Blood-Curdling Scream Heard as Masked ICE Race Soldiers Violently Pull Latino Woman Out Car in School Pickup Line and then Kidnap Her Using an Unmarked SUV. DHS Claimed She Stalked ICE Cops
/A terrifying scene unfolded outside of a Chicago, Illinois school when ICE agents pulled a woman from a car in the pickup line. A shocked bystander captured the moment, asking questions and getting no response from law enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security said the woman and her accomplice were accused of stalking an ICE vehicle. Both woman have been released.
Attorney Claims Body Camera Shows ICE Race Soldier say, “Do Something Bitch,” before Shooting Her 5X in Chicago. Claims Fed Indictment is Based on Lies, Cop Didn’t Act in Self-Defense
/From [HERE] A Latino woman shot multiple times by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents was recently indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
Prosecutors allege Marimar Martinez, 30, rammed the vehicle of federal agents with her own before they shot her, which they say was an act of self-defense. They also claim Martinez was armed.
Martinez’s lawyer, Christopher Parente, said footage from one of the agent’s body-worn cameras contradicted that account, and Martinez will plead not guilty at an arraignment scheduled in the coming days.
According to Parente, that camera footage captured one of the officers saying, “Do something, bitch,” before opening fire.
The footage has not been made public.
Another person, 21-year-old Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, was also indicted on Thursday in the same case.
Federal agents allege that Martinez was involved in a vehicle chase before ramming a CBP vehicle. Authorities claim that a government vehicle carrying three CBP agents was followed and boxed in by a “convoy of civilian vehicles”, including cars driven by Martinez and Santos.
The shooting occurred as immigration agents, at the behest of the second Trump administration, have been scouring Chicago – Illinois’s largest city – for people to deport.
The ramped-up immigration enforcement in Chicago has been met with protests.
Jacksonville Slave Catcher Slams a Black Woman to the Pavement and Punches Her in the Face to Enforce Parking Law. Straw Boss Supports White Cop, also Charges Bystanders to Please His Masters
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From [HERE] A disturbing incident in Jacksonville, Florida, has sparked widespread outrage after a video emerged showing a Black mother being violently assaulted by a police officer over what witnesses describe as a minor parking violation.
The woman, whose identity has not yet been disclosed, was reportedly picking up her child from school when the incident occurred. Eyewitnesses say she had briefly left her car unattended, prompting an officer to approach her. Moments later, the situation escalated dramatically — with the officer seen throwing her to the ground, pinning her neck with his elbow, and striking her multiple times.
The shocking video, now circulating widely on social media, captures the woman screaming, “I can’t breathe!” as onlookers plead with the officer to stop. Many viewers have condemned the use of excessive force, describing it as “outrageous” and “an act of police brutality.”
Carolyn Barber commented, This is just outrageous—absolute abuse. A Black mother was thrown down, elbowed in the neck, beaten and pinned to the ground by a police officer — over a parking violation outside her child’s school in Jacksonville. [MORE]
Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough on List of Cops with Credibility Concern
/Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough is one of 90 law enforcement officers whose alleged, sustained or pending credibility concerns must be disclosed to defense attorneys before they can testify in a county court.
Filed as a “Brady Report” by the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office, the two-page document lists officers from five agencies in alphabetical order, identifying them by both their name and badge number, as well as their “status.”
McCullough, whose appointment was nominated and unanimously approved by county leaders in 2023, is listed as “IADISCLOSE,” the most common status amongst the officers. Others include “IACLEARED” and “IADONOTCALL.”
It is not clear why the chief is named in the report. When responding to a Public Information Act request in July from the nonprofit news site MuckRock, a State’s Attorney representative wrote that the office does not possess records regarding misconduct allegations or violations of police policy unless they have prosecuted that officer. [MORE]
Can Defendants Impeach a Cop w/a Police Report Report Made by a Computer? New EFF Investigation says Police Departments are Creating AI-Generated Reports to Avoid Accountability and Transparency
/Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.
Our review of public records from police agencies already using the technology — including police reports, emails, procurement documents, department policies, software settings, and more — as well as Axon’s own user manuals and marketing materials revealed that it’s often impossible to tell which parts of a police report were generated by AI and which parts were written by an officer.
Everyone should have access to answers, evidence, and data regarding the effectiveness and dangers of this technology. Axon and its customers claim this technology will revolutionize policing, but it remains to be seen how it will change the criminal justice system, and who this technology benefits most.
For months, EFF and other organizations have warned about the threats this technology poses to accountability and transparency in an already flawed criminal justice system. Now we've concluded the situation is even worse than we thought: There is no meaningful way to audit Draft One usage, whether you're a police chief or an independent researcher, because Axon designed it that way.
Draft One uses a ChatGPT variant to process body-worn camera audio of public encounters and create police reports based only on the captured verbal dialogue; it does not process the video. The Draft One-generated text is sprinkled with bracketed placeholders that officers are encouraged to add additional observations or information—or can be quickly deleted. Officers are supposed to edit Draft One's report and correct anything the Gen AI misunderstood due to a lack of context, troubled translations, or just plain-old mistakes. When they're done, the officer is prompted to sign an acknowledgement that the report was generated using Draft One and that they have reviewed the report and made necessary edits to ensure it is consistent with the officer’s recollection. Then they can copy and paste the text into their report. When they close the window, the draft disappears. [MORE]
Probably Over 1M Murdered in Gaza. The Official Death Toll (67,000) in Gaza is Mind Control. It Means 97% of the 2.3M People Survived Bombs ‘More Destructive than 6 Hiroshimas,' Epidemics, Starvation
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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY: Blight Supremacy – genocide. Genocide is the primary means of maintaining Blight Supremacy. (See: Genocide)
MORE DESTRUCTIVE THAN 6 HIROSHIMAS. The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 67,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect deaths (stemming from infectious disease, epidemics, untreated chronic illness, untreated serious wounds, and starvation) is probably over 1 million and growing by the day.
According to Ralph Nader, No crowded enclave like Gaza – the geographical size of Philadelphia – with 2.3 million people under a long-term siege blocking essentials can withstand over 115 thousand tons of bombs, plus artillery, grenades, and snipers targeting civilians, with uncontrollable fires everywhere. How could 97.5% of its inhabitants survive? Tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women, and men lie under the rubble. Tens of thousands of diabetics and cancer victims have no medicine. Five thousand babies a month are born into the rubble.
As declared by the Israeli war ministries, “no food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel,” the words of genocide or mass murder of utterly defenseless civilians who had nothing to do with October 7, 2023 — hikes the ratio of “indirect deaths” to the higher range of three to fifteen-fold by the Geneva Declaration Secretariat’s review of prior conflicts. [MORE]
Nader explains, Since the Hamas raid penetrated the multi-tiered Israeli border security on October 7, 2023 (an unexplained collapse of Israel’s defensive capabilities), 2.3 million utterly defenseless Palestinians in the tiny crowded Gaza enclave have been on the receiving end of over 115,000 tons of bombs/missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.
The relentless bombing has destroyed apartment buildings, marketplaces, refugee camps, hospitals, clinics, ambulances, bakeries, schools, mosques, churches, roads, electricity networks, critical water mains – just about everything.
The U.S.-equipped Israeli war machine has even uprooted agricultural fields, including thousands of olive trees on one farm, bulldozed many cemeteries and bombed civilians fleeing on Israeli orders, while obstructing the few trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egypt.
With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm and the elderly, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 67,000? With five thousand babies born every month into the rubble, their mothers wounded and without food, healthcare, medicine and clean water for any of their children, severe skepticism about the Hamas Health Ministry’s official count is warranted.
Netanyahu and Hamas, which he helped over the years, have a common interest in lowballing the death/injury toll. But for different reasons. Hamas keeps the figures low to reduce being accused by its own people of not protecting them, and not building shelters. Hamas grossly underestimated the savage war crimes by the vengeful, occupying Israeli military superpower fully and unconditionally backed by the U.S. military superpower.
In my lengthy article, published in the Capitol Hill Citizen, (August/September 2024 issue) I noted that the total ban by Netanyahu of foreign and Israeli reporters from entering the killing fields of Gaza allows the undercount by Hamas to be the anchor on the lethal truth. Hamas counts only names of the deceased given by hospitals and mortuaries, which were largely destroyed many months ago. Hamas, like Netanyahu, favors an undercount for obviously different reasons – the former to lessen the ire of its people for not protecting them and the latter to diminish international sanctions and condemnation.The Health Ministry is intentionally conservative, citing that its death toll came from reports only of named deceased by hospitals and morgues. But as the weeks turned into months, blasted, disabled hospitals and morgues cannot keep up with the bodies, or cannot count those slain laying on roadsides in allies and beneath building debris. Yet the Health Ministry remains conservative and the “official,” rising civilian fatality and injury count continues to be uncritically reported by both friend and foe of this devastating Israeli state terrorism.
It is not as if there are no higher estimates by credible groups. UN agencies, international aid groups, and specialists in disaster casualties at places like Brown University and the University of Edinburgh, and reports in the prestigious medical journal LANCET all point to a major undercount. They cite minimum reasonable estimates. But the mass media just keeps citing the Hamas undercount, awaiting some magical number that meets an impossible level of precision. [MORE]
It was especially astonishing to see the most progressive groups and writers routinely use the same Hamas Health Ministry figures as did the governments and outside groups backing the one-sided war on Gaza. All this despite predictions of a human catastrophe in the Gaza Strip almost every day since October 7, 2023, by arms of the United Nations, other besieged international relief agencies on the ground, eyewitness accounts by medical personnel, and many Israeli human rights groups and brave local journalists in that Strip, the geographic size of Philadelphia. (Unguided Western and Israeli reporters and journalists are not allowed to enter Gaza by the Israeli government.) (See the open letter titled, “Stop the Humanitarian Catastrophe” to President Biden on December 13, 2023, by 16 Israeli human rights groups that also appeared as a paid notice in the New York Times.)
In thousands of news articles, there is the same exact obligatory reference, to wit: “More than X number of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.” That severe undercount becomes the reported casualty figure despite the Israeli unchallenged, daily demolition bombing of Gaza.
As a result, unlike other armed conflicts in the world, the vast undercount of fatalities and injuries in Gaza is a vastly underreported story. Coming to more accurate estimates would affect the intensity of the political, diplomatic, and civic pressures for a ceasefire. It would also prompt more strenuous calls for immediate humanitarian aid, an immediate ceasefire, and peace negotiations.
Start with common sense. Gaza had 2.3 million people before October 7, 2023, in a cramped area the geographical size of Philadelphia. The Gaza Strip has experienced the most intense, daily bombardment on civilians and civilian infrastructure since World War II. There are no army bases or airfields in Gaza, only an under-armed small guerrilla force hiding in tunnels facing a super-modern military backed by super-modern U.S. military weapons and other Biden/Trump assistance.
As of mid-April 2025, University of Bradford (U.K.) Emeritus Professors Paul Rogers, a specialist on aerial and artillery bomb devastation, described the level of destruction in totally besieged Gaza as the “equivalent of six Hiroshimas, but even more destructive” because many more of the bombs over Gaza drop over targeted locations – schools, apartment buildings, hospitals, clinics, markets, refugee encampments, roads, water mains, electricity circuits and even the agricultural areas to deny the people of Gaza from growing some of their own food. Starvation, death by uncontrolled fires, infections, and the thousands of babies born into the rubble each month spiral the daily accelerating toll.
Now, if you take the current Hamas figure of just over 62,000, you are telling the public that 97% of Gazans are still alive. This is lethally absurd. A more conservative figure is that over 500,000 Palestinians have been killed from Netanyahu’s non-stop Palestinian Holocaust (more than all the U.S. soldiers killed in WWII.) This means that an incredible about one-out-of-four Palestinians have been killed.
American doctors and other health workers back from Gaza say almost all the survivors are either sick, injured, or dying. Without insulin, medicines for cancer, asthma, and heart disease for many months, with no shelters, with dense/deadly air pollutants, from incessant bombings, their observations are not surprising. [MORE]
The US Spent Over $31 Billion to Pay for Israel's Genocide Over the Past Two Years
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From [HERE] The Cost of War Project at Brown University calculated that total US military support to Israel over the past two years has cost US taxpayers over $30 billion. Israel has received over $21 billion in military aid from the US and Washington has bombed Iran and Yemen for Tel Aviv.
According to the study, the US has provided Israel with tens of thousands of bombs and other weaponry following the Hamas attack in southern Israel two years ago. The American arms have fueled Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The mass killing in Gaza with US weapons has pushed a growing number of Americans to oppose military aid and weapon sales to Israel. However, the growing opposition to the special relationship Washington has with Tel Aviv did not lead President Joe Biden or Donald Trump to curtail the flow of arms to Israel.
Additionally, Israel’s aggression in the Middle East has drawn the US into other wars. Both Biden and Trump engaged in large-scale bombing operations in Yemen in an effort to force Ansar Allah to end its blockade of the Red Sea and stop attacking Israel.
Ansar Allah enacted the policy in support of Gaza, and says the blockade and attack will end once Israel halts its genocidal onslaught in the Strip. While the bombing cost the US billions of dollars, it failed to force Ansar Allah to end the blockade.
President Trump also joined Tel Aviv’s aggressive war against Iran and intercepted missiles targeting Israel. Overall, the US has spent between $10 and $13 billion helping Israel wage wars across the Middle East over the past two years. [MORE]
Intense Israeli Airstrikes Destroy Al-Azhar University in Gaza City, where Hundreds of Displaced Palestinian Families were Taking Shelter
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From [HERE] and [HERE] The Israeli occupation army continued its heavy bombardment across various areas of the Gaza Strip on Monday, resulting in multiple injuries and extensive damage to property, including the complete destruction of Al-Azhar University in Gaza City.
Local sources reported that Israeli warplanes targeted displaced people's tents east of Asda neighborhood, north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, causing injuries to several civilians.
Israeli artillery also shelled gatherings of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid east of Wadi Gaza, in central Gaza, leading to multiple injuries.
In Gaza City, Israeli warplanes carried out consecutive airstrikes on the neighborhoods of Sabra, Al-Jalaa, and Al-Thalathini. Meantime, residential buildings belonging to the Al-Louh and Abu Shaaban families near the Tayaran intersection were targeted, resulting in injuries and widespread destruction to the targeted buildings and neighboring homes.
Additionally, Israeli fighter jets struck Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, causing injuries and damage to residents' homes.
Simultaneously, intense shelling targeted Al-Azhar University in Gaza City, completely destroying the facility amid the ongoing assault on civilian infrastructure and facilities across the Gaza Strip.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 67,074 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 169,430 others injured.
Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.
Trump/Bush Reboots COINTELPRO to Destroy Dissent: “When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger”
/From [HERE] When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.
That danger is no longer theoretical.
In the same breath that the administration touts lethal military strikes against Venezuelan boats in Caribbean waters, federal agents are conducting coordinated militarized raids on homes in Chicago, rappelling down on apartment buildings from Black Hawk helicopters, dragging families out of their homes, separating children from their parents, and using zip ties to immobilize them—even citizens.
The message—spoken and unspoken—is that the government is on a war footing everywhere: abroad, at sea, and now at our front doors.
This “everywhere war” depends on a simple redefinition: call it a war, and the target becomes a combatant. Call the city a battlespace, and its residents become suspects.
What the White House is doing overseas to vessels it deems part of a terrorist network (without any credible proof or due process), it is now mimicking at home with door-kicking raids, mass surveillance, and ideological watchlists.
With the stroke of a pen, President Trump continues to set aside the constitutional safeguards meant to restrain exactly this kind of mission creep, handing himself and his agencies sweeping authority to disregard the very principles on which this nation was founded—principles intended to serve as constitutional safeguards against tyranny, corruption, abuse and overreach put in place by America’s founding fathers.
Take National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), for example.
NSPM-7 directs a government-wide campaign to “investigate,” “disrupt,” and “dismantle” so-called domestic threats, ordering agencies to pool their data, resources, and operations in service of this agenda.
What makes NSPM-7 so dangerous is not only its declared purpose but its breadth and secrecy. There are no clearly defined standards, no meaningful transparency, and no external oversight. The public is told only that the government will protect them—by watching them.
Yet the danger is not only in what the government hides, but in what it chooses to see.
Even more troubling is the way “threats” are defined.
What is being sold as a campaign to disrupt left-wing conspiracies has expanded to include ideology, rhetoric, and belief.
Clearly, this is not just another surveillance program.
NSPM-7 is a framework for rebranding dissent as a danger to be quashed.
The government has a long history of using vague definitions of “extremism” to justify ever-expanding control. Once dissent is rebranded as danger, every act of resistance can be swept into the government’s dragnet.
NSPM-7 merely formalizes this cycle of suspicion.
It also resurrects an old playbook with new machinery—COINTELPRO, digitized and centralized. The tools may be different, but the logic—neutralize dissent—is the same, now scaled up with modern surveillance and stitched together under executive direction. From there, the apparatus needs only a pretext—a checklist of behaviors, viewpoints, associations and beliefs—to justify recasting citizens as suspects. [MORE]
Trump Honors His Klancestors by Restoring the Name of Military Base to "Fort Bragg," for Braxton Bragg, a Racist and Enslaver, Despite Bi-Partisan Law to Remove the Names of Confederate Traitors
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Honoring a Champion of Slavery for Symbolic Value. From [HERE] Despite Bragg’s poor track record as a military leader and legacy as a notorious enslaver and defender of racial hierarchy, Camp Bragg was established in 1918 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and became Fort Bragg in 1922.
Braxton Bragg was an unpopular military figure whose own soldiers tried to kill him before he was court-martialed for disrespecting Army leadership. He resumed military command for the Confederacy during the Civil War to preserve slavery and became “known for his pettiness and cruelty, along with the battlefield failures that eventually led to his being relieved of command.” Bragg was deeply committed to the institution of slavery and the exploitation of Black people. He contended that slavery was “just and necessary” and claimed it was “the best and most humane” labor system in the world. He told Irish journalist William H. Russell in 1861 that forced slave labor was the only way to farm in Louisiana:
“If a northern population…settled in Louisiana tomorrow, they would discover that they must till the land by the labour of the black race, and the only mode of making [them] work was to hold them in a condition of involuntary servitude.”1
Bragg added that, to prevent the abolition of slavery, he would fight against the Union “as long as he had a drop of blood in his body.”2
For decades, the choice to name U.S. military bases after individuals who defended slavery and showed contempt for the lives and capabilities of Black soldiers has been criticized as divisive, dishonorable, and antithetical to democratic values.
In the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2021, a bipartisan majority of Congress voted overwhelmingly to end this painful legacy and established a Naming Commission to rename or remove all military assets that commemorate Confederate traitors.
In 2022, the commission recommended new names for nine Army bases, including Fort Bragg, which was officially redesignated as Fort Liberty in June 2023.
The renaming of Fort Bragg represented an acknowledgment of the name’s harm to decades of Black service members and community members.
“America should not have vestiges of slavery and secessionism and celebrate them,” Army veteran Isiah James, a senior policy officer at the Black Veterans Project, told PBS. “We should not laud them and hold them up and venerate them to where every time a Black soldier goes onto the base, they get the message that this base Bragg is named after someone who wanted to keep you as human property.”
Less than two years later, this progress was reversed.
In March 2025, at the urging of President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that Bragg’s name be restored to the base. To get around federal law, which prohibits naming military installations for people who fought against the U.S., the Defense Department said it was naming the base after Pvt. Roland L. Bragg, an infantryman in World War II.
But the Trump administration has been clear that its goal is to reimpose the names of insurrectionists who killed U.S. soldiers to defend slavery.
“This is about restoring all bases to their original names,” Hegseth told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing earlier this year.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised, “We’re going to change the name back to Fort Bragg.” In June 2025, President Trump gave a speech at the base, where he told service members, “Fort Bragg is in. That’s the name. And Fort Bragg it shall always remain.”
Trump Continues to Deliver Symbolic Politics to the Neanderthal Community: Pete Hegseth says Soldiers who Participated in the 1890 Massacre of Native Americans will Keep Medals of Honor
/From [HERE] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in a video post last week that soldiers who participated in the 1890 massacre of more than 250 women, men, and children at Wounded Knee will keep Medals of Honor that many have said should be rescinded.
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
On December 29, 1890, some 500 troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment surrounded a group of Lakota people who were camped at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
The Lakota had been forced to march to Pine Ridge from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation after U.S. Indian Agency Police killed Lakota Chief Sitting Bull, who led his people during years of resistance to U.S. government policies that forcibly relocated Indigenous people from their homes to reservations.
The troops entered the camp to disarm the Lakota. During a brief scuffle between a soldier and a Lakota man who refused to surrender his weapon, the rifle fired, alarming the rest of the troops. The soldiers began firing on the Lakota, many of whom tried to flee the assault. The attack left more than 250 Lakota dead; over half of those killed were women, children, and elderly tribal members, and most of the dead were unarmed.
Despite the extreme cruelty and the killing of so many innocent people, Medals of Honor were given to 19 soldiers for their actions and conduct.
“We Will Never Forget What They Did”
For generations, Native American groups, including the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the National Congress of American Indians, advocates, state lawmakers from South Dakota, and members of Congress have called forthe awards to be rescinded.
A century after the massacre, Congress apologized to the descendants of the people killed at Wounded Knee, but did not revoke the awards, AP reported.
In 2019, then-Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) co-sponsored the Remove the Stain Act to rescind the awards. “This bill is particularly significant because it’s a marker that shows that our country is finally on its way to acknowledging and recognizing the atrocities committed against our Native communities,” Haaland said at a press conference, where South Dakota tribal members showed photos of their ancestors who survived Wounded Knee.
“While 1890 may seem like a long time ago, it’s actually only been a few generations since the bloodiest military attack on Indigenous people in the United States,” the Lakota People’s Law Project wrote.
Cheyenne River tribal member Manny Iron Hawk, whose grandmother survived Wounded Knee, said that rescinding the awards would help everyone to heal. “There was no honor in these murders and the Lakota, we live with these traumas to this day,” he told the Argus Leader.
“Picture in your mind, your grandma grabbing you by your hand when you were 12 and running away into a ravine trying to survive,” Iron Hawk said. “My mother usually tells about this story and she gets sad and she cries. All of us children, she transferred that sadness and story to us.”
Despite bipartisan support, the bill did not make it to a vote in the House.
But in the 2022 defense bill, Congress recommended that the medals be reviewed, and in 2024, then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a special panel of experts to review the medals to “ensure no awardees were recognized for conduct inconsistent with the nation’s highest military honor.”
The panel was directed to review each individual award to assess whether the soldier’s conduct “demonstrated any disqualifying actions” under the standards at the time.
Austin ordered the panel to provide a written report of its findings. The report has not been released publicly.
But Hegseth said in his video post that the review panel concluded in October 2024 “that these brave soldiers should, in fact, rightfully keep their medals from actions in 1890.”
AP reports that the Defense Secretary’s office could not say if the report that Hegseth referred to in his video would be made public.
“We’re making it clear that (the soldiers) deserve those medals,” Hegseth said, before adding that “their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate.”
“We salute their memory,” he said in closing. “We honor their service, and we will never forget what they did.”
New South Korean Study Concludes All COVID Shots (both mRNA and non-mRNA) Increase Cancer Risk
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From [HERE] COVID-19 vaccines and boosters — both mRNA and non-mRNA — pose an increased risk of six types of cancer and a 27% higher risk of cancer overall, according to a recent South Korean study of over 8 million people.
Four South Korean researchers published the report last week as a letter in Biomarker Research, a Springer Nature journal.
According to the study, COVID-19 vaccines and boosters are associated with a higher risk of breast, colorectal, gastric, lung, prostate and thyroid cancer, across all vaccine types and age groups.
Mainstream medical commentators were quick to dismiss the findings, with MedPageToday describing it as “flawed.” But other medical and scientific experts disagreed.
“In plain terms: both major COVID-19 vaccine platforms appear to be carcinogenic,” epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher wrote in a post on Substack.
Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a medical oncologist, told The Defender the study builds on other recent findings but “is the first to show that cDNA [non-mRNA] and mRNA vaccines are associated with cancer risk, suggesting that the spike protein is directly carcinogenic.”
Medical commentator John Campbell, Ph.D., said this week on his YouTube show that the research marks “the largest-scale study so far” examining the association between the COVID-19 shots and cancer.
‘No vaccine technology was free from cancer risk’
According to the study, while the carcinogenic potential of the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID-19 “has been hypothetically proposed,” there has been little research on the potential cancer risk from COVID-19 vaccines.
The researchers said the “shared structures” contained within the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 vaccines, including the spike protein, might mean that the COVID-19 shots are associated with cancer risks.
The study used data from 2021-2023 for over 8.4 million people in South Korea’s National Health Insurance Service database. The sample was split into two groups based on vaccination status. The vaccinated sample was further split into booster and non-booster groups.
Researchers tracked the patients for one year. The vaccinated group was tracked following vaccination. The results showed a statistically significant higher risk of cancer in the vaccinated group, including:
Overall cancer: 27% higher risk
Breast cancer: 20% higher risk
Colorectal cancer: 28% higher risk
Gastric cancer: 34% higher risk
Lung cancer: 53% higher risk
Prostate cancer: 69% higher risk
Thyroid cancer: 35% higher risk
The statistical analysis of the results showed that there is a “1 in 1,000 chance that this result arose by chance,” Campbell said.
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna showed a 20% higher overall risk of cancer and were most closely linked to a higher risk of breast, colorectal, lung and thyroid cancers.
Non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, known as cDNA vaccines and which include the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) shots, were associated with a 47% higher overall risk of cancer. They were specifically linked to an increased risk of colorectal, gastric, lung, prostate and thyroid cancers.
Patients who received a mixture of mRNA and cDNA doses also faced an increased risk, with a 34% higher incidence of cancer overall and a close association with a higher risk of breast and thyroid cancers.
“The elevated cancer risks were not confined to one vaccine platform,” Hulscher wrote. “Each vaccine type was associated with a measurable increase in overall cancer — and each had specific cancer sites driving the signal. In other words, no vaccine technology was free of cancer risk in this dataset.”
Internal medicine physician Dr. Clayton J. Baker said the data show that among vaccinated people, the cancer risk increases with time.
“The increased risk of cancer for vaccinated subjects rises in a linear fashion over the entire period of the study, at a steeper angle than the unvaccinated curve, and it does not flatten out. The increased incidence just keeps getting bigger. It could go on for decades. It’s truly alarming,” Baker said.
‘Every demographic group experienced elevated cancer risks’
The results also showed vaccinated people under 65 years of age were at particular risk of some types of cancer.
“The relatively younger population (individuals under 65 years) was more vulnerable to thyroid and breast cancers; by comparison, the older population (75 years and older) was more susceptible to prostate cancer,” the researchers wrote.
Overall, vaccinated people under age 65 showed an overall increased risk of cancer, while elderly adults — particularly those over 75 — had the highest overall risk.
Vaccinated women also had a relatively higher risk of cancer than vaccinated men, with vaccinated women showing a particularly increased risk of colorectal and thyroid cancers, and vaccinated men showing a higher risk of gastric and lung cancers.
Hulscher wrote:
“Both the overall and site-specific results show a consistent pattern — every demographic group experienced elevated cancer risks, though the type and absolute burden varied. Women and the elderly were hit hardest, but no population segment was spared.”
The study’s results also showed that COVID-19 boosters resulted in a substantially higher risk of certain types of cancer. This included a 125% higher risk of pancreatic cancer and a 23% higher risk of gastric cancer.
Dalgleish called the numbers “striking,” saying the jump in risk after booster shots “is an unexpected increase that we are also seeing in the United Kingdom.”
Critics call one-year follow-up period ‘bonkers’
According to MedPageToday, the one-year follow-up period the researchers used in the study was “bonkers,” and the study didn’t take into account the patients’ family histories of cancer and their screening history.
Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist at Children’s Health Defense, said “the criticism levied against the study is of healthy user bias.” He explained:
“The idea that people more likely to engage in one medical intervention (vaccination) are also more likely to engage in another (cancer screening) … is a valid concern for a vaxed-unvaxed study such as this one, as those seeking a vaccine will have drastically different healthcare-seeking behavior than those not seeking a vaccine.
“[However,] this is not just a vaxed-unvaxed study — it also differentiates the vaccines. Healthy user bias is not a point of argument for why one vaccine (cDNA) shows a strong cancer risk above another (mRNA). Further, the study doesn’t say vaccines cause cancer, but are associated with them.
“We are complex multicellular organisms. Cancerous cells are created within us with great frequency, and are usually subdued by our anti-cancer mechanisms. … If a vaccine can disrupt that anti-cancer mechanism, then cancers can manifest in a short time window.”
Even if cDNA vaccines were shown to pose a higher cancer risk, Baker said the study also highlights the risk of mRNA technology.
“This study absolutely implicates the mRNA platform,” he said. “Remember, COVID-19 was the first widespread use of that technology platform in humans … In its first application, it increases cancers.”
Campbell said official South Korean data is typically reliable, and the study was well structured.
“South Korea was a very heavily vaccinated country,” he said. “There was … just a few hundred thousand in the unvaccinated group, but that’s good enough to get some pretty good data from.”
The study’s authors did not elaborate on possible mechanisms contained within the COVID-19 vaccinesthat might result in a higher cancer risk.
Baker said the “significantly increased hazard ratios for six different cancer types suggests to me a possible immune system impairment contributing to the increased risk. It’s frightening, because the risk is not limited to any one type of cancer that might be screened against.”
According to Campbell, the spike protein and DNA contaminants found in the mRNA vaccines may be among the factors contributing to this risk.
The authors suggested that more research is necessary “to elucidate potential causal relationships, including the underlying molecular mechanisms related to COVID-19 vaccine-induced hyperinflammation.”
Growing number of studies link COVID shots to severe adverse events
Other recent large-scale studies and analyses suggest a link between the COVID-19 vaccines and serious adverse events such as cancer.
Earlier this year, an analysis of a Japanese database of 18 million people showed that people who received COVID-19 vaccines had a significantly higher risk of death in the first year after vaccination compared to the unvaccinated. The risk increased with each additional dose.
A study of 1.3 million women in the Czech Republic published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine in June showed that the rate of successful conception — a pregnancy leading to live birth nine months later — for vaccinated women was “substantially lower” than for those who were unvaccinated.
A 30-month study of nearly 300,000 people in Italy, published in the journal EXCLI in July, found a 23% increased risk of cancer following one or two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and an additional 9% increased risk among those who received three or more doses.
The Italian study’s results also showed statistically significant increases in breast, bladder and colorectal cancers.
Jablonowski said the Italian study’s findings largely mirror those of the South Korean study, as there is “a corroboration of evidence that cannot be ignored.”
“The comparison of the results … is awfully interesting,” Jablonowski said. “The two studies generally agree on many cancer types. One form of cancer that they do not agree on is prostate cancer. It is not remotely noteworthy in the Italian study, and the strongest signal in the Korean study.”[MORE]
Hiding the Alcoholocaust: Big Alcohol Uses Tobacco Playbook to Rewrite Science, Block Reforms and Conceal the Reality that Alcohol is 1 of the World’s Leading Drivers of Preventable Disease and Death
/Urgent action is needed to protect public health from alcohol industry influence and to curb alcohol-related disease and death, according to international researchers.
“The alcohol industry has a serious, and dangerous, conflict of interest between its health-related education and policy-influencing activities, and its commercial priorities,” they say.
That warning comes in one of a series of reports published this year in Future Healthcare, The Lancet Public Health, Addiction and other journals, all pointing to the same conclusion: Alcohol is one of the world’s leading drivers of preventable disease, yet industry tactics routinely delay or weaken health protections to maximize sales and profits.
The numbers are stark. Alcohol consumption accounted for 2.6 million deaths worldwide in 2019. It was recently shown to increase the risk of developing at least seven types of cancer: mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, liver, colorectal and female breast.
The toll also extends far beyond individual drinkers. Like tobacco, the alcohol industry also fuels broad population-level secondhand harms, including injuries and deaths.
Those impacts have been substantially underestimated until now due to a lack of data and modern analysis techniques, researchers say this month in The Lancet Public Health. [MORE]
