Will a fake bird flu pandemic be the end of animal agriculture and usher in food rationing?

Alexis Baden-Mayer

Scamdemic Bird Flu: Vaccines for 33 Billion Chickens? Digital Food Rationing? The End of Animal Agriculture? The overhyped threat of a human bird flu pandemic is a hoax to “reset” our food system.

If the bird flu were to suddenly be transmissible from person-to-person, there would be every reason to suspect gain-of-function bioweapons research.

But, all the hype about whether the bird flu will become a human pandemic might just be a distraction.

There are certainly pharmaceutical companies that would benefit from a human bird flu pandemic, but the industry might make even more money “preventing” a human pandemic by vaccinating farm animals, especially the world’s 33 billion chickens.

So far, the government’s response to the bird flu has been to kill millions of chickens–85.87 million birds killed since 2022.

From an animal welfare perspective, it’s viciously cruel. From a sustainable agriculture perspective, it’s senseless. From a food justice perspective, it means skyrocketing food prices, more hungry people and worse food quality.

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The biggest meat companies would love to consolidate their control of the food system by getting rid of the last remaining independent family farmers.

The World Economic Forum, the billionaires and the biotech companies would love to replace real farms with fake food.

These same globalists are always looking for new reasons why countries should give up their national sovereignty over public health policy to the World Health Organization.

They might just want to pick up where their vaccine passport idea left off, and use digital IDs to ration food as Iran has done, and then replace the dollar with a Central Bank Digital Currency that functions as a social credit system.

Only time will tell. We must protect the world we love in the meantime. While you still can, buy your food directly from local family farms in cash!

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Seven Things to Know About the Bird Flu

1. If the bird flu is suddenly transmissible from person-to-person, suspect gain-of-function bioweapons research.

Even as the so-called “public health” establishment gins up human cases (it’s a safe bet that any factory farm worker would be sick and have viruses up their nose after breathing manure all day), they are currently insisting there’s no person-to-person spread, the public health risk is low and the food from animals that test positive is safe to eat.

But, as Christian Westbrook reported in 2022, former CDC Director Robert Redfield predicted on national television that bird flu will jump to humans and be highly fatal, triggering a “Great Pandemic” for which COVID-19 was a mere warm-up.

I suspect this is only fear-mongering to be used as an excuse to continue with the mass killing of asymptomatic birds and at some point “necessitate” the vaccination of billions of animals.

However, it wouldn’t completely surprise me if the “low public health risk” message coming out of U.S. regulatory agencies right now were to suddenly shift to “it’s an emergency” when they decide the timing’s right.

That would be like the COVID roll out, where the World Health Organization’s January 2020 “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” message switched in March 2020 to “Find, isolate, test and treat every case and trace every contact” ushering in global lockdowns and a race to vaccinate.

As with false flag attacks, it may very well be part of effective Plandemic storytelling to have a period of inexplicable inaction that can later be blamed for the situation metastasizing out of control and necessitating drastic action.

If that happens, there’s every reason to blame gain-of-function bioweapons research.

I’ve investigated the history of “gain-of-function” bioweapons research on the bird flu, and as I wrote in 2022, in “Stop Pandemic Bird Flu,” human adapted H5N1 has a very curious origin.

The first human H5N1 outbreak occurred in Hong Kong in 1997, the year of what the British call the “Hong Kong handover,” when sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from the U.K. to China.

It was during this “politically sensitive” year that Kennedy Shortridge, an Australian scientist who was the director of the World Health Organization’s reference laboratory at the University of Hong Kong, confirmed human cases of highly pathogenic bird flu.

Shortridge had been studying how avian influenza viruses might spread to humans since 1975. Prior to discovering H5N1, Shortridge eerily predicted its emergence.

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2. Spending millions of dollars to kill millions of chickens isn’t working.

The bird flu pandemic has been going on for decades, but it’s only affected poultry, so the cruelty, waste and illogic of the bird flu response has garnered little attention.

With COVID, people who are asymptomatic but test positive are expected to quarantine.

With bird flu, flocks that are asymptomatic but test positive are destroyed en masse.

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That’s what Will Harris of White Oak Pastures did. He raises healthy animals outdoors. In a recent video he makes the case that regenerative organic farmers have no reason to fear the bird flu.

Mass killings don’t make a lick of sense, that’s what’s been happening for 25 years as a national program and since the 1980s at the state level.

Since 2000, there’s been a national program to test farmed poultry under the National Poultry Improvement Plan’s “U.S. Avian Influenza Clean” program. There were state programs for universal bird flu testing that predate the national program.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza was considered a threat to egg, chicken and turkey farming, but HPAI did not exist in the United States, so the program tested for Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza, which caused few or no clinical signs in infected birds.

Even though they weren’t sick, birds that tested positive for LPAI were culled, based on the idea that the H5/H7 subtypes of low pathogenic avian influenza could mutate into highly pathogenic avian influenza.

An outbreak in 1983–1984 prompted the destruction of more than 17 million birds at a cost of nearly $56 million. The involvement of gain-of-function hall-of-shamer Yoshihiro Kawaoka in this incident and the fact that it predated the politically suspicious 1997 Hong Kong outbreak where there were human bird flu cases suggest that there’s more to this story than most people realized.

In 1996–1997, a number of table-egg farms in Pennsylvania tested positive for an H7N2 avian influenza virus that was nonpathogenic to chickens, but the Pennsylvania Agricultural Department ordered nine flocks to be depopulated.

In 2002, nearly 4 million birds were killed under State and Federal authority in Virginia and Texas due to outbreaks of H7 LPAI (in Virginia) and H5 LPAI (in Texas). The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s APHIS provided compensation to the poultry owners and contract growers at the rate of $10 per bird, spending close to $40 million on the effort.

In 2006, the national test-and-destroy program was expanded from breeding flocks to commercial poultry.

Spending millions of dollars killing millions of otherwise healthy birds every time a flock tested positive for Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza, didn’t keep Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at bay.

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3. Killing asymptomatic birds is cruel.

In 2021, the Humane Society of the United States, Mercy for Animals and Farm Sanctuary challenged the United States Department of Agriculture’s avian influenza response plan and won a settlement.

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In January 2023, the USDA published a Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, but has not yet taken further action.

Meanwhile, we’re in the midst of the largest ever destruction of flocks in history, which has been ongoing since 2022, with 85.87 million birds killed as of April 10, 2024.

These birds are not dying from the flu. They’re asymptomatic, they’re being massacred and the more birds are killed the more HPAI cases there are.

One hint that this is a scam is that the government and their stenographers in the media never mention how many birds die from the flu versus being killed for testing positive. Since we never hear about birds dying from the flu, we can only assume that all the birds being killed are asymptomatic.

4. Farmers aren’t complaining about killing asymptomatic birds, because they’re getting paid to do it.

The government is guaranteeing farmers and poultry companies market prices and disposal costs when they destroy their flocks. It’s hard not to see that as a perverse incentive for an industry that’s been getting bigger in a way that could only crash prices.

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5. The egg and chicken companies aren’t complaining; they’re enjoying higher prices. They don’t care if people go hungry.

COVID increased hunger. The cruel and wasteful bird flu strategy of killing asymptomatic birds could cause an even worse food crisis. Already, prices are rising.

Yahoo is reporting, “Eggs jumped to $3 per dozen in 2024, double the cost of $1.45 in February 2020. However, prices are down from 2023, when a dozen eggs cost $4.82, according to USA Today statistics.”

Fox News says, “Boneless chicken breast has increased in price 26%, from $3.26 per pound in January 2021 to $4.11 per pound in February 2024.”

Low supply means higher prices and lower quality.

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6. Higher egg and chicken prices, and lower quality, could make Frankenfoods more competitive.

While conscientious animal advocates are pressing the USDA to invest in higher-welfare farming to keep flocks healthy, Frankenfood vegans are cheering on HPAI, despite the mass killings, celebrating what they see as the inevitable triumph of synthetic genetically modified organisms over animal farming.

Factory farming is awful and it’s hard to be sympathetic to people in that industry, but synthetic biology and lab-grown meat aren’t any better. That switch would leave control of the food system in the hands of the exact same companies and evil billionaire investors–except with a tighter grip–and I wouldn’t put it past them to exaggerate, exacerbate or even plan a bird flu crisis to accomplish their goal of driving the last remaining independent farmers out of business and replacing real farms with fake food.

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In 2019, the World Economic Forum projected that one-third of the global meat supply would be displaced by fake meat within 10 years, in 20 years that would double to 60 percent, and “the disruptive effect of new biotechnology methods will go beyond meat into milk, egg white, gelatine and fish products.”

The World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-hosted the high-level 2019 COVID rehearsal Event 201, organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. That timely and eerily predictive tabletop exercise was funded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s Open Philanthropy.

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Could the bird flu be used as an excuse to shut down animal farming altogether?

From the perspective of the business interests and billionaires behind the World Economic Forum, that would be the perfect way to force a shift from real farms to fake food.

And, food rationing might be the easiest way for them to get people to adopt digital ID in anticipation of the imposition of central bank digital currency (CBDC).

As Christian Westbrook reported in 2022, this has already happened in Iran (“IRAN: Digital Food Rationing rolls out using Biometric IDs amid food riots”).

7. With 33 billion chickens to vaccinate globally, the pharmaceutical companies will get rich quick, but there are plenty of bad actors seeing opportunities in a food crisis.

There’s a significant overlap between the people, corporations and institutions involved in gain-of-function bioweapons research and those involved in the push to replace real farms with fake food. The thing that binds them is the technology. The same genetic engineering and synthetic biology techniques are used to create Frankenfoods and Frankenpathogens.

The links between these two worlds is exemplified by Ginkgo Bioworks, the leading genetic engineering and synthetic biology company, and Bayer (Monsanto)’s favorite organism company.

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And, then read this study Ginkgo Bioworks conducted that predicts animal-to-human infections could cause 12 times more deaths by 2050.

And, then consider that Ginkgo Bioworks is a World Economic Forum partner launched with support from Open Philanthropy and invested in by Bill Gates.

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Metabiota’s advisor was Jeffrey Epstein. Its funders were evil tech billionaires, the Pentagon and the CIA. Its lobbying firm was Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca. Its projects were bungling the 2014 Ebola response, setting up bird-flu biolabs in Ukraine, and collecting bat coronaviruses in China for Ralph Baric with EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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Via https://scamerica.substack.com/p/scamdemic-bird-flu-vaccines-for-33

Snowden Warns NSA “Just Days Away From Taking Over Internet”

Zero Hedge

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

In an April 16 post to X, Snowden drew attention to a thread originally posted by Elizabeth Goitein — the co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice — that warned of a new bill that could see the U.S. government surveillance powers amplified to new levels.

Source: Edward Snowden

The bill in question reforms and extends a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) known as Section 702.

Currently, the NSA can force internet service providers such as Google and Verizon to hand over sensitive data concerning NSA targets.

However, Goitein claims that through an “innocuous change” to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider” in the FISA 702 bill, the U.S. government could go far beyond its current scope and force nearly every company and individual that provides any internet-related service to assist with NSA surveillance.

“That sweeps in an enormous range of U.S. businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications transit. Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices.”

Additionally, the people forced to hand over data would be unable to discuss the information provided due to hefty gag order penalties and conditions outlined in the bill, added Goitein.

Source: Elizabeth Goitein

The bill initially received heavy pushback from privacy-conscious Republicans but passed through the U.S. House of Representatives on April 13.

Part of the pushback saw the bills’ proposed spying powers time-frame cut from five years to two years, as well as some minor amendments to the service providers included under the surveillance measures.

However, according to Goitein, the amendment did very little to reduce the scope of surveillance granted to the NSA.

In her view, the amendment could even see service providers such as cleaners, plumbers and IT service providers that have access to laptops and routers inside people’s homes be forced to provide information and serve as “surrogate spies,” claimed Goitein.

The bill has seen strong pushback from both sides of the political aisle, with several government representatives claiming the bill violates citizen’s constitutional rights.

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden described the bill as “terrifying” and said he would do everything in his power to prevent it from being passed through the Senate.

“This bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.”

Republican Congressperson Anna Paulina Luna, who voted against the bill in the House of Representatives, said Section 702 was an “irresponsible extension” of the NSA’s powers. Luna added that if government agencies wanted access to data, they must be forced to apply for a warrant.

The bill is slated for a vote on April 19 in the U.S. Senate.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nsa-just-days-away-taking-over-internet-warns-ed-snowden

Military Whistleblowers to Challenge Jan. 6 Claims

DC National Guard personnel stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (John Minchillo/AP Photo)

By Zachary Stieber

D.C. National Guard members who have never talked publicly are set to challenge claims about what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.

The members are going to testify on April 17 that narratives contained in an official report on Jan. 6 “are false,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) told The Epoch Times.

Brig. Gen. Aaron Dean, the D.C. National Guard’s adjutant general, and Capt. Timothy Nick, a top aide to the D.C. National Guard’s commanding general, will be speaking for the first time in public about the events that unfolded on Jan. 6.

D.C. National Guard Command Sgt. Michael Brooks, a senior officer with the Guard until he retired in 2022, and Col. Earl Matthews, a lawyer who was with Commanding General William Walker throughout the day, are also scheduled to testify to the House of Representatives Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight in the public hearing on Wednesday.

Command Sgt. Brooks has only offered brief comments on Jan. 6. Col. Matthews co-authored a previously-released memorandum with Major Gen. Walker, who is now retired, that challenged claims in an official report on Jan. 6 from the Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (DOD IG).

“We have several whistleblowers that have come forward and said a lot of what’s in that DOD IG report is false. It’s fabricated,” Mr. Loudermilk told The Epoch Times.

That includes purported calls in the 3 and 4 o’clock hours from Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Brig. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, an Army official who worked closely with Mr. McCarthy, to Major Gen. Walker. The calls have been described as authorizing the mobilization of Guard personnel and deployment of the personnel to the Capitol grounds.

“These witnesses say those phone calls were never made,” Mr. Loudermilk said.

“We stand by our January 6th Report and have no further comment at this time,” a DOD IG spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.

The Pentagon referred a request for comment to the Guard, which did not respond.

Both Col. Matthews and Major Gen. Walker have denied that Major Gen. Walker was called by Mr. McCarthy or Brig. Gen. LaNeve during the timeframe.

A D.C. Guard timeline supports their position. It says that acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller directed Major Gen. Walker at 3:11 p.m. to mobilize the Guard but that deployment orders did not come until 5:08 p.m., and that the orders were conveyed from Mr. Miller through Gen. James McConville, according to the timeline.

Other parts of the military, though, have said the calls took place.

An Army timeline says Mr. McCarthy called Major Gen. Walker at 2:47 p.m. and ordered the mobilization of Guard personnel. It says some of the personnel were deployed under orders from Mr. McCarthy at 5 p.m.

A Department of Defense timeline says Mr. McCarthy at 3 p.m. directed Major Gen. Walker to prepare Guard personnel for deployment and that the personnel deployed at 5:02 p.m.

The DOD IG report says Mr. McCarthy called Major Gen. Walker at 3:05 p.m. to mobilize Guard personnel. It says Brig. Gen. LaNeve called Major Gen. Walker at 4:25 p.m. and told him to prepare to move to the Capitol. Mr. McCarthy called Major Gen. Walker about 10 minutes later and told him to deploy personnel. The calls were attributed to the officials and notes from an aide to Mr. McCarthy.

Mr. McCarthy has said that the deployment order was conveyed through Brig. Gen. LaNeve as he was nearby. Brig. Gen. LaNeve told the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee that he did not convey a deployment order to Major Gen. Walker but that he heard Mr. McCarthy convey such an order on a call around 4:35 p.m. Mr. McCarthy has said that he did not speak to Major Gen. Walker during that timeframe.

Major Gen. Walker has said that the purported calls at 3:05 p.m., 4:35 p.m., and 4:35 p.m. did not take place. He said the deployment order was conveyed by Mr. McConville.

The deployment finally happened after repeated requests from Steven Sund, the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police. It took more than an hour for Mr. Sund to receive approval from the Capitol Police Board to make the requests. After that, he contacted military officials around 2 p.m. asking for assistance.

The delay in deployment, even after Mr. Miller authorized it, came in part because officials wanted to develop a plan before deploying the personnel, Mr. McCarthy told the Jan. 6 panel.

Optics?

The personnel testifying on Wednesday are also planning to corroborate allegations that top military officials said they were concerned about the optics of sending Guard personnel to the Capitol.

“We have witnesses saying they personally heard that several times, and others had heard it as well,” Mr. Loudermilk said. “That their concern was more optics than it was just defending the Capitol.”

In a conference call at 2:30 p.m., according to the memo from Major Gen. Walker and Col. Matthews, Army officials Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt and Gen. Charles Flynn described the optics of having uniformed military personnel at the Capitol as “not good.”

They instead suggested Guardsmen relieve Washington officers of traffic duty, enabling those officers to go to the Capitol.

“I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a line with the Capitol in the background. I would much rather relieve USCP officers from other posts so they can handle the protestors,” Lt. Gen. Piatt said on the call, according to Major Gen. Walker, Col. Matthews, and Mr. Sund.

Lt. Gen. Piatt has told lawmakers that he did not recall using the words optics, visuals, or image during the call or any other conversations on Jan. 6. He later told reporters that, according to some people taking notes from the call, “I may have said that.”

Gen. Flynn told the House Oversight Committee in 2021 that “I never expressed a concern about the visuals, image, or public perception of sending the D.C. National Guard to the U.S. Capitol.”

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Via https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/military-whistleblowers-to-challenge-jan-6-claims-5630724

Oregon Shutting Down Family Farms

 

Margot Russell

A rancher, somewhat rugged looking, but more of a gentleman cowboy, stands along a fine white fence in a recent viral video, an expanse of green farmland rolling behind him.

He gazes at viewers behind a pair of sunglasses, doesn’t give his name, and says this:

“The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, and they’re actually sending out cease-and-desist letters to farms. They’re using satellite technology to find their victims and send them these letters that say you can’t operate.”

Articles on the internet attest that small farmers are under attack in Oregon, which has begun shutting down family farms throughout the state under the guise of water conservation and groundwater protection.

The 20-minute video, produced by Yanasa TV, claims bureaucrats are erroneously dubbing small family farms as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in order to shut them down “to save the environment.”

Given the massive effort to shut down farms across Europe, news that similar efforts are taking place in Oregon is giving rise to concern in farming communities across the United States. The rancher in the video warns us that “these kinds of things start in one state and often spread.”

Concerns beyond Oregon are making the rounds in alternative news: Bill Gates is now the largest owner of farmland in the United States, with nearly 269,000 acres in twenty states. He is touting a new approach to farming, and has recently backed a startup company that plans to use artificial intelligence to grow crops indoors. Gates is also buying up farmland in Kenya, where white farmers are being displaced, some killed in cold blood.

There are so many nefarious headlines in farming industry news that it’s hard to keep up: hundreds of food processing plants have burned to the ground in the U.S. and across the world in the past five years; millions of chickens have been destroyed over concerns of disease; two organic farms have suffered chemical attacks; wildfires are destroying farmland in Texas and elsewhere; heat and humidity killed hundreds of heads of cattle last August in the Midwest; Asian longhorned ticks are a threat to cows; news of plans to replace protein with bugs and algae is being explored by science and industry; and there are some estimates we’re losing 2,500 farms in the U.S. per month.

It’s important to point our radar toward Oregon in the coming months, however eye-catching the other headlines are–as it marks some of the first efforts to control farming here. European farmers have been protesting closures and restrictions for a few years, but the U.S. has yet to see an outward concerted effort by state governments to abolish small farms until now.

Based on legal definitions in Oregon, a few-acre homestead with pasture and, say, two milking cows and some chickens qualifies as a CAFO if it has any area on the property where rock or gravel is used as a pathway to get to a small barn or coop.

“The way that they have redefined CAFOs is going to impact nearly everybody,” the rancher warns. “Even on our property, we don’t have animals that are necessarily contained in one area (they’re roaming on pastures).”

A lawsuit was filed last January on behalf of small family farms in Oregon, arguing that the definition of a CAFO is too broad and negatively impacts anyone who produces eggs from backyard chickens, no matter the size of their property.

The National Review recently picked up a story about Godspeed Hollow Farm in Newburg, Oregon. which has been reclassified as a CAFO simply because it has a gravel pathway from the milking machine to the pickup station about 100 feet long.

The presence of gravel pathways isn’t the Oregon farmers’ only problem: the state’s rules on water is also an obstacle. Rainwater is the only water that farmers are legally allowed to collect. Everything else, including water from rivers and streams, and even groundwater on private property, is considered a public resource. Oregon farmers cannot even use water from their own private wells.

“It has slowly rolled out to the point where market gardeners on a half-acre of land are now receiving cease-and-desist orders saying, ‘you can’t water your gardens; figure out another way,’” the rancher explains.

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Via https://www.post-journal.com/news/top-stories/2024/04/one-ranchers-story-oregons-small-farmers-receiving-cease-and-desist-letters/

Bird Flu Doesn’t Transmit to Humans Unless Engineered in a Lab

Rhoda Wilson

The Bird flu virus has been modified in laboratories in the USA using gain-of-function to make it infectious and transmissible among mammals. This research has been occurring for at least a decade.  During that time there have been laboratory accidents, one of which is known to have happened at the end of 2019. It is these laboratory accidents that pose a risk of infection to humans and mammals, not the naturally occurring bird flu.

On 25 March 2024, the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) was notified about a case of human infection with an influenza A (H5N1), bird flu, virus by the national authorities of Vietnam.

According to the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, a human infection caused by a novel influenza A virus subtype is an event that has the potential for high public health impact and must be notified to the WHO. WHO will then assess the risk posed to the general population based on available information.  In the case of the Vietnamese, WHO assessed the risk of this virus as low.

On 1 April, a person in Texas tested positive for H5N1 bird flu. The Texan worked with dairy cows “presumably infected with H5N1 bird flu viruses,” the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) said.  This was the second human case of H5N1 bird flu reported in the United States. There was a previous case in 2022 in Colorado in a poultry worker.

The case of the Texan was also reported to WHO. WHO assessed the public health risk to the general population posed by this virus to be low and for occupationally exposed persons, the risk of infection is considered low-to-moderate.

Related: Bird flu in 2005 was used to begin the biggest power grab in history – now it’s back

Last week we published an article by Dr. Joseph Mercola who cautioned: “As we move forward, it is important for to keep an eye on the narratives we’re being fed. If bird flu becomes a human epidemic or pandemic, there are plenty of reasons to suspect it’s a weaponised virus, and the “solution” offered will be the same as that for covid-19: ‘Get vaccinated’.” Dr. Mercola also offered some advice on what to do should they release such a virus.

John Leake agrees that any H5N1 epidemic would likely be due to a virus created in a laboratory. “H5N1 does NOT efficiently transmit to humans and therefore poses little risk to humans,” he notes. “Far more dangerous … is the possibility of a lab-modified H5N1 virus escaping from a laboratory.”

A History of H5N1 Laboratory Accidents

By John Leake

Exactly one year ago, the investigative journalist and author, Alison Young, published a report in USA Today on an accident that occurred on 9 December 2019 at the University of Wisconsin’s Influenza Research Institute.

The accident involved experiments with an H5N1 influenza virus that had been modified through gain-of-function (“GoF”) to make it transmissible among ferrets. The research team leader – a renowned virologist named Yoshihiro Kawaoka – had gained international attention (or notoriety) for his controversial GoF research on H5N1. As Alison Young reported:

… in late 2011 the world learned that two scientific teams – one in Wisconsin, led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, and another in the Netherlands, led by virologist Ron Fouchier – had potentially pushed the virus in that direction. Each of these labs had created H5N1 viruses that had gained the ability to spread through the air between ferrets, the animal model used to study how flu viruses might behave in humans.

The ultimate goal of this work was to help protect the world from future pandemics, and the research was supported with words and funding by two of the most prominent scientists in the United States: Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Kawaoka contended it would be “irresponsible not to study” how the virus might evolve in nature. “Some people have argued that the risks of such studies – misuse and accidental release, for example – outweigh the benefits. I counter that H5N1 viruses circulating in nature already pose a threat,” he said at the time.

In November 2013, a needlestick accident happened on Kawaoka’s research team, followed by failure to adhere to the established quarantine rules. Though no human infection resulted from this accident, it was nevertheless alarming. Young’s report continues:

By 2014, there was a growing discomfort at the highest levels of the US government about the risk of an accident with an engineered virus.

Wisconsin’s needlestick incident, which drew questions within NIH but wasn’t publicly known, was soon followed by a series of high-profile accidents at federal labs in 2014 – from safety breaches with anthrax and avian influenza at the CDC to the discovery of forgotten vials of smallpox that had been kept for decades in a storage room on the NIH campus.

In October 2014, citing these federal laboratory incidents, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a moratorium on new federal funding for certain gain-of-function research while the risks and benefits of the controversial experiments were studied.

The funding pause remained in place for three years until it was finally lifted in December 2017. But it was only in 2019 that some of the halted experiments were quietly allowed to begin again under a revised federal oversight process, which was criticised for keeping secret the details of the new experiments and the basis for the government approvals.

The second accident on Kawaoka’s team occurred less than a year after GoF experiments were allowed to resume. This time, a laboratory researcher in training was working with ferrets infected with the GoF-modified H5N1 when his respirator hose was discovered to have detached from his hood, allowing him to breathe the possibly contaminated air in the cabinet. Again, the quarantine rules were not properly followed, and nor was the incident promptly reported to the NIH.

Though the accident purportedly did not result in a human infection, it nevertheless raises many questions about the prudence of manipulating the H5N1 virus in a laboratory in order to make it infectious and transmissible among mammals.

Alison Young’s report prompted me to start reading her book, ‘Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk’, published on 25 April 2023. Young has a long history of researching and reporting on biolabs and their checkered past. Most laboratory manipulation of pathogens is purportedly done to develop vaccines against them in the event that their natural iterations should ever evolve to infect humans, but this rationale is highly questionable if not downright mendacious.

Indeed, on 18 December 2013, the Foundation for Vaccine Research wrote a letter to the European Commission, signed by 56 scientists (including Nobel Laureates) in which they sharply criticised the GoF experiments on H5N1 by virologist, Ron Fouchier.

The 56 scientists vehemently express their opinion that naturally occurring H5N1 does NOT efficiently transmit to humans and therefore poses little risk to humans.

Far more dangerous, they claim, is the possibility of a lab-modified H5N1 virus escaping from a laboratory. The scientists refer to the resurgence of H1N1 influenza in 1977 after a 20-year hiatus, most likely after escaping from a laboratory in the former Soviet Union.

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Via https://expose-news.com/2024/04/16/bird-flu-does-not-transmit-to-humans/

How Much Damage Have Vaccines Done to Society?

By Patricia Harrity 

Story at a Glance:

• A long history exists of a wave of severe injuries following new vaccinations being introduced to the market. In most cases, those injuries were swept under the rug to protect the business.

• In many cases, the severe “mysterious” injuries we see now are remarkably similar to those that were observed over a century ago. Unfortunately, a widespread embargo exists on ever allowing this data to come to light (as that would instantly destroy the vaccine program).

• A variety of independent studies (summarized below) have shown that vaccines cause a wide range of chronic illnesses.

• A 1990 book made a strong case that widespread vaccination was also causing an epidemic of widespread brain damage which was both lowering America’s IQ and causing a massive rise in violent crime.

• In this article, we will also review exactly what in that 1990 book and the classic signs that can be used to determine if someone has a vaccine injury (along with the subtle more spiritual ones).

My mind often overlaps the past present and future onto themselves. Because of this, I will frequently recall events that happened in the past which perfectly mirror what is unfolding before us, and in turn, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve witnessed humanity repeat its same mistakes. During COVID, I realized we were again reenacting the same tragedy humanity had ever experienced since the smallpox vaccine was brought to the market and I had a thought. If people became aware of what had happened before and ended our collective amnesia, perhaps this could at last stop.

As fate would have it, my wish came true, and without knowing me, Steve Kirsch gave me the opportunity to begin introducing that forgotten history to the world. This happened after he chose to publish an article I wrote illustrating how the trucker protests were identical to smallpox protests that had happened more than a century before and then for reasons I still do not understand, encouraged his readers to subscribe to me so I would start writing here.

Because of this, I’ve effectively become a “historian” of vaccination. In turn, I’ve noticed again and again that a vaccine disaster happens which injuries many in a very similar way, it gets swept under the rug (often by officials who are quite conflicted in their decision to do so), and then the same thing happens again a few decades later.

Given that we give dozens of vaccines to each member of society, this raises an obvious question—what is that doing to society?

A Brief History of Vaccine Disasters

In 1798, the smallpox vaccine hit the market. Once it hit the market, it was observed to frequently cause smallpox outbreaks (rather than prevent them) and to cause a wide range of debilitating and complex injuries that many of the doctors had never seen before (and many of which I believe were examples of “blood stasis”). Curiously, rather than recognizing this was a mistake, most of the medical profession endorsed the smallpox vaccine, and governments around the world mandated it as cases kept on increasing (caused by the vaccine). Having looked at it extensively, I am of the opinion the smallpox vaccine reshaped the trajectory of humanity’s health and ushered in the era of chronic illness.

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In the 1800s and early 1900s, a variety of early vaccines (e.g., rabies, typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis) and horse-generated antiserums (for most of the common infections at the time) entered the market. Since many of these vaccines were produced in small independent labs, there were a variety of quality control issues with these products, which frequently led to hot lots severely injuring or killing a group of people. Additionally, many of those vaccines had a high degree of toxicity. Because of this, a variety of new and severe medical conditions emerged, many of which were deemed to be due to brain inflammation (encephalitis) or brain damage (encephalopathy) and observed to occur in conjunction with cranial nerve damage. Most of these conditions in turn mirrored the myriad of injuries we now too see from modern vaccinations.

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In the 1940s-1950s, the original pertussis vaccine (DPT) entered the market. This vaccine excelled at causing brain inflammation and a variety of concerning differences were seen in the generations born after its mass adoption in America.

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Between the 1950s to 1970s, numerous instances happened where a rushed and poorly produced experimental vaccine (e.g., polio or the swine flu) was brought to market to address a non-existent “emergency,” and the government chose to ignore warnings from its scientists that it was not safe to give to America. Since the press was honest at this time, they reported the disaster, it became a national scandal and the government provided compensation to the victims.

Note: I compiled those media reports here, the last of which happened in 2002 with Bush’s smallpox vaccine.

In 1986, enough public awareness existed of the dangers of the DPT vaccine that lawsuits were regularly being filed for the brain damage and sudden infant deaths it caused (discussed here). This in turn led to the 1986 vaccine injury act being passed (discussed further here), an act that both shielded vaccine manufacturers from product liability and was intended to help parents of vaccine injured children (even though it didn’t). This act being passed led to an industry gold rush to bring experimental and liability free vaccines to the market, and before long the childhood vaccination schedule ballooned in parallel to chronic illnesses increasing as well.

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In 1990, an experimental anthrax vaccine was deployed upon the military to prepare them for invading Iraq. While the war was non-eventful (Saddam did not use anthrax and it was likely the most one-sided conflict in history), the anthrax vaccine severely injured over 100,000 servicemen (leading to what was known as Gulf War Syndrome). Despite these issues, individuals within the Department of Defense who were committed to funding their bioweapons defense program mandated it—leading to severe injuries throughout the military and widespread rebellion against this edict.

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In 2010, Merck convinced America’s women they were at a high risk of dying from cervical cancer (which in reality only kills about 1/38,000 American women each year) so that everyone would buy their highly lucrative vaccine (which was never proven to reduce cervical cancer deaths). This vaccine had an extraordinarily high rate of causing autoimmune disorders, but nonetheless, despite a deluge of complaints, the CDC and FDA did everything they could to protect it, and to this day it is still mandated for children.

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In 2021, the COVID vaccine hit the market. In my opinion, everything we witnessed with it mirrors what happened in each of the previously listed tragedies.

I mentioned this history because at the time each of these happened, the medical profession and public were struck by the explosion of these new diseases (and their immense social cost) but before long, became acclimated to them and forgot they had ever emerged in the first place. This in turn, I would argue is exactly what is now happening from the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Harms of Vaccination

There is a large body of evidence suggesting vaccines are either solely responsible for, or one of the primary things responsible for the tsunami of chronic illness which has followed their ever-increasing adoption.

Unfortunately, while there is a great deal of evidence suggesting a problem exists, the effects of the vaccine schedule have never been formally studied in a clinical trial, nor will agencies like the CDC (which insist vaccines are safe and effective) make their data sets available which could answer the question. This in turn suggests that either:

• No evidence exists of the harms of vaccination and it has simply not been a priority to formally publish that data (which is odd given how much effort blocking all the lawsuits requesting them to takes).

• There is some evidence vaccines are harmful, and there are concerns this data could be misinterpreted to suggest vaccines are much more harmful than they are.

• The existing evidence shows (or would show) that vaccines are incredibly dangerous.

I personally believe the final point is the most likely explanation as:

1. Numerous clinical trials of individual vaccines (e.g., the HPV vaccine) show that vaccines cause many of the same disorders (e.g., a myriad of autoimmune conditions) that have increased in parallel to the number of doses of the vaccine one receives (e.g., the second shot is almost always more likely to cause a severe reaction than the first). This in turn suggests that taking a large number of vaccines (presently the ever increasing CDC schedule gives children 90 before they turn 18) puts them at risk for developing chronic disease.

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2. Despite relentless attempts to keep them from emerging, there are numerous retrospective studies of large medical datasets which each show vaccination results in a significantly increased incidence of chronic disease results from vaccination (e.g., a recent study of 99 million people showed the COVID vaccines were 2-7 times more likely than a typical vaccine to cause a variety of life-threatening illnesses).

3. Established mechanisms exist to explain how many different vaccines could all cause similar injuries to their recipients (each of which are discussed here).

4. Numerous independently conducted studies attempting to assess this question have all found childhood vaccination increases the rates of chronic illness.

5. I periodically learn of medical practices that have low rates of vaccination and also have much lower rates of chronic illness in their patients.

6. Many colleagues and I frequently observe what we believe to be the harms of vaccination in our patients.
Note: I personally know many trained observers who can have a high degree of accuracy in identifying unvaccinated children. The approaches they use are discussed at the end of this article.

Vaccine Injury Datasets

There is effectively an embargo on publishing any research critical of vaccinations (e.g., no one will give you permission to conduct a trial where some don’t vaccinate because “denying children life-saving vaccines is unethical,” no one will give you data that already exists, and no one will ever publish a study that is critical of vaccination). Nonetheless, people find ways to get around this embargo.

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Paul Thomas

For example, Paul Thomas MD, an Oregon pediatrician who had a practice with a large number of unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children, and (like many of the other practices with similar patient populations) noticed that the unvaccinated children had dramatically better health. So, he decided to compare their medical records to those of variably vaccinated children and published the data in a study (which, as you are not supposed to violate that embargo, cost him his medical license and resulted in the study being retracted for spurious reasons).

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In his study, to compare the health of 2763 vaccinated children and the 561 unvaccinated children born into his practice, he plotted how many total visits each group had for a variety of issues as their age increased (e.g., how many visits for asthma in total had occurred in vaccinated children who were 1000 days old or younger) and then compared the two (with the unvaccinated group’s visits being equalized by multiplying them by 4.9 [2763/561]). This data in turn suggested vaccinations were the primary agent responsible for the epidemic of chronic diseases in our society.

Likewise, when Thomas compared how likely a child was to come in for an office visit for a variety of health concerns, he found the greater the number of total vaccines a child received (which varied widely in his practice), the more likely they were to require an office visit for a variety of conditions.

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Via https://expose-news.com/2024/04/16/how-much-damage-have-vaccines-done-to-society/

German Police Shut Down Palestine Conference

Hundreds of police descend on the Palestine Congress in Berlin. (Progressive International/X)

By Peoples Dispatch
(additional reporting by Consortium News)

In perhaps the most serious round of repression against Palestine solidarity organizers, German police on Friday shut down the Palestine Congress in Berlin, arresting several attendees and ordering delegates to leave immediately.

German officials also prohibited scheduled speaker Ghassan Abu Sitta, Palestinian-British surgeon and the rector of Glasgow University from even entering the country. He was to speak about his experiences with Palestinian victims of Israel in Gaza hospitals where he has worked.

He says in this interview with Middle East Eye that his testimony could be seen as evidence against Germany in the case Nicaragua has brought against Berlin at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Nicaragua has charged Germany with complicity with Israel’s genocide because of its arms shipments to Tel Aviv.

The doctor says his treatment by the German authorities amounted to witness intimidation:

The Congress aimed to raise awareness about Nicaragua’s  charges against Germany at the ICJ.

German police dramatically stormed the stage of the conference and proceeded to shut down speakers after the Congress had already begun.

The police stopped the conference livestream, and broke into the control room to shut off the power. Police prevented remote speakers to address the Congress.

Andrew Feinstein, son of a Holocaust survivor who worked with Nelson Mandela in South Africa and who is challenging Labour leader Keir Starmer for his Parliamentary seat in London, told a conference on Gaza in Blackburn, England on Saturday, that he was supposed to be speaking on a panel with Dr. Ghassan. “Germany is the last country on the planet that should be displaying such fascist behavior,” Feinstein said.

Feinstein speaking about what happened at the Berlin conference:

Red Media provided live updates to the police repression, reporting that, “900 police are deployed to the congress, whose start they held up for hours. They demanded that organizers allow all German media into the congress, ironically to ‘safeguard free speech’ and then denied entry to most of the registered delegates.”

Among those arrested by police at the Congress were Jewish activists.

Anti-Zionist Jewish activists are heavily targeted in Germany, despite Germany’s attempt to justify its support to Israel as “collective guilt” over the holocaust and repenting for its infamous antisemitism.

Yet, according to researcher Emily Dische-Becker, almost a third of those deplatformed, arrested, or otherwise sanctioned for alleged antisemitism are themselves Jewish. Videos from the repression show a Jewish activist being arrested outside of the conference, with police seizing a banner that read “Jew Against Genocide.”

German authorities have staged several crackdowns on the Palestine solidarity movement since Oct. 7. Activists claim that while German Jews are indeed arrested for showing solidarity with Palestine, it is the Palestinians that bear the brunt of repression.

“We Jews are just getting arrested, the Palestinians are being beaten,” German-Israeli activist Iris Hefets toldAl Jazeera. On March 22, the homes of Palestinian activists Said and Yasemin were raided by German police in the middle of the night from their homes in Berlin, with both alleging targeted persecution from German authorities.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who was inside the venue, was prevented from speaking “because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style),” he wrote on X.

This is the speech he intended to give:

The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:

Friends,

Congratulations, and heartfelt… pic.twitter.com/6Rnw2bwQPL

— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) April 12, 2024

 

Via https://mohandeer.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/german-police-shut-down-palestine-conference/

Deep State Lies in Wait for Trump

By Liz Truss

Wall Street Journal

His second term will be much like my time in office if he doesn’t confront the entrenched bureaucracy.

With a presidential rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump now all but confirmed, the world is focusing on what could be the most consequential election ever. If the disasters of the past three years have taught us anything, it’s that we need a conservative back in the White House. The West is succumbing to challenges from its enemies abroad while being undermined from within by the promotion of leftist ideologies, eco-extremism and wokeism. A Trump victory would provide much-needed leadership to the Western world.

But even if President Trump is re-elected, his battle will have only begun. Across the West—especially the English-speaking world—there has been a shift of power away from democratically accountable officeholders to unelected bureaucrats and technocrats. The administrative state undermined Mr. Trump’s first term and undermined my tenure as Britain’s prime minister, forcing me out of office after 49 days. I assumed that I would be able to drive through the agenda on which I was elected. How wrong I was. The opaque British bureaucratic state undermined my proposed reforms, and their American equivalents will have Mr. Trump in their sights if he is victorious in November. The deep state will attempt to undercut him even more than it did in his first term.

Conservatives need to understand that winning an election isn’t enough. The winner needs a concerted plan to dismantle the deep state, which seeks its own self-preservation. When I entered Downing Street in September 2022, growth in the British economy had been anemic for years, despite artificially low interest rates that served to accustom government and consumers alike to cheap money and inflation. Tax burdens and energy costs were high, and the expansive welfare state was bloated. The U.K. had left the European Union in 2020, but reams of burdensome laws remained on the British statute book. The economic establishment had bought into the high-tax, high-regulation, big-government European approach and had little appetite for supply-side policies or tax cuts. Too many conservatives went along with the establishment’s push for net zero and high immigration.

As soon as I announced plans to institute a range of supply-side reforms, I was marked by the technocrats for political extinction. On the eve of the publication of our growth plan, the Bank of England raised interest rates, but not by as much as anticipated—a misstep that prompted a fall in the value of the pound, leading to higher yields on U.K. government bonds, known as gilts. The central bank also announced plans to sell £40 billion in gilts that evening, prompting private bond holders to pre-empt the sale by flooding the market with their own gilts.

Rising yields were a problem because of pension funds’ exposure to leveraged liability-driven investment funds, which are highly susceptible to interest rate risk. Due to failures in regulation and oversight, U.K. pension funds were uniquely exposed to the same kind of risk that caused several U.S. banks to collapse in early 2023. The liability-driven investment funds’ leveraged bets on gilt prices began to sour while the Office for Budget Responsibility—a U.K. version of the Congressional Budget Office—leaked its claim that our plans would create a £70 billion “fiscal black hole.” OBR forecasts like this one have consistently been wrong because they underestimate the Laffer curve effect of tax cuts and the benefits of supply-side reforms.

Unelected bureaucrats caused this market turmoil, but elected representatives were blamed. Neither I nor Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had been given any warning before the liability-driven investment fund situation blew up. When the Bank of England announced it would buy gilts to support the pension funds—a move that everyone knew would prompt investors to unload their government bonds—I knew they had me at gunpoint. We had to ditch our program or risk a market meltdown that would leave the government unable to finance its debt. There should be an independent investigation into what happened, but the establishment would never allow it.

The U.S. economic establishment already is arming against Mr. Trump and his economic program. After the disaster of Bidenomics—with its ballooning subsidies, tax hikes, burdensome regulation and more than $34.6 trillion of debt—a program of supply-side measures like oil and gas exploration, spending cuts and tax reform is desperately needed. In March, CBO Director Phillip Swagel explicitly warned that the mounting U.S. fiscal burden threatened a crisis of the kind that brought me down. Corporate borrowers are also reportedly preparing for market volatility. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan has warned the federal debt is pushing the economy toward a financial cliff.

This isn’t a fight only to return to fiscal responsibility, but also to return power to the people’s elected representatives. My Republican friends must be ready for the fight of their lives.

Ms. Truss served as Britain’s prime minister in 2022. She is author of “Ten Years to Save the West: Leading the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment,” out Tuesday.

Via https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/the-deep-state-lies-in-wait-for-trump/

The Rise of Egypt’s Old Kingdom

Episode 7 The Rise of the Old Kingdom

The History of Ancient Egypt

Professor Robert Brier

Film Review

Following the unification (3100 BC) of Upper and Lower Egypt, Memphis in Lower (northern) Egypt became the national capitol. Memphis is the Greek name for the city the Egyptians named Hekaptah, which became shortened to Egypta and eventually Egypt. It was a perfect defensive location because locked in by deserts to the west and south, they only worried about potential invasion via the Mediterranean.

Little was known about the first dynasty of pharaohs until their tombs were found at Abidas in the 19th century. Although much further south, Abidos was a sacred city where Osiris’s body part were buried before he was resurrected (see Ancient Egyptian Origin Myth). Traditionally all Old Kingdom pharaohs sought to achieve resurrection after death like Osirirs.

After sand pit burials proved unsatisfactory (because scavenging animals destroyed the corpses), the ancient Egyptians buried their dead in stone pits. They accomplished this by clearing desert sand down to bedrock, chiseling out a burial pit and covering it with a stone slab. Once the pharaohs established a second burial site at Sakara (named after Sakka, god of the dead), they began to build mastabas on top of the rock burial pits.

Inotet, the royal architect who eventually built the first pyramid, was the first to add a mastaba to the pharaoh’s tomb. Successive architect added, one, two, three and four layer of mastaba. This eventually resulted in the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the first stone building in the history of the world, which has five layers. The pyramid is surrounded by stone temples with fluted columns meant to mimic papyrus columns, which were used for the first columns in wooden buildings.

It’s interior is covered with Faence, quarzite tiles that form their own glaze when heated to high temperatures.

During the early days of the Old Kingdom, pharaohs who got old and feeble were either ritually killed or rejuvenated themelves by holding a Hebset after 30 years of rule. This was a ceremony in which and old pharaoh and wrestle younger men. After completing the Hebset, the pharaoh was declared young and fit.

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

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/1492791/1492806

US Measles Death Rate Had Declined by over 98% Before Introduction of Measles Vaccine?

By Aaron Siri

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Did the death rate from measles in the United States decline by over 98% between 1900 and 1962, the year before the first measles vaccine was introduced?

According to the CDC’s data, the death rate from measles had already declined over 98% between 1900 and 1962, which was before the measles vaccine was introduced in the United States.

This official United States government data shows that in 1900, the rate of mortality from measles was 13.3 per 100,000 individuals and by 1960 it was 0.2 deaths per 100,000 individuals. The death rate was also 0.2 deaths per 100,000 individuals in 1961 and 1962. And the first measles vaccine did not come onto the market until 1963. Meaning, an over 98% decline in measles mortality between 1900 and the early 1960s before there was a measles vaccine.

If you like charts, the following is an official chart of measles mortality issued by the United States government showing the drop in measles mortality from 1900 to 1960. This chart was published before there was a measles vaccine — no doubt they would never publish such a chart today!