April 13, 2021 | Breaking: U.S. Pauses Johnson & Johnson Vaccine, Citing ‘Rare’ Blood Clots | By Children’s Defense Team | Source|
“The CDC and FDA called for a temporary but immediate halt to the use of J&J’s COVID vaccine while they investigate at least six cases of potentially dangerous blood clots in people who received the vaccine.”
“Federal agencies today said they will stop using the single-shot Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID vaccine at mass vaccination sites while they investigate the vaccine’s possible link to potentially dangerous blood clots. States and other providers also are expected to pause vaccinations.
In a joint statement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agencies said they are investigating six cases of blood clots in the U.S. All six occurred in women between the ages of 18 and 48, and symptoms occurred six to 13 days after vaccination.
One woman died and a second woman in Nebraska was hospitalized and is in critical condition, The New York Times reported.”
“The World Economic Forum launched the Data for Common Purpose Initiative (DCPI) in 2020 to collaboratively solve these challenges. It builds on the work undertaken at the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution over the past two years. This global multistakeholder project community of over 45 organizations in 20 countries is focused on:
– Surfacing opportunities for unlocking data for common purposes
– Creating and promulgating governance models that equitably apportion risks and rewards
– Articulating parameters for responsible, fair and ethical use of data.
The DCPI is exploring government-led data ecosystems as one instance where it could serve as a means to exchange data assets for the common good and to promote the transition to a data- driven economy.”
“In 2015, we estimated that over $400 billion dollars had been collected for fiber optic networks that were never deployed. We now know this failure to bring high speed broadband to America was one of the major culprits that caused the Digital Divide.”
April 9, 2021 | The Case to Break Up Big Telecom (& Big Cable)“Let’s just call it Break Up AT&T et al…. Again.” | by bruce kushnick | Medium | Source
Read the Report: The Case to Break Up the Big Telecom (& Big Cable)
“Over the last few years there has been a call to go after “Big Tech” companies, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. The “FTC” (“Federal Trade Commission”, as opposed to the “FCC”, the “Federal Communications Commission”) and Attorney General offices around the US are actively going after Facebook, and there are other cases against Amazon and Google, claiming ‘Big Tech’ is harming America due to monopolistic practices. (And this is on top of cases overseas against Amazon,Google and the other online companies.)
While there appear to be legitimate issues about market power in the ‘search’ and ‘online advertising’ markets, all of these services not only require that the user choose to visit these companies’ web presence, but a user must first have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that connects them to the broadband infrastructure, hopefully using a high-speed broadband connection. And these services are either using a wired connection or going over airwaves with wireless, which almost always ends up on the wired networks.
Big Bell Telecom
In the end, the overwhelming majority of connections are now controlled by a cartel, just a few companies dubbed: “Big Telecom” — AT&T, Verizon & CenturyLink, and “Big Cable”, Comcast & Charter. They control most of wires, most of the wireless business, and with the cable companies, they control the high-speed broadband access connectivity service, including the Internet to access websites and the new video streaming services, not to mention phone and bundled Cable TV services in America.
We will address ‘Big Cable’ in an upcoming report.
The Big Bell Telecom Monopoly
By the 1970’s, it was clear that the original AT&T had become a very powerful monopoly. It not only controlled the primary state telecommunications public utilities in most states, but it also controlled the long-distance service (calls between states) and it blocked competitors from using these networks. In 1984, 7 “Regional Bell Operating Companies”, “RBOCs”, were formed and each became the caretaker of a collection of these utilities. There were also independents like GTE or SNET (CT), and long-distance companies, including MCI.
The map shows how these Bell companies never left and divided up the country into land-based fiefdoms that do not seriously compete for wired phone and broadband services, even though that was a requirement of most of the mergers that made these three dominant holding companies.
In fact, there were attempts to change this outcome. The Telecom Act of 1996 opened these wires to competition, but with the help of the FCC, the cabal killed off most competition, including 7,000 independent ISPs;
By 2007, Humpty Dumpty had been put back together, as three, very large holding companies with specific geographic coverage. Moreover, they took over the independents; Verizon was the creation of Bell Atlantic adding the independent, GTE; AT&T purchased the independent SNET, claiming they would compete on the East Coast — which did not ever happen. Moreover, they gobbled up the long-distance business. SBC bought AT&T, which had been the largest long-distance company, and took the name AT&T around 2005, and Verizon bought MCI. These mergers effectively killed off the 2 largest competitors. (Ironically, Verizon later sold off a chunk of the GTE holdings to Frontier and its holdings in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, while AT&T sold them SNET.)
The Pandemic Woke Up America
Ironically, it took a Pandemic of major proportions, that forced a ‘stay-at-home’ mandate in America, to make the public notice that there were problems with America’s high-speed broadband service geographic coverage, the affordability of this connectivity access and thus their connection to the internet services.
Almost overnight, the terms “Digital Divide”, “Digital Inclusion” and “Digital Inequity” as well as “infrastructure” have filled the media. Congress, the FCC and almost every city, county and state in America is attempting to come to grips with the fact that large areas of rural America, as well as more localized problems in the inner cities, either any connectivity, low connectivity or don’t have high speed broadband available or worse, the services are just not affordable.
Unknown to most, starting in 1991, the “National Infrastructure Initiative”, (also known as the “Information Superhighway”), was announced as part of the Clinton-Gore campaign. The goal was to have America replace the aging copper wires with a fiber optic wire, and the companies went state-to-state to have laws changed, claiming they would build this fabulous fiber optic future if they were granted rate increases and given tax perks.
New Networks Institute, the IRREGULATORS (and before that Teletruth), have been calling for investigations of what is now AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink (now Lumen) for decades. In fact, we were featured on Bill Moyers on America, Emmy-nominated “The Net at Risk”, on PBS, in 2006, in a segment ironically called “The New Digital Divide” where we warned of this unholy outcome — slow, inferior, high-priced services that are deployed in the wealthier areas, with only 1 or 2 providers (a monopoly or duopoly), if at all.
In 2015, we estimated that over $400 billion dollars had been collected for fiber optic networks that were never deployed. We now know this failure to bring high speed broadband to America was one of the major culprits that caused the Digital Divide.
And in 2021, the issues we laid out have gotten worse. We are at the tipping point of the end game. Politicians and advocates call for throwing hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies at the problem. This is a bad idea.
There is no institutional memory and the companies have been able to even rewrite history. Today, almost everyone thinks there are no state telecommunications public utilities in place, that the wires are all unprofitable and that 5G wireless will fix it all. And there is no understanding that America has been giving these companies hundreds of billions of dollars in deregulatory favors, such as increased profits or major tax perks, not to mention the ability for the companies to continuously raise rates for decades with no investigation.
But there is a subplot: Dismantle the state utilities for wireless because it makes more money. The companies have been able to manipulate the FCC’s financial accounting rules that have been used to allocate expenses to the different lines of business so that local service and the utility pay the majority of costs. This has had multiple harms. First, it made the entire US wired infrastructure appear unprofitable. Worse, it is being done to ‘shut off the copper’ and dismantle the state utilities, diverting the construction budgets to fund the wireless deployments and leaving parts of cities and many rural areas as digital deserts, and it allowed for ‘harvesting’ of the local phone customers — raising rates continuously for 15 years. And depending on the state, this could be billions of dollars that should have been used to maintain and upgrade the state utilities to fiber optics.
The true irony is that while many of the advocates and politicians are calling to make the internet and broadband a utility — it already is and they just didn’t notice.”
“The IRREGULATORS will be presenting a series of reports and documentation to lay out a case to separate AT&T, Verizon and Centurylink from the state wired telecommunications public utilities they control and halt all cross-subsidies of the hundreds of subsidiaries that have turned the state wired networks into a cash machine, which was used especially for the build out of their wireless infrastructure. There should be enough funds to lower prices, solve the Digital Divide and upgrade the states and cities to fiber optic broadband.”
April 7, 2021 | 275 Sheriffs Sound Alarm on Border Crisis, Send Letter with Demands to Biden | Source | Link To Contact Informationfor Elected Public Servants |
Help America’s Sheriffs Keep Our Neighborhoods and Communities Safe by Halting Illegal Immigration
“America’s Sheriffs believe that the citizens we serve have an absolute expectation that our efforts will be rooted in public service rather than political self-service. This fundamental distinction is the only path forward to a safer, more prosperous nation.
America’s Sheriffs stand ready to work with you and your administration if you are willing to move in the right direction. Until that time, all of us will continue to uphold our oaths, enforce our sovereign authorities, fight for public safety, and keep our promises to the American people who have placed their trust in us.”
March 9, 2021 | TRUTH ABOUT MASKS | The Covid Blog | Source |
Surgical masks were used as torture tools at the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
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“40 years of research showing mask ineffectiveness, harm to humans
The evidence is crystal clear: masks cannot and do not prevent the spread of communicable diseases and are essentially petri dishes that grow fungi and bacteria that you are breathing in all day while wearing said masks. Not to mention, masks are produced in squalid, unsanitary conditions around the world.
Surgeons have long debated whether wearing masks was beneficial to them and their patients. The consensus is that masks are unnecessary and probably do more harm than good.
COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a March 8, 2020 interview on “60 Minutes” interview that “nobody should be wearing masks.”
He was right, based on well-established research from the medical industry. This list will expand. But here is the well-established science regarding masks, with the name of the scientific journals as headings.”
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1981)
The study by Dr. Neil WM Orr states at the very beginning, “No masks were worn in one operating theater for six months. There was no increase in the incidence of wound infection.”
The study continues, “It would appear that minimum contamination can best be achieved by not wearing a mask at all” and that wearing a mask during surgery “is a standard procedure that could be abandoned. The conclusion is that the wearing of a mask has very little relevance to the well-being of patients undergoing routine general surgery and it is a standard practice that could be abandoned.” Read the full study here.
World Journal of Surgery (1991)
The abstract of this study by Dr. Th. Göran Tunevall says it all: “It has never been shown that wearing surgical face masks decreases postoperative wound infections. On the contrary, a 50% decrease has been reported after omitting face masks. The present study was designed to reveal any 30% or greater difference in general surgery wound infection rates by using face masks or not.”
The study concludes, “These results indicate that the use of face masks might be reconsidered. Masks may be used to protect the operating team from drops of infected blood and from airborne infections, but have not been proven to protect the patient operated by a healthy operating team.” In other words, wearing masks in public do nothing to protect other people from you if you’re sick. Read the full study here.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (2001)
Dr. Marcus W. Skinner and Dr. Brett A. Sutton conducted a meta-analysis. They searched the Medline database using the index terms “surgical mask,” “anaesthetist,” and “infection control.” All original studies published in peer-reviewed journals in the English language were reviewed, with no restrictions on year of publication. Thirty-seven (37) suitable journal articles were obtained, reporting on altogether 44 studies published between 1905 and 2000.
The study concluded, “There is little evidence to suggest that the wearing of surgical face masks by staff in the operating theatre decreases postoperative wound infections. Published evidence indicates that postoperative wound infection rates are not significantly different in unmasked versus masked theatre staff. However, there is evidence indicating a significant reduction in post-operative wound infection rates when theatre staff are unmasked.”
Finally, the study states, “A decision to eliminate masks would generate much discussion. The evidence for discontinuing the use of surgical face masks would appear to be stronger than the evidence available to support their continued use.” Read the full study here.
Neurocirugía – Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (2008)
Beder et al. set out to show “whether the surgeons’ oxygen saturation of hemoglobin was affected by the surgical mask or not during major operations.” Repeated measures, longitudinal and prospective observational studies were performed on 53 surgeons using a pulse oximeter pre and postoperatively.
The study revealed a decrease in the oxygen saturation of arterial pulsations (SpO2) and a slight increase in pulse rates compared to preoperative values in all surgeon groups. The decrease was more prominent in the surgeons aged over 35. Pulse rates of the surgeons increase and SpO2 decrease after the first hour. This early change in SpO2 may be either due to the facial mask or the operational stress.
Examination of the literature revealed much of the published work on the matter to be quite dated and often studies had poorly elucidated methodologies. As a result, we recommend caution in extrapolating their findings to contemporary surgical practice. However, overall there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that facemasks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination. More rigorous contemporary research is needed to make a definitive comment on the effectiveness of surgical facemasks.
In the medical field where common practice can so easily become dogma, it is necessary to recognise the constant need to maintain a healthy skepticism towards established beliefs and to periodically re-evaluate and critically assess their scientific merit. Read the full study here.
BMC Infectious Disease (2019)
Note: BMC Infectious Diseases is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases in humans, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
“Medical masks are commonly used in health care settings to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from respiratory and other infections. Airborne respiratory pathogens may settle on the surface of used masks layers, resulting in contamination. The main aim of this study was to study the presence of viruses on the surface of medical masks.”
“Conclusion: Respiratory pathogens on the outer surface of the used medical masks may result in self-contamination. The risk is higher with longer duration of mask use (> 6 h) and with higher rates of clinical contact. Protocols on duration of mask use should specify a maximum time of continuous use, and should consider guidance in high contact settings. Viruses were isolated from the upper sections of around 10% samples, but other sections of masks may also be contaminated. HCWs should be aware of these risks in order to protect themselves and people around them.”
By 26.10.2020 the registry had been used by 20,353 people. In this publication we report the results from the parents, who entered data on a total of 25,930 children. The average wearing time of the mask was 270 minutes per day. Impairments caused by wearing the mask were reported by 68% of the parents. These included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness (49%), reluctance to go to school/kindergarten (44%), malaise (42%) impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%). See full study here.
April 10, 2021 | Georgia site is fourth in US to pause Johnson & Johnson vaccine | By Kenneth Garger | New York Post | Source |
Eight people experienced lightheadedness after getting the shot Wednesday at the Cumming Fairgrounds. Getty Images
“A coronavirus vaccine site in Georgia became the fourth US location this week to pause its administration of the Johnson & Johnson jab after concerns over possible adverse reactions, a report said.
Eight people experienced lightheadedness after getting the shot Wednesday at the Cumming Fairgrounds, though health officials believe that could have simply been caused by the hot weather, WSB-TV reported.
“It was a fainting issue,” Dave Palmer, North Georgia Health District spokesperson, told the outlet.”
“Johnson & Johnson has paused its trial of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine following an unexplained adverse health event experienced by one of its participants.
The drugmaker didn’t say what the unexplained illness was out of respect for the patient’s privacy. However, the company said it adheres to guidelines which specify that trials must be halted if a serious reaction occurs that could potentially be related to the vaccine.
The company said Monday that the participant’s illness is “being reviewed and evaluated.”
“Adverse events — illnesses, accidents, etc. — even those that are serious, are an expected part of any clinical study, especially large studies,” Johnson & Johnson said.” LINK
“Why is it any of our business whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or part of Russia? Why is it any of our business if the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine prefer being aligned with Russia?”
April 5, 2021 | Why is the Biden Administration Pushing Ukraine to Attack Russia? | BY Ron Paul | Campaign for Liberty |Source
“On March 24th, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back Crimea from Russia.
The declaration that Ukraine would take back Crimea from Russia also followed, and was perhaps instigated by, President Biden’s inflammatory and foolish statement that “Crimea is Ukraine.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was a chief architect of the US-backed coup against Ukraine in 2014, continued egging on the Ukrainians, promising full US support for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine. Many Americans wonder why they are not even half as concerned about the territorial integrity of the United States!
Not to be outdone, at the beginning of this month US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – who previously served on the board of missile-maker Raytheon – called his counterpart in Ukraine and promised “unwavering US support for Ukraine’s sovereignty.” As the US considers Crimea to be Ukrainian territory, this is clearly a clear green light for Kiev to take military action.
Washington is also sending in weapons. Some 300 tons of new weapons have arrived in the past weeks and more is on the way.
As could be expected, Moscow has responded to Zelensky’s decree and to the increasingly bellicose rhetoric in Kiev and Washington by re-positioning troops and other military assets closer to its border with Ukraine. Does anyone doubt that if the US were in the same situation – for example, if China installed a hostile and aggressive government in Mexico – the Pentagon might move troops in a similar manner?
But according to the media branch of the US military-industrial-Congressional-media complex, Russian troop movements are not a response to clear threats from a neighbor, but instead are just more “Russian aggression.”
The unhinged US “experts” behind the 2014 coup against the elected Ukrainian president are back in power and they are determined to finish the job – even if it means World War III! The explicit US backing of Ukraine’s military ambitions in the region are a blank check to Kiev.
But it is a check that Kiev would be wise to avoid cashing. Back in 1956 the US government pumped endless propaganda into Hungary promising military backing for an uprising against its Soviet occupiers. When the Hungarians, believing Washington’s lies, did rise up they found themselves all alone and facing Soviet retaliation.
Despite the cruel US propaganda, at least Eisenhower was wise enough to realize that no one would benefit from a nuclear war over Budapest.
Why is it any of our business whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or part of Russia? Why is it any of our business if the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine prefer being aligned with Russia?
Why, for that matter, are unproven allegations of Russian meddling in our elections a violation of the “rules-based international order” but an actual US-backed coup against an elected Ukrainian government is not?
We are seeing foreign policy made by Raytheon and the other US military contractors, through cut-outs in government like Austin and others. Feckless US foreign policy “experts” believe their own propaganda about Russia and are on the verge of taking us to war over it.
It seems as if Americans are sleepwalking through this dangerous minefield. Let us hope they soon wake up before we’re all blown up.”
The release of genetically engineered (GE) microbes into the environment (deliberate or otherwise) is a direct threat right now to you and your family because it can elicit long-term, large-scale, and potentially irreversible changes to the environment, communities, and ecosystems. The current regulatory framework is wholly inadequate and outdated, lagging far behind the technology and the threat it brings.
In most countries, genetically engineered microbes can be released without meaningful government oversight. And despite the pandemic, scientists around the world continue to engineer pathogens that could prove devastating if they escaped.
It’s high time we learn our lessons and ACT NOW with the appropriate safeguards to prevent a disaster.
But here’s the good news.
It’s not too late and a solution is at hand.
With this new technology comes a new responsibility for humanity. Updated laws and informed policies can help protect us from the intentional release of engineered microbes as well as from any accidental release from facilities using and storing these microbes and pathogens.
The pandemic woke people up to the potential dangers of microbes and viruses–at the same time that genetic engineering became so cheap and easy (through gene editing) that virtually, anyone can genetically engineer and release microbes.
There has never been a better time to rally people and governments to safeguard our planet from potential catastrophes caused by engineered microorganisms.
The threat is real and it is already happening.
Help create the solution.
Please join us in this global endeavor. It’s easy – just sign your name to send a strong message to the US Administration, EU Parliament, European Commission, and key decision-makers around the world.”
“The mouthpieces of the scientific establishment have identified the latest global security threat: antiscience. So what does that mean, exactly? Whatever they want it to mean, of course! This week on The Corbett Report podcast, James explores the game of Science Says that the self-appointed experts are playing with the public and outlines how that game is about to get a whole lot darker.”
February 26, 2021 | Covid Is Emerging As A Hoax Like Russiagate | Guest Contributions | Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy | Source
“Scientists Show COVID Tests Are ‘Useless’, Are Based on ‘Flawed Science’
The ‘worldwide misdiagnosis of infections’ stemming from the tests has resulted in ‘stringent lockdowns which have destroyed many people’s lives and livelihoods,’ the scientists argue.
