Jefferson Parish Cops Claim They Had to Shoot Calvin Cain to Death b/c He Started to Drive Toward Them but a Witness says the Car Never Moved. 1 Year Later Cops Refuse to Release Body Cam, Suit Filed

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From [HERE] A Black family in New Orleans has announced they're filing a lawsuit against Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto and some of his deputies accusing them of using excessive force. Last summer a deputy shot and killed a man they say was trying to escape and then drove towards a deputy. 

WWL Louisiana's Eleanor Tabone sat down with Calvin Cain's mother and his best friend days after the shooting, now the family is suing the sheriff's office.

At the time of the shooting, Lopinto said NOPD asked for help in locating the man suspected in a shooting in New Orleans. Armed with the information that the suspect lived in The Lumiere apartment complex in the 3300 block of West Esplanade, Lopinto said officers found a car identified in the New Orleans shooting and waited for the suspect."

At a press conference after the shooting, the sheriff said, "They attempted to block that vehicle in which he tried to make his escape from it. Running into the back of the fence, turning the vehicle wheels forward, where I had one of my deputies approaching him at that time. My deputy ended up firing shots into the windshield."

Mallory Woodfork, Calvin's mother told Eleanor Tabone last year she watched her child die, saying, "My son Calvin, walked out the building...  I'm watching my son, I could tell he was on FaceTime because of how he was holding the phone. I saw when he turned where the car was at, and as soon he got in the car, I saw a white F-150, whatever pickup truck, when boom, bam, and I heard shots instantly."

The family maintains Calvin never started the car and drove towards a deputy. Woodfork said last year, "He didn't move, he didn't have the opportunity to move. And I was there. His mama witnessed his murder. I was just 15 feet away."

Martin said on that fatal day she was on Facetime with him as he was walking to his car, saying, "He put the phone up, he sit down. As soon as gets ready to start the car, I just heard a car crash, the phone just dropped to the floor. So I am like 'Calvin, Calvin, Calvin,' he's not saying nothing. So I hung up the phone. I call back he doesn't answer. I call back again, he doesn't answer. I call back, he doesn't answer."

Now the family is calling for justice. Lawyer Bobby DiCello said, "She needs to know that her community is safe and this lawsuit is about exploring the problems in Jefferson Parish." 

The family's legal team is pushing for JPSO to release the body camera video.

DiCello said, "It's a chance to get to the bottom of the story, a story the Jefferson Parish sheriff will not allow to be told. If Calvin did wrong, it would be on that video."

Woodfork said, "I want him to release the bodycam, release the camera." 

Lawyers say the suit is being filed in federal court. Calvin would have turned 20 next week.

Fed Ct Rules COVID Shots are Not Vaccines b/c They Don’t Prevent the Spread of COVID. Thus, the LA Mandate is Not Rationally Related to Preventing Disease, Violates the Right to Refuse Med Treatment

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the COVID mandate in LA is unlawful and violates the individual’s right to refuse medical treatment. The court held that mRNA COVID injections are not “vaccines” within the meaning of Supreme Court case precedent because they don’t prevent transmission or provide immunity from COVID. As such, COVID shots are simply medical treatments and do not the pass strict scrutiny under the Constitution because individuals have the fundamental right to refuse medical treatment.

While the decision is considered a victory to many people who take their freedom seriously, it is nevertheless cowardly because it is so late. That is, most mandates are no longer in effect and the decision comes after millions have already been forced by the government to take deadly, experimental injections - which was the point. Such is the nature of the lex-icon in the free range prison.

The ruling centers on a lawsuit brought by Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF) and other plaintiffs who challenged Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) adoption of a policy that required its employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine to keep their jobs. LAUSD issued the initial vaccine policy March 4, 2021.

There was no trial. The government requested the court to make a judgement on the pleadings, which is a pre-trial motion like a motion to dismiss. To make a decision the court must accept all factual allegations in the complaint as true and construe them in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. The district court granted the government’s motion by ruling that “mandatory vaccination laws are generally constitutional” and that “Supreme Court precedent did not require that a vaccine have the specific purpose of preventing disease.’ According to the District Court, Supreme Court precedent states that rational basis review (a low standard of review) applied to these facts and under rational basis review no case can plausibly challenge a mandatory vaccination policy. The plaintiffs appealed the ruling.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the district court misapplied Supreme Court precedent which states that “the principle of vaccination is to prevent the spread of disease and or provide immunity.” The court must balance the an individual’s liberty interest with the government’s societal interest in preventing disease. The government’s interest of preventing societal disease will generally supersede an individual’s liberty rights with regard to a vaccine mandate.

However, in this case the plaintiffs alleged that due to the fact that COVID shots do not prevent the spread of COVID or provide immunity, they were simply individual medical treatments - not vaccines. The complaint stated, “According to most official sources, the most the shot could arguably do was to reduce an infected person’s symptoms. Thus, it is a therapeutic, no different than taking an aspirin or other medicine to reduce the symptoms of illness.” Plaintiffs argued that “the Covid-19 shots do not prevent the spread of Covid-19 and thus must be considered as a private health matter - compulsory medication - not a public one.” Importantly, the government did not properly dispute those claims and argued that the shots are intended to reduce an individual’s symptoms of COVID and were “safe and effective” at doing so. As such, the court overruled the district court decision due to the fact that COVID shots do not meet “the principle of vaccination” or legal standard for vaccinations because they don’t prevent transmission or provide immunity. The court explained that ‘a government has power to mandate prophylactic measures aimed at preventing a person from spreading disease to others but it may not force medical treatment that is solely for the recipient’s benefit.’ The court explained that even under rational basis review (‘not crazy review’), which is a very low standard of review, the COVID mandate is unlawful because its purpose is not rationally related to preventing the spread of COVID. This is so because the injections don’t prevent transmission or provide immunity. Rather, COVID mandates have the purpose of reducing an individual’s symptoms - thus Supreme Court precedent concerning vaccines does not apply to the COVID mandate.

Furthermore, the concurrence from judge Collins explained that the district court applied the wrong standard of review and should have applied strict scrutiny review because the mandate invoked the plaintiff’s Constitutional right to refuse medical treatment. Collins said, ‘a competent person has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment.’ The Supreme Court’s case law clarifies that compulsory treatment for the health benefit of the person treated—as opposed to compulsory treatment for the health benefit of others—implicates the fundamental right to refuse medical treatment.’ Collins explained that the plaintiff’s allegations have invoked that right.’ Accordingly, the district court erroneously applied rational basis review and should used a higher standard to review the mandate because it infringed on fundamental Constitutional rights. Nevertheless, as explained, even under the lowest legal standard of review the mandate is unlawful because COVID shots are mere individual medical treatment, not a vaccine as defined by Supreme Court case law. [MORE]

The complaint stated that individuals have a Constitutional right to refuse to inject themselves with the Covid-19 shots. It stated,

The Supreme Court has recognized the right to bodily integrity as one of the most fundamental rights known to man. Indeed, it has been called “first among equals”. As the Supreme Court has said: ‘No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.’” Guertin v. State of Michigan, 912 F.3d 907, 918 (6th Cir. 2019) (quoting Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Botsford, 141 U.S. 250, 251 (1891)). Indeed, the Supreme Court has “never retreated ... from [its] recognition that any compelled intrusion into the human body implicates significant, constitutionally protected privacy interests.” Missouri v. McNeely, 569 U.S. 141, 159 (2013). For more than a hundred years, the Supreme Court has applied meaningful judicial review to government actions that invaded this right to bodily integrity. It did so even before creating the modern tiers of constitutional scrutiny.

[MORE HERE] and [HERE]

In a similar suit that also challenges a federal COVID mandate in the US District Court for the District of Utah (funded by Dr. David Martin) the same arguments were made. The complaint in that case explains,

“Because the Injections are treatments, and not vaccines, strict scrutiny applies. The US Supreme Court has recognized a “general liberty interest in refusing medical treatment.” Cruzan v. Dir., Mo. Dep’t of Health, 497 U.S. 261, 278, 110 S. Ct. 2841, 2851, 111 L.Ed.2d 224, 242 (1990). It has also recognized that the forcible injection of medication into a nonconsenting person’s body represents a substantial interference with that person’s liberty. Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210, 229, 110 S. Ct. 1028, 1041, 108 L.Ed.2d 178, 203 (1990), see also id. at 223 (further acknowledging in dicta that, outside of the prison context, the right to refuse treatment would be a “fundamental right” subject to strict scrutiny).32

As mandated medical treatments are a substantial burden, Defendants must prove that the CMS Mandate is narrowly tailored to meet a compelling interest.

No such compelling interest exists because, as alleged above, the Injections are not effective against the now dominant Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in that they do not prevent the recipient from becoming infected, getting reinfected, or transmitting SARS-CoV-2 to others. Indeed, evidence shows that vaccinated individuals have more SARS-CoV-2 in their nasal passages than unvaccinated people do.

Further Analysis of Data from Berkeley Earth Clearly Indicate that Climate Change During the Period 1860 to 2020 is Driven by the Sun

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From [HERE] In a recent analysis of global temperature data from Berkeley Earth (1), I found that the main factor driving the temperature increase from 1860 to 2020 is the earth's orientation to the sun. Despite criticism from those who believe in anthropogenic climate change, accusing me of being sponsored by the oil industry and lacking “climate science” qualifications, I responded politely. I also made a mental note that industry sponsorship could supplement my pension. Critics did not engage with the data or provide a compelling argument. I questioned what qualifications are needed to conduct basic data analysis in Excel. A more relevant question is why this type of analysis hasn't been published already. Critics argued that Milankovitch cycles operate on longer timescales and cannot explain current climate change. While true, the specific timing within the solar cycles could be crucial, and the existence of unidentified shorter cycles is possible. I also overlooked the 11-year solar cycles that influence short-term changes in the sun's activity. If these cycles influence climate change, they could help identify a solar signal within temperature records.

Further reading revealed that there is strong evidence that the 11-year solar cycles do impact our climate (2). To maximise the ability to detect this solar signal in temperature data, we require a climate change-sensitive region, high-resolution monthly data, a specific time of year, and a relevant cycle period that aligns with the phase. Previous analysis showed that the northern hemisphere warms faster than southern latitudes, with winter having a more significant impact than summer. For example, the warming rate in January in Greenland from 1860 to 2020 is 6.5 times greater than in July. On this basis I conducted a specific analysis on the January temperature anomaly record in Greenland to identify any potential solar signature. [MORE]

["Doggy wants you to just barely survive—not to be fully alive"] 'If I Dont Comply I Lose My Freedom, My Career, My Business. What is Slavery Then? Rage at Elites Who Crammed COVID-19 Down Our Throats

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According to FUNKTIONARY:

Doggy – Uncle Brother—the condition and conditioning which serves you your problem doubling as your very own ambition. 2) a situation such that the fulfillment of the conditions necessary to achieve a desired result produces its failure. 3) the entity that goes by many names, including bank-monopolized capitalism, the Spectacle, the Hall of Mirrors and the Looking Glass society, the Mega-machine, Statism, Global Imperialism, Scientific Socialism, cooperative federalism, corporate religion, and the phallacy of “progress”—the manifestation and embodiment of the tool of the Wallflower Order. 4) any shrewd trickster. 5) Leviathan’s Big Brother. 6) the creators of the source code for the global dis-information “system.” 7) Dr. Sam and Mr. Brother. 8) the collective name ascribed to inert abstractions that we have given artificial lifesupport to and unwittingly sanctioned or accorded superiority over life. Doggy is the cultural conditioning system that maintains its hold over all things and all people, even our minds and opinions, by getting us to be informers and informants on each other, by getting us to be the trustees in and of their mind prism prison. Doggy is any and all conditioning, often self-imposed and when necessary involuntarily inflicted, that promotes your belief in illusion (both grand and petit) as a way of life. Doggy creates the conditions wherein an undetected and undeclared war is waged on us directly through us. The result of this on-going psychological war is that you, like many others, willingly destroy your freedom without the possibility of recognizing or overcoming the oppressions of control. The belief in illusion is the agreement to oppression. Doggy is the violent programming we have sustained all of our lives. Doggy wants you to just barely survive—but not to be fully alive—wants you to remain barely alive, but not to fully live. Say Uncle! Bad Doggy. (See: “THEY,” Hidalgo, Vampires, Society, Thoughtforms, CrimethInc., Beasthood, Corporate State, Governments, Uncle Sam, Wallflower Order, Cell, The Collective, Fishbowlers, Big Brother & “Greater System”)

Master’s rent – Federal and state income tax and property tax. When citizen-slaves in America are not working, they can come and go when they want and therefore have the illusion of true freedom—called “free-range slavery.” They only work from January until May for their master and they get to keep part of the “money” the sale of their labor earns them. They have the illusion of owning their own home and their master will only evict them out of it if they fail to pay the master’s rent (which he calls income tax and property tax). The citizen-slaves are treated so well by their master that they don’t want to see, much less leave their cage. American citizen-slaves are content because they usually have enough “money” to buy all the roaming freedom they need. American citizen-slaves realize that they will be punished if they do not comply willingly with master’s demands or commands. A man ceases to be free anytime an obligation is forced upon him, regardless of how small. (See: Involuntary Servitude, Slavery, Citizen, Slave, Serf, Feudalism, Cooperative Federalism, Allegiance, Voluntiered Servitude, “Credit,” Usury, Interest, Labor, Freedom, Corporate State, Govern & Ruler)

Voluntiered Slavery – First Tier—working for the banksters (paying tribute on the cost of “capital,” i.e., debt used as-if it were, or even could ever truly be “money”) under global Hegelian Banking. Second Tier—working for Uncle $cam via the unlawful and criminal misapplication of the Internal Revenue Code coincident with the misinterpretation of the federal revenue taxing laws and apportionment provisions of the Constitution, manifested in the form of federal and state income tax withholding schemes and gambits from one’s paycheck and voluntary compliance with so-called “tax returns.” Third Tier—working for a corporation (a deadly cartoon) which has no existence but through your energy under the corporate fiction of its charter from yet another legal fiction—a Corporate State. (See: Banking, Declaration of Undiependance, Property, Slavery, Wealth, Labor, Asset, Paycheck, Real Tax & Constitution for the United States of America)

Speaking thru Their Dummy (Fauci) Elites Casually Admit there was No Scientific Basis for Social Distancing, Masking or COVID Lockdowns that Destroyed Small Businesses, Jobs and Freedom of Movement

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From [HERE] In April 2020, The Daily Mail had absolutely no issue with publishing and promoting the obviously flawed Science™ of the pandemic Experts™ like Pantsdown Ferguson:

Meanwhile, Professor Neil Ferguson from Imperial College London, who is advising ministers, said 'significant' social distancing will most likely be needed until there is a vaccine.

He told the Today programme that as restrictions are eased, more testing will be needed to isolate individual cases and trace their contacts to keep future outbreaks under control.

'Because without that, our estimates show we have relatively little leeway,' he said.

'If we relax measures too much then we'll see a resurgence of transmission.

'What we really need is the ability to put something in their place. If we want to open schools, let people get back to work, then we need to keep transmission down in another manner.

'And I should say, it's not going to be going back to normal. We will have to maintain some form of social distancing, a significant level of social distancing, probably indefinitely until we have a vaccine available.'

Now, in June 2024, they casually report that Archcriminal Fauci, responsible for much of the worldwide plandemic response nonsense admits that he made it all up, conveniently forgetting the part they played in promoting it:

Speaking to counsel on behalf of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic earlier this year, Fauci told Republicans that the six foot social distancing rule 'sort of just appeared' and that he did not recall how it came about. 

'You know, I don't recall. It sort of just appeared,' he said according to committee transcripts when pressed on how the rule came about. 

He added he 'was not aware of studies' that supported the social distancing, conceding that such studies 'would be very difficult' to do. 

In addition to not recalling any evidence supporting social distancing, Fauci also told the committee's counsel that he didn't remember reading anything to support that masking kids would prevent COVID.

Oh, never mind all the social, economic and public health harms it caused then? Not to mention the detriment to a generation’s education?

I guess Fauci simply can’t remember the (in)famous Imperial paper then? Funny how someone in such an influential position has no recollection when a complete nobody like me has it all chronicled? Here’s a couple of concise analyses that might aid his memory: [MORE]

An NIH Scientist with Ties to Big Pharma Retracted a Journal Study Showing COVID Injections May Cause Cancer, according to Emails Compelled through FOIA Request

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From [HERE] and [HERE] A recent investigation by Australian journalist Rebekah Barnett suggests politics and financial interests, not scientific concerns, led to the retraction of a 2021 peer-reviewed study finding the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA vaccine impair critical DNA repair mechanisms, which could lead to cancer.

Viruses, published by MDPI, retracted the study in 2022, despite objections by the lead author, Ya-Fang Mei, Ph.D., of Sweden’s Umeå University.

Subsequent research and case studies have largely validated the findings of the retracted study conducted by Mei and Hui Jiang, Ph.D., of Stockholm University in Sweden.

Barnett’s investigation, built on work by independent journalist John Davidson and Dr. Ah Kahn Syed, included emails released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) revealing that Eric O. Freed, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of Viruses, oversaw its retraction.

Freed, a scientist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), suggested the retraction could proceed without evidence of scientific misconduct, raising questions about his impartiality.

The study’s co-author originally requested the retraction. However, Mei strongly objected, claiming Stockholm University “forced” the retraction due to external pressure.

The NIH rejected Davidson’s FOIA request for Freed’s emails related to the retraction, citing trade secret exemptions. However, Barnett’s FOIA to Stockholm University uncovered some of these emails.

Barnett’s article contains images of many FOIA’d emails describing the progression of arguments among various scientists and journal and university personnel leading up to the retraction.

Retracted paper showed spike protein could cause cancer

Mei and Jiang found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein — and its mRNA-vaccine-derived analog — significantly inhibits DNA damage repair, which is essential for maintaining genomic stability and preventing cancer.

The researchers demonstrated that the spike protein localizes in the cell nucleus and inhibits DNA repair by hindering the recruitment of key repair proteins BRCA1 (breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein) and 53BP1 (p53-binding protein 1) to the damage site.

The spike protein’s suppression of the p53 gene, known as the “guardian of the genome,” is particularly concerning, as the gene is crucial in preventing cancer development — particularly, breast, ovarian and other cancers affecting women.

Moreover, the study found that the spike protein impairs V(D)J recombination, a complex genetic process occurring in the early stages of T and B lymphocyte development, which are key components of the adaptive immune system.

This process is essential for generating a diverse repertoire of T-cell receptors and antibodies (immunoglobulins) that can recognize and combat a wide range of pathogens. [MORE]

Karen Kingston: COVID-19 was a Planned Bioweapon Attack. It and other ‘Pandemics’ are caused by mRNA viruses that can be aerosolized, used to contaminate food, beverages or injected into the blood

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From [HERE] Per EcoHealth Alliance, DARPA, and peer-review publications COVID-19 was a pre-planned global bioweapon attack that used aerosolized mRNA nanoparticles to cause a pandemic of illness and fear.

December 20, 2023: Many influencers are stating that there was never a pandemic caused by a biological gain-of-function SARS-CoV-2 virus, but there was something that targeted select individuals and communities causing a range of symptoms from loss of taste and smell to severe respiratory infections and in some cases, cytokine storms or even massive blood clotting. Per my analysis, confirmed by Russian military General Igor Kirollov, COVID-19 and other ‘pandemics’ are caused by synthetic pathogens, or mRNA viruses that can be aerosolized, used to contaminate food, beverages, or surfaces, or…directly injected into a person’s bloodstream via ‘vaccination.’

May 16: 2023: (Originally published on December 15, 2022) To this day there is debate amongst medical freedom leaders and experts as to what caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Personally, I’ve invested many thousands of hours throughout 2021 and 2022, in reviewing documents such as EcoHealth’s Alliance pitch to DARPA, peer-reviewed publications regarding the ground zero attacks in China, Italy, and the US, scientific publications and manufacturer’s documents regarding nanoparticle technologies, Pfizer’s private and government contracts, dozens of patents, nanoparticle and SynBio forecasting reports, and reviewed many DARPA communications regarding the current and future applications of nanoparticle technologies.

In March of 2023, the Russian military issued a statement that COVID-19 and many other recent pandemics were caused by artificial pathogens or synthetic viruses. These artificial pathogens are mRNA nanoparticles, the same mRNA nanoparticle technologies found in the COVID-19 mRNA injections.

Stew Peters and I Reiterate that COVID-19 is Caused by BioSynthetic Pathogens on December 15, 2022

On December 15, 2022, Stew Peters allowed me on his platform so that I could make the following statement in order to clearly articulate to concerned citizens how the mRNA nanoparticle technology caused COVID-19:

“Residents of Wuhan and other cities of China, Italy and the United States, were victims of a coordinated nanoparticle bioweapon attack, a bioweapon attack using the same nanoparticles that are in all COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Most victims became infected with the nanoparticles via a direct aerosol attack, surface transmission, or food and beverage contamination.

US citizens should be horrified to learn that EcoHealth Alliance, the NIH, the DOD, and other departments within our US government refer to lipid nanoparticles (nanocarriers) as vaccine technology that can a deliver toxin, chemical weapon, and/or weapon of biowarfare.

The EcoHealth Alliance proposal to DARPA clearly identifies nanoparticle bioweapons as spike proteins, spike protein nanoparticles that are ‘bat vaccines.’ EcoHealth lays out the plan to ‘vaccinate’ residents of select Chinese cities as well as US residents with spike-protein nanoparticle bat-vaccines via aerosol attack, surface transmission, and food and beverage contamination. The purposes of the nanoparticle bat-vaccines are to suppress the human immune system while turning human beings into carriers of lethal diseases.

The DARPA proposal states that EcoHealth will ask the CDC to ‘vaccinate wild vampire bats’ in the United States. The US military will have an app so they can track the ‘vaccinated bats.’

There are three critical points that need to be stated regarding Wuhan, SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19:

  • There weren’t mass COVID-19 deaths in 2020. Many people became ill, some became very ill, and some died, but 99.99% didn’t die. EcoHealth states that the point of the nanoparticle vaccines are to weaken the immune system so that animals (humans) can carry lethal viruses without dying from the viruses.

  • Most COVID-19 diagnoses in 2020 were diagnoses based on pure financial incentives and fraudulent.

  • COVID-19 is caused by an advanced nanoparticle bioweapon that uses mRNA technology to strategically deteriorate and destroy cardiovascular, neurological, immune and reproductive systems. COVID-19 is NOT caused by a virus, gain-of-function, wild-type or otherwise.

  • Lastly, the victims who were originally inoculated with the bioweapon in 2020 were not highly-contagious, if infectious at all. The first round of nanoparticle bioweapons did not contain mRNA codes. They were ‘empty rounds.’ There were also over 200 mRNA sequences of SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020. The virus was never isolated because multiple mRNA sequences were released. At ground zero, from the Wuhan Seafood Market, 9 patients who were sampled for the SARS-CoV-2 sequence, their sequences didn’t match. It’s scientifically impossible for a virus to mutate that quickly.

  • In regards to the injections, Sergeant Jason Murphy of the US Marines states in his letter that when victims are injected with mRNA nanoparticles that then directly enter into their blood streams, that in effect turns them into gain-of-function bioweapons labs capable of shedding and infecting others.

Details supporting these statements can be found in EcoHealth’s Alliance pitch to DARPA, and are substantiated by peer-reviewed publications regarding the ground zero attacks in China, Italy, and the US, as well as scientific publications and manufacturer’s documents regarding nanoparticle technology, including the patents.”

Note: It’s important to understand that ‘gain-of function viruses’ are lipid nanoparticle technologies programmed with mRNA codes. mRNA is not a biosynthetic substance itself, mRNA are software codes. SARS-CoV-2 is not a virus, it’s a software code programmed into nanoparticles. The nanoparticle is a modRNA-LNP (modified ribonucleic acid/lipid nanoparticle).

Inadequate PCR Testing for Bird Flu ‘Will Only [intentionally] Raise False Case Counts’ - like it did for COVID

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Dr. Deborah Birx, the Trump administration’s coronavirus response coordinator, told CNN’s Kasie Hunt the U.S. is making the “same mistakes” with bird flu that it made with COVID-19, which she said spread because there wasn’t enough testing for asymptomatic infection.

Birx is now calling for every cow to be tested for bird flu weekly and for regular pooled tests for dairy workers. She also said it’s likely that undetected cases are circulating in humans.

“We have the technology,” Birx said. “The great thing about America is we’re incredibly innovative and we have the ability to have these breakthroughs.”

The technology Birx referenced is polymerase chain reaction or PCR testing — the same diagnostic tool that came under fire during the COVID-19 pandemic for producing inaccurate results, including false positives.

peaking out on X (formerly Twitter), critics like Simon Goddek, Ph.D., pushed back, accusing Birx of “deliberately using the same strategy to fabricate another fake health emergency.”

On Wednesday, the day after Birx’s interview, JAMA published its own article advocating for more widespread bird flu testing.

“No animal or public health expert thinks that we are doing enough surveillance,” Keith Poulsen, DVM, Ph.D., director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told JAMA.

Andrew Pekosz, Ph.D., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told JAMA that more testing should be conducted to find asymptomatic and mild infections. Workers at infected farms should be tested twice weekly, he said, and cows should be tested once a week.

Inventor: PCR test never intended for use as diagnostic tool

PCR testing works by starting with tiny fragments of DNA or RNA called nucleotides and replicating them until they become large enough to identify. The nucleotides are replicated in cycles, and each cycle doubles the amount of genetic material in the sample. The number of cycles required to create an identifiable sample is the “cycle threshold” (Ct).

PCR tests became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic because they were treated as the “gold standard” for identifying positive cases, especially among asymptomatic people.

However, as early as December 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that using a high-cycle threshold would lead to false-positive results. The agency encouraged healthcare providers to consider the test in concert with other factors — namely the presence of symptoms — when diagnosing patients.

The WHO also cautioned those using the tests to read the instructions carefully to determine whether the cycle threshold ought to be changed to account for any background noise that could lead to a high-cycle threshold being mistaken for a false positive.

“When specimens return a high Ct value,” the press release said, “it means that many cycles were required to detect virus. In some circumstances, the distinction between background noise and actual presence of the target virus is difficult to ascertain.”

Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the PCR test, said it was inappropriate to use the test as a diagnostic tool to detect a viral infection.

Even Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted during the pandemic that a high cycle — which was used often — detected only “dead nucleotides,” not a viral infection.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) did not immediately respond to The Defender’s inquiry about which cycle thresholds are used to test animals for bird flu.

Mass testing ‘will only serve to raise a false case count’

As of Tuesday, the latest circulating bird flu virus has reportedly infected 81 herds of dairy cattle in nine states and poultry farms in 48 states. The virus can be fatal for poultry but does not generally cause serious illness in cattle.

Bird flu is rare among humans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains it poses only a low risk to public health.

In the latest wave of bird flu, only three people in the U.S. have tested positive for the virus after close exposure to an infected cow. All three experienced mild symptoms — two experienced eye irritation and one also had a cough and sore throat. All recovered without incident.

The WHO reported Wednesday that a resident of Mexico died from a bird flu infection, but WHO officials also maintain the virus’ threat to the general population is low.

Bird flu cannot be transmitted among humans, but that hasn’t stopped health officials such as the WHO’s Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf from publicly stoking fears that the virus could suddenly mutate, become more infectious and transmissible among humans, and cause a pandemic.

Mainstream media outlets like Scientific American warned that the bird flu isn’t a pandemic “yet,” but it could evolve to become one if people do things like continue to drink raw milk. And The New York Times warned yesterday that the virus “may not be done” adapting.

The CDC reported on Tuesday that it monitors genetic changes in the virus and “few genetic changes of public health concern have been identified.”

Nevertheless, the U.S. government is building up its national stockpile of existing vaccines produced by CSL Seqirus and is nearing contracts with Moderna and possibly Pfizer to fund the development of an mRNA vaccine for the virus.

On Tuesday, Finland announced it will begin offering the vaccine to selected groups of people. [MORE]

Puppetician Tedros: "It's Time to Be More Assertive in Countering Anti-Vaxxers"

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From [HERE] It appears that WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is feeling his oats, after key amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) *WERE PASSED* last week, despite his cherished Pandemic Treaty being tabled for the meantime.

As James Roguski reports, "The 77th World Health Assembly HAS adopted a substantial package of amendments to the International Health Regulations. We the People have suffered a stunning defeat...The recently adopted amendments will facilitate an enormous global build up of the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex which seeks to trigger ongoing "pandemic emergencies" that will be made even worse by "relevant health products."

These amendments passed despite massive protests in Japan and two nations opting out of the IHR, altogether, Costa Rica and Slovakia.

Slovakia’s President Robert Fico has survived several gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt against him two weeks ago, due to his rejection of destructive Cabal policies, including the forced injections and war with Russia. 

Denmark has adopted the amendments and 192 member states now have 18 months to decide to opt out. If they do nothing, the amendments will automatically take effect.

Tedros is seen in this video saying, "I believe it's time to be more assertive in countering anti-vaxxers. They have used COVID as an opportunity, and we see the chaos they're causing..."

One wonders what Tedros has in mind, in terms of being "More assertive in countering anti-vaxxers", being that he is a former official of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, a left-wing ethnic nationalist paramilitary group, which was classified as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government in May 2021.

'Comply, Go to Jail or Die Theater' [Your Consent is a Placebo]: Clown Cincinnati Cops Use Escalating Levels of Violence to Force a Black Man Into Obedience and Attack a Black Man Filming the Assault

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Between 2014 - 2023 the St Louis Police Solved Fewer than Half the Homicides of Black People but Two-thirds of Cases Involving White victims. Detectives investigating Murders are Overwhelmingly White

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From [HERE] The unsolved killings on Shulte Avenue reflect reality in St. Louis. In a city where nearly 90% of homicide victims are Black, police have struggled to solve the killings of Black people.

Between 2014 and 2023, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department solved fewer than half the homicides of Black people but two-thirds of cases involving white victims, according to an analysis of police data by APM Reports, St. Louis Public Radio and The Marshall Project. The news organizations found that the department at times struggled to solve homicides in the past decade partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust.

St. Louis police officials declined repeated interview requests to discuss the findings.

Some Black community leaders have contended that police aren’t making the same effort to solve crimes involving Black victims as crimes involving white victims.

“These are communities that don’t trust the police,” said community activist Jamala Rogers, co-founder of the Organization for Black Struggle. “These are communities that have had bad relationships and experiences with the police.”

While nearly half of the city’s population is Black, the detectives tasked with investigating homicides overwhelmingly are white.

Families of homicide victims on Shulte Avenue echoed Rogers’ concerns. They said contact with police investigators was short-lived, and they have little hope of ever seeing justice for their loved ones.

“I knew in the beginning they wouldn't be doing anything,” Sherya Hawthorne said. Her son, Travis Hill, was shot and killed in an alley behind a Shulte Avenue home in 2017. Hawthorne said police never talked with her about her son’s death, and she felt there was no point in following up. “I never wanted to keep reliving and reliving and reliving it,” she said.

Hill’s killing is one of about 1,000 unsolved homicides involving Black victims between 2014 and 2023. That’s close to double the enrollment of the high school serving students living in the neighborhoods around Shulte Avenue. [MORE]