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It appears that Pfizer employees had a special batch of vaxx just for them, not the same as the public was made to take

By Vlad Tepes Blog

Thank you M: The Gateway Pundit – Pfizer Executive Can’t Provide Definitive Answer Why Its COVID-19 Vaccine Causes Myocarditis and Pericarditis During Australian Hearing


Pfizer Under Question

The company was very reluctant to attend the committee hearing and also reluctant to supply a straight answer, automatically falling back on their ‘safe and effective’ mantra to dodge answering the question.

Already, this Senate Hearing revealed that Pfizer is rewriting history on transmission of infection.

We’re supposed to conveniently forget they said “get it to protect others, to save grandma” and “when you’re vaccinated the virus stops with you”.

They’re hiding behind their indemnity contract with our government and dodging responsibility.

ATAGI and the Australian governments must stop pushing these unsafe and ineffective shots and drop the destructive mandates now.


Why Can’t Moderna Provide These Answers?

During last night’s Senate hearing into our COVID 19 Vaccine Discrimination Bill representatives from Moderna couldn’t provide the numbers of serious adverse reactions from their COVID mRNA injection.


Australia – Malcolm Roberts questioned Pfizer representatives last night in a Senate Hearing


Pfizer can’t explain why their Covid Vax causes myocarditis – Senate Estimates 3.8.23


A tough day for Pfizer Australia in Senate hearings today.


Australian politicians grill Pfizer and Moderna execs over COVID jab heart injuries

[…]Representatives from the two Big Pharma companies refused to give direct answers to questions about the vaccines causing myocarditis and pericarditis.

[…]Pfizer employees received a separate batch of Covid shots

[…]Contracts between Pfizer and Australian government ‘remain confidential’


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Gavin Newsom’s Office Funded Illegal, Secret Chinese Biolab Found With Infectious Material, Viral Agents

By The Geller Report

“I’ve been in government for 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Nicole Sieba, Reedley City Manager, to Your Central Valley.

Last week I wrote about the discovery of a secret China-linked biolab in an ostensibly empty warehouse outside Fresno California. Covertly operating for a year, it was shut down by the Fresno County Department of Public Health. From October 2022 until the warehouse at 850 I Street in Reedley was operating a biological lab.

The CDC found infectious material and myriad diseases including malaria , Rubella, HIV, chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, and herpes 1 and 5 at the site which was listed as an empty building. Apart from vast array of diseases found, the lab also had 900 genetically engineered mice designed to catch and carry various COVID strains living in vile conditions with another 175 found dead.

Why would Gavin Newsom subsidize an illegal bioagent  lab run by a shady Chinese company?

Illegal Chinese biolab was subsidized by Gavin Newsom

BY DAVID STROM August 03, 2023

Last week I wrote about the discovery of a secret China-linked biolab in an ostensibly empty warehouse outside Fresno California.

It was, needless to say, a disturbing story. We aren’t talking about some sterile, well-controlled biological research facility that hadn’t kept up with all its paperwork.

No, this was a hidden lab piled with chemicals, boxes, refrigerators with chemicals and 20 deadly viruses, and genetically engineered mice that had been bred to catch and spread human viruses like COVID-19. It was in an ostensibly abandoned warehouse, and when the inspectors showed up the lab equipment had been hastily turned off before whoever was working there disappeared.

The power was off, but the freezers were still cold. People disappeared quickly, leaving behind a lot of documents in Chinese and a “President” who is available only by email from China. The president claimed the lab was merely storing defunct equipment, but there were live genetically engineered mice and the viruses stored in freezers.

[ … ]

The latest twist to all this is that the company that originally owned the equipment before it was acquired by the current “owner,” Prestige Biotech, was named Universal Meditech, and Universal Meditech was subsidized by Gavin Newsom’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

[ … ]

There is remarkably little news coverage of this story–The Daily Mail did a report on the findings at the lab and printed some disturbing images gleaned from court documents. But the MSM in the United States has mostly ignored the story.

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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How to Lose a War

By The Catholic Thing

How to Lose a War David Carlin: If we elect not to defend the teaching on homosexuality that dates back to the Age of the Apostles, and even earlier into Jewish tradition, the faith our descendants inherit will be no more than a shadow of the Catholic faith handed down by the Apostles.


If you’re a general and you wish to break the enemy’s line of defense, you find his most vulnerable point and attack him precisely at that point with an exceptional concentration of forces.  When you break through at that point, there’s a good chance his entire line of defense will collapse.  You will have won the battle, maybe even the war.

Catholicism’s most vulnerable point, as it defends itself against the assault being made against it by present-day atheism, is its ancient teaching that homosexual practice is a great sin.  Many of our nominal defenders don’t truly believe that this point in our line of defense is worth defending, at least not with heroic energy.  Some of our “defenders” are even quite willing to allow the enemy to pour through a gap at this point.

Once we fail to defend our teaching on homosexuality, once we allow the enemy to break through our lines at that point, can anybody but a fool doubt that other sections of our defense will also collapse?  If homosexual conduct is permissible, how will we be able to say that fornication is seriously sinful, or even adultery?

Once we abandon the old moral doctrines regarding sexual matters, how will we be able to maintain our old moral doctrines regarding lying and cheating and stealing, not to mention our teachings regarding the use of physical force?

And once we abandon our moral doctrines, how will we be able to maintain our dogmas regarding certain essential miracles, e.g., the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist?  Finally, we’ll find it hard to believe in the Incarnation or the Trinity or even the very existence of some ill-defined God.

Catholicism is a system; every part is connected with, and dependent upon, every other part; let one part collapse, and the whole system will be in danger.  Let the enemy break through at Fort Homosexuality, and, eventually, all our other doctrinal forts will fall.  Maybe not overnight.  But sooner or later.  Rome wasn’t built in a day; nor did it fall in a day.

The atheistic enemy senses that he is close to victory.  Hence his immense concentration of propaganda forces at this vulnerable point – such forces as Hollywood, popular music, the journalistic media, our colleges and universities and law schools, our public schools, the Democratic Party, and the current president of the United States.

Anyone not aware of this must have slept through the recent month of June, Pride Month.  But this great propaganda assault is not limited to Pride Month.  Far from it.  It’s a 12-month/24-hours-a-day assault. And it tells us, without ceasing, that homosexual desire and homosexual intercourse and homosexual relationships are splendid things. And that to utter negative words about these things, or even to have negative thoughts about them, is very naughty, even downright wicked.

Why are American Catholics inept at defending the faith at this vulnerable point?  A number of reasons.

  1. Catholics, once a marginalized group in America, have long since been thoroughly Americanized; hence, if being pro-homosexuality is now the American thing (which it seems to be), we Catholics can hardly help but be pro-homosexuality.
  1. Many Catholics have adopted America’s now-dominant moral theory, according to which everything is morally permitted that does not cause obvious and tangible harm to another. Since homosexual acts don’t cause the sky to fall, they must be morally permissible.
  1. We live in a highly commercial society in which “anything goes” provided it’s not bad for business. Homosexuality, it seems, is not bad for business.
  1. We commonly construe the commandment “love thy neighbor” to include the sub-commandment “don’t hurt thy gay neighbor’s delicate feelings.”
  1. Since we either know – or know about – homosexual persons who appear to be living unobjectionable lives, we figure that their sexual proclivities too must be unobjectionable.
  1. Most of our bishops and parish priests avoid making a great fuss about the wickedness of homosexual conduct. And if an unwise bishop does happen to make a great fuss (see Bishop Strickland of Tyler TX), the Vatican may pay him a cautionary “visit.”
  1. Pope Francis doesn’t help when he pays extraordinary honor to Fr. James Martin, S.J., America’s most famous/notorious pro-homosexuality priest.

What can we Catholics, pre-eminently our bishops and priests, do to defend the faith at this point of maximum vulnerability?  For one, we might adopt as our motto the words of the great abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison: “I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I will be heard.”

This doesn’t mean we have to re-criminalize homosexual conduct.  It’s too late for that.  Besides, we need to make a clear distinction between moral permissibility and legal permissibility.  A religion like ours, which for centuries allowed legal tolerance of prostitution, can allow legal toleration of homosexuality.

But we must do what we can to end the public glorification of homosexuality, a glorification that undermines the foundations of our religion and corrupts the hearts and minds of our young people.  At a minimum, we must shout from the rooftops a message that our religion has proclaimed ever since the days of the Apostles, namely that homosexual conduct is a great sin, a vice contrary to nature.

This will take a certain amount of courage.  But not tremendous courage.  Not the courage needed to face death by martyrdom.  Rather, it’s the courage needed to face insults like “homophobe,” “bigot,” or “hater.”  In some few cases, the courage needed to face the loss of a job opportunity, even the loss of a job.

If, on the other hand, we elect not to defend the teaching on homosexuality that dates back to the Age of the Apostles, and even earlier into Jewish tradition, the faith our descendants inherit will be no more than a shadow of the Catholic faith handed down by the Apostles.

We may kiss American Catholicism goodbye.

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AUTHOR

David Carlin

David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in AmericaThree Sexual Revolutions: Catholic, Protestant, Atheist, and most recently Atheistic Humanism, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Church.

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How Refreshing: An Actual Debate on Transgenderism on Capitol Hill

By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities

“I am a detransitioner. Another way to put that would be I used to think I was born in the wrong body, and the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief. And this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm. I speak to you today as the victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America. I speak to you in the hope that you will have the courage to bring the scandal to an end and ensure that other vulnerable teenagers, children, and young adults don’t go through what I went through…

“This needs to stop. You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience. Please let me be your final warning.”

These are the words of courageous Californian teenager Chloe Cole, who testified last week during a debate on transgenderism that took place on Capital Hill.

“A debate?” you may ask.

Debates were those old-fashioned, long-form conversations in which two opposing points of view were expressed side-by-side, so that listeners might discern which side presented the stronger case.

They were a favourite format for cable news shows like CNN’s CrossfireHannity & Colmes of Fox News, or MSNBC’s The Cycle.

One day in the recent past, however, all of those shows were cancelled and replaced with productions that shunned debate in favour of monologues or conversations with trusted allies.

Shortly after, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube also decided debate was no longer allowed. “Content moderation” quickly took its place. Soon, anyone with a heterodox opinion on abortion, homosexuality, Donald Trump, gender, Christianity or even censorship itself was censored — or at least rendered functionally invisible.

In no time at all, the narrative shifted from “censorship is not taking place, you paranoid quack” to “misinformation is dangerous and must not be allowed”.

With this short history lesson in view, it was deeply refreshing to see misinformation — err, debate — allowed to take place at last Thursday’s hearing on The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’.

Holding forth

Hosted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, the hearing prompted a two-and-a-half-hour debate between representatives from both the Republican and Democratic sides of the transgender issue.

Besides Chloe Cole, five other witnesses were called to testify, including a former swimmer, a family clinician, a women’s rights solicitor, the mother of a girl who identifies as a boy, and an LGBT rights activist and lawyer.

Like any good debate, both sides of the issue had a chance to present their views. The result was a reminder of why such debates are rarely allowed in public anymore — namely, because the side of sanity effortlessly presented the best case.

Paula Scanlan, a former swim teammate of the infamous Lia Thomas at UPenn, explained how her traumatic past of sexual abuse was resurrected when she was repeatedly forced to change in front of a well-hung man in the women’s locker rooms.

A clinician and director at the Family Research Council, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, warned that so-called “gender-affirming care” lacked a solid evidence base due to its sudden appearance and rise in popularity.

Bauwens said her discipline “is not operating as a helping profession” but “is actively causing harm” for gender-confused children. “We’ve plowed ahead with practices that break ethical research and practice boundaries,” she warned.

May Mailman, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Law Center, addressed the legal implications of transgender ideology in women’s sports. “Gender ideology destroys women and girls by dissolving legal protections for women in athletics,” she explained.

Mailman cited well-known studies that “make clear that testosterone suppression can never completely eliminate the athletic advantage of males who have experienced puberty”.

A mother, Miriam Reynolds, described how she came to affirm her daughter as a boy. “The signs had been there all along, we just didn’t understand them,” she said, explaining that her daughter had refused to wear pink, was the only girl on the boys football team, and her best friends were all boys. Reynolds recounted the family’s journey to Texas for transgender surgery for their teenager, insisting the process was slow and free of coercion.

Shannon Minter, the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, argued the puberty blockers and hormone treatments used on gender dysphoric children are “safe and effective”, and that “transgender adolescents who receive the care they need have the same mental health outcomes as their non-transgender peers”.

Closed off

Just as intriguing as the testimony of the six witnesses were the reactions of the Congressional representatives.

Before the hearings even began, Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler decided,

“What we are witnessing today is nothing less than a taxpayer-funded platform for Congressional Republicans to bully transgender kids who are already some of the most vulnerable members of our community.”

House Democrats’ chief deputy whip Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas expressed a similar sentiment, apologising to the witnesses “for a hearing that frightens me”.

To the amusement of many, Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen unwittingly re-invented female locker rooms by arguing that women should have their own space within female locker rooms so they are not forced to undress in front of men.

Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen accidentally admits difference between males & females W/ Paula Scanlan

In case you missed it… pic.twitter.com/gyOkh2Xhd6

— Jimmy Simmons (@ArticulateTHGHT) August 1, 2023

And Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was ultimately proven wrong in her early assertion that the hearing was “a callous and reckless misuse of this committee’s time”.

What she meant was that the hearing was a “debate”.

It’s just been a while since she witnessed one.

AUTHOR

KURT MAHLBURG

Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Majority Of Heat Deaths In Maricopa County Due To Meth

By Corinne Murdock

A majority of heat deaths in Maricopa County are attributable to methamphetamine, according to the latest Maricopa County Department of Public Health heat deaths report.

53 percent of heat deaths involved meth last year, or 226 deaths. 67 percent of deaths involved some type of substance abuse. The county noted that the proportion of heat deaths involving drug use has increased over the years.

The homeless make up the largest class of all heat deaths: 178 met that characterization (150 were classified as having “unknown” living situations). Nearly 70 percent of all heat deaths last year occurred in urban areas.

Although the homeless made up the most heat deaths last year and in 2020, that wasn’t the case from 2012 to 2019. More non-homeless individuals suffered heat deaths during those years than the homeless.

Phoenix had the most heat deaths last year, 245, followed far behind by Mesa at 36 deaths and then Glendale at 22 deaths. Scottsdale and Tempe both had 10 deaths, Avondale and Peoria both had 8 deaths, Chandler had 7 deaths, and Gilbert had 6 deaths.

Phoenix also holds the vast majority of the homeless population in the county. The Maricopa Association of Governments reported a 36% increase in homeless individuals in the county from 2019 to last year. That increase was most greatly felt at the very heart of downtown Phoenix, evident in the mass homeless encampment called “The Zone.”

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego has used heat deaths to bolster her campaign to declare The Valley’s regular summer heat as a federal emergency. Such a declaration would result in the awarding of federal relief funds.

During her annual state of the city address in April, Mayor Gallego petitioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to qualify extreme heat as a disaster by adding the regular seasonal occurrence to its national emergency declarations categorization.

A FEMA recognition would bring in more federal funding. The city has a number of heat mitigation projects that would likely benefit from such funding, like the manufactured shade and drinking water access areas known as “cool corridors,” which are determined on an equity basis, and the special sunlight absorption streets known as “cool pavement.” Those initiatives were unique creations under Mayor Gallego’s administration.

Mayor Gallego was also responsible for the creation of one of the first heat mitigation offices within city government: the Office of Heat Response and Mitigation (OHRM). The city established the office with $2.8 million in 2021, with the explicit attempt to combat “urban heat”: the theory that urbanization causes higher temperatures.

Presently, the OHRM doles out COVID-19 relief federal funding provided by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for annual heat relief grants. These grants are earmarked for nonprofit, charitable, small business, and faith-based organizations existing within the city-recognized Maricopa Association of Governments Heat Relief Network that claim negative impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. OHRM will give out a maximum of $450,000 total, with each recipient receiving anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000.

A major focus of the OHRM is providing heat respite for the homeless. The latest update from OHRM, issued last summer, announced initiatives costing millions to increase the comfort of the homeless residing within the The Zone: the creation of seven new shade structures; distribution of insulated and reusable water bottles, hats, sunscreen, personal misters, towels, ice chests with water; and hundreds of shelter beds for 24/7 heat respite.

The first and current OHRM director is Arizona State University (ASU) professor David Hondula, who teaches within the Global Institute of Sustainability. Hondula was named director of the office overseeing the pavement initiative within weeks of publication of a joint study on the city’s “cool pavement” infrastructure, which the city knew ahead of expansion would make people hotter.

Although FEMA hasn’t heeded Gallego’s call, her Congressman ex-husband did. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03) introduced the Extreme Heat Emergency Act last month.

Per the latest county heat deaths report, fatalities decreased from 2012 to 2014. 2012 totaled about one-fourth of last year’s deaths and 2014 reached a low of 61 deaths. Deaths then increased from 84 in 2015 to 199 in 2019, spiking to 323 in 2020 and steadily increasing since then.

The county report also revealed that African American and Native American individuals made up the most heat deaths: 13 per 100,000 and 9 per 100,000, respectively. White individuals followed closely behind at nearly 8 per 100,000 deaths.

*****

This article was published by AZ Free News and is reproduced with permission.

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The U.S. Military Is Quietly Using A Little-Known Program To Enable Child Sex Changes

By The Daily Caller

The U.S. military is quietly making accommodations for military families with children or dependents seeking gender transition help through a little-known program initially meant to assist families with special needs members.

Through the Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP), the military has allowed special assignments for servicemembers so their dependents can access gender transition services, and could take additional steps to facilitate transition, according to media reports, Department of Defense (DOD) statements and the policies themselves. Current DOD guidance leaves open the possibility servicemembers with gender dysphoric dependents could be eligible for exceptions to policy under the EFMP, but there is a provision in the House’s draft defense bill that could make it illegal.

Republican Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina introduced an amendment, included in the draft text of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024, that would prohibit DOD from making accommodations for gender transition services under the EFMP.

The House agreed to the amendment by a vote of 220-210.

“In my opinion, this misuse of funds is absolutely against the spirit of the law. Gender transitioning is not covered under any of the criteria for identifying individuals eligible for EFMP,” Norman said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Allowing ANY type of gender transition procedures through the EFMP goes against the intention for the program — which is to provide vital resources for service members’ families with special needs and chronic conditions,” he added.

No companion amendment exists in the Senate version, however, imperiling the provision’s chances of making it into the final legislation.

In 2021, a measure that would have “expand[ed] protections” for dependents with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria failed.

Democratic Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California introduced a bill expanding protections under EFMP to explicitly include “gender dysphoria” as a “medical or educational special need,” allowing servicemembers to request duty assignments or extra medical support for dependents diagnosed with the disorder. It would have effectively banned the services from stationing troops with transgender dependents in stations within the U.S. or abroad where the law bans gender transition services, according to a summary.

The Defense Department is working to improve the Exceptional Family Member Program with several initiatives, the director of DOD’s office of Military Family Readiness Policy told Congress, Feb. 5. https://t.co/uDqcYpld2o pic.twitter.com/QIKSIpwQld

— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) February 8, 2020

The Air Force was the only service openly expanding EFMP to include gender transition accommodations. At the time, EFMP policy and implementation varied between the Air Force, Navy and Army sometimes down to the installation level, according to a DOD article.

But, DOD has regulatory authority to create or change the criteria for considering an individual’s special needs, according to the law creating the DOD’s Office of Special Needs. Services have the ability to build on to what the Secretary of Defense mandates.

The Secretary of Defense issued revised instruction in late June meant to synchronize the EFMP between services but did not explicitly address gender dysphoria. Language outlining an eligible dependent family member remains largely unchanged.

But a research report published after the policy was unveiled does tie the EFMP to gender transition services.

“Dependent family members diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” as characterized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, “could also be eligible to enroll in EFMP,” according to a Congressional Research Service report. Gender dysphoria would fall alongside other “current and chronic” mental health condition requiring inpatient or intensive outpatient mental health treatment where families “may access additional family support services,” the report stated.

Support services can include information and referrals, case management and maintaining school liaisons for dependents up to 21 years old, according to the policy.

While EFMP coordinators can make travel recommendations “solely based on the availability of specific medical needs for the health and safety of the enrolled family members,” they are not the final authority in those decisions, Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman, a Pentagon spokesperson, told the DCNF.

In addition, “the provision of medical care is not a component of EFMP,” Schwegman said. TRICARE, the military’s health plan, already covers several gender transition treatments and procedures.

In theory, at least, any military family with a member who can get an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria would be eligible for an EFMP.

“Right now, transgender dependents can and are enrolled in the EFMP,” the Modern Military Association (MMA) wrote.

“Many people falsely assume ‘gender-affirming care’ means giving kids hormones and surgeries,” MMA wrote, but for young children it still “includes having access to specialists who understand what they’re going through and can provide the youth and their family appropriate mental and emotional support.”

The EFMP could be used to make it easier for children to access specialists and medical care, according to MMA.

“All servicemembers and dependents who are confused about sexual identity deserve compassion and competent psychological care.  Under DoD regulations, however, the military’s medical system has been directed to provide medical advice and treatments only in the one-way direction of transition,” Elaine Donnelly, founder of the Center for Military Readiness, told the DCNF.

Data on the number of military families taking advantage of the program was not available at the time of posting. As of early July, the Air Force confirmed it granted 15 relocations under “exceptions to policy (ETP) for members experiencing a range of racial- and LGBTQ+-related discrimination” since 2021, without specifying whether the waivers were allowed under EFMPs, Military.com reported.

None of the other services is tracking family locations, public affairs officers told the outlet.

In 2017, when TRICARE began offering sex change interventions, at least 2,500 children of military parents put in for gender dysphoria benefits through TRICARE insurance, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. About 900 received the puberty blocker GnRH-a or sex change hormones.

This article has been updated with comment from a Pentagon spokesperson.

AUTHOR

MICAELA BURROW

Investigative reporter, Defense.

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Oklahoma Governor Signs ‘Women’s Bill Of Rights’ Defining ‘Female’ And ‘Mother’

By The Daily Caller

Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill into law which defines the words “female” and “mother” in order to “bring clarity, certainty, and uniformity” to state laws.

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Jessica Garvin, told the Daily Caller in January that the bill would protect women from men invading their single-sex spaces.

“There are states where there have been men who have been incarcerated, and then they decided to identify as female. That has obviously been problematic because it turns out some of these men have sexually abused women while incarcerated,” Garvin said.

The bill stipulates that biological men cannot receive government grants meant for women and prohibits men from using female restrooms, prisons, rape shelters, locker rooms and other spaces.

🆕EXCLUSIVE: Oklahoma Governor Stitt will sign the #WomensBillOfRights tomorrow by Executive Order!🚺

The signing ceremony will take place at 10:00am CT, where IWV Spokeswoman @Riley_Gaines_ will join @GovStitt to mark this important moment for women.https://t.co/OzIXwLnRYe pic.twitter.com/dL2eO3xW7s

— Independent Women’s Voice (@IWV) August 1, 2023

Exclusive from @politico on the #WomensBillofRights!! Oklahoma @GovStitt expected to be the first governor in the country to adopt the Women’s Bill of Rights by executive order. Words have ZERO meaning in law/code without a common language. And women have ZERO protections and… pic.twitter.com/Na92fycmsQ

— Victoria Coley (@VictoriaRColey) August 1, 2023

The bill defines the word “mother” as, “the female parent of a child or children.” The word “woman” is defined as, “a natural person who is female.”

“The state, any political subdivision, or any state agency or department including but not limited to public school districts that collects vital statistics for the purpose of gathering accurate public health, crime, economic or other data shall identify any natural person who is part of the collected data as either male or female as defined in Section 62 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes,” the bill continues.

Republican Senator Cyndi Hyde-Smith of Mississippi introduced a Women’s Bill of Rights in February 2023, after a similar resolution failed in May 2022. The bill would define “mother,” “woman,” “sex,” along the same lines as Oklahoma’s bill.

“One of the many problems with these radical notions to redefine male and female is that they end up doing more harm than good,” Hyde-Smith said. “Our resolution simply affirms the biological differences between males and females under federal law, ensuring that womanhood is not erased by the ‘woke’ left’s reckless attempts to be inclusive.”

AUTHOR

SARAH WEAVER

Social issues reporter.

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The Disaster of “Free” Universal Health Care

By Mark Wallace

When a Far Left screed like The New York Times publishes a first-page article that is harshly critical of some “free” or low-cost socialist program, you know that (1) it’s got to be really, really bad, and (2) what The New York Times is writing about it just has to be true.  There are simply no other explanations for such rare candor.

And so it came to pass that on July 17, 2023, The New York Times published on its front page (left-hand column) an article entitled “After 75 Years, Health Service in U.K. Teeters.”  The article is a devastating critique of the British health care system.  British health care is free, and it turns out that if you live in the U.K., you get what you pay for.

The article begins with a discussion of the experience of Marian Patten, age 78, who was taken by ambulance to Queen’s Hospital in Romford,  England with chest pains and pneumonia.  After 15 hours she was still waiting to be treated.  She had not yet been wheeled into the hallway, and that was actually a good sign, because apparently that was a place reserved for patients facing a wait longer than 15 hours.

Upon reading this, I could not help but contrast this with the healthcare my 90+ year old mother-in-law received at a private hospital in Colorado.  She had fallen while visiting a museum and had cut her scalp.  There was blood, but not as much as one might expect from a head wound.  Fortunately a hospital was close by, and I drove my wife and mother-in-law to the hospital and dropped them off at the front door.  I then went to park the car.  Parking the car and walking back to the hospital waiting room probably took no more than three or four minutes.  I expected to see them sitting in waiting room chairs.  But all the chairs there were empty.  The receptionist told me my mother in law, accompanied by my wife, had already been taken back for treatment.  When I went to the room where my mother in law was being treated, I was astonished to see four or five gowned hospital doctors, nurses and aides working on her — and it wasn’t a very serious cut!  All’s well that ends well, and she was discharged with a bandage about one hour later.

Getting back to the paradise of socialized medicine as practiced in Great Britain, The New York Time writes “ . . . the N.H.S. [National Health Service], a proud symbol of Britain’s welfare state, is in the deepest crisis of its history:  flooded by aging, enfeebled patients; starved of investment in equipment and facilities; and understaffed by doctors and nurses, many of whom are so burned out that they are either joining strikes or leaving for jobs abroad.”  It turns out that 7.4 million people in Britain are on waiting lists for medical procedures.  That’s up from 4.1 million before Covid.  The only saving grace, it turns out, is that the sick and feeble in Britain are dying like flies.  Since dead people don’t need medical care, this is a kind of escape valve reducing pressure in the system.  The current “excess death rate” is the highest in 50 years.

On top of all this, there is simmering labor unrest.  It turns out that junior doctors are paid at the same level as baristas in a coffee shop:  “ . . . doctors were picketing outside, protesting starting wages that are comparable to those earned by baristas working at Pret-a-Manger, a sandwich chain in the hospital’s lobby.”  (Again quoting The New York Times).  Like some high-level apparatchik in the former Soviet Union, British Prime Minister Rishi Sundak has a plan.  He announced a 15-year plan (much better than the Soviet Union’s paltry five year plans, don’t you think?) to recruit and train new doctors and nurses.  But here’s the catch:  nothing in Sundak’s plan would raise wages for doctors or nurses!  Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Here are a few other gems from the article.  At one London hospital, it was discovered that dirty water from a leaking pipe was dripping on a circuit board controlling sophisticated medical equipment.  Perhaps most disturbing of all, only 48 percent of patients with serious illnesses or injuries are treated within four hours of admission to a hospital.  So if you are dying of a massive heart attack or bleeding out from external and internal injuries, there is a 52 percent chance you will have to wait more than four hours to be treated.  Now isn’t that special?

In summary, N.H.S.’s health plan is much like Obama’s health plan:  Don’t get sick or injured.

One wonders whether Canada’s socialized health system in the Great White North is more like Great Britain’s system or the United States’s system.  I have yet to see a New York Times article on that.  However, on a recent cruise where there were many Canadian passengers, I had an opportunity to ask a Canadian what he thought of Canada’s health care system. Based upon his answer, it was apparent he was not a great fan of Canadian health care.  He told me that his daughter had to wait two years for a knee replacement.  Unfortunately, due to favoring the good knee during the two year wait, the good knee had deteriorated into a bad knee by the time she had her other bad knee replaced.

It’s said that a socialist scheme always fails in the end because the scheme eventually runs out of other people’s money.  British and Canadian socialized medicine seem to prove the point. Obamacare is probably not far behind.    

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People Are Questioning? It’s About Time

By Mark Oshinskie

During the luncheon following a recent family funeral, people reminisced about my Uncle Bob, whom I never met. Bob, trained to translate Russian, was shot out of the sky while flying at 20,000 feet in a 17-person Air Force plane over Soviet Armenia on September 2, 1958. He was not yet 23.

For over a decade after the shootdown, Bob was classified as MIA. There were unconfirmed rumors that Armenians on the ground had seen a few of his plane’s crew parachuting from the burning, nosediving C-130. Six bodies were promptly sent home. Neither Bob’s nor the ten others’ were.

My family made many efforts to learn of Bob’s status after he was shot down. My grandmother—Bob’s mother—was given an audience with JFK during the 1960 Presidential campaign. A photo of that meeting was prominently displayed in her small, steep hillside rowhouse in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town. But The Cold War precluded any serious diplomatic pressure or disclosure.

When Boris Yeltsin became Soviet President in 1991, he declassified and shared records of the incident in which my uncle was killed, as well as records for 16 other spy plane shootdowns over Soviet airspace spanning from 1953-1971. I have an envelope with 8 x 10 inch black and white photos of the impact of the MiG-launched missile hitting Bob’s crew’s plane at 3:07 in the afternoon, as well as translated transcripts of the MiG pilots’ dialogue. I also received photos of his shattered aircraft smoldering on the barren, rocky ground and of dismembered, uniformed limbs there. Eventually, a book was published about Bob’s flight and others like it. In 1994, US News and World Report ran a cover story on these flights. So did ABC’s 20/20.

In 2011, an Air Force official showed up at my father’s New Jersey door and handed him his brother’s high school ring. A resident of the village where the plane crashed found the ring, presumably on Bob’s hand, and kept it for over fifty years before handing it over to authorities who, in turn, passed it to my father.

During the repast, family elders said they had, when Bob was in the Air Force, suspected that he’d been flying spy missions. Of course, the military didn’t admit this, either before or after the shootdown. The official line was that his plane had inadvertently flown off course, “perhaps lured by some Soviet beacon.”

But during a 1997 memorial service for my uncle’s crew at NSA Headquarters, I met former airmen who had done missions like, and during the same period, as my uncle. Some had even flown with him; the crews were, to some extent, interchangeable. They laughed off the mistake/beacon excuse. They said they knew exactly where they were at all times. They were ordered to deliberately enter Soviet airspace to see how alert the Russians were, to photograph Soviet facilities and to eavesdrop on Russian radio communications.

The Soviets were alert enough to shoot down seventeen planes. And sleepy enough not to shoot down multiple planes that crossed borders during other missions, such that the guys on those flights could come home, live to advanced ages and tell me that my uncle was good to have on your side in bar fights.

At the end of the discussion about the family’s uncertainty about the dangerous nature of Bob’s work, one of my cousins said, “Well, people didn’t question things back then. Now everyone questions everything.”

I’ve actively disagreed with many people at many times regarding pandemic policies. But on this occasion, I opted not to. The luncheon was winding down and, out of respect for the immediate family of the person just buried, and because I would have been seen as bringing up a new topic, I uncharacteristically laid down my arms and didn’t call out that false premise as it pertained to the Scamdemic.

Given the past 40 months, the notion that people today question everything couldn’t be more wrong. Americans not only failed to question the government and media regarding “Covid “mitigation,” but they angrily demanded that others also obey edicts that made no sense. There was so much that didn’t withstand even the most basic scrutiny. 

Many Americans have spent much of the past three years in a state of full-on Coronavirus groupthink and compliance. Instead, those who feared SARS-CoV-2 should have asked themselves such simple questions as:

What’s “novel” about this virus?

When in human history have healthy people been quarantined?

How will locking down and closing schools, parks, and gyms make a virus vanish?

How many hospitals are being overrun by Covid patients?

Don’t the videos of those Chinese guys dying in the streets seem fake?

If masks work, why do mask wearers insist that others use them?

If masks work, why lock down anything?

Who do I know who’s been killed by this virus?

Weren’t they already very old and/or sick?

How many people die on any given day?

What percentage of those infected with “the virus” survive?

If many people test positive but show no symptoms, how reliable are the Covid tests?

Won’t lockdowns and school closures cause tremendous harm?

Isn’t it odd that this crisis is happening during an election year?

And later:

Why has the two-week “Shelter in Place” order turned into many months of closures?

Why don’t reporters ask Fauci or other bureaucrats any hard questions?

Why doesn’t the media interview those who oppose lockdowns, masks, and “vaxxes?”

Why do the most locked down, masked-up states have the highest Covid death rates?

Why did American public schools stay closed for 18 months when kids were at no risk?

Why should those with a 99.9 percent infection survival rate inject experimental substances?

How do we know that the scarcely-tested Covid vaxxes won’t cause long-term harm?

If the shots work, why do injectees care if other people don’t inject?

Why are so many vaxxed people getting sick and dying?

These questions, and others, should have occurred to anyone who could tie his own shoes. Although latter-day Americans see themselves as much more sophisticated than their 1950s counterparts, most 2020-22 Americans weren’t insightful enough to ask questions that even malt shop-going bobbysoxers and Wally Cleaver would have asked. Gee, Beave…

By buying into Coronamania, those who thought of themselves as astute and worldly-wise exhibited severe deficits of judgment and of self-awareness.

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This article was published by the Brownstone Institute and is reproduced with permission.

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Watch My Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that YouTube Removed

By O’Keefe Media Group

After deciding to release my full podcast interview with Presidential Candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., YouTube decided that the discussed topics didn’t fit within their allowable content. YouTube removed my podcast interview with RFK Jr. due to COVID-19 misinformation.

This is not the first time I’ve been censored by a major platform and I’m sure it will not be the last. Not only do I fight to proclaim the suppressed stories around the world, but I try to use my very existence to keep accountable those in power with every move they make as it affects the freedoms that we strive to keep within our grasp.

Thanks to Elon Musk, you can still watch the full RFK Jr. episode on my Twitter.

YouTube removed this video for “medical misinformation”

Thankfully, you can still watch it here on the public square pic.twitter.com/IswUL6cjhd

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) July 28, 2023

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I also just finished another podcast interview with someone whom I admire and appreciate very much for his hard work in the journalistic world and the sacrifices he’s made to get the truth to the public! This interview will be published soon and will also be available exclusively to my paid subscribers.

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The Terrifying Reality of GitHub: How Any of Us Can be Exploited in Seconds

By National Center on Sexual Exploitation

Let’s play a game.

Raise your hand if there’s a picture of your face online.

Now, raise your other hand if there’s one of your daughter, your girlfriend, your sister, or any other loved one.

It’s probably safe to assume that most or all of you have both hands in the air right now (if you were good sports and played along!). That was fun.

But now comes the punch line. And unfortunately, it isn’t fun at all.

Did you know that, with new developments in technology, any of those photos could be used to create synthetic pornographic videos or images (a.k.a. “deepfake pornography”) of you or your loved ones? Did you know that this pornographic material could be so realistic that no one would be able to tell the difference?

Thanks to Microsoft-owned GitHub, it now takes less than 60 seconds to sexually violate someone in this way. This very trauma has happened to countless women and even children.

And the terrifying problem only continues to grow.

What is GitHub?

There’s been a lot of buzz in the news lately about Artificial Intelligence. GitHub, owned by Microsoft, is arguably the most prolific space for Artificial Intelligence development.

Described as a mix between Google Docs and a social media app for programmers, GitHub is a platform designed for individuals to collaborate, manage, and share codes for developing software. GitHub is the largest code-hosting community globally and is the most prominent code-hosting platform.

Unfortunately, GitHub is also a significant contributor to the creation of sexually exploitative technologies, such as those used to victimize women and children through image-based sexual abuse (including but not limited to “deepfake pornography”) and synthetic child sexual abuse material.

The exponential growth in innovation and creative solutions offered by artificial intelligence are to be celebrated. However, technological advances must not supersede or come at the cost of people’s safety and well-being. Technology should be built and developed to fight, rather than facilitate, sexual exploitation and abuse.

By providing a space not only to create but collaborate and amplify abuse, GitHub is not only condoning criminal conduct – it is directly contributing to it.


Take Action! Call on GitHub to stop facilitating sexual exploitation!


GitHub Facilitates Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA)

Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) is a broad term encompassing a range of harmful activities that weaponize sexually explicit or sexualized materials against the persons they depict. IBSA includes the creation, theft, extortion, threatened or actual distribution, or any use of sexually explicit or sexualized materials without the meaningful consent of the person or persons depicted and/or for purposes of sexual exploitation.

GitHub has earned itself a title as a significant contributor to the growing crime of image-based sexual abuse. In particular, GitHub plays a massive role in the creation of synthetic sexually explicit material (SSEM). A type of IBSA, synthetic sexually explicit material involves the alteration of image/s of a person so that a person not in pornography appears to be in pornography ( “deepfake pornography”), or so as to “strip” the person depicted of their clothing (via “nudify apps”).

GitHub is a hotbed of sexual deepfake repositories (where the codes are) and forums (where people chat) dedicated to the creation and commodification of synthetic media technologies, as well as nudify apps. Open-sourced repositories dedicated to IBSA thrive on GitHub, allowing users to replicate, favorite (“star”), and collaborate on sexually exploitative technology without repercussions.

GitHub hosts three of the most notorious technologies used for synthetic sexually explicit material: DeepFaceLab, DeepNude, and Unstable Diffusion. DeepFaceLab, the most popular technology for creating sexual deepfakes (estimated to be used in the creation of 95% of all sexual deepfakes) has been starred on GitHub over 38 thousand times and replicated over 8.7 thousand times. Further, DeepFaceLab’s GitHub repository contains direct links to the most prolific sexual deepfake website in the United States: Mr.DeepFakes. In fact, GitHub is one of the top 10 referral sites for Mr.DeepFakes.

GitHub has made it shockingly easy for anyone to become a victim of image-based sexual abuse. All you need is a few images of their face or a short video clip. With that, in less time than it takes to brew a cup of coffee, you can create synthetic sexually explicit material of the person that will likely haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Because if there’s one thing that survivors of IBSA have repeatedly noted: it’s that the abuse and trauma is of a perpetual nature. This is because the images are often circulated online, making it virtually impossible for the survivors to ever permanently remove them.

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Github Facilitates Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) 

The sexually exploitative technologies hosted on GitHub can also be used to create sexually explicit images of children—i.e. child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

For example, In April 2023, nudifying technology was used to generated CSAM of five teenage girls by male classmates. The male peers stole photos from the 13-year-old girls’ social networks and used a bot to strip the images of the girls naked. The images were then circulated among other peers at their middle school.

Additionally in 2023, a Quebec man created at least seven videos of child sexual abuse material using deepfake technology. He was also found to be in possession of 545,000 computer files of child sexual abuse material. According to reports, this was believed to be the first case involving deepfake technology being used for child sexual exploitation in Canada.

Although GitHub uses automated detection tools such as PhotoDNA to proactively scan for CSAM, they do not have comprehensive moderation practices to remove technology found to have generated CSAM. Thus, these technologies continue to thrive.

ACTION: Demand GitHub Stop Facilitating Sexual Exploitation!

We currently live in a terrifying reality where any of us can be sexually exploited in seconds. This HAS to change. Please take 30 seconds to contact GitHub, urging them to proactively remove sexually exploitative technologies!

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‘Barbaric Pseudoscience’: Detransitioners, Clinicians Implore Congress to Halt Transing of Minors

By Family Research Council

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Thursday addressing the dangers and due process violations of “gender-affirming care” for children.

Dr. Blaire Peters, a “gender-affirming” surgeon, admitted that doctors in this field are just learning as they go. “We’ve maybe done a handful of pubertally suppressed adolescents as a field, and no one has published on it yet.” He went on to describe the challenges of creating a vaginal canal for a child without enough tissue to do so yet, and how they often pull lining from the child’s abdomen to track their genital canal. Chairman Mike Johnson (R-La.), facilitator of this hearing, responded to Dr. Peters statements by calling his practice “barbarism,” the mutilation of children.

A two-and-a-half-hour debate broke out between representatives from both the Republican and Democratic sides, along with testimonies from six witnesses — all offering different perspectives on what “gender-affirming care” means to them.

Paula Scanlan, an ex-University of Penn swimmer, former teammate of the controversial male Lia Thomas, opened up about her past of being sexually assaulted. She explained how after that trauma, she felt violated when forced to change in front of a biological male into tight swimwear 18 times a week during her time on the women’s swim team at U Penn.

Chloe Cole, a biological woman who had gone through with puberty blockers to transition to male and regretted her decision, got choked-up on the stand. “I am a detransitioner,” she explained. “Another way to put that,” Cole went on, “would be that I used to think I was born in the wrong body, and the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief. And this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm. I speak to you today as the victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America. I speak to you in the hope that you will have the courage to bring the scandal to an end and ensure that other vulnerable teenagers, children, and young adults don’t go through what I went through.”

Cole explained the emotions behind the irreversible damage done to her body, the unknowns about her future fertility, and how it has affected her mental health substantially. “My childhood was ruined,” she lamented.

“This needs to stop,” she said with tears in her eyes. “You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience. Please let me be your final warning.”

Miriam Reynolds, a mother of a transgender boy, described her firsthand, painful experience as a parent in this process of gender transitioning, and May Mailman, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Law Center, briefed the room about the legalities surrounding gender ideology and women’s athletics.

Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, director for the Center of Family Studies at Family Research Council, addressed the issue from a clinical standpoint, having studied this topic for years. She touched on the lack of evidence surrounding “gender-affirming care” due to its newness and sudden rise in popularity.

“I have considered it a privilege to practice, research, and train future clinicians to be a part of a discipline aimed at protecting and bringing healing to the most vulnerable in society — children. But when it comes to gender transition procedures, my field is not operating as a helping profession,” Bauwens insisted. “Instead, it is actively causing harm.”

“Sadly enough,” she continued, “some in my profession have set aside [a] basic understanding of child neurological, emotional, and cognitive development. Instead, they have embraced what has been referred to as ‘gender-affirming care,’ which permanently alters the human psyche and physiology through puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures to remove healthy body parts,” she explained. “… Instead of [answering important questions], we’ve plowed ahead with practices that break ethical research and practice boundaries.”

Although Congresswoman Scanlon proclaimed at the beginning that this hearing was “a callous and reckless misuse of this committee’s time,” the hours of discussion proved that it was a conversation worth having.

Bauwens said it best herself, “Caution has been applied to children in light of the fact that they do not have the neurological capacity to make lifelong decisions. … These kids deserve better. We should be innovating solutions to heal their distress, not coercing them onto a path that tells them they need to remove or change parts of who they are in order to be whole.”

AUTHOR

Baylie McClafferty

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One in Six Democrats Believes Violence Is Justified to Restore Abortion: Poll

By Family Research Council

One in every six Democrats believes that “force [is] justified to restore abortion rights,” a new poll has found, underscoring the secular Left’s growing support for political violence.

The number of Democrats backing abortion-related terrorism has doubled, from 8% to 16% since January — a period when multiple states have enacted pro-life protections. In all, 31 million Americans support the use of violence to reinstate abortion in U.S. law, up from 22 million just three months ago, according to a survey from the University of Chicago’s Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) released this month.

The same percentage of Democrats agrees that “force is justified to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president,” as well as to “coerce Congress or government officials.”

Support for violence against Congress began to rise after Republicans took control of the House of Representatives. “Public support for the use of force to coerce members of the US Congress grew from 9 percent in January 2023 to 17 percent as of June 26, 2023, effectively doubling. While increasing across the political spectrum, the rise was sharpest among Democrats where it grew by about 2.5 times,” the report notes. That translates to 44 million Americans willing to justify domestic terrorism to influence legislation.

The Left has engaged in more than theoretical support for abortion-based violence (a redundant phrase). There have been at least 67 attacks against pro-life pregnancy resource centers since the still-unsolved leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision last May, including the vandalism of Republican Congressman Tim Walberg’s Michigan offices (which shares space with a pro-life organization) last June 21 and the firebombing of a CompassCare office in New York two weeks earlier.

Churches have also borne the brunt of the onslaught. Family Research Council’s Arielle Del Turco has documented a total of 543 attacks against churches between January 2018 and March 2023 — including 57 abortion-related assaults on churches in the first nine months of 2022 and numerous attacks related to LGBTQ issues, often in tandem with legislation protecting children from the predatory transgender industry. Worse yet, the Department of Homeland Security has warned that churches face an elevated threat of violence until at least the 2024 election, 15 months from now, due to their stance on “sociopolitical issues.”

The new report points to the broad, deep, and metastasizing problem of politically motivated violence, especially on the Left. Radicals threatened to kill and dismember Sonja Shaw, president of the Chino Valley (California) Unified School District Board of Education, after the district defied Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and prevented teachers from hiding a child’s gender transition from his or her parents.

Four hundred miles to the north, students and LGBTQ activists assaulted and chased former NCAA women’s swimmer Riley Gaines through the halls of San Francisco State University in April — only for the vice president of Student Affairs to thank the mob for its restraint. A similar scene played out last year as police had to escort Alliance Defending Freedom’s general counsel, Kristen Waggoner, through a threatening crowd that pounded on the walls while canceling a debate at prestigious Yale Law School.

Although the CPOST poll does not cover the issue, LGBTQ advocacy has already spilled over into bloodshed. The mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville by a woman who identified as transgender left six people dead, including three children. After the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) added Family Research Council to its “hate list,” a deranged shooter attempted to kill FRC’s entire staff. He succeeded in wounding building manager Leo Johnson and was later convicted of domestic terrorism.

Even gay, lesbian, and transgender “allies” live in fear of left-wing extremists’ wrath. Radical LGBTQ activists threatened to blow up Target stores in multiple states after the chain removed some of their Pride-themed displays of infants’ and toddlers’ clothing bearing the rainbow insignia. “We will not tolerate intolerance nor indifference,” said one such bomb threat, which called Target officials “pathetic cowards” for soft-pedaling products designed to groom babes and sucklings into the LGBTQ lifestyle.

For the Left, the phrase “culture war” isn’t a euphemism.

Previous polls have tracked Americans’ progressive support for reaching across the widening political divide with a closed fist. In 2020, Democracy Fund’s Voter Study Group found 21% of Americans said physical violence would be justified “if the opposing party wins” the presidential election. A 2018 poll from the Buckley Institute found one-third of college students agreed “physical violence can be justified to prevent a person from using hate speech or making racially charged comments.”

The polling data hint at a reality people of faith already know: Secularists have adopted politics as a substitute for religion. Left-wing ideology makes for a graceless faith that visits retribution upon its enemies in this life. Rather than measuring the heart’s relationship with God the Father through Jesus the Son, woke inquisitors relentlessly monitor any signs of deviation from the party line, punishing heretics to condition Pavlovian obedience. As this author wrote in 2008:

“Leftists lack the religious grounding to recognize everyone as a divine soul and a tradition that teaches them to ‘hate the sin but love the sinner.’ The faith of the Left is a political faith, not a religious one, their politics is the politics of bad faith, their God ‘The God that Failed.’ As they share a secular religion, they promote a secular demonology: Those who fight for The Cause are not ‘on the side of the angels’ — they are the angels. … Those who stand in their way are not good people misled; they are Beelzebub in gray suits. … Their opponents’ deaths simply clear the battlefield of hostile infantrymen.”

As this 15-year-old analysis shows, dehumanizing — and, in extreme cases, eliminating — one’s perceived political enemies predates our present political moment. Political idolatry “is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith,” noted Whittaker Chambers. “Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’”

Unfortunately, the CPOST survey shares this erroneous view, stating the fact that the majority (52%) of Americans believe “elections will not solve our most fundamental political and social problems” constitutes a dangerous “deep distrust of democracy.” In reality, healthy skepticism of government understands that external force cannot solve our most fundamental problems, because they arise from within, “out of the heart of men.” Therefore, the solution must also ascend out of a purified, quickened, and illumined heart.

Christians must restrict politics to its proper sphere in our culture. Legislation reflects, but does not set, our moral compass. We must normalize respect for the human person and its logical conclusion that the ends do not justify any means. Finally, Christians must speak courageously and without compromise, no matter the results. Unlike secularists, we do not measure our results solely by their impact in this world: Standing for truth in the word of our testimony brings an eternal reward. Thankfully, some leaders have met political idolatry with newfound determination never to back down.

“We will not be silenced,” said Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” last month. “These are our children.”

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

EDITORS NOTE: This Washington Stand column is republished with permission. All rights reserved. ©2023 Family Research Council.


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Democrats Join GOP in Alarm at Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors by Becerra’s HHS

By Family Research Council

As the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border reaches unprecedented highs, concerns are growing that the ongoing border crisis is fueling a rise in the abuse of minors through sex trafficking, forced labor, and other forms of exploitation. On Wednesday, during a House Oversight Committee hearing to address the issue, both Republicans and Democrats expressed alarm at the job performance of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and his agency in handling unaccompanied minors and how sponsors for the minors are vetted.

In February, a New York Times investigation revealed that 250,000 unaccompanied minors had entered the U.S. in the last two years alone, at a rate that was three times higher than it was five years ago. It has fallen to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide a “sponsor” to these children who are supposed to provide for and protect them from exploitation. But as a result of the massive influx, the Times noted that “the Biden White House has ramped up demands on staffers to move the children quickly out of shelters and release them to adults.” This has led to caseworkers “rush[ing] through vetting sponsors.”

Alarmingly, the Times went on to report that “over the last two years, the agency could not reach more than 85,000 children” after it attempted to contact them a month after they were placed with their sponsor. “Overall, the agency lost immediate contact with a third of migrant children.”

The Times report further detailed how many children were forced to work low-paying, hard-labor jobs by their sponsors as repayment for taking them in. Still, Becerra pressured staffers to quickly discharge children to sponsors. “If Henry Ford had seen this in his plants, he would have never become famous and rich. This is not the way you do an assembly line,” he said during a staff meeting in 2022. In March, Becerra threatened to find someone to replace Cindy Huang, the director of HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), unless she could increase the number of discharges. She resigned a month later.

During Wednesday’s hearing, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) asked Becerra if his agency inspected the homes of 100% of the prospective sponsors before granting them the sponsorship of a minor. He replied, “We will often do home studies of sponsors” instead of answering the question directly. “I guess that’s a ‘no,’” Lesko observed. She went on to point out that a family in Austin, Texas “had more than 100 children sent to it by ORR. Another Texas address had 44 children, a third had 25. … I do not think you are doing an adequate job.”

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) further pressed Becerra on if his agency allowed 17-year-old unaccompanied males who identify as female into the private facilities of unaccompanied girls, based on HHS’s stated policy of affirming the chosen identities of transgender youth. “We make sure that we provide all the children in our care with the human rights protections and freedom from discrimination and abuse that they’re entitled to,” Becerra responded. “It should not work that way,” Crenshaw firmly replied. “It puts girls in danger, and I bet a lot of the girls are younger in age.”

Later, after Becerra refused to directly answer what his definition of a “thorough” background check was of adults who come across the border with small children claiming that they are in fact their children, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) pointed out that HHS only uses a DNA test to verify that the child is theirs in 9% of the cases and only employs a background check in 23% of the cases.

Even Democrats expressed alarm at Becerra’s job performance. Rep. Ann Eshoo (D-Calif.) was visibly disturbed after Becerra appeared to wash his hands of minors who were vetted for placement through his agency and ended up illegally working overnight shifts at construction sites, slaughterhouses, and factories, according to a New York Times report.

“This is so unsettling, this is so unsettling,” Eshoo lamented. “These are … the innocents of the world. This is really terrible. … Reports of trafficking and abuse of immigrant children has more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. At the end of the day, as HHS secretary, the buck stops with you. So, I can hope, I can pray, I can press. … This is something that needs to be totally removed from taking place in our country. Really, I think that God’s going to hold all of us responsible if this is not addressed, and addressed the way it should be.”

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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Judge Halts Arizona Transgender Sports Ban, Horne Promises Appeal

By Cameron Arcand

A federal judge ruled against Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne in a lawsuit over banning transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams in schools.

Arizona District Court Judge Jennifer Zipps, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, ordered a preliminary injunction that will allow girls who identify as transgender to play for their school’s girl’s sports teams.

“Plaintiffs will also suffer severe and irreparable mental, physical, and emotional harm if the Act applies to them because they cannot play on boys’ sports teams. Playing on a boys’ team would directly contradict Plaintiffs’ medical treatment for gender dysphoria and would be painful and humiliating,” the court document states. “Plaintiffs’ mental health is dependent on living as girls in all aspects of their lives.”

However, Horne insists that the final decision maker will be the U.S. Supreme Court, which leans conservative.

“We will appeal this ruling. This will ultimately be decided by the United States Supreme Court, and they will rule in our favor,” Horne said in a statement Thursday. “The Plaintiffs in this case claimed that this only involves pre-pubescent boys, but we presented peer-reviewed studies that show pre-pubescent boys have an advantage over girls in sports. The only expert presented by the Plaintiffs was a medical doctor who makes his money doing sex transition treatments on children and who has exactly zero peer-reviewed studies to support his opinion.”

The law, known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act” was passed by the Republican-led Legislature and later signed by former Gov. Doug Ducey in March 2022. Other Republican-led states, such as Tennessee, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Alabama, have similar laws on the books. According to 13 News, two transgender girls sued Horne in order to get the opportunity to play for the girls’ teams at their schools. 

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Vaccines, SV40 and the Cancer Epidemic

By Kelleigh Nelson

“Spike is the most pathogenic protein in history. Damages: 1) heart 2) brain 3) causes blood clots 4) VITT MISC, and now is found to have the potential to cause cancer years after the shots by S2 inhibiting p53/BRCA and introducing cDNA/SV-40 to the human body. Couldn’t be worse!” —  Dr. Peter McCullough

“If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end.  If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.” —  Jonas Salk, Developer of one of the first polio vaccines.

“The (Covid) shots promote cancer through SV40 and they inhibit our ability to fight cancer by suppressing the tumor suppressor system.” — Dr. Peter McCullough

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — President James Madison

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” — George S. Patton


Before exposing additional horrors of the Sars-CoV-2 injections, I need to clarify a section of my last article.  Mainstream and some alt-right media claim Tim Ballard is promoting chipping of children.  I asked a friend of mine who has met with Tim if he is for chipping children, and Tim said, “Absolutely not. We try to think of everything we can to protect them, but we don’t want the government involved.” Lies, lies and more lies to discredit Tim Ballard’s work, Sound of Freedom and the truth of human trafficking and the global slave trade.

Actor Jim Caviezel responded to the legion of leftist attacks on the movie, “They’re scared. Quaking in their boots. And it’s because the public are listening to their hearts, which is what this film tells you to do. When there is evil, real evil in the world, and when love is in your heart, boy, evil is just a coward to God.”

Demons hate the light of truth.

Simian Virus 40

SV40 is a monkey virus which stands for “Simian Vacuolating Virus 40” and was found to have contaminated some of the cells that the virus was grown in, specifically kidney cells derived from Asian rhesus monkeys.

The polio vaccine administered from 1955–1963 was contaminated with this virus essentially exposing 100 million people.  Most, but not all, of the contamination was in the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).  SV40 is a known oncogenic DNA virus which induces primary brain and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and lymphomas in laboratory animals. Persuasive evidence now indicates that SV40 is causing infections in humans today and represents an emerging pathogen.  SV40 causes cancer in two ways. First, SV40 promotes cancer cells. Second, it suppresses the body’s natural defenses to cancer.

Microbiologist Kevin McKernan, a former researcher and team leader for the MIT Human Genome project, has discovered massive DNA contamination in the mRNA COVID shots, including simian virus 40 (SV40) promoters.  Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi explains in this video.

On his Substack page, researcher McKernan explains exactly how other scientists and labs can rapidly and inexpensively reproduce his investigation, and assess the contamination of covid shots for themselves. He’s urging other researchers to check his work.

Peter McCullough M.D. tells us, “Besides variation in the amount of messenger RNA in it (COVID shots), there’s contamination with cDNA. These are little fragments of DNA that come off the manufacturing process. And one of them is SV40. SV40 is a known cancer-promoting segment of DNA. And yes, they’re in the shots. SV40 turns on cancer genes in the body.  To make matters worse, the Spike Protein, the S2 segment, in a paper from University of Pittsburgh by Singh and colleagues, it impairs the tumor suppressor systems P53 and BRCA.” Link

Dr. McCullough is not the only doctor sounding the alarm on soaring cancer rates. Idaho pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole has observed, along with his colleagues, cancers taking off and coming back “like wildfire” even in younger people.

Dissident physicians and scientists have told us that the C-19 injections inhibit the immune system which would leave us ripe for other diseases or infections, but now they’ve learned that the cancer-causing polio vaccine contaminate, SV40, is also in the Sars-CoV-2 “vaccines” adding an extra negative bonus.

Government officials and Pharma executives continue to deny any link between the admittedly-contaminated polio vaccines and the SV40 gene later popping up in people who never even got those jabs, and there have been several studies going back and forth.  Yet, it is a proven fact that SV40 causes soft tissue cancers.

Polio Vaccine Contamination

Most Americans do not remember what a horror the polio epidemic was upon America.  In the early 1950s, over 33,000 Americans were crippled or slowly died terrible deaths from polio each year.  It was a virus spread casually that infected the lining of the intestines, then the blood stream, and finally the nervous system where it destroyed the victim’s brain stem.  The search for a polio vaccine became a national scientific effort supported by very powerful political forces.  As a virus, it did not respond to antibiotics as bacteria do, so a vaccine was needed to stop the crippling and killing.

American scientist Jonas Salk came forward with a new idea to eliminate all three strains of polio.  He would grow the live virus in a lab and then kill the virus and inject the dead virus into children.  Being dead, they could not produce, but would create antibodies against the virus.  Thus, the immune system would be armed against polio.

Safety Testing

Bernice Eddy was a bacteriologist at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and was told to safety-test the new vaccine.  What she found was that the virus in the vaccine was not dead but still alive and able to breed.  When she tried it on her monkeys, they were paralyzed.  She sent pictures and warned the NIH.

Several prominent physicians stepped into the fray to state the vaccine was safe.  One of these doctors was Dr. Alton Ochsner who was Dr. Mary Sherman’s boss.  To demonstrate his faith in the vaccine, Dr. Ochsner inoculated his own grandchildren with it.  The mass inoculation proceeded on schedule and within days children fell sick from polio, some crippled, others dying.  Ochsner’s grandson died of polio and his granddaughter was crippled with it.  The director of the NIH resigned; the Secretary of Health resigned. It was a huge failure by public health.

A second, safer vaccine was later developed and deployed by Albert Sabin and it used a weakened live virus.  Everyone thought this would be safe.  Bernice Eddy was removed from the polio studies, despite the fact that she was the one who warned them prior to the fiasco.  She was transferred to the influenza section where she met Sarah Stewart who proved that some cancers were caused by viruses as well as discovery of DNA recombination, which is a powerful tool in medical research today.

In 1957, Stewart and Eddy discovered the polyoma virus, which produced several types of cancer in a variety of small mammals.  Polyoma proved that some cancers were caused by viruses.  This started the study of cancer virology.  This same polyoma virus acted very much like and is, Simian Virus # 40, a monkey virus that caused cancer.

The polio vaccine’s manufacturers had grown their polio viruses on the kidneys of monkeys.  When they removed the polio virus from the monkeys’ kidneys, they received a number of the monkeys’ unknown viruses.  Eddy was afraid they’d inoculated an entire generation of Americans with cancer-causing monkey viruses.

She was right, and in October of 1960 gave a talk to the New York Cancer Society saying they had found the polio vaccine was infected with cancer causing viruses, SV40.  From 1954 to 1963, almost every dose of polio vaccine produced in the world was given to 98 million Americans and was contaminated with the cancer-causing virus from the monkey kidneys used to develop the vaccine.

Instead of sounding the alarm, the NIH took away her lab and destroyed Eddy’s career. Studies were repeatedly dismissed by federal health officials, so no warning was given to consumers.  Other researchers found the same thing, albeit SV-40 did not cause cancer in the host (the monkeys), but what about a primate who had not been exposed to it previously?  When clean African monkeys were infected with SV-40, all of them developed cancer.  The political insiders already knew this, but had not announced it.

The public was not told. Sound familiar?

In 1961 one of Eddy’s co-workers published a paper that stated the polio vaccine was contaminated with live SV-40.  A couple of very back page articles appeared in the New York Times with a mention of a possibility of cancer in the vaccine.  None of the Salk or Sabin vaccines that were contaminated with SV-40 were recalled.  They sat on shelves and were used until they were gone.

Coverup

But back to Dr. Mary Sherman who worked for Dr. Ochsner.  Mary Sherman died on 21st July 1964.  She had been stabbed in the heart, arm, leg and stomach.  Her mattress had been set on fire, but her massive burns could not have come from the smoking mattress.  The crime has never been solved.

She had been involved with a group of physicians to create a protocol to induce metastatic cancer into humans. It was in New Orleans where “The Project” was being developed.  Prisoners were their subjects, and died shortly after being injected.

When Judyth Baker, a young college student, objected to Dr. Ochsner’s injection of a disease-causing material into an unwitting subject, she was fired.  She and her husband left for Florida, and this probably saved her life.

However, the real story of what killed Mary Sherman can be found here.  She died in her lab, working on secret projects when something with the machinery went terribly wrong.  She may have been working on the weaponized virus, perhaps to make it so strong that the radiation overdose would not be necessary for successful carcinoma implantation.  Or perhaps she was working on the still hush-hush project to create a vaccine for wild-strain SV-40 infection, the dangers of which were being downplayed to the public by the NIH.

Nevertheless, she was so damaged that someone put a knife in her chest to kill her and her body was moved, perhaps for national security.

Edward Haslam published Dr. Mary’s Monkey, in 2007 and argues that Dr. Alton Ochsner organized “one of the 159 covert research centers which the CIA had admitted to setting up.”

Haslam believes that Ochsner recruited the brilliant researcher and physician, Mary Sherman, to run the research operation.  The project was set up 23 March 1962, and Dr. Sherman was allegedly involved in carrying out secret research into developing a vaccine to prevent an epidemic of soft-tissue cancers caused by polio vaccines contaminated with SV40.

The SV40 Cancer Epidemic

Dr. Eddy’s forecasted epidemic has come true.  In a 1994 article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the front page of USA Today stated, “Baby boomers are much more likely to get cancer than their grandparents were at the same age.”  They even stated that men born between 1948 and 1957 have three times as much cancer as those born in the late 1800s.

These affected Americans are the baby boomers who were inoculated with the polio vaccine.  The polio epidemic caused 33,000 cases a year at its height.  Compare that to the number of cancer cases in 1994, 182,000 new cases of breast cancer, 200,000 new cases of prostate cancer, and 500,000 new cases of lung cancer.  The increase in any one of these diseases in the years since 1985, when baby boomers who were inoculated turned about age 40, was greater than the entire polio epidemic at its peak.  Increase in soft tissue cancers is at 50%, this includes skin at 70%, lymphoma at 60%, prostate at 60%, and breast at 34%.  And these figures are before the C-19 injections.

There is abundant evidence of a variety of simian viruses found in the human blood supply.   The DNA from SV-40 is repeatedly extracted from several types of tumors.  Former virologist, John Martin, M.D., Ph.D., said, “SV-40 infection is now widespread within the human population almost certainly as a result of the polio vaccine.”  This vaccine was given to millions of American and European children.  SV-40 has been discovered in tumors of children never inoculated with the vaccine, leading most scientists to believe it is genetically passed.

Researchers have found SV-40 in 45% of the seminal fluid samples and 23% of the blood samples from healthy donors.  That meant that SV-40 could have been spreading through sexual activity, from mother to child, or by other means which could explain how those never inoculated with the contaminate vaccine could pass it on or infect their children and grandchildren.

Mesothelioma is a rare cancer.  Few human cases were reported before the 1950s, but its incidence has been increasing steadily, reaching several thousand cases a year in the United States by 1988.  Studies had linked mesothelioma to asbestos exposure – with tumors usually appearing many decades later.  Yet 20% of victims had no asbestos exposure.  One of the researchers decided to test 48 human mesotheliomas stored at the NIH.  He was stunned to find that 28 of them contained SV-40.

The final and most horrific part of the story reports that Lederle Laboratories, bought by Pfizer in 2009, the sole oral vaccine supplier in the U.S. from 1977 onward, continued to use monkey kidneys possibly infected by the SV-40 virus in its manufacturing process until oral polio vaccine was removed from the market as late as January 2000.

So, the damage from the vaccine for polio has had a widespread effect on all of the population, and my mind immediately thinks of the elite and powerful who believe in population control.  Why didn’t they stop the inoculations?  Why wasn’t the public warned?  Why didn’t they find a better way to grow the vaccine without the contamination from rhesus monkeys?  Why wasn’t a vaccine against SV-40 found as soon as possible?  As the inoculated baby boomer population ages, and their immune systems become compromised, SV-40 is most likely to step in.

Conclusion

Today we are facing another horrific tragedy via the Sars-CoV-2 injections.  The adverse effects are gruesome, horrific cancers thanks to SV40, sudden death, heart attacks, myocarditis, pericarditis, infertility, Guillain Barre, massive blood clots etc. etc. ad nauseam, and a huge recurrence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome from what is referred to as VAIDS, “Vaccine induced AIDS” caused from the Sars-CoV-2 injections.

The totalitarians, who consider us the unwashed masses, the useless eaters, and their slaves, care not how many are lost as we’re thought of as their guinea pigs.

Notes:

Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam

The Virus and the Vaccine by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher

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If We Live by Lies, We Will Demand Deceitful Politicians

By Barry Brownstein

Recently, the AIER’s Senior Editor James Harrigan asked rhetorically, “When was the last time a politician of any description used the phrase ‘sacred honor’ with a straight face?” Jefferson, Harrigan pointed out, wasn’t “inventing the Declaration from whole cloth,” but instead, he was capturing “the American mind.” In his evocative Fourth of July essay “The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day,” Harrigan concluded, “So we are left with one important question in our own time: What are the harmonizing sentiments of our day?”

Once foreign to the “American mind,” dishonor and deceit are essential “harmonizing sentiments” in totalitarian societies. In a society controlled by force, lying is a way of life for the government and its citizens, who harmonize to survive.

The day before he was exiled from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released the text of his famous essay, “Live Not By Lies.” The Marxist doctrine that the state can determine our being will never be true, Solzhenitsyn explained, but its fallaciousness can be maintained by the lies of citizens. We live by lies, Solzhenitsyn spelled out, when,

We have internalized well the lessons drummed into us by the state; we are forever content and comfortable with its premise: we cannot escape the environment, the social conditions; they shape us, “being determines consciousness.” What have we to do with this? We can do nothing.

“We can do nothing” is a lie. The actual truth Solzhenitsyn wrote is, “we can do—everything!—even if we comfort and lie to ourselves that this is not so. It is not ‘they’ who are guilty of everything, but we ourselves, only we!”

What we can do, Solzhenitsyn argued, is “Never knowingly support lies! He explained the cure to overcoming the totalitarian harmonizing sentiment of deceit:

When people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they [lies] can only survive when attached to a person.

We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!

Václav Havel was a dissident, playwright, and the first president of Czechoslovakia after communism. Havel echoed Solzhenitsyn when he wrote,

Consciousness precedes Being, and not the other way around, as Marxists claim. For this reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better.

“Consciousness precedes Being” means we get the government we deserve. We can no longer pretend to be victims of the world we see.

When we choose to live in an inner world governed by our self-deception, we get a government ruling by deceit and vigorously stifling alternative views. In the American mind today, is the prevailing harmonizing sentiment inching dangerously close to normalizing totalitarian deceit?

During COVID, particularly in the early days of the pandemic, the public was frightened. Many preferred to get with the program and eschew responsibility for their often difficult health decisions. They wanted no interruptions to their fantasy that their preferred choice was an easy decision. Yet life is messy; there are few one-size-fits-all answers. Unwilling to tolerate the inherent ambiguity in life, they willingly forfeited their freedom. They demanded a government that lied and deceived them.

Streams of orchestrated, hateful propaganda were directed against those who made different medical choices. These relentless attacks were designed to stir up an agitated population easily gulled into supporting attacks on constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. The result was predictable. As Aldous Huxley wrote, “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” Righteous indignation may be another prevailing sentiment in the American mind of our time.

We saw during COVID that many didn’t want to decide for themselves what was true. Misinformation came to mean even truths that disagree with the current official orthodoxy. Only 30 percent of Americans agreed “misinformation” about COVID vaccines is constitutionally protected speech. Why were 70 percent of American minds unconcerned about the government violating basic constitutional rights? Were they victims of a deceiving government, or did their self-deception create a lying and bullying government? 

In July, Federal Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction barring the Biden Administration from bullying social media companies into censoring posts or deplatforming people. He ruled, “Each United States citizen has the right to decide for himself or herself what is true and what is false. The Government… does not have the right to determine the truth.”

Doughty wrote: “One of the purposes of free speech is to allow discussion about various topics so the public may make informed decisions… Without a free debate about these issues [vaccines, masks, closures etc.], each person is unable to decide for himself or herself the proper decision regarding their health.” (See also, “How AIER Helped to Hobble Fauci’s ‘Ministry of Truth”)

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty is one plaintiff that Judge Doughty ruled for. Kheriaty observed, “The common feature of all totalitarian systems is the prohibition of questions: every totalitarian regime first monopolizes what counts as rationality and determines what questions you are allowed to ask.”

Kheriaty has it half-right. We were not allowed to ask questions because many didn’t want to hear unsettling answers.

Of course, living with lies is not just about vaccines. Questions about the wisdom of transitioning children, via medical interventions, to another gender identity are not to be asked. In some circles, people prefer to be assured these surgical and hormonal medical procedures unambiguously save lives.

The wisdom of the subsidized green economy can’t be questioned either. “They” must do something about the climate is a common refrain. Denied is the truth that problems are solved not by social planners but by individuals free to cooperate with others in the course of an emergent social process.

We can go on with other examples. But like a snow globe that settles if you stop shaking it, sanity returns to a mind that takes steps to reduce its agitation. Deceitful people demand a government that whips up constant agitation via “emergencies” and “crises, “ensuring their minds never settle down to reflect and come to terms with their self-deception.

Imagine a world with 100 percent censorship. We don’t have to imagine, we have only to study history. In his memoirs, Hitler’s armaments minister, Albert Speer, observed, “In normal circumstances people who turn their backs on reality are soon set straight by the mockery and criticism of those around them.”  In totalitarian societies, there is no such correcting device. Instead, Speer continued, “every self-deception was multiplied as in a hall of distorting mirrors, becoming a repeatedly confirmed picture of a fantastical dream world which no longer bore any relationship to the grim outside world.”

If we have turned our backs on reality, no one and no event is coming to save us. We can temporarily renounce our freedom by our own lies, but as Solzhenitsyn warned, “if we shrink away” from renouncing our “daily participation in deceit,” we should “cease complaining that someone does not let us draw breath—we do it to ourselves!” 

In 2024, when deceitful liars are among our political choices, it is because we the people have not learned that we forfeit our freedom when we lie and demand lies. Truth may make us uncomfortable, but it will preserve freedom.

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This article was published by AIER, The American Institute for Economic Research, and is reproduced with permission.

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MOTHERLESS EGGS: Erasing Women From Procreation One Manufactured Egg At A Time

By The Geller Report

Reprograming adult male stem cells to become usable eggs. Gay men who want taxpayers to fund the creation of motherless children. It’s a war on G-d.

Dystopian nightmare.

The Global Fertility Industry Seeks To Erase Women From Procreation One Manufactured Egg At A Time

As scientists ramp up their fantasies about fabricated female gametes, concerns about technology outpacing our humanity should be high.

The Economist ran a series of articles in “Technology Quarterly” this month advocating for the expansion of assisted reproductive technology to in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), an experimental procedure that involves reprograming adult male stem cells to become usable eggs.

At least one of the stories acknowledges that outsourcing reproduction through existing technology like in vitro fertilization is “failing most women.” Already, countries, states, and healthcare facilities are grappling with how to handle ethical, moral, and legal crises like commercial surrogates with cancer and gay men who want taxpayers to fund the creation of motherless children.

As biotechnologists ramp up their fantasies about facilities filled with artificial wombs, dehumanizing “gene editing,” and now, fabricated female gametes, concerns about technology outpacing our humanity should be high.

The solution the British publication repeatedly prescribes to its readers, however — speeding up technical advancements to meet the rapidly growing desire of infertile or sexually incompatible adults to have children — falls prey to one of the biggest scams sold by the multi-billion dollar babymaking business.

The idea that humans can somehow circumvent their natural reproductive limits because of their desire to have children whenever they want is dangerous — it has led to the painsuffering, and death of women and unborn babies.

Yet, scientists have proved over and over and over that they will continue to pursue unethical means to justify such ends.

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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66% of Deaths in England Were Vaccinated Starting February 2021

By P. Brooks

66% of Emergency Room Deaths  Were Vaccinated in England since February, 2021.


Please see Page 19 of  Public Health England (PHE) pdf. *

Again, Two Thirds of the Dead Were Vaxxed.

* Note The Wellcome Sanger Institute is involved (See Page 42).

The criminal British Wellcome Company killed 60,000 Boers  – men, women and children  – in British Concentration Camps in South Africa, by vaccination in 1901-1902, during the Boer War.

Please see at minute  59:10, “Breaker Morant“.

The Boers were naught but Christian Patriot farmers, doing what they could, to repel the Rapacious British Crown and their Anglo-Banker Masters, who coveted South African diamonds and mineral ores rich in gold and silver.

The Wellcome Company became the Wellcome Trust which opened their U.K. Wellcome Sanger Institute in 1992  – to exploit the human genome  – at the Hinxton Hall Estate, near Cambridge.

It is now called the Wellcome Genome Campus.

The Wellcome Trust along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fund the Pirbright Institute in Surrey, just southwest of London.

The Pirbright Institute is a British non-profit (a ‘Charity’ in UK parlance) exploiting animal infectious diseases and from whose Surrey Lab a hoof & mouth disease episode was released into England, with devastating consequences to livestock farmers, who support English independence from unelected, tyrannical, European Union (EU) Globalist Bureaucrats operating in Brussels, Belgium, at the behest of their Anglo-Banker Masters.

On Thursday, 23 June 2016, the English People voted to exit the EU, in what history will record as the “Brexit.

Shortly thereafter, on Tuesday, 8 November 2016, The American People voted to exit the Banker Collective, with the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th U.S. President, in what history will record as the “Amerexit“.

Notoriously, the British Pirbright Institute holds the U.S. Patent for Corona Virus, dated 20 November 2018.

Likewise, The US Patent & Trademark Office is administered by the British company SERCO  – which has issued over 4 million US patents during its contract.

SERCO was founded in 1929 as RCA Services Limited, a United Kingdom (UK) division of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

Thus does the Intellectual Property (IP) of the United States  become subject to survey & control by British Operators for the Anglo-Bankers.

The Pirbright Institute established the Merial Lab, 220 miles down the road, south of the infamous Wuhan Lab in Communist China.  The Merial Labanother animal     infectious disease facility, was likewise funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The present British Tyrant, Elizabeth II, in 2015, hosted the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping at an elaborate state dinner at Buckingham Palace  – just months before Donald J. Trump was elected US President in 2016.

The Queen spoke then, of close cooperation with Communist China.

Please see her telegraphing remarks in this video, “” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Queen Addresses Xi Jingping CCP Chairman  –  2015

On October 31st, 2017, Halloween, in the People’s Great Hall in Mainland Communist China, two dozen Globalist Goblins gathered to memorialize their collaboration with Communist Party Chairman Xi, in a group photograph, one year after the election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. President.

This was, Red October of 2017. Please see image of this occasion, in the attached ‘American Pilgrims Society Traitors’ pdf, showing this Crew of many of the Suspects in the later Global Election Management Fraud of 2020, which defrauded the American People of Re-Election of President Trump to a Second Term in November of that year  – Yellow November.

President Trump had said, in the months leading up to the 2020 General Election, he was going to end the Payroll Taxin America for good in 2021.

By the way, Lord Pirbright, born in India, was kin to the Rothschilds  – the Anglo-Bankers.

Americans will have to end the British Crown  and the Anglo-Bankers  to be free  – and for the World and the English Peoples to be finally shut of their incessant machinations, once and for all.

Thus We Are At War with the Anglo-Bankers, The Crown & their Minion CCP  – just like Nicholas Romanov II the Christian Russian Czar was  – before he and his entire family were summarily, brutally executed, following the Anglo-Banker activated & funded Marxist, Bolshevik, Russian Democratic Socialist Coup d’état, instigated by Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky & Joseph Stalin in Red October of 1917.

The movie “Nicholas & Alexandra” shows just how brutal this outrageous chapter was  –  much like the gruesome events before our eyes now in Kabul (to distract us from remediating the Grand ‘Election Infection’ Fraud, with our vote audits).

Please see at  3:01:58, “Nicholas and Alexandra

Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin were all trained up by British Member of Parliament (MP)  Philip Whitwell Wilson, in the first decade of the 20th Century, during several visits at Wilson’s home at 16 Percy Circus, London.

 Wilson was one of the Founders of the British Fabian Society a Communist training and recruiting outfit  – yet extant in London today.

Communism is a Banker Trick to destabilize & deconstruct a Host Society for assimilation into a Banker Global Collective.

In a popular culture episode of ‘predictive programming‘, open description of this Mammon Collective is amusingly presented in the movie “Network” by a Banker Crony Capitalist character named Jenkins, (played by Ned Beatty).

Please see at  1:31:35, “Network”  (1976)

  https://putlockers.fm/watch/kxz6J36x-network.html 

There is nominal evidence Karl Marx was kin to the Rothschilds.

Please see,  “Karl Marx Was Rothschilds Third Cousin

The Fabian Society emblem in stained glass, is a Wolf Cloaked in a Sheepskin.

They always have to tell you what they are going to do.

©2023. P. Brooks. All rights reserved.

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You Are the Population They Want to Control

By Robert Malone

Worldwide birthrate per 1,000 people follows a very predictable trend. In “developed” and/or wealthy nations, the birthrate is low and in nations at the lower end of the economic development scale, the birthrate is high. Nothing new there.

Many countries, including the US, have birthrates that either are too low to sustain current population levels or are stable. Since 1970, the population of people born in the US has been stable at below 300 million. In fact, some estimates show a decline in population. All of the population growth in the US during this time period has been due to immigration. That is why the USA has grown to 336 million people in 50 years. This trend has only increased in recent years.

There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the US in 2018, making up 13.7 percent of the nation’s population. This represents a more than fourfold increase since 1960, when 9.7 million immigrants lived in the US, accounting for 5.4 percent of the total US population

For Jill and I growing up in a blue state, we were indoctrinated at an early age by the public school system that having two children was the responsible thing to do to save the planet from overpopulation. That careers were more important than having a large family. That women would find more fulfillment in a education and career, as opposed to staying at home. That women should defer motherhood until college and a career were firmed established. That this was the responsible path to take. Today, young women receive the same messaging from our government, our schools systems, and mainstream corporate media.

This messaging by the US government is still as strident as when I was in my youth 50 to 60 years ago.

The truth is that UN’s Agenda 2030 asserts that migration is a human right. What this means in practicality is that persons born in countries with high birthrates have a right to migrate into wealthy countries with low birth rates.

To begin – migration is not a “human right.” Property laws and nation states exist for a reason. To assert otherwise is to assert that there is a one-world government which is in control of migration. Another usurpation of authority by the UN and the WEF.

This nation’s rules and regulations, our very Constitution do not apply to non-citizens. This is by design. Let’s abide by our Constitution and Bill or Rights, not UN agreements, such as Agenda 2030, which was signed by a US president and never ratified by the Senate.

Our country has done a fine job of convincing the American populace that large family size hurts families and individuals in aggregate. We were told that the reward of that, for better or worse, would be a stabilized population over time and preservation of the American way of life, environment, cultural heritage and associated economic opportunities for US citizens. And yet still they persist. This week, Kamala Harris specifically stated that a reduced population was key to children being able to breath and drink clean water. This is not the first time she has asserted this false narrative.

When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breath clean air and drink clean water.” – Kamala Harri

Yet, the Biden border crisis grows ever more urgent and the rate of illegal immigration continues to surge. It is a no brainer to think that an option to reduce population might be as simple as reducing immigration, if that was their true intent.

The truth is that the US has a vibrant and amazing culture. A heritage built on independence, free speech, shared values, and strong work ethic. This heritage can easily be diluted by too much immigration. Just look what is happening France right now. Open migration policies have worked to cause a vast instability within the nation. France literally can no longer integrate so many people, with such different sets of cultural norms into their core national culture. This is not progress.

Under globalism, the heterogeneous cultures throughout the world are being weaponized as a way to destroy diversity; a path towards enabling a single, globalized government controlled by the UN and the WEF. Which is precisely what open borders, the immigration policies of the UN and even Kamala Harris’ statements seem to be working towards. It is time to end this nonsense and get back to a closed and orderly immigration system.

There are over 8 billion people in the world. The US can not take all those that wish to immigrate. To think otherwise is foolish.

America has to be an independent and free nation. We need to rely on Americans for our goods and services. A strong economy is one that meets its own needs internally. Whereby goods, services, medical care, and energy are produced domestically. A strong nation doesn’t need to import low-wage earners to do its dirty work. The bizarre directive of reducing the naturally born population while importing new immigrants serves no functional purpose except to further globalize the USA.

By accepting large numbers of immigrants while reducing our own American population, we further regress as a nation, and we will continue to accelerate economic devastation of both middle class and urban poor citizens. A new world order where migration is a right, borders are open and the UN controls the ebb and flow of populations is ceding American nationalism and will destroy the American experiment in self-governance.

Our government needs to stay out of the business of enforcing population measures.

Which brings me to the mRNA genetic shots. People worry that the mRNA jabs have some sequence or component, such as the lipid nano-particle or genetic code, which are causing sterility. And that these were intentionally designed to cause a decrease in fertility worldwide. This is not a completely unrealistic fear.

For years, there have been rumors of abortion vaccines and anti-fertility vaccines being developed in India and Africa. With evidence being presented for and against these rumors. But we do know for sure that China used forced sterilizations and forced abortions on its own citizens. Now, China worries that their population levels are crumbling rapidly. Government controls on family choices are immoral. The idea of a vaccine to control population is repugnant.

Which brings me to a newly published Nature paper that shows that using adeno-associated viral vectored techniques, cats can be permanently sterilized. In this essay, I don’t want to get into the science behind this (let’s defer that to a later essay) but I do want to discuss the ethics of developing “gene therapy” techniques that rely on viral vectors for sterilization.

To begin with, such a fertility gene therapy technique using adeno-associated virus (AAV) “gene therapy” vectors could be accidentally or purposefully modified to be infectious. This requires a recombination event (rescue) of another related adenovirus, which could be a wild type. Once that happens, the viral vector could be replication competent: ergo infectious. Although AAV “gene therapy” vectors are not a full replicating virus; the truth is that in a research setting, using the full virus to create infectious products is relatively simple. It could be as simple as missing a purification step or a recombination event. If such a product were to escape or be released into the general cat population, it would be a disaster. If such a vector had a rescue event in an injected animal, it could literally create a new virus. What happens if it were to infect on other feline species, such as cheetahs, big cats, cougars or bobcats? There is a scenario whereby it could decimate the population of an endangered species or all the cats . Furthermore, there is a possibility that such a virus could jump species – even into humans. Adeno-associated viruses are respiratory viruses, so can spread easily. What happens then?

Not to mention, we already know that NGOs and governments are willing to consider reducing population via vaccination or forced sterilization. Who is to say whether an organization, perhaps even one with the “best of intentions” in mind (or believing that “the ends justify the means”), would be willing to go there. After what we have experienced over the past three years, I would consider it in the realm of possibility. Kamala Harris, Bill Gates and the WEF and UN all have made their positions crystal clear. Population reduction is imperative.

There must be more regulatory controls on biological research for both animals and humans.

But in the meantime, we have to consider that the government doesn’t really care about population control. You can know them by their actions, not their words. Their words endorse low birthrate as a pathway to population stabilization, but their actions enable rampant population growth due to immigration. The DATA indicate that what they really are striving for is a New World Order, whereby the UN becomes the dominant force of the world, with nation states nestled under their organizational structure. One in which out-migration combined with regional population control via government-enabled birth control (via both pharmaceuticals and deployed propaganda) is designed to augment that process of enabling populations born in economically disadvantaged regions to gain control of more economically advanced nations and infrastructure while destroying the cultures and politico/economic structures which have historically enabled the economic development of these more advanced regions.

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This article was published by the Brownstone Institute and is reproduced with permission.

Author -Robert W. Malone is a physician and biochemist. His work focuses on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. You can find him at Substack and Gettr

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