thelibertybeacon--2020-09-28--Amy Coney Barrett & the Zealots

Amy Coney Barrett & the Zealots

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is in the grip of “ dogmas.
” So goes a criticism made by , ironically , the most dogmatic of people .
In fact , the gripe reflects a certain dogma-born prejudice .
Oh , I don ’ t speak of the anti-Catholic , anti- “ religious , ” anti-pro-life and anti-conservative varieties , though they ’ re also present .
Nor do I refer to how a Muslim nominee would never be subjected to such scorn .
Rather , the prejudice here is seldom recognized and something even good people may exhibit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you , ” Senator Dianne Feinstein ( D-Calif. ) told Barrett in 2017 during the latter ’ s nomination hearing for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals .
My answer to the senator would have begun with a simple but sage statement : This was written by potentate of profundity G.K. Chesterton in 1923 , and he was , of course , correct ( and still is ) .
One of Feinstein ’ s apparent dogmas , for instance , is a common one : that only religious people have dogmas .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” very first definition as “ a : something held as an established opinion , ” and , boy , the Left ’ s minions aren ’ t short on established opinions .
They take as self-evident , for example , that “ racism , ” “ sexism , ” “ homophobia ” and “ transphobia ” are wrong .
Moreover , the Left ’ s latest dogmatic model — labeled “ wokeness ” with typical Idiocracy-level sophistication — upholds many additional dogmas : “ white privilege , ” Critical Race Theory dictates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blacks , the claim that abortion is civil right , etc .
The Left also dogmatically punishes “ heretics ” with a societal enforcement mechanism called “ cancel culture.
” Some may respond that , unlike “ religious ” dogmas , the aforementioned have not been officialized .
But this is a false argument .
First , many leftists ’ dogmas are part of the Democrat Party ’ s and other liberal organizations ’ platforms/guiding principles .
More significantly , however , a belief ’ s correctness or incorrectness isn ’ t altered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is what it is , and , in fact , beliefs are always embraced “ informally ” ( at least by some ) before they ’ re ever declared official organization positions .
Why , Catholic beliefs , some of which so trouble the left-wing dogmatists , were themselves held as true by many faithful Catholics long before being declared dogma ( e.g.
, the Trinity , not established as official Church doctrine until the Council of Nicea in 325 ) .
Furthermore , it is personal , passionately held dogma that ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s job performance than dogma officially declared by an organization with which he may have some association .
Consider “ Catholic ” Justice Sonya Sotomayor .
Since her judicial opinions certainly aren ’ t constrained by constitutional dictates , ask yourself what appears to most inform them .
Catholic teaching…or what we currently call “ leftism ” ?
Because something does .
The point is that everyone has a world view — a philosophical foundation — that shapes his positions on everything else .
For example , if you believe man is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ upon conception , you ’ ll almost assuredly be pro-life .
But if you ’ re an atheist , declared or de facto , and consider man just a soulless organic robot comprising some pounds of chemicals and water , you may subscribe to the baby-as-unviable-tissue-mass thesis .
Both these positions reflect dogmas .
But the dogmas are only recognized as such with respect to the pro-life position because they happen to be dogmas the culture-shaping pseudo-elites , ever blind to their own dogmas , don ’ t like .
Either way , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overturn Roe v. Wade if you ’ re true to the Constitution because it does not guarantee a “ right ” to abortion .
This is where it gets interesting , however .
It ’ s clear that so-called “ religious ” justices — such as Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia — who certainly believe there ’ s a higher law than the Constitution and are supposedly “ enslaved by dogma , ” are nonetheless far more likely to adhere to our founding document than their more “ secular ” colleagues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as I ’ ve explained , the Constitution is by its nature a “ conservative ” document .
It ’ s not even just that “ religious ” justices apparently take oaths more seriously , especially those concluding with “ So help me God.
” It ’ s also , first , that since they recognize ours as an ordered universe of moral absolutes , they ’ re oriented toward absolutes and are more likely to accept legal absolutes as just that — like them or not .
Second , having the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they ’ re not Him , they ’ re less apt to deify themselves and play God .
This constitutional adherence , by the way , is precisely what leftists don ’ t want despite their claims to the contrary .
They instead want like-minded justices who view the Constitution as , to quote Thomas Jefferson , “ a mere thing of wax…which they may twist and shape in to any form they please.
” Speaking of which , it is these “ liberal/secular ” judges who upon nomination to a higher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be asked : “ With what dogma do you justify , wholly contrary to the framers ’ intent , treating the Constitution as a “ living document ” ?
The most fundamental answer is one they wouldn ’ t offer even if they were introspective enough to grasp it .
To wit : They reject Truth ( absolute by definition ) and thus are relativists — and , ultimately , such people too often make everything relative to themselves ( My will be done ! )
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Hence the judicial thing-of-wax rationalization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there ’ s another common prejudice here , one related to that concerning dogmas .
It ’ s the idea , implicit in Feinstein ’ s Barrett criticism , that authentic “ religiosity ” should be a disqualifying factor .
It ’ s also reflected in our “ separation of church and state ” ( which is not in the Constitution ) dogma , which places “ religion ” on the back of the bus .
But consider : If the ideas in question really are handed down by God , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All , don ’ t we have an obligation to infuse our public square and schools with them ?
To this the secularists will say , “ Well , that ’ s your belief — in sky fairies .
But these ideas are just man-made.
” Yet if so , why discriminate against them ?
Why say that ideas we happen to call “ secular ” may be in the public square but those we happen to call “ religious ” may not be ?
If they ’ re all man-made , wherein @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hiding in plain sight is that in the most important sense , the religious/secular distinction is a false distinction .
Note here that the current predominant usage of “ secular ” dates back only to the mid-19th century .
In fact , once upon a time in the West the religious vs. secular dichotomy would have made no sense to people at all .
Our remote ancestors viewed the relevant distinction as being , most simply put , the true vs. the untrue .
Now , you may take issue with , let @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s conception of Truth , but the logic is airtight .
Consider : If Marxism is essentially false , what ’ s most significant : that we call it “ secular ” or that it ’ s untrue ?
If God is real , what ’ s most significant : that belief in Him is labeled “ religious ” or that it is true ?
Oh , and for those assuming there ’ s some greater correlation between so-called “ secularism ” and what ’ s true , the birth of Nazism , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sundry isms says otherwise .
There is only the true and the untrue — anything obscuring this reality is dark unreality .
And the truth about Amy Coney Barrett is , quite possibly , not that the Democrats are afraid she ’ ll impose Catholicism .
They ’ re perhaps afraid that because she honors God , she ’ ll also honor her oath and impose constitutionalism .

Amy Coney Barrett and the Zealots
By: Selwyn Duke
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is in the grip of “dogmas.” So goes a criticism made by, ironically, the most dogmatic of people. In fact, the gripe reflects a certain dogma-born prejudice. Oh, I don’t speak of the anti-Catholic, anti-“religious,” anti-pro-life and anti-conservative varieties, though they’re also present. Nor do I refer to how a Muslim nominee would never be subjected to such scorn. Rather, the prejudice here is seldom recognized and something even good people may exhibit.
“The dogma lives loudly in you,” Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told Barrett in 2017 during the latter’s nomination hearing for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. My answer to the senator would have begun with a simple but sage statement:
“In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don’t know it.”
This was written by potentate of profundity G.K. Chesterton in 1923, and he was, of course, correct (and still is). One of Feinstein’s apparent dogmas, for instance, is a common one: that only religious people have dogmas.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists “dogma’s” very first definition as “a: something held as an established opinion,” and, boy, the Left’s minions aren’t short on established opinions. They take as self-evident, for example, that “racism,” “sexism,” “homophobia” and “transphobia” are wrong.
Moreover, the Left’s latest dogmatic model — labeled “wokeness” with typical Idiocracy-level sophistication — upholds many additional dogmas: “white privilege,” Critical Race Theory dictates, the idea that police unfairly target blacks, the claim that abortion is civil right, etc. The Left also dogmatically punishes “heretics” with a societal enforcement mechanism called “cancel culture.”
Some may respond that, unlike “religious” dogmas, the aforementioned have not been officialized. But this is a false argument. First, many leftists’ dogmas are part of the Democrat Party’s and other liberal organizations’ platforms/guiding principles. More significantly, however, a belief’s correctness or incorrectness isn’t altered by its organizational adoption.
Its nature is what it is, and, in fact, beliefs are always embraced “informally” (at least by some) before they’re ever declared official organization positions. Why, Catholic beliefs, some of which so trouble the left-wing dogmatists, were themselves held as true by many faithful Catholics long before being declared dogma (e.g., the Trinity, not established as official Church doctrine until the Council of Nicea in 325).
Furthermore, it is personal, passionately held dogma that’s far more relevant to an individual’s job performance than dogma officially declared by an organization with which he may have some association.
Consider “Catholic” Justice Sonya Sotomayor. Since her judicial opinions certainly aren’t constrained by constitutional dictates, ask yourself what appears to most inform them. Catholic teaching…or what we currently call “leftism”? Because something does.
The point is that everyone has a world view — a philosophical foundation — that shapes his positions on everything else.
For example, if you believe man is divinely created and infused with a soul upon conception, you’ll almost assuredly be pro-life. But if you’re an atheist, declared or de facto, and consider man just a soulless organic robot comprising some pounds of chemicals and water, you may subscribe to the baby-as-unviable-tissue-mass thesis. Both these positions reflect dogmas. But the dogmas are only recognized as such with respect to the pro-life position because they happen to be dogmas the culture-shaping pseudo-elites, ever blind to their own dogmas, don’t like.
Either way, though, you’ll vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if you’re true to the Constitution because it does not guarantee a “right” to abortion. This is where it gets interesting, however.
It’s clear that so-called “religious” justices — such as Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia — who certainly believe there’s a higher law than the Constitution and are supposedly “enslaved by dogma,” are nonetheless far more likely to adhere to our founding document than their more “secular” colleagues.
This isn’t merely because, as I’ve explained, the Constitution is by its nature a “conservative” document. It’s not even just that “religious” justices apparently take oaths more seriously, especially those concluding with “So help me God.”
It’s also, first, that since they recognize ours as an ordered universe of moral absolutes, they’re oriented toward absolutes and are more likely to accept legal absolutes as just that — like them or not. Second, having the humility born of worshiping God and accepting that they’re not Him, they’re less apt to deify themselves and play God.
This constitutional adherence, by the way, is precisely what leftists don’t want despite their claims to the contrary. They instead want like-minded justices who view the Constitution as, to quote Thomas Jefferson, “a mere thing of wax…which they may twist and shape in to any form they please.”
Speaking of which, it is these “liberal/secular” judges who upon nomination to a higher court should be grilled mercilessly. They should be asked: “With what dogma do you justify, wholly contrary to the framers’ intent, treating the Constitution as a “living document”?
The most fundamental answer is one they wouldn’t offer even if they were introspective enough to grasp it. To wit: They reject Truth (absolute by definition) and thus are relativists — and, ultimately, such people too often make everything relative to themselves (My will be done!). Hence the judicial thing-of-wax rationalization called “pragmatism.”
Speaking of illusions, there’s another common prejudice here, one related to that concerning dogmas. It’s the idea, implicit in Feinstein’s Barrett criticism, that authentic “religiosity” should be a disqualifying factor. It’s also reflected in our “separation of church and state” (which is not in the Constitution) dogma, which places “religion” on the back of the bus. But consider:
If the ideas in question really are handed down by God, the Creator of the Universe and Author of All, don’t we have an obligation to infuse our public square and schools with them? To this the secularists will say, “Well, that’s your belief — in sky fairies. But these ideas are just man-made.”
Yet if so, why discriminate against them? Why say that ideas we happen to call “secular” may be in the public square but those we happen to call “religious” may not be? If they’re all man-made, wherein lies the relevant difference?
The truth hiding in plain sight is that in the most important sense, the religious/secular distinction is a false distinction. Note here that the current predominant usage of “secular” dates back only to the mid-19th century. In fact, once upon a time in the West the religious vs. secular dichotomy would have made no sense to people at all. Our remote ancestors viewed the relevant distinction as being, most simply put, the true vs. the untrue.
Now, you may take issue with, let’s say, medieval man’s conception of Truth, but the logic is airtight. Consider: If Marxism is essentially false, what’s most significant: that we call it “secular” or that it’s untrue? If God is real, what’s most significant: that belief in Him is labeled “religious” or that it is true?
Oh, and for those assuming there’s some greater correlation between so-called “secularism” and what’s true, the birth of Nazism, fascism, Marxism and other sordid and sundry isms says otherwise.
There is only the true and the untrue — anything obscuring this reality is dark unreality.
And the truth about Amy Coney Barrett is, quite possibly, not that the Democrats are afraid she’ll impose Catholicism. They’re perhaps afraid that because she honors God, she’ll also honor her oath and impose constitutionalism.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-09-28--T-cells – The Superstars in Fighting COVID-19 – Why are some People So Poor at Making Them?

T-cells Are the Superstars in Fighting COVID-19 — But Why are some People So Poor at Making Them ?
By : Eshani M King , Evidence Based Research in Immunology and Health Thank you to Dr. Doshi for raising the profile of T-cells .
Incidentally , German researchers found that a staggering 81 % of individuals had pre-existing T-cells that cross-react with SARS-CoV-2 epitopes .
This fits with modelling in May by Imperial College ’ s Professor Friston , a world authority in mathematical modelling of complex dynamic biological systems , indicating that around 80 % and 50 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are resistant to COVID-19 .
Antibodies can only latch onto and help destroy pathogens outside cells and may also occasionally , paradoxically , enhance a pathogen ’ s ability to infect cell instead by antibody dependent “ enhancement ” or ADE .
It is only the T-cell that can cleverly sense and destroy pathogens inside infected cells using “ sensors ” which detect foreign protein fragments .
In the late 60 ’ s , the Lancet described a case of a child with agammaglobulinemia , a condition in which absence of B @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who overcame a measles infection quite normally and did not become re-infected thereafter .
We now know that , although this condition can compromise immunity , in that particular case the rest of the immune functions , including T-cells , must have been perfectly up to the job of clearing infection and establishing immune memory without help from antibodies .
The importance of T-cells in fighting SARS-CoV-1 and establishing immune memory has also been well documented and discussed in a number of pre-COVID papers from 2017 and earlier .
Then , early in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients with agammaglobulinemia overcame COVID-19 infections without requiring ventilation , prompting the Italian authors to write : “ This observation suggests that T‐cell response is probably important for immune protection against the virus , while B‐cell response might be unessential.
” All this should have shifted the focus of efforts towards T-cells at an early stage — the real question is why mainstream media and others continued to focus efforts and narrative on antibodies .
Is it because vaccines are good at provoking antibody responses but not so great at generating T-cells ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ do elicit some T-cells but it seems that neither the quantity nor variety are hugely impressive .
Does this matter ?
Apparently so : Research establishments including Yale found that in mild or asymptomatic cases , many T-cells are produced .
These were highly varied , responding not just to parts of the Spike , S protein or Receptor Binding Domain but to many other parts of the virus .
Notably , in these mild cases there were few or no detectable antibodies .
Conversely , the severely ill produced few T-cells with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What is also of interest is that men produced fewer T-cells than women , and unlike women , their T-cell response reduced with age .
So why are some people unable to mount a good protective T-cell response ?
The key to this question might be a 10-year-old Danish study led by Carsten Geisler , head of the Department of International Health , Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen .
Geisler noted that “ When a T cell is exposed to a foreign pathogen , it extends a signalling device @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vitamin D receptor , with which it searches for vitamin D , ” and if there is an inadequate vitamin D level , “ they won ’ t even begin to mobilize.
” In other words , adequate vitamin D is critically important for the activation of T-cells from their inactive naïve state .
The question of whether T-cells might also need a continuing supply of vitamin D to prevent the T-cell exhaustion and apoptosis observed in some serious COVID-19 cases deserves further research .
High levels of vitamin D are also critical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mucosal defences , human antiviral production , modulating cytokines , reducing blood clotting and a whole host of other important immune system functions .
The obese , diabetics and people of BAME origin are far more deficient in vitamin D and men have lower levels than women .
Another intriguing clue is that Japan has the highest proportion of elderly on the planet but despite lack of lockdowns , little mask wearing and high population densities in cities , it escaped with few COVID deaths .
Could this , at least in part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ D levels of over 30 ng/ml in 95 % of the active elderly ?
By comparison , UK average levels are below 20ng/ml .
Vitamin D is made in the skin from the action of UV sunlight , food usually being a poor source , but the Japanese diet includes unusually high levels .
Sunny countries near the equator ( e.g .
Nigeria , Singapore , Sri Lanka ) also have very low COVID related deaths .
The results of the first vitamin D intervention double blind RCT for COVID was published on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spain .
This very well conducted study produced spectacular outcomes for the vitamin D group ( n=50 ) , virtually eliminating the need for ICU ( reducing it by 96 % ) and eliminating deaths ( 8 % in the n=26 control group ) .
Although this was a small trial , the ICU results are so dramatic that they are statistically highly significant .
Substantially more vitamin D is required for optimal immune function than for bone health .
It seems Dr Fauci is not ignorant of this , having apparently confirmed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ takes 6,000 IU daily !
( see Dr John Campbell on YouTube Vitamin D and pandemic science , 16 September 2020 ) .
Meanwhile the US ’ s health body continues to recommend only 600-800 IU and the UK ’ s , only 400 IU .
It is high time for joined up solid scientific rationale to overthrow mainstream narratives based on an alternative “ science ” controlled by industry interests/politics .
Beda M Stadler , the former Director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern , a biologist and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so ( see Ivor Cummins Ep91 Emeritus Professor of Immunology…Reveals Crucial Viral Immunity Reality on YouTube , 28 July 2020 ) .
In the same way that prior infections protect us against future infections by means of cross-reacting T-cells , overcoming COVID-19 naturally offers potential for greater protection against future coronaviruses .
Vaccines have their place but so do our amazingly complex , sophisticated , highly effective immune systems which have evolved over millennia to protect us from a world teeming with trillions of pathogens .

T-cells Are the Superstars in Fighting COVID-19 — But Why are some People So Poor at Making Them?
Thank you to Eshani M King for allowing Children’s Health Defense to run her letter in response to Dr. Peter Doshi’s article — Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity? — that was featured in The BMJ last week.
By: Eshani M King, Evidence Based Research in Immunology and Health
Dear Editor,
Thank you to Dr. Doshi for raising the profile of T-cells. Incidentally, German researchers found that a staggering 81% of individuals had pre-existing T-cells that cross-react with SARS-CoV-2 epitopes. This fits with modelling in May by Imperial College’s Professor Friston, a world authority in mathematical modelling of complex dynamic biological systems, indicating that around 80% and 50% of the German and UK populations, respectively, are resistant to COVID-19.
Antibodies can only latch onto and help destroy pathogens outside cells and may also occasionally, paradoxically, enhance a pathogen’s ability to infect cell instead by antibody dependent “enhancement” or ADE. It is only the T-cell that can cleverly sense and destroy pathogens inside infected cells using “sensors” which detect foreign protein fragments.
In the late 60’s, the Lancet described a case of a child with agammaglobulinemia, a condition in which absence of B cells prevent them from producing antibodies, who overcame a measles infection quite normally and did not become re-infected thereafter. We now know that, although this condition can compromise immunity, in that particular case the rest of the immune functions, including T-cells, must have been perfectly up to the job of clearing infection and establishing immune memory without help from antibodies. The importance of T-cells in fighting SARS-CoV-1 and establishing immune memory has also been well documented and discussed in a number of pre-COVID papers from 2017 and earlier.
Then, early in April, it was reported that two patients with agammaglobulinemia overcame COVID-19 infections without requiring ventilation, prompting the Italian authors to write: “This observation suggests that T‐cell response is probably important for immune protection against the virus, while B‐cell response might be unessential.”
All this should have shifted the focus of efforts towards T-cells at an early stage — the real question is why mainstream media and others continued to focus efforts and narrative on antibodies. Is it because vaccines are good at provoking antibody responses but not so great at generating T-cells? Some of the vaccines presently under trial do elicit some T-cells but it seems that neither the quantity nor variety are hugely impressive.
Does this matter? Apparently so: Research establishments including Yale found that in mild or asymptomatic cases, many T-cells are produced. These were highly varied, responding not just to parts of the Spike, S protein or Receptor Binding Domain but to many other parts of the virus. Notably, in these mild cases there were few or no detectable antibodies. Conversely, the severely ill produced few T-cells with less variety but had plenty of antibodies. What is also of interest is that men produced fewer T-cells than women, and unlike women, their T-cell response reduced with age.
So why are some people unable to mount a good protective T-cell response? The key to this question might be a 10-year-old Danish study led by Carsten Geisler, head of the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen. Geisler noted that “When a T cell is exposed to a foreign pathogen, it extends a signalling device or ‘antenna’ known as a vitamin D receptor, with which it searches for vitamin D,” and if there is an inadequate vitamin D level, “they won’t even begin to mobilize.” In other words, adequate vitamin D is critically important for the activation of T-cells from their inactive naïve state. The question of whether T-cells might also need a continuing supply of vitamin D to prevent the T-cell exhaustion and apoptosis observed in some serious COVID-19 cases deserves further research.
High levels of vitamin D are also critical for first line immune defences including physical mucosal defences, human antiviral production, modulating cytokines, reducing blood clotting and a whole host of other important immune system functions. The obese, diabetics and people of BAME origin are far more deficient in vitamin D and men have lower levels than women.
Another intriguing clue is that Japan has the highest proportion of elderly on the planet but despite lack of lockdowns, little mask wearing and high population densities in cities, it escaped with few COVID deaths. Could this, at least in part, be because of extraordinarily high vitamin D levels of over 30 ng/ml in 95% of the active elderly? By comparison, UK average levels are below 20ng/ml. Vitamin D is made in the skin from the action of UV sunlight, food usually being a poor source, but the Japanese diet includes unusually high levels. Sunny countries near the equator (e.g. Nigeria, Singapore, Sri Lanka) also have very low COVID related deaths.
The results of the first vitamin D intervention double blind RCT for COVID was published on 29 August by researchers in Córdoba, Spain. This very well conducted study produced spectacular outcomes for the vitamin D group (n=50), virtually eliminating the need for ICU (reducing it by 96%) and eliminating deaths (8% in the n=26 control group). Although this was a small trial, the ICU results are so dramatic that they are statistically highly significant.
Substantially more vitamin D is required for optimal immune function than for bone health. It seems Dr Fauci is not ignorant of this, having apparently confirmed on TV and by email that he takes 6,000 IU daily! (see Dr John Campbell on YouTube Vitamin D and pandemic science, 16 September 2020). Meanwhile the US’s health body continues to recommend only 600-800 IU and the UK’s, only 400 IU.
It is high time for joined up solid scientific rationale to overthrow mainstream narratives based on an alternative “science” controlled by industry interests/politics. Beda M Stadler, the former Director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and Professor Emeritus, certainly appears to think so (see Ivor Cummins Ep91 Emeritus Professor of Immunology…Reveals Crucial Viral Immunity Reality on YouTube, 28 July 2020).
In the same way that prior infections protect us against future infections by means of cross-reacting T-cells, overcoming COVID-19 naturally offers potential for greater protection against future coronaviruses. Vaccines have their place but so do our amazingly complex, sophisticated, highly effective immune systems which have evolved over millennia to protect us from a world teeming with trillions of pathogens.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-09-28--What MS Media & the Left is doing so there is no Repeat 2016 [Video]

Is Silicon Valley Meddling on Behalf of Biden-Harris and DNC ?
They say there are only two certainties in America – death and taxes .
You can add a third item to that list : that Democrats will forever be upset about the 2016 Election result .
Such is the level of their angst that they have dedicated every ounce of political capital for the last four years towards reversing that result and ousting President Donald Trump from the White House .
With the 2020 Election only 37 days away , it seems that the moguls of big tech in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to filter and control online discourse in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket .
A number of Republican lawmakers have hit back at what is being described as ‘ openly meddling ’ in the US democratic process .
It ’ s already established that Democrats and allied corporate mainstream media have joined forces with the likes Google , Facebook and Twitter , to not only de-platform alternative media and conservative pundits , and also to back radical politicians , judges and district attorneys across the country – whom they ’ re counting on to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concreted evidence of interference and meddling at the highest levels .
Ironically , the meddling and interference from the leftwing of the political establishment is precisely what Democrats and Neocons vehemently accused Russia of doing in 2016 and beyond – despite the fact no evidence has been presented with shows any Russian interference .
Host Tucker Carlson explains the extent of the Democratic Party and Silicon Valley ’ s plan to try and quell free speech online and influence the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential Election .
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They say there are only two certainties in America – death and taxes. You can add a third item to that list: that Democrats will forever be upset about the 2016 Election result. Such is the level of their angst that they have dedicated every ounce of political capital for the last four years towards reversing that result and ousting President Donald Trump from the White House. With the 2020 Election only 37 days away, it seems that the moguls of big tech in Silicon Valley have already kick-started their effort to filter and control online discourse in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket.
A number of Republican lawmakers have hit back at what is being described as ‘openly meddling’ in the US democratic process. It’s already established that Democrats and allied corporate mainstream media have joined forces with the likes Google, Facebook and Twitter, to not only de-platform alternative media and conservative pundits, and also to back radical politicians, judges and district attorneys across the country – whom they’re counting on to look the other way when presented with concreted evidence of interference and meddling at the highest levels. Ironically, the meddling and interference from the leftwing of the political establishment is precisely what Democrats and Neocons vehemently accused Russia of doing in 2016 and beyond – despite the fact no evidence has been presented with shows any Russian interference.
Host Tucker Carlson explains the extent of the Democratic Party and Silicon Valley’s plan to try and quell free speech online and influence the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential Election. Watch:
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thelibertybeacon--2020-09-28--KEN’S CORNER: Does America Belong To Us?

KEN ’ S CORNER : Does America Belong To Us ?
To take back America from a strong central government will not be easy .
It will take a collective unity never seen before in America , and a perceptive understanding of how the system works as well .
Sorry to say , but once Liberty is lost , as history will attest , blood is the only means to get it back .
Perhaps this great experiment , a Republic based on Constitutional Law and our Bill of Rights , will be the exception this time .
Hoping for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like an elected official who actually lives up to his word , for the good of the nation , for instance .
Sure , it can happen .
Better have a commanding presence , however , a good speaker too , with a reverberating voice , to reach into the heart of what can only be described as American sensibility .
A clever idiom has worked before , like “ Change !
We need change !
” to capture the American intellect and spirit .
Sorry .
What a concept , change for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past most Americans took their standing orders from Government , going mostly without question to war , suffering quietly through designed economic fluctuations , and the systematic procedural breakdown of family by the disintegration of moral and ethical value instilled by television and Hollywood media .
Using scientifically designed , Freudian Psychology and the ethos of Progressive Sociology , America has ushered in a new characterization of individual responsibility , entitlement , and slavery of the will .
To take back our government for We the People , we find , and I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it has never existed… just like a democracy has never existed in the history of human kind.. and yet we are told that is who we are .
Without this foundation , we have nothing to build on .
Do you understand this concept ?
We are floating on a bubble , and it is not of our design .
If a person opposes the government by force , no matter what the principle , he could spend the rest of his life in Leavenworth , or be required to flee the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ traitorous , and he would be hunted down by extradition from most any place on earth .
To a true patriot , these violent options might seem unacceptable , though he is prepared to die for the ideals this country was founded upon and held as a standard by an oath to protect and defend .
And yet , as we attempt to us intellect over emotion we realize the enemy is too well hidden to find .
So with that in mind , I emphatically state that violence is not advocated in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solution to the woes of America , and yet , our founding fathers emphatically told us otherwise .
In turn , our government takes its standing orders from international bankers , coordinated and orchestrated by the Federal Reserve .
There is also a convergent network of conglomerate international businesses , and both have unlimited resources .
Resources that can be used beyond the imagination to make their agendas reality , or to remain in power .
They will use taboo , religious intolerance and interpretation , domestic and international false-flag operations , bogus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without definable rules based on any code of law or moral value .
They have the ability , by the use of media and press , to actually change and manipulate social norms for their purpose , by well-developed physiological sciences that have come of age , from a variety of think tanks and super computers that compile and coordinate information .
and they take direction from the Trilateral Commission , The Counsel of Foreign Relations , the Bilderburg Group , and of course the most powerful lobby in the US , AIPAC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or Bill of Rights .
Our legal systems and constitution are at times bypassed and controlled by these international entities , and are no longer accountable ether to the American taxpayer or to what is left of the United States Government .
They remain well hidden inside a dark glass , clouded by our own uneducated and inept ignorance , unreasoned fears , lazy and exhausted states of mind and spirit , and an overpowered mindset instilled by sustained subliminal messages that has incorporated us as consensual and conventional sheep .
Our ability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a manufactured abyss , separating and dividing us as a nation .
We want change , but we have nothing to change into , nothing any better to displace the status quo , status quo ante bellum .
And , have no doubt , we Americans are in a state of war , and from every direction .
A state of war from a foe we can not see .
Overpowered ?
A Cloward and Piven , Machiavellian plan for Marxism seems evident , as it was taught to Obama at Columbia .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States into a socialist state by overwhelming the system , and it is working , and along with a military industrial complex that can print money out of thin air , our national debt has more than doubled in the last ten years .
Cap and trade and new taxes on the rich are the redistribution of returns , universal health care and the unionization of millions of health-care workers coerce , manage , and cement 30 million voters to our new Socialistic State , under the thumb of big government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the legalization of 12 million illegal aliens would increase entitlements and welfare over the top , as they too will be guided to the progressive fold .
Illegal emigrants pour into our country unabated , and we are threatened with a dissolved sovereignty , like the entire EU .
The Patriot Act disregarded for rights and liberties our forefathers died to protect , was standard fare for over a decade before the Rand Paul Filibuster .
Stimulus and bailouts with unsecured monies printed by the Federal Reserve and flooded into a system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inflation , and we pay interest to them for the privilege .
Our gold in Fort Knox has not been audited for over fifty years… An oil moratorium with a George Soros/Petrobras insider-trading connection with Brazil , and the billions borrowed from China to build a deepwater infrastructure there , goes unreported but for the very fringe of journalism .
And now we allow Saudi to open their valves so wide our American Oil Patch is disintegrating under the weight of cheap oil , just like in 1983 .
Our friends ?
Hardly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we no longer have a free press .
Type in 134.5 billion in US Bearer bonds confiscated on a train from Italy to Switzerland , and your eyes will be opened .
The 9-11 report is found to be shot full of lies , and anyone who questions these and many others that are plaguing our nation , are called conspiracy theorists , potential terrorists , and traitors .
Even Catholics made the terrorist watch list , for a time… A desperate optimist might contend that if we do not stand fast now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point of no return .
Some history analysts challenge that the point was reached in the middle seventies , some since before the last depression , and others that it was an illusion as far back as 1776 .
And the year 1871 should be studied too… One primary American trait is American optimism when translated by a work ethic , and though this can not be easily quelled , taking back America , even just dwelling on the idea , seems ultimately a lost cause in our present circumstances .
Why ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ primary obstruction for taking back America by the people would be a lack of sound and reliable leadership , with a plan of action worthy of the effort .
Change , you see , is not viable unless it is for the better , and yet we do not know want is for our own good , or how to acquire that knowledge , or a standard greater than ourselves .
It is that simple .
We do not know how , and we seemingly have no way to find out .
Perhaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Perhaps we have forgotten a simple element ?
Perhaps the answer is not out there at all , but inside of us all ?
From the Author , Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade , peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts .
Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions , further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty .
And so , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not fathom , powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future , unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt , we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour : Are we going to fight for our master ’ s tyranny , or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution ?
Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty , or the shackles of voluntary servitude ?
Will it be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a war to regain our ability to self govern , as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us , their children , as a gift ?
I fear that decision is emanate .
I fear that any decision will be a hard one , but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us .

KEN’S CORNER: Does America Belong To Us?
By TLB Contributing Writer: Ken LaRive
To take back America from a strong central government will not be easy. It will take a collective unity never seen before in America, and a perceptive understanding of how the system works as well. Sorry to say, but once Liberty is lost, as history will attest, blood is the only means to get it back. Perhaps this great experiment, a Republic based on Constitutional Law and our Bill of Rights, will be the exception this time. Hoping for a miracle seems our only recourse, like an elected official who actually lives up to his word, for the good of the nation, for instance. Sure, it can happen. Better have a commanding presence, however, a good speaker too, with a reverberating voice, to reach into the heart of what can only be described as American sensibility. A clever idiom has worked before, like “Change! We need change!” to capture the American intellect and spirit. Sorry. What a concept, change for the sake of change.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
In the past most Americans took their standing orders from Government, going mostly without question to war, suffering quietly through designed economic fluctuations, and the systematic procedural breakdown of family by the disintegration of moral and ethical value instilled by television and Hollywood media. Using scientifically designed, Freudian Psychology and the ethos of Progressive Sociology, America has ushered in a new characterization of individual responsibility, entitlement, and slavery of the will. To take back our government for We the People, we find, and I’m so sorry to tell you… it has never existed… just like a democracy has never existed in the history of human kind.. and yet we are told that is who we are. Without this foundation, we have nothing to build on. Do you understand this concept? We are floating on a bubble, and it is not of our design.
If a person opposes the government by force, no matter what the principle, he could spend the rest of his life in Leavenworth, or be required to flee the country. Any plot to violence is considered traitorous, and he would be hunted down by extradition from most any place on earth. To a true patriot, these violent options might seem unacceptable, though he is prepared to die for the ideals this country was founded upon and held as a standard by an oath to protect and defend. And yet, as we attempt to use intellect over emotion we realize the enemy is too well hidden to find. So with that in mind, I emphatically state that violence is not advocated in any way by this author as a solution to the woes of America, and yet, our founding fathers emphatically told us otherwise.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” –Thomas Jefferson
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – –Benjamin Franklin
In turn, our government takes its standing orders from international bankers, coordinated and orchestrated by the Federal Reserve. There is also a convergent network of conglomerate international businesses, and both have unlimited resources. Resources that can be used beyond the imagination to make their agendas reality, or to remain in power. They will use taboo, religious intolerance and interpretation, domestic and international false-flag operations, bogus information and contrived realism, and all without definable rules based on any code of law or moral value. They have the ability, by the use of media and press, to actually change and manipulate social norms for their purpose, by well-developed physiological sciences that have come of age, from a variety of think tanks and super computers that compile and coordinate information. and they take direction from the Trilateral Commission, The Counsel of Foreign Relations, the Bilderburg Group, and of course the most powerful lobby in the US, AIPAC, and not from our Constitution, or Bill of Rights.
Our legal systems and constitution are at times bypassed and controlled by these international entities, and are no longer accountable ether to the American taxpayer or to what is left of the United States Government. They remain well hidden inside a dark glass, clouded by our own uneducated and inept ignorance, unreasoned fears, lazy and exhausted states of mind and spirit, and an overpowered mindset instilled by sustained subliminal messages that has incorporated us as consensual and conventional sheep. Our ability to think collectively has been destroyed by a manufactured abyss, separating and dividing us as a nation. We want change, but we have nothing to change into, nothing any better to displace the status quo, status quo ante bellum. And, have no doubt, we Americans are in a state of war, and from every direction. A state of war from a foe we can not see.
Overpowered? A Cloward and Piven, Machiavellian plan for Marxism seems evident, as it was taught to Obama at Columbia. It is a well-documented diagram to turn the United States into a socialist state by overwhelming the system, and it is working, and along with a military industrial complex that can print money out of thin air, our national debt has more than doubled in the last ten years.
Cap and trade and new taxes on the rich are the redistribution of returns, universal health care and the unionization of millions of health-care workers coerce, manage, and cement 30 million voters to our new Socialistic State, under the thumb of big government. Making Puerto Rico the 51st state and the legalization of 12 million illegal aliens would increase entitlements and welfare over the top, as they too will be guided to the progressive fold. Illegal emigrants pour into our country unabated, and we are threatened with a dissolved sovereignty, like the entire EU.
The Patriot Act disregarded for rights and liberties our forefathers died to protect, was standard fare for over a decade before the Rand Paul Filibuster. Stimulus and bailouts with unsecured monies printed by the Federal Reserve and flooded into a system without accountability dilutes our total worth to inflation, and we pay interest to them for the privilege. Our gold in Fort Knox has not been audited for over fifty years…
An oil moratorium with a George Soros/Petrobras insider-trading connection with Brazil, and the billions borrowed from China to build a deepwater infrastructure there, goes unreported but for the very fringe of journalism. And now we allow Saudi to open their valves so wide our American Oil Patch is disintegrating under the weight of cheap oil, just like in 1983. Our friends? Hardly.
Frozen truth and media silence indicates we no longer have a free press. Type in 134.5 billion in US Bearer bonds confiscated on a train from Italy to Switzerland, and your eyes will be opened. The 9-11 report is found to be shot full of lies, and anyone who questions these and many others that are plaguing our nation, are called conspiracy theorists, potential terrorists, and traitors. Even Catholics made the terrorist watch list, for a time…
A desperate optimist might contend that if we do not stand fast now, we will indeed be at a point of no return. Some history analysts challenge that the point was reached in the middle seventies, some since before the last depression, and others that it was an illusion as far back as 1776. And the year 1871 should be studied too…

One primary American trait is American optimism when translated by a work ethic, and though this cannot be easily quelled, taking back America, even just dwelling on the idea, seems ultimately a lost cause in our present circumstances. Why? Most historical realists would say that the primary obstruction for taking back America by the people would be a lack of sound and reliable leadership, with a plan of action worthy of the effort. Change, you see, is not viable unless it is for the better, and yet we do not know want is for our own good, or how to acquire that knowledge, or a standard greater than ourselves. It is that simple. We do not know how, and we seemingly have no way to find out. Perhaps we are looking into the wrong places? Perhaps we have forgotten a simple element? Perhaps the answer is not out there at all, but inside of us all?

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From the Author, Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade, peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts. Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions, further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty. And so, as we are pulled by forces we cannot fathom, powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future, unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt, we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour: Are we going to fight for our master’s tyranny, or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution? Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty, or the shackles of voluntary servitude? Will it be a war for corporate profit, or a war to regain our ability to self govern, as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us, their children, as a gift? I fear that decision is emanate. I fear that any decision will be a hard one, but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-09-29--COVID-19 Vaccine: The Intertwined History of Myelitis & Vaccines

The Intertwined History of Myelitis and Vaccines Authored and Contributed to TLB by : The Children ’ s Health Defense Team Although 38 Covid-19 vaccines are now undergoing clinical evaluation , a handful of candidates have been at the head of the pack from the beginning , including the vaccine developed by Oxford University in tandem with the British biopharma giant AstraZeneca .
Helped along by a whopping $ 1.2 billion infusion from U.S. taxpayers and $ 750 million from two Bill-Gates-backed global health organizations , Oxford ’ s assertive grab for frontrunner status has been reinforced by a friendly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent statement that the Oxford vaccine “ is widely perceived to be one of , if not the strongest contender among the dozens of coronavirus vaccines in various stages of testing ” [ emphasis added ] .
Oddly , CBS furnished this ringing endorsement shortly after Oxford and AstraZeneca called a temporary halt to their clinical trials in five countries .
The brief hold was prompted by a UK participant ’ s report , after her second dose of vaccine , of a serious adverse event—a demyelinating condition called transverse myelitis ( TM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , paralysis and bowel and bladder problems .
Two-thirds of those who experience TM remain permanently disabled .
Belatedly , AstraZeneca also disclosed that the September pause was actually the second time-out in two months .
The first incident , which initially went unpublicized , occurred in July when another UK participant experienced TM after one dose of vaccine and ended up with a brand-new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis ( MS ) .
TM is well recognized as sometimes being “ the first symptom of an autoimmune or immune-mediated disease such as multiple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times , not only did AstraZeneca “ not immediately inform the public about the neurological problems of either participant , ” but it did not say anything publicly until “ the information was leaked and reported by STAT.
” Under the circumstances , the decision to restart the clinical trials only a few days into the September pause raised more than a few eyebrows , yet the British Health Secretary immediately hailed the decision as “ good news for everyone ” —and especially for AstraZeneca , which saw its share price largely rebound @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in market value in the wake of the second pause .
In the U.S. , the media and top National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) officials hastened to spin the two pauses as par-for-the-course “ safety checks ” and proof that “ care is being taken , ” also suggesting that the incidents could well be “ coincidental.
” Whether the 18,000 clinical trial participants will find these soothing pronouncements sufficiently reassuring remains to be seen , however , especially given Oxford ’ s prevaricating participant information sheet ( dated September 11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and TM-plus-MS incidents “ were either considered unlikely to be associated with the vaccine or there was insufficient evidence to say for certain that the illnesses were or were not related to the vaccine.
” TM is not new Internet searches for “ transverse myelitis ” surged following the news that the Oxford/AstraZeneca clinical trials had been halted , but the term “ myelitis ” is nothing new .
Myelitis , which refers to an inflammatory disease process affecting the spinal cord , is a component not just of TM but also of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) —involving both brain and spinal cord inflammation—as well as acute flaccid myelitis ( AFM ) and , of course , poliomyelitis .
Experts refer to these conditions as forms of “ spinal cord damage not due to trauma.
” Based on analysis of information posted at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims website , conditions involving demyelination and paralysis—TM , ADEM , Guillain-Barré syndrome ( GBS ) and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( CIDP ) —are among the top vaccine injuries for which Americans ( primarily adults ) have filed claims with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NVICP ) .
GBS is currently the NVICP ’ s second most compensated vaccine injury .
Of the 330 TM-related petitions adjudicated to date , the program has awarded approximately $ 150 million in damages to 266 claimants ( including estimated annuities ) , while dismissing 55 claims and leaving 9 still pending .
In prior years , most NVICP claimants linked their TM to hepatitis B vaccines , but in more recent years , tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis ( Tdap ) and influenza vaccines have become the principal suspects .
A systematic review of TM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claims , identifying 37 cases of TM associated with multiple vaccines given to infants , children and adults ( including hepatitis B , measles-mumps-rubella and DTP ) and showing that TM symptoms can arise anywhere from several days to several months and possibly several years post-vaccination .
A more recent report by some of the same researchers also describes a case of TM following H1N1 influenza vaccination .
The authors conclude : It is important to remember that historical reports of myelitic conditions track closely with pediatric vaccination trends and with the concurrent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Describing a 1949 polio epidemic , for example , an Australian researcher reported “ a relation , in a number of cases , between an injection of an immunising agent and the subsequent development of paralytic poliomyelitis.
” In fact , clinicians of that era coined the terms “ provocation poliomyelitis ” and “ provocation paralysis ” to describe polio cases that followed pediatric injections .
In the 1990s , observations of post-vaccination paralysis in Africa and India—AFM and acute flaccid paralysis ( AFP ) —sparked new interest in “ polio-like ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , over the past decade , African and Indian researchers ( though not U.S. investigators ) have continued to point to vaccines and injections as likely AFP causes .
Another reason to question Oxford ’ s disingenuous attempts to decouple the two reports of TM from its vaccine has to do with the information readily available in vaccine package inserts .
The inserts for vaccines on the U.S. market link TM—either through clinical trial data or post-marketing data—to 11 different vaccines , including vaccines involving various combinations of chickenpox , hepatitis B , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meningitis .
For the conditions labeled “ myelitis , ” “ encephalomyelitis ” and “ ADEM , ” the inserts connect them to some of the same vaccines plus six others ( including those against hepatitis A and diphtheria , tetanus and pertussis ) .
Twenty-one different vaccine package inserts list GBS ( also characterized by muscle weakness and paralysis ) as an adverse event .
The occurrence of not one but two cases of TM—a condition ordinarily reputed to be “ rare ” —ought to raise a red flag because the Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acknowledgement , is highly reactogenic .
The Oxford researchers ’ July report in The Lancet ( published around the same time as the first TM incident ) indicated that a single dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine had a higher “ reactogenicity profile ” ( a stronger inflammatory response ) than the meningitis vaccine against which it is being compared .
That is saying something , given that the type of meningitis vaccine being used as a comparison is itself notorious for producing serious adverse reactions—including TM .
Commenting on this point , one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a Covid-19 vaccine but questions the Oxford group ’ s decision not to use an inert saline placebo has stated , “ comparing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine that has so far been shown to cause a fair amount of physical reactions .
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to a meningitis vaccine that can also cause these temporary side effects will certainly paint a kinder picture of the COVID vaccine.
” In a surprisingly scathing critique of Oxford ’ s and AstraZeneca ’ s mishandling of the two TM incidents , the New York Times noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among thousands of trial participants could be a red flag ” and added that “ [ m ] ultiple confirmed cases .
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could be enough to halt AstraZeneca ’ s vaccine bid entirely.
” In the equally blunt words of a vaccine expert interviewed by the Times , “ If a third case of neurological disease pops up in the vaccine group , then this vaccine may be done.
” At the time of the September clinical trial pause , the investment website The Motley Fool pointed out that AstraZeneca is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ to be among the first Western-based companies to successfully develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
” Noting that the first round of Covid-19 vaccines are “ expected to be high-value products for their manufacturers , ” the investment site speculated that the clinical trial pause might give Pfizer and Moderna “ an important competitive edge.
” On the other hand , the site stated , “ this single vaccine is not a make-or-break product for this top pharma company [ AstraZeneca ] .
” What websites like The Motley Fool do not mention is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and systematically ” hiding negative information about its products and paying out millions in fines and settlements for false claims .
As Jeremy Loffredo pointed out in a Children ’ s Health Defense commentary , this pattern of behavior should be taken into account when considering whether Oxford/AstraZeneca made the right call in rushing to relaunch the clinical trials .
In the words of a former Harvard Medical School professor , “ The dangers to the public for taking an unproven and undertested vaccine are [ already ] overwhelming , ” and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the vaccine testing and approval process is only making a bad situation worse .

The Intertwined History of Myelitis and Vaccines
Authored and Contributed to TLB by: The Children’s Health Defense Team
Although 38 Covid-19 vaccines are now undergoing clinical evaluation, a handful of candidates have been at the head of the pack from the beginning, including the vaccine developed by Oxford University in tandem with the British biopharma giant AstraZeneca. Helped along by a whopping $1.2 billion infusion from U.S. taxpayers and $750 million from two Bill-Gates-backed global health organizations, Oxford’s assertive grab for frontrunner status has been reinforced by a friendly media, such as CBS’s recent statement that the Oxford vaccine “is widely perceived to be one of, if not the strongest contender among the dozens of coronavirus vaccines in various stages of testing” [emphasis added].
Oddly, CBS furnished this ringing endorsement shortly after Oxford and AstraZeneca called a temporary halt to their clinical trials in five countries. The brief hold was prompted by a UK participant’s report, after her second dose of vaccine, of a serious adverse event—a demyelinating condition called transverse myelitis (TM) associated with pain, muscle weakness, paralysis and bowel and bladder problems. Two-thirds of those who experience TM remain permanently disabled. Belatedly, AstraZeneca also disclosed that the September pause was actually the second time-out in two months. The first incident, which initially went unpublicized, occurred in July when another UK participant experienced TM after one dose of vaccine and ended up with a brand-new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). TM is well recognized as sometimes being “the first symptom of an autoimmune or immune-mediated disease such as multiple sclerosis.”
In the U.S., the media and top National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials hastened to spin the two pauses as par-for-the-course safety checks and proof that care is being taken, also suggesting that the incidents could well be coincidental.
According to the New York Times, not only did AstraZeneca “not immediately inform the public about the neurological problems of either participant,” but it did not say anything publicly until “the information was leaked and reported by STAT.” Under the circumstances, the decision to restart the clinical trials only a few days into the September pause raised more than a few eyebrows, yet the British Health Secretary immediately hailed the decision as “good news for everyone”—and especially for AstraZeneca, which saw its share price largely rebound following a precipitous $11.3 billion drop in market value in the wake of the second pause. In the U.S., the media and top National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials hastened to spin the two pauses as par-for-the-course “safety checks” and proof that “care is being taken,” also suggesting that the incidents could well be “coincidental.” Whether the 18,000 clinical trial participants will find these soothing pronouncements sufficiently reassuring remains to be seen, however, especially given Oxford’s prevaricating participant information sheet (dated September 11), which states that the TM and TM-plus-MS incidents “were either considered unlikely to be associated with the vaccine or there was insufficient evidence to say for certain that the illnesses were or were not related to the vaccine.”
… conditions involving demyelination and paralysis … are among the top vaccine injuries for which Americans (primarily adults) have filed claims with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP). … conditions involving demyelination and paralysis … are among the top vaccine injuries for which Americans (primarily adults) have filed claims with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP).
TM is not new
Internet searches for “transverse myelitis” surged following the news that the Oxford/AstraZeneca clinical trials had been halted, but the term “myelitis” is nothing new. Myelitis, which refers to an inflammatory disease process affecting the spinal cord, is a component not just of TM but also of encephalomyelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM)—involving both brain and spinal cord inflammation—as well as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and, of course, poliomyelitis. Experts refer to these conditions as forms of “spinal cord damage not due to trauma.”
Based on analysis of information posted at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims website, conditions involving demyelination and paralysis—TM, ADEM, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)—are among the top vaccine injuries for which Americans (primarily adults) have filed claims with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP). GBS is currently the NVICP’s second most compensated vaccine injury. Of the 330 TM-related petitions adjudicated to date, the program has awarded approximately $150 million in damages to 266 claimants (including estimated annuities), while dismissing 55 claims and leaving 9 still pending.
In prior years, most NVICP claimants linked their TM to hepatitis B vaccines, but in more recent years, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis (Tdap) and influenza vaccines have become the principal suspects. A systematic review of TM case reports gleaned from 1970–2009 corroborates these claims, identifying 37 cases of TM associated with multiple vaccines given to infants, children and adults (including hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella and DTP) and showing that TM symptoms can arise anywhere from several days to several months and possibly several years post-vaccination. A more recent report by some of the same researchers also describes a case of TM following H1N1 influenza vaccination. The authors conclude:
[T]he induction of transverse myelitis post-immunization is plausible in view of the increasing frequency of case reports in the medical literature demonstrating this phenomenon as well as the growing biological evidence of a post-vaccination autoimmune pathogenesis.
Additional myelitis signposts
It is important to remember that historical reports of myelitic conditions track closely with pediatric vaccination trends and with the concurrent rise in the very practice of injection. Describing a 1949 polio epidemic, for example, an Australian researcher reported “a relation, in a number of cases, between an injection of an immunising agent and the subsequent development of paralytic poliomyelitis.” In fact, clinicians of that era coined the terms “provocation poliomyelitis” and “provocation paralysis” to describe polio cases that followed pediatric injections. In the 1990s, observations of post-vaccination paralysis in Africa and India—AFM and acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)—sparked new interest in “polio-like” illness and the provocation phenomenon, and, over the past decade, African and Indian researchers (though not U.S. investigators) have continued to point to vaccines and injections as likely AFP causes.
The occurrence of not one but two cases of TM—a condition ordinarily reputed to be ‘rare’—ought to raise a red flag … The occurrence of not one but two cases of TM—a condition ordinarily reputed to be ‘rare’—ought to raise a red flag …
Another reason to question Oxford’s disingenuous attempts to decouple the two reports of TM from its vaccine has to do with the information readily available in vaccine package inserts. The inserts for vaccines on the U.S. market link TM—either through clinical trial data or post-marketing data—to 11 different vaccines, including vaccines involving various combinations of chickenpox, hepatitis B, human papillomavirus, influenza, measles and meningitis. For the conditions labeled “myelitis,” “encephalomyelitis” and “ADEM,” the inserts connect them to some of the same vaccines plus six others (including those against hepatitis A and diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis). Twenty-one different vaccine package inserts list GBS (also characterized by muscle weakness and paralysis) as an adverse event.
The occurrence of not one but two cases of TM—a condition ordinarily reputed to be “rare”—ought to raise a red flag because the Covid-19 vaccine, by its developers’ own acknowledgement, is highly reactogenic. The Oxford researchers’ July report in The Lancet (published around the same time as the first TM incident) indicated that a single dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine had a higher “reactogenicity profile” (a stronger inflammatory response) than the meningitis vaccine against which it is being compared. That is saying something, given that the type of meningitis vaccine being used as a comparison is itself notorious for producing serious adverse reactions—including TM. Commenting on this point, one observer who is favorable to the push for a Covid-19 vaccine but questions the Oxford group’s decision not to use an inert saline placebo has stated, “comparing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine that has so far been shown to cause a fair amount of physical reactions . . . to a meningitis vaccine that can also cause these temporary side effects will certainly paint a kinder picture of the COVID vaccine.”
What websites do not mention is AstraZeneca’s pattern of knowingly and systematically hiding negative information about its products and paying out millions in fines and settlements for false claims. What websites do not mention is AstraZeneca’s pattern of knowingly and systematically hiding negative information about its products and paying out millions in fines and settlements for false claims.
A dangerous pattern?
In a surprisingly scathing critique of Oxford’s and AstraZeneca’s mishandling of the two TM incidents, the New York Times noted recently that “finding even one case among thousands of trial participants could be a red flag” and added that “[m]ultiple confirmed cases . . . could be enough to halt AstraZeneca’s vaccine bid entirely.” In the equally blunt words of a vaccine expert interviewed by the Times, “If a third case of neurological disease pops up in the vaccine group, then this vaccine may be done.”
At the time of the September clinical trial pause, the investment website The Motley Fool pointed out that AstraZeneca is in a close race with its competitors “to be among the first Western-based companies to successfully develop a COVID-19 vaccine.” Noting that the first round of Covid-19 vaccines are “expected to be high-value products for their manufacturers,” the investment site speculated that the clinical trial pause might give Pfizer and Moderna “an important competitive edge.” On the other hand, the site stated, “this single vaccine is not a make-or-break product for this top pharma company [AstraZeneca].”
What websites like The Motley Fool do not mention is AstraZeneca’s pattern of “knowingly and systematically” hiding negative information about its products and paying out millions in fines and settlements for false claims. As Jeremy Loffredo pointed out in a Children’s Health Defense commentary, this pattern of behavior should be taken into account when considering whether Oxford/AstraZeneca made the right call in rushing to relaunch the clinical trials. In the words of a former Harvard Medical School professor, “The dangers to the public for taking an unproven and undertested vaccine are [already] overwhelming,” and the “opaque veil” that limits transparency of the vaccine testing and approval process is only making a bad situation worse.
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James Comey on the hot seat : 16 Russia probe questions he must answer Fired FBI Director James Comey — who long defended the now-discredited Russia collusion probe — is slated to sit in the witness chair Wednesday to field questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee .
The atmosphere in the committee room will be vastly more harsh than during his last public appearance .
Gone is the moralistic argument that Comey was answering to a “ higher loyalty ” that justified the bureau ’ s actions .
In its place is the condemnations of the Justice Department inspector general @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declared Comey ’ s team misled the courts , Congress and country .
And Senate interrogators will be armed with the recent guilty plea of ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith , who admitted he falsified a document in the case .
They ’ ll also have fresh , bountiful evidence showing just how flawed the FBI ’ s investigation of President Trump was , just how deceptive the bureau ’ s submissions to the FISA court and Congress were , and just how political frontline agents and intelligence analysts perceived the probe to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in fact , were so concerned by the degree of misconduct they witnessed in the Russia investigation that they feared being investigated and sued , and bought liability insurance to protect themselves .
Here are 20 questions the disgraced ex-FBI director will likely be asked : 1 .
You testified in 2017 that the Steele dossier was salacious and unverified and yet you signed FISA warrants marked verified that relied on deeply flawed evidence from the dossier .
Why did you do that ?
2 .
When did you first learn that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s campaign and the Democratic National Committee , and why weren ’ t the judges informed ?
3 .
Evidence in the Clinesmith prosecution shows the FBI knew as early as August 2016 that Carter Page was a CIA asset and not a Russian agent of influence .
When did you first learn that information , and why wasn ’ t the FISA court informed of this critical information ?
4 .
If you knew then what you know today , would you have signed any of the FISA warrants or advocated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Newly declassified evidence shows the FBI knew that the primary sub-source for Steele had been previously suspected of being a Russian spy and had disowned key facts attributed to him in the dossier when interviewed by your agents .
When did you learn that information , and why wasn ’ t the FISA court advised ?
6 .
If you didn ’ t know about the primary subsource , who did ?
Who should have known ?
Where was the breakdown ?
Who do we hold accountable for this travesty of justice ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ accountable ?
7 .
The FBI appeared to have been warned almost immediately that Steele ’ s dossier contained Russian disinformation .
Should the FBI have relied on it for any part of the FISA application , and why was this information kept from the courts , Congress and country for years ?
8 .
How involved was President Obama in directing FBI investigations such as the Russia probe , and what statements , actions or recommendations did he make in connection with the probes into Trump , Page and Michael Flynn ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden in directing or advising FBI investigations such as the Russia probe , and what statements , actions or recommendations did he make in connection with the probes into Trump , Page and Flynn ?
Did the vice president suggest using the Logan Act in any way to pursue Gen. Flynn ?
10 .
What , if any , evidence did you know about suggesting that Russia may have been trying to hurt Trump ’ s election chances or help Hillary Clinton ?
Do you still support the intelligence community assessment that Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump win ?
11 .
Information contained in the DOJ inspector general ’ s report suggests that another confidential human source in the Russia probe , Stefan Halper , may have been previously dropped as a source before the Russia case .
What did you know about that , and should he have been used in this case ?
12 .
In The Washington Post , you accused professor Josef Mifsud of being a “ Russian agent.
” What evidence did you have to support that claim ?
And if Mifsud posed such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrested by the FBI even when he had set foot in America in early 2017 ?
13 .
How would you rate the performance of ex-agent Peter Strzok and ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page in the Russia case ?
14 .
How would you grade ex-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ’ s performance in the Russia probe ?
15 .
Did you approve of the use of DOJ lawyer Bruce Ohr as a back channel to Steele after the informant had been terminated , and what do you think about that decision in hindsight ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Michael Flynn investigation testified he recommended closing it down twice , once in November 2016 and again in January 2017 because of a lack of evidence of wrongdoing but it was kept open by your management team anyways .
Why wasn ’ t the probe closed down like the lead agent suggested ?
What do you think of that agent ’ s claim the probe suffered from a bias to “ get Trump ?
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James Comey on the hot seat: 16 Russia probe questions he must answer
Dozens of explosive pieces of evidence undercutting the entire Russia case have emerged since the disgraced FBI director last testified in public.
By John Solomon
Fired FBI Director James Comey — who long defended the now-discredited Russia collusion probe — is slated to sit in the witness chair Wednesday to field questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The atmosphere in the committee room will be vastly more harsh than during his last public appearance.
Gone is the moralistic argument that Comey was answering to a “higher loyalty” that justified the bureau’s actions.
In its place is the condemnations of the Justice Department inspector general and the FISA Court, which have declared Comey’s team misled the courts, Congress and country.
And Senate interrogators will be armed with the recent guilty plea of ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted he falsified a document in the case. They’ll also have fresh, bountiful evidence showing just how flawed the FBI’s investigation of President Trump was, just how deceptive the bureau’s submissions to the FISA court and Congress were, and just how political frontline agents and intelligence analysts perceived the probe to be.
Some FBI employees under Comey, in fact, were so concerned by the degree of misconduct they witnessed in the Russia investigation that they feared being investigated and sued, and bought liability insurance to protect themselves.
Here are 20 questions the disgraced ex-FBI director will likely be asked:
1. You testified in 2017 that the Steele dossier was salacious and unverified and yet you signed FISA warrants marked verified that relied on deeply flawed evidence from the dossier. Why did you do that?
2. When did you first learn that the Steele dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and why weren’t the judges informed?
3. Evidence in the Clinesmith prosecution shows the FBI knew as early as August 2016 that Carter Page was a CIA asset and not a Russian agent of influence. When did you first learn that information, and why wasn’t the FISA court informed of this critical information?
4. If you knew then what you know today, would you have signed any of the FISA warrants or advocated for a special counsel?
5. Newly declassified evidence shows the FBI knew that the primary sub-source for Steele had been previously suspected of being a Russian spy and had disowned key facts attributed to him in the dossier when interviewed by your agents. When did you learn that information, and why wasn’t the FISA court advised?
6. If you didn’t know about the primary subsource, who did? Who should have known? Where was the breakdown? Who do we hold accountable for this travesty of justice? Why shouldn’t we hold you accountable?
7. The FBI appeared to have been warned almost immediately that Steele’s dossier contained Russian disinformation. Should the FBI have relied on it for any part of the FISA application, and why was this information kept from the courts, Congress and country for years?
8. How involved was President Obama in directing FBI investigations such as the Russia probe, and what statements, actions or recommendations did he make in connection with the probes into Trump, Page and Michael Flynn?
9. How involved was Vice President Biden in directing or advising FBI investigations such as the Russia probe, and what statements, actions or recommendations did he make in connection with the probes into Trump, Page and Flynn? Did the vice president suggest using the Logan Act in any way to pursue Gen. Flynn?
10. What, if any, evidence did you know about suggesting that Russia may have been trying to hurt Trump’s election chances or help Hillary Clinton? Do you still support the intelligence community assessment that Russia’s intent was solely to help Trump win?
11. Information contained in the DOJ inspector general’s report suggests that another confidential human source in the Russia probe, Stefan Halper, may have been previously dropped as a source before the Russia case. What did you know about that, and should he have been used in this case?
12. In The Washington Post, you accused professor Josef Mifsud of being a “Russian agent.” What evidence did you have to support that claim? And if Mifsud posed such a danger, why was he never arrested by the FBI even when he had set foot in America in early 2017?
13. How would you rate the performance of ex-agent Peter Strzok and ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page in the Russia case?
14. How would you grade ex-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s performance in the Russia probe?
15. Did you approve of the use of DOJ lawyer Bruce Ohr as a back channel to Steele after the informant had been terminated, and what do you think about that decision in hindsight?
16. The FBI agent who supervised the Michael Flynn investigation testified he recommended closing it down twice, once in November 2016 and again in January 2017 because of a lack of evidence of wrongdoing but it was kept open by your management team anyways. Why wasn’t the probe closed down like the lead agent suggested? What do you think of that agent’s claim the probe suffered from a bias to “get Trump?”
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