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White House Orchestrated Cover-Up of COVID Vaccine Heart Damage

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By  Mike Capuzzo

Freedom of Information Act emails obtained by DailyClout show high-level officials at the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatricians knew COVID-19 vaccines were linked to myocarditis and death, yet doubled-down on vaccine mandates.

The emails show the White House communications team struggling to craft a cover-up message on email chains that included Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to President Biden; CDC Director Rochelle Walensky; Dr. Janet Woodcock, then-acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Dr. Francis Collins, then-director the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A number of high-level public health officials worked with upper-echelon leadership to craft a “Myocarditis Email” that minimized the relationship between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and myocarditis,” said Amy Kelly, program director for the War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Project.

According to Kelly, the officials included: Ian Sams, COVID-19 response and special assistant to the president and senior advisor and spokesman for the White House; Abbigail Tumpey, then-associate director for communication science for the CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure; and Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman, CDC lead on maternal immunization and CDC chief of Infant Outcomes Monitoring Research and Prevention Branch.

The FOIA emails were obtained by Edward Berkovich, one of 250 volunteer attorneys Kelly oversees on the DailyClout and War Room Project to analyze the court-ordered, FDA-released 450,000 pages of Pfizer’s records on its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine — records the drug maker tried unsuccessfully to keep private for 75 years.

The War Room-DailyClout Project was founded by bestselling author and journalist Naomi Wolf, a former advisor to the Clinton campaign, in collaboration with Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Trump and podcaster on “The War Room.”

In addition to volunteer attorneys, Kelly oversees approximately 3250 volunteer doctors, nurses, scientists and others who are reviewing the documents. They’ve issued 89 investigative reports, including the Oct. 18 report on the myocarditis cover-up evident in FOIA emails.

“Astonishingly, the emails reveal that the most senior of leaders, all the way up to the White House, knew about heart damage linked to mRNA vaccines,” Kelly said. “Yet they “colluded behind the scenes to conceal this side effect from the American people.”

Anyone can study the three FOIA releases of emails at dailyclout.io, Kelly said.

“What I think most important is to see who all is involved,” she said. “I believe 105 different people are on the emails, a whole slew of people at the White House, CDC, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIAID, Pfizer, some children’s hospitals and organizations and some other external people,” Kelly said.

“My takeaway from seeing this is that everyone, all over the public health agencies, knew there was an issue” with myocarditis dangers linked to the COVID-19 vaccines, Kelly said. Yet “when you read through the emails, you see they are crafting messages to downplay the significance of myocarditis and the vaccines, all the the way up to the White House.”

Emails show the Israeli Ministry of Health tried to alert the CDC in late February 2021 to the problem, Kelly said.

“They said, ‘We’re seeing a myocarditis signal and we’re happy to share information with you,’” she said. “The CDC actually didn’t even respond to the first email as far as I can tell. So the Israeli Ministry of Health emailed again March 2, ‘Hey we’re seeing this myocarditis signal, we’re concerned, let’s discuss it if you want.’”

White House created 17-page script to ‘keep everyone on message’The FOIA email trove was a frequent topic of discussion Saturday at the “Summit for Truth,” which brought together leaders of the health freedom movement at the Bethel Christian Fellowship church and community center in downtown Rochester, New York.

Wolf was the keynote speaker in a lineup that included Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Ryan Cole, attorney Bobbie Ann Cox, and Brownstone Institute publisher and writer Jeffrey Tucker.

Wolf spoke about her journey from feminist icon to outcast from the liberal media establishment when she questioned the safety of the COVID-19 shots.

She has written two books on her experience investigating and reporting on the pandemic. They include, “The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human,” and the forthcoming “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age.”

During a panel discussion Saturday, Wolf called the White House involvement in a cover-up of vaccine dangers “absolutely shocking.”

Berkovich’s FOIA request was aided by “a whistleblower at the CDC,” Wolf said, who was “throwing the White House under the bus.”

“In addition to the pages he had asked for, he got 46 pages he didn’t request that showed the White House communications team was “freaking out at the highest levels in April of 2021, because news of blood clots and heart damage had reached them,” Wolf said.

“Instead of coming clean with the American people and pulling this injection off the market, they looped in Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, Dr. Walensky and created a script,” she said.

It was “a 17-page script, their word, which is wholly redacted, to keep everyone on message and downplay the dangers. And in fact if you recall from 2021, rather than pulling this injection off the market, they mandated it. They doubled down and mandated it.”

Wolf said the emails reveal “a massive crime.”

They show a template was prepared to email to “POTUS, which stands for president of the United States,” to keep the president up to date on the email discussions among the top U.S. public-health officials on myocarditis and vaccines, Wolf said.

“Dr. Wallensky was on the emails, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins,” she said. “The entire White House communications team was driving the discussion.”

“They were reacting to the fact that blood clots and heart damage had been presented to them at scale and that the American Association of Pediatrics was warning them about myocarditis in teens, a serious, sometimes fatal disease that needs constant management. Instead of coming clean with the American people…they doubled down and made a strategy to cover it up.”

Public-health officials went ahead with mandates for the Pizer COVID-19 vaccine, “knowing it was killing people,” Wolf said.

Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most highly published cardiologists in the world, said the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines should have been pulled from the market in January 2021, after “no more than 50 deaths” — the previous government standard to guarantee the safety of a biologic product.

McCullough said FDA records show the agency expected a myocarditis risk from the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines as early as Oct. 22, 2020.

Nearly two months later, Pfizer “covered up 38 additional deaths” linked to their vaccine before the Dec. 10, 2020 meeting of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.

“If they had reported these deaths, there would have been a three- to four-fold excess cardiovascular risk with Pfizer in the core slides at the Dec. 10, 2020 meeting and Pfizer would never have been approved,” he said.

McCullough said the myocarditis cover-up has killed untold thousands of Americans.

He pointed to his research paper with other scientists including Dr. William Makis. They performed a systematic review of “all published autopsy reports involving COVID-19 vaccination-related myocarditis” through July 3, 2023.

The paper concluded “there is a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and death from suspected myocarditis in cases where sudden, unexpected death has occurred in a vaccinated person.”

McCullough and colleagues concluded that “urgent investigation is required for the purpose of risk stratification and mitigation in order to reduce the population occurrence of fatal COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis.”

Dr. Bruce Boros, a Key West, Florida cardiologist who was one of the first American physicians to use ivermectin for early COVID-19 treatment based on his resarch of the emerging literature, said recent studies show that the RNA from the COVID-19 vaccines “goes right to the heart.”

A study that applied the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine to heart muscle cells in culture “showed direct evidence that within 48 hours there was heart dysfunction, mechanical and electrical chaos,” Boros said.

Young athletes dropping dead from heart failure at unprecedented rates are “almost assuredly suffering” myocarditis symptoms brought on by the shots, he said.

“Everybody who received the shot had some damage to the heart muscle,” Boros said. “They knew it in the preclinical studies and they covered it up. All the signals were there, the FDA went ahead and approved it anyway.

“It’s all a money game, a eugenics game, and they’re  continuing to say you need to get a booster,” Boros said. “Now every child in the world should get this shot for a virus that has been falsely normalized as dangerous when the risk, especially for children, is essentially zero when it comes to death,” he said.

“It saddens me,” Boros concluded. “We need to remember this was created as a bioweapon, and hold our government accountable.”

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/white-house-cover-up-covid-vaccine-heart-damage/

8-Year-Old Israeli ‘Poster Child’ for COVID Vaccines Dies of Sudden Cardiac Arrest

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Eight-year-old Yonatan Moshe Erlichman, who was featured in a 2020 Israeli commercial promoting COVID-19 vaccinations for children, died last month of sudden cardiac arrest. Israel, a “lab for Pfizer,” showed a significant myocarditis safety signal soon after introducing the shots.

Yonatan Moshe Erlichman, the son and grandson of prominent Israeli doctors, almost drowned in the bathtub after his heart stopped on the eve of Yom Kippur. Although paramedics were able to revive him, he died several days later on Sept. 28.

In 2020, Erlichman appeared in a video with Shuski, described as a “friendly puppet ‘child,’” urging viewers to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it became available.

Describing Erlichman as the “poster child” for Israel’s vaccine campaign, LifeSiteNews shared the government-sponsored video featuring the boy, released just prior to the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccines in Israel.

Here is a partial translation of the tweet (via Google Translate):

“Doesn’t that shock you? Where are the headlines? The investigations? How many more children will die on the golden altar?

“And in particular, there are already two controlled studies that show that the mRNA vaccines cause cardiac problems … How much more will you deny?

“Remember that at any given moment, this can happen to your beloved children and grandchildren.”

Another tweet questioned why the story was not on televised news, but only in local and religious press. The person reported that the family was “scared to death and were trying to keep the story quiet.”

The boy’s family released the following statement:

“Our Yonatan Moshe passed away a short time ago. On the eve of Yom Kippur, Yonatan went into cardiac arrest in our home, and since then we fought by his side after he collapsed. We thank all those dear to us who were by our side in the last days of his life.”

Netanyahu bragged about making Israel a ‘lab for Pfizer’

Israel is one of the most mRNA-vaccinated countries on Earth, with more than 70% of its people over 16 receiving at least two doses by April 2021.

In November 2020, Israel’s government signed an agreement with Pfizer to acquire 8 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, which the government began distributing in December 2020.

In exchange for receiving the vaccine ahead of other countries, Israel agreed to provide Pfizer with epidemiological data to help the vaccine maker evaluate the efficacy and reactogenicity of the vaccine.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was able to make Israel “the lab for Pfizer” because “98% of our population has digitized medical records” that would — when combined with his country’s “genetic database” — facilitate granular reporting of the vaccine’s impact on the country’s citizens.

With this data, “you can create a biotechnological industry that is unheard of … unimagined even,” he said.

 

Dr. Sabine Hazan, a gastroenterology specialist in Ventura, California, weighed in on Netanyahu’s Pfizer deal:

 

In light of Erlichman’s death and echoing Hazan’s tweet, Dr. Robert Malone last week expressed concern that a combined genetic and medical database could aid the development of bioweapons capable of targeting specific ethnic groups.

He noted that “the engineered SARS-CoV-2 virus appears to be more severe with specific populations that have more ACE2 receptors on their cell surfaces” and asked, “Was this a bioweapon?”

CDC failed to publicize 2021 Israeli myocarditis data in a timely manner

Information provided to Children’s Health Defense (CHD) last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following a Freedom of Information Act request showed the CDC received a report in February 2021 about post-injection myocarditis from the Israel Ministry of Health.

The report stated, “We are seeing a large number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in young individuals soon after Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. We would like to discuss the issue with a relevant expert at CDC.”

Even though a significant myocarditis safety signal was visible both in the U.S. and Israel just months after the COVID-19 vaccines were made available, the CDC failed to alert the public until May 2021, after half the eligible U.S. population had already received the vaccine.

In June 2021, Israel released an official report confirming mRNA-related myocarditis in young men, especially those ages 16-24, who showed a rate of up to 25 times higher than typically observed in the Hadassah Medical Center.

A September 2022 Israeli study found the incidence of myocarditis within 30 days of the second Pfizer shot was 2.35 times higher than in the unvaccinated, with the risk for males ages 16-19 presenting as nearly 1 in 1,000.

Credit: RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak”

Although the Israeli study was quick to point out that the risk of myocarditis was milder after the third Pfizer (first booster) shot, Dr. Peter McCullough warned last week at a hearing of the Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee in the Arizona Senate that the effects of post-vaccine myocarditis can be delayed for years.

After summarizing the science around the spike protein’s effect on the heart, including reports from post-injection autopsies, McCullough related the story of an athlete who died during a heart stress test two years after being vaccinated.

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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/yonatan-moshe-erlichman-cardiac-death/?utm_id=20231024

Would Israel Use Its Not-So-Secret Nuclear Arsenal If The War Expands Beyond Gaza?

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There is a prevailing expectation for the developing war in the Middle East – If Israel commits to a ground invasion the conflict will expand to the rest of the region.  Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen and others will react with a troop buildup or will engage with Israel outright, even with the presence of two US carrier groups.  The rhetoric is swirling around what might happen should this chain of dominoes fall, but the most common prediction is that Israel would lose in a multifront war unless US forces intercede.

There is, however, another scenario that most analysts rarely if ever consider.  It’s one of the biggest non-secret secrets in the proliferation of armaments – Israel has a nuclear arsenal and has been developing it since the late-1950s.

In 1958 the Eisenhower Administration discovered a secret nuclear reactor in Negev desert of Israel that was disguised as the development of a textile manufacturing plant.  Also known as the Dimona nuclear site, the reactor was built with French assistance and utilized heavy water purchased from Norway through a deal brokered by the UK government. The project was designed to experiment with plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.

A Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE 100-8-60 from 8 December 1960) formally determined that “Israel is engaged in construction of a nuclear reactor complex in the Negev near Beersheba” and “plutonium production for weapons is at least one major purpose of this effort.” The SNIE estimated “that Israel would produce some weapons grade plutonium in 1963-64 and possibly as early as 1962.” A significant portion of the SNIE is still classified.

The Israeli nuclear arsenal is now suspected to include hundreds of warheads capable of being delivered by several methods.  These include gravity bombs dropped by F-16s, cruise missiles fired from mobile platforms and even submarines with modified cruise missiles.  Interestingly, Israel just launching a large new class of submarine this summer called the DolphinI/II which appear to carry much bigger missiles than previous submarines.  These subs may in fact be capable of carrying and launching nuclear weapons and could strike almost anywhere in the world.

The most likely use of nuclear weapons by Israel, though, would be as a deterrent to wider war.  The international agreement Israel follows requires that they not be the first nation in the Middle East to “introduce” such weapons.  The word “introduced” has been interpreted very broadly to mean that Israel will not ever officially admit they have nuclear weapons, thereby spurring an arms race.

That said, a deterrent weapon is not much of a deterrent unless your enemies know you have it.  This might explain why Israeli officials have hinted at the existence of nukes in the past, calling them “other capabilities” in discussions on Israeli defense.

The employment of nukes is another matter entirely.  It would seem that a number of nations are ready to engage with Israel in direct warfare in the wake of the attack by Hamas, merely waiting for Israel to strike back with a significant ground force.  These governments might have forgotten Israel has nukes, or, they might believe that Israel would never dare use them.  This is a dangerous assumption.

Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid noted in a discussion on defense last year that Israel has “other capabilities” (i.e. nukes):

“The operational arena in the invisible dome above us is built on defensive capabilities and offensive capabilities, and what the foreign media tends to call ‘other capabilities.’ These other capabilities keep us alive and will keep us alive so long as we and our children are here…”

In other words, Israel intends to use their nuclear capabilities should their civilization come under threat.

Strategically speaking, Israel is well placed for the employment of nukes, given all of its enemies are east or north of the nation’s position, which means Israel would not have to worry about suffering from the radioactive fallout from its own weapons.  But, this fallout could affect nations like Iraq and Iran, thereby giving them license to join in the war when they might otherwise abstain.  Obviously this would have far reaching implications for the rest of the world, including escalation with nuclear powers such as Russia and China.

The real question is not “if” Israel would use nukes, but under what conditions?  How bad does the situation have to get before a nuclear response is assured?  Given the rhetoric of previous Israeli leaders on defense, it would not take much.  A war on more than one front leading to an uncontrolled breach of Israel’s border could be all the excuse the country needs.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/would-israel-use-its-not-so-secret-nuclear-arsenal-if-war-expands-beyond-gaza

Hamas shows off entire bunker room floor covered with U.S./Swedish M136 LAWs, British/Swedish NLAWs, and possibly U.S. M141 rocket launchers.

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(In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful…..)

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Decontaminating Fukushima: are the billions spent worth it?

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The Conversation, Jim Smith, Professor of Environmental Science, University of Portsmouth, October 24, 2023

The Chernobyl and (to a lesser extent) Fukushima nuclear accidents contaminated large areas of land with low-level radioactivity. After both accidents, huge efforts were taken to decontaminate the affected areas.

But a recent study at Fukushima raises doubts about whether these decontamination efforts were worthwhile. Less than one-third of the population has returned to the evacuated zones and extensive areas of forest in the region remain contaminated.

Following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, approximately 1,100 square kilometres were evacuated, resulting in the relocation of more than 100,000 people from their homes. A contaminated area about eight times larger remained inhabited, albeit subject to continuous radiation monitoring.

The dominant source of radiation exposure for people stemmed from gamma rays emitted by contaminated soils, pavements, roads and buildings. The objective of the decontamination operation was to ensure that the general public received an annual dose from Fukushima’s radioactivity of less than 1,000 microsieverts (µSv) above the natural background level. The average natural radiation dose in Japan stands at 2,200 µSv per year.

Radiocaesium, which is the most important long-lived radioactive element emitted by the accident in terms of radiation dose, adheres to soil particles very strongly. Consequently, the decontamination of agricultural land primarily involved removing the top 5cm of soil. In urban areas, decontamination efforts entailed the removal of topsoil from sports fields, as well as sandblasting or pressure washing hard surfaces, and pressure washing drains and gutters.

These efforts reduced doses by about 60% in residential areas and farmland, allowing people to return to their homes in a large part of the evacuated area. This is a far cry from Chernobyl, where extensive decontamination initiatives were ultimately abandoned, leaving huge evacuated areas that remain empty to this day. But was undertaking decontamination in Fukushima worthwhile?

Costs and benefits

Decontaminating the land in Fukushima has cost tens of billions of dollars. The process has, unfortunately, also caused substantial radiation exposure for the workers involved, and has generated huge amounts of radioactive soil waste. But the question of whether to decontaminate land is complex and only partially related to scientific evidence.

On the one hand, decontamination provides reassurance that radiation is being “cleaned up” and that doses are being reduced. But it can also give the impression that low-level radiation is more dangerous than it actually is.

Dose rates were not dangerously high in many areas of Fukushima that were subject to decontamination. In fact, doses were relatively low in the first year following the accident (less than 12,000 µSv), and these levels decreased significantly in subsequent years.

These levels fall within the natural range people are exposed to from radioactivity in rocks, soils, building materials and cosmic radiation worldwide (typically between 1,000 µSv and 10,000 µSv per year, but sometimes higher).

On balance, I think the reassurance that contamination was being cleaned up was valuable in many areas where people remained living. Decontamination also allowed agricultural land to be returned to productive use more quickly. However, the process of removing topsoil had the side effect of damaging soil fertility.

Accidental rewilding

In the evacuated zone where dose rates were around ten times higher, it’s less clear that decontamination was beneficial. Only 30% of people have returned to their homes in the decontaminated part of this area and much of the land in the most contaminated so-called “difficult to return zone” remains abandoned.

A better option may have been to declare most of this zone a nature reserve and allow managed rewilding of the area. Rewilding is happening to a large extent anyway, as it has at Chernobyl. It would also have avoided decontamination workers being exposed to radiation and allowed more financial support to help people relocate.

But this is a complex decision that needs to consider the views of many stakeholders, not least the evacuated people themselves.

Fukushima’s contaminated forests

The land in and around the region’s towns and villages has generally been decontaminated effectively. However, much of the Fukushima Prefecture (71%) is covered by forest. Most of this forest remains contaminated.

The persistence of radiocaesium in ecosystems, particularly in forests, has been known for many decades. Globally, radiocaesium levels in wild foodstuffs such as mushrooms, edible plants, game animals and freshwater fish tend to be higher than those found in agricultural systems.

Wild boar in certain regions of Germany, for instance, still exhibit radicaesium levels exceeding consumption limits as a consequence of both Chernobyl and historical nuclear weapons testing. Restrictions on the consumption of forest products have lasted for decades following the Chernobyl incident. And they are expected to persist in many forested areas of Fukushima too.

Radiocaesium lingers in forests due to the prevalence of organic soils and the absence of fertiliser application. Low nutrient levels facilitate the absorption of radiocaesium by plants. This is mainly attributed to radiocaesium’s chemical similarity to potassium, a crucial plant nutrient.

Forests do pose a wildfire risk. There have been many forest fires in the vicinity of Chernobyl since the accident. But radiation doses from smoke inhalation are extremely low, even for firefighters, and the fires have not significantly redistributed radioactivity.

There are no easy answers regarding clean up after a nuclear accident. Japan has made huge and often successful efforts to reduce radiation doses and reassure people living in or returning to the affected areas. But low-level radiation remains everywhere, particularly in forests……….. https://theconversation.com/decontaminating-fukushima-have-the-billions-spent-been-worth-it-215836

French Farmers Protest Ban on Cheap Russian Fertilizer

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FRANCE – Farmers spray dirt on government buildings, in protest against the ban on the import of cheap Russian fertilizer.

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Netanyahu’s Strategic Dilemma

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Israel is a colonial settler state in permanent conflict with the suppressed natives.

It thought it could survive in that state, or even extend its settlements, by deterring opposing forces with its superior military.

Hamas has breached that deterrence myth by inflicting, in one day, more casualties in Israel than it had experienced in any previous wars.

Natanyahoo is under pressure to restore the deterrence, to again provide the Zionists with a feeling of superiority.

He can not do that.

Any land attack in Gaza means urban warfare in an already destroyed city with large underground facilities. During the taking of Bakhmut the Wagener forces had in total some 40,000 casualties (dead and wounded). The other side had more than 70,000. What price would the IDF have to pay to ‘destroy Hamas’?

The other factor is of course Hizbullah and other resistance groups, which may well attack Israel from the north and various other directions. Hizbullah has loudly said it would do so should the IDF enter Gaza. It has some 100,000 missiles – more than enough to exhaust Israel’s air defenses. Its longest reach missiles can attack any major city within Israel. There have already been daily fire exchanges at the norther border.

The 2006 war in Lebanon has shown that Hizbullah is dug in and very able to defend itself. It has since gained more experience by fighting ISIS in Syria. Neither U.S. air force attacks nor a land force invasion can hinder Hizbullah from firing its missiles.

(Syria, as well as Iran, will not intervene in the war unless they are directly attacked.)

Netanyahoo must attack Gaza to restore deterrence. He can not attack Gaza because the urban warfare would cause large Israeli casualties. He can not attack Gaza because Hizbullah would then destroy the myth of the superior settler state even more than Hamas has done so far.

Israel, with the help of the U.S., has tried to push the population of Gaza into Egypt. From Egypt’s standpoint that would be a humanitarian solution, at least as long as others pay for it. But it would cause a serious strategic problem. Resistance by Hamas and others against Israel would continue indefinitely, but Egypt would be held responsible for it. It can not and will not take on that burden.

Netanyahoo’s next idea was to starve Gaza. But the world will not let him do that. At least not beyond a certain point. Even the UN Secretary General has visited the Rafah crossing. Other global organizations, like the WHO and ASEAN, have spoken up. Pictures of starving people will make it impossible for the west to support that ‘solution’.

Meanwhile Hamas fighters will continue to sit in their tunnels, ready to defend their land, and likely with enough provisions to hold out for months.

Israeli settlers, with the support of the IDF, are rampaging through the West Bank. They are killing more Palestinians and further enrage the global public against their deeds. This will escalate.

Israel’s decision making is paralyzed. It will for now continue to talk of a ground invasion but will not launch one. It will also continue to starve Gaza.

But something will soon break. At any minute there might be a new large atrocity in Gaza or a pogrom in the West Bank. Any miscalculation in the north could launch that front into a hot war. Hizbullah could start to ‘preemptively’ invade Israeli proper.

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Via https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/netanyahoos-strategic-dilema.html

US still maintaining biological experimental facilities in Asia-Pacific, Africa

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Several Pacific countries have already demonstrated their frustration with the US-led biological experiments on their territories. (Representational image: Reuters)

By Anthony Bell

Financial Express

Despite heavy criticism, the United States of America (USA) biological and medical agencies and enterprises continue maintaining experiments and activities that may pose a threat of a biological leak. These activities have a vast geography stretching from Central and Eastern Europe to the Asia-Pacific Region. It is noteworthy that the aforementioned experiments seem to have no stop signs on their roads.

Several Pacific countries have already demonstrated their frustration with the US-led biological experiments on their territories. In December 2022, the members of the Makabayan coalition of the House of Representatives of the Philippines requested the country’s Congress to investigate the biological activities of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) at the Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (RADDL) in the city of Tarlac. According to the request, the US DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) had apparent and disguised objectives in the Philippines, which could have failed to meet the national interests of Manila. The members of the Parliament of the Philippines demanded that the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, and Department of National Defense (DND) thoroughly investigate the activities of the US military in the country. They also called the above-mentioned governmental bodies to issue a full report covering these works, as the citizens of the Philippines had raised some questions considering the fact why the DTRA, not the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), was responsible for civil and agricultural cooperation with the Pacific country.

Previously, Indonesia also declared the US military-led Naval Medical Research Unit Two (NAMRU-2) inexpedient and named its activities useless. The Indonesian authorities called for the cessation of its activities. The US DoD had to bring all its unfinished Indonesian-based projects to the territory of Cambodia.

The countries of Africa also sometimes question the US-led activities at facilities in their territories. The Ministry of Health of a Central African state is now studying the probability of a human-caused outbreak of an Ebola-based virus in September 2022. This concern has been caused by the fact that the Sudan artificially designed germ is fully identical to a virus that was circulating in Africa during the epidemic crisis of 2012.

The US Metabiota company was involved in the relief of the consequences of the Ebola epidemics in Western Africa. The company’s biological safety procedures were previously heavily criticized by the World Health Organization. (WHO). According to a report published by the non-profit Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), the employees of the Metabiota company did not keep biological safety requirements during the activities to counter the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone in 2015; they also did not report on the involvement of several US DoD experts in the counter-virus procedures. The specialists of the Pentagon were reported to have been dispatching the biological samples of the Ebola virus to the United States.

Along with Asia-Pacific and African countries, the US-driven biological activities are also stretched across the post-Soviet states. Under several programs initiated by the DTRA and other US governmental agencies and private companies, some former members of the Soviet Union host US-funded biological experiments. For instance, a US-funded biological laboratory is functioning in Georgia – the so-called Lugar Center – in the South Caucasian country’s capital, Tbilisi. The facility is functioning under the auspices of the US DoD USAMRU-G and some private companies affiliated with both DoD and DTRA under a state contract. The Level III laboratory is available only to the US citizens with access to classified information who feature diplomatic immunities under the U.S.-Georgian Agreement on Defense Cooperation. The Lugar Center works with a number of biological agents, including anthrax, tularemia and a number of highly contagious hemorrhagic fevers (for instance, the Crimea-Congo disease).

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Via https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-still-maintaining-biological-experimental-facilities-in-asia-pacific-africa-2/3105562/

Who Were Marx and Engels?

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Episode 2: Marx and Engels: An Intellectual Partnership

The Rise of Communism from Marx to Lenin

Dr Vejas Gabriel Liulevius (2019)

Film Review

Liulevius begins this lecture by reading from the report of a Prussian spy sent to London to spy on Marx in 1853. According to the report he, his wife and their six children lived in two shabby rooms, in which everything was tattered, broken and thick with dust. It describes Marx as “fond” of yelling and alcohol and often idle – with occasional sprees of intense work.

One of Marx’s major intellectual concerns was where the French Revolution went wrong, ending in a reign of terror (1793-94), in which many revolutionary leaders were executed and replaced with more conservatives ones.*

Socialism Before Marx

The aftermath of the French Revolution made socialism extremely popular across Europe and the US. It led to the formation of egalitarian intentional communities, such as the model factories of Robert Owen** and New Harmony and other utopian colonies (including the Shakers and the Amish) in the US.

Early pre-Marx socialists included Henri de St-Simon (who advocated owing all land and tools in common), utopian socialist Charles Fourier,*** and Fourier disciple Pierre-Joseph Proudon (who denounced centralized political control in favor of loosely linked communes).

Marx and Engels condemned all these movements “utopian.” They believed that the advent of industrialization enabled a new form of revolution led by the new industrial working class.

An Intellectual Partnership

Born in 1818 to a middle class family (his father was a lawyer) who converted to Christianity to avoid antisemitic persecution, Marx had a reputation for drinking and brawling while attending the University of Bonn. In 1842 he earned a doctorate in ancient Greek philosophy and married the daughter of a baroness Jenny von Westphalen.

His atheism and radicalism prevented him from obtaining an academic position. Instead he became a journalist for a radical newspaper in Cologne until the government shut it down. In 1843, he and his wife emigrated to France and in 1849 to London.

Engels was born in the Rhineland to wealthy family of factory owners. His father was a fundamentalist Christian. He also attended the University of Berlin, where he became a socialist. Handsome, attractive and generous, he was a marked contract to Marx, who tended to be quite abrasive. Although he never married, he had a long term relationship with a working class Irish woman and (following her death) her sister. In 1845 he moved to Manchester to work in his father’s factory. He and Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1847.

The latter asserts that all history is the history of class society. It describes the earliest societies as practicing primitive communism (with communal land ownership). This was followed by what Marx and Engels refer to as the Asiatic mode (where the state enslaves its members), followed by private slavery, followed by feudalism, followed by capitalism.

Marx and Engels asserted that true socialism could only come about from the forceful overthrow of existing social relations.They believed that under capitalism the bourgeoisie (merchant and trader class) tended to shrink while the proletariat increased. They predicted once it grew large enough, revolution would be inevitable.

They were very disparaging towards farmers (who they referred to as “sacks of potatoes”) asserting that they weren’t a genuine class. They also denounced Russia and small countries as unsuitable for communist revolution because their industrial working class was too small.

*The late economist Lyndon Larouche and his followers have written at length about the role of British intelligence in stoking the reign of terror that derailed the French revolution. See https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2002/eirv29n02-20020118/eirv29n02-20020118_044-why_france_did_not_have_an_ameri.pdf

**Welsh manufacturer and social reformer

*** Between 1840 and 1860 there were 30 utopian Fourist colonies in the US. The US formed 178 socialist communities in the 19th century.

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/11239598/11239602

Convoy of Relief Trucks en Route to Gaza Through Rafah Crossing

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A convoy of 17 trucks carrying humanitarian aid reached the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, before heading to the besieged Gaza Strip which is experiencing a humanitarian crisis due to Israeli airstrikes.

It is the second aid convoy to be sent to Gaza after the first convoy of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies entered the coastal enclave on Saturday.

Sunday’s aid consists of food, medical supplies, water, blankets, clothes, shrouds, and other items, said Ra’ed el-Gebaly, a volunteer with the Egyptian Food Bank.

The trucks, which have been prepared by the National Alliance for Civil Development Work, a coalition of Egyptian NGOs, in coordination with the Egyptian Red Crescent, are set to be delivered to humanitarians of the United Nations, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the Red Cross on the Gaza side.

“The aid supplies are still so much less than what is needed for a couple of million people besieged in Gaza who lacked basic needs under very difficult conditions,” said Abdel-Rahman Habat, basic needs portfolio manager at Cairo-based Life Makers Foundation, a NGO with the National Alliance for Civil Development Work.

“We try to contribute to relieving the suffering of the people of Gaza and we will continue to do so until we cover most of their needs,” he added.

About 200 more vehicles were waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing to enter Gaza. Egypt’s El-Arish airport and the Rafah crossing are “the lifelines to the people of Gaza,” United Nations Secretary Antonio Guterres said during his visit to Egypt last week.

For two weeks, Gaza has been under deadly Israeli siege and strikes. Over the last 24 hours, Israeli bombings killed 266 people. Hospitals remain without electricity due to lack of fuel.

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