Brothers in arms

December 24 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The year 2020 was a year full of trials for nearly all the world .
It was a year of division in the ranks of the faithful , the likes of which I could never have imagined .
The strife was felt on every level : personal , spiritual , familial , occupational , corporate , political , and ecclesial .
It was a year that convinced me of the power of evil being far greater than any human power , no matter how strong .
It was a stark reminder we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alone for our help , and that without Him we can do nothing , but in His mercy , He can help us out of our misery .
The deprivation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass seemed an ominous forerunner of apocalyptic times .
The crush on freedom in the land of the free was a devastating wakeup call for all who were willing to see .
The influence of deception and corruption was demonstrated with a mind-numbing vigor .
The never-ending stream of scandals and heresies coming out of the Vatican @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Church , and yet this can not be .
The resulting confusion “ even of the elect ” ( Mt .
24:24 ) is to be expected when the vicar of Christ disdains his own role .
All this brings into sharp focus a reality , which always was , but which is reinforced in these times .
The reality is that we are at war .
We are at war principally within ourselves .
The battle is for our souls .
Our enemies are fallen angels who employ allurements and confusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ injure ourselves , because the only real wounds in this war , the only fatal blows , are ones that are self-inflicted .
But our Good Lord has given us His own help .
And He has chosen to show us Himself in brief glimpses in His servants .
Much in the same way that St. Elizabeth recognized Christ in the Blessed Virgin Mary , so too we are blessed with His holy servants who surround us and support us with the Presence of the God-Man living inside them .
The heroic kindness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mirth , steadfastness , self-sacrifice , generosity , humility , and love exhibited in His servants are the most evident signs for me of His presence with us .
The reality of His true Presence in the Blessed Sacrament is of course his ultimate Presence on earth , but He is there veiled only to be “ seen ” by Faith .
In His servants , we feel His touch , experience His kindness , and are awed by His love .
Through all sorts of troubles , through hardships and even disagreements @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one another through the strife .
They are His arms and His feet , they are His warriors in this valley of tears .
They carry within them The Light of Life , Whom they have enthroned as the absolute King of their hearts .
But being mere mortals , even their hearts are not free from all stain .
In fact , their hearts are very much like the stable of Bethlehem where , while it is true it is no mansion fit for the King of Kings , He prefers to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ palace .
It is in that stable of their hearts they find the Babe .
Prompted by the message of angels , they fall before Him and adore Him offering Him all their treasures .
They are the true heroes of this earth .
I have been blessed in my life to know so many of these truly great sons and daughters of the Most High .
They have been such lights in my life that I ’ m embarrassed that they count me in their company .
But they are ever like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better than themselves .
We must all soldier on in this war which will last for each of us till our dying breath .
For me one of the greatest consolations has been you dear warriors for Christ .
My only prayer is that I won ’ t obscure the Baby Jesus in the stable of my heart so much that He can ’ t reach out to you in return with the Gift of Himself .

December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The year 2020 was a year full of trials for nearly all the world. It was a year of division in the ranks of the faithful, the likes of which I could never have imagined. The strife was felt on every level: personal, spiritual, familial, occupational, corporate, political, and ecclesial. It was a year that convinced me of the power of evil being far greater than any human power, no matter how strong. It was a stark reminder we are to rely on God and God alone for our help, and that without Him we […]
December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The year 2020 was a year full of trials for nearly all the world. It was a year of division in the ranks of the faithful, the likes of which I could never have imagined. The strife was felt on every level: personal, spiritual, familial, occupational, corporate, political, and ecclesial.
It was a year that convinced me of the power of evil being far greater than any human power, no matter how strong. It was a stark reminder we are to rely on God and God alone for our help, and that without Him we can do nothing, but in His mercy, He can help us out of our misery.
The deprivation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass seemed an ominous forerunner of apocalyptic times. The crush on freedom in the land of the free was a devastating wakeup call for all who were willing to see. The influence of deception and corruption was demonstrated with a mind-numbing vigor. The never-ending stream of scandals and heresies coming out of the Vatican seems to have obliterated the catholicity of the Church, and yet this cannot be. The resulting confusion “even of the elect” (Mt. 24:24) is to be expected when the vicar of Christ disdains his own role.
All this brings into sharp focus a reality, which always was, but which is reinforced in these times. The reality is that we are at war.
We are at war principally within ourselves. The battle is for our souls. Our enemies are fallen angels who employ allurements and confusion of all kinds to entice us to injure ourselves, because the only real wounds in this war, the only fatal blows, are ones that are self-inflicted.
But our Good Lord has given us His own help. And He has chosen to show us Himself in brief glimpses in His servants. Much in the same way that St. Elizabeth recognized Christ in the Blessed Virgin Mary, so too we are blessed with His holy servants who surround us and support us with the Presence of the God-Man living inside them.
The heroic kindness, goodness, friendliness, warmth, mirth, steadfastness, self-sacrifice, generosity, humility, and love exhibited in His servants are the most evident signs for me of His presence with us. The reality of His true Presence in the Blessed Sacrament is of course his ultimate Presence on earth, but He is there veiled only to be “seen” by Faith. In His servants, we feel His touch, experience His kindness, and are awed by His love.
Through all sorts of troubles, through hardships and even disagreements, His own soldiers struggle on supporting one another through the strife. They are His arms and His feet, they are His warriors in this valley of tears. They carry within them The Light of Life, Whom they have enthroned as the absolute King of their hearts.
But being mere mortals, even their hearts are not free from all stain. In fact, their hearts are very much like the stable of Bethlehem where, while it is true it is no mansion fit for the King of Kings, He prefers to reign rather than in the most magnificent palace. It is in that stable of their hearts they find the Babe. Prompted by the message of angels, they fall before Him and adore Him offering Him all their treasures. They are the true heroes of this earth.
I have been blessed in my life to know so many of these truly great sons and daughters of the Most High. They have been such lights in my life that I’m embarrassed that they count me in their company. But they are ever like that considering even the weakest to be better than themselves.
We must all soldier on in this war which will last for each of us till our dying breath. For me one of the greatest consolations has been you dear warriors for Christ. My only prayer is that I won’t obscure the Baby Jesus in the stable of my heart so much that He can’t reach out to you in return with the Gift of Himself.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-24--2020 was a year of clarity – about a lot of things

December 24 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – “ The darker the night , the brighter the stars .
The deeper the grief , the closer is God !
” - Fyodor Dostoevsky “ Hold fast that which is good.
” - 1 Thessalonians 5:21 During this year of massive attacks on the “ fundamental human rights of freedom of movement , freedom of assembly , and freedom of opinion ” and restrictions on public worship “ unimaginable even during the Third Reich , ” as Bishop Athanasius Schneider put it , there have nevertheless been many blessings and graces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been , if nothing else , a year of clarity .
We know who will call government “ snitch lines ” to report people gathering for “ non-essential ” activities like tennis and simply walking to the park .
We know which friends we can trust as the darkness spreads and freedom becomes a distant memory .
Moreover , and perhaps most importantly , we know which priests are willing to come to our houses to offer Mass , or secretly give us Holy Communion and hear our Confessions , or say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of weak bishops who caved to the state ’ s diabolical demands .
Now we know , too , which bishops have abandoned the Catholic faith , and even gone above and beyond what the government asked in terms of closing churches to the faithful ostensibly because of the coronavirus .
For many Christians , the betrayal by our religious leaders handing us over to the state hurts , but , again , at least we can see now which shepherds were hirelings all along .
Could it be that God sees a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is allowing it to be run by priests with as weak a faith as its sheep ?
( Isaiah 5:5 ) Many Catholics I know told me during the “ lockdown , ” it ’ s better to die with the Sacraments than to live without them .
I say that to myself every day now .
I am thankful that God sent the priests he did to me during the tyrannical shutdown .
I was able to receive the Body and Blood of Our Lord when so many other Catholics throughout the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m going into 2021 praying for an end to what seems to be a divine chastisement unleashed on the Church and the world , and for the strength to live out my belief that nothing is more important than the Sacraments and the graces that flow from them .
“ The only real sadness , the only real failure , the only great tragedy in life , is not to become a saint , ” French author Léon Bloy wrote .
The only things we ought to fear are sin and hell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Sacraments , however difficult they may be to access , we can fight tyranny and enthrone Christ the King in our hearts .
If we do that , we can then bring the light of truth and charity to our own spheres of influence , and ultimately our world will be able to heal .
Please pray for me this Christmas , and be assured of my prayers for all LifeSiteNews readers and in a special way , everyone who is reading this .

December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – “The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky “Hold fast that which is good.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:21 During this year of massive attacks on the “fundamental human rights of freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, and freedom of opinion” and restrictions on public worship “unimaginable even during the Third Reich,” as Bishop Athanasius Schneider put it, there have nevertheless been many blessings and graces amidst the darkness. This past year has been, if nothing else, a year of clarity. We know who will […]
December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – “The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Hold fast that which is good.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:21
During this year of massive attacks on the “fundamental human rights of freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, and freedom of opinion” and restrictions on public worship “unimaginable even during the Third Reich,” as Bishop Athanasius Schneider put it, there have nevertheless been many blessings and graces amidst the darkness.
This past year has been, if nothing else, a year of clarity.
We know who will call government “snitch lines” to report people gathering for “non-essential” activities like tennis and simply walking to the park.
We know which friends we can trust as the darkness spreads and freedom becomes a distant memory.
Moreover, and perhaps most importantly, we know which priests are willing to come to our houses to offer Mass, or secretly give us Holy Communion and hear our Confessions, or say “parking lot” Masses in defiance of weak bishops who caved to the state’s diabolical demands.
Now we know, too, which bishops have abandoned the Catholic faith, and even gone above and beyond what the government asked in terms of closing churches to the faithful ostensibly because of the coronavirus. For many Christians, the betrayal by our religious leaders handing us over to the state hurts, but, again, at least we can see now which shepherds were hirelings all along.
Could it be that God sees a church in ruin, and as punishment is allowing it to be run by priests with as weak a faith as its sheep? (Isaiah 5:5)
Many Catholics I know told me during the “lockdown,” it’s better to die with the Sacraments than to live without them. I say that to myself every day now.
I am thankful that God sent the priests he did to me during the tyrannical shutdown. I was able to receive the Body and Blood of Our Lord when so many other Catholics throughout the world were denied that opportunity.
I’m going into 2021 praying for an end to what seems to be a divine chastisement unleashed on the Church and the world, and for the strength to live out my belief that nothing is more important than the Sacraments and the graces that flow from them.
“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint,” French author Léon Bloy wrote. The only things we ought to fear are sin and hell; strengthened by the saints and fortified by the Sacraments, however difficult they may be to access, we can fight tyranny and enthrone Christ the King in our hearts. If we do that, we can then bring the light of truth and charity to our own spheres of influence, and ultimately our world will be able to heal.
Please pray for me this Christmas, and be assured of my prayers for all LifeSiteNews readers and in a special way, everyone who is reading this.
Merry Christmas!
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lifesitenews--2020-12-24--Did Communism ever die? Our current crisis in light of Our Lady of Fatima

December 24 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In light of our current election crisis , involving a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris team and with their cooperation with the socialist project of the Great Resent looming over us , much has been said about an impending Communist threat .
Suddenly , we realize how China has been influencing the affairs of the West by way of party members working in Western companies , but also the news that China might have been involved in the current election fraud shook many of us .
We suddenly woke up to the reality of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the West .
Yet , did we not largely think that Communism had essentially died with the fall of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s ?
But let us now look back and reflect upon the question : Did Communism ever die ?
I am writing these reflections as someone born and raised in Germany and having studied in Germany and lived in Switzerland for some time , and having moved to the U.S. some 13 years ago – that is to say , from a European-American perspective .
Looking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ key steps were taken right at the formal end of the Soviet Union .
Remember how not long after that political change , the U.S. started trading more intensely with China , something that many conservatives have still called “ trading with the enemy.
” Already in 1993 , President Bill Clinton proposed a policy of “ constructive engagement ” with China , and in 2000 , the same president granted China permanent normal trade relations with the United States and paving the way for China to join the World Trade Organization in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we now ask , that the U.S. would allow itself to be so intertwined with a country – having most of its goods even produced by it – whose political system is so contrary to our Western democracies .
Were we sleeping ?
That country was still Communist !
As LifeSite contributor and China expert Steven Mosher recently summed it up so well : At the same time , let us consider another aspect of this history : I still remember attending around that time a talk by Josef Joffe , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zeit .
Speaking to an audience of the University of Zurich in Switzerland , he was promoting the idea of globalism .
We are now in the era of globalism .
National borders are falling , all nations are getting interconnected .
Where did this sudden change come from ?
Who came up with the idea , shortly after the perceived fall of Communism , that we need to break national borders apart ?
At the time , I revolted against the words of Joffe .
They seemed so artificial to me , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law that forced the world to go down the globalist path .
Why did politicians suddenly decide to change the laws in order to make this globalization possible ?
Little did I realize at the time that Joffe was at the time participating at conferences of the Bilderberg Group and the World Economic Forum in Davos .
Looking back , it now sounds like a change of the propaganda , a change of the code words .
Someone decided that things will change in the West .
Another example : not long after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the beginning of the 1990s , we in Germany had suddenly the surge of the economization of education , of partnerships between schools and companies .
There was this push for making education pay .
For making research pay .
As if the work of the mind can be and should be connected with financial outcomes and matters .
Where did this new slogan come from ?
I remember at the time , being a student at the University of Hannover , how a group of students opposed this idea and published articles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economization of education which would level down the education of future generations .
We wanted academic freedom and independence , not an academic life that was depending upon financial aspects .
Finally , there was another strange phenomenon : the United Nations came up with the Agenda 21 .
I remember how I one day , at a feast with people from the former Communist part of Germany , discussed with them this new agenda that had been agreed upon by the United Nations at the Brazil Earth Summit in 1992 .
Having @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these acquaintances that this agenda contains such ideas as that one has to share one ’ s car with one ’ s neighbor since the environment was to be protected .
The Agenda 21 document , for example , expounded : “ Raise public awareness of the environmental impacts of transport and travel behaviour through mass media campaigns and support for non-governmental and community initiatives promoting the use of non-motorized transport , shared driving and improved traffic safety measures.
” Furthermore , they proposed to assist “ individuals and households to make environmentally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ deposit/refund systems , ” that is to say , shared ownership of goods .
It sounded so Communist to me at the time , and I remember how my interlocutors shook their heads , too .
They could not believe it , having just been freed from a Communist dictatorship .
By now , this Agenda 21 has been further developed , not only into the Sustainable Development Goals which are anti-life and pro-birth control .
The Davos Economic Forum group just published a video which makes one 's hair stand up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And you 'll be happy , ” they predict for the year 2030 , proposing that in a few years , we will merely “ rent ” whatever we “ want ” for a certain period of time , thus repeating the idea that I discussed at the beginning of the 1990s with my acquaintances from formerly Communist Eastern Germany .
Private property is to be abolished for the sake for a purported environmental crisis .
Remember how the former president of the Soviet Union , Mikhail Gorbachev , was first among that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That he founded , in 1993 , a year after the 1992 Earth Summit that agreed upon the Agenda 21 and because of it , the Green Cross Movement ?
Is this a coincidence ?
Or remember how Leonardo Boff , a proponent of Marxist Liberation Theology in Southern America , suddenly went green ?
Interesting about this Davos video is that when it states that “ the U.S. wo n't be the leading world superpower , ” but , instead that “ a handful of states will dominate , ” it shows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ center of which flies the Turkish one , overshadowing the U.S. flag .
It seems now to me , looking back , how , while we went to sleep thinking that Communism was effectively dead , other themes and strategies were developed that still aimed at establishing modified Communist systems in the world .
National borders were to be weakened , national economies globalized , education leveled down with new economically inspired reforms , while the largest Communist country in the world , China , was somehow welcomed as a normal partner on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of this , there suddenly also emerged the LGBT agenda .
Where did it come from ?
When did it emerge ?
Also here , I remember the homosexual lobby ( which was the first of that multi-faceted movement ) started to get stronger in light of the HIV discussion .
Information booklets about the disease were being used by this lobby to present homosexual relations as something normal .
Yes , that was also in the 1990s .
Strange coincidence !
It seems now , in retrospect , as if Communism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but not its goal .
It infiltrated the West more indirectly , by means of soft power , rather than with the help of Soviet tanks .
My husband , Dr. Robert Hickson , likes to quote here James Burnham , a former Trotskyite and political analyst who warned the West not to adapt to the enemy , without realizing it .
Burnham called one of his essays The Suicide of the West : An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism ( 1964 ) .
My husband once quoted Burnham with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communist point of view , every institution in the camp of the enemy is a battleground : churches as well as armies ; business corporations and trade unions alike ; art , literature and science ; Boy Scout troops along with intelligence agencies ; communications media just as much as political parties.
” This , we need to understand also who stands behind Communism .
We might have thought in too limited ways that it was just the Communist party of the Soviet Union that dominated the East .
But who prepared and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can refer to a letter written on November 8 , 1918 to the papal nuncio Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli by Cardinal Felix von Hartmann , a German prelate , in which he warns the Pope of an impending Communist revolution in Germany that aimed at destroying the German monarchy , but also aimed at the Catholic Church .
Von Hartmann wrote on behalf of the German Emperor Willhelm II : “ that , according to news that came to him yesterday , the Grand Orient [ a Freemasonic lodge ] has just decided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all him , the Emperor – then to destroy ( ? )
the Cathol .
[ olic ] Church , to imprison the pope , etc and , finally , to establish on the ruins of the former bourgeois society a world republic under the leadership of American Big Capital .
[ ... ] France and America , however , are said to be under the full influence of the Grand Orient .
Bolshevism is said to be the external tool to establish the desired conditions .
In the face of such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Monarchy , also the Catholic Church ; it is thus important that the German episcopacy be informed and that also the pope be warned.
” As von Hartmann explained , this Communist threat was organized by Freemasonry .
And he said they planned to use people from the U.S. high finance to further this project .
That is to say , there are well-connected international financial and Freemasonic elites which funded and organized the Communist Revolution .
That very same elite seems now to be analogously organizing the Great Reset , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essentially since the fall of the Soviet Union , the moment when most of us had gone to sleep .
Now we are awake .
Very much awake .
Because we realize our entire way of living is at stake , our liberties , our properties , our children , our churches .
As the new Davos Forum video states : “ Western values will have been tested to the breaking point.
” It is our formative Christian civilization and way of life that are increasingly at stake .
We woke up and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do not even know who will win this battle – perhaps those forces that wish us to have no more personal property .
But here we also remember that Our Lady of Fatima said that “ the errors of Russia will spread throughout the world , ” should Russia not be consecrated by the Pope to the Immaculate Heart of Mary .
According to Sister Lucia , in 1946 , the United States would also become Communist .
We are approaching it .
We stare right into the eyes of this Communist apparatus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elite .
But what now ?
Let us call to Our Mother .
She was so loving and kind to warn us 100 years ago ; she will surely not abandon us now !
She can work the miracle – and she will !
– turning men 's hearts back to God .
Perhaps even the men of the Great Reset .
Pray God .
She promised us that the consecration of Russia would be done .
It would be late , but it would come , and there would then be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July 13 , 1917 : “ If My requests are heeded , Russia will be converted and there will be peace ; if not , she will spread her errors throughout the world , causing wars and persecutions of the Church .
The good will be martyred , the Holy Father will have much to suffer , various nations will be annihilated .
In the end , My Immaculate Heart will triumph .
The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me , and she will be converted , and a period of peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ May we , until then , show our fidelity to Christ , fight for every single aspect of truth on the way .
May we refuse to live the lie , which would accustom our minds and souls to adjust to untruth .
God is truth !
May we refuse to take the terrible , abortion-tainted corona vaccines which happen also to be gene manipulated !
Let us not participate in a child sacrifice that is being perpetuated by the use of human cells of those babies that had to die so that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ calls it “ ongoing theft.
” Let us not agree to a human sacrifice that , similar to the ones of the Aztecs ( listen here a priest who makes a similar argument ) , done with the hope that mankind may benefit from that lethal sacrifice !
May we mothers say a clear no to the fact that the cells are still being stolen from these babies who were killed dozens of years ago , thereby still violating the rights of God Who is the author of natural and supernatural life !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ global elite that wishes that the “ Western values ” come to a breaking point – as announced by the recent Global Reset video – wishes us all collectively to participate in a perpetuated child sacrifice , taking into our bodies the cells and DNA of another human being , in a sort of cannibalism !
So while we fight and resist , we pray to Our Lady , to Our Mother , asking her to hold us tight in her hands , leading us to her Son , trusting that she will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be granted the wisdom and courage that are now needed , may we receive all the Graces we need next .
And let us gaze upon the little baby in the manger , the child of all children , the baby of all babies , that was only acceptable to God the Father as the freely offered ultimate sacrifice .
He alone was to be sacrificed so that all may live .
He alone was to die so that the lives of the eternal souls may be with the Father in heaven , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this Eternal Sacrifice , we need to follow Him , do right , pray , and resist the subtle violations of the first and the fifth Commandments .

It seems now to me, looking back, how, while we went to sleep thinking that Communism was effectively dead, other themes and strategies were developed that still aimed at establishing modified Communist systems in the world.
December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In light of our current election crisis, involving a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris team and with their cooperation with the socialist project of the Great Resent looming over us, much has been said about an impending Communist threat. Suddenly, we realize how China has been influencing the affairs of the West by way of party members working in Western companies, but also the news that China might have been involved in the current election fraud shook many of us. We suddenly woke up to the reality of a strong and strategic Communist presence in the West.
Yet, did we not largely think that Communism had essentially died with the fall of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s? But let us now look back and reflect upon the question: Did Communism ever die? I am writing these reflections as someone born and raised in Germany and having studied in Germany and lived in Switzerland for some time, and having moved to the U.S. some 13 years ago – that is to say, from a European-American perspective.
Looking back, it baffles me how certain key steps were taken right at the formal end of the Soviet Union. Remember how not long after that political change, the U.S. started trading more intensely with China, something that many conservatives have still called “trading with the enemy.” Already in 1993, President Bill Clinton proposed a policy of “constructive engagement” with China, and in 2000, the same president granted China permanent normal trade relations with the United States and paving the way for China to join the World Trade Organization in 2001. How could this have happened, we now ask, that the U.S. would allow itself to be so intertwined with a country – having most of its goods even produced by it – whose political system is so contrary to our Western democracies. Were we sleeping? That country was still Communist!
As LifeSite contributor and China expert Steven Mosher recently summed it up so well:
The #CCP studied 1991 collapse of the USSR They instituted mandatory Patriotic Education, clamped down on dissent. They created a facade of capitalism to deceive us, while infiltrating and undermining American institutions. They intend to do to us what we did to USSR. Soon.
At the same time, let us consider another aspect of this history: I still remember attending around that time a talk by Josef Joffe, the editor-in-chief of the German intellectual newspaper Die Zeit. Speaking to an audience of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, he was promoting the idea of globalism. We are now in the era of globalism. National borders are falling, all nations are getting interconnected. Where did this sudden change come from? Who came up with the idea, shortly after the perceived fall of Communism, that we need to break national borders apart? At the time, I revolted against the words of Joffe. They seemed so artificial to me, as if there was a sort of law that forced the world to go down the globalist path. Why did politicians suddenly decide to change the laws in order to make this globalization possible? Little did I realize at the time that Joffe was at the time participating at conferences of the Bilderberg Group and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Looking back, it now sounds like a change of the propaganda, a change of the code words. Someone decided that things will change in the West.
Another example: not long after the “fall” of Communism at the beginning of the 1990s, we in Germany had suddenly the surge of the economization of education, of partnerships between schools and companies. There was this push for making education pay. For making research pay. As if the work of the mind can be and should be connected with financial outcomes and matters. Where did this new slogan come from? I remember at the time, being a student at the University of Hannover, how a group of students opposed this idea and published articles on it. We were against the economization of education which would level down the education of future generations. We wanted academic freedom and independence, not an academic life that was depending upon financial aspects.
Finally, there was another strange phenomenon: the United Nations came up with the Agenda 21. I remember how I one day, at a feast with people from the former Communist part of Germany, discussed with them this new agenda that had been agreed upon by the United Nations at the Brazil Earth Summit in 1992. Having read about this agenda, I told these acquaintances that this agenda contains such ideas as that one has to share one’s car with one’s neighbor since the environment was to be protected. The Agenda 21 document, for example, expounded: “Raise public awareness of the environmental impacts of transport and travel behaviour through mass media campaigns and support for non-governmental and community initiatives promoting the use of non-motorized transport, shared driving and improved traffic safety measures.” Furthermore, they proposed to assist “individuals and households to make environmentally sound purchasing decisions,” which includes “deposit/refund systems,” that is to say, shared ownership of goods.
It sounded so Communist to me at the time, and I remember how my interlocutors shook their heads, too. They could not believe it, having just been freed from a Communist dictatorship.
By now, this Agenda 21 has been further developed, not only into the Sustainable Development Goals which are anti-life and pro-birth control. The Davos Economic Forum group just published a video which makes one's hair stand up. “You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy,” they predict for the year 2030, proposing that in a few years, we will merely “rent” whatever we “want” for a certain period of time, thus repeating the idea that I discussed at the beginning of the 1990s with my acquaintances from formerly Communist Eastern Germany. Private property is to be abolished for the sake for a purported environmental crisis. Remember how the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was first among that new Green Movement at that time? That he founded, in 1993, a year after the 1992 Earth Summit that agreed upon the Agenda 21 and because of it, the Green Cross Movement? Is this a coincidence? Or remember how Leonardo Boff, a proponent of Marxist Liberation Theology in Southern America, suddenly went green? Interesting about this Davos video is that when it states that “the U.S. won't be the leading world superpower,” but, instead that “a handful of states will dominate,” it shows a photo with flags, at the center of which flies the Turkish one, overshadowing the U.S. flag.
It seems now to me, looking back, how, while we went to sleep thinking that Communism was effectively dead, other themes and strategies were developed that still aimed at establishing modified Communist systems in the world. National borders were to be weakened, national economies globalized, education leveled down with new economically inspired reforms, while the largest Communist country in the world, China, was somehow welcomed as a normal partner on the international level.
On top of all of this, there suddenly also emerged the LGBT agenda. Where did it come from? When did it emerge? Also here, I remember the homosexual lobby (which was the first of that multi-faceted movement) started to get stronger in light of the HIV discussion. Information booklets about the disease were being used by this lobby to present homosexual relations as something normal. Yes, that was also in the 1990s. Strange coincidence!
It seems now, in retrospect, as if Communism merely shifted its approaches and agendas, but not its goal. It infiltrated the West more indirectly, by means of soft power, rather than with the help of Soviet tanks. My husband, Dr. Robert Hickson, likes to quote here James Burnham, a former Trotskyite and political analyst who warned the West not to adapt to the enemy, without realizing it. Burnham called one of his essays The Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (1964). My husband once quoted Burnham with these insistent warnings: “From the communist point of view, every institution in the camp of the enemy is a battleground: churches as well as armies; business corporations and trade unions alike; art, literature and science; Boy Scout troops along with intelligence agencies; communications media just as much as political parties.”
This, we need to understand also who stands behind Communism. We might have thought in too limited ways that it was just the Communist party of the Soviet Union that dominated the East. But who prepared and implemented the Communist Revolution? Here, we can refer to a letter written on November 8, 1918 to the papal nuncio Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli by Cardinal Felix von Hartmann, a German prelate, in which he warns the Pope of an impending Communist revolution in Germany that aimed at destroying the German monarchy, but also aimed at the Catholic Church.
Von Hartmann wrote on behalf of the German Emperor Willhelm II: “that, according to news that came to him yesterday, the Grand Orient [a Freemasonic lodge] has just decided first to depose all Sovereigns – first of all him, the Emperor – then to destroy (?) the Cathol.[olic] Church, to imprison the pope, etc and, finally, to establish on the ruins of the former bourgeois society a world republic under the leadership of American Big Capital. […] France and America, however, are said to be under the full influence of the Grand Orient. Bolshevism is said to be the external tool to establish the desired conditions. In the face of such a great danger which threatens in addition to the Monarchy, also the Catholic Church; it is thus important that the German episcopacy be informed and that also the pope be warned.”
As von Hartmann explained, this Communist threat was organized by Freemasonry. And he said they planned to use people from the U.S. high finance to further this project. That is to say, there are well-connected international financial and Freemasonic elites which funded and organized the Communist Revolution. That very same elite seems now to be analogously organizing the Great Reset, and they have been preparing for it essentially since the fall of the Soviet Union, the moment when most of us had gone to sleep.
Now we are awake. Very much awake. Because we realize our entire way of living is at stake, our liberties, our properties, our children, our churches. As the new Davos Forum video states: “Western values will have been tested to the breaking point.” It is our formative Christian civilization and way of life that are increasingly at stake. We woke up and face this election fraud, and we do not even know who will win this battle – perhaps those forces that wish us to have no more personal property.
But here we also remember that Our Lady of Fatima said that “the errors of Russia will spread throughout the world,” should Russia not be consecrated by the Pope to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. According to Sister Lucia, in 1946, the United States would also become Communist.
We are approaching it. We stare right into the eyes of this Communist apparatus funded and conceptualized by a global financial-Freemasonic elite. But what now?
Let us call to Our Mother. She was so loving and kind to warn us 100 years ago; she will surely not abandon us now! She can work the miracle – and she will! – turning men's hearts back to God. Perhaps even the men of the Great Reset. Pray God.
She promised us that the consecration of Russia would be done. It would be late, but it would come, and there would then be a time of peace. She stated on July 13, 1917: “If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.”
May we, until then, show our fidelity to Christ, fight for every single aspect of truth on the way.
May we refuse to live the lie, which would accustom our minds and souls to adjust to untruth. God is truth!
May we refuse to take the terrible, abortion-tainted corona vaccines which happen also to be gene manipulated! Let us not participate in a child sacrifice that is being perpetuated by the use of human cells of those babies that had to die so that we may live. Father Chad Rippberger calls it “ongoing theft.” Let us not agree to a human sacrifice that, similar to the ones of the Aztecs (listen here a priest who makes a similar argument), done with the hope that mankind may benefit from that lethal sacrifice! May we mothers say a clear no to the fact that the cells are still being stolen from these babies who were killed dozens of years ago, thereby still violating the rights of God Who is the author of natural and supernatural life!
It nearly seems to me that this global elite that wishes that the “Western values” come to a breaking point – as announced by the recent Global Reset video – wishes us all collectively to participate in a perpetuated child sacrifice, taking into our bodies the cells and DNA of another human being, in a sort of cannibalism!
So while we fight and resist, we pray to Our Lady, to Our Mother, asking her to hold us tight in her hands, leading us to her Son, trusting that she will not let us perish. May we be granted the wisdom and courage that are now needed, may we receive all the Graces we need next.
And let us gaze upon the little baby in the manger, the child of all children, the baby of all babies, that was only acceptable to God the Father as the freely offered ultimate sacrifice. He alone was to be sacrificed so that all may live. He alone was to die so that the lives of the eternal souls may be with the Father in heaven, for eternity. But to benefit from this Eternal Sacrifice, we need to follow Him, do right, pray, and resist the subtle violations of the first and the fifth Commandments.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-24--The miracle of Christmas: How a baby redeemed the world and how my babies redeemed me

December 24 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The birth of my son was Hell on Earth .
After putting my husband and me through physical and psychological torture , the hospital staff then tortured our baby , too , and took him from us , and it took two days of harrowing , maddening work to rescue him .
It was not the birth experience my husband and I wanted for ourselves or our child – yet , in an example of God pulling good out of evil , it formed what are now some of my deepest convictions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ birth .
Night after night , for weeks , I would wake up in a cold sweat , thinking I ’ d heard a nurse knocking on our front door .
My husband and I were constantly on edge , dealing with the pain and the trauma we had undergone .
In piecing together how to come out of that experience and continue to grow our family , we changed .
We changed how and what we ate .
We changed how we viewed others .
We changed everything so we could do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that if we were blessed with another baby , we would have a different birth .
We would never put ourselves or our children in harm ’ s way like that again if we could help it .
And we raised our boy , and we waited , and we prepared .
During Christmas , I think about how God gave us His Son so we can be redeemed and forgiven for our sins .
Adam and Eve paid for their mistake of the first sins , just as my husband and I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the hospital .
The gift of the Theotokos , the new Eve and bearer of the new Adam , our Lord , was how God chose to give His people another chance .
In the face of evil , our Lord condescended to be born in a humble , peaceful stable to give us hope .
At long last , the Messiah had come for mankind ’ s redemption , and Heaven appeared on the horizon .
About a year and a half after we rescued our son from the hospital , my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our home , during Eastertide .
It was the perfect birth : peaceful , family-centered , and safe .
Nothing compares to the comfort and tranquility of the midwife tucking me into bed with my new baby as my husband brought me steaming soup from our kitchen .
After overhauling everything we had understood about childbearing and health , we had worked hard to build the environment we wanted for our precious girl .
St. Paul says the woman “ shall be saved through childbearing ; if she continue in faith , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sobriety.
” I ’ ve now born a child in the worst way and in the best way , and those experiences shaped how I view the role of wife and mother .
With the birth of a baby , my life changed .
That ’ s how the world changed , too – with the birth of a baby .

December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The birth of my son was Hell on Earth. After putting my husband and me through physical and psychological torture, the hospital staff then tortured our baby, too, and took him from us, and it took two days of harrowing, maddening work to rescue him. It was not the birth experience my husband and I wanted for ourselves or our child – yet, in an example of God pulling good out of evil, it formed what are now some of my deepest convictions. I remember the year following the birth. Night after night, for weeks, I would […]
December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The birth of my son was Hell on Earth. After putting my husband and me through physical and psychological torture, the hospital staff then tortured our baby, too, and took him from us, and it took two days of harrowing, maddening work to rescue him. It was not the birth experience my husband and I wanted for ourselves or our child – yet, in an example of God pulling good out of evil, it formed what are now some of my deepest convictions.
I remember the year following the birth. Night after night, for weeks, I would wake up in a cold sweat, thinking I’d heard a nurse knocking on our front door. My husband and I were constantly on edge, dealing with the pain and the trauma we had undergone. In piecing together how to come out of that experience and continue to grow our family, we changed. We changed how and what we ate. We changed how we viewed others. We changed everything so we could do better.
My husband and I knew that if we were blessed with another baby, we would have a different birth. We would never put ourselves or our children in harm’s way like that again if we could help it. And we raised our boy, and we waited, and we prepared.
During Christmas, I think about how God gave us His Son so we can be redeemed and forgiven for our sins. Adam and Eve paid for their mistake of the first sins, just as my husband and I paid for our mistake of going to the hospital. The gift of the Theotokos, the new Eve and bearer of the new Adam, our Lord, was how God chose to give His people another chance. In the face of evil, our Lord condescended to be born in a humble, peaceful stable to give us hope. At long last, the Messiah had come for mankind’s redemption, and Heaven appeared on the horizon.
About a year and a half after we rescued our son from the hospital, my daughter was born, in the quiet of our home, during Eastertide. It was the perfect birth: peaceful, family-centered, and safe. Nothing compares to the comfort and tranquility of the midwife tucking me into bed with my new baby as my husband brought me steaming soup from our kitchen. After overhauling everything we had understood about childbearing and health, we had worked hard to build the environment we wanted for our precious girl.
St. Paul says the woman “shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.” I’ve now born a child in the worst way and in the best way, and those experiences shaped how I view the role of wife and mother.
With the birth of a baby, my life changed. That’s how the world changed, too – with the birth of a baby.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-24--The first Christmas was also uncomfortable and full of hardship

EDINBURGH , Scotland , December 24 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — This Christmas will be the strangest ever for millions of Christians across the western world .
We are going to have to check the headlines to see what our governments want us to do , and then we are going to do what we believe God is calling us to do : at least , I hope so .
We ’ re just going to do it while looking over our shoulder , and that ’ s an uncomfortable thought .
But it occurred to me that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the discomfort was also caused by government fiat .
We read in the Gospel of Luke that a “ decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.
” For this reason , Joseph and his betrothed Mary went from Nazareth to Bethlehem , Joseph ’ s ancestral town , 90 miles away .
They had to go uphill and downhill , and put up with rainy days and cold nights , and bump along on donkeys when they were too tired to walk .
Perhaps they joined a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wild animals and brigands .
Then , of course , when Mary and Joseph got to Bethlehem , there was no room in an inn , and so Baby Jesus was born in a stable , like an animal , and put in a feeding trough , like food .
( Speaking of that famous manger , a better foreshadowing of Holy Communion can not be imagined .
This is underscored by the fact that Bethlehem is Hebrew for “ House of Bread.
” ) However picturesque , the journey must have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the neck , and did not follow an ideal birthing plan from a human point of view .
That said , there ’ s no doubt that Jesus ’ s birth in the straw was God ’ s will .
After all , the prophet Micah had foretold around 700 years before that the Redeemer would be born in Bethlehem .
Scripture does not say if Micah knew this would come about through Rome ’ s taxation protocols .
However , it does stress how accepting both Mary and Joseph were of God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imagine them complaining about the weather , the journey , or the stable .
Can you ?
There ’ s a lesson there , I imagine , in how to have the merriest Christmas possible despite the cruelty and incompetence of governors who would rather “ cancel Christmas ” than admit they ’ ve made catastrophic mistakes .
After all , the immediate human cause of Baby Jesus being born in Bethlehem was unjust governors and their tax regime .
Mary and Joseph did not delay obeying the Roman Empire ’ s command @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Baby was born : presumably they discerned that God , too , wanted them there right then .
They were happy to go because , being our greatest saints , their wills were perfectly aligned with God ’ s will .
What is God ’ s will for your Christmas ?
Is it a slavish adherence to government protocols ?
I haven ’ t discerned this for myself , although as a nurse or someone else who works with very elderly or infirm people , you may discern that God is calling you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ house to all friends , family and neighbours , regardless of health or age , who would sincerely rather die than be alone on Christmas Day ?
That only you can say , having sought the answer in prayer .
Having discerned God ’ s will for this strange Christmas , there are ways to ease the involuntary break from your usual traditions .
Having spent the first 10 Christmases of my married life far from home , I can tell you that making your traditional Christmas dishes ( or at least two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to summon the Ghost of happy Christmases Past .
It is also consoling to learn to make a Christmas dish of particular importance to a guest who is himself or herself far from home .
Cleaning and decorating your home ( or wherever you find yourself over Christmas ) to the best of your ability is also cheering .
Arranging Christmastide Skype or Zoom dates is now an annual tradition for me .
My entire family has been together for Christmas only once since my niece was born .
That was last year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the logistics to make it happen .
Thank goodness my husband was well enough to travel to Canada , and thank goodness we had enough money both for the eyewatering Christmas airfares and for presents .
Since the COVID lockdowns began , we have been expressing our gratitude that we had such a wonderful Christmas in 2019 and that no nasty surprise arrived to mar it .
Everything worked out , even our cold cab ride from Midnight Mass to my parents ’ house .
This Christmas will be a little colder , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an opportunity to reflect on the cold , the dark , and perhaps the initial loneliness just before the Nativity .
And I expect we will all do our best to have the merriest Christmas possible under the circumstances , with friends striving to substitute for faraway family , and friendly policemen suddenly unable to count heads in a car or around the Christmas table .

EDINBURGH, Scotland, December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — This Christmas will be the strangest ever for millions of Christians across the western world. We are going to have to check the headlines to see what our governments want us to do, and then we are going to do what we believe God is calling us to do: at least, I hope so. We’re just going to do it while looking over our shoulder, and that’s an uncomfortable thought. But it occurred to me that the first Christmas was also uncomfortable, and the discomfort was also caused by government fiat. We read […]
EDINBURGH, Scotland, December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — This Christmas will be the strangest ever for millions of Christians across the western world. We are going to have to check the headlines to see what our governments want us to do, and then we are going to do what we believe God is calling us to do: at least, I hope so. We’re just going to do it while looking over our shoulder, and that’s an uncomfortable thought.
But it occurred to me that the first Christmas was also uncomfortable, and the discomfort was also caused by government fiat. We read in the Gospel of Luke that a “decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.” For this reason, Joseph and his betrothed Mary went from Nazareth to Bethlehem, Joseph’s ancestral town, 90 miles away. They had to go uphill and downhill, and put up with rainy days and cold nights, and bump along on donkeys when they were too tired to walk. Perhaps they joined a caravan of other travellers for protection against wild animals and brigands.
Then, of course, when Mary and Joseph got to Bethlehem, there was no room in an inn, and so Baby Jesus was born in a stable, like an animal, and put in a feeding trough, like food. (Speaking of that famous manger, a better foreshadowing of Holy Communion cannot be imagined. This is underscored by the fact that Bethlehem is Hebrew for “House of Bread.”) However picturesque, the journey must have been very uncomfortable, and a pain in the neck, and did not follow an ideal birthing plan from a human point of view.
That said, there’s no doubt that Jesus’s birth in the straw was God’s will. After all, the prophet Micah had foretold around 700 years before that the Redeemer would be born in Bethlehem. Scripture does not say if Micah knew this would come about through Rome’s taxation protocols. However, it does stress how accepting both Mary and Joseph were of God’s will. I cannot imagine them complaining about the weather, the journey, or the stable. Can you?
There’s a lesson there, I imagine, in how to have the merriest Christmas possible despite the cruelty and incompetence of governors who would rather “cancel Christmas” than admit they’ve made catastrophic mistakes. After all, the immediate human cause of Baby Jesus being born in Bethlehem was unjust governors and their tax regime. Mary and Joseph did not delay obeying the Roman Empire’s command to register in Bethlehem until after the Baby was born: presumably they discerned that God, too, wanted them there right then. They were happy to go because, being our greatest saints, their wills were perfectly aligned with God’s will.
What is God’s will for your Christmas? Is it a slavish adherence to government protocols? I haven’t discerned this for myself, although as a nurse or someone else who works with very elderly or infirm people, you may discern that God is calling you to that. Is it opening your house to all friends, family and neighbours, regardless of health or age, who would sincerely rather die than be alone on Christmas Day? That only you can say, having sought the answer in prayer.
Having discerned God’s will for this strange Christmas, there are ways to ease the involuntary break from your usual traditions. Having spent the first 10 Christmases of my married life far from home, I can tell you that making your traditional Christmas dishes (or at least two of them) is a great way to summon the Ghost of happy Christmases Past. It is also consoling to learn to make a Christmas dish of particular importance to a guest who is himself or herself far from home. Cleaning and decorating your home (or wherever you find yourself over Christmas) to the best of your ability is also cheering. Arranging Christmastide Skype or Zoom dates is now an annual tradition for me. My entire family has been together for Christmas only once since my niece was born.
That was last year, and thank goodness we all managed the logistics to make it happen. Thank goodness my husband was well enough to travel to Canada, and thank goodness we had enough money both for the eyewatering Christmas airfares and for presents. Since the COVID lockdowns began, we have been expressing our gratitude that we had such a wonderful Christmas in 2019 and that no nasty surprise arrived to mar it. Everything worked out, even our cold cab ride from Midnight Mass to my parents’ house.
This Christmas will be a little colder, humanly speaking, although it will be an opportunity to reflect on the cold, the dark, and perhaps the initial loneliness just before the Nativity. And I expect we will all do our best to have the merriest Christmas possible under the circumstances, with friends striving to substitute for faraway family, and friendly policemen suddenly unable to count heads in a car or around the Christmas table.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-24--Vaccine mandates for everyone, everywhere—a globally coordinated agenda

Editor ’ s note : This article was originally published on September 17 , 2019 .
It is republished here with the permission of Children ’ s Health Defense .
December 24 , 2020 ( Children ’ s Health Defense ) — In the United States , those who are vaccine risk-aware have much to be concerned about right now .
More and more states—and many legislators from both political parties—are displaying a willingness to impose heavy-handed vaccine mandates that trample on religious , parental and human rights—including the precious right to “ security of person ” guaranteed by Article @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rights .
What some Americans may not realize is that the current push for mandates is playing out not just in the U.S. but in other countries as well , reflecting a broader—and indeed , global—agenda .
Countries such as Australia , Italy and France have taken the lead in transitioning away from government interventions that “ merely nudge or persuade individuals to vaccinate ” and toward a more punitive exercise of “ coercive power ” —even though research suggests that “ tougher stances on the part of doctors and public health experts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Australia ’ s 2016 “ no jab , no pay ” law , for example , withholds thousands of dollars in childcare subsidies from parents branded as “ vaccine refusers , ” and some Australian states restrict unvaccinated children ’ s access to child care altogether .
One of the primary cover stories that governments are using to justify the fierce uptick in vaccine coercion is the argument that infectious diseases pose a threat to national security .
Measles represents the overblown threat du jour , while around the world , officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dark about the measles vaccine ’ s risks .
In 2014 , the Global Health Security Agenda ( GHSA ) formed to “ elevate global health security as a national and global priority.
” One of the eleven “ Action Packages ” to which GHSA stakeholders agreed was an “ Immunization Action Package ” that just so happens to use measles vaccine coverage as its proxy indicator for success .
Considering that the Action Package ’ s aim is to marshall regional and global collaboration to “ accelerate ” vaccine coverage , how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ international organizations , governments and the media have been fomenting ever since the GHSA ’ s creation ?
… taking the concept of an “ interconnected global network ” to an entirely new level all sorts of public and private ‘ advisory partners ’ are also in on the push for unitary action , including various United Nations ( UN ) agencies , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , the World Bank , the African Union ( AU ) , the European Union ( EU ) and even , somewhat ominously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the media spotlight , the GHSA attracted high-level attention and commitments from the powerful from the get-go .
Within four months of its February 2014 launch , the GHSA received a key endorsement from the G7 , and in September , President Obama hosted the new entity ’ s first major meeting at the White House .
Distracting the public from the earth-shattering revelations of CDC vaccine fraud issued a few weeks earlier by whistleblower William Thompson ( on August 27 , 2014 ) , GHSA meeting participants instead solemnly declared : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threat everywhere , and it is the world ’ s responsibility to respond as one.
” In late 2016 , the outgoing President Obama signed an Executive Order that “ cemented ” the GHSA “ as a national , presidential-level priority ” and positioned the U.S. “ as a committed , long-term catalyst ” for executing the partnership ’ s goals .
At present , the GHSA has 67 member countries , but—taking the concept of an “ interconnected global network ” to an entirely new level—all sorts of public and private “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the push for unitary action , including various United Nations ( UN ) agencies , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , the World Bank , the African Union ( AU ) , the European Union ( EU ) and even , somewhat ominously , Interpol .
The GHSA promotes external country-level evaluations to assess , among other measures , steps taken to prevent infectious disease threats—with “ prevention ” defined as “ high immunisation coverage ” —and improve surveillance ( via detection , assessment and reporting of “ public health events @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the first countries to step up for an assessment , conducted in close collaboration by external evaluators and the CDC .
( The CDC head at the time was Thomas Frieden , praised by Obama as “ an expert in preparedness and response to health emergencies ” but arrested in 2018 on charges of sexual abuse . )
The evaluators gave the U.S. top scores for measles vaccine coverage and “ national vaccine access and delivery ” while awarding lower scores for “ dynamic listening and rumour management ” and “ communication @ @ @ @ @ @ @ initiatives buttress the GHSA , including the WHO-coordinated International Health Regulations ( IHR ) established in 2005 ( a 196-nation accord to “ work together for global security ” ) and Target 3.8 of the UN ’ s Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) , which promotes access to “ essential medicines and vaccines for all ” as part of a push for “ universal health coverage ” ( UHC ) .
Reflecting the globally focused zeitgeist , proponents of these intertwined initiatives are fond of celebrating “ more joined-up thinking , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mutually reinforcing agendas ” and “ synergy between health system strengthening and health security efforts.
” With the “ fortuitous ” measles headwinds at their back , there is little doubt that decision-makers view mandated vaccination for school attendance as a winning strategy and that use of this strategy is growing .
At the end of 2014 , the EU made a point of declaring vaccination an important public health tool , which the European public health community interpreted as “ a crucial step to strengthen EU action supporting Member States…to implement effective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groundwork laid , Italy—a G7 member—volunteered to spearhead the GHSA ’ s Immunization Action Package and also became one of the first countries to ramp up its own vaccine mandates .
With massive investments by GlaxoSmithKline in Italy , where better to start than on the home front ?
Although a change in government initially delayed implementation of the 2017 compulsory vaccination decree , in early 2019 , citing a “ surge in measles cases , ” the government told Italian parents not to bother sending their youngest ( under age 6 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promised to impose fines of five hundred euros for older unvaccinated children attending school .
Likewise , in France , “ non-vaccinated children can not be admitted to any kind of collective institutions such as nurseries , kindergarten , schools or any social activity if they have not complied with the vaccine mandates.
” With the “ fortuitous ” measles headwinds at their back , there is little doubt that decision-makers view mandated vaccination for school attendance as a winning strategy and that use of this strategy is growing .
The WHO has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effort by placing measles front and center in declaring “ vaccine hesitancy ” —the “ reluctance or refusal to vaccinate ” —one of the world ’ s top ten health threats for 2019 .
Clearly , it is “ game on ” for those seeking to override national idiosyncracies with a one-size-fits-all global vaccination agenda .
Legislators who are contemplating new mandates but are still willing to exercise a modicum of independent judgment should recognize that we are in a situation with “ echoes of WMD ” — “ there is no international @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hi-jacked.
” Here are a handful of critical questions that legislators also should consider : • First , measles symptoms can arise from either wild-type measles or vaccine strains—and the laboratory testing that is necessary to tell the difference between the two is rarely done .
How can experts make consequential policies without more complete information about the proportion of measles cases caused by the vaccine ?
• A related point is that sizeable proportions of individuals affected by “ outbreaks , ” whether of measles or pertussis , are fully vaccinated .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ who do not vaccinate ) showed that 55 % to 76 % of the individuals involved in five large pertussis incidents were fully vaccinated , as were 41 % of measles cases reviewed .
Study after study documents waning immunity “ despite high vaccine coverage.
” How can pronouncements about vaccine effectiveness ignore these critical facts ?
• Third , vaccine mandates have spillover effects on the social fabric .
What are the ramifications of turning school and day care center administrators into “ enforcement agents ” who must “ pass information about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it mean for a child ’ s right to an education when mandates exclude unvaccinated children from school “ for the duration of their education ” ?
• Finally , what about the health care providers who find themselves caught between the proverbial “ rock and a hard place ” ?
A study of Michigan nurses who provide vaccine education to parents requesting nonmedical exemptions found that many nurses had far more “ complex and nuanced…evaluations of parents ’ judgments and feelings about vaccines ” than vaccine mandates would allow , in addition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , affirm their values , and protect their rights.
” Vaccine mandates shut down the potential for respectful health care interactions .
Pro-vaccine critics of France ’ s decision to impose harsher vaccine mandates noted at the time that mandates actually fuel further “ vaccine hesitancy.
” Moreover , by offering significant benefits to “ compliers ” that are denied to “ non-compliers , ” policy-makers contribute to a divide-and-conquer environment that pits one group against another .
As international researchers recently wrote , “ [ P ] olitical and ethical considerations matter… @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population health instrument , but a political one.
” The GHSA ’ s disrespect for individual and national sovereignty promises to worsen these problems while doing little to improve children ’ s health .
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In the United States, those who are vaccine risk-aware have much to be concerned about right now.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on September 17, 2019. It is republished here with the permission of Children’s Health Defense.
December 24, 2020 (Children’s Health Defense) — In the United States, those who are vaccine risk-aware have much to be concerned about right now. More and more states—and many legislators from both political parties—are displaying a willingness to impose heavy-handed vaccine mandates that trample on religious, parental and human rights—including the precious right to “security of person” guaranteed by Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What some Americans may not realize is that the current push for mandates is playing out not just in the U.S. but in other countries as well, reflecting a broader—and indeed, global—agenda. Countries such as Australia, Italy and France have taken the lead in transitioning away from government interventions that “merely nudge or persuade individuals to vaccinate” and toward a more punitive exercise of “coercive power”—even though research suggests that “tougher stances on the part of doctors and public health experts tend to polarize attitudes in the public.” Australia’s 2016 “no jab, no pay” law, for example, withholds thousands of dollars in childcare subsidies from parents branded as “vaccine refusers,” and some Australian states restrict unvaccinated children’s access to child care altogether.
One of the primary cover stories that governments are using to justify the fierce uptick in vaccine coercion is the argument that infectious diseases pose a threat to national security. Measles represents the overblown threat du jour, while around the world, officials and media keep the public in the dark about the measles vaccine’s risks. In 2014, the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) formed to “elevate global health security as a national and global priority.” One of the eleven “Action Packages” to which GHSA stakeholders agreed was an “Immunization Action Package” that just so happens to use measles vaccine coverage as its proxy indicator for success. Considering that the Action Package’s aim is to marshall regional and global collaboration to “accelerate” vaccine coverage, how should we construe the measles hysteria that international organizations, governments and the media have been fomenting ever since the GHSA’s creation?
… taking the concept of an “interconnected global network” to an entirely new level all sorts of public and private ‘advisory partners’ are also in on the push for unitary action, including various United Nations (UN) agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU) and even, somewhat ominously, Interpol.
An interconnected global network
Although generally not in the media spotlight, the GHSA attracted high-level attention and commitments from the powerful from the get-go. Within four months of its February 2014 launch, the GHSA received a key endorsement from the G7, and in September, President Obama hosted the new entity’s first major meeting at the White House. Distracting the public from the earth-shattering revelations of CDC vaccine fraud issued a few weeks earlier by whistleblower William Thompson (on August 27, 2014), GHSA meeting participants instead solemnly declared: “A biological threat anywhere is a biological threat everywhere, and it is the world’s responsibility to respond as one.”
In late 2016, the outgoing President Obama signed an Executive Order that “cemented” the GHSA “as a national, presidential-level priority” and positioned the U.S. “as a committed, long-term catalyst” for executing the partnership’s goals. At present, the GHSA has 67 member countries, but—taking the concept of an “interconnected global network” to an entirely new level—all sorts of public and private “advisory partners” are also in on the push for unitary action, including various United Nations (UN) agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU) and even, somewhat ominously, Interpol.
The GHSA promotes external country-level evaluations to assess, among other measures, steps taken to prevent infectious disease threats—with “prevention” defined as “high immunisation coverage”—and improve surveillance (via detection, assessment and reporting of “public health events”). The U.S. was one of the first countries to step up for an assessment, conducted in close collaboration by external evaluators and the CDC. (The CDC head at the time was Thomas Frieden, praised by Obama as “an expert in preparedness and response to health emergencies” but arrested in 2018 on charges of sexual abuse.) The evaluators gave the U.S. top scores for measles vaccine coverage and “national vaccine access and delivery” while awarding lower scores for “dynamic listening and rumour management” and “communication engagement with affected communities.”
Other international initiatives buttress the GHSA, including the WHO-coordinated International Health Regulations (IHR) established in 2005 (a 196-nation accord to “work together for global security”) and Target 3.8 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which promotes access to “essential medicines and vaccines for all” as part of a push for “universal health coverage” (UHC). Reflecting the globally focused zeitgeist, proponents of these intertwined initiatives are fond of celebrating “more joined-up thinking,” “merging of approaches,” “mutually reinforcing agendas” and “synergy between health system strengthening and health security efforts.”
With the “fortuitous” measles headwinds at their back, there is little doubt that decision-makers view mandated vaccination for school attendance as a winning strategy and that use of this strategy is growing.
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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
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At the end of 2014, the EU made a point of declaring vaccination an important public health tool, which the European public health community interpreted as “a crucial step to strengthen EU action supporting Member States…to implement effective immunization policies and programs.” With this groundwork laid, Italy—a G7 member—volunteered to spearhead the GHSA’s Immunization Action Package and also became one of the first countries to ramp up its own vaccine mandates. With massive investments by GlaxoSmithKline in Italy, where better to start than on the home front? Although a change in government initially delayed implementation of the 2017 compulsory vaccination decree, in early 2019, citing a “surge in measles cases,” the government told Italian parents not to bother sending their youngest (under age 6) children to school if unvaccinated, and promised to impose fines of five hundred euros for older unvaccinated children attending school. Likewise, in France, “non-vaccinated children cannot be admitted to any kind of collective institutions such as nurseries, kindergarten, schools or any social activity if they have not complied with the vaccine mandates.”
With the “fortuitous” measles headwinds at their back, there is little doubt that decision-makers view mandated vaccination for school attendance as a winning strategy and that use of this strategy is growing. The WHO has done its part to help the global effort by placing measles front and center in declaring “vaccine hesitancy”—the “reluctance or refusal to vaccinate”—one of the world’s top ten health threats for 2019. Clearly, it is “game on” for those seeking to override national idiosyncracies with a one-size-fits-all global vaccination agenda.
Legislators who are contemplating new mandates but are still willing to exercise a modicum of independent judgment should recognize that we are in a situation with “echoes of WMD”—“there is no international emergency” and “policy is being hi-jacked.” Here are a handful of critical questions that legislators also should consider:
First, measles symptoms can arise from either wild-type measles or vaccine strains—and the laboratory testing that is necessary to tell the difference between the two is rarely done. How can experts make consequential policies without more complete information about the proportion of measles cases caused by the vaccine?
How can experts make consequential policies without more complete information about the proportion of measles cases caused by the vaccine? A related point is that sizeable proportions of individuals affected by “outbreaks,” whether of measles or pertussis, are fully vaccinated. One study (albeit critical of those who do not vaccinate) showed that 55% to 76% of the individuals involved in five large pertussis incidents were fully vaccinated, as were 41% of measles cases reviewed. Study after study documents waning immunity “despite high vaccine coverage.” How can pronouncements about vaccine effectiveness ignore these critical facts?
One study (albeit critical of those who do not vaccinate) showed that 55% to 76% of the individuals involved in five large pertussis incidents were fully vaccinated, as were 41% of measles cases reviewed. Study after study documents waning immunity “despite high vaccine coverage.” How can pronouncements about vaccine effectiveness ignore these critical facts? Third, vaccine mandates have spillover effects on the social fabric. What are the ramifications of turning school and day care center administrators into “enforcement agents” who must “pass information about non-compliance to authorities”? What does it mean for a child’s right to an education when mandates exclude unvaccinated children from school “for the duration of their education”?
What are the ramifications of turning school and day care center administrators into “enforcement agents” who must “pass information about non-compliance to authorities”? What does it mean for a child’s right to an education when mandates exclude unvaccinated children from school “for the duration of their education”? Finally, what about the health care providers who find themselves caught between the proverbial “rock and a hard place”? A study of Michigan nurses who provide vaccine education to parents requesting nonmedical exemptions found that many nurses had far more “complex and nuanced…evaluations of parents’ judgments and feelings about vaccines” than vaccine mandates would allow, in addition to “consistent commitments to respect parents, affirm their values, and protect their rights.” Vaccine mandates shut down the potential for respectful health care interactions.
Pro-vaccine critics of France’s decision to impose harsher vaccine mandates noted at the time that mandates actually fuel further “vaccine hesitancy.” Moreover, by offering significant benefits to “compliers” that are denied to “non-compliers,” policy-makers contribute to a divide-and-conquer environment that pits one group against another. As international researchers recently wrote, “[P]olitical and ethical considerations matter…. Vaccine mandates are not only a population health instrument, but a political one.” The GHSA’s disrespect for individual and national sovereignty promises to worsen these problems while doing little to improve children’s health.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-24--‘Vaccine Mandates: An Erosion of Civil Rights?’ — CHD’s latest e-book available now

December 24 , 2020 ( Children ’ s Health Defense ) — Children ’ s Health Defense ( CHD ) has published a new e-book to help those concerned about vaccine safety and mandates understand and explain the health risks associated with vaccines , the need to respect individual autonomy and the responsibility of those who administer vaccines to provide consumers with complete information .
The e-book , “ Vaccine Mandates : An Erosion of Civil Rights ?
” is designed to be used with other CHD resources , including the Mandates Toolbox .
The e-book can be downloaded here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a cornerstone of U.S. public health policy .
But until recently , nearly all states allowed for vaccine exemptions .
Most states still recognize the constitutional dimensions of the right to refuse medical care — and they at least pay lip service to the ethical principle of informed consent , legally codified in the post-World War II Nuremberg Code .
But that could soon change .
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic , countries and international organizations have been actively preparing for COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and mandates .
“ They know they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine willingly , ” said Robert F. Kennedy , Jr. , CHD chairman and chief legal counsel .
“ They know they can not win this debate in the public square .
The only way is through censorship and coercion .
And those are bowling balls that are meant to destroy all of the tenets of our democracy , ” Kennedy said .
“ What we ’ re standing up for is our children.
” Government officials appear willing to ignore the fundamental premises of clinical informed consent— that “ the patient must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coerced ” — to the point where censorship of vaccine risk information is earning plaudits and policymakers are openly entertaining the prospect of state-sanctioned forced vaccination .
Some vaccine proponents unashamedly have begun to argue that informed consent is a “ legal fiction , ” claiming that in the context of compulsory vaccination , “ the mode of informed consent is confusing , inappropriate , and out of place.
” Meanwhile , as public health officials continue to add more inadequately tested vaccines to the childhood schedule , scholars at prestigious academic institutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for coercive legislation that stops just short of forcible vaccination .
In fact , each of the reportedly “ incremental ” measures being floated as viable proposals — eliminating nonmedical exemptions , developing “ oversight mechanisms for medical exemptions , ” lowering the age of vaccine consent and going after vaccine “ disinformation ” — are already well underway .
“ As governments push for more vaccine mandates , especially flu and COVID vaccines , even as they fail to subject vaccines and vaccine mandates to appropriate scrutiny and skepticism , the public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ breach , ” Kennedy said .
“ ‘ Vaccine Mandates : An Erosion of Civil Rights ?
’ is designed to help them do just that.
” In “ Vaccine Mandates : An Erosion of Civil Rights ?
” CHD lawyers and other experts : • Review the tenuous legal underpinnings of vaccine mandates in the United States .
( Section II ) • Discuss how officials have used the false rationale of “ herd immunity ” to make unjustifiable claims about the need for mandates .
( Section III ) • Present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandates as a case study .
( Section IV ) • Explore the campaign to smooth the path to further mandates by undermining parents ’ role in vaccine decision-making .
( Section V ) • Examine the highly coordinated agenda to push compulsory vaccination across the globe .
( Section VI ) • Discuss steps being taken to halt the erosion of informed consent and vaccine choice .
( Section VII ) © December 22 , 2020 Children ’ s Health Defense , Inc .
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CHD’s latest e-book examines the history and consequences of vaccine mandates, and what you can do to protect yourself and your family members as public officials ramp up the pressure for COVID vaccines.
December 24, 2020 (Children’s Health Defense) — Children’s Health Defense (CHD) has published a new e-book to help those concerned about vaccine safety and mandates understand and explain the health risks associated with vaccines, the need to respect individual autonomy and the responsibility of those who administer vaccines to provide consumers with complete information.
The e-book, “Vaccine Mandates: An Erosion of Civil Rights?” is designed to be used with other CHD resources, including the Mandates Toolbox. The e-book can be downloaded here.
Compulsory childhood vaccination has long been a cornerstone of U.S. public health policy. But until recently, nearly all states allowed for vaccine exemptions. Most states still recognize the constitutional dimensions of the right to refuse medical care — and they at least pay lip service to the ethical principle of informed consent, legally codified in the post-World War II Nuremberg Code.
But that could soon change. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries and international organizations have been actively preparing for COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and mandates.
“They know they cannot get people to take this vaccine willingly,” said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CHD chairman and chief legal counsel. “They know they cannot win this debate in the public square. The only way is through censorship and coercion. And those are bowling balls that are meant to destroy all of the tenets of our democracy,” Kennedy said. “What we’re standing up for is our children.”
Government officials appear willing to ignore the fundamental premises of clinical informed consent— that “the patient must be competent, adequately informed and not coerced” — to the point where censorship of vaccine risk information is earning plaudits and policymakers are openly entertaining the prospect of state-sanctioned forced vaccination.
Some vaccine proponents unashamedly have begun to argue that informed consent is a “legal fiction,” claiming that in the context of compulsory vaccination, “the mode of informed consent is confusing, inappropriate, and out of place.”
Meanwhile, as public health officials continue to add more inadequately tested vaccines to the childhood schedule, scholars at prestigious academic institutions are helping to lay a legal foundation for coercive legislation that stops just short of forcible vaccination.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: Pres. Trump don't give federal funds to COVID-19 vaccines made from aborted baby cells Show Petition Text 25401 have signed the petition. Let's get to 30000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition We are urgently appealing to President Trump to direct that any new COVID-19 vaccine, receiving federal taxpayer funding, uses NO aborted human fetal cells in its development. Please SIGN this petition which asks President Trump to prioritize only ethical COVID-19 vaccine development with federal funds, and keep his pro-life promise. The Trump Administration's Health and Human Services guidelines were only redrawn last summer to prohibit the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Government's main medical research center, from using human tissue obtained from abortion in their research. But, scientists in the West have long relied on using aborted baby tissue to unethically produce many of the most common vaccines used today, including the MMR vaccine, the polio vaccine, and the Hepatitis A vaccine, among others. However, scientists in Japan have, for many years, ethically produced reliable vaccines from animal cell lines. And now, some pharmaceutical companies with facilities in the U.S. are also employing similar, ethical techniques to produce the influenza vaccine. Thus, we know that a vaccine for COVID-19 can also be ethically sourced and manufactured. And, that's exactly what this petition asks. Unfortunately, some vaccines based upon cell lines from aborted human beings are already receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from the COVID-19 research grants. With the urgent push to produce a vaccine for COVID-19, we must not allow aborted human beings to be used as petri dishes, when ethical vaccines can be made from animal cell lines. Thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this urgent petition which asks President Trump to stop federal funds from being used in unethical research on a COVID-19 vaccine. FOR MORE INFORMATION: '130+ congressmen urge Trump to keep ban on aborted fetal tissue research in race for COVID-19 cure' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/130-congressmen-urge-trump-to-keep-ban-on-aborted-fetal-tissue-research-in-race-for-covid-19-cure 'Trump admin ends another ‘humanized mice’ contract' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-trump-hhs-ends-another-humanized-mice-contract-pledges-new-fetal-tissue-safeguards ** While LifeSite opposes immorally-produced vaccines using aborted fetal cell lines, we do not have a position on any particular coronavirus vaccines produced without such moral problems. We realize many have general concerns about vaccines, but also recognize that millions of lives have been saved due to vaccines. Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
In fact, each of the reportedly “incremental” measures being floated as viable proposals — eliminating nonmedical exemptions, developing “oversight mechanisms for medical exemptions,” lowering the age of vaccine consent and going after vaccine “disinformation” — are already well underway.
“As governments push for more vaccine mandates, especially flu and COVID vaccines, even as they fail to subject vaccines and vaccine mandates to appropriate scrutiny and skepticism, the public and ethical professionals must step into the breach,” Kennedy said. “‘Vaccine Mandates: An Erosion of Civil Rights?’ is designed to help them do just that.”
In “Vaccine Mandates: An Erosion of Civil Rights?” CHD lawyers and other experts:
Review the tenuous legal underpinnings of vaccine mandates in the United States. (Section II)
Discuss how officials have used the false rationale of “herd immunity” to make unjustifiable claims about the need for mandates. (Section III)
Present the flawed logic of hepatitis B vaccine mandates as a case study. (Section IV)
Explore the campaign to smooth the path to further mandates by undermining parents’ role in vaccine decision-making. (Section V)
Examine the highly coordinated agenda to push compulsory vaccination across the globe. (Section VI)
Discuss steps being taken to halt the erosion of informed consent and vaccine choice. (Section VII)
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