thewakingtimes--2020-04-22--How Vitamin C and Magnesium Helps Reverse Disease and Treat Viral Infections

How Vitamin C and Magnesium Helps Reverse Disease and Treat Viral Infections In this interview , Dr. Thomas Levy , a cardiologist widely known for his work with vitamin C , discusses his most recent book , “ Magnesium : Reversing Disease.
” In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic , which was in full swing at the time of this interview , March 24 , 2020 , our discussion also includes some other strategies you can use to prevent and treat this and other respiratory illnesses .
Personally , I believe the fear of the pandemic and collapsed economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be more harmful than the disease itself , considering the mortality rate is now believed to be similar to the flu , which is around 0.1 % .
That said , if this pandemic is teaching us anything , it ’ s that your immune system is your primary defense against infectious disease , so the best thing anyone can do is to educate themselves about how to do that .
The same applies when facing acute illness , as there are many ways to boost your immune function even in the short @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vitamin C is one excellent option .
“ I personally believe , from the research and literature , vitamin C is the primary agent that stimulates and maximizes the potency of the immune system .
So , I don ’ t think it can be undersold , ” he says .
Levy recommends taking 2 to 3 grams , three or four times a day , for this purpose .
I agree with this dosage for acute purposes , but not as a daily supplement .
You simply do not need upward of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
Many could definitely use some vitamin C every day , however .
According to Levy : As for my objection to such high daily doses , Levy replies : Vitamin C can also be administered intravenously .
Levy , who has performed many intravenous vitamin C procedures , typically uses a pH-balanced solution of sodium ascorbate dissolved in water , buffered with sodium bicarbonate .
In this manner , 12 grams of vitamin C can be pushed in as little as five minutes without irritating the lining of your blood vessels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ C , which can still allow you to reach the kind of blood levels you ’ d normally only get with an IV .
Levy recounts a small trial he recently did at the Riordan Clinic , which measured intracellular levels of vitamin C. Here , oral liposomal vitamin C resulted in substantially higher intracellular vitamin C levels than is seen with oral , nonencapsulated vitamin C. The only contraindication to high-dose vitamin C treatment is if you have glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase ( G6PD ) genetic disorder .
G6PD is required for your body @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to transfer reductive potential to keep antioxidants , such as vitamin C. Because your red blood cells do not contain any mitochondria , the only way it can provide reduced glutathione is through NADPH , and since G6PD disorder eliminates the major source of NADPH , it causes red blood cells to rupture due to inability to compensate for oxidative stress with glutathione .
Fortunately , G6PD deficiency is relatively uncommon , and can be tested for .
People of Mediterranean and African descent are at greater risk of being G6PD deficient .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ affect 400 million individuals , and in the U.S. , an estimated 1 in 10 African-American males has it .
Levy also discusses nebulization with hydrogen peroxide , which you can read more about in “ Hydrogen Peroxide Protocol for Coronavirus ” that was posted in my April 9 newsletter .
As mentioned , Levy believes excess calcium inside your cells is a primary contributor to most disease , and magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker .
That makes it useful for a wide variety of scenarios involving oxidative stress .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a countermeasure to electromagnetic field ( EMF ) exposure .
To learn more about the adverse health effects of excessive calcium , listen to the interview in its entirety , as Levy delves into greater detail than summarized here : Levy also points out that some forms of magnesium are antimicrobial as well .
In 1939 , Dr. Frederick Klenner cured 60 out of 60 cases of polio in children and infants using oral and injectable vitamin C. According to Levy , a French investigator in the 1940s did the same thing but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of these historical accounts are outlined in Levy ’ s book .
According to Levy , while magnesium is not an antioxidant per se , it exerts through other mechanisms a profound antioxidant effect inside cell — largely by displacing calcium , allowing vitamin C to accumulate and optimizing glutathione synthesis .
I review this very mechanism in my latest book , “ EMF*D ” as well .
The intracellular concentration of calcium is about 50,000 times lower than the extracellular .
But when you get an excess amount of calcium inside the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ superoxide levels to increase .
Those two molecules , once they ’ re formed , instantaneously go on to form a really pernicious molecule called peroxynitrite , a reactive nitrogen species ( RNS ) , which stays around about 9 million times longer than hydroxyl free radicals .
This longevity allows it to travel throughout the cell , causing tremendous damage to stem cells , cell membranes , proteins , mitochondria and DNA .
Essentially , EMF exposure triggers an increase in intracellular calcium levels , meaning it causes oxidative stress , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this damage .
Most are also deficient in magnesium , so supplementing is a good idea for most people .
Magnesium chloride appears to have the most potent antimicrobial effects .
Levy cites research showing the magnesium sulfate form and the magnesium chloride form have opposite effects on pathogens .
In one in vitro study the sulfate form encouraged infection while the chloride form suppressed it .
Another excellent source of magnesium is molecular hydrogen tablets .
Each tablet provides 80 mg of elemental ionic magnesium .
The tablets , which must be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highly absorbable pure ionic elemental magnesium , and have no laxative effect .
Levy does not think an RBC ( red blood cell count ) test is accurately reflective of your magnesium level .
He explains : As for dosage , it ’ s virtually impossible to overdose on oral magnesium , as it has a built-in mechanism to prevent toxicity .
Like vitamin C , excessive oral magnesium will simply come out the other end , as loose stools .
That ’ s when you know you ’ ve exceeded your ideal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rule is in elderly individuals with constipation who are given large doses of magnesium citrate .
If the magnesium preparation fails to work , it can sit in the gut , causing it to be overabsorbed .
“ That ’ s about the only subset that I know of for oral magnesium , ” Levy says , adding : The reason magnesium lowers your blood pressure is because it ’ s a vasodilator : It enlarges your blood vessels .
And , if you inject it rapidly enough , you will get very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Importantly , for people with migraines , IV magnesium will typically resolve a migraine very rapidly .
In his book , Levy reviews why you don ’ t want elevated levels of calcium , iron or copper .
All three can be quite toxic and cause significant health problems .
Be particularly careful if you have beta thalassemia , like I do , or sickle cell anemia .
Taking iron when you have these conditions is the kiss of death , and I ’ ve seen that done to so many patients @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its health benefits , be sure to pick up a copy of “ Magnesium : Reversing Disease .
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How Vitamin C and Magnesium Helps Reverse Disease and Treat Viral Infections
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
In this interview, Dr. Thomas Levy, a cardiologist widely known for his work with vitamin C, discusses his most recent book, “Magnesium: Reversing Disease.” In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, which was in full swing at the time of this interview, March 24, 2020, our discussion also includes some other strategies you can use to prevent and treat this and other respiratory illnesses.
Personally, I believe the fear of the pandemic and collapsed economy leading to depression and increased suicides will be more harmful than the disease itself, considering the mortality rate is now believed to be similar to the flu, which is around 0.1%.
That said, if this pandemic is teaching us anything, it’s that your immune system is your primary defense against infectious disease, so the best thing anyone can do is to educate themselves about how to do that. The same applies when facing acute illness, as there are many ways to boost your immune function even in the short term.
Vitamin C Is a Powerful Antiviral
As noted by Levy, vitamin C is one excellent option. “I personally believe, from the research and literature, vitamin C is the primary agent that stimulates and maximizes the potency of the immune system. So, I don’t think it can be undersold,” he says. Levy recommends taking 2 to 3 grams, three or four times a day, for this purpose.
I agree with this dosage for acute purposes, but not as a daily supplement. You simply do not need upward of 12 grams of vitamin C every single day. Many could definitely use some vitamin C every day, however. According to Levy:
“Epidemiologically there’s no question — if the whole population just took 1 gram or 2 grams a day, I believe it would have enormous impact on the general public health and the incidents of infectious disease.”
As for my objection to such high daily doses, Levy replies:
“There’s a difference between preventing disease and resolving disease. A larger amount of vitamin C in your bloodstream is going to give you a greater resistance against a given pathogen load than a lower amount, even if that lower amount is in the ‘normal’ range.”
Vitamin C can also be administered intravenously. Levy, who has performed many intravenous vitamin C procedures, typically uses a pH-balanced solution of sodium ascorbate dissolved in water, buffered with sodium bicarbonate. In this manner, 12 grams of vitamin C can be pushed in as little as five minutes without irritating the lining of your blood vessels.
I personally prefer oral liposomal vitamin C, which can still allow you to reach the kind of blood levels you’d normally only get with an IV. Levy recounts a small trial he recently did at the Riordan Clinic, which measured intracellular levels of vitamin C. Here, oral liposomal vitamin C resulted in substantially higher intracellular vitamin C levels than is seen with oral, nonencapsulated vitamin C.
“In this particular study, we also looked at the effects of hydrocortisone, in particularly with liposomal vitamin C … The presence of hydrocortisone massively increased the amount of vitamin C that goes inside the cell. This is very interesting, because … hydrocortisone is considered your No. 1 anti-inflammatory agent. My opinion … [is] that [this] is because it exerts such a profound effect on putting vitamin C inside the cells.”
Contraindication to High-Dose Vitamin C Treatment
The only contraindication to high-dose vitamin C treatment is if you have glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) genetic disorder. G6PD is required for your body to produce NADPH, which is necessary to transfer reductive potential to keep antioxidants, such as vitamin C.
Because your red blood cells do not contain any mitochondria, the only way it can provide reduced glutathione is through NADPH, and since G6PD disorder eliminates the major source of NADPH, it causes red blood cells to rupture due to inability to compensate for oxidative stress with glutathione.
Fortunately, G6PD deficiency is relatively uncommon, and can be tested for. People of Mediterranean and African descent are at greater risk of being G6PD deficient. Worldwide, G6PD deficiency is thought to affect 400 million individuals, and in the U.S., an estimated 1 in 10 African-American males has it.
“If you do have someone that’s positive, you need to remember that the reason the red blood cells are hemolyzing is because they have increased intracellular or intra red blood cell oxidative stress,” Levy says, “and this is due to decreased glutathione [and] vitamin C levels inside the cell, [and] increased calcium levels inside the cell.
So, you can bolster these people up by giving, usually, liposomal or intravenous forms of glutathione a day or two before, as well as intravenous magnesium. This builds up the resistance of the cell …
[We] counsel the patient … to drink a lot of water, stay well hydrated, and tell us if they notice any change at all in the color of their urine. And you’ll find out early on, long before there’s a massive hemolysis that’s life threatening, whether something [is going wrong].
That is the overall approach, but I also have to follow up and say, especially, at the Riordan Clinic, where I’m a consultant, I don’t think we’ve ever seen that, not even once.
Obviously, in certain populations — let’s say if the Riordan Clinic was in Africa — then it might be a whole lot more concern, but there’s a lot of people of color that come to the Riordan Clinic and it just has not turned out to be a problem. Although, with the reports and the literature as they are, you’re probably not doing yourself any favors legally if you don’t check the [G6PD] test.”
Other Important Immune Boosters
Levy adds:
“It’s very important to take Vitamin D as well. Probably somewhere along the lines of 10,000 to 15,000 units a day, at least, during the time of the epidemic … A good preparation of zinc also helps arm the immune system. General supplementation should always include vitamin K as well, and magnesium, which we’ll talk about.
I consider vitamin C, magnesium, vitamin D, and vitamin K2 to be the premier, top four supplements for promoting and maintaining good health, mainly because they’re the primary antagonists to calcium accumulation, and excess calcium inside the cell … I consider to be the primary pathophysiology in all disease.”
Nebulized Hydrogen Peroxide Inactivates Viruses
Levy also discusses nebulization with hydrogen peroxide, which you can read more about in “Hydrogen Peroxide Protocol for Coronavirus” that was posted in my April 9 newsletter.
“Hydrogen peroxide absolutely destroys everything on an open wound. Well, guess what? When you put a fine mist of it inside your sinuses, nose, and throat, it nukes the virus there too … When you’re systemically ill with influenza or coronavirus … the thing that’s fueling it is an ongoing massive replication of the virus in the sinuses, nose and throat.
When you can effectively knock that down 99%, you ‘lop the head off the snake.’ And then the body is in great shape, especially with the support of things like vitamin C to mop everything up. Ozone is also fantastic, [but] ozone is not readily available for most people …
In the nebulization I’m talking about, [you use] over-the-counter, 80 cents a bottle at Walmart, 3% hydrogen peroxide. If you don’t mind a little discomfort, you can do the full strength, but you can get a great effect with 50% or 25% of that concentration or less. The bottom line is, whatever aggravation it causes to nose and sinuses, those rapidly resolve once you stop the nebulization.
For long-term usage, it’s a good idea to use food grade hydrogen peroxide. But don’t hesitate to use the regular peroxide if you are actively dealing with a virus and don’t want to lose time trying to obtain the food grade form.”
Why Magnesium Helps Reverse Disease
As mentioned, Levy believes excess calcium inside your cells is a primary contributor to most disease, and magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker. That makes it useful for a wide variety of scenarios involving oxidative stress.
This is also why I recommend magnesium as a countermeasure to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure. To learn more about the adverse health effects of excessive calcium, listen to the interview in its entirety, as Levy delves into greater detail than summarized here:
“’Magnesium: Reversing Disease’ came as a natural sequel to my earlier book in 2013, ‘Death by Calcium.’ When I did the research for that book, I had no idea … how clear cut the data was. But the bottom line was — and this is why magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin D and vitamin K are so good — is they all are natural calcium antagonists.
They all help dissolve preexisting calcifications and they all help to normalize the calcium in the body. Each one, individually, decreases all-cause mortality — decreases your chance of death from anything — which means they favorably impact every cell in the body.
As I reviewed more and more studies, it became apparent to me (and I’ve not found an exception to this yet) that every cell that is ‘diseased’ has increased calcium levels inside the cell. And the higher they get, if you go without killing the cell, that’s when you undergo malignant transformation. It’s the highest levels of calcium that also result in cancer.
It was also very apparent, even before I began the magnesium book, that magnesium was the No. 1 calcium antagonist and general metabolic calcium function inhibitor. It mirrored everything. More calcium increased your chance of death by all causes, less decreased it. More magnesium decreased it, less magnesium increased it …
Magnesium is directly involved, one way or another, with 80% of all the chemical reactions in the body. So it’s a significant player everywhere. As you go down, disease by disease, No. 1, it becomes apparent that magnesium deficiency by itself causes many diseases, but perhaps even more importantly, magnesium deficiency, if it doesn’t cause a disease, makes all the diseases worse.
Because, once again, the more calcium you get inside the cell, the more oxidative stress, the less enzymes and other biomolecules function normally, and the more you bring that micro environment inside the cell to a reduced level, things start functioning normally …”
Magnesium Is Antimicrobial Too
Levy also points out that some forms of magnesium are antimicrobial as well. In 1939, Dr. Frederick Klenner cured 60 out of 60 cases of polio in children and infants using oral and injectable vitamin C. According to Levy, a French investigator in the 1940s did the same thing but with oral magnesium chloride solution.
Both of these historical accounts are outlined in Levy’s book. According to Levy, while magnesium is not an antioxidant per se, it exerts through other mechanisms a profound antioxidant effect inside cell — largely by displacing calcium, allowing vitamin C to accumulate and optimizing glutathione synthesis.
I review this very mechanism in my latest book, “EMF*D” as well. The intracellular concentration of calcium is about 50,000 times lower than the extracellular. But when you get an excess amount of calcium inside the cell, it causes nitric oxide and superoxide levels to increase.
Those two molecules, once they’re formed, instantaneously go on to form a really pernicious molecule called peroxynitrite, a reactive nitrogen species (RNS), which stays around about 9 million times longer than hydroxyl free radicals.
This longevity allows it to travel throughout the cell, causing tremendous damage to stem cells, cell membranes, proteins, mitochondria and DNA. Essentially, EMF exposure triggers an increase in intracellular calcium levels, meaning it causes oxidative stress, and magnesium is an elegant solution to mitigate this damage. Most are also deficient in magnesium, so supplementing is a good idea for most people.
Magnesium chloride appears to have the most potent antimicrobial effects. Levy cites research showing the magnesium sulfate form and the magnesium chloride form have opposite effects on pathogens. In one in vitro study the sulfate form encouraged infection while the chloride form suppressed it.
“I think the chloride entity is extremely important for the anti-infectious property of magnesium,” Levy says. “So, if you’re taking magnesium for the purposes of infection, take magnesium chloride.
If you’re getting an IV, use magnesium sulfate. If you’re taking it orally, just for the magnesium, then any of a number [will work, including] magnesium glycinate, magnesium threonate and magnesium gluconate — all of those are great.”
Another excellent source of magnesium is molecular hydrogen tablets. Each tablet provides 80 mg of elemental ionic magnesium. The tablets, which must be dissolved in water, provide you with highly absorbable pure ionic elemental magnesium, and have no laxative effect.
On Magnesium Testing
Levy does not think an RBC (red blood cell count) test is accurately reflective of your magnesium level. He explains:
“Red blood cells don’t have cytoplasm and they’re not really a good reflection … No. 1, if your blood level is low, you’re low [on magnesium]. You don’t need to go any further in testing. No. 2, if your blood level is ‘normal,’ then the next step is to go to … ExaTest.com.
They get sublingual swabs and measure intracellular levels of not only magnesium but calcium and a couple other electrolytes as well … It appears to be your best direct reflection that we have so far.
Maybe something better will come out down the road, but right now it looks like the best way for you to really know what your magnesium level is [and] get an idea of how well-suppressed your calcium levels are inside your cells …
It’s not an outlandishly expensive test, but it’s going to run about $250 or $300, so you don’t want to just get it for no reason at all. But if you’re dealing with problems that could be secondary to magnesium deficiency, it’s good to rule that out as being a major contributor to whatever it is you might be treating.”
Side Effects of Excessive Magnesium
As for dosage, it’s virtually impossible to overdose on oral magnesium, as it has a built-in mechanism to prevent toxicity. Like vitamin C, excessive oral magnesium will simply come out the other end, as loose stools. That’s when you know you’ve exceeded your ideal dose.
One exception to the nontoxicity rule is in elderly individuals with constipation who are given large doses of magnesium citrate. If the magnesium preparation fails to work, it can sit in the gut, causing it to be overabsorbed. “That’s about the only subset that I know of for oral magnesium,” Levy says, adding:
“Obviously, then, you can very easily harm yourself by taking too much magnesium too rapidly intravenously. But that’s also it’s therapeutic effect, and it’s a known entity.
As a matter of fact, in dental surgery they have something called magnesium-induced controlled hypotension, because surgeries on the jawbone bleed so badly they want to use something to deliberately bring blood pressure down to controlled hypotensive levels until you get hemostasis, and then they back off on the magnesium and your blood pressure comes back up.
But the point I make about that is, if you give enough magnesium, you can take any blood pressure and bring it down it zero. Within those confines though, it’s very, very safe … Ironically enough, our pseudo-enemy calcium is one of the ways you bring people out of that [hypotensive state].”
Magnesium for Migraine
The reason magnesium lowers your blood pressure is because it’s a vasodilator: It enlarges your blood vessels. And, if you inject it rapidly enough, you will get very warm, sometimes almost hot and sweaty. Importantly, for people with migraines, IV magnesium will typically resolve a migraine very rapidly.
“Upon my review on migraine, let me say, it’s my humble opinion that migraine is completely and totally a magnesium deficiency disease,” Levy says. “That’s how significant magnesium is in the physiology of that.
Interestingly enough, at about the same time I was writing on migraine in my book, a friend called me who was going through some horrible situations with a syndrome I had never heard before, called reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome, and even having a slight bit of a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
I read up on it and said, ‘This looks identical, basically, to migraine physiology. Start dosing your magnesium like there’s no tomorrow.’ She did and she eventually came out of it. I guarantee you she hasn’t gotten off magnesium since, and she’s had no recurring episodes.”
The Toxic 3: Calcium, Iron and Copper
In his book, Levy reviews why you don’t want elevated levels of calcium, iron or copper. All three can be quite toxic and cause significant health problems.
“They’re what I call the three toxic nutrients,” Levy says. “They’re certainly, without any qualification, essential at lower doses for normal metabolism. Calcium plays a role in just about everything — the contraction of your heart. Iron is essential for blood production. Copper plays a similar but lesser role to iron in many of the things that it does.
But I’ve yet to see a person that I think is legitimately deficient in copper. But whether or not that person exists, the more important one is iron. Iron, in my opinion, you should never supplement if you do not have an iron deficiency anemia — hypochromic, microcytic anemia — because for all the things iron does, it’s very tiny amounts of iron that are needed …
You need relatively massive amounts to make a normal blood count. So, if you’re making enough blood, you have enough iron for everything else. Combined with that … you’ll be absolutely appalled to see what’s been put in our fortified enriched foods for the last 70 years. I’ve got news for you — I’m not nuts — they put in metallic iron filings.
Now how on Earth that’s nutritious is beyond me, but even if they put in a legitimate supplemental form of iron, still, the more iron you accumulate, the greater your bodywide oxidative stress is. And excess oxidative stress is what we’re trying to avoid.”
Be particularly careful if you have beta thalassemia, like I do, or sickle cell anemia. Taking iron when you have these conditions is the kiss of death, and I’ve seen that done to so many patients. To learn more about magnesium and its health benefits, be sure to pick up a copy of “Magnesium: Reversing Disease.”


thewakingtimes--2020-04-23--WATCH: Bill Gates and Ellen Discuss Vaccinating ‘7 Billion Healthy People’ in Order to ‘Return to No

WATCH : Bill Gates and Ellen Discuss Vaccinating ‘ 7 Billion Healthy People ’ in Order to ‘ Return to Normal ’ While millions of Americans suddenly find themselves jobless and broke , Bill and Melinda Gates just purchased a $ 43 million dollar home near San Diego , California , along with an $ 18 million dollar house in Santa Fe .
When he ’ s not buying extra mansions , Gates is busy appearing on national media discussing his solution to the pandemic .
For one of his most revealing conversations of late , Gates recently appeared The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been in the news in recent weeks after being described as ‘ one of the meanest people alive ’ by actor Kevin T. Porter .
TV script writer Benjamin Simeon also commented that Ellen ‘ picks someone different ’ in the office to hate every day , a sharp turn from her fun and quirky demeanor she presents on camera .
Bill Gates sat down with Ellen DeGeneres over the internet last week to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and to tell the world that life will not get back to normal until ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his soon-to-be-invented vaccine .
Of course , their tacitly agreed upon position is that a vaccine is the solution and that there are no other alternatives worth discussing , even though many are reporting that the virus is already mutating and a vaccine may not ever be possible .
Bill : “ …what policies do we have , because until we get almost everybody vaccinated , uh , globally , we still won ’ t be fully back to normal.
” Ellen : “ …I mean , I can ’ t even imagine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anything in June or July if we don ’ t have vaccines , how , how do you see us acclimating back into a normal life when we don ’ t have the cure for this ?
” Bill : “ …we need to start getting things back to normal .
They won ’ t be back to normal until we either have that phenomenal vaccine or a therapeutic that ’ s over 95 % effective and so we have to assume that ’ s going to be almost 18 months from now.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown would desolate our civil liberties and destroy the economy for years to come , all while substantial money is made from the eventual vaccine , whether or not it works as intended or causes harm to the patient .
“ [ The economy ] won ’ t go back to normal in some very rapid fashion because not only do we have these factories shut down and all these activities have ceased , even as we start them back up people will still be a bit leery about going out and they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job security greatly reduced.
” – Bill Gates Bill Gates , Anthony Fauci and others have for weeks been alluding to a coronavirus vaccine and immunity certificate for everyone , which would ostensibly be required to engage in essential activities such as school , work , and worship .
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been funding the development of vaccines by supporting leading pharmaceutical companies , and also supporting the development of new technologies such as ‘ microneedle technology , ‘ which would implant a record of immunization under the skin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or via infrared light .
Numerous multimillion-dollar grants have been awarded to these projects .
In contrast to Gates ’ s foreboding message that lockdowns , required vaccines , and a global economic recession must happen , protests are occurring around the country calling for an opening of the American economy again and a return of our civil liberties which are being rapidly eroded .
As Ellen ’ s never-ending praise for Bill Gates and apparent refusal to ask any serious questions about our civil liberties or the implications of global vaccination illustrates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ philanthropists are not always the characters they play on TV .
Phillip Schneider is a student as well as a staff writer and assistant editor for Waking Times .
If you would like to see more of his work , you can visit his website , or follow him on the free speech social network Minds .
This article ( WATCH : Bill Gates and Ellen Discuss Vaccinating ‘ 7 Billion Healthy People ’ in Order to ‘ Return to Normal ’ ) as originally created and published by Waking Times and is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with attribution to Phillip Schneider and WakingTimes.com .
It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution , author bio , and this copyright statement .

WATCH: Bill Gates and Ellen Discuss Vaccinating ‘7 Billion Healthy People’ in Order to ‘Return to Normal’
Phillip Schneider, Staff Writer
Waking Times
While millions of Americans suddenly find themselves jobless and broke, Bill and Melinda Gates just purchased a $43 million dollar home near San Diego, California, along with an $18 million dollar house in Santa Fe. When he’s not buying extra mansions, Gates is busy appearing on national media discussing his solution to the pandemic.
For one of his most revealing conversations of late, Gates recently appeared The Ellen Degeneres Show. Ellen has also been in the news in recent weeks after being described as ‘one of the meanest people alive’ by actor Kevin T. Porter.
Right now we all need a little kindness. You know, like Ellen Degeneres always talks about! 😊❤ She’s also notoriously one of the meanest people alive Respond to this with the most insane stories you’ve heard about Ellen being mean & I’ll match every one w/ $2 to @LAFoodBank — Kevin T. Porter (@KevinTPorter) March 20, 2020
TV script writer Benjamin Simeon also commented that Ellen ‘picks someone different’ in the office to hate every day, a sharp turn from her fun and quirky demeanor she presents on camera.
B) A new staff member was told “every day she picks someone different to really hate. It’s not your fault, just suck it up for the day and she’ll be mean to someone else the next day. They didn’t believe it but it ended up being entirely true. — Benjamin Siemon (@BenjaminJS) March 20, 2020
Bill Gates sat down with Ellen DeGeneres over the internet last week to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and to tell the world that life will not get back to normal until ‘7 billion healthy people’ have taken his soon-to-be-invented vaccine.
Of course, their tacitly agreed upon position is that a vaccine is the solution and that there are no other alternatives worth discussing, even though many are reporting that the virus is already mutating and a vaccine may not ever be possible.
Bill: “…what policies do we have, because until we get almost everybody vaccinated, uh, globally, we still won’t be fully back to normal.” Ellen: “…I mean, I can’t even imagine going out to a crowded restaurant or anything in June or July if we don’t have vaccines, how, how do you see us acclimating back into a normal life when we don’t have the cure for this?” Bill: “…we need to start getting things back to normal. They won’t be back to normal until we either have that phenomenal vaccine or a therapeutic that’s over 95% effective and so we have to assume that’s going to be almost 18 months from now.” – Bill Gates
Eighteen months of lockdown would desolate our civil liberties and destroy the economy for years to come, all while substantial money is made from the eventual vaccine, whether or not it works as intended or causes harm to the patient.
“[The economy] won’t go back to normal in some very rapid fashion because not only do we have these factories shut down and all these activities have ceased, even as we start them back up people will still be a bit leery about going out and they will have seen their investments and their job security greatly reduced.” – Bill Gates
Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci and others have for weeks been alluding to a coronavirus vaccine and immunity certificate for everyone, which would ostensibly be required to engage in essential activities such as school, work, and worship.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been funding the development of vaccines by supporting leading pharmaceutical companies, and also supporting the development of new technologies such as ‘microneedle technology,‘ which would implant a record of immunization under the skin that can be read by smartphone technology or via infrared light. Numerous multimillion-dollar grants have been awarded to these projects.
“We want to get into this semi-normal phase whenever we can and then the vaccine is the thing that will change things and that’s why [we need to] figure out how to make sure it’s safe because when you give it to 7 billion healthy people that’s super important.” – Bill Gates
In contrast to Gates’s foreboding message that lockdowns, required vaccines, and a global economic recession must happen, protests are occurring around the country calling for an opening of the American economy again and a return of our civil liberties which are being rapidly eroded.
As Ellen’s never-ending praise for Bill Gates and apparent refusal to ask any serious questions about our civil liberties or the implications of global vaccination illustrates, bleeding heart Hollywood stars and billionaire philanthropists are not always the characters they play on TV.
About the Author
Phillip Schneider is a student as well as a staff writer and assistant editor for Waking Times. If you would like to see more of his work, you can visit his website, or follow him on the free speech social network Minds.
This article (WATCH: Bill Gates and Ellen Discuss Vaccinating ‘7 Billion Healthy People’ in Order to ‘Return to Normal’) as originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Phillip Schneider and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.


thewakingtimes--2020-04-23--Weeks Away from Herd Immunity – Epidemiologist Explains Why Sweden Refused a Total Lockdown

Weeks Away from Herd Immunity – Epidemiologist Explains Why Sweden Refused a Total Lockdown Without imposing any lockdowns or draconian restrictions on citizens , Sweden has attained a greater immunity than any other country and is estimated to achieve herd immunity to Covid-19 within three weeks .
Swedish officials have recommended since the outbreak began that residents of the country limit contact with others whenever possible and wash their hands regularly .
Since then , the virus has mostly affected nursing homes for the elderly , the population that Swedish officials most want to protect .
Although some restrictions have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people , Swedes have mostly relied on the voluntary efforts of others to wash their hands and practice social distancing .
However , death tolls have been higher in Sweden than other nearby countries , such as Finland , Denmark , and Norway .
It is unclear if this is because of their loose restrictions , immigration policies , or simply bad luck .
Most deaths have occurred in nursing homes and among the recent influx of African and Middle Eastern migrants who in just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of the total population .
“ The death toll is very closely related to elderly care homes .
More than half of the people that have died have lived in elderly care homes… It ’ s the group we said we needed to protect , ” said Tengell .
Professor Johan Giesecke , the senior epidemiologist and advisor to the director general of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) and the Swedish government , who originally hired Anders Tengell , argues that worldwide lockdowns are being implemented without any real evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Swedish government decided early in January that the measures we take against the pandemic should be evidence-based and when you start looking around for the measures that are being taken now by different countries you find that very few of them have a shred of evidence.
” – Johan Giesecke [ SOURCE ] Pandemic models for the United States originally predicted as many as several hundred thousand deaths by August , but those numbers have been continuously reduced to only 60,145 as their predicted death counts have not happened .
Because of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( CDC ) and WHO models have done to the US economy , the United States coronavirus task force has recently dropped them in favor of real data and as a result are planning to reopen the country in May and June .
The current number of deaths from Covid-19 in Sweden is 1,937 , or 192 deaths per million people .
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If you would like to see more of his work , you can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the free speech social network Minds .
This article ( Weeks Away from Herd Immunity – Epidemiologist Explains Why Sweden Refused a Total Lockdown ) as originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Phillip Schneider and WakingTimes.com .
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Weeks Away from Herd Immunity – Epidemiologist Explains Why Sweden Refused a Total Lockdown
Phillip Schneider, Staff Writer
Waking Times
Without imposing any lockdowns or draconian restrictions on citizens, Sweden has attained a greater immunity than any other country and is estimated to achieve herd immunity to Covid-19 within three weeks.
Swedish officials have recommended since the outbreak began that residents of the country limit contact with others whenever possible and wash their hands regularly. Since then, the virus has mostly affected nursing homes for the elderly, the population that Swedish officials most want to protect.
“In major parts of Sweden, around Stockholm, we have reached a plateau (in new cases) and we’re already seeing the effect of herd immunity and in a few weeks’ time we’ll see even more of the effects of that. And in the rest of the country, the situation is stable.” – Dr. Anders Tengell, Chief Epidemiologist at Sweden’s Public Health Agency [SOURCE]
Although some restrictions have been placed on Swedish citizens such as a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people, Swedes have mostly relied on the voluntary efforts of others to wash their hands and practice social distancing.
However, death tolls have been higher in Sweden than other nearby countries, such as Finland, Denmark, and Norway. It is unclear if this is because of their loose restrictions, immigration policies, or simply bad luck. Most deaths have occurred in nursing homes and among the recent influx of African and Middle Eastern migrants who in just a few years have become about 25% of the total population.
“The death toll is very closely related to elderly care homes. More than half of the people that have died have lived in elderly care homes… It’s the group we said we needed to protect,” said Tengell.
Professor Johan Giesecke, the senior epidemiologist and advisor to the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Swedish government, who originally hired Anders Tengell, argues that worldwide lockdowns are being implemented without any real evidence that they are effective.
“The Swedish government decided early in January that the measures we take against the pandemic should be evidence-based and when you start looking around for the measures that are being taken now by different countries you find that very few of them have a shred of evidence.” – Johan Giesecke [SOURCE]
Pandemic models for the United States originally predicted as many as several hundred thousand deaths by August, but those numbers have been continuously reduced to only 60,145 as their predicted death counts have not happened.
Because of the harm these failed Center for Disease Control (CDC) and WHO models have done to the US economy, the United States coronavirus task force has recently dropped them in favor of real data and as a result are planning to reopen the country in May and June.
“Models for infectious disease spread are very popular… They are good for teaching, [but] seldom tell you the truth… Which model could have assumed that the outbreak would start in northern Italy? … [Models] are based on assumptions, and those assumptions should by highly criticized.” – Johan Giesecke
The current number of deaths from Covid-19 in Sweden is 1,937, or 192 deaths per million people.
About the Author
Phillip Schneider is a student as well as a staff writer and assistant editor for Waking Times. If you would like to see more of his work, you can visit his website, or follow him on the free speech social network Minds.
This article (Weeks Away from Herd Immunity – Epidemiologist Explains Why Sweden Refused a Total Lockdown) as originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Phillip Schneider and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.


thewakingtimes--2020-04-23--COVID: The Projection of a Mass Illusion

Protests against the COVID imprisonment are spreading across America .
These protests are fracturing the illusion that we ’ re in the grip of a virus that dictates economic suicide .
Here , from the US Library of Congress , is a sentence about the Great Depression of the 1930s : Exactly .
The engineered 1929 crash of the stock market did not change the quantity or quality of national resources , labor , or industry one iota .
In 1929 , the official gibberish focused on unchecked speculation in the stock market .
Today , the official gibberish focuses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pronouncements about 1929 would have you believe that every American was , unfortunately , leveraged up to his neck in crashing stocks .
Pronouncements about 2020 would have you believe every American has suddenly become a transmitter of a deadly virus .
Both big lies .
When it comes to what is laughingly called medical science , the basic energy , drive , ambition , outlook , and inner vision of the individual is discounted .
His emotional force is discounted .
The resilience of his immune system is discounted .
The power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ His ability to overcome obstacles is discounted .
And of course , his natural right to make decisions about his own health is discounted .
Instead , he is viewed as a mechanical unit reacting to germs , with a high potential for failure .
This is pure insanity .
This is where all the purported sophistication of basic medical science winds up : in a dead end .
LIFE itself was eliminated from the equations and formulas .
Whose fault is that ?
Not yours .
Not mine .
It turns out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ belief in the power of the virus , and their belief in the officials who are spouting gobbledygook about it , outweigh their belief in whatever spiritual ultimates they profess .
Their own deepest beliefs are not strong enough .
Which is where the mass illusion is projected .
An emergency medical vehicle on a street .
EMT personnel , in hazmat suits , load a man strapped down to a stretcher , into the van .
On another street , a man collapses on the sidewalk .
We see yet another quarantined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on a third street .
Cut to an airport lobby .
Soldiers are patrolling the space among the crowds .
Cut to a lab .
Close-up of vials of liquid .
Camera pulls back .
Techs in light green scrubs are placing the vials into slots of a table-top machine .
Auditorium—a man on a platform , wearing a doctor ’ s white coat , is pointing a wand at a large screen , on which a chart is displayed , for the audience .
Back to the street .
People are wearing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an IMPRESSION of knowing something .
They ’ re in the flow , the flow of the news…they ’ re in the images… Or : Example : we see angry crowds on the street of a foreign city .
Many shots of young people on their cell phones sitting in outdoor cafés .
Then the marble lobby of a government building where men in suits are walking , standing in groups talking to each other .
Then at night , rockets exploding in the sky .
Then armored vehicles moving through a gate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smoke on another street and people running , chased by police .
A flow of consecutive images .
The sequence , obviously , has been assembled by a news editor , but the viewing audience isn ’ t aware of that .
They ’ re watching the “ interconnected ” images and listening to a news anchor tell a story that colors ( infects ) every image : “ This is revolution for democracy , created by the technology of cell phones… ” Viewers thus believe something .
Television has imparted a sensation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masterpiece , Network , Paddy Chayefsky ’ s unhinged newsman , Howard Beale , broadcasts this message to his audience on national television— “ So , you listen to me .
Listen to me !
Television is not the truth .
Television ’ s a god-damned amusement park .
Television is a circus , a carnival , a traveling troupe of acrobats , storytellers , dancers , singers , jugglers , sideshow freaks , lion tamers , and football players .
We ’ re in the boredom-killing business… We deal in illusions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
But you people sit there day after day , night after night , all ages , colors , creeds .
We ’ re all you know .
You ’ re beginning to believe the illusions we ’ re spinning here .
You ’ re beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal .
You do whatever the tube tells you .
You dress like the tube , you eat like the tube , you raise your children like the tube .
You even think like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You maniacs .
In God ’ s name , you people are the real thing .
We are the illusion.
” Television , in the main , does not attempt to impart knowledge .
It strives to give the viewer the impression that he knows something .
There is a difference .
Knowledge , once established , is independent of the viewer .
Whereas the impression of knowing is a feeling , a conviction , a belief the viewer holds , after he has watched moving images on a screen .
THIS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He wants no part of knowledge .
Therefore : a short circuit occurs in his mind .
When you export this pattern out to a whole society , you are talking about a dominant method through which fake knowledge is groped and held close .
And that ’ s another feature of the modern acquisition of “ knowledge ” : amnesia about details .
The viewer can ’ t recall key features of what he saw .
Or if he can , he can ’ t describe them , because he was inside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of knowing something .
When a technology ( television ) turns into a method of perception , reality is turned inside out .
People watch TV through TV eyes .
Mind control is no longer something only imposed from the outside .
It is a matrix of a self-feeding , self-demanding loop .
Willing Devotees of the Image WANT images , food stamps of the programmed society .
The false pandemic I ’ ve been rejecting , in many articles , is delivered through video flow and narration .
Stacked and cut images @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the television flow , through the intrusion of actual knowledge , because that would shut down the parade of images and nullify the reasons for broadcasting them in the first place .
The old theater adage , “ the show must go on , ” when adapted for television , becomes , “ the flow must go on.
” Once its course is set , there can be no turning back .
But individuals can shred the flow .
And groups of protestors can shred the flow .
Jon Rappoport is the author @ @ @ @ @ @ @ REVEALED , EXIT FROM THE MATRIX , and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX , Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29thDistrict of California .
He maintains a consulting practice for private clients , the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power .
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize , he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years , writing articles on politics , medicine , and health for CBS Healthwatch , LA Weekly , Spin Magazine , Stern , and other newspapers and magazines in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ delivered lectures and seminars on global politics , health , logic , and creative power to audiences around the world .
You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine .
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COVID: The Projection of a Mass Illusion
Jon Rappoport, Guest
Waking Times
Protests against the COVID imprisonment are spreading across America.
—Bright lights starting to dispel the darkness.
These protests are fracturing the illusion that we’re in the grip of a virus that dictates economic suicide.
Here, from the US Library of Congress, is a sentence about the Great Depression of the 1930s:
“In a country with abundant resources, the largest force of skilled labor, and the most productive industry in the world, many found it hard to understand why the depression had occurred and why it could not be resolved.”
Exactly. The engineered 1929 crash of the stock market did not change the quantity or quality of national resources, labor, or industry one iota.
What had changed was the successful projection of a mass illusion: “THINGS ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NOW. TODAY IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM YESTERDAY.”
In 1929, the official gibberish focused on unchecked speculation in the stock market. Today, the official gibberish focuses on an unproven virus.
Official fatuous pronouncements about 1929 would have you believe that every American was, unfortunately, leveraged up to his neck in crashing stocks. Pronouncements about 2020 would have you believe every American has suddenly become a transmitter of a deadly virus. Both big lies.
When it comes to what is laughingly called medical science, the basic energy, drive, ambition, outlook, and inner vision of the individual is discounted. His emotional force is discounted. The resilience of his immune system is discounted. The power of his spiritual beliefs is discounted. His ability to overcome obstacles is discounted. And of course, his natural right to make decisions about his own health is discounted.
Instead, he is viewed as a mechanical unit reacting to germs, with a high potential for failure. This is pure insanity. This is where all the purported sophistication of basic medical science winds up: in a dead end. LIFE itself was eliminated from the equations and formulas. Whose fault is that? Not yours. Not mine.
It turns out that, for many people, their belief in the power of the virus, and their belief in the officials who are spouting gobbledygook about it, outweigh their belief in whatever spiritual ultimates they profess.
Their own deepest beliefs are not strong enough.
Their religion is television.
Which is where the mass illusion is projected.
Epidemics are staged on television.
Images begin to flow:
An emergency medical vehicle on a street. EMT personnel, in hazmat suits, load a man strapped down to a stretcher, into the van. On another street, a man collapses on the sidewalk. We see yet another quarantined man sitting inside a huge plastic bubble on a third street. Cut to an airport lobby. Soldiers are patrolling the space among the crowds. Cut to a lab. Close-up of vials of liquid. Camera pulls back. Techs in light green scrubs are placing the vials into slots of a table-top machine. Auditorium—a man on a platform, wearing a doctor’s white coat, is pointing a wand at a large screen, on which a chart is displayed, for the audience. Back to the street. People are wearing face masks.
These images wash over the television viewer. Meanwhile, the anchor is imparting his prepared meaning: “The government today issued a ban on all travel into and out of the city…hundreds of plane flights have been cancelled. Scientists are rushing to develop a vaccine…”
The television audience has an IMPRESSION of knowing something. They’re in the flow, the flow of the news…they’re in the images…
Or: Example: we see angry crowds on the street of a foreign city. Many shots of young people on their cell phones sitting in outdoor cafés. Then the marble lobby of a government building where men in suits are walking, standing in groups talking to each other. Then at night, rockets exploding in the sky. Then armored vehicles moving through a gate into the city. Then clouds of smoke on another street and people running, chased by police.
A flow of consecutive images. The sequence, obviously, has been assembled by a news editor, but the viewing audience isn’t aware of that. They’re watching the “interconnected” images and listening to a news anchor tell a story that colors (infects) every image: “This is revolution for democracy, created by the technology of cell phones…”
Viewers thus believe something. Television has imparted a sensation to them.
In his 1976 film masterpiece, Network, Paddy Chayefsky’s unhinged newsman, Howard Beale, broadcasts this message to his audience on national television—
“So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television’s a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business… We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God’s name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion.”
Television, in the main, does not attempt to impart knowledge. It strives to give the viewer the impression that he knows something. There is a difference.
Knowledge, once established, is independent of the viewer. Whereas the impression of knowing is a feeling, a conviction, a belief the viewer holds, after he has watched moving images on a screen. THIS is what the addicted viewer prefers. He wants no part of knowledge.
Therefore: a short circuit occurs in his mind.
When you export this pattern out to a whole society, you are talking about a dominant method through which fake knowledge is groped and held close.
“Did you see that fantastic video about the Iraq War? It showed that Saddam actually had bioweapons.” “Really? How did they show that?” “Well, I don’t remember. But watch it. You’ll see.”
And that’s another feature of the modern acquisition of “knowledge”: amnesia about details.
The viewer can’t recall key features of what he saw. Or if he can, he can’t describe them, because he was inside them, busy building up his impression of knowing something.
Narrative-visual-television story strips out and discards conceptual analysis.
When a technology (television) turns into a method of perception, reality is turned inside out. People watch TV through TV eyes.
Mind control is no longer something only imposed from the outside. It is a matrix of a self-feeding, self-demanding loop.
Willing Devotees of the Image WANT images, food stamps of the programmed society.
The false pandemic I’ve been rejecting, in many articles, is delivered through video flow and narration. Stacked and cut images.
There is no television challenge to the television flow, through the intrusion of actual knowledge, because that would shut down the parade of images and nullify the reasons for broadcasting them in the first place.
The old theater adage, “the show must go on,” when adapted for television, becomes, “the flow must go on.” Once its course is set, there can be no turning back.
But individuals can shred the flow.
And groups of protestors can shred the flow.
And freedom breaks out.
About the Author
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29thDistrict of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)


thewakingtimes--2020-04-23--Discarded Gloves And Face Masks Are Becoming A New Source Of Ocean Pollution

Discarded Gloves And Face Masks Are Becoming A New Source Of Ocean Pollution Masks have now become either mandatory or strongly recommended across much of the world , in hopes of stopping the spread of the coronavirus .
While recommendations have been controversial in some areas due to low supplies , masks have been shown to work , but unfortunately , these new accessories have given people a new item to litter .
In addition to cigarette butts , empty bottles and discarded food wrappers , rubber gloves and surgical masks are now littering many city streets as well .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ easily get washed down drains during storms , and eventually , end up in the ocean or other waterways .
Surgical masks and gloves can be especially damaging to the environment because they are often made out of fabrics and plastics that are not biodegradable and come in colors that are attractive to marine animals .
In Asia , where people have already been widely using masks and gloves for a few months now , conservation groups have reported that these items are already making their way into the nearby waterways and oceans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ OceanAsia posted photos that they took of the beaches in Hong Kong , where gloves and surgical masks were scattered all over the sand , and floating in the water .
OceanAsia co-founder Gary Stokes told The Independent that he expects these items to be found inside of dead marine animals in the near future .
“ The way I see these masks in the environment is just another addition to the ever-growing marine debris crisis our oceans are facing .
No better , no worse , just shouldn ’ t be there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ m waiting to hear of the first necropsy that finds masks inside a dead marine animal .
It ’ s not a question of if , but when , ” Stokes said .
Environmentalists in the United States have been noticing a similar trend , as the use of masks and gloves continues to be more common in the country .
Maria Algarra , the founder of the Miami-based environmentalist group “ Clean This Beach Up , ” has started a hashtag campaign called # TheGloveChallenge , where she has encouraged people to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to illustrate how much of a widespread problem this littering is .
Algarra says that she has received nearly 2,000 photos of discarded gloves and masks from all over the world .
In some cases , people have even pitched in and helped to clear up the discarded items , but Algarra has advised her supporters to only pick up the items if they have personal protective equipment .
“ With the glove challenge , it ’ s about education .
That ’ s the key for us to do better as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t expect people to change their ways if they don ’ t know what they ’ re doing wrong .
Plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces until micro-plastic is everywhere .
It ’ s toxic and it ’ s in what we ’ re eating and drinking .
There ’ s no way to clean up micro-plastics .
Once trash makes it into the ocean and breaks into smaller pieces , it ’ s almost impossible to take it back , ” Algarra said .
John Vibes is an author @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the counter culture , and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems .
He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast .

Discarded Gloves And Face Masks Are Becoming A New Source Of Ocean Pollution
John Vibes, Truth Theory
Waking Times
Masks have now become either mandatory or strongly recommended across much of the world, in hopes of stopping the spread of the coronavirus. While recommendations have been controversial in some areas due to low supplies, masks have been shown to work, but unfortunately, these new accessories have given people a new item to litter.
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9JzvnKDsdt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
In addition to cigarette butts, empty bottles and discarded food wrappers, rubber gloves and surgical masks are now littering many city streets as well. Discarded items on the street can very easily get washed down drains during storms, and eventually, end up in the ocean or other waterways. Surgical masks and gloves can be especially damaging to the environment because they are often made out of fabrics and plastics that are not biodegradable and come in colors that are attractive to marine animals.
In Asia, where people have already been widely using masks and gloves for a few months now, conservation groups have reported that these items are already making their way into the nearby waterways and oceans. In February, the conservation group OceanAsia posted photos that they took of the beaches in Hong Kong, where gloves and surgical masks were scattered all over the sand, and floating in the water.
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9YunkYDRDS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
OceanAsia co-founder Gary Stokes told The Independent that he expects these items to be found inside of dead marine animals in the near future.
“The way I see these masks in the environment is just another addition to the ever-growing marine debris crisis our oceans are facing. No better, no worse, just shouldn’t be there in the first place. I’m waiting to hear of the first necropsy that finds masks inside a dead marine animal. It’s not a question of if, but when,” Stokes said.
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Environmentalists in the United States have been noticing a similar trend, as the use of masks and gloves continues to be more common in the country. Maria Algarra, the founder of the Miami-based environmentalist group “Clean This Beach Up,” has started a hashtag campaign called #TheGloveChallenge, where she has encouraged people to take photos of discarded gloves and masks to illustrate how much of a widespread problem this littering is.
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-dREYmAZcN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Algarra says that she has received nearly 2,000 photos of discarded gloves and masks from all over the world. In some cases, people have even pitched in and helped to clear up the discarded items, but Algarra has advised her supporters to only pick up the items if they have personal protective equipment.
“With the glove challenge, it’s about education. That’s the key for us to do better as a community and as humans. We can’t expect people to change their ways if they don’t know what they’re doing wrong. Plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces until micro-plastic is everywhere. It’s toxic and it’s in what we’re eating and drinking. There’s no way to clean up micro-plastics. Once trash makes it into the ocean and breaks into smaller pieces, it’s almost impossible to take it back,” Algarra said.
About the Author
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture, and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems. He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast.


thewakingtimes--2020-04-23--Ancient Tree Discovered With a Record of Earth’s Magnetic Field Reversal in Its Rings

Ancient Tree Discovered With a Record of Earth ’ s Magnetic Field Reversal in Its Rings In March 2019 , an amazing discovery was made on New Zealand ’ s North Island .
An ancient tree , the first and perhaps only specimen that exists , shows evidence of a reversal of Earth ’ s magnetic field .
The Agathis Australis , known as a Kauri tree in Māori , was unearthed during the expansion of a geothermal power plant on North Island .
The Kauri was buried 26 feet ( 7.92m ) underground and is 65 feet ( 19.81m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feet ( 2.44m ) and weighs 60 tons .
Carbon dating revealed that the tree lived for about 1,500 years between 41,000 and 42,500 years ago .
The Kauri was alive during a period of time in Earth ’ s history when the magnetic field almost reversed .
The magnetic north and south did not quite complete a full reversal .
The iron in Earth ’ s core is believed to generate the magnetic field .
Earth ’ s movement causes electric currents which extend far into space , and the magnetic field @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the solar wind .
The solar wind , a stream of charged particles from the Sun could , could potentially strip away the ozone layer if it were to impact our atmosphere .
When the magnetic field reverses , successfully or not , more of the Sun ’ s radiation could get through .
Scientists have linked previous extinction events to magnetic field reversals .
The Kauri tree is the first tree found that has lived through a near reversal of the magnetic field and the tree rings show complete evidence of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time it takes for this movement to occur that is the critical thing… We will map these changes much more accurately using the tree rings , ” Hogg said .
Chris Turney , paleoclimatology and climate change expert from the University of New South Wales , is leading a of group of scientists that is analyzing samples of the tree .
Understanding what happened to the tree during the near reversal event could be helpful .
Hogg explained , “ We will have increased cosmic radiation .
It will take out satellites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infrastructure.
” Turney said : “ The precious thing is this huge , lonely tree grew for some 1700 years across a remarkable period in our planet ’ s history when the Earth ’ s magnetic field flipped some 42,000 years ago , a period known as the Laschamp Excursion .
Funded by the Australian Research Council we ’ re undertaking detailed measurements of the radioactive form of carbon through the tree rings.
” According to NASA , magnetic reversals seem to have happened once every 200,000 to 300,000 years in the last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full reversal happened some 780,000 years ago .
However , it could also happen randomly .
Scientist revealed as recently as last year that the magnetic north pole had moved unexpectedly .
Tracking from the Canadian Arctic to Siberia is usually steady but it sped up so much researchers had to renew the World Magnetic Model ( WMM ) at the end of 2020 of what would have been the usual five year period .
Used worldwide by GPS systems , the WMM is a representation of Earth ’ s magnetic field and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ navigation for aviation and shipping particularly in the Polar Regions .
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Ancient Tree Discovered With a Record of Earth’s Magnetic Field Reversal in Its Rings
Jade Small, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
In March 2019, an amazing discovery was made on New Zealand’s North Island. An ancient tree, the first and perhaps only specimen that exists, shows evidence of a reversal of Earth’s magnetic field. The Agathis Australis, known as a Kauri tree in Māori, was unearthed during the expansion of a geothermal power plant on North Island.
The Kauri was buried 26 feet (7.92m) underground and is 65 feet (19.81m) tall with a diameter of 8 feet (2.44m) and weighs 60 tons. Carbon dating revealed that the tree lived for about 1,500 years between 41,000 and 42,500 years ago.
Alan Hogg, from New Zealand’s University of Waikato, said: “There’s nothing like this anywhere in the world. This Ngāwhā kauri is unique.”
The Kauri was alive during a period of time in Earth’s history when the magnetic field almost reversed. The magnetic north and south did not quite complete a full reversal.
The iron in Earth’s core is believed to generate the magnetic field. Earth’s movement causes electric currents which extend far into space, and the magnetic field creates a barrier to protect Earth from the solar wind. The solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the Sun could, could potentially strip away the ozone layer if it were to impact our atmosphere.
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When the magnetic field reverses, successfully or not, more of the Sun’s radiation could get through. Scientists have linked previous extinction events to magnetic field reversals.
The Kauri tree is the first tree found that has lived through a near reversal of the magnetic field and the tree rings show complete evidence of the near reversal. “It’s the time it takes for this movement to occur that is the critical thing… We will map these changes much more accurately using the tree rings,” Hogg said.
Chris Turney, paleoclimatology and climate change expert from the University of New South Wales, is leading a of group of scientists that is analyzing samples of the tree. Understanding what happened to the tree during the near reversal event could be helpful. Hogg explained, “We will have increased cosmic radiation. It will take out satellites and it might take out other communication infrastructure.”
Turney said: “The precious thing is this huge, lonely tree grew for some 1700 years across a remarkable period in our planet’s history when the Earth’s magnetic field flipped some 42,000 years ago, a period known as the Laschamp Excursion. Funded by the Australian Research Council we’re undertaking detailed measurements of the radioactive form of carbon through the tree rings.”
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According to NASA, magnetic reversals seem to have happened once every 200,000 to 300,000 years in the last 20 million years, and the last full reversal happened some 780,000 years ago. However, it could also happen randomly.
Scientist revealed as recently as last year that the magnetic north pole had moved unexpectedly. Tracking from the Canadian Arctic to Siberia is usually steady but it sped up so much researchers had to renew the World Magnetic Model (WMM) at the end of 2020 of what would have been the usual five year period. Used worldwide by GPS systems, the WMM is a representation of Earth’s magnetic field and its accuracy is crucial to ensure safe navigation for aviation and shipping particularly in the Polar Regions.
“Because the Earth’s magnetic field has a major effect on how much radiocarbon is formed in the upper atmosphere, these precious analyses will allow us to investigate the magnitude and rate of change when the magnetic field reversed during the Laschamp; something not possible before and of great interest given recent changes in the Earth’s magnetic field,” Turney explained.
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