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The Verge: Bernie Sanders calls for a ban on police use of facial recognition by the police

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: Americans can handle an open discussion

Not said nearly enough: ILHAN OMAR: Israel’s actions ‘not consistent’ with being an ally or a democracy

Let’s get the truth, of it all.

I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern among many individuals within the health choice movement, specifically the vaccine choice movement, of taking a too-preoccupied interest in the health choices of others. Ironically so. They see people drinking diet coke, or eating McDonald’s, or failing to live up to their own standard of a healthy lifestyle, and thus they teeter far too close to advocating for the government to bring its heavy hand in to rectify these “incorrect” health choices.

So here is a quick restatement of the fundamental axiom and goal of liberty as I’ve interpreted it. It’s nothing more than an extension of voluntary interaction between consenting adults as far and wide as possible throughout society. It is a recognition that adults can make their own decisions, and when they do so, they make the world a better place. It might be hard or impossible to see how someone’s drinking of Diet Coke could possibly help to make the world a better place, so here is a trick to getting around it: aim that judgmental attitude at the person in the mirror. The only way possible to improve society is to improve yourself. Also to defend the right of every adult to make their own decisions, to legalize every interaction or transaction between consenting adults.  Recognize that a government powerful enough to make health decisions for you can also decide whether to inject you and your children with poison.

I’m sure its offensive to some to see others eating what they consider “junk” food, making lifestyle choices that appear to lead to a ruinous dead end. But this attitude, one that spends far too much time dwelling on the personal conduct of others, is inimical to a free society. It’s a short walk from that, to drumming up support for restrictive legislative measures that help no one at all, but apparently assist the self-righteous sleep more soundly.

For liberty to become sustainable in any degree, a cultural change must occur. Specifically, it should be considered indecent to dwell too long, or take too a perverse interest in, the personal habits or nuances of others.

“Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law.” No Thelemite here, but I can’t help but think that Crowley independently arrived at the fundamental axiom of a free society. A tolerance of the differences of others is essential. This doesn’t mean you must interact with them in any way, but advocating for the State to intervene and force a desired outcome, should be looked upon as vulgar.

This state of affairs is understandably frustrating to the multitude of busybodies among us, straining at the leash to “do something”. We all have that primitive busybody within us to some degree, but in order to evolve into something better it must be shackled.

From Mondo Weiss: 41 Democrats took an AIPAC-sponsored trip to Israel, but you wouldn’t know that from their Twitter accounts

“Armed Jewish settlers storm Palestinian town, conduct military training”

There’s no other way to describe the treatment of Palestinians by Israelis than primitive barbarism, run-of-the-mill throughout history, and subsidized by the United States. The poison of an ethno-nationalist ideology has unleashed the barbaric beast within the settlers, who now see Palestinians as ‘sub-human’. It’s always been ironic to me, the way Israel has turned out, given the circumstances of its founding. Jews were the victim of a Holocaust designed and executed by a totalitarian ideology based on the supposed inferiority of Jews. After World War 2, what was created for Jews but a bizarre mirror of the murderous doctrine they fled.

The great irony of the human race is our capacity for great good, but also great evil. What other species slaughters each other in such a systematic manner as our own? I’m reminded of a young Arthur’s education at the behest of Merlin in Once And Future King. While in the form of a goose, he attempts to convey the meaning of war to a female of the species. Her horrified reaction to the thought of a species engaged in the extermination of its own kind is telling.

It is in our nature to thrive in an environment of liberty, yet it is also in our nature to violate and suppress the liberty of others. Whatever cosmic force placed this inimical dichotomy within us seemingly set us up for failure, yet there have been pockets of progress scattered throughout history. Most have been purely accidental, short periods of time when either government or culture forgot to impose its authoritarian doctrine on all of society, and society and culture flourished. It is short-lived, as our controlling nature notices such undesigned progress, repulsing our primitive inclination for the safe domain of authority. A totalitarian dogma usually swoops in at this point, with the multitude taking part in the sacrament, and progress grinding to a halt.

Strange story from The Sun: Alana Cutland’s family fear yellow fever jab sent her ‘insane’ before she jumped to her death from plane in Madagascar

I was far too naive to believe that Epstein would go to trial, name names, and lay out on the table the blackmail material he had been accumulating at the behest of his handlers for years. Of course he had to die, as he knew too much. And, well, dead men tell no tales. Still, it is an outrage that his death was allowed to happen while in custody. He should’ve been monitored around the clock, to ensure that he would get the chance to talk. The Political Class wouldn’t let that happen, of course. I’d also hoped that, aside from the blackmail list, the freaks and filth surrounding John Podesta, James Alefantis, and Comet Ping Pong would also be exposed.

Epstein was surely assassinated. The system of mutual blackmail through which our Political Class keep one another in check will never be allowed to be exposed. Was he a Mossad asset, CIA? Hopefully something will come of this, but at the moment it appears that the entire affair will fade from the public with no resolution.

From The Guardian:”Monsanto operated a “fusion center” to monitor and discredit journalists and activists, and targeted a reporter who wrote a critical book on the company, documents reveal. The agrochemical corporation also investigated the singer Neil Young and wrote an internal memo on his social media activity and music.

The records reviewed by the Guardian show Monsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated the company’s weedkiller and its links to cancer. Monsanto, now owned by the German pharmaceutical corporation Bayer, also monitored a not-for-profit food research organization through its “intelligence fusion center”, a term that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies use for operations focused on surveillance and terrorism.”

To say that vaccine policy has been a hotly debated, emotional topic, particularly so over the past several months, is an assured understatement. The debate has raged online, in state legislatures, and on television. The consensus, aggressively defended and promoted among corporate news outlets, regulators, and government officials, has been that vaccines are “safe and effective”, that they have saved the human race from rampant disease and mass death, and that it is crucial that we obediently comply with the command to inject. We’ve heard it repeated constantly throughout our lives, but does it reflect the truth, or is “safe and effective” more marketing slogan than fact? If it were true, why the need for the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which has paid out over $4 billion over the past 30 years to those who have suffered a vaccine injury? If vaccines are safe, why grant their manufacturers blanket legal immunity from lawsuits? If critics of vaccine safety are so obviously wrong, why the push to censor their voices? 

You’ll never receive answers to those questions from the mainstream media or their corporate and regulatory allies, because those questions will never be asked by them. To ask them would be to shine a light on uncomfortable facts that surround current vaccine policy, poking holes in a narrative that they are increasingly desperate to hold together. But the questions deserve to be asked, and answered, and the public deserves to know the full story behind the pharmaceutical products they’re told they must inject into their children. If a pharmaceutical product is causing rampant injury and even death, the public deserves to know, regardless as to whether said product is in a syringe or not.

One such product is the HPV vaccine, ubiquitously promoted as the miracle cervical cancer prevention that women have been waiting for. Except for one small fact that is rarely mentioned in the myriad puff pieces extolling the virtues of the vaccine: it has never been proven to actually prevent cervical cancer. For that, the manufacturers would have needed a clinical trial period of several decades, since cervical cancer develops slowly, over a period of many years, with the median age of death occurring at 58. Merck, the maker of Gardasil, couldn’t wait that long. Suffering under the criminal scandal of their heart attack-inducing drug Vioxx, the pharmaceutical giant needed an all-star product that could pull their financials back from the brink. Gardasil, their HPV vaccine, was seen as that product, and they wanted it on the market as soon as possible. So, of course, they cut corners during the clinical trials in an ethically negligent manner, as Slate’s thorough investigation documented in 2017. Instead of proving to cure cervical cancer, the manufacturers only had to prove a positive effect at preventing specific cervical lesions that are thought to eventually progress into cancer.

The Slate investigation found that the Gardasil clinical trials were flawed from the outset, seemingly designed to downplay injuries stemming from the vaccine: participants were told that safety trials had already been conducted and that the vaccine had been proven safe, which many of the participants later found to have been a lie. Participants were monitored for side effects for a meager 14 days, and investigators were given wide discretion to decide for themselves whether symptoms should be attributed to the vaccine. Any symptom not seen as related to the vaccine was classified as “new medical history”. Many of the trial participants developed severe neurological disorders soon after receiving the vaccine, but were finding that trial investigators did not appear willing to entertain the notion that the vaccine was responsible. 

Another fatal flaw in the Gardasil clinical trials was the lack of a true saline placebo in the control group. Half of the participants received the Gardasil vaccine, and the other half, save for a few hundred participants, received an injection containing Merck’s aluminum-containing adjuvant, AAHS. Participants that received the aluminum-laced placebo experienced adverse reactions at almost the same rate as those who received the vaccine, leading some to believe that Merck’s proprietary aluminum adjuvant to be a primary culprit in many of the neurological disorders that began to emerge. 

And many have blamed the use of aluminum in vaccines as a culprit in the host of neurological disorders emerging at an alarming rate among children. 

Why didn’t Merck use an unadulterated, saline placebo in the control group? Were they afraid the contrasting health outcomes between the two groups would derail another billion-dollar pharmaceutical product? Both the vaccine and the placebo also contained a host of other compounds, including polysorbate 80, sodium borate, and L-histidine.

Once the vaccine was approved, it was widely distributed, with Australia being the first country to launch a nation-wide HPV vaccination campaign, despite the fact that cervical cancer is vanishingly rare there, at 1.8 deaths per 100,000 women. Injuries began appearing almost immediately, with around 4,300 adverse events reported to Australia’s ‘DAEN’ adverse event reporting system between April 2007 and March 2018.

In Denmark, clinics opened that primarily treated victims of injuries related to the HPV vaccine. One such clinic, the Syncope Centre, saw over 400 injured girls by 2017. Since 2015, five new clinics have opened to treat injuries related to the HPV vaccine, which immediately saw 1,300 new cases of injuries flood in. Of the 2,300 HPV vaccine injuries officially reported in Denmark, over 1,000 were severe. 

You’ll never hear about the flawed safety trials or the numerous injuries from the corporate media, regulators, the manufacturers, or even your doctor, despite knowledge of it being crucial to adequately make an informed decision regarding the vaccine. Instead, you’ll get a chiding for questioning the “safe and effective” dogma and a good dose of cancer fearmongering, amounting to a minor form of emotional terrorism that shames parents into acquiescing to the jab.

There is also a fairly good chance you’ll never learn that the vaccine may increase the risk of cervical cancer if the recipient already has an HPV infection. In the Gardasil trials, Merck reported a 44.6 percent increased risk of developing CIN2 or CIN3, the precancerous lesions most likely to eventually develop into cervical cancer, if the participant had a current HPV infection along with a prior infection.  Trial participants were at a 33.7 percent increased risk if they had a current infection and/or a prior infection. GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix trials found similar results.

The HPV vaccine was also never tested for its effects on fertility, yet the Gardasil trial data showed a miscarriage rate of around 25 percent for the participants, much higher than the average of 10 percent among young women. Premature ovarian failure, a condition virtually unheard of among healthy young women, has been studied as one possible adverse reaction to the HPV vaccine. In a paper published in 2014, Dierdre Little looked at three cases of premature ovarian failure in teenage girls following vaccination.

The Pap smear, widely regarded as “the most successful screening technique in the history of medicine” for its role in the dramatic decline in cervical cancer deaths, remains the true miracle cancer prevention, reducing cervical cancer rates around 80 percent in the developed world. Despite this, research shows that the false confidence instilled by having received an HPV vaccine could lead to fewer Pap screenings, which would result in increased cervical cancer rates.

Like most miracles, the HPV vaccine has failed to live up to the hype. But that doesn’t stop the corporate media, regulators, and every other beneficiary from hyping. And they don’t plan on informing you of any of the serious questions raised concerning the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, questions that would compel many parents to refuse it. Instead, the media and regulators deceptively promote the vaccine as a risk-free cancer cure, recklessly so, thereby condemning the public to a hidden game of Russian Roulette with their children’s health. 

Anyone who questions the safety or efficacy gets slapped with the pejorative “anti-vaxxer” in an attempt to bully them into silence, but the name-calling appears to be losing its effectiveness. Facts are stubborn, and always seem to bubble up and break out of any imposed censorship campaign. And the fact-free defense of vaccines does nothing but raise more eyebrows. The public is smarter than the media, regulators, and government give them credit for, and they’re realizing that they need more than mere emotional manipulation and appeals to authority to assuage that skepticism. 

Nothing should be exempt from criticism, certainly not a pharmaceutical product manufactured by an industry widely known for its boundless corruption. Vaccines aren’t a pure gift from God, but they’re treated as such. For some strange reason, a product of Pharma becomes sacrosanct in the eyes of the public and Political Class once it’s stuffed into a syringe.

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