lifesitenews--2020-12-10--Bp. Strickland, Gen. Flynn, Abby Johnson to address major prayer rally in DC on Saturday

WASHINGTON , D.C. , December 10 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Planned Parenthood director turned pro-life advocate Abby Johnson , General Michael Flynn , Bishop Joseph Strickland , and the Catholic nun whose pro-life RNC speech went viral are all slated to speak at Saturday ’ s “ Let the Church ROAR !
” prayer rally in Washington , D.C .
The event is a collaboration between the Jericho March and Stop the Steal and is expected to convene tens of thousands to pray for election integrity on the National Mall .
The Jericho March and Stop the Steal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Remote speakers include Bishop Strickland of Tyler , Texas , Catholic author and YouTuber Dr. Taylor Marshall , and Sr. Dede Byrne , the nun who made headlines for her speech at the RNC in support of President Donald Trump .
Popular author and prominent evangelical Eric Metaxas will emcee the event .
Abby Johnson , General Flynn , multiple Catholic priests , and politicians from Georgia and Arizona will speak in person .
Mike Lindell of “ My Pillow ” fame will also speak .
Ahead of “ Let the Church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will take place from 9:30-10:45 AM simultaneously around the U.S. Capitol , Supreme Court , and Department of Justice , ” the Jericho March website explains .
Participants will “ march around the buildings seven times and pray for the walls of corruption and election fraud to fall down , just as Joshua and the Israelites walked around the walls of corrupt Jericho.
” “ Since November 5th , Jericho Marchers have been fasting , praying , and marching daily around their state capitols for election integrity , ” the Jericho March said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authentic and diverse Judeo-Christian forms of worship , ” features rosary recitations and Eucharistic processions .
Similar “ ROAR !
” marches scheduled on Saturday in the state capitals of contested swing states , including Arizona , Georgia , Michigan , Nevada , Pennsylvania , and Wisconsin .
Registration for the state rallies can be found here .
“ Prior to his speech at the National Mall Prayer Rally , Lt. Gen. Flynn will first speak at 10 AM at the Supreme Court , an event hosted by Alice Butler-Short of Virginia Women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Women for Trump , and other affiliates with the ‘ One Nation Under God ’ grassroots rally , ” the Jericho March announced .
“ This will be Lt. Gen. Flynn ’ s first public appearance since he has been pardoned by President Trump and the case dismissed.
” A Catholic apostolate called Signs and Wonders for Our Times has said it will have a presence at the D.C. prayer rally .
Signs and Wonders will march with the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe , in honor of Saturday ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asking Christians to take part in their Project Nineveh program of “ intense prayer.
” Project Nineveh consists of praying Psalm 51 three times with outstretched arms , as with the Hour of Grace for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception , in addition to fasting and an hour of silence .
“ We give Satan the Twin Barrels honoring both days , ” Signs and Wonders said .
“ Stop the Lying ” is another event on Saturday organized by Kevin Whitt .
Protestors will be marching on CNN headquarters to protest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election fraud .
Project Veritas recently released recordings of CNN leadership admitting that they determined post-election coverage based on the wishes of pro-Biden politicians .
Registration and logistical information for the National Jericho March event can be found here .
Organizers have urged participants to avoid conflict with violent leftists by avoiding the city ’ s “ no-go zones ” that are known staging areas for Antifa and Black Lives Matter agitators .

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Planned Parenthood director turned pro-life advocate Abby Johnson, General Michael Flynn, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and the Catholic nun whose pro-life RNC speech went viral are all slated to speak at Saturday’s “Let the Church ROAR!” prayer rally in Washington, D.C.
The event is a collaboration between the Jericho March and Stop the Steal and is expected to convene tens of thousands to pray for election integrity on the National Mall. The Jericho March and Stop the Steal are supported by the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles.
Remote speakers include Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas, Catholic author and YouTuber Dr. Taylor Marshall, and Sr. Dede Byrne, the nun who made headlines for her speech at the RNC in support of President Donald Trump.
Popular author and prominent evangelical Eric Metaxas will emcee the event. Abby Johnson, General Flynn, multiple Catholic priests, and politicians from Georgia and Arizona will speak in person.
Mike Lindell of “My Pillow” fame will also speak.
Ahead of “Let the Church ROAR!,” “Jericho Marches will take place from 9:30-10:45 AM simultaneously around the U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court, and Department of Justice,” the Jericho March website explains. Participants will “march around the buildings seven times and pray for the walls of corruption and election fraud to fall down, just as Joshua and the Israelites walked around the walls of corrupt Jericho.”
“Since November 5th, Jericho Marchers have been fasting, praying, and marching daily around their state capitols for election integrity,” the Jericho March said. The movement, which highlights “authentic and diverse Judeo-Christian forms of worship,” features rosary recitations and Eucharistic processions.
Similar “ROAR!” marches scheduled on Saturday in the state capitals of contested swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Registration for the state rallies can be found here.
“Prior to his speech at the National Mall Prayer Rally, Lt. Gen. Flynn will first speak at 10 AM at the Supreme Court, an event hosted by Alice Butler-Short of Virginia Women for Trump, Jo Reitkopp of California Women for Trump, and other affiliates with the ‘One Nation Under God’ grassroots rally,” the Jericho March announced. “This will be Lt. Gen. Flynn’s first public appearance since he has been pardoned by President Trump and the case dismissed.”
A Catholic apostolate called Signs and Wonders for Our Times has said it will have a presence at the D.C. prayer rally. Signs and Wonders will march with the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in honor of Saturday’s Feast.
Signs and Wonders also is asking Christians to take part in their Project Nineveh program of “intense prayer.” Project Nineveh consists of praying Psalm 51 three times with outstretched arms, as with the Hour of Grace for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, in addition to fasting and an hour of silence. “We give Satan the Twin Barrels honoring both days,” Signs and Wonders said.
“Stop the Lying” is another event on Saturday organized by Kevin Whitt. Protestors will be marching on CNN headquarters to protest the liberal network’s coverage of election fraud. Project Veritas recently released recordings of CNN leadership admitting that they determined post-election coverage based on the wishes of pro-Biden politicians.
Registration and logistical information for the National Jericho March event can be found here. Organizers have urged participants to avoid conflict with violent leftists by avoiding the city’s “no-go zones” that are known staging areas for Antifa and Black Lives Matter agitators.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-12--Can Catholic school teachers spit on Church teaching, push pro-LGBT propaganda with impunity?

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December 11 , 2020 ( Everyday For Life Canada ) — Today , there 's no cost to teachers who push political correctness in and out of the classroom , even if the activism leads to professional misconduct .
The Ontario Education Act makes clear in Section 264 that one of the duties of a teacher is `` to inculcate by precept ... the principles of Judeo-Christian morality and the highest regard for truth , justice , loyalty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benevolence , sobriety , industry , frugality , purity , temperance and all other virtues . ''
The quote may come as a shock to many currently in the teaching profession .
There is nothing in the Act about creating `` inclusive and equitable '' school environments .
The is nothing in the Ontario Human Rights Code which trumps the Act .
There have been several court decisions where judges have pointed out in rulings that teachers have positions of trust and confidence .
How they behave is important because it has a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the school environment .
Both in classroom and in the community , teacher conduct matters .
So , when there 's a violation of the standards of the teaching profession either at school or outside the school , teachers have been disciplined , and in some cases , have even lost their jobs .
In Catholic schools , the religious context makes for a higher standard of conduct .
The Ontario Separate School system has denominational rights under Section 93 of the 1867 Constitution Act .
This means that Separate schools have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teacher who chooses to defy Catholic teaching .
Many Catholic teachers have paid a public price when , in their private lives , they have been charged with assault , impaired driving or posting critical comments on social media about colleagues .
The unwritten rule is that a teacher is always a teacher even after school or on weekends .
There have been court cases where some restrictions have been put on Charter rights .
There are limits to teacher freedom .
Take the case of Ross v. New Brunswick School District No @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Canada ) : a teacher had made racist and anti-Semitic comments outside the classroom .
The high court concluded that even though there was no direct proof of harm done by the statements , the teacher 's actions were deemed to have had a negative impact on the school environment .
In short , the words uttered had poisoned the educational atmosphere .
Another case involved the Peel Board of Education v. OSSTF ( 2002 ) .
An arbitration board decision to fire a teacher because of in-class racist activities was upheld @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Teachers disciplined the teacher by revoking his teaching certificate .
The teacher was found to be guilty of professional misconduct .
So , teachers should be cautious about what they say and post on social media platforms like Facebook , YouTube , Twitter , Instagram , blogs , forums , Snapchat and `` selfies '' to express themselves .
Regrettably , some teachers today believe they no longer need to live up to a high standard of conduct .
Now take Toronto Catholic District Catholic School Board ( TCDSB ) teacher Paolo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ undermine Catholic teaching .
Consider this Tweet : His social media statement publicly defies Catholic teaching .
He declares that he would censor Catholic teaching about homosexuality .
Even if Cardinal Thomas Collins was a guest in his classroom and quoted the appropriate paragraph 2357 from the Catechism of the Catholic Church , Mr. De Buono says he would tell the Cardinal to leave the classroom .
This is scandalous .
It 's the kind of behaviour that poisons the educational environment .
On top of it all , De Buono claims that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a member of the Ontario College of Teachers ( OCT ) .
Surely , we can assume that there have been complaints filed with the OCT which are n't as egregious .
In this comment , he questions the Education Act itself by Tweeting : `` As a Catholic in Ontario , I ca n't believe that there 's a legal duty of teachers ( S. 264 ( 1 ) ( c ) of the Education Act to 'inculcate by precept and example respect for religion and the principles of Judaeo-Christian morality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buono has not read the law very carefully .
Does what he personally believes or does n't believe override the Education Act ?
Also , why teach with the TCDSB if you do n't accept the Catholic curricula teachers are supposed to teach ?
De Buono has also accused the Board of `` systemic homophobia '' and written to the Minister of Education Stephen Lecce asking the government to launch an investigation into the matter .
He probably does n't `` believe '' that any other opinion on the issue than his own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
We assume that he also does n't believe in the Christian ideal that we are all made in the image and likeness of God ... and must all be respected just because of that .
Then there 's this Tweet : `` I think that women should be allowed to be priests as well as men .
The Catholic Church currently only allows men to be priests .
The doctrine is maintained by only men as decision makers . ''
It appears that De Buono feels qualified and entitled to change Catholic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Our final example is this Tweet : `` Let 's spend as much time and start now to prepare for Pride month in June 2021 in TCDSB . ''
A Catholic teacher is n't hired to do activism work to undermine the very system which employs him .
Mr. De Buono seems to believe that he can do what he pleases both in the classroom and in his private life without any consequences whatsoever .
We must legitimately ask , `` Does he have the full support of the Parents of the students @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Director of education ?
Does the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association back him up ?
Why is his conduct beyond scrutiny ?
Do teachers have a legal and moral duty to set a good example , or not ? ''
Those who wish to donated to legal defense fund of faithful TCDSB trustee Michael Del Grande , who has been targeted by LGBTQ activists , can do so here .
Published with permission from Everyday For Life Canada .

Paolo De Buono seems to believe that he can do what he pleases both in the classroom and in his private life without any consequences whatsoever.
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December 11, 2020 (Everyday For Life Canada) — Today, there's no cost to teachers who push political correctness in and out of the classroom, even if the activism leads to professional misconduct. The Ontario Education Act makes clear in Section 264 that one of the duties of a teacher is “to inculcate by precept… the principles of Judeo-Christian morality and the highest regard for truth, justice, loyalty, love of country, humanity, benevolence, sobriety, industry, frugality, purity, temperance and all other virtues.” The quote may come as a shock to many currently in the teaching profession. There is nothing in the Act about creating “inclusive and equitable” school environments. The is nothing in the Ontario Human Rights Code which trumps the Act.
There have been several court decisions where judges have pointed out in rulings that teachers have positions of trust and confidence. How they behave is important because it has a great deal of influence on their students and the school environment. Both in classroom and in the community, teacher conduct matters. So, when there's a violation of the standards of the teaching profession either at school or outside the school, teachers have been disciplined, and in some cases, have even lost their jobs.
In Catholic schools, the religious context makes for a higher standard of conduct. The Ontario Separate School system has denominational rights under Section 93 of the 1867 Constitution Act. This means that Separate schools have the right to discipline or dismiss a teacher who chooses to defy Catholic teaching.
Many Catholic teachers have paid a public price when, in their private lives, they have been charged with assault, impaired driving or posting critical comments on social media about colleagues. The unwritten rule is that a teacher is always a teacher even after school or on weekends.
There have been court cases where some restrictions have been put on Charter rights. There are limits to teacher freedom. Take the case of Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15 (1996, Supreme Court of Canada): a teacher had made racist and anti-Semitic comments outside the classroom. The high court concluded that even though there was no direct proof of harm done by the statements, the teacher's actions were deemed to have had a negative impact on the school environment. In short, the words uttered had poisoned the educational atmosphere.
Another case involved the Peel Board of Education v. OSSTF (2002). An arbitration board decision to fire a teacher because of in-class racist activities was upheld. In addition, the Ontario College of Teachers disciplined the teacher by revoking his teaching certificate. The teacher was found to be guilty of professional misconduct.
So, teachers should be cautious about what they say and post on social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, forums, Snapchat and “selfies” to express themselves. Regrettably, some teachers today believe they no longer need to live up to a high standard of conduct.
Now take Toronto Catholic District Catholic School Board (TCDSB) teacher Paolo De Buono who openly Tweets statements that undermine Catholic teaching. Consider this Tweet:
His social media statement publicly defies Catholic teaching. He declares that he would censor Catholic teaching about homosexuality. Even if Cardinal Thomas Collins was a guest in his classroom and quoted the appropriate paragraph 2357 from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Mr. De Buono says he would tell the Cardinal to leave the classroom. This is scandalous. It's the kind of behaviour that poisons the educational environment. On top of it all, De Buono claims that his opposition comes from his professional responsibility as a member of the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT). Surely, we can assume that there have been complaints filed with the OCT which aren't as egregious.
In this comment, he questions the Education Act itself by Tweeting: “As a Catholic in Ontario, I can't believe that there's a legal duty of teachers (S. 264(1)(c) of the Education Act to 'inculcate by precept and example respect for religion and the principles of Judaeo-Christian morality.” It looks like Mr. De Buono has not read the law very carefully. Does what he personally believes or doesn't believe override the Education Act? Also, why teach with the TCDSB if you don't accept the Catholic curricula teachers are supposed to teach? De Buono has also accused the Board of “systemic homophobia” and written to the Minister of Education Stephen Lecce asking the government to launch an investigation into the matter. He probably doesn't “believe” that any other opinion on the issue than his own is acceptable. So much for inclusivity! We assume that he also doesn't believe in the Christian ideal that we are all made in the image and likeness of God…and must all be respected just because of that.
Then there's this Tweet: “I think that women should be allowed to be priests as well as men. The Catholic Church currently only allows men to be priests. The doctrine is maintained by only men as decision makers.” It appears that De Buono feels qualified and entitled to change Catholic doctrine. How sad for him!
Our final example is this Tweet: “Let's spend as much time and start now to prepare for Pride month in June 2021 in TCDSB.” A Catholic teacher isn't hired to do activism work to undermine the very system which employs him.
Mr. De Buono seems to believe that he can do what he pleases both in the classroom and in his private life without any consequences whatsoever. We must legitimately ask, “Does he have the full support of the Parents of the students he teaches? What about the Principal and the Director of education? Does the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association back him up? Why is his conduct beyond scrutiny? Do teachers have a legal and moral duty to set a good example, or not?”
Those who wish to donated to legal defense fund of faithful TCDSB trustee Michael Del Grande, who has been targeted by LGBTQ activists, can do so here.
Published with permission from Everyday For Life Canada.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-12--Pfizer COVID vaccine trial shows alarming evidence of pathogenic priming in older adults

December 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — In the development of vaccines against coronaviruses like SARS-COV-1 and MERS in the early 2000 ’ s , researchers found evidence of a serious problem .
Teams of U.S. and foreign scientists vaccinated animals with the four most promising vaccines .
At first , the experiment seemed successful as all the animals developed a robust antibody response to coronavirus .
However , when the scientists exposed the vaccinated animals to the wild virus , the results were horrifying .
Vaccinated animals suffered hyper-immune responses including inflammation throughout their bodies , especially in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known .
Early in the COVID-19 scenario , Dr. Peter Hotez , of Baylor College of Medicine , testified before Congress about the dangers of accelerating coronavirus vaccine development , saying “ ( The ) unique safety problem of coronavirus vaccines ” was discovered 50 years ago while developing the Respiratory Syncytial Virus ( RSV ) vaccine.
” He went to register that this “ ‘ paradoxical immune enhancement phenomenon ’ means vaccinated people may still develop the disease , get sicker and die.
” Researchers had seen this same “ enhanced immune @ @ @ @ @ @ @ failed RSV vaccine tests in the 1950s .
The vaccines not only failed to prevent infection ; 80 % of the children infected required hospitalization , and two children challenged with the RSV died ( see Openshaw , 2005 ) .
In April of 2020 , Hotez told CNN , “ If there is immune enhancement in animals , that ’ s a showstopper.
” There ’ s been a serious terminology problem with this issue .
The problem , of course , is not “ immune enhancement , ” which sounds like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In fact , it is quite the opposite .
The problem is , in reality “ disease enhancement ” ; in fact , that is what it was called in the original RSV study .
Disease enhancement now appears to be caused by initial exposure to a pathogen ’ s proteins , or parts of proteins , which primes the body to autoimmunity .
That is “ pathogenic priming.
” In COVID-19 , every protein in the SARS-CoV-2 has at least one epitope that matches human proteins someplace in the human body .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus that match human proteins match immune system proteins .
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Briefing Document on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine contains disturbing indications that might be a safety signal on pathogenic priming , especially in older adults .
Before those are reviewed , there are fundamental issues with the classification of serious adverse events that reflect the short-term thinking and externalization-of-cost mindset of the vaccine safety science paradigm .
The first issue is the categorization of “ Serious vs. Non-Serious ” adverse events in the study and in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neurologic adverse events including Bell ’ s Palsy , neuroinflammatory and thrombotic events , these events are not “ non-serious ” and can , over time , develop into life-threatening conditions that require continuous medical intervention and repeated billable office visits for care .
The short-term study excludes any means of detecting whether the initial exposure may play a fundamental root cause role in setting up patients for life-long chronic illness .
The vaccine adverse events themselves seen in the Pfizer study may be indicative of pathogenic priming , especially since more serious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dose .
The second issue is that the design and analysis set-up of the study are biased against finding adverse events .
“ Among non-serious unsolicited adverse events , there was a numerical imbalance of four cases of Bell ’ s palsy in the vaccine group compared with no cases in the placebo group , though the four cases in the vaccine group do not represent a frequency above that expected in the general population.
” The comparison to baseline rates is meaningless because other vaccines are in use in the population .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 vaccine adds to or multiplies existing risk present in the population from other vaccines .
A 10-fold increase of serious adverse events on second dose in older adults on second dose , compared to 3.6-fold for those under 55 Among the 18-55 year-old participants , there were 370 solicited serious adverse events ( SSAEs ) in the vaccinated group and 73 in the unvaccinated .
Of the vaccinated , 18 % experienced SSAEs ; in the placebo group , only 3 % did , implying that SSAEs can be expected at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compared to the unvaccinated .
These included severe fatigue , headache , chills , vomiting , diarrhea , muscle and joint pain .
Whether these conditions represent instances of pathogenic priming , identifying individuals who are now at higher risk of serious morbidity and mortality if they become infected with SARS-CoV-2 is unknown , but given past studies , seems likely .
In the over 55 group , which was a smaller group , there were 60 SSAEs in the vaccinated group and 24 in the unvaccinated .
Of the vaccinated , 6.5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % in the unvaccinated , implying a 4.46 % increased risk overall of SSAEs due to vaccination .
However , in the older group , the vaccinated group was 10 times more likely to have a SSAE upon receipt of the second vaccine dose than the first dose compared to the 1:1 ratio in the unvaccinated .
In the younger group , the vaccinated were only 3.61 times more likely to have second-dose SSAEs than the age-matched placebo group , which had about as many SSAEs in the first and second dose .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ healthy — and thus the spectrum of adverse events is not representative of those that might occur if the vaccine comes to market .
In the previous animal trials , the first dose was a vaccine , but the second was natural infection , leading to severe injury and often death .
In these human trials , both doses were from the vaccine , so it is also not reassuring that these adverse events did not include the more serious and deadly conditions that afflicted animals .
These human trials did not rule @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Both the Moderna and Pfizer animal studies , which used non-human primates , failed to examine organ sites other than lung , and while they studied potential markers of pathogenic priming , they failed to measure one : interleukin-5 ( IL-5 ) , which had been found in prior coronavirus studies to be elevated in conjunction with pathogenic priming-induced disease enhancement .
Recalling that animal studies conducted on prior COVID vaccines found pathogenic priming leading to disease enhancement in older animals more than younger animals , older adults may be at highest risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resulting from vaccine-induced pathogenic priming .
Dr. Anthony Fauci has informed the public that these vaccines do not stop transmission .
Therefore , the next dose of the viral proteins in the form of a natural infection for these study participants — a SARS-CoV-2 infection leading to COVID19 — may be their last .
The study should be extended to long-term follow up , including any further vaccination or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins by infection .
So why have the world ’ s top vaccine promoters , like Paul Offit and Peter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine ?
In this video footage , Offit , Hotez and even Fauci ( in an unguarded moment ) , warn that any new coronavirus vaccine could trigger lethal immune reactions , “ vaccine enhancement , ” when vaccinated people come in contact with the wild virus .
Instead of proceeding with caution , Fauci made the reckless choice to fast track vaccines , partially funded by Gates , without critical animal studies before moving into human clinical trials that could provide early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( in this video ) is so worried about the danger of adverse events that he says vaccines shouldn ’ t be distributed until governments agree to indemnify against lawsuits .
On Feb. 4 , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) website , there were only 11 active CV cases in the U.S. , yet the U.S. quietly pushed through federal regulations giving coronavirus vaccine makers full immunity from liability .
Are you willing to take the risk ?
Decide for yourself , based on the evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus vaccines leads to pulmonary immunopathology on challenge with the SARS virus .
Read the Emergency Declaration under the law : The Dengvaxia Disaster Was Twenty Years in the Making—What Will Happen With a Rushed COVID-19 Vaccine ?
Susceptibility of People to Pathogenic Priming is a Prime Reason to Eschew COVID19 Vaccine Mandates The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children 's Health Defense .
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Some of the world's top vaccine-promoters are warning about unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine.
December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — In the development of vaccines against coronaviruses like SARS-COV-1 and MERS in the early 2000’s, researchers found evidence of a serious problem. Teams of U.S. and foreign scientists vaccinated animals with the four most promising vaccines. At first, the experiment seemed successful as all the animals developed a robust antibody response to coronavirus. However, when the scientists exposed the vaccinated animals to the wild virus, the results were horrifying. Vaccinated animals suffered hyper-immune responses including inflammation throughout their bodies, especially in their lungs.
This issue is well known. Early in the COVID-19 scenario, Dr. Peter Hotez, of Baylor College of Medicine, testified before Congress about the dangers of accelerating coronavirus vaccine development, saying “(The) unique safety problem of coronavirus vaccines” was discovered 50 years ago while developing the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine.”
He went to register that this “‘paradoxical immune enhancement phenomenon’ means vaccinated people may still develop the disease, get sicker and die.”
Researchers had seen this same “enhanced immune response” during human testing of the failed RSV vaccine tests in the 1950s. The vaccines not only failed to prevent infection; 80% of the children infected required hospitalization, and two children challenged with the RSV died (see Openshaw, 2005). In April of 2020, Hotez told CNN, “If there is immune enhancement in animals, that’s a showstopper.”
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There’s been a serious terminology problem with this issue. The problem, of course, is not “immune enhancement,” which sounds like something helpful to the immune system. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The problem is, in reality “disease enhancement”; in fact, that is what it was called in the original RSV study. Disease enhancement now appears to be caused by initial exposure to a pathogen’s proteins, or parts of proteins, which primes the body to autoimmunity. That is “pathogenic priming.” In COVID-19, every protein in the SARS-CoV-2 has at least one epitope that matches human proteins someplace in the human body. About one-third of the epitopes in SARS-CoV-2 virus that match human proteins match immune system proteins.
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Briefing Document on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine contains disturbing indications that might be a safety signal on pathogenic priming, especially in older adults. Before those are reviewed, there are fundamental issues with the classification of serious adverse events that reflect the short-term thinking and externalization-of-cost mindset of the vaccine safety science paradigm.
The first issue is the categorization of “Serious vs. Non-Serious” adverse events in the study and in the report. To a person experiencing neurologic adverse events including Bell’s Palsy, neuroinflammatory and thrombotic events, these events are not “non-serious” and can, over time, develop into life-threatening conditions that require continuous medical intervention and repeated billable office visits for care. The short-term study excludes any means of detecting whether the initial exposure may play a fundamental root cause role in setting up patients for life-long chronic illness. The vaccine adverse events themselves seen in the Pfizer study may be indicative of pathogenic priming, especially since more serious adverse events were seen with the second dose.
The second issue is that the design and analysis set-up of the study are biased against finding adverse events.
The report states:
“Among non-serious unsolicited adverse events, there was a numerical imbalance of four cases of Bell’s palsy in the vaccine group compared with no cases in the placebo group, though the four cases in the vaccine group do not represent a frequency above that expected in the general population.”
The comparison to baseline rates is meaningless because other vaccines are in use in the population. Thus, any risk due to the COVID-19 vaccine adds to or multiplies existing risk present in the population from other vaccines.
A 10-fold increase of serious adverse events on second dose in older adults on second dose, compared to 3.6-fold for those under 55
Among the 18-55 year-old participants, there were 370 solicited serious adverse events (SSAEs) in the vaccinated group and 73 in the unvaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 18% experienced SSAEs; in the placebo group, only 3% did, implying that SSAEs can be expected at a rate five times greater in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.
These included severe fatigue, headache, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle and joint pain. Whether these conditions represent instances of pathogenic priming, identifying individuals who are now at higher risk of serious morbidity and mortality if they become infected with SARS-CoV-2 is unknown, but given past studies, seems likely.
In the over 55 group, which was a smaller group, there were 60 SSAEs in the vaccinated group and 24 in the unvaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 6.5% experienced SAEs, compared to 1.4% in the unvaccinated, implying a 4.46% increased risk overall of SSAEs due to vaccination.
However, in the older group, the vaccinated group was 10 times more likely to have a SSAE upon receipt of the second vaccine dose than the first dose compared to the 1:1 ratio in the unvaccinated. In the younger group, the vaccinated were only 3.61 times more likely to have second-dose SSAEs than the age-matched placebo group, which had about as many SSAEs in the first and second dose.
Animal trials insufficient
The patients in the study reviewed were healthy — and thus the spectrum of adverse events is not representative of those that might occur if the vaccine comes to market. In the previous animal trials, the first dose was a vaccine, but the second was natural infection, leading to severe injury and often death. In these human trials, both doses were from the vaccine, so it is also not reassuring that these adverse events did not include the more serious and deadly conditions that afflicted animals.
These human trials did not rule out pathogenic priming in any way. Both the Moderna and Pfizer animal studies, which used non-human primates, failed to examine organ sites other than lung, and while they studied potential markers of pathogenic priming, they failed to measure one: interleukin-5 (IL-5), which had been found in prior coronavirus studies to be elevated in conjunction with pathogenic priming-induced disease enhancement.
Recalling that animal studies conducted on prior COVID vaccines found pathogenic priming leading to disease enhancement in older animals more than younger animals, older adults may be at highest risk of serious chronic illness due to autoimmunity resulting from vaccine-induced pathogenic priming. Dr. Anthony Fauci has informed the public that these vaccines do not stop transmission. Therefore, the next dose of the viral proteins in the form of a natural infection for these study participants — a SARS-CoV-2 infection leading to COVID19 — may be their last. The study should be extended to long-term follow up, including any further vaccination or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins by infection.
So why have the world’s top vaccine promoters, like Paul Offit and Peter Hotez, been warning us frantically about the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine?
In this video footage, Offit, Hotez and even Fauci (in an unguarded moment), warn that any new coronavirus vaccine could trigger lethal immune reactions, “vaccine enhancement,” when vaccinated people come in contact with the wild virus. Instead of proceeding with caution, Fauci made the reckless choice to fast track vaccines, partially funded by Gates, without critical animal studies before moving into human clinical trials that could provide early warning of runaway immune responses.
Gates (in this video) is so worried about the danger of adverse events that he says vaccines shouldn’t be distributed until governments agree to indemnify against lawsuits. On Feb. 4, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, there were only 11 active CV cases in the U.S., yet the U.S. quietly pushed through federal regulations giving coronavirus vaccine makers full immunity from liability.
Are you willing to take the risk? Decide for yourself, based on the evidence.
Read these related studies:
2012 study: Immunization with SARS coronavirus vaccines leads to pulmonary immunopathology on challenge with the SARS virus.
2005 study: Openshaw PJ, Tregoning JS. Immune responses and disease enhancement during respiratory syncytial virus infection. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005 Jul;18(3):541-55. doi: 10.1128/CMR.18.3.541-555.2005. PMID: 16020689; PMCID: PMC1195968.
Read the Emergency Declaration under the law:
Federal Register giving liability protection, The PREP Act
Read these related articles:
Gates Pushes Experimental Technology on Seven Billion Humans
The Dengvaxia Disaster Was Twenty Years in the Making—What Will Happen With a Rushed COVID-19 Vaccine?
Susceptibility of People to Pathogenic Priming is a Prime Reason to Eschew COVID19 Vaccine Mandates
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lifesitenews--2020-12-12--Cardinal Müller questions the Pope’s ‘anticipation’ of US election result with call to Biden

December 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – “ ( It ) was a certain anticipation .
Nobody knows what the official result of the U.S. election ( is ) , ” Cardinal Gerhard Müller told LifeSiteNews in reference to Pope Francis prematurely congratulating Joe Biden last month as the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election .
Speaking with LifeSite co-founder and editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen in an exclusive interview , Müller also expressed “ hope ” that during the Pope ’ s phone call with Biden that he spoke with the former vice president about “ abortion , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of God , children of God , ” since “ that is very important , not the matter of politics , but the matter of morals and the basics of our anthropology .
Everybody has his life by God , and nobody has the right to kill another person.
” The former Prefect ofthe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith consolidated the Catholic position in simple terms : “ We as Catholics must not vote for politicians who are in favor of abortion or euthanasia or other movements against life .
Life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of everyone is holy.
” But Müller ’ s hopes that Francis did “ admonish ( Biden ) , to go on the line of the Catholic faith , ” may be wishful thinking .
In a press release from the Biden-Harris campaign after the Pope ’ s phone call with Biden , the Democrat ’ s handlers stated that Francis extended his “ blessings and congratulations , ” after which Biden expressed his own “ desire to work together ( with Francis ) on the basis of a shared belief in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Although a baptized Catholic , Biden is a fervent supporter of legal abortion .
Archbishop Charles Chaput recently wrote in First Things that “ ( by ) his actions during the course of his public life , Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church , ” and that “ many of his actions and words have also supported or smoothed the way for grave moral evils in our public life that have resulted in the destruction of millions of innocent lives.
” Chaput noted that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he will continue to advance those same policies as president , and thus should not receive Holy Communion.
” During the course of the phone call between Biden and Francis , the Biden campaign reported that the two talked about “ addressing the crisis of climate change , and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities.
” Müller said the Pope emphasized the wrong things .
“ That is a primacy of secondary things and not the most important things , ” he said .
The cardinal went on to explain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jesus Christ as the savior of everybody , of eternal life , ( these ) are the main points for the Catholic Church.
” “ Jesus didn ’ t found the Church for speaking about things which are of secondary importance , but of the main importance , and that is that everybody will live in grace and will come to the eternal life , ” the cardinal said , adding , “ that is the mission of the Catholic Church.
” “ The Pope and the bishops have this mission by means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to mediate the grace in the sacraments.
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December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – “(It) was a certain anticipation. Nobody knows what the official result of the U.S. election (is),” Cardinal Gerhard Müller told LifeSiteNews in reference to Pope Francis prematurely congratulating Joe Biden last month as the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Speaking with LifeSite co-founder and editor-in-chief John-Henry Westen in an exclusive interview, Müller also expressed “hope” that during the Pope’s phone call with Biden that he spoke with the former vice president about “abortion, which is murder of innocent babies, creatures of God, children of God,” since “that is very important, not the matter of politics, but the matter of morals and the basics of our anthropology. Everybody has his life by God, and nobody has the right to kill another person.”
The former Prefect ofthe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith consolidated the Catholic position in simple terms: “We as Catholics must not vote for politicians who are in favor of abortion or euthanasia or other movements against life. Life is given by God and the life of everyone is holy.”
But Müller’s hopes that Francis did “admonish (Biden), to go on the line of the Catholic faith,” may be wishful thinking. In a press release from the Biden-Harris campaign after the Pope’s phone call with Biden, the Democrat’s handlers stated that Francis extended his “blessings and congratulations,” after which Biden expressed his own “desire to work together (with Francis) on the basis of a shared belief in the dignity and equality of all humankind.”
Although a baptized Catholic, Biden is a fervent supporter of legal abortion. Archbishop Charles Chaput recently wrote in First Things that “(by) his actions during the course of his public life, Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church,” and that “many of his actions and words have also supported or smoothed the way for grave moral evils in our public life that have resulted in the destruction of millions of innocent lives.” Chaput noted that “Mr. Biden has said that he will continue to advance those same policies as president, and thus should not receive Holy Communion.”
During the course of the phone call between Biden and Francis, the Biden campaign reported that the two talked about “addressing the crisis of climate change, and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities.”
Müller said the Pope emphasized the wrong things. “That is a primacy of secondary things and not the most important things,” he said. The cardinal went on to explain that “to speak about God and Jesus Christ as the savior of everybody, of eternal life, (these) are the main points for the Catholic Church.”
“Jesus didn’t found the Church for speaking about things which are of secondary importance, but of the main importance, and that is that everybody will live in grace and will come to the eternal life,” the cardinal said, adding, “that is the mission of the Catholic Church.”
— Article continues below Petition — U.S. Catholic Bishops: Retract premature and offensive statement "congratulating" Biden-Harris Show Petition Text 13406 have signed the petition. Let's get to 15000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition PETITION UPDATE (12/10/20) Prior to the election on November 3, the U.S. bishops as a whole did not address Joe Biden’s anti-Catholic position regarding faith and morals. The bishops’ lack of clarity is a scandal in itself and probably contributed to the possible election of a pro-abortion “Catholic” to the presidency. The bishops could have spoken out against Biden’s stance collectively, but they were overwhelmingly silent. Because of this, they will be at least partly responsible for the policies advanced by a Biden administration, in the event that Biden is sworn into office. Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today! Since Archbishop José H. Gomez and the USCCB prematurely congratulated Joe Biden as “the second United States president to profess the Catholic faith,” Gomez has announced that Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron will lead a “working group” to deal with a Biden Administration. Although Joe Biden professes to be a Catholic, he supports policies that directly oppose the teaching of the Catholic Church, including abortion, homosexual “marriage,” and transgenderism for children. “[Biden has] given us reason to believe that he will support policies that are against some fundamental values that we hold dear as Catholics. These policies include the repeal of the Hyde Amendment and the preservation of Roe v. Wade. Both of these policies undermine our pre-eminent priority of the elimination of abortion,” said Gomez. On November 9, Archbishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas tweeted: “A dark cloud has descended on this nation when the USCCB and Planned Parenthood speak in unison in support of a Biden-Harris administration that supports the slaughter of innocents by abortion for all 9 months of pregnancy.” Additionally, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver, Colorado and Archbishop Charles Chaput have both declared publicly that Joe Biden “should not receive Holy Communion." Unfortunately, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C. has said that he will give Holy Communion to Biden because “it’s a matter of the responsibility that I have as the archbishop to be engaged and to be in dialogue with him, even in those areas where we obviously have some differences.” Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington, Delaware and Bishop McElroy of San Diego also congratulated Biden in statements, but they have not indicated whether or not they would administer Holy Communion to him. The bishops should not congratulate someone who has betrayed his Catholic Faith like Joe Biden has. It's an embarrassment and a scandal. FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-bishops-concerned-about-pro-abortion-biden-previously-hailed-him-as-second-catholic-president https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-aquila-backs-call-for-pro-abortion-catholic-joe-biden-to-be-denied-holy-communion?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=standard https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-philly-archbishop-biden-not-in-full-communion-with-the-catholic-church https://www.thesoutherncross.org/news/bishop-mcelroy-offers-prayers-and-congratulations-to-president-elect-biden/ https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/us-catholics-weigh-mixed-reaction-biden-win _______________________________________________________________________ The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has finally spoken on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.... Not to chastise them for their blatant anti-life, anti-family and anti-Catholic views, but to "congratulate" them on "[being elected]"! BUT, as everyone know, the anti-Catholic Biden-Harris ticket has NOT been elected. Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition to the U.S. Catholic bishops telling them to retract their premature and offensive statement on the media's call of the election in Biden's favor. As of the launch of this petition on November 9, NOT ONE STATE has certified the election results. All of the results are tentative and many are being litigated. So, this is not the time for the bishops to falsely assert that Biden "has received enough votes to be elected the 46th President of the United States." That's just not true, and for the bishops to willingly play along with the media's attempt to sweep allegations of voter fraud under the rug, is shocking behavior. And, while Joe Biden may profess the Catholic Faith, he has also stated his support for abortion, homosexual "marriage," and recently, transgenderism for children. For bishops, therefore, to congratulate a traitor to the Catholic Faith like Joe Biden, it requires a disturbing level of arrogance and pride. That is not to say they should stand in judgement. But to congratulate such a man, rather than chastise him, sends exactly the wrong message to the faithful, 50% of whom are believed to have supported Biden in his election bid. Stop ingratiating yourselves to a person who is advocating mass murder! Stop congratulating this anti-Catholic "Catholic." For goodness' sake, grow a backbone and start defending the Faith! 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lifesitenews--2020-12-12--Accomplished pharma prof thrown in psych hospital after questioning official COVID narrative

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December 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Early on December 10 , Jean-Bernard Fourtillan , a French retired university professor known for his strong opposition to COVID-19 vaccines such as those presently being distributed in the U.K. , was taken from his temporary home in the south of France by a team of “ gendarmes ” — French law enforcement officers under military command — and forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him , and at the time of writing , he had not been allowed to communicate with the outside world .
The systematic use of psychiatric hospitals in order to silence or punish political opponents became widespread under communism , having started shortly after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 .
The method developed under Stalin and then expanded as opposition to the “ socialist paradise ” came to be considered a sign of mental illness .
Under the 1966 penal code of the USSR , repression of dissidents openly targeted those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Soviet State and its social system.
” Fourtillan , a longtime critic of vaccines that use dangerous adjuvants such as aluminum ( the 11 compulsory vaccines for newborns contain 17 times the maximum dose of aluminum defined as toxic by the World Health Organization ) , has been vocal during the COVID-19 crisis .
He offers “ alternative ” explanations and warnings regarding the apparition of the SARS-COV-2 virus and the ARN vaccines that work by injecting pieces of virus message ARN with nanolipids with the aim of causing human cells to start @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an immunological reaction .
In particular , Fourtillan has accused the French Institut Pasteur , a private non-profit foundation that specializes in biology , micro-organisms , contagious diseases , and vaccination , of having “ fabricated ” the SARS-COV-2 virus over several decades and been a party to its “ escape ” from the Wuhan P4 lab — unbeknownst to the lab ’ s Chinese authorities — which was built following an agreement between France and China signed in 2004 .
Relations between France and China regarding the project cooled over the years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but in 2017 , France ’ s then–Interior minister , Bernard Cazeneuve , joined the official opening ceremony of the Wuhan Institute of Virology ’ s P4 lab , together with Yves Lévy , co-president of the steering committee .
Lévy is the husband of Agnès Buzyn , who was France ’ s health minister when the COVID-19 crisis erupted .
She was also responsible for signing the decree that banned over-the-counter sales of hydroxychloroquine in France in January 2020 .
Is Jean-Bernard Fourtillan ’ s accusation true ?
While the Institut @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sue Fourtillan over the accusation , no judiciary action has been forthcoming on that front , and indeed , Fourtillan himself has since lodged a complaint against a spokesman of the Institute for “ libel and lies that are prejudicial to the peoples of the world.
” Fourtillan himself has said he hopes legal proceedings will allow him to produce evidence he has built up : he is in fact anxious to debate the issues at stake .
Now that he is in a psychiatric hospital , the possibility of this happening — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — is becoming more remote .
Among the public documents Fourtillan has analyzed and made public are patents for SARS-COV-1 , which contains parts of the malaria virus , dating back to 2003 .
The patents were used by various labs to develop vaccines .
Two thousand eleven saw the Institut Pasteur filing a further patent application for “ SARS-COV-2 , ” which was identical to the previous one , according to Fourtillan , who says this was done because commercial exploitation of the first patent started in 2003 and would expire 20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Fourtillan , four sequences of the HIV virus — responsible for AIDS — were added to the virus , in view of creating further vaccines .
This point was also raised in France last April by Prof. Luc Montagnier , who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine for having discovered HIV in 1983 together with another French scientist , Françoise Barré-Sinoussi .
Last April , Montagnier stated that the SARS-COV-2 virus was the result of a human manipulation .
He was ridiculed by the mainstream media , but in August , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Prof. Joseph Tritto published a book calling the Wuhan virus a “ chimera.
” Montagnier , who had worked with a mathematician , described his findings through an analogy .
Imagine the coronavirus as a “ puzzle ” with 30,000 pieces , and then consider several other 9,000-piece puzzles representing HIV-1 , HIV-2 , and SIV ( another retrovirus close to the AIDS virus but targeting monkeys ) .
If three pieces coming from each one of these smaller puzzles were to be found next to each other in the 30,000-piece puzzle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ naturally would be nil .
This is analogous to the presence of parts of the HIV sequence in SARS-COV-2 , according to Montagnier .
According to Fourtillan , the present virus causing COVID-19 is this artificial virus .
Fourtillan — as well as other researchers of the present crisis — considers this indisputable evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned .
He believes that on October 13 , 2015 , a patent application was filed for a COVID-19 test ; this was followed by commercialization in the whole world in 2017 for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are disputed on the grounds that the reference to the 2015 patent is only part of the later May 2020 patent , also filed by one Richard A. Rothschild , but was quoted as related to the remote diagnosis of COVID-19 , enhancing the original patent as it were for the particular case of COVID-19 .
Who is right ?
A sincere , public assessment and debate would lift any confusion or error , voluntary or not , but Fourtillan is now being treated as if he were both dangerous and insane .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ film by Pierre Barnérias , giving a voice to critics of the official narrative , became viral in France .
In Hold-Up , Fourtillan spoke of his concern that the COVID-19 crisis was fabricated and is being used to impose a dangerous vaccine on the world population .
Fourtillan is himself familiar with patenting procedures , as his résumé shows , having personally filed some 400 patents in the medical field .
The French internet medium France Soir described him as follows : “ Jean-Bernard FOURTILLAN , Ph.D. , Chemical Engineer , Pharmacist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chemistry and Pharmacokinetics at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacology of the University of Poitiers , Expert Pharmacologist Toxicologist , specialized in Pharmacokinetics.
” Fourtillan ’ s forced internment made no mention of the COVID-19 controversy , which to date has led to no judicial proceedings , instead being officially linked to a lawsuit that has been opened against him for illegal practice of medicine because of his work on a hormonal patch against neuro-degenerative diseases such as Parkinson ’ s disease , Alzheimer ’ s , and others affecting motricity , balance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sleep disorders .
His theory is that pollution , adjuvants such as aluminum in vaccines , and electro-magnetic interference destroy dark matter in the brain through lack of hormones , and he has — successfully , he claims — tested the administration of a hormone patch of valentonin and 6-Méthoxy-Harmalan ( sleep and waking hormones ) , to compensate the damage , on 402 adults , himself included , who accepted the procedure under their sole responsibility and who were warned that the patch was not a drug , but a “ technical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The procedure costs only a fraction of the price of newly developed drugs for these conditions .
Fourtillan had had a good rapport with the judge charged with the preliminary investigation of the case , Brigitte Jolivet of Poitiers .
During his first interrogations at the end of 2019 , she appeared to be convinced by his arguments , and the case was proceeding normally .
Last month , Fourtillan , who was staying in the south of France with his wife , was visited by four gendarmes coming from Marseille , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his computers .
Although they had no search warrant , Fourtillan handed them over , saying he had nothing to hide , and that on the contrary , he was anxious to have his documents and methods assessed .
He saw the gendarmes leave and hand over his computers to a man in plain clothes in a car nearby .
Days later , his bank accounts and credit cards were suddenly blocked by an authority whose identity was not revealed to him .
His pensions were also blocked .
Fourtillan had been summoned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his valentonin “ treatment ” on December 4 in Paris .
He did not go , invoking the fact that he now had no way of paying for a train ticket to the French capital .
This information was given to LifeSite by a person who works with Fourtillan on the website http : //verite-covid19.com/ and who knows him well — well enough to state that he “ is certainly not insane , ” having spent time with him recently .
Six days later , on Thursday morning , gendarmes once more came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him to accompany them in order to answer questions about his refusal to join the December 4 hearing in Paris .
However , from the moment he left his home with the law enforcement officers , he was not able to communicate with his family .
One of his lawyers , Marc Fribourg — who has since gone on record saying that Fourtillan is a “ conspiracy theorist ” — revealed that he was taken to the Uzès psychiatric hospital of Le Mas Careiron , where he has been held since .
His @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the efficiency of his hormonal patches , was not reachable today .
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Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan was taken from his home by a team of French law enforcement officers and forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès.
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December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, a French retired university professor known for his strong opposition to COVID-19 vaccines such as those presently being distributed in the U.K., was taken from his temporary home in the south of France by a team of “gendarmes” — French law enforcement officers under military command — and forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès. His mobile phones were taken from him, and at the time of writing, he had not been allowed to communicate with the outside world. The order for his internment appears to have been issued by the local “préfet,” the official representative of the French executive.
The systematic use of psychiatric hospitals in order to silence or punish political opponents became widespread under communism, having started shortly after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917. The method developed under Stalin and then expanded as opposition to the “socialist paradise” came to be considered a sign of mental illness. Under the 1966 penal code of the USSR, repression of dissidents openly targeted those who “spread false propaganda defaming the Soviet State and its social system.”
Fourtillan, a longtime critic of vaccines that use dangerous adjuvants such as aluminum (the 11 compulsory vaccines for newborns in France contain 17 times the maximum dose of aluminum defined as toxic by the World Health Organization), has been vocal during the COVID-19 crisis. He offers “alternative” explanations and warnings regarding the apparition of the SARS-COV-2 virus and the ARN vaccines that work by injecting pieces of virus message ARN with nanolipids with the aim of causing human cells to start fabricating viral particles and to thus trigger an immunological reaction.
— Article continues below Petition — SIGN: Join petition calling for a stop to COVID vaccine testing in Europe Show Petition Text 16601 have signed the petition. Let's get to 17500 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition Concerns over the health and safety of the human test subjects in Pfizer's European COVID vaccine study have caused two eminent doctors to launch a petition calling for an immediate halt to those studies. On December 1, 2020, Dr. Michael Yeadon, an ex chief of research at Pfizer and Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a lung specialist and former department head of public health lodged an appeal to the EMA, the European Medicine Agency responsible for approving drugs across the EU, asking them to suspend the ongoing Pfizer/BioNtech COVID vaccine study on BNT162b (EudraCT number 2020-002641-42). LifeSite is joining Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg in their call for an immediate suspension of this study and we are encouraging people to co-sign their petition to the EMA which is to be found in the petition section on this page. Please SIGN and SHARE this important petition, and then please contact the EMA at the address listed below, in the 'For More Information' section. In their application to the EMA, Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg give the following reasons why the Pfizer study could pose dangers to the health and safety of the study participants: First, the doctors say that the study design must be improved as the highly inaccurate PCR test is currently being used to detect the presence of COVID in the study participants. This means that the efficacy of the vaccine is in doubt. The doctors recommend changing from the PCR test to Sanger sequencing.
Second, and more important, the doctors advocate animal testing of the vaccine to exclude the possibility of the risks to the life and health of human participants from known side-effects of other similar studies on corona viruses. These side-effects can include: an exaggerated immune response when the subject comes into contact with the "real world" virus; possible infertility of an "indefinite duration" for women; severe allergic responses to polyethylene glycol which is contained in the mRNA vaccine being tested by Pfizer; and, other latent, serious side effects which, because of the short duration of the study, may only become known well after the conclusion of the study. Because of these unacceptable risks to the life and health of the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID vaccine study participants, we are joining with Drs. Yeadon and Wodarg as co-signers of their petition to the European Medicine Agency, asking for an immediate halt to these studies. Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING, today! And, after you have signed this petition, please send the sample email in the section below to the official European Medicine Agency email: [email protected] FOR MORE INFORMATION: Actual Petition Text (pdf): https://2020news.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Wodarg_Yeadon_EMA_Petition_Pfizer_Trial_FINAL_01DEC2020_EN_unsigned_with_Exhibits.pdf Sample Email: Subject: Please act on the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon and stay the Phase III clinical trial(s) of BNT162b Dear Sir or Madam, I am hereby co-signing the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon to support their urgent request to stay the Phase III clinical trial(s) of BNT162b (EudraCT Number 2020-002641-42) and other clinical trials. The full text of the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon can be found here: https://2020news.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Wodarg_Yeadon_EMA_Petition_Pfizer_Trial_FINAL_01DEC2020_EN_unsigned_with_Exhibits.pdf I hereby respectfully request that EMA act on the petition of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon immediately. Regards, [Your name] **Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
In particular, Fourtillan has accused the French Institut Pasteur, a private non-profit foundation that specializes in biology, micro-organisms, contagious diseases, and vaccination, of having “fabricated” the SARS-COV-2 virus over several decades and been a party to its “escape” from the Wuhan P4 lab — unbeknownst to the lab’s Chinese authorities — which was built following an agreement between France and China signed in 2004.
Relations between France and China regarding the project cooled over the years as China put its own interests first, but in 2017, France’s then–Interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, joined the official opening ceremony of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s P4 lab, together with Yves Lévy, co-president of the steering committee. Lévy is the husband of Agnès Buzyn, who was France’s health minister when the COVID-19 crisis erupted. She was also responsible for signing the decree that banned over-the-counter sales of hydroxychloroquine in France in January 2020.
Is Jean-Bernard Fourtillan’s accusation true? While the Institut Pasteur has verbally announced that it would sue Fourtillan over the accusation, no judiciary action has been forthcoming on that front, and indeed, Fourtillan himself has since lodged a complaint against a spokesman of the Institute for “libel and lies that are prejudicial to the peoples of the world.”
Fourtillan himself has said he hopes legal proceedings will allow him to produce evidence he has built up: he is in fact anxious to debate the issues at stake. Now that he is in a psychiatric hospital, the possibility of this happening — in the interest of discovering the truth — is becoming more remote.
Among the public documents Fourtillan has analyzed and made public are patents for SARS-COV-1, which contains parts of the malaria virus, dating back to 2003. The patents were used by various labs to develop vaccines. Two thousand eleven saw the Institut Pasteur filing a further patent application for “SARS-COV-2,” which was identical to the previous one, according to Fourtillan, who says this was done because commercial exploitation of the first patent started in 2003 and would expire 20 years later, in 2023. According to Fourtillan, four sequences of the HIV virus — responsible for AIDS — were added to the virus, in view of creating further vaccines.
This point was also raised in France last April by Prof. Luc Montagnier, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine for having discovered HIV in 1983 together with another French scientist, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. Last April, Montagnier stated that the SARS-COV-2 virus was the result of a human manipulation. He was ridiculed by the mainstream media, but in August, an Italian microbiologist reached the same conclusion: Prof. Joseph Tritto published a book calling the Wuhan virus a “chimera.”
Montagnier, who had worked with a mathematician, described his findings through an analogy. Imagine the coronavirus as a “puzzle” with 30,000 pieces, and then consider several other 9,000-piece puzzles representing HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV (another retrovirus close to the AIDS virus but targeting monkeys). If three pieces coming from each one of these smaller puzzles were to be found next to each other in the 30,000-piece puzzle, the probability of this having happened naturally would be nil. This is analogous to the presence of parts of the HIV sequence in SARS-COV-2, according to Montagnier.
According to Fourtillan, the present virus causing COVID-19 is this artificial virus. Fourtillan — as well as other researchers of the present crisis — considers this indisputable evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic was planned. He believes that on October 13, 2015, a patent application was filed for a COVID-19 test; this was followed by commercialization in the whole world in 2017 for a whopping 10 billion dollars.
These claims are disputed on the grounds that the reference to the 2015 patent is only part of the later May 2020 patent, also filed by one Richard A. Rothschild, but was quoted as related to the remote diagnosis of COVID-19, enhancing the original patent as it were for the particular case of COVID-19.
Who is right? A sincere, public assessment and debate would lift any confusion or error, voluntary or not, but Fourtillan is now being treated as if he were both dangerous and insane.
Fourtillan gained widespread publicity when a recent film by Pierre Barnérias, giving a voice to critics of the official narrative, became viral in France. In Hold-Up, Fourtillan spoke of his concern that the COVID-19 crisis was fabricated and is being used to impose a dangerous vaccine on the world population.
Fourtillan is himself familiar with patenting procedures, as his résumé shows, having personally filed some 400 patents in the medical field. The French internet medium France Soir described him as follows: “Jean-Bernard FOURTILLAN, Ph.D., Chemical Engineer, Pharmacist, Hospital Pharmacist, Professor of Therapeutic Chemistry and Pharmacokinetics at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacology of the University of Poitiers, Expert Pharmacologist Toxicologist, specialized in Pharmacokinetics.”
Fourtillan’s forced internment made no mention of the COVID-19 controversy, which to date has led to no judicial proceedings, instead being officially linked to a lawsuit that has been opened against him for illegal practice of medicine because of his work on a hormonal patch against neuro-degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, and others affecting motricity, balance, and memory, as well as sleep disorders.
His theory is that pollution, adjuvants such as aluminum in vaccines, and electro-magnetic interference destroy dark matter in the brain through lack of hormones, and he has — successfully, he claims — tested the administration of a hormone patch of valentonin and 6-Méthoxy-Harmalan (sleep and waking hormones), to compensate the damage, on 402 adults, himself included, who accepted the procedure under their sole responsibility and who were warned that the patch was not a drug, but a “technical sample, not for human use.” The procedure costs only a fraction of the price of newly developed drugs for these conditions.
Fourtillan had had a good rapport with the judge charged with the preliminary investigation of the case, Brigitte Jolivet of Poitiers. During his first interrogations at the end of 2019, she appeared to be convinced by his arguments, and the case was proceeding normally.
Last month, Fourtillan, who was staying in the south of France with his wife, was visited by four gendarmes coming from Marseille, who entered his rented cottage and asked for his computers. Although they had no search warrant, Fourtillan handed them over, saying he had nothing to hide, and that on the contrary, he was anxious to have his documents and methods assessed.
He saw the gendarmes leave and hand over his computers to a man in plain clothes in a car nearby.
Days later, his bank accounts and credit cards were suddenly blocked by an authority whose identity was not revealed to him. His pensions were also blocked.
Fourtillan had been summoned to a hearing in the lawsuit concerning his valentonin “treatment” on December 4 in Paris. He did not go, invoking the fact that he now had no way of paying for a train ticket to the French capital.
This information was given to LifeSite by a person who works with Fourtillan on the website https://verite-covid19.com/ and who knows him well — well enough to state that he “is certainly not insane,” having spent time with him recently.
Six days later, on Thursday morning, gendarmes once more came to Fourtillan’s home and asked him to accompany them in order to answer questions about his refusal to join the December 4 hearing in Paris.
Fourtillan agreed readily.
However, from the moment he left his home with the law enforcement officers, he was not able to communicate with his family. One of his lawyers, Marc Fribourg — who has since gone on record saying that Fourtillan is a “conspiracy theorist” — revealed that he was taken to the Uzès psychiatric hospital of Le Mas Careiron, where he has been held since. His other lawyer, who previously commended Fourtillan for the efficiency of his hormonal patches, was not reachable today.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-12--BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Texas voter fraud lawsuit

WASHINGTON , D.C. , December 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – This evening , the U.S. Supreme Court declined @ @ @ @ @ case brought by Texas against Georgia , Michigan , Pennsylvania , and Wisconsin .
Texas @ @ @ @ @ it argued that the above swing states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify unlawfully enacting @ @ @ @ @ federal and state election laws , thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election @ @ @ @ @ and Samuel Alito said they would “ grant the motion to file the bill of @ @ @ @ @ ’ s decision is a huge blow to President Donald Trump and his supporters .
@ @ @ @ @ cast its votes for the president and vice president on December 14 .
The Hill @ @ @ @ @ by the Supreme Court as “ a devastating blow to the long-shot legal campaign waged @ @ @ @ @ allies since his [ apparent ] electoral defeat.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – This evening, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a voter fraud case brought by Texas against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Texas and the states that joined it argued that the above swing states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify unlawfully enacting last-minute changes and ignoring both federal and state election laws, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.
Only Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would “grant the motion to file the bill of complaint.”
The separate statement from Alito/Thomas is based on their view (not shared by a majority of the court) that SCOTUS is obligated to take up any case that invokes the court's “original jurisdiction.” It's a technical issue and says nothing about the underlying merits of the case. — SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 11, 2020
The Supreme Court’s decision is a huge blow to President Donald Trump and his supporters. The Electoral College will officially cast its votes for the president and vice president on December 14.
The Hill described today’s move by the Supreme Court as “a devastating blow to the long-shot legal campaign waged by President Trump and his allies since his [apparent] electoral defeat.”
May God have mercy on America. — toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) December 12, 2020
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lifesitenews--2020-12-11--‘Tolerance’ of eugenic abortion is to deny the worth of my brother with Down syndrome

Editor ’ s note : Gretta Weindorf , the author of this article , is a certified family nurse practitioner and older sister to Conrad , who has Down syndrome .
December 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — It was my sixth birthday , and I cried , chasing the ambulance taking my new baby brother and my mom off to a different hospital .
He needed surgery for duodenal atresia , or blocked intestines , a condition present in about 2.5 % of children with Down syndrome .
The recovery took some time , but now Conrad has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do !
As he grew physically , he also grew to become the favorite of the family — everyone ’ s favorite .
It ’ s something I ’ ve noticed among other families , as also mentioned by Evita Duffy in her November 30 article in The Federalist — we all favor the sibling with Down syndrome , for a variety of sometimes overlapping reasons .
But mostly ?
Mostly they are the favorites because they are the most tolerant , loving people in our society .
This is a generalization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And this in contrast to a recent article by Sarah Zhang at The Atlantic , who wrote about the high abortion rates of children prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome in Denmark , and closed by arguing for tolerance toward the practice .
In America , it ’ s well known that those who preach tolerance don ’ t practice it ; they use it as a tool to control others .
Zhang uses this argument to make the abortion of a certain group of people seem less horrific .
In reference to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the conversation regarding aborting children like him , the final line of her article reads , “ [ T ] he stakes of our conversation were very real and very human.
” That sentence evokes pity , as if to say that as long as you feel bad for making the decision , and feel for the people it affects , as long as you think you ’ ve tried to understand both sides of the issue , it ’ s OK to engage in eugenics .
Nothing could be farther from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us .
Beyond the unborn victims of abortion , engaging in eugenics has a particularly harmful effect on women , who often bear the brunt of the decision and are essentially in an experiment yet undone on the long-term mental , emotional , and spiritual effects of this action .
It creates an empathy gap , not only between the wealthy who can pay for testing and those who can ’ t , but also between the scientists who are pushing the boundaries and the actual lives of the people affected .
Zhang @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing and recent advances in the field .
But science is consistently behind in this area .
It was behind in the days when children with many diagnoses were institutionalized , and it is behind now .
While “ advances ” in prenatal testing are being used as an excuse to eliminate difficulty or uncertainty , individuals with Down syndrome are proving that the limitations placed on them by the medical profession and society as a whole are far from legitimate .
And while we shouldn ’ t judge the value of someone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that 's where many individuals with Down syndrome are in this fight — defending their lives and the lives of those like them , pointing to society ’ s upside-down value system and asking us to change .
They ’ re teaching us .
Take Chris Nikic , the young man who completed the Iron Man this year and inspires others to be 1 % better every day .
Or Grace Strobel , model , speaker , and activist .
Or Troy Drake , an entrepreneur .
Or the many individuals with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , before communities , and in their school lunchrooms that their lives are worth living .
And they ’ ve changed communities .
In my home town of Carmel , Indiana is a thriving community of people of differing abilities and their families who support each other .
It ’ s an incredible group .
People who grew up together , play sports together , go trick-or-treating , and live life together .
Families bond as the entire community ( of “ abled ” and “ disabled ” alike ) come together , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accepting one another with all our differences .
That ’ s one part of the tragedy of eugenics in places like Denmark , Germany , and Iceland .
While fear of the unknown , fear of the future , and mourning the loss of the life you thought you ’ d have are certainly valid and appropriate , let ’ s not miss the many benefits of welcoming a child with Down syndrome into the family .
Those who choose to abort miss humanity in search of perfection or certainty , neither of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parents who abort babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome miss out not only on the humanity and the community , but also on themselves , on their own personal growth .
They miss out on the process of becoming more selfless , caring more for others , and growing in maturity and strength .
Because surely , embracing people for who they are , regardless of their perceived imperfections , is the highest form of empowerment and love .
It ’ s time we all learned that in the field of medicine , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can be done doesn ’ t mean it should .
It ’ s time to step up and accept hard or unexpected things and the amazing beauty and blessing they bring .
It ’ s time to love and live and give this Christmas season .
And also to accept each other truly , not just in the name of tolerance .
I ’ ll be doing all of this with my favorite brother , Conrad .

Beyond the unborn victims of abortion, engaging in eugenics has a particularly harmful effect on women, who often bear the brunt of the decision.
Editor’s note: Gretta Weindorf, the author of this article, is a certified family nurse practitioner and older sister to Conrad, who has Down syndrome.
December 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — It was my sixth birthday, and I cried, chasing the ambulance taking my new baby brother and my mom off to a different hospital. He needed surgery for duodenal atresia, or blocked intestines, a condition present in about 2.5% of children with Down syndrome. The recovery took some time, but now Conrad has no trouble eating — something he loves to do!
As he grew physically, he also grew to become the favorite of the family — everyone’s favorite. It’s something I’ve noticed among other families, as also mentioned by Evita Duffy in her November 30 article in The Federalist — we all favor the sibling with Down syndrome, for a variety of sometimes overlapping reasons.
But mostly? Mostly they are the favorites because they are the most tolerant, loving people in our society. This is a generalization, but it’s generally true. And this in contrast to a recent article by Sarah Zhang at The Atlantic, who wrote about the high abortion rates of children prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome in Denmark, and closed by arguing for tolerance toward the practice. In America, it’s well known that those who preach tolerance don’t practice it; they use it as a tool to control others. Zhang uses this argument to make the abortion of a certain group of people seem less horrific.
In reference to a young man with Down syndrome and the conversation regarding aborting children like him, the final line of her article reads, “[T]he stakes of our conversation were very real and very human.” That sentence evokes pity, as if to say that as long as you feel bad for making the decision, and feel for the people it affects, as long as you think you’ve tried to understand both sides of the issue, it’s OK to engage in eugenics. Nothing could be farther from the truth. And it hurts all of us.
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Beyond the unborn victims of abortion, engaging in eugenics has a particularly harmful effect on women, who often bear the brunt of the decision and are essentially in an experiment yet undone on the long-term mental, emotional, and spiritual effects of this action. It creates an empathy gap, not only between the wealthy who can pay for testing and those who can’t, but also between the scientists who are pushing the boundaries and the actual lives of the people affected.
Zhang explains in detail the history of prenatal testing and recent advances in the field. But science is consistently behind in this area. It was behind in the days when children with many diagnoses were institutionalized, and it is behind now. While “advances” in prenatal testing are being used as an excuse to eliminate difficulty or uncertainty, individuals with Down syndrome are proving that the limitations placed on them by the medical profession and society as a whole are far from legitimate. And while we shouldn’t judge the value of someone’s life based on his accomplishments, that's where many individuals with Down syndrome are in this fight — defending their lives and the lives of those like them, pointing to society’s upside-down value system and asking us to change. They’re teaching us. Take Chris Nikic, the young man who completed the Iron Man this year and inspires others to be 1% better every day. Or Grace Strobel, model, speaker, and activist. Or Troy Drake, an entrepreneur. Or the many individuals with Down syndrome who have testified before Congress, before communities, and in their school lunchrooms that their lives are worth living.
And they’ve changed communities. In my home town of Carmel, Indiana is a thriving community of people of differing abilities and their families who support each other. It’s an incredible group. People who grew up together, play sports together, go trick-or-treating, and live life together. Families bond as the entire community (of “abled” and “disabled” alike) come together, sharing the love of being human and accepting one another with all our differences.
That’s one part of the tragedy of eugenics in places like Denmark, Germany, and Iceland. While fear of the unknown, fear of the future, and mourning the loss of the life you thought you’d have are certainly valid and appropriate, let’s not miss the many benefits of welcoming a child with Down syndrome into the family. Those who choose to abort miss humanity in search of perfection or certainty, neither of which exists in this world. The parents who abort babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome miss out not only on the humanity and the community, but also on themselves, on their own personal growth. They miss out on the process of becoming more selfless, caring more for others, and growing in maturity and strength. Because surely, embracing people for who they are, regardless of their perceived imperfections, is the highest form of empowerment and love.
It’s time we all learned that in the field of medicine, and in life, just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should. It’s time to step up and accept hard or unexpected things and the amazing beauty and blessing they bring. It’s time to love and live and give this Christmas season. And also to accept each other truly, not just in the name of tolerance. I’ll be doing all of this with my favorite brother, Conrad.
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