Feb 02, 2022:

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Truck convoy: Protests 'intolerable,' more charges coming, says chief; Protesters vow to stay 'as long as it takes'
The ‘Freedom Convoy’ that converged in Ottawa started in response to the federal government’s move to require all Canadian truck drivers crossing the U.S. border be fully vaccinated.
Author of the article:
Staff Reporter

File: Anti vaccine mandate protesters and truckers protesting their fifth day in downtown Ottawa Photo by Tony Caldwell /Postmedia
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The ‘Freedom Convoy’ that converged in Ottawa on the weekend started in response to the federal government’s move to require that all Canadian truck drivers crossing the U.S. border be fully vaccinated. The Canadian Trucking Alliance, the main advocacy body for truckers, has disavowed the protest, saying the vast majority of its members are fully vaccinated and are continuing to work. The core organizers of the protest insist that they are not anti-vaccine but instead oppose mandates that require vaccination for people to work.

• Protest has been “intolerable” and “unprecedented,” says Ottawa’s police chief
• More charges are coming against protesters, Peter Sloly warns
• “The longer this goes on, the more I’m convinced there may not be a police solution to this demonstration,” says chief
• Organizers of the truck protest issued a statement vowing to stay in Ottawa “for as long as it takes”
• The protest continued to upend transit in the core, with numerous bus detours and several bridge closures still in effect
• The Rideau Centre has announced it will be closed from Feb. 2-6
• Ottawa police make a third arrest in the protests
• One councillor called on the RCMP to take operational control of convoy protesters, while another characterized the protest as an “occupancy”
• NDP Leader Andrea Horwath calls on Premier Doug Ford to end the “chaos and occupation of our nation’s capital by violent extremists” in a letter

3:40 p.m.
Quentin Levesque, director of roads and parking services, said the city is making plans to handle the potentially heavy snowfall in the coming days in light of the ongoing protest downtown.
“As the situation with the truck demonstration is very fluid, contingencies are in place and we intend to focus on pedestrian and emergency access routes through the area, clearing and treating sidewalks and facilitating the safe movement of emergency vehicles,” Levesque said.
“We do not anticipate impacts to snow-clearing operations in other parts of the city.”
3:25 p.m.
Coun. Mathieu Fleury, who represents the Byward Market and Lowertown, says he’s heard from residents who are scared about leaving their homes and are struggling with the incessant noise from the protest.

He asks if the police have enough resources to deal with the protesters, with deputy chief Ferguson says more resources are always welcomed.
3:15 p.m.
Coun. Catherine McKenny, who represents Centretown, called on Sloly to hand over responsibility for the main protest to the RCMP and to focus city police resources on blunting the impacts in residential areas.
“People are terrified and there’s no presence of the police,” McKenny said of what they heard from constituents.
Chief Sloly says he has asked and recently received approval for additional RCMP resources to help with the protest. The RCMP, though, is not the police of jurisdiction for this protest, he said, and that force is “probably more underfunded” than the Ottawa police.

Transitioning the lead role for handling these protests from the Ottawa police to the RCMP is “not jurisdictionally possible,” Sloly cautioned.
3:05 p.m.
Mayor and council are now getting an opportunity to ask questions to police brass.
Coun. Matthew Luloff asked when, or if, police will use force to end the protest. Police chief Peter Sloly says all “options” on the table.
Coun. Laura Dudas says while she understands that politicians can’t direct police, she wants to know when Ottawans will “get their city back.”
Sloly says police must act lawful and “proportionally” in regards to the risk involved, and protest is national — if not international — in scope.
“Any act taken without understanding [the] totality… of the risk would be irresponsible,” he said.

“The longer this goes on, the more I’m convinced there may not be a police solution to this demonstration… This is a national issue, not an Ottawa issue. As the Ottawa police chief, I will continue to do — my members will continue to do — my very best to keep this city as safe as possible.”
2:50 p.m.
Ottawa Police deputy chief Trish Ferguson says starting last night, officers are beginning stricter enforcement of the protests in residential areas in the core.
There will also be a “heavier” focus on traffic violations in the core, she said.
Additional demonstrators are expected downtown this weekend, though officers will have the resources available to contend with the larger crowd, Ferguson said.
2:45 p.m.
Ferguson said that “several hundred” trucks remain in the city and while the number of protesters downtown has dropped since the peak over the weekend, those that remain are “determined” and “unlawful.”

Police also warned that they anticipate “large groups of people gathering” in the Parliamentary precinct this weekend, including both pro-convoy supporters and counter-protesters.
Police brass say more than 25 investigations are ongoing.
2:30 p.m.
The significant disruptions caused by the trucker protests and incidents of harassment and intimidating behaviour by participants are “intolerable,” says Ottawa’s police chief.
Peter Sloly also said Wednesday during a virtual media availability that city police would announce soon more charges against protesters. So far, police have made three arrests in connection to the almost week-long protest.
Sloly vowed that charges would be pursued against any protesters seen breaking the law, including those who came from out-of-town and those seen desecrating memorials and monuments.

2:10 p.m.
A downtown women’s shelter says the truck convoy protest is “retraumatizing” women in Ottawa.
Cornerstone Housing for Women says these past six days have been “extremely stressful for people experiencing homelessness and frontline staff working to support them in the downtown core.” Its operations have moved to a “crisis response” as a result.
The non-profit’s emergency shelter returned to its downtown location only a few weeks ago, with its staff and clients “still getting situated.” The protest, Cornerstone said, is “creating more barriers and retraumatizing women in the city,” read a statement from Cornerstone.”
“The residents and staff in Ottawa’s women’s shelter are exhausted. This protest is having consequences on the rights and wellness of the city’s most vulnerable people. Women and staff are scared to go outside of the shelter, especially women of color [sic], being able to go outside is the only reprieve many women experiencing homelessness have and they cannot even do that.”

Cornerstone blamed the “incessant honking and noise from the trucks” for causing “significant anxiety and distress for staff and shelter residents,” saying women have
admitted themselves into hospital due to the increased trauma from the noise and fear.”
All shelters, the organization said, are being forced to “figure out alternative plans for client transportation to any other program or hospitals in the city.”
12:48 p.m.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath called on Premier Doug Ford to end the “chaos and occupation of our nation’s capital by violent extremists” in a letter Wednesday.
She urged the premier to work with the municipal and federal governments to end the protests, calling out reports that Ford was awaiting a call from Ottawa’s mayor for help.

Rather than “sheepishly ask these extremists to go home,” Horwath wrote, Ford should work with Mayor Jim Watson and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to “end this chaos.
“Workers and residents of downtown Ottawa are under siege,” Horwath wrote.
Retail workers are having shifts cancelled and paycheques slashed because businesses are forced to close, she wrote. Residents are on their own to endure endless noise. There are reports of acts of antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Black racism and “hate of all kinds — occurring seemingly without any consequences,” she said.
Confederate flags and Nazi swastikas have been flown and “the most venerable symbols of our nation,” including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the statue of Terry Fox, have been desecrated.

Meanwhile, Horwath said, the Legislative Protective Service has just informed all members that “additional actions may soon take place” at Queen’s Park.
11:49 a.m.
Describing the situation in Centretown as lawless, Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney called on the RCMP to take operational control of convoy protesters near Parliament Hill on Wednesday so Ottawa police can “restore peace” in residential neighbourhoods.
“We really have two fronts — what is happening on the Hill and surrounding streets and what is happening in our residential neighbourhoods,” McKenney said. Because their resources are largely tied up with the situation around Parliament Hill, McKenney said there is virtually no police presence in the neighbourhoods throughout Centretown and the ByWard Market.

“In Centretown, we have people who are exhibiting very dangerous behaviours — harassing people, threatening violence, driving erratically, driving on sidewalks — and because our entire police force is on the Hill, it is absolute lawlessness in Centretown.
“There is no police presence at a time when there is a presence of very dangerous people.”
McKenney said they continue to talk to Centretown residents, some of whom are scared to leave their apartments — including a senior whose cat is hungry because she is afraid to leave to buy cat food. Others talk about being harassed because they wear masks and some women have reported being followed down Bank Street.
Meanwhile, vehicles are driving through, or parking in, neighbourhoods while blaring music and horns.

McKenney said they have spoken to the police chief who committed more police officers. McKenney said the response has not been adequate to the scale of the situation.
“I just can’t fathom why the mayor and police chief don’t understand the need for safety to be reinstated in Centretown.”
Meanwhile, a community group gathered to make signs as part of a foot patrol program aimed at helping Centretown residents who feel unsafe going out alone.
Two local residents said Wednesday they have been harassed outside nearby grocery stores where protesters sometimes gather or shop without masks.
Donations have also flowed into the Shepherds of Good Hope since Saturday when the shelter said some protesters harassed its staff into feeding them for free.

As of Wednesday, the Shepherds said it had received donations from more than 12,000 people.
“Thank you to everyone: from people across the world, to some of the people participating in and supporting the protests, to our neighbours and community members – we appreciate it,” the organization tweeted.

11:14 a.m.
Ottawa police have made a third arrest in the protests, charging a Quebec man in connection with threats and comments made on social media while he was in Ottawa, the force said Wednesday.
The 48-year-old man, whom police did not identify, is charged with uttering threats and counselling to commit an indictable offence which was not committed.
“We want to be very clear, both for the current demonstrations and any planned demonstrations: Illegal activity will not be tolerated,” police said in a release, adding that there would be consequences for breaking city bylaws, traffic infractions and crimes committed.

After a transportation committee meeting Wednesday morning, Coun. Tim Tierney, who’s part of council’s core leadership as committee chair, said “there has to be some kind of movement” on the trucker protest and that he was looking forward to a police briefing in the afternoon.
“It’s pretty clear now it’s an occupancy,” Tierney said, noting he has two adult children who live downtown.
Tierney said a court injunction or more involvement by the RCMP could be two areas for municipal authorities to explore.
“The citizens have to see a little bit more action … visible (action),” Tierney said.
10:55 a.m.
Frustrated Ottawans are organizing to support Centretown residents who have been living with the presence of protesters and constant honking for more than five days.

At the Jack Purcell Community Centre on Wednesday morning, Ellie Charters, a community organizer, awaited the arrival of volunteers who would go door to door throughout the neighbourhood, checking in on residents and offering them “walking buddies” and help fetching supplies.
“Today I think we’ll be reaching out to apartment buildings, even maybe community housing, condo buildings as much as possible to say that we’re here and if residents would like our services we can help them go about their day,” Charters said.
Volunteers have been quick to offer their support, Charters said.
The constant din of the protest, which began as a self-labelled “Freedom Convoy” in protest of COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates, was apparent Wednesday. As Charters spoke, distant honking resonated down Elgin Street. A small group of motivated protest supporters remains camped out near Parliament Hill, with most of them living out of heavy trucks and RVs parked along Wellington Street.

Their presence has sparked anxiety, fear and frustration among Centretown residents.
“It’s been really difficult,” Charters said. “One person that contacted me was working at CHEO and she was done at 9 o’clock at night and was really afraid about that walk from Parliament Station to her home in Centretown, and there was a lady that I spoke with that already struggles with anxiety and suffered from really bad anxiety with the truckers here and so she couldn’t go to the bank and she needed to go to the bank to pay her rent. It’s just really sad honestly. I never thought I’d see something like this in this city.”
8 a.m.
Organizers of what they bill as “Freedom Convoy 2022” issued a statement Wednesday vowing to stay in Ottawa “for as long as it takes” for governments across the country to end all COVID-19 mandates.

According to the statement, organizers estimate the number of protesters — “truck owners and operators, as well as citizens from all walks of life, from across the country” — in Ottawa to be in the tens of thousands.
“The number of participants who have travelled from every region of Canada to be in Ottawa was a surprise even to us,” spokesperson Tamara Lich said in the statement.
“It was a bit overwhelming at first from a logistical point of view, but we are now well organized and are settling in, until Canada is a free nation again.”
As of Tuesday night, the end of a fifth day of protests centred on Wellington Street , Ottawa police said that there had been a reduction in the number of demonstrators, with 50 people on Parliament Hill and another 200 people gathered nearby.

Convoy leaders “expressed regret that citizens of Canada’s capital are bearing this inconvenience.”
“Our message to the citizens of Ottawa is one of empathy,” said Chris Barber, identified as senior convoy leader. “We understand your frustration and genuinely wish there was another way for us to get our message across, but the responsibility for your inconvenience lies squarely on the shoulders of politicians who prefer to vilify and call us names rather than engage in respectful, serious dialogue.
“The fastest way to get us out of the nation’s capital, is to call your elected representatives and end all (COVID-19) mandates, as the UK did two weeks ago and as both Sweden and Switzerland did today.”
Barber said that “our interaction with the Ottawa police has been mostly positive, especially in dealing with front-line officers.”

The convoy statement said organizers have been “particularly dismayed by the extreme and divisive rhetoric used by politicians — especially Justin Trudeau — who have characterized protesters as racists, and even terrorists.
“We are determined to be respectful the law, be peaceful in conduct, and to retain our dignity, despite the school-yard mudslinging and bullying of some politicians and members of the press. Nobody should underestimate our resolve or our resilience.
“We are here and we are not going anywhere until we achieve our objective, to see an end of all (COVID-19) mandates and with that a restoration of freedoms of all Canadians.”
Protesters gathered around Parliament Hill and the downtown core for the Freedom Convoy protest that made their way from various locations across Canada, Sunday January 30, 2022. Photo by Ashley Fraser
Traffic disruptions
The protest continued to upend transit in the core on Wednesday. OC Transpo reported numerous continuing detours downtown — and no STO service from Gatineau to Ottawa — on top of expected delays for buses and Para Transpo due to impending snowfall.

A “special Centretown shuttle” was operating. Riders can find updates on OC Transpo’s alerts page .
The City of Ottawa said that of the interprovincial crossings, the Macdonald-Cartier, Chaudière and Champlain bridges were open Wednesday morning. The Alexandra Bridge and southbound Portage Bridge were closed.
Gatineau police said on social media at about 8 a.m. Wednesday that officers were seeing much less traffic on the various bridges than Tuesday.
“However, we must remain patient,” the force tweeted.
Meanwhile, the Rideau Centre has announced it will be closed from Feb. 2-6. The mall, also an important transit link for Ottawans, closed Saturday afternoon after maskless protesters were seen confronting employees who wore masks, and eating and drinking throughout the facility in defiance of public health orders.

The City of Ottawa warned residents that service impacts would continue Wednesday and cautioned against non-essential travel, especially in the downtown core.
Ottawa Public Health’s community vaccination clinic at the University of Ottawa Minto Sports Complex was scheduled to reopen Wednesday, along with the Lowertown Vaccine Hub. The Ottawa Public Library’s main and Rideau branches, and Ottawa City Hall, including the Rink of Dreams and the underground parking lot, remained closed.
As of Wednesday morning, a petition on change.org asserting that “Ottawa Police must evict Freedom Convoy” had more than 5,700 digital signatures.
The protest had been going on five days and showed no signs of ending on its own, according to the petition posted by Jeremy Owen.

“In the meantime, residents of downtown — including vulnerable homeless and mentally ill — are being directly affected by constant noise, and a party atmosphere of bad behaviour,” the petition said, while traffic snarls prevent thousands from getting to jobs or crucial services.
“To this, the Ottawa Police has done nothing, except curtailing the worst offences (after statue and monument desecrations),” the petition said. “Otherwise we see on social media a lot of support for the protesters, while the official word is that their hands are tied.
“Enough is enough — we support the right to protest. But even if this was a legitimate movement with a coherent message, it would still be past time to allow the normal and harmonious life of the city to resume. We demand that the police of this city do their job for this city, and that means clearing streets, and ticketing vehicle and noise infractions. Not taking selfies and making excuses.”

Charges laid yesterday
Ottawa police said Tuesday night they have charged two Ottawa men following investigations related to the ongoing truckers protest.
A 29-year-old man was charged with mischief under $5,000, after reportedly causing mischief to property on Saturday. According to Ottawa Police Service, the man was not arrested at the time of the incident in order to avoid a larger confrontation.
Additionally, a 37-year-old man was charged with carrying an unspecified weapon to a public meeting.
According to OPS, there are 13 active investigations stemming from the protest. Eight complaints have so far been made to the service’s hotline, three of which will be investigated by the hate and bias crime unit.
OPS also reports “some progression” in the investigation into the desecration of the National War Memorial.

(ottawacitizen.com)
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27-09-21: Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says

A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war.
Author of the article:
David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Publishing date:
Sep 27, 2021 • September 27, 2021 • 5 minute read
Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau
Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau Photo by Adrian Wyld /The Canadian Press
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Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.

The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.

But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.

The propaganda plan was developed and put in place in April 2020 even though the Canadian Forces had already acknowledged that “information operations and targeting policies and doctrines are aimed at adversaries and have a limited application in a domestic concept.”

A copy of the Dec. 2, 2020, Gosselin investigation, as well as other related documents, was obtained by this newspaper using the Access to Information law.

The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. The campaign called for “shaping” and “exploiting” information. CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.

A separate initiative, not linked to the CJOC plan, but overseen by Canadian Forces intelligence officers, culled information from public social media accounts in Ontario. Data was also compiled on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings and BLM leaders. Senior military officers claimed that information was needed to ensure the success of Operation Laser, the Canadian Forces mission to help out in long-term care homes hit by COVID-19 and to aid in the distribution of vaccines in some northern communities.

BLM organizers have questioned why military officials gathered information on their initiative, pointing out they followed pandemic rules and did not hold any gatherings outside LTC homes.

Then chief of the defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance shut down the CJOC propaganda initiative after a number of his advisers questioned the legality and ethics behind the plan. Vance then brought in Gosselin to examine how CJOC was able to develop and launch the propaganda operation without approval.

Gosselin’s investigation discovered the plan wasn’t simply the idea of “passionate” military propaganda specialists, but support for the use of such information operations was “clearly a mindset that permeated the thinking at many levels of CJOC.” Those in the command saw the pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to test out such techniques on Canadians.

The views put forth by Rear Adm. Brian Santarpia, then CJOC’s chief of staff, summed up the command’s attitude, Gosselin noted in his report. “This is really a learning opportunity for all of us and a chance to start getting information operations into our (CAF-DND) routine,” the rear admiral stated.

The command saw the military’s pandemic response “as an opportunity to monitor and collect public information in order to enhance awareness for better command decision making,” Gosselin determined.

Gosselin also pointed out CJOC staff had a “palpable dismissive attitude” toward the advice and concerns raised by other military leaders.

The directive for the propaganda plan was issued by CJOC on April 8, 2020, but it took until May 2 of that year before Vance’s order to shut it down took effect.

Gosselin recommended a comprehensive review of Canadian Forces information operations policies and directives, particularly those that may impact any activities for domestic missions.

There is an ongoing debate inside national defence headquarters in Ottawa about the use of information operations techniques. Some public affairs officers, intelligence specialists and senior planners want to expand the scope of such methods in Canada to allow them to better control and shape government information that the public receives. Others inside headquarters worry that such operations could lead to abuses, including having military staff intentionally mislead the Canadian public or taking measures to target opposition MPs or those who criticize government or military policy.

Military propaganda training and initiatives within Canada over the last year have proved to be controversial.

The Canadian Forces had to launch an investigation after a September 2020 incident when military information operations staff forged a letter from the Nova Scotia government warning about wolves on the loose in a particular region of the province. The letter was inadvertently distributed to residents, prompting panicked calls to Nova Scotia officials who were unaware the military was behind the deception. The investigation determined the reservists conducting the operation lacked formal training and policies governing the use of propaganda techniques were not well understood by the soldiers.

Yet another review centred on the Canadian Forces public affairs branch and its activities. Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts.

The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians. Included among those tactics was the use of friendly defence analysts and retired generals to push military PR messages and to criticize on social media those who raised questions about military spending and accountability.

The Canadian Forces also spent more than $1 million to train public affairs officers on behaviour modification techniques of the same sort used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, the company implicated in a 2016 data-mining scandal to help Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election campaign.

The initiative to change military public affairs strategy was abruptly shut down in November after this newspaper revealed details about the plan. A military investigation determined what the Canadian Forces public affairs leadership was doing was “incompatible with Government of Canada Communications Policy (and the) mission and principles of Public Affairs.” None of the public affairs leadership was disciplined for their actions.

Several months ago, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and DND deputy minister Jody Thomas acknowledged in an internal document that the various propaganda initiatives had gotten out of control. “Errors conducted during domestic operations and training, and sometimes insular mindsets at various echelons, have eroded public confidence in the institution,” noted a June 9, 2021, message signed by Eyre and Thomas. “This included the conduct of IO (Information Operations) on a domestic operation without explicit CDS/DM direction or authority to do so, as well as the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared to be aimed at monitoring the activities of Canadians.”

(ottawacitizen.com)
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19/08/2021

Σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ εκτοξεύθηκαν οι θάνατοι στην Ελλάδα το 2ο τρίμηνο του 2021

Προβληματισμό προκαλούν τα στοιχεία που δημοσίευσε η ΕΛΣΤΑΤ αναφορικά με τους θανάτους που έχουν σημειωθεί στην Ελλάδα το 2021, καθώς καταγράφεται μια πραγματική «έκρηξη» θανάτων φέτος.

Μάλιστα, όπως αναλύει ο διδάκτωρ Καρδιολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Κωνσταντίνος Αρβανίτης, δεν είναι ο κορωνοϊός η αιτία της αύξησης των θανάτων. Aντιθέτως, σύμφωνα με τον Κ.Αρβανίτη τα θλιβερά στατιστικά πιθανότατα είτε να είναι συνέπειες του lockdown, είτε του μαζικού εμβολιασμού, είτε και των δύο μαζί.

Όπως φαίνεται στα στοιχεία της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ ξαφνικά από το 2ο τρίμηνο του έτους εκτοξεύθηκαν οι θάνατοι στην Ελλάδα ξεπερνώντας μάλιστα και τον μέσο όρο της τελευταίας πενταετίας.

Μάλιστα το 2021 έχουν πεθάνει περισσότεροι συμπολίτες μας απ’ ότι το 2018 με τους 120 νεκρούς στο Μάτι. Τους μήνες Μάρτιο-Απρίλιο-Μάϊο εφέτος είχαμε κάπου 4.700 θανάτους παραπάνω από το αντίστοιχο περσινό τρίμηνο! Πέρυσι 33.257 και εφέτος 37.929, δηλαδή σχεδόν 15% αύξηση!

Πρόκειται για μία τεράστια αύξηση για ένα τρίμηνο, αφού αντιστοιχεί σε σχεδόν 20.000 αύξηση ετησίως.

Μιλάμε για τον συνολικό αριθμό των θανόντων στους οποίους συμπεριλαμβάνονται και οι θάνατοι από Covid-19.

Σύμφωνα λοιπόν με τα στοιχεία της οι θάνατοι στην Ελλάδα κατά τις 26 πρώτες εβδομάδες του 2021 (4/1/2021–4/7/2021) ανήλθαν σε 69.275 (35.528 άνδρες και 33.747 γυναίκες) ενώ κατά τις αντίστοιχες 26 εβδομάδες του 2020 (30/12/2019–28/6/2020) είχαν ανέλθει σε 64.506 (32.266 άνδρες και 32.240 γυναίκες), σημειώνοντας αύξηση 7,39%.

Αύξηση κατά 5.859 θανάτους (9,24%) σημειώθηκε σε σχέση και με το μέσο όρο των πρώτων 26 βδομάδων της εξαετίας 2015 –2020 (63.416 θάνατοι).

Κι ενώ ο Ιούνιος του 2021 είναι ο μήνας με τους λιγότερους θανάτους από Covid-19 στην Ελλάδα η 25η και η 26η εβδομάδα του 2021 που συμπίπτουν με το δίμηνο Ιουνίου-Ιουλίου, εμφανίζονται να έχουν τον μεγαλύτερο αριθμό θανόντων στο γενικό πληθυσμό (συμπεριλαμβανομένων και των θανάτων από COVID) με 2.948 και 3.149 θανόντες την 25η και 26η εβδομάδα αντίστοιχα.

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Η ανάρτηση του Κ.Αρβανίτη

«ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΑΥΞΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΝΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΘΝΗΣΙΜΟΤΗΤΑΣ
ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΛΗΘΥΣΜΟΥ, ΤΟ 2ο ΤΡΙΜΗΝΟ ΤΟΥ 2021
ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΜΠΟΡΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΠΟΔΟΘΕΙ ΣΤΟΝ Covid-19.

ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ

Πριν μερικούς μήνες είχα κάνει μία ανάρτηση με τίτλο:
ΑΝΑΖΗΤΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΟΙ “ΕΚΑΤΟΜΒΕΣ ΘΥΜΑΤΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΦΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΙΟΥ”.

Είχα αναλύσει τότε την συνολική θνησιμότητα του ελληνικού πληθυσμού το πρώτο 2μηνο του 2021, με βάση τα επίσημα στοιχεία της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ.

Οχι μόνο δεν υπήρξε καμία αύξηση θνησιμότητας, σε σχέση με το αντίστοιχο περσινό 2μηνο Ιανουαρίου-Φεβρουαρίου 2020, που δεν υπήρχε ακόμη ο κορωνοϊός, αλλά είχαμε και… μείωση θνησιμότητας κατά 2.000 περίπου!

Αποδείχθηκε έτσι ότι οι περίφημες «εκατόμβες θυμάτων του φονικού ιού» που μας εμφύτευε στο κεφάλι κάθε βράδυ η τηλεόραση, τα περισσότερα ήταν στην πραγματικότητα θύματα άλλων παθήσεων, που τα φόρτωναν στον κορωνοϊό, αφού η συνολική θνησιμότητα δεν αυξήθηκε, όπως θα «όφειλε».
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ΑΠΟ ΤΕΛΗ ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ ΞΕΚΙΝΑ ΕΝΑ ΠΡΩΤΟΦΑΝΕΣ ΘΑΝΑΤΙΚΟ!

Τι ήταν να κάνω αυτήν την ανάρτηση;

Από την τελευταία βδομάδα του Φεβρουαρίου 2021 ξεκινά μια αύξηση της συνολικής θνησιμότητας του ελληνικού πληθυσμού από όλα τα αίτια.

Μία αύξηση που δεν ήταν κάτι προσωρινό για μερικές εβδομάδες, αλλά συνεχίστηκε…

Οταν η ΕΛΣΤΑΤ έβγαλε τα αποτελέσματα των πρώτων 22 εβδομάδων του 2021 (μέχρι αρχές Ιουνίου δηλαδή) το πρόβλημα έγινε φανερό.

Τους μήνες Μάρτιο-Απρίλιο-Μαϊο εφέτος είχαμε κάπου 4.700 θανάτους παραπάνω από το αντίστοιχο περσινό 3μηνο!

Πέρυσι 33.257 και εφέτος 37.929, δηλαδή σχεδόν 15% αύξηση!

Είναι μία τεράστια αύξηση για ένα 3μηνο, αφού αντιστοιχεί σε σχεδόν 20.000 αύξηση ετησίως…

Πήγα τότε να ανεβάσω μία ανάρτηση με το πρόβλημα αυτό, αλλά τελευταία στιγμή άλλαξα γνώμη, γιατί σκέφτηκα ότι θα υπήρχε μεγάλη σύρραξη, γύρω από το αν αυτή η αύξηση οφείλεται στον… Covid (παρόλο που αυτός αποδεδειγμένα δεν αυξάνει αισθητά τη γενική θνητότητα, αλλά απλώς «κλέβει την δόξα» άλλων αιτιών θανάτου).

Είπα να περιμένω να βγει το επόμενο δελτίο της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ, με τις επόμενες 4 βδομάδες (23η-26η βδομάδα του έτους), για να δω αν η τάση αυτή θα συνεχιστεί ή θα ανακοπεί.
Ηλπιζα να ανακοπεί, αλλά δυστυχώς συνεχίστηκε και μάλιστα εντάθηκε ακόμη περισσότερο!

Το τελευταίο δελτίο της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ βγήκε πριν 6 μέρες και δείχνει μία πρωτοφανή αύξηση της συνολικής θνησιμότητας τον Ιούνιο (για την ακρίβεια 6 Ιουνίου ως 4 Ιουλίου είναι οι 23η-26η βδομάδα).

Τώρα πια είναι σαφέστατο ότι δεν μπορεί να αποδοθεί στον Covid, γιατί τον Ιούνιο ο Covid ήταν σε πολύ μεγάλη κάμψη.

Σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία του ΕΟΔΥ, από την 6η Ιουνίου ως την 4η Ιουλίου οι νεκροί με Covid δεν ήταν παραπάνω από μόλις 460 άτομα, ενώ η αύξηση της ολικής θνησιμότητας στο ίδιο διάστημα ήταν 1.947 άτομα!

Δηλαδή υπάρχουν κάπου 1.500 νεκροί τον Ιούνιο, που ΔΕΝ μπορούν να αποδοθούν στον Covid, με τίποτα!

Συνολικά λοιπόν, από τα τέλη Φεβρουαρίου ως αρχές Ιουλίου (9η – 26η βδομάδα) έχουμε μία αύξηση ολικής θνησιμότητας κατά 6.619 άτομα στο 4μηνο αυτό.

Επιβεβαιώνεται ότι τρέχει με ρυθμό 20.000 νεκρούς ετησίως!!

Αυτό ζητάει απεγνωσμένα μία εξήγηση…
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ΠΙΘΑΝΕΣ ΑΙΤΙΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΘΑΝΑΤΙΚΟΥ

Δύο είναι οι πιθανές αιτίες αυτής της αύξησης της γενικής θνησιμότητας.

1) Συνέπειες της μακρόχρονης καραντίνας, που όπως είναι γνωστό αυξάνει ΟΛΕΣ σχεδόν τις αιτίες θανάτων, με πολλούς μηχανισμούς.

– Εξασθένηση ανοσοποιητικού του πληθυσμού, λόγω κλεισούρας,

– Αύξηση θανάτων από νοσήματα σχετιζόμενα με την επιδείνωση του βιοτικού επιπέδου,

– Αναζωπύρωση σταθεροποιημένων χρονίων νοσημάτων, λόγω κατάθλιψης που φέρνει η κλεισούρα.

Ισως όμως είναι λίγο νωρίς για να έχουν αρχίσει ήδη να έρχονται τα γραμμάτια του παρατεταμένου lockdown…

2) Συνέπειες του μαζικού εμβολιασμού!

Οι συνέπειες μιας γενικευμένης ιατρικής πράξης, που γίνεται επί μεγάλου ποσοστού του πληθυσμού δεν μετριέται με το πόσοι πέθαναν τις πρώτες μέρες μετά τον εμβολιασμό, ούτε φυσικά με τις προφορικές ανακοινώσεις κάθε τηλεπερσόνας, τύπου «δεν σχετίζεται με το εμβόλιο» και άλλα τέτοια ύποπτα.

Ο μόνος αξιόπιστος τρόπος να εκτιμήσει κανείς τις συνέπειες ενός εμβολιασμού είναι η μέτρηση της ολικής θνησιμότητας από κάθε αίτιο ΠΡΙΝ την έναρξη των εμβολιασμών και η σύγκρισή της με την ολική θνησιμότητα ΜΕΤΑ, ανά τακτά χρονικά διαστήματα και για αρκετά χρόνια.

Οι μηχανισμοί με τους οποίους μπορεί ένας μαζικός εμβολιασμός να αυξήσει την ολική θνησιμότητα είναι πολλοί:

– Οι άμεσες επιπλοκές του ίδιου του εμβολίου (αιφνίδιοι θάνατοι, σοβαρές παρενέργειες απειλητικές για την ζωή)

– Αναζωπύρωση χρονίων νοσημάτων, που πριν τον εμβολιασμό ήταν σταθεροποιημένα και ελεγχόμενα με την φαρμακευτική

– Πυροδότηση παθοφυσιολογικών μηχανισμών, που θα δώσουν δυσάρεστα αποτελέσματα μετά από καιρό

3) Συνδυασμός των (1) και (2) δεν μπορεί να αποκλειστεί.

Δηλαδή παρατεταμένη καραντίνα + εμβολιασμός

ΔΙΑΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ

Για να μην γεμίσω την ανάρτηση με πολλά διαγράμματα, έφτιαξα μία εικόνα που περιέχει τόσο τα νούμερα, όσο και δύο γραφικές απεικονίσεις, για διευκόλυνση του αναγνώστη.

Στο αριστερό μέρος φαίνονται τα νούμερα της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ ανά εβδομάδα, εφέτος και πέρυσι.

Η κόκκινη οριζόντια γραμμή είναι το όριο από το οποίο ξεκινά η αύξηση της γενικής θνησιμότητας.

ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ: Η τελική διαφορά δείχνει να είναι «μόνο» 4.769 θάνατοι στο πρώτο 6μηνο του 2021, σε σύγκριση με το πρώτο 6μηνο του 2020, γιατί ενσωματώνεται το «κέρδος» των 2.047 θανάτων, που είχε κερδηθεί το πρώτο 2μηνο.

Στην πραγματικότητα όμως, έχουμε μία αύξηση κατά 6.816 θανάτων στο 4μηνο Μαρτίου-Ιουνίου, που είναι πρωτοφανές, για τουλάχιστον την τελευταία 10ετία και βάλε…

Δεξιά από το νούμερα, στο άνω διάγραμμα φαίνεται αθροιστικά η πορεία αύξησης των θανάτων (μπλε γραμμή).

Από κάτω ακριβώς έβαλα το διάγραμμα της αθροιστικής επίσης αύξησης των εμβολιασμών. Η πηγή φαίνεται.

Η κόκκινη κάθετη γραμμή στα δύο διαγράμματα αντιστοιχεί χρονικά στην έναρξη της αύξησης της ολικής θνησιμότητας.

Οι καμπύλες των δύο διαγραμμάτων (ολικής θνησιμότητας και εμβολιασμών) συμπίπτουν στην μορφή και στην χρονική κατανομή!
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ΥΣΤΕΡΟΓΡΑΦΟ

Κανονικά πρέπει να περιμένουμε να δούμε αν η τάση που διαπιστώσαμε θα συνεχιστεί και τον Ιούλιο. Ομως το δελτίο της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ για τον Ιούλιο θα βγει κάπου αρχές Σεπτέμβρη…

Φαίνεται ότι η ΕΛΣΤΑΤ καθυστερεί να βγάλει τα δελτία θνησιμότητας για μας, τους κοινούς θνητούς, αλλά σε άλλες υπηρεσίες αυτά αποστέλλονται εγκαίρως!

Οι δύο χάρτες που ακολουθούν είναι από το EUROMOMO (European Mortality Monitoring – Ευρωπαϊκή Παρακολούθηση Θνησιμότητας).

Ο πρώτος χάρτης, όπως γράφει επάνω, αφορά στην 26η βδομάδα. Το βαθύ μπλε χρώμα της Ελλάδας δείχνει την μεγάλη αύξηση θανάτων, πράγμα που δείχνει παραστατικά τα αποτελέσματα της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ, που ήδη τα ξέρουμε και τον έβαλα απλώς για σύγκριση με τον δεύτερο χάρτη.

Το ζουμί είναι ο δεύτερος χάρτης!

Απεικονίζει την 31η βδομάδα, δηλαδή αυτήν που έληξε την περασμένη Κυριακή!

Βλέπουμε ότι δυστυχώς η αύξηση ολικής θνησιμότητας ΔΕΝ ανακόπηκε ούτε τον Ιούλιο, ούτε αρχές Αυγούστου, παρόλο που επίσημα η ΕΛΣΤΑΤ θα βγάλει το δελτίο για τον Ιούλιο σε κάνα μήνα από τώρα.

Δυστυχώς, το μέλλον δεν διαγράφεται αισιόδοξο.

Κάποια διαδικασία θανατικού έχει ξεκινήσει στον ελληνικό πληθυσμό και δεν δείχνει να είναι κάτι τυχαίο και προσωρινό…»

(iskra.gr)
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21,766 DEAD Over 2 Million Injured (50% SERIOUS) Reported in European Union’s Database of Adverse Drug Reactions for COVID-19 Shots

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The European Union database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, and they are now reporting 21,766 fatalities, and 2,074,410 injuries, following COVID-19 injections.
A Health Impact News subscriber from Europe reminded us that this database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who are part of the European Union (EU), which comprises 27 countries.
The total number of countries in Europe is much higher, almost twice as many, numbering around 50. (There are some differences of opinion as to which countries are technically part of Europe.)
So as high as these numbers are, they do NOT reflect all of Europe. The actual number in Europe who are reported dead or injured due to COVID-19 shots would be much higher than what we are reporting here.
The EudraVigilance database reports that through August 14, 2021 there are 21,766 deaths and 2,074,410 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414)
• COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH
• COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)
• COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S)
From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (1,021,867 ) are serious injuries.
“Seriousness provides information on the suspected undesirable effect; it can be classified as ‘serious’ if it corresponds to a medical occurrence that results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalisation, results in another medically important condition, or prolongation of existing hospitalisation, results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, or is a congenital anomaly/birth defect.”
A Health Impact News subscriber in Europe ran the reports for each of the four COVID-19 shots we are including here. It is a lot of work to tabulate each reaction with injuries and fatalities, since there is no place on the EudraVigilance system we have found that tabulates all the results.
Since we have started publishing this, others from Europe have also calculated the numbers and confirmed the totals.*
Here is the summary data through August 14, 2021.

Total reactions for the experimental mRNA vaccine Tozinameran (code BNT162b2,Comirnaty) from BioNTech/ Pfizer – 10,616 deaths and 833,498 injuries to 14/08/2021

• 22,844 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 135 deaths
• 22,132 Cardiac disorders incl. 1,591 deaths
• 208 Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 16 deaths
• 10,953 Ear and labyrinth disorders incl. 8 deaths
• 563 Endocrine disorders incl. 5 deaths
• 12,887 Eye disorders incl. 24 deaths
• 75,021 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 454 deaths
• 220,575 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 3,013 deaths
• 893 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 49 deaths
• 9,094 Immune system disorders incl. 58 deaths
• 27,018 Infections and infestations incl. 1037 deaths
• 10,454 Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 158 deaths
• 20,892 Investigations incl. 342 deaths
• 6,172 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 188 deaths
• 112,364 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 133 deaths
• 605 Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 51 deaths
• 148,477 Nervous system disorders incl. 1,171 deaths
• 910 Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 29 deaths
• 152 Product issues incl. 1 death
• 14,950 Psychiatric disorders incl. 141 deaths
• 2,763 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 169 deaths
• 10,909 Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 3 deaths
• 36,913 Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 1,268 deaths
• 40,358 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 92 deaths
• 1,416 Social circumstances incl. 13 deaths
• 651 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 28 deaths
• 23,324 Vascular disorders incl. 439 deaths

Total reactions for the experimental mRNA vaccine mRNA-1273 (CX-024414) from Moderna – 5,600 deaths and 229,430 injuries to 14/08/2021

• 4,341 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 49 deaths
• 6,744 Cardiac disorders incl. 614 deaths
• 89 Congenital, familial and genetic disorders incl. 1 deaths
• 2,916 Ear and labyrinth disorders
• 179 Endocrine disorders incl. 1 death
• 3,579 Eye disorders incl. 13 deaths
• 20,063 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 205 deaths
• 61,894 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 2,232 deaths
• 372 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 20 deaths
• 1,926 Immune system disorders incl. 10 deaths
• 6,597 Infections and infestations incl. 340 deaths
• 4,944 Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 105 deaths
• 4,556 Investigations incl. 107 deaths
• 2,230 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 129 deaths
• 28,909 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 111 deaths
• 275 Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 29 deaths
• 40,922 Nervous system disorders incl. 572 deaths
• 463 Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 5 deaths
• 46 Product issues
• 4,510 Psychiatric disorders incl. 96 deaths
• 1,364 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 93 deaths
• 2,012 Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 2 deaths
• 10,046 Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 528 deaths
• 12,375 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 47 deaths
• 966 Social circumstances incl. 20 deaths
• 732 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 56 deaths
• 6,380 Vascular disorders incl. 215 deaths.

Total reactions for the experimental vaccine AZD1222/VAXZEVRIA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19) from Oxford/ AstraZeneca: 4,740 deaths and 947,675 injuries to 14/08/2021

• 11,297 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 194 deaths
• 15,757 Cardiac disorders incl. 550 deaths
• 137 Congenital familial and genetic disorders incl. 3 deaths
• 11,013 Ear and labyrinth disorders
• 457 Endocrine disorders incl. 4 deaths
• 16,608 Eye disorders incl. 19 deaths
• 93,703 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 241 deaths
• 249,973 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 1,166 deaths
• 770 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 44 deaths
• 3,770 Immune system disorders incl. 19 deaths
• 23,056 Infections and infestations incl. 298 deaths
• 10,571 Injury poisoning and procedural complications incl. 130 deaths
• 20,678 Investigations incl. 108 deaths
• 11,336 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 65 deaths
• 144,069 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 66 deaths
• 477 Neoplasms benign malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 15 deaths
• 198,450 Nervous system disorders incl. 755 deaths
• 391 Pregnancy puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 9 deaths
• 146 Product issues incl. 1 death
• 17,784 Psychiatric disorders incl. 40 deaths
• 3,449 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 45 deaths
• 12,080 Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 1 death
• 33,058 Respiratory thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 560 deaths
• 43,592 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 31 deaths
• 1,182 Social circumstances incl. 6 deaths
• 1,040 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 21 deaths
• 22,831 Vascular disorders incl. 349 deaths.

Total reactions for the experimental COVID-19 vaccine JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S) from Johnson & Johnson: – 810 deaths and 63,807 injuries to 14/08/2021:

• 585 Blood and lymphatic system disorders incl. 24 deaths
• 988 Cardiac disorders incl. 103 deaths
• 24 Congenital, familial and genetic disorders
• 425 Ear and labyrinth disorders
• 27 Endocrine disorders incl. 1 death
• 836 Eye disorders incl. 3 deaths
• 6,041 Gastrointestinal disorders incl. 28 deaths
• 16,787 General disorders and administration site conditions incl. 201 deaths
• 80 Hepatobiliary disorders incl. 7 deaths
• 260 Immune system disorders incl. 5 deaths
• 1,086 Infections and infestations incl. 27 deaths
• 578 Injury, poisoning and procedural complications incl. 11 deaths
• 3,319 Investigations incl. 56 deaths
• 341 Metabolism and nutrition disorders incl. 13 deaths
• 10,533 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders incl. 19 deaths
• 26 Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) incl. 2 deaths
• 13,528 Nervous system disorders incl. 101 deaths
• 23 Pregnancy, puerperium and perinatal conditions incl. 1 death
• 19 Product issues
• 794 Psychiatric disorders incl. 9 deaths
• 230 Renal and urinary disorders incl. 9 deaths
• 484 Reproductive system and breast disorders incl. 3 deaths
• 2,155 Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders incl. 64 deaths
• 1,893 Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders incl. 3 deaths
• 164 Social circumstances incl. 3 deaths
• 490 Surgical and medical procedures incl. 31 deaths
• 2,091 Vascular disorders incl. 86 deaths

*These totals are estimates based on reports submitted to EudraVigilance. Totals may be much higher based on percentage of adverse reactions that are reported. Some of these reports may also be reported to the individual country’s adverse reaction databases, such as the U.S. VAERS database and the UK Yellow Card system. The fatalities are grouped by symptoms, and some fatalities may have resulted from multiple symptoms.
More COVID Shots on the Way
In spite of all these recorded injuries and deaths, most countries around the world are now preparing to roll out a 3rd Pfizer “booster” shot, as well as authorizing the COVID shots for young children, under the age of 12.
While the alleged COVID-19 “virus” has almost NO impact on deaths among young people, tragically, we cannot say the same for the experimental shots.

(vaccineimpact.com)
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ΣΥΓΚΛΟΝΙΣΤΙΚH ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ-ΣΟΚ! ! “Εγώ... ο υγιής, απομονωμένος, ανένταχτος, περιθωριοποιημένος, αποκλεισμένος απειλημένος, εκβιασμένος και υπό αναστολή υγιής «λεπρός» ανεμβολίαστος υγειονομικός.”
21 Αυγούστου, 2021 9 Από ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗ ΣΟΥΦΛΗ

ΟΧΙ, ΚΥΡΙΟΙ.
ΔΕΝ ΘΑ ΠΑΡΩ ΚΑΜΙΑ ΕΥΘΥΝΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΡΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΩΝ.
ΓΙΑΤΙ ΕΓΩ Ο ΑΝΕΜΒΟΛΙΑΣΤΟΣ ΥΓΕΙΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ ΕΙΜΑΙ ΑΚΡΩΣ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΜΕΝΟΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ.

Για την επαναφορά της κανονικότητας και του σεβασμού της ανθρώπινης αξιοπρέπειας
Για την υπενθύμιση των Ιπποκρατικών Αξιών…Μια επιστολή καταγράφει την άλλη άποψη:
«Εγώ ο ανεμβολίαστος, ανένταχτος, ψεκασμένος υγειονομικός»!
«Αν τιμωρηθούμε, σωστότερο θα ήταν να φύγουν αυτοί που αρνήθηκαν να δουν εμπύρετο ασθενή εν μέσω πανδημίας»
Για να συστηθώ λοιπόν με όλους τους συμπολίτες μου, είμαι ο υγιής, απομονωμένος, ανένταχτος, περιθωριοποιημένος, αποκλεισμένος απειλημένος, εκβιασμένος και υπό αναστολή υγιής «λεπρός» ανεμβολίαστος υγειονομικός.
Ήρθε η ώρα να σε παρακαλέσω να έρθεις μαζί μου, να σταθείς δίπλα μου κι ας μη με αγγίξεις.
Εσύ που νόσησες ή νοσηλεύτηκες και σε φρόντισα χωρίς ρατσισμό (όσον αφορά τον διαχωρισμό νόσου μολυσματικής ή όχι) με μεγάλη αυταπάρνηση ανιδιοτέλεια και ηθική.
Εσένα που μετέφερα αγκαλιά στο ασθενοφόρο, εσένα που φρόντισα την προσωπική σου υγιεινή, που σου έδωσα νερό να πιεις, που σε εξέτασα, σε διασωλήνωσα, που άγγιξα όλο το μολυσματικό σου ιικό φορτίο, εσένα που θεράπευσα.
Εσένα που δεν κατάφερα να σώσω τον συγγενή σου, αλλά ήμουν κοντά του μέχρι τέλους να ξενυχτάω στο προσκέφαλό του, να ψάχνω επιστημονικά τον δρόμο για τη σωτήρια του, να προσεύχομαι για τη ζωή του.
ΜΗΝ ΞΕΧΝΑΣ, συμπολίτη μου, ότι μέχρι τον ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟ – ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟ ’21 δεν είχαμε εμβόλια.
Ήμουν καθημερινά μάχιμος στον αγώνα της 1ης γραμμής.
Και ναι! Φοβήθηκα τη νόσο, τον θάνατο, την απομόνωση, τον κοινωνικό αποκλεισμό (που έζησα εγώ και η οικογένειά μου) επειδή ήμουν υγειονομικός.
Επρεπε να δώσω αγώνα μέσα μου. Η μάχη ήταν συνειδησιακή, σωματική, ηθική.
Επρεπε να κερδίσω τον φόβο μου για να μπορώ να σε βοηθήσω, να είμαι κοντά σου από όποια θέση κι αν βρισκόμουν. Και τα κατάφερα.
Πάλεψα με την αγωνία μου, με τη σωματική μου κούραση, με την ίδια την ψυχή μου, έχοντας έλλειψη αέρα από τις πολλές ώρες χρήσης της μάσκας, από την οσμή της νόσου και της αίσθησης του αβάσταχτου θανάτου μπροστά στα μάτια μου.
Δεν λιγοψύχησα, δεν λιποτάκτησα, δεν το έβαλα στα πόδια αφήνοντας το μέτωπο της μάχης ακάλυπτο.
Δεν βγήκα σε αναστολή ούτε σε αναρρωτική άδεια.
Εμεινα δίπλα σου και κέρδισα τη μάχη.
Αφιερώθηκα σε σένα ψυχή τε και σώματι.
Ίσως με κόλλησες και νόσησα, ίσως να πέθανα κιόλας.
Ίσως, πάλι, να μην αρρώστησα ποτέ.
ΟΜΩΣ ΠΙΑ ΔΕΝ ΦΟΒΑΜΑΙ.
Πάει καιρός από τότε που πάλεψα να προασπιστώ την υγεία σου και την υγεία όλων.
Βλέπεις; Βγήκα ζωντανός και δυνατός.
Θυμάσαι τα Χριστούγεννα, αγαπημένε μου συμπολίτη, που με χειροκροτούσες από τα μπαλκόνια;
Μου έδινες τόσο κουράγιο να συνεχίσω τον ανηφορικό δρόμο.
Μη με εγκαταλείπεις τώρα που με αναγκάζουν να παραιτηθώ.
Σε χρειάζομαι κοντά μου, εμβολιασμένε και ανεμβολίαστε συμπολίτη.
Εγώ ο βράχος o υγειονομικός περνάω δύσκολες ώρες και μαζί και η οικογένειά μου.
Με υποχρεώνουν σε εμβολιασμό και, επειδή αρνούμαι, με βγάζουν σε αναστολή, μου κλείνουν το ιατρείο, με διώχνουν από την κλινική, από το ΕΚΑΒ, από την καθαριότητα, από το μαγειρείο.
Σε χρειάζομαι κοντά μου και, όσες ιδιότητες κι αν επικαλεστώ, είμαι ο ίδιος.
Ο ΑΝΕΜΒΟΛΙΑΣΤΟΣ ΥΓΕΙΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ.
Κι εσένα, δάσκαλε, κι εσένα, καθηγητά, πανεπιστημιακέ, που με δίδαξες να ‘μαι ερευνητής γνώστης, δυνατός, ατρόμητος, ηθικός, δίκαιος, πιστός στον όρκο του Ιπποκράτη, να σέβομαι τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα και τους κανόνες της ιατρικής δεοντολογίας, ώστε να μην προβώ ποτέ σε ιατρική πράξη χωρίς τη συγκατάθεση του ασθενούς μου.
ΣΕ ΧΡΕΙΑΖΟΜΑΙ.
Φτάσαμε λοιπόν στο σημείο να επιβάλλεται η υποχρεωτικότητα εμβολιασμού, ενάντια σε κάθε νομοθετική πράξη και επιπλέον με άγνοια, προχειρότητα, αντιεπιστημονικότητα, ανηθικότητα, προσβάλλοντας κάθε νόμο προάσπισης των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων μου.
Εσύ, συνάδελφε, νοσηλευτή, γιατρέ, τραυματιοφορέα, ακτινολόγε, διοικητικέ, ασθενή μου, συμπολίτη μου, εμβολιασμένε κι ανεμβολίαστε, συμπαραστάσου με.
Οταν νόσησα, μου στάθηκες και δούλευες για δύο.
Όταν εσύ αρρώστησες, ανέλαβα και για τους δύο.
Μην αφήσεις τώρα τη διάσπαρτη διχόνοια να μας χωρίσει σε στρατόπεδα μίσους ούτε να ζω υγιής σε μια σύγχρονη Σπιναλόγκα.
Εσύ φοβάσαι τη νόσο ή έχεις προβλήματα υγείας και σέβομαι την απόφασή σου.
Εγώ φοβάμαι το εμβόλιο γιατί έχω περάσει θρόμβωση, μυοκαρδιοπάθεια ή δεν έχω τίποτα.
Απλώς αρνούμαι την υποχρεωτικότητα οποιασδήποτε ιατρικής πράξης.
ΔΕΝ ΣΥΓΚΑΤΑΤΕΙΘΕΜΑΙ ΝΑ ΑΠΑΡΝΗΘΩ ΤΑ ΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑΤΑ ΜΟΥ.
Διότι, βάσει του νόμου 2462/1997 ΦΕΚ (υπερσυνταγματικο) 25α/26-02-1997, καθένας αποφασίζει μόνος του για τον εαυτό του και καμία συλλογική, κοινοτική συμφωνία ή συγκατάθεση ενός ηγέτη κοινότητας ή άλλης Αρχής αντικαθιστά τη συγκατάθεση του ενημερωμένου ατόμου!
Ξέρω πως εμένα θα με τιμωρήσουν.
Με απειλούν με πειθαρχικά συμβούλια είτε επειδή αρνούμαι να εμβολιαστώ είτε γιατί αναφέρω τις παρενέργειες των εμβολίων που παρουσιάστηκαν στους ασθενείς μου.
Λες και μόνο οι δικοί μου ασθενείς έχουν παρενέργειες.
Ίσως πάθανε οξεία τύφλωση, κώφωση και ιδεοψυχαναγκαστικη διαταραχή.
Αλλά, εάν τιμωρηθούν ή απωθηθούν υγειονομικοί, σωστότερο θα ήταν να φύγουν αυτοί που αρνήθηκαν να δουν εμπύρετο ασθενή εν μέσω πανδημίας (με ή χωρίς Covid).
Αυτοί που διαχώρισαν και ρατσιστικοποίησαν τις οποιεσδήποτε λοιμώξεις.
Οι λιποτάκτες του μετώπου και οι καταπατητές του όρκου τους.
ΟΧΙ ΕΜΕΙΣ.
Εύγε στους μπερδεμένους εγκεφάλους που δημιούργησε ο φόβος ή όποιο άλλο κίνητρο υπάρχει που δεν γνωρίζουμε. Εδώ και χρόνια έχουμε δει ανθρώπους να πεθαίνουν γιατί αρνήθηκαν ιατρικές πράξεις (μεταγγίσεις, αφαιμάξεις, χημειοθεραπείες, στεφανιογραφίες κ.λπ.) πιθανώς και λόγω θρησκευτικών πεποιθήσεων.
Εδώ μιλάμε για επιβολή ιατρικής πράξης σε υγιείς.
Δηλαδή, αν αλλάξουμε θρησκευτικές πεποιθήσεις, θα απαλλαχτούμε από την υποχρεωτικότητα;
Ακόμη και η Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία μου με πιέζει κάνοντας εμβολιαστική εκστρατεία στον πρωινό κυριακάτικο λόγο του ΘΕΟΥ.
Σύντομα όμως θα καταρριφθεί το εμβολιαστικό τους αφήγημα.
Δεν θα αλλαξοπιστήσω.
Δεν τυφλώθηκα.
Και ο Θεός μού δείχνει τον δρόμο, τον οποίο όλοι σε λίγο θα αναγκαστούν να ακολουθήσουν.
Τώρα είμαστε εμείς απελπισμένοι, ψάχνοντας νομική κάλυψη για να αγκιστρωθούμε.
Εύχομαι να μην είναι εκείνοι σύντομα στη θέση μας.

ΓΙΑΤΙ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΕΞΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΑ ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΑ ΠΟΥ ΘΑ ΚΑΤΑΡΡΙΨΟΥΝ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΒΟΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΥΠΟΧΡΕΩΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑΣ.

1. Αποδεικνύεται βάσει των στοιχείων του ΕΟΔΥ ότι οι εμβολιασμένοι και νοσούν και διασπείρουν και πεθαίνουν.
Αρα το αρχικό αίτημα της κυβέρνησης για διασφάλιση της δημόσιας υγείας δεν ισχύει πια, αν αναλογιστούμε ότι εμείς κάνουμε rapid tests, φοράμε μάσκες και ξέρουμε πότε είμαστε ακόμη και ασυμπτωματικοί, ενώ οι εμβολιασμένοι μεταφέρουν τη νόσο σε όλους κι ας έχουν freedom pass, TO OΠΟΙΟ ΟΜΩΣ ΕΓΙΝΕ ΤΟ ΠΙΣΤΟΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΟ ΜΕΤΑΔΟΣΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΟΣΟΥ.
Οι ευπαθείς ομάδες και οι υγειονομικοί θα αναγκαστούν να επανεμβολιαστούν.
Έτσι αυθαιρέτως, αντιεπιστημονικώς και χωρίς μελέτες ασφάλειας – αποτελεσματικότητας.

2. Οι νοσήσαντες ανεμβολίαστοι και οι άνθρωποι που χωρίς να νοσήσουν έχουν αντισώματα έναντι του Covid (ακόμη κι αν το νούμερο αυτό είναι μικρό) έχουν την επίκτητη ανοσία διεγερμένη, με τα λεμφοκύτταρα μνήμης να καραδοκούν τον εχθρό και να αντεπεξέλθουν σε κάθε είδους μετάλλαξη του ιού (ΣΥΜΦΩΝΑ ΜΕ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΚΠΑ).
Ο οργανισμός φαρμάκων αναφέρει στην ιστοσελίδα του ότι δεν υπάρχουν αρκετά συμπεράσματα για τη χρήση εμβολίου mRNA ΣΕ ΑΝΑΡΡΩΣΑΝΤΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΚΟΡΟΝΟΪΟ.
Αρα εμβολιάζετε την πολυπόθητη αποδεδειγμένη αγέλη αυτοβούλως, που μόνο παρενέργειες εγκυμονεί πάρα όφελος.

3. Οι γιατροί των καναλιών (που δεν ξέρουμε πόσες ώρες φοράνε στολή και μάσκα με 40 βαθμούς Κελσίου) αμφισβητούν λοιπόν την επίκτητη χημική και κυτταρική ανοσία, καθώς και την ύπαρξη β λεμφοκυττάρων μνήμης, τα όποια διδαχτήκαμε στα πρώτα έτη της Ιατρικής.
Πόσα αξιώματα θα καταρρίψετε πια;

4. Γιατί τόσο πάθος και μένος εμβολιασμού στους νέους, στους φοιτητές, στους μαθητές, στα παιδιά; Εφόσον έχουν εμβολιαστεί οι ευπαθείς ομάδες της κοινωνίας και κάθε οικογένειας;
Παγκόσμιες μελέτες δείχνουν ότι τα παιδιά έχουν μηδαμινή θνησιμότητα από τον ιό, ενώ η θνητότητα από Covid παραμένει κατά μέσο όρο 79 έτη, με 80 στις 100 να έχουν σοβαρές συννοσηρότητες.
Αυτό σημαίνει ότι αυτοακυρώνεστε μόνοι σας και αποδεικνύετε την έλλειψη πίστης και εμπιστοσύνης στην εμβολιαστική κάλυψη.
Και καλά κάνετε, διότι αποδώσατε λάθος ελευθερίες διακίνησης των εμβολιασμένων οι οποίοι είναι πυρηνική βόμβα μετάδοσης του ιού.
Τη μετάλλαξη Δέλτα, που είναι πιο μολυσματική μεν, αλλά λιγότερο θανατηφόρα, καθώς και τη μετάλλαξη Ε, Ζ, Η, Θ κ.λπ., θα την κολλάμε όλοι ώσπου η πανδημία να πέσει σε κλίμακα εποχικής γρίπης.

5. Πόσοι ασθενείς επανανόσησαν ανεμβολίαστοι και πόσοι εμβολιασμένοι; Ελάχιστο έως μηδαμινό ποσοστό επαναλοίμωξης σε ανεμβολίαστους.
Αντιθέτως, εμβολιασμένοι πάρα πολλοί και με νοσηλείες (σιγά σιγά θα ανεβαίνουν και οι θάνατοι σε εμβολιασμένους).
6. Μέσα Αυγούστου του ’21 φτιάξατε λίστα εξαιρέσεων για κλάματα, έχοντας βάλει ελάχιστα κριτήρια εξαίρεσης και ντροπής.
Εδώ όμως και 8 μήνες πιστοποιούσατε ασφάλεια.
Αρα παραδέχεστε ότι εμβολιάσατε γυναίκες με αντιφωσφολιπιδαιμικο σύνδρομο (που πιθανώς δεν το γνώριζαν κιόλας), με παρενέργεια πρόκλησης ακόμη και θάνατο και στη χώρα μας.

ΘΑ ΕΠΡΕΠΕ ΗΔΗ ΝΑ ΕΧΕΤΕ ΑΠΟΧΩΡΗΣΕΙ ΑΠΟ ΚΑΘΕ ΥΓΕΙΟΝΟΜΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ, ΑΝ ΕΙΧΑΤΕ ΛΙΓΗ ΕΥΣΥΝΕΙΔΗΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΜΟ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΣΥΓΓΕΝΕΙΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΧΑΘΗΚΑΝ. Αντ’ αυτού ψηφίσατε το ΑΚΑΤΑΔΙΩΚΤΟ.

ΛΙΓΑ ΛΟΓΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΦΥΛΛΑ ΟΔΗΓΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΕΚΑΣΤΟΤΕ ΕΜΒΟΛΙΟΥ

1. Δεν υπάρχουν φύλλα οδηγιών στο συγκεκριμένο εμβόλιο ώστε να ενημερωθεί ο υπεύθυνος πολίτης.
2. Βρίσκεται αναρτημένο μόνο στο διαδίκτυο όπου πρώτο γραφόμενο είναι «ΤΕΛΕΙ ΥΠΟ ΣΥΜΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΠΑΡΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΗΣΗ» (SOS).
3. Σε αναφορά ΣΟΒΑΡΗ ΑΛΛΕΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΗ, ΦΛΕΓΜΟΝΗ ΜΥΟ-ΠΕΡΙΚΑΡΔΙΟΥ, ΟΙΔΗΜΑ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΥ, ΑΙΦΝΙΔΙΟΣ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ = ΑΓΝΩΣΤΕΣ!
4. Για τον θηλασμό δεν υπάρχουν μελέτες. ΕΠΙΣΗΜΩΣ.
5. Για τη γονιμότητα υπάρχουν μόνο προκλινές μελέτες. ΔΗΛΑΔΗ ΜΟΝΟ ΣΕ ΖΩΑ! Ενώ επιβάλλετε εμβολιασμό στην έγκυο εργαζομένη.
AYTA MΠΟΡΟΥΝ ΝΑ ΣΤΗΡΙΧΤΟΥΝ ΜΟΝΟ ΣΕ ΑΣΤΡΟΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΠΡΟΒΛΕΨΕΙΣ ασφάλειας και αποτελεσματικότητας και όχι σε επιστημονικές, εφόσον δεν υπάρχουν.
6. Η ASTRAZENECA στη φάση 3 του πειράματος σε μελέτη που κατέθεσε το πανεπιστήμιο της ΟΞΦΟΡΔΗΣ η ανοσοκαταστολή αποτελούσε κριτήριο αποκλεισμού από τις μελέτες.
7. Στις 18/05/21 προστίθεται σαν παρενέργεια εμβολή και θρόμβωση με αυτοάνοση θρομβοπενία. Στις 3/5/21 η MODERNA ανακοινώνει διάρροιες, μυο-περικαρδίτιδα και έντονες αντιδράσεις στο σημείο του εμβολιασμού.
Στις 6/9/21 η PFIZER ανακοινώνει αλλεργικές αντιδράσεις που φτάνουν έως και 1/100. Στις 22/07/21 ο ΕΟΦ αναγνωρίζει ότι προκαλεί σύνδρομο QULAIN BARRE (ASTRAZENΕCA KAI JOHNSON).
8. Δεν αναγράφεται πουθενά άμεσος ή μακροπρόθεσμος θάνατος.
9. Πρόσφατες μελέτες αναφέρουν πτώση της δράσης του ανοσοποιητικού, με εμφάνιση λοιμώξεων, νευροπάθειες, σπειραματονεφρίτιδες κ.λπ.
10. Το εμβόλιο δεν καλύπτει τη μετάλλαξη Δέλτα. Ισραηλινοί ιατροί αναφέρουν κάλυψη 16/100 σε πλήρως εμβολιασμένους (καθηγητής ιατρικής GYRILL COHEN).
11. Η ΜODERNA αναγράφει επίσης στο Φυλλάδιο Οδηγιών διάρκεια κάλυψης από Covid AΓΝΩΣΤΗ. 14/7/21 προστίθεται ακόμη μια θανατηφόρα παρενέργεια. ΣΥΝΔΡΟΜΟ ΔΙΑΦΥΓΗΣ ΤΡΙΧΟΕΙΔΩΝ.
Παρ’ όλες λοιπόν τις επίσημες οδηγίες, αναφέρουν εμβολιασμό σε υγειονομικούς και ευπαθείς χωρίς επιστημονική γνώση.
Πλήρες αλαλούμ λόγω φόβου και όχι λόγω κατάρτισης.
Και εφόσον όλα αυτά συμβαίνουν στη φάση 4 της μελέτης (που αποδεικνύουν το παγκόσμιο πείραμα), προσπαθούν να το επιβάλλουν και στα παιδιά.
ΘΑ ΕΠΡΕΠΕ ΝΑ ΖΗΤΗΣΟΥΝ ΣΥΓΓΝΩΜΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ ΟΙΚΟΓΕΝΕΙΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΘΑΝΟΝΤΩΝ KAI TΩΝ ΑΤΟΜΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΑΝ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗ ΛΗΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΕΜΒΟΛΙΟΥ.
ΘΑ ΠΡΕΠΕΙ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΑΒΑΣΤΑΚΤΗ ΒΑΡΥΤΗΤΑ ΤΩΝ ΑΛΗΘΙΝΩΝ ΠΑΡΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΖΟΝΤΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΟΡΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΖΙΚΟΥ ΕΜΒΟΛΙΑΣΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΝΟΙΑΣ ΠΟΥ ΤΟΥΣ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΙΖΕΙ ΝΑ ΚΑΤΑΡΓΗΘΕΙ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΙ ΤΗΣ ΦΡΑΣΗΣ ΟΦΕΛΟΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΖΗΜΙΑ, ΔΙΟΤΙ ΑΦΟΡΑ ΥΓΙΕΙΣ ΝΕΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ.
Αντιθέτως, ο γιατρός μου δεν μου υπογράφει την ασφάλεια του εμβολίου, οι φαρμακευτικές εταιρίες δεν παίρνουν την ευθύνη, η επιτροπή λοιμωξιολόγων έχει το ακαταδίωκτο, αλλά εγώ ο πολίτης υπογράφω σε ένα έγγραφο ντροπής που, ενώ τους σημείωσα αλλεργίες, θρομβωτικά επεισόδια, μυοκαρδίτιδα στο παρελθόν κ.λπ., με εμβολίασαν με την ευθύνη όλη επάνω μου και κανενός άλλου.
ΟΧΙ, ΚΥΡΙΟΙ.
ΔΕΝ ΘΑ ΠΑΡΩ ΚΑΜΙΑ ΕΥΘΥΝΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΡΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΩΝ.
ΓΙΑΤΙ ΕΓΩ Ο ΑΝΕΜΒΟΛΙΑΣΤΟΣ ΥΓΕΙΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ ΕΙΜΑΙ ΑΚΡΩΣ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΜΕΝΟΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ.
Πριν από 8 μήνες μάς υποσχέθηκαν ασφάλεια και αποτελεσματικότητα.
Στο διάστημα αυτό όμως εμφανίστηκαν απίστευτες (μη εγγεγραμμένες) παρενέργειες.
Και όχι, δεν θα τους κατηγορήσουμε ως ψεύτες.
Ηταν κάτι καινούργιο.
ΙΣΩΣ ως άγνοια ή εξαπάτηση επιστημόνων.
Τώρα πια όμως ο κύβος παρενεργειών είναι μπροστά μας.
Η αντιεπιστημονική παράβλεψη των παρενεργειών δεν θα συγχωρέσει ούτε έναν θάνατο σε υγιές άτομο.
Και θα πρέπει όλοι να γνωρίζουν ότι εμβόλιο που έχει 50/100 κάλυψη και κάτω δεν επιτρέπεται η κυκλοφορία του.
Εδώ πέσαμε στο 39/100 κάλυψη και, αντί να αποσυρθεί, γίνεται υποχρεωτικό.
Για όλους αυτούς τους λόγους η ανθρωπότητα δεν θα τους ξεχάσει και δεν θα τους συγχωρέσει ποτέ.
Θα γραφτούν στις μαύρες σελίδες της Ιστορίας με κεφαλαία γράμματα.
Για μια επιβολή υποχρεωτικότητας βασισμένη σε ανεπαρκείς και ελλιπείς επιστημονικές μελέτες με έκθεση σε άμεσο και μακροπρόθεσμο κίνδυνο αγνώστου μεγέθους όλων μας (αλλά ιδίως των υγειών νέων και των παιδιών αυτής της χώρας) με το διωγμένο μου και το ακαταδίωκτό τους να μας στοιχειώνουν τα όνειρά μας και τις ελπίδες μας.
Με τη δημοκρατία μας να σείεται απ’ άκρη σ’ άκρη αυτής της γης.

ΕΓΩ Ο ΑΝΕΜΒΟΛΙΑΣΤΟΣ ΥΓΙΗΣ «ΛΕΠΡΟΣ» ΥΓΕΙΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ”
Σημείωση: Τα πλήρη στοιχεία του υπογράφοντος είναι στη διάθεσή μας και έχει γίνει η απαραίτητη ταυτοποίησή τους. Υπό τον φόβο κυρώσεων δεν δημοσιεύεται το όνομα του γράφοντος.
Εφημερίδα «ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ».

(attikanea.info)
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August 18, 2021

mRNA Tech Inventor Dr. Robert Malone: Easier for Delta to Kill ‘Vaccinated’ than Jab-Free People

Those who take the Covid-19 “vaccines” are MORE susceptible to the Delta Variant and have a HIGHER risk of severe disease or even death. This information comes from Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the very mRNA technology used to transmit both the Pfizer and Moderna injections.

Malone took to Twitter to post a thread that has shockingly not been taken down yet. Twitter has been censoring posts that speak ill of the “vaccines,” and a high-profile physician and researcher like Dr. Malone seems ripe for censorship. Perhaps they fear the “Streisand Effect” with this particular thread and are simply suppressing it on the back end.

Here is his thread edited for format:

I guess I need to say this again. Delta has an Ro of about 8, about 3x that of the Alpha (ref- CDC). With these leaky vaccines, if we were to have 100% vaccine uptake and perfect mask use we cannot stop the spread of Delta (ref- CDC).

the current vaccines provide about 50-60% efficacy in protection from infection. They are not fully protective.
if you are vaccinated and become infected (“breakthrough”), the virus will replicate at the same or higher levels than if you were unvaccinated and then become infected.
if you are vaccinated and then become infected, your risk of transmitting virus to someone else is quite high – remember, the Ro measures how likely you are to transmit the virus.
if you are vaccinated and then become infected, your risk of developing severe disease or dying is better than if you were not vaccinated and then become infected with Delta.

Therefore, if you are vaccinated and then become infected, you MAY have a higher risk of becoming a “superspreader” because you are less likely to show disease. This has not been measured, but it should be.

“Trust the science,” they say when scolding us about the “vaccines.” As the science increasingly points to these injections being dangerous, the tune is quickly shifting from the authoritarians. Now, they’re just saying to trust them. Which we don’t.

(freedomfirstnetwork.com)
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1.6 million Moderna Covid vaccine doses pulled in Japan after foreign material found in some vials
26 Aug, 2021 07:18 / Updated 13 hours ago
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Around 1.6 million doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine are being pulled from circulation in Japan as a precaution after foreign material was discovered in some vials. An investigation was launched into the incident.

The Health Ministry said on Thursday that it has withdrawn doses manufactured at the same production line following consultations with drug maker Takeda, which is in charge of sales and distribution of the vaccine in the country.

Takeda asked Moderna to conduct an urgent investigation after foreign substances were found in 39 unused vials. The material in question is believed to be a few millimeters in size, though its elements are yet to be determined, Japanese media reported, citing Takeda and the ministry.

In a statement to the media, Moderna confirmed the findings and said it was investigating the case. “To date, no safety or efficacy issues have been identified,” the US-based company said, adding that so far it cannot comment on how exactly some of its vials were contaminated.

The Health Ministry said it believes the risk is not significant, but sees the suspension as a cautionary measure, according to Kyodo News.
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The presence of foreign material was confirmed since August 16 at eight vaccination sites in the Tokyo, Ibaraki, Saitama, Gifu, and Aichi prefectures. Takeda notified the ministry of the issue on Wednesday.

The ministry reported that the doses came from a factory in Spain and have already been sent to 863 vaccination sites across Japan. Officials will alert each site, and also revealed three production lot numbers – 3004667, 3004734, and 3004956 – so people can check if they received a potentially contaminated dose.

Japan approved the emergency use of the Moderna vaccine in May, and over 10 million doses have been administered so far, as the country grapples with a spike in Covid-19 cases.

In response to the rise, Japan extended its state of emergency until September 12 in 13 prefectures. Overall, 47 prefectures are under some form of emergency orders. Around 40% of the population is fully vaccinated, according to the Japan Times.

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Μπορείτε άραγε να φανταστείτε τι θα είχε συμβεί αν η Βαρυμπόμπη, οι Αδάμες, η Νέα Ερυθραία, η Κηφισιά, οι Θρακομακεδόνες, όλη η Βορειοδυτική Αττική είχαν χτιστεί με ξύλινα κτήρια, αντί για κτήρια από τσιμέντο; Πόσες χιλιάδες νεκρούς θα θρηνούσαμε τώρα; Πώς θα έσβηνε η φωτιά, αν άρχιζε να καίει ξύλινα σπίτια, χτισμένα το ένα κοντά στο άλλο; Και πού θα μπορούσε να σταματήσει μια τέτοια φωτιά, αν όχι στη θάλασσα; Αν χθες κάηκαν κάπου εκατό σπίτια, χτισμένα με τσιμέντο, πόσες χιλιάδες θα είχαν καεί, αν ήταν ξύλινα;
Κι όμως αυτή ακριβώς η σύσταση, “πρέπει να αρχίσουμε να χτίζουμε κτίρια χωρίς ή με ελάχιστο τσιμέντο- φερ’ ειπείν με ξυλεία, που είναι και ένα υλικό που συσσωρεύει τον άνθρακα“, περιλαμβάνεται στις προτάσεις του “άριστου” “ειδικού” της κυβέρνησης, του πρόεδρου της Εθνικής Ειδικής Επιτροπής για την Κλιματική Αλλαγή, ακαδημαϊκού Κ. Συνολάκη, για τα μέτρα που πρέπει να ληφθούν σε εφαρμογή του κλιματικού νόμου, τον οποίο έχει ήδη υπό κατάρτιση η κυβέρνηση.
Την αντιπροχθεσινή Κυριακή, 1/8/2021, την ώρα που όλοι όσοι είχαν τη δυνατότητα έτρεχαν στις παραλίες, επέλεξε το προπαγανδιστικό της κλιματικής απάτης ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ να διακινήσει “τρομοκρατική” “συνέντευξη” του ακαδημαϊκού, με τίτλο “Ο καύσωνας που ζούμε τώρα μπορεί να είναι κανονικότητα στο τέλος του αιώνα“. Φυσικά το “μπορεί” σημαίνει πως ίσως και να μη συμβεί τίποτα απ’ τα όσα τρομοκρατικά ισχυρίζεται ο Συνολάκης και διακινεί το ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ, αλλά, ως γνωστόν, η κυβέρνηση είναι πάντα ανεύθυνη, η αντιπολίτευση είναι δεκανίκι της και πάντα υπάρχει μια αντισυνταγματική ασυλία, για να εξασφαλίζει τους “άριστους” “ειδικούς” απ’ τις ανοησίες που ξεστομίζουν, προκειμένου να υπηρετήσουν το καθεστώς. Μόνο που οι ανοησίες τους πλέον έχουν καταντήσει επικίνδυνες για τον πληθυσμό και πρέπει κάποιος Συμπιλίδης να βγει και να τους μαζέψει.
Δεν θα σχολιάσω τα υπόλοιπα “μέτρα”, που προτείνει ο “άριστος” “ειδικός” της κυβέρνησης, τα οποία είναι προφανές πως … διέπονται από ιδεοληψία κι όχι από τεχνική και οικονομική λογική, προκειμένου να είναι προσαρμοσμένα στις ανάγκες, αλλά και τις δυνατότητες της χρεοκοπημένης χώρας. Απλά με κάτι τέτοια θυμάμαι το πόσο δίκιο είχε ο Μπίσμαρκ, όταν είπε το “Drei professoren, Vaterland verloren” (τρεις καθηγητές και χάθηκε η πατρίδα). Κι όμως, κάτι τέτοιοι παίρνουν αποφάσεις που επηρεάζουν τις ζωές μας.
Όπως ήταν λοιπόν απολύτως αναμενόμενο, η συνήθης, περίπου ετήσια, φωτιά στην Αττική, φέτος αποδόθηκε στην “κλιματική αλλαγή”. Μόνο που και πριν από 40 χρόνια, στις 4/8/1981, η φωτιά κατέκαψε την Κηφισιά, έφτασε μέχρι το Άλσος/Κτήμα Συγγρού κι έμειναν στην ιστορία της χώρας οι “κουκουνάγες” του τότε πρωθυπουργού Γ. Ράλλη, (οι κουκουνάρες, που “διέσπειραν τη φωτιά” και δεν μπορούσε να αντιμετωπιστεί). Και παραδοσιακά η Αττική καίγεται τις πρώτες μέρες του Αυγούστου, με τους εκάστοτε “αρμόδιους” να μιλούν παλαιότερα για “νοσταλγούς της 4ης Αυγούστου, της δικτατορίας του Μεταξά” και στην πράξη τελικά τα καμένα να μετατρέπονται σε οικόπεδα: πώς νομίζετε πως χτίστηκε απ’ άκρη σ’ άκρη το λεκανοπέδιο της Αττικής; Κι έπαιξαν άραγε ρόλο για τη χθεσινή φωτιά τα σχέδια “αξιοποίησης” της περιοχής Τατοΐου, που δημοσιεύτηκαν μόλις τον περασμένο Φεβρουάριο;
Τελικά μάλλον η “κλιματική αλλαγή” φταίει για “τα πάντα όλα”! Να θυμηθούμε μήπως την “κλιματική αλλαγή”, που κατά τη Δούρου είχε πνίξει τη Μάνδρα, των μπαζωμένων ρεμάτων; Ή να θυμηθούμε την “κλιματική αλλαγή”, που πήρε πέρυσι το χτισμένο στην κοίτη του Πάμισου Κέντρο Υγείας του Μουζακίου; Σίγουρα η “κλιματική αλλαγή” θα φταίει που έχασε ο ΠΑΟΚ στο Δουβλίνο, που ισοφάρισε με την ψυχή στα δόντια ο ΟΣΦΠ τους Βούλγαρους, που έχασε ο Πετρούνιας το “σίγουρο” χρυσό.
Ο τσαρλατανισμός έχει γίνει πλέον απόλυτο συστατικό στοιχείο της πολιτικής, όποιο κόμμα κι αν είναι στην κυβέρνηση, δικαιώνοντας απόλυτα τον πρώην Πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας, που το 2009 είχε πει για τον πολιτικό κόσμο: “η εργατικότητα, η ευσυνειδησία, η εντιμότητα, η αξιοπρέπεια, ο σεβασμός της γνώμης του άλλου, η συνείδηση καθήκοντος και η συνείδηση ευθύνης, έχουν εκλείψει από τον τόπο μας και δεν υπάρχουν πια“. Αν δεν τους “πάρουμε με τις πέτρες”, να σβήσουν τα παλιά, βαθύτατα σάπια, κόμματα και να αναδειχθούν εντελώς νέα, που θα αλλάξουν το Σύνταγμα και τη νομοθεσία απ’ τα θεμέλια, δεν έχουμε σωτηρία!

(greeklignite.blogspot.com)
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Δευτερα 09 Αυγουστου 2021.

Κοινωνία
«Μαγνήτης» το Τατόι για επενδύσεις – To σχέδιο ανάπλασης
Η επαναφορά του σχεδίου αποκατάστασης του χώρου στα πρώην βασιλικά κτήματα ευνοεί την προσέλκυση ιδιωτικού κεφαλαίου στην ευρύτερη περιοχή

Ως μαγνήτης για την προσέλκυση επενδύσεων στην ευρύτερη περιοχή Βαρυμπόμπης – Κρυονερίου λειτουργούν τα πρώην βασιλικά κτήματα στο Τατόι. Η επαναφορά του σχεδίου αποκατάστασης του χώρου – το οποίο είχε παραμείνει παγωμένο από το 2013 – ευνοεί την προσέλκυση ιδιωτικού κεφαλαίου. Αλλωστε, ιστορικά, οι αναπλάσεις έχουν λειτουργήσει ως «εργαλεία» τα οποία, όπως λένε και οι πολεοδόμοι, υπηρετούν το μάρκετινγκ περιοχών, όπως έγινε σε Πλάκα, Θησείο, Ψυρρή, Κουκάκι κ.λπ.

Ετσι, η προοπτική αναγέννησης του Τατοΐου – αν και ξεχωριστή περίπτωση, καθώς δεν αφορά αστική γειτονιά – λειτουργεί σαν διαφημιστική πινακίδα για την ανάπτυξη ήπιων επιχειρηματικών δραστηριοτήτων εντός και εκτός του κτήματος. Και όσοι γνωρίζουν το παρασκήνιο των συζητήσεων για την… ανάσταση του Τατοΐου έχουν πολλά να πουν.
Μετωπική σύγκρουση στα αποκαΐδια
Πολλοί οι μνηστήρες
Οπως αναφέρουν, επιχειρηματίας που δραστηριοποιείται σε γειτονική έκταση σχεδιάζει τη δημιουργία μικρής πολυτελούς ξενοδοχειακής μονάδας με την προοπτική ότι η επισκεψιμότητα στην περιοχή θα αυξηθεί. Σύμφωνα με τις ίδιες πηγές, πολλοί… μνηστήρες «σκανάρουν» τις γύρω εκτάσεις και διερευνούν τις δυνατότητες αξιοποίησής τους. Ωστόσο, μεγάλο τμήμα τους είναι δασικό, ενώ η διαθέσιμη «καθαρή» γη είναι ελάχιστη και με περιορισμούς στις χρήσεις γης.
Παράλληλα, αναθερμαίνεται το ενδιαφέρον για «υιοθέτηση» κτιρίων και εκτάσεων εντός των πρώην βασιλικών κτημάτων. Εξάλλου οι θεματικές ενότητες που αναπτύσσονται στον αναθεωρημένο σχεδιασμό για το Τατόι έχουν ως στόχο, πέρα από τη διάσωση του κτήματος, και την οικονομική βιωσιμότητα του εγχειρήματος.
Δεν είναι τυχαίο ότι η νέα μελέτη φέρει την υπογραφή της KPMG καθώς και της ομάδας «ΑΣΠΑ design» του αρχιτέκτονα-πολεοδόμου Σπύρου Τσαγκαράτου, η οποία έχει στο ενεργητικό της επιβλητικά έργα, όπως το Τhe Mall Athens, το Golden Hall, το σχέδιο αξιοποίησης του Αστέρα Βουλιαγμένης, το σχέδιο ολοκληρωμένης ανάπτυξης του Ελληνικού κ.ά.
Οι μελετητές όρισαν ένα γενικό «μενού» χρήσεων γης, το οποίο θα εξειδικευθεί σύντομα, με τη σύνταξη Ειδικού Πολεοδομικού Σχεδίου (ΕΠΣ). Εν τούτοις, όπως επισημαίνει ο Σύλλογος Φίλων Κτήματος Τατοΐου, ακόμη δεν έχει γίνει καταγραφή των ορίων της δημόσιας περιουσίας, προκειμένου να διαπιστωθεί το εύρος των εκτάσεων που έχουν καταπατηθεί.
Οι προτάσεις αξιοποίησης
Στη νέα μελέτη βιωσιμότητας, κεντρική ενότητα είναι η «Αγροτική», η οποία χωροθετείται σε εκτάσεις και κτίρια δυτικά των ανακτόρων και στα νοτιοδυτικά σύνορα του κτήματος. Εκεί, το λιθόκτιστο ιστορικό ξενοδοχείο «Τατόιον» αξιοποιείται ως ξενώνας αγροτουρισμού, ενώ θα λειτουργήσουν επίσης κατάστημα και εστιατόριο με τοπικά αγροτικά προϊόντα.
Αλλωστε τα άλλοτε βασιλικά κτήματα σχεδιάζεται να επανακαλλιεργηθούν, θα επιστρέψει η κτηνοτροφική παραγωγή και η μεταποίηση σε υφιστάμενα κτίρια (Οινοποιείο, Βουστάσιο, Τυροκομείο κ.λπ.), με στόχο την αναβίωση της ιστορικής ετικέτας «Κτήμα Τατοΐου».
Ανοιχτή παραμένει η προοπτική ενίσχυσης της παραγωγής, με ταυτόχρονη αξιοποίηση του πρώην Βασιλικού Κτήματος Πολυδενδρίου Λάρισας. Το Τατόι παραμένει ελκυστικό για τη Διεπαγγελματική Ενωση Οίνου και Αμπέλου που σχεδιάζει την ίδρυση Ακαδημίας Οίνου και της Κιβωτού της Ελληνικής Αμπέλου.
Εξίσου σημαντική είναι και η ενότητα «Ευεξία – Ηρεμία» που χωροθετείται σε κτίρια βόρεια των Ανακτόρων (Υπασπιστήριο, Κτίριο Προσωπικού, Τηλεγραφείο κ.ά.) και σε μια περιοχή στο κάτω όριο του κτήματος προς τη Βαρυμπόμπη. Εκεί ο σχεδιασμός περιλαμβάνει ένα ξενοδοχείο boutique με spa, κατάστημα καλλυντικών με φυσικά προϊόντα και εστιατόριο.
Μάλιστα, ελληνική φαρμακευτική εταιρεία που παράγει σκευάσματα για θεραπείες spa είχε εκφράσει ενδιαφέρον στον Σύλλογο προσβλέποντας και στον ιατρικό τουρισμό, όπως και εταιρεία κέτερινγκ για τη διαχείριση εστιατορίου εντός του κτήματος. Διερευνητικές συζητήσεις έχουν γίνει και με τη διοίκηση πολυτελούς ξενοδοχείου της πρωτεύουσας που βρίσκει ελκυστική την ιδέα να προσφέρει στους πελάτες του… βασιλικές βραδιές στο Τατόι.
Πρόσθετες υποδομές
Επίσης, παρότι οι μελετητές δεν έχουν εισαγάγει χρήση κατοικίας, αποφεύγοντας να μετατρέψουν το Τατόι σε real estate, πηγές του υπουργείου Πολιτισμού αναφέρουν ότι θα υπάρξει σχετική πρόβλεψη στο Προεδρικό Διάταγμα με τις χρήσεις και τους όρους δόμησης. Πάντως, στο master plan αναμένεται να συμπεριληφθεί πρόταση του Συλλόγου για ανάπτυξη στο νότιο άκρο της έκτασης ήπιων υποδομών (χώροι φιλοξενίας, ταβέρνα κ.ά.), που θα αποφέρουν πρόσθετα έσοδα. Συνολικά οι πρόσθετες υποδομές που θα δημιουργηθούν προσεγγίζουν τα 3.000 τ.μ.. Σήμερα στην έκταση των 42.000 στρεμμάτων υφίστανται 55 κτίρια (15.085 τ.μ.).
Για τη διαχείριση του έργου θα συσταθεί Εταιρεία Ειδικού Σκοπού, η οποία θα προετοιμάσει και τις συμβάσεις παραχώρησης. Ο προϋπολογισμός εκτιμάται στα 97-130 εκατ. ευρώ, με το υπουργείο Πολιτισμού να έχει αιτηθεί τα 49 εκατ. από το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης. Τα υπόλοιπα θα αναζητηθούν με τη συνεργασία Δημοσίου και ιδιωτών.

(tovima.gr)
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July 10, 2021

Ted Cruz Introduces Bill Banning Feds Keeping Vaccine Database As Biden’s Declares Door-to-Door ‘Vaccine Strike Force’
July 10, 2021 Constitutional Nobody News
USSANews.com

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill Thursday prohibiting the federal government from maintaining a vaccine database after Joe Biden announced a door-to-door vaccine “strike force” to coerce Americans to get the COVID jab.

“When the Biden admin calls for ‘targeted’ ‘door-to-door outreach’ to get people vaccinated, it comes across as a g-man saying: ‘We know you’re unvaccinated, let’s talk, comrade,’” Cruz tweeted Thursday evening.

“My bill to ban federal vaccine passports prohibits the feds from maintaining a vaccine database,” he added.

Cruz’s effort to undermine Big Brother comes after Biden announced a vaccine “strike force” that would visit Americans door to door to encourage them to get vaccinated.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra added Thursday that Biden’s plan to send government officials to knock on doors to check on their vaccine status is “absolutely the government’s business.”

“It is taxpayers’ business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy,” Becerra explained, adding that “knocking on a door has never been against the law.”

Biden’s fascistic plan drew ire across the Republican Party this week, but Cruz has been the only GOP leader so far to actually address the left’s out-of-control vaccine tyranny.

(ussanews.com)

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(02/07/2021)

MIT Scientist: Covid Vaccines May Cause Diseases in '10 to 15 years'

We are in for a big surprise down the road,” Dr. Stephanie Seneff predicts.

RAIR Foundation USA is honored to present an exclusive interview with prominent scientist Stephanie Seneff about her take on the impact of mRNA vaccines. RAIR also features Scientist Madeline Weld, Ph.D., Physiology and Biology who has graciously used her background to write about the interview for RAIR’s readers (scroll down).

Dr. Seneff serves as Senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is the author of Toxic Legacy, How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment. The MIT scientist wrote a research paper with Dr. Greg Nigh titled: “Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19” for the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.

Dr. Weld explains:

“Dr. Seneff’s background led her to have concerns about the Covid-19 vaccines that are being heavily promoted. These vaccines use a novel mRNA technology, and their long-term effects remain unknown. However, there is sufficient published scientific information to explain some of the mechanisms behind the adverse effects these vaccines are having now and what they might cause in the years and decades ahead. She anticipates an increase in autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, which take 10 to 15 years to manifest themselves.”

Some of the major points of the RAIR exclusive interview:

Dr. Seneff “anticipates that there will be long-term damage that won’t instantly be linked to the vaccine. Developments, such as an increase in auto-immune and neurodegenerative diseases, which may take 10 to 15 years before manifesting themselves.” “We are in for a big surprise down the road,” she predicts.
Dr. Seneff believes the vaccine would exacerbate symptoms of those with Parkinson’s.
Those who claimed that mRNA would not impact DNA are “wrong.”
Spike protein “really has become the most toxic part of the virus” and exists when Covid is gone.
“Among the possibilities she foresees is an increase in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), a prion disease (or protein misfolding disease) comparable to mad cow disease.”
“There is an epidemic of Alzheimer disease, which people are getting at an increasingly younger age. The recklessly and haphazardly implementation of the vaccine roll-out will contribute to this trend.”
See below for rough transcript:

Seneff has been working on glyphosate, about which she has written a new book (Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment). She has been researching this topic for almost 10 years. She believes that glyphosate poisons the immune system, leading to immune deficiency and autoimmune disease, which is increasing the impact of Covid-19, in terms of contributing to the cytokine storm, the lungs filling with fluid, hemorrhaging and thrombosis. Her book has a whole chapter on glyphosate and the immune system.

This paper was intensely reviewed (6 reviewers). They had read about the possibility that the spike protein might be a prion but had originally left it out of their paper as possibly being too speculative.

However, one of the reviewers suggested they include a discussion about it, leading them to expand their research on it and finding that it connected a lot of dots. Many viruses have prion-like proteins. She learned about an organic farmer in the UK who linked mad cow disease to magnesium toxicity from a chemical that was being put on the backs of cows. Seneff believes that prion diseases are connected to toxic chemicals because they cause proteins to misfold.

Prion proteins can seed other unrelated proteins to misfold. There is a list of proteins that will “catch the disease” when there is a prion or prion-like protein near them, that misfolds in a characteristic way called “beta-sheets.” It causes other proteins in that same cell to misfold in that same way and to bind together in fibrils that eventually precipitate out. Alzheimer’s is a classic prion-like disease. The amyloid beta plaque is linked to Alzheimer’s. Amyloid beta plaques normally fold as alpha helices, they are like screws that go into the membrane. All prion proteins have that characteristic. They normally go into a membrane and form an alpha helix.

When prion proteins misfold, and they can misfold when you get too many of them in the cytoplasm, for example if there is too much alpha-synuclein amyloid-beta, those alpha-synuclein amyloid-beta molecules start glomming together in these beta sheets that are quite soluble, so they end up with soluble complexes of beta sheets that are many amyloid betas.

Alpha-synuclein misfolding goes with Parkinson’s disease
Amyloid-beta goes with Alzheimer’s
TDP43 goes with ALS

There is a classic prion protein which is the mad cow in the cows and that’s also CJD in humans. So you have individual proteins that are linked to individual neurodegenerative diseases and each of those proteins is characteristic the same way, with alpha helix going into beta sheet becoming soluble in cytoplasm causing trouble. That is a common pattern for many different debilitating diseases. That happens through a trigger from some kind of prion-like protein that comes from outside often.

Parkinson’s is an example. You can start with a protein produced by E. coli that is a prion-like protein. If it gets too much, it starts to misfold, it starts to build the prion C in the gut. And then the immune cells pick up that protein, transport it into the spleen.

There are germinal centres in the spleen where the prion proteins really get going. It seems like it’s kind of a special factory for trying to deal with prion proteins to get rid of them. In the germinal centres in the spleen, the immune cells pack up prion proteins into little particles that they release as exosomes.

Exosomes are central to the disease process that I predict will happen with these vaccines. Parkinson’s starts with germinal centres in the spleen that release exosomes that contain some kind of misfolded protein that’s dangerous. The cells are trying to get rid of them and distribute them. You could cough them out through your lungs, release them through your skin, they possibly get into breast milk. They are exported as these little exosomes to get rid of them, to shed them out. But they also get transported along the vagus nerve to the brain stem. And that’s how you end up with Parkinson’s disease. So Parkinson’s starts with the gut, then the spleen, the vagus nerve, and finally the brain stem nuclei.

So the vaccine turns your body into a factory that makes the protein?

That’s right. The corona virus might be described as an orange covered in cloves. The spike protein is the most dangerous part of the virus. That is becoming very clear. Many people are doing studies, where they are using only the spike protein and can find brain damage. Greg and I just uncovered this study which we did not reference in our paper. Maybe it’s too new, but it’s a fascinating paper by people in India. It’s an in vitro study where they show that if you expose human cells in culture to the RNA from the spike protein, they will make spike protein, they ship it out in exosomes. And then if you expose the immune cells in the brain in another in vitro study to those exosomes, they become neurodegenerative.

When those exosomes make their way to the brain, the immune cells in the brain called microglia take them up and cause brain inflammation, brain damage, neurodegenerative diseases. Basically they hurt the brain very badly. I feel like the vaccines are inviting a direct hit on the brain.

Everyone I’ve spoken to who’s had the vaccine has at least a week of down time. When you say prion-like, are you making a distinction to a prion?

That’s a tricky thing, because there is a protein called the prion protein. There’s a human prion protein, there’s a cow prion protein. And then there are all these other proteins that are called prion-like proteins, because they have similar characteristics. And then amyloid beta, alpha-synuclein and the spike protein are all prion-like proteins because they have similar characteristics. The characteristics are well-defined in terms of the protein itself because there is a specific pattern, called a glycine zipper. It’s a pattern of GXXXG, two glycines (amino acid), separated by three wild cards, it could be any amino acids. Proteins are built from amino acids like beads on a string.

You have 20 amino acids that make up the core of all the proteins. You have the DNA code that instructs how the protein is made. This GXXXG pattern is a characteristic prion pattern called a glycine zipper.

Amyloid beta has four glycine zippers. And the spike protein has five. So it’s in some sense more prion-like than amyloid beta, which is the protein that causes Alzheimer’s disease.

So we have turned the body into a factory for making a protein which for all intents and purposes is a prion?

Yes, and worse than that, they actually re-engineered the protein to make it more prion-like than it normally is. Because they have mucked with the protein structure to give it a pair of prolines that are next door to each other. Two prolines. They’ve modified the spike protein design for the vaccine such that it couldn’t go into the membrane. So they wanted it to stay. So basically the protein is made by these cells under instruction from the vaccine, and then it’s released and exposed on their membrane.

It attaches to ACE-2 receptors. And then it needs to be exposed to immune cells so they can make their antibodies. The whole point is to have these cells collaborate with each other and one cell exposes (the protein), another one makes the antibodies. And they thought it was a really good idea not to let it go into the membrane, because then it would expose itself. There’s a critical part it wants the antibodies to be able to see. And they’ve mucked with the protein so it can’t snap into place and go into the membrane. So it stays stuck to the ACE-2 receptors, which I think is really, really bad, because it suppresses them.

Many papers have shown that the spike protein suppresses the ACE-2 receptors. And that’s causing a lot of these other symptoms that we’re seeing, heart problems and blood problems, thrombosis, loss of platelets. All these things are happening in response to this shutdown of the ACE-2 receptor.

Listening to you sounds like you’re leaning toward incompetence rather than malice.

I don’t know. It didn’t take me that long to read about all these things and to see that this thing is really big trouble. I don’t know why they couldn’t also realize that. I don’t know how they can read the same things I’m reading and not reach the same conclusions. They’re being very very reckless. Anyone who’s involved in this ought to be worried about those germinal centres in the spleen and that is exactly what these vaccines do. They’ve traced them where they go and this is another interesting story.

They say that it’s injected in the arm and it stays in the arm and everything happens in the arm. But that’s not true at all. The immune cells pick up the vaccines, they open up that box and they start making prion proteins, and they get really excited and worried because they don’t understand what’s going on here. They’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s extremely unusual. Everything is not natural in these vaccines. So the immune cells get really worried and they go into the lymph system from the arm. And lots of women are getting swollen lymph nodes under their arm which is a characteristic feature of breast cancer. From the lymph nodes, it gets into the lymph system and it works its way to the spleen.

Greg and I talked about one of these studies where they showed that this mRNA technology causes immune cells to go the spleen, into those germinal centres, and start furiously making spike protein in those germinal centres. That is just a complete set up for Parkinson’s.

So if somebody already had Parkinson’s, and they were to get this vaccine, do you think it would exacerbate it?

I would definitely expect so. I’m hoping we’ll see some data coming out like that because it’s really crucial for us to watch now and see what happens. Everything’s predictive right now but there’s a lot of science behind it to show that this is what you would expect. It’s disturbing to me to think about these exosomes. The critical thing is that the germinal centres are making all these exosomes, releasing them out into the circulation. Those exosomes can leave the body. It’s been shown that exosomes are present in the breath that comes out from the lungs.

The paper that I read a couple of days ago showed that exosomes are made by cells that are exposed to something very much like the mRNA in the vaccine. They make the exosomes and these exosomes are taken up by the immune cells in the brain. They cause the brain to go on fire basically. They cause an inflammatory response in the brain which damages the brain tissues. Greg and I predicted that in what we wrote but we didn’t have hard evidence at that time. This study shows that this is exactly what happens.

And so the spike protein is packaged up by these dendritic cells which are immune cells that are taking up that vaccine, furiously making spike protein, being unable to stop themselves because that RNA has been engineered to be very sturdy. Normally RNA would just disintegrate if you injected RNA into the body. That’s why they put in this polyethylene glycol, this cationic lipid around the surface to make it be reactive and then to turn the RNA into a different RNA, changing one of the nucleotides to make it really sturdy, so it can’t be broken down easily. They did a lot of tricks. This is terrible because it means these cells can’t stop themselves from making spike protein.

And when you get too much of a prion protein in the cytoplasm, that’s when you get in trouble with other proteins misfolding. And these immune cells actually upregulate alpha-synuclein in response to stress. So they’ve got tremendous stress in those dendritic cells in those germinal centres in the spleen.

That’s where I think a lot of the action is happening. And studies tracing the RNA show that the spleen was the organ which accumulated the highest levels. But it also accumulated in other scary places like the liver and ovaries and adrenal glands. They all showed up with lots of mRNA from the vaccine migrating through the lymph system, getting to those places.

It’s disturbing that it was found in the ovaries, which were number two after the spleen. And then the adrenal glands. Those are all really important organs – with hormones and what not. There will be a big mess there.

So you’re saying we don’t even know if our bodies will shut down manufacturing this toxin.

Right. I could not find information on exactly how long this would last. I found a paper that said it could be as long as six months. I think it could be forever in the case where it gets turned into DNA and that’s another thing we discussed in our paper. All the machinery is there to take the spike protein RNA and convert it into DNA, put out DNA plasmids. Little plasmids contain that DNA and are able to reproduce themselves. And then infect the cells in the bone marrow, the precursor stem cells. Infect them with that, and they’re going to be able to make spike protein for the rest of the person’s life. There is an entire mechanism that could make that possible. For someone who is already sick, for example cancer cells produce lots of this enzyme that can convert RNA into DNA. Immune cells do too, under stress. So those immune cells in the spleen under stress might predict that they would upregulate enzymes that convert RNA into DNA.

You get the DNA and then you get these plasmids which are kind of like exosomes. They’re little lipid-membraned things that package up DNA. But then the plasmids can also get into the DNA in the nucleus and become a permanent part of the human genome. That is not beyond the realm of possibility.

One of the original sales pitches for the vaccine was that it would not be able to penetrate the nucleus and would not get into your DNA.

They’re wrong. I can show you the study that shows that sperm take up foreign messenger RNA, convert it into DNA, put it into plasmids, release those plasmids around the fertilized egg. The fertilized egg takes those plasmids up and can carry them throughout the lifespan of that person and passing it down to the next generation. There is a paper that talks about all of that. Not mentioning the spike
protein, not mentioning these vaccines which didn’t even exist at the time. It could be very, very bad. It could kill you. In fact, people are dying. Even teenagers are dying from heart failure.

You mentioned shedding a number of times. I think that’s a very important topic. Dr. Roger Hodkinson was saying that there would be a bell curve. From the middle of the bell curve to the right side would be people who would produce more of the spike protein than their systems could mop up. So those people would shed it in their breath and sweat and that could present a risk to people in close proximity for a long period of time. Would you say that’s accurate?

I would say it’s completely accurate. And plausible. We wrote something about that. At the third-round review, that last reviewer who suggested talking about prions. And that’s when we realized those exosomes are really crucial. Exosomes have been a big topic recently. It wasn’t something researchers in biology were that aware of in the past. But right now they’re really excited about them. And they’re actually designing Covid-19 vaccines based on exosomes. They’re proposing to use exosomes as a form of vaccination. Which is amazing because that’s the last stage of what’s happening with these immune cells. When they’re in that spleen and they’re furiously making the spike protein, it’s very toxic to that cell and it’s trying to survive, so it says “I’ve got to get rid of this stuff,” so it pushes all these little pellets
out into the circulation. And they go throughout the body. They go along the vagus nerve up to the brain, and cause all kinds of trouble there. But then they just exit right straight through the….I think they’re ending up in breast milk. There was actually an infant who died of thrombosis from breast-feeding from his mother who had been vaccinated. I was surprised but it makes sense because those exosomes would go out through the lungs, through the skin through the sweat. Their body is trying to get rid of this toxic thing that it’s coping with. And the way to do that is to shed it. So somebody nearby could pick it up through skin contact or breathing it in. I think they could easily get it. I’ve heard people say, “I hung out with my grandmother who was vaccinated, and I got sick. My periods got screwed up and all of a sudden, I got a really heavy period. I’ve always been very regular.” I was getting stories like that. At first it was like that was really crazy, but it’s a perfectly fine explanation based on these exosomes.

You’re saying this is not a small or subtle effect. What kind of contact or amount of contact is safe for vaccinated or non-vaccinated people?

How do you know? I can’t really say. I was really quite surprised. And it’s not just one or two people. Of course, I’m watching for it, but I’m seeing a lot of stories on the web. Greg and I have talked to two or three women who have experience menstrual irregularities by hanging out with people who had been vaccinated. It’s a completely plausible mechanism based on these exosomes which is the thing I’m most scared of at this point.

The person who is distributing the spike protein throughout the body is just trying to get them somewhere else because they’re so dangerous and that’s how it’s affecting the brain and it’s also messing up the blood. It’s just a nightmare. That spike protein really has become the most toxic part of the virus. And even people who have recovered from Covid and have “long Covid” or “long-haul Covid” with a lot of neurological symptoms and a lot of brain problems. Papers on that have shown that they are no longer infected. The virus is gone. But the spike protein is still there, and the spike protein is what’s causing the damage.

I have to dip into this magnet thing. I don’t believe it’s trauma at the injection site because there just isn’t enough iron in the blood to hold a magnet to somebody’s arm who’s standing upright. There’s a lot of papers that indicate that there’s research that goes back a long time. It appears that they are using magnetic nanoparticles.

And there’s that ferritin. There’s some kind of special form of ferritin. I’ve been scanning through that literature. It’s quite shocking. There’s actually literature about doing that in order to enhance the effect of these things. You can’t believe they’d be doing that without saying what they’re doing.

Somehow, everybody in the world is being practically forced to have an experimental substance with a brand new technology forced into them for an ice cream cone or something. And the promise is that they will promise to give you back some of your most basic liberties if you get it. And then not give it to you. So if that’s possible, anything is. Why do you say “and not give it to you”?

I don’t understand that.

Because I think it was either the head of the UN or the head of the WHO, yesterday, they came out with a statement saying, “Just because you have both inoculations doesn’t mean that you can stop wearing a mask or that you have to stop social distancing or that you can go out like normal. Those measures have to continue,” and he was very clear about it.

I think we’re tying to get the vaccine to just get this virus off their back so we can go back to normal living and that that’s not happening, right?

That’s not happening.

Especially in Canada. You guys are really under lock down there.

Yeah, in Canada a very strange thing happened today where the chief medical fellow for the province of Nova Scotia openly said that people weren’t going to be allowed to gather in groups because they wanted to control the dissemination of information. They actually said that.

They actually said that. Amazing. And all the censorship that is going on is so shocking to me. Unbelievable. The Facebook… Mercola getting completely disappeared from the web basically. Dr. Mercola is a friend of mine and he has done some amazing work. He has one article after the other on…

I’ve seen some of those videos. They’re really really good. (Asks about follow-up).

I would love to. I could talk about this forever. There’s so much to say. I think individuals have no idea the degree to which an injection like this could cause long-term harm to them. They’re thinking, “it’s just a vaccine. I’ll endure it because they want me to.” Even if they don’t really want to, just because the government is pressuring them. They shouldn’t. They really should stand their ground.

I have a Hail Mary question for you. If a person did receive these vaccines, is there anything that they can do to mitigate the effects of it?

I wish I knew. I would do the same thing I would advise in any case, which is to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 as well because there’s a lot of things you can do to keep yourself healthy. And it’s all about keeping your immune system healthy. Number one is to eat a certified organic diet. Stop eating foods that are contaminated with glyphosate. That is really central. Because if you don’t have a lot of glyphosate wandering around your body, you’re going to be a lot more robust against both the vaccine and the disease. And then getting out in the sunlight, making sure you have lots of vitamin D. Eating a lot of fresh vegetable and fruits, getting vitamin C, the B vitamins and minerals. Just basically eating high nutrient-dene foods like organic eggs and grass-fed beef and cruciferous vegetables. Lots of sulphur-containing foods, seafood is really healthy, clams and oysters and crabs and fish for the taurine. Eat whole foods, throw away the soy protein bar.

Just for the record, glyphosate is that chemical we know as Roundup.

Yes, it’s all over the food supply. It’s in the air, the water, the food supply. It’s considered perfectly safe by the government. But the US government doesn’t even bother to test. Actually Canada had a big initiative and they tested lots of different foods, both Canadian and imports, and a friend of mine, Tony Mitra, produced a book out of it. He was the one who got them to do it. They tested over 8000 foods.

Tony’s book was Poison Foods of North America. It’s a dry book with a lot of data about all these different foods. But Canada found very high levels in garbanzo beans, in chickpeas, like hummus, these legumes, and also in wheat and oats, cookies, goldfish crackers. And very high levels in foods from Canada and the United States compared to Mexico, which came out much more like Europe. Europe had generally much lower levels than America did. Mexico has actually decided to ban glyphosate, they’re going to wipe it out by 2024. The US government and Monsanto have been harassing them to back down. So far they have not. I’m very proud of Mexico. If Mexico bans glyphosate, it’s going to be a real problem for the United States to be next door to Mexico.

Mexico I heard also managed to defeat Covid-19 with Ivermectin.

Yes, that’s right. Ivermectin is a good one. I’ve been reading a lot about how excited people are about how well it’s working. And I think if we had worked on trying to treat Covid, we would have reduced the death rate by a whole lot. And once you do that, on top of everything that’s happening with these vaccines… You know the vaccines are not even breaking even. They’re basically hurting you more than they’re helping you. Staying healthy is the key to preventing Covid-19. Keeping your immune system strong.

It seems to me that the inverse of that formula is what the government is using. We can’t let people treat Covid-19 because we need to get them to take the vaccine.

I know. I see that. I’ve been not wanting to believe it, but it’s become more and more clear to me that it’s been an agenda all along. They’ve got this mRNA technology waiting to go out the gate. They love it. They think it’s going to be their answer ’cause they’re kind of striking out. Pharma’s been having a lot of hard times right now, not able to come up with new drugs that are effective. They’re thinking that this messenger RNA technology opens up a whole new suite of drugs that they’re going to start pushing out. Now that they’ve got past this initial barrier of getting people to get used to it, to think that it’s OK to inject this stuff into your body. I hope that something huge happens, that it becomes very obvious, so people stop this insanity. It’s sad that you have to have a lot of bad things happen before people finally wake up. They should have known already just from what’s available in the research literature. They should have known better than to do this.
GLOSSARY:

The alpha helix in proteins: the α helix, a common structural motif of proteins, consists of a right-handed helix with a repeat length of 3.6 amino acid residues per helical turn. The α helix is stabilized by hydrogen bonds between an amide hydrogen of one amino acid and a carbonyl oxygen four amino acids away.

Alpha-synuclein: Alpha-synuclein is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the SNCA gene. Alpha-synuclein is a neuronal protein that regulates synaptic vesicle trafficking and subsequent neurotransmitter release. It is abundant in the brain, while smaller amounts are found in the heart, muscle and other tissues.

Germinal centres in spleen: Germinal centres are specialized microstructures in secondary lymphoid organs (lymph nodes, spleen, Peyer’s patches in the ileum), producing antibody-secreting plasma cells and memory B cells.

Exosome: Exosomes are membrane-bound extracellular vesicles (EVs) that are produced in the endosomal compartment of most eukaryotic cells (eukaryotic: genetic material inside the nucleus of the cell). They carry nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, and metabolites. They are mediators of near and long-distance intercellular communication in health and disease and affect various aspects of cell biology.

Endosomes: Endosomes are primarily intracellular sorting organelles. They regulate trafficking of proteins and lipids among other subcellular compartments of the secretory and endocytic (process by which cells absorb material) pathway.

Dendritic cells are a type of antigen-presenting cell (APC) that form an important role in the adaptive immune system. The main function of dendritic cells is to present antigens (like the spike protein) and the cells are therefore sometimes referred to as “professional” APCs.

Plasmid: A plasmid is a small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecule that is distinct from a cell’s chromosomal DNA. Plasmids naturally exist in bacterial cells, and they also occur in some eukaryotes. Often, the genes carried in plasmids provide bacteria with genetic advantages, such as antibiotic resistance.

Ferritin: Ferritin is a universal intracellular protein that stores iron and releases it in a controlled fashion. The protein is produced by almost all living organisms, including archaea, bacteria, algae, higher plants, and animals.

Taurine: Taurine, or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is an organic compound that is widely distributed in animal tissues. It is a major constituent of bile and can be found in the brain, retina, heart, and platelets. Taurine supports nerve growth, lowers blood pressure, improves heart function where there is fluid build-up, and helps liver function in people with hepatitis.

Glyphosate: Commercially known as Roundup, it is a broad-spectrum herbicide and plant desiccant, used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf plants and grasses that compete with crops. It inhibits a plant enzyme (EPSP synthase) that is needed by the plant to make three essential amino acids (tyrosine, tryptophane, and phenylalanine).
Important input from Scientist Madeline Weld:

Dr. Seneff’s background led her to have concerns about the Covid-19 vaccines that are being heavily promoted. These vaccines use a novel mRNA technology, and their long-term effects remain unknown. However, there is sufficient published scientific information to explain some of the mechanisms behind the adverse effects these vaccines are having now and what they might cause in the years and decades ahead. She anticipates an increase in autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, which take 10 to 15 years to manifest themselves.

Regarding glyphosate (of which there is a whole chapter in her book), Dr. Seneff has concluded that it impairs the immune system, leading to immune deficiency and autoimmune disease. It increases the impact of Covid-19 by contributing to the “cytokine storm,” fluid in the lungs, hemorrhaging and thrombosis. (Glyphosate, commercially known as Roundup, is a widely used broad-spectrum herbicide used to kill weeds that compete with crops.)

The “spikes” on the surface of the corona virus are made of a “spike protein.” The spike protein binds to “ACE-2” receptors on surface of a host cells, which enables the virus to inject its RNA into that cell (which then makes more viruses). The mRNA vaccines contain mRNA that codes for the spike protein of the coronavirus, so that the injected person’s cells make the spike protein and activate their own immune system against it. Theoretically, their immune system will then be ready to fight the virus if they are exposed to it.

But Dr. Seneff has concluded that the spike protein is a prion-like protein. Prion-like proteins cause diseases by inducing certain normal proteins to fold incorrectly. There is a list of proteins normally found in the body that are susceptible to misfolding in the presence of these prion-like proteins. Parkinson’s disease is caused by the misfolding of the protein alpha-synuclein, Alzheimer’s by the misfolding of amyloid beta, and ALS by the misfolding of TDP-43. Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), the human equivalent of mad cow disease, is also a prion disease. When misfolded proteins become too abundant in the cell’s cytoplasm, they can start packing together in soluble fibrils or plaques, such as the amyloid beta sheets in Alzheimer’s, and create tissue damage.

The normal progression of Parkinson’s disease could be illustrative of how the spike protein might act as a disease-producing prion. In Parkinson’s disease, an amyloid protein (called curli) produced by E. coli in the gut, is transported by immune cells to the spleen. In the spleen’s germinal centres (germinal centres are areas in lymphoid tissue where mature B cells, which produce antibodies, proliferate, differentiate, and mutate), the immune cells pack up the prion protein into little particles that they release as exosomes, which are membrane-bound extracellular vesicles. The cell is trying to get rid of these dangerous, misfolded proteins by exporting them in exosomes. These exosomes get transported by the vagus nerve to the brain stem and can also end up being coughed out, or shed in the sweat, and even possibly get into breast milk.

A study in India has shown that when human cells are exposed to spike protein mRNA in vitro, they will make spike protein and then ship it out as exosomes. In another study, immune cells in the brain, called microglia, when exposed to those exosomes, became neurodegenerative. When those exosomes make their way to the brain, the microglia take them up and cause brain inflammation, brain damage, and neurodegenerative diseases.

There is a specific pattern, called the glycine zipper, that is characteristic of prion-like proteins. It consists of two glycines (glycine is an amino acid) separated by any other three other amino acids (GXXXG). Amyloid beta, which causes Alzheimer’s, has four glycine zippers. The spike protein has five.

The spike protein is made by cells at the injection site under instruction of the mRNA in the vaccine, released from the cell, and attaches to an ACE-2 receptor on the cell membrane. There it is exposed to immune cells of the host so they can make their antibodies to it. But the spike protein coded for by the mRNA in the vaccine is a modified version of the virus spike protein. It is modified so that it doesn’t get into the cell membrane but remains by stuck on the ACE-2 receptor, where it remains exposed to the immune system cells. But by remaining stuck on the ACE-2 receptor, the modified spike protein prevents that receptor from functioning. The shut down of the ACE-2 receptor might be causing some of the symptoms we’re seeing, such as heart and blood problems, thrombosis, and loss of platelets.

Although the content of the mRNA vaccines injected into the arm is supposed to stay in the arm, immune cells encountering the spike protein made at the injection site get “excited” about this unknown protein. These immune cells enter the lymphatic system from the arm. A lot of vaccinated women are getting swollen lymph nodes under the arm, which is characteristic of breast cancer. From the lymph nodes, the immune cells enter the lymphatic system and work their way to the spleen and into the germinal centres. They start making the spike protein in the germinal centres and releasing it via exosomes to the circulation. This is a complete set up for Parkinson’s. It’s been shown that exosomes made by something similar to the mRNA in the vaccines are taken up by the immune cells in the brain, causing an inflammatory response which damages brain tissue.

The immune cells keep making the spike protein because the RNA in the vaccine has been engineered to be very sturdy. Normal RNA would just disintegrate if you injected it into the body. But they have added polyethylene glycol and changed one of the nucleotides in the vaccine RNA, among other things, to keep it from breaking down. This means that cells can’t stop themselves from making the spike protein. It is when you have too much of a prion protein in the cytoplasm that you are in danger of having misfolding.

And immune cells actually upregulate the production of alpha-synuclein (the misfolding of which leads to Parkinson’s) in response to stress. And there is a lot of cells in the immune cells (dendritic cells) in the germinal centres in the spleen. Studies tracing the RNA show that the spleen is the organ which accumulated the highest levels, but it was also found in the liver, ovaries, and adrenal glands. It reaches those organs through the lymph system.

Another possibility is that the RNA could be converted to DNA in the cell, which would then produce DNA plasmids. These plasmids would be able to reproduce themselves and infect precursor stem cells in the bone marrow. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the plasmids would get into the DNA in the nucleus of the cell and become a permanent part of the injected person’s genome. A person producing high levels of spike protein might be shedding it in the breath or through the skin.

(rairfoundation.com/)
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Σε μήνυμά του στο Twitter ο Βέλγος ιολόγος Geert Vanden Bossche προειδοποιεί ότι οι μαζικοί εμβολιασμοί κατά του ιού COVID-19 θα έχουν καταστροφικό αποτέλεσμα, κάνοντας έκκληση να σταματήσουν, πριν επέλθουν τα χειρότερα.

Όπως εξηγεί στην ανάρτησή του οι εμβολιασμοί, τους οποίους χαρακτηρίζει ως «προφυλακτικούς», ουσιαστικά ευθύνονται για την εμφάνιση των μεταλλάξεων, αλλά και για μη φυσιολογική εξέλιξη της πανδημίας, η οποία θα εξαφανιζόταν σταδιακά από την κοινωνική ανοσία, ή ανοσία της αγέλης.

Όπως λέει κανένας ιός, ούτε αυτός της ισπανικής γρίπης μετά ακριβώς το τέλος του Α΄ΠΠ δεν μπόρεσε να επιβιώσει για πάνω από δύο χρόνια, αφού αυτό είναι το μάξιμουμ της φυσικής εξέλιξής τους.

Ο Βέλγος ιολόγος τονίζει πως ο COVID-19 «θα είναι πάντα ένα βήμα πιο μπροστά από όλα τα εμβόλια».

«Το αρχικό στέλεχος του Covid-19 προκαλούσε μόνο ήπια συμπτώματα, ή ακόμη και καθόλου συμπτώματα, στην τεράστια πλειοψηφία των υγιών ατόμων. Έτσι, προτού συστήσουμε τη χορήγηση οποιουδήποτε τύπου εμβολίου σε όλους, θα έπρεπε πρώτα να βεβαιωθούμε ότι το όποιο εμβόλιο θα μείωνε το ρυθμό μεταδοτικότητας και θνησιμότητας κάτω από τους ρυθμούς που κάποιος θα μπορούσε λογικά να περιμένει όταν αφήσει την πανδημία να διατρέξει τη φυσική της πορεία».

Και αναρωτιέται ο Βέλγος επιστήμονας: «Συμβαίνει κάτι τέτοιο τώρα;». «Όχι» είναι η απάντησή του.

«Αυτό που βλέπουμε τώρα είναι ότι τα εμβόλια δεν είναι ικανά να αποτρέψουν την εξάπλωση του ιού από τους λήπτες εμβολίων που εκτίθενται σε αναδυόμενα και εξαιρετικά μολυσματικά στελέχη. Αυτό αποτρέπει την επίτευξη της ασυλίας της αγέλης.

Ενώ στην αρχή της πανδημίας, η έμφυτη ανοσία σε υγιείς ανθρώπους προέβλεπε μια σταθερή γραμμή ανοσολογικής άμυνας αυτό δεν συμβαίνει πλέον όταν τα μολυσματικά στελέχη κυριαρχούν όλο και περισσότερο στο τοπίο», λέει ο Geert Vanden Bossche για να συμπληρώσει:

«Συμπερασματικά: Ενώ ο εμβολιασμός μπορεί να βοηθήσει στην προσωρινή μόνο προστασία ενός ατόμου, ο μαζικός εμβολιασμός κατά τη διάρκεια μιας πανδημίας θα επιδεινώσει την κατάσταση. “ενθαρρύνοντας” τον ιό να επιλέξει συγκεκριμένα “αντίμετρα”, όπως διαφορετικές πρωτεΐνες-ακίδες, που δεν περιλαμβάνονται στα υπάρχοντα εμβόλια.

Ως συνέπεια, ο παγκόσμιος πληθυσμός πιθανότατα θα πρέπει να αντιμετωπίσει μια χειρότερη εκδοχή του ιού με ότι αυτό συνεπάγεται».

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Η Δανία ανέστειλε προσωρινά για προληπτικούς λόγους και μέχρι νεωτέρας τη χρήση του εμβολίου κατά της Covid-19, που παρασκευάζεται από την AstraZeneca, έπειτα από κρούσματα θρόμβωσης μεταξύ εμβολιασθέντων, ανακοίνωσε σήμερα η δανική εθνική υγειονομική αρχή.

Η αναστολή στη χορήγηση του εν λόγω εμβολίου λαμβάνει χώρα «έπειτα από αναφορές σοβαρών περιπτώσεων σχηματισμού θρόμβων στο αίμα σε άτομα που είχαν εμβολιασθεί με το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca κατά της Covid-19», ανακοίνωσε η Εθνική Υπηρεσία Υγείας της Δανίας υπογραμμίζοντας πως «αυτή τη στιγμή δεν μπορούμε να καταλήξουμε σε συμπέρασμα για την ύπαρξη σχέσης ανάμεσα στο εμβόλιο και τους θρόμβους».

Οι δανικές αρχές δεν έκαναν γνωστό πόσες αναφορές για δημιουργία θρόμβων υπήρξαν. Το Ρόιτερς σημειώνει πως η Αυστρία σταμάτησε τη χρήση μιας παρτίδας εμβολίων της AstraZeneca για όσο διάστημα θα διερευνά έναν θάνατο από θρομβωτικές διαταραχές και μια πνευμονική εμβολή.

Σύμφωνα με τις δανικές αρχές, άλλες έξι ευρωπαϊκές χώρες σταμάτησαν τη χρήση μιας παρτίδας εμβολίων της AstraZeneca.

Σύμφωνα με το Γαλλικό Πρακτορείο, η Αυστρία ανακοίνωσε τη Δευτέρα πως σταματά τη χορήγηση μιας παρτίδας εμβολίων της AstraZeneca μετά τον θάνατο μιας 49χρονης νοσηλεύτριας, η οποία υπέκυψε εξαιτίας «σοβαρών θρομβωτικών διαταραχών» μερικές ημέρες αφού εμβολιάσθηκε με αυτό το εμβόλιο. Στη συνέχεια άλλες τέσσερις ευρωπαϊκές, η Εσθονία, η Λιθουανία, η Λετονία και το Λουξεμβούργο ανέστειλαν τους εμβολιασμούς με δόσεις που προέρχονταν απ' αυτή την παρτίδα, η οποία έχει παραδοθεί σε 17 χώρες και περιλαμβάνει ένα εκατομμύριο εμβόλια.

«Τόσο εμείς όσο και ο Δανικός Ιατρικός Σύλλογος πρέπει να απαντήσουμε σε αναφορές για ενδεχόμενες σοβαρές παρενέργειες στη Δανία και σε άλλες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες», αναφέρει σε δήλωση που εξέδωσε ο διευθυντής της Εθνικής Υπηρεσίας Υγείας της Δανίας Σόρεν Μπρόστρομ.

Η χορήγηση του εμβολίου θα ανασταλεί για 14 ημέρες, ανακοίνωσε η υπηρεσία υγείας, η οποία δεν έκανε γνωστές λεπτομέρειες για τον δανό ασθενή που εμφάνισε θρόμβο στο αίμα.

Η AstraZeneca έχει δηλώσει πως τα εμβόλιά της υποβάλλονται σε αυστηρούς ποιοτικούς ελέγχους και ότι «δεν έχουν υπάρξει επιβεβαιωμένες σοβαρές παρενέργειες που να συνδέονται με το εμβόλιο». Η φαρμακοβιομηχανία πρόσθεσε πως είναι σε επαφή με τις αυστριακές αρχές και πως θα στηρίξει πλήρως την έρευνά τους.

Ο Ευρωπαϊκός Οργανισμός Φαρμάκων (EMA) ανακοίνωσε χθες, Τετάρτη, πως μέχρι στιγμής δεν υπάρχουν στοιχεία που να συνδέουν το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca με τα δύο περιστατικά στην Αυστρία.

Σύμφωνα με τον EMA, ο αριθμός των περιστατικών εμβολής δι' αιματικού θρόμβου σε ανθρώπους που έχουν κάνει το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca δεν είναι υψηλότερος απ' αυτόν που παρατηρείται στον γενικό πληθυσμό, με 22 τέτοια περιστατικά να έχουν αναφερθεί μεταξύ των 3 εκατομμυρίων ανθρώπων που είχαν εμβολιασθεί μέχρι τις 9 Μαρτίου με το εν λόγω εμβόλιο.

Ο Δανικός Ιατρικός Σύλλογος ανακοίνωσε πως άρχισε έρευνα για το εμβόλιο μαζί με τις αντίστοιχες υπηρεσίες άλλλων χωρών της ΕΕ, καθώς και τον EMA.

«Είναι σημαντικό να υπογραμμίσουμε πως δεν έχουμε επιλέξει να μην χρησιμοποιήσουμε το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca, αλλά ότι το βάζουμε σε αναμονή», τόνισε ο Μπρόστρομ.

Εξαιτίας της αναστολής της χρήσης του εμβολίου, η οποία θα επανεξετασθεί σε δύο εβδομάδες, η δανική Εθνική Υπηρεσία Υγείας μετέθεσε κατά τέσσερις εβδομάδες, μέχρι τις 15 Αυγούστου, την ημερομηνία κατά την οποία περιμένει ότι όλοι οι Δανοί θα έχουν εμβολιασθεί πλήρως.

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Και στην Ελλάδα περιστατικό θρόμβωσης μετά το εμβόλιο της Astrazeneca
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Τη στιγμή που η ανησυχία μεγαλώνει για τις παρενέργειες από συγκεκριμένη παρτίδα του εμβολίου της AstraZeneca και αρκετές χώρες αναστέλλουν τους εμβολιασμούς, η καθηγήτρια Παιδιατρικής Λοιμωξιολογίας, Βάνα Παπαευαγγέλου, ανακοίνωσε στη σημερινή ενημέρωση ότι έχει καταγραφεί περιστατικό και στη χώρα μας, η οποία επίσης έχει λάβει τη συγκεκριμένη παρτίδα.

Η κ. Παπαυαγγέλου δήλωσε σχετικά για το εμβόλιο της Astrazeneca « Στην Ελλάδα μέχρι στιγμής έχουν χορηγηθεί 173.000, αν θυμάμαι καλά, πάνω από 170.000 δόσεις εμβολίων. Υπήρξε ένα περιστατικό με θρομβοεμβολικό επεισόδιο, το οποίο διερευνάται από την ειδική Επιτροπή Φαρμακοεπαγρύπνησης του ΕΟΦ και, μέχρι στιγμής, δεν υπάρχει κάποια ένδειξη ότι υπάρχει κάποια συσχέτιση με το εμβόλιο».

Νωρίτερα είχε δηλώσει ότι η σύμφωνα με την αρμόδια Επιτροπή αξιολόγησης κινδύνου φαρμακοεπαγρύπνησης του Ευρωπαϊκού Οργανισμού Φαρμάκων «μέχρι σήμερα δεν υπάρχει καμία τεκμηρίωση ότι τα επεισόδια αυτά σχετίζονται αιτιολογικά με τον εμβολιασμό. Και επισημαίνει ότι ο αριθμός τους σε εμβολιασμένα άτομα, δεν είναι μεγαλύτερος από τον αναμενόμενο στο γενικό πληθυσμό. Τονίζεται ότι τα θρομβοεμβολικά επεισόδια δεν είναι καθόλου μια σπάνια κατάσταση και ως εκ τούτου, σε κάθε χρονική στιγμή εμφανίζονται τέτοια κρούσματα χωρίς αυτή η χρονική σύμπτωση να σημαίνει απαραίτητα αιτιολογική συσχέτιση. Επιπλέον, σύμφωνα με την αξιολόγηση της αρμόδιας Αρχής, Ρυθμιστικής Αρχής Φαρμάκων του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου, της Αγγλίας, όπου έχουν χορηγηθεί περισσότερα από 11.000.000 δόσεις αυτού του εμβολίου, ο αριθμός των θρομβοεμβολικών επεισοδίων σε εμβολιασμένα άτομα δεν υπερβαίνει τον αριθμό που αντιστοιχεί στην συνήθη νοσηρότητα του γενικού πληθυσμού. Λαμβάνοντας, λοιπόν, όλα αυτά τα παραπάνω υπ’ όψιν της, η Εθνική Επιτροπή Εμβολιασμών κρίνει ότι ο εμβολιασμός με το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca στην χώρα μας θα πρέπει να συνεχιστεί κανονικά και σύμφωνα με τον προγραμματισμό που έχει ήδη γίνει».
Στο στόχαστρο ξανά η αγγλοσουηδική εταιρεία

Η αγγλοσουηδική εταιρεία βρίσκεται ξανά στο επίκεντρο, με το εμβόλιό της να προκαλεί διχασμό ανάμεσα σε κράτη, τον Παγκόσμιο Οργανισμό Υγείας και επιστήμονες.

Δεν έχει, περάσει, άλλωστε, αρκετός καιρός από τότε που η AstraZeneca βρέθηκε σε τροχιά μετωπικής σύγκρουσης με την Ε.Ε. για τις καθυστερήσεις στην παράδοση εμβολίων, κάτι που επαναλαμβάνεται και σήμερα, σύμφωνα με έγγραφο που δημοσίευσε το πρακτορείο Reuters.

Ο μεγάλος πονοκέφαλος, όμως, τόσο για την φαρμακοβιομηχανία όσο και για τις χώρες που έχουν λάβει και χορηγούν το εμβόλιο είναι οι αναφορές για παρενέργειες, κάτι που έχει οδηγήσει περισσότερες από δέκα χώρες στο να αναστείλουν τους εμβολιασμούς με συγκεκριμένη παρτίδα από την εταιρεία.
Τι γνωρίζουμε μέχρι στιγμής για παρενέργειες

Σε όλες τις περιπτώσεις που έχουν καταγραφεί δεν υπάρχουν τελικά συμπεράσματα για τυχόν σύνδεση του εμβολίου με τις παρενέργειες αυτές.

Τη Δευτέρα η Αυστρία ανακοίνωσε ότι μια 49χρονη νοσηλεύτρια πέθανε από σοβαρές θρομβωτικές διαταραχές αφού είχε λάβει το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca, ενώ μια 35χρονη έπαθε πνευμονική εμβολή και νοσηλεύεται.

Η Ιταλία ανακοίνωσε, όπως επισημαίνει η La Stampa, ότι μελετά «σοβαρές ανεπιθύμητες ενέργειες» της παρτίδας ABV2856 του εμβολίου. Ανάμεσα σε αυτές είναι δύο περιπτώσεις θανάτου που σημειώθηκαν τις τελευταίες ώρες στη Σικελία. Πρόκειται για ένα 43χρονο αξιωματικό του Ναυτικού που πέθανε από καρδιακή προσβολή, 12 ώρες μετά τον εμβολιασμό του, και για ένα επιθεωρητή της αστυνομίας. Ήδη για τον θάνατο του πρώτου η εισαγγελία στις Σιρακούσες έχει ξεκινήσει έρευνα μετά τη μήνυση της οικογενείας του και η αυτοψία αναμένεται τις επόμενες ώρες.

Ο EMA ανακοίνωσε, επίσης, ότι στο εμβόλιο των ενδεχόμενων παρενεργειών θα πρέπει να προστεθούν και σοβαρές αλλεργίες, έπειτα από αντιδράσεις που καταγράφηκαν στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο. Η ευρωπαϊκή ρυθμιστική αρχή αναφέρει σε ανακοίνωσή της πως «συνέστησε να επικαιροποιηθούν οι πληροφορίες για το προϊόν ώστε να περιλάβουν ως παρενέργειες την αναφυλαξία και την υπερευαισθησία (αλλεργικές αντιδράσεις)».
Η απάντηση της εταιρείας

Από την πλευρά της η εταιρεία δήλωσε ότι στηρίζει τις έρευνες που βρίσκονται σε εξέλιξη, όμως αρνήθηκε ότι το εμβόλιό της κατά του κορονοϊού συνδέεται με τα περιστατικά εμφάνισης θρόμβων.

«Η ανάλυσή μας δεν έφερε καμία ένδειξη για αυξημένο κίνδυνο εμφάνισης θρόμβου ή πνευμονικής εμβολής. Η ανάλυση έγινε σε πάνω από 10 εκατομμύρια περιπτώσεις. Αντιθέτως τα περιστατικά αυτά είναι αρκετά λιγότερα σε όσους έχουν εμβολιαστεί σε σχέση με τον γενικό πληθυσμό» σημειώνει η εταιρεία.
Τι λένε ειδικοί και πολιτικοί

Παράλληλα, σε σημερινή συνέντευξη τύπου, πρόεδρος του αυστριακού ιατρικού επιμελητηρίου Τόμας Σέκερς επισήμανε ότι δεν υπάρχει αιτιώδης σχέση μεταξύ των διαταραχών πήξης του αίματος και του εμβολίου.

«Στην Αγγλία δέκα εκατομμύρια άνθρωποι έχουν εμβολιαστεί με το AstraZeneca, στην υπόλοιπη Ευρώπη πέντε εκατομμύρια, και θα έπρεπε να ήταν πολύ αισθητό αν υπήρχε μια σύνδεση» δήλωσε σχετικά, υποστηρίζοντας, όμως ότι θα πρέπει να υπάρξει λεπτομερής διερεύνηση των περιστατικών, καθώς μία σύνδεση δεν μπορεί να αποκλειστεί.

Εκπρόσωπος του Παγκόσμιου Οργανισμού Υγείας δήλωσε πως συμβουλευτική επιτροπή ειδικών του ΠΟ Υγείας εξετάζει το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca μετά την αναστολή της χορήγησής του σε κάποιες χώρες, αλλά δεν υπάρχει λόγος να μην χρησιμοποιείται.

Παρά το γεγονός ότι η Αυστρία έχει αναστείλει τους εμβολιασμούς με τη συγκεκριμένη πατρίδα, ο καγκελάριος Σεμπάστιαν Κουρτς, απορρίπτει την κριτική και δηλώνει ότι ο ίδιος θέλει να εμβολιαστεί με το συγκεκριμένο εμβόλιο.

Ως προς τη διακοπή των εμβολιασμών με το εμβόλιο της Astra­ze­ne­ca σε αρκετές χώρες, ο καγκελάριος ανέφερε ότι τέτοιες αποφάσεις θα πρέπει να λαμβάνονται από ειδικούς, και ότι όλες οι μέχρι τώρα έρευνες δεν έδειξαν να υπάρχει καμία αιτιώδης σχέση με τον εμβολιασμό σε περιπτώσεις θανάτου.

Στην Γαλλία, ο επικεφαλής το προγράμματος εμβολιασμού Αλέν Φισέρ, επαναβεβαίωσε τη δέσμευση της Γαλλίας για τη χρήση του εμβολίου λέγοντας ότι έχει δείξει μεγάλη αποτελεσματικότητα.

Ανάλογες δηλώσεις έκανε και ο υπουργός Υγείας της Γερμανίας, Γενς Σπαν, μαζί με τον επικεφαλής του Ινστιτούτου Ρόμπερτ Κοχ, Λόταρ Βίλερ, εκφράζοντας την απογοήτευσή τους για την απόφαση άλλων ευρωπαϊκών χωρών να αναστείλουν τη χορήγησή του εμβολίου.

«Ό,τι γνωρίζουμε ως τώρα υποδεικνύει ότι τα οφέλη από το εμβόλιο είναι μεγαλύτερα από τους κινδύνους, ακόμη και έπειτα από όλα τα περιστατικά που έχουν αναφερθεί», δήλωσε ο κ. Σπαν, τονίζοντας ταυτόχρονα ότι όλα τα ζητήματα που προκύπτουν λαμβάνονται πολύ σοβαρά υπ' όψιν και εξετάζονται από το Ινστιτούτο «Πάουλ Έρλιχ». «Λυπάμαι για το γεγονός ότι κάποιες χώρες της ΕΕ διέκοψαν την χορήγησή του. Θεωρώ σημαντικό να βρεθεί η σωστή ισορροπία και το ζήτημα είναι να διαπιστωθεί εάν υπάρχει αιτιακή σχέση μεταξύ του εμβολίου και των παρενεργειών», πρόσθεσε ο υπουργός Υγείας.

Ο καθηγητής Βίλερ από την πλευρά του τόνισε ότι στη Γερμανία η χρήση του συγκεκριμένου εμβολίου αποφασίστηκε αφότου οι αρμόδιες αρχές είχαν ελέγξει όλα τα στοιχεία, ενώ διευκρίνισε ότι «δεν υπάρχουν αποδείξεις ότι πρόκειται για στατιστικά μεγάλη διασύνδεση» των προβλημάτων με το εμβόλιο. «Πρέπει να γνωρίζετε ότι στην Γερμανία πεθαίνουν κάθε χρόνο κατά μέσο όρο 900.000 άνθρωποι. Ο θάνατος είναι κομμάτι της ζωής και, όταν εμβολιάζουμε ηλικιωμένους, είναι φυσικά σαφές ότι υπάρχει μια χρονική σύνδεση μεταξύ του εμβολιασμού και ενδεχόμενου θανάτου ενός ηλικιωμένου. Αυτό είναι καθαρή στατιστική. Είναι ωστόσο σημαντικό να παρακολουθούμε στενά τις εξελίξεις», πρόσθεσε.

Παράλληλα, Γερμανοί γιατροί στέλνουν μήνυμα ότι η αναστολή εμβολιασμών θα προκαλέσει μεγαλύτερη ζημιά από ενδεχόμενες επιπλοκές του εμβολίου.

Ο διευθυντής του Ινστιτούτου Λοιμώξεων του Πανεπιστημίου της Ιένας Ματίας Πλετς, δήλωσε ότι « Η απόφαση της Δανίας προκαλεί ίσως μεγαλύτερη ζημιά από ενδεχόμενες επιπλοκές του εμβολίου της Astrazenecα, για τις οποίες επί του παρόντος δεν γνωρίζουμε καν εάν είναι επιπλοκές του εμβολίου. Οι θρομβώσεις που περιστασιακά καταγράφηκαν μετά τον εμβολιασμό είναι πολύ συχνές σε σοβαρά ασθενούντες με Covid 19. Με την αναστολή των εμβολιασμών στη Δανία για δύο εβδομάδες, είναι πολύ πιθανόν ότι θα προσβληθούν περισσότεροι άνθρωποι τώρα από την Covid-19 παρά χωρίς αυτήν την απόφαση και περίπου το 5% από αυτούς θα προσβληθεί σοβαρά. Ως εκ τούτου, θα μπορούσαν να εμφανιστούν περισσότερες θρομβώσεις».

Ο επικεφαλής λοιμωξιολόγος της κλινικής Σβάμπινγκ του Μονάχοτ, Κλέμενς Βέντνερ, δήλωσε ότι «η αναστολή των εμβολιασμών με το εμβόλιο της Astrazeneca, μεταξύ άλλων στην Δανία, είναι μια αρνητική είδηση, η οποία βλάπτει συνολικά την εικόνα του εμβολίου και την ίδια την εκστρατεία εμβολιασμού. Ο αριθμός των θρομβώσεων που παρατηρήθηκαν μετά τον εμβολιασμό με το εμβόλιο αυτό δεν είναι σε καμία περίπτωση υψηλότερος από τα τυχαία περιστατικά που εμφανίζονται στατιστικά στον πληθυσμό. Από αυτήν την άποψη, δεν υπάρχει βάσει των επιστημονικών δεδομένων λόγος να αμφισβητηθεί η ασφάλεια του εμβολίου αυτού», τόνισε.
Επίσης, ο ερευνητής εμβολίων Λάιφ-Έρικ Ζάντερ του νοσοκομείου Charité του Βερολίνου θεωρεί απίθανη τη σχέση μεταξύ των παρατηρούμενων θρομβώσεων και του εμβολίου. Πολλοί Βρετανοί ερευνητές και ο Ευρωπαϊκός Οργανισμός φαρμάκων (EMA) έκαναν παρόμοιες δηλώσεις.

Η Γερμανία πάντως δεν αναστέλλει τους εμβολιασμούς με αυτό το παρασκεύασμα. Το αρμόδιο Ινστιτούτο Πάουλ Έλριχ (PEI) ανακοίνωσε χτες το βράδυ ότι κατά την άποψή του τα οφέλη του εμβολιασμού υπερτερούν των γνωστών κινδύνων.
Πληθαίνουν οι χώρες που το σταματούν

Σήμερα, πάντως, η Βουλγαρία και η Ταϊλάνδη προστέθηκαν στις χώρες που ανακοίνωσαν ότι σταματούν να κάνουν εμβόλια με τη συγκεκριμένη παρτίδα της AstraZeneca, ανεβάζοντας τον αριθμό των κρατών σε 11.

Χθες είχε γίνει γνωστό ότι ανέστειλαν τους εμβολιασμούς η Ιταλία, η Δανία, η Αυστρία, η Ισλανδία, η Νορβηγία, η Εσθονία, η Λιθουανία, η Λετονία και το Λουξεμβούργο.

Από την πλευρά της η εταιρεία δήλωσε ότι στηρίζει τις έρευνες που βρίσκονται σε εξέλιξη, όμως αρνήθηκε ότι το εμβόλιό της κατά του κορονοϊού συνδέεται με τα περιστατικά εμφάνισης θρόμβων.

«Η ανάλυσή μας δεν έφερε καμία ένδειξη για αυξημένο κίνδυνο εμφάνισης θρόμβου ή πνευμονικής εμβολής. Η ανάλυση έγινε σε πάνω από 10 εκατομμύρια περιπτώσεις. Αντιθέτως τα περιστατικά αυτά είναι αρκετά λιγότερα σε όσους έχουν εμβολιαστεί σε σχέση με τον γενικό πληθυσμό» σημειώνει η εταιρεία.
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Σε «παύση» το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca στην Ευρώπη
Τρίτη, 16 Μαρτίου 2021 08:05
UPD:08:24

Οι μεγαλύτερες χώρες της Ευρώπης, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Γερμανίας και της Γαλλίας, ανέστειλαν προληπτικά τη χορήγηση του εμβολίου της AstraZeneca εν μέσω ενός αυξανόμενου κύματος ανησυχιών που δημιουργεί αυτή η επιπλέον καθυστέρηση στην εκστρατεία εμβολιασμού κατά του κορωνοϊού στις χώρες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης.

Την ίδια ώρα, καθώς η Ευρώπη προσπαθεί να επιλύσει το ζήτημα των εμβολιασμών, ασχολείται επίσης με το τρίτο κύμα της πανδημίας που έχει αναγκάσει κάποιες κυβερνήσεις να επιβάλουν νέες περιορισμούς.

Η Γερμανία, η Ιταλία, η Γαλλία, η Ισπανία, οι Κάτω Χώρες και η Πορτογαλία προστέθηκαν στη λίστα των χωρών που έθεσαν προσωρινά και προληπτικά σε «διαθεσιμότητα» το εμβόλιο ακολουθώντας το παράδειγμα της Δανίας, της Νορβηγίας και της Βουλγαρίας που πρώτες ανέστειλαν τα προγράμματά τους την περασμένη εβδομάδα.

Οι ευρωπαϊκές κυβερνήσεις προχώρησαν σε αυτές τις κινήσεις έπειτα από αναφορές για πιθανή πρόκληση θρομβώσεων σε ορισμένους ασθενείς που είχαν λάβει το εμβόλιο, παρόλο που ο Ευρωπαϊκός Οργανισμός Φαρμάκων (ΕΜΑ) επανέλαβε την βεβαιότητά του για την ασφάλεια του εμβολίου.

Παρόλα αυτά ο ΕΜΑ θα πραγματοποιήσει «έκτακτη συνάντηση» την Πέμπτη. Την συνάντηση του ΕΜΑ αναμένει και η χώρα μας οπότε μέχρι την Πέμπτη συνεχίζονται κανονικά οι εμβολισμοί με το εμβόλιο της AstraZeneca κατά του COVID-19 στην Ελλάδα, όπως ανακοίνωσαν οι ελληνικές αρχές διαβεβαιώνοντας πως η αρμόδια Εθνική Επιτροπή Εμβολιασμών, η οποία συνεδριάζει σήμερα, βρίσκεται σε επαγρύπνηση και σε επαφή με τον Ελληνικό Οργανισμό Φαρμάκων.

Καθησυχαστικός ως προς την ασφάλεια του εμβολίου εμφανίστηκε για άλλη μία φορά ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Υγείας. Απαντώντας σε ερώτηση του πρακτορείου Reuters, ο εκπρόσωπος Τύπου του ΠΟΥ Κρίστιαν Λιντμάιερ δήλωσε πως «μέχρι σήμερα δεν υπάρχει κανένα στοιχείο ότι τα περιστατικά προκαλούνται από το εμβόλιο και είναι σημαντικό οι εκστρατείες εμβολιασμού να συνεχιστούν, προκειμένου να μπορέσουμε να σώσουμε ζωές και να περιορίσουμε τη σοβαρή νόσο που προκαλεί ο ιός».

Με φόντο αυτό το σκηνικό καχυποψίας απέναντι στο εμβόλιο της σουηδο-βρετανικής φαρμακοβιομηχανίας, οι υπουργοί υγείας της ΕΕ πρόκειται να πραγματοποιήσουν βιντεοδιάσκεψη σήμερα, με τις τελευταίες ανησυχίες πιθανότατα να κυριαρχήσουν στις διαδικασίες, όπως αναφέρει το Bloomberg.

Στη δήλωσή της τη Δευτέρα, η Γερμανία ανέφερε τις πρόσθετες περιπτώσεις σοβαρών θρομβωτικών επεισοδίων τις τελευταίες ημέρες ως τον λόγο της προσωρινής αναστολής της χορήγησης του εμβολίου της AstraZeneca.

Σε περίπου 17 εκατ. άτομα στην ΕΕ και τη Βρετανία στα οποία έχει χορηγηθεί συνολικά μία δόση του εμβολίου, έχουν αναφερθεί λιγότερες από 40 περιπτώσεις θρόμβων αίματος που αναφέρθηκαν την περασμένη εβδομάδα, δήλωσε από την πλευρά της η AstraZeneca.

Η αναστολή της χορήγησης του εμβολίου εντείνει τις εντάσεις εντός της ΕΕ για το εμβόλιο, μετά από πικρές μάχες με την AstraZeneca σχετικά με τις καθυστερήσεις και τις ελλείψεις στις παραδόσεις των συμφωνημένων δόσεων. Οι ανησυχίες σχετικά με το εμβόλιο υπογραμμίζουν το χάσμα με χώρες, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και του Καναδά, που συνεχίζουν να το χορηγούν.

Ο υπουργός Υγείας της Γερμανίας, Γενς Σπαν, χαρακτήρισε την κίνηση της χώρας του ως «προληπτικό μέτρο» ακολουθώντας τη σύσταση του Ινστιτούτου Πάουλ Έρλιχ, το οποίο συμβουλεύει την κυβέρνηση για τα εμβόλια.

«Όλοι γνωρίζουμε τις επιπτώσεις αυτής της απόφασης και δεν την παίρνουμε ελαφριά», είπε, σημειώνοντας ότι το εμβόλιο του Πανεπιστημίου της Οξφόρδης και της AstraZeneca είχε χορηγηθεί εκατομμύρια φορές σε όλο τον κόσμο. Είπε ότι ήταν «τεχνική απόφαση, όχι πολιτική», προσθέτοντας ότι «για να διατηρήσουμε την εμπιστοσύνη στο εμβόλιο, πρέπει να δώσουμε χρόνο στους εμπειρογνώμονές μας στη Γερμανία και την ΕΕ ώστε να ελέγξουν τα πρόσφατα περιστατικά».

Σχολιάζοντας τις εξελίξεις ο καθηγητής Άντριου Πόλαρντ, διευθυντής της ομάδας που ανέπτυξε το εμβόλιο του Πανεπιστημίου της Οξφόρδης, είπε στο BBC ότι «υπήρχαν πολύ καθησυχαστικές ενδείξεις ότι δεν υπάρχει αύξηση των φαινομένων θρόμβωσης αίματος εδώ στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, όπου έχουν δοθεί οι περισσότερες δόσεις στην Ευρώπη μέχρι τώρα».

Το βασικό ερώτημα που πρέπει να τεθεί, σύμφωνα με το BBC, είναι εάν το εμβόλιο είναι αιτία ή σύμπτωση; Μήπως δηλαδή θα είχαν συμβεί δηλαδή ούτως ή άλλως αυτοί οι θρόμβοι;

«Εξετάζουμε προσεκτικά τις αναφορές, αλλά, δεδομένου του μεγάλου αριθμού των δόσεων που έχουν χορηγηθεί και της συχνότητας με την οποία μπορούν να εμφανιστούν φυσικά θρόμβοι αίματος, τα διαθέσιμα στοιχεία δεν υποδηλώνουν ότι το εμβόλιο είναι η αιτία», απαντάει στους Financial Times ο δρ Φιλ Μπράιαν, επικεφαλής ασφάλειας εμβολίων στο Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

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South Korean government investigates 7 deaths that followed Covid-19 vaccination with AstraZeneca's jab
6 Mar, 2021 21:25

South Korea finished its first week of rolling out long-awaited Covid-19 inoculations in the country with thousands of suspected adverse reactions to AstraZeneca's vaccine, seven of which resulted in deaths.

The number who died after the jab rose by four in the past two days, according to a report on Saturday by South Korea's Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), which is investigating the incidents. Vaccines were administered to more than 296,000 people, or about 0.6 percent of the country's population, during the first week of the rollout.
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Dozens of people develop rare blood disorder after taking coronavirus vaccines – reports Dozens of people develop rare blood disorder after taking coronavirus vaccines – reports

South Korea has reported more than 2,800 adverse reactions from Covid-19 vaccines, but only 24 of those cases were deemed severe, including the seven that resulted in death. All 24 severe cases involved people who received the AstraZeneca jab, which was the first vaccine approved for use in South Korea.

The vast majority of the doses that have been administered thus far are the AstraZeneca vaccine. Seoul also has a contract to receive millions of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, but large-scale shipments aren't scheduled to begin until next month. About 5,000 Pfizer-BioNTech jabs have been given in South Korea thus far, with none reported to have caused a severe adverse reaction.

South Korea generally has some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, and it boasts some of the most effective Covid-mitigation efforts. But the country has been slow to start administering vaccines, reportedly because officials believed their Covid-19 successes gave them the luxury of focusing on safety over speed.

South Korea has reported more than 92,000 Covid-19 cases among its 52 million population, and only 1,632 deaths as of Saturday. By comparison, the UK, which has a population of about 67 million, has had more than 4.2 million cases and 124,000 deaths.

But South Korea suffered a vaccine scare last fall, when at least 83 people died shortly after taking seasonal flu shots. The KDCA said it found no evidence that any of those deaths were caused by the shots. Unlike the serious allergic reactions allegedly linked to the Covid-19 vaccine, there were no reports of anaphylactic shock resulting from the flu jabs.

Most of the people who died after taking the seasonal flu shots were elderly and had underlying medical conditions. At least the first few deaths following the Covid-19 vaccine involved people who were elderly, had underlying medical conditions or both.

“We're really talking about people who are heavily affected by very severe underlying diseases . . .,” Dr. David Kwak of Soonchunhyang University Hospital said on Thursday in an Arirang News interview. “We have to take into consideration the severity of the underlying conditions they had before receiving the vaccination.”

(rt.com)
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Netherlands becomes latest country to suspend use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine over concerns of possibly serious side effects
15 Mar, 2021 00:22 / Updated 16 hours ago

The Netherlands has halted use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine for at least two weeks while an investigation into possibly serious side effects from the jab is undertaken by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

The precautionary decision to suspend use of the vaccine until at least March 28 was based on new information from Norway and Denmark regarding potentially serious side effects in people who received the inoculation, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said on Sunday.

Op basis van nieuwe informatie uit Noorwegen en Denemarken pauzeren we, uit voorzorg en in afwachting van nader onderzoek, het toedienen van het AstraZeneca-coronavaccin voor twee weken. Lees hier meer
— Hugo de Jonge (@hugodejonge) March 14, 2021

“We can’t allow any doubts about the vaccine,” de Jonge said. “We have to make sure everything is right, so it is wise to pause for now.” Dutch health authorities reportedly had to cancel 43,000 vaccination appointments because of the suspension.

Ireland made the same decision earlier on Sunday, suspending use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after four new cases of people suffering serious blood clotting after receiving the shot were reported in Norway. Denmark stopped offering AstraZeneca vaccine jabs on Thursday after some recipients developed blood clots, and Norway followed suit.
Austria, Iceland and Italy also have postponed or restricted their rollouts of the vaccine based on the same concerns. Health authorities have pointed out that they haven’t yet established a clear link between the AstraZeneca jab and the reported medical issues that patients suffered.

The World Health Organization has said the vaccine is still considered safe to use and hasn’t been proven to cause blood clotting.

Seven people died shortly after receiving their Covid-19 shots in the first week of South Korea’s vaccine rollout, which began on February 26. All seven cases involved the AstraZeneca vaccine, and 17 others who received the jab had severe, non-fatal reactions. Since then, there have been 47 more severe reactions and nine additional deaths, and nearly 563,000 people have received the shot, according to government data. Fourteen of the deaths were found to be unrelated to the vaccine, according to South Korean health authorities, and two cases are pending autopsies.
The Dutch vaccine setback comes amid growing unrest over Covid-19 restrictions. Anti-lockdown protests continued on Sunday, and saw clashes between police and demonstrators gathering in The Hague.

(rt.com)
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March 16 (January 27), 2021

Horrific Latent Deaths Predicted Among The Elderly By Genetics Professor After Immunization With RNA Vaccines

By Bill Sardi

PROFESSOR DOLORES CAHILL, PROFESSOR of TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH (FORSCHUNG) AND MOLECULAR GENETICS, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, chairperson Irish Freedom Party, speaking at RENSE.com, predicts impending mass death from RNA vaccines (paraphrased):

Professor Dolores Cahill, speaking about RNA vaccines
“I suppose there are potentially three adverse reactions (from messenger RNA vaccines—MODERNA, PFIZER).

Beginning with anaphylaxis (severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction) in the first week. Therefore, these vaccines shouldn’t be given in the 2nd dose.
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Then the real adverse events will happen, against whatever is the real mRNA in the vaccines, and when the person vaccinated comes across (this coronavirus) sometime later …. what happened in the animal studies, 20% or 50% or 100% of the animals died!

Among people over 80, maybe about 2.5% will experience severe side effects, adverse events where people cannot work or live life normally.

Then with the 2nd vaccination it could be 1 in 10 or ten percent. For the over 80-year-olds, I would think that 80% of them would have life-limiting reactions or die when they come across the messenger RNA again.

For others (not elderly) it could be half of the people who could be severely harmed.

What it does is… this gene therapy or medical device is setting up an autoimmune disease chronically. It’s like injecting people who have nut allergies with peanuts.

It’s anaphylaxis in the first wave. It’s anaphylaxis +allergic reaction the 2nd wave. But the 3rd reaction occurs when you come across whatever the messenger RNA is against (virus, bacterium, etc.), and now you have stimulated your immune system to have a low-grade autoimmune disease, not immunity to yourself per se because the mRNA is expressing a viral protein.

Now you made yourself a genetically modified organism, and so the immune system that is meant to push the viruses or bacteria out… now the autoimmune reaction is attacking your body low grade.
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Now (months later) when you come across the virus that stimulates the immune system to get rid of the virus and when it (the immune system) sees that you have viral proteins in your own cells and organs, then about a week later (the adaptive immune system kicks in, the mechanism that makes specific long-term memory antibodies against a pathogen) and you go into organ failure. Because your immune system is killing your own organs. Those patients will present as sepsis initially. Then (later) you die of organ failure.

If you have one or two co-morbidities, the energy the immune system requires to boost your immune system will make the older person very tired and exhausted and they don’t have the capacity to survive if you have underlying conditions.

Normally, because the mRNA is in every cell of their body, it’s almost unstoppable. It destroys the heart, or the spleen, or the lungs, or the liver because the mRNA is expressing the protein in every cell.

Just as a solution, what we urgently need, just as a repository, 1 in 100, or 1 in 200 vaccine vials injected, to be set aside, especially into the elderly in the care homes. They need to be stored in a biorepository of the vaccine vials randomly, so when the people start to die, we can actually see what is in this vaccine. We should be doing this now.

I am concerned that there are maybe multiple mRNAs in this vaccine, not just something for coronavirus. If it is influenza or other viruses, we would be priming these people to other natural (cold and flu) viruses that are circulating.

We urgently need quality control to randomly require doctors to give 1 in 100 vaccine vials to a repository and someone like me could forensically analyze what’s in these vaccines. So, when the elderly start dying, we will know. We should be knowing now what’s in them.

It’s absolutely a dangerous gene therapy. Should not be given to the elderly,” emphasized professor Cahill.

The allergic reactions and deaths begin

Moderna, maker of the RNA COVID-19 vaccine, reports only 10 of 4 million vaccinees had an early (within 10 minutes of inoculation) allergic reaction. However, there is no data for 80+ year-olds with this vaccine, the group Dr. Cahill warns about, that typically have weak immune systems.

Now suddenly there are reports of a number of individuals at one vaccination center in California experiencing allergic reactions from an RNA-vaccine. While health authorities claim allergic reactions are rare, 10 patients are reported to have required medical attention for severe allergic reactions within 24-hours after vaccination at one site in California and six health care workers had allergic reactions at another vaccination center in San Diego in one day.

Hot lot withdrawn

Health officials withdrew one lot (41L20A) of the RNA vaccine. Inexplicably, health officials continue to offer false assurance it is “safe to use” the Moderna RNA vaccine when no conclusive safety data among large populations have been completed yet. No one knows if the Moderna RNA vaccine is safe. It is an unlicensed experimental vaccine. Remember, according to Professor Cahill, the really severe reactions will be latent – occur months later.

Then again, news agencies report of 33 deaths among 48,000+ people age 75 and over following immunization with the Pfizer COVID-19 RNA vaccine. Health officials continue to blame these deaths on the frailty of older subjects. But that is precisely the point – they may be too old and frail to benefit from vaccination.
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RNA to DNA

The COVID-19 coronavirus is an RNA virus. The MODERNA COVID-19 vaccine is an RNA vaccine. Gene activation involves transcription of DNA into messenger RNA and then to gene-derived proteins.

Merle Nass MD, calls attention to the fact messenger RNA (or any RNA) can potentially be converted to DNA in the presence of the enzyme reverse transcriptase. That DNA could then become linked to your native DNA. There is the possibility of vaccine-RNA being converted to DNA and then permanently inserted into our DNA. (Resveratrol, a red wine molecule, by virtue of its ability to inhibit reverse transcriptase, could put a halt to this potential biogenetic hazard.)

It would be wise for people undergoing any vaccination to supplement their diet with vitamins A and D, zinc and resveratrol which normalize the immune response, especially individuals that have experienced allergic reactions or are allergy prone.

(lewrockwell.com)
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The New Normal (Phase 2)
CJ Hopkins

Mar 9, 2021.

So, we’re almost a year into the “New Normal” (a/k/a “pathologized totalitarianism”) and things are still looking … well, pretty totalitarian.

Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some other state of “health emergency.” Police are fining and arresting people for “being outdoors without a valid reason.”

Protest is still banned. Dissent is still censored.

The official propaganda is relentless. Governments are ruling by edict, subjecting people to an ever-changing series of increasingly absurd restrictions of the most fundamental aspects of everyday life.

And now, the campaign to “vaccinate” the entirety of humanity against a virus that causes mild to moderate flu-like symptoms or, more commonly, no symptoms at all, in over 95% of those infected, and that over 99% of the infected survive (and that has no real effect on age-adjusted death rates, and the mortality profile of which is more or less identical to the normal mortality profile) is being waged with literally religious fervor.

“Vaccine passports” (which are definitely creepy, but which bear no resemblance to Aryan Ancestry Certificates, or any other fascistic apartheid-type documents, so don’t even think about making such a comparison!) are in the pipeline in a number of countries. They have already been rolled out in Israel.

In other words, as predicted by us “conspiracy theorists,” the “temporary emergency public health measures” implemented by GloboCap in March of 2020 are still very much in effect, and then some. That said, as you have probably noticed, the tenor of things is shifting a bit, which is unsurprising, as GloboCap is now making the transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the “New Normal” roll-out.

Phase 1 was pretty much classic “shock and awe.” An “apocalyptic virus” was “discovered.” A global “state of emergency” was declared. Constitutional rights were cancelled. Soldiers, police, surveillance cameras, military drones, and robot dogs were deployed to implement the worldwide police state.

The masses were bombarded with official propaganda, photos of people dropping dead in the street, unconscious patients dying in agony, bodies being stuffed into makeshift morgue trucks, hospital ships, ICU horror stories, projections of hundreds of millions of deaths, terror-inducing Orwellian slogans, sentimental “war effort” billboards, and so on.

The full force of the most formidable Goebbelsian propaganda machine in history was unleashed on the public all at once. (See, e.g., CNN, NPR, CNBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Forbes, and other “authoritative” sources like the IMF and the World Bank Group, the WEF, UN, WHO, CDC.)

But the “shock and awe” phase can’t go on forever, nor is it ever intended to. Its purpose is (a) to terrorize the targeted masses into a state of submission, (b) to irreversibly destabilize their society, so that it can be radically “restructured,” and (c) to convincingly demonstrate an overwhelming superiority of force, so that resistance is rendered inconceivable.

This shock and awe (or “rapid dominance”) tactic has been deployed by empires, and aspiring empires, throughout the course of military history. It has just been deployed by GloboCap against … well, against the entire world. And now, that phase is coming to an end.

The shape of Phase 2 is not entirely clear yet, but one can make a few logical assumptions. Typically, this is the phase in which the conquering force (in this case, GloboCap) restores “normality” (i.e., a “new normality”) to the society it has just destabilized and terrorized. It installs a new occupation-friendly government, restarts the economy, and otherwise begins the gradual transition from martial law to something resembling “normal” everyday life. It hands out candy bars to kids, financial aid to businesses, power to generals and police, and “freedom” to the shell-shocked public.

This appears to be where we are at the moment. As you’ve probably noticed, the corporate media, government leaders, and medical experts have been making noise about “the end of the pandemic,” or at least “the end of the emergency phase” of it. Suddenly, “some level of Covid is tolerable,” “Zero Covid is unlikely,” et cetera. This is happening pretty much right on cue.

Now that the vaccination push is underway, they are trying to temper the mass paranoia and hatred that they have fomented for over a year with some hope and a vision of a post-crisis future.

Governments are carefully relaxing restrictions, making sure we understand that if we don’t obey orders, wear our masks, get our vaccinations, and so, they will crack down on us again without mercy. They want to ease us into the pathologized-totalitarian future gently, so that it feels like we are being liberated, returning to some semblance of normal life, albeit in a new, more terrifying, perpetually-virus-and-extremist-threatened world.

For example, here in Germany, the government has decided to “return some freedom and trust to the people,” but they are prepared to lock us down “hard” again if they suspect we haven’t “used their trust wisely.”

According to the 5-Step Plan, bookshops and florists can reopen this week with a one-person-per-ten-square-meter limit, up to ten people can play non-contact sports, and five people from no more than two households can meet up (and, thus, also play non-contact sports), unless the “incidence rate” of positive PCR tests rises above 100 per thousand, in which case, back to “hard lockdown” we go.

Two weeks after that, on March 22, if the “positive-test rate” stays below 50, outdoor restaurant dining can resume, and theaters, cinemas, and opera houses can open. However, if the “positive-test rate” is more than 50 but less than 100, outdoor dining will only be permitted on a strictly pre-booking basis. (One assumes there will be roving goon squads examining restaurants’ booking records and ordering patrons to show their papers.) There are further Kafkaesque conditions in the plan, but I think you get the general idea.

Meanwhile, in the USA, although DC remains under occupation, the Capitol surrounded by razor-wire fences to protect democracy from an imaginary enemy straight out of George Orwell’s 1984, Texas, Mississippi, and a few other states are joining Florida in open rebellion, and allowing people to go out to eat, get together with their families and friends, walk around in public without medical-looking masks, and otherwise go about living their lives in a totally non-anus-clenched-paranoid fashion.

Notwithstanding the outrage of the Covidian Cultists, this development is not of great concern to GloboCap, as the coastal power centers are full-blown “New Normal,” and the liberals who predominantly occupy them have been transformed into paranoid, hysterical zealots who now dedicate a considerable amount of time to hunting down alleged “Covid deniers,” “anti-maskers,” “vaccine refusers,” “white-supremacist extremists,” “conspiracy theorists,” “libertarians,” dead “racist cartoonists,” and anyone else who won’t conform to their pathologized-totalitarian ideology, and obsessively trolling them on social media, or reporting their thoughtcrimes to the Reality Police.

This transformation of the relatively affluent, predominantly liberal, middle/upper classes, and the millions futilely aspiring thereto, into mindlessly-order-following “Good Germans” (or, rather, mindlessly-order-following “New Normals”) has also occurred here in Western Europe, and elsewhere throughout the global capitalist empire, and was one of GloboCap’s main objectives throughout Phase 1 of the “New Normal” roll out. This transformation has been in progress for quite some time, less dramatically and without a virus. It will continue once this virus is gone.

The “New Normal” isn’t just about a virus. The “New Normal” was never just about a virus. You don’t need a new “normal” because of a virus. You need a new “normal” when your current “normal” has outlived its usefulness to those in power, which, in our case, are the global capitalist ruling classes.

I’ve been writing about this for … well, most of my life, and publishing these columns for the last five years, so I’m not going to summarize all that here, but, basically, we’re living through one of those historic transformations of the structure of political power that we usually don’t recognize until after it has occurred … not just a “changing of the guard,” a transformation of the nature of power, how it is exercised, the beliefs it is based on, and the “reality” conjured into being by those beliefs.

This transformation began with the end of the Cold War, when global capitalism became the first globally-hegemonic ideological system in history. The roll-out of the “New Normal” is part of that transformation, not the whole of it, but an essential stage. We are transitioning from an ideological “reality” to a post-ideological, pathologized “reality” … a “reality” in which any and all deviation from official ideology (i.e., “normality”) is no longer a political challenge or threat, but an “illness” or “psychiatric disorder.”

I’m going to be obnoxious and quote myself, so that I don’t have to try to explain this again. Here’s a passage from a recent column:

A globally-hegemonic system (e.g., global capitalism) has no external enemies, as there is no territory ‘outside’ the system. Its only enemies are within the system, and thus, by definition, are insurgents, also known as ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists.’

These terms are utterly meaningless, obviously. They are purely strategic, deployed against anyone who deviates from GloboCap’s official ideology … which, in case you were wondering, is called ‘normality’ (or, in our case, currently, ‘New Normality’) … [t]he new breed of ‘terrorists’ do not just hate us for our freedom … they hate us because they hate ‘reality.’

They are no longer our political or ideological opponents … they are suffering from a psychiatric disorder. They no longer need to be argued with or listened to … they need to be ‘treated,’ ‘reeducated,’ and ‘deprogrammed,’ until they accept ‘Reality.’

As we shift from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of the “New Normal,” the pathologization of political dissent will continue, and intensify, both overtly and subtlely. GloboCap and the corporate media will continue to warn of imminent “attacks on democracy” by imaginary “domestic terrorists,” as well as the old “non-domestic terrorists.” They will also continue to warn of imminent threats posed by exotic viruses, and “variants” of exotic viruses, and permanent “conditions” caused by viruses, and other threats to our bodily fluids.

Above all, they will continue to warn of the danger of ingesting “misinformation,” “conspiracy theories,” or any other type of unverified, unauthorized, un-fact-checked content. They will thoroughly diagnose the sources of such content, and exhaustively explain the pathological conditions these sources will clearly be suffering from. They will explore a variety of treatments and cures, and recommend prophylactic measures against potential exposure to these sources.

These multiplicitous “threats to democracy” (i.e., “terrorists,” “viruses,” “misinformation,” “racism,” “sexism,” “homophobia,” “transphobia,” “electoral-system scepticism,” “white-supremacist pancake syrup,” “premeditated pronoun abuse,” “oppositional-defiant-infant masklessness,” “vaccine hesitancy,” “religion,” et cetera) will fuse into a single Goldstein-like enemy which “New Normal” children will be conditioned to reflexively hate and fear, and want to silence, and quarantine off from “normal” society, or “cure” of their “illness” with government-mandated, “safe and effective” pharmaceutical therapies.

But whatever … I wouldn’t worry about that. I’m probably just getting all worked up over nothing. After all, as a lot of my ex-friends will tell you (through their multiple masks and prophylactic face shields), I’m just a paranoid “conspiracy theorist” spreading “unverified misinformation.”

(CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volumes I and II of his Consent Factory Essays are published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.)

(off-guardian.org)
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Moderna’s Top Scientist: ‘We Are Actually Hacking The Software Of Life’

Posted By: Leo Hohmann March 9, 2021.

Pure and simple, this is unvarnished, raw Transhumanism. Moderna CEO says mRNA shots are “rewriting the Genetic Code.” He calls it “information therapy”, says “We are actually hacking the software of life.” This should be a red alert for every rational American.

Transhumanism is a twisted philosophy that believes in the use of high technology to transform humans into immortal beings. That is, escaping death and living forever. Furthermore, they seek to use genetic engineering to create a new master race of sorts, that will shed all of the “unseemly” characteristics of humans. In just a few short years, Transhumanism has smothered the world against its will and without its consent. Billions of people will be injected with mRNA gene therapy concoctions that will permanently change a persons genetic makeup. ⁃ TN Editor

Dr. Tal Zaks, the chief medical officer at Moderna Inc., explained in a 2017 TED talk how the company’s mRNA vaccine was designed to work.

Over the last 30 years, he said, “we’ve been living this phenomenal digital scientific revolution, and I’m here today to tell you, that we are actually hacking the software of life, and that it’s changing the way we think about prevention and treatment of disease.”

He went on to explain [see video below] that the human body is made up of organs and organs are made up of cells.

“In every cell there’s this thing called messenger RNA or mRNA for short, that transmits the critical information from the DNA in our genes to the protein, which is really the stuff we’re all made out of. This is the critical information that determines what the cell will do. So we think about it as an operating system.

“So if you could change that, if you could introduce a line of code, or change a line of code, it turns out, that has profound implications for everything, from the flu to cancer.”

I reported on Feb. 4 that Moderna describes its new vaccine as “a computer operating system” but I was not aware at that time that Zaks had spoken three years ago about this, totally debunking the establishment media’s lie that mRNA vaccines don’t alter your genetic code.

He could not be more clear when he said “We are actually hacking the software of life.”

Zaks stressed that in 2017 his company was working on a vaccine that would not act like any previous vaccine ever created.

“Imagine if instead of giving [the patient] the protein of a virus, we gave them the instructions on how to make the protein, how the body can make its own vaccine,” he said.

Zaks said it took decades to sequence the human genome, which was accomplished in 2003, “And now we can do it in a week.”

He proceeded to reveal, in 2017, his company’s plans to make individual cancer vaccines, tailored to the needs of individual cancer patients, “because every cancer is different.”

Interestingly, one of the most potentially catastrophic side effects of the mRNA vaccine is its interaction with cancer cells. According to a study at New York City-based Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the mRNA has a tendency to inactivate tumor-suppressing proteins, meaning it can promote the growth of cancer cells.

Both the Moderna and Pfizer injections are experimental mRNA vaccines. The FDA has only granted these injections Emergency Use Authorization [EUA] and they will remain in trials through 2023, yet the government, media and corporations are all promoting them as though they are guaranteed safe.

This systemic deception will, in my opinion, end up being judged in the rear-view mirror of history as one of the most reckless acts of medical treachery ever committed against the human race.

If this so-called vaccine does cause more people to get cancer, think of the possibilities from a purely business point of view.

Based on the predictions of Dr. Zaks, who oversaw the creation of the vaccine now being given to millions of people worldwide, the same Big Pharma companies that could potentially give people cancer with one vaccine could step forward later with another vaccine offering the cure for cancer. If you are the CEO of a mega pharmaceutical who answers to profit-driven Wall Street shareholders, that’s a brilliant strategy!

But is it ethical from a medical point of view? That’s a question nobody is asking.

As I listen to Dr. Zaks lay out the achievements of his company in creating the mRNA vaccine, I cannot help but think of how incredibly arrogant it sounds. That scientists think they can rewrite the genetic code [his words not mine for all you out there who still don’t believe these mRNA vaccines change the genetic code just because some ‘fact checker’ says they don’t], believing they can improve on a person’s God-given genetic makeup is entering dangerous territory. Who’s to say they won’t correct one problem and create something far worse?

Zaks wrapped up his 2017 speech with the following words.

“If you think about what it is we’re trying to do. We’ve taken information and our understanding of that information and how that information is transmitted in a cell, and we’ve taken our understanding of medicine and how to make drugs, and we’re fusing the two. We think of it as information therapy.”

Information therapy. Just like a computer software code.

These scientists truly believe that the human body is nothing more than a machine that can be hacked into and reordered according to some programmer’s instructions.

The same ground-breaking nature of this research that excites some, is what horrifies others.

A person’s genetic makeup is, as Dr. Zak said, “the software of life.”

If this is true, then who should be the ultimate authority over each human being’s genetic software code? If we truly live in a free society, wouldn’t it stand to reason that we would want to have an energetic debate over how to answer that question? Shouldn’t it be the number-one issue being debated in Congress and the media? Instead, nobody is allowed to even ask these questions without being threatened, censored, rebuked, deplatformed. Members of the corporate media who dare broach the question get fired.

Contrary to what some scientists believe, we are not machines. We are human beings with bodies, souls and free wills. Anyone who tries to mandate the acceptance of an experimental gene-altering treatment is going against the international Nuremberg Codes, which require informed consent of any experimental treatment.

Dear readers: Please do not allow your employer, your government, your family, your friends or anyone else to intimidate you, or in any way try to persuade you, to accept this experimental treatment if you do not want it. You are your own health authority, period. If your employer threatens you with termination for rejecting this injection, please contact an attorney. The Rutherford Institute, headed up by civil rights attorney John Whitehead, is one good option. Others include Mat Staver’s Liberty Counsel.

(technocracy.news)
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UK: 35 people deaf and 25 blind after taking mRNA vaccine shots
The Yellow Card scheme tracking potential vaccine injuries has flagged a combined 191,832 individual adverse events, or side effects, related to COVID vaccines.
Fri Mar 5, 2021 - 2:56 pm EST

LONDON, England, March 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Among people in the U.K., 35 cases of deafness and 25 cases of blindness have been reported by people who have taken the experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The numbers are derived from the U.K. Yellow Card vaccine reporting scheme, which is the British equivalent to the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca mRNA COVID vaccines were given temporary authorization in the U.K. by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the former in mid-December 2020, and the latter at the beginning of January 2021. Since then, the Yellow Card scheme has flagged a combined 191,832 individual adverse events, or side effects, of varying degrees of injury. Of the injuries recorded, AstraZeneca’s vaccine consistently performed the worst, accounting for 60% of all adverse events, and 58% of deaf and blind reports. Additionally, of the 402 fatalities, 197 were reported following use of the Pfizer formula, and 205 after taking AstraZeneca’s vaccine.
The latest data, which runs up to February 19 and was published on February 22, reveals a plethora of debilitating side-effects, but this has not alarmed officials at the MHRA who maintain that “no other new safety concerns have been identified from reports received to date.” They conclude from this that the “overall safety experience with both vaccines is so far as expected from the clinical trials.”

The regulator doubled down on supporting the jabs, stating that the “expected benefits of the vaccines in preventing COVID-19 and serious complications associated with COVID-19 far outweigh any currently known side effects,” including deafness, blindness, and death.

The MHRA justified this position by citing the passively analytical nature of recordings on the Yellow Card scheme: It is a self-reporting system. This means that none of the serious injuries, or even the deaths, are confirmed by a licensed doctor, giving the MHRA some leeway to declare that “the available evidence does not currently suggest that the vaccine caused the event.” Rather, the MHRA favors use of the term “temporally-related” to describe the succession of adverse events from injection with the vaccine, which they describe as “events occurring following vaccination but may or may not be caused by the vaccine.”
John Stone of Children’s Health Defense noted that, despite the passive reporting system used by the MHRA, “[n]evertheless, the very distinct event profiles of two products [COVID-19 vaccines] filtered through the same system after 15 million vaccine administrations [in the U.K.] would suggest that there is something to be investigated and explained.”

A pattern of adverse results has been established regarding use of the Pfizer vaccine, which can be seen by examining its use in the U.S., following the award of “Emergency Use Authorization” by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in December. In both the U.K. and the U.S., use of the Pfizer vaccine has brought about similar results, accounting for the majority of post-vaccination injuries in America. VAERS has recorded 19,907 cases of adverse events arising after taking a COVID-19 vaccine, 64% of which are linked to Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine, and 36% attributable to Moderna’s equivalent jab.

In the U.S., VAERS reported 23 cases of complete deafness and 27 of unilateral deafness, with Pfizer’s jab making up 76% of complaints. Additionally there have been 29 cases of partial or complete blindness, over half of which followed the Pfizer vaccine.
Experimental mRNA vaccination programs in Israel, too, are returning grim results, with a new analysis of vaccine-related deaths demonstrating a dramatic rise in both young and elderly people dying after taking the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine over those who have died after encountering the pathogen naturally.

Upon investigating the Israeli Health Ministry’s own data on the nation’s vaccine rollout, Dr. Hervé Seligmann, a member of the faculty of Medicine at Aix-Marseille University, and engineer Haim Yativ revealed that Pfizer’s mRNA experimental vaccine killed “about 40 times more [elderly] people than the disease itself would have killed” during a recent five-week vaccination period.

Among the younger class, the researchers discovered that these numbers are compounded to death rates at 260 times what the COVID-19 virus would have claimed in the given time frame.

LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page.

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Scale of covid conspiracy believers are a 'threat to public health' warns Bristol Uni study
And families are falling out over it

BY
Tristan CorkSenior Reporter
• 16:26, 18 FEB 2021

One in every 11 people in Britain say they trust David Icke’s take on the coronavirus pandemic, and people who believe covid conspiracies are much less likely to trust the vaccine too.
The full extent of the belief in coronavirus conspiracies and lockdown scepticism has been laid bare in research from the University of Bristol and King’s College London, who warned the prominence of such views and lack of trust in the official scientists constituted a ‘risk to public health’.
The research saw thousands of people quizzed over their views, attitudes and where they placed their trust during the covid pandemic, and showed a clear link between people who believed the virus was some kind of hoax, or the Government was overstating the covid risks as some kind of conspiracy with scientists, NHS staff, doctors and the media, were less likely to trust in the vaccine too.
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And those covid conspiracists were also far more likely to have argued or fallen out with friends or family about covid, the lockdown or getting a vaccine.
The research was carried out in the month before Christmas, during the partial November lockdown, and the failed Tier system during December, and involved a study of 4,860 adults aged between 18 and 75.
The researchers from Bristol University said the worrying findings showed lockdown scepticism and covid conspiracy were linked to vaccine hesitancy and both constituted a risk to public health because people would break the lockdown and not get a vaccine.
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“Willingness to report agreement with conspiracy suspicions and beliefs is related to low trust in traditional authority sources – to the point that it constitutes a threat to public health,” said Dr Siobhan McAndrew, senior lecturer in quantitative social science at the University of Bristol.

“This is a real challenge for the campaign to ensure the highest possible Covid-19 vaccination rates. A high proportion of the public have been exposed to content that undermines trust in coronavirus vaccines and public health measures, often content intentionally tailored to the fears and concerns of vulnerable groups.
“Such narratives undermining trust are widely and rapidly disseminated online. This is of urgent importance for public health communicators and social media companies alike, to ensure that positive, accurate and relevant messaging reaches the groups who need it most,” she added.
The findings will be of concern to those running the vaccine programme. Until now, the take-up rate has been exceptionally high - into the high 90s per cent - but that may well be because those being vaccinated are care workers, the clinically vulnerable or old enough to remember how diseases like polio were eradicated through vaccine programmes.
The big test will be when the next generation of people over 50, and then younger, are offered the vaccine.
The Bristol University findings revealed just how much people who didn’t believe in the coronavirus pandemic then went on to believe lockdown sceptics and then were more likely to be hesitant about taking up the vaccine offer.
The study found as many as nine per cent of people said they trust David Icke on the pandemic, that’s one out of every 11 people, and among those people, more than a third (35 per cent) said they had argued with friends and family about whether they should get the vaccine.
Those who said they trusted David Icke were also five times more likely to report that they are no longer speaking to a loved one because of disagreements over getting vaccinated.

Researchers said the same pattern could also be seen, albeit to a lesser extent, with other high profile commentators given mainstream media platforms and prominent social media followings, who had questioned the lockdown, and denied or downplayed the second wave of the pandemic - people like Laurence Fox, Nigel Farage and Denise Welch.

For example, the study found that 22 per cent of the people who said they trust actor Laurence Fox on coronavirus have had arguments with loved ones about the vaccine, and a fifth of people who believe Laurence Fox said they were no longer on speaking terms with a friend or member of their family because of such disagreements.
Who people trust over the pandemic is linked directly to whether they will get the vaccine.
Half of those who said they trust David Icke said they were ‘very or fairly likely’ to be persuaded by anti-vaxxers, and that figure was between 31 per cent and 40 per cent of those people who trust Denise Welch, Laurence Fox and Nigel Farage.

“By contrast, 15 per cent of the population overall say opposition to vaccines could deter them,” added Dr McAndrew.
The study also showed where people got their information about the pandemic and vaccines was also linked to what they believed about them both, something that was a ‘very real problem’, according to Dr Daniel Allington, a senior lecturer in social and cultural artificial intelligence at King’s College London.
“Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram have begun to take action on viral misinformation, but our findings suggest that they still haven’t done enough to solve this very real problem.”
“Those whose knowledge about coronavirus comes primarily from certain online sources, including social media platforms, are significantly more likely to have conspiracy suspicions about the pandemic and think various conspiracy theories are true,” the study’s report said.

“While 15 per cent of the public overall think ‘reporters, scientists, and government officials are involved in a conspiracy to cover up important information about coronavirus’, this view is held by much larger proportions of those who get a great deal or fair amount of their information on the pandemic from the search engine DuckDuckGo (50%), Instagram (43%), WhatsApp (40%), YouTube (37%), Bing (34%), Facebook (31%) and Twitter (29%).”
“Relying on such sources is also associated with far greater levels of potential concern about getting vaccinated.
“For example, those who get a lot of their information from DuckDuckGo (63%), WhatsApp (55%), Instagram (54%) and YouTube (49%) are more than twice as likely as both the population overall (24%) and those who rely on traditional media sources (24%) to say they would probably be put off getting a coronavirus vaccine if there were concerns that it might overload their immune system,” the report added.
Prof Bobby Duffy, the director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London said the sizeable minority who believe in the covid conspiracies presented a huge public health challenge.
“While they might seem outlandish, conspiracy suspicions and beliefs are far from harmless speculation – especially in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
“Our findings show that although conspiracy thinking is limited to a minority of the population – something which is important to emphasise – levels of belief are particularly high among certain groups, such as the vaccine-hesitant. Addressing this mix of underlying beliefs, misleading information and harmful behaviour is a key public health challenge,” he added.
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One-Third of Deaths Reported to CDC After COVID Vaccines Occurred Within 48 Hours of Vaccination

The numbers reflect the latest data available as of Feb. 12 from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System website. Of the 929 reported deaths, about one-third occurred within 48 hours.

According to new data released today, as of Feb. 12, 15,923 adverse reactions to COVID vaccines, including 929 deaths, have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) since Dec. 14, 2020.

VAERS is the primary mechanism in the U.S. for reporting adverse vaccine reactions. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a determination can be made as to whether the reported adverse event was directly or indirectly caused by the vaccine.

The latest VAERS data show that 799 of the deaths were reported in the U.S., and that about one-third of those deaths occurred within 48 hours of the individual receiving the vaccination.

As is consistent with previous VAERS data reports, 192 of the reported deaths — or 21% — were cardiac-related. As The Defender reported earlier this month, Dr. J. Patrick Whelan, a pediatric rheumatologist, warned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December that mRNA vaccines like those developed by Pfizer and Moderna could cause heart attacks and other injuries in ways not assessed in safety trials.

Of the 929 deaths reported since Dec. 14, 2020, the average age of the deceased was 77.8 and the youngest was 23. Fifty-two percent of the reported deaths were among men, 45% were women and 3% are unknown. Fifty-eight percent of the deaths were reported in people who received the Pfizer vaccine, and 41% were related to the Moderna vaccine.

States with the highest reported number of deaths were: California (71); Florida (50); Ohio (38); New York (31); Kentucky (41); Michigan (31); and Texas (31).

CBS Detroit reported this week that a 68-year old news anchor died one day after being vaccinated for COVID of a suspected stroke.

Reports of deaths among elderly people after being vaccinated for COVID continue to surface, including the article published this week by The Defender about 46 nursing home residents in Spain who died within one month of receiving the Pfizer vaccine.

According to the latest data, 3,126 “serious” adverse reactions have been reported. Adverse reaction reports from the latest CDC data also include:

34 miscarriages and pre-term births
917 anaphylactic reactions, 70% of which were reported after a Pfizer vaccine and 30% after the Moderna vaccine
Bell’s palsy (Pfizer 75%; Moderna: 25%)

So far, only Pfizer and Moderna vaccines — approved for emergency use, but not fully licensed — are being used in the U.S.

AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine, which does not use mRNA technology, was approved for emergency use this week by the World Health Organization, paving the way for some countries to start using it. However, as The Defender reported this week, some nations have said they won’t use it, citing safety and efficacy concerns.

FiercePharma reported today that the FDA may reject the AstraZeneca vaccine over concerns relating to efficacy, especially against new COVID variants, and manufacturing issues.

News reports indicate that a growing number of people, including nearly 30% of healthcare workers, now say they don’t want the COVID vaccine, citing safety concerns.

The Washington Post reported this week that nearly a third of military personnel are opting out of the vaccines, and ESPN reported that top NBA players are reluctant to promote the vaccine.

Meanwhile, the FDA has not yet implemented systems to monitor the safety of the experimental COVID vaccines. FDA officials told The New York Times they don’t expect the systems to be up and running before the Biden administration reaches its goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans — nearly one third of the U.S. population.

As of Feb. 19, about 56.3 million people in the U.S. had received one or both doses of a COVID vaccine.

While the VAERS database numbers may seem sobering, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study, the actual number of adverse events is likely significantly higher. VAERS is a passive surveillance system that relies on the willingness of individuals to submit reports voluntarily.

According to the VAERS website, healthcare providers are required by law to report to VAERS:

Any adverse event listed in the VAERS Table of Reportable Events Following Vaccination that occurs within the specified time period after vaccination
An adverse event listed by the vaccine manufacturer as a contraindication to further doses of the vaccine

The CDC says healthcare providers are strongly encouraged to report:

Any adverse event that occurs after the administration of a vaccine licensed in the United States, whether or not it is clear that a vaccine caused the adverse event
Vaccine administration errors

However, “within the specified time” means that reactions occurring outside that timeframe may not be reported, in addition to reactions suffered hours or days later by people who don’t report those reactions to their healthcare provider.

Vaccine manufacturers are required to report to VAERS “all adverse events that come to their attention.”

Historically, however, fewer than fewer than 1% of adverse events have ever been reported to VAERS, a system that Children’s Health Defense has previously referred to as an “abject failure,” including in a December 2020 letter to Dr. David Kessler, former FDA director and now co-chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board and President Biden’s version of Operation Warp Speed.

A critic familiar with VAERS’ shortcomings bluntly condemned VAERS in The BMJ as “nothing more than window dressing, and a part of U.S. authorities’ systematic effort to reassure/deceive us about vaccine safety.”

CHD is calling for complete transparency. The children’s health organization is asking Kessler and the federal government to release all of the data from the clinical trials and suspend COVID-19 vaccine use in any group not adequately represented in the clinical trials, including the elderly, frail and anyone with comorbidities.

CHD is also asking for full transparency in post-marketing data that reports all health outcomes, including new diagnoses of autoimmune disorders, adverse events and deaths from COVID vaccines.

Children’s Health Defense asks anyone who has experienced an adverse reaction, to any vaccine, to file a report following these three steps.

(childrenshealthdefense.org)
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Dutch curfew extended by emergency bill as government shuns court ruling of Covid lockdown ‘illegality’
19 Feb, 2021 22:46 /

Dutch senators have voted overwhelmingly to pass an emergency act to continue a nationwide curfew, disregarding a judge’s ruling this week that the restriction violates the law as well as the rights of citizens.
The emergency bill passed in a 45-13 vote on Friday evening, according to local media, upholding the nightly curfew in the face of an ongoing legal challenge to the restrictions, intended to stem the spread of Covid-19.
While a lower court ruled in favor of Dutch activist group Viruswaarheid (Virus Truth) on Tuesday, deeming the 9pm curfew “not legitimate” and a “far-reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and privacy,” the decision was swiftly reversed on a last-minute appeal from the government. The court reconvened on Friday to rule on the issue, but decided to take another week to reach a final verdict and is set to meet again on February 26.
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Following Tuesday’s court rulings, Prime Minister Mark Rutte introduced emergency legislation to buoy the curfew order, rushing the bill through the lower house of parliament before senators passed it on Friday. The law keeps the curfew in force at least until early March, though it is unclear what effect the legislation will have should judges rule the restriction illegal next week.
Imposed on January 23 and extended to early March last week, the curfew order requires citizens to stay home between 9pm and 4:30am each day unless they can provide a valid reason for leaving – such as a medical emergency or travel for “essential” work – with violators facing fines.
Condemned by groups like Virus Truth as a blatant violation of the Dutch constitution and basic human rights, the curfews have stoked heated protests across the Netherlands. Demonstrations during the first days of the curfew last month descended into violence and rioting, seeing cars torched, businesses looted and street clashes with police, one of the most serious bouts of unrest in the country in decades.

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‘No Jab, No Job’ – UK Firms Set to Make Vaccines Mandatory

18 Feb 2021582
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Companies in Britain have been tasking law firms to craft “no jab, no job” contracts that would bar prospective employees from being hired unless they have been vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus.
While the government has publicly claimed that it has no intentions of requiring domestic vaccine passports, ministers have admitted that private businesses may take up the mantle of imposing it on the British public.
Speaking to the Financial Times, law firms said that they have already been contacted by companies, including care homes and multinational corporations, which are looking to draw up contracts that would require employees to be inoculated against the virus.
One unnamed attorney told the paper that such requirements could be risky as they might trigger discrimination claims from people who refuse to take the vaccine on religious grounds, pregnant women, or those who have health conditions, such as allergies, which prevent them from taking the jab.
The lawyer did note that in sectors in which employees are surrounded by at-risk people, such as in care homes, so-called “no jab, no job” contracts may ultimately be defensible.
Some of the law firms contacted claimed that businesses have also begun inquiring about how to require that those already employed receive the vaccine.
However, companies seeking to change the contracts of people already employed would need to gain the consent of the worker, a partner at the law firm Lewis Silkin, James Davies, cautioned.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said that there was no justification for businesses to require vaccines for employees, saying that mass testing would be a preferable option.
The chief executive of the human resource firm CIPD, Peter Cheese, said: “The UK government hasn’t made the vaccine compulsory, so neither can employers.”
Mr Cheese added: “Nor should they be restricting people coming into work based on whether they have had the vaccine.”
On Tuesday, Britain’s vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said: “It’s up to businesses what they do, but we don’t yet have the evidence of the effect of vaccines on transmission.”
Zahawi had previously said that such a scheme would be wrong and discriminatory.
On Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that the use of vaccine passports on a domestic level is being considered by the government in such places as supermarkets.
In January, the anti-Brexit founder of Pimlico Plumbers announced that he would be requiring his employees to be vaccinated, boldly pronouncing “no vaccine, no job”.
Charlie Mullins said that he will make it “standard” in employment contracts that “you’re required to have a vaccine”, saying: “We won’t be employing people in the future unless they’ve got a vaccine.”
Barchester Healthcare, which operates over 200 care homes, has also said that it will refuse to hire people who fail to vaccinate.

(store.breitbart.com)
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Θάνατοι υγιών ηλικιωμένων στη Γερμανία μετά τον εμβολιασμό - Καταγγελίες για εξαναγκασμό

Ένα ακόμη σκάνδαλο φέρεται να έχει λάβει χώρα στη Γερμανία.

Πριν από λίγες ημέρες σας αποκαλύψαμε πως επιστήμονες πήραν χρήματα από την κυβέρνηση της Γερμανίας για να δικαιολογήσουν τα lockdowns, τώρα, σύμφωνα με το 2020news.de, σημειώθηκαν θάνατοι σε οίκο ευγηρίας της Γερμανίας. Όπως αναφέρει το ΜΜΕ οι ηλικιωμένοι που εμβολιάστηκαν φέρεται να τους είχαν εξαναγκάσει να εμβολιαστούν.

Για πρώτη φορά, υπάρχει μια αναφορά από αυτόπτες μάρτυρες από ένα γηροκομείο του Βερολίνου σχετικά με την κατάσταση μετά τον εμβολιασμό. Προέρχεται από τον οίκο ευγηρίας AGAPLESION Bethanien Havelgarten στο Βερολίνο-Spandau. Εκεί, εντός τεσσάρων εβδομάδων μετά τον πρώτο εμβολιασμό με το εμβόλιο BioNTech / Pfizer Comirnaty, οκτώ από τους 31 ηλικιωμένους, οι οποίοι υπέφεραν από άνοια αλλά ήταν σε καλή φυσική κατάσταση ανάλογα με την ηλικία τους πριν από τον εμβολιασμό, πέθαναν.

Ο πρώτος θάνατος συνέβη μετά από έξι μόνο ημέρες και πέντε άλλοι ηλικιωμένοι πέθαναν περίπου 14 ημέρες μετά τον εμβολιασμό. Τα πρώτα συμπτώματα της νόσου είχαν ήδη εμφανιστεί λίγο μετά τον εμβολιασμό.

Από τις διαθέσιμες πληροφορίες του 2020News, οι ασθενείς δεν έχουν ενημερωθεί δεόντως για τους κινδύνους αυτού του εμβολίου. Ένας λόγος είναι ότι δεν έχουν παρασχεθεί λεπτομερείς πληροφορίες σχετικά με την καινοτομία αυτού του εμβολίου mRNA που έχει πιστοποιηθεί μόνο υπό όρους στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση.

Η δικηγόρος Viviane Fischer και ο δικηγόρος Dr. Reiner Füllmich της επιτροπής για τον κορωνοϊό μίλησαν σε μια τηλεοπτική συνέντευξη με τον καταγγέλλοντα σχετικά με τις συνθήκες του εμβολιασμού, τα συμπτώματα που σημειώθηκαν και τη διαφορετική φύση των θανάτων σε χρονική σχέση με τον εμβολιασμό .

Στις 3 Ιανουαρίου 2021, 31 γυναίκες και άνδρες που ανήκαν στην κατηγορία «ισόγειο / προστατευόμενη περιοχή» είχαν εμβολιαστεί με το Comirnaty. Οι συγγενείς άλλων τριών ηλικιωμένων είχαν αντιταχθεί στον εμβολιασμό και δύο κάτοικοι βρίσκονταν σε τελική φροντίδα, οπότε δεν εμβολιάστηκαν.

Οι κάτοικοι αυτού του θαλάμου είναι πολύ ενεργοί, ήταν ασθενείς με «αυτοάμυνα» και αν και με άνοια ήταν σωματικά σε καλή κατάσταση. Στον θάλαμο αυτό είναι ασθενείς που επιτρέπεται να κινούνται όλη την ημέρα χωρίς περιορισμούς. Την ημέρα πριν από τον εμβολιασμό, τα 31 άτομα που είχαν εμβολιαστεί ήταν όλα καλά στην υγεία τους. Λίγες μέρες νωρίτερα, όλοι είχαν βρεθεί αρνητικοί στον κορωνοϊό, σύμφωνα με την αναφορά του καταγγέλλοντος.

Σύμφωνα με τον καταγγέλλοντα, η πρώτη εκδήλωση εμβολιασμού με την Comirnaty στις 3 Ιανουαρίου 2021, πραγματοποιήθηκε με τέτοιο τρόπο ώστε όλοι οι κάτοικοι συγκεντρώθηκαν στην αίθουσα αναψυχής της περιοχής του πρώτου ορόφου. Μια ομάδα εμβολιασμού που αποτελείτο από έναν ηλικιωμένο εμβολιαστή, τρεις βοηθούς και δύο ομοσπονδιακούς στρατιώτες με στολές καμουφλάζ πραγματοποίησε τους εμβολιασμούς. Το προσωπικό του σπιτιού καθώς και ο οικιακός ιατρός βοήθησαν στη διαδικασία. Ο ρόλος των στρατιωτών, οι οποίοι σε καμία περίπτωση δεν απομακρύνθηκαν, δεν έχει καθοριστεί οριστικά.

Ωστόσο, αυτό που ο καταγγέλλων μπόρεσε να αποδείξει ήταν ότι η παρουσία των ένστολων ανδρών εκφόβιζε πολύ τους ηλικιωμένους. Ο καταγγέλλων υποψιάζεται ότι αυτό θα μπορούσε επίσης να σχετίζεται με το γεγονός ότι οι ηλικιωμένοι, οι οποίοι είχαν βιώσει τον πόλεμο, δεν μπορούσαν να εκτιμήσουν σωστά το ρόλο των στρατιωτών και πιθανώς έφεραν μνήμες για τραυματικές καταστάσεις πολέμου.

Κατά τη διάρκεια του πρώτου εμβολιασμού, ένας ηλικιωμένος πολίτης που αντιστάθηκε κρατήθηκε από μια νοσοκόμα κάτω από τα άγρυπνα μάτια των Γερμανών στρατιωτών, ανέφερε ο αυτόπτης μάρτυρας. Δεν είχε εκδοθεί δικαστική απόφαση για την κράτηση, η οποία ως εκ τούτου αποτελεί εξαναγκασμό και συνεπώς απαιτεί κατ 'αρχήν δικαστική αξιολόγηση σε κάθε περίπτωση.

Σύμφωνα με το ΜΜΕ, η χορήγηση της δεύτερης δόσης εμβολιασμού πραγματοποιήθηκε χωρίς προειδοποίηση. Για παράδειγμα, μια ηλικιωμένη κυρία ξαπλωμένη ανυποψίαστα στο κρεβάτι και άρχισε να αντιστέκεται στη δεύτερη δόση συγκρατήθηκε από δύο μέλη του προσωπικού - και πάλι χωρίς την απαραίτητη δικαστική απόφαση.

Σύμφωνα με τον καταγγέλλοντα, η εκπαίδευση εμβολιασμού των φροντιστών και συγγενών - οι ηλικιωμένοι δεν μπορούν να συναινέσουν αποτελεσματικά στον εμβολιασμό λόγω της άνοιας τους - βασίστηκε σε ξεπερασμένα δελτία πληροφοριών από το RKI / Grünes Kreuze. Συγκεκριμένα, οι πληροφορίες που απαιτούνται από τον κανονισμό (ΕΚ) αριθ. 507/2006 σχετικά με το γεγονός ότι το εμβόλιο Comirnaty έχει λάβει μόνο άδεια κυκλοφορίας υπό όρους και γιατί αυτό συμβαίνει, λείπουν.

Συγκεκριμένα, θα έπρεπε να είχαν παρασχεθεί πληροφορίες ότι από την άποψη της ρυθμιστικής αρχής EMA, η κατάσταση των δεδομένων πρέπει ακόμη να βελτιωθεί σε σχέση με διάφορες πτυχές, π.χ. η αλληλεπίδραση του Comirnaty με άλλα φάρμακα.

Ήδη την ημέρα του εμβολιασμού, τέσσερις από τους εμβολιασμένους ηλικιωμένους άρχισαν να εμφανίζουν ασυνήθιστα συμπτώματα. Το απόγευμα εκείνης της ημέρας ήταν κουρασμένοι, μερικοί από αυτούς κοιμήθηκαν στο τραπέζι κατά τη διάρκεια του δείπνου. Σημειώθηκε απότομη πτώση του οξυγόνου στο αίμα. Στην περαιτέρω πορεία, η κόπωση συνεχίστηκε, ο κορεσμός οξυγόνου στο αίμα παρέμεινε ανεπαρκής, σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις εμφανίστηκε πρόβλημα στην αναπνοή και πυρετός, οίδημα, δερματικό εξάνθημα, κιτρινωπό-γκρίζο αποχρωματισμό του δέρματος και μυϊκό τρέμουλο εμφανίστηκε το άνω σώμα και τα χέρια.

Οι ηλικιωμένοι έδειξαν επίσης μια αλλαγή συμπεριφοράς μη ανταποκρινόμενοι και αρνήθηκαν να φάνε ή να πιούν. Μια εμβολιασμένη ηλικιωμένη, που στο παρελθόν ήταν «σε καλή κατάσταση» για την ηλικία της και δεν είχε σοβαρές προηγούμενες ασθένειες, πέθανε στις 9 Ιανουαρίου 2021, μόλις έξι ημέρες μετά τον εμβολιασμό. Θάνατοι εμβολιασμένων ηλικιωμένων συνέβησαν στις 15 Ιανουαρίου, 16 Ιανουαρίου, 19 Ιανουαρίου (2 θάνατοι), στις 20 Ιανουαρίου, στις 2 Φεβρουαρίου και στις 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2021. Ο πιο πρόσφατα νεκρός ηλικιωμένος ήταν πρώην τραγουδιστής της όπερας που έπαιζε πιάνο την ημέρα πριν από τον εμβολιασμό. Ο καταγγέλλων αναφέρει σχετικά με την κατάσταση της υγείας του ότι ο άτυχος ηλικιωμένος πήγαινε τακτικά τζόκινγκ, χόρευε, έπαιζε μουσική και ήταν πολύ δυναμικός και δραστήριος.

Στις 24 Ιανουαρίου 2021, η δεύτερη δόση Comirnaty έγινε σε 21 ηλικιωμένους. Μετά από αυτόν τον εμβολιασμό, σύμφωνα με τον καταγγέλλοντα, έντεκα ηλικιωμένοι δείχνουν επίμονη ακραία κόπωση, εν μέρει αναπνέουν, εν μέρει εμφανίζουν οίδημα, δερματικό εξάνθημα και τον κιτρινωπό-γκριζωπό αποχρωματισμό του δέρματος. Από τις 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2021, κανένας από τους ηλικιωμένους που έλαβαν τη δεύτερη δόση Comirnaty δεν πέθανε, αλλά η υγεία ορισμένων ηλικιωμένων επιδεινώνεται σταθερά…

(pronews.gr)
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Γιατρός παρέλυσε στα κάτω άκρα μετά τη δεύτερη δόση του εμβολίου κατά του κορωνοϊού - Δεύτερο περιστατικό στην Κέρκυρα

Δεύτερο περιστατικό παράλυσης στα κάτω άκρα, μετά τη δεύτερη δόση του εμβολίου κατά του κορωνοϊού, σημειώνεται μέσα σε λίγα 24ωρα στην Κέρκυρα.

Συγκεκριμένα ένας γιατρός νοσηλεύεται στο γενικό νοσοκομείο Κέρκυρας με παράλυση στα κάτω άκρα, κόπωση και μυαλγίες.

Όπως αναφέρει το corfunews.gr ο γιατρός έκανε χθες την δεύτερη δόση του εμβολίου κατά του κορωνοϊού. Το βράδυ δεν ένιωθε καλά με τον οργανισμό του να εξασθενεί και να νιώθει παράλυση στα κάτω άκρα και πόνους στην μέση.

Από την πρώτη στιγμή οι γιατροί του νοσοκομείου έχουν προχωρήσει σε εξετάσεις για να διαπιστώσουν από τι προήλθε και να του χορηγήσουν την κατάλληλη αγωγή.

Δεύτερο περιστατικό στην Κέρκυρα

Αυτός είναι ο δεύτερος υγειονομικός που εμφανίζει παράλυση μετά τη δεύτερη δόση του εμβολίου. Υπενθυμίζουμε ότι τα ίδια συμπτώματα εμφάνισε και μία 42χρονη νοσηλεύτρια από την Κέρκυρα.

Γιατροί του νοσοκομείου εξετάζουν τη συσχέτιση του γεγονότος με τον εμβολιασμό της για COVID-19, σύμφωνα με την ΕΡΤ.

Όσον αφορά τη νοσηλεύτρια, ο πρόεδρος ΠΟΕΔΗΝ, Μιχάλης Γιαννάκος, είχε δηλώσει μετά το περιστατικό πως συνδέεται με το εμβόλιο κατά του κορωνοϊού. Εξαιτίας αυτής της δήλωσης του διατάχθηκε από την Εισαγγελία Πρωτοδικών Αθηνών προκαταρκτική εξέταση.

Στο πλαίσιο της έρευνας θα διακριβωθεί αν έχει τελεστεί από τον κ. Γιαννάκο το αδίκημα της διασποράς ψευδών ειδήσεων, αφού πριν αποφανθούν οι γιατροί δήλωσε βέβαιος πως η παράλυση της γυναίκας αποτελεί παρενέργεια του εμβολίου.

Να υπενθυμίσουμε πως σύμφωνα με τους γιατρούς η νοσοκόμα παρουσίασε το σύνδρομο Guillain-Barré (είναι ένα σπάνιο νευρολογικό νόσημα στο οποίο το ανοσοποιητικό σύστημα του οργανισμού επιτίθεται εναντίον των νεύρων, με αποτέλεσμα ο ασθενής να παρουσιάζει παράλυση και μούδιασμα – συνήθως στα χέρια και τα πόδια).

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Nurse partially paralysed after second COVID-19 shot in Corfu

A 42-year-old woman suffered paralysis of the lower body after receiving the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to preliminary information, the nurse at the hospital on the island of Corfu has developed symptoms closely matching with the autoimmune neurological Guillain-Barré syndrome after receiving the second COVID-19 vaccination jab.

Guillain-Barré syndrome (a rare neurological disease in which the body’s immune system attacks the nerves, causing the patient to become paralysed and numb – usually in the arms and legs).

The mother of two, who is now in a wheelchair, has reportedly no previous underlying health issues.

Health experts are scrambling to investigate whether the event is connected to the vaccine, a side effect not known until now.

The case was revealed on Thursday morning by the president of Hospital workers union POEDIN Michalis Giannakos.

It was also confirmed by the general director of the 6th Health Care Department in charge of the Peloponnese and the Ionian islands, Giannis Karvelis.

“She was in perfect health, it is certainly a side effect of the vaccine,” POEDIN president told OPEN TV.

He added that “400,000 people have been vaccinated in Greece and they had no problem, but we say that this colleague had absolutely no previous issues. I am fully aware of what I am saying,” he said.

“Doctors, there also say that it has to be a side effect of the vaccine,” the president added.

Giannakos said that the nurse “has had both doses of the vaccine, and shortly after the second dose, she developed a fever, had excruciating pain, felt paralysed and went to the hospital.”

He added that she contacted him and that she was “now confined in a wheelchair.”

The president of employees at Corfu Hospital, N Ioannou, told Open TV confirmed what had happened.

“The nurse who has been working at the hospital for 17 years has been given the appropriate treatment, is being monitored by doctors. She cannot walk,” Ioannou said.

Ioannou claimed that “it is a severe side effect of the vaccine and the company must address the problem and bear the financial cost.”

According to state broadcaster ERT TV, it is not clear how long after the second dose, she developed symptoms

The TV channel reported that the nurse had the first shot 25 days ago and then the second one.

The nurse remains hospitalised on Thursday.

The woman has undergone a CAT scan which came out clear and is undergoing neurological tests.

The Health Minister has been reportedly informed about the case of paralysis, so far, there has been no official statement by the Health Ministry.

An incident of sudden paralysis of the lower extremities is under investigation, which occurred to a 40-year-old nurse of the Corfu hospital after being vaccinated with the 2nd dose of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The 40-year-old underwent a computed tomography scan without any findings. She is being treated while her clinical and laboratory tests continue.

Theodoros Vasilakopoulos, professor of Pulmonology and Intensive Care at EKPA, told ANT1:

“There is no certainty about the association between vaccination and the occurrence of this syndrome, which is usually related to an infection and in most cases, the patient is treated.”

It is worth noting that on December 14, 2020, British neuroscientists announced that they had found no link between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré syndrome. This neurological condition can lead to paralysis and sometimes death.

Researchers at University College London (UCL), led by Professor Michael Lan of the Institute of Neurology, who published the paper in the British Journal of neurology, said their findings should reassure the public about COVID-19 vaccinnations.

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Greece will not administer AstraZeneca vaccine to over 65s

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Greece’s National Vaccination Committee announced on Friday that the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 will not be administered to those over 65 years old. Vaccinations with AstraZeneca in the country are scheduled to begin on February 12, with the first age group to be vaccinated being those 60-64.

The administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine to citizens 18 to 64 years old was decided unanimously by the National Vaccination Committee.

The Committee reportedly recommends a period of 12 weeks between the first and the second dose.

these recommendations may be modified due to latest data.

The meeting was followed by statements by the President of the National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou and the Secretary General of Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous.

Both stressed that the reason for limiting the age group up to 64 is that there is not enough data on the age group 65+. these data are expected in the following days.

Themistokleous said that citizens aged 60-64 will be able to arrange an appointment only to vaccination centers with AstraZeneca vaccines.

Those over 80 – the group currently being inoculated – will be able to set appointment only in specific vaccination centers.

The platform for AstraZeneca vaccination and for 60-64 is expected to open in the following days. The specific dates will be announced on Monday, Feb 8, 2021, when the company will finalize the delivery schedule for the vaccines.

The vaccination program with Pfizer and Moderna vaccines continues as scheduled.

With the decision on Friday, Greece joined the other EU member states regarding the use of AstraZeneca.

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Greece and Serbia agree on ‘electronic Covid-19 vaccination certificate’

Greece’s Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis and his Serbian counterpart Tatjana Matic, agreed to sign a joint memorandum of understanding in the field of tourism.

The agreement foresees a mutual recognition of an ‘electronic Covid-19 vaccination certificate’ for travel between the two countries.

“This will allow entry to vaccinated citizens of both countries, whereas a negative PCR test or antigen test will be obligatory for the unvaccinated citizens. Also, random rapid tests will be done at the border,” Matic said in the announcement.

Conditions for travel this summer, from May 1 to October 1, were also addressed:

Serbian citizens visiting Greece must carry a coronavirus vaccination certificate issued by state health authorities
Greek citizens visiting Serbia must also carry a coronavirus vaccination certificate

Earlier this month, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the creation of an EU-wide Covid-19 vaccination certificate that will help restore safe travel that has been devastated by the pandemic.

The idea was addressed in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

It was also raised during an EU leaders’ video conference last week.

Jan 26, 2021

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RFK, Jr. Responds to Instagram’s Removal of His Account

RFK, Jr.’s Instagram account was deplatformed Wednesday. Dozens of media outlets reported the censorship, saying the account was removed over “vaccine misinformation,” a characterization Kennedy unequivocally rejected.
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Children's Health Defense Team

Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Instagram account was deplatformed without advanced notice. Dozens of media outlets reporting on this censorship asserted the account was removed over “false COVID vaccine claims” or “vaccine misinformation.” Some reports referred to Kennedy as an “anti-vaxxer.”

Kennedy, founder, chairman and chief legal counsel of Children’s Health Defense,” unequivocally rejects those characterizations as false and misleading.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD), including Kennedy, advocates for vaccine safety and health freedom. CHD’s mission is to end childhood health epidemics by exposing the causes, eliminating harmful exposures, holding those responsible accountable and seeking justice for those harmed.

As Kennedy has said many times, for a democracy to function, civil debate of issues — including vaccine science — must be allowed. Censorship of that debate is anathema to democracy.

Kennedy and Mary Holland, CHD president and general counsel, issued the following statements on Instagram’s removal of Kennedy’s account:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman of Children’s Health Defense, said:

“Every statement I put on Instagram was sourced from a government database, from peer-reviewed publications and from carefully confirmed news stories. None of my posts were false. Facebook, the pharmaceutical industry and its captive regulators use the term ‘vaccine misinformation’ as a euphemism for any factual assertion that departs from official pronouncements about vaccine health and safety, whether true or not. This kind of censorship is counterproductive if our objective is a safe and effective vaccine supply.

“The pharmaceutical industry is hastily creating vaccines using taxpayer money and untested technologies. These include a rash of risky new products that are exempt from liability, from long-term safety testing and that have not received FDA approval. Emergency Use Authorization is a mass population scientific experiment. If it has any prayer of working, it will require extraordinary scrutiny from the press and the public.

“Instead, the mainstream media and social media giants are imposing a totalitarian censorship to prevent public health advocates, like myself, from voicing concerns and from engaging in civil informed debate in the public square. They are punishing, shaming, vilifying, gaslighting and abolishing individuals who report their own vaccine injuries.

“Anyone can see that this is a formula for catastrophe and a coup d’état against the First Amendment, the foundation stone of American democracy.”

Mary Holland, President of Children’s Health Defense, said:

“Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of democracy. Children’s Health Defense and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. provide critically needed information on environmental culprits, including vaccines, that are linked to many chronic diseases that now affect 54% of America’s children. Dr. Anthony Fauci has made it clear that young children will be included in COVID-19 vaccination plans even though children have almost zero risk of serious COVID-19 illness. CHD feels strongly that children should not take on 100% risks of vaccine injuries with 0% benefit.

“The sad reality is vaccine injuries can and do happen. The U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database has more than 11,500 COVID-19 vaccine adverse event reports including more than 500 deaths in just six weeks since the vaccination campaign began. Why would Instagram censor Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s platform and call it ‘misinformation’? Why now?

“Instagram deplatformed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Highwire host, Del Bigtree, just 15 minutes before they were to air the webinar, ‘COVID Vaccine on Trial, If You Only Knew’ highlighting COVID concerns, injuries, mechanisms and other facts from four MDs, several Ph.D.s and leaders from the vaccine-injured community. COVID-19 vaccines use novel technology never before used in a human population. With that comes great unknown risks. The people of the world deserve to have this crucial information to protect their health and that of their children.”

(childrenshealthdefense.org)
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Σήφης Βαλυράκης: Με αμείωτη ένταση οι έρευνες για τον θάνατό του - Τρεις ψαράδες στο στόχαστρο των Αρχών

Φρίξος Δρακοντίδης
31/01/2021, 19:34

Ενδείξεις ότι ο θάνατος του πρώην υπουργού μπορεί να οφείλεται σε ανθρωποκτονία -Σαρώνουν τις κεραίες κινητής τηλεφωνίας και ιδιώτης ιατροδικαστής στο κυνήγι εντοπισμού του χειριστή του αλιευτικού σκάφους - «Θέμα χρόνου να ταυτοποιηθεί το αλιευτικό σκάφος» δηλώνει στο protothema.gr δικηγόρος της οικογένειας Βαλυράκη
Στενεύει μέρα με τη μέρα ο κλοιός για τον ψαρά – ιδιοκτήτη αλιευτικού σκάφους που φέρεται να διαπληκτίστηκε με τον Σήφη Βαλυράκη νωρίς το μεσημέρι της περασμένης Κυριακής, μερικές ώρες πριν εντοπιστεί νεκρός ο πρώην υπουργός του ΠΑΣΟΚ.

Ο ιατροδικαστής που είχε εξετάσει τη σωρό του Σήφη Βαλυράκη, εντόπισε βαριές κρανιοεγκεφαλικές κακώσεις και κακώσεις στην πλάγια αριστερή του λαιμού καθώς και σημάδια πνιγμού, που όμως χαρακτηρίζεται ως δευτερεύουσα αιτία θανάτου. Το συμπέρασμα που είχε προκύψει από την ιατροδικαστική εξέταση, είναι ότι ο Σήφης Βαλυράκης πέφτοντας από άγνωστη μέχρι στιγμής αιτία στο νερό (σ.σ. ο ιατροδικαστής δεν διαπίστωσε να έχει υποστεί έμφραγμα νωρίτερα) πιθανότητα χτυπήθηκε από την προπέλα του φουσκωτού του σκάφους το χειριστήριο του οποίου βρισκόταν σε θέση “πρόσω “ ή χτυπήθηκε από την προπέλα άλλου σκάφους, το οποίο επίσης βρισκόταν στο ίδιο σημείο. Αν όντως αποδειχθεί ότι πρόκειται για προπέλα άλλου σκάφους, κάτι που εξετάζει η ιδιώτης ιατροδικαστής που προσέλαβε η οικογένεια Βαλυράκη, τότε αυτόματα επιβεβαιώνεται η κατάθεση του αυτόπτη μάρτυρα, που έκανε λόγο για παρουσία ενός δεύτερου αλιευτικού σκάφους, λευκού χρώματος, στο ίδιο σημείο, με τον κυβερνήτη του οποίου φέρεται να διαπληκτίστηκε ο πρώην υπουργός.
Θυμίζουμε ότι ο Σήφης Βαλυράκης είχε ξεκινήσει γύρω στις 12.30 με 13.00 το μεσημέρι της περασμένης Κυριακής από την παραθαλάσσια οικία του στην Ερέτρια με προορισμό το “Νησί των Ονείρων” με τα καταγάλανα παραδεισένια νερά και τις φαρδιές αμμουδιές προκειμένου να κάνει κατάδυση με ψαροντούφεκο, παρά τις ισχύουσες απαγορεύσεις λόγω Covid-19.

Η σύζυγος του Μίνα Παπαθεοδώρου – Βαλυράκη ανησύχησε όταν είδε ότι είχαν περάσει αρκετές ώρες και δεν είχε επιστρέψει στο σπίτι του, με αποτέλεσμα να τηλεφωνήσει γύρω στις 5 το απόγευμα στο Λιμεναρχείο Ερέτριας φοβούμενη μήπως του είχε συμβεί κάτι.

Σχεδόν ταυτόχρονα ξεκίνησε η επιχείρηση εντοπισμού του πρώην υπουργού στην οποία συμμετείχαν δυο πλωτά του λιμενικού Σώματος, δυο αλιευτικά και ελικόπτερο του Πολεμικού Ναυτικού. Τελικά έπειτα από δυο τουλάχιστον ώρες βρέθηκε αρχικά το φουσκωτό του σκάφος και έπειτα από λίγη ώρα εντοπίστηκε ο ίδιος νεκρός.

Ο αυτόπτης μάρτυρας, σύμφωνα με όσα έχει αναφέρει στις καταθέσεις του, βρισκόταν σε απόσταση περίπου 500 μέτρων από τα δυο πλεούμενα. Ισχυρίζεται ότι είδε τον κυβερνήτη του αλιευτικού να διαπληκτίζεται με τον Σήφη Βαλυράκη και να στροβιλίζει δυο φορές το σκάφος του γύρω από τη βάρκα του πρώην υπουργού, με αποτέλεσμα να προκαλέσει κυματισμό. Εντελώς τυχαία αυτός ο κυματισμός, όπως και το σκάφος που το προκάλεσε κατεγράφη από μια κάτοικο Ερέτριας η οποία νομίζοντας ότι πρόκειται για κάποιο δελφίνι ή άλλο θηλαστικό άρχισε να βιντεοσκοπεί με το κινητό της τηλέφωνο. Το σχετικό βίντεο παρέδωσε η ίδια στις Λιμενικές Αρχές και είναι μέρος του προανακριτικού υλικού.
Παράλληλα οι λιμενικοί που χειρίζονται την υπόθεση φωτογράφισαν περισσότερα από 37 σκάφη, τόσο στο λιμάνι της Ερέτριας όσο και σε παρακείμενα λιμάνια, ζητώντας από τον αυτόπτη μάρτυρα να ταυτοποιήσει κάποιο απ’ αυτά. Ο αυτόπτης είπε ότι τρία απ’ αυτά μοιάζουν με το σκάφος που είχε είδε εκείνη τη μέρα. Στη συνέχεια οι λιμενικοί κάλεσαν τους ιδιοκτήτες των παραπάνω αλιευτικών για κατάθεση στο Λιμεναρχείο της Ερέτριας. Εκείνοι ήταν κατηγορηματικοί, τονίζοντας ότι δεν έχουν σχέση με το συμβάν. Μάλιστα ένας εξ αυτών είπε στις τηλεοπτικές κάμερες ότι δεν είχε βγει για ψάρεμα, διότι είχε φουρτούνα αν και το δελτίο καιρού έδειχνε μπουνάτσα.

Ο δεύτερος ψαράς, αμφισβήτησε την αξιοπιστία του αυτόπτη μάρτυρα, λέγοντας χαρακτηριστικά ότι “λέει ψέμματα” αν και δεν είχε λόγο να το κάνει από τη στιγμή που είχε ξεκαθαρίσει τη θέση του, δηλαδή είχε πει ότι δεν πέρασε ποτέ από το συγκεκριμένο σημείο την δεδομένη χρονική στιγμή. Ο τρίτος ψαράς είπε ότι αν ο Σήφης Βαλυράκης έχει χτυπηθεί από προπέλα τότε θα υπάρχουν αποτυπώματα στην καταδυτική στολή του, κάτι που βέβαια αναμένεται να εξακριβωθεί μέσα από το πόρισμα της ιδιώτη ιατροδικαστή που προσέλαβε η οικογένεια Βαλυράκη.

Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες του protothema.gr, άλλοι μάρτυρες που κατέθεσαν στις Λιμενικές Αρχές, ανέφεραν ότι οι παραπάνω ψαράδες έχουν δημιουργήσει αρκετά επεισόδια στη θάλασσα και πως έχουν τραμπουκίσει όποιον τολμούσε να εισέλθει στα θαλάσσια “χωράφια” τους. Την ίδια στιγμή η αστυνομία προσπαθεί να εντοπίσει το τηλεφωνικό στίγμα των ψαράδων που φέρονταν ότι βρίσκονταν στο συγκεκριμένο σημείο, βάσει των καταθέσεων που έδωσαν οι μάρτυρες. Σε περίπτωση που ταυτοποιηθεί η παρουσία τους μέσω του στίγματος των κινητών τους τηλεφώνων τότε αναμένεται να κληθούν ξανά για κατάθεση από τις Λιμενικές Αρχές.

Ο δικηγόρος της οικογένειας Βαλυράκη, Γιώργος Σπύρου μιλώντας στο ΘΕΜΑ, εξέφρασε την αισιοδοξία του ότι πολύ σύντομα θα εντοπιστεί ο χειριστής του αλιευτικού.

Όπως λέει: «Οι έρευνες διεξάγονται με αμείωτη ένταση και αξιοποιούνται όλα τα τεχνολογικά μέσα. Παράλληλα οι Αρχές έχουν συγκεντρώσει φωτογραφικό υλικό από κατοίκους της Ερέτριας που έτυχε να τραβάνε φωτογραφίες εκείνη την ώρα, από το ίδιο σημείο που ελήφθη και το βίντεο. Από τα μέχρι στιγμής στοιχεία προκύπτει ότι στην ευρύτερη περιοχή και την συγκεκριμένη χρονική στιγμή βρίσκονταν τρία με τέσσερα σκάφη. Εκτιμώ ότι είναι θέμα χρόνου να ταυτοποιηθεί το σκάφος που βρέθηκε δίπλα στο σκάφος του Σήφη Βαλυράκη».

(protothema.gr)

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(26-01-21) Η αμερικανική κυβέρνηση απολογήθηκε στο Βαλυράκη
February 9th, 2009 ΕΛΛΑΔΑ 0 comments 199
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Σε «καρφωτή» από ελληνική πηγή οφείλεται η ταλαιπωρία του πρώην υπουργού του ΠΑΣΟΚ
Ουάσιγκτον.- Από Μιχάλη Ιγνατίου
Την Πέμπτη το μεσημέρι, ο Αμερικανός βοηθός υφυπουργός Εξωτερικών, Ματ Μπράϊζα, κτύπησε την πόρτα του δωματίου 859, στο ξενοδοχείο Mayflower στη λεωφόρο Κονέκτικατ της αμερικανικής πρωτεύουσας. Ο ένοικος, όταν άνοιξε την πόρτα ξαφνιάστηκε. Ηταν ο πρώην υπουργός Δημόσιας Τάξης Σήφης Βαλυράκης, ο οποίος –πέντε ημέρες πριν- ένοιωσε την «στοργή» των πρακτόρων του υπουργείου Εσωτερικής Ασφάλειας, που ίδρυσε ο πρώην αντιπρόεδρος Ντικ Τσέϊνι, εγκαθιστώντας στην ουσία ένα είδος αστυνομικού καθεστώτος στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες.

Ο κ. Βαλυράκης, που συνοδευόταν από τη σύζυγό του Μίνα, βρέθηκε στην Ουάσιγκτον, προσκεκλημένος του Κογκρέσου, και συμμετείχε στην Ετήσια Εθνική Προσευχή, της οποίας ηγήθηκε ο πρόεδρος Μπάρακ Ομπάμα.

Ο κ. Μπράϊζα, ζήτησε να συναντηθεί με τον πρώην βουλευτή του ΠΑΣΟΚ, με σκοπό να του δώσει εξηγήσεις για την ανάρμοστη συμπεριφορά των οργάνων της τάξης στο αεροδρόμιο Κένεντι της Νέας Υόρκης, αλλά και για να απολογηθεί, εκ μέρους της ηγεσίας του Στέϊτ Ντιπάρτμεντ, για την «κράτησή» του, η οποία προκλήθηκε όταν η Υπηρεσία Αντιτρομοκρατίας εξέτασε τον κατάλογο των επιβατών της Ολυμπιακής Αεροπορίας στην πτήση του περασμένου Σαββάτου. Ο φάκελος του κ. Βαλυράκη, που είναι πολύ μεγάλος, περιείχε πολλές ανεπιβεβαίωτες πληροφορίες, αλλά και κατηγορίες για «τρομοκρατική δράση», που δεν στηρίζονταν σε στοιχεία και αποδείξεις.

Διπλωμάτης που είχε την ευκαιρία να συζητήσει το θέμα με Αμερικανούς αξιωματούχους, είπε στο «Εθνος», ότι βασικά οι κατηγορίες περιλαμβάνονται σε δημοσιεύματα ελληνικών εφημερίδων, που συνέλλεξε και απέστειλε στην Ουάσιγκτον ο σταθμάρχης της CIA στην Αθήνα. «Δεν υπάρχει κανένα σοβαρό στοιχείο, μόνο δημοσιεύματα εφημερίδων και αναπόδεικτοι ισχυρισμοί Αμερικανών πρακτόρων», δήλωσε ο διπλωμάτης.

Στην αναφορά της CIA, ο πρώην υπουργός παρουσιάζεται ως μέλος της οργάνωσης 17 Νοέμβρη, ενώ καταγράφεται και το ιστορικό του στην διάρκεια της δικτατορίας των συνταγματαρχών. Επίσης γίνεται αναφορά και σε «αντιαμερικανική στάση» μετά την πτώση της χούντας.

Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες του «Ε», όταν οι αμερικανικές αρχές ασφαλείας προχώρησαν στην «κράτηση» του κ. Βαλυράκη, ενημερώθηκε η ελληνική πρεσβεία της Ουάσιγκτον και το γενικό προξενείο της Νέας Υόρκης. Ο πρέσβης Αλέξανδρος Μαλλιάς, επικοινώνησε με την Αμερικανίδα υφυπουργό Εξωτερικών, Μάρσι Ρις, σύζυγο του πρώην πρέσβη στην Αθήνα, Τσάρλι Ρις στο Στέϊτ Ντιπάρτμεντ, κατήγγειλε την «κράτηση» του πρώην υπουργού Δημόσιας Τάξης και ζήτησε να αφεθεί ελεύθερος ο κ. Βαλυράκης, αφού του ζητήσουν συγνώμη. Την υπόθεση ανέλαβε ο κ. Μπράϊζα, ο οποίος πέτυχε με τους συνεργάτες του, που εργάστηκαν μέχρι λίγο πριν τα μεσάνυχτα του περασμένου Σαββάτου, να αφεθεί ελεύθερο το πρώην στέλεχος του ΠΑΣΟΚ. Ηταν μία μαραθώνια προσπάθεια, που στέφθηκε με επιτυχία, βασικά επειδή ο Βαλυράκης είχε την τύχη να έρθει στην Αμερική μετά την ορκωμοσία του Μπάρακ Ομπάμα. Διαφορετικά, δεν υπήρχε περίπτωση να τερματιζόταν ανώδυνα η περιπέτειά του.

Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες του «Ε», ο φάκελος του Βαλυράκη ανανεώθηκε πρόσφατα με πληροφορίες που έστειλε η CIA και εξασφάλισε από την Αθήνα. Διπλωμάτης με τον οποίο συνομίλησε το «Ε», ισχυρίστηκε ότι ο πρώην υπουργός Δημόσιας Τάξης «δόθηκε» στους Αμερικανούς από ελληνική πηγή, χωρίς να διευκρινιστεί αν πρόκειται για άτομο που δρα στο χώρο της πολιτικής και των κομμάτων.

Ο κ. Βαλυράκης, δεν είναι το μοναδικό στέλεχος του ΠΑΣΟΚ, που κατηγορήθηκε αόριστα και χωρίς αποδείξεις από διπλωμάτες και πράκτορες της αμερικανικής πρεσβείας. Την ίδια τύχη είχαν επίσης ο Κώστας Λαλιώτης, ο Κώστας Τσίμας και άλλα προβεβλημένα στελέχη του κινήματος, τα οποία αναφέρονται σε τηλεγραφήματα από την Αθήνα, ως μέλη τρομοκρατικών ομάδων. Για ένα διάστημα, στην διασπορά των ψευδών ειδήσεων συμμετείχαν δεξιοί πολιτικοί, αλλά και δημοσιογράφοι που εργάστηκαν σε αθηναϊκές εφημερίδες. Οι πράκτορες και οι διπλωμάτες της πρεσβείας, είχαν συνδέσει τα ανώτερα στελέχη του ΠΑΚ με την εσωτερική τρομοκρατία και για αρκετό χρονικό διάστημα, έγραφαν στις αναφορές τους «τερατώδεις ισχυρισμούς». Η απόπειρα δολοφονίας του εφοπλιστή Βαρδή Βαρδινογιάννη, χρεώθηκε σε μέλος του ΠΑΣΟΚ που είχε άμεση σχέση με τον Ανδρέα Παπανδρέου, για τον οποίο οι Αμερικανοί πίστευαν ότι δήθεν χρησιμοποιούσε τη 17Ν, κάθε φορά που είχε σοβαρά εσωτερικά πολιτικά προβλήματα.

Σε έγγραφα της αμερικανικής πρεσβείας της Αθήνας, που δεν έχουν ακόμη αποχαρακτηριστεί, με συνέπεια να απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευσή τους, περιέχονται περιγραφές της δήθεν τρομοκρατικής δράσης του κ. Λαλιώτη, του κ. Βαλυράκη και του Κώστα Τσίμα.

Πάντως, στις 24 Ιουλίου 2002, ο τότε πρέσβης των Ην. Πολιτειών στην Αθήνα, Τόμας Μίλλερ, αναγκάστηκε να δηλώσει επίσημα ότι ο ίδιος και η χώρα του δεν έχουν καμία απόδειξη που να επιβεβαιώνει ότι υπάρχει οποιαδήποτε σχέση του ΠΑΚ ή του ΠΑΣΟΚ με την 17 Νοέμβρη. Επίσης είχε καλέσει όλους να μην δίδουν σημασία σε δηλώσεις ατόμων που δεν κατέχουν επίσημη θέση στην αμερικανική κυβέρνηση.

Στις 9 Ιουνίου 2000, η εφημερίδα New York Times είχε υποστηρίζει ότι ιδιωτικά, Αμερικανοί αξιωματούχοι ισχυρίζονταν ότι η ελληνική κυβέρνηση δεν εξάρθρωσε τη 17 Ν, επειδή δήθεν πίστευε ότι η έρευνα τηα αποκάλυπτε ότι μερικά μέλη του ΠΑΣΟΚ είχαν σχέσεις στο παρελθόν με την συγκεκριμένη οργάνωση. Την ίδια ημέρα, ο πρώην αρχηγός της CIA Τζέϊμς Γούλσι, είχε δηλώσει στην εφημερίδα Ποντίκι, ότι «υπάρχουν άτομα μέσα στην ελληνική κυβέρνηση που γνωρίζουν κάποια μέλη της 17Ν». Ι ισχυρισμός του αποδείχθηκε κάλπικος.

(greeknewsonline.com)

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Υπόθεση Βαλυράκη: Επικήρυξη των ενόχων και έρευνες με «ψηφιακή αράχνη»
14 Φεβρουαρίου, 2021

Σε νέα φάση περνάει η υπόθεση «Σήφης Βαλυράκης» μετά τις ραγδαίες εξελίξεις που σημειώθηκαν το τελευταίο 48ωρο.

Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες, εξεδόθη βούλευμα που κάνει λόγο για κακουργηματικές πράξεις κάποιων, που οδήγησαν στον θάνατο τον πρώην υπουργό και πλέον η αινιγματική ιστορία της Ερέτριας αντιμετωπίζεται ως δολοφονία. Σε αυτό το δεύτερο επίπεδο, η οικογένεια του Σήφη Βαλυράκη είναι αποφασισμένη να επικηρύξει τα πρόσωπα που έστειλαν τον 78χρονο στο θάνατο, σε μια προσπάθεια να βοηθήσει τις έρευνες και να σπάσει η ομερτά των ψαράδων της περιοχής.

Στο παιχνίδι των ερευνών μπήκε, ως τεχνικός σύμβουλος της οικογένειας Βαλυράκη, ο πρώην στρατηγός της ΕΛ.ΑΣ Μανώλης Σφακιανάκης, μάστερ στα ηλεκτρονικά, προκειμένου να συνδράμει στο κομμάτι των ψηφιακών πειστηρίων. Μέσω ενός προγράμματος – αράχνη θα σαρωθούν, θα καταγραφούν και θα αναλυθούν σήματα από κεραίες, δορυφόρους, GPS ακόμη και τη Google και τις μοτορόλες των ψαράδων προκειμένου να ξεδιπλωθεί όλο το εφιαλτικό σκηνικό εκείνο το παγωμένο μεσημέρι της 24ης Ιανουαρίου.

Τα νέα στοιχεία δείχνουν στους ερευνητές, ότι στην ευρύτερη περιοχή κινείται μια ομάδα ψαράδων, οι επονομαζόμενοι και «καουμπόηδες των θαλασσών» οι οποίοι σαρώνουν τα παράλια υποδυόμενοι τους προστάτες του νόμου. Ήδη έχει διαταχθεί άρση του τηλεφωνικού απορρήτου, σε βάρος έξι επαγγελματικών σκαφών που απέπλευσαν από το λιμάνι της Ερέτριας μεταξύ 11 το πρωί και 2 το μεσημέρι εκείνης της Κυριακής ενώ μέχρι στιγμής έχουν συγκεντρωθεί περισσότερες από 50 καταθέσεις στη δικογραφία που έχει σχηματιστεί από το Λιμενικό για την υπόθεση.

Η επικήρυξη

Μετά την κατάθεση της μηνυτήριας αναφοράς στην Εισαγγελία Χαλκίδος από την οικογένεια του 78χρονου πολιτικού, την πρόσληψη ως τεχνικού συμβούλου του απόστρατου στρατηγού Μανώλη Σφακιανάκη, μια νέα κίνηση δείχνει ότι η σύζυγος του Σήφη Βαλυράκη Μίνα και τα παιδιά του Αλέξανδρος και Γιάννης δείχνουν αποφασισμένοι να κυνηγήσουν την υπόθεση και να μην αφήσουν τίποτα στην τύχη. Πληροφορίες αναφέρουν ότι αποφάσισαν να επικηρύξουν τους δράστες. Ουσιαστικά μιλάμε για μια συμβολική κίνηση που έχει ως στόχο να βοηθήσει προκειμένου να σπάσει η ομερτά και να ανοίξουν τα στόματα, καθώς οι εκτιμήσεις τους λένε ότι πίσω από το θάνατο του ανθρώπου τους δεν κρύβεται δυστύχημα αλλά ανθρωποκτονία. Η οικογένεια, είναι αποφασισμένη να διαθέσει ένα σεβαστό ποσό σε όποιον δώσει πληροφορίες που θα οδηγήσουν τις έρευνες στην αποκάλυψη της αλήθειας. Μάλιστα τις επόμενες ημέρες η κυρία Βαλυράκη και οι γιοί του θανόντος, θα ανακοινώσουν την απόφαση τους όπως φυσικά και το ύψος του ποσού που θα εισπράξει όποιος «ξεκλειδώσει» την υπόθεση.

Είναι δεδομένο, ότι στη δικογραφία που σχηματίζεται υπάρχουν τουλάχιστον δύο βίντεο, που δείχνουν ότι λίγη ώρα μετά την αναχώρηση της κόκκινης βάρκας του Σήφη Βαλυράκη από το λιμάνι της Ερέτριας, απέπλευσαν έξι αλιευτικά τα οποία κινήθηκαν προς το σημείο που βρισκόταν το μικρό σκάφος του 78χρονου πολιτικού. Κάποιοι από τους επαγγελματίες ψαράδες, τα σκάφη των οποίων κατεγράφησαν από ένα drone που πετούσε στην περιοχή και την κάμερα ενός καταστήματος της Ερέτριας και φαίνονται να απομακρύνονται από το λιμανάκι, δικαιολόγησαν την παρουσία τους στο σημείο λέγοντας ότι βγήκαν απλά για να φορτίσουν τις μπαταρίες των σκαφών τους χωρίς ωστόσο να θυμούνται την ακριβή ώρα που το έκαναν. Για το λόγο αυτό, το Λιμενικό, έχει αφαιρέσει τις συσκευές GPS από όσα σκάφη είχαν navigator και τα συστήματα αυτά, έχουν μπει στο μικροσκόπιο των εργαστηρίων για ανάλυση. Παράλληλα, έχουν καταγραφεί οι πινακίδες συγκεκριμένων οχημάτων τα οποία κινήθηκαν προς και από το λιμάνι εκείνη τη χρονική περίοδο και ενδεχομένως κάποιοι από τους επιβαίνοντες να έχουν σχέση με τον θάνατο του πρώην υπουργού.

Το βούλευμα, η «αράχνη» και η ομερτά

Παράλληλα με τις σαρωτικές έρευνες του Λιμενικού μετά τη μήνυση κατά αγνώστων που κατέθεσε η οικογένεια, στο παιχνίδι των ερευνών μπαίνει και ο «μάγος των ηλεκτρονικών» Μανώλης Σφακιανάκης. Στόχος είναι να «σαρωθούν» όλα τα ψηφιακά ίχνη που υπήρχαν στον ηλεκτρονικό ορίζοντα εκείνες τις μοιραίες ώρες της 24ης Ιανουαρίου. Μέσω ενός ειδικού προγράμματος που ονομάζεται αράχνη, θα σαρωθούν και θα καταγραφούν όλα τα στίγματα. Ο,τι δηλαδή έχουν καταγράψει οι δορυφόροι, οι κεραίες κινητής τηλεφωνίας, τα GPS, η Google ακόμη και οι μοτορόλες των ψαράδων. Στη συνέχεια όλη αυτή η συστοιχία πραγμάτων, θα μπει στο μικροσκόπιο και θα αναλυθεί μέσω προγραμμάτων που διαθέτουν ειδικά φίλτρα. Έτσι, θα σχηματιστεί και στη συνέχεια θα ξεδιπλωθεί με αποδεικτικά στοιχεία ο χάρτης των κινήσεων και χρονικά γύρω από την κόκκινη βάρκα του Σήφη Βαλυράκη. Η έκθεση που θα συνταχθεί με βάση το συγκεκριμένο υλικό θα αποδεικνύει τι ακριβώς συνέβη εκείνο το μοιραίο μεσημέρι του περασμένου Ιανουαρίου.

Οι ειδικοί ερευνητές ελπίζουν ότι με το «πόρισμα Σφακιανάκη» θα σπάσει η ομερτά και θα ανοίξουν τα στόματα για να βρεθεί η αλήθεια. Οι πληροφορίες αναφέρουν πως σε πολλές περιοχές της χώρας, ειδικά σε μικρές παραθαλάσσιες κοινότητες, κυρίως επαγγελματίες ψαράδες αναλαμβάνουν ρόλο ανάλογο με αυτό των σερίφηδων σε επαρχίες της Αμερικής. Οι επονομαζόμενοι και «καουμπόηδες των θαλασσών», πατάνε στη συντεχνιακή ομερτά για να λύνουν και να δένουν. Ακόμη και σε περιπτώσεις όπου δεν υπάρχουν σκάφη του Λιμενικού λόγω των λιγοστών κατοίκων αναλαμβάνουν να κάνουν θαλάσσιες περιπολίες, να κάνουν συστάσεις και να απειλούν ακόμη και με πρόστιμα.

Στην περίπτωση του αιφνίδιου θανάτου του Σήφη Βαλυράκη, οι έρευνες των αρμοδίων υπηρεσιών εκτοξεύονται μετά το βούλευμα που εκδόθηκε στις αρχές της περασμένης εβδομάδας και κάνει λόγο για κακούργημα. Η μετατροπή των κατηγοριών από πλημμεληματικές σε κακουργηματικές λύνει τα χέρια των αρχών που πλέον μπορούν να διεξάγουν έρευνες για ανθρωποκτονία.

Έτσι, η μηνυτήρια αναφορά που κατέθεσε η οικογένεια στην Εισαγγελία Χαλκίδας ζητώντας άρση του τηλεφωνικού απορρήτου προκειμένου η έρευνα των επικοινωνιών σε εισερχόμενες και εξερχόμενες κλήσεις να δείξει συγκεκριμένα πρόσωπα έγινε δεκτή ανοίγοντας τον δρόμο των ερευνών. Οι δικαστικές αρχές της Χαλκίδας ενέκριναν το αίτημα και έτσι οι πληροφορίες λένε ότι σε συνάρτηση με το βούλευμα που εκδόθηκε, μπαίνουν στο μικροσκόπιο συνομιλίες για το χρονικό διάστημα από τις 11 έως τις 2 της Κυριακής 24 Ιανουαρίου, όπου φαίνεται εντός του κόλπου της Ερέτριας να κινούνται συγκεκριμένα αλιευτικά σκάφη.

Ο στρατηγός της ΕΛ.ΑΣ εν αποστρατεία, ο αξιωματικός που εμπνεύστηκε και ίδρυσε το τμήμα Δίωξης Ηλεκτρονικού Εγκλήματος της Ασφάλειας Αττικής και πρόεδρος του CSII (Cyber Security International Institute) κ. Μανώλης Σφακιανάκης ο οποίος ανέλαβε καθήκοντα τεχνικού συμβούλου της οικογένειας Βαλυράκη, μιλώντας στο ΘΕΜΑ τονίζει πως «Ως τεχνικός σύμβουλος της οικογένειας, έχω να δηλώσω ότι σήμερα το έγκλημα είναι συνυφασμένο με την τεχνολογία, δεν υπάρχει πλέον έγκλημα χωρίς χρήση της τεχνολογίας για τη διερεύνηση του, με αποτέλεσμα η συγκεκριμένη υπόθεση να έχει πάρα πολλές πτυχές πάνω σε θέματα ηλεκτρονικά. Με απλά λόγια, όλο το επίδικο σημείο θα σαρωθεί, είτε από δορυφόρους, είτε από κεραίες κινητής, είτε από VHF. Όλα λοιπόν αυτά θα δώσουν στίγματα στην έρευνα που γίνεται και παράλληλα θα δώσουν αυτούς οι οποίοι είναι εμπλεκόμενοι στο κομμάτι αυτό. Έτσι λοιπόν μόνο με στοιχεία αδιάσειστα μπορεί μια υπόθεση να προχωρήσει στη Δικαιοσύνη και να απονεμηθεί δικαιοσύνη. Η οικογένεια, η κυρία Μίνα Βαλυράκη, ο Αλέξανδρος και ο Γιάννης τα παιδιά του Σήφη Βαλυράκη, τα οποία έχουν υποστεί να δυνατό χτύπημα, δεν έπεσαν κάτω, είναι όρθιοι και έτοιμοι να παλέψουν για να φθάσουν μέχρι τους ενόχους».

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Greek socialist ex-minister Valyrakis, 77, found dead at sea

By DEMETRIS NELLAS
Associated Press

Updated 1/24/2021 3:24 PM

ATHENS, Greece -- Sifis Valyrakis, a former minister and resistance fighter against Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship who twice made daring escapes, was found dead at sea Sunday night. He was 77.

Valyrakis had sailed with his inflatable craft at noon (1000 GMT) off the coast of the island of Evia in central Greece, where his family has a vacation home. His wife alerted authorities to his absence. His craft was found in the afternoon without him and his body was found just after 8:30 p.m. local (1830 GMT), the coast guard said.

Conditions at sea were 'œgood,' a coast guard spokeswoman told The Associated Press, adding that no cause of death can be given yet.

Valyrakis was minister of public order, in charge of the security and intelligence services, from March 1995 to January 1996. Earlier, in the 1980s and 1990s, he was deputy public order minister, sports minister and deputy transport and communications minister in the Socialist governments of Andreas Papandreou, from 1981-89 and 1993-96.

A noted Papandreou loyalist, he was replaced as minister when the long-time socialist leader stood down for health reasons in 1996 and never held another portfolio, although he remained a member of parliament for his Chania constituency, on the island of Crete, where he had first been elected in 1977, until 2004, as well as from 2009 to 2012.

Valyrakis was himself the son of a former army officer and later member of parliament with the Center Union party, in the 1960s. Born in Chania in 1943, he studied electronics and industrial automation in Germany and Sweden.

During the dictatorship, he joined Papandreou's Panhellenic Liberation Movement and was trained at a PLO camp in Lebanon. He was responsible for several bombing attacks against the dictatorship, although these caused no casualties.

Arrested in 1971 and tortured by military police, he escaped by cutting the bars in his cell and causing a short-circuit in the jail's electrical grid. He hopped on the roof of a train headed to Germany, but was found at the border and jailed on the island of Corfu.

Valyrakis escaped the same year from the Corfu jail, and swam several kilometers to Albania, only to be arrested as a spy and sentenced to three years of hard labor. At that time, communist Albania still had relations with China, and Papandreou obtained his release through the intermediary of his friend, Cambodia's then-Sovereign Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who alerted the Chinese to Valyrakis' plight.

Because of his training in guerrilla tactics at a PLO camp, some U.S. officials suspected him of being among the founders of extremist organization November 17, which operated from 1975-2002 and counted U.S. military personnel and CIA station chief Richard Welch among its victims. He always strongly denied the allegations. In January 2009, Valyrakis was arrested and held for several hours at New York City's JFK airport because his visa had been revoked while he was en route.

Valyrakis is survived by his wife Mina, a well-known painter, and two children. No information about other survivors was immediately available.

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Τσέχικα εστιατόρια και παμπ ανοίγουν κατά παράβαση των κανόνων Covid-19, ιδιοκτήτες να ξεκινήσουν «πολιτικό κίνημα» για να παρακάμψουν τους περιορισμούς
24 Ιαν, 2021 10:50

Οι άνθρωποι τρώνε και πίνουν στην παμπ Maly Janek στο χωριό Jince της Τσεχίας στις 23 Ιανουαρίου 2021.

Εκατοντάδες εστιατόρια και παμπ έχουν ανοίξει ξανά σε ολόκληρη την Τσεχική Δημοκρατία, αψηφώντας τους διαρκούς περιορισμούς του κοροναϊού. Οι χώροι έκλεισαν για μήνες και οι ιδιοκτήτες λένε ότι οι περιορισμοί δεν κατάφεραν να βελτιώσουν την κατάσταση.
Η διαμαρτυρία ξεκίνησε το Σάββατο, με εκατοντάδες εστιατόρια και παμπ να ανοίγουν εκ νέου την Κυριακή καθώς μπήκαν στην κίνηση που ξεκίνησε από το κίνημα Chcipl PES (Dog is dead). Η ακτιβιστική ομάδα ιδρύθηκε από αρκετούς ιδιοκτήτες χώρων ψυχαγωγίας και το όνομα αναφέρεται στο τσεχικό σύστημα, PES («σκύλος» στα Τσεχικά), το οποίο ρυθμίζει τους περιορισμούς.
«Είμαστε απογοητευμένοι με την κυβέρνηση για πολύ καιρό και θέλουμε να δείξουμε ότι είχε επιλέξει λάθος τρόπο», συνιδρυτής του Chcipl PES, Jiri Janecek, διευθυντής στο ζυθοποιείο και εστιατόριο Maly Janek που βρίσκεται στην πόλη Jince, είπε στο AFP.
Είχαμε αρκετά και πιστεύουμε ότι οι υπουργοί πρέπει να εξετάσουν το ενδεχόμενο να παραιτηθούν από τις θέσεις τους.
Οι χώροι ψυχαγωγίας, όπως εστιατόρια και παμπ, καθώς και κινηματογράφοι, θέατρα, ζωολογικοί κήποι και άλλες «μη απαραίτητες» επιχειρήσεις, παρέμειναν κλειστοί σε ολόκληρη τη χώρα από τον Οκτώβριο του περασμένου έτους σε μια προσπάθεια να περιοριστεί η εξάπλωση του Covid-19. Οι χώροι αφέθηκαν να ανοίξουν για λίγο - και με περιορισμένη χωρητικότητα - κατά τη διάρκεια των Χριστουγέννων.

Καθώς οι αξιωματούχοι μιλούν για αυστηρότερο κλείδωμα, τα ιταλικά εστιατόρια ανοίγουν τις πόρτες τους σε διαμαρτυρία

Απαγορεύτηκε η είσοδος σε εσωτερικούς χώρους και επιτρέπεται η λειτουργία μπαρ και εστιατορίων μέσω ενός ειδικού παραθύρου διανομής. Τα ιδρύματα που αψηφούν την απαγόρευση αντιμετωπίζουν πρόστιμα έως και 20.000 κορώνες (932 $) για παραβίαση των κανόνων.
«Συμμετείχα στη διαμαρτυρία γιατί πιστεύω ότι η κυβερνητική εντολή και αυτό που μας έκανε για τους τελευταίους πέντε μήνες είναι λάθος. Μπορεί να φανεί ότι ο αριθμός των ασθενειών αυξάνεται, ενώ τα εστιατόρια έχουν κλείσει λίγο πολύ από τον Οκτώβριο », δήλωσε ο Martin Macek, ιδιοκτήτης δύο εστιατορίων στο ανατολικό τμήμα της χώρας, όπως ανέφεραν τοπικά ΜΜΕ.
Το κοροναϊό της Τσεχικής Δημοκρατίας έχει ξεπεράσει τα 900.000, με την ημερήσια αύξηση των καταγεγραμμένων υποθέσεων να κυμαίνεται περίπου 8.000 περιπτώσεις. Περισσότεροι από 15.000 άνθρωποι υπέκυψαν από τη νόσο στη χώρα. Ενώ τα αριθμητικά στοιχεία είναι χαμηλότερα από αυτά των χωρών που έχουν πληγεί περισσότερο, ο κοροναϊκός έχει ήδη επηρεάσει σχεδόν το ένα δέκατο του πληθυσμού των 10,6 εκατομμυρίων.

Το κίνημα Chcipl PES, που ιδρύθηκε το περασμένο φθινόπωρο, έχει ήδη προβεί σε αρκετές διαμαρτυρίες για να καταδικάσει τους περιορισμούς του κοροναϊού, οι οποίοι πιστεύουν ότι δεν πέτυχαν τίποτε άλλο παρά να βλάψουν την επιχείρηση εστιατορίων. Νωρίτερα αυτό το μήνα, η ομάδα δημιούργησε μια αλυσίδα ποτηριών μπύρας μήκους χιλιομέτρου στο κέντρο της Πράγας.
Νωρίτερα αυτήν την εβδομάδα, οι διοργανωτές του κινήματος βρήκαν την ιδέα να σχηματίσουν μια πολιτική ομάδα, με κάθε μπαρ και εστιατόριο να γίνει ένα πολιτικό κελί. Αυτό θα τους επέτρεπε να μεταμφιέσουν τις εκδρομές ως πολιτικές συγκεντρώσεις, οι οποίες εξαιρούνται από τους περιορισμούς.
"Το πλεονέκτημα του πολιτικού κινήματος ... είναι ότι μπορούμε να συναντηθούμε όπως οι πολιτικοί μας μπορούν να συναντηθούν στην καντίνα του κοινοβουλίου", δήλωσε ο συνιδρυτής της ομάδας, David Biksadsky.

(rt.com)

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Η κατάσταση είναι εκτός ελέγχου στην Ολλανδία Χάος εξέγερση για να πέσει η υγειονομική χούντα..Μαζικές διαδηλώσεις αιματηρά επεισόδια σε Αϊντχόβεν, Άμστερνταμ και Χάγη κατά των περιοριστικών μέτρων με πρόσχημα το covid19…Το ποτήρι ξεχείλισε με τη νέα επιβολή στρατιωτικού νόμου απαγόρευσης κυκλοφορίας από 21 h ως 4h30 που τέθηκε σε ισχύ από Σάββατο και ως τις 9 Φεβρουαρίου τουλάχιστον.Ο πρωθυπουργός Mark Rutte επικαλέστηκε την βρετανική μετάλλαξη..
Συγκρούσεις με την αστυνομία και λεηλασίες ξέσπασαν την Κυριακή 24 Ιανουαρίου σε αρκετές ολλανδικές πόλεις στο περιθώριο διαδηλώσεων κατά της απαγόρευσης κυκλοφορίας, σύμφωνα με ολλανδικά μέσα ενημέρωσης και τοπικές αρχές.Στο Αϊντχόβεν, στο νότο της χώρας, η αστυνομία χρησιμοποίησε δακρυγόνα για να διαλύσει το πλήθος σύμφωνα με την περιφερειακή τηλεόραση Omroep Brabant.Συνελλήφθηκαν 55 διαδηλωτές στο Αϊντχόβεν…Στο Αϊντχόβεν η αστυνομία έβγαλε άλογα και στο Άμστερνταμ σκυλιά….

Επίθεση λιθοβολισμός και πλιάτσικο στον κεντρικό σταθμό του Αϊντχόβεν, φωτιά στα περιπολικά άγριες συγκρούσεις, μιας γυναίκας πολτοποιήθηκε το κεφάλι όταν αντλία νερού έριξε με δύναμη πάνω της και την πέταξε σε τοίχωμα όπου είχε συντριπτική πρόσκρουση….Τραυματίες συλλήψεις ως τη νύχτα φωτιές στους δρόμους,το ανθρώπινο τσουνάμι τα σκεπάζει όλα είναι ορμητικό τα καταστρέφει όλα, όλη η εξουσία πηγάζει από το λαό και όταν φράσσεται, φουσκώνει το ανθρώπινο ποτάμι και τα παρασύρει όλα .. Εξέγερση στην παγκόσμια φυλακή …..

Το βράδυ του Σαββάτου στο χωριό Ουρκ, στη βόρεια Ολλανδία, πυρπολήθηκε ένα κέντρο ιχνηλάτισης Covid-19

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ΕΚΤΑΚΤΟ: Το Ισραήλ «κλείδωσε» τον εναέριο χώρο του λόγω κορωνοϊού παρά τους εμβολιασμούς – Τι συμβαίνει;
January 25, 2021

Περίεργες καταστάσεις στο Ισραήλ παρά τις θριαμβολογίες για τον εμβολιασμό περίπου 2,8, εκατ. κατοίκων με το εμβόλιο τεχνολογίας mRNA των Pfizer/BioNTech που επεμβαίνει στα ριβοσώματα των κυτάρων: Η χώρα απαγόρευσε όλες τις εισερχόμενες και εξερχόμενες πτήσεις, από τα μεσάνυχτα της Δευτέρας προς την Τρίτη και μέχρι τα τέλη Ιανουαρίου, σε μια προσπάθεια να αναχαιτίσει την εξάπλωση των νέων παραλλαγών του SARS-CoV-2!

Το υπουργικό συμβούλιο ενέκρινε τη διακοπή των πτήσεων και με βάση την πρόταση αυτή, τα αεροσκάφη ξένων εταιρειών δεν θα επιτρέπεται να προσγειώνονται σε ισραηλινά αεροδρόμια μέχρι και τις 31 Ιανουαρίου, ημερομηνία κατά την οποία λήγει το λοκντάουν που έχει επιβληθεί στη χώρα.

Επιπροσθέτως, η έξοδος από τη χώρα θα επιτρέπεται μόνο για ειδικές περιπτώσεις.

Ο πρωθυπουργός Μπενιαμίν Νετανιάχου είπε κατά τη διάρκεια της συνεδρίασης: «Είμαστε μπροστά από όλον τον κόσμο. Καμία χώρα δεν έχει κάνει αυτό που πρόκειται να κάνουμε. Σφραγίζουμε ερμητικά τη χώρα».

Το ερώτημα είναι αφού «είναι μπροστά από όλον τον κόσμο» γιατί τέθηκε σε απομόνωση η χώρα;

Από τους περιορισμούς θα εξαιρεθούν τα ξένα αεροσκάφη μεταφοράς φορτίων, τα πυροσβεστικά και οι πτήσεις που αφορούν επείγουσες ιατρικές καταστάσεις. Τα μέτρα που θα ισχύσουν για τις ισραηλινές αεροπορικές εταιρείες δεν ανακοινώθηκαν.

Η πρόταση αυτή θα πρέπει τώρα να εγκριθεί και από τις Επιτροπές Οικονομικών Υποθέσεων και Συντάγματος, Νόμου και Δικαιοσύνης της Κνεσέτ.

Το Ισραήλ στις 19 Ιανουαρίου, μετά την εκκίνηση των εμβολιασμών έχει καταφέρει να εμβολιάσει 2.550.000 πολίτες που αντιστοιχούν στο 29,43%, ενώ σήμερα έχει προσεγγιστεί το 33% του πληθυσμού.

Να σημειωθεί πως ο πληθυσμός του Ισραήλ είναι 8.660.000 κάτοικοι.

Παρά τον τεράστιο αριθμό των εμβολίων καθημερινά καταγράφονται περί τα 9.000 κρούσματα ωστόσο οι θάνατοι κυμαίνονται σε σχετικά χαμηλούς αριθμούς σε σχέση με τα κρούσματα (39 το τελευταίο 24ωρο).

Μία εξήγηση που δίνουν οι λοιμωξιολόγοι είναι το γεγονός πως στη χώρα έχουν γίνονται πολλά τεστ που ανιχνεύουν και τους ασυμπωματικούς. Πάντως, οι αρμόδιες υγειονομικές Αρχές του Ισραήλ ευελπιστούν πως μέχρι το τέλος Ιανουαρίου θα έχουν εμβολιάσει το 50% του πληθυσμού και από τα μέσα Φεβρουαρίου θα είναι πλέον ορατά τα αποτελέσματα και στην καταγραφή των κρουσμάτων.

Το ερώτημα είναι γιατί τέθηκε σε κατάσταση εκτάκτου ανάγκης η χώρα αφού έχει φτάσει σε τέτοια επίπεδα ο εμβολιασμός του πληθυσμού; Υπάρχει κάτι που δεν το γνωρίζουμε ή που δεν ανακοινώνουν;

Τέλη Ιανουαρίου θα έχει εμβολιαστεί σχεδόν το 50% του πληθυσμού και το υπόλοιπο ποσοστό οι ηλικίες κάτω των 18 ετών που δεν κινδυνεύουν είναι περίπου 40%. Άρα γιατί η χώρα τέθηκε σε εμπάγκο;

Την ίδια στιγμή η ίδια κατάσταση σχετικά με την αδυναμία του συγκεκριμένου εμβολίου να αναχαιτίσει άμεσα την πανδημία, επικρατεί τόσο στην Βρετανία όσο και στα Εμιράτα. Στην Βρετανία μέχρι και τις 18 Ιανουαρίου είχαν εμβολιαστεί 4.510.000 πολίτες και το ποσοστό αυτό αντιστοιχεί στο 6,65% του πληθυσμού που είναι μία εξαιρετικά καλή επίδοση, αλλά οι νεκροί «καλπάζουν».

Στα Ηνωμένα Αραβικά Εμιράτα, έχει εμβολιαστεί το 19.9% του πληθυσμού και μέσα στην ημέρα (19/1) θα ξεπεράσει το 20%.

Ο πληθυσμός της χώρας είναι 9.890.000 κάτοικοι και έχουν εμβολιαστεί 1.970.000 πολίτες. Όπως και στο Ισραήλ και την Βρετανία έτσι και Ηνωμένα Αραβικά Εμιράτα το υψηλό ποσοστό εμβολιασμού δεν έχει αποτυπωθεί ακόμα στα στατιστικά της πανδημίας καθώς τα νούμερα συνεχίζουν να ανεβαίνουν και να σπάνε το ένα ρεκόρ μετά το άλλο.

Τις τελευταίες ημέρες στα Ηνωμένα Αραβικά Εμιράτα καταγράφηκαν 3.471 κρούσματα που είναι νέο αρνητικό ρεκόρ αναγκάζοντας τις κυβερνήσεις όλων των επτά Εμιράτων σε αυστηρά περιοριστικά μέτρα. Μία βάσιμη εκδοχή για την έκρηξη των κρουσμάτων μετά τις 5 Ιανουαρίου είναι το άνοιγμα της τουριστικής περιόδου για την περίοδο των Χριστουγέννων όπου στις περισσότερες χώρες των Ηνωμένων Αραβικών Εμιράτων υπήρξε υψηλός αριθμός δυτικών τουριστών.

Εντυπωσιακό μπάσιμο στον χάρτη των εμβολιασμών κάνει η Τουρκία. Αν και καθυστέρησε ένα μήνα να ξεκινήσει τους εμβολιασμούς, σε σχέση με τις 10 Δεκεμβρίου που υπολόγιζαν, σήμερα έφτασαν το 1,2 εκατ. εμβολιασμούς που αντιστοιχούν το 1,3% του πληθυσμού.

(newsalamina.net)
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Τρίτη, 26 Ιανουαρίου 2021

Ένα μεγάλο σκάνδαλο ξεσπάει στην Γερμανία, αλλά και σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο, μετά την δημοσίευση συμπερασμάτων 23 διεθνών ιολόγων.

Dionyssis Antzoulatos,Ioanna Ypsilanti:

Ένα μεγάλο σκάνδαλο ξεσπάει στην Γερμανία, αλλά και σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο, μετά την δημοσίευση συμπερασμάτων 23 διεθνών ιολόγων, μικροβιολόγων και σχετικών επιστημόνων, που αποδεικνύουν ότι όλα τα τεστ PCR, σε πραγματικό χρόνο (RT-PCR) βγαίνουν "ΨΕΥΔΩΣ ΘΕΤΙΚΑ"!(Εκθεση Μπόργκερ).

Σ΄αυτά τα τεστ βασίστηκε όλη η πολιτική "αντιμετώπισης της πανδημίας". Οι έρευνες, οι δρακόντιες επιστημονικές συμβουλές, για οικονομικά λοκντάουν, για πρόστιμα, ξύλο, συλλήψεις, κοινωνική αποστασιοποίηση.
Το σκάνδαλο περιλαμβάνει τον ας τον πούμε "Τσιόδρα της Γερμανίας", επικεφαλής της συμβουλευτικής ομάδας της Μέρκελ, για τον ιό, δόκτωρα Κρίστιαν Ντρόστεν.
Από τις 23 Ιανουαρίου του 2020, όταν οι θάνατοι, στην Κίνα, έφταναν μόλις τους 6 νεκρούς, ο Ντρόστεν με αρκετούς συναδέλφους του, στο Ινστιντούτο Ιολογίας του Νοσοκομείου "Σαριτέ", καθώς και με τον επικεφαλής μιας μικρής εταιρίας βιοτεχνολογίας στο Βερολίνο , την "TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH" δημοσίευσε μία μελέτη, στο επιστημονικό περιοδικό "Eurosurveillance" , του Κέντρου Πρόληψης και Ελέγχου Νόσων της ΕΕ. Το άρθρο είχε τίτλο "Detection of 2019
novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR" (Eurosurveillance 25 (8) 2020).
Ο Ντρόστεν και η ομάδα του ισχυρίζονταν ότι ανέπτυξαν την πρώτη αποτελεσματική δοκιμή, για την ανίχνευση του ιού.
Τα νέα χαιρετίστηκαν με άμεση έγκριση του τεστ, από τον διεφθαρμένο Γενικό Διευθυντή του Παγκόσμιου Οργανισμού Υγείας, του ΜΟΝΟΥ μη γιατρού επικεφαλής, Τέντρο Ανχάνομ.
Το ίδιο έκανε και η Μέρκελ.
Έκτοτε, το τεστ, που υποστηρίζεται από τον Ντρόστεν για τον ιό, έχει εξαπλωθεί μέσω του ΠΟΥ σε όλο τον κόσμο, ως το πιο χρησιμοποιούμενο πρωτόκολλο δοκιμών για να προσδιορίσει εάν ένα άτομο μπορεί να έχει COVID-19.
Η πρώτη κίνηση που έκαναν οι 23 επιστήμονες, στις 27 Νοεμβρίου, μετά από μελέτες, ήταν να ζητήσουν από το επιστημονικό περιοδικό, την απόσυρση του "πονήματος" Ντρόστεν, κατηγορώντας αυτόν και την ομάδα του, για "θανατηφόρα" επιστημονική ανικανότητα και ελαττώματα στην προώθηση των τεστ.
"Το έγγραφο Corman-Drosten υποβλήθηκε στην Eurosurveillance στις 21 Ιανουαρίου 2020 και έγινε δεκτό για δημοσίευση στις 22 Ιανουαρίου 2020. Στις 23 Ιανουαρίου 2020 το έγγραφο ήταν online." τονίζουν οι επιστήμονες.
Και μάλιστα, το πρωτόκολλο δοκιμής του Ντρόστεν είχε αποσταλεί και υιοθετηθεί, από τον ΠΟΥ, ως παγκόσμιο τεστ, που επιβεβαιώνει την ύπαρξη του ιού, στις 17 Ιανουαρίου, ΠΡΙΝ ΚΑΝ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΤΕΙ, στο επιστημονικό περιοδικό!
Τόσο ο Ντρόστεν, όσο και ο συν-συγγραφέας της "έρευνας" δεν αποκάλυψαν, ούτε την σύγκρουση συμφερόντων, που υπήρχε. Ηταν και οι δύο μέλη της συντακτικής ομάδας του επιστημονικού περιοδικού.
Ενα ακόμη μέλος της ομάδας του Ντρόστεν, που έδωσε μια κάλυψη φαινομενικής αξιοπιστίας του τεστ, ήταν ο Ολφερτ Λάντ, επικεφαλής της εταιρίας "Tib-Molbiol", στο Βερολίνο, που ανέλαβε την παραγωγή των τεστ και που ούτε κι αυτός αποκάλυψε τ
ην δεύτερη ιδιότητα του.
Ο ίδιος ο Ντρόστεν και οι επικεφαλής, στο Πανεπιστήμιο Goethe της Φρανκφούρτης, όπου ισχυρίζεται ότι έλαβε το διδακτορικό του το 2003, κατηγορούνται για απάτη πτυχίου.
Ο Δρ Markus Kühbacher, ένας ειδικός που διερευνά την επιστημονική απάτη όπως και τις λογοτεχνικές διατριβές, κατηγορεί το Πανεπιστήμιο, για συγκάλυψη μιας διατριβής που ουδέποτε είχε κατατεθεί και έπρεπε να υπάρχει σε τρία αντίτυπα. Τα δύο αντίγραφα "εξαφανίστηκαν" και το τρίτο και μοναδικό έχει υποστεί ζημιά, από το νερό! Ο Ντρόστεν θ΄αντιμετωπίσει κατηγορία, για κατοχή ψευδούς διδακτορικού τίτλου.
Με απλά λόγια, όλο το οικοδόμημα του Ιδρύματος Γκέιτζ, της κυβέρνησης Μέρκελ, του ΠΟΥ και του Παγκόσμιου Οργανισμού Φαρμάκων(WEF), όπως και τα μη δοκιμασμένα εμβόλια, στηρίχθηκαν στ΄αποτελέσματα ενός τεστ PCR, που δεν είναι τίποτα παραπάνω από ένα ακριβοπληρωμένο σκουπίδι!

(thesecretrealtruth.blogspot.com)

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24 Μαρτίου 2020: Έλληνας καρδιολόγος για τον
κορωνοϊό: «Κοροϊδεύουν τον κόσμο».

«Με 500 κρούσματα και 15 νεκρούς έκλεισαν μέσα μία
χώρα. Σας λένε για ‘’εκθετική αύξηση’’. Μα ιατρικώς ΠΑΝΤΑ
σε μια ίωση υπάρχει εκθετική αύξηση. Φυσιολογικό», τόνιζε
στην ανάρτηση του ο κ. Φαίδων Βοβολής.

24 Μαρτίου 2020
Ο γιατρός Φαίδων Βοβολής, πετυχημένος επιστήμων στον
χώρο της καρδιολογίας με έντονη επαγγελματική
δραστηριότητα, αποφάσισε να εκφράσει τις διαφωνίες του
σχετικά με τα μέτρα που έχουν ληφθεί για την
αντιμετώπιση της πανδημίας.
Ο Φαίδων Βοβολής, ξεκαθαρίζοντας εξαρχής πως το ζήτημα
είναι να υπάρξει διάλογος ή έστω και έντονη ανταλλαγή
απόψεων μεταξύ των επιστημόνων, προκειμένου η
επιστημονική κοινότητα να καταλήξει σε μία κοινά
αποδεκτή στρατηγική έναντι του κορωνοϊού, επιχειρεί να
διατυπώσει τις αντιρρήσεις του όσον αφορά αφενός την
καλλιέργεια της υπερβολικής ανησυχίας έναντι της
πανδημίας και αφετέρου τη λήψη μέτρων ακραίου
περιορισμού των πολιτών και απομόνωσής τους.
Τις αντιρρήσεις του ο Φαίδων Βοβολής τις ανάρτησε στο
Facebook. Όμως αυτή η ανάρτηση «κατέβηκε» από το μέσο
κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, προφανώς κατόπιν κάποιων
ενεργειών και «συντονισμένων διαμαρτυριών».
Επισημαίνεται ότι το απόγευμα της Δευτέρας 23 Μαρτίου ο
υφυπουργός Πολιτικής Προστασίας Νίκος Χαρδαλιάς
κατήγγειλε, χωρίς να αναφερθεί ονομαστικά, «άτομα που
επιχειρούν να κερδίσουν μερικά κλικ στο διαδίκτυο». Είναι
προφανές ότι αναφερόταν στη συγκεκριμένη ανάρτηση.
Ο τρόπος διαχείρισης των αντιρρήσεων και των
επιστημονικών διαφωνιών έχει οριστεί ξεκάθαρα από την
παγκόσμια επιστημονική κοινότητα και από τον τρόπο
λειτουργίας των δημοκρατιών. Το μόνο που απαγορεύεται
σε αυτή τη διαδικασία είναι… απαγορεύσεις. Τουλάχιστον
αυτό έχει κατακτήσει η δημοκρατική ανθρωπότητα
ευτυχώς εδώ και αρκετό καιρό.
Η ανάρτηση του Φαίδωνα Βοβόλη:
«ΑΣΦΑΛΩΣ και ΔΙΑΦΩΝΩ με τα μέτρα αυτά.
Κοροϊδεύουν τον κόσμο. Με 500 κρούσματα και 15 νεκρούς
έκλεισαν μέσα μία χώρα. Σας λένε για ‘εκθετική αύξηση’. Μα
ιατρικώς ΠΑΝΤΑ σε μια ίωση υπάρχει εκθετική αύξηση.
Φυσιολογικό.
Τον Φεβρουάριο τα κρούσματα γρίπης ήταν πάνω από
300000 στην Ελλάδα και οι προκαλούμενοι θάνατοι πολύ
περισσότεροι από τώρα. Αλλά δεν σας είπαν κάτι…
Και κάθε χρόνο τέτοια περίπου νούμερα υπάρχουν. Στην
Ιταλία τα θύματα το 2018 με μια επιδημία γρίπης ήταν περί
τα 25000! Δεν έγινε τίποτα.
Ο πρόεδρος του ΠΟΥ προ μηνός είπε πως ετησίως έχουμε
60000 νεκρούς από την γρίπη. Οι τεθνηκότες αυτοί είναι
κατά συντριπτική πλειοψηφία άνθρωποι με χρόνια
νοσήματα. Πάντα ως ιατρική κοινότητα προσπαθούμε
ΕΝΑΓΩΝΙΩΣ να τους προστατεύσουμε. ΠΑΝΤΑ.
Με σχετική απομόνωση. Τώρα ξαφνικά τους θυμήθηκαν και
αιτιώνται πως έχουμε γονείς, παππούδες ως οικογένεια;
Προσβλητικό. Εμείς ΠΑΝΤΑ τους προστατεύουμε.
Διάλεξαν πειθήνιο όργανο, ως εκ χαρακτήρα – αν και τον
ΣΥΜΠΑΘΩ ως άνθρωπο-λοιμωξιολόγο, υπάκουο στο
σύστημα, για να τα περάσουν στον κόσμο όλα αυτά.
Είτε με τη λογική, είτε με το συναίσθημα. Ο ίδιος έλεγε
εντελώς ΑΛΛΑ προ 2 μηνών!
Θα μου πείτε, η διαφορά είναι πως δεν έχουμε το εμβόλιο
για να προστατεύσουμε τους ανθρώπους..
Το εμβόλιο… ΤΟ ΕΜΒΟΛΙΟ… Ο ένας λόγος που γίνονται όλα..
Και μετά φυσικά θα σας πούνε ’ΥΠΟΧΡΕΩΤΙΚΟ’ το εμβόλιο
για να μην γινουν τα περσινά..! Θυμάστε την Ιταλία, θα σας
λένε..
ΟΧΙ, υποχρεωτικό εμβόλιο δεν θα γίνει ΠΟΤΕ. Ας το
περάσουν από όσους νόμους θέλουν.
Έχουν πείσει μέσω της πλύσης εγκεφάλου των ΜΜΕ τον
κόσμο και καταφέρονται ενάντια σ’ αυτούς τους λίγους,
κακούς ,ανεύθυνους συμπολίτες μας… Σταθείτε κοντά και σ’
αυτούς που φοβούνται και σ΄ εκείνους που δεν φοβούνται!
Μην διχάζεστε. Οκ νέα ίωση, οκ να προστατευθούν όπως
ΠΑΝΤΑ οι ευπαθείς, οκ ας είμαστε προσεκτικοί, μα όχι όλο
αυτό!
Είχαν προετοιμάσει σαφέστατα τον εγκλεισμό και τον
προετοίμαζαν με κλιμάκωση τις τελευταίες μέρες. Το
γνωρίζαμε!
Ξαφνικά κάποιοι απείθαρχοι που έβγαιναν έξω..κάποιοι που
περνούσαν τα διόδια, κάποιοι που πήγαιναν εκκλησίες,
θάλασσα, πικ νικ ,ΤΗΝ ΩΡΑ που εμείς βλέπαμε ΤΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ
ΕΡΗΜΩΜΕΝΑ!
Το ξέραμε για τον εγκλεισμό εδώ και 10 μέρες! Ότι κι αν
γινόταν…
ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥΝ το μυαλό σας μέσω ΜΜΕ. Είναι και τεστ
πειθαρχίας. ΜΗΝ τους αφήνετε.
Έχουν βάλει αναμεταδότες πολλούς (και συναδέλφους μου)
να σας τρομοκρατούν. Όσοι γιατροί είναι γνώστες της
παθοφυσιολογίας, απλά γελάνε με όλα αυτά! Δεν μιλάμε για
θεωρίες συνομωσίας εδώ, αλλά για το ότι οι αριθμοί δεν
βγαίνουν!
Οι αναλύσεις που διαβάζετε είναι αστείες. Στατιστική
γίνεται στην ιατρική ΜΟΝΟΝ σε ετήσια βάση!
Και φυσικά μπήκαν αυτόβουλα εκατομμύρια άνθρωποι -που
ΔΕΝ τους αδικώ, λόγω φόβου και άγνοιας- να γίνουν
φανατικοί υπέρμαχοι των θέσεων αυτών…
Είδατε κάτι περίεργο να συμβαίνει τριγύρω σας ιατρικώς;;
(εκτός από το φόβο)
Είδατε φερειπείν το χάλι το προ 2 μηνών με τα σχολεία τα
μισά άδεια από τη γρίπη;;
Σας έπεισαν με τις φράσεις «μεταδοτικότητα», «περίεργος
ιός»;
Γελοιοποίησαν τον κόσμο, βάζοντάς του μάσκες και γάντια
στο άσχετο, για να μην κολλήσουν τον ‘φονικό ιό’!!!
Ξεπούλησαν τα αντισηπτικά και τα σαπούνια.
Εκθετική αύξηση..
500 κρούσματα.. που θα γίνουν και 5000! Έλα….
Τώρα με αυτά που γράφω τι απομένει; Θα με ξαναπάρετε
τηλ οι γνωστοί να μην μιλώ στον κόσμο; Ο εισαγγελέας θα
κινηθεί αυτόνομα όπως είπατε;
Δεν υποκινώ κανέναν, έχουμε λάβει αυτή την απόφαση ως
κράτος, ας την ακολουθήσουμε. Απλά διαφωνώ με τον
περιορισμό.
Ναι, υπάρχει ίωση. Είναι δυσανάλογα τα μέτρα όμως.
Ας πιστέψει λοιπόν ο κόσμος όποιον νομίζει. Έχετε τα ΜΜΕ.
Αν τα είχαμε οι άλλοι, θα ήταν αλλιώς. Θα διαλύσουν το
σύμπαν, την οικονομία, τα πάντα. Για το καλό σου…..
Φυσικά και δεν φταίει αποκλειστικά η Ελληνική κυβέρνηση.
Είναι θέμα παγκοσμιοποίησης. Κλείστε τους μέσα. Δείξτε
εικόνα.
Φοβίστε. Μοιράστε φόβο θανάτου! Ξάφνου όλα θα
τελειώσουν και θα πουλήσουν την μεγάλη λύση. Εμβόλιο..
Σκοτώνονται ανά την υφήλιο για την κυριαρχία… Προσωπικά
εγώ θα είμαι ΕΔΩ.
Όσο περνά από το χέρι μου θα λέω στον κόσμο την ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ
που πιστεύω. Θα φροντίζω τους ασθενείς μόνιμα. Θα
ασχολούμαι με τις καρδιές των ανθρώπων, ΑΛΛΑ και με το
πνεύμα και την ψυχή τους..
ΔΕΝ θα ρισκάραμε και ΔΕΝ θα παίζαμε με τους
συνανθρώπους μας ΠΟΤΕ!
Έλληνες, να παραμείνετε ΕΝΩΜΕΝΟΙ. Μόνον αυτό λέω».

(zougla.gr)
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25.12.2020 | 15:12
Κατασκοπικό θρίλερ στο Κολωνάκι: Το ζευγάρι Τούρκων «Πανεπιστημιακών» που χαρτογραφούσε την Αθήνα

Η περίπτωση της κατασκοπείας στην Ρόδο ήταν απλά… ένα ακόμα επεισόδιο των όσων κάνουν οι Τούρκοι τα τελευταία χρόνια. Στο «φως» της δημοσιότητας η περίπτωση Τούρκων που κατασκόπευαν στην καρδιά της Αθήνας θέλοντας να δημιουργήσουν δίκτυο. Οι αποκαλύψεις και ο ρόλος της ΕΥΠ.
Η υπόθεση κατασκοπείας στην Ρόδο είναι απλά η «κορυφή του παγόβουνου» της δραστηριότητας των Τουρκικών Υπηρεσιών στο Αιγαίο, τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια, αφού ένα άλλο κατασκοπικό «θρίλερ» είχε εξελιχθεί στην καρδιά της Αθήνας, στο Κολωνάκι.
Με αυτά τα λόγια σκιαγραφεί την προσπάθεια διείσδυσης Τούρκικων Υπηρεσιών στον Ελλαδικό χώρο, στέλεχος Ειδικών Υπηρεσιών που έχει γνώση των ερευνών, όχι μόνο για την υπόθεση της Ρόδου, αλλά για το σύνολο των δραστηριοτήτων που έχουν να κάνουν με την Εθνική Ασφάλεια της χώρας.
Η υπόθεση της Ρόδου ήταν μια καλοκουρδισμένη επιχείρηση τις ΕΥΠ σε συνεργασία με την Κρατική Ασφάλεια, για την εξάρθρωση κατασκοπικού κυκλώματος που στόχο είχε την καταγραφή της πολεμικής ικανότητας της χώρας.
Απλά ένα… επεισόδιο από τα όσα γίνονται εδώ και δύο χρόνια
Ωστόσο η συγκεκριμένη υπόθεση είναι απλά ένα επεισόδιο στο μακροχρόνιο σίριαλ που παίζεται εδώ και δύο χρόνια στο Αιγαίο, αλλά και στον ηπειρωτικό κορμό τις Ελλάδας και έχει να κάνει με τις προσπάθειες της γείτονος να μάθει… μυστικά και ντοκουμέντα.
Σύμφωνα λοιπόν με τις πληροφορίες, τα τελευταία χρόνια η προσπάθεια Τουρκικών Υπηρεσιών είναι ιδιαιτέρως έντονες, με αποκορύφωμα την εργαλοιοποίηση των μεταναστών στον Έβρο, αλλά και την κρίση με το Oruc Reis.
Απ’ όσα έχουν γίνει γνωστά, φαίνεται πως οι περισσότερες προσπάθειες των Τούρκων να προκαλέσουν προβλήματα στο εσωτερικό της χώρας, η να χαρτογραφήσουν τα Ελληνικά νησιά με «μάτια που φωτογραφίζουν», έχουν πέσει στο κενό, καθώς οι Ελληνικές Υπηρεσίες σε μεγάλο βαθμό έχουν καταφέρει να βρίσκονται ένα βήμα πιο μπροστά από τους γείτονες.
Η άγνωστη επιχείρηση της ΕΥΠ
Χαρακτηριστικό το περιστατικό που περιήλθε σε γνώση του newsit και αφορά σε μια άγνωστη επιχείρηση τις ΕΥΠ στην περιοχή του Κολωνακίου, μ’ ένα ζευγάρι Τούρκων «επιστημόνων» που είχαν εμφανιστεί στις αρχές του 2019 ως διωκόμενοι από το καθεστώς Ερντογάν.
Το ζευγάρι των… «επιστημόνων», είχε επικαλεστεί την επιστημονική του ιδιότητα και είχε ζητήσει άσυλο, με το αίτημα τους να βρίσκεται εκείνη την εποχή υπό διερεύνηση.
Από την αρχή τα στελέχη της ΕΥΠ είχαν καταλάβει πως κάτι δεν πάει καλά με το ζευγάρι, το οποίο μάλιστα είχε νοικιάσει διαμέρισμα, δηλώνοντας την διεύθυνση στις αρμόδιες Αρχές, στους πρόποδες του Λυκαβηττού στο Κολωνάκι.
Άμεσα είχαν τεθεί σε διακριτική παρακολούθηση από το άγρυπνο βλέμμα των πρακτόρων της Υπηρεσίας Πληροφοριών. Αρχικά έδειχναν να διάγουν έναν ήσυχο βίο και μάλιστα να περνούν ώρες σε βιβλιοπωλεία στο κέντρο της Αθήνας και παράλληλα να έχουν επαφές μ’ άλλους Τούρκους, ακόμα και Κουρδικής καταγωγής.

Σταδιακά άρχισαν να έχουν επαφές και με τον μικρόκοσμο του Κολωνακίου, πίνοντας καφεδάκι στα καφέ τις πλατείας των επώνυμων και την μπιρίτσα τους στα διάφορα καταστήματα τις περιοχής.
Προφανώς όταν κατάλαβαν πως πια μπορούν να κάνουν την δουλειά για την οποία είχαν έρθει στην Ελλάδα, άρχισαν περίεργες νυχτερινές εξόδους, ακoλουθώντας μάλιστα μεθόδους αντιπαρακολούθησης (ακόμα και διαφορετικά δρομολόγια ο άνδρας από την γυναίκα), καθώς σε πολλές περιπτώσεις έβγαιναν από το μικρό διαμέρισμα μαζί και στην συνέχεια οι δρόμοι τους χώριζαν.
Στις περισσότερες από αυτές τις περίεργες νυχτερινές βόλτες, τόσο ο άνδρας όσο και η γυναίκα, είχαν αμφότεροι από ένα σακίδιο πλάτης, τα οποία ίσως να περιείχαν ακόμα και φωτογραφικές μηχανές.
Αυτές οι κινήσεις έκαναν τους πράκτορες τις ΕΥΠ να καταλάβουν πως το ζευγάρι μόνο αθώοι πανεπιστημιακοί που διώκονται από το καθεστώς Ερντογάν δεν είναι, με αποτέλεσμα να ενταθεί η παρακολούθηση τους.
Το “ντου” στο διαμέρισμα
Όταν οι πράκτορες τις ΕΥΠ διαβίβασαν στις ειδικές υπηρεσίες αυτές τις πληροφορίες και αποφασίστηκε να γίνει έρευνα στο διαμέρισμα, καθώς είχαν να τους δουν για πάνω από πέντε ημέρες, τους περίμενε μια μικρή έκπληξη που ουσιαστικά επιβεβαίωσε τις υποψίες τους.
Σύμφωνα με τις πληροφορίες, το ζευγάρι είχε ξενοικιάσει το διαμέρισμα λίγες ημέρες πριν και μάλιστα προς μεγάλη ευχαρίστηση και έκπληξη της ιδιοκτήτριας, το παρέδωσαν βαμμένο (!) και μάλιστα είχαν αλλάξει και τα σιφώνια, διότι δήθεν είχαν βουλώσει.
Βέβαια οι πράκτορες των Ειδικών Υπηρεσιών κατάλαβαν αμέσως πως το ζευγάρι είχε καλύψει τα ίχνη του, αποτυπώματα και dna, (τα σιφώνια μαζεύουν τρίχες), και πλέον οι Έλληνες πράκτορες ήταν πεπεισμένοι πως η παρακολούθηση, που ίσως είχε γίνει αντιληπτή από τους έμπειρους Τούρκους «πανεπιστημιακούς», τους οδήγησε στο να εγκαταλείψουν κάθε προσπάθεια και να εξαφανιστούν άρον άρον από την Ελλάδα.
Οι πράκτορες τις ΕΥΠ είχαν καταλήξει σε ένα συγκεκριμένο συμπέρασμα για το ζευγάρι των «επιστημόνων» από την Τουρκία! Σκοπός τους ήταν η δημιουργία δικτύου κατασκόπων στην καρδιά τις Αθήνας. Βέβαια όπως εξελίχθηκε η υπόθεση έμειναν μόνο στην… επιθυμία.

(newsit.gr)

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Klaus Schwab: Great Reset Will "Lead To Fusion Of Our Physical, Digital, & Biological Identity"

by Tyler Durden
Tue, 11/17/2020 - 03:30

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Globalist Klaus Schwab made it clear that transhumanism is an integral part of “The Great Reset” when he said that the fourth industrial revolution would “lead to a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity,” which in his book he clarifies is implantable microchips that can read your thoughts.

As we highlighted earlier, “The Great Reset” is attracting a deluge of fresh attention in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, which Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said was an “opportunity for a reset.”

The agenda is primarily based around dismantling the current capitalist system in favor of greater centralized technocrat rule which will lead to lower living standards, less fuel consumption, fewer civil liberties and the accelerated automation of jobs.

However, another key aspect to “The Great Reset,” or the “fourth industrial revolution” as Schwab calls it, is merging man with machine.

“What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity,” Schwab told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Schwab went on to explain how his book, ‘Shaping the Future of The Fourth Industrial Revolution’, was particularly popular in China, South Korea and Japan, with the South Korean military alone purchasing 16,000 copies.

In the book, Schwab explains with excitement how upcoming technology will allow authorities to “intrude into the hitherto private space of our minds, reading our thoughts and influencing our behavior.”

He goes on to predict that this will provide an incentive for law enforcement to implement Minority Report-style pre-crime programs.

“As capabilities in this area improve, the temptation for law enforcement agencies and courts to use techniques to determine the likelihood of criminal activity, assess guilt or even possibly retrieve memories directly from people’s brains will increase,” writes Schwab. “Even crossing a national border might one day involve a detailed brain scan to assess an individual’s security risk.”

Schwab also waxes lyrical about the transhumanist utopian dream shared by all elitists which will ultimately lead to the creation of human cyborgs.

“Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will not stop at becoming part of the physical world around us—they will become part of us,” writes Schwab.

“Indeed, some of us already feel that our smartphones have become an extension of ourselves. Today’s external devices—from wearable computers to virtual reality headsets—will almost certainly become implantable in our bodies and brains.”

Schwab also openly endorses something the media still claims is solely a domain of discussion for conspiracy theorists, namely “active implantable microchips that break the skin barrier of our bodies.”

The globalist hails the arrival of “implanted devices (that) will likely also help to communicate thoughts normally expressed verbally through a ‘built-in’ smartphone, and potentially unexpressed thoughts or moods by reading brain waves and other signals.”

So in other words, the “fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity” relates to the transhumanist singularity and a future where people have their every movement tracked and every thought read by an implantable microchip.

It isn’t a “conspiracy theory” when they’re openly telling you what they want to do.

(zerohedge.com)
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'Health passports' for air travel mean mandatory Covid-19 vaccines cloaked in the illusion of choice
Helen Buyniski
Helen Buyniski

is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23
24 Nov, 2020 19:18

An airline lobbying group has volunteered its service as private-sector enforcer for the Covid vaccine mandates many countries have promised not to enact. Good luck flying – or getting a job, or government benefits – without one.

The CEO of Australian airline Qantas got a less than enthusiastic reaction earlier this week when he suggested all international travelers will soon be required to provide proof of vaccination against the novel coronavirus before they’ll be allowed on board.

While establishment types thought it was a smashing idea, skeptics were horrified at the thoughts that a private corporation could force them to consume a pharmaceutical concoction just to fly.

The most sinister aspect of such a policy, however, is that it won’t be forced at all. Wannabe-travelers can either take the rushed-through, side-effect-ridden jab, or stay home.

The illusion of ‘choice’ adroitly skirts the thicket of legal issues surrounding mandatory vaccination in most Western countries, as even the most draconian pandemic emergency laws run into difficulties when they try to mandate what would amount to pharmaceutical experiments on unwilling participants. The Nuremberg Code, and the Geneva Convention, for that matter, exist for a reason, and the nuclear-level public shaming deployed against so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’ can only do so much.

Deploying the ‘carrot’ – exemption from travel restrictions and weeks-long quarantines, entry into concerts and football matches, and other perks – rather than the ‘stick’ of mandates and arrests is much more likely to drive reluctant populations to the needle.

The government of Slovakia was able to test a whopping 97 percent of its population in under three weeks by rewarding the compliant with certificates excusing them from curfew and gathering restrictions, and the UK’s ‘nudge unit’ is considering embracing this paradigm for vaccination itself. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), a global airline lobbying group, has shown with its backing of Qantas’ questionable quest that it’s 100 percent on board as well.

As the backlash to the Australian airline’s announcement erupted, spearheaded by UK travel agency Tradewinds Travel’s vow not to do business with Qantas going forward, the IATA revealed the entire industry would soon follow in the airline’s footsteps. Not only would passengers need to provide proof of vaccination, but they’d be expected to download and use a mobile ‘health passport’ app. Indeed, the group is already hard at work on a ‘Travel Pass’ that will allow passengers to flash both their vaccination status and Covid-19 test results at the airport – privacy be damned.

The IATA’s efforts have the backing of the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which sets international standards for air travel. But it’s individual airlines’ private-sector status that makes their promised regulations so valuable to governments who’d otherwise be restricted from impinging on the bodily integrity of their citizens with vaccine mandates. Just as Google, Facebook and Twitter are weaponized by the US and allied governments to dodge citizens’ rights to free speech, airlines can adopt whatever rules they like. Don’t want to get the jab? Buy your own private jet, they’ll say.

The IATA’s Travel Pass is far from the only competitor in the health passport field, either. The World Economic Forum’s CommonPass, funded by the pandemic-ubiquitous Rockefeller Foundation, emerged as the clear frontrunner earlier this month when three airline conglomerates lined up behind it, issuing a joint statement urging governments to embrace privacy-destroying health passports over freedom-trampling quarantines.

Indeed, it was the WEF which drew up the prototype for these health passports years ago with its Known Traveler Digital Identity program. The organization coyly admitted it’s currently testing “components of the KTDI concept in a real-life, cross-border context” and working with the IATA as well as the International Civil Aviation Organization to shove the program down the world’s throat.

Not that it’ll need much shoving. The powers-that-be seem confident that, after ‘Lockdown 2.0’, most people will be so eaten up with cabin fever they’ll jump through any hoop imaginable just to climb onboard a plane and get out of wherever they are. ‘Flights to nowhere’ taking off and landing at the same airports in Australia and Hong Kong earlier this year have already proved frequent flyers are jonesing to get back in the air.

But even the most desperate would-be traveler should be wary of what they’re signing up for. The WEF has made no secret of its desire to get rid of cash in its sprawling ‘Great Reset’ plot, embracing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) tracked via blockchain (just like CommonPass, KTDI and other variations of the health passport). The establishment has strongly hinted that individuals who want to work in this brave new world will have to have their vaccines up to date, and a cashless society means the non-compliant won’t just be barred from travel and toil – they’ll be prohibited from conducting any transactions at all.

Sure, it will be great to be able to travel the world again. But is it really worth turning over the last shreds of privacy and control over one’s own body to a group of unelected, unaccountable megalomaniacs?

Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!

(rt.com)
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Chinese President Xi proposes GLOBAL health QR code system to revive coronavirus-battered trade & travel
22 Nov, 2020 10:26

Speaking during the G20 summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping promoted the idea of introducing globally-recognized health QR codes, saying it would help to restore coronavirus-hit international trade and travel.

“While containing the virus, we need to restore the secure and smooth operation of global industrial and supply chains,” China’s leader told the virtual G20 summit late on Saturday, while advocating the need to “reduce tariffs and barriers” and “liberalize” the trade of crucial medical supplies.

He also called for the creation of mechanisms that would simplify the “orderly flow” of people in the coronavirus-battered world. They could come in the form of QR codes containing people’s health information, Xi said.

QR codes of this type are already in active use in China, where internal travel has become largely dependent on them and the corresponding “health apps.” Instruments to track people’s movement, including mobile applications and QR codes, have been implemented amid the coronavirus pandemic by other nations as well, though no global system has emerged yet.

An attempt to introduce a “global” QR code-based system, supposedly designed to restore global travel, has already been made by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The group has actively promoted the ‘CovidPass’ application, advertised as a highly-secure “health passport.”

Attempts to introduce ‘health passports’ or otherwise ‘supervise’ people’s ability to move, work, or take part in certain events depending upon their coronavirus status, have come under widespread criticism.

Most recently, former UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt suggested the introduction of a “freedom pass” that would remove the requirement to follow regulations for those who test negative for coronavirus. The suggestion was immediately branded an “enslavement pass” on Twitter, while some went as far as accusing Hunt of promoting “fascism.”

(rt.com)
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MASS MINK CULL Shocking pictures show mass mink culling in Europe in bid to stop mutant strain of coronavirus spreading across globe

14 Nov 2020, 16:53Updated: 14 Nov 2020, 20:46

THE slaughter of mink with coronavirus is continuing after the disease was discovered in the animals in Greece.

Shocking pictures show piles of dead mink being buried amid fears a mutant Covid strain found IN them could spread across the globe and even undermine the effectiveness of vaccines.

Mink that tested positive for Covid being buried in GreeceCredit: EPA

The slaughter began in Denmark when it was reported that 12 people had become ill after being infected by the mutated version of the coronavirus.

The country began killing farmed minks in the north of the country and plans to cull 17 million in all.

But it has not registered any new infected humans with the so-called Cluster-5 mutated coronavirus strain stemming from mink, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said.

In Greece, the culling began after some of the animals tested positive for the coronavirus at a farm near the village of Kaloneri.

The strain found in the mink there had not mutated from that found in humans, said an agriculture ministry official.

More than 2,000 minks in Greece are to be culled after some of the animals tested positive for the coronavirus.

Athanassios Langas of Greece's fur breeders association said that the animals were tested after the farms owners were found to be infected with the virus.

Some 300 breeders have been tested for the coronavirus, with 10 found positive, he said.

More than 80 farms are located in northern Greece, with more than 1.3 million minks though so far there has been no indication that Greece will cull its entire mink population.

Already, another five countries have reported coronavirus outbreaks linked to mink - the US, Spain, Italy, Sweden and The Netherlands

There are 1,139 mink farms in Denmark, employing about 6,000 people and Danish farms account for 40 per cent of global mink fur production making it the world's biggest exporter.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has warned the transmission of Covid in animals could speed up the number of mutations in the virus before it potentially jumps back to people.

The agency said allowing it to spread within minks could have dire consequences.

It waned “the establishment of a virus reservoir among minks may give rise to problematic virus variants in the future”.

In response to the outbreak in Denmark, the UK government banned all lorries, flights and ships coming from the country.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned the covid strain passed from mink to humans would have "grave" consequences if it were to spread as it might not respond to a possible vaccine.

The variant "did not fully respond to Covid-19 antibodies" and therefore may have potential knock-on effects on a future vaccine.

He told the House of Commons: "Although the chance of this variant becoming widespread is low, the consequences should that happen would be grave.

(thesun.co.uk)
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Landmark Danish study casts doubt on effectiveness of mask-wearing alone as effective Covid-19 strategy
19 Nov, 2020 12:28

The results of the long-delayed Danish mask study, Damask-19, have finally been published, and revealed little difference in Covid-19 infection rates between masked and unmasked participants.

Conducted in the spring with over 6,024 adult participants, the randomized, controlled trial highlights the limited efficacy of mask wearing alone in curbing the spread of Covid-19.

Researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital divided the participants into two groups; the masked and the unmasked, all of whom were asked to spend at least three hours per day outside their home. Only those whose occupations didn't require mask use with no known previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were accepted.

The trial was conducted in Denmark at a time when public transportation and shops operated as normal, while social distancing, limited socializing, hand hygiene, and limited exposure to vulnerable groups, in hospitals and nursing homes were all encouraged. The wearing of masks in public was uncommon at this time.

Roughly half of the participants were issued with 50 disposable face masks, which they were told to change after every eight hours of use.

After one month, all participants were tested with polymerase chain reaction (PCR), antibody and lateral flow tests.

The researchers found no statistically significant difference between mask wearers and bare-faced participants; 1.8 percent of mask wearers contracted Covid-19, while 2.1 percent of the control group developed the disease.

However, there are several caveats.

The study did not test the role of masks in source control (the transmission from an infected person to others), but instead examined the degree of protection mask wearers can expect when combined with other public health measures.

Further, some people didn't wear the masks properly, with only 46 percent of participants claiming to have properly adhered to the rules throughout.

In addition, among the people who claimed they only wore masks ‘exactly as instructed’ two percent were also infected.

The evidence within the Damask-19 study excludes a large personal protective effect of mask wearing but cannot definitely exclude ‘no effect’. In other words, masks alone cannot stop the spread of the coronavirus, but the study stops short of proving they are completely ineffective.

Masks, when worn by all, may reduce transmission by both source control and personal protection but mask wearing alone offers less risk reduction.

According to some coverage, nine previous trials examining the efficacy of face masks in limiting the spread of airborne influenza-like illnesses, two of which focused on healthcare workers specifically while the remaining seven examined community transmission, had similar findings.

Despite the pandemic raging worldwide for months, only three community trials comparing the use of masks with alternatives have been conducted: one in Guinea-Bissau, one in India and this latest one in Denmark.

Further complicating the matter, studies which support the use of masks have been “observational,” focusing on those who already wear masks but without contrasting outcomes against a randomized control group of non-mask wearers.

Six studies carried out during the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2003 showed mask-wearing, in combination with hand washing, was effective.

However, the accuracy of these studies may be diminished somewhat as they are subject to recall bias, as participants were expected to recall everyday behaviors in excessive detail and therefore the data was somewhat unreliable. These studies also lacked randomized control groups, while some failed to account for the seasonal effect.

A recent paper examining hospitalization rates in US counties which imposed mask mandates was withdrawn because it failed to account for the seasonal effect, after initially claiming that infection rates fell over the summer, only for them to shoot back up once it had ended.

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‘What happened to academic freedom?’ Scientist fumes as Facebook flags Covid-19 study questioning mask effectiveness as ‘false’
21 Nov, 2020 01:23

Social media can’t be allowed to suppress scientific discourse, critics said after Facebook ‘fact-checkers’ flagged as ‘false’ an Oxford professor’s report citing a Danish study on the effectiveness of masks against Covid-19.

“[What] has happened to academic freedom and freedom of speech? There is nothing in this article that is ‘false,’” Carl Heneghan, the director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, said on Friday.

He posted a screenshot of Facebook flagging his article for the Spectator magazine as ‘False information’, citing “independent fact-checkers.”

Heneghan was discussing the long-delayed study on the effectiveness of facemasks, conducted in Denmark and finally published this week. One of the few randomized controlled trials on masks, it suggested that masks alone don’t work to stop the spread of Covid-19.

Monitoring 6,024 adult participants for a month, half of them issued with masks and instructions on how to use them, Danish scientists found 1.8 percent of mask-wearers got the virus, compared to 2.1 percent in the control group.

While masks do have an effect, the Danish researchers wrote, they alone can’t stop the spread of the coronavirus. The political establishment in the West, however – including Silicon Valley tech giants – basically considers this heresy, and has flagged the study as ‘false information’.

Health authorities like the American CDC recently updated their position, insisting masks are even more effective against coronavirus transmission than previously believed, protecting the wearer as well as others.

Heneghan found himself under attack by other scholars, such as Thomas Conti of Brazil, for citing a supposedly “severely underpowered” study that was badly designed and showed a null result, arguing that masks absolutely work.

Critique the study then! The issue here, however, is social media platforms censoring stories about it because they don't like the political implications.
— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) November 20, 2020

“Critique the study then!” responded historian and lockdown critic Phil Magness, adding that the issue at hand is “social media platforms censoring stories about it because they don't like the political implications.”

Dame Helena Morrissey, a Conservative member of the UK House of Lords, seconded the sentiment.

“This is a very dangerous direction of travel with respect to what science actually is; our freedom of expression, diversity of thought, and democratic norms, irrespective of what anyone thinks about Covid-19,” she tweeted in support of Heneghan.

This is a very dangerous direction of travel with respect to what science actually is; our freedom of expression, diversity of thought, and democratic norms, irrespective of what anyone thinks about Covid-19. t.co/KD8bzEGJEb
— Helena Morrissey DBE (@MorrisseyHelena) November 20, 2020

The Oxford professor is a well-known critic of the lockdown tactics used by governments around the world in attempts to stop, slow or mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. Earlier this month, he argued that the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson used bad data to justify a second lockdown, which began on November 5.

He was also one of the co-authors of an open letter in September, urging 10 Downing Street to focus on protecting the most vulnerable members of society instead. The existing policy of suppressing the virus through lockdowns is “increasingly unfeasible… and is leading to significant harm across all age groups, which likely offsets all benefits,” the letter said

Social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter rolled out sweeping restrictions earlier this year, citing the need to “prevent misinformation,” first targeting anything Covid-19 related and later political subjects like the US presidential election. Critics have argued that this amounts to acting as publishers, which would exceed US legal protections for platforms, but no court challenges to the censorship have been mounted so far.

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A ticket to digital slavery: Making access to music and sports events dependent on a Covid pass must be resisted

Neil Clarkis a journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger. His award winning blog can be found at neilclark66.blogspot.com. He tweets on politics and world affairs @NeilClark66
13 Nov, 2020 13:41

After a public outcry, Ticketmaster has denied it is planning to ask people to prove they are ‘Covid-free’ to attend concerts. But digitised health passports are being promoted elsewhere, and that puts us on a very slippery slope.

Imagine only being able to go to a pop concert if you had an app on your smartphone proving that you’d had a Covid vaccine or had tested negative within a 24-72 hour window.

Well, according to Billboard magazine, that’s what Ticketmaster, the UK's largest ticket agency, was planning to insist on in 2021. Quite understandably, the report provoked a fierce backlash on social media, with many calling for a boycott of Ticketmaster. So much so that the company released a statement saying that there would be ‘absolutely no requirement’ for mandatory vaccines.

But it has admitted it was exploring the possible use of the technology. And that – and other developments – should make us all very worried.

Like crime in multi-storey car parks, denying people access to events because they don’t have a ‘Covid pass’ is wrong on so many different levels. We’ve had bad cases of flu before – most recently in 2017-18 – but it was never suggested then that people needed to prove they’d had a flu jab or didn’t have a cold before they entered an arena.

So, what gives Covid-19 special status? Why does this one virus need to radically change how we live our lives? The answer is of course, The Great Reset. Digital ‘access’ passes are a key component of the World Economic Forum’s programme to radically transform every aspect of our lives, but most certainly not in a positive way.

I wrote back in the summer how ‘Clear’s new Health Pass and other ‘Covid hi-tech innovations’ are a stark warning of how the globalist ‘New Normal’ being mapped out will operate. Access to travel, sport and restaurants may be barred for all who refuse to comply.’

In July, the WEF was enthusiastically promoting on social media a ‘Covid-Pass App’ that could “revive global travel and large events during the pandemic”.

The new digital ‘Common Pass’ health passport scheme, backed by the WEF, and which was given start-up funding by the Rockefeller Foundation, was indeed piloted for the first time in October, for passengers flying from the UK to the US.

Just a month later, we hear that the English Premier League is close to agreeing a “blueprint” with the UK government “to add Covid-19 vaccine records to a digital health passport” to enable the return of crowds to football stadiums next year.

See where we’re heading? The ‘nut job’ ‘tin-foil hat’ ‘conspiracy theories’ of April 2020 all seem to be coming true. In September, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he was hopeful a ‘Freedom Pass’, based on mass testing, would “enable people to return to and maintain normal life”. But that’s simply Orwellian; the truth is that such ‘Freedom Passes’ will only lead us even further away from normality and the lives we had prior to March 2020.

The new digital ‘Common Pass’ health passport scheme, backed by the WEF, and which was given start-up funding by the Rockefeller Foundation, was indeed piloted for the first time in October, for passengers flying from the UK to the US.

Just a month later, we hear that the English Premier League is close to agreeing a “blueprint” with the UK government “to add Covid-19 vaccine records to a digital health passport” to enable the return of crowds to football stadiums next year.

See where we’re heading? The ‘nut job’ ‘tin-foil hat’ ‘conspiracy theories’ of April 2020 all seem to be coming true. In September, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he was hopeful a ‘Freedom Pass’, based on mass testing, would “enable people to return to and maintain normal life”. But that’s simply Orwellian; the truth is that such ‘Freedom Passes’ will only lead us even further away from normality and the lives we had prior to March 2020.

Once the idea of digitalised access passes is accepted, we’re on a very slippery slope towards a totally controlled society.

At first it will be Covid-linked ‘data’ that‘s on your app, but it could easily be expanded using the new technology. We would have the basis of a ‘social credit’ system, as pioneered in China.

Imagine this: the citizen is given points on their digital ‘passport’ for behaviour deemed ‘good’ by the state, but loses points – and access – for behaviour deemed ‘bad’. Getting a Coronavirus vaccine, plus the regular ‘update’ boosters, attendance at a diversity awareness course, use of an electric car and reducing one’s ‘carbon footprint’ could see points gained.

A refusal to take a coronavirus vaccine, spreading ‘disinformation’ about government health policy online, expressing the ‘wrong’ opinions on social media, and persisting in driving a petrol-fuelled car could see points lost.

The ‘goodies’ would have access to travel, pop concerts, sporting events and everything else. The ‘baddies’ would be under virtual house arrest. When we factor in the roll-out of universal basic income – with millions dependent on the state for their income – the prospects for freedom become even more terrifying.

Ironically, the last concert my wife and I went to in the good old days before the Great Reset got going was by the brilliant ska band Madness at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, just before Christmas 2019.

‘Madness’ is the best way to describe what’s been happening in 2020. Trouble is: there’s a method in it, too.

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Reports reveal UK’s Covid-19 test & trace consultants are paid up to £7,360 a DAY, triggering epidemic of Twitter anger
15 Oct, 2020 10:13 /

Britons have lashed out at their government after reports emerged that private consultants hired to help run the country’s test and trace program receive massive salaries, despite the initiative being marred by issues.

Documents obtained by Sky News purportedly show that senior executives from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which was enlisted to aid with the testing regime, are paid more than £7,000 ($9,100) for a day’s work. The shocking daily rate is equivalent to an annual salary of around £1.5 million ($1.95 million). The Guardian later corroborated the story.

Individual consultants from the firm take home up to £2,400 ($3,110) a day, while managers who are overseeing the Covid-19 test and trace program receive £6,250 ($8,100) for their daily duties.

The government has budgeted £12 billion to pay for the testing scheme, making it one of the costliest programs in recent years. Despite its high price tag, the initiative has been fraught with problems. Last week a major glitch led to 16,000 positive tests vanishing from a government database, creating less than ideal conditions for accurately “tracing” the virus.

News of the generous payouts prompted “£7,360 a DAY” to trend on Twitter in the UK, with social media users venting about the outrageous private sector contracts.

Many argued that the UK government had no business doling out so much cash when its own employees make only a fraction of what BCG consultants receive. Just one percent of UK civil servants are paid more than £80,000 a year.

“In a single week govt is paying these senior consultants more than they pay an experienced nurse in a year,”tweeted Sky News Economics Editor Ed Conway.

Dishing out that kind of cash is totally unacceptable, especially considering that the testing system “doesn’t even work,” numerous Twitter users complained.

Others wondered why the country needed test and trace “consultants” in the first place, and suggested the program was a money grab fueled by corruption and nepotism.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has come under increasing scrutiny for its coronavirus response as the country faces severe economic hardship following lockdown orders and other restrictive measures. Johnson rolled out a controversial new three-tiered restrictions system earlier this week.

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Flu away: Scientists baffled at disappearance of influenza... but is it really gone, or just masked by Covid-19?
26 Oct, 2020 20:29

Where did it go?

To my mind there are three possibilities.

The first is that it only seems like the flu has disappeared because doctors and scientists have been wrongly classing other respiratory diseases as Covid. Please note that the boffins are already treating this suggestion as something akin to flat-Earth theory.

The second is that Covid has ‘crowded out’ the flu. It does seem to be the case that you cannot be sick with two viruses at once. A recent study from Yale University found that of 13,000 patients admitted to in a major hospital with respiratory diseases, practically no one ever had both a cold and the flu at the same time. In fact, lung tissue that had been previously exposed to the cold virus was immune to the flu virus.

But the scientists say that this solution doesn’t add up: no more than a fifth of the population has been exposed to Covid, and so everyone else should be fertile ground for the flu. But if they are wrong, and Covid is actually far more widespread than the scientists think, ‘virus crowding’ could be contributing to flu’s downfall. (The question is why Covid would have won this battle so completely, for there to be essentially zero flu cases and millions of Covid ones – surely the flu would have gotten to some people before Covid did?)

The third possibility is the scientists’ explanation. Before I give it, please note that either of the first two possibilities, if correct, would render ridiculous the entire response to Covid, not least because it would mean Covid is far less dangerous than has been widely asserted.

The verdict is in

The scientific establishment is quickly forming ranks behind the theory that the flu has gone away because of Covid restrictions – especially masks, social distancing and lockdowns. They “overwhelmingly agree” that this is so; their certainty is remarkable at this early stage.

But why would these measures have worked so unintentionally well for flu, which has been with us for millennia, but Covid cases are still skyrocketing? Do masks let one particle through and stop another?

The proponents of this theory have an explanation. They claim that people with Covid are more contagious than those with flu. It has a longer ‘incubation period’ than flu does, and its ‘R rate’ is three times higher than that of flu. But even if all of these estimates were right, there is still the unanswered question of why flu would have been eradicated so completely.

Magic masks

In my opinion, this hand-waving explanation might just be the most awesome act of cognitive dissonance of this entire saga. Experts are claiming, with a straight face, that a laxly enforced hodgepodge of restrictions, which varies wildly between countries and regions, has overnight eradicated an ancient scourge of humanity from the face of the Earth. And in the next breath, they warn that the incidence of another identically transmitted virus is through the roof.

Much more likely in my opinion is that the flu has been confused for Covid in the vast majority of cases. Is it really so hard to believe that flu sufferers could have been confused for Covid cases? After all, we know that lung cancer patients were. In any case, and irrespective of the explanation, one wonders if the flu’s disappearing act means that the largest-ever flu vaccine rollout slated for this winter will be cancelled. Somehow, I think not.

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A scientific review of the science behind lockdown concludes the policy was a MISTAKE & will have caused MORE deaths from Covid-19
Rob Lyons
Rob Lyons

Rob Lyons is a UK journalist specialising in science, environmental and health issues. He is the author of 'Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating Disorder'.

A scientific review of the science behind lockdown concludes the policy was a MISTAKE & will have caused MORE deaths from Covid-19
Anti-lockdown protest in London, Britain,
The report, analysing the information available to UK policymakers in March, says schools shouldn’t have shut, that only vulnerable groups like the old should have been isolated, & that herd immunity may have been a better route.

A new paper by researchers at Edinburgh University suggests that lockdowns do not help to reduce the death toll from Covid-19, but may simply postpone those deaths. It's another piece of evidence that suggests that a different strategy to combat the pandemic - one that doesn't impose blanket restrictions across society - is needed.

The research was done by a team from Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy. If that sounds odd, Professor Graeme Ackland, one of the authors, has a good explanation. He told me: “From March, every serious epidemiologist has been seconded to SPI-M (the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling) and SAGE (the main Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies), producing new research on a timescale of days. There simply aren't enough of them to also do replication or even careful peer review. But there were thousands of people who could do data-cleaning, code checking, validation and replication.”

Ackland and his colleagues were, he says, “tasked by SPI-M and SAGE with exploring any ‘reservations’. SPI-M understood very well the problem of groupthink in a closed community, and asked us to ‘kick the tyres’ on everything. Another thing real epidemiologists would do themselves given enough time.”

Their paper is not really a criticism of the original modelling done before lockdown. In fact, it uses the model used by Imperial College to assess a wider range of scenarios than was done at the time. “My overall opinion”, says Ackland, “is that the government's experts have reliably produced better predictions than the ‘newspaper experts’.”

One sentence in the new paper is particularly striking in regards to the original Imperial College work: “Contrary to popular perception, the lockdown, which was then implemented, was not specifically modelled in this work.” Given that lockdown carried on for months, and schools remained shut until the autumn, the failure to go back to see what the model says about the effects of lockdown is remarkable.

The aim of the paper is to “replicate and analyse the information available to UK policymakers when the lockdown decision was taken in March 2020”. The paper concludes that the original model would have provided a good forecast if based on a reproduction number for the virus of 3.5. (The Imperial report on 16 March was based on the 'R' being between 2.2 and 2.4.) The counter-intuitive outcome of the model is that it suggests that “school closures and isolation of younger people would increase the total number of deaths, albeit postponed to a second and subsequent waves”.

The model suggests that prompt interventions were effective in reducing peak demand for intensive care beds, but would also prolong the epidemic. In some scenarios, this could lead to more deaths in the long term. Why? Because, as the paper notes, “Covid-19 related mortality is highly skewed towards older age groups. In the absence of an effective vaccination programme, none of the proposed mitigation strategies in the UK would reduce the predicted total number of deaths below 200,000.”

It's wise to be cautious about any particular numbers. When researchers applied a similar model to Sweden, for example, the numbers were far in excess of the real outcomes. Nonetheless, the thing that really caused alarm back in March wasn't the much-quoted half a million deaths from a 'do nothing' policy. It was the Imperial team's assertion that the 'most effective mitigation strategy' they examined - case isolation, household quarantine and social distancing of the elderly - would lead to around 250,000 deaths.
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This was the reason, we were told, that nothing short of lockdown would do. If the government had asked Ferguson to model lockdown, and the result was 200,000 deaths - in other words, in the same ballpark - would we have gone into lockdown, given the damage it has done?

Specifically, for Covid-19, closing schools and universities was a serious mistake, it would seem (contrary to comments in April by Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the original modelling). Keeping them open would have meant lots of younger people getting the virus, with relatively little harm, but would have speeded up the process of achieving 'herd' immunity.

In conclusion, the authors write: “The optimal strategy for saving lives in a Covid-19 epidemic is different from that anticipated for an influenza epidemic with a different mortality age profile.” At the very least, says Ackland, schools could have remained open while doing everything possible to protect the most vulnerable groups. The absolute priority was to keep the disease out of hospitals and care homes.

Unsurprisingly, this is exactly the message coming from SAGE before the Imperial College modelling results were published on 16 March. For example, Professor Graham Medley - the chair of SPI-M and a member of SAGE, told BBC Newsnight on 13 March: “This virus is going to be with us for a long time, we're going to have an epidemic and then it will become endemic and join in with all the other coronaviruses that we all have all the time, but don't notice. We're going to have to generate what we call herd immunity. So that's a situation where the majority of the population are immune to the infection. And the only way of developing that in the absence of a vaccine is for the majority of the population to become infected.”

The trick is to ensure that the people who are worst affected by the disease are protected from it - which, despite the lockdown, the UK government failed to do.

Postponing an avalanche of cases is not necessarily a bad thing. For example, it has allowed us to find some specific treatments, particularly showing that the steroid dexamethasone can save the lives of some of the most ill patients. We've learned that ventilators, which were such a huge focus at the start of the crisis, are less useful than first thought. On the other hand, we’ve learned that kidney dialysis machines could be vital. If a vaccine could be rolled out soon, that could be very important, too, but that looks unlikely before next spring.

However, the fact remains that this epidemic will only end when either enough people have been infected with it to end widespread transmission or until an effective vaccine becomes available. It would be much better, given the modelling, if the people who get it are young and healthy, rather than old or with a pre-existing illness.

Instead of holding its nerve, as Sweden did, the UK government panicked and imposed unprecedented restrictions on our freedom. This has done enormous damage to the economy, mental health, children's education and much more. Worse, if the modellers are correct, lockdown won't really have much impact on saving lives. And having committed to this course, the government doesn't seem to have double checked if this made sense using the very models they relied on in the first place.

The fact that cases have been rising across Europe - particularly in countries like France and Spain that imposed the strictest lockdowns - should give us cause for concern, but not alarm. There are indications that the rate of spread has slowed down, possibly reflecting the impact of some population immunity, although case numbers are still rising. However, the numbers dying from it are low, and currently make up only around 2% of all deaths in England and Wales.

We could end up in the worst of all scenarios: ever more restrictions, more and more older people getting the virus, and heading into winter with the usual seasonal rise in other illnesses like influenza on top of Covid - with all that means for pressure on healthcare.

There is still time to change course, open up society for younger people, protect and support the vulnerable and allow the epidemic to take its course. There is no scenario where nobody dies and everything is fine and dandy. We have been hit by a deadly new virus. That's no excuse for bad policies that risk turning a crisis into a disaster.

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COVID-19: Martial Law, Digital Currency, and World Government(28-03-2020)

Kurt Nimmo

'I certainly don’t claim to be a financial wizard. In fact, at best, I have a rudimentary understanding of how the convoluted funny money economy works. However, you don’t need to fully comprehend the ins-and-outs of rigged monetary system to understand we’re in for big trouble and the coronavirus “pandemic” is not only accelerating the fall but will make the outcome far, far worse.

For more detail on the financial end of this disaster, read Mike Whitney’s Why Washington’s COVID-19 Relief Package Must Be Stopped!

No chance, however. As I write this, Congress passed a pork-laden “stimulus” bill.

If we can believe numbers put out by the CDC, as of Friday, March 27 there were 1,246 deaths in the US attributed to the virus. Compare this with the 1968 H3N2 “Hong Kong Flu.” It reportedly killed 100,000 people in the US and around a million around the world.

At the time, the response was not to lock down the country and destroy the livelihood of millions of Americans and usher in the severe violations of the Constitution we are now witnessing.

Short of COVID-19 numbers shooting into the stratosphere in the long run, the death rate will be nowhere near those of the H3N2 pandemic. After the virus is put down by warm temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, jobless and impoverished Americans will scratch their heads in wonderment at the overreaction by government.

Back in 1968, the US economy was doing fairly well. It was the economic powerhouse of the world. The economy began the slow process of engineered deterioration after the so-called “Nixon shock” imposed wage and price freezes in response to Federal Reserve manufactured inflation and the direct international convertibility of the dollar to gold in 1971.

10% inflation in the 1970s was “the result of the honest mistakes of a well-meaning central bank (sic),” according to the Fed.

The former Fed boss, Ben Bernanke, said in 2002 “honest mistakes” were also responsible for the stock market crash in 1929 and the Great Depression that followed (see Jerry Mazza’s How the FED engineered the Great Depression; for historical comparison of the current economic trauma prior to COVID-19, see Doug Casey: Comparing the 1930s and Today).

Is the current corporate propaganda media-generated hysteria over what appears thus far to be a normal influenza virus happenstance?

I argue the pandemic was planned or conveniently exploited, if not beforehand then in its early stage as it swept China. I am convinced the virus was arranged or exploited to make an excuse for a coming and unavoidable Greater Depression, a historically unmatched depression as a direct result of the fraud, manipulation, and gambling debts of the financial class. Blame for the pinpricks deflating absurdly enlarged and distorted asset bubbles horrendously crashing the economy will be laid at President Donald Trump’s door.

Moreover, the crash and its enforced misery—only now beginning to gain fatal momentum—will be used by the ruling elite to demand several drastic “reforms,” beginning with a call for a centralized world government. This globalist scheme, long in the planning, will be rolled out “temporarily” to confront the virus.

From The Guardian on March 27:

Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown of the banks in 2008, said there was a need for a taskforce involving world leaders, health experts and the heads of the international organisations that would have executive powers to coordinate the response.

Brown’s “executive power” will become permanent after the virus has subsided. It will be the foundation for a global government after the world economy finally falls off a cliff—possibly weeks or months away—and the desperate masses begin rioting in the streets over food shortages and the inevitable institution of martial law (or something similar without the namesake in an end-run around the Constitution, which does not explicitly grant emergency powers to a president).

Prior to Gordon Brown’s demand, bankers and establishment economists began a heightened call for “a digital alternative to paper money” to stop the spread of the virus and “helping improve financial inclusion by addressing the needs of millions of Americans that remain unbanked, according to the FDIC.”

In January, the elite at Davos was way ahead of the curve on the effort to dispose of paper money and replace it with a digital financial and societal control mechanism.

“Users of the U.S. dollar are ‘underserved by an analogue currency in a digital world,’ Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said during an event in Davos,” CNBC reported.

The promise of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is that it could make cross-border movement of money easier and improve traceability to fight corruption or money laundering, according to Henri Arslanian, global crypto leader at PwC.

It would also make tracking and surveilling citizens far easier and more efficient. “There are two kinds of economic surveillance to take note of. One is surveillance by companies, the other is by the state,” writes Melissa Twigg.

“It’s the companies that want to get data on you,” says [financial analyst Tom Nicholls]. “But they form the pool of data that then a state would be able to access.” It may sound very Black Mirror, but it’s already happening in China, where mass financial data from Alipay is helping to craft the country’s social-credit system, which will reward and punish citizens based on economic behaviour.

There appears to be no end to the manufacture of state and media-generated hysteria.

ABC News notes that a “Department of Homeland Security memo sent to law enforcement officials around the country warns that violent extremists could seek to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by carrying out attacks against the U.S… The memo, which was circulated on Monday, comes after assurances from FBI Director Chris Wray in a video message that agents would be even more vigilant in monitoring threats to the U.S. as the virus spreads.”

Last August the FBI “for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat,” according to a memo circulated at the FBI’s Phoenix office.

“The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.

For those who pay attention, there is ample evidence the FBI arranges terrorist plots and has done so at least since the agency ran its unconstitutional COINTELPRO takedown of numerous political opponents beginning in the 1950s.

Both the FBI and DHS may begin categorizing those of us who differ with the state and its media on the origin and impact of the coronavirus as “domestic extremists” bent on destroying the nation.

The real destroyers and psychopathic misanthropes, however, are in high places. They are cynically and criminally exploiting the coronavirus—so far no more dangerous than seasonal flu—to shove their one-world agenda down our throats as easily frightened Americans run around like Chicken Little, begging the state to take care of us before the sky falls.

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In Spain You Can't Use Your Own Back Yard. Police Make Sure of It.(28-03-2020)

by PHILIPP BAGUS

The last days and weeks of the coronavirus epidemic give an interesting insight into the human psyche. Elementary liberties are restricted all over the world, such as the freedom of movement or private property. Yet most people accept these restrictions without blinking, as the state declares their indispensability.

A chronology of the events in Madrid: on Sunday, March 8, a large World Women's Day demonstration against the alleged rule of the Patriachate was held. There were 120,000 particiants, and members of the government took part in it, marching side by side in the first row. They had called for strong participation. Just one day later it was announced that starting on Wednesday, March 11, kindergartens, schools, and universities in Madrid would be closed. Since Sunday, March 14, there a curfew has been in place, which is enforced by police and military force. Cyclists and joggers trying to keep fit in the fresh air have been fined heavily. Spaniards are no longer even allowed to be in the private gardens of apartment blocks, even if families take turns using them. In short, we are no longer allowed to use our own gardens. They have been temporarily expropriated.

Most people are little bothered by the fact that the state is violating their freedom massively. They regard it as necessary and good. They do not question the state´s authority to restrict our freedom at all. Rather, they denounce those who want to move freely and make use of their property rights. When two brothers were seen playing soccer in the garden of an acquaintance's apartment block, the police were called.

People denounce playing children, who are regarded as harmful to public health, and put up posters saying "Quédate en casa" (stay at home). This is a block warden mentality. The most worrying thing is the high number of willing state collaborators. The parallels with the past are unnoticed. No one seems to care, and it is not even discussed.

If people are just scared enough, they entrust themselves to a (temporary) dictatorship without grumbling. They give up their freedom in the hope of being saved by state leaders advised by wise experts. Fear makes people controllable. Instead of protesting against the violation of their property rights, they clap their hands every day at 8 p.m. in Spain. Initially, the applause was mainly to show support for doctors and nurses, but in the meantime cheers for the police have been mixed in.

The state leaders plan the violation of liberty centrally. They do not have the necessary information to give a rational answer to the coronacrisis. They take into account the benefits of the curfew and economic shutdown but not the costs, because these are not quantifiable.

One of the immediate costs is the loss of a more rapid immunization of the population. But there are other health costs. Being confined to one's own four walls, with the corresponding lack of physical exercise, will lead to increased cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, strokes, and thromboses, among other things. The psychological burden of being locked up is especially immense. The psychological strain will cause some marriages and families to break up; trauma and depression will be created.

The economic collapse triggered by the political reaction to the coronavirus has its own health costs, such as entrepreneurs who suffer heart attacks and unemployed people who fall into depression or alcohol.

And then there are the economic costs in the narrower sense. The standard of living will fall, perhaps considerably. That depends on how long economic life remains switched off. Sooner or later, supply chains will be threatened, even for essential medicines and food. Already today the range of products in Spanish supermarkets is reduced. This too can shorten lives. Worldwide, a decline in the standard of living will hit especially the poorest of the poor, whose supply of food and medicines will be greatly diminished.

As the costs and benefits are not quantifiable, it is hubris to rely on central planning to address the COVID-19 epidemic and come to the decision to paralyze an entire country—even entire continents (not to mention the (temporary) disappearance of freedom). Unfortunately, frightened people seem to shed few tears for freedom. There is a shortcut to serfdom, and it is called fear.
Author:

Philipp Bagus:

Philipp Bagus is professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He is a Fellow of the Mises Institute, an IREF Scholar, and the author of numerous books including In Defense of Deflation, The Tragedy of the Euro, and is coauthor of Blind Robbery! , Small States. Big Possibilities: Small states are simply better, and Deep Freeze: Iceland's Economic Collapse.

(mises.org)
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02_03_2020 -SIMULATION OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC INVOLVING A CORONAVIRUS-

Eric Toner, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, wasn't shocked when news of a mysterious coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, surfaced in early January.

Less than three months earlier, Toner had staged a simulation of a global pandemic involving a coronavirus.

Coronaviruses typically affect the respiratory tract and can lead to illnesses like pneumonia or the common cold. A coronavirus was also responsible for the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in China, which affected about 8,000 people and killed 774 in the early 2000s.

"I have thought for a long time that the most likely virus that might cause a new pandemic would be a coronavirus," Toner said.

The outbreak in Wuhan isn't considered a pandemic, but the virus has been reported in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. The US reported its first case on Tuesday: a man in his 30s living in Washington's Snohomish County, north of Seattle, who recently visited China.

So far, the virus has killed 81 people and infected more than 2,700.

"We don't yet know how contagious it is. We know that it is being spread person to person, but we don't know to what extent," Toner said. "An initial first impression is that this is significantly milder than SARS. So that's reassuring. On the other hand, it may be more transmissible than SARS, at least in the community setting."

Toner's simulation of a hypothetical deadly coronavirus pandemic suggested that after six months, nearly every country in the world would have cases of the virus. Within 18 months, 65 million people could die.
A viral pandemic could kill 65 million people

Toner's simulation imagined a fictional virus called CAPS. The analysis, part of a collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, looked at what would happen if a pandemic originated in Brazil's pig farms. (The Wuhan virus originated in a seafood market that sold live animals.)

The virus in Toner's simulation would be resistant to any modern vaccine. It would be deadlier than SARS, but about as easy to catch as the flu.
coronavirus
A coronavirus. BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images

The pretend outbreak started small: Farmers began coming down with symptoms that resembled the flu or pneumonia. From there, the virus spread to crowded and impoverished urban neighborhoods in South America.

Flights were canceled, and travel bookings dipped by 45%. People disseminated false information on social media.

After six months, the virus had spread around the globe. A year later, it had killed 65 million people.
Wuhan virus
Public-health officials run thermal scans on passengers arriving from Wuhan at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand on January 8. Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, by contrast, claimed as many as 50 million lives.

Toner's simulated pandemic also triggered a global financial crisis: Stock markets fell by 20% to 40%, and global gross domestic product plunged by 11%.

"The point that we tried to make in our exercise back in October is that it isn't just about the health consequences," Toner said. "It's about the consequences on economies and societies."

He added that the Wuhan coronavirus could also have significant economic effects if the total number of cases hits the thousands.

On Tuesday, Hong Kong's stock market fell by as much as 2.8%. The drop was led by the tourism and transportation sectors, including airlines, tour agencies, hotels, restaurants, and theme parks.
An age of epidemics
People wear masks to defend against coronavirus
People wearing masks in Guangzhou, China. Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

In the CAPS simulation, scientists were unable to develop a vaccine in time to stop a pandemic. That's a realistic assumption: Even real coronaviruses like SARS or MERS (a virus that has killed more than 840 people since 2012) still don't have vaccines.

"If we could make it so that we could have a vaccine within months rather than years or decades, that would be a game changer," Toner said. "But it's not just the identification of potential vaccines. We need to think even more about how they are manufactured on a global scale and distributed and administered to people."

If scientists don't find a way to develop vaccines quicker, he said, dangerous outbreaks will continue to spread. That's because cities are becoming more crowded and humans are encroaching on spaces usually reserved for wildlife, creating a breeding ground for infectious diseases.

"It's part of the world we live in now," Toner said. "We're in an age of epidemics."

(businessinsider.com)
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*EVENT 201*
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Event 201

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise

In recent years, the world has seen a growing number of epidemic events, amounting to approximately 200 events annually. These events are increasing, and they are disruptive to health, economies, and society. Managing these events already strains global capacity, even absent a pandemic threat. Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.

Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise

In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recently, the Center for Health Security has received questions about whether that pandemic exercise predicted the current novel coronavirus outbreak in China. To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise. For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.

(centerforhealthsecurity.org)
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(23_01_20) Making air from Moon dust: Scientists create a prototype oxygen plant

Scientists have created a prototype "lunar oxygen plant" by testing a method for extracting oxygen from imitation Moon rocks that could be invaluable for lunar settlements.

The European Space Agency has created an experimental “oxygen plant” in the Netherlands that can extract oxygen trapped within simulated Moon dust.

Not only does the process extract up to 96 percent of the oxygen in the imitation lunar soil, it also leaves behind metals that might be valuable to future crewed missions that venture to the moon, Mars, and beyond.

Oxygen on the Moon
Based on lunar rock samples returned to Earth during the Apollo missions, scientists know that the Moon's soil, or regolith, contains about 40 to 45 percent oxygen by weight. This makes oxygen the most abundant element on the Moon's surface. But harvesting it is difficult.

“Being able to acquire oxygen from resources found on the moon would obviously be hugely useful for future lunar settlers, both for breathing and in the local production of rocket fuel,” said Beth Lomax, a University of Glasgow researcher involved in the project, in an ESA press release.

We all know the importance of breathable oxygen, but oxygen in liquid form is also used as a propellant in many rockets. So by taking oxygen directly from the Moon — a process called in-situ resource utilization — future missions wouldn't have to bog down their rockets with a massive surplus of heavy liquid propellants. This would allow us to essentially use the Moon as a cosmic gas station, helping drastically drive down the cost of far-reaching space missions to Mars and beyond.

Liquid oxygen could also be extremely useful for maintaining satellites around Earth. According to a paper published by Lomax and other researchers in the journal Planetary and Space Science, it's more energy efficient to transport liquid oxygen from the Moon to Earth-orbiting satellites than it is to launch oxygen from Earth's surface while fighting our planet's strong gravity.

The problem with plucking oxygen from lunar rocks, however, is that it's tied up in chemical compounds, and it takes energy to tear it away. This calls for special methods of separating oxygen from the other elements in lunar regolith.
Splitting Rocks
To separate the oxygen from other components in faux Moon rocks, the researchers use a technique called molten salt electrolysis.

By first placing the powdery Moon dust into a hot batch of molten calcium chloride salt, then running an electrical current through the mixture, the researchers can let chemistry and physics do the heavy lifting. The oxygen previously trapped in the simulated rocks migrates to an electrode (specifically, an anode), where the researchers can then capture it.

With this technique, the researchers report, they have been able to pull 96 percent of the oxygen out of their imitation Moon rocks in the course of just 50 hours. Alternatively, they can extract 75 percent of the oxygen in just the first 15 hours. Plus, as an added bonus, the process leaves behind a mixture of metal alloys that researchers suggest could be useful as well.

And just in case you're wondering, according to a press release published last August, researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are also working on a technique for harvesting oxygen from Moon rocks. So stay tuned, because in the not-too-distant future, we might have an old-fashioned gas station bidding war break out on the Moon.

(astronomy.com)
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(22-01-20)
China epidemic—implications for America and other countries

To keep up with my new articles on the so-called “epidemic,” it really helps to read my earlier pieces (archive here). I don’t recapitulate all the relevant facts every time I sit down to write. If I did, I’d be posting books instead of articles.

So…as I write this one, about 40 million Chinese citizens are on lockdown and quarantine in their cities. This is truly extraordinary. One US vaccine-funding official was heard to say China was a “silver lining” in the coronavirus epidemic—because that government is able to exert so much control over its people and, therefore, help contain the epidemic.

You could almost hear him thinking, “I wish we could do that in America.”

America, UK, Canada, France, Germany, etc.

You can bet your bottom dollar public health officials all over the world are gathering data on how well “the Chinese experiment” is going. They want to learn lessons. They want to know more about containment, mass quarantines, and lockdowns.

Could, for instance, an American president suddenly declare an emergency in the US and issue orders for travel restrictions on a broad scale?

Could he confine citizens to their cities? Could he bring troops into a city and have them assemble in large public places and wave wands at people to look for body temperature elevation and cart them away to hospitals and other holding areas?

Could federal and state officials cancel sporting and concert events? Could crowds of any kind be forbidden? Could a national election be postponed?

China becomes an example for the rest of the world, you see. “This is what has to be done in dire times, to stop the spread of an epidemic. Look to China. They’re accomplishing the right thing. If the killer virus comes here and spreads, we may to have to follow suit.”

CHINA IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ICE-BREAKER FOR THE REST OF THE PLANET. “Well, they did it there, so it can be done…”

“Thank you, China. You’ve showed us what efficiency and necessity look like.”

The biggest potential contagion here has nothing to do with the virus. It has to do with other countries deciding to follow China’s example.

And now we come to THE VACCINE against the virus. This is where some very bad rubber meets a very bad road. Several of the novel vaccines being rushed toward approval and production are completely experimental. They have never been openly used on the public. So the stage is set for a grand planet-wide guinea-pig test. In a recent piece, I explained the admitted danger of one of these vaccine varieties—RNA vaccines. They can cause autoimmune reactions. The body goes to war against itself.

What are the chances that one of these new vaccines will be mandated in the US and other countries? Mandated. Ordered. Commanded. “In order to preserve public safety.”

I would say there is a chance, given, again, the example of China, the ice-breaker.

And, as I’ve pointed out many times, these so-called epidemics have been used, for decades, to tune up the population to the need for ALL vaccines for all diseases. It’s called operant conditioning.

“You have no choice. You can’t opt out. The situation is too dangerous.”

Officials say that about one vaccine in an “epidemic” situation; they can then say that about all vaccines.

Realistically, any US president’s advisors would tell him that mandating an emergency coronavirus vaccine for the whole country would present a logistical nightmare. So they’d suggest, “We can try a mandate, only we don’t enforce it everywhere. We use certain examples of harsh control in, say, the most dangerous area, where the virus has spread. A town, a city, maybe even a state. And make sure everyone in that area gets the vaccine. Let’s try that for starters. Let’s see how the enforcement end looks. How hard are we going to come down on people if they refuse? Meanwhile, outlawing big public gatherings is an essential step. You can do that. No crowds permitted in certain cases. We work with state and local authorities, to make it look like ‘the people’ are represented. Go for the ‘share and care’ stuff. We love all our people and want to protect them…”

Such a strategy could be stretched out for months. It would be allowed to peter out…but certain features would stay in place. For instance, stepped up police and military presence in cities. Not to enforce vaccination, but to extend basic control over the population.

Meanwhile, state legislatures would feel more confident, despite pushback, in enacting mandatory vaccination laws for all diseases. Using terms like “outbreaks” and “spread” and “protection” more frequently than they’re used now, states would “do their duty” to keep citizens safe.

Freedom? Free choice? Those ideas would be channeled more quickly into drainpipes of the past. Safety, protection, and security would vault even higher on the political scoreboard.

If you’re beginning to see this is as a CONTROL op, you’re right. It always was. Setting aside the obvious workable medical solutions to specific problems, such as repair of the body in emergency crisis situations, the highest echelon of the medical cartel is all about control. And its use of demonstrably toxic drugs and vaccines are the forward edge of covert warfare.

China is showing the world how to force the war on millions of people at once.

In doing so, it’s borrowing strategies from the West: how to pump up an unproven epidemic through medical disinformation.

That’s a potent marriage: massive top-down force, and medical propaganda.

Freedom to dissent and opt out, along many lines, is more important than ever.

(davidicke.com)
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ΕΛΛΑΔΑ 04.09.2019
Σπουδαία αρχαιολογική ανακάλυψη στην Κύθνο

Ιδιαίτερα σημαντικά ήταν τα αποτελέσματα της συστηματικής ανασκαφής στην αρχαία πόλη της Κύθνου (σημερινό «Βρυόκαστρο»), που πραγματοποιήθηκε φέτος από 26/6 - 4/8. Μεταξύ αυτών ξεχωρίζουν τα ευρήματα από τη συστηματική ανασκαφική έρευνα στην περιοχή του αρχαίου λιμανιού, στη βραχονησίδα «Βρυοκαστράκι» (το νησάκι στη 'μύτη' της χερσονήσου, που ως τουλάχιστον την ύστερη αρχαιότητα πρέπει να ήταν συνδεδεμένη με την ακτή με στενό ισθμό).

Πρόκειται για την αποκάλυψη μιας τρίκλιτης βασιλικής με νάρθηκα και ημικυλινδρική αψίδα, η οποία έχει δύο τουλάχιστον οικοδομικές φάσεις, μια παλαιοχριστιανική και μια μεταγενέστερη (ίσως του 7ου - 8ου αιώνα), ενός κτιρίου μήκους 80 μ. περίπου, που αποτελείται από τουλάχιστον 15 ορθογώνια δωμάτια σε παράταξη και ισχυρούς εξωτερικούς τοίχους που εξυπηρετούσαν πιθανότατα και αμυντικούς σκοπούς, καθώς και δυο πύργων. Επίσης, εντοπίστηκαν δεκάδες ορθογώνιοι χώροι, εν μέρει λαξευμένοι στο φυσικό βράχο, για τους οποίους η ως τώρα έρευνα δείχνει χρήση τουλάχιστον ως την ύστερη αρχαιότητα, καθώς και θραύσματα κεραμεικής και εργαλείων από οψιανό της Πρωτοκυκλαδικής περιόδου.

«Για πρώτη φορά με βεβαιότητα τεκμηριώθηκε Πρωτοκυκλαδική εγκατάσταση στη βραχονησίδα (σσ. 3η χιλιετία π. Χ.) […]. Δεν αποκλείεται κάποιοι από τους λαξευμένους χώρους να ανάγονται στην περίοδο αυτή. Εξαιρετικά σημαντική είναι η αναγνώριση για πρώτη φορά στην Κύθνο κεραμεικής της ΥΕ ΙΙΙΓ περιόδου (σσ. 12ο αι. π. Χ.). Φαίνεται λοιπόν ότι η θέση κατοικήθηκε ύστερα από περίοδο εγκατάλειψης ξανά στον 12ο αιώνα π.Χ., ίσως μάλιστα αδιάκοπα έκτοτε, αφού όλες οι χρονολογικές περίοδοι αντιπροσωπεύονται με ευρήματα, από την Πρωτογεωμετρική περίοδο έως και τα μέσα περίπου του 7ου μ.Χ. αιώνα (η τελευταία χρονολόγηση σύμφωνα με τα πρώτα πορίσματα της μελέτης της Χαρίκλειας Διαμαντή), που η πόλη εγκαταλείφθηκε οριστικά. Η αρχική μάλιστα σκέψη, που βασιζόταν στα πορίσματα της επιφανειακής έρευνας, ότι ο πυρήνας της αρχικής κατοίκησης της αρχαίας πόλης ήταν η βραχονησίδα και ότι εδώ συρρικνώθηκε η πόλη στην πρωτοβυζαντινή περίοδο, λίγο πριν εγκαταλειφθεί οριστικά και οι εναπομείναντες κάτοικοί της μετακινηθούν στην οχυρή ακρόπολη γνωστή σήμερα ως το Κάστρο της Ωριάς, επιβεβαιώνεται».

Τα παραπάνω αναφέρει, μεταξύ άλλων, ανακοίνωση του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας και της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων Κυκλάδων ως προς τα αποτελέσματα της φετινής ανασκαφής που πραγματοποιήθηκε από τον Τομέα Αρχαιολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, με τη συνεργασία της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων Κυκλάδων, υπό την διεύθυνση του καθηγητή Αλεξάνδρου Μαζαράκη Αινιάνος και του Διευθυντή της Εφορείας δρ. Δημήτρη Αθανασούλη.

Σημειώνεται ότι φέτος, τις δύο πρώτες εβδομάδες ολοκληρώθηκαν οι εργασίες στην αρχαία δεξαμενή της 'Ανω Πόλης στο Βρυόκαστρο, ενώ τις τέσσερις επόμενες πραγματοποιήθηκε ανασκαφή στην περιοχή του αρχαίου λιμανιού, στη βραχονησίδα «Βρυοκαστράκι». Παράλληλα, ολοκληρώθηκαν οι στερεωτικές εργασίες στο ιερό του Απόλλωνος και της 'Αρτεμης (ανασκαφή 2002-2006) από τον συντηρητή του ΥΠΠΟΑ Γιώργο Καράμπαλη.

Πιο συγκεκριμένα, στο Μεσαίο Πλάτωμα στην 'Ανω Πόλη, προσαρτημένη στη ΝΑ γωνία του λατρευτικού Κτιρίου 1 των κλασικών-ελληνιστικών χρόνων, υπάρχει μια απιόσχημη δεξαμενή, λαξευμένη στο φυσικό βράχο, η οποία ερευνήθηκε συστηματικά το 2016-17 αποκαλύπτοντας πολυάριθμα ευρήματα, όπως μαρμάρινα γλυπτά και ενεπίγραφες στήλες που επέτρεψαν να ταυτιστεί το ιερό με το Ασκληπιείο και Αφροδίσιο των Κυθνίων. Από τον πυθμένα της προέρχονται πολλά ενδιαφέροντα ευρήματα, όπως ένας ακέραιος χάλκινος κάδος, καθώς και μεγάλος αριθμός άβαφων αγγείων άντλησης νερού που σχετίζονται με την τελευταία περίοδο χρήσης της, στους ρωμαϊκούς αυτοκρατορικούς χρόνους. «Από το 'μπάζωμα' της δεξαμενής προήλθαν και φέτος αρκετά θραύσματα από την ανωδομή του παρακείμενου κτιρίου, όπως δύο ηγεμόνες κέραμοι που απολήγουν σε ανθέμιο και θραύσματα δωρικών κιονοκράνων και σφονδύλων κιόνων, από κογχυλιάτη λίθο. Συλλέχτηκαν επίσης αρκετά θραύσματα μαρμάρινων γλυπτών, μεταξύ αυτών δύο ακέραιες παιδικές κεφαλές (ενός αγοριού και ενός κοριτσιού, κλασικών χρόνων), μικρή κεφαλή Αφροδίτης ελληνιστικής περιόδου, και πήλινη κεφαλή Δήμητρας από μεγάλων διαστάσεων ειδώλιο, όψιμων κλασικών χρόνων», συμπληρώνει η ανακοίνωση.

Ως προς την τρίκλιτη βασιλική, που βρέθηκε στο μέσον περίπου της βραχονησίδας, γνωστοποιήθηκε ότι είναι συνολικών διαστάσεων 16 Χ 12,50 μ., με πρόσβαση από δύο παράπλευρες εισόδους στο νάρθηκα. «Σε β' φάση φαίνεται ότι προστέθηκε αψίδα στον ανατολικό τοίχο του νότιου κλίτους, και κτίστηκε ένα πρόσκτισμα σε επαφή με το βόρειο κλίτος, διαστ. 5 Χ 3,60 μ. Κατά τόπους στους τοίχους παρατηρούνται μαρμάρινα spolia», προσθέτει η ανακοίνωση, τονίζοντας ότι «σε όλες τις διαταραγμένες επιχώσεις υπήρχε έντονη παρουσία κεραμεικής των γεωμετρικών χρόνων».

Ως προ το συγκρότημα (Κτίριο 2) με τα τουλάχιστον 15 δωμάτια, που εντοπίστηκε ανατολικά της βασιλικής, οι έρευνες έδειξαν ότι «οι επιμήκεις εξωτερικοί τοίχοι του συγκροτήματος είναι ισχυροί με σχετικά μεγάλο πλάτος (γύρω στο ένα μέτρο)», γεγονός που κάνει τους ανασκαφείς να υποθέτουν ότι εξυπηρετούσε και αμυντικούς σκοπούς. «Μάλιστα, στο μέσον περίπου του μήκους του κτιρίου παρατηρείται ορθογώνιο έξαρμα πλ. 5,50 και μήκους 7 μ., που αναμφίβολα ταυτίζεται με προμαχώνα ή πύργο. Ισχυρή οχυρωματική κατασκευή («πύργος») αποκαλύφθηκε και στο νότιο άκρο του οικοδομικού συγκροτήματος», αναφέρει, μεταξύ άλλων, η ανακοίνωση.

Τέλος, στο νότιο πλάτωμα της βραχονησίδας, 23 μ. ψηλότερα από τη στάθμη της θάλασσας, παρατηρήθηκαν δεκάδες ορθογώνιοι χώροι, εν μέρει λαξευμένοι στο φυσικό βράχο, ορισμένοι από τους οποίους φαίνεται ότι ήταν ημιυπαίθριοι. Φέτος ερευνήθηκαν τέσσερις από αυτούς, ενώ η τελευταία περίοδος χρήσης του ενός εξ αυτών «τοποθετείται στην ύστερη αρχαιότητα αλλά υπάρχουν ενδείξεις και εδώ ότι η αρχική χρήση του χώρου ανάγεται σε παλαιότερη περίοδο. Μέσα στις σχισμές του φυσικού βράχου συλλέχτηκαν κεραμεική και εργαλεία από οψιανό της Πρωτοκυκλαδικής περιόδου, ενώ από τις επιχώσεις προήλθε κεραμεική από το τέλος της Εποχής του Χαλκού έως και τη ρωμαϊκή. Λίγα θραύσματα πήλινων ειδωλίων των κλασικών χρόνων, καθώς και μικκύλα αγγεία, ίσως μαρτυρούν την παρουσία ενός ιερού σε άμεση γειτνίαση», πληροφορεί η ανακοίνωση.
Η ανασκαφή πραγματοποιήθηκε από τον Τομέα Αρχαιολογίας του πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, με τη συνεργασία της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων Κυκλάδων, υπό την διεύθυνση του καθηγητή Αλεξάνδρου Μαζαράκη Αινιάνος και του διευθυντή της Εφορείας δρος Δημήτρη Αθανασούλη. Εκτός από τους παραπάνω φορείς, τις έρευνες στηρίζουν η ΓΓ Αιγαίου και Νησιωτικής Πολιτικής, η Περιφέρεια Νοτίου Αιγαίου, ο δήμος Κύθνου και κυρίως ο γενναιόδωρος χορηγός Αθανάσιος Μαρτίνος. Πολύτιμη υπήρξε η συμμετοχή των φοιτητών της αρχαιολογίας του πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας και άλλων πανεπιστημίων και των εθελοντών των σπηλαιολογικών συλλόγων «ΣΠΕΛΕΟ» και «ΧΕΙΡΩΝ».

(Kathimerini.gr)
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Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why
Erratic motion of north magnetic pole forces experts to update model that aids global navigation.
Alexandra Witze

Update, 9 January 2019: The release of the World Magnetic Model has been postponed to 30 January due to the ongoing US government shutdown.

Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth’s north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move.

On 15 January, they are set to update the World Magnetic Model, which describes the planet’s magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones.

The most recent version of the model came out in 2015 and was supposed to last until 2020 — but the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that researchers have to fix the model now. “The error is increasing all the time,” says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Centers for Environmental Information.

The problem lies partly with the moving pole and partly with other shifts deep within the planet. Liquid churning in Earth’s core generates most of the magnetic field, which varies over time as the deep flows change. In 2016, for instance, part of the magnetic field temporarily accelerated deep under northern South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Satellites such as the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission tracked the shift.

By early 2018, the World Magnetic Model was in trouble. Researchers from NOAA and the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh had been doing their annual check of how well the model was capturing all the variations in Earth’s magnetic field. They realized that it was so inaccurate that it was about to exceed the acceptable limit for navigational errors.
Wandering pole

“That was an interesting situation we found ourselves in,” says Chulliat. “What’s happening?” The answer is twofold, he reported last month at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC.

First, that 2016 geomagnetic pulse beneath South America came at the worst possible time, just after the 2015 update to the World Magnetic Model. This meant that the magnetic field had lurched just after the latest update, in ways that planners had not anticipated.

Second, the motion of the north magnetic pole made the problem worse. The pole wanders in unpredictable ways that have fascinated explorers and scientists since James Clark Ross first measured it in 1831 in the Canadian Arctic. In the mid-1990s it picked up speed, from around 15 kilometres per year to around 55 kilometres per year. By 2001, it had entered the Arctic Ocean — where, in 2007, a team including Chulliat landed an aeroplane on the sea ice in an attempt to locate the pole.

In 2018, the pole crossed the International Date Line into the Eastern Hemisphere. It is currently making a beeline for Siberia.

The geometry of Earth’s magnetic field magnifies the model’s errors in places where the field is changing quickly, such as the North Pole. “The fact that the pole is going fast makes this region more prone to large errors,” says Chulliat.

To fix the World Magnetic Model, he and his colleagues fed it three years of recent data, which included the 2016 geomagnetic pulse. The new version should remain accurate, he says, until the next regularly scheduled update in 2020.
Core questions

In the meantime, scientists are working to understand why the magnetic field is changing so dramatically. Geomagnetic pulses, like the one that happened in 2016, might be traced back to ‘hydromagnetic’ waves arising from deep in the core1. And the fast motion of the north magnetic pole could be linked to a high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada2.

The jet seems to be smearing out and weakening the magnetic field beneath Canada, Phil Livermore, a geomagnetist at the University of Leeds, UK, said at the American Geophysical Union meeting. And that means that Canada is essentially losing a magnetic tug-of-war with Siberia.

“The location of the north magnetic pole appears to be governed by two large-scale patches of magnetic field, one beneath Canada and one beneath Siberia,” Livermore says. “The Siberian patch is winning the competition.”

Which means that the world’s geomagnetists will have a lot to keep them busy for the foreseeable future.

(www.nature.com)
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‘Macron unleashed violence against Yellow Vests, each casualty is on him’ – French author & academic
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‘Macron unleashed violence against Yellow Vests, each casualty is on him’ – French author & academic
A person injured by a water cannon lies on the street during a demonstration by the "yellow vests" movement near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

One of France’s foremost public intellectuals has posted a 4,000-word screed exposing collusion between “the brute” Emmanuel Macron and the mainstream media to put down the Gilets Jaunes, all while blaming them for the violence.

“Emmanuel Macron has chosen not to maintain order, but to suppress public protest," writes Michel Onfray in his blog, in an attempt at a definitive account of the protests that have gripped France since November.

Intentionally, the president did not restrain the violence of protesters, and unleashed it on the part of the authorities. As the head of state, he carries responsibility for choosing repressive measures, so every single injury sustained is on him.

A household name in France, Onfray is the author of over 100 books on subjects ranging from philosophy to religion to politics, many of them non-fiction bestsellers. He is also the founder of a tuition-free private university in Caen, which is part-funded by his publications. He is one of the most respected figures to try to give an overview of the crisis that goes beyond headlines and political allegiances.

Onfray writes that the protest did not begin as a “peasants’ revolt of disgruntled right-wingers” refusing to pay an environmental fuel tax – as it is being portrayed by newspapers – but was simply a result of ordinary Frenchmen saying, “We cannot pay!”
‘Macron unleashed violence against Yellow Vests, each casualty is on him’ – French author & academic
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Instead of listening, however, Macron decided to escalate the conflict “using it for his own benefits, and the interests of the Maastricht camp [the pro-EU establishment].”
‘Symbolic slaps’

The philosopher, who has previously aligned with leftist movements, details six “symbolic slaps” the president dealt out to the protesters, in addition to the physical violence they suffered in their weekly clashes during the demonstrations.

These include accusations that the protesting crowd consists of homophobes, racists and anti-Semites, insinuations that “not all French people know how to work hard,” and that some of the low-paid workers “take it easy.” More substantively, there was the promise of the grand debate, while suggesting that no major changes of course would take place (“Reform is not a free bar!” Macron has warned) and a temporary moratorium on the fuel tax, rather than an outright promise to shelve it.

At each step of the way, he has been supported by the “establishment media,” regardless of its nominal political affiliations.

“The Yellow Vests are being presented as bestial, and the media skillfully uses all images and words to support those theses, replicating the descriptions used by the president’s palace,” writes Onfray.
‘Mosaic of despotism’

Onfray sees the roots of the problem in the “liberal Maastricht state” created in 1992 with the establishment of the European Union, “to promoting which Macron has dedicated his entire short adult life.”

“This is an order that is strong against the week, as we can see on the streets, and weak against the strong, as is evident from the abolition of the wealth tax and the failure to root out tax havens,” writes the 60-year-old Onfray.
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“Macron is trying to explain that there is not enough liberalist Europe in our lives, while the Gilets Jaunes are saying back to him that there is too much – not too much Europe, but too much liberalism.”

The Maastricht state is “cruel to those who carry the burdens of globalization” and “simply by declaring their poverty, these people have been ideologically criminalized.”
‘Macron unleashed violence against Yellow Vests, each casualty is on him’ – French author & academic

What is happening now is the emerging “mosaic of despotism” as the ruling classes try to hold on to the advantages they have accrued over the past decades.

“When the rich call the poor names, it is a variation of old themes, that the working classes are dangerous classes. This is the song all bourgeois establishments sing when they are scared,” writes Onfray.

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Ancient Quarries Discovered at Wind Turbine Sites on Evia
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Kerry Kolasa-Sikiaridi -
Jan 30, 2019

Ancient quarry of Anatoli, Source: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports

Three ancient quarries for the mining of Karystos shale marble were discovered this week, according to an announcement from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. The fantastic discoveries were made during the installation of new wind turbine parks in Karystos, Evia.

The wind turbines were being installed by the ENEL and Silsio companies in the area of Anatoli in the Kafireas Region, and at Trikorfo, Marmari. The areas are under the supervision of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Evia.

The ancient quarry of Anatoli in Kafireas (above photo), when unearthed, revealed two main faces of rock which had been partially covered with dirt that had accumulated over the years. The principal rock faces used for mining are at different heights, carved into the side of the mountain.

Large rectangular blocks were also scattered around the immediate area. While the area was being cleaned by archeologists, two columns were spotted under a layer of fine mining gravel. Half of each column had crumbled away into the stone chips.

The Anatoli wind park installation and construction is being managed by the ENEL company, and the plot of land is located northwest of the village of Amygdalia.

The ancient quarry of Trikorfo was discovered just above the main road where the Silsio company is also installing wind turbines.
The ancient quarry of Trikorfo. Source: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports – Ephorate of Antiquities of Evia

The Trikorfo quarry is located high up on a rocky hillside, where archeologists have thus far uncovered two small faces of rock which were the setting of mining activities. Some box-shaped carvings were also discovered on the rock below, as well as “mining gravel” which consists of distinctive shapes of rock chips which are only found at mining sites.

The second ancient quarry of Trikorfo was found northwest of the first mine. This site is believed to be significantly larger in size than the first, boasting three large “Π” shaped carvings, and tall, sheer faces of rock carved into the hillside.
Ancient quarry of Trikorfos 2, with the half-carved columns in situ. Source: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports – Ephorate of Antiquities of Evia

There was additional evidence of mining there as well, with three large rock chip piles in the area. In addition, three half-finished columns were discovered on the ground of the quarry’s main area.

There were also other structures uncovered, such as a small circular object which might have been used for collecting water. It was covered with slate slabs, believed to have been used for washing mining tools.

The discoveries of the ancient marble quarries of Karystos demonstrates how important the city was in ancient years. There was once intensive quarrying of marble in this region, mostly throughout the Roman period, during the days of Julius Caesar and Augustus.

Karystian marble was very popular in Rome, and was used extensively in building monolithic pillars, including those still standing in the Roman Agora in Rome. This same stone can also be seen in pillars in Athens, at Hadrian’s Library in Monastiraki.

(Greekreporter.com)
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(02-02-2019) Υπό το φόβο ενός μεγάλου σεισμού: Σπάνιο ψάρι τρομοκρατεί τους Ιάπωνες
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Ο τρόμος για μία επικείμενη θεομηνία στην Ιαπωνία έχει κατακλύσει τα social media της χώρας. Αιτία της διαδικτυακής υστερίας; Ένα σπάνιο ψάρι.

Την περασμένη Παρασκευή, στα ανοιχτά του νομού Τογιάμα, πιάστηκαν στα δίχτυα ψαράδων δύο σπάνια «ψάρια κουπιά», όπως ονομάζονται - είδος με ασημένιο δέρμα και κόκκινα πτερύγια που ζει σε μεγάλα βάθη στον ωκεανό, μεταξύ 200 και 1.000 μέτρων, και πιστεύεται πως είναι… προάγγελος σεισμών και τσουνάμι.

Νωρίτερα αυτήν την εβδομάδα ένα ψάρι του είδους, μήκους 3,2 μέτρων, ξεβράστηκε σε ακτή του ίδιου νομού ενώ ένα ακόμη μεγαλύτερο βρέθηκε μπερδεμένο σε δίκτυα, έξω από το λιμάνι του Ιμίζου

Συνολικά επτά "Ryugu no tsukai" (ή «αγγελιοφόρος από το παλάτι του θεού των θαλασσών», όπως είναι γνωστό το είδος στα ιαπωνικά, έχουν εντοπιστεί από τις αρχές του χρόνου, εντείνοντας τους φόβους περί επικείμενης φυσικής καταστροφής.

Θρυλείται πως το συγκεκριμένο ψάρι ξεβράζεται στις ακτές πριν από υποθαλάσσιους σεισμούς. Ωστόσο, οι επιστήμονες αμφισβητούν σθεναρά αυτούς τους… θρύλους.

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(02-02_2019) Θρίλερ πάνω από το Αιγαίο με τουρκικό F16 – Ο αλτρουισμός των Ελλήνων πιλότων

Ένα πραγματικό θρίλερ εκτυλίχθηκε το πρωί της Παρασκευής πάνω από το Αιγαίο, με «πρωταγωνιστή» ένα από τα τέσσερατουρκικά F-16 που είχαν παραβιάσει τον FIR Αθηνών μεταξύ Λήμνουκαι Μυτιλήνης στις 10:59 το πρωί.

Όπως αναφέρει το onalert.gr, απέναντι στα τουρκικά αεροσκάφη βρίσκονταν τα ελληνικά από τη μονάδα ετοιμότητας της Σκύρου.

Έχοντας πορεία προς νότο, το εχθρικό μαχητικό ανέφερε διαδοχικά προβλήματα λειτουργίας του κινητήρα. Επιδίδοντας διαπιστευτήρια επαγγελματισμού και σεβασμού των διεθνών κανόνων, τα ελληνικά αεροσκάφη συνόδευσαν διακριτικά το τουρκικό F-16.

Την ίδια ώρα, ενεργοποιήθηκε το ελληνικό σύστημα έρευνας και διάσωσης, με τη θέση σε ετοιμότητα του ελικοπτέρουSuper Puma στη Ρόδο.

Τα ελληνικά μαχητικά συνέχισαν να βρίσκονται κοντά στο τουρκικό F-16 όταν μερικά λεπτά μετά τις 11.00, το εχθρικό μαχητικό μπήκε στο FIR τουρκικής δικαιοδοσίας.

Κατά πληροφορίες της ίδιας ιστοσελίδας, λίγο πριν από την προσγείωσή του στην αεροπορική βάση του Ντάλαμαν, ο πιλότος του τουρκικού μαχητικού ανέφερε ότι υπάρχει κράτηση κινητήρα.

(www.cnn.gr)
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Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Marrakech, Morocco, 10 and 11 December 2018
Item 10 of the provisional agenda*
Outcome of the Conference

* A/CONF.231/1.

Draft outcome document of the Conference

Note by the President of the General Assembly

1. In its resolution 72/244, the General Assembly reaffirmed its decision that the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration would result in the adoption of an intergovernmentally negotiated and agreed outcome, entitled “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration”, and that the outcome of the intergovernmental negotiations held pursuant to its resolution 71/280 would be transmitted by the President of the General Assembly to the Intergovernmental Conference for adoption.
2. The text of the agreed outcome of the intergovernmental negotiations held pursuant to resolution 71/280 and led by the co-facilitators, Juan José Gómez Camacho (Mexico) and Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), on Friday, 13 July 2018 (see annex), is hereby transmitted to the Conference for adoption, in accordance with paragraph 6 (b) of resolution 72/244.
 
Annex
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
We, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, meeting in Morocco on 10 and 11 December 2018, reaffirming the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and determined to make an important contribution to enhanced cooperation on international migration in all its dimensions, have adopted this Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration:

Preamble
1. This Global Compact rests on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
2. It also rests on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the other core international human rights treaties; the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air; the Slavery Convention and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery; the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa; the Paris Agreement; and the International Labour Organization conventions on promoting decent work and labour migration, as well as on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development; the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030; and the New Urban Agenda.
3. Discussions about international migration at the global level are not new. We recall the advances made through the United Nations High-level Dialogues on International Migration and Development in 2006 and 2013. We also acknowledge the contributions of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, launched in 2007. These platforms paved the way for the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, through which we committed to elaborate a global compact on refugees and to adopt this Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, in two separate processes. The two global compacts, together, present complementary international cooperation frameworks that fulfil their respective mandates as laid out in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, which recognizes that migrants and refugees may face many common challenges and similar vulnerabilities.
4. Refugees and migrants are entitled to the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, which must be respected, protected and fulfilled at all times. However, migrants and refugees are distinct groups governed by separate legal frameworks. Only refugees are entitled to the specific international protection defined by international refugee law. This Global Compact refers to migrants and presents a cooperative framework addressing migration in all its dimensions.
5. As a contribution to the preparatory process for this Global Compact, we recognize the inputs shared by Member States and relevant stakeholders during the consultation and stocktaking phases, as well as the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Making migration work for all”.
6. This Global Compact is a milestone in the history of the global dialogue and international cooperation on migration. It is rooted in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and informed by the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, adopted in October 2013. It builds on the pioneering work of the former Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Migration, including his report of 3 February 2017.
7. This Global Compact presents a non-legally binding, cooperative framework that builds on the commitments agreed upon by Member States in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. It fosters international cooperation among all relevant actors on migration, acknowledging that no State can address migration alone, and upholds the sovereignty of States and their obligations under international law.

Our vision and guiding principles
8. This Global Compact expresses our collective commitment to improving cooperation on international migration. Migration has been part of the human experience throughout history, and we recognize that it is a source of prosperity, innovation and sustainable development in our globalized world, and that these positive impacts can be optimized by improving migration governance. The majority of migrants around the world today travel, live and work in a safe, orderly and regular manner. Nonetheless, migration undeniably affects our countries, communities, migrants and their families in very different and sometimes unpredictable ways.
9. It is crucial that the challenges and opportunities of international migration unite us, rather than divide us. This Global Compact sets out our common understanding, shared responsibilities and unity of purposeregarding migration, making it work for all.
Common understanding
10. This Global Compact is the product of an unprecedented review of evidence and data gathered during an open, transparent and inclusive process. We shared our realities and heard diverse voices, enriching and shaping our common understanding of this complex phenomenon. We learned that migration is a defining feature of our globalized world, connecting societies within and across all regions, making us all countries of origin, transit and destination. We recognize that there is a continuous need for international efforts to strengthen our knowledge and analysis of migration, as shared understandings will improve policies that unlock the potential of sustainable development for all. We must collect and disseminate quality data. We must ensure that current and potential migrants are fully informed about their rights, obligations and options for safe, orderly and regular migration, and are aware of the risks of irregular migration. We also must provide all our citizens with access to objective, evidence-based, clear information about the benefits and challenges of migration, with a view to dispelling misleading narratives that generate negative perceptions of migrants.
Shared responsibilities
11. This Global Compact offers a 360-degree vision of international migration and recognizes that a comprehensive approach is needed to optimize the overall benefits of migration, while addressing risks and challenges for individuals and communities in countries of origin, transit and destination. No country can address the challenges and opportunities of this global phenomenon on its own. With this comprehensive approach, we aim to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration, while reducing the incidence and negative impact of irregular migration through international cooperation and a combination of measures put forward in this Global Compact. We acknowledge our shared responsibilities to one another as States Members of the United Nations to address each other’s needs and concerns over migration, and an overarching obligation to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, while promoting the security and prosperity of all our communities.
12. This Global Compact aims to mitigate the adverse drivers and structural factors that hinder people from building and maintaining sustainable livelihoods in their countries of origin, and so compel them to seek a future elsewhere. It intends to reduce the risks and vulnerabilities migrants face at different stages of migration by respecting, protecting and fulfilling their human rights and providing them with care and assistance. It seeks to address legitimate concerns of communities, while recognizing that societies are undergoing demographic, economic, social and environmental changes at different scales that may have implications for and result from migration. It strives to create conducive conditions that enable all migrants to enrich our societies through their human, economic and social capacities, and thus facilitate their contributions to sustainable development at the local, national, regional and global levels.
Unity of purpose
13. This Global Compact recognizes that safe, orderly and regular migration works for all when it takes place in a well-informed, planned and consensual manner. Migration should never be an act of desperation. When it is, we must cooperate to respond to the needs of migrants in situations of vulnerability, and address the respective challenges. We must work together to create conditions that allow communities and individuals to live in safety and dignity in their own countries. We must save lives and keep migrants out of harm’s way. We must empower migrants to become full members of our societies, highlight their positive contributions, and promote inclusion and social cohesion. We must generate greater predictability and certainty for States, communities and migrants alike. To achieve this, we commit to facilitate and ensure safe, orderly and regular migration for the benefit of all.
14. Our success rests on the mutual trust, determination and solidarity of States to fulfil the objectives and commitments contained in this Global Compact. We unite, in a spirit of win-win cooperation, to address the challenges and opportunities of migration in all its dimensions through shared responsibility and innovative solutions. It is with this sense of common purpose that we take this historic step, fully aware that the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is a milestone, but not the end to our efforts. We commit to continue the multilateral dialogue at the United Nations through a periodic and effective follow-up and review mechanism, ensuring that the words in this document translate into concrete actions for the benefit of millions of people in every region of the world.
15. We agree that this Global Compact is based on a set of cross-cutting and interdependent guiding principles:
(a) People-centred. The Global Compact carries a strong human dimension, inherent to the migration experience itself. It promotes the well-being of migrants and the members of communities in countries of origin, transit and destination. As a result, the Global Compact places individuals at its core;
(b) International cooperation. The Global Compact is a non-legally binding cooperative framework that recognizes that no State can address migration on its own because of the inherently transnational nature of the phenomenon. It requires international, regional and bilateral cooperation and dialogue. Its authority rests on its consensual nature, credibility, collective ownership, joint implementation, follow-up and review;
(c) National sovereignty. The Global Compact reaffirms the sovereign right of States to determine their national migration policy and their prerogative to govern migration within their jurisdiction, in conformity with international law. Within their sovereign jurisdiction, States may distinguish between regular and irregular migration status, including as they determine their legislative and policy measures for the implementation of the Global Compact, taking into account different national realities, policies, priorities and requirements for entry, residence and work, in accordance with international law;
(d) Rule of law and due process. The Global Compact recognizes that respect for the rule of law, due process and access to justice are fundamental to all aspects of migration governance. This means that the State, public and privateinstitutions and entities, as well as persons themselves, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and are consistent with international law;
(e) Sustainable development. The Global Compact is rooted in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and builds upon its recognition that migration is a multidimensional reality of major relevance for the sustainable development of countries of origin, transit and destination, which requires coherent and comprehensive responses. Migration contributes to positive development outcomes and to realizing the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially when it is properly managed. The Global Compact aims to leverage the potential of migration for the achievement of all Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the impact this achievement will have on migration in the future;
(f) Human rights. The Global Compact is based on international human rights law and upholds the principles of non-regression and non-discrimination. By implementing the Global Compact, we ensure effective respect for and protection and fulfilment of the human rights of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, across all stages of the migration cycle. We also reaffirm the commitment to eliminate all forms of discrimination, including racism, xenophobia and intolerance, against migrants and their families;
(g) Gender-responsive. The Global Compact ensures that the human rights of women, men, girls and boys are respected at all stages of migration, that their specific needs are properly understood and addressed and that they are empowered as agents of change. It mainstreams a gender perspective and promotes gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, recognizing their independence, agency and leadership in order to move away from addressing migrant women primarily through a lens of victimhood;
(h) Child-sensitive. The Global Compact promotes existing international legal obligations in relation to the rights of the child, and upholds the principle of the best interests of the child at all times, as a primary consideration in all situations concerning children in the context of international migration, including unaccompanied and separated children;
(i) Whole-of-government approach. The Global Compact considers that migration is a multidimensional reality that cannot be addressed by one government policy sector alone. To develop and implement effective migration policies and practices, a whole-of-government approach is needed to ensure horizontal and vertical policy coherence across all sectors and levels of government;
(j) Whole-of-society approach. The Global Compact promotes broad multi-stakeholder partnerships to address migration in all its dimensions by including migrants, diasporas, local communities, civil society, academia, the private sector, parliamentarians, trade unions, national human rights institutions, the media and other relevant stakeholders in migration governance.

Our cooperative framework
16. With the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, we adopted a political declaration and a set of commitments. Reaffirming that Declaration in its entirety, we build upon it by laying out the following cooperative framework, comprising 23 objectives, implementation, as well as follow-up and review. Each objective contains a commitment, followed by a range of actions considered to be relevant policy instruments and best practices. To fulfil the 23 objectives, we will draw from these actions to achieve safe, orderly and regular migration along the migration cycle.
Objectives for safe, orderly and regular migration
1. Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies
2. Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
3. Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration
4. Ensure that all migrants have proof of legal identity and adequate documentation
5. Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
6. Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
7. Address and reduce vulnerabilities in migration
8. Save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants
9. Strengthen the transnational response to smuggling of migrants
10. Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration
11. Manage borders in an integrated, secure and coordinated manner
12. Strengthen certainty and predictability in migration procedures for appropriate screening, assessment and referral
13. Use migration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives
14. Enhance consular protection, assistance and cooperation throughout the migration cycle
15. Provide access to basic services for migrants
16. Empower migrants and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion
17. Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration
18. Invest in skills development and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences
19. Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
20. Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
21. Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
22. Establish mechanisms for the portability of social security entitlements and earned benefits
23. Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration

Objectives and commitments
Objective 1: Collect and utilize accurate and disaggregated data as a basis for evidence-based policies
17. We commit to strengthen the global evidence base on international migration by improving and investing in the collection, analysis and dissemination of accurate, reliable and comparable data, disaggregated by sex, age, migration status and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, while upholding the right to privacy under international human rights law and protecting personal data. We further commit to ensure that this data fosters research, guides coherent and evidence-based policymaking and well-informed public discourse, and allows for effective monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of commitments over time.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Elaborate and implement a comprehensive strategy for improving migration data at the local, national, regional and global levels, with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, under the guidance of the Statistical Commission of the United Nations, by harmonizing methodologies for data collection, and strengthening analysis and dissemination of migration-related data and indicators;
(b) Improve international comparability and compatibility of migration statistics and national data systems, including by further developing and applying the statistical definition of an international migrant, elaborating a set of standards to measure migrant stocks and flows, and documenting migration patterns and trends, characteristics of migrants, as well as drivers and impacts of migration;
(c) Develop a global programme to build and enhance national capacities in data collection, analysis and dissemination to share data, address data gaps and assess key migration trends, that encourages collaboration between relevant stakeholders at all levels, provides dedicated training, financial support and technical assistance, leverages new data sources, including big data, and is reviewed by the Statistical Commission on a regular basis;
(d) Collect, analyse and use data on the effects and benefits of migration, as well as the contributions of migrants and diasporas to sustainable development, with a view to informing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and related strategies and programmes at the local, national, regional and global levels;
(e) Support further development of and collaboration between existing global and regional databases and depositories, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Global Migration Data Portal and the World Bank Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, with a view to systematically consolidating relevant data in a transparent and user-friendly manner, while encouraging inter-agency collaboration to avoid duplication;
(f) Establish and strengthen regional centres for research and training on migration or migration observatories, such as the African Observatory for Migration and Development, to collect and analyse data in line with United Nations standards, including on best practices, the contributions of migrants, the overall economic, social and political benefits and challenges of migration in countries of origin, transit and destination, as well as drivers of migration, with a view to establishing shared strategies and maximizing the value of disaggregated migration data, in coordination with existing regional and subregional mechanisms;
(g) Improve national data collection by integrating migration-related topics into national censuses, as early as practicable, such as on country of birth, country of birth of parents, country of citizenship, country of residence five years prior to the census, most recent arrival date and reason for migrating, to ensure timely analysis and dissemination of results, disaggregated and tabulated in accordance with international standards, for statistical purposes;
(h) Conduct household, labour force and other surveys to collect information on the social and economic integration of migrants or add standard migration modules to existing household surveys to improve national, regional and international comparability, and make collected data available through public use of statistical microdata files;
(i) Enhance collaboration between State units responsible for migration data and national statistical offices to produce migration-related statistics, including by using administrative records for statistical purposes, such as border records, visas, resident permits, population registers and other relevant sources, while upholding the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(j) Develop and use country-specific migration profiles, which include disaggregated data on all migration-relevant aspects in a national context, including those on labour market needs, demand for and availability of skills, the economic, environmental and social impacts of migration, remittance transfer costs, health, education, occupation, living and working conditions, wages, and the needs of migrants and receiving communities, in order to develop evidence-based migration policies;
(k) Cooperate with relevant stakeholders in countries of origin, transit and destination to develop research, studies and surveys on the interrelationship between migration and the three dimensions of sustainable development, the contributions and skills of migrants and diasporas, as well as their ties to the countries of origin and destination.

Objective 2: Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
18. We commit to create conducive political, economic, social and environmental conditions for people to lead peaceful, productive and sustainable lives in their own country and to fulfil their personal aspirations, while ensuring that desperation and deteriorating environments do not compel them to seek a livelihood elsewhere through irregular migration. We further commit to ensure timely and full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as to build upon and invest in the implementation of other existing frameworks, in order to enhance the overall impact of the Global Compact to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Promote the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and the commitment to reach the furthest behind first, as well as the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030;
(b) Invest in programmes that accelerate States’ fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals with the aim of eliminating the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin, including through poverty eradication, food security, health and sanitation, education, inclusive economic growth, infrastructure, urban and rural development, employment creation, decent work, gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, resilience and disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation and adaptation, addressing the socioeconomic effects of all forms of violence, non-discrimination, the rule of law and good governance, access to justice and protection of human rights, as well as creating and maintaining peaceful and inclusive societies with effective, accountable and transparent institutions;
(c) Establish or strengthen mechanisms to monitor and anticipate the development of risks and threats that might trigger or affect migration movements, strengthen early warning systems, develop emergency procedures and toolkits, launch emergency operations and support post-emergency recovery, in close cooperation with and in support of other States, relevant national and local authorities, national human rights institutions and civil society;
(d) Invest in sustainable development at the local and national levels in all regions, allowing all people to improve their lives and meet their aspirations, by fostering sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, including through private and foreign direct investment and trade preferences, to create conducive conditions that allow communities and individuals to take advantage of opportunities in their own countries and drive sustainable development;
(e) Invest in human capital development by promoting entrepreneurship, education, vocational training and skills development programmes and partnerships, productive employment creation, in line with labour market needs, as well as in cooperation with the private sector and trade unions, with a view to reducing youth unemployment, avoiding brain drain and optimizing brain gain in countries of origin, and harnessing the demographic dividend;
(f) Strengthen collaboration between humanitarian and development actors, including by promoting joint analysis, multi-donor approaches and multi-year funding cycles, in order to develop long-term responses and outcomes that ensure respect for the rights of affected individuals, resilience and coping capacities of populations, as well as economic and social self-reliance, and by ensuring that these efforts take migration into account;
(g) Account for migrants in national emergency preparedness and response, including by taking into consideration relevant recommendations from State-led consultative processes, such as the Guidelines to Protect Migrants in Countries Experiencing Conflict or Natural Disaster (Migrants in Countries in Crisis Initiative Guidelines);
Natural disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and environmental degradation
(h) Strengthen joint analysis and sharing of information to better map, understand, predict and address migration movements, such as those that may result from sudden-onset and slow-onset natural disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, environmental degradation, as well as other precarious situations, while ensuring effective respect for and protection and fulfilment of the human rights of all migrants;
(i) Develop adaptation and resilience strategies to sudden-onset and slow-onset natural disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and environmental degradation, such as desertification, land degradation, drought and sea level rise, taking into account the potential implications for migration, while recognizing that adaptation in the country of origin is a priority;
(j) Integrate displacement considerations into disaster preparedness strategies and promote cooperation with neighbouring and other relevant countries to prepare for early warning, contingency planning, stockpiling, coordination mechanisms, evacuation planning, reception and assistance arrangements, and public information;
(k) Harmonize and develop approaches and mechanisms at the subregional and regional levels to address the vulnerabilities of persons affected by sudden-onset and slow-onset natural disasters, by ensuring that they have access to humanitarian assistance that meets their essential needs with full respect for their rights wherever they are, and by promoting sustainable outcomes that increase resilience and self-reliance, taking into account the capacities of all countries involved;
(l) Develop coherent approaches to address the challenges of migration movements in the context of sudden-onset and slow-onset natural disasters, including by taking into consideration relevant recommendations from State-led consultative processes, such as the Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change, and the Platform on Disaster Displacement.

Objective 3: Provide accurate and timely information at all stages of migration
19. We commit to strengthen our efforts to provide, make available and disseminate accurate, timely, accessible and transparent information on migration-related aspects for and between States, communities and migrants at all stages of migration. We further commit to use this information to develop migration policies that provide a high degree of predictability and certainty for all actors involved.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Launch and publicize a centralized and publicly accessible national website to make information available on regular migration options, such as on country-specific immigration laws and policies, visa requirements, application formalities, fees and conversion criteria, employment permit requirements, professional qualification requirements, credential assessment and equivalences, training and study opportunities, and living costs and conditions, in order to inform the decisions of migrants;
(b) Promote and improve systematic bilateral, regional and international cooperation and dialogue to exchange information on migration-related trends, including through joint databases, online platforms, international training centres and liaison networks, while upholding the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(c) Establish open and accessible information points along relevant migration routes that can refer migrants to child-sensitive and gender-responsive support and counselling, offer opportunities to communicate with consular representatives of the country of origin, and make available relevant information, including on human rights and fundamental freedoms, appropriate protection and assistance, options and pathways for regular migration, and possibilities for return, in a language that the person concerned understands;
(d) Provide newly arrived migrants with targeted, gender-responsive, child-sensitive, accessible and comprehensive information and legal guidance on their rights and obligations, including on compliance with national and local laws, obtaining of work and resident permits, status adjustments, registration with authorities, access to justice to file complaints about rights violations, as well as access to basic services;
(e) Promote multilingual, gender-responsive and evidence-based information campaigns and organize awareness-raising events and pre-departure orientation training in countries of origin, in cooperation with local authorities, consular and diplomatic missions, the private sector, academia, migrant and diaspora organizations and civil society, in order to promote safe, orderly and regular migration, as well as to highlight the risks associated with irregular and unsafe migration.

Objective 4: Ensure that all migrants have proof of legal identity and adequate documentation
20. We commit to fulfil the right of all individuals to a legal identity by providing all our nationals with proof of nationality and relevant documentation, allowing national and local authorities to ascertain a migrant’s legal identity upon entry, during stay and for return, as well as to ensure effective migration procedures, efficient service provision and improved public safety. We further commit to ensure, through appropriate measures, that migrants are issued adequate documentation and civil registry documents, such as birth, marriage and death certificates, at all stages of migration, as a means to empower migrants to effectively exercise their human rights.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Improve civil registry systems, with a particular focus on reaching unregistered persons and our nationals residing in other countries, including by providing relevant identity and civil registry documents, strengthening capacities, and investing in information and communications technology solutions, while upholding the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(b) Harmonize travel documents in line with the specifications of the International Civil Aviation Organization to facilitate interoperable and universal recognition of travel documents, as well as to combat identity fraud and document forgery, including by investing in digitalization, and strengthening mechanisms for biometric data-sharing, while upholding the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(c) Ensure adequate, timely, reliable and accessible consular documentation to our nationals residing in other countries, including identity and travel documents, making use of information and communications technology, as well as community outreach, particularly in remote areas;
(d) Facilitate access to personal documentation, such as passports and visas, and ensure that relevant regulations and criteria for obtaining such documentation are non-discriminatory, by undertaking a gender-responsive and age-sensitive review in order to prevent increased risk of vulnerabilities throughout the migration cycle;
(e) Strengthen measures to reduce statelessness, including by registering migrants’ births, ensuring that women and men can equally confer their nationality on their children, andproviding nationality to children born in another State’s territory, especially in situations where a child would otherwise be stateless, fully respecting the human right to a nationality and in accordance with national legislation;
(f) Review and revise requirements to prove nationality at service delivery centres to ensure that migrants without proof of nationality or legal identity are not precluded from accessing basic services nor denied their human rights;
(g) Build upon existing practices at the local level that facilitate participation in community life, such as interaction with authorities and access to relevant services, through the issuance of registration cards to all persons living in a municipality, including migrants, that contain basic personal information, while not constituting entitlements to citizenship or residency.

Objective 5: Enhance availability and flexibility of pathways for regular migration
21. We commit to adapt options and pathways for regular migration in a manner that facilitates labour mobility and decent work reflecting demographic and labour market realities, optimizes education opportunities, upholds the right to family life, and responds to the needs of migrants in a situation of vulnerability, with a view to expanding and diversifying availability of pathways for safe, orderly and regular migration.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Develop human rights-based and gender-responsive bilateral, regional and multilateral labour mobility agreements with sector-specific standard terms of employment in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, drawing on relevant International Labour Organization (ILO) standards, guidelines and principles, in compliance with international human rights and labour law;
(b) Facilitate regional and cross-regional labour mobility through international and bilateral cooperation arrangements, such as free movement regimes, visa liberalization or multiple-country visas, and labour mobility cooperation frameworks, in accordance with national priorities, local market needs and skills supply;
(c) Review and revise existing options and pathways for regular migration, with a view to optimizing skills-matching in labour markets and addressing demographic realities and development challenges and opportunities, in accordance with local and national labour market demands and skills supply, in consultation with the private sector and other relevant stakeholders;
(d) Develop flexible, rights-based and gender-responsive labour mobility schemes for migrants, in accordance with local and national labour market needs and skills supply at all skills levels, including temporary, seasonal, circular and fast-track programmes in areas of labour shortages, by providing flexible, convertible and non discriminatory visa and permit options, such as for permanent and temporary work, multiple-entry study, business, visit, investment and entrepreneurship;
(e) Promote effective skills-matching in the national economy by involving local authorities and other relevant stakeholders, particularly the private sector and trade unions, in the analysis of the local labour market, identification of skills gaps, definition of required skills profiles, and evaluation of the efficacy of labour migration policies, in order to ensure market-responsive contractual labour mobility through regular pathways;
(f) Foster efficient and effective skills-matching programmes by reducing visa and permit processing time frames for standard employment authorizations, and by offering accelerated and facilitated visa and permit processing for employers with a track record of compliance;
(g) Develop or build on existing national and regional practices for admission and stay of appropriate duration based on compassionate, humanitarian or other considerations for migrants compelled to leave their countries of origin owing to sudden-onset natural disasters and other precarious situations, such as by providing humanitarian visas, private sponsorships, access to education for children, and temporary work permits,while adaptation in or return to their country of origin is not possible;
(h) Cooperate to identify, develop and strengthen solutions for migrants compelled to leave their countries of origin owing to slow-onset natural disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and environmental degradation, such as desertification, land degradation, drought and sea level rise, including by devising planned relocation and visa options, in cases where adaptation in or return to their country of origin is not possible;
(i) Facilitate access to procedures for family reunification for migrants at all skills levels through appropriate measures that promote the realization of the right to family life and the best interests of the child, including by reviewing and revising applicable requirements, such as on income, language proficiency, length of stay, work authorization, and access to social security and services;
(j) Expand available options for academic mobility, including through bilateral and multilateral agreements that facilitate academic exchanges, such as scholarships for students and academic professionals, visiting professorships, joint training programmes and international research opportunities, in cooperation with academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders.

Objective 6: Facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguard conditions that ensure decent work
22. We commit to review existing recruitment mechanisms to guarantee that they are fair and ethical, and to protect all migrant workers against all forms of exploitation and abuse in order to guarantee decent work and maximize the socioeconomic contributions of migrants in both their countries of origin and destination.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Promote signature and ratification of, accession to and implementation of relevant international instruments related to international labour migration, labour rights, decent work and forced labour;
(b) Build upon the work of existing bilateral, subregional and regional platforms that have overcome obstacles and identified best practices in labour mobility, by facilitating cross-regional dialogue to share this knowledge, and to promote full respect for the human and labour rights of migrant workers at all skills levels, including migrant domestic workers;
(c) Improve regulations on public and private recruitment agenciesin order to align them with international guidelines and best practices, and prohibit recruiters and employers from charging or shifting recruitment fees or related costs to migrant workers in order to prevent debt bondage, exploitation and forced labour, including by establishing mandatory, enforceable mechanisms for effective regulation and monitoring of the recruitment industry;
(d) Establish partnerships with all relevant stakeholders, including employers, migrant workers’ organizations and trade unions, to ensure that migrant workers are provided with written contracts and are made aware of the provisions therein, the regulations relating to international labour recruitment and employment in the country of destination, and their rights and obligations, as well as of how to access effective complaint and redress mechanisms, in a language they understand;
(e) Enact and implement national laws that sanction human and labour rights violations, especially in cases of forced and child labour, and cooperate with the private sector, including employers, recruiters, subcontractors and suppliers, to build partnerships that promote conditions for decent work, prevent abuse and exploitation, and ensure that the roles and responsibilities within the recruitment and employment processes are clearly outlined, thereby enhancing supply chain transparency;
(f) Strengthen the enforcement of fair and ethical recruitment and decent work norms and policies by enhancing the abilities of labour inspectors and other authorities to better monitor recruiters, employers and service providers in all sectors, ensuring that international human rights and labour law is observed to prevent all forms of exploitation, slavery, servitude and forced, compulsory or child labour;
(g) Develop and strengthen labour migration and fair and ethical recruitment processes that allow migrants to change employers and modify the conditions or length of their stay with minimal administrative burden, while promoting greater opportunities for decent work and respect for international human rights and labour law;
(h) Take measures that prohibit the confiscation or non-consensual retention of work contracts and travel or identity documents from migrants, in order to prevent abuse, all forms of exploitation, forced, compulsory and child labour, extortion and other situations of dependency, and to allow migrants to fully exercise their human rights;
(i) Provide migrant workers engaged in remunerated and contractual labour with the same labour rights and protections extended to all workers in the respective sector, such as the rights to just and favourable conditions of work, to equal pay for work of equal value, to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through wage protection mechanisms, social dialogue and membership in trade unions;
(j) Ensure that migrants working in the informal economy have safe access to effective reporting, complaint and redress mechanisms in cases of exploitation, abuse or violations of their rights in the workplace, in a manner that does not exacerbate vulnerabilities of migrants who denounce such incidents and allows them to participate in respective legal proceedings whether in the country of origin or the country of destination;
(k) Review relevant national labour laws, employment policies and programmes to ensure that they include considerations of the specific needs and contributions of women migrant workers, especially in domestic work and lower-skilled occupations, and adopt specific measures to prevent, report, address and provide effective remedy for all forms of exploitation and abuse, including sexual and gender-based violence, as a basis to promote gender-responsive labour mobility policies;
(l) Develop and improve national policies and programmes relating to international labour mobility, including by taking into consideration relevant recommendations of the ILO General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the IOM International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS).

Objective 7: Address and reduce vulnerabilities in migration
23. We commit to respond to the needs of migrants who face situations of vulnerability, which may arise from the circumstances in which they travel or the conditions they face in countries of origin, transit and destination, by assisting them and protecting their human rights, in accordance with our obligations under international law. We further commit to uphold the best interests of the child at all times, as a primary consideration in situations where children are concerned, and to apply a gender-responsive approach in addressing vulnerabilities, including in responses to mixed movements.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Review relevant policies and practices to ensure that they do not create, exacerbate or unintentionally increase vulnerabilities of migrants, including by applying a human rights-based, gender- and disability-responsive, as well as age- and child-sensitive approach;
(b) Establish comprehensive policies and develop partnerships that provide migrants in a situation of vulnerability, regardless of their migration status, with necessary support at all stages of migration, through identification and assistance, as well as protection of their human rights, in particular in cases related to women at risk, children, especially those unaccompanied or separated from their families, members of ethnic and religious minorities, victims of violence, including sexual and gender-based violence, older persons, persons with disabilities, persons who are discriminated against on any basis, indigenous peoples, workers facing exploitation and abuse, domestic workers, victims of trafficking in persons, and migrants subject to exploitation and abuse in the context of smuggling of migrants;
(c) Develop gender-responsive migration policies to address the particular needs and vulnerabilities of migrant women, girls and boys, which may include assistance, health care, psychological and other counselling services, as well as access to justice and effective remedies, especially in cases of sexual and gender-based violence, abuse and exploitation;
(d) Review relevant existing labour laws and work conditions to identify and effectively address workplace-related vulnerabilities and abuses of migrant workers at all skills levels, including domestic workers, and those working in the informal economy, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, particularly the private sector;
(e) Account for migrant children in national child protection systems by establishing robust procedures for the protection of migrant children in relevant legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings and decisions, as well as in all migration policies and programmes that impact children, including consular protection policies and services, as well as cross-border cooperation frameworks, in order to ensure that the best interests of the child are appropriately integrated, consistently interpreted and applied in coordination and cooperation with child protection authorities;
(f) Protect unaccompanied and separated children at all stages of migration through the establishment of specialized procedures for their identification, referral, care and family reunification, and provide access to health-care services, including mental health, education, legal assistance and the right to be heard in administrative and judicial proceedings, including by swiftly appointing a competent and impartial legal guardian, as essential means to address their particular vulnerabilities and discrimination, protect them from all forms of violence and provide access to sustainable solutions that are in their best interests;
(g) Ensure that migrants have access to public or affordable independent legal assistance and representation in legal proceedings that affect them, including during any related judicial or administrative hearing, in order tosafeguard that all migrants, everywhere, are recognized as persons before the law and that the delivery of justice is impartial and non-discriminatory;
(h) Developaccessible and expedient procedures that facilitate transitions from one status to another and inform migrants of their rights and obligations, so as to prevent migrants from falling into an irregular status in the country of destination, to reduce precariousness of status and related vulnerabilities, as well as to enable individual status assessments for migrants, including for those who have fallen out of regular status, without fear of arbitrary expulsion;
(i) Build on existing practices to facilitate access for migrants in an irregular status to an individual assessment that may lead to regular status, on a case-by-case basis and with clear and transparent criteria, especially in cases where children, youth and families are involved, as an option for reducing vulnerabilities, as well as for States to ascertain better knowledge of the resident population;
(j) Apply specific support measures to ensure that migrants caught up in situations of crisis in countries of transit and destination have access to consular protection and humanitarian assistance, including by facilitating cross-border and broader international cooperation, as well as by taking migrant populations into account in crisis preparedness, emergency response and post-crisis action;
(k) Involve local authorities and relevant stakeholders in the identification, referral and assistance of migrants in a situation of vulnerability, including through agreements with national protection bodies, legal aid and service providers, as well as the engagement of mobile response teams, where they exist;
(l) Develop national policies and programmes to improve national responses that address the needs of migrants in situations of vulnerability, including by taking into consideration relevant recommendationsof the Global Migration Group’sPrinciples and Guidelines, Supported by Practical Guidance, on the Human Rights Protection of Migrants in Vulnerable Situations.

Objective 8: Save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants
24. We commit to cooperate internationally to save lives and prevent migrant deaths and injuries through individual or joint search and rescue operations, standardized collection and exchange of relevant information, assuming collective responsibility to preserve the lives of all migrants, in accordance with international law. We further commit to identify those who have died or gone missing, and to facilitate communication with affected families.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Develop procedures and agreements on search and rescue of migrants, with the primary objective of protecting migrants’ right to life, that uphold the prohibition of collective expulsion, guarantee due process and individual assessments, enhance reception and assistance capacities, and ensure that the provision of assistance of an exclusively humanitarian nature for migrants is not considered unlawful;
(b) Review the impacts of migration-related policies and laws to ensure that these do not raise or create the risk of migrants going missing, including by identifying dangerous transit routes used by migrants, by working with other States as well as relevant stakeholders and international organizations to identify contextual risks and establishing mechanisms for preventing and responding to such situations, with particular attention to migrant children, especially those unaccompanied or separated;
(c) Enable migrants to communicate with their families without delay to inform them that they are alive by facilitating access to means of communication along routes and at their destination, including in places of detention, as well as access to consular missions, local authorities and organizations that can provide assistance with family contacts, especially in cases of unaccompanied or separated migrant children, as well as adolescents;
(d) Establish transnational coordination channels, including through consular cooperation, and designate contact points for families looking for missing migrants, through which families can be kept informed on the status of the search and obtain other relevant information, while respecting the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(e) Collect, centralize and systematize data regarding corpses and ensure traceability after burial, in accordance with internationally accepted forensic standards, and establish coordination channels at the transnational level to facilitate identification and the provision of information to families;
(f) Make all efforts, including through international cooperation, to recover, identify and repatriate to their countries of origin the remains of deceased migrants, respecting the wishes of grieving families, and, in the case of unidentified individuals, facilitate the identification and subsequent recovery of the mortal remains, ensuring that the remains of deceased migrants are treated in a dignified, respectful and proper manner.

Objective 9: Strengthen the transnational response to smuggling of migrants
25. We commit to intensify joint efforts to prevent and counter smuggling of migrants by strengthening capacities and international cooperation to prevent, investigate, prosecute and penalize the smuggling of migrants in order to end the impunity of smuggling networks. We further commit to ensure that migrants shall not become liable to criminal prosecution for the fact of having been the object of smuggling, notwithstanding potential prosecution for other violations of national law. We also commit to identify smuggled migrants to protect their human rights, taking into consideration the special needs of women and children, and assisting in particular those migrants subject to smuggling under aggravating circumstances, in accordance with international law.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Promote ratification of, accession to and implementation of the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime;
(b) Use transnational, regional and bilateral mechanisms to share relevant information and intelligence on smuggling routes, modus operandi and financial transactions of smuggling networks, vulnerabilities faced by smuggled migrants, and other data to dismantle the smuggling networks and enhance joint responses;
(c) Develop gender-responsive and child-sensitive cooperation protocols along migration routes that outline step-by-step measures to adequately identify and assist smuggled migrants, in accordance with international law, as well as to facilitate cross-border law enforcement and intelligence cooperation in order to prevent and counter smuggling of migrants so as to end impunity for smugglers and prevent irregular migration, while ensuring that counter-smuggling measures are in full respect for human rights;
(d) Adopt legislative and other measures as may be necessary to establish the smuggling of migrants as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally and in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit for the smuggler, and include enhanced penalties for smuggling of migrants under aggravating circumstances, in accordance with international law;
(e) Design, review or amend relevant policies and procedures to distinguish between the crimes of smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons by using the correct definitions and applying distinct responses to these separate crimes, while recognizing that smuggled migrants might also become victims of trafficking in persons, therefore requiring appropriate protection and assistance;
(f) Take measures to prevent the smuggling of migrants along the migration cycle, in partnership with other States and relevant stakeholders, including by cooperating in the fields of development, public information, justice, as well as training and technical capacity-building at the national and local levels, paying special attention to geographical areas from which irregular migration systematically originates.

Objective 10: Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration
26. We commit to take legislative or other measures to prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration by strengthening capacities and international cooperation to investigate, prosecute and penalize trafficking in persons, discouraging demand that fosters exploitation leading to trafficking, and ending impunity of trafficking networks. We further commit to enhance the identification and protection of, and assistance to, migrants who have become victims of trafficking, paying particular attention to women and children.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Promote ratification of, accession to and implementation of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime;
(b) Promote the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons and take into consideration relevant recommendations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons and other relevant UNODC documents when developing and implementing national and regional policies and measures relating to trafficking in persons;
(c) Monitor irregular migration routes which may be exploited by human trafficking networks to recruit and victimize smuggled or irregular migrants, in order to strengthen cooperation at the bilateral, regional and cross-regional levels on prevention, investigation and prosecution of perpetrators, as well as on identification and protection of, and assistance to, victims of trafficking in persons;
(d) Share relevant information and intelligence through transnational and regional mechanisms, including on the modus operandi, economic models and conditions driving trafficking networks, strengthen cooperation between all relevant actors, including financial intelligence units, regulators and financial institutions, to identify and disrupt financial flows associated with trafficking in persons, and enhance judicial cooperation and enforcement so as to ensure accountability and end impunity;
(e) Apply measures that address the particular vulnerabilities of women, men, girls and boys, regardless of their migration status, who have become or are at risk of becoming victims of trafficking in persons and other forms of exploitation, by facilitating access to justice and safe reporting without fear of detention, deportation or penalty, focusing on prevention, identification, appropriate protection and assistance, and addressing specific forms of abuse and exploitation;
(f) Ensure that definitions of trafficking in persons used in legislation, migration policy and planning, as well as in judicial prosecutions, are in accordance with international law, in order to distinguish between the crimes of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants;
(g) Strengthen legislation and relevant procedures to enhance prosecution of traffickers, avoid criminalization of migrants who are victims of trafficking in persons for trafficking-related offences, and ensure that the victim receives appropriate protection and assistance, not conditional upon cooperation with the authorities against suspected traffickers;
(h) Provide migrants who have become victims of trafficking in persons with protection and assistance, such as measures for physical, psychological and social recovery, as well as measures that permit them to remain in the country of destination, temporarily or permanently, in appropriate cases, facilitating victims’ access to justice, including redress and compensation, in accordance with international law;
(i) Create national and local information systems and training programmes which alert and educate citizens, employers, as well as public officials and law enforcement officers, and strengthen capacities to identify signs of trafficking in persons, such as forced, compulsory or child labour, in countries of origin, transit and destination;
(j) Invest in awareness-raising campaigns, in partnership with relevant stakeholders, for migrants and prospective migrants on the risks and dangers of trafficking in persons, and provide them with information on preventing and reporting trafficking activities.

Objective 11: Manage borders in an integrated, secure and coordinated manner
27. We commit to manage our national borders in a coordinated manner, promoting bilateral and regional cooperation, ensuring security for States, communities and migrants, and facilitating safe and regular cross-border movements of people while preventing irregular migration. We further commit to implement border management policies that respect national sovereignty, the rule of law, obligations under international law, and the human rights of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, and are non-discriminatory, gender-responsive and child-sensitive.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Enhance international, regional and cross-regional border management cooperation, taking into consideration the particular situation of countries of transit, on proper identification, timely and efficient referral, assistance and appropriate protection of migrants in situations of vulnerability at or near international borders, in compliance with international human rights law, by adopting whole-of-government approaches, implementing joint cross-border training and fostering capacity-building measures;
(b) Establish appropriate structures and mechanisms for effective integrated border management by ensuring comprehensive and efficient border crossing procedures, including through pre-screening of arriving persons, pre-reporting by carriers of passengers, and use of information and communications technology, while upholding the principle of non-discrimination, respecting the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(c) Review and revise relevant national procedures for border screening, individual assessment and interview processes to ensure due process at international borders and that all migrants are treated in accordance with international human rights law, including through cooperation with national human rights institutions and other relevant stakeholders;
(d) Develop technical cooperation agreements that enable States to request and offer assets, equipment and other technical assistance to strengthen border management, particularly in the area of search and rescue as well as other emergency situations;
(e) Ensure that child protection authorities are promptly informed and assigned to participate in procedures for the determination of the best interests of the child once an unaccompanied or separated child crosses an international border, in accordance with international law, including by training border officials in the rights of the child and child-sensitive procedures, such as those that prevent family separation and reunite families when family separation occurs;
(f) Review and revise relevant laws and regulations to determine whether sanctions are appropriate to address irregular entry or stay and, if so, to ensure that they are proportionate, equitable, non-discriminatory and fully consistent with due process and other obligations under international law;
(g) Improve cross-border collaboration among neighbouring and other States relating to the treatment given to persons crossing or seeking to cross international borders, including by taking into consideration relevant recommendations from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights at International Borders when identifying best practices.

Objective 12: Strengthen certainty and predictability in migration proceduresfor appropriate screening, assessment and referral
28. We commit to increase legal certainty and predictability of migration procedures by developing and strengthening effective and human rights-based mechanisms for the adequate and timely screeningand individual assessment of all migrants for the purpose of identifying and facilitating access to the appropriate referral procedures, in accordance with international law.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Increase transparency and accessibility of migration procedures by communicating the requirements for entry, admission, stay, work, study or other activities, and introducing technology to simplify application procedures, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and expenses for States and migrants;
(b) Develop and conduct intra- and cross-regional specialized human rights and trauma-informed training for first responders and government officials, including law enforcement authorities, border officials, consular representatives and judicial bodies, to facilitate and standardize identification and referral of, as well as appropriate assistance and counselling in a culturally sensitive way to, victims of trafficking in persons, migrants in situations of vulnerability, including children, in particular those unaccompanied or separated, and persons affected by any form of exploitation and abuse related to smuggling of migrants under aggravating circumstances;
(c) Establish gender-responsive and child-sensitive referral mechanisms, including improved screening measures and individual assessments at borders and places of first arrival, by applying standardized operating procedures developed in coordination with local authorities, national human rights institutions, international organizations and civil society;
(d) Ensure that migrant children are promptly identified at places of first arrival in countries of transit and destination, and, if unaccompanied or separated, are swiftly referred to child protection authorities and other relevant services as well as appointed a competent and impartial legal guardian, that family unity is protected, and that anyone legitimately claiming to be a child is treated as such unless otherwise determined through a multidisciplinary, independent and child-sensitive age assessment;
(e) Ensure that, in the context of mixed movements, relevant information on rights and obligations under national laws and procedures, including on entry and stay requirements, available forms of protection, as well as options for return and reintegration, is appropriately, promptly and effectively communicated, and is accessible.

Objective 13: Use immigration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives
29. We commit to ensure that any detention in the context of international migration follows due process, is non arbitrary, is based on law,necessity, proportionality and individual assessments, is carried out by authorized officials and is for the shortest possible period of time, irrespective of whether detention occurs at the moment of entry, in transit or in proceedings of return, and regardless of the type of place where the detention occurs. We further commit to prioritize non-custodial alternatives to detention that are in line with international law, and to take a human rights-based approach to any detention of migrants, using detention as a measure of last resort only.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Use existing relevant human rights mechanisms to improve independent monitoring of migrant detention, ensuring that it is a measure of last resort, that human rights violations do not occur, and that States promote, implement and expand alternatives to detention, favouring non-custodial measures and community-based care arrangements, especially in the case of families and children;
(b) Consolidate a comprehensive repository to disseminate best practices of human rights-based alternatives to detention in the context of international migration, including by facilitating regular exchanges and the development of initiatives based on successful practices among States, and between States and relevant stakeholders;
(c) Review and revise relevant legislation, policies and practices related to immigration detention to ensure that migrants are not detained arbitrarily, that decisions to detain are based on law, are proportionate, have a legitimate purpose, and are taken on an individual basis, in full compliance with due process and procedural safeguards, and that immigration detention is not promoted as a deterrent or used as a form of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of migrants, in accordance with international human rights law;
(d) Provide access to justice for all migrants in countries of transit and destination who are or may be subject to detention, including by facilitating access to free or affordable legal advice and assistance of a qualified and independent lawyer, as well as access to information and the right to regular review of a detention order;
(e) Ensure that all migrants in detention are informed about the reasons for their detention, in a language they understand, and facilitate the exercise of their rights, including to communicate with the respective consular or diplomatic missions without delay, legal representatives and family members, in accordance with international law and due process guarantees;
(f) Reduce the negative and potentially lasting effects of detention on migrants by guaranteeing due process and proportionality, that it is for the shortest period of time, that it safeguards physical and mental integrity, and that, at a minimum, access to food, basic health care, legal orientation and assistance, information and communication as well as adequate accommodation is granted, in accordance with international human rights law;
(g) Ensure that all governmental authorities and private actors duly charged with administering immigration detention do so in a way consistent with human rights and are trained on non-discrimination and the prevention of arbitrary arrest and detention in the context of international migration, and are held accountable for violations or abuses of human rights;
(h) Protect and respect the rights and best interests of the child at all times, regardless of migration status, by ensuring availability and accessibility of a viable range of alternatives to detention in non-custodial contexts, favouring community-based care arrangements, that ensure access to education and health care, and respect the right to family life and family unity, and by working to end the practice of child detention in the context of international migration.

Objective 14: Enhance consular protection, assistance and cooperation throughout the migration cycle
30. We commit to strengthen consular protection of and assistance to our nationals abroad, as well as consular cooperation between States, in order to better safeguard the rights and interests of all migrants at all times, and to build upon the functions of consular missions to enhance interactions between migrants and State authorities of countries of origin, transit and destination, in accordance with international law.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Cooperate to build consular capacities, train consular officers, promote arrangements for providing consular services collectively where individual States lack capacity, including through technical assistance, and develop bilateral or regional agreements on various aspects of consular cooperation;
(b) Involve relevant consular and immigration personnel in existing global and regional forums on migration in order to exchange information and best practices about issues of mutual concern that pertain to citizens abroad and contribute to comprehensive and evidence-based migration policy development;
(c) Conclude bilateral or regional agreements on consular assistance and representation in places where States have an interest in strengthening effective consular services related to migration, but do not have a diplomatic or consular presence;
(d) Strengthen consular capacities in order to identify, protect and assist our nationals abroad who are in a situation of vulnerability, including victims of human and labour rights violations or abuse, victims of crime, victims of trafficking in persons, migrants subject to smuggling under aggravating circumstances, and migrant workers exploited in the process of recruitment, by providing training to consular officers on human rights-based, gender-responsive and child-sensitive actions in this regard;
(e) Provide our nationals abroad with the opportunity to register with the country of origin, in close cooperation with consular, national and local authorities, as well as relevant migrant organizations, as a means to facilitate information, services and assistance to migrants in emergency situations and ensure migrants’ accessibility to relevant and timely information, such as by establishing helplines and consolidating national digital databases, while upholding the right to privacy and protecting personal data;
(f) Provide consular support to our nationals through advice, including on local laws and customs, interaction with authorities, financial inclusion and business establishment, as well as through the issuance of relevant documentation, such as travel documents and consular identity documents that may facilitate access to services, assistance in emergency situations, the opening of a bank account, and access to remittance facilities.

Objective 15: Provide access to basic services for migrants
31. We commit to ensure that all migrants, regardless of their migration status, can exercise their human rights through safe access to basic services. We further commit to strengthen migrant-inclusive service delivery systems, notwithstanding that nationals and regular migrants may be entitled to more comprehensive service provision, while ensuring that any differential treatment must be based on law,be proportionate and pursue a legitimate aim, in accordance with international human rights law.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Enact laws and take measures to ensure that service delivery does not amount to discrimination against migrants on the grounds of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability or other grounds irrespective of cases where differential provision of services based on migration status might apply;
(b) Ensure that cooperation between service providers and immigration authorities does not exacerbate vulnerabilities of irregular migrants by compromising their safe access to basic services or by unlawfully infringing upon the human rights to privacy, liberty and security of person at places of basic service delivery;
(c) Establish and strengthen holistic and easily accessible service points at the local level that are migrant-inclusive, offer relevant information on basic services in a gender- and disability-responsive as well as child-sensitive manner, and facilitate safe access thereto;
(d) Establish or mandate independent institutions at the national or local level, such as national human rights institutions, to receive, investigate and monitor complaints about situations in which migrants’ access to basic services is systematically denied or hindered, facilitate access to redress, and work towards a change in practice;
(e) Incorporate the health needs of migrants into national and local health-care policies and plans, such as by strengthening capacities for service provision, facilitating affordable and non-discriminatory access, reducing communication barriers, and training health-care providers on culturally sensitive service delivery, in order to promote the physical and mental health of migrants and communities overall, including by taking into consideration relevant recommendations from the World Health Organization Framework of Priorities and Guiding Principles to Promote the Health of Refugees and Migrants;
(f) Provide inclusive and equitable quality education to migrant children and youth, as well as facilitate access to lifelong learning opportunities, including by strengthening the capacities of education systems and by facilitating non-discriminatory access to early childhood development, formal schooling, non-formal education programmes for children for whom the formal system is inaccessible, on-the-job and vocational training, technical education and language training, as well as by fostering partnerships with all stakeholders that can support this endeavour.

Objective 16: Empower migrants and societies to realize full inclusion and social cohesion
32. We commit to foster inclusive and cohesive societies by empowering migrants to become active members of society and promoting the reciprocal engagement of receiving communities and migrants in the exercise of their rights and obligations towards each other, including observance of national laws and respect for customs of the country of destination. We further commit to strengthen the welfare of all members of societies by minimizing disparities, avoiding polarization and increasing public confidence in policies and institutions related to migration, in line with the acknowledgement that fully integrated migrants are better positioned to contribute to prosperity.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Promote mutual respect for the cultures, traditions and customs of communities of destination and of migrants by exchanging and implementing best practices on integration policies, programmes and activities, including on ways to promote acceptance of diversity and facilitate social cohesion and inclusion;
(b) Establish comprehensive and needs-based pre-departure and post-arrival programmes that may include rights and obligations, basic language training, as well as orientation about social norms and customs in the country of destination;
(c) Develop national short-, medium- and long-term policy goals regarding the inclusion of migrants in societies, including on labour market integration, family reunification, education, non-discrimination and health, including by fostering partnerships with relevant stakeholders;
(d) Work towards inclusive labour markets and full participation of migrant workers in the formal economy by facilitating access to decent work and employment for which they are most qualified, in accordance with local and national labour market demands and skills supply;
(e) Empower migrant women by eliminating gender-based discriminatory restrictions on formal employment, ensuring the right to freedom of association and facilitating access to relevant basic services, as measures to promote their leadership and guarantee their full, free and equal participation in society and the economy;
(f) Establish community centres or programmes at the local level to facilitate migrant participation in the receiving society by involving migrants, community members, diaspora organizations, migrant associations and local authorities in intercultural dialogue, sharing of stories, mentorship programmes and development of business ties that improve integration outcomes and foster mutual respect;
(g) Capitalize on the skills, cultural and language proficiency of migrants and receiving communities by developing and promoting peer-to-peer training exchanges, gender-responsive, vocational and civic integration courses and workshops;
(h) Support multicultural activities through sports, music, arts, culinary festivals, volunteering and other social events that will facilitate mutual understanding and appreciation of migrant cultures and those of destination communities;
(i) Promote school environments that are welcoming and safe, and support the aspirations of migrant children by enhancing relationships within the school community, incorporating evidence-based information about migration into education curricula, and dedicating targeted resources to schools with a high concentration of migrant children for integration activities in order to promote respect for diversity and inclusion, and to prevent all forms of discrimination, including racism, xenophobia and intolerance.

Objective 17: Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration
33. We commit to eliminate all forms of discrimination, condemn and counter expressions, acts and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, violence, xenophobia and related intolerance against all migrants in conformity with international human rights law. We further commit to promote an open and evidence-based public discourse on migration and migrants in partnership with all parts of society, that generates a more realistic, humane and constructive perception in this regard. We also commit to protect freedom of expression in accordance with international law, recognizing that an open and free debate contributes to a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of migration.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Enact, implement or maintain legislation that penalizes hate crimes and aggravated hate crimes targeting migrants, and train law enforcement and other public officials to identify, prevent and respond to such crimes and other acts of violence that target migrants, as well as to provide medical, legal and psychosocial assistance for victims;
(b) Empower migrants and communities to denounce any acts of incitement to violence directed towards migrants by informing them of available mechanisms for redress, and ensure that those who actively participate in the commission of a hate crime targeting migrants are held accountable, in accordance with national legislation, while upholding international human rights law, in particular the right to freedom of expression;
(c) Promote independent, objective and quality reporting of media outlets, including Internet-based information, including by sensitizing and educating media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology, investing in ethical reporting standards and advertising, and stopping allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants, in full respect for the freedom of the media;
(d) Establish mechanisms to prevent, detect and respond to racial, ethnic and religious profiling of migrants by public authorities, as well as systematic instances of intolerance, xenophobia, racism and all other multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, in partnership with national human rights institutions, including by tracking and publishing trend analyses, and ensuring access to effective complaint and redress mechanisms;
(e) Provide migrants, especially migrant women, with access to national and regional complaint and redress mechanisms with a view to promoting accountability and addressing governmental actions related to discriminatory acts and manifestations carried out against migrants and their families;
(f) Promote awareness-raising campaigns targeted at communities of origin, transit and destination in order to inform public perceptions regarding the positive contributions of safe, orderly and regular migration, based on evidence and facts, and to end racism, xenophobia and stigmatization against all migrants;
(g) Engage migrants, political, religious and community leaders, as well as educators and service providers, to detect and prevent incidences of intolerance, racism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination against migrants and diasporas, and support activities in local communities to promote mutual respect, including in the context of electoral campaigns.

Objective 18: Invest in skills development and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences
34. We commit to invest in innovative solutions that facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences of migrant workers at all skills levels, and promote demand-driven skills development to optimize the employability of migrants in formal labour markets in countries of destination and in countries of origin upon return, as well as to ensure decent work in labour migration.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Develop standards and guidelines for the mutual recognition of foreign qualifications and non-formally acquired skills in different sectors in collaboration with the respective industries with a view to ensuring worldwide compatibility based on existing models and best practices;
(b) Promote transparency of certifications and compatibility of national qualifications frameworks by agreeing on standard criteria, indicators and assessment parameters, and by creating and strengthening national skills profiling tools, registries or institutions in order to facilitate effective and efficient mutual recognition procedures at all skills levels;
(c) Conclude bilateral, regional or multilateral mutual recognition agreements or include recognition provisions in other agreements, such as labour mobility or trade agreements, in order to provide equivalence or comparability in national systems, such as automatic or managed mutual recognition mechanisms;
(d) Use technology and digitalization to evaluate and mutually recognize skills more comprehensively on the basis of formal credentials as well as non-formally acquired competences and professional experience at all skills levels;
(e) Build global skills partnerships among countries that strengthen training capacities of national authorities and relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and trade unions, and foster skills development of workers in countries of origin and migrants in countries of destination with a view to preparing trainees for employability in the labour markets of all participating countries;
(f) Promote inter-institutional networks and collaborative programmes for partnerships between the private sector and educational institutions in countries of origin and destination to enable mutually beneficial skills development opportunities for migrants, communities and participating partners, including by building on the best practices of the Business Mechanism developed in the context of the Global Forum on Migration and Development;
(g) Engage in bilateral partnerships and programmes in cooperation with relevant stakeholders that promote skills development, mobility and circulation, such as student exchange programmes, scholarships, professional exchange programmes and trainee- or apprenticeships that include options for beneficiaries, after successful completion of these programmes, to seek employment and engage in entrepreneurship;
(h) Cooperate with the private sector and employers to make available easily accessible and gender-responsive remote or online skills development and matching programmes to migrants at all skills levels, including early and occupation-specific language training, on-the-job training and access to advanced training programmes, to enhance their employability in sectors with demand for labour on the basis of the industry’s knowledge of labour market dynamics, especially to promote the economic empowerment of women;
(i) Enhance the ability of migrant workers to transition from one job or employer to another by making available documentation that recognizes skills acquired on the job or through training in order to optimize the benefits of upskilling;
(j) Develop and promote innovative ways to mutually recognize and assess formally and informally acquired skills, including through timely and complementary training for job seekers, mentoring, and internship programmesin order to fully recognize existing credentials and provide certificates of proficiency for the validation of newly acquired skills;
(k) Establish screening mechanisms for credentials and offer information to migrants on how to have their skills and qualifications assessed and recognized prior to departure, including in recruitment processes or at an early stage after arrival to improve employability;
(l) Cooperate to promote documentation and information tools, in partnership with relevant stakeholders, that provide an overview of a worker’s credentials, skills and qualifications, recognized in countries of origin, transit and destination, in order to enable employers to evaluate the suitability of migrant workers in job application processes.

Objective 19: Create conditions for migrants and diasporas to fully contribute to sustainable development in all countries
35. We commit to empower migrants and diasporas to catalyse their development contributions, and to harness the benefits of migration as a source of sustainable development, reaffirming that migration is a multidimensional reality of major relevance to the sustainable development of countries of origin, transit and destination.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Ensure the full and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda by fostering and facilitating the positive effects of migration for the realization of all Sustainable Development Goals;
(b) Integrate migration into development planning and sectoral policies at the local, national, regional and global levels, taking into consideration relevant existing policy guidelines and recommendations, such as the Global Migration Group’sMainstreaming Migration into Development Planning: A Handbook for Policymakers and Practitioners, in order to strengthen policy coherence and effectiveness of development cooperation;
(c) Invest in research on the impact of non-financial contributions of migrants and diasporas to sustainable development in countries of origin and destination, such as knowledge and skills transfer, social and civic engagement, and cultural exchange, with a view to developing evidence-based policies and strengthening global policy discussions;
(d) Facilitate the contributions of migrants and diasporas to their countries of origin, including by establishing or strengthening government structures or mechanisms at all levels, such as dedicated diaspora offices or focal points, diaspora policy advisory boards for Governments to account for the potential of migrants and diasporas in migration and development policymaking, and dedicated diaspora focal points in diplomatic or consular missions;
(e) Develop targeted support programmes and financial products that facilitate migrant and diaspora investments and entrepreneurship, including by providing administrative and legal support in business creation and granting seed capital-matching, establish diaspora bonds, diaspora development funds and investment funds, and organize dedicated trade fairs;
(f) Provide easily accessible information and guidance, including through digital platforms, as well as tailored mechanisms for the coordinated and effective financial, voluntary or philanthropic engagement of migrants and diasporas, especially in humanitarian emergencies in their countries of origin, including by involving consular missions;
(g) Enable political participation and engagement of migrants in their countries of origin, including in peace and reconciliation processes, in elections and political reforms, such as by establishing voting registries for citizens abroad, and through parliamentary representation, in accordance with national legislation;
(h) Promote migration policies that optimize the benefits of diasporas for countries of origin and destination and their communities, by facilitating flexible modalities to travel, work and invest with minimal administrative burdens, including by reviewing and revising visa, residency and citizenship regulations, as appropriate;
(i) Cooperate with other States, the private sector and employers’ organizations to enable migrants and diasporas, especially those in highly technical fields and in high demand, to carry out some of their professional activities and engage in knowledge transfer in their home countries, without necessarily losing employment, residence status or earned social benefits;
(j) Build partnerships between local authorities, local communities, the private sector, diasporas, hometown associations and migrant organizations to promote knowledge and skills transfer between their countries of origin and their countries of destination, including by mapping the diasporas and their skills, as a means to maintain the link between diasporas and their country of origin.

Objective 20: Promote faster, safer and cheaper transfer of remittances and foster financial inclusion of migrants
36. We commit to promote faster, safer and cheaper remittances by further developing existing conducive policy and regulatory environments that enable competition, regulation and innovation on the remittance market and by providing gender-responsive programmes and instruments that enhance the financial inclusion of migrants and their families. We further commit to optimize the transformative impact of remittances on the well-being of migrant workers and their families, as well as on the sustainable development of countries, while respecting that remittances constitute an important source of private capital and cannot be equated to other international financial flows, such as foreign direct investment, official development assistance or other public sources of financing for development.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Develop a road map to reduce the transaction costs of migrant remittances to less than 3 per cent and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent by 2030 in line with target 10.c of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
(b) Promote and support the United Nations International Day of Family Remittances and the International Fund for Agricultural Development Global Forum on Remittances, Investmentand Development as an important platform to build and strengthen partnerships for innovative solutions on cheaper, faster and safer transfer of remittances with all relevant stakeholders;
(c) Harmonize remittance market regulations and increase the interoperability of remittance infrastructure along corridors by ensuring that measures to combat illicit financial flows and money-laundering do not impede migrant remittances through undue, excessive or discriminatory policies;
(d) Establish conducive policy and regulatory frameworks that promote a competitive and innovative remittance market, remove unwarranted obstacles to non-bank remittance service providers in accessing payment system infrastructure, apply tax exemptions or incentives to remittance transfers, promote market access to diverse service providers, incentivize the private sector to expand remittance services, and enhance the security and predictability of low-value transactions by bearing in mind de-risking concerns, and developing a methodology to distinguish remittances from illicit flows, in consultation with remittance service providers and financial regulators;
(e) Develop innovative technological solutions for remittance transfer, such as mobile payments, digital tools or e-banking, to reduce costs, improve speed, enhance security, increase transfer through regular channels and open up gender-responsive distribution channels to underserved populations, including persons in rural areas, persons with low levels of literacy and persons with disabilities;
(f) Provide accessible information on remittance transfer costs by provider and channel, such as comparison websites, in order to increase the transparency and competition on the remittance transfer market, and promote financial literacy and inclusion of migrants and their families through education and training;
(g) Develop programmes and instruments to promote investments from remittance senders in local development and entrepreneurship in countries of origin, such as through matching-grant mechanisms, municipal bonds and partnerships with hometown associations, in order to enhance the transformative potential of remittances beyond the individual households of migrant workers at all skills levels;
(h) Enable migrant women to access financial literacy training and formal remittance transfer systems, as well as to open a bank account and own and manage financial assets, investments and businesses as means to address gender inequalities and foster their active participation in the economy;
(i) Provide access to and develop banking solutions and financial instruments for migrants, including low-income and female-headed households, such as bank accounts that permit direct deposits by employers, savings accounts, loans and credits in cooperation with the banking sector.

Objective 21: Cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration
37. We commit to facilitate and cooperate for safe and dignified return and to guarantee due process, individual assessment and effective remedy, by upholding the prohibition of collective expulsion and of returning migrants when there is a real and foreseeable risk of death, torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, or other irreparable harm, in accordance with our obligations under international human rights law. We further commit to ensure that our nationals are duly received and readmitted, in full respect for the human right to return to one’s own country and the obligation of States to readmit their own nationals. We also commit to create conducive conditions for personal safety, economic empowerment, inclusion and social cohesion in communities, in order to ensure that reintegration of migrants upon return to their countries of origin is sustainable.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Develop and implement bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation frameworks and agreements, including readmission agreements, ensuring that return and readmission of migrants to their own country is safe, dignified and in full compliance with international human rights law, including the rights of the child, by determining clear and mutually agreed procedures that uphold procedural safeguards, guarantee individual assessments and legal certainty, and by ensuring that they also include provisions that facilitate sustainable reintegration;
(b) Promote gender-responsive and child-sensitive return and reintegration programmes that may include legal, social and financial support, guaranteeing that all returns in the context of such voluntary programmes effectively take place on the basis of the migrant’s free, prior and informed consent, and that returning migrants are assisted in their reintegration process through effective partnerships, including to avoid their becoming displaced in the country of origin upon return;
(c) Cooperate on identification of nationals and issuance of travel documents for safe and dignified return and readmission in cases of persons who do not have the legal right to stay on another State’s territory, by establishing reliable and efficient means of identification of our own nationals such as through the addition of biometric identifiers in population registries, and by digitalizing civil registry systems, with full respect for the right to privacy and protection of personal data;
(d) Foster institutional contacts between consular authorities and relevant officials from countries of origin and destination, and provide adequate consular assistance to returning migrants prior to return by facilitating access to documentation, travel documents and other services, in order to ensure predictability, safety and dignity in return and readmission;
(e) Ensure that the return of migrants who do not have the legal right to stay on another State’s territoryis safe and dignified, follows an individual assessment, is carried out by competent authorities through prompt and effective cooperation between countries of origin and destination, and allows all applicable legal remedies to be exhausted, in compliance with due process guarantees and other obligations under international human rights law;
(f) Establish or strengthen national monitoring mechanisms on return, in partnership with relevant stakeholders, that provide independent recommendations on ways and means to strengthen accountability, in order to guarantee the safety, dignity and human rights of all returning migrants;
(g) Ensure that return and readmission processes involving children are carried out only after a determination of the best interests of the child and take into account the right to family life and family unity, and that a parent, legal guardian or specialized official accompanies the child throughout the return process, ensuring that appropriate reception, care and reintegration arrangements for children are in place in the country of origin upon return;
(h) Facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning migrants into community life by providing them with equal access to social protection and services, justice, psychosocial assistance, vocational training, employment opportunities and decent work, recognition of skills acquired abroad, and financial services, in order to fully build upon their entrepreneurship, skills and human capital as active members of society and contributors to sustainable development in the country of origin upon return;
(i) Identify and address the needs of the communities to which migrants return by including respective provisions in national and local development strategies, infrastructure planning, budget allocations and other relevant policy decisions and cooperating with local authorities and relevant stakeholders.

Objective 22: Establish mechanisms for the portability of social security entitlements and earned benefits
38. We commit to assist migrant workers at all skills levels to have access to social protection in countries of destination and profit from the portability of applicable social security entitlements and earned benefits in their countries of origin or when they decide to take up work in another country.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Establish or maintain non-discriminatory national social protection systems, including social protection floors for nationals and migrants, in line with the ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202);
(b) Conclude reciprocal bilateral, regional or multilateral social security agreements on the portability of earned benefits for migrant workers at all skills levels, that refer to applicable social protection floors in the respective States and applicable social security entitlements and provisions, such as pensions, health care or other earned benefits, or integrate such provisions into other relevant agreements, such as those on long-term and temporary labour migration;
(c) Integrate provisions on the portability of entitlements and earned benefits into national social security frameworks, designate focal points in countries of origin, transit and destination that facilitate portability requests from migrants, address the difficulties women and older persons can face in accessing social protection, and establish dedicated instruments, such as migrant welfare funds in countries of origin, that support migrant workers and their families.

Objective 23: Strengthen international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration
39. We commit to support each other in the realization of the objectives and commitments laid out in this Global Compact through enhanced international cooperation, a revitalized global partnership and, in the spirit of solidarity, reaffirming the centrality of a comprehensive and integrated approach to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration and recognizing that we are all countries of origin, transit and destination. We further commit to take joint action, in addressing the challenges faced by each country,to implement this Global Compact, underscoring the specific challenges faced in particular by African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and middle-income countries. We also commit to promote the mutually reinforcing nature between the Global Compact and existing international legal and policy frameworks, by aligning the implementation of this Global Compact with such frameworks, particularly the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and their recognition that migration and sustainable development are multidimensional and interdependent.
To realize this commitment, we will draw from the following actions:
(a) Support other States as we collectively implement the Global Compact, including through the provision of financial and technical assistance, in line with national priorities, policies, action plans and strategies, through a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach;
(b) Increase international and regional cooperation to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in geographical areas from which irregular migration systematically originates owing to consistent impacts of poverty, unemployment, climate change and disasters, inequality, corruption and poor governance, among other structural factors, through appropriate cooperation frameworks, innovative partnerships and the involvement of all relevant stakeholders, while upholding national ownership and shared responsibility;
(c) Involve and support local authorities in the identification of needs and opportunities for international cooperation for the effective implementation of the Global Compact and integrate their perspectives and priorities into development strategies, programmes and planning on migration, as a means to ensure good governance as well as policy coherence across levels of government and policy sectors, and maximize the effectiveness and impact of international development cooperation;
(d) Make use of the capacity-building mechanism and build upon other existing instruments to strengthen the capacities of relevant authorities by mobilizing technical, financial and human resources from States, international financial institutions, the private sector, international organizations and other sources in order to assist all States in fulfilling the commitments outlined in this Global Compact;
(e) Conclude bilateral, regional or multilateral mutually beneficial, tailored and transparent partnerships, in line with international law, that develop targeted solutions to migration policy issues of common interest and address opportunities and challenges of migration in accordance with the Global Compact.

Implementation
40. For the effective implementation of the Global Compact, we require concerted efforts at the global, regional, national and local levels, including a coherent United Nations system.
41. We commit to fulfil the objectives and commitments outlined in the Global Compact, in line with our vision and guiding principles, by taking effective steps at all levels to facilitate safe, orderly and regular migration at all stages. We will implement the Global Compact, within our own countries and at the regional and global levels, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development, and respecting national policies and priorities. We reaffirm our commitment to international law and emphasize that the Global Compact is to be implemented in a manner that is consistent with our rights and obligations under international law.
42. We will implement the Global Compact through enhanced bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation and a revitalized global partnership in a spirit of solidarity. We will continue building on existing mechanisms, platforms and frameworks to address migration in all its dimensions. Recognizing the centrality of international cooperation for the effective fulfilment of the objectives and commitments, we will strive to reinforce our engagement in North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation and assistance. Our cooperation efforts in this regard will be aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.
43. We decide to establish a capacity-building mechanism in the United Nations, building upon existing initiatives, that supports efforts of Member States to implement the Global Compact. It allows Member States, the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and philanthropic foundations, to contribute technical, financial and human resources on a voluntary basis in order to strengthen capacities and foster multi-partner cooperation. The capacity-building mechanism will consist of:
(a) A connection hub that facilitates demand-driven, tailor-made and integrated solutions, by:
(i) Advising on, assessing and processing country requests for the development of solutions;
(ii) Identifying main implementing partners within and outside of the United Nations system, in line with their comparative advantages and operational capacities;
(iii) Connecting the request to similar initiatives and solutions for peer-to-peer exchange and potential replication, where existing and relevant;
(iv) Ensuring effective set-up for multi-agency and multi-stakeholder implementation;
(v) Identifying funding opportunities, including by initiating the start-up fund;
(b) A start-up fund for initial financing to realize project-oriented solutions, by:
(i) Providing seed funding, where needed, to jump-start a specific project;
(ii) Complementing other funding sources;
(iii) Receiving voluntary financial contributions by Member States, the United Nations, international financial institutions and other stakeholders, including the private sector and philanthropic foundations;
(c) A global knowledge platform as an online open data source, by:
(i) Serving as a repository of existing evidence, practices and initiatives;
(ii) Facilitating the accessibility of knowledge and sharing of solutions;
(iii) Building on the Global Forum on Migration and Development Platform for Partnerships and other relevant sources.
44. We will implement the Global Compact in cooperation and partnership with migrants, civil society, migrant and diaspora organizations, faith-based organizations, local authorities and communities, the private sector, trade unions, parliamentarians, national human rights institutions, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, academia, the media and other relevant stakeholders.
45. We welcome the decision of the Secretary-General to establish a United Nations network on migration to ensure effective and coherent system-wide support for implementation, including the capacity-building mechanism, as well as follow-up and review of the Global Compact, in response to the needs of Member States. In this regard, we note that:
(a) IOM will serve as the coordinator and secretariat of the network;
(b) The network will fully draw from the technical expertise and experience of relevant entities within the United Nations system;
(c) The work of the network will be fully aligned with existing coordination mechanisms and the repositioning of the United Nations development system.
46. We request the Secretary-General, drawing on the network, to report to the General Assembly on a biennial basis on the implementation of the Global Compact, the activities of the United Nations system in this regard, as well as the functioning of the institutional arrangements.
47. Further recognizing the important role of State-led processes and platforms at the global and regional levels in advancing the international dialogue on migration, we invite the Global Forum on Migration and Development, regional consultative processes and other global, regional and subregional forums to provide platforms to exchange experiences on the implementation of the Global Compact, share good practices on policies and cooperation, promote innovative approaches, and foster multi-stakeholder partnerships around specific policy issues.

Follow-up and review
48. We will review the progress made at the local, national, regional and global levels in implementing the Global Compact in the framework of the United Nations through a State-led approach and with the participation of all relevant stakeholders. For follow-up and review, we agree on intergovernmental measures that will assist us in fulfilling our objectives and commitments.
49. Considering that international migration requires a forum at the global level through which Member States can review the implementation progress and guide the direction of the work of the United Nations, we decide that:
(a) The High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, currently scheduled to take place every fourth session of the General Assembly, shall be repurposed and renamed “International Migration Review Forum”;
(b) The International Migration Review Forumshall serve as the primary intergovernmental global platform for Member States to discuss and share progress on the implementation of all aspects of the Global Compact, including as it relates to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and with the participation of all relevant stakeholders;
(c) The International Migration Review Forumshall take place every four years beginning in 2022;
(d) The International Migration Review Forum shall discuss the implementation of the Global Compact at the local, national, regional and global levels, as well as allow for interaction with other relevant stakeholders with a view to building upon accomplishments and identifying opportunities for further cooperation;
(e) Each edition of the International Migration Review Forumwill result in an intergovernmentally agreed Progress Declaration, which may be taken into consideration by the high-level political forum on sustainable development.
50. Considering that most international migration takes place within regions, we invite relevant subregional, regional and cross-regional processes, platforms and organizations, including the United Nations regional economic commissions or regional consultative processes, to review the implementation of the Global Compact within the respective regions, beginning in 2020, alternating with discussions at the global level at a four-year interval, in order to effectively inform each edition of the International Migration Review Forum, with the participation of all relevant stakeholders.
51. We invite the Global Forum on Migration and Development to provide a space for annual informal exchange on the implementation of the Global Compact, and to report the findings, best practices and innovative approaches to the International Migration Review Forum.
52. Recognizing the important contributions of State-led initiatives on international migration, we invite forums such as the IOM International Dialogue on Migration, regional consultative processes and others to contribute to the International Migration Review Forumby providing relevant data, evidence, best practices, innovative approaches and recommendations as they relate to the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
53. We encourage all Member States to develop, as soon as practicable, ambitious national responses for the implementation of the Global Compact, and to conduct regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the national level, such as through the voluntary elaboration and use of a national implementation plan. Such reviews should draw on contributions from all relevant stakeholders, as well as parliaments and local authorities, and serve to effectively inform the participation of Member States in the International Migration Review Forum and other relevant forums.
54. We request the President of the General Assembly to launch and conclude, in 2019, open, transparent and inclusive intergovernmental consultations to determine the precise modalities and organizational aspects of the International Migration Review Forums and articulate how the contributions of the regional reviews and other relevant processes will inform the Forums, as a means to further strengthen the overall effectiveness and consistency of the follow-up and review outlined in the Global Compact.

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Άγνωστοι ξήλωσαν 105 πυραμίδες οριογραμμής στη συνοριακή γραμμή Ελλάδας – ΠΓΔΜ

Νοέμβριος 25, 2018 18:5

Μπροστά σε ένα πρωτοφανές και ιδιαίτερα περίεργο θέαμα βρέθηκαν συνοριοφύλακες της ΕΛ.ΑΣ. κι άντρες του Ελληνικού Στρατού που υπηρετούν στα σύνορα με την ΠΓΔΜ στην περιοχή της Φλώρινας, καθώς διαπίστωσαν ότι περίπου 105 πυραμίδες οριοθέτησης των συνόρων μεταξύ των δύο χωρών είχαν κάνει φτερά.

Μάλιστα, οι περισσότερες από τις πυραμίδες-κολόνες οριοθέτησης είχαν εκθεμελιωθεί από το έδαφος, ενώ μερικές άλλες είχαν υποστεί σοβαρές φθορές.

Σύμφωνα με την εφημερίδα «Έθνος» μέσα στην επόμενη εβδομάδα αναμένεται συνάντηση στην Φλώρινα αστυνομικών, στρατιωτικών και πολιτικών αξιωματούχων των δύο χωρών, προκειμένου να εξεταστεί το περιστατικό και να διαλευκανθεί το συντομότερο η υπόθεση. Σύμφωνα με το υπουργείο Εθνικής Άμυνας, οι αρχές της πΓΔΜ έχουν ενημερωθεί για το περιστατικό και βρίσκονται σε ανοιχτή επικοινωνία με τις ελληνικές Αρχές.

Όπως τόνιζαν στο ethnos.gr πηγές του υπουργείου Εθνικής Άμυνας οι συγκεκριμένες τριγωνομετρικές πυραμίδες απέχουν 9 χλμ από το τελευταίο ελληνικό φυλάκιο και «είναι χρεωμένες στην πλευρά των Σκοπίων βάσει της συμφωνίας που έχουν υπογράψει Ελλάδα και πΓΔΜ. Δεν έχουμε ευθύνη εμείς αλλά οι γείτονές μας. Δεν υπάρχει ορατότητα από το ελληνικό φυλάκιο αλλά περιοδικά πηγαίνουμε και ελέγχουμε εκεί την κατάσταση», τόνισαν στο ethnos.gr πηγές του υπουργείου Εθνικής Άμυνας.

Αναλυτικά η ανακοίνωση της Γενικής Αστυνομικής Διεύθυνσης Δυτικής Μακεδονίας:

Ανακοινώνεται ότι, το διάστημα από 23 έως 24 Νοεμβρίου 2018 άγνωστοι δράστες προέβησαν στην εκθεμελίωση – φθορά (105) πυραμίδων – κολόνων οριογραμμής, που οριοθετούν την συνοριακή γραμμή μεταξύ Ελλάδας – π.Γ.Δ.Μ. και συγκεκριμένα στο ύψος βορείως της Τοπικής Κοινότητας Μεσοκάμπου έως ανατολικά της Τοπικής Κοινότητας Αχλάδας του Δήμου Φλώρινας.

Για το περιστατικό ενεργείται προανάκριση από το Τμήμα Ασφαλείας Φλώρινας, ενώ ενημερώθηκαν οι αρμόδιες εισαγγελικές και στρατιωτικές Αρχές.

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.neaflorina.gr)
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24ωρη απεργία στα ΜΜΕ

Τρίτη 27 Νοεμβρίου 2018

Τα Διοικητικά Συμβούλια των Συνεργαζόμενων Ενώσεων στο χώρο του Τύπου και των ΜΜΕ, στην από 22/11/2018 συνεδρίασή τους και στο πλαίσιο της 24ωρης πανελλαδικής απεργιακής κινητοποίησης που έχει κηρύξει η ΓΣΕΕ για την Τετάρτη 28 Νοεμβρίου, αποφάσισαν την κήρυξη 24ωρης απεργίας από τις 06.00 π.μ. της Τρίτης 27 Νοεμβρίου 2018 έως τις 06.00 π.μ. της Τετάρτης 28 Νοεμβρίου 2018 σε όλα τα Μέσα Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης (έντυπα, ραδιοτηλεοπτικά, διαδικτυακά), στο δημόσιο και ιδιωτικό τομέα, ΕΡΤ, ΓΓΕΕ, ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ, Γραφεία Τύπου.

Οι εργαζόμενοι στο χώρο της ενημέρωσης μετέχουμε ενεργά στον διαρκή αγώνα των εργαζομένων, ανέργων και συνταξιούχων όλης της χώρας, μέσα σε ένα ασφυκτικό περιβάλλον ύφεσης, λιτότητας, φτωχοποίησης και κοινωνικού αποκλεισμού.

ΚΑΤΑΓΓΕΛΛΟΥΜΕ τα συνεχιζόμενα αντιλαϊκά μέτρα και τις μνημονιακές δεσμεύσεις, που πλήττουν κατάφωρα το σύνολο του Ελληνικού λαού και ιδιαίτερα τους εργαζομένους στο χώρο του Τύπου.

ΛΕΜΕ ΟΧΙ στα «υποκατώτατα» δικαιώματα. ΑΞΙΩΝΟΥΜΕ την έμπρακτη αποκατάσταση όλων των βίαια καταστρατηγημένων εργασιακών ασφαλιστικών και συνδικαλιστικών δικαιωμάτων μας.

ΑΠΑΙΤΟΥΜΕ την άμεση κατάργηση του συνόλου των αντεργατικών μνημονιακών πολιτικών βίαιης και αντιδημοκρατικής προσβολής των εργασιακών και συνδικαλιστικών δικαιωμάτων που οδήγησαν στο στραγγαλισμό των συλλογικών εργατικών δικαιωμάτων και εγγυήσεων, στην εμπέδωση της εργοδοτικής αυθαιρεσίας, στην κατάργηση του κοινωνικού κράτους και στη διαρκή ομηρία των συντάξεων και των κοινωνικών παροχών.

Η αύξηση της ανεργίας, η αποδιοργάνωση των εργασιακών σχέσεων οι μειώσεις των μισθών και των συντάξεων, μαζί με την επιβολή νέων έμμεσων και άμεσων φόρων δημιουργούν αδιέξοδο και επιβάλλουν την οχύρωση του κλάδου και την αναδιάταξη των δυνάμεών μας για την υπεράσπιση των εργασιακών μας δικαιωμάτων, της ενημέρωσης, της ίδιας της ελληνικής κοινωνίας.

Η υπογραφή Συλλογικών Συμβάσεων Εργασίας δεν είναι αίτημα μόνο όσων έχουν καταφέρει να μείνουν στο επάγγελμα αλλά και των χιλιάδων συναδέλφων που αγωνίζονται να ξεφύγουν από την ανεργία ανεχόμενοι τις δυσμενέστερες εργασιακές συνθήκες.

ΔΙΕΚΔΙΚΟΥΜΕ, ΑΓΩΝΙΖΟΜΑΣΤΕ, ΑΠΕΡΓΟΥΜΕ για:

• Συλλογικές Συμβάσεις Εργασίας με σταθερή και πλήρη εργασία για όλους και ίσα δικαιώματα

• Αξιοπρεπείς μισθούς και συντάξεις

• Στήριξη των Ασφαλιστικών Ταμείων του κλάδου (ΕΔΟΕΑΠ-ΤΕΑΣ-ΕΤΑΣ) από τις επιθέσεις των εργοδοτών.

• Προαγωγή της Κοινωνικής Ασφάλισης µε την εγγύηση του Κράτους. Δωρεάν δημόσια υγεία και ιατροφαρμακευτική περίθαλψη για όλους τους ασφαλισμένους

• Άµεση αναμόρφωση του προϋπολογισμού έτους 2019 και άµεση επιστροφή των παράνοµων µειώσεων σε κύριες και επικουρικές συντάξεις, επιδομάτων γιορτών και επιδοµάτων αδείας

• Ουσιαστικά και αποτελεσματικά μέτρα αντιμετώπισης της ανεργίας και ανακούφισης των ανέργων

• Αποκατάσταση του συστήματος συλλογικών διαπραγματεύσεων και τήρηση της υποχρέωσης των εργοδοτών για κατάρτιση και υπογραφή Συλλογικών Συμβάσεων Εργασίας, χωρίς παρελκυστικές τακτικές με στόχο την αποτροπή των ΣΣΕ που τους δεσμεύουν και την υπογραφή ατομικών συμβάσεων εργασίας με πρόσχημα τη κρίση.

• Μόνιµη και αποτελεσματική προστασία της πρώτης κατοικίας – ρητή απαγόρευση πλειστηριασµού της.

• Να σταματήσει η φορολογική επιδρομή και η καταλήστευση του εισοδήματος, με αφορολόγητο στα 12.000 ευρώ

• Ελεύθερη συνδικαλιστική δράση, χωρίς κρατικό και εργοδοτικό παρεμβατισμό στην άσκηση των συλλογικών δικαιωμάτων των εργαζομένων, με κυρίαρχο το δικαίωμα της αυτοτελούς διεκδίκησης συλλογικών διαπραγματεύσεων και το δικαίωμα της απεργίας

• Ελεγκτικοί Μηχανισµοί: Ποσοτική και ποιοτική αναβάθµιση της υπηρεσιακής ικανότητας των ελεγκτικών µηχανισµών του ΣΕΠΕ και του ΕΦΚΑ.

Τα Διοικητικά Συμβούλια των Ενώσεων στο χώρο του Τύπου και των ΜΜΕ καλούν όλους τους συναδέλφους να περιφρουρήσουν και διασφαλίσουν την 24ωρη απεργία της Τρίτης 27 Νοεμβρίου 2018. Συμμετέχουμε όλοι δυναμικά και ενωτικά στις απεργιακές συγκεντρώσεις για

ü ΝΑ ΚΛΙΜΑΚΩΣΟΥΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΓΙΑ ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΔΙΚΑΙΩΜΑΤΑ ΜΑΣ

ü ΝΑ ΑΚΟΥΣΤΕΙ Η ΦΩΝΗ ΜΑΣ ΔΥΝΑΤΑ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΝΕΡΓΙΑ
ΚΑΙ ΣΕ ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΑΝΤΕΡΓΑΤΙΚΑ ΜΕΤΡΑ ΠΟΥ ΜΑΣ ΕΞΑΘΛΙΩΝΟΥΝ

ü ΝΑ ΠΡΟΒΑΛΛΟΥΜΕ ΚΑΙ ΝΑ ΑΠΑΙΤΗΣΟΥΜΕ ΕΔΩ ΚΑΙ ΤΩΡΑ ΛΥΣΕΙΣ ΜΕ ΒΑΣΗ ΤΙΣ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΕΣ ΑΝΑΓΚΕΣ ΜΑΣ: ΣΣΕ που θα εγγυώνται την αξιοπρέπεια και την ανεξαρτησία των εργαζομένων στα ΜΜΕ και της Ενημέρωσης, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΑΣΦΑΛΙΣΗ για όλους, δημοκρατική και αξιόπιστη ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΤΥΠΙΑ.

(www.esiea.gr)
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Σάλος και παγκόσμια κατακραυγή για τα «πρώτα γενετικά τροποποιημένα βρέφη»

21:01 Δευτέρα, 26 Νοεμβρίου 2018 - Ανανεώθηκε 21:09

Νέους αχαρτογράφητους, αλλά άκρως επικίνδυνους δρόμους στη γενετική, ισχυρίζεται ότι άνοιξε ένας Κινέζος επιστήμονας, προκαλώντας προβληματισμό και παγκόσμια κατακραυγή.

Ο Χε Τζιανκούι αποκάλυψε ότι βοήθησε να έλθουν στον κόσμο τα πρώτα στον κόσμο γενετικά τροποποιημένα μωρά, δίδυμα κορίτσια που γεννήθηκαν αυτό το μήνα και των οποίων το DNA ο ίδιος είχε προηγουμένως τροποποιήσει στο στάδιο του εμβρύου.

Η ανακοίνωση έγινε από τον ίδιο, στο πλαίσιο διεθνούς συνεδρίου γενετικής στο Χονγκ Κονγκ, μία μέρα πριν από την επίσημη έναρξή του, καθώς και σε αποκλειστική συνέντευξή του στο πρακτορείο Associated Press.

Προς το παρόν πάντως, δεν υπάρχει ανεξάρτητη επιβεβαίωση των ισχυρισμών του, ούτε σχετική επιστημονική δημοσίευση, συνεπώς είναι δύσκολο να υπάρξει επαλήθευση των ισχυρισμών του. Αν όμως είναι αληθινοί, τότε θα πρόκειται για σημαντική επιστημονική εξέλιξη, με «παρενέργειες» στο πεδίο της βιοηθικής.

Η διεθνής επιστημονική κοινότητα μέχρι σήμερα θεωρεί πρόωρη μια τέτοια τροποποίηση σε ανθρώπους, γι' αυτό περιορίζεται σε πειραματόζωα, καθώς υπάρχει κίνδυνος η γενετική τροποποίηση να περάσει σε μελλοντικές γενιές και να έχει αρνητική επίδραση σε άλλα γονίδια.

Ο Κινέζος ερευνητής Χε Τζιανκούι, ο οποίος έχει σπουδάσει σε αμερικανικά πανεπιστήμια και σήμερα είναι ερευνητής στο Νότιο Πανεπιστήμιο Επιστήμης και Τεχνολογίας της Κίνας στη Σεντσέν, καθώς επίσης ιδρυτής δύο εταιρειών γενετικής, δήλωσε ότι, χρησιμοποιώντας τη μέθοδο ακριβείας CRISPR-Cas9, τροποποίησε γενετικά τα έμβρυα επτά ζευγαριών που είχαν κάνει εξωσωματική σε κλινική γονιμότητας. Μέχρι σήμερα, έχει γεννήσει ένα από αυτά τα ζευγάρια (τα δίδυμα κορίτσια).

Στόχος της γενετικής τροποποίησης δεν ήταν η πρόληψη ή η θεραπεία κάποιας γενετικής πάθησης, αλλά η επέμβαση στο γονιδίωμα του εμβρύου, ώστε να αποκτήσει ένα χαρακτηριστικό που ελάχιστοι άνθρωποι έχουν: τη φυσική ικανότητα να αναπτύσσουν αντίσταση σε μια πιθανή μελλοντική μόλυνση από τον ιό HIV του AIDS.

Ο Χε ανέφερε ότι οι γονείς των τροποποιημένων εμβρύων αρνήθηκαν να αποκαλύψουν την ταυτότητά τους ή να παραχωρήσουν συνέντευξη, ενώ δεν αποκάλυψε ούτε πού ζουν, ούτε πού έγινε η γενετική τροποποίηση. Όπως είπε, «νιώθω μεγάλη ευθύνη», ενώ τόνισε ότι «η κοινωνία θα αποφασίσει τι θα κάνει από δω και πέρα», κατά πόσο δηλαδή θα επιτρέψει ή όχι τέτοιες επεμβάσεις στο εμβρυικό DNA.

Άλλοι ωστόσο επιστήμονες δήλωσαν έκπληκτοι από τους ισχυρισμούς του Χε και καταδίκασαν την πρωτοβουλία του.

Εκτός του γεγονότος ότι σύμφωνα με πολλούς ειδικούς δεν συνέτρεχε σοβαρός λόγος υγείας για το επίμαχο πείραμα, οι επικρίσεις εστιάζονται στις ηθικές διαστάσεις του ζητήματος.

Για «πείραμα στα ανθρώπινα όντα που είναι ηθικά απαράδεκτο», έκανε λόγο ο γενετιστής δρα Κίραν Μουσουνούρου του Πανεπιστημίου της Πενσιλβάνια, ενώ ο δρ Έρικ Τόπολ του Ινστιτούτου Ερευνών Scripps της Καλιφόρνια είπε ότι «είναι κάτι υπερβολικά πρόωρο. Έχουμε να κάνουμε με τις 'οδηγίες λειτουργίας' ενός ανθρώπινου όντος. Δεν είναι κάτι ασήμαντο».

«Το πείραμα εξέθεσε υγιή, κανονικά παιδιά στον κίνδυνο της γενετικής τροποποίησης χωρίς κανένα αληθινό όφελος» σχολίασε στο Nature ο Τζούλιαν Σαβουλέσκου, βιοηθικός του Πανεπιστημίου της Οξφόρδης.

«Οι σημερινές αναφορές για την τροποποίηση του γονιδιώματος ανθρώπινων εμβρύων για αντίσταση στον HΙV είναι πρόωρες, επικίνδυνες και ανεύθυνες» συμφώνησε η Τζόις Χάρπερ, ειδικός του University College του Λονδίνου.

Διαφορετική άποψη έχει ωστόσο ο επιφανής γενετιστής του Πανεπιστημίου Χάρβαρντ Τζορτζ Τσερτς δήλωσε σύμφωνος με τέτοια πειράματα, εφόσον αφορούν τον ιό HIV που αποτελεί μεγάλη απειλή δημόσιας υγείας.

Σημειώνεται ότι μέχρι σήμερα, η τεχνική επεξεργασίας του γονιδιώματος CRISPR-Cas9 είχε δοκιμασθεί μόνο σε ενήλικες με στόχο τη θεραπεία κληρονομικών παθήσεων που βασίζονται σε κάποιο ελαττωματικό γονίδιο.

Όμως η τροποποίηση του σπερματοζωαρίου, του ωαρίου ή του εμβρύου είναι διαφορετική υπόθεση. Στις ΗΠΑ επιτρέπονται τέτοιες έρευνες μόνο σε εργαστήρια, αλλά η Κίνα δεν τις έχει απαγορεύσει (απαγορεύει όμως την ανθρώπινη κλωνοποίηση).

Ο Χε, ο οποίος συνεργάζεται με τον Αμερικανό καθηγητή Μάικλ Ντιμ του Πανεπιστημίου Ράις, είχε πειραματισθεί για αρκετά χρόνια σε ζώα και σε ανθρώπινα έμβρυα στο εργαστήριό του, προτού επιχειρήσει να κάνει γενετική τροποποίηση σε έμβρυα που επρόκειτο να γεννηθούν.

Δήλωσε ότι, επειδή το AIDS εξελίσσεται σε σοβαρό πρόβλημα στην Κίνα, επέλεξε να απενεργοποιήσει το γονίδιο CCR5 που μέσω μιας πρωτεΐνης βοηθά τον ιό HIV να μολύνει τα κύτταρα.

Είπε ότι στόχος του είναι να προσφέρει σε ζευγάρια που έχουν μολυνθεί από τον HIV, την ευκαιρία να αποκτήσουν ένα παιδί, το οποίο θα έχει πλέον φυσική αντίσταση έναντι του ιού. Βρήκε έτσι ζευγάρια εθελοντές για τη γενετική τροποποίηση μέσω μιας οργάνωσης του Πεκίνου για το AIDS, αλλά δεν είναι σαφές κατά πόσο οι συμμετέχοντες έλαβαν πλήρη γνώση των πιθανών κινδύνων (ο ίδιος ο Χε διαβεβαιώνει ότι αυτό συνέβη).

Η δωρεάν γενετική τροποποίηση έγινε κατά την εξωσωματική γονιμοποίηση και αφότου τα γονιμοποιημένα έμβρυα ήσαν τριών έως πέντε ημερών. Τα ζευγάρια είχαν την επιλογή να προχωρήσουν στην εμφύτευση τροποποιημένου ή μη εμβρύου. Συνολικά, τροποποιήθηκαν 16 έμβρυα και, από αυτά, 11 εμφυτεύθηκαν, εωσότου υπάρξει η πρώτη επιτυχής κύηση.

Ο Χε υποστήριξε επίσης ότι, όπως έδειξαν τα τεστ, δεν φαίνονται να υπάρχουν αλλαγές σε άλλα γονίδια πέρα από αυτό στο οποίο έγινε η τροποποίηση. Επίσης ανέφερε ότι μελλοντικές απόπειρες θα γίνουν μόνο όταν αυτή η πρώτη απόπειρα αναλυθεί και αποδειχθεί ασφαλής.

'Αλλοι πάντως επιστήμονες δήλωσαν ότι είναι πρόωρο να ειπωθεί αν η γενετική τροποποίηση θα «δουλέψει» παρέχοντας όντως ανοσία έναντι του HIV ή αν άλλα γονίδια θα υποστούν ανεπιθύμητες επιπτώσεις. Το πιο πιθανό, κατά τον Τσερτς, είναι ότι η μόλυνση από HIV δεν θα αποτραπεί με την τροποποίηση αυτή, που θεωρείται ανεπαρκής…

(www.cnn.gr)
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Ukraine security chief admits intel agents were on board Navy ships during Kerch standoff
Published time: 27 Nov, 2018 13:02
Edited time: 27 Nov, 2018 15:15

Ukrainian Navy ships which entered Russian waters off Crimea’s shores had counterintelligence officers on board, Kiev’s security service confirmed.

Vasily Gritsak, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), confirmed that counterintelligence officers were on the ships which entered Russian waters in the Kerch Strait on Sunday.
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A screenshot from the Russian-shot video shows the Russian and Ukrainian vessels colliding © Global Look Press Free press? Radio Liberty asks Kiev minister for permission to use RUSSIAN video of Kerch standoff

The agents were routinely providing “counterintelligence support to the Ukrainian Navy unit,” an SBU statement reads.

Counterintelligence officers are usually embedded with the military and deployed to the frontline, the agency said, adding, “it will always remain so.”

Gritsak accused Russia of using excessive force against Ukrainian vessels. Citing some “confirmed intelligence,” the statement alleged that a Russian aircraft had fired two missiles at the Ukrainian vessels during the standoff, leaving one SBU officer “seriously wounded.”

It comes after the FSB said there were two Ukrainian operatives on board who coordinated the “provocation” in the Kerch Strait. Russia’s security agency also filmed three men, identified as an SBU counterintelligence agent, a Navy officer and a sailor.

Speaking on camera, they said the crews deliberately ignored orders to stop after the ships entered Russia’s territorial waters. There were small arms on board the ships as well as machine guns with ammunition, according to service members.

The FSB has also asserted that the provocative mid-sea encounter was in fact ordered by the Ukrainian government. Top Russian officials had previously voiced similar statements, accusing Kiev of trying to win sympathies in the West, put pressure on Russia and help President Petro Poroshenko cement power.
Also on rt.com Kerch Strait standoff: Ukrainian Navy consciously ignored orders to stop, FSB says

Kiev responded conspicuously fast to the Kerch Strait incident, with Poroshenko announcing that a period of martial law would be imposed. The Ukrainian military was also put on combat alert following the naval standoff.

Some observers, however, noted the timing of the event as it came ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting at the G20 summit and the start of presidential campaign in Ukraine.

(www.rt.com)
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Fireball in Siberia: WATCH as a meteor lights up the night sky
Published time: 27 Nov, 2018 17:01

Stunned locals have captured a glowing green fireball flying over the Russian city of Novosibirsk in Western Siberia. The phenomenon has created a buzz on social media and baffled scientists.

The flyby was spotted by locals in several areas of the city on Tuesday morning when the sky was still dark and luckily clear. Videos showing the green glowing meteor quickly started circulating on Russian social network Vkontakte and on YouTube.

The local planetarium stepped in, asking those who witnessed and filmed the event to send them all the visuals they had. Scientists say it was likely a bolide – an extremely bright meteor that explodes in the Earth’s atmosphere and has an iconic dazzling tail.

But the astronomers have been somewhat bewildered by the appearance of this phenomenon, as there are currently no active meteor showers.

“It can be either the tail of a [Leonid] meteor shower or a lone meteor, we need to find out,” deputy director of local planetarium told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The bolide is believed to have burned in the atmosphere and no traces of space rocks were found on the ground. Dozens of meteors fly over us every year, but most of them go unnoticed. This time Siberia was lucky to see the stunning space object streaking by above.

(www.rt.com)
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Good News From California Public Utility Commission Sends PG&E Stock Skyrocketing
Wayne Duggan , Benzinga Staff Writer

November 16, 2018 10:27am

The extreme volatility in PG&E Corporation
PCG 5.53%
stock continued Friday after encouraging commentary from the California Public Utility Commission and an unlikely upgrade sent the stock skyrocketing more than 45 percent.
What’s At Stake

For traders who haven’t been following the PG&E saga closely, the stock crashed 62.9 percent over the past week on fears that the company’s potential liabilities related to the Camp Fire raging in Los Angeles county would blow up the company’s balance sheet.

In a new SEC filing Tuesday, PG&E said its subsidiary Pacific Gas & Electric Company has drawn down $3 billion from its credit line in preparation for potential liability for the California wildfire.

“While the cause of the Camp Fire is still under investigation, if the Utility’s equipment is determined to be the cause, the Utility could be subject to significant liability in excess of insurance coverage,” PG&E said in the filing.

The total cost of the the three California wildfires is expected to exceed $19 billion.
CPUC Weighs In

PG&E got some good news from the CPUC on Thursday, which indicated it doesn't want to force a PG&E bankruptcy and said it would soon be releasing a stress test formula used to establish maximum wildfire liability. Height Capital Markets said Friday the CPUC commentary is welcome news for PG&E investors.

“We believe that the PUC's comments on bankruptcy imply the stress test formula will likely limit PCG's 2017 wildfire liability significantly,” Height wrote.

Those same comments were enough for Citi analyst Praful Mehta to upgrade PG&E stock from Neutral to Buy.

“Public Utilities Code Section 451.2 requires the CPUC, when evaluating an application for recovery of wildfire-related expenses, to consider a utilities’ financial status and determine the maximum amount the utility can pay without harming ratepayers,” Mehta wrote in the upgrade note.
Credit Downgrade

PG&E also got some news from credit rating agency Moody’s on Thursday, which cut PG&E’s credit rating to Baa3. The credit downgrade may seem like bad news, but Morgan Stanley analyst Stephen Byrd says it's actually a sign of Moody’s optimism about the outcome for PG&E.

“Moody's downgrade incorporates a view that the state's regulators and legislators will continue to support the financial health of the state's utilities in order to protect customers from higher rates while still meeting California's ambitious renewable targets and other public policy goals,” Byrd wrote.

He also said the CPUC language suggests the commission likely intends to apply its stress test to the 2018 fires as well as the 2017 ones, limiting the potential liability for PG&E.

Morgan Stanley downgraded PG&E stock from Overweight to Equal-Weight and cut its price target from $67 to $31, but even the drastically reduced target represents nearly 75 percent upside from Thursday’s closing price.
Other Analysts React

Other analysts cut price targets as well but remained optimistic. Argus analyst Jacob Kilstein cut his target from $54 to $36, but reiterated his Buy rating.

“While we understand the concerns surrounding PG&E’s potential liability of $17 billion related to the current wildfires, $12 billion from past damages, and related dividend suspension, we feel the $26 billion decline in market value is an overreaction,” Kilstein wrote.

Bank of America analyst Julien Dumoulin-Smith reiterated her Buy rating for PG&E after cutting her price target from $63 to $50 this week.

“With PCG still offering a high risk-reward proposition, we continue to believe that the recent share price correction far exceeds the actual monetary damages incurred; given clarity from the CPUC, we expect shares to re-rate higher,” Dumoulin-Smith wrote.

Even after a 40-percent gain Friday morning, PG&E stock is down 48 percent overall since Nov. 1. Shares traded around $24.73 at time of publication.

(www.Benzinga.com)
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As Camp Fire reaches 100 percent containment, death count drops due to authorities’ error

By Vincent Moleski

November 25, 2018 10:07 AM

Updated November 25, 2018 04:40 PM

The Camp Fire, which has ravaged Butte County and demolished the town of Paradise, reached full containment Sunday morning with the number of reported deaths now standing at 85.

An error came when two case numbers were added by mistake and the death toll that was reported at 87 around 8 p.m. Saturday. Officials revised the number to 85, according to a news release issued just after 9 p.m. Saturday by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities found the remains of three people on Saturday, but had previously added two deaths to the number in error, the Sheriff’s Office said in the statement.

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.sacbee.com)
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A LONG-LASTING HOLE IN THE SUN'S ATMOSPHERE (26-11-2018): It's back. A hole in the sun's atmosphere that opened in June is turning to face Earth for the 6th time. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the structure, which stretches for more than 700,000 km across the sun's equator:

This is a "coronal hole"--a place where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows solar wind to escape. An emerging stream of solar wind is expected to reach Earth on Nov. 30th or Dec. 1st.2018.

The last time solar wind from this hole lashed Earth's magnetic field, on Nov. 4th, it sparked a G1-class geomagnetic storm with auroras photographed in northern-tier US States including Wyoming, Montana, Iowa, Washington, North Dakota and, of course, Alaska. Similar displays may be in the offing this weekend.

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.spaceweather.com)
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Countdown to Mars: NASA sweating 'seven minutes of terror'

By Don Lincoln

Updated 0825 GMT (1625 HKT) November 26, 2018

(CNN)At 3 p.m. ET on Monday, November 26, a group of researchers will be really sweating. The NASA InSight spacecraft will try to land on Mars.
After six months of flight, the lander component of the probe will detach itself from the cruise stage and head into the atmosphere. The lander component initially looks a fair bit like the re-entry capsule used in the 1960s and 1970s for the Apollo moon missions -- sort of conical, with a smooth and flat bottom. That bottom is a crucial heat shield that is designed to protect the probe as it passes through the thin Martian atmosphere.
The landing is a devilishly difficult feat. The landing capsule has to batter its way through the atmosphere. It will fly through the Martian air at an initial speed of 12,300 mph, and it must hit the atmosphere at an angle of precisely 12 degrees. Any shallower, and the probe will bounce off into deep space. Any steeper, and the probe will burn itself up in a spectacular and fiery death. The probe will first touch the atmosphere six minutes and 45 seconds before landing. During this phase, it will experience acceleration 12 times that of the Earth's gravity. Were the probe a 150-pound human, during the flaming descent, it would weigh nearly a ton.

About 3½ minutes after the probe hits the atmosphere, a parachute will deploy, slowing down the probe even more. Fifteen seconds later, explosives will blow the heat shield off, exposing the actual InSight probe hidden inside. Ten seconds after the heat shield falls away, the probe will extend its legs, much like an airplane extends its wheels before touching down.
The probe will fall for an additional two minutes attached to the parachute and protected by its conical shell. About 45 seconds before InSight lands, it will drop out of the shell and fall toward the surface. As soon as it leaves the shell, its landing rockets will ignite.
The actual InSight probe looks a little bit like the Apollo moon lander, with three legs to support it and a boxy top. The rockets will slow it further and stop any remaining horizontal motion. Then, about 15 seconds before touchdown, the InSight probe will descend at a speed of 8 feet per second, before hopefully touching down gently on the Martian surface.

The entire landing sequence will take about seven minutes to occur. A radio signal from Mars to Earth currently takes about eight minutes and seven seconds to get here. So the complete landing process will take place before we find out if it was successful. It will be done automatically, entirely by the probe itself. For the scientists and engineers who designed InSight, this is called "seven minutes of terror."
And they are right to be worried. Mars is a graveyard of failed probes. There have been 44 attempts by various national space agencies to land on Mars. Eighteen have been successful. Twenty-three have not. Three have achieved orbit but failed at a landing.
So, what does InSight hope to achieve? Well, as it happens, a lot. But it's different than the intrepid Curiosity probe, which NASA landed in 2012. InSight will not move around. Instead, it will stay put and tell us of the interior of Mars.
One thing it will do is emit radio waves that we can monitor on Earth. By making careful measurements of how the frequency of the radio waves change, we will be able to measure the degree to which Mars wobbles as it rotates. That will tell us something about the core of the planet, specifically its makeup and information on the degree to which it is molten.

InSight will also deploy a seismometer to listen for marsquakes (like earthquakes, but Martian-style) and for impacts of meteors on the planet. Information gleaned from the waves the seismometer detects will tell us more about the planet's interior.
The third thing InSight will do is to dig below the planet's surface. Using a jackhammer, the probe will drill down 5 meters (16 feet) into the planet and, basically, it will take the planet's temperature.
There are many reasons this is interesting. Taking the temperature at that depth will allow planetary scientists to determine how much heat is escaping from Mars. More broadly, this measurement will allow a clear determination of the temperature of the planet much closer to the core.
This information will tell us a lot about how Mars formed, which, in turn, will add to the information of how rocky planets, including our own Earth, typically develop.

And if you're more of an explorer kind of person and not so interested in Martian geology, it will also tell us how warm the planet is at modest depths, which will tell us if there is any chance of liquid water on the planet. Perhaps obviously, if the Martian subsurface is warm enough, any buried water will be in liquid form and not ice. Finding liquid water would be the key discovery that would make Martian exploration relatively easy. A relatively recent possible discovery of a buried Martian lake was promising, but the data was not conclusive. Knowing that the ground is warm would be very comforting to possible future explorers.

Exploring the solar system is the first step toward exploring the stars. The InSight probe will give us --well -- insight into whether this is something that humanity will achieve in the foreseeable future.
And maybe Elon Musk's bet on him getting to Mars will become true.

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.cnn.com)
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A ‘dark matter hurricane’ is storming past Earth
And it could help scientist detect the strange substance.
By Chelsea Gohd | Published: Monday, November 12, 2018

There’s a “dark matter hurricane” blowing through our corner of the Milky Way galaxy. Right this second, it’s passing over Earth. And this fast-moving stream could reveal major details about dark matter, a new study finds.

The dark matter is traveling in what is known as the S1 stream. Scientists think that streams like this one are the cosmic debris leftover when small galaxies stray too close to the Milky Way. Our gravitational forces tear the smaller galaxy apart, leaving behind a traveling, elliptical stream of stars, dark matter and other debris.

Dark matter hurricane

Dark matter is an elusive material that scientists think, if the Standard Model is correct, exists in large quantities throughout space. Scientists still don’t know what dark matter actually is — there are a number of leading theories, but no one knows for sure. But the S1 stream is predicted to be blowing dark matter past us at about 310 miles per second (500 km/s) right this moment, and that could provide an opportunity for detection.

Galactic streams

Dozens of such streams have been found in the Milky Way. And like the galaxies they’re stripped from, these streams are typically made of stars and dark matter all traveling along together at the same velocity. “(There are) tons of these streams all over the galaxy, some of them are really huge and you can see them in the sky,” said Ciaran O’Hare of the University of Zaragoza in Spain.

The European Space Agency’s billion-star survey using the Gaia spacecraft is reaching far out into our galaxy to discover and observe stars. And Gaia picked out the S1 stream because its some 30,000 stars have a different chemical composition than those native to our galaxy. And they’re traveling along a similar, elliptical path.

And, while there are over 30 such streams known in our galaxy, S1 still surprised astronomers because our solar system is actually inside this stream. And our paths will intersect for millions of more years. Now, this will not affect our lives or planet in any physical way – there is still only one star (the sun) in our solar system.

But O’Hare and his colleagues calculated the affect of the S1 stream in our part of the galaxy and predicted possible signatures of the dark matter, which could help inform and support efforts to locate and study the elusive substance.

“What we want to do is add the stream as part of our kind of main prediction for the types of signal that should show up in a dark matter experiment,” O’Hare said. According to a statement, current detectors searching for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) (one popular idea of what dark matter might be) probably won’t see anything from S1, but future tech might

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.astronomy.com)
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«Φακελώνονται» όλοι οι επιβάτες αεροπλάνων από και προς την Ελλάδα
Aντιδράσεις αναμένεται να προκαλέσει νομοσχέδιο που οδηγεί ουσιαστικά στο ηλεκτρονικό «φακέλωμα»

Δημοσίευση 19/11/2018 | 13:34

«Φακελώνονται» όλοι οι επιβάτες αεροπλάνων από και προς την Ελλάδα

Aντιδράσεις αναμένεται να προκαλέσει νομοσχέδιο που οδηγεί ουσιαστικά στο ηλεκτρονικό «φακέλωμα» όλων των επιβατών αεροπορικών εταιρειών που πραγματοποιούν πτήσεις από ή προς το ελληνικό έδαφος.

Οποιος δηλαδή έρχεται στην Ελλάδα ή φεύγει έξω από αυτήν θα αποκτά φάκελο στην Αστυνομία. Το νομοσχέδιο υπουργείου Προστασίας του Πολίτη που έχει κατατεθεί στην Επιτροπή Δημόσιας Διοίκησης και Δημόσιας Τάξης της Βουλής προβλέπει την υποχρεωτική παραχώρηση στοιχείων επιβατών όπως τη διεύθυνσή του, τους τρόπους πληρωμής, το ταξιδιωτικό ιστορικό, τις αποσκευές και την έκδοση εισιτηρίων.

Το νομοσχέδιο ενσωματώνει στην εθνική νομοθεσία την ευρωπαϊκή οδηγία 681 του 2016.

Τα δεδομένα περιέχονται στα λεγόμενα ονομαστικά αρχεία επιβατών (PNR – passenger name records), τα οποία οι αρχές θα συλλέγουν και θα επεξεργάζονται για το σκοπό της πρόληψης και της διερεύνησης τρομοκρατικών και σοβαρών εγκλημάτων.

Τα δεδομένα PNR είναι διαφορετικά από τα δεδομένα API (Advance Passenger Information), τα οποία είναι οι βιογραφικές πληροφορίες που συγκεντρώνονται στην ταινία οπτικής αναγνώρισης του διαβατηρίου και περιέχουν το ονοματεπώνυμο, την ημερομηνία γέννησης και τον τόπο διαμονής. Τα PNR χρησιμοποιούνται προκειμένου να ταυτοποιηθούν πρόσωπα για τα οποία δεν υπάρχουν υποψίες αλλά θα μπορούσαν να απασχολήσουν τις αρχές, και για την αναγνώριση προσώπων στα οποία ανήκουν διευθύνσεις και πιστωτικές κάρτες που συνδέονται με ποινικά αδικήματα.

Πρόσβαση θα έχουν όλοι
Εχοντας ωστόσο τα βιογραφικά στοιχεία, μαζί με τα ονομαστικά αρχεία, η Αστυνομία θα γνωρίζει τα πάντα για κάθε επιβάτη. Στόχος είναι να βρίσκονται το συντομότερο δυνατόν οι ύποπτοι για διάφορα αδικήματα καθώς στα στοιχεία θα έχουν πρόσβαση οι εισαγγελικές και δικαστικές αρχές, η Εθνική Υπηρεσία Πληροφοριών, αλλά και οι Αρχές Νομιμοποίησης Εσόδων από Εγκληματικές Δραστηριότητες και Ελέγχου των Δηλώσεων Περιουσιακής Κατάστασης.

Η Μονάδα Στοιχείων Επιβατών της ΕΛΑΣ θα μπορεί να διαβιβάζει δεδομένα PNR σε άλλα κράτη μέλη, στη Europol, ακόμα και στις αρχές κρατών εκτός ΕΕ εφόσον υπάρξει έγκριση του κράτους μέλους.

Στις αεροπορικές εταιρείες που δε θα αποστέλλουν δεδομένα PNR στην ΕΛΑΣ, θα επιβάλλεται πρόστιμο ύψους 5 χιλιάδες ευρώ ανά πτήση από την Αρχή Πολιτικής Αεροπορίας.

Το πρόστιμο θα μπορεί να αναπροσαρμόζεται με Κοινή Υπουργική Απόφαση και να φθάνει έως τις 30 χιλιάδες ευρώ.

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Δυτική Μακεδονία 18/11/2018

Τροχαίο ατύχημα για τον Εφραίμ τον Βατοπεδινό σε τούνελ της Εγνατίας έξω από τα Γρεβενά – Νοσηλεύεται στο Νοσοκομείο Γρεβενών

Στο Νοσοκομείο των Γρεβενών, νοσηλεύεται ο Αρχιμανδρίτης Εφραίμ Βατοπεδινός, ο Ηγούμενος της Μονής Βατοπεδίου στο Άγιο Όρος, μετά από τροχαίο που συνέβη νωρίς το απόγευμα, στο τελευταίο τούνελ της Εγνατίας Οδού πριν την πόλη των Γρεβενών.

Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες του Star-fm, στο αυτοκίνητο επέβαιναν, εκτός από τον Εφραίμ, δύο ακόμη ιερείς, ενώ ο οδηγός ήταν πολίτης.

Μετά το τούνελ, ο οδηγός έχασε τoν έλεγχο του αυτοκινήτου, με αποτέλεσμα να προσκρούσει στις προστατευτικές μπάρες, και να τραυματιστούν.

Σύμφωνα με Ιατρικές πηγές, από τα τέσσερα άτομα που μεταφέρθηκαν στο Νοσοκομείο Γρεβενών, ένας δεν έχει πάθει τίποτα, δύο έχουν κατάγματα (πιθανών και ο Εφραίμ), ενώ σοβαρότερη είναι η κατάσταση ενός, ο οποίος ίσως έχει κάταγμα στην σπονδυλική στήλη και θα χρειαστεί να διακομισθεί σε μεγαλύτερο Ιατρικό Κέντρο.

Αξίζει να αναφέρουμε την άμεση αντιμετώπιση, με τον καλύτερο τρόπο, της κατάστασης, από τους Ιατρούς του Νοσοκομείου Γρεβενών.

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.kozanilife.gr)
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Nov 16 2018
'Space Age record' for cold temperatures in a matter of months, NASA warns

NASA scientists warn that the absence of sunspots could result in record-breaking cold temperatures above Earth in just a few months

An alarming new trend in the atmosphere could mean a significant drop in the temperature of the thermosphere, and it could happen sooner than anyone might have previously predicted.

Using NASA’s TIMED satellite, which measures changes in Earth’s atmosphere, scientists have determined that the atmosphere is losing heat energy. In a Space Weather feature, Dr. Mlynczak explained to Dr. Tony Philips how this development high above earth’s surface on the edge of space could bring record cold temperatures.
Sunspots no more?

The usual sunspots seem to have disappeared for the majority of this year, leading to these massive losses of heat energy and causing the thermosphere to cool and shrink.

Timed Mission Nasa

The SABER instrument installed on the TIMED satellite monitors infrared emissions from carbon dioxide and nitric oxide. Both substances are crucial in maintaining the overall balance of energy. Part of the SABER instrument is the Thermosphere Climate Index (TCI), created by a group of researchers lead by Dr. Mlynczak, which shows the number of heat trapping molecules such as carbon dioxide and nitric oxide being released into space. The current measurement of 33 billion watts of infrared power from nitric oxide is ten times less than what is considered normal during more active solar cycle phases. This frighteningly low number could lead to the record setting cold temperatures in a ‘matter of months’, according to Dr. Mlynczak.

Solar activity cycles generally last for approximately eleven years, and the prolonged inactivity of the past year, as evidenced by the lack of sunspots, could send temperatures plummeting in the thermosphere, which is a layer of gases located 60 to 180 miles (100 to 300 kilometres) above the planet’s surface.

Scientists do not yet understand the full implications for sunspots, but they occur in areas of strong magnetic activity as part of the eleven year solar cycle.

High Is Earth's Atmosphere Earth Of

The particles in Earth’s atmosphere are agitated by the ultra-violet radiation given off by sunspots, which then causes those particles to heat up. With the absence of sunspots for the majority of this year resulting in a lack of agitation, this is what is causing the upper atmosphere to lose heat energy. Research seems to indicate that while there may be significant changes happening far above the Earth, it is unlikely to have much effect on the weather experienced on the planet’s surface. The absence of sunspots will not result in climate change.

During the Solar Minimum phase of the eleven year activity cycle the ultraviolet output of the sun drops substantially and Earth’s upper atmosphere reacts accordingly, says Dr. Martin Mlynczak.

The Solar Minimum phase also leads to an increase in the amount of space junk that can be allowed to accumulate in low Earth orbit.

Another effect is increased solar winds, which can be the cause of more lightning and abnormal cloud formation due to the alteration of the chemistry of the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Solar Minimum Cycle
An historical record of the Thermosphere Climate Index

Air travel may also be affected as increased solar wind can increase the amount of radiation that is able to penetrate aircraft. Passengers traveling on long-haul flights may be exposed to doses of radiation equal to that of a dental x-ray. This also poses an additional risk for flight crews who spend many hours in the air.

Additionally, Solar Minimum may increase the effects of space weather and lead to the disruption of navigation technology and communications.

Early this year, cameras on board NASA 's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite captured images of the sun’s surface which showed an unusual stillness amid the lack of sunspot activity in the magnetic field.

The predicted Solar Minimum low point was originally said to be coming in 2019 or 2020, according to calculations by NASA, but now researchers say the sunspots are disappearing at much faster rate than anticipated and that the current solar cycle may end sooner than thought.

Why does the lack of sunspots create disruptions for Earth?

Inactivity in the sun’s magnetic field leads to a decrease, or even cessation, of sunspot activity. Throughout the average eleven year solar cycle there are periods known as Solar Maximum, with more activity, and Solar Minimum, with little to no activity.

While sunspots and solar flares decrease during the Minimum, long lived phenomena such as coronal holes, are expected to increase. Coronal holes occur when the star’s magnetic field opens up into space, creating fast moving solar winds. As the sun’s magnetic field becomes less active solar winds become more prevalent and begin to bombard the Earth. Coronal holes allow charged particles to find their way into the solar system, hitting the atmosphere of the planet.

This results in complications such as magnetic storms, impacts satellite operations, causes power grid fluctuations, and can also affect the migration pattern of animals.

With all of these potential problems that can be caused by the drop in solar activity, people need to be aware and cautious.

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.disclose.tv)
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Camp Fire refugees create new town of ‘Wallywood’ as officials struggle with housing crisis

By Tony Bizjak, Ryan Lillis, Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Sophia Bollag, Theresa Clift And Molly Sullivan

November 16, 2018 05:14 PM

Updated November 17, 2018 06:34 AM

As searchers sift through dirt and ash for remains of the dead in the Northern California foothills Friday, officials struggled with a growing crisis: How to help the living, many of whom are now homeless.

The situation is growing worse with each passing day.

“This is on an order of magnitude beyond what we thought was one of the worst disaster recoveries we would be faced with,” said Kelly Huston, deputy director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

After the Camp Fire erased most of the town of Paradise, destroying more than 9,800 residences, emergency services officials are dealing with what some say is an escalating humanitarian crisis with no quick solutions. Some evacuees will be able to return to unburned homes. Most, now hunkered in hotels, staying with family and friends, or stuck in evacuation centers or unauthorized camps, have no home to return to, and are left wondering where their future lies.

At one point earlier this week, county officials estimated 50,000 people had been evacuated from the fire areas in and around Paradise and more than 1,000 are currently in sanctioned shelters. Norovirus has broken out in at least three evacuation facilities, leaving officials to erect isolation tents in an effort to stop its spread.

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Enafaye Nine-Rowe, a member of Chico California Conservation Corps, and California Air National Guard Sgt. Manghirmalani walk past an isolation tent at East Ave Church in Chico on Friday.
Daniel Kim dkim@sacbee.com

Some evacuees — and unknown number — have turned to makeshift communities where sanitation and safety are concerns.

“We’re on the edge,” said Ed Mayer, Butte County Housing Authority executive director.

Hundreds of evacuees are squatting at camp in a Walmart parking lot — a ramshackle village some inhabitants call Wallywood, a sardonic mash-up of their location and reduced circumstances.

“I just want to be safe and happy and in a home,” said DeAnn Miller, 57, one of the residents of Wallywood.

Miller was homeless for a year before moving into a Paradise mobile home three months ago. It is likely gone, leaving her with nothing and no place to go.

“I need my home back,” she said, standing in dirty clothes next to a bucket of urine someone had left behind.

The Butte County Board of Supervisors held an emergency meeting Friday afternoon, voting to open multiple large shelters to consolidate Camp Fire evacuees so county staff can provide services more easily. Evacuees are currently spread throughout at least six shelters, mostly in churches. But the facilities are up to 30 miles apart, Butte County Supervisor Bill Connelly said. That presents a challenge for the county to provide medical, police and other services, such as clothing and help with paperwork.

“Because they’re scattered all over, it’s so much more difficult to provide those services to them,” Connelly said. “We need to be able to house them, clothe them, give them sanitation, medical care, help them with paperwork.

“We have rain coming so our immediate need is to consolidate our evacuees in to areas we can provide that,” he said.

In Sacramento, state lawmakers said on Friday they will look for money to help rebuild and for ways to get new housing up cheaper and faster, such as with modular housing, and streamlined regulations.

Federal Emergency Management Agency crews are working at Cal OES headquarters in Sacramento and have registered 10,000 people in need of help, Huston of OES said. They also have an office open in the former Sears building in Chico where they are registering displaced residents and offering rental housing vouchers, grants for house rebuilding, low-interest loans and other charitable aid programs, said spokesman Michael Hart.

The first step, Huston said, is to “at least get you into something where you can settle and then you can make some good decisions about what your future looks like.” The massive scope of the problem is forcing government to look farther away to find space to house people. That includes turning to private industry, such as the short-term rental company Airbnb.

County officials said they face a problem that could have ramifications in communities beyond the immediate area.

“Big picture, we have 6,000, possibly 7,000 households who have been displaced and who realistically don’t stand a chance of finding housing again in Butte County,” county housing official Mayer said. “I don’t even know if these households can be absorbed in California.”

The county has the capacity to place 800 to 1,000 households in permanent housing, Mayer said. Housing was already scarce in Butte County before the Camp Fire. The housing vacancy rate was less than 2 percent, which “is considered a crisis state,” Mayer said.

Unlike wealthier Sonoma County, where fires destroyed thousands of homes last year, many residents of Paradise don’t have the financial means to rebuild their homes quickly.

As of Friday, the Camp Fire death toll stood at 71, the largest number ever for a California wildfire. Nearly 500 searchers continued to comb the burned out ruins of Paradise, Magalia and other rural hill communities in a laborious effort to sift out the remains of the dead.

The Butte Sheriff’s Department has posted a list of the names of more than 600 people still reported missing. In similar situations during other recent wildfires, the missing lists dwindled notably as relatives reconnected. But the size of the list suggests there may be many more victims yet to be found.

Senator Dianne Feinstein said Friday she will help ensure “all necessary resources are available” to rehouse people and help residents to register with FEMA. “As we move into the recovery phase, it’s important to know that federal funds are available now to help wildfire victims with their immediate needs. Those affected should register with FEMA as soon as possible to begin receiving aid,” she said in a statement.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa, who represents the area, weighed in on Friday as well, complementing the Trump administration for stepping in quickly to help. President Trump has scheduled a Saturday visit to the area, accompanied by Gov. Jerry Brown and Governor-elect Gavin Newsom. U.S. Senator Kamala Harris will tour the wildfire area on Sunday.

LaMalfa acknowledged the rehousing problem. “Let’s get people new housing that’s appropriate, and not tents in the Walmart parking lot,” he said. “It’s a monumental amount of work that needs to be done.”

At the state Legislature, Assemblyman David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat who chairs the Assembly housing committee, said talks are underway to address the housing crisis in Paradise and other fire-ravaged areas with long-term solutions.

Lawmakers are discussing using modular housing, which can facilitate cheaper and faster construction, to rebuild fire-torn areas, he said. He also thinks they should consider streamlining housing production in those areas by reducing regulations that can slow building. And he said it’s possible the Legislature will allocate money to help rebuild.

“Our housing dollars are scarce, but clearly our hearts go out to the fire victims,” he said. “I think there would be significant support for assisting with the development of housing and particularly affordable housing in those areas.”

During the 2017 fires, he said he talked with his colleagues from fire-torn areas about how to rebuild those areas quickly. But he said issues related to wildfire liability, insurance and prevention ultimately dominated the 2017-18 legislative session. This upcoming session must have a bigger focus on replacing housing destroyed in fires, he said.

“It’s tragically clear that we’re going to have to tackle how we rebuild,” he said. “Local jurisdictions and FEMA are providing temporary solutions, but we need new permanent housing.”

He said homes can’t be rebuilt in areas where fire risk is high, but “where we can rebuild safely, we need to rebuild as quickly as possible.”

He pointed to the state’s existing anti-price gouging laws, which prohibit businesses and landlords from raising prices above 10 percent in the wake of disasters.

“We put that in place to deal with exactly the situation we’re seeing right now,” he said. “We don’t want to see tenants seeing massive increases to their rent.”

While officials decide on actions, some evacuees said they don’t want to move for the sake of moving if there isn’t a long term plan ready to go. County officials canvassed Wallywood Friday, letting residents know of the new shelter options, passing out gas cards and offering transportation to those who don’t have it. But uncertainty is bringing frustration as it becomes clear officials would like to see the encampment disbanded.

A spokeswoman for Walmart, Tiffany Wilson, expressed concern for public welfare in a statement to The Bee. “While we are happy to have been able to provide an immediate place of escape from the wildfire, we understand that our parking lots are not a viable long-term housing solution and are working closely with the American Red Cross, the county and local organizations to best preserve the health and safety of those impacted by the Camp Fire.”

Tammy Mezera, 49, moved to Paradise just a few months ago to be close to her son, who lives in Magalia. She said the initial shock of of the fire has warn off, and now she wants to now whether officials will help her get a permanent place to live.

Mezera was sitting in a canvas camping chair near a donated tent. Her 6-month-old pit bull Nel chewed on a bone. A small white New Testament was on a table in front of her. A case of Spam and bags of pretzels were on the ground next to her.

“This is not a viable option, but they’re not giving us another option besides another temporary situation,” she said. “We’ve created a community from a community destroyed. Now you’re going to displace people again.”

Sacramento Bee reporters Molly Sullivan, Dale Kasler and Alexei Koseff contributed to this report.
DeAnn Miller, 57, who is disabled, sits in her tent outside the Walmart in Chico, Friday, November 16, 2018. Miller, a resident of Magalia, does not know whether her home was affected by the Camp Fire and hopes to find indoor shelter soon. Daniel Kim dkim@sacbee.com

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6,000 aboriginal children died in 'cultural genocide' in Canadian residential school system, officials say

'If anybody tried to do this today, they would easily be subject to prosecution under the genocide convention'

Louis Doré
Saturday 30 May 2015 17:09

Chief justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, who said that Canada attempted to commit "cultural genocide" against aboriginal peoples, meets Queen Elizabeth II on October 15, 2009, in London, England
Chief justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, who said that Canada attempted to commit "cultural genocide" against aboriginal peoples, meets Queen Elizabeth II on October 15, 2009, in London, England ( Anthony Devlin/WPA Pool-Getty Images )

At least 6,000 aboriginal children died while in the residential school system in Canada, in a "cultural genocide", officials have said.

Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who is responsible for studying the legacy of the residential schools, said the figure is an estimate and the true figure could be much higher.

"We think that we have not uncovered anywhere near what the total would be because the record keeping around that question was very poor," Sinclair told Rosemary Barton of CBC's Power & Politics. "You would have thought they would have concentrated more on keeping track."

The new death toll comes after comments from the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, who said that Canada attempted to commit "cultural genocide" against aboriginal peoples.

"The most glaring blemish on the Canadian historic record relates to our treatment of the First Nations that lived here at the time of colonization," McLachlin said.

Canada, she said, sustained an "ethos of exclusion and cultural annihilation", an assessment which Justice Sinclair agreed with.
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"I think as commissioners we have concluded that cultural genocide is probably the best description of what went on here.

"If anybody tried to do this today, they would easily be subject to prosecution under the genocide convention."

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.independent.co.uk/us)
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Ninth Circle Satanists Rule Europe
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Daily Conspiracy Writers

The world is nothing like you thought it was..

The story you’re about to read is nothing short of bat guano crazy – but if it is true, the world needs to know about the atrocities the European elite have been up to for quite a long while.

In late 2014, several reports revealed the existence of a child death cult called the Ninth Circle composed of European elite who, allegedly, engaged in child trafficking to put on “human hunts” where kidnapped and drugged children were stripped naked, raped, tortured, hunted down by horseback in the woods, and killed ritually by European nobility and their guests (who were known to drink their victim’s blood). Some accounts claim these powerful few also turned to cannabalism and ate parts of their “offerings” to the demonic deity they revere.

It seems probable that this secret society takes its name from Dante’s literary classic The Inferno, in which the 9th circle of hell is the circle of treachery, defined as fraudulent acts between individuals bonded by love and trust.

What is more treacherous than brutalizing innocent young children? The very idea is abhorrent to sane people.

Several eyewitnesses who survived their ordeals came before the Brussels International Common Law Court of Justice (ICLCJ) in the fall of 2014. Five judges and 27 jury members weighed the horrific evidence presented to them.

The Mandate of the ICLCJ is two-fold: “(1) To lawfully prosecute those people and institutions responsible for the exploitation, trafficking, torture and murder of children, past and present, and (2) To stop these and other criminal actions by church and state, including by disestablishing those same institutions.”

Sworn to tell the truth, witnesses claimed that child sacrifices occurred regularly in the Vatican, the catacombs of Catholic cathedrals, on private estates and groves and government military bases in Belgium, Holland, Spain, Australia, Ireland, France, England and the United States. The children came from detention centers in Belgium and Holland, according to a former member of Octopus, a Netherlands criminal drug cartel.

One woman gave this testimony before the ICLCJ:

“In 2004 I was an involuntary witness to torture, rape and murder sessions of drugged children performed for a group of high ranked people of the Netherlands. I was taken to a hunting party in Belgium close to Brussels where I saw two boys and a girl ages 14 to 16, hunted and killed by global elites. The human hunting party was heavily guarded by the Netherlands Royal Guard. I was told that King Albert of Belgium was present.”

Adding insult to injury, deceased boys’ penises were allegedly cut off and displayed like trophies on the wall of a palace in the Dutch countryside. Queen Beatrix’s Palace was identified as one of the hunting grounds.

At age four, Dutch therapist Toos Nijenhuis recounted being forced to witness child murders where she identified as present former Pope Joseph Ratzinger (aka Benedict XVI), a Dutch Catholic cardinal, and Dutch Crown Prince Alfrink Berhnard, Bilderberger founder and father of the Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix.

Confirming the above statement, another witness saw Pope Ratzinger murder a little girl. “It was at a French chateau in the fall of 1987. It was ugly, horrible and didn’t happen just once. Ratzinger and Berhnhard were some of the more prominent men who took part.”

World Truth TV disclosed the fact that 34 child mass graves were found in Ireland, Spain and Canada.

The Ninth Circle Satanic Child Sacrifice Cult was tied to the disappearance of a staggering 50,000 Canadian native Indian children. 32 unmarked child mass grave sites have been found among the 80 residential schools run by the Canadian government, British Crown, and Catholic, United and Anglican Church officials.

The largest of the 34 discovered mass child graves is located at the Mohawk Indian Residential School in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. “Those In Charge” stopped a professional archaeological dig after children’s remains were unearthed there in 2008.

For reasons unknown – can you say “coverup?” – numerous requests for excavation of the child mass grave sites by the ICLCJ Court have been denied by Those In Charge since then.

The Christian Observer identified cult members “Popes Ratzinger and Francis, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and at least 35 other prominent global leaders.

What happened to these evil-doers, and why wasn’t this mentioned in American mainstream media? According to Before It’s News:

“Documents from Vatican secret archives presented to court clearly indicate that for centuries the Jesuits had a premeditated plan to ritually murder kidnapped newborn babies and then consume their blood. The plan was born of a twisted notion to derive spiritual power from the lifeblood of the innocent, thereby assuring political stability of the Papacy in Rome. These acts are not only genocidal but systemic and institutionalized in nature. Since at least 1773, they appear to have been performed by the Roman Catholic Church, Jesuits and every Pope.”

These are astonishing revelations!

In 2013, the ICLCJ Court found Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip of England guilty for the disappearance on October 10, 1964, of 10 native children from the Catholic residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.

The same 2013 case found Pope Ratzinger guilty of Crimes Against Humanity. He resigned in November 2013, the first pope in 600 years to step down from the holiest job in Catholic Christianity. According to The New Yorker, this pope was neck-deep in a sizzling international sex-abuse scandal and authorized spending millions of dollars to defend pedophile priests in the US and abroad.

In August 2014, Pope Francis was found guilty of child trafficking, and Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip were issued arrest warrants for their guilty verdicts in the 1964 disappearance of ten children from the British Columbia Kamloops Native Residential School in Canada.

Incredibly, the missing Canadian kids are also linked to McGill University in Montreal where the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a mind control program called MK-Ultra. Again, from the Christian Observer:

“Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the president of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric Associations D. Ewen Cameron, began torturing children in a MKULTRA program at McGill University in the early 1950s. By 1964 US Congressional inquiries supposedly ended MKULTRA after a successful lawsuit against Cameron and McGill University by mind control survivor Linda MacDonald.”

The ICLCJ Court has offered amnesty to any citizen or employee of the Vatican, Crown of England, churches, and governments who provide sworn testimony or other evidence to prosecute other practicing Satanist global elites. Possible rewards of up to $13,600 dollars (10,000 euros) were also used to encourage more exposure of this ghastly group.

All other questions aside, what kind of monstrous fiends would take part in bloodsport activities that are both religious and recreational? Are these “blue bloods” and their pals really members of the Illuminati – or the Bilderberg New World Order group, as some have suggested?

Bear in mind that these European royals influence the global political landscape. It is a sad testament to the current state of affairs when world leaders regard trampling on civil rights for their own sick, twisted pleasure as acceptable and “the way it’s always been.”

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.thedailyconspiracy.com)
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Pope Francis and eleven prominent officials are named and subpoenaed in a lawsuit exposing the Ninth Circle sacrificial cult; Assaulted sheriffs charge Pope with “Command responsibility for a monstrous criminal conspiracy, obstruction of justice and mass murder”; Vatican College of Cardinals deadlocked in choice of probable replacement of Bergoglio
Posted on July 12, 2018 by Kevin

Breaking News Communique from the International Tribunal of Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS)

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Brussels and Rome:

Four common law Sheriffs who were assaulted by Vatican officers acting under the orders of Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, have filed a criminal lawsuit in European courts that names Bergoglio and eleven other officials as participants in a “monstrous criminal conspiracy”.

The claim was filed on July 11 in the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels and in the civil court of an undisclosed European nation. Subpoenas were issued the same day to Pope Francis and eleven other men, all of whom are named as defendants in the lawsuit and as active members and participants in “a centuries-old Catholic child sacrificial cult known as the Ninth Circle”.

The defendants are also named as co-conspirators in the disappearance of eight children from Catholic facilities in Switzerland, Belgium and Italy.

Besides Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, the named defendants in the lawsuit are:

- Elio di Rupo, former Prime Minister of Belgium

- Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State

- Cardinal Sean Brady, former head Catholic prelate of Ireland

- Count Georges Jacobs, Belgian Catholic businessman, head of UCB Biopharmaceuticals and Director of the Cercle Lorraine or “Club van Lotharingen” , Brussels

- Count Luc Jacques Bertrand, Belgian Jesuit banker, Director of the Cercle Lorraine

- Paul De Keersmaeker, Belgian Catholic businessman, former European Union Parliamentarian, member of the Cercle Lorraine

- Kees van Korlaar, Criminal underworld member of “Ndrangheta”, Belgian businessman, member of the Cercle Lorraine

- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Catholic Prelate of Dublin diocese

- Bishop Charles Morerod, Catholic Prelate of Geneva

- Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary, World Council of Churches

- Bishop Mark MacDonald, Prelate, Anglican Church in Canada and North American Executive Officer of the World Council of Churches

These twelve subpoenaed defendants have thirty days to respond to the Summons and appear in person or through their lawyers in Court Examination for Discovery proceedings.

In related news, a secret conclave of the Vatican Curia, or College of Cardinals, continues to debate who will replace Jorge Bergoglio as the Bishop of Rome. According to a source in the Vatican, the conclave has been in session since July 5 and is deadlocked in their choice of a successor to the controversy-plagued Bergoglio.

According to the source, “Either (former Pope Benedict) Joseph Ratzinger will be given the Papal crown again or more likely, an African Cardinal will be chosen, probably Arinze of Nigeria or Napier of South Africa. What is certain is that Bergoglio is finished. It’s just a matter of time.”

(ΠΗΓΗ:www.ITCCS.org)
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A Special News Update from the International Tribunal of Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS)

Monday, 23 July, 2018 GMT

Brussels:

The four common law Sheriffs who are suing Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, and eleven other defendants are now seeking a Summary Judgement against them, allowing for their immediate conviction. The Sheriffs made the application today in European courts after none of the defendants responded to a lawful Summons or disputed the charges made against them, namely, that they are practicing members of the murderous Ninth Circle child sacrificial cult and bear command responsibility for its crimes.

If the courts grant the Summary Judgement, Bergoglio and the other defendants could face arrest as early as August 11.

In Rome, the College of Cardinals remains deadlocked in its efforts to find a replacement to Bergoglio on the verge of new attempts to enforce the standing arrest warrant against him dating from July, 2014. The ITCCS announced today that its Sheriffs’ Department will be working with police forces in Ireland and other European nations to detain Bergoglio as a convicted war criminal, including at the “papal mass” scheduled for Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday, August 26.

In related news, new ITCCS field offices are opening in seven countries during August to escalate the campaign to stop Vatican crimes against children. The European field offices will be located in Dublin, London, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. The North American field offices will be in New York City and Ottawa. Trained common law Sheriffs attached to these offices will make arrests against known child trafficking officials and priests of the Church of Rome and will disrupt Ninth Circle gatherings.

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CIA believes Saudi crown prince ordered journalist's killing: sources
Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, complicating President Donald Trump’s efforts to preserve ties with a key U.S. ally.

The sources said the CIA had briefed other parts of the U.S. government, including Congress, on its assessment, which contradicts Saudi government assertions that Prince Mohammed was not involved.

The CIA’s finding, first reported by the Washington Post, is the most definitive U.S. assessment to date tying Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler directly to the killing.
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The Saudi Embassy in Washington rejected the CIA assessment.

“The claims in this purported assessment is false,” a spokeswoman for the embassy said in a statement. “We have and continue to hear various theories without seeing the primary basis for these speculations.”

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, on a visit to Papua New Guinea, told reporters traveling with him that he could not comment on classified information.

“The murder of Jamal Khashoggi was an atrocity. It was also an affront to a free and independent press and the United States is determined to hold all of those accountable who are responsible for that murder,” he said, but added that Washington wanted to preserve its relationship with Saudi Arabia.

The State Department declined to comment.

Trump and top officials of his administration have said Saudi Arabia must be held to account for any involvement in Khashoggi’s death, but they have also stressed the importance of the alliance.

U.S. officials have said Saudi Arabia, a major oil supplier, plays an important part in countering what they see as Iran’s malign role in the region, and Trump has repeatedly said he does not want to imperil U.S. arms sales to the kingdom.
FILE PHOTO: Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi speaks at an event hosted by Middle East Monitor in London Britain, September 29, 2018. Middle East Monitor/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

While the Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on 17 Saudis for their role in Khashoggi’s killing, many lawmakers think the United States should take a tougher stance, and the CIA’s findings are likely to embolden that view.

Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government and a columnist for the Washington Post, was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 when he went there to pick up documents he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman.

Khashoggi had resisted pressure from Riyadh for him to return home. Saudi officials have said a team of 15 Saudi nationals were sent to confront Khashoggi at the consulate and that he was accidentally killed in a chokehold by men who were trying to force him to return to the kingdom.
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Turkish officials have said the killing was intentional and have been pressuring Saudi Arabia to extradite those responsible to stand trial. An adviser to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Saudi Arabia of trying to cover up the murder.

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said on Thursday that he was seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged in the killing. The prosecutor, Shalaan al-Shalaan, told reporters the crown prince knew nothing of the operation, in which Khashoggi’s body was dismembered and removed from the consulate.

U.S. officials have been skeptical that Prince Mohammed would not have known about plans to kill Khashoggi, given his control over Saudi Arabia.

The Post, citing people familiar with the matter, said the CIA’s assessment was based in part on a phone call the crown prince’s brother, Prince Khaled bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, had with Khashoggi.
FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting with U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the United Nations in New York on March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Levy/File Photo

Prince Khaled told Khashoggi he should go to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve the documents and gave him assurances that it would be safe to do so, the Post said.

The newspaper, citing people familiar with the call, said it was not clear if the prince knew Khashoggi would be killed but that he made the call at his brother’s direction.

The prince said in a Twitter post on Friday that the last contact he had with Khashoggi was via text on Oct. 26, 2017, nearly a year before the journalist’s death.

“I never talked to him by phone and certainly never suggested he go to Turkey for any reason. I ask the US government to release any information regarding this claim,” Prince Khaled said.
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The Post said the CIA also examined a call from inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after Khashoggi’s killing.

Maher Mutreb, a security official who has often been seen at the crown prince’s side, made the call to Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide to Prince Mohammed, to inform him the operation had been completed, the Post said, citing people familiar with the call.

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Argentine Navy submarine found a year after disappearing with 44 aboard
Hugh Bronstein, Jorge Otaola

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The Argentine Navy submarine that went missing a year ago off the country’s Atlantic Coast was found by a private company involved in what had been a massive search for the vessel and its 44-member crew, the Navy announced by tweet on Saturday.
A sticker in commemoration of the 44 crew members of the missing at sea ARA San Juan submarine is seen on the windshield of a car of a victim's relative outside a hotel where relatives are staying in Mar del Plata, Argentina November 17, 2018. Words below read "Fer, We are waiting for you" REUTERS/Marina Devo

The submarine ARA San Juan had a seven-day supply of air when it last reported its position on Nov. 15, 2017. It was found some 800 meters (2,625 feet) below the ocean’s surface by a marine tracking contractor Ocean Infinity.

The disappearance gripped the nation’s attention as the government struggled to provide information about the tragedy. Relatives of the crew still have questions.

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“We have found them,” Jorge Villarreal, father of one crew member told local radio. “Now we are going to search for the truth. For us this is the start of a new chapter.”

At the time of the disappearance, the Navy said water that had entered the submarine’s snorkel caused its battery to short-circuit. Naval officials said international organizations helping to search for the missing vessel a year ago detected a noise that could have been the submarine imploding.

Hopes of rescuing survivors faded about two weeks after the submarine went missing. The navy said it searched for double the amount of time the submarine would have had oxygen.

The first anniversary of the submarine’s disappearance was marked with an event at the Mar del Plata naval base on Nov. 15, with President Mauricio Macri in attendance.

The crew had been ordered to return to Mar del Plata on the country’s east coast. But the vessel was never heard from again.

Ocean Infinity, a U.S. company that can search and map the seabed, was hired by Argentina following the failure of a international operation to find the vessel after it went missing in the South Atlantic.

The San Juan was some 430 km (270 miles) off Argentina’s Patagonian coast when it sent its last signal.
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The disaster spurred soul-searching over the state of the military in Argentina, which - after a series of financial crises - has one of Latin America’s smallest defense budgets relative to the size of its economy. Some families of missing crew members blamed the government for under-funding the Navy.

Subs are used to patrol sovereign maritime areas throughout South America and can transform themselves into a lethal threat to potential adversaries.

Argentina learned a harsh lesson of submarines’ military value during the 1982 Falklands War, when a British sub sank the ARA General Belgrano cruiser. It was the only major ship Argentina lost in the war over the disputed Falkland Islands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas.

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What Happened to Cuba’s Sunken City?
By April Holloway, www.ancient-origins.net
August 9, 2014 Updated: June 21, 2015
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Just over a decade ago, a team of explorers were working on an exploration and survey mission off the western coast of Cuba when their sonar equipment picked up a perplexing series of stone structures lying some 650 meters below the surface. The structures appeared completely analogous against the barren ‘desert’ of the ocean floor and seemed to show symmetrically organized stones reminiscent of an urban development.

A media flurry soon ensued with news sites sporting headlines such as ‘Atlantis Discovered in Cuba’ and ‘Lost City of the Caribbean Found’. However, the finding also attracted the attention of the government, national museum, and national geographic, who all made promises to investigate the strange sonar images.

Now, ten years on, the story has disappeared into obscurity. What ever happened to the sunken ‘ruins’ of Cuba? Were they ever fully investigated? And why has the media fallen silent on this unusual discovery?

The discovery was first made in 2001 when Pauline Zalitzki, a marine engineer, and her husband Paul Weinzweig, owners of a Canadian company called Advanced Digital Communications (ADC), were working on a survey mission in conjunction with the Cuban government off the tip of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba.

ADC was one of four firms working in a joint venture with President Fidel Castro’s government to explore Cuban waters, which hold hundreds of treasure-laden ships from the Spanish colonial era. The team was using advanced sonar equipment to scan a 2 square kilometer area of the sea floor when they noticed a series of symmetrical and geometric stone structures resembling an urban complex.

Upon studying the sonar images, Zalitzki observed what appeared to be unusual formations of smooth blocks, crests, and geometric shapes. Some of the blocks looked like they were built in pyramid shapes, others were circular.

In July 2001, they returned to the site with geologist Manuel Iturralde, senior researcher of Cuba’s Natural History Museum, this time equipped with a Remotely Operated Vehicle to examine and film the structures. The images revealed large blocks of stone resembling hewn granite, measuring about 8 feet by 10 feet. Some blocks appeared deliberately stacked atop one another, others appeared isolated from the rest. Zalitzki said that the images appeared to reflect the ruins of a submerged city but was reluctant to draw any conclusions without further evidence.

“These are extremely peculiar structures, and they have captured our imagination,” said Iturralde, who has studied countless underwater formations. “But if I had to explain this geologically, I would have a hard time.”

Estimating that it would have taken 50,000 years for such structures to have sunken to the depth at which they were said to be found, Iturralde added “50,000 years ago there wasn’t the architectural capacity in any of the cultures we know of to build complex buildings.” A specialist in underwater archaeology at Florida State University added, “It would be cool if they were right, but it would be real advanced for anything we would see in the New World for that time frame. The structures are out of time and out of place.”

In the media storm that followed the announcement of the discovery, news sites were quick to draw parallels with the fabled lost city of Atlantis. However, Zelitsky and Weinzweig were unwilling to make such comparisons. The story is myth, said Zelitsky. “What we have found is more likely remnants of a local culture,” once located on a 100-mile “land bridge” that joined Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with Cuba.

Iturralde added that there are local legends of the Maya and native Yucatecos that tell of an island inhabited by their ancestors that vanished beneath the waves. Nevertheless, Iturralde does not discount the possibility that the rock formations are merely the result of the wonders of Mother Nature. “Nature is able to create some really unimaginable structures,” he said.

Despite hundreds of media outlets reporting on sunken cities, advanced civilizations, the lost city of Atlantis, and submerged ruins, there are others who are not so willing to accept this point of view.

Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, from the debunking website Bad Archaeology, claimed that the depth of the alleged remains is the biggest problem for the sunken city proponents. During the Pleistocene, which was characterized by a series of ice ages, sea levels dropped significantly, but the maximum drop was around 100 meters.

“At no point during the Ice Age would it have been above sea level unless, of course, the land on which they stand has sunk. This is the claim made for Atlantis: according to Plato’s account, it was destroyed “by violent earthquakes and floods”. However, if we take Plato at his word – as we must if we assume Atlantis to have been an historical place – the violence of its sinking makes it improbable that an entire city could have survived plunging more than 600 m into an abyss,” writes Fitzpatrick-Matthews.

If we assume that he is right and that these stone structures do not reflect an ancient submerged city but are simply products of nature, then surely geologists and other scientists would be quick to jump on the finding and investigate what freakish event of nature caused such peculiar formations. Strangely, however, there have been no reported follow-up investigations and news outlets have gone deathly silent on the matter.

What happened to all the promises from the government, national museum, National Geographic, and other scientists to carry out further surveys?

The quick dismissal of the story has led some to question whether there has been a suppression of information regarding the finding. However, Fitzpatrick-Matthews claims the story simply went cold and that in the end experts were not convinced that Zelitsky had really discovered a sunken city.

(ΠΗΓΗ: www.theepochtimes.com)
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Atlantis of Britain: Prehistoric Territory of Doggerland Prepares to Unveil its Secrets

Doggerland, sometimes called the Stone Age Atlantis of Britain or a prehistoric Garden of Eden, is an area archaeologists have been waiting to rediscover. Finally, modern technology has reached a level in which their dreams may become a reality. Doggerland is thought to have been first inhabited around 10,000 BC, and innovative technology is expected to aid a new study in glimpsing into what life was like for the prehistoric humans living in the region before the catastrophic floods covered the territory sometime between 8000 - 6000 BC.

Located in the North Sea, Doggerland is believed to have once measured approximately 100,000 square miles (258998 square kilometers). However, the end of the Ice Age saw a great rise in the sea level and an increase in storms and flooding in the region, causing Doggerland to gradually shrink.

Location of Doggerland

Location of Doggerland (in bright green) ( University of Bradford )

The location is known for providing prehistoric animal bones and, to a lesser extent, human remains and artifacts.

By using seabed mapping the team of archaeologists, computer scientists, and molecular biologists from the University of Bradford have begun tracking the changes in the ancient environment of Doggerland. They judge that the climate change diminished the territory of Doggerland so much that it turned from a vast territory to an island, and then was eventually consumed by the surrounding waters around 5500 BC.

Specifically, a tsunami of 5 meter (16 feet) waves, set off by an immense landslide near Norway, is the culprit in the catastrophe that ended human inhabitants in Doggerland, according to the study presented by Imperial College in 2014.

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Apart from seabed mapping, survey ships in the current study have also been sent out to begin collecting pollen, insects, plant and animal DNA (using sedaDNA technology), along with artifacts so that a better picture of the landscape, lifestyle and human use of Doggerland can be revealed.

Professor Robin Allaby, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, and one of the researchers on the project said in a statement that: "The constant environment of the sea floor preserves ancient DNA exceptionally well allowing us to reconstruct palaeoenvironments many thousands of years older than is possible on land at the same latitude.”

The techniques to be used in the study are groundbreaking according to Dr David Smith of the University of Birmingham. As he told The Telegraph : “This is the first time that this type of reconstruction has been attempted at this detail and scale in any marine environment. The opportunity to provide complementary analysis of established and new technologies, including DNA, at such a scale is also likely to provide a step change in our understanding of past environments and our approach to landscape reconstruction.

“Mapping Doggerland” part of the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, published in 2008

“Mapping Doggerland” part of the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, published in 2008 ( University of Birmingham )

The lead researcher, Professor Vince Gaffney of the University of Bradford, has high hopes that the five year study will provide a big payoff in terms of understanding the recolonizing of Northern Europe by Stone Age humans. Professor Gaffney told The Independent :

Because these areas of continental shelf became sea, they have been inaccessible to archaeologists until now. However, this project will access new data at a scale never previously attempted. Novel mapping, DNA extraction and computer modeling representing people, animals and even individual plants will generate a 4 dimensional model of how Doggerland was colonized and eventually lost to the sea. A dramatic, and previously lost, period of human prehistory will begin to emerge from the seismic traces, fragments of DNA and snippets of computer code that will form the primary data of this innovative archaeological project.

The study of Doggerland has received a €2.5 million ($2.8 million) Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council, with hopes that the results of the study provide better insight into the life of prehistoric inhabitants who are thought to have resided in the area for about 6000 years.

By Alicia McDermott

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