Celebrating the life of one of investigative journalism’s greats who recently died … watch four of his many documentaries. Search YT for the rest, and/or go to his website here.EWNZ
Classic John Pilger documentary about the decades long occupation of Palestine and subjugation of the Palestinian people. In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and with a permit system not dissimilar to apartheid South Africa’s infamous pass laws. He goes into the refugee camps and meets children who, he says, “no longer dream like other children, or if they do, it is about death.” – IMDB
The Great Taking is described by former hedge fund manager David Webb as a system put in place by central bankers to take everything, from everyone
This planned confiscation of global securities assets deserves the title of “greatest crime ever contemplated”
Although the plan is decades in the making, Webb details signs that indicate it may be coming to fruition soon — if nothing is done to stop it
The Great Taking is a carefully orchestrated construct, but one that has legal underpinnings and support from the CIA and upper echelons of government, dating back to the 1960s
The best ways to protect yourself include eliminating debt, investing in real things like land and having an ability to produce your own food
You’ve heard of The Great Reset? Now delve into The Great Taking, described by former hedge fund manager David Webb as a system put in place by central bankers to take everything, from everyone. “It is about the taking of collateral (all of it), the end game of the current globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle,” Webb explains.1
In the video above, you can learn more about this planned confiscation of global securities assets, which Webb argues deserves the title of “greatest crime ever contemplated.”2 Although the plan is decades in the making, Webb details signs that indicate it may be coming to fruition soon — if nothing is done to stop it. If and when that occurs, it would result in complete subjugation of humanity.
Signs a ‘Great Taking’ Financial Collapse Is Coming
Webb has been studying global financial systems for more than two decades. By researching historical precedents, like bank closures that occurred during the Great Depression, he’s noticed signs that may foreshadow a coming financial collapse:3
“This scheme is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass. Included are all financial assets and bank deposits, all stocks and bonds; and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment; land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property.
Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will likewise be taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses which have been financed with debt. If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.”
Webb compares it to the global financial distress that occurred in the 1930s due to debt levels. At the time, 9,000 U.S. banks failed, taking $7 billion in depositors’ assets with them.4 “When a bank failed the depositors were simply left without a penny. The life savings of millions of Americans were wiped out by the bank failures,” the U.S. Social Security Administration states.5
Their debts, however, were not canceled but, rather, were consolidated into the Federal Reserve system and enforced. “So, people that were in debt were in trouble,” Webb says. “Even wealthy people lost everything. The difference this time around is they’re not going after just property that is encumbered by debt.” He explains:6
“They’ve engineered this so they can take things, all securities, as collateral from people and entities that have no borrowings against them. They own them clear and outright. Now let me give you an example as an analogy to explain the horror of this. So, you have bought a car and you paid cash for it, you think you’re being very conservative, you have no debt against the car.
But unbeknownst to you, the dealer continues to control your car as collateral, you’re not told this, the dealer uses your car and all the other cars sold by the dealer as collateral for his borrowing and his business. Now, the dealer goes bust, and only certain secured creditors are empowered to immediately take your car and all the cars ever sold by the dealer without any judicial review. Immediately.
When I describe this to people, they get worried about their cars. This is not about your car. This is an analogy for what has been done. It’s much worse than this being about your car, because it is literally about the entire securities complex globally. So it is not about your insolvency that causes the loss of your assets. It’s the insolvency of the people that secretly used your collateral as their property without telling you that or disclosing it.”
The Dematerialization of Securities to Electronic Holdings Started in the ‘60s
The Great Taking is a carefully orchestrated construct, but one that has legal underpinnings and support from the CIA and upper echelons of government. It’s a plan that dates back to the 1960s, when the process of dematerializing securities to hold them electronically began. According to Webb:7
“Yes, they have changed law. Can that be challenged? That’s what has to happen. So, this was the process, they changed it in the Uniform Commercial Code. This was beginning in 1994. The efforts to affect this actually go back further than that into the 1960s, when they began the process of dematerialization of securities to hold them all electronically, which some people were suspicious about then — and they were right to be suspicious.
It is clear that that beginning process was literally run by the CIA. And this is not conspiracy theory. The man who was charged with forming the Depository Trust … discloses that he was a career CIA operative from the time he was a young man. So, there was a grand strategic purpose behind this.
They’ve been able to do it because it has been run from the highest levels of the U.S. government … then this construct of the securities entitlement was put into the Uniform Commercial Code that was pushed through all 50 states — done quietly … in 1994. It took maybe 10 years to get it done in all the states, then they changed the Bankruptcy Law in 2005.”
The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 — the largest commercial collapse in history8 — was a test that paved the way for global harmonization, that is, the plan to force this model in global law. Webb continues:9
“They did this through the EU, the first discussion in documents in the EU is in 2002. So that’s when the process was beginning then in the aftermath of the.com bust, and the EU created something they called the legal certainty group. And again, that sounds like a good thing.
But what they mean is legal certainty that the secured creditors will take the client assets, and they worked at this for years, figuring out how to subvert local law. When you think about it, rights to property is kind of a sacred thing. It’s something that all people should care about. And oddly enough, even the people participating in making this happen should care about this in a big way.”
The private control of the central banks is what’s providing the power behind The Great Taking. “When you look around the world, they are all privately controlled,” Webb says. “You are not allowed to know, actually, who controls the Federal Reserve and how it is controlled. We know that it is controlled somehow by a set of banks.”10
The same pattern is seen in central banks around the world. “If you notice, any country that has attempted to have a national bank is literally attacked and destroyed. They’re not allowed to exist,” Webb notes.
“It is linked with the war machine, this private control of money. The intelligence agencies, the militaries globally would not be able to function as they are if they weren’t linked with this money creation power.”11 Meanwhile, money is created out of thin air, all but ensuring a financial collapse:12
“When we were kids, perhaps we thought that the money you borrowed from the bank is someone else’s savings that they’re giving you. It’s a zero sum game. I think we now know, with the scale of the money created during the COVID period, that that is not the case. The scale outstrips any real-world activity, and it’s just created out of thin air.
So, this is the power that controls everything. They control all political parties, all governments, all the major corporations, the media, and this was the case leading into the 20th century in this period when the velocity of money was collapsing. That is basically a collapse of their control system.
The money is a very sophisticated control system, because it requires almost no energy input, people are directed by chasing money incentives, but this power through chronic overuse, when it reaches this point where no matter how much money is created, it’s not translating into actual economic growth, then it goes into a financial bubble.
And then you get the major collapse of the whole system. Then they must have a plan to stay in control through that collapse, which will require physical control over people through the reset, because the money control system has broken down.”
CBDC Rollout Will Make It Difficult to Opt Out of the System
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are one pawn in the plan to consolidate control of the financial system — ultimately leading to control of the world population. These government-backed digital currencies are issued by a central bank and promoted as digital tokens that can simplify monetary policy and bring about convenient cashless societies.
They’re also sometimes said to be similar to cryptocurrency13 due to their digital nature, but there are important, and major, distinctions.
While cryptocurrencies are decentralized and allow anonymous transactions, CBDCs are centralized and can track every transaction. They can also be controlled by the powers that be — meaning all your CBDC assets could be taken away or turned off by a central power, and there’d be nothing you could do about it.
When the financial collapse occurs, banking institutions will be protected and use the narrative that they must seize all assets in order to restart the economy. According to Webb:14
“They will be taken under the argument that, well, we have to save these systemically vital institutions so that we can restart the economy again. How could we restart the economy if they are not protected? … It’s like a game of Monopoly where all of the pieces, all of the money on the board, are pulled back to the bank, and then they say, let’s start a new game.
And we’ll start over from the basis that we have everything and you don’t, so would you like to borrow something?
And this is what the CBDC, the central bank, digital currency, will be. It will be very difficult for people to refuse to use it, because they literally won’t be able to eat. They will have an app they can download … this will be the cavalry riding to the rescue, just download this app. And you can load your phone with suit currency to allow you to go buy milk, but every time you use that you’re actually borrowing money from them.
They have you again. It will happen very fast. This will unfold in a very frightening crisis kind of environment and people have difficulty refusing. That’s why it’s so important to spread this awareness beforehand, so that people understand what is happening.”
Central Banking Should Be a Public Utility
When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th largest in the U.S.,15 collapsed in March 2023, it rattled the markets, but this and similar bank failures in the recent past are not bank-specific problems. “These are the canaries in the coal mine. This is absolutely systemic,” Webb says.16 Plans dictated that globally important banks be ready for wind down by the end of 2022. Additional planning documents cite the end of 2023 for banks to be ready to go flat.
“These are indications to give you another idea of the seriousness of this,” Webb explains. “They’ve been running these trilateral exercises with Britain and the EU and the U.S. for six of the seven past years.”17
Participants in these exercises in the U.S. include the Treasury Secretary, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the chairman of the FDIC. “They’re very, very serious about this. And these exercises are about assuring the cross-border transfer of the collateral when the banks are put into wind down. So, you’ve noticed in the news that there have been some failures of banks in the last year and that is due to this increase, this backup and interest rates.”18
If we can decentralize financial power, however, it will lead to an improved economy and future. This is why Webb states central banking should be a public utility:19
“The very idea that it should be controlled by private interests, that is the source of all the problems for humanity, that must stop as a public utility. You know, of course, banking is a useful thing to have. We have to realize we don’t have to go back to sticks and stones, we don’t want everything burned to the ground.
We have to take back control of our society, which has largely been created by good people, all the innovations … we just have to not allow them to control these things any longer.
So, public banking would be like a utility. Any profits would be returned to the public or used to support government. We have to have government. We have to have some way to operate society and have roads and do things that work for society. So, anarchy and chaos, we can’t have that. So, this has to be done peacefully, it has to be done legally by another concept.”
Solutions? Eliminate Debt and Grow Your Own Food
On a larger scale, Webb proposes that a small fee on every electronic money transfer could generate the economic resources necessary to operate the government. “Imagine how people would feel if they were told you don’t have to file taxes anymore. That’s all going to be handled. Just pay a 10th of a percent on whatever electronic transfer you’re doing. But the people that run this system don’t want those kinds of solutions because they would eliminate their control.”20
On an individual level, you can start to break free from this system and protect your finances by eliminating debt:21
“You have to get over this notion that you should use borrowed money to control more stuff. They want you to do that, because when the price level falls, you won’t be able to service that debt.
So, you take advantage of this time remaining to sell things to pay off your debts. It doesn’t make sense to have money in the financial markets when you also have debt. There are people I know who have sold their homes, which is a tough decision to make, and are simply renting to make sure that they’re not in debt at all.”
Beyond getting out of debt, Webb recommends investing in real things, like land and buildings, and have an ability to produce food. You might invest in a greenhouse, plant an orchard or move to a rural area where you can raise chickens. Any additional level of self-sufficiency you can create will offer you more protection.
To delve deeper into The Great Taking, Webb’s book can be downloaded for free at TheGreatTaking.com.22 “I’ve done it this way because it will make it close to zero friction so it can spread globally. And that is really happening … This is the most important thing I can do right now,” Webb says, is spread awareness of The Great Taking before it occurs.23
Sadly, John Pilger has died. He has featured greatly in my own reading, especially of Australia’s real history. He always so skillfully laid bare the lies, the lies of those ‘new rulers’. I treasure his books, they are a mine of knowledge and truth that the whore media no longer dares to publish. Or did they ever really? May this great warrior for truth rest in peace. He will be sadly missed … EWNZ
(You can read about John Pilger’s history at this link.)
John Pilger who was known as a campaigning journalist giant, sadly died yesterday, John has been commended for his bravery and integrity as a war correspondent, film maker and author.
One book authored by John, The New Rulers of the World was originally published in 2002 with the last new edition published in 2016.
The book description: In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto’s bloody seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a ‘global economy’ on Asia. A million Indonesians died as the price for being the World Bank’s ‘model pupil’. In a shocking chapter on Iraq, he delineates the true nature of the West s war against the people of that country. And he dissects, piece by piece, the propaganda of the ‘war on terror’ to expose its Orwellian truth. Finally, he looks behind the picture-postcard image of his homeland, Australia, to illuminate an enduring legacy of imperialism: the subjugation of the First Australians. (source)
I would thoroughly recommend reading the whole book, which can be found in the usual bookstores including Amazon. However, as an Expose tribute to the legendary journalist, I would like to draw our readers attention to the preface of the 2016 edition of the book specifically, as I believe that it shows the type of man that John Pilger was.
The New Rulers of The World
Preface
I was recently in the Marshall Islands, which lie in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, north of New Zealand and south of Hawaii. The geography is important; whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, ‘Where is that?’ When I mention Bikini, their reference is the swimsuit. Few seem aware that the bikini was named after the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini atoll; its Paris designer hoped his ‘unique creation’ would ‘cause an explosion right round the world’. Sixty-six nuclear bombs were exploded in the Marshall Islands: the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshimas every day for twelve years.
As my aircraft banked low over Bikini lagoon, the emerald water beneath me suddenly disappeared into a vast black hole, a deathly void. This is the crater left by the 1954 Hydrogen bomb known as ‘Bravo’. When I stepped out of the plane, my shoes registered ‘unsafe’ on a Geiger counter. A breeze did not stir palms petrified in what appear as unworldly formations. There were no birds.
On my return journey to London, I picked up an American magazine, Women’s Health, at the Honolulu airport. On the cover was a picture of a slim, smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit and the headline, ‘You, too, can have a bikini body.’ In the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who also had truly ‘bikini bodies’: each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. All were impoverished, the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious power still rampant.
Memory is a staple of this book – memory in a time of organised forgetting: of saturating pseudo- information and the truth inverted. In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in Prague and promised to help ‘make the world free from nuclear weapons’. This was front-page news. Obama has since approved plans for an arsenal of nuclear weapons costing $350 billion, an all-time record. This is not news.
Unleashed American generals reminiscent of those in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove now talk openly about ‘nuclear war-gaming Putin’s Russia’. One of them is a General Breedlove. He says repeatedly and without evidence that the Ruskies ‘are massing and threatening’. A barrage of similar accusations and threats is aimed increasingly at China. ‘Perpetual war’ has become the jargon of those in the universities and media who describe themselves as ‘liberal realists’.
Since I wrote The New Rulers of the World these dangers have intensified as the current rulers believe their dominance is threatened. The machinations described in the chapter ‘The Great Game’, are now so pervasive that the encirclement and intimidation of nuclear-armed Russia is not contentious. Propaganda is the principal weapon at this stage; news is a smear and scare campaign of the kind I grew up with during the first cold war. The Russian president is a pantomime villain who can be abused with impunity. The evil empire is coming to get us, led by another Stalin or, perversely, a new Hitler. Name your demon and let rip.
Among the drum-beaters there is the joie d’esprit of a class reunion. The liberal realists of the Washington Post are the same editorial writers who, in promoting an invasion of Iraq in 2003, declared the existence of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction to be ‘hard facts’. As many as a million men, women and children died as a consequence, and their ruined society converted to a breeding place of fanatics now known as Islamic State.
In the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, the biggest military buildup since the Second World War is subjected to the most successful news blackout I can remember, along with Washington’s effective takeover of the Russian borderland in Ukraine and the role of neo-Nazi brigades in terrorising the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine.
‘If you wonder,’ wrote Robert Parry, ‘how the world could stumble into World War Three – much as it did into World War One a century ago – all you need to do is look at the madness that has enveloped virtually the entire US political/media structure over Ukraine where a false narrative of white hats versus black hats took hold early and has proved impervious to facts or reason.
Parry, the journalist who revealed the Iran–Contra scandal, is one of the few who has investigated the media’s central role in this ‘game of chicken’, as the Russian foreign minister called it. But is it a game? The US Congress has voted on Resolution 758, which, in a nutshell, says: ‘Let’s get ready for war with Russia.’
The rulers of the world want Ukraine not only as a military and missile base; they want its economy. Kiev’s finance minister is a former senior US State Department official in charge of US overseas ‘investment’. She was hurriedly given Ukrainian citizenship. The US wants Ukraine for its abundant gas; Vice President Biden’s son is on the board of Ukraine’s biggest oil, gas and fracking company. The manufacturers of GM seeds, companies such as Monsanto, want Ukraine’s rich farming soil.
Above all, they want Ukraine’s mighty neighbour, Russia. They want to Balkanise or dismember Russia and exploit the greatest source of natural gas on earth. As the Arctic ice melts, they want control of the Arctic Ocean and its energy riches, and Russia’s long Arctic land border. Their man in Moscow used to be Boris Yeltsin, a drunk who handed his country’s economy to the West. His successor, Putin, has re-established Russia as a sovereign nation; that is his crime.
In the nineteenth century, the Russian writer Alexander Herzen described Western secular liberalism as ‘the final religion, though its church is not of the other world but of this’. Today, this divinity is far more violent and dangerous than anything the Muslim world throws up. In his celebrated essay ‘On Liberty’, to which modern western liberals pay homage, John Stuart Mill wrote: ‘Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.’ The ‘barbarians’ were large sections of humanity of whom ‘implicit obedience’ was required. ‘It’s a nice and convenient myth that liberals are peacemakers and conservatives the warmongers,’ wrote the historian Hywel Williams in 2001, ‘but the imperialism of the liberal way may be more dangerous because of its open-ended nature: its conviction that it represents a superior form of life.’ He had in mind a speech by Tony Blair in which the then prime minister promised to ‘re-order the world around us’ according to his ‘moral values’.
Richard Falk, the respected authority on international law and the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, once described a ‘self-righteous, one-way, legal/moral screen [with] positive images of western values and innocence portrayed as threatened, validating a campaign of unrestricted political violence’. It is ‘so widely accepted as to be virtually unchallengeable’.
In the news, whole countries are ordained for their usefulness or expendability, or they are made to disappear. The machinations of Saudi Arabia, a principal source of extremism and western-designed terror, is of minimal news interest, except when it wilfully drives down the price of oil. Yemen has endured twelve years of American drone attacks, and now an American-backed Saudi invasion. This bloodletting has none of the thrall of Islamic State (IS), a product of the destruction of Iraq, Libya and Syria – just as Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were the product of the genocidal bombing of Cambodia.
Latin America has also suffered this western disappearing trick. In 2009, the University of the West of England published the results of a ten-year study of the BBC’s coverage of Venezuela. Of 304 broadcast reports, only three mentioned any of the positive policies introduced by the government of Hugo Chavez. The greatest literacy programme in human history received barely a passing reference.
In Europe and the United States, millions of readers and viewers know next to nothing about the life-giving changes implemented in Latin America, many of them inspired by Chavez. Like the BBC, the reports of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian and the rest of the respectable Western media were often notoriously in bad faith. Chavez was mocked even on his deathbed. How is this explained, I wonder, in schools of journalism?
Why are millions of people in Britain persuaded that a collective punishment called ‘austerity’ is necessary? Following the economic crash in 2008, a rotten empire of capital was exposed. Banks were shamed as collective crooks with obligations to the public they had betrayed. But within months – apart from a few stones lobbed over excessive corporate ‘bonuses’ – the media message had changed and public memory diverted. The mugshots of guilty bankers vanished from the newspapers and this new propaganda buzzword, austerity, became the burden of millions of ordinary people.
Today, many of the premises of civilised life in Britain are being dismantled. The ‘austerity’ cuts are said to be £83 billion, which is almost exactly the amount of tax avoided by the banks and by corporations like Amazon and Murdoch’s News UK. Moreover, the banks are given an annual subsidy of £100 billion in free insurance and guarantees: a figure that would fund the entire National Health Service. The ‘economic crisis’ is pure propaganda, a conjuring trick by the rulers of the world, led by corporate and media class warriors whose ‘information dominance’ and ‘control of the narrative’ – to quote the jargon of the ‘realists’ – is their most powerful weapon.
‘Class’ almost never speaks its name. Class is not part of the new liberal ‘reality’ that has been building for more than a generation. In 1970, Charles Reich’s book, The Greening of America, caused a sensation. On the cover were these words: ‘There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual.’ I was a correspondent in the United States at the time and recall the overnight elevation to guru status of Reich, a young Yale academic. His thesis was that truth-telling and political action had failed and only ‘culture’ and introspection could change the world.
Within a few years, driven by the forces of consumerism and profit, the cult of ‘me-ism’ had all but overwhelmed our sense of acting together, of social justice and welfare for all and internationalism. Class, gender and race were separated. The personal was the political, and the media was the message. Today, the promotion of bourgeois privilege is often disguised as feminism. In 2008, the elevation of a man of colour to the presidency of the United States was celebrated as a blow against racism, even the dawn of a ‘post-racial era’. This, too, was fake.
In a village in Afghanistan, inhabited by the poorest of the poor, I filmed Orifa kneeling at the graves of her husband, Gul Ahmed, a carpet weaver, and seven other members of her family, six of whom were children, as well as the graves of two children who were killed in the adjacent house. An American 500-pound ‘precision’ bomb had been dropped on their small mud, stone and straw house, leaving a crater fifty feet wide.
I remembered Orifa when the aspiring next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton, was celebrated on the BBC’s ‘Woman’s Hour’. The presenter described Clinton as a beacon of female achievement. She did not remind her listeners about Clinton’s profanity that it was ‘morally right’ to invade Afghanistan in order to ‘liberate’ women like Orifa. She asked Clinton nothing about her part, as US secretary of state, in a terror campaign using drones to kill women, men and children. There was no mention of Clinton’s idle threat, while campaigning to be the first female president, to ‘eliminate’ Iran, and nothing about her support for illegal mass surveillance and the pursuit of whistle-blowers.
There was, however, one finger-to-the-lips question. Had Clinton forgiven Monica Lewinsky for having an affair with husband? ‘Forgiveness is a choice,’ said Clinton, ‘for me, it was absolutely the right choice.’ This recalled the 1990s and the years consumed by the Lewinsky ‘scandal’. That her husband, President Clinton, was then invading Haiti, and bombing the Balkans, Africa and Iraq, was of no interest.
In the middle of this ‘scandal’, UNICEF reported the deaths of half a million Iraqi infants under the age of five as a result of an embargo led by the US and Britain. The children were media unpeople, just as Hillary Clinton’s victims in the invasions she has promoted – Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia – are unpeople. All that matters is that Clinton is a woman attempting to shatter the ‘glass ceiling’. Shattered lives across the world are testament to her ambition and political ruthlessness.
In politics as in journalism and the arts, dissent once tolerated in the ‘mainstream’ has regressed to a dissidence: a metaphoric underground. The recent seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our consciousness. Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping black-shirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
‘For goose-steppers,’ wrote the historian Norman Pollack, ‘substitute the seemingly more innocuous militarisation of the total culture. And for the bombastic leader, we have the reformer manque, blithely at work, planning and executing assassination, smiling all the while.’
Uniting fascism old and new is the cult of superiority. ‘I believe in American exceptionalism with every fibre of my being,’ said Obama, evoking declarations of national fetishism from the 1930s. As the historian Alfred W. McCoy has pointed out, it was the Hitler devotee Carl Schmitt who said, ‘The sovereign is he who decides the exception.’
This sums up Americanism, the world’s dominant ideology. That it remains unrecognised as a predatory ideology is the achievement of an equally unrecognised brainwashing. Insidious, undeclared, presented wittily as enlightenment on the march, its conceit insinuates Western culture. I grew up on a cinematic diet of American glory, almost all of it a distortion. I had no idea that it was the Red Army that had destroyed most of the Nazi war machine, at a cost of as many as 13 million soldiers. By contrast, US losses, including in the Pacific, were 400,000. Hollywood reversed this.
The difference now is that cinema audiences are invited to wring their hands at the ‘tragedy’ of American psychopaths having to kill people in distant places – just as the President himself kills them. The embodiment of Hollywood’s violence, the actor and director Clint Eastwood, was nominated for an Oscar for his movie American Sniper, which is about a licensed murderer and nutcase. The New York Times described it as a ‘patriotic, pro-family picture, which broke all attendance records in its opening days’.
I began this new preface with a description of the devastated Marshall Islands, which hold no place in our political and moral memory. The biggest atoll in the Marshalls is Kwajalein, home to the Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site. It is here that Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ project consumed billions of dollars. Set in a place of nuclear carnage, Kwajalein commands the Pacific and Asia, especially China. Here, the Obama administration is developing what it calls a ‘space fence’: the aim is to target China with missiles.
In the eighteenth century, Edmund Burke described the role of the press as a Fourth Estate checking the powerful. Was that ever true? It certainly doesn’t wash any more. What we need is a Fifth Estate: a journalism that monitors, deconstructs and counters propaganda, and teaches the young to be agents of people, not power. We need what the Russians called perestroika. Vandana Shiva calls this ‘an insurrection of subjugated knowledge’. Meanwhile, the responsibility of the rest of us is clear. It is to identify and expose the lies of those who ‘control the narrative’, warmongers especially, and never to collude with them. It is to re-awaken the great popular movements that brought a fragile civilisation to modern imperial states. Most important, it is to prevent the conquest of ourselves: our minds, our humanity, our self-respect. If we remain silent, victory over us is assured.
John Pilger, London, September 2015
I agree, it is the responsibility of the rest of us to identify and expose the lies of those who have taken control of the narrative, John Pilger, has certainly done his fair share of that, for that we are truly grateful, his voice will be missed by many.
As we close the door on the year 2023 and look to a new year in front of us and interesting times that lay ahead.
Let us hope that people are not so naive as they now know better; the world is not like we thought it was; from our comfort zone and it has been a bit of a rude awaking for many.
Readers that have followed my gardening articles for sometime will have seen how I encourage people to grow as much of their food, vegetables and fruit as able and to do so naturally with all the minerals and elements available and without harmful chemicals. Why? Good for your health and pocket.
By growing as much of your own healthy food as possible you are upsetting the pharmaceutical companies as well as the companies that make harmful chemicals and fertilisers.
I have also suggested that fertiliser companies, chemical companies and pharmaceutical companies appear to work hand in hand.
A food chain that has little goodness but ample chemical poisons is a money earner for the health sector and the pharmaceutical companies.
A book has recently been released which goes into detail about how this is done. Title is:
Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth by Colin Todhunter.
This new e-book begins by examining how the modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit, with specific focus on the situation in Ukraine, and discusses the role of the world’s most powerful investment management firm, BlackRock.
It then goes on to describe how people (not least children) are being sickened by corporations and a system that thrives on the promotion of ‘junk’ (ultra-processed) food laced with harmful chemicals and the use of toxic agrochemicals.
It’s a highly profitable situation for investment firms like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity and Capital Group and the food conglomerates they invest in.
But BlackRock and others are not just heavily invested in the food industry. They also profit from illnesses and diseases resulting from the food system by having stakes in the pharmaceuticals sector as well. A win-win situation.
The book goes on to describe how lobbying by agri-food corporations and their well-placed, well-funded front groups ensures this situation prevails.
They continue to capture policy-making and regulatory space at international and national levels and promote the notion that without their products the world would starve.
Moreover, they are now pushing a fake-green, ecomodernist narrative in an attempt to roll out their new proprietary technologies in order to further entrench their grip on a global food system that produces poor food, illness, environmental degradation, the eradication of smallholder farming, the undermining of rural communities, dependency and dispossession.
The final chapter looks at the broader geopolitical aspects of food and agriculture in a post-COVID world characterised by food inflation, hardship and multi-trillion-dollar global debt. End.
My comment is ‘Forewarned is Forearmed’
Radiation the effects on all life forms which is another worry in regards to bees and other insects pollinating our plants and food crops… Here is an interesting study….
On December 19, 2023, in the journal New Phytologist, French researchers published a study on yet another aspect of the decline of life on Earth. The study link is:
The populations of bees and other pollinators have declined so much that flowering plants that required insects in order to reproduce efficiently have evolved in less than 25 years to become better self-pollinators and to not need insects to reproduce.
Field pansies from seeds collected in the late 1990s and early 2000s were grown next to pansies from seeds collected in 2021.
Self-pollination rates were 27% higher in the plants grown from the newer seeds. The flowers were smaller.
The petals were shorter. The labella — the landing platforms that attract insects — were smaller. The flowering time was shorter. Fewer flowers opened per day.
The nectar spurs were shorter, there were fewer nectar guides, and the flowers produced less nectar.
More bumblebees visited the flowers that grew from the old seeds than from the new seeds.
The authors warned of cascading effects on insect populations:
“These decreases in nectar production may then reinforce pollinator declines if nectar levels fall below those necessary to sustain wild bee populations. Environmental changes may thus present a double jeopardy to pollinator populations, as they become victims of both the changes themselves and of plant trait evolution.”
The authors listed only pollution, habitat destruction, and alien species as causes of pollinator collapse.
I (Arthur Firstenberg) have sent the authors a letter, with links to literature reviews, informing them that RF radiation is the biggest cause of insect decline.
I have invited them to join the coalition of scientists, organizations and individuals that we are forming to address the global radiation emergency.
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Part II of the Act covers a broad range of Civil and Political Rights. As part of the right to life and the security of the person, the Act guarantees everyone:
1The right not to be deprived of life except in accordance with fundamental justice (Section 8)
2The right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment (Section 9)
3The right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation without consent (Section 10)
4The right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment (Section 11)
Furthermore, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 guarantees everyone: Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion. This includes the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO ADOPT AND HOLD OPINIONS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE (Section 1)
Good luck with that Mark.As I recall, come the day such bunkers will be required, particularly by those who screwed the planet, and more recently Hawaii, there will actually be nowhere for such to hide…EWNZ
Mark Zuckerberg is planning to survive the end times by building a top-secret Hawaii doomsday-bunker with its own sources of food and energy within a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii, according to a Wired investigation. Zuckerberg has added hundreds of acres to his controversial 1,500-acre ranch in Kauai, Hawaii for years, but now it has been revealed that there are new planning documents for a “5,000-square-foot underground shelter.”
Several former contract workers at the ranch were bound by a non disclosure agreement (NDA) that made anyone on-site unwilling to “take the chance to get caught even taking a picture,” but, according to the Wired investigation, detailed public planning documents obtained through public records requests “show the makings of an opulent techno-Xanadu, complete with underground shelter and what appears to be a blast-resistant door.” Wired.
Below is the Wired investigation that reveals the true scale of the project—and its impact on the local community.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
OFF THE TWO-LANE highway that winds along the northeast side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, on a quiet stretch of ranchland between the tourist hubs of Kapaa and Hanalei, an enormous, secret construction project is underway.
A 6-foot wall blocks the view from a nearby road fronting the project, where cars slow to try to catch a glimpse of what’s behind it. Security guards stand watch at an entrance gate and patrol the surrounding beaches on ATVs. Pickup trucks roll in and out, hauling building materials and transporting hundreds of workers.
The ongoing record of those ‘died suddenly’ events … do you consider this normal? … EWNZ
NZ actor Levi Holley (48, C); Egyptian photog Sherif Sonbol; S. African singer Eric Moyo; Russian actors Alexei Chernykh, Sergey Pepelyaev; Indian comic Bonda Mani; Malaysian singer Surj; & more
Patty Murin’s mother, Reds’ Jake Fraley’s daughter, GA “Santa Claus” all have cancer; Krayzie Bone’s “near-death experience”; Busy Philipps’ daughter’s (2nd) seizure; Joy Behar “tests positive”; more
Polyphenols are natural plant chemicals with powerful antioxidant properties that help combat inflammation, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, osteoporosis, insulin resistance and more
Polyphenols help protect your heart health by enhancing bioactivity of flavonoids in the lining of your blood vessels; reducing clumping of platelets in your blood; scavenging free radicals and lowering inflammation
Animal research found purple potatoes lowered proinflammatory interleukin-6 — a protein known to promote colon cancer — nearly sixfold compared to the control diet in pigs
A drawback of potatoes is they’re high in starch. By cooling cooked potatoes in the refrigerator, a significant portion of the starch will transform into gut-healthy digestive resistant starch
Other research shows polyphenols help inhibit proliferation of colon cancer cells and induce cancer cell apoptosis (programmed cell death) through oxidant-mediated mechanisms
Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published October 9, 2017.
Polyphenols1,2 (also known as phenolics) are phytochemicals, natural plant chemicals with powerful antioxidant properties. There are over 8,000 identified polyphenols found in foods such as tea, wine, chocolates, fruits and vegetables. Antioxidants — which in addition to polyphenols include carotenoids and allyl sulfides — help protect your cells from free radical damage, thereby controlling general aging and disease potential.
If your body does not get adequate protection, free radicals can cause cellular damage and dysfunction, raising your risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, just to name a few.
Polyphenols can be broken down into four general categories — flavonoids, stilbenes, lignans and phenolic acids — with additional subgroupings3 based on the number of phenol rings they contain, and on the basis of structural elements that bind these rings to one another.
As a general rule, foods contain complex mixtures of polyphenols, with higher levels found in the outer layers of the plants, such as the skin.4 Polyphenols give fruits, berries and vegetables their vibrant colors and contribute to the bitterness, astringency, flavor, aroma and oxidative stability of the food.
The Role of Polyphenols in Human Health
In the human body, polyphenols have diverse biological functions and properties, including:5,6
Fighting cancer cells7,8,9,10 and inhibiting angiogenesis11 (the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor)
Protecting your skin against ultraviolet radiation
Fighting free radicals and reducing inflammation
Promoting brain health12
Reducing the appearance of aging
Protecting against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease13,14
Modulating your gut microbiome. Polyphenols have a prebiotic effect, nourishing beneficial bacteria15,16,17,18
Improving bone metabolism, reducing your risk for osteoporosis19,20
Promoting normal blood pressure and protecting your cardiovascular system, thereby lowering your risk for cardiovascular disease.21,22 Flavonoid polyphenols help to reduce the clumping of platelets in your blood and improve the function of your cells that line your arteries and veins23
Supporting normal blood sugar levels,24 stabilizing fat metabolism and reducing insulin resistance, thereby lowering your risk for Type 2 diabetes
As noted in a 2010 scientific review in the journal Nutrients:25
“Research in recent years strongly supports a role for polyphenols in the prevention of degenerative diseases, particularly cancers, cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases … Recent studies have revealed that many of these diseases are related to oxidative stress from reactive oxygen and nitrogen species.
Phytochemicals, especially polyphenols, are the predominant contributor to the total antioxidant activities of fruits, rather than vitamin C.
Polyphenols have been found to be strong antioxidants that can neutralize free radicals by donating an electron or hydrogen atom … Polyphenols … complement and add to the functions of antioxidant vitamins and enzymes as a defense against oxidative stress caused by excess reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Although most of the evidence of the antioxidant activity of polyphenols is based on in vitro studies, increasing evidence indicates they may act in ways beyond the antioxidant functions in vivo. Modulation of cell signaling pathways by polyphenols may help significantly to explain the mechanisms of the actions of polyphenol-rich diets.”
How Polyphenols Protect Your Heart Health
The research supporting polyphenols in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease is particularly well-documented.26 For example, higher intakes of fruit-based flavonoids (specifically anthocyanin-rich foods — fruits and berries with a blue, red or dark purple hue — and those high in flavanones, particularly citrus fruits like grapefruit, lemons and oranges) has been found to lower the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke in men.27
Keep in mind that to reap these benefits, you need to eat the whole fruit, not fruit juice, which is simply too high in fructose for optimal health. Excessive fructose is associated with insulin resistance and associated health problems, including diabetes and heart disease. Here’s a sampling of other studies showing how polyphenols helps protect your heart health:
A systematic review of 14 studies found intake of six classes of flavonoids: flavonols, anthocyanidins, proanthocyanidins, flavones, flavanones and flavan-3-ols, can significantly decrease your risk of heart disease28
Researchers have long puzzled over how flavonoids help prevent heart disease, but a study29 published last year suggests it has to do with the fact that metabolism of flavonoids enhances their bioactivity in endothelial cells, which form the lining of your blood vessels
Flavonoids also help to reduce the clumping of platelets in your blood.30 Platelet clumping is one potential precursor in heart attacks and angina
As antioxidants, polyphenols scavenge free radicals and reduce inflammation in your body
Polyphenols also inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which causes complications with atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries, a factor in cardiovascular disease31
How a plant is grown can influence its healing potential by altering the concentration of plant chemicals in it, including its antioxidant content. As noted in a 2004 paper,32 agricultural practices and industrial processes can reduce the health effects of the polyphenols in the food.
Previous research33 shows organically and sustainably grown foods contain statistically higher levels of polyphenols compared to conventionally grown varieties, so whenever you can, try to stick to organic.
Herbs and spices are another great source of polyphenols, so you can’t really go wrong by adding them liberally to your cooking. Berries of all sorts are also an excellent source. Foods that are naturally blue or purple in color are a tipoff that they contain higher amounts of polyphenols. Examples include blueberries, mulberries and purple potatoes, the latter of which were investigated for their ability to lower your risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.
Purple Potatoes May Lower Risk for Colon Cancer
The study34,35 in question investigated the effects of purple potatoes in pigs fed a high-calorie diet, which has been linked to an increased risk of colon cancer. Pigs were fed one of three diets for 13 weeks:
High-calorie diet
High-calorie diet supplemented with raw or baked purple potatoes, rich in phenolic acids and anthocyanins — antioxidant compounds shown to have anticancer properties36
Standard control diet
Compared to the control diet, the high-calorie diet was (as expected) found to increase the level of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a proinflammatory protein known to promote cancer in the colon. The potato-supplemented diet, on the other hand, lowered IL-6 nearly sixfold compared to the control group. According to the authors:
“Anti-IL-6 therapeutics are available for treating colon cancer; however, they are expensive and induce negative side effects. Thus, whole foods could be a better way to combat low-grade chronic colonic inflammation and colon cancer. Whole plant foods have been shown to decrease chronic diseases due to the potential of anti-inflammatory dietary compounds acting synergistically.
We observed that supplementation of HCD [high-calorie diet] with anthocyanin-containing purple-fleshed potatoes, even after baking, suppressed HCD-induced IL-6 expression and … IL-6-related proteins … Our results highlight the importance of IL-6 signaling in diet-linked induction/prevention of colonic inflammation/cancer and demonstrate the potential of a food-based approach to target IL-6 signaling.”
Other research confirms the anticancer benefits of polyphenols, especially for colon cancer. A study37 published last year found polyphenols helped inhibit the proliferation of colon cancer cells and induce cancer cell apoptosis (programmed cell death) through oxidant-mediated mechanisms.
How to Boost Health Effects of Potatoes
A drawback of potatoes is they’re high in starch. By raising your blood sugar, starchy foods contribute to insulin resistance and, ultimately, Type 2 diabetes. Interestingly, by cooking a normally digestible starch such as potato and then cooling it in the refrigerator will alter its chemistry through a process called retrogradation, transforming much of the starch into digestive-resistant type starch.38
As its name implies, digestive-resistant starch refers to low-viscous dietary fibers that resist digestion in the small intestine and slowly ferment in your large intestine. In one study, refrigerating cooked potatoes for 24 hours increased resistant starch by 57%.39
Digestive-resistant starches act as prebiotics, feeding healthy bacteria and improving fat oxidation. In one study, replacing 5% of daily carbohydrates with digestive-resistant starch from whole foods like cooked and chilled potato or underripe banana raised post-meal fat burning by as much as 30%.40
Resistant starch also adds significant bulk to your stools and help you maintain regular bowel movements. And, since they’re indigestible, resistant starches do not result in blood sugar spikes. In fact, research suggests resistant starches actually help improve insulin regulation, thereby reducing your risk of insulin resistance.41,42,43,44
Health Benefits of Mulberry
Mulberries are also rich in polyphenols and other antioxidants. As far back as the Roman Empire, mulberries were used to treat diseases of the mouth, throat and lungs. Native Americans discovered them to have a laxative effect and used them to treat dysentery.45 I planted two twigs a few years back and now I have a mini forest of mulberry shrubs and harvest about 10 gallons of mulberries a year.
Nutritionally, mulberries contain an assortment of high-powered nutrients, such as vitamins A, B complex, C, E and K, each bringing their own constituents for health. They also contain iron, potassium and magnesium. One of the most beneficial resources in mulberries is resveratrol, said to “promote heart health and overall vitality.” According to the Institute for Traditional Medicine:46
“Traditionally, mulberry fruit has been used as a medicinal agent to nourish the yin and blood, benefit the kidneys and treat weakness, fatigue, anemia and premature graying of hair. It is also used to treat urinary incontinence, tinnitus, dizziness and constipation in the elderly and the anemic.”
In addition to historical uses, modern research has found mulberries can help improve your:
Digestive health — Mulberry contains 25% soluble fiber and 75% insoluble fiber. Both of these dietary fibers can help improve overall digestive health by promoting regular bowel movement and lowering your risk of stomach diseases47
Blood vessel health — Mulberry can help keep your blood vessels healthy thanks to its resveratrol content. This antioxidant helps increase the production of nitric oxide, which allows your vessels to relax48
Blood sugar control — Mulberry contains a special antioxidant called DNJ (1-deoxynojirimycin) that inhibits an enzyme in your gut that breaks down carbohydrates into sugar. Since it lowers the amount of sugar going into your system, it is considered beneficial for diabetics who want to control their condition49
Liver health — According to one study, mulberry can help prevent the buildup of fatty deposits around your liver, which can lower your risk of various hepatic diseases50
Make Polyphenol-Rich Foods Part of Your Daily Diet
It is generally recognized that polyphenols are powerful nutrients that protect your health by fighting against free radicals and preventing damage from oxidation. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules that steal electrons from important tissues like your DNA, proteins and cell membranes.
The loss of an electron, in turn, oxidizes these cells, which makes them unstable and easily breakable. As this free radical damage continues, cells can no longer perform properly; tissues begin to degrade and disease sets in.
That said, free radicals are not all bad, and you don’t want to eliminate all of them. They actually serve as important signaling molecules and play a role in your immune system, attacking foreign invaders and pathogenic bacteria. Eliminating most of them, or aiming for complete eradication, can lead to the opposite problem of actually creating more damage.
Free radicals are a natural byproduct of breathing; antioxidants mop up the excess and leave the rest to fulfill their other functions. This fine balancing act can be easily tipped to the point of either too much or too little. A diet rich in organic fruits, vegetables and nuts will typically supply you with the antioxidants needed to walk this fine line.
One reason why a varied diet of real food works better than simply taking antioxidant supplements is the fact that the isolated antioxidant may not be the exact one your body needs at that moment.
Fruits and veggies, on the other hand, contain a wide array of plant compounds, not just antioxidants such as polyphenols, creating a synergistic effect where the total benefit is far greater than the sum of its parts. Simple ways to increase the intake of antioxidants in your diet include:
Juicing a wide variety of vegetables
Eating fresh berries and nuts
Liberally adding fresh herbs and spices to your cooking
Dr Mark Crispin Miller has been collating the very many sudden deaths world wide that reported singly, escape your notice. En masse they are an horrific record of the slow democide occurring right before our eyes. Victims of a medical system that no longer honours its oath to ‘do no harm’. Hear Dr Miller in conversation about this as he discusses the media blackout of what is happening. He lectures in propaganda. Do read in this post the entirety of his meticulous recording … learn what is really happening.
RIP those little ones, wiped out before their time … EWNZ
In memory of children who “died suddenly” in the United States in 2023: Children under 2
From the archive of this year’s weekly posts, the names and, often, faces of the dead, representing just a fraction of the total. (This is the first of 4 such compilations of child deaths this year)
Dr Mark Crispin Miller has been collating the very many sudden deaths world wide that reported singly, escape your notice. En masse they are an horrific record of the slow democide occurring right before our eyes. Victims of a medical system that no longer honours its oath to ‘do no harm’. Hear Dr Miller in conversation about this as he discusses the media blackout of what is happening. He lectures in propaganda. Do read in this post the entirety of his meticulous recording … learn what is really happening.
RIP those little ones, wiped out before their time … EWNZ
On Tuesday, Big Brother Watch released documents that showed how the UK military supported Whitehall officials in monitoring the British public via the “Ministry of Truth.”
As well as the British Army’s 77th Brigade, the newly released documents show Royal Air Force (“RAF”) intelligence officers were also employed to spy on British citizens.
The documents show that at the same time, the UK government employed external contractors; one of which is the British not-for-profit Global Disinformation Index which has the goal of disrupting and defunding “disinformation sites.”
In January, Big Brother Watch released a report detailing secretive Whitehall units monitoring government critics’ speech online – including Members of Parliament, academics, journalists, human rights campaigners and the public – under the guise of combatting “misinformation.” The title of the report was ‘Ministry of Truth: the secretive government units spying on your speech’.
The ‘Ministry of Truth’ report also exposed the Government’s use of the British Army to scan their own citizens’ speech online, with exclusive testimony from a whistle-blower who worked in the “secretive information warfare machine”, the 77th Brigade.
The documents released on Tuesday consist of emails and daily “Mis/Disinformation” reports produced by the 77th Brigade for the Cabinet Office. They show soldiers tracking narratives from Members of the UK Parliament and the corporate press. Big Brother Watch has requested months’ worth of these documents but “only a handful appear to have survived,” they said.
Other documents released on Tuesday consist of requests for military assistance from the Counter Disinformation Unit (“CDU”). These requests are called Military Aid to Civilian Authority (“MACA”) requests. At the time, the CDU was part of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
According to the UK government website, the CDU was first set up in 2019 within the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”). However, according to The Constitution Unit, based in the University College London Department of Political Science, the CDU was set up in March 2020.
In July 2019, the Defending Democracy programme was announced as a cross-Whitehall initiative bringing together civil society, intelligence and government departments. The programme covers electoral integrity and related online transparency issues. As part of this programme, The Constitution Unit wrote, the Counter Disinformation Cell (“CDC”) or Counter Disinformation Unit (“CDU”) was set up in March 2020 to deal with coronavirus-related “false narratives.”
The CDU is one of a four-pronged government strategy for tackling covid “misinformation.” The other three prongs are the Rapid Response Unit in the Cabinet Office, established in 2018; pursuing a massive public information campaign together with the NHS; and, promoting digital literacy skills, publicising its SHARE checklist.
From February 2023, the unit sits with the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. According to the UK government’s website: “The team works with partners across government, civil society and in tandem with the regulatory approach through the Online Safety Bill and DSIT’s Media Literacy Strategy.”
The UK government states that CDU’s purpose is to understand disinformation narratives and attempts to artificially manipulate the information environment, “to promote the facts.” CDU also works with social media companies to “encourage them to promote authoritative sources of information and consistently enforce their terms of service.”
Big Brother Watch has received copies of four MACAs from CDU to the UK military covering the period 5 July 2020 to 28 February 2021. Before that, on 23 March 2020, defence analysts joined the CDC or CDU wider structure as part of a wider MACA tasking which attached them to the Cabinet Office’s Rapid Response Unit. This team provided mis/disinformation analytical capability during the first three months of the “covid crisis.” This initial agreement with the Cabinet Office ended on 5 July 2020.
From the first MACA request, for the period 15 July to 31 August 2020, the first sentence completed on the form stated that the CDU sought “military support to the DCMS Counter-Disinformation Cell (CDC), to ensure [Her/His Majesty’s Government] HMG coverage of the mis/disinformation threat and information environment, as further incidences of disinformation is anticipated in relation to key events, including the launch of a vaccine.” Signed by the Ministry of Defence on 15 July 2020, this was almost five months before a covid “vaccine” was launched.
The DCMS re-emphasised the anti-vaccination “threat” again later in the July 2020 MACA: “Despite Covid-19 crisis response standing down in some areas, the CDC continues to identify harmful misinformation and disinformation narratives. This is a live threat, and the CDC’s assessment of future trends such as potential for anti-vaccination narratives, shows that there is a need to fill a capability gap.”
The MACAs state that the Ministry of Defence provided 77th Brigade analysts from 5 July to 3 August 2020, and RAF analysts from 3 August to 31 August 2020.
The MACAs, from the first to the last, also state that external contractors have already been employed and will continue to provide additional skills. “DCMS has contracts with GDI, who monitor and assess disinformation narratives on fringe platforms, and Digitalis, who work with search trends data,” the MACAs state.
Global Disinformation Index
GDI stands for Global Disinformation Index, a UK not-for-profit organisation which rates media sites based on the risk of the outlet carrying disinformation. It is number 37 on the list of the top 50 organisations in the global Censorship Industrial Complex.
Using both artificial intelligence and human review, GDI claims to “provide a neutral and transparent way of assessing the disinformation risk for a specific media outlet.”
GDI was co-founded by Clare Melford and Daniel Rogers in 2018. Melford was formerly CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum, managing director of MTV Networks, and led the European Council on Foreign Relations during its break away from the Open Society Foundations. Rogers founded and led Terbium Labs, a US intelligence community contractor, works as an adjunct Professor at New York University’s Centre for Global Affairs, and is a senior fellow at the left-leaning Truman National Security Project.
Information about the GDI’s funding is not readily accessible despite it having ‘transparency’ as one of its three core values, but it does at least name its funders on its website. GDI has 12 funders including George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the European Union, the Foreign Ministry of Germany, the Knight Foundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (“FCDO”).
“No single funder accounts for more than one third of GDI’s total income,” its website states. This implies that it is likely at least one funder contributes about a third of its funding.
In February 2023, Philip Davies, Member of Parliament for Shipley, submitted a written question asking how much funding the FCDO had given GDI over the previous three years.
Leo Docherty, Under Secretary of State at FCDO replied: “The FCDO Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme has funded the Global Disinformation Index since 2019, for activities outside the US, providing £1,999,026 between 2019 and 2022, with a further £600,797 during the current financial year.”
McGrogan wrote: “My favourite example, from this ‘report’ – I use the term loosely – is an article on Spiked! titled ‘Why aren’t we celebrating female athletes’ actual achievements?’ next to an ad for the UK-based chain of opticians, Specsavers. This is apparently evidence of a ‘misogynistic narrative’ which Specsavers should not be indirectly funding.”
British magazine Spiked! is generally agreed to be libertarian. According to Wikipedia, most specialist academic sources identify it as right-libertarian but some non-specialist sources identify it as left-libertarian. Wikipedia lists the Knight Foundation as one of Spiked’s funders. After being flagged as carrying a “misogynistic narrative,” perhaps it no longer funds Spiked, especially as the Knight Foundation is also listed as one of GDI’s funders.
GDI has two affiliated US non-profit groups sharing similar board members: Disinformation Index and An Foundation, both based in Texas. A Washington Examiner investigation found that advertising crushing revenue sentinels such as GDI are crippling conservative media in the United States as “riskiest” and “worst” offenders for peddling disinformation, and likely placing them on a “dynamic exclusion list” while all of the websites that GDI ranks as the “least risky” lean to the political left in their news coverage.
GDI’s secretive “dynamic exclusion list” shows at least 2,000 websites. This list has “had a significant impact on the advertising revenue that has gone to those sites,” Melford said during a March 2022 podcast.
This exclusion list is developed with oversight from GDI’s “advisory panel,” which counts journalists, professors, and data scientists, according to GDI reports. One of the advisors is Ben Nimmo, global lead for threat intelligence at Facebook’s parent company Meta.
Mike Benz, who was formerly the State Department’s deputy assistant for internal communications and information policy and is currently executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online, a censorship watchdog, told the Washington Examiner that the “whole point” of the “disinformation” tracking industry is clearly to destroy “the reach, scalability, market, and even credibility” of conservative news outlets.
Self-styled disinformation trackers such as GDI are, essentially, censorship by stealth because they cripple the potential of alternative news sources to compete on an even economic playing field with media outlets that disseminate the approved narrative.
Recent FOIA-obtained data from the Department of Emergency Services in Westchester, NY reveal a shocking number of vaccine emergency calls as well as requests for ambulances to be “on standby.”
Right before the recent Christmas holiday, I received a call from a friend and colleague named Louis Conte regarding a “contact” of his with knowledge of the inner workings of Emergency Medical Services in Westchester County, New York.
Louis’s contact had been monitoring EMS dispatches in Westchester County and saw, subsequent to the jab rollout in early 2021, what he felt was a frightening number of calls from vaccine clinics or homes where general or specific “vaccine reactions” were cited as the cause of the need for an ambulance.
Last year, the contact decided to submit a FOIL (Freedom of Information Law) request—similar to a FOIA—to the Westchester County EMS asking for a record of all calls whose transcripts mentioned either the word “vaccine” or “Covid-19 vaccine” in 2021.
Louis asked me to look at the documents. As difficult as it is at this point to further distress me with data on the toxicity and lethality of the mRNA platform, this dataset still managed to do this.
Before I review the data, let’s review what we know about ambulance calls timed with the roll-out of the vaccination campaign, because this issue is NOT new.
For instance, we already know from ICAN and Aaron Siri’s FOIA request of the CDC’s V-Safe data that 7.9% of all 10.1 million vaccine recipients reported requiring medical care to treat a vaccine adverse effect. Of those requiring medical care, almost 11% (8,700 people) visited the emergency room or hospital. How many travelled for this high level of urgent /emergent care by ambulance is unknown, but historically, about 15% of ER patients arrive by ambulance, so this would come out to about 1,300 patients among a population of 10 million vaccinated.
There was an increase of more than 25% in the number of ambulance calls in response to cardiac arrests (CA) and acute coronary syndromes (ACS or “heart attacks”) for young people in the 16–39 age group during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Israel (January–May, 2021) compared with the same period of time in prior years (2019 and 2020).
They also found a robust and statistically significant association between the weekly CA and ACS call counts and the rates of 1st and 2nd vaccine doses administered to this age group. Note they found no observed statistically significant association between COVID-19 infection rates and the CA and ACS call counts.
They report that their findings aligned with previous studies showing that increases in overall CA incidence were not always associated with higher COVID-19 infection rates at a population level, and that the stability of hospitalization rates related to myocardial infarction throughout the initial COVID-19 wave compared to pre-pandemic baselines in Israel.
Their findings above also mirrored reports of increased emergency department visits with cardiovascular complaints during the vaccination rollout in Germany as well as increased EMS calls for cardiac incidents in Scotland.
When your body temperature rises, sweat glands release water at your skin’s surface, which quickly evaporates and cools your skin and the blood underneath
In traditional Persian medicine, sweating is used for both preventive care and disease treatment
Sweat glands secrete antimicrobial peptides that help restrict the growth of various microbes on the skin, potentially helping to reduce infection or atopic dermatitis
Concentrations of the heavy metals nickel, lead and chromium may be 10 to 30 times higher in sweat than in blood and urine, and some toxins may be preferentially excreted in sweat
Sweating may offer support for chronic diseases, including cardiovascular, respiratory and joint diseases
Sweating is often viewed as a nuisance — something unpleasant that humans try to avoid and cover up. Yet, this natural and important body process occurs for good reasons. In addition to regulating body temperature, sweating helps maintain homeostasis in your body, including removing waste products and toxins.1
Sweating can also be used therapeutically to support well-being and reduce chronic disease.2 If you’re unable to sweat normally, sweating either too much or too little may signify significant health concerns, another clue of its wide-reaching importance.
Why Humans Sweat
Sweating, also known as perspiration, describes the release of liquid from your sweat glands, which number anywhere from 2 million to 4 million. During puberty, your sweat glands become fully active, with glands in men tending to produce more sweat than sweat glands in women.3
As a method of thermoregulation to help keep your body cool, sweating ramps up if the weather is hot or you’re exercising. However, you may also sweat if you’re feeling angry, stressed, anxious or afraid. Medical conditions, such as cancer and low blood sugar, can also trigger sweating, as can menopause and fever.
Consuming certain medications, including thyroid hormone and morphine, may also make you sweat, as can drinking alcohol or caffeinated beverages or eating spicy foods, a condition known as gustatory sweating.4
When your body temperature rises, sweat glands release water at your skin’s surface, which quickly evaporates and cools your skin and the blood underneath. “This is the most effective means of thermoregulation in humans,” according to researchers with the University of Mississippi Medical Center.5 Beyond cooling you off, sweating also has “important homeostatic functions,” such as:6
Clearing excessive micronutrients from your body
Removing waste products produced by metabolic processes
Eliminating toxins
Support for chronic diseases, including cardiovascular, respiratory and joint diseases
Health Risks of Excessive or Inadequate Sweating
Your body depends on its ability to sweat normally, such that when this balance is thrown off disease states can result. Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive sweating, believed to affect about 4.8% of U.S. adults, or 15.8 million people.7
Hyperhidrosis is known to interfere with self-esteem, social interactions, relationships and career choices, with many affected reporting problems with work, school, social functioning and emotional health. Close to half — 48% — say their quality of life is poor or very poor as a result of hyperhidrosis.
The condition can also cause dehydration and skin infections.8 A link to systemic conditions is also possible, as sweating disorders may signal dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, particularly the sympathetic nervous system.9
Hypohidrosis, which is inadequate sweating, and pathologic anhidrosis, an inability to sweat, are also potentially damaging to your health and may lead to dry skin, heat exhaustion, heatstroke and death.10
Sweating to Help Prevent and Relieve Chronic Disease
In traditional Persian medicine, sweating is used for both preventive care and disease treatment.11 According to a review published in Galen Medical Journal:12
“Reviewing historical medical manuscripts indicates that traditional Persian medicine (PM) scientists have described several methods for the treatment of diseases. Sweating is one of them which has an important role in both prevention and treatment of diseases.
PM physicians were well aware of the health benefits of sweating and believed that sweating removes waste products, maintains the body health, and balances body temperature.
Based on the principles of PM, any disturbances in the excretion of metabolic and dietary waste products can cause disease; therefore, the use of several sweating methods and even diaphoretic herbs have been considered in maintaining human health and as one of the therapeutic method since many centuries ago.”
Indeed, from Roman baths and Scandinavian saunas to Aboriginal sweat lodges, sweating for health has been embraced by cultures worldwide. Researchers writing in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health explained:13
“Sweating with heat and/or exercise has been viewed throughout the ages, by groups worldwide, as ‘cleansing’ … Sweating offers potential and deserves consideration, to assist with removal of toxic elements from the body.
… Sweating is not only observed to enhance excretion of the toxic elements of interest in this paper, but also may increase excretion of diverse toxicants, as observed in New York rescue workers, or in particular persistent flame retardants and bisphenol-A … Optimizing the potential of sweating as a therapeutic excretory mechanism merits further research.”
The researchers noted the following promising roles of sweat in detoxification:
Sweat may be an important route for excretion of cadmium when an individual is exposed to high levels
Sweat-inducing sauna use might provide a therapeutic method to increase elimination of toxic trace metals
Sweating should be the initial and preferred treatment of patients with elevated mercury urine levels
Sweat glands also secrete antimicrobial peptides that help restrict the growth of various microbes on the skin, potentially helping to reduce infection or atopic dermatitis. The sweat gland-derived antimicrobial peptide dermcidin is also thought to play a role in regulating the innate immune system’s response to infection and injury.14
Many Toxins May Be ‘Preferentially Excreted Through Sweat’
Because sweat is 99% water, it’s sometimes said that sweating doesn’t provide a meaningful avenue for detoxification. In the journal Temperature, it’s noted, “The role of sweating to eliminate waste products and toxicants seems to be minor compared with other avenues of excretion via the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract.”15
However, research shows that toxins are, in fact, excreted via sweat. According to research in Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology:16
“Many toxic elements appeared to be preferentially excreted through sweat. Presumably stored in tissues, some toxic elements readily identified in the perspiration of some participants were not found in their serum. Induced sweating appears to be a potential method for elimination of many toxic elements from the human body.”
For instance, concentrations of the heavy metals nickel, lead and chromium may be 10 to 30 times higher in sweat than in blood and urine.17 It’s also noted in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “Physiologists have long regarded sweating as an effective and safe means of detoxification, and heavy metals are excreted through sweat to reduce the levels of such metals in the body.”18
That study found levels of nickel, lead, copper and arsenic in sweat were higher when the sweating was induced via dynamic exercise as opposed to sauna usage, although mercury levels in sweat were the same regardless of sweating method.19
Another systematic review found that in people with higher exposure or body burden of arsenic, cadmium lead and mercury, “sweat generally exceeded plasma or urine concentrations, and dermal could match or surpass urinary daily excretion … Sweating deserves consideration for toxic element detoxification.”20
Bisphenol A is another chemical contaminant often detected in sweat, in some cases even when no BPA was found in serum or urine samples.21
Health Benefits of Sauna Usage
Inducing sweating via sauna usage has been linked to many health benefits, including for the heart, respiratory system, joints, chronic pain and brain.22 One mechanism for this effect is thought to be related to the fact that heat stresses your heart and body similar to that of exercise, thus prompting similar effects.23 However, sweating is also part of sauna bathing’s therapeutic effects.
Researchers in Finland — where sauna use is common — found that men who used a sauna four to seven times a week for an average of 15 minutes had a 66% lower risk of developing dementia, and 65% lower risk of Alzheimer’s, compared to men who used the sauna just once a week.24
Waon therapy, a form of dry sauna treatment that warms the entire body, is also linked to improved heart health, including in people with chronic heart failure.25 Separate research published in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that men who used a Finnish-style, dry heat sauna seven times per week also cut their risk of death in half from fatal heart problems compared to those who used it only once a week.26
This held true even after confounding factors such as smoking, blood pressure and triglyceride levels were factored in. In regard to time, the greatest benefits were found among those who sweated it out for 19 minutes or more each session.
As noted by the study, “Sauna bathing leads to skin sweating — induced fluid loss and increase in heart rate, which are physiologic responses to warm temperature … Our results suggest that sauna bathing is a recommendable health habit.”27
How to Induce Sweating
Regular sauna usage is one way to induce sweating, but it’s not the only one. Virtually any type of intense exercise will lead to sweating, as will exercising in warm temperatures or in a heated room, such as in Bikram yoga. If you choose to use a sauna for sweating, there are several options, including a Finnish sauna, far-infrared saunas and near-infrared saunas.
The difference between the infrared saunas and the traditional Finnish sauna is the Finnish-style heats you from the outside in, whereas the infrared heats from the inside out. Near-infrared saunas have additional benefits as they penetrate your tissues more effectively and at wavelengths not absorbed by water.
The near-infrared range affects your health primarily through interaction with chromophores, light-absorbing molecules found in your mitochondria and water molecules. Near-infrared light also has healing and repairing properties, helping optimize other biological functions.
Remember, if you sweat heavily, you’ll also lose valuable fluids and electrolytes. So, be sure to drink plenty of pure water and replace your electrolytes. Coconut water is one option to replace electrolytes naturally. You can also mix one-quarter teaspoon of Himalayan salt with a gallon of pure filtered water for electrolyte replacement.
An absolute must hear. Dr Miller gives an overview of the democide as he calls it, to date. His life he says is now devoted to awakening people to what is really happening globally. It is very evil…. TWNZ
What we are now seeing emerge … the smart, and 5, 10 or 15 minute cities. And globally not just the US of course, it being a global plan for those unelected parasites who think they have a right to rule over us… EWNZ
Development decisions affect many aspects of people’s everyday lives – their homes, their health, the schools their children attend, the taxes they pay, their daily commute, the natural environmental around them, and economic opportunity in their community. Smart Growth is an overall approach of development and conservation strategies that help protect our health and natural environment and make our communities more attractive, economically stronger, socially diverse, and resilient to climate change.
Market Common in Arlington, Virginia is a walkable, mixed-use development with access to public transit.
Based on the experience of communities around the nation that have used smart growth approaches to create and maintain great neighborhoods, the Smart Growth Network developed a set of ten (10) basic principles to guide smart growth strategies:
Mix land uses. Take advantage of compact building design. Create a range of housing opportunities and choices. Create walkable neighborhoods.
Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place. Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas. Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities. Provide a variety of transportation choices.
Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost effective. Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration in development decisions.
THE LONG-TERM STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES 2 THE LONG-TERM STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES create high-quality jobs, improve public health in every community, and spur investments
This will come as a shock to many reading this because they did not learn of these events from FOX or CNN.
However, in actuality, the process of moving the United States towards a complete Agenda 21 style of total urbanization has already commenced and it began nearly 20 years ago.
Cited in the article: “…a study of humans suffering from Long Covid analyzed their cellular DNA. The authors unexpectedly found genes uniquely specific to the Pfizer COVID vaccine in human blood cells. This finding proves that mRNA COVID vaccines permanently integrate into the DNA of some COVID-vaccinated people”.
Mathemetician Igor Chudov is the first we have seen to cover this absolute bombshell on DNA integration of the Pfizer mRNA product – something we have worried about since before the vaccine rollout.
In Italy, Duhli et al have added to proof already existing that the vaccinated can be still expressing the spike protein 6 months following vaccination. However, their further finding of synthetic vaccine code integrated into host DNA of living cells of recipients is devastating, though unsurprising to those of us who understood the various pathways by which this could happen.
Research had already shown the Pfizer mRNA process of reverse integration into human DNA in the lab but not so far in living humans.
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Corrupting the human genome is a forever situation if mutant additions are passed to offspring, but chronic diseases and, especially cancer, can occur in the vaccinated in this lifetime.
Whether due to bystander viral reverse transcriptase, LINE-1 integration, oncogenic SV40 code, or bacterial plasmid contamination, genome corruption shown in this Italian paper ought to bring this fatal “gene transfer product” (Pfizer’s own words) weapon to a halt. But how many times have we heard that since the debacle began?
Our regulators have been mostly mute so far on all the safety signals galore, including effects on fertility, stillbirths and miscarriages; the spike protein as the actual agent of harm to the body; plasmidgate; frame-shifted multiple prion products; and secret MOH data showing vaccine harms. Even when we rumbled their trick of mis-classifying vaccine status to try to hide vaccine harms and uselessness, they still ploughed on recklessly.
So far, our massive hand-wringing has come to nought, but the explanation for that is straightforward. Pfizer’s contract forbids ANY statement or action by ANYONE that might reduce vaccine sales (as discussed in this very informative interview with investigator Nadine Connock, see our review of the interview here). This includes doctors, politicians, the press, judges, and presumably too, the NZ Police, since they have refused to investigate clear evidence of post vaccine deaths. Instead they have preferred to hide behind the government, via Medsafe and the Minister of Health.
This deal with the devil was led by a government lawyer – now on the Medical Council, in a clear conflict of interest – and signed by the last government, behind the deception of “an unprecedented global health emergency” – as marketed by the World Health Organisation: unelected, private, unaccountable and funded by vaccine investors. The lie of this being far deadlier than the common flu was disproven very early on by the WHO’s own statistics, and as clearly laughable as the attempts to cover-up the truth of SARS CoV-2 being a man-made bioweapon.
Presumably the new government is to be held to the Pfizer contract signed by the Ardern administration, which means the promise of a truly effective inquiry could be a pipe dream without exposing and striking out the contract first, as Crown Law will fling it’s dead body before attempts to get a proper inquiry going.
However, there are some potential pathways to demolish this deadly deal. In law, “fraud vitiates everything”, including contracts; the bait and switch product delivered to NZ was produced very differently to the one submitted for approval to regulators; consumer protections have been breached, along with GMO legislation; there have been multiple breaches of the Medicines Act; officials have lied to push the narrative; multiple human rights have been ignored (including the most prime, the right to life) and so it is easy to see pathways to serious criminal charges.
Multiple lines of evidence show that government knew that people had died and been seriously harmed very early on – in fact, before the first jab was ever given here – and more would follow. To continue in that certain knowledge of harms to come, as they are STILL doing, cannot be tolerated.
If our laws actually prove to allow criminal acts because a drug company says so, it is surely time for the people to ask some hard questions about the country we want. This is happening already in other nations, and this latest proof of the lies and their terrible truths must surely speed the process of retaking humanity, whatever the attacks on its genome.
Mike Stone is the creator of viroLIEgy.com, which scrutinizes the world of virology and germ theory and exposes their gaping scientific and logical flaws. Mike is completely self-taught and woke up to the problems of virology after a particularly saddening personal experience.
Even if you believed the debunkers, there is still enough evidence in the data to call a halt and investigate… instead the NZ corporation is continuing to claim ‘safe & effective’... EWNZ
I will debunk these as needed. I’m also offering to bet $250K or more that the NZ data can be used with publicly available data to show that the COVID vaccines are killing people. Any takers??
Executive summary
A bunch of people are making attempts to discredit the NZ data leaked by Barry Young who is now facing 7 years in prison for his actions.
All of the “analyses” claiming “there is nothing to see here” are flawed, but I’ll let you decide that for yourself.
I assure you the NZ data is real and all attempts to discredit the data and what it says will backfire on those who attempt to do so as I will demonstrate in this post.
I’m offering to bet anyone $250K or more that the NZ data shows the vaccines are unsafe. I’ll be thrilled if I get any takers.
But this shows you that none of the people who boldly claim I got it wrong have any confidence in their “analyses.”
CLAIM: “The “New-Zealand whistle-blower” story is a dead-end for valid arguments”
“Too many people are falling for the New Zealand Data trap. There are no alert signal (sic) in the New Zealand mortality trends and the data released is unusable.”
“Alterations made to the data by Kirsch are forbidding serious re-analysis”
“The data made public has been “obfuscated”. In layman terms, this means it has become impossible to verify, and useless for any form of real analysis”
For all 8 ten year age groups listed in the article, 20 and older, as well as for all age groups combined, the per capita deaths in 2022 were higher than 2020.
“Furthermore, Kirsch is now undermining Andrew Bridgen’s efforts in the United Kingdom”
Wow. This is an evidence free post. Let me respond to each point.
There are huge alert signals if you have spent time with the data. The definitive analysis method for an intervention like this is the time-series cohort analysis. Yet OpenVAET doesn’t even mention they looked at it. That’s just ridiculous. He simply does a population analysis and finds that deaths are up for all 8 ten year age groups compared to 2020, so he says nothing is happening in New Zealand. Here is the mortality by week in New Zealand. Does it look like nothing is happening here?
If the vaccines are so safe, why was there a huge mortality peak during the week of July 18, 2022? It’s still a peak even after you remove the COVID deaths. Hmmm…. I wonder why? Also, everyone is vaccinated by then too.
He doesn’t explain what alterations we made, so how can he know the data is unusable? We ran the time series analysis on the original data and on the obfuscated data and the results were an EXACT match. And that’s the definitive way to analyze this data. So I’d like to see his EVIDENCE that the data is unusable for analysis. He provides NONE whatsoever.
See #2.
The data he shows shows mortality increased in every 10 year age group from 20 years on up. So how is that a nothing burger? Had they looked at the time series cohort analysis they would have found huge signals, but they decided not to look.
For proof of #5, they cite this tweet with 153K views. This was Andrew’s idea. Read the comments. Does this sound like I’m undermining his efforts? I was a major funder of the whole event in Parliament.
If you are going to criticize someone’s work, the least you can do is look at it first. If you look at the graph I posted above which is publicly available data (if you know where to look), it’s pretty clear something is wrong and it is crystal clear in the time series data which they NEVER looked at. Something is causing record level peaks.
Claim: “The New Zealand “whistleblower” data is a burger of nothing.”
This new article is co-authored by Dr. Ah Khan Syed.
The key claims include:
This is the definitive takedown. There is nothing to see here. The debate is over.
“The rise in mortality in NZ appears to be explained by the increase in the elderly component of the overall population. That in itself is somewhat bizarre but not a subject for today’s analysis.”
“This curve shows nothing but a slight increase explained by the aging of the cohort.”
What you can see is that there are actually less deaths in the cohort than should be expected based on the background data – about 14% less
The data was deliberately “released as bait” and it under-reports deaths:
Wow. Once again, they ignore the accepted definitive way to analyze the data (time series cohort analysis) and they “roll their own” analysis method and model. They cannot be questioned on this since they are the experts and they don’t have real names. So let’s tackle their key points:
Anyone who claims their analysis is the final word shouldn’t be trusted. Science is all about questioning and being open to be questioned. These “scientists” are claiming they got it right and the case is closed. The NZ data has lots of signals. Just because these two people are incapable of finding the signal is not proof that the signal isn’t there. And the fact that they never look at the time series data and claim no signal is preposterous. They’ve both destroyed their credibility here. In the earlier article, they said that the data can’t be used for analysis. Now they say that they’ve analyzed that same data and there’s nothing to see there. Which is it? You cannot have it both ways.
Wow. Maybe you should get to the bottom of the mortality rise issue before declaring the data Barry released don’t show anything?
The curve they show is too confounded to show anything. And then they give a hand-waving “This curve shows nothing but a slight increase explained by the aging of the cohort.” Really? Where is the evidence behind that statement?
There are less deaths in the cohorts when they first get the shot. It’s called HVE and there are two types. I talk extensively about this in my upcoming article on the NZ data. They are completely unaware of the effect which tells you that they are newbies with respect to analyzing vaccine safety data.
Where is the evidence this was “bait?” AFAIK, there has NEVER in human history been a case where a health authority released manipulated data in the guise of a data breach. Any health authority that pulled such a stunt would destroy any remaining credibility that they had. The authors do not cite a precedent. I’ve spent hours talking to Barry and nearly 2 months analyzing the data and I am constantly amazed how it passes all the statistical “tests” I throw at it. I analyzed it in ways nobody would have thought of and the data is well behaved with no anomalies. If the data is bait, where is the proof in the data or in an admission? These people are simply making this stuff up out of thin air.
Igor Chudov’s analysis
Igor had the good sense to re-think his earlier comments. See this post.
The Barry Young analysis by lot number and the M.O.A.R. analysis
I have been focused on the big picture (the time series cohort analysis).
I have not had a chance to look at the lot number analysis in detail. There are 124 lots to look at.
Here’s an example of a huge safety signal in Lot #10:
Deaths per month after Dose 10. This can’t happen for a safe vaccine. Do you know why?
This pattern is impossible for a safe vaccine.
Yet none of the “experts” will be able to tell you why! I’ll reveal why in my upcoming article. Everyone who claims to be able to analyze data should be talking about this!
Here’s another example to show this wasn’t a fluke:
Here’s another example to show that Lot 10 wasn’t a fluke
And here’s a third example that is even more stunning than the previous 2 charts:
Here’s another example
Again, the “experts” have absolutely no clue why these charts are so stunning. That’s one of many reasons they say this data is a nothing burger.
What they are really saying to you is “I don’t know how to analyze this data, but I’m going to attempt to convince you that I know what I’m doing and that Steve Kirsch doesn’t.”
History has shown that is a losing proposition.
But just to make this crystal clear to everyone….
My offer to anyone who think there is not a serious safety signal in the leaked NZ data or that the data was gamed or unusable
I’m willing to bet $250K or more that the data is legit and shows a serious safety signal. Anyone want to take my bet? Same terms as my bet with Saar Wilf (neutral panel of expert epidemiologist judges picked by a mutually agreeable consulting firm who vote secretly).
I set the bar at $250K but I’m willing to go to $10M on this one.
I predict crickets.
People who claim I’m wrong and who won’t accept my bet are basically telling you that they have no confidence whatsoever in their analysis.
In Texas, they have a saying for that: “Big hat, no cattle.”
Money is a great way to make that clear to people.
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Summary
I will update this article as more “analyses” come out.
My advice in the meantime:
If they aren’t doing a careful analysis of the time series cohort data, stop reading.
If they claim the data shows the vaccine is safe or is reducing all-cause mortality, stop reading.
If they claim that the data is insufficient, missing data, systematically biased in a way that makes it unusable, manipulated, false, or that you need a control comparison group (i.e., data that is not publicly available), stop reading.
If they aren’t accepting my $250K or more bet, they are basically telling you they aren’t really sure whether they got it right or not. Otherwise, why not take my money?
I’ll be coming out with my own extensive analysis of the NZ data shortly which will make all these points crystal clear. In the meantime, the lack of any takers of my offer should be a pretty good clue as to who got it right.
via RealityCheckRadio: Award-winning investigative journalist James Corbett from The Corbett Report beams in from Japan to talk about COP28 (Conference of the Parties) which was recently held in Dubai. James and Paul discuss the globalist influencers there who are driving policy and events.
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Video above (from Coronavirus Plushie) with clips of Ardern speaking on the covid experimental injection claiming prevention of transmission and complete safety and effectiveness.
“Not only does adult vaccination not protect other adults, it can harm children. In the first 18 weeks after of vaccination, adults were likely to increase the risk of death to their children.”
Described by former Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek as “Stalinist.” This is censorship at its most blatant and surely not a good sign. We had the slightly more subtle version in NZ with yours truly claiming to be the one source of truth …
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Stress affects plants as well as all life forms as far as I am aware.
We suffer stress in our day to day lives and this time of the year is especially stressful for some people.
As there are different forms of stress which humans can be affected by, there are also different forms of stress that plants can suffer by.
The most obvious of these is moisture either not enough or too much.
Not enough moisture the plant starts to dehydrate and the lower leaves tend to flatten out to shade or cover the surrounding soil helping to prevent moisture loss from the soil.
The upper foliage also droops and without receiving a good amount of water to moisten the earth the plant will wither and die.
Too much water we call wet feet which means there is excessive amounts of water around the roots with little or no oxygen; then the roots will start to rot unless its a bog type plant.
As the roots rot the foliage will droop and leaves will begin to fall off until the plant dies.
Some plants will try to remove the water from around their roots by taking up water to the leaves where it forms as drops of water on the tip of the leaves.
Wet feet is fatal to a number of plants such as citrus trees.
Plants also suffer stress from weather conditions such as rapid temperature changes (going from cold to hot and back to cold) wind damage, heat, cold/freezing, insufficient light or too much sunlight.
Nowadays our plants have to contend with ‘The Dimming of the Sun’ we are told, done to reduce Global warming, but it actually make surface temperatures hotter and the real reason is to reduce plant growth, making poor food crops.
Planted in the wrong situation a plant can stress out because of a range of things such as soil conditions, pH, shade or sun, wet or dry, fertile or barren.
Too much food or not enough, unbalanced nutrients which are locking up, missing elements are all problems that will cause stress.
(Use Wallys Unlocking the Soil and Magic Botanic Liquid for unlocking and supplying all the elements).
When you move container plants, you create a problem as the plant has to readjust to the new situation.
Ficus Benjamina is a pot plant that hates to be moved from one spot to another unless the new spot is identical to the old spot, otherwise it will leaf drop and then produce new foliage as it adjusts.
Plants that are attacked by insects can be likened to you having a multitude of leaches or mosquitoes attacking your body. (That’s stressful).
Leaf diseases such as black spot, mildew etc often appear on plants when conditions favor them or when a plant is in stress for some reason.
If say your fruit tree that is laden with fruit sheds its crop, then the tree is in stress for some reason.
If it sheds part of the crop it is likely self thinning the fruit as it cannot support all the crop, so that the better larger fruit will have sufficient room to mature.
If you think that you are facing several types of stress related issues in your life currently then think again what our plants have to face.
(Does that make you feel better?)
Seedlings in punnets can easily become stressed when their root systems fill the punnet and the mix dries out quickly.
I have seen seedlings in stress in chain stores because the staff don’t water often enough.
It is especially bad this season because of the weather and people not planting out as they would in a better season leaving a lot of old over grown stock.
I went to one hardware chain store recently to pick up a few things and also obtain a few vegetable seedlings; all that was on display were over sized plants which would have already been in stress a few times and a total waste of money buying and planting.
If it’s vegetable seedlings you are going to buy, look for the small plants which have a bit of growing to do before they get too big for the container they are in.
If you buy the big plants what will happen is you plant them out, they grow on for a few weeks then before maturing they go to seed.
When I owned a garden Centre and nursery we would throw vegetable plants out, once they were too big and in danger of going into stress, and replace them with smaller healthy plants.
Now this rule does not apply to plants such as tomatoes, cucumbers etc which you want to flower and fruit.
Likewise flower plant seedlings, the bigger, the better as we want them to flower as soon as.
But brassicas, lettuce, onions, leeks, silverbeet, beetroot, spring onions, spinach etc you want them to mature and not waste your time going to seed.
I have had a few complaints from gardeners recently on this very problem.
While we are on the subject of brassicas, it would be a good idea, if planting out over the next few months, to place Neem Tree Granules in the planting hole and also on the soil surface.
This is to help with the control of aphids and caterpillars.
Then after planting put some hoops over the row and cover with crop cover.
It only costs about $8.50 a metre and it’s 4 metres wide.
Keeps those plants free of pests and makes their preparation for the table an easy job.
The cover can be used time and time again.
Recently I purchased a 5 litre pump-up sprayer to do those in between jobs that my big back pack sprayer is a hassle to use, and my favorite trigger sprayers are too small.
Looking at the range of pump-up sprayers about the 5 litre size, they varied in price from twenty odd dollars upwards.
I have purchased over the years numerous cheaper sprayers which all end up in the rubbish bin, more often sooner than later.
Instead I opted for a more expensive Hills sprayer and after using it I am glad I did.
So easy to use and clean afterwards I am back to being a happy chappie when I need to spray.
So treat yourself or someone to a decent sprayer this Xmas, you will thank me for it.
Well about one more article for the year after this one so look after yourselves and your gardens over the festive season.
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Part II of the Act covers a broad range of Civil and Political Rights. As part of the right to life and the security of the person, the Act guarantees everyone:
1The right not to be deprived of life except in accordance with fundamental justice (Section 8)
2The right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment (Section 9)
3The right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation without consent (Section 10)
4The right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment (Section 11)
Furthermore, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 guarantees everyone: Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion. This includes the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO ADOPT AND HOLD OPINIONS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE (Section 1)
While many will be aware of A Farewell to Virology, the history of its development is known to only a few. In 2021, Heterodoxies Society led by Dr John Bevan-Smith prepared an extraordinary legal take down of the perpetrators of the COVID-19 fraud. The plan was to not only expose the meaningless case definition and manufactured numbers through the misapplication of the PCR but to demonstrate the foundational fraud of SARS-CoV-2 existence. John had done a brilliant job in his critiques of virology but he was advised to get Mark involved to ensure that the scientific case was watertight. Shortly after this PCR expert and microscopist Dr Robin Wakeling was also welcomed into the team. The Statement of Claim weighed in at over 200 pages with around 500 references and Mark described it as like nothing the world had ever seen.
Many eyes are on New Zealand as the damaging whistle blower data reveals the unprecedented carnage from the vaccine rollout and, while the authorities are more concerned with a possible privacy breach, it is clear they are in significant damage control behind the scenes as the data adds to the evidence of a likely global crime against humanity.
In recent weeks, there’s been international concern about reports of alarmingly high death rates reported at certain vaccination centres in New Zealand. Whistleblower, Barry Young, has come forward with shocking allegations revealing this disturbing trend. The New Zealand government’s data, which he released into the public domain, raises serious questions about whether these deaths can be attributed to natural causes or if they are, in fact, part of a sinister plot known as democide.
On the 5th of March 2021 Senior Police Constable Dan Picknell, an experienced frontline officer with over 19 years service, raised serious concerns formally with Police Commissioner Andrew Coster about the New Zealand Government’s COVID-19 Health Response, highlighting potential criminality and harms to the New Zealand Public as a result.
Subsequently, senior Constable Dan Picknell had numerous interactions with senior police leaders up until his resignation from New Zealand Police in early June 2022 around the concerns raised, as well as the actions of Commissioner Coster and other Police staff.
During this time NZ Police were not willing to investigate or consider any of the issues identified, in particular harms caused by COVID-19 injections, despite over 66,000 New Zealanders having reported adverse reactions to CARM from minor health issues through to serious injury and death. Any other medical product with this level of harm would have been removed in a very short time.
NZDSOS is very familiar with this pattern of obfuscation and denial from NZ Police, having reported many specific cases of sudden death shortly following COVID-19 injections to them, with a request for investigation. Our communications with Police, and all other agencies, can be found here. Emails obtained by us show that senior Police worked hard (and successfully) to shield Commissioner Coster from knowledge of or responsibility for our reports.
However, senior police staff did make disclosures and comments to Senior Constable Dan Picknell. This led him to believe that Police management had lost sight of NZ Police values and obligations to protect the public and investigate possible crimes.
In October 2023 Dan Picknell sent an email to Commissioner Andrew Coster and the other Senior Police managers he had previously been dealing with, bringing attention to new evidence of Pfizer having provided a different COVID-19 immunisation product to New Zealand than the product that was given Provisional Consent by Medsafe thereby committing fraud, and being a potential reason for the mass injury of many of the recipients of this product in New Zealand.
Dan Picknell asked Commissioner Andrew Coster to provide an answer as to whether or not he would now act in accordance with the law and investigate the concerns raised that affect the majority of Kiwis who have been injected with a misrepresented and very dangerous product.
To date no response has been forthcoming so Dan Picknell has released his email as an open letter so the New Zealand public may be privy to his efforts to prevent any further harm to the people of New Zealand, and for the people of New Zealand to ask why Police have not acted when holding knowledge of serious wrongdoing from at least the 5th of March 2021. We are very grateful to Mr. Picknell for his courage, and committment to the New Zealand people.
Of his letter, he states
“In releasing the letter below dated October 20, 2023 as an open letter, my intention is to raise awareness to the people of New Zealand to the difficulties I have experienced communicating with Senior New Zealand Police over matters of importance and consequence to all Kiwis. To date despite me sending this letter to Police twice I have had no reply.
Because of this I have no confidence in Commissioner Coster’s ability to continue as Commissioner of New Zealand Police. I seek his resignation so that a full and thorough Police investigation and separate independent Public enquiry may be undertaken investigating the concerns I have raised around New Zealand’s COVID-19 response, the ensuing harms caused by the response and the actions or lack of, from those entrusted to protect us and ensure the interests of the New Zealand people are the first and foremost priority above all else.
It is my belief that Commissioner Coster has failed to maintain independence from any Minister of the Crown pursuant to section 16(2)(a)(b)(c) of the Policing Act 2008. This belief is strengthened by the Commissioner’s lack of response or action to legitimate concerns raised by NZDSOS and by comments Inspector Srhoj made when he visited me on behalf of Commissioner Coster and he told me that Police do not investigate Government.
For me Government is made up of Ministers representing the people, and these Ministers are people like the rest of us who like the rest of us can make poor decisions or be subject to coercion, bribery and or criminal activity. Ministers within Government are not exempt from the rule of law or from the consequences of breaking the law.
In the below letter I have made minor amendment from the original letter to protect individuals privacy around health-related comments that were made directly to me by the individuals. I have left the comments in because it highlights a lack of adherence to Police values within the highest levels of NZ Police to make these comments but still have been not prepared to speak up, investigate or take complaints of harm seriously.
There are many good people within NZ Police doing an often thankless job, I support the good work they do on behalf of us all. I do not support the poor leadership currently displayed within NZ Police.”
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Washington state lawmakers passed a bill (HB 1287) on April 15 which aims to stop the sale of new internal combustion-engine vehicles starting in 2030
HB 1287 – 2021-22 Concerning preparedness for a zero emissions transportation future.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling for the end of private car ownership in the name of saving the world from climate change by reducing the need for green tech resources.
Something to think about. Cars These 9 States Are Banning the Sale of Gas-Powered Cars More states are following California’s lead in ending the sale of new vehicles with internal combustion engines.
At least nine states are slated to join California in prohibiting the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.
California is gearing up to prohibit the sale of new gas-powered cars.
A measure approved by the California Air Resources Board in August 2022 requires all new cars, SUVs and pickup trucks sold in the state to generate zero tailpipe emissions by 2035.
The policy won’t take existing vehicles off the road, but automakers and car dealers will be restricted to selling electric vehicles and certain plug-in hybrids.
This story is part of CNET Zero, a series that chronicles the impact of climate change and explores what’s being done about the problem.
“Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse — and create more days filled with smoky air,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said. “Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels, threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.” Read more: What to Know About California’s Ban on Gas-Powered Cars The state’s Advanced Clean Cars II rule requires zero-emission vehicles to represent 35% of new cars and light trucks in lots by 2026, and then 68% by 2030, before reaching 100% in 2035.
When it comes to emissions, California is a bellwether: Nine states that link their standards to California’s have already announced plans to prohibit the sale of new
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