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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Sanctuary cities for illegal aliens aren’t new and exciting anymore. Truly progressive municipalities like New York City are instead becoming sanctuary cities for crack and heroin.
Decriminalizing drugs is already a popular movement, but sanctuary cities for heroin, like New York City, are going a step further by operating drug dens under the label “safe injection sites”.
There is nothing “safe” about shooting up heroin, but lefty politicians would like you to think so.
New York City’s government crackhouses look like libraries with free TVs and places to hang out. Users break off to go into booths like the kind that might house desktop computers or reading spaces in a library. But in government drug dens, they're places to shoot up, smoke, or do whatever they want. There's also a private "smoking room" for the bashful junkie.
The addicts enjoy free needles and hot towels that "really bring those veins up."
Health Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi described government-funded drug dens as a "vital new service to keep New Yorkers healthy.” Nothing says keeping people healthy like letting them shoot heroin in between bouts of watching The View and The Bold and the Beautiful.
Running a crackhouse is illegal. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 makes it a crime to "knowingly open, lease, rent, use, or maintain any place, whether permanently or temporarily, for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance" punishable by a fine of $2 million and as much as 20 years in prison. And people continue to lose homes, businesses, and their freedom for violating the crackhouse law.
So why isn’t the FBI breaking down the doors of New York’s City Hall?
The Justice Department, during that brief four-year period when it was actually enforcing criminal laws again, sued Philadelphia over a similar government crackhouse. The Third Circuit Court found that the facility obviously violated federal law, but Merrick Garland's corrupt DOJ has decided to sign off on government crackhouses the way that it did on illegal aliens.
Despite winning clear victories in court, Biden's DOJ now states that it's "evaluating supervised consumption sites, including discussions with state and local regulators about appropriate guardrails for such sites, as part of an overall approach to harm reduction and public safety."
All of this buzzword spin means that Biden is signing off on heroin sanctuary cities.
That’s not surprising for an administration that already funds the distribution of drug paraphernalia. The CDC’s partners include openly pro-drug groups that claim fentanyl can be safely used. The new pro-drug spin is that the only problem with doing any kind of drug is that the user might overdose and that with enough government crackhouses, that can be prevented.
Drug treatment facilities are giving way to drug use facilities in already troubled neighborhoods.
Heroin sanctuary cities are no longer fighting crackhouses and drug dens, they’re opening government drug dens funded by taxpayers that further devastate communities.
The government-backed drug den in Harlem is a block away from two elementary schools.
Democrat city governments have gone from fighting to keep drug dealers out of schoolyards to setting up drug dens within a short walking distance of the neighborhood playground.
And the Biden administration has all but announced that it will sign off on these measures.
PayPal, which relentlessly cracks down on conservative fundraising, has allowed New York Harm Reduction Educators, one of the non-profits involved, to fundraise through its site. But then again NYHRE has already been funded by the CDC and HHS among other federal agencies and boasts corporate partners like Bank of America and Pfizer.
Much like teaching sex to kindergartners or supporting race riots, what was formerly a fringe radical outlier far to the left is now a mainstream government and corporate-approved cause.
The government-funded drug dens claim that they’re fighting overdoses even as overdoses continue to climb to shockingly high levels. The drug death rate in New York State shot up 71% from 2010 to 2015. In Manhattan, they doubled, rose by 30% in Brooklyn, and 84% in the Bronx.
In 2016, 1,300 New Yorkers died of drug overdoses. Last year it was over 2,000. In just one year, from 2019 to 2020, overdose deaths rose by around a third citywide.
With 6 people dying a day, drugs are becoming a leading cause of deaths in New York City.
Facilitating drug use is murder. And yet the entire leftist political program from enabling homelessness to decriminalizing crime, and in particular drugs, has created this catastrophe.
A resolution from the New York City Board of Health claims that its endorsement of government crackhouses is grounded in its resolution wrongly declaring racism to be a "public health crisis" and implementing "anti-racism public health practices".
Racism isn't a public health crisis, cocaine and heroin are.
Advocates for heroin and cocaine sanctuary cities insist that the problem is that addicts use drugs unsafely because of systemic racism. There’s no safe way to use classes of drugs that are addictive and utterly destructive. An overdose is not just an accidental misuse, it’s the biochemical inevitability of drug addiction and tolerance. Having the government oversee addicts in welfare drug dens, ready to revive them if they overdose is not a plan, it’s a dystopian nightmare wrapped in Orwellian euphemisms that ends up killing the people it claims to save.
Sanctuary cities kill. Sanctuary cities for illegal aliens have enabled crimes that killed numerous Americans. Now sanctuary cities for drugs are devastating neighborhoods and destroying lives.
And the Biden administration is once again refusing to enforce the law and stop the dying.
The legalization and decriminalization of drugs have run in tandem with growing drug death rates. While Biden denies that he supports defunding the police, his administration continues to endorse and promote the pro-crime policies that are destroying cities, suburbs, and rural areas.
Even as the Biden administration seeks new ways to crack down on ordinary Americans, with new fines and new levels of surveillance, it’s refusing to enforce the law, one ratified by recent appeals decisions and Supreme Court sanction, because its own allies are the perpetrators.
Running a crackhouse is illegal under federal law, but the law no longer applies to the Left.
If you loved sanctuary cities where illegal aliens are free to drive drunk, rape, and kill, you’re going to love Biden’s heroin sanctuary cities where addicts converge at taxpayer-funded crackhouses and crimes are committed every day with the sanction of the party of crime.
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Gov’t assessment points to “sociopolitical developments such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol” and “conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
QUICK FACTS:
Under the direction of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a “Report on Internal Review of Domestic Violent Extremism” conducted by “a cross-Departmental working group of senior officials.”
The report incorporated a “comprehensive review of how to best prevent, detect, and respond to potential threats related to domestic violent extremism within the Department of Homeland Security,” according to the DHS website.
The assessment is defined as “domestic violent extremists” those “who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States.”
These extremists “pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021,” the report goes on to say.
The report emphasized “sociopolitical developments such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence,” arguing that such developments “will almost certainly spur some [domestic violent extremists] [sic] to try to engage in violence this year.”
“Every day, the more than 250,000 dedicated public servants at DHS work to ensure the safety and security of communities across our country. To ensure we are able to continue executing our critical mission with honor and integrity, we will not tolerate hateful acts or violent extremist activity within our Department,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas.
“The findings of this internal review highlight key steps that our Department will continue to take with urgency to better prevent, detect, and respond to potential internal threats related to domestic violent extremism, and protect the integrity of our mission.”
BACKGROUND:
DHS has promised over the coming months to “focus on implementing the report’s recommendations” and to “include establishing baseline policies and guidance, promoting employee awareness, and enhancing methods to identify and address violent extremist activity while continuing to protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.”
The department says it “has already begun addressing many of the gaps identified in the report, including by updating related employee training modules and developing guides for leaders to reference when discussing violent extremist activity.”
"You're standing up for freedom....It oughta be your choice what you put in your body. It oughta be your choice what healthcare decisions you make. And it damn-well oughta be your choice what healthcare has done, and is doing to your kids."
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Whatever else Old Joe Biden may be, in his dotage, he sure has become a whiner. At the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference on Friday, Biden lost his temper, shouting that he was “sick of this stuff,” that is, Americans blaming him for the inflation that his far-Left policies have caused. That wasn’t all that the ostensible president was enraged about, however; in the same speech, he fumed that Americans just didn’t understand the great job that he’s doing.
Biden opened this particular gambit with a full-on threat: “I’m not saying we’re over; we’re just getting going.” It’s quite clear at this point that the American people and the world at large would be a great deal better off if he didn’t do anything for the rest of his sorry term, but no such luck: his handlers are just getting started, and that means more pain is in the offing.
“And a lot of work to do,” Biden continued semi-coherently. “But never forget what we’ve accomplished together so far.” Oh, we won’t: hyperinflation, skyrocketing gas prices, the war in Ukraine, a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the emboldening of America’s enemies worldwide, the erasure of the Southern border, unknowable numbers of criminals and terrorists streaming into the country — who could forget?
But as far as Biden is concerned, he isn’t riding high in the polls right now because the American people just aren’t capable of grasping his magnificence: “And, by the way, the American people just trying to stay above water don’t understand this. You tell them what the American Recovery Act was, and they look at you like, ‘What are you talking about?’ Understandably. They’re like my family: mom, dad, four kids, grandpop living in the house in a three-bedroom split-level home. Just every single day figuring out how you put enough food on the table, even when things are okay. Well — and on this one anniversary of the American Rescue Plan, let’s be clear: We did it alone, without one single, solitary Republican vote.”
Noted: the destruction of America has been accomplished so far without one, single, solitary Republican vote, at least in that particular instance. Unfortunately, on all too many occasions, Old Joe has not had trouble finding corrupt and compromised Republicans to go along with his nefarious plans.
But more striking is the bit about how struggling Americans “don’t understand” all the wonderful things he has supposedly done. As ridiculous as it is, this has actually become a Democrat talking point of late. As PJM’s Matt Margolis pointed out, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Absolut) said essentially the same thing on the day of Old Joe’s State of the Union rant. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked her, “The decline in the President’s polls — even on COVID, on how he’s handled it — what can you do to turn this around?” Pelosi answered, “Well, I think tonight’s gonna be very important. Because for people to appreciate what the President has done […] they have to know what it is.”
So both Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi believe or want us to think they believe, that the average American isn’t thrilled with Old Joe because they aren’t bright enough to inform themselves of all his great accomplishments.
It may be that Hillary Clinton was the first person to advance this absurd talking point. On MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show on Nov. 23, 2021, Clinton lamented, “You know, democracy is messy. You know, a lot of people got, oh, I think, kind of frustrated looking at the messy process of legislation, and they — they didn’t really appreciate that within a year, the Biden administration has passed two major pieces of legislation through both the House and the Senate. They passed another major piece through the House that will soon be in the Senate.”
Hillary touted these as “extraordinary accomplishments,” and complained that “because of the way we are getting our information today and because of the lack of gatekeepers and people who have a historic perspective, who can help us understand what we are seeing, there is a real vulnerability in the electorate to the kind of demagoguery and disinformation that, unfortunately, the other side is really good at exploiting.”
Yes, that’s what we need: more gatekeepers to explain to us how great Joe Biden is as if CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times and the Washington Post and Hollywood and academia and all the rest of it weren’t enough. They all tell us we must love Big Brother, and soon enough we will, or else.
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See that angry old man shouting at you? That’s the President of the United States. Even in the best of times, Old Joe Biden has never been one to take responsibility for his actions, and these are not the best of times. With the economy in free fall, the Russians on the march in Ukraine, the Southern border a polite fiction, and skyrocketing inflation, Old Joe is in full-throttle finger-pointing mode, blaming everyone he can think of for the catastrophic failure of his administration. His latest scapegoat: the American people. That’s right, all of us, or at very least those who come to the very sensible and entirely justifiable conclusion that his absurd far-Left policies are responsible for today’s galloping inflation rates.
On Friday, Biden’s handlers trundled the old man to Philadelphia to attend the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference, where he read out an address full of dark foreboding for the assembled gaggle of socialists: “This off-year election, in my view, may be the most important off-year election in modern history. Because we know what happens, we know the fundamental change that shifts if we lose the House and Senate. The only thing I’ll have then is a veto pen.”
The primary reason why the Democrats may fare poorly in November is, of course, that Biden’s handlers have made a hash of pretty much everything, and with inflation raging out of control and certain to go higher, Biden had a ready explanation: “Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin.” Old Joe must thank Gaia every night that Putin invaded Ukraine, as it gives him a ready answer to any and every critic and a potted explanation that will satisfy the Leftist conformists among his followers who know that all the failures of socialism are attributable to anything but socialism.
Since some of the people in the audience, however, might have been sentient beings and might have remembered that prices were already rising before Putin invaded Ukraine. Biden dealt with that head-on, sort of: “I love Republicans saying…Biden’s going to stop the Keystone Pipeline. And I did. And that’s the reason prices went up. Folks, let’s get something straight here: The Keystone Pipeline was two years away and had been 2 percent finished. Give me a break.”
Modest Old Joe didn’t mention that he did far more than shut down the Keystone Pipeline. He also placed a moratorium on oil leases on federal property (which was blocked in court but is apparently still followed in the Interior Department, as the number of drilling permits it has issued dropped sharply), suspended some existing drilling leases, restricted fracking, placed onerous financial regulations on the oil industry, and more.
Is all that responsible for rising gas prices? Of course, it is. But that idea positively enraged Biden. “I’m sick of this stuff!,” the old man shouted (remember: unfocused and unwarranted anger is a sign of dementia). “We have to talk about it because the American people think the reason for inflation is the government spending more money. Simply. Not. True.”
“I’m SICK of this stuff!”
Joe Biden is furious that Americans blame inflation on his government spending. pic.twitter.com/quRxB2lfvA
When Biden asserts something forcefully, the opposite is almost always true. Former California state assemblyman Chuck Devore explained in November 2021 that “in simple terms, inflation happens because more dollars are chasing relatively fewer goods — there are only so many goods and services available at a given time and when the number of dollars goes up and more goods and services aren’t produced, then prices start to rise.” Devore adds that “When the government spends money, that money can come from three basic sources: taxes, borrowing, and printing more money.” With Biden’s government spending at astonishingly bloated levels, higher taxes and more money in circulation mean inflation, and here we are.
What’s happening to the American economy is entirely the fault of the old man who is shouting about how sick and tired he is of people saying it’s his fault and of the bright young Leftists with whom he has filled his administration and who are anxious to seize as much of the fruit of the labors of the American people as they can, so as to finance their various utopian boondoggles. It is perhaps a symptom of the deep crisis in American society, or at least of the malignant forces that are operating in America today, that a man so utterly frivolous and irresponsible as Joe Biden would become president and do so in his dotage, bereft of the glib and smiling veneer he put on his dishonest presentations in earlier days. All that is left of him now is the shouting.
We are about to witness a massive reshuffling in global power structure that has been given the green light after the pandemic. This highlighting of weakness reflects our current presidential weakness and the end of our empire.
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A Ukrainian bio lab receiving funds from the U.S. government was formerly a bioweapons factory under the control of the Soviet Union, with experts recently reporting a “lack of modern biosafety equipment” as well as “lethal microbes that in the West would be locked away in high-containment laboratories,” the National Pulse can reveal.
An article published by the Washington Post on August 30th, 2005 – “U.S. to Aid Ukraine in Countering Bioweapons” – reveals a lab now receiving U.S. government funds formerly “supplied highly lethal pathogens to Soviet bioweapons factories”:
“One lab to receive funding is the I.I. Mechnikov Antiplague Scientific and Research Institute, in the Black Sea port city of Odessa. The institute was part of a Cold War network of “antiplague” stations that supplied highly lethal pathogens to Soviet bioweapons factories.”
In 2008, researchers from the James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies in Monterey California noted of the Mechnikov facility:
“…its management claimed in 2003 that it knew nothing about either the Soviet offensive or defensive [bioweapons] program. We question the second since it was in effect a closed facility until the late 1980s and worked on highly dangerous Group II pathogens and, probably, at least at time on some Group I pathogens since at least 1965. It would make sense if at least one of its laboratories worked on Problem 5 projects.
“Problem 5” was the codename given to the Soviet bioweapons program.
Another report by the James Martin Center revealed disturbing practices at the U.S.-funded facility (emphases added):
The lack of modern biosafety equipment is also raising concern among U.S. officials about the potential for an accidental release of deadly bacteria and viruses. In Odessa, where 44 scientists and about 140 support staff carry out research in the I.I. Mechnikov Anti-plague Scientific and Research Institute, scientists wearing cotton smocks and surgical masks work with lethal microbes that in the West would be locked away in high-containment laboratories and handled only by scientists in spacesuits. The lab’s scientists said their training in handling dangerous materials allowed them to work safely with pathogens without Western-style safety equipment—which they viewed as unnecessary and which in any case they cannot afford. “Many of the institutes are located in downtown areas and some work with pathogens with windows wide open,” said Sonia Ben Ouagrham, who coauthored the Monterey study with Zilinskas and Alexander Melikishvili.
The unearthed article also confirms a previous National Pulse report revealing how former President Barack Obama spearheaded negotiations leading to the lab eventually receiving U.S. government funds as part of a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Defense.
“The agreement, the result of more than a year of negotiations, was announced by Sens. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during a visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev,” notes The Washington Post.
A separate article from The Irish Times – “Odessa Labs Host Deadly Legacy” – explains the Odessa-based laboratory’s former connections to the Soviet Union’s biological weapons programs.
Dubbed a “repository of knowledge, equipment and lethal pathogens that could be useful to bioterrorists,” the lab Obama negotiated to receive U.S. funds was highlighted for its inadequate safety precautions.
“The institutes were not officially part of the Soviet bioweapons complex, so they have been ineligible for the tens of millions of dollars given each year by western governments to keep former weapons scientists from selling their expertise. These governments are just beginning to look for ways to help the institutes, and not only because of the bioterrorism threat. In a two-year study of Russia’s biotech industry, a panel of the US National Academy of Sciences recently urged former Soviet republics to modernize the anti-plague labs and integrate them with other global networks working to prevent pandemics,” added the article.
“They often have culture collections of pathogens that lack biosecurity, and they employ people who are well-versed in investigating and handling deadly pathogens,” said Raymond Zilinskas, a bioweapons expert and co-author of a draft report by scholars from the Centre for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies on the role of Ukrainian labs in Soviet bioweapon efforts
“Some are located at sites accessible to terrorist groups and criminal groups,” he added.
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America’s future as a free society is in serious peril because there are so many authoritarians in positions of power and influence who have contempt for the American people and their values.
“LEAKED: Audio Shows Former NIH Director Trashing Christians at Event Hosted by Christianity Today,” RedState, March 8, 2022:
Dr. Francis Collins, former NIH Director and current “science advisor” to Joe Biden, has long proclaimed himself and Dr. Anthony Fauci as “not political figures.” But newly leaked audio, obtained by The Daily Wire’s Meg Basham, tells a far different story.
The audio was taken on October 26th, 2021 at an event hosted by Christianity Today in conjunction with the Institute of Politics (a leftwing organization founded by David Axelrod). Russell Moore, a favorite among socially left-leaning “evangelicals” like David French and Beth Moore, conducted the interview portion that included Collins.
What followed was the mocking of Christians, the dismissal of individual rights, and false assertions about the legalities involved with vaccine mandates. But rest assured, none of this was political per Collins’ self-description.
“The US government does have the authority to mandate vaccinations if there is an outbreak that is threatening people, because it’s not just about you, it’s about the people you’re going to infect,” Collins claimed, even though science journals were already reporting by that point that vaccinated people were just as likely to spread the then-dominant Delta variant as those who were unvaccinated.
Collins went on to ask rhetorically, “Do [mandates] convince people who otherwise wouldn’t get them?” He answered himself, “Oh yeah, especially if it means losing your job.”
Perhaps Collins should opine less on legal issues because that turned out to be objectively false. As most are aware, the Supreme Court ended up striking down the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate. Collins tried to cite Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, a 1905 case that involved state-level mandates, in the interview, again showing his lack of knowledge of the topic. The lack of empathy shown to those losing their jobs over a mandate that was scientifically pointless (everyone spreads COVID) is also striking.
Later, Collins would go on to outright mock Christians who value personal freedom from the government.
Collins said evangelicals, in particular, over-emphasize notions of personal liberty when it comes to mandates, saying they have so “wrapped themselves in the flag and wrapped themselves in this concept of personal freedom, that public health just grates on them.”
“[Evangelicals] have forgotten many times that freedom is not just about rights,” Collins contended. He then employed a mocking caricature of a Southern accent, asking the students, “How many times have you heard, ‘Muh freedom means I got rights’? Well, okay, you also have that other R-word: responsibilities. That’s what freedom is supposed to incorporate.”
I’m not sure what planet this man lives on, but freedom is actually about rights. There can be no freedom without rights, and anything that violates those rights is logically not freedom. The nod to “responsibilities” is a weak, commonly used excuse by government apparatchiks to force their agenda on others. Even tackling Collins’ claim on the merits, what responsibility to others does someone have to get vaccinated if the vaccine does not stop the spread of COVID?…
Arguably the most politically pointed portion of Collins’ remarks came when Moore asked him about the political opinions of his fellow Christians. Collins answered by referencing an Atlantic article by anti-Trump pundit Peter Wehner, another member of his and Moore’s book club, that argued evangelicals have “embraced the worst aspects of our culture and our politics” and that “churches [have] become repositories not of grace but of grievances, places where tribal identities are reinforced, where fears are nurtured, and where aggression and nastiness are sacralized.”…
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(Natural News) In late 2021, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ordered Pfizer to release all relevant data on their “covid-19 vaccine.” The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tried to protect Pfizer, suggesting that the data be kept classified for the next twenty years. However, the courts ordered the speedy release of the information, demanding transparency for a product that has been used arrogantly and tyrannically to destroy people’s livelihoods and health.
As the documents are released to the public at the rate of 55,000 pages per month, researchers are documenting the truth about the covid-19 vaccines. For one, these injections use RNA replication technology to exploit the innate immune system, to mass-produce a variant of the spike protein bioweapon. This has led to widespread immune depletion and enhanced disease, causing higher caseloads, hospitalizations, and deaths. Furthermore, Pfizer’s own documents prove THEY KNEW their covid vaccines were not “safe and effective.” Pfizer also knew the mRNA nano-particles circulated throughout the body, causing damage to organs. The FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) anyway, lying to the public about the “safety” and “efficacy” of the vaccine.
Criminal negligence or criminal conspiracy: unraveling Pfizer and FDA deception about covid-19 vaccines
There are only two explanations for the FDA’s behavior in this historic matter of medical malpractice: criminal negligence or criminal conspiracy. Either the FDA negligently disregarded the data in these documents, or they actively participated in a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud and cause harm to the population. Why would the FDA blindly trust a company (Pfizer) that previously promoted pharmaceutical products illegally, leading to the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Justice Department? With the Pfizer documents being made public, both Pfizer and the FDA should be charged. They should be charged for not only promoting pharmaceutical products illegally but also for using deception and coercion to force harmful products on the population.
The Pfizer documents raise serious public health issues. At least 50,000 pages have been released thus far. In the documents, Pfizer reassured the FDA repeatedly that their vaccine would “prevent” covid-19, even though the study design utilized fraudulent diagnostic standards to manipulate endpoints, while ignoring absolute risk reduction. Pfizer understood that vaccinated individuals can still test positive for covid-19, and may still get the same respiratory symptoms, even after suffering from the side effects of the vaccine. Yet, Pfizer repeatedly claimed that their vaccine would “prevent” covid-19 – lying to the FDA about its effectiveness.
In the documents, Pfizer indicated that the vaccine be used for “active immunization to prevent COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 in individuals? 16 years of age.” However, Pfizer and the FDA also had data showing that the “efficacy” of the vaccine waned quickly. The data shows that the effects of the vaccine wane in just one month, even after two doses are administered. However, the FDA did not warn the public that vaccinated individuals would need monthly boosters to make the vaccine work.
Pfizer and FDA had clear evidence that vaccine causes widespread damage
Pfizer also had overwhelming data on the adverse events of the vaccine. The drug company knew that the adverse events increased with each additional booster shot, yet the FDA approved a two-shot protocol from the start and even approved a third booster, despite evidence of mounting health risks. In a series of documents, Pfizer wrote on page 24 about the dose-dependent nature of adverse events, which included severe grades of edema and erythema along with muscle necrosis, fibrosis, and increased spleen size and weight. “The incidence and severity of the reactions were higher after the second or third injections compared with the first injection,” Pfizer wrote.
Pfizer also had proof that the mRNA nano-particles migrated from the injection site, yet the government and the media repeatedly lied about the mRNA degrading and the whole process staying in the deltoid muscles. The vaccine ingredients migrated predominantly to the ovaries, liver, and spleen, but also proliferated the adrenal glands, bladder, bone, bone marrow, eyes, large intestine, lymph nodes, pancreas, salivary glands, skin, small intestine, testes, thymus, thyroid, and the uterus.
Pfizer and the FDA had clear data showing more systemic adverse events occurring in the vaccinated group over the placebo group, yet they both lied to the public, claiming that the vaccinated had mild disease and the unvaccinated were a “public health threat.” Pfizer knew that the vaccinated were two to twenty-five times more likely to experience negative health impacts from the vaccine.
In the documents, Pfizer adamantly preferred a passive adverse event surveillance system that relied on unsubstantiated reports that could be readily dismissed. Pfizer did not want to take on the added cost of accurately recording vaccine injuries, nor did they want to compensate families injured by their vaccines. Clearly, neither Pfizer, the FDA nor the CDC gave proper informed consent for these vaccines, harming countless people for life, while lying to the public with disinformation and damaging the public’s trust.
“We were reporting, and other outlets were reporting, that this was an mRNA technology. And they said, ‘No, it’s not, there’s no mRNA shot, there’s no mRNA, there’s no mRNA in these shots.’ Now they just promoted it as mRNA. It’s like they expect us to not have a memory or something,” said Shroyer during a recent episode of “The Alex Jones Show.”
Shroyer actually meant to say gene therapy instead of mRNA, but you get the point. Big Pharma is making a fool out of everyone.
In the video, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division President Stefan Oelrich said were it not for the pandemic, the experimental injection may have seen an extremely high rejection rate.
Oelrich made the statement at the opening of the World Health Summit 2021 last November. “Ultimately, the mRNA vaccines are an example of that cell and gene therapy,” Oelrich said at the time.
He also admitted that 95 percent of people would probably refuse gene therapy under normal circumstances. “I think this pandemic has opened many people’s eyes to innovation,” he said.
But even after Oelrich’s statement, some media outlets maintained their stance that the mRNA injections are not gene therapies.
On January 4, Forbes published an article titled “Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are not gene therapies.”
Poynter.org even published a fact-check claiming that the Bayer executive did not actually say that the mRNA vaccines are cell and gene therapies.
“Oelrich did not say that mRNA vaccines against the COVID-19 are a gene or cell therapy. What he did point out is that mRNA-based vaccines are an example of technological innovation, just as the gene and cell therapy proposed by Bayer are an example of technological innovation,” it said.
Biden, Harris don’t support COVID vaccines before 2020 election
When CNN asked Harris before the 2020 election if she would take the vaccine once it’s approved, she refused to provide a clear answer. “Well, I think that’s going to be an issue for all of us. I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump,” she said on September 6, 2020.
Biden, on the other hand, suggested on July 28, 2020, that the coronavirus vaccine won’t be “real” and may not be “safe.” On August 6, 2020, Biden said the vaccine is “not likely to go through all the tests and trials that are needed to be done.” Finally, on September 7, 2020, Biden said he would take the coronavirus vaccine “only if we knew all of what went into it.”
“But then when Biden became president, they loved it. The vaccine didn’t change; the ingredients didn’t change. And it’s just amazing. I mean, we have caught these crooks red-handed – they’ve been caught. It’s so pathetic,” Shroyer said.
“It’s so pathetic that nobody wants to stop this crime. Nobody wants to hold the big pharmaceutical companies accountable. It’s like nobody knows, and it makes you wonder really who is in charge? Are our officials in charge? Or is it entities like Big Pharma that are actually the ones that are in charge?”
Watch the video below as Owen Shroyer talks about the arrogance displayed by Big Pharma in admitting that the mRNA vaccines are actually gene therapies.
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(Natural News) Sen. William Smith (D-Md.) has proposed new legislation in Maryland that would legalize “abortion” up to 28 days after a child is born.
Senate Bill 669, also called the “Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act of 2022”, provisions that a newborn baby can be left to die for up to a month after being born in the event that the “mother” decides she no longer wants to keep it.
A hearing for the “woke” bill has been scheduled for March 15 when legislators will debate it.
“The bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion,” American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) attorney Olivia Summers pointed out.
The reason for this has to do with wording in the legislation that would prohibit investigations into and criminal prosecutions of women and medical professionals for “failure to act” in relation to a “perinatal death.”
“In other words, a baby born alive and well could be abandoned and left to starve or freeze to death,” Summers said. “And nothing could be done to punish those who participated in that cruel death.”
Why are Democrats so obsessed with murdering babies?
The language of the legislation, Summers warned, is so unclear that it would, in fact, “prevent investigations into the death of infants at least seven days AFTER their birth, and may extend to infants as old as four weeks.”
Maryland code does not currently define “perinatal.” A 2020 law, however, does define “perinatal care” as the “provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum and neonatal periods.”
According to MedicineNet, the official definition is “the 20th to 28th week of gestation” to “1 to 4 weeks after birth.”
Maryland already has a “Safe Haven” law in place allowing the parents of newborn babies to surrender them to a responsible adult without fear of prosecution. So why the need for SB 669, other than to expand the range of time in which a baby can be murdered?
“Under the Safe Haven law, a distressed parent who is unable or unwilling to care for their infant can safely give up custody of their baby, no questions asked,” said the Maryland Department of Human Services. “Newborns can be left at hospitals or law enforcement stations.”
“There is absolutely no reason for Maryland Senate Bill 669’s attempt to prevent someone who lets their baby die from being investigated,” Summers wrote in an analysis of the bill.
“This bill just further exposes the complete lack of regard abortion advocates have for innocent human life.”
If the Democrats pushing the legislation really want to protect life and women, then all they would have to do is extend the length of the safe harbor provisions that are already in place. Since they are not doing this, it would seem as though they have a different agenda.
This is hardly the first time that left-wing politicians have proposed legislation that aims to increase legal eligibility for baby murder. Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) infamously blocked an amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) that would have protected newborn survivors of botched abortions from being terminated.
“What about if you do not like your two-year-old?” asked someone at LifeSiteNews. “Is it okay to murder her as well? What about your old grandmother who is not much use to anyone anymore? What about the Christian who opposed gender confusion and indoctrination in the schools? Should they be permanently silenced, too?”
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Facebook has admitted in a court of law that its fact-checkers are not asserting facts but, rather, First Amendment-protected opinions
Steve Kirsch, founder of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, recorded a phone call with a fact-checker from PolitiFact, showing just how ignorant the fact checker is about the facts, and how unwilling she is to look at the data
There are three sources for vaccine injury data: The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Wonder site; OpenVAERS; and MedAlerts, created by the National Vaccine Information Center. Of these, MedAlerts has the easiest-to-use interface if you want to search and collate data
What makes VAERS so valuable is the fact that you can find important safety signals that would otherwise be missed. This is its intended function, and it works quite well for that
Fact-checkers are now trying to dismiss VAERS data as unreliable at best and useless at worst. But they have a serious problem. The U.S. government had a clear duty, enshrined in law, to create a system to detect potential vaccine injuries. If VAERS is useless, then the government broke the law. In their zeal to protect Big Pharma, fact-checkers may be inadvertently throwing government agencies under the bus
If you thought fact-checkers were a source of unbiased facts, think again. Earlier this year, Facebook admitted, in a court of law, that its fact-checkers are not asserting facts but rather “First Amendment-protected opinions.”1,2
A recent telephone recording by Steve Kirsch, founder of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, in which he responds to a fact-checker from PolitiFact, is equally revealing. The young woman clearly has no idea what she’s talking about, yet she’s been put into a position where she gets to be the sole and final arbiter of truth.
Why Use MedAlerts?
The PolitiFact fact-checker, Gabrielle Settles, contacted Kirsch with a number of questions. First, she wanted to know why he uses MedAlerts3 as a source rather than the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Wonder site.
VAERS was an outgrowth of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, a law that Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), helped fight for. As you likely know, this site and many of you have supported NVIC with donations, which allows them to carry on their terrific work, including their MedAlerts VAERS database query tool.
Between 1990 and 2001, VAERS data were accessible only by filing a Freedom of Information Act request. In 2001, a VAERS website was created,4 and in 2006 the database was moved to CDC Wonder. The MedAlerts VAERS interface was created by the NVIC, which is the reason why fact-checkers attack it. It went online April 9, 2003.
In response to Settles’ question, Kirsch explained that MedAlerts simply has a more user-friendly interface, while providing the same exact data as VAERS and OpenVAERS.
Are VAERS Data Valid?
Settles then moved on to question the validity of VAERS data in general. She pointed out that raw VAERS reports are not vetted and verified for accuracy, and that they cannot be used to prove causation. In other words, the fact that there are more than 24,400 deaths5 reported post-jab does not automatically mean that the shot was the cause of all those deaths.
Kirsch countered by pointing out that what makes VAERS so valuable is the fact that you can find important safety signals that would otherwise be missed. This is its intended function, and it works quite well for that.
For example, looking at the dosing data for myocarditis, you find that after the first dose, there are relatively few myocarditis cases reported, but after the second dose, reports explode. This kind of consistency in the data is very telling and not easily dismissed.
Fact-checkers are now trying to dismiss VAERS data as unreliable at best and useless at worst. But they have a serious problem because the U.S. government had a clear duty, enshrined in law, to create a system to detect potential vaccine injuries.
If they now want to throw VAERS out, then the government is in a real pickle, because that means they did not create a functional and useful system. If VAERS is so seriously flawed as to be useless, then the government has broken the law and is duty-bound to replace it with something that actually works. It’s a real Catch-22. In their zeal to protect Big Pharma, fact-checkers may be inadvertently throwing government agencies under the bus.
Weak Hit Piece Tries to Salvage the Narrative
PolitiFact published its NVIC/MedAlerts article on February 28, 2022, under the title, “How an Alternative Gateway to VAERS Data Helps Fuel Vaccine Misinformation.”6 While clearly meant as a hit piece, it actually provides NVIC some much-needed publicity, even giving links to both its About Us and Reporting Options pages.
The main point of contention, however, is so weak it smacks of desperation. According to Settles, the government’s disclaimer — which states that VAERS reports can include information that is incomplete or inaccurate and doesn’t provide enough information to determine causation — isn’t prominent enough on the MedAlert’s website.
“Users who go to MedAlerts can search through VAERS reports without ever reading a government disclaimer,” Settles contends, adding that “unlike the CDC’s Wonder database, users on MedAlerts who don’t notice or click on the links won’t see the warnings about what they read.”
Without a clear understanding of the limitations of VAERS, MedAlert’s search results are “vulnerable ... to misinterpretation by members of the public who are not trained to evaluate the information,” Settles insists. She goes on, “When government researchers use and interpret VAERS reports, they are not drawing conclusions based on the numbers alone but, rather, looking for patterns that warrant further study.”
The irony is that this is precisely what Kirsch and many others have been doing. VAERS is a tool that can help identify potential safety issues by looking at patterns and trends, but the total number of reports of a specific problem cannot be discounted because it’s part of the signal.
The fact of the matter is that there are many safety signals in the VAERS data, but those tasked with investigating them are refusing to do it. At this point, one wonders whether any U.S. agency can actually be trusted to conduct an unbiased investigation even if they decided to do one.
Settles also attacks Kirsch personally, dismissing his safety concerns by stating that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has chalked his claims up as being “not based in science.” Essentially, Settles’ article can be summed up as a desperate attempt to redirect people back to the CDC and FDA propaganda, which dismisses the now outlandishly large number of post-jab VAERS reports as being of no consequence.
Post-Jab Neurological Issues Were Under Investigation in 2021
Meanwhile, The Epoch Times recently reported7 that “Two U.S. agencies have been quietly studying neurological problems that have appeared in people who have had COVID-19 vaccines.”
According to emails reviewed by The Epoch Times, Dr. Janet Woodcock, principal deputy director of the FDA, “has been personally evaluating neurologic side effects from the COVID-19 vaccines since at least Sept. 13, 2021.” In a November 16, 2021, email, Woodcock wrote:8
“We are having difficulty pinning down these nervous system-related events that have been brought to our attention. I’ve asked for specific searches of the reports we get both from here and ex-U.S. (as these vaccines have been used in many countries) as well as from trials, where oversight of participants is greater.”
Emails from Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which is in charge of the regulation of vaccines, suggest other FDA epidemiologists were also looking into it, as were a team at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), which belongs to the National Institutes of Health. The NINDS supposedly started seeing vaccine-injured patients in early 2021. According to The Epoch Times:9
“Dr. Avindra Nath, clinical director of the NIH’s NINDS, headed a team that examined patients who experienced serious neurological issues ... Nath and Dr. Farinaz Safavi, one of Nath’s top deputies, have said they believe the issues are linked to the vaccines.
‘We started an effort at NIH to look at neurological side effects of COVID-19 vaccines,’ Safavi said in an email to one of the patients on March 3, 2021. ‘We believe the symptoms to be real. That is the reason we have been treating patients,’ Nath said in a different message on July 27, 2021.”
Were Patients Abandoned to Protect Big Pharma Profits?
While it’s tempting to see this as good news, there’s something really strange going on. For starters, none of these investigations was ever publicly announced. Why not?
What’s worse, as 2021 wore on, the research appears to have stalled and then been abandoned altogether. It’s hard to find another explanation for this other than they don’t want to do anything that might force them to take the COVID jab off the market.
“Even among those examined, the excitement of connecting with top researchers and government officials turned to disappointment and frustration when repeated queries yielded few signs of progress on research into post-vaccination problems,” The Epoch Times writes.10
“Woodcock and Marks would often only provide updates after being prodded ... Nath and Safavi also grew distant as 2021 wore on. They eventually stopped examining patients.”
Brianne Dressen, who had been examined by Nath and given a diagnosis of “post-vaccine neuropathy,” suddenly hit a dead end as 2021 drew to a close. Nath would do no more for her, and also told her to stop referring patients to him, saying they did “not have any clinical trial for vaccine-related complications.” Epoch Times writes:
“Dressen responded in January that she will ‘always be indebted to you and what you did for me,’ crediting Nath ... with keeping her alive. However, she added, her ‘heart is shattered.’
‘I am more confused now than ever about what my active and willing engagement in the scientific process actually meant, or has led to,’ she wrote ... ‘Looking back on this, I can see how unethical it was even when they were helping us,’ Dressen told The Epoch Times.”
Another vaccine-injured patient, Dr. Danice Hertz, who was seen virtually by NIH experts in early 2021, expressed similar feelings to The Epoch Times.
“Hertz described being shocked about the lack of public acknowledgement of the post-vaccination issues by the FDA ... ‘They refuse to acknowledge what’s happening to so many thousands of people,’ Hertz told The Epoch Times. ‘We’ve been completely abandoned. And we’re despondent over it.’”11
Who Is Responsible to Investigate and Treat Side Effects?
People who have been injured by the COVID jab are now in an incredibly tough situation, as doctors, government agencies, and vaccine makers are all refusing responsibility. In a September 16, 2021, email to Dressen, Nath wrote:12
“Ordinarily when any drug is released, it is the manufacturers responsibility to investigate and treat the side effects. Where are the vaccine manufacturers in all of this? Have you tried contacting them? It cannot be the government’s responsibility to pick up after them. They are a [for] profit company and they should be the ones taking change [sic]. Don’t you think?”
But vaccine makers are not investigating or treating side effects either. Why would they? They’ve been granted total immunity against liability. The only way they can be held responsible for damages is if they’re found guilty of willful misconduct or fraud.
Unfortunately, the FDA, CDC, and NIH aren’t looking for misconduct or fraud. They’re covering it up. And mainstream media, including so-called “fact” checkers, have been bought wholesale by an industry that has every intention of obfuscating and hiding the truth about their products.
Why Media Have Embraced Censorship
As noted by independent journalist Paul Thacker,13 mainstream media are refusing to call big tech censorship for what it is, in large part because they support, and indeed need, fake fact checks:
“Disinformation doesn’t have to be sophisticated when people believe what they read. Once this belief is established, censors ensure that disinformation remains strong, followed by denial that there is censoring. That way inconvenient facts do not mar the chosen story.”
In the COVID era, the chosen story includes the fantasy that the COVID jabs are safe and effective and have harmed no one, and there’s simply no way to prop up that story without fake fact checks.
Who Funds the Fake Fact Checkers?
It should come as no surprise then that fact-checking organizations are funded by Big Pharma and Big Pharma PR companies like the Publicis Groupe, which also happens to be a partner of both Google14,15 and the World Economic Forum (WEF).16
Pfizer, for example, funds Facebook’s fact-checking operation.17 Is it any wonder then that Facebook rejects anything that criticizes the COVID jabs? Pfizer also has significant conflicts of interest with Reuters. Reuters chairman (and former CEO) James Smith is both a top investor and board member of Pfizer.18 Might he have a vested interest in keeping Pfizer’s media record clear of incriminating details?
Many fact-checking organizations also belong to the International Fact-Checking Network,19 which is financed by George Soros (through his Open Society Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy), Google, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation20 — all of whom are part of the WEF’s technocratic cabal that is pushing for a Great Reset.
Truth Tellers Have Data, Liars Have None
To end where we began, with the fact check on Kirsch and the NVIC’s MedAlert, a few days after posting his conversation with Settles, he received an email from PolitiFact’s editor-in-chief, Angie Holan, asking him to remove the recording. He refused. In a February 25, 2022, Substack post, Kirsch wrote:21
“Gabrielle asked if she could record the call and I consented, so that entitles all parties to record the call. PolitiFact did not deny that we both consented. She wrote, ‘I am not in the least embarrassed by how she conducted the interview. I'm asking that you remove the video as a professional courtesy because the reporter did not consent to be recorded.’
First of all, she should be embarrassed by the interview. The interviewer was clearly focused on proving an agenda and showed no interest in exploring evidence that was counter her agenda. I gave her the story of the century if she would just follow up on what I suggested she do.
Secondly with respect to permission, by asking me if it was OK to record the call, she is giving implied consent for the call to be recorded since she is doing the asking. All parties on the call consented to being recorded meaning the conversation is no longer private and all parties can record the call.
I then raised the stakes: I challenged PolitiFact to a debate to settle the matter once and for all in front of a live Internet audience as to who are the liars and who are the truth tellers ...
Of course, the problem with a debate is that usually one side wins. If it is the misinformation spreaders, the narrative is crushed. This is why nobody wants a debate: they can’t take the risk.
PolitiFact can’t win a fair debate. There is way too much information out now on how dangerous the vaccines are that is impossible for them to explain. This is why I don’t think that there is a snowball’s chance in hell they will accept.”
Indeed, the chances of PolitiFact accepting an invitation to debate someone like Kirsch, who has all of his ducks in a row, is slim to none. In fact, it’s probably because of the excellent data analysis of Kirsch and others that the CDC has started withholding certain data on COVID jab injuries and hospitalizations. The reason given is that “they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.” But as noted by Kirsch:22
“The only way the vaccine data could be interpreted as ineffective by us ‘misinformation spreaders’ is if the data shows the vaccines don’t work ... The CDC long-standing policy is that no information can be released that may threaten the national vaccination initiative.
This isn’t about public safety. This is about not letting the public know the vaccines are killing them ... Let’s be clear. The CDC hid the data because the data proves they were lying to us. That’s the real reason.”
It was a very interesting day in the world of politics. The United States admits of having Bioweapon Labs in Ukraine after they had previously stated that they had none. Also, Tucker Carlson interviews former Wisconsin Justice Michael Gableman about his recent report on 2020 election fraud in his state. We additionally discuss a blockbuster story that Project Veritas released of a New York Times reporter admitting many things about the fake January 6th narrative that his paper has been writing about. We talk about these stories and also more on this latest episode.
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The United States government admitted to the existence of U.S. Department of Defense-funded biolabs in Ukraine. The Russian government has made stirring allegations regarding the contents of U.S.-funded Ukrainian labs, suggesting that the labs are home to bioweapons research that could be used against enemies of the globalist Western regime. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has used a base in San Antonio to study human tissue and RNA material exclusively from Caucasian Russians.
U.S. State Department records show that in 2005 the U.S. Department of Defense made an agreement with Ukraine to fund biolabs to conduct research supposedly to stop the construction of bioweapons. The agreement states: “In order to assist Ukraine in preventing the proliferation of technology, pathogens, and expertise that are located at the Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene (Lviv), the Ukrainian Scientific Research Anti-Plague Institute (Odessa), the Central Sanitary Epidemiological Station (Kyiv), and other facilities in Ukraine identified by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, and that could be used in the development of biological weapons, the U.S. Department of Defense shall provide assistance to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine at no cost, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.”
On April 22, 2020, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine acknowledged that the U.S. Department of Defense “works with the Ukrainian Government to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern in Ukrainian government facilities, while allowing for peaceful research and vaccine development.” The U.S. Embassy stated: “The U.S. Embassy would like to set the record straight regarding disinformation spreading in some circles in Ukraine that mirrors Russian disinformation regarding the strong U.S.-Ukrainian partnership to reduce biological threats. Here in Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program works with the Ukrainian Government to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern in Ukrainian government facilities, while allowing for peaceful research and vaccine development. We also work with our Ukrainian partners to ensure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they pose security or stability threats. Our joint efforts help to ensure that dangerous pathogens do not fall into the wrong hands. We’re proud to partner with the Ministry of Health, State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, and the Ministry of Defense to make us all safer.”
Here is a list of Archived U.S. State Department records obtained by NATIONAL FILE that show the U.S. Department of Defense funding Ukrainian labs (the article continues below after the list of links):
Biden administration Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told the U.S. Senate: “Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.” Nuland then claimed without evidence that Russia would be responsible for any release of biological weapons stemming from the biolabs. But evidence shows that the United States government is actually funding the biolabs.
Ukraine has "biological research facilities," says Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, when asked by Sen Rubio if Ukraine has biological or chemical weapons, and says she's worried Russia may get them. But she says she's 100% sure if there's a biological attack, it's Russia. pic.twitter.com/uo3dHDMfAS
Women and doctors are among 17 injured. No data yet about killed. “Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity” - President #Zelensky
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A Starbucks employee claims to have spit in a prominent conservative student leader’s coffee in Denton, Texas. University of North Texas (UNT) student and former YCT (Young Conservatives of Texas) President, Kelly Neidert, found the post on Yik Yak, an anonymous Twitter-style social network popular on college campuses.
UNT is the same campus where dozens of far-left activists shut down a speaking event featuring Texas State House Candidate Jeff Younger earlier this month. Younger gained widespread recognition following a lengthy custody battle over his son James, where Younger’s ex-wife, Dr. Anne Georgulas, diagnosed their son with “gender dysphoria,” which is a psychological disorder characterized by a child’s “consistent and insistent” expression of “cross-gender statements and behaviors.”
A jury said Dr. Georgulas had the right to “transition” her son, who she has reportedly renamed “Luna.” Younger eventually lost custody of his son last August.
Kelly Neidert played a big part in organizing the event for Younger, which was hijacked and ruined by dozens of far-left agitators. The extremists pounded on tables and shouted “**ck you fascist” until Younger and the event organizers were forced to leave. The group was later attacked by more far-left extremists as they exited the event.
Police ultimately had to hide the 22-year-old in a janitor’s closet due to the mob’s threats. Neidert said she had already coordinated with police prior to the event because she had been receiving “death threats and threats of violence” at school prior to the event.
A little over a week after the event, Neidert discovered a Yik Yak post in which a Starbucks employee claims to have spit in her drink. “Kelly from the right came to my Starbucks this morning and she got a BIG spit in her drink,” reads the post. “Starbucks employees spit in my drink because they knew I’m conservative! Conservative Twitter, do your thing,” the UNT student leader wrote in response.
According to Neidert, the incident took place at Starbucks Store #11149, which can be reached at 1-940-382-0242. The Starbucks location did not respond to National File’s request for comment.
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America’s Frontline Doctors, a group of medical professionals who work to promote early COVID-19 treatments and to expose the influence of pharmaceutical companies on federal decision-making, is suing the U.S. government over the COVID vaccination campaign. The latter is called by the plaintiffs “the greatest fraud in the history of the world.”
The suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on February 16 includes a comprehensive amount of evidence regarding such pressing issues as serious side effects linked to COVID vaccinations recorded in the U.S. military and COVID vaccines’ ineffectiveness in preventing infection and protecting one from severe disease, as shown in the breakthrough infections records of Medicare patients.
The lawsuit alleges that the federal government — and particularly the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is ostensibly responsible for protecting public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of medical products — was aware of these issues yet intentionally withheld them from the public.
The suit was filed by Ohio-based attorney Thomas Renz, who posted a “Special Notice Regarding Critical Evidence Related to COVID-19, Potential Governmental Corruption, and the Safety of Our Military and Citizens” on his website. The document provides bullet-point information on each allegation made in the lawsuit, and is intended to be shared with lawmakers, governors, state attorneys general, “and as many other elected officials as possible throughout the nation.”
The notice reads,
For approximately two years now, two presidents, congress, the federal and state court systems, and the American public have been lied to, manipulated, and injured. What started as one of the most egregious over-reaches of executive power in American history — 14 days to flatten the curve — quickly morphed into an anathema to the principles upon which our republic was founded. These lies and manipulation have resulted in an economic crisis, a mental health crisis, the erosion of freedoms fundamental to all Americans, and the debilitation of our military.
While Renz underlines that his clients do not deny COVID-19’s existence, he states that non-establishment doctors have accumulated enough evidence to prove the “combination of unelected and totally corrupt bureaucrats, big tech and big pharma billionaires, the mainstream media, and the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry have successfully perpetrated the greatest fraud in the history of the world.” That was achieved through such methods as “data manipulation, terrible public health policy, and political manipulation that made a disease with approximately the same case fatality rate as the seasonal flu in most people appear to be the end of the world.”
The notice focuses on the damage that COVID vaccines have done to U.S. troops who have been vaccinated since late March 2020. The shots were mandated for the military in August 2021, and all non-compliant servicemen have been threatened with discharge. As of today, as stated by Renz, the U.S. military might become weaker by a quarter, since 25 percent of all servicemen have refused the shot.
Military Data: Spike in Diseases
Thanks to Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers Doctors Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa Long, it has been revealed that U.S. military personnel have seen a significant increase in cancers, neurological, and reproductive issues, and numerous other conditions in 2021 compared to the five-year average rate. The information was learned from the Defense Military Epidemiological Database (DMED), the official database of the anonymous medical records of all American servicemen.
As reported by The New American at the time, Renz presented this bombshell information during a panel discussion titled “Covid-19: A Second Opinion” in Washington, D.C., on January 24, 2022, hosted by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Following the panel, the senator wrote a letter to DOD Secretary Lloyd Austin asking if he was aware of this troubling development and if he had done anything to investigate it.
Renz said in the notice that the DOD reacted to the news by providing a statement to a “fact-checking” organization claiming that “a glitch occurred in this database affecting the data from 2016-2020.”
Renz is not buying this. He says that it is unclear how a glitch could occur in “the premier epidemiological database in the world,” which is being meticulously monitored by “the entire division of the military” and also the nation’s top healthcare agencies. If that truly happened, then the health advice in the years 2016-2020 was based on false premises. Then, if there was a technical issue, how could it “repair” itself in 2021, while the whole matter remained unnoticed until the exposure in 2022?
“What has occurred represents negligence on an unprecedented level and, more likely, a clear cover-up,” alleges Renz.
Project Salus: Shots’ Low Effectiveness
DOD data accumulated and analyzed by Project Salus between January and August 2021, showed that Biden administration officials and the president’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, were “lying in claiming this to be a ‘crisis of the unvaxxed,’” say the physicians.
Among the Medicare population of 16 million seniors, “an estimated 71% of COVID-19 cases occurred in fully vaccinated individuals.” They also accounted for some 60 percent of all COVID hospitalizations.
The project was also intended to track shots’ safety. The methodology that was used, however, seems to be designed to conceal a number of side effects. For example, all side effects that occurred within 14 days of full vaccination were excluded from reporting. At the same time, “It is well known that most side effects occur within 14 days of receiving these injections,” per the lawsuit.
Any side effects that occurred after the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, which are part of a two-shot series, were also ignored.
The data on breakthrough infections has not been shared with the public, nor, “to our knowledge,” with elected officials, note the plaintiffs.
They conclude,
This document definitively demonstrates that the DoD and DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services) have known for quite some time that the injections are ineffective but have continued to force them on our military and healthcare workers, while also falsely promoting the “safe and effective” narrative to Congress, the courts, and the public.
Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports of Pfizer Shot
More than 40 thousand serious adverse events and more than 1,200 deaths were reported in the first two and a half months since the beginning of Pfizer’s COVID shot rollout. In 9,400 cases, the outcomes for vaccine recipients were unknown. This is according to the FDA’s own document titled “Cumulative analysis of post-authorization adverse event reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) received through 28-Feb-2021”:
Despite the document identifying a total of 1,291 so-called adverse effects of special interest, the FDA concluded that the benefits of Pfizer shots outweigh the risks.
A “special interest” is explained by the adverse events’ “association with severe COVID-19 and events of interest for vaccines in general,” per the notice.
“Given that these injections were only authorized — as opposed to approved — and that they were a new category of drugs (gene therapies), why were these not listed as potential side effects?” ask the doctors.
FDA’s Presentation: Limited Data on Effectiveness; Withheld Data on Safety
On October 22, 2020, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) presented the data on the safety and efficacy of the COVID shots, which was monitored through a number of systems such as VAERS, FDA BEST, DOD, Veterans Affairs, FDA-CMS partnership, and others. Some were said to be monitored in “near real-time.”
The Renz notice reminds the public that according to federal law, both healthcare professionals and those who may receive the shot are made aware “of the significant known and potential benefits and risks of the emergency use of the product, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are unknown.”
The FDA, per its own data, was aware of the numerous side effects yet never made them a part of the informed consent packets shared with the potential vaccine recipients, “nor has the public been made aware of the real potential for these outcomes,” according to the notice.
The VRBPAC’s presentation also acknowledged that “there may be limited information available at licensure on level and duration of effectiveness.”
Halt Vaccinations
The physicians are urging decision-makers to take “immediate action be taken to lift any and all mandates for military personnel to receive these dangerous injections.”
The doctors also argue for the passage of legislation repealing immunity for vaccine manufacturers: “If vaccines are truly safe and effective no one should oppose this.”
Finally, the shots must be stripped of their authorization and “illegal approvals” “until such time as the public can be properly informed of the real risks of the ‘vaccines’ and of COVID-19,” say the doctors.
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(Natural News) Internal documentation from Pfizer reveals that the company’s Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” is anything but safe and effective.
Starting on page 30 of a newly uncovered company document, an exhaustive list of serious adverse reactions to the shot is fully outlined. That list spans over eight full pages.
Pfizer intended for this information to remain hidden from the public, warning that “dissemination of this information outside of Pfizer, its Affiliates, its Licensees, or Regulatory Agencies is strictly prohibited.”
“The information contained in this document is proprietary and confidential,” the document further states.
“Except as may be otherwise agreed to in writing, by accepting or reviewing these materials, you agree to hold such information in confidence and not to disclose it to others (except where required by applicable law), nor to use it for unauthorized purposes.”
Fortunately for the public, the restricted document was leaked.We now know that Pfizer’s Fauci Flu shot causes an array of serious health problems including 1p36 deletion syndrome, which the National Library of Medicine (NLM) describes as “a disorder that typically causes severe intellectual disability.”
1p36 deletion syndrome is pretty severe, it turns out, leaving most affected individuals unable to speak, “or speak only a few words.” Those who succumb to it can also “have temper tantrums, bite themselves, or exhibit other behavior problems.”
The full list of “Adverse Events of Special Interest” caused by Pfizer’s covid injection is far too long to publish here, but you can read it in full at Newspunch.
Will the plandemic criminals ever be held accountable for their crimes against humanity?
As you will see, there are hundreds upon hundreds of side effects caused by the shots that the corporate-controlled media is refusing to acknowledge. The government is just as bad when it comes to hiding the truth about these serious risks.
“The truth has been available for anyone wanting to look,” wrote someone at Newspunch about the situation. “It seems more of it comes out every day and is getting traction online and in some media.”
“I can’t help but compare this to the CIA information management programs we’ve seen in the past,” this same person added. “Remember 911? Much outrage followed by an ‘official’ report. Now there exists enough widespread skepticism over the conspiracy that allowed 911 to create a Truth commission and subpoena all involved.”
This will likely never happen, though, because it just never does. The culprits almost always get away with their crimes because too few people are willing to take them to task and hold them accountable.
“It’s all in the past! Leave well-enough alone,” the same commenter wrote about how the tactic usually works. “Same pattern developing here … Bush, Fauci, Biden, and even Trump will be buried with honors and remembered as heroes.”
Someone else thanked God for this and other information releases that have helped those who are paying attention to avoid injuring or possibly killing themselves with these deadly injections.
“I am so happy that I have faith in Him and not in man,” this person added. “God is great. Love Him so much.”
Just days after the Pfizer injection was unleashed under Operation Warp Speed back in late December of 2021, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler confirmed that the Pfizer injection causes autoimmune disease. At the time, though, everyone was focused on the stolen election, so it all got buried.
“They know word of mouth is the MOST potent form of information dispersal, so it’s pointless trying to [cover it up],” wrote another commenter about how the plandemic jig is just about up.
The latest news coverage about Fauci Flu shot injuries can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.
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Hundreds of trucks, recreational vehicles, and cars made their way to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., on Sunday, aiming to slow traffic around the nation’s capital as part of a protest against the ongoing COVID-related state of emergency.
The largest group of truckers, called “The People’s Convoy,” started in Adelanto, California, last week and has merged with several other organized convoys to converge on D.C. in a protest similar to those that halted Canadian government operations in Ottawa in January and early February.
According to The Washington Post, the convoy organizers said they circled the Beltway — a 64-mile interstate highway surrounding Washington, D.C., and its inner suburbs in Maryland and Virginia — twice on Sunday, causing a traffic standstill by 3 p.m. EST.
The convoy is currently staged at the Hagerstown Speedway in Maryland.
One of the convoy’s organizers, Brian Brase, told the outlet the convoy plans to stay at the speedway until “at least” Sunday, expressing his hope that “this is all over by Wednesday.” Brase did not share the group’s plans for the rest of the week, “but said convoy members are working on plans to meet with lawmakers this week.”
Brase mentioned that one of the lawmakers offered the truckers his help in getting together “all Congress, Senate, whatever necessary to come and listen [to the truckers].”
If Congress fails to pay attention to the protesters and refuses to speak with them, then more trucks will come to the D.C. area.
“I’m hopeful that we have a successful dialogue with congressmen and women and senators that help get what we’re looking for pushed through in a timely fashion,” said the trucker. “If they don’t come to the table to meet with us or they ignore us, then every day it will escalate.”
The convoy’s main demand is that the United States government rescind the coronavirus-inspired state of emergency. The national state of emergency was first declared on March 13, 2020, by President Donald Trump under the National Emergencies Act (NEA). President Joe Biden extended it in February 2021, and then again in February 2022.
The group also demands government accountability for the pandemic response “through full and transparent congressional hearings,” per their official statement.
Brase shared that the group has no plans to go to the city “at this time,” or block the Beltway altogether. Such moves, the organizer believes, would be unpopular among the locals and would cost the truckers their support.
Maureen Steele, another People’s Convoy leader, said last week that shutting down the Beltway or going into the city would be illegal. “Like we’ve announced from the beginning, we don’t have any intention of being unlawful,” she said.
She added, “After January 6, what went on there, there was never any intention of going into DC proper. We’ve discouraged other people from doing it.”
The group’s statement reads,
We are NOT going into DC proper, and we will NOT be there for the State of the Union
We are NOT associated with Bob Bolus or other convoys who are planning to go into DC
Bob Bolus is a Pennsylvania-based trucker who leads another truckers’ convoy, this one from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He said previously that his group was planning to shut down D.C. While he said that they would leave one lane open for emergency vehicles, Bolus told Fox on February 21, “I’ll give you an analogy of that of a giant boa constrictor. That basically squeezes you, chokes you and it swallows you, and that’s what we’re going to do [to] D.C.”
However, Dan Fitzgerald of the “Freedom Convoy” mentioned that a couple of trucks may wind up at Pennsylvania Avenue.
“I can tell you now that there will be select trucks going to the White House,” he said during a Friday morning livestream, per the Daily Mail. “I don’t want people thinking we are invading D.C. This is not the convoy going into D.C. commons. These are a few select drivers.”
On Monday, the People’s Convoy plans to loop around the Beltway just once, Brase told the Post but will occupy two lanes instead of one and drive at the minimum legal speed limit. Brase also noted that his group is coordinating with local law enforcement.
Officials in the district have been stepping up security since late February in preparation for the truckers allegedly coming to Washington, D.C., on March 1, the day of President Biden’s State of the Union address. As a part of preparations, a razor-wire-topped, seven-foot-tall fence had been reinstalled around the Capitol complex. In addition to that, the Pentagon approved the deployment of 700 unarmed National Guard troops to the nation’s capital to help local law enforcement control the traffic.
On Sunday, the Capitol Police Board, the overseer of the police force that protects Congress and Capitol Hill, issued an emergency declaration in response to the convoys’ arrival, according to CNN.
Announcing the emergency, the House Sergeant at Arms William Walker advised members of Congress and their staffers to consider telework options and the use of public transportation to avoid traffic delays, per the outlet.
Bloomberg explained that the emergency declaration allows police to ask for help from the National Guard and permit payment for officers’ hotel and food costs.
Fish farms are the water-based equivalents of land-based concentrated animal feeding operations, and as such, they create the same, if not worse, environmental concerns
Since the salmon pens are placed along with wild salmon runs, they pose a severe threat to wild salmon that pass by, exposing wild fish to diseases such as piscine reovirus, which now threatens wild salmon with extinction
Toxicology testing reveals farmed salmon is one of the most toxic foods in the world — more than five times more toxic than any other food tested, with eight times higher PCB levels than wild salmon
One of the reasons farmed salmon contain higher levels of toxins than wild is because their feed can be highly contaminated. Another is because they contain far higher levels of fat, which binds to and accumulates toxins
A chemical of particular concern found in farmed salmon (but not in wild) is ethoxyquin — a rubber stabilizer, pesticide, preservative, and antioxidant all in one, and a suspected carcinogen that damages DNA
This article was previously published on April 24, 2018, and has been updated with new information.
Do you buy farmed salmon in the belief that it's the environmentally responsible thing to do? Think again. Fish farms are the water-based equivalents of land-based concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and as such, they create the same, if not worse, environmental concerns.
Since the salmon pens are placed along with wild salmon runs, they pose a severe threat to wild salmon stocks that pass by, exposing wild fish to diseases such as sea lice, pancreas disease,1 infectious salmon anemia virus, and piscine reovirus.
For a quick review, see "Racing a Virus"2 above — a video created by Alexandra Morton, a Canadian marine biologist who has spent decades studying the impact of salmon farming on wild salmon. Piscine reovirus is a highly contagious blood virus that causes heart disease in the affected fish.
The virus was first discovered in Norwegian salmon farms and has proven to be nearly impossible to eradicate. And, with the spread of this disease into wild populations, wild salmon may soon go extinct.
Toxins Abound in Farmed Salmon
Importantly, farmed salmon also poses health risks to those who eat them. In fact, toxicology testing reveals farmed salmon is one of the most toxic foods in the world — more than five times more toxic than any other food tested.3 A global assessment of farmed salmon published in the January 2004 issue of Science4 found no less than 13 persistent organic pollutants in the fish, including PCBs and dioxins.
Other investigations5 reveal PCB concentrations in farmed salmon are, on average, eight times higher than in wild salmon. According to the authors, "Risk analysis indicates that consumption of farmed Atlantic salmon may pose health risks that detract from the beneficial effects of fish consumption."
Another group of scientists concluded that6 "Consumption of farmed salmon at relatively low frequencies results in elevated exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds with commensurate elevation in estimates of health risk."
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are also a concern because, according to Cleveland Clinic,7 "levels of PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl, which is one type of POP) are 16 times higher in farmed fish than in wild fish." Other contaminants, such as antibiotics, are at such high levels that the clinic advises children, women of child-bearing age, and women who are pregnant not to eat farmed salmon at all.
Farmed Salmon Contain Harmful Fats
One of the reasons why farmed salmon contains much higher levels of toxins than wild is because the feed they're given is highly contaminated. In 2017 Responsible Seafood wrote:8
"Research shows farmed fish fed diets heavy on vegetable oils have higher amounts of omega-6 and lower amounts of omega-3 compared to fish fed diets heavy on fish oil. While seafood remains the primary source of beneficial omega-3s — the prevalence of omega-6 threatens seafood's healthy halo, particularly for farmed species with low levels of omega-3 fatty acids.
'The data shows those [vegetable] oils have affected the fatty acid profile in farmed fish, not just in omega-3 overall, but in increased omega-6 as well,' said Jillian Fry, project director of public health and sustainable aquaculture at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future."
Another reason for the higher toxin content is because farmed salmon contains far higher levels of fat, which binds to and accumulates these toxins. According to Cleveland Clinic:9
"A 3-ounce fillet of wild salmon has fewer calories and half the fat content of the same amount of farmed salmon. And although farmed salmon may have more omega-3 fatty acids, it also has more than double the saturated fat content — and that's not fat you want."
The exaggerated fat content in farmed salmon is a direct result of the processed high-fat feed that farmed salmon are given, which includes species-inappropriate ingredients such as poultry meal, fish meal, poultry fat, fish oil, whole wheat, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, feather meal, and rapeseed oil. In essence, the salmon are being fed a processed junk food diet high in toxic contaminants and drugs, and their nutritional composition reflects this.
Their diet also results in radically skewed ratios of omega-3 to omega-6 fats. Interestingly, industry leaders are beginning to see the light and they know this is not sustainable for good health. According to Responsible Seafood:10
"Out of necessity fish feed companies have turned to a variety of vegetable oils made from rapeseed (canola), soybeans, corn, nuts and wheat. Some are high in omega-6s. Douglas Tocher, professor at University of Stirling in the Institute of Aquaculture, over 15 years has researched how to use plant oils instead of fish oils while keeping the final fillets rich in omega-3s.
There is no way around the fact that shifting to vegetable oils has led to a loss of EPA and DHA," he said. "Farmed salmon is still the best source of EPA and DHA you can get. But we're at the point where we can't continue that forever. We can't continue to just replace fish oil and fishmeal [with plant oils] because then we'll compromise seafood's health benefits … Retaining the long-chain omega-3s in the fish tissue is the top priority."
What's concerning is that the main oil they use — soybean — has an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio as high as 8-to-1! When Purdue University scientists looked at the fatty acid profiles of 76 different fish, they found that the omega-6 fatty acid content "ranged from 11 mg/100 grams in Alaska pollock to 2,530 mg/100 grams in Atlantic salmon."
This lopsided ratio can have negative health ramifications since most people are deficient in omega-3 while already getting far more omega-6 than they need thanks to processed foods, which tend to be high in damaged omega-6 fats. The imbalance also triggers inflammation in your body, according to researchers at Deakin University in Burwood, Australia, who said:
"'When we have such an imbalance it means the body is constantly producing eicosanoids from omega-6 than omega-3. Basically, we put our body in a constant inflammation mode and that can facilitate a lot of diseases.' Those include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some forms of cancer."
The bottom line is, rather than being a wonderful source of healthy omega-3s, farmed salmon contains far more omega-6 than omega-3.
Chemical Added to Salmon Feed Has Questionable Safety Profile
A chemical of particular concern found in farmed salmon (but not in wild) is ethoxyquin,11 developed by Monsanto in the 1950s. This chemical is a rubber stabilizer (used in the production of tires), pesticide, preservative, and antioxidant all in one.
While it doesn't have the health benefits normally associated with dietary antioxidants, it does prevent the oxidation of fats, which is why it's used in different types of animal feed, including fish feed and pet food.12 As explained by Nutraceutical Business Review:13
"Globally, ethoxyquin is not approved for use as a direct food additive in foods for human consumption; therefore, ethoxyquin should not be detectable in the food supply. Specific to the omega-3 industry, some krill meals and crude fish oils for animal feed are preserved using ethoxyquin …
The European Union (EU) upper limit in feed (including fish feed, but excluding dog food) is 150ppm ethoxyquin alone or together as the sum of BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) and ethoxyquin.
The maximum content of ethoxyquin allowed in dog food is 100ppm and the mixture of ethoxyquin with BHA and BHT is allowed provided the total mixture doesn't exceed 150ppm. According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), ethoxyquin is 'considered to be toxic to aquatic organisms based on the acute toxicity data provided for fish, daphnia and algae.'"
Ethoxyquin Health Effects
In human food production, ethoxyquin is used post-harvest to prevent scald (browning) in pears and apples, and as a color preservative for chili powder, paprika, and ground chili powder.14,15 Side effects from direct exposure to this chemical include skin and eye irritation, allergic reactions, depression, reproductive effects, liver and kidney damage, and thyroid problems, and it's known to be "harmful if swallowed."16
Studies have also shown it adversely affects cell metabolism, especially the metabolic pathways of renal and hepatic cells in rats, and the mitochondria in bovine hearts and kidneys. As noted in one review, "The authors suggested that [ethoxyquin] interacted with the site of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, and it resulted in inhibition of oxygen consumption in the mitochondria of kidney and liver cells when glucose was a respiratory substrate. The effect was dose-dependent."17
According to Chemical News, "While ethoxyquin has not been tested for its carcinogenic potential, a closely related chemical, 1,2-dihydro-2,2,4-trimethylquinoline, showed some evidence of carcinogenic activity in rats. The only suggestion of a potential carcinogenic effect for ethoxyquin came from a Manson et al. (1987) study."18
What Chemical News fails to mention is that the one and only study ever done to assess ethoxyquin's effects on human health also found carcinogenic effects.
This human health study was part of a thesis by Victoria Bohne, a former researcher with the Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) in Norway, who made a number of disturbing discoveries, including the fact that ethoxyquin can cross the blood-brain barrier. She was ultimately pressured to resign from NIFES after attempts were made to falsify and downplay her findings.
EFSA has also pointed out that while there's not enough data to make a conclusion about ethoxyquin's safety, one of its metabolites, ethoxyquin quinone imine, is "possibly genotoxic," and the impurity p-phenetidine, produced during the manufacturing process, is suspected of being mutagenic, meaning it may damage your DNA.19 As noted in a 2013 review:20
"Possible carcinogenicity of [ethoxyquin] is probably connected with its prooxidant activity and induction of reactive oxygen radicals which cause DNA damage. DNA damage is usually repaired by cellular repair system, but if it is severe or there are too many lesions, this leads to programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Sometimes, however, the programmed cell death pathway is damaged so when the defense mechanisms fail there is no way to stop a cell from becoming a cancer cell. Some in vitro studies showed both cytotoxic effects of [ethoxyquin] leading to cell apoptosis or necrosis and damage of genetic material at DNA or chromosome levels."
Farmed Salmon Is a Significant Source of Ethoxyquin
Due to its potential toxicity, the EU has strict limits for ethoxyquin levels in fruits, nuts, vegetables, and meat. However, since it was never intended for use in fish, and fish feed manufacturers never informed health authorities that they were using it, there are no limits on how much of the chemical is allowed in seafood.
One 2010 study21 found that eating 300 grams of farmed salmon would contribute "at most" 15% of the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of ethoxyquin for an individual weighing 60 kilos (132 pounds), and 75% of the ADI for BHT — another toxic chemical antioxidant. However, another testing has revealed farmed fish can contain levels of ethoxyquin that are up to 20 times higher than the level allowed in fruits, vegetables, and meats, so it can hardly be brushed off as insignificant.
There are also lingering questions about just how much of the chemical people are getting from fish when you add in the metabolites of ethoxyquin, as researchers have found the chemical transforms once inside the animal's body. As one would expect, NIFES insists the levels of ethoxyquin found in fish feed are safe for humans.22 However, considering the lack of research, what guarantees do we have that such claims are accurate?
NIFES also claims ethoxyquin is "required to be added to fish meal in order to prevent it from exploding during sea transport and storage," and inaccurately states that "Everything is toxic if it is consumed in sufficiently large amounts, which is to say that the amount of a given substance … determines whether or not it can damage our health."
This is not an accurate statement of fact, as researchers have shown that even minute amounts of certain toxins can be dangerous. In some cases, there's no safe level above zero.
Studies23 have also demonstrated that even tiny amounts of chemicals, when combined with others, can have significant effects. Even nontoxic chemicals can become carcinogenic at low doses when combined with other chemicals.
As noted in one 2015 study,24 "Our analysis suggests that the cumulative effects of individual (noncarcinogenic) chemicals acting on different pathways, and a variety of related systems, organs, tissues, and cells could plausibly conspire to produce carcinogenic synergies."
Norwegian Fishery Minister Has Financial Ties to Industry
According to Kurt Oddekalv, a Norwegian environmental activist who has brought a lot of attention to the harmful impacts of fish farming, one of the reasons research into the health effects of ethoxyquin is so hard to come by is because it was purposely stifled by the former Norwegian minister of fisheries and coastal affairs, Lisbeth Berg-Hansen,25 a major shareholder in a commercial salmon farm and deputy chair of the board of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research.
In 2009, the Norwegian environmental group Green Warriors of Norway filed charges against Berg-Hansen, claiming her financial conflicts of interest had led her to violate regulations she was supposed to enforce. A 2013 French documentary claimed she was single-handedly responsible for lowering the legal limits of toxins allowed in Norwegian fish. In the documentary, "Poisonous Fish: The Big Health Lie," Oddekalv also told the filmmakers:26
"… [T]he research budget in the area of ethoxyquin was severely reduced … through pressure from the former Norwegian fishery minister [Berg-Hansen] … The minister herself created the current regulations for fishery. She had full control over the public health authority and everything that had to do with fish farming.
She exploited her power. She wanted fish to be sold at all costs, regardless of whether [it's] sick or not, so that the farmers don't lose any money. This never happened before in Norway. She's the pivotal point of this whole matter."
Ethoxyquin May Pose Greater Risks Than Imagined
A recent article in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet,27 also addresses the conflicts of interest that have kept ethoxyquin in the salmon industry and highlight Bohne's and others' findings:
"[Bohne] contacted a Polish researcher, Alina Blaszczyk of the University of Lodz, who had studied the effect of ethoxyquin on human cells. Attempt that the substance caused chromosomal aberrations, holes and fractures in chromosomes.
Blaszczyk believed the substance damaged the DNA in our lymphocytes — a subset of white blood cells. Today, she explains: 'We found that ethoxyquin was chemically toxic, destroyed chromosomes and DNA …'
… Professor Edmund Maser at the Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology at the University of Kiel … [commented on] the metabolite quinone imine [saying] … 'Quinone imine structures can bind to DNA and can create mutations. They can be carcinogenic.
There is no safe lower level. One molecule may be enough to start a tumor' … Blaszczyk … agrees: 'If a molecule reacts with DNA, it can cause mutations and lead to the development of cancer.'
Blaszczyk has studied how ethoxyquin affects cells and their genetic material. In a summary study, she and colleagues say that research suggests that ethoxyquin is 'guilty of a wide range of health-related problems in dogs as well as in humans.' Dog tests show symptoms in the liver, kidneys, and thyroid gland, dysfunctionality of reproductive capacity, maternal injuries, allergic reactions, skin and hair abnormalities.
Blaszczyk also refers to studies indicating that the metabolite ethoxyquin dimer (EQDM) in the salmon is chemophilic and recombinant in human lymphocytes. The implication of this is that ethoxyquin must be labeled well, consumers must take care not to get too much and that the drug needs to be regulated better than today.
Blaszczyk's studies are broadly cited in EFSA's report, but she writes [via] e-mail: 'They did not mention the most important of these studies. It was that ethoxyquin caused disentric chromosomes, and relocated atypical chromosomes. These deviations were not extensive, but they were serious.'"
When Boycotting Factory Farmed Food, Remember the Fish
Factory farming has not only become a source of tremendous pollution but it's also creating food that is unsafe for consumption in the long term. This includes fish farms, which are the CAFOs of the sea. So, when you shop for healthy food for your family, remember to look for wild-caught seafood and shun farmed varieties.
At present, more than half of all fish consumed in the U.S. is farmed, and it's only customer demand that allows this destructive industry to flourish — which it does at the expense of your health. As noted by Organic Consumers:28
"The U.S. industrial agriculture and fishing industry is an out of control system based on cruel, filthy, disease-ridden and environmentally destructive animal prisons and fish pens; labor exploitation; false advertising; … corporate corruption of government; and the use of massive amounts of dangerous pesticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, hormones and growth promoters …
The production of factory-farmed meat, dairy, poultry and fish is the No. 1 cause of water pollution, soil degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, and chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, reproductive defects, hormone disruption and obesity…
Factory-farmed salmon and fish not only threaten wild salmon and other marine species by spreading disease … but also by contaminating coastal waters and the ocean with the toxic chemicals and feed used on fish farms.
As Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says, via their Operation Virus Hunter campaign, 'You are not saving wild salmon by eating farmed salmon' … We are what we eat. This means, among other things, we need to be just as concerned about fish and seafood as we are about the other items on our plate.
So, ask your restaurant waiter if the vegetables are organic, and better yet local and organic, and put your money where your values lie. But don't forget to ask whether the meat, dairy or eggs are organic or grass-fed; or whether they are coming off the food service truck from factory farms.
And last but not least, don't forget to do the same thing for the items on the fish menu. The nation that destroys its soil, freshwater and oceans is the nation that will eventually destroy itself."
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While Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has billed himself as a staunch opponent of big corporations, his ties to major technology and pharmaceutical corporations complicate his campaign rhetoric.
“I’ve taken on Big Government, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag chemical companies on the show 13 years running, being a porcupine when I needed to be,” Oz said in an interview last week with Newsmax.
Oz Media, the production company behind The Dr. Oz Show, reportedly had deals with pharmaceutical giants Bayer, Novartis, and Aventis, according to a screenshot of corporate clients obtained by The Huffington Post.
The celebrity doctor has frequently done business in China; in addition to his financial relationship with Usana Health Services, Oz has also promoted major Chinese technology companies including Weibo and WeChat, and distributed his show on Chinese entertainment platforms.
While Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has billed himself as a staunch opponent of big corporations, his ties to major technology and pharmaceutical corporations complicate his campaign rhetoric.
Oz, who announced his candidacy in late November, is running for the empty Senate seat left by retiring Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey. The celebrity doctor has made opposition to major technology and pharmaceutical companies a hallmark of his campaign, pitching his experience working in television and exposing scams as an example of his anti-corporate positions.
“I’ve taken on Big Government, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag chemical companies on the show 13 years running, being a porcupine when I needed to be,” Oz said in an interview Saturday with Newsmax.
The comments echo previous remarks made in tweets and merchandising efforts, with Oz promoting his campaign through a tweet that read: “Want a Senator who will stand up to the Washington establishment and Big Tech? Show your support and get your Dr. OZ merch here.”
Oz Media, the production company behind The Dr. Oz Show, reportedly had deals with pharmaceutical giants Bayer, Novartis, and Aventis, according to a screenshot of corporate clients obtained by The Huffington Post.
The deals were arranged through tech and entertainment giant Sony and involved integrating the Novartis and Bayer brands into The Dr. Oz Show, according to a person familiar with the matter. Oz himself was never directly paid by the pharmaceutical companies.
The Dr. Oz Show also had a lucrative sponsorship deal with wellness company Usana Health Services, which reportedly netted the show earnings in the tens of millions, according to a review of public records by Politico. Usana primarily sells its products in China, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Oz also earned $1.5 million from pharmaceutical sponsorships in five months between 2013 and 2014, according to a ProPublica review.
Oz’s campaign spokeswoman Brittany Yanick pushed back on the implication that the candidate’s work with major technology and pharmaceutical companies undercut his campaign rhetoric, pointing to primary opponent and hedge fund manager David McMormick’s relationship with Chinese business interests.
“Beijing’s favorite candidate David McCormick outsourced PA jobs to Asia, he made millions investing in China in partnership with the CCP, and he gave speeches in China about his desire for China to succeed,” Yannick said.
“Unlike David McCormick, Dr. Oz has taken on big pharma, agro chem, big tech, and the government on many occasions throughout his career, and he will take those experiences to fight for Pennsylvanians in the U.S. Senate,” she added.
Oz has also billed himself as an opponent of China, criticizing McMormick’s ties to China in a campaign ad that calls the hedge fund manager “China’s friend, not ours.”
The celebrity doctor has himself frequently done business in China; in addition to his financial relationship with Usana, Oz has also promoted major Chinese technology companies including Weibo and WeChat, and distributed his show on Chinese entertainment platforms.
According to a 2018 tweet, Oz had launched WeChat and Weibo accounts.
“Aofei Media will be distributing new episodes of my show beginning 12/25 on digital platforms including Youku, Tencent Penguin, iQiyi, Sohu Video & Sina Weibo,” Oz wrote. “Tune in!”
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