not conspire to go inside the Capitol. There are interesting details that make the Proud Boys endearing- like a story about the group returning a woman’s bag to her that was lost. There are pages upon pages of vindicating statements.

According to the FBI informant, an indicted Proud Boy made people pick up trash. They face decades in prison.

The only thing it seems the informant thought the group was guilty of was falling subject to “herd mentality” and following the rest of the crowd in- he said some even hesitated to go inside. The informant stressed the group was NOT at the front of the crowd like the Unselect Committee has led people to believe.

Here is the original leaked FBI’s CHS “Reporting Document” that summarizes the 4 transcripts. For your convenience, we transcribed an easier version for you to read HERE- TRANSCRIBED CHS Report. Page 15 is where it gets good straight to the end.

We wonder if the defense attorneys for the six prosecuted individuals have this discovery in their possession. If they do not, it is certainly an atrocious violation of Brady disclosure laws. We do know this evidence was certainly not presented to the Grand Jury, or they surely would have not indicted these people.

READ THE INFORMANT’S LEAKED REPORT BY CLICKING HERE!!

These horrific and bogus charges have literally destroyed the lives of six ordinary Americans.

We are reporting on the victims in a second post being released soon.

“They don’t care about Americans, regular people. We are like their collateral damage,” said Tina Ryan of Citizens Against Political Persecution. “They will frame decorated veterans, rip a breastfeeding mother away from her infant child to lock her up. What makes you think they won’t do it to you?”

Tomorrow morning at 10 AM EST, the Unselect Committee resumes their “Hearsay Hearings” after their last disaster “star witness” Cassidy Hutchinson claimed her 15 minutes of fame by repeating hearsay and conspiracy theories in the kangaroo court. She was quickly proven an unreliable witness who more than likely committed perjury.

The Unselect Committee criminals (led by Trump Hater Chairman Bennie Thomson and traitor Vice Chair Liz Cheney) plan on throwing the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers further under the bus as the fall guys for their fabricated “Insurrection”. They will more than likely attempt to tie individuals like Roger Stone, Rudy Guiliani and General Michael Flynn to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers by association, and then somehow convince America to believe that this means Trump was responsible for the phony crimes they have charged them with (like Obstruction of Justice and Seditious Conspiracy). They have literally withheld exculpatory evidence from the public that exonerates these groups so they can have crimes to link Trump to “by association”. They have slandered these people’s names, locked them in solitary confinement and destroyed their chances of a fair trail in order to carry out their devious plan to keep Trump or anyone like him out of office.

READ THE INFORMANT’S LEAKED REPORT BY CLICKING HERE!!

“They seriously will never stop until Trump quits and has no heir apparent,” said Ryan. “They won’t stop until they kill the Patriot movement and things return to the establishment norm.”

She continued:

“The Proud Boys literally came to Trump rallies to protest peaceful protesters from radical left violent groups like Antifa. The Oath Keepers provided free security for groups that attended and conservatives public figures that were frequently attacked. They were literally heroes, and now they are all being charged with Sedition Conspiracy and tortured by their own government in pre-trial solitary confinement. They face a lifetime in prison. IT IS ABOUT TIME WE GET THEIR BACKS. If they can do it to these clubs, who is to say that next month they won’t decide to come for Latinos For Trump, or Veterans for America First, or you conservative club, your church group?”

*We at the Gateway Pundit remain dedicated to exercising our First Amendment Constitutional Right to participating in a free press and our obligation to check and balance the government by reporting their wrongdoings. 

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You can read it here and below:

Highly Sensitive DOJ Jan 6…. by Jim Hoft

Read Part 2 below:

PART II: Here Are the Proud Boys and Trump Supporters Who Had Their Lives Destroyed Because Chris Wray and FBI Lied About Documented Report by Embedded Operative on Jan. 6


Cara Castronuova

Cara Castronuova is a co-Founder of C.A.P.P. (Citizens Against Political Persecution and The People’s January 6th Commission. She is an Activist, Investigative Journalist, 2-Time Boxing Champion, Celebrity Fitness Trainer and Television Personality. You can watch her on Newsmax at 10PM EST every Saturday night on “Wiseguys”. You can follow her on & Twitter or Instagram  @CaraCastronuova. She is currently banned on Fakebook & suing them for defamation of character.  You can contact her via the C.A.P.P. website at www.CitizensAPP.us or www.caracastronuova.com if you have any tips or would like to volunteer.  She is also running for New York State Assembly (www.Cara4Assembly.com).

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
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And I did not speak out
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