thewakingtimes--2020-06-11--‘Every Time an Elder Dies, a Library is Burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 Toll Grows

Alessandra Korap ’ s voice breaks when she lists five Munduruku indigenous elders living along the Tapajós River , a tributary of the Amazon .
Between 9 May and 2 June , Angélico Yori ( aged 76 ) , Raimundo Dace ( 70 ) , Jerônimo Manhuary ( 86 ) , Vicente Saw Munduruku ( 71 ) , and Amâncio Ikon Munduruku ( 59 ) died — all victims of COVID-19 .
Since then another four have passed , including Acelino Dace ( 77 ) .
The loss in a matter of days of nine elders — leaders and keepers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ huge blow for a people only numbering around 14,000 .
Amâncio Ikon Munduruku was a teacher and respected leader .
He played a vital role in the Munduruku ’ s momentous decision — in the face of decades of delay by Brazil ’ s government — to mark out the boundaries of their own territory beside the Tapajós River .
This show of indigenous strength was crucial in the government ’ s 2016 decision to abandon plans to build the São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric mega-dam , which would have flooded part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ While grieving the loss of dearly loved elders , the Munduruku are now also coping with the irreparable loss to their culture .
“ Every time an elder dies , a library is burnt , ” Bruna Rocha , a lecturer in archaeology at the Federal University of Western Pará , tells Mongabay .
She is quoting Amadou Hampaté Bâ , a renowned intellectual from Mali in Africa , but she says , the quote applies equally to the traditional people of the Amazon forest , whether indigenous , riverine or quilombolas ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Watson , from Survival International , an NGO that works with indigenous peoples , told Mongabay that COVID-19 is awakening painful memories : “ Many elders recall vividly the devastating epidemics spread by government indigenous agencies and land grabbers , loggers , ranchers , and miners in the 1970s and 1980s , ” during Brazil ’ s military dictatorship .
“ It was not uncommon [ then ] for 50 % , even 90 % .
of a tribe to be wiped out within the first year of contact.
” A particularly tragic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Javari River Valley in the far western Amazon basin , in Amazonas state near the frontier with Peru .
Numbering several hundred when first contacted in the late 1970s , their population fell to just 87 by 1983 , as waves of epidemics raged through their isolated villages , killing mainly old people and children .
The consequences of the current pandemic may not be as serious because its overall mortality rate ( now at around 1 % ) does not seem as high , but that estimate remains uncertain — no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impact different ethnic and racial groups , not to mention its impact in remote settlements almost completely without modern health facilities .
However , according to evidence collected so far , COVID-19 may be far more dangerous for indigenous and black Brazilians than for white Brazilians .
One study by Fiocruz , the health ministry ’ s internationally renowned institute of health science and technology , suggests that the death rate among hospitalized Indians is 48 % compared with 28 % for whites , 36 % for black Brazilians and 40 % for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , from the NGO , Comissão Pro-Indio , believes that — as around the world — poor and disempowered groups are being disproportionately affected .
“ There is a race , ethnicity and social class bias in the tragic deaths from the pandemic , ” she told Mongabay .
As the pandemic spreads , authorities seem to dither At this point , it is impossible to accurately gauge just how rapidly COVID-19 is spreading among indigenous groups , says Angela Kaxuyana , a member of the executive council of COIAB ( the Coordination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , active in the Amazon region ’ s nine states .
According to APIB ( Association of Indigenous People in Brazil ) , a network of indigenous organisations , 218 indigenous people had died and 2,642 had been infected by 7 June .
But , she says , widespread under-reporting , due the remoteness of many territories , and frequent misdiagnosis mean that the real situation may be much worse .
“ We fear that the real figure for infections may be at least three times greater , ” she told Mongabay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affected than others .
Like the Munduruku , the Kokama , who live along the Solimões River , where Brazil , Peru and Colombia meet , are reeling from the pandemic ’ s impact .
The Kokama were the first people to have a confirmed COVID-19 death in an indigenous village — now at least 51 of their people have died from the disease .
The Xavante people in the Marãiwatséde Indigenous Territory in eastern Mato Grosso state believes authorities have put them at risk due to official blunders .
On 28 May @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man back to Marãiwatséde village .
He was told to live in “ domestic isolation , ” although this is virtually impossible in a settlement where 30 people or more of all ages live together in small houses .
Cultural Survival , an NGO working with indigenous people , dubbed this action , “ a genocidal move that exposes an entire A ’ uwẽ-Xavante community to COVID-19.
” The coronavirus has also reached Brazil ’ s two largest reserves — the Yanomami Indigenous Territory ( 9.6 million hectares/37,000 square miles ) in Roraima @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Valley Indigenous Territory ( 8.5 million hectares/32,800 square miles ) in Amazonas state .
Those two territories are home to most of Brazil ’ s isolated and uncontacted Indians .
The Yanomami Territory is under severe threat due to the presence of some 20,000 wildcat gold miners .
APIB says six Yanomami have already died of the virus and dozens more are infected — but far worse is expected .
The Yanomami are “ the most vulnerable people in the whole of the Brazilian Amazon to the pandemic , ” according to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ University of Minas Gerais ( UFMG ) and the Socioenvironmental Institute ( ISA ) , an NGO .
The study predicts in a worst case scenario that , if urgent action is not taken , 40 % of the almost 14,000 Yanomami living less than five kilometers from the miners ’ illegal settlements could be infected .
While it is difficult to make accurate predictions , given the scant knowledge about indigenous vulnerability to the disease , the study predicts that in this case between 207 and 896 Yanomami could die , making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s worst affected indigenous communities .
The Yanomami are mobilizing to prevent this outcome , if possible .
According to Dario Yanomami , from the Hutukara Yanomami Association : “ Our shamans are working non-stop to counter this xawara ( epidemic ) .
We will fight and resist.
” The Yanomami have organized a campaign , supported by various national and international organizations , including ISA and Survival International , called ForaGarimpoForaCovid ( MinersOutCovidOut ) .
It aims to put pressure on the Brazilian authorities to expel the illegal miners .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with its continued denial of the pandemic and its anti-indigenous stance , will respond .
The Javari Valley Indigenous Territory is also under enormous threat , though reporting from there is much harder to obtain because many indigenous people live in isolated groups fleeing contact with the outside world .
Fears are that the virus will spread to those groups via the sporadic contacts they maintain with neighbouring groups .
On 7 June it was reported that seven Indians and four health agents in the Javari Valley had been infected with the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Javari River Valley ( UNIVAJA ) has sent out an SOS , urgently calling for help from the government and non-governmental organizations .
Other indigenous peoples seriously at risk are those living in the remote Tumucumaque Park , located in Brazil ’ s far north in Amapá and Pará states , a reserve covering 1.7 million hectares ( 6,563 square miles ) .
Six ethnicities inhabit the park — the Aparai , Kaxuyana , Tiriyó and Wayana , along with two groups of isolated , uncontacted Indians .
According to Angela Kaxuyana @ @ @ @ @ @ @ villages there to help prevent COVID-19 reaching the territory , but the park is located near the Surinam frontier and there is a military post within the territory .
“ Soldiers travelled to this post , without being tested for the virus and without protective equipment , ” she fumes .
“ They brought in COVID-19.
” Kaxuyana , who comes from the region , says that at least 23 indigenous people are infected already , including a pregnant woman , who has been hospitalized in serious condition .
According to her , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employed by a cleaning company that works for the Air Force running the military base .
The Defense Ministry told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that “ it is not possible to be sure where the contagion in the region came from , but it is very unlikely to have been transmitted by soldiers working for the Brazilian Air Force.
” Another version of the story concerning COVID-19 ’ s arrival says that traveling indigenous people were infected while away from the community , and brought the virus back to the Park @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is difficult to determine the impact of COVID-19 among the quilombos ( the land occupied by traditional communities originally set up by runaway slaves ) , because they have long been neglected by authorities and there is little official record keeping .
“ We are invisible , ” says Gilvânia Maria da Silva , the co-ordinator of CONAQ ( Black , Rural , Quilombola Communities ) .
Because the state has been very slow in recognizing quilombola territories , official statistics have persistently underestimated populations in these communities .
Likewise , authorities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a quilombola on a death certificate .
To combat what they call “ the invisibility of the illness in quilombola territories , ” ISA recently joined forces with CONAQ , to set up a new website , called Quilombo sem Covid-19 , which registers confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths .
So far , the site has registered 353 confirmed cases and 59 deaths , though these numbers are thought to fall well short of the true figures .
Hundreds of thousands of often small Amazon riverine communities are also at risk .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ failure by authorities to provide public health and other services .
The small communities of Montanha and Mangabal on the Tapajós River are a case in point .
Although no definitive tests have been carried out there , COVID-19 is believed to have reached the settlements via a bus driver , who , without tests or protective equipment , was plying the route between the city of Itaituba ( population 101,000 ) and the community .
Ageu Lobo Pereira , the President of the Association of Montanha and Mangabal Communities , told Mongabay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ particularly with respect to health and education.
” As if to underline that point , Seu Filó , one of the community ’ s greatest authorities on the local Amazon forest , died on 5 June , not from COVID-19 , but from a stroke , which some in the community believe could have been avoided if he had been treated properly for high blood pressure .
As elsewhere , COVID-19 detracts from the treatment of other health disorders .
**This article was originally posted at Mongabay.com and is re-posted here with permission @ @

‘Every Time an Elder Dies, a Library is Burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 Toll Grows
Sue Branford, Mongabay
Waking Times
Alessandra Korap’s voice breaks when she lists five Munduruku indigenous elders living along the Tapajós River, a tributary of the Amazon. Between 9 May and 2 June, Angélico Yori (aged 76), Raimundo Dace (70), Jerônimo Manhuary (86), Vicente Saw Munduruku (71), and Amâncio Ikon Munduruku (59) died — all victims of COVID-19.
Since then another four have passed, including Acelino Dace (77). The loss in a matter of days of nine elders — leaders and keepers of the Munduruku culture — is a huge blow for a people only numbering around 14,000.
Amâncio Ikon Munduruku was a teacher and respected leader. He played a vital role in the Munduruku’s momentous decision — in the face of decades of delay by Brazil’s government — to mark out the boundaries of their own territory beside the Tapajós River. This show of indigenous strength was crucial in the government’s 2016 decision to abandon plans to build the São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric mega-dam, which would have flooded part of the now fully measured Munduruku territory.
While grieving the loss of dearly loved elders, the Munduruku are now also coping with the irreparable loss to their culture. “Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt,” Bruna Rocha, a lecturer in archaeology at the Federal University of Western Pará, tells Mongabay. She is quoting Amadou Hampaté Bâ, a renowned intellectual from Mali in Africa, but she says, the quote applies equally to the traditional people of the Amazon forest, whether indigenous, riverine or quilombolas (descendants of run-away slaves).
“Besides being knowledge repositories on the environment, history, territory, production of specific artefacts and medicines, these elders provide political and spiritual guidance, being fundamental in the struggle for territorial recognition. They remind their peoples of who they are in a fast-changing world,” Rocha says. “The sudden death of a number of elders from the same community could be compared to torching national museums, libraries and parliaments all at the same time.”
COVID-19 killing the most vulnerable
Fiona Watson, from Survival International, an NGO that works with indigenous peoples, told Mongabay that COVID-19 is awakening painful memories: “Many elders recall vividly the devastating epidemics spread by government indigenous agencies and land grabbers, loggers, ranchers, and miners in the 1970s and 1980s,” during Brazil’s military dictatorship. “It was not uncommon [then] for 50%, even 90%. of a tribe to be wiped out within the first year of contact.”
A particularly tragic case: the Matis, living in the Javari River Valley in the far western Amazon basin, in Amazonas state near the frontier with Peru. Numbering several hundred when first contacted in the late 1970s, their population fell to just 87 by 1983, as waves of epidemics raged through their isolated villages, killing mainly old people and children.
The consequences of the current pandemic may not be as serious because its overall mortality rate (now at around 1%) does not seem as high, but that estimate remains uncertain — no one yet knows how this pandemic will impact different ethnic and racial groups, not to mention its impact in remote settlements almost completely without modern health facilities.
However, according to evidence collected so far, COVID-19 may be far more dangerous for indigenous and black Brazilians than for white Brazilians. One study by Fiocruz, the health ministry’s internationally renowned institute of health science and technology, suggests that the death rate among hospitalized Indians is 48% compared with 28% for whites, 36% for black Brazilians and 40% for Brazilians of mixed race.
Lúcia Andrade, from the NGO, Comissão Pro-Indio, believes that — as around the world — poor and disempowered groups are being disproportionately affected. “There is a race, ethnicity and social class bias in the tragic deaths from the pandemic,” she told Mongabay.
As the pandemic spreads, authorities seem to dither
At this point, it is impossible to accurately gauge just how rapidly COVID-19 is spreading among indigenous groups, says Angela Kaxuyana, a member of the executive council of COIAB (the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations in the Brazilian Amazon), active in the Amazon region’s nine states.
According to APIB (Association of Indigenous People in Brazil), a network of indigenous organisations, 218 indigenous people had died and 2,642 had been infected by 7 June. But, she says, widespread under-reporting, due the remoteness of many territories, and frequent misdiagnosis mean that the real situation may be much worse. “We fear that the real figure for infections may be at least three times greater,” she told Mongabay.
Angela berates the response from authorities: “The government is only beginning to take action [in the Amazon] and what they are doing is quite inadequate.” She warns: “If we go on at this rate, some indigenous peoples will be wiped out.”
Some peoples are being more seriously affected than others. Like the Munduruku, the Kokama, who live along the Solimões River, where Brazil, Peru and Colombia meet, are reeling from the pandemic’s impact. The Kokama were the first people to have a confirmed COVID-19 death in an indigenous village — now at least 51 of their people have died from the disease.
Kokama leaders warned authorities they were particularly vulnerable because of the large number of people coming and going on the frontier region. Yet, they say, few measures were taken: “We are afflicted and desperate… and indignant at the negligence, disregard and omission of public powers at the federal, state and municipal levels.”
The Xavante people in the Marãiwatséde Indigenous Territory in eastern Mato Grosso state believes authorities have put them at risk due to official blunders. On 28 May health officials purposely returned a COVID-19 infected man back to Marãiwatséde village. He was told to live in “domestic isolation,” although this is virtually impossible in a settlement where 30 people or more of all ages live together in small houses. Cultural Survival, an NGO working with indigenous people, dubbed this action, “a genocidal move that exposes an entire A’uwẽ-Xavante community to COVID-19.”
Pandemic poised at Yanomami Park and Javari Valley
The coronavirus has also reached Brazil’s two largest reserves — the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (9.6 million hectares/37,000 square miles) in Roraima and Amazonas states, and the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory (8.5 million hectares/32,800 square miles) in Amazonas state. Those two territories are home to most of Brazil’s isolated and uncontacted Indians.
The Yanomami Territory is under severe threat due to the presence of some 20,000 wildcat gold miners. APIB says six Yanomami have already died of the virus and dozens more are infected — but far worse is expected.
The Yanomami are “the most vulnerable people in the whole of the Brazilian Amazon to the pandemic,” according to a recent study produced jointly by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA), an NGO. The study predicts in a worst case scenario that, if urgent action is not taken, 40% of the almost 14,000 Yanomami living less than five kilometers from the miners’ illegal settlements could be infected. While it is difficult to make accurate predictions, given the scant knowledge about indigenous vulnerability to the disease, the study predicts that in this case between 207 and 896 Yanomami could die, making this group one of the world’s worst affected indigenous communities.
The Yanomami are mobilizing to prevent this outcome, if possible. According to Dario Yanomami, from the Hutukara Yanomami Association: “Our shamans are working non-stop to counter this xawara (epidemic). We will fight and resist.” The Yanomami have organized a campaign, supported by various national and international organizations, including ISA and Survival International, called ForaGarimpoForaCovid (MinersOutCovidOut). It aims to put pressure on the Brazilian authorities to expel the illegal miners. However, critics wonder if the Bolsonaro government, with its continued denial of the pandemic and its anti-indigenous stance, will respond.
The Javari Valley Indigenous Territory is also under enormous threat, though reporting from there is much harder to obtain because many indigenous people live in isolated groups fleeing contact with the outside world. Fears are that the virus will spread to those groups via the sporadic contacts they maintain with neighbouring groups.
On 7 June it was reported that seven Indians and four health agents in the Javari Valley had been infected with the virus. The Union of the Indigenous Peoples of Javari River Valley (UNIVAJA) has sent out an SOS, urgently calling for help from the government and non-governmental organizations.
“Now that the virus has reached our community, we are afraid of genocide in the Javari River Valley. We will be counting bodies,” said Eliésio Marubo, a lawyer with the Union of the Indigenous Peoples of Javari River Valley (UNIVAJA).
Other indigenous peoples seriously at risk are those living in the remote Tumucumaque Park, located in Brazil’s far north in Amapá and Pará states, a reserve covering 1.7 million hectares (6,563 square miles). Six ethnicities inhabit the park — the Aparai, Kaxuyana, Tiriyó and Wayana, along with two groups of isolated, uncontacted Indians.
According to Angela Kaxuyana, COIAB has worked with the indigenous villages there to help prevent COVID-19 reaching the territory, but the park is located near the Surinam frontier and there is a military post within the territory. “Soldiers travelled to this post, without being tested for the virus and without protective equipment,” she fumes. “They brought in COVID-19.”
Kaxuyana, who comes from the region, says that at least 23 indigenous people are infected already, including a pregnant woman, who has been hospitalized in serious condition. According to her, the first two indigenous cases involved Indians employed by a cleaning company that works for the Air Force running the military base.
Kaxuyana notes that a tiny medical team is trying to deal with the developing crisis. “In practice, the military have abandoned the Indians to their fate. This is criminal activity by the state and they must be held to account,” she says. Kaxuyana is worried that the pandemic will spread further, as those in the affected village have had contact with neighboring villagers.
The Defense Ministry told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that “it is not possible to be sure where the contagion in the region came from, but it is very unlikely to have been transmitted by soldiers working for the Brazilian Air Force.” Another version of the story concerning COVID-19’s arrival says that traveling indigenous people were infected while away from the community, and brought the virus back to the Park later.
Quilombolas and riverine communities also hit
As with indigenous reserves, it is difficult to determine the impact of COVID-19 among the quilombos (the land occupied by traditional communities originally set up by runaway slaves), because they have long been neglected by authorities and there is little official record keeping.
“We are invisible,” says Gilvânia Maria da Silva, the co-ordinator of CONAQ (Black, Rural, Quilombola Communities). Because the state has been very slow in recognizing quilombola territories, official statistics have persistently underestimated populations in these communities. Likewise, authorities often fail to register that a person is a quilombola on a death certificate.
To combat what they call “the invisibility of the illness in quilombola territories,” ISA recently joined forces with CONAQ, to set up a new website, called Quilombo sem Covid-19, which registers confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. So far, the site has registered 353 confirmed cases and 59 deaths, though these numbers are thought to fall well short of the true figures.
Hundreds of thousands of often small Amazon riverine communities are also at risk. What affects them most is the chronic failure by authorities to provide public health and other services. The small communities of Montanha and Mangabal on the Tapajós River are a case in point. Although no definitive tests have been carried out there, COVID-19 is believed to have reached the settlements via a bus driver, who, without tests or protective equipment, was plying the route between the city of Itaituba (population 101,000) and the community.
Ageu Lobo Pereira, the President of the Association of Montanha and Mangabal Communities, told Mongabay that residents see themselves as forgotten “particularly with respect to health and education.” As if to underline that point, Seu Filó, one of the community’s greatest authorities on the local Amazon forest, died on 5 June, not from COVID-19, but from a stroke, which some in the community believe could have been avoided if he had been treated properly for high blood pressure. As elsewhere, COVID-19 detracts from the treatment of other health disorders.
Bruna Rocha calls this is a critical moment: “We can only hope that the overwhelming grief they feel will spur surviving forest peoples on to fight for their rights, to honor the memory of those who have gone,” she says. “We must stand by them in every way possible after the pandemic has passed, whenever that is. But until then, all efforts must be geared to saving lives — in spite of the federal government. Indigenous lives matter.”
**This article was originally posted at Mongabay.com and is re-posted here with permission.**


thewakingtimes--2020-06-12--Engineering a Race War: Will This Be the American Police State’s Reichstag Fire?

Engineering a Race War : Will This Be the American Police State ’ s Reichstag Fire ?
Watch and see : this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House .
The Deep State , the powers-that-be , want us to turn this into a race war , but this is about so much more than systemic racism .
This is the oldest con game in the books , the magician ’ s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front @ @ @ @ @ @ @ picked clean by ruffians in your midst .
It ’ s the Reichstag Fire all over again .
It was February 1933 , a month before national elections in Germany , and the Nazis weren ’ t expected to win .
So they engineered a way to win : they began by infiltrating the police and granting police powers to their allies ; then Hitler brought in stormtroopers to act as auxiliary police ; by the time an arsonist ( who claimed to be working for the Communists in the hopes of starting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Reichstag , the German parliamentary building , the people were eager for a return to law and order .
That was all it took : Hitler used the attempted “ coup ” as an excuse to declare martial law and seize absolute power in Germany , establishing himself as a dictator with the support of the German people .
Fast forward to the present day , and what do we have ?
The nation in turmoil after months of pandemic fear-mongering and regional lockdowns , a national election looming , a president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police state that wants to stay in power at all costs .
It ’ s entirely possible that Americans have finally reached a tipping point over police brutality after decades of abuse .
After all , until recently , the legislatures and the courts have marched in lockstep with the police state , repeatedly rebuffing efforts to hold police accountable for official misconduct .
Then again , it ’ s also equally possible that the architects of the police state have every intention of manipulating this outrage for their own purposes .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Here ’ s what is going to happen : the police state is going to stand down and allow these protests , riots and looting to devolve into a situation where enough of the voting populace is so desperate for a return to law and order that they will gladly relinquish some of their freedoms to achieve it .
And that ’ s how the police state will win , no matter which candidate gets elected to the White House .
You know who will lose ?
Every last one of us .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ what happened to George Floyd , but let ’ s get one thing straight : Floyd didn ’ t die merely because he was black and the cop who killed him is white .
Floyd died because America is being overrun with warrior cops—vigilantes with a badge—who are part of a government-run standing army that is waging war on the American people in the so-called name of law and order .
Not all cops are warrior cops , trained to act as judge , jury and executioner in their interactions with the populace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who take seriously their oath of office to serve and protect their fellow citizens , uphold the Constitution , and maintain the peace—are increasingly being outnumbered by those who believe the lives—and rights—of police should be valued more than citizens .
These warrior cops may get paid by the citizenry , but they don ’ t work for us and they certainly aren ’ t operating within the limits of the U.S. Constitution .
This isn ’ t about racism in America .
This is about profit-driven militarism packaged in the guise of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profiteers who have transformed the American homeland into a battlefield with militarized police , military weapons and tactics better suited to a war zone .
This is systemic corruption predicated on the police state ’ s insatiable appetite for money , power and control .
This is a military coup waiting to happen .
Why do we have more than a million cops on the taxpayer-funded payroll in this country whose jobs do not entail protecting our safety , maintaining the peace in our communities , and upholding our liberties ?
I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cops—fitted out in the trappings of war , drilled in the deadly art of combat , and trained to look upon “ every individual they interact with as an armed threat and every situation as a deadly force encounter in the making—are the police state ’ s standing army .
This is the new face of war , and America has become the new battlefield .
Militarized police officers , the end product of the government—federal , local and state—and law enforcement agencies having merged , have become a “ standing ” or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soldiers who do not disband .
Yet these permanent armies are exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights feared as tools used by despotic governments to wage war against its citizens .
American police forces were never supposed to be a branch of the military , nor were they meant to be private security forces for the reigning political faction .
Instead , they were intended to be an aggregation of countless local police units , composed of citizens like you and me that exist for a sole @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizens of each and every American community .
As a result of the increasing militarization of the police in recent years , however , the police now not only look like the military—with their foreboding uniforms and phalanx of lethal weapons—but they function like them , as well .
Thus , no more do we have a civilian force of peace officers entrusted with serving and protecting the American people .
Instead , today ’ s militarized law enforcement officials have shifted their allegiance from the citizenry to the state , acting preemptively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the government ’ s power , unrestrained by the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment .
We were sold a bill of goods .
For years now , we ’ ve been told that cops need military weapons to wage the government ’ s wars on drugs , crime and terror .
We ’ ve been told that cops need to be able to crash through doors , search vehicles , carry out roadside strip searches , shoot anyone they perceive to be a threat , and generally disregard the law whenever it suits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to protect their fellow Americans from danger .
We ’ ve been told that cops need extra legal protections because of the risks they take .
None of that is true .
In fact , a study by a political scientist at Princeton University concludes that militarizing police and SWAT teams “ provide no detectable benefits in terms of officer safety or violent crime reduction.
” According to researcher Jonathan Mummolo , if police in America are feeling less safe , it ’ s because the process of transforming them into extensions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less popular and less trust-worthy .
In other words , warrior cops aren ’ t making us or themselves any safer .
Militarized police armed with weapons of war who are allowed to operate above the law and break the laws with impunity are definitely not making America any safer or freer .
Militarism within the nation ’ s police forces is proving to be deadlier than any pandemic .
This battlefield mindset has gone hand in hand with the rise of militarized SWAT ( “ special weapons and tactics ” ) teams @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to combat terrorism and deal with rare but extremely dangerous criminal situations , such as those involving hostages , SWAT teams have become intrinsic parts of local law enforcement operations , thanks in large part to substantial federal assistance and the Pentagon ’ s military surplus recycling program , which allows the transfer of military equipment , weapons and training to local police for free or at sharp discounts while increasing the profits of its corporate allies .
Where this becomes a problem of life and death for Americans is when these SWAT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military tactics—are assigned to carry out relatively routine police tasks , such as serving a search warrant .
Nationwide , SWAT teams have been employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of criminal activity or mere community nuisances : angry dogs , domestic disputes , improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer , and misdemeanor marijuana possession , to give a brief sampling .
Remember , SWAT teams originated as specialized units dedicated to defusing extremely sensitive , dangerous situations .
They were never meant to be used for routine police work such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mere presence of SWAT units has actually injected a level of danger and violence into police-citizen interactions that was not present as long as these interactions were handled by traditional civilian officers .
There are few communities without a SWAT team today , and there are more than 80,000 SWAT team raids per year .
Yet the tension inherent in most civilian-police encounter these days can ’ t be blamed exclusively on law enforcement ’ s growing reliance on SWAT teams and donated military equipment .
It goes far deeper , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves and their line of duty .
Specifically , what we ’ re dealing with today is a skewed shoot-to-kill mindset in which police , trained to view themselves as warriors or soldiers in a war , whether against drugs , or terror , or crime , must “ get ” the bad guys—i.e.
, anyone who is a potential target—before the bad guys get them .
The result is a spike in the number of incidents in which police shoot first , and ask questions later .
Making matters worse , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ceased to be peace officers , violate their oaths by bullying , beating , tasering , shooting and killing their employers—the taxpayers to whom they owe their allegiance—they are rarely given more than a slap on the hands before resuming their patrols .
This lawlessness on the part of law enforcement , an unmistakable characteristic of a police state , is made possible in large part by police unions which routinely oppose civilian review boards and resist the placement of names and badge numbers on officer uniforms ; police agencies that abide by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quiet understanding among police that they should not implicate their colleagues for their crimes and misconduct ; prosecutors who treat police offenses with greater leniency than civilian offenses ; courts that sanction police wrongdoing in the name of security ; and legislatures that enhance the power , reach and arsenal of the police , and a citizenry that fails to hold its government accountable to the rule of law .
Indeed , not only are cops protected from most charges of wrongdoing—whether it ’ s shooting unarmed citizens ( including children and old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women , falsifying police reports , trafficking drugs , or soliciting sex with minors—but even on the rare occasions when they are fired for misconduct , it ’ s only a matter of time before they get re-hired again .
It ’ s happening all across the country .
This is how perverse justice in America has become .
Incredibly , while our own Bill of Rights are torn to shreds , leaving us with few protections against government abuses , a growing number of states are adopting Law Enforcement Officers ’ Bill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide cops accused of a crime with special due process rights and privileges not afforded to the average citizen .
This , right here , epitomizes everything that is wrong with America today .
Even when the system appears to work on the side of justice , it ’ s the American taxpayer who ends up paying the price .
Deep-seated corruption of this kind doesn ’ t just go away because politicians and corporations suddenly become conscience-stricken in the face of mass protests and start making promises they don ’ t intend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we need civic engagement and citizen activism , especially at the local level .
However , if it ends at the ballot box without achieving any real reform that holds government officials at all levels accountable to playing by the rules of the Constitution , then shame on us .
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute , where this article ( Engineering a Race War : Will This Be the American Police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was originally published .
He is the author of A Government of Wolves : The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto .

Engineering a Race War: Will This Be the American Police State’s Reichstag Fire?
John W. Whitehead, Rutherford
Waking Times
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”— George Santayana
Watch and see: this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House.
Don’t fall for it.
The Deep State, the powers-that-be, want us to turn this into a race war, but this is about so much more than systemic racism. This is the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst.
It’s the Reichstag Fire all over again.
It was February 1933, a month before national elections in Germany, and the Nazis weren’t expected to win. So they engineered a way to win: they began by infiltrating the police and granting police powers to their allies; then Hitler brought in stormtroopers to act as auxiliary police; by the time an arsonist (who claimed to be working for the Communists in the hopes of starting an armed revolt) set fire to the Reichstag, the German parliamentary building, the people were eager for a return to law and order.
That was all it took: Hitler used the attempted “coup” as an excuse to declare martial law and seize absolute power in Germany, establishing himself as a dictator with the support of the German people.
Fast forward to the present day, and what do we have? The nation in turmoil after months of pandemic fear-mongering and regional lockdowns, a national election looming, a president with falling poll numbers, and a police state that wants to stay in power at all costs.
Note the similarities?
It’s entirely possible that Americans have finally reached a tipping point over police brutality after decades of abuse. After all, until recently, the legislatures and the courts have marched in lockstep with the police state, repeatedly rebuffing efforts to hold police accountable for official misconduct.
Then again, it’s also equally possible that the architects of the police state have every intention of manipulating this outrage for their own purposes.
It works the same in every age.
As author Jim Keith explains, “Create violence through economic pressures, the media, mind control, agent provocateurs: thesis. Counter it with totalitarian measures, more mind control, police crackdowns, surveillance, drugging of the population: antithesis. What ensues is Orwell’s vision of 1984, a society of total control: synthesis.”
Here’s what is going to happen: the police state is going to stand down and allow these protests, riots and looting to devolve into a situation where enough of the voting populace is so desperate for a return to law and order that they will gladly relinquish some of their freedoms to achieve it. And that’s how the police state will win, no matter which candidate gets elected to the White House.
You know who will lose? Every last one of us.
Listen, people should be outraged over what happened to George Floyd, but let’s get one thing straight: Floyd didn’t die merely because he was black and the cop who killed him is white. Floyd died because America is being overrun with warrior cops—vigilantes with a badge—who are part of a government-run standing army that is waging war on the American people in the so-called name of law and order.
Not all cops are warrior cops, trained to act as judge, jury and executioner in their interactions with the populace. Unfortunately, the good cops—the ones who take seriously their oath of office to serve and protect their fellow citizens, uphold the Constitution, and maintain the peace—are increasingly being outnumbered by those who believe the lives—and rights—of police should be valued more than citizens.
These warrior cops may get paid by the citizenry, but they don’t work for us and they certainly aren’t operating within the limits of the U.S. Constitution.
This isn’t about racism in America.
This is about profit-driven militarism packaged in the guise of law and order, waged by greedy profiteers who have transformed the American homeland into a battlefield with militarized police, military weapons and tactics better suited to a war zone. This is systemic corruption predicated on the police state’s insatiable appetite for money, power and control.
This is a military coup waiting to happen.
Why do we have more than a million cops on the taxpayer-funded payroll in this country whose jobs do not entail protecting our safety, maintaining the peace in our communities, and upholding our liberties?
I’ll tell you why.
These warrior cops—fitted out in the trappings of war, drilled in the deadly art of combat, and trained to look upon “every individual they interact with as an armed threat and every situation as a deadly force encounter in the making—are the police state’s standing army.
This is the new face of war, and America has become the new battlefield.
Militarized police officers, the end product of the government—federal, local and state—and law enforcement agencies having merged, have become a “standing” or permanent army, composed of full-time professional soldiers who do not disband.
Yet these permanent armies are exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights feared as tools used by despotic governments to wage war against its citizens.
American police forces were never supposed to be a branch of the military, nor were they meant to be private security forces for the reigning political faction. Instead, they were intended to be an aggregation of countless local police units, composed of citizens like you and me that exist for a sole purpose: to serve and protect the citizens of each and every American community.
As a result of the increasing militarization of the police in recent years, however, the police now not only look like the military—with their foreboding uniforms and phalanx of lethal weapons—but they function like them, as well.
Thus, no more do we have a civilian force of peace officers entrusted with serving and protecting the American people. Instead, today’s militarized law enforcement officials have shifted their allegiance from the citizenry to the state, acting preemptively to ward off any possible challenges to the government’s power, unrestrained by the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment.
They don’t work for us. As retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis warned, “Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries.”
We were sold a bill of goods.
For years now, we’ve been told that cops need military weapons to wage the government’s wars on drugs, crime and terror. We’ve been told that cops need to be able to crash through doors, search vehicles, carry out roadside strip searches, shoot anyone they perceive to be a threat, and generally disregard the law whenever it suits them because they’re doing it to protect their fellow Americans from danger. We’ve been told that cops need extra legal protections because of the risks they take.
None of that is true.
In fact, a study by a political scientist at Princeton University concludes that militarizing police and SWAT teams “provide no detectable benefits in terms of officer safety or violent crime reduction.” According to researcher Jonathan Mummolo, if police in America are feeling less safe, it’s because the process of transforming them into extensions of the military makes them less safe, less popular and less trust-worthy.
The study, the first systematic analysis on the use and consequences of militarized force, reveals that “police militarization neither reduces rates of violent crime nor changes the number of officers assaulted or killed.”
In other words, warrior cops aren’t making us or themselves any safer.
Militarized police armed with weapons of war who are allowed to operate above the law and break the laws with impunity are definitely not making America any safer or freer.
Militarism within the nation’s police forces is proving to be deadlier than any pandemic.
This battlefield mindset has gone hand in hand with the rise of militarized SWAT (“special weapons and tactics”) teams.
Frequently justified as vital tools necessary to combat terrorism and deal with rare but extremely dangerous criminal situations, such as those involving hostages, SWAT teams have become intrinsic parts of local law enforcement operations, thanks in large part to substantial federal assistance and the Pentagon’s military surplus recycling program, which allows the transfer of military equipment, weapons and training to local police for free or at sharp discounts while increasing the profits of its corporate allies.
Where this becomes a problem of life and death for Americans is when these SWAT teams— outfitted, armed and trained in military tactics—are assigned to carry out relatively routine police tasks, such as serving a search warrant. Nationwide, SWAT teams have been employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of criminal activity or mere community nuisances: angry dogs, domestic disputes, improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer, and misdemeanor marijuana possession, to give a brief sampling.
Remember, SWAT teams originated as specialized units dedicated to defusing extremely sensitive, dangerous situations. They were never meant to be used for routine police work such as serving a warrant. Unfortunately, the mere presence of SWAT units has actually injected a level of danger and violence into police-citizen interactions that was not present as long as these interactions were handled by traditional civilian officers.
There are few communities without a SWAT team today, and there are more than 80,000 SWAT team raids per year.
Yet the tension inherent in most civilian-police encounter these days can’t be blamed exclusively on law enforcement’s growing reliance on SWAT teams and donated military equipment.
It goes far deeper, to a transformation in the way police view themselves and their line of duty.
Specifically, what we’re dealing with today is a skewed shoot-to-kill mindset in which police, trained to view themselves as warriors or soldiers in a war, whether against drugs, or terror, or crime, must “get” the bad guys—i.e., anyone who is a potential target—before the bad guys get them. The result is a spike in the number of incidents in which police shoot first, and ask questions later.
Making matters worse, when these officers, who have long since ceased to be peace officers, violate their oaths by bullying, beating, tasering, shooting and killing their employers—the taxpayers to whom they owe their allegiance—they are rarely given more than a slap on the hands before resuming their patrols.
This lawlessness on the part of law enforcement, an unmistakable characteristic of a police state, is made possible in large part by police unions which routinely oppose civilian review boards and resist the placement of names and badge numbers on officer uniforms; police agencies that abide by the Blue Code of Silence, the quiet understanding among police that they should not implicate their colleagues for their crimes and misconduct; prosecutors who treat police offenses with greater leniency than civilian offenses; courts that sanction police wrongdoing in the name of security; and legislatures that enhance the power, reach and arsenal of the police, and a citizenry that fails to hold its government accountable to the rule of law.
Indeed, not only are cops protected from most charges of wrongdoing—whether it’s shooting unarmed citizens (including children and old people), raping and abusing young women, falsifying police reports, trafficking drugs, or soliciting sex with minors—but even on the rare occasions when they are fired for misconduct, it’s only a matter of time before they get re-hired again.
Much of the “credit” for shielding these rogue cops goes to influential police unions and laws providing for qualified immunity, police contracts that “provide a shield of protection to officers accused of misdeeds and erect barriers to residents complaining of abuse,” state and federal laws that allow police to walk away without paying a dime for their wrongdoing, and rampant cronyism among government bureaucrats.
It’s happening all across the country.
This is how perverse justice in America has become.
Incredibly, while our own Bill of Rights are torn to shreds, leaving us with few protections against government abuses, a growing number of states are adopting Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights (LEOBoR), which provide cops accused of a crime with special due process rights and privileges not afforded to the average citizen.
This, right here, epitomizes everything that is wrong with America today.
Even when the system appears to work on the side of justice, it’s the American taxpayer who ends up paying the price.
Literally.
Because police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions. As Human Rights Watch explains, taxpayers actually pay three times for officers who repeatedly commit abuses: “once to cover their salaries while they commit abuses; next to pay settlements or civil jury awards against officers; and a third time through payments into police ‘defense’ funds provided by the cities.”
Deep-seated corruption of this kind doesn’t just go away because politicians and corporations suddenly become conscience-stricken in the face of mass protests and start making promises they don’t intend to keep.
As I explain in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we need civic engagement and citizen activism, especially at the local level. However, if it ends at the ballot box without achieving any real reform that holds government officials at all levels accountable to playing by the rules of the Constitution, then shame on us.
About the Author
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, where this article (Engineering a Race War: Will This Be the American Police State’s Reichstag Fire?) was originally published. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.


thewakingtimes--2020-06-12--With Tourists Gone, Long-Endangered Elephants Reclaim Thai National Park

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to grind on , endangering human lives and inflicting massive losses on the economy , many parts of the world are getting ready to enter their third month of lockdown .
However , the crisis being experienced by society continues to have a silver lining when it comes to wildlife and ecology – especially at a popular national park in Thailand , which been reclaimed by wild elephants .
The Khao Yai National Park is typically bustling with massive crowds of tourists .
But as a result of over two months of restrictions on travel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opened nearly 60 years ago – the Southeast Asian animal sanctuary is enjoying a renaissance , with the park ’ s elephants enjoying the benefits of an absence of humans .
The New York Times reports that the park ’ s elephants have been able to enjoy a number of locations in the park that had been developed and thus off-limits for several years .
However , with the pandemic continuing to prevent tourists from visiting – and thus packing the area with jeeps and crowds – the park ’ s 300 or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cement-paved parts of the park that had prevented their access to the river .
Khao Yai was established in 1962 as Thailand ’ s first national park , and spans over 775 square miles ( 2,000 square km ) of rainforest , evergreen forest , and grassland .
In addition to the hundreds of elephant residents , the park is also home to wild animals such as gibbons , pig-tailed macaques , porcupines , civets , numerous bear species .
Around 445 species of birds and 85 species of reptile also reside in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Parks .
The park was the site of tragedy last October when a large number of elephants fell to their deaths as they each attempted to rescue a baby elephant that slipped and fell from the edge of a waterfall known as Haew Narok , or “ Hell ’ s Fall.
” While initial reports focused on the on the six dead elephants that were found at the site , officials later found that eleven elephants had died – including the three-year-old baby elephant calf whose drowning compelled the other members of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ravine of Hell.
” In 1992 , a herd of eight elephants died also after falling from the waterfall .
Prominent conservationist Kemthong Morat launched a hunger strike to bring attention to the threat to elephants posed by the development of the lush region .
The Thai activist told The Times : However , the current respite has been obvious to the park ’ s workers .
On the official Khao Yai Facebook page , posts have celebrated otters returning to sunbathe in the river while chipmunk pups can be seen jumping through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the serow and dhole can also be seen scampering through the park ’ s lush meadows .
Meanwhile , elephants have been free to dine on foliage and stroll through the roads without having to flee to dangerous cliffsides in fear of fast-moving vehicles and loud , thronging tourist crowds .
And with wildlife enjoying this apparent resurgence , national park veterinarian Chananya believes that the lockdown ’ s effects should be an eye-opener for authorities .

With Tourists Gone, Long-Endangered Elephants Reclaim Thai National Park
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to grind on, endangering human lives and inflicting massive losses on the economy, many parts of the world are getting ready to enter their third month of lockdown.
However, the crisis being experienced by society continues to have a silver lining when it comes to wildlife and ecology – especially at a popular national park in Thailand, which been reclaimed by wild elephants.
The Khao Yai National Park is typically bustling with massive crowds of tourists. But as a result of over two months of restrictions on travel and tourism – unprecedented since the park opened nearly 60 years ago – the Southeast Asian animal sanctuary is enjoying a renaissance, with the park’s elephants enjoying the benefits of an absence of humans.
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The New York Times reports that the park’s elephants have been able to enjoy a number of locations in the park that had been developed and thus off-limits for several years. However, with the pandemic continuing to prevent tourists from visiting – and thus packing the area with jeeps and crowds – the park’s 300 or so elephants have been free to roam cement-paved parts of the park that had prevented their access to the river.
Khao Yai was established in 1962 as Thailand’s first national park, and spans over 775 square miles (2,000 square km) of rainforest, evergreen forest, and grassland. In addition to the hundreds of elephant residents, the park is also home to wild animals such as gibbons, pig-tailed macaques, porcupines, civets, numerous bear species. Around 445 species of birds and 85 species of reptile also reside in the national park, according to Thai National Parks.
The park was the site of tragedy last October when a large number of elephants fell to their deaths as they each attempted to rescue a baby elephant that slipped and fell from the edge of a waterfall known as Haew Narok, or “Hell’s Fall.”
While initial reports focused on the on the six dead elephants that were found at the site, officials later found that eleven elephants had died – including the three-year-old baby elephant calf whose drowning compelled the other members of the herd to jump into the “Ravine of Hell.”
http://www.facebook.com/Greenleaftour/posts/2886756754691696
In 1992, a herd of eight elephants died also after falling from the waterfall.
Prominent conservationist Kemthong Morat launched a hunger strike to bring attention to the threat to elephants posed by the development of the lush region. The Thai activist told The Times:
“The deaths of the 11 elephants were preventable and the mismanagement by the park was preventable. “They seem to forget that the national park’s purpose is for research and conservation. Khao Yai’s big tourism revenues made them forget the main purpose of the park.”
However, the current respite has been obvious to the park’s workers. On the official Khao Yai Facebook page, posts have celebrated otters returning to sunbathe in the river while chipmunk pups can be seen jumping through tree branches. Local endemic species such as the serow and dhole can also be seen scampering through the park’s lush meadows.
http://www.facebook.com/KhaoYaiNationalPark1962/videos/726067201554873/?t=0
Meanwhile, elephants have been free to dine on foliage and stroll through the roads without having to flee to dangerous cliffsides in fear of fast-moving vehicles and loud, thronging tourist crowds.
And with wildlife enjoying this apparent resurgence, national park veterinarian Chananya believes that the lockdown’s effects should be an eye-opener for authorities.
“We should consider if we should close down the park every year. Nature can restore itself to its fullest,” she said.
By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-06-12--Mystery as Indian Crater Lake Turns From Green to Pink

Mystery as Indian Crater Lake Turns From Green to Pink A crater lake in India has mysteriously turned pink , and scientists aren ’ t sure why .
The 56,000-year-old Lonar Crater Sanctuary Lake in the state of Maharashtra transformed from its usual blue-green to a reddish pink over the last few days , The Times of India reported Thursday .
The lake , around 500 kilometers ( approximately 311 miles ) from Mumbai , is popular with tourists and scientists , and its transformation has sparked research and discussion .
“ Sudden change in colour of water is strange @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activities or could even be human interference .
Research should be conducted before making any comments , ” Harish Malpani , who leads the microbiology department at RLT College of Science , Akola , told The Times of India .
The lake was formed around 56,000 years ago when a meteor struck the basalt rock of the Deccan Plateau .
It is the world ’ s largest basaltic impact crater and the third largest crater of any kind formed less than a million years ago , according to The Weather Channel India .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ alkaline properties that could be behind the color change , Times of India explained .
These factors encourage the growth of a kind of bacteria called Halobacteriaceae , which produce a red pigment that converts sunlight into energy .
While the lake has turned reddish before , this year ’ s transformation is especially dramatic .
“ It ’ s looking particularly red this year because this year the water ’ s salinity has increased , ” local geologist Gajanan Kharat explained in a video posted on Maharashtra Tourism ’ s Twitter feed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amount of water in the lake has reduced and the lake has become shallower , so the salinity has gone up and caused some internal changes.
” Kharat also said the lake had gotten warmer , leading to an algae bloom .
The exact cause of the color change will be determined by water samples sent in for testing by the state ’ s forest department .
Another possibility is that lockdown measures implemented to control the spread of the new coronavirus , which returned blue skies and clean air to highly polluted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lake ’ s color change .

Mystery as Indian Crater Lake Turns From Green to Pink
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Waking Times
A crater lake in India has mysteriously turned pink, and scientists aren’t sure why.
The 56,000-year-old Lonar Crater Sanctuary Lake in the state of Maharashtra transformed from its usual blue-green to a reddish pink over the last few days, The Times of India reported Thursday. The lake, around 500 kilometers (approximately 311 miles) from Mumbai, is popular with tourists and scientists, and its transformation has sparked research and discussion.
“Sudden change in colour of water is strange. It might be because of microbial activities or could even be human interference. Research should be conducted before making any comments,” Harish Malpani, who leads the microbiology department at RLT College of Science, Akola, told The Times of India.
The lake was formed around 56,000 years ago when a meteor struck the basalt rock of the Deccan Plateau. It is the world’s largest basaltic impact crater and the third largest crater of any kind formed less than a million years ago, according to The Weather Channel India.
The lake also has unique salt and alkaline properties that could be behind the color change, Times of India explained. These factors encourage the growth of a kind of bacteria called Halobacteriaceae, which produce a red pigment that converts sunlight into energy.
While the lake has turned reddish before, this year’s transformation is especially dramatic.
“It’s looking particularly red this year because this year the water’s salinity has increased,” local geologist Gajanan Kharat explained in a video posted on Maharashtra Tourism’s Twitter feed, as CNN reported. “The amount of water in the lake has reduced and the lake has become shallower, so the salinity has gone up and caused some internal changes.”
Kharat also said the lake had gotten warmer, leading to an algae bloom.
“This algae turns reddish in warmer temperatures and hence the lake turned pink overnight,” Kharat said further, according to AFP.
The exact cause of the color change will be determined by water samples sent in for testing by the state’s forest department.
Another possibility is that lockdown measures implemented to control the spread of the new coronavirus, which returned blue skies and clean air to highly polluted Indian cities, could also be behind the lake’s color change.
“There wasn’t much human activity due to lockdown which could also have accelerated the change,” Maharashtra’s Babasaheb Ambedkar University Geography Department head Madan Suryavashi told AFP. “But we will only know the exact causes once our scientific analysis is complete in a few days.”
About the Author
Olivia is a freelance reporter for EcoWatch.


thewakingtimes--2020-06-12--Questions of our Time – Time Now to Get Back to Ourselves?

Questions of our Time – Time Now to Get Back to Ourselves ?
As human beings we seek the beautiful , and this gives us joy .
But our lives have made everything complicated .
We make ourselves complicated – life is being played around us like a game .
This may not sound comfortable , or even correct , to some people .
If it ’ s a game , then why is there so much sorrow and pain ?
This is the perennial question .
Yet like a game , we have choices , and we make our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gameplays going on all around us .
And it seems that the game is rigged .
One person who knew this well was Alan Watts .
He often spoke about how life should not be lived as a fast journey and that existence in the universe should be recognized as being basically playful .
Life is more like music , Watts used to say .
And we play music – we don ’ t ‘ work ’ music .
And in music , the end of the composition is not the point of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would play fast ; or some composers would choose only to write the finales .
We don ’ t go to concerts just to hear the final chord being played .
We don ’ t engage in a dance in order to end it ( unless we got tricked into it ! )
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And yet , as Alan Watts was so keen in observing , our social systems condition us into grading our lives .
Our schooling compels us into chasing grades and making our quotas and then paying our bills .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ wishing , for the ‘ great thing ’ in life to come whilst we are rushing through our lives with hardly a notice of what we ’ re leaving behind in our rear-view mirrors .
We end up living to retire .
And when we retire , we imagine we have ‘ finally arrived.
’ And yet to where ?
Do we feel any different ?
We have a small pot of savings and almost no energy .
And then we are told to wait it out .
Until what ?
When ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is too late do we realize that we were cheated down the whole line .
And yet we followed it .
We kept racing along in order to keep up or to hold onto what we were told was success .
And yet – was it ever ‘ our ’ success ?
Did we miss the whole point ?
Being human is about trying to create meaning for ourselves – and to enjoy it as much as possible along the way .
The life we have is where we have arrived by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made .
We should not let ‘ another mind ’ make those choices for us .
And most of all , we should not allow ourselves to be played for victims .
We may be under the sway of other forces , yet only to the point that we are ignorant of them .
Our power comes through recognizing and identifying those other forces that seek to influence and control our thoughts and actions .
We need to optimize our lives by optimizing our perspective and understanding .
Ignorance may seem to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , creativity , and wisdom are the truer imperatives .
Despite what may appear to the contrary at times , there is incredible capacity for goodness within the human race .
The majority of people in the world are good people .
They wish for peace and to not do harm to others .
There are many sympathetic , caring , and courageous people in the world .
Unfortunately , our systems are run by the minority , and these systems are largely corrupt ; and the decent people within these systems become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ main issue is that most of us do not look after our minds .
We don ’ t think it is necessary .
We are not aware of the malicious impacts that infiltrate and influence us on an almost daily basis .
This unawareness – or ignorance – leaves people open and vulnerable .
Many people have become alienated from their own minds .
This is where manipulations creep in , such as mob mentality and crowd behavior .
Only a large body of people with ‘ alienated minds ’ can become so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and social management .
Mass psychosis is only possible through a collective mindset that has become alienated from a transcendental source .
In this state , we are prisoners to the impulses that steer our unconscious .
We are susceptible to neuroses and psychic illness .
We may believe we have freedom when we do not .
The forces of bondage are subtle and often insidious .
It is a necessity that human civilization returns to the fundamental recognition of the person as a human being .
Being human is about being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about recognizing the essential things .
Yet this is no simple thing to do .
We are needing to get back to ourselves in so many ways .
To begin , we must learn not to take things personally .
There are so many ways that life attempts to get us to engage with external strife .
It tries to pull us out of ourselves .
When , for example , we are criticized or insulted we tend to lash out .
We are conditioned to attack in order to defend .
Is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the best line of defense ?
’ Sometimes this is phrased as – the best defense is a good offense .
Yet long before these catchy phrases got circulated through our systems there was a better truism : turn the other cheek .
Retaliation feeds the psychosis within the individual and the collective .
If we give away our emotional and psychic energy , then we also give away our freedom .
The ego must be reined in , yet not abolished .
It is through the form of the ego that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essential self .
The ego exists as a signpost that the essential inner self is also there .
As Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh says – ‘ If love exists , there are other things that exist also .
There is ignorance , there is violence , there is craving.
’ These external ‘ other things ’ – the violence and the suffering – can be , and are , manipulated and exacerbated .
Yet the essential inner self remains as a pure , undiluted and uncorrupted form .
We should allow it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our lives .
This is the human question .
Morality and meaning only have significance when they come from a genuine source .
Otherwise it is a ‘ projected ’ form , created from social mores and cultural biases .
We are the ultimate touchstone for our sense of reality .
We need to have a clean lens and clear vision .
And we should begin from the basics – the simple human things .
There is a story which tells of a spiritual seeker who after some time comes upon a spiritual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whom she wishes to learn from .
The seeker asks the master if he will accept her as a pupil .
What people may consider to be ‘ spiritual ’ is often none other than necessary human nutrition – a daily requirement for living .
Yet like our other nutrition , eating , it has to be correctly integrated into our lives without making a song and dance about it .
And , of course , not forgetting the saying that goes – ‘ If you insist on buying poor food , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the serving.
’ It often feels like we spend our days trying to grasp at life , trying to understand it , with ways that are not adequate .
It is like trying to capture the ocean with a bucket .
The ocean stands magnificently before us , and yet our modern societies teach us to run through our lives anxiously as if with empty buckets in our hands .
Personal fulfilment is not only about accomplishment ; it is also a question of what we can give through each of our individual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ helps to illustrate this : A man had two large pots , each hung on an end of a pole which he carried across his neck .
One of the pots had a crack in it , and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to his house , the cracked pot arrived only half full .
For a full two years this went on daily , with the man delivering only one and a half @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Of course , the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments , feeling accepted and appreciated .
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection , and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do .
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure , it spoke to the man one day by the stream .
“ I am ashamed of myself , and I want to apologize to you.
” “ Why ?
” asked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ashamed of ?
” “ I have been able , for these past two years , to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house .
Because of my flaws , you have to do all of this work , and you don ’ t get full value from your efforts , ” the pot said .
The man felt sorry for the old cracked pot , and in his compassion , he said , “ As we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you to look at the beautiful flowers along the path .
It will make you feel better.
” Indeed , as they went up the hill , the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path , and this made it feel a little happier .
But at the end of the path , it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load , and so again the Pot apologized to the man for its failure .
The man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path , but not on the other pot ’ s side ?
That ’ s because I have always known about your flaw , and I took advantage of it .
I planted flower seeds on your side of the path , and every day while we walk back from the stream , you ’ ve been watering them .
For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to take home to my wife .
With you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you have given beauty and meaning to me every day.
” Kingsley L. Dennis is the author of Bardo Times : hyperreality , high-velocity , simulation , automation , mutation – a hoax ?
, The Phoenix Generation : A New Era of Connection , Compassion , and Consciousness , and The Sacred Revival : Magic , Mind & Meaning in a Technological Age , available at Amazon .
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Questions of our Time – Time Now to Get Back to Ourselves?
Kingsley L. Dennis, Contributor
Waking Times
‘And the Old Ones say: look outward seriously look inward intently look outward carefully look inward diligently look outward respectfully look inward humbly’ Jack Forbes
As human beings we seek the beautiful, and this gives us joy. But our lives have made everything complicated. We make ourselves complicated – life is being played around us like a game. This may not sound comfortable, or even correct, to some people. If it’s a game, then why is there so much sorrow and pain? This is the perennial question. Yet like a game, we have choices, and we make our moves. And there are players and gameplays going on all around us. And it seems that the game is rigged. One person who knew this well was Alan Watts. He often spoke about how life should not be lived as a fast journey and that existence in the universe should be recognized as being basically playful. Life is more like music, Watts used to say. And we play music – we don’t ‘work’ music. And in music, the end of the composition is not the point of the composition; otherwise, all conductors would play fast; or some composers would choose only to write the finales. We don’t go to concerts just to hear the final chord being played. We don’t engage in a dance in order to end it (unless we got tricked into it!). And yet, as Alan Watts was so keen in observing, our social systems condition us into grading our lives. Our schooling compels us into chasing grades and making our quotas and then paying our bills. And we keep believing, hoping, wishing, for the ‘great thing’ in life to come whilst we are rushing through our lives with hardly a notice of what we’re leaving behind in our rear-view mirrors. We end up living to retire. And when we retire, we imagine we have ‘finally arrived.’ And yet to where? Do we feel any different? We have a small pot of savings and almost no energy. And then we are told to wait it out. Until what? When? The final curtain? Perhaps only when it is too late do we realize that we were cheated down the whole line. And yet we followed it. We kept racing along in order to keep up or to hold onto what we were told was success. And yet – was it ever ‘our’ success? Did we miss the whole point?
Being human is about trying to create meaning for ourselves – and to enjoy it as much as possible along the way. The life we have is where we have arrived by ourselves and the steps and choices we made. We should not let ‘another mind’ make those choices for us. And most of all, we should not allow ourselves to be played for victims. We may be under the sway of other forces, yet only to the point that we are ignorant of them. Our power comes through recognizing and identifying those other forces that seek to influence and control our thoughts and actions. We need to optimize our lives by optimizing our perspective and understanding. Ignorance may seem to be a social requirement yet knowledge, understanding, creativity, and wisdom are the truer imperatives. Despite what may appear to the contrary at times, there is incredible capacity for goodness within the human race.
The majority of people in the world are good people. They wish for peace and to not do harm to others. There are many sympathetic, caring, and courageous people in the world. Unfortunately, our systems are run by the minority, and these systems are largely corrupt; and the decent people within these systems become corrupted by association or exposure. The main issue is that most of us do not look after our minds. We don’t think it is necessary. We are not aware of the malicious impacts that infiltrate and influence us on an almost daily basis. This unawareness – or ignorance – leaves people open and vulnerable. Many people have become alienated from their own minds. This is where manipulations creep in, such as mob mentality and crowd behavior. Only a large body of people with ‘alienated minds’ can become so influenced by political propaganda, consumerist advertising, and social management. Mass psychosis is only possible through a collective mindset that has become alienated from a transcendental source. In this state, we are prisoners to the impulses that steer our unconscious. We are susceptible to neuroses and psychic illness. We may believe we have freedom when we do not. The forces of bondage are subtle and often insidious. It is a necessity that human civilization returns to the fundamental recognition of the person as a human being.
Being human is about being simple. Or rather, it is about recognizing the essential things. Yet this is no simple thing to do. We are needing to get back to ourselves in so many ways. To begin, we must learn not to take things personally. There are so many ways that life attempts to get us to engage with external strife. It tries to pull us out of ourselves. When, for example, we are criticized or insulted we tend to lash out. We are conditioned to attack in order to defend. Is not a well-known aphorism, ‘Attack is the best line of defense?’ Sometimes this is phrased as – the best defense is a good offense. Yet long before these catchy phrases got circulated through our systems there was a better truism: turn the other cheek. Retaliation feeds the psychosis within the individual and the collective. If we give away our emotional and psychic energy, then we also give away our freedom. The ego must be reined in, yet not abolished. It is through the form of the ego that we can find the realm of the essential self. The ego exists as a signpost that the essential inner self is also there. As Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh says – ‘If love exists, there are other things that exist also. There is ignorance, there is violence, there is craving.’ These external ‘other things’ – the violence and the suffering – can be, and are, manipulated and exacerbated. Yet the essential inner self remains as a pure, undiluted and uncorrupted form. We should allow it to speak to us and manifest in our lives. This is the human question.
Morality and meaning only have significance when they come from a genuine source. Otherwise it is a ‘projected’ form, created from social mores and cultural biases. We are the ultimate touchstone for our sense of reality. We need to have a clean lens and clear vision. And we should begin from the basics – the simple human things. There is a story which tells of a spiritual seeker who after some time comes upon a spiritual master that she feels is genuine and whom she wishes to learn from. The seeker asks the master if he will accept her as a pupil.
‘Why do you seek a spiritual path?’ asks the teacher. ‘Because I wish to be a generous and virtuous person; I wish to be balanced, mindful, caring, and to be in service for humanity. This is my goal’ said the seeker. ‘Well,’ replied the teacher, ‘these are not goals on the spiritual path; these are the very basics of being human which we need before we even begin to learn.’
What people may consider to be ‘spiritual’ is often none other than necessary human nutrition – a daily requirement for living. Yet like our other nutrition, eating, it has to be correctly integrated into our lives without making a song and dance about it. And, of course, not forgetting the saying that goes – ‘If you insist on buying poor food, you must be prepared to dislike it at the serving.’
It often feels like we spend our days trying to grasp at life, trying to understand it, with ways that are not adequate. It is like trying to capture the ocean with a bucket. The ocean stands magnificently before us, and yet our modern societies teach us to run through our lives anxiously as if with empty buckets in our hands. Personal fulfilment is not only about accomplishment; it is also a question of what we can give through each of our individual imperfections.
Here is a story that helps to illustrate this:
A man had two large pots, each hung on an end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to his house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the man delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, feeling accepted and appreciated. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the man one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.” “Why?” asked the man. “What are you ashamed of?” “I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don’t get full value from your efforts,” the pot said. The man felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion, he said, “As we return to my house, I want you to look at the beautiful flowers along the path. It will make you feel better.” Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and this made it feel a little happier. But at the end of the path, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again the Pot apologized to the man for its failure. The man said to the pot, “Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you’ve been watering them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to take home to my wife. With you being just the way you are, you have given beauty and meaning to me every day.”
About the Author
Kingsley L. Dennis is the author of Bardo Times: hyperreality, high-velocity, simulation, automation, mutation – a hoax?, The Phoenix Generation: A New Era of Connection, Compassion, and Consciousness, and The Sacred Revival: Magic, Mind & Meaning in a Technological Age, available at Amazon. Visit him on the web at http://www.kingsleydennis.com/.


thewakingtimes--2020-06-13--Nurse at COVID Epicenter Hospital: “It’s murder”

Her name is Erin Marie Olszewski .
She ’ s a military nurse .
She worked at the hospital that ’ s touted as being at the very center of the global pandemic , in terms of numbers of cases and deaths .
Her video is out there .
Infowars has it among their banned videos .
David Icke has it .
Solari.com has it .
The Brighteon platform has it .
Others have it .
It ’ s devastating testimony , first-hand , from Erin ’ s undercover investigation inside the Elmhust Hospital in Queens , New York , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” But this isn ’ t about the virus .
It ’ s about murder at the hospital .
That ’ s Erin ’ s assessment and conclusion , after working at Elmhurst .
I ’ ll boil down essentials of her findings : At the hospital , poverty-stricken patients , mostly black and Latino , come in and are tested for COVID-19 .
When the conventional tests read negative—meaning no COVID—some of these people are nevertheless marked down as COVID-19 cases .
That puts them on a train to death .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ placed on breathing ventilators .
They ’ re sedated , to keep them from moving around and feeling the discomfort and pain of the invasive intubation .
But these patients are HEAVILY sedated for long periods .
As much as a MONTH .
Completely cut off from the outside world , they never wake up .
This is no mystery .
Any medical professional , doctor or nurse , WOULD KNOW DEATH IS THE INEVITABLE OUTCOME .
It ’ s a protocol for killing .
And of course , the patients ’ deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus.
” I can think of at least 20 New York and federal agencies who should be swarming all over the Elmhurst Hospital .
But there is no action of any kind from them .
Where is the famous Congresswoman from the 14th Congressional District , which includes the Elmhurst Hospital ?
I ’ m talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , the Democratic Socialist who wants a single payer health system for all Americans .
Is THIS the kind of healthcare she ’ s talking about ?
Why isn ’ t she storming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demanding answers , brushing past guards , blasting into the office of hospital CEO Israel Rocha and demanding to know why patients are dying on ventilators ?
Where is Bill De Blasio , the New York mayor ?
Where is Cuomo , the New York state governor ?
Nowhere .
They ’ re too busy with the punishing lockdowns .
Too busy destroying the New York economy .
Too busy destroying the lives of millions of New Yorkers with their insane economic attack .
Too busy playing up to their “ liberal ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zombie normal with their utterly useless masks .
Where are New York reporters ?
Why aren ’ t they camped out at the Elmhurst Hospital demanding answers and exposing capital crimes ?
Where are public protests at the hospital ?
Inside those doors , many people CAN ’ T BREATHE anymore .
But in this case , it has nothing to do with a cop who has his knee on the neck of a black man .
It has to do with a standard of medical care that is pushing patients on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez were doing their jobs , you would definitely see those protests , and the whole foul truth would come tumbling out for the world to know .
What about the doctors and nurses inside the Elmhurst Hospital ?
What do they have to say ?
Who set up the protocol of death ?
Why are these health professionals “ just following orders ?
” Who is giving the orders ?
Labeling patients “ COVID-19 ” brings more insurance money to the hospital .
That ’ s obvious .
But what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the result of cold indifference ?
At one point in the video , Erin says that , although she works with some good people , there are others , and apparently for them , patients are “ disposable ” human beings .
Surely , these Elmhurst doctors and nurses know about Erin ’ s video by now .
Don ’ t they have anything to say ?
Wouldn ’ t you assume they ’ d be defending themselves ?
So far , I see and hear nothing from them .
Are they under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
If so , why ?
If they aren ’ t committing horrendous crimes , why should they stay silent ?
And don ’ t assume Elmhurst is the only hospital where death by medical murder is occurring .
Don ’ t assume New York is the only city where it ’ s happening .
In a mainstream review I ’ ve often cited , annual deaths in the US caused by medical mistreatment and errors , in hospitals , is 119,000 .
And that doesn ’ t include deaths caused by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number would be 106,000 per year .
( Journal of the American Medical Association , July 26 , 2000 , Dr. Barbara Starfield , Johns Hopkins School of Public Health , “ Is US Health Really the Best in the World ?
” ) Go ahead .
Add up those figures .
That ’ s 225,000 deaths a year at the hands of doctors .
That ’ s 2.25 MILLION deaths in America , per decade , caused by doctors .
It ’ s time the American people started paying attention to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause of death in their country : medical care .
Elmhurst Hospital in Queens New York is the epicenter of something .
But it isn ’ t a virus .
Brushing medical hocus-pocus aside—let ’ s get down to the core of the death protocol .
Who ordered it ?
Who started it ?
Who is enforcing it ?
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Nurse at COVID Epicenter Hospital: “It’s murder”
Jon Rappoport, Guest
Waking Times
Her name is Erin Marie Olszewski. She’s a military nurse. She worked at the hospital that’s touted as being at the very center of the global pandemic, in terms of numbers of cases and deaths.
Her video is out there. Infowars has it among their banned videos. David Icke has it. Solari.com has it. The Brighteon platform has it. Others have it. It’s devastating testimony, first-hand, from Erin’s undercover investigation inside the Elmhust Hospital in Queens, New York, “the epicenter of the COVID epicenter.”
But this isn’t about the virus. It’s about murder at the hospital. That’s Erin’s assessment and conclusion, after working at Elmhurst.
I’ll boil down essentials of her findings:
At the hospital, poverty-stricken patients, mostly black and Latino, come in and are tested for COVID-19. When the conventional tests read negative—meaning no COVID—some of these people are nevertheless marked down as COVID-19 cases.
That puts them on a train to death.
For no good reason, they’re placed on breathing ventilators. They’re sedated, to keep them from moving around and feeling the discomfort and pain of the invasive intubation.
But these patients are HEAVILY sedated for long periods. As much as a MONTH.
Completely cut off from the outside world, they never wake up.
This is no mystery. Any medical professional, doctor or nurse, WOULD KNOW DEATH IS THE INEVITABLE OUTCOME. It’s a protocol for killing.
And of course, the patients’ deaths are marked down as “caused by the virus.”
I can think of at least 20 New York and federal agencies who should be swarming all over the Elmhurst Hospital. But there is no action of any kind from them.
Where is the famous Congresswoman from the 14th Congressional District, which includes the Elmhurst Hospital? I’m talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist who wants a single payer health system for all Americans. Is THIS the kind of healthcare she’s talking about? Why isn’t she storming the hospital with reporters and cameras, demanding answers, brushing past guards, blasting into the office of hospital CEO Israel Rocha and demanding to know why patients are dying on ventilators?
Where is Bill De Blasio, the New York mayor? Where is Cuomo, the New York state governor? Nowhere. They’re too busy with the punishing lockdowns. Too busy destroying the New York economy. Too busy destroying the lives of millions of New Yorkers with their insane economic attack. Too busy playing up to their “liberal” voters, who are loyal to new zombie normal with their utterly useless masks.
Where are New York reporters? Why aren’t they camped out at the Elmhurst Hospital demanding answers and exposing capital crimes?
Where are public protests at the hospital? Inside those doors, many people CAN’T BREATHE anymore. But in this case, it has nothing to do with a cop who has his knee on the neck of a black man. It has to do with a standard of medical care that is pushing patients on the train to death. If local reporters and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez were doing their jobs, you would definitely see those protests, and the whole foul truth would come tumbling out for the world to know.
What about the doctors and nurses inside the Elmhurst Hospital? What do they have to say? Who set up the protocol of death? Why are these health professionals “just following orders?” Who is giving the orders? Labeling patients “COVID-19” brings more insurance money to the hospital. That’s obvious. But what about INDUCED DEATH? Is it just the result of cold indifference? At one point in the video, Erin says that, although she works with some good people, there are others, and apparently for them, patients are “disposable” human beings.
Surely, these Elmhurst doctors and nurses know about Erin’s video by now. Don’t they have anything to say? Wouldn’t you assume they’d be defending themselves? So far, I see and hear nothing from them. Are they under strict orders to keep their mouths shut? If so, why? If they aren’t committing horrendous crimes, why should they stay silent?
And don’t assume Elmhurst is the only hospital where death by medical murder is occurring. Don’t assume New York is the only city where it’s happening.
In a mainstream review I’ve often cited, annual deaths in the US caused by medical mistreatment and errors, in hospitals, is 119,000. And that doesn’t include deaths caused by the administration of FDA approved drugs. THAT number would be 106,000 per year. (Journal of the American Medical Association, July 26, 2000, Dr. Barbara Starfield, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, “Is US Health Really the Best in the World?”)
Go ahead. Add up those figures. That’s 225,000 deaths a year at the hands of doctors. That’s 2.25 MILLION deaths in America, per decade, caused by doctors.
It’s time the American people started paying attention to the third (maybe the first) leading cause of death in their country: medical care.
Elmhurst Hospital in Queens New York is the epicenter of something. But it isn’t a virus.
Brushing medical hocus-pocus aside—let’s get down to the core of the death protocol. Who ordered it? Who started it? Who is enforcing it?
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.)
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