jewworldorder--2020-08-09--The Aurora Airship Incident: UFO Crash, Mars Fever or Hoax?

The most famous early example of a story about a UFO crash landing is the Roswell incident of 1947 .
This event is known to have helped spark the modern UFO subculture and the idea that Earth is being regularly visited by intelligent beings .
A less well-known example is one which happened 50 years earlier in a town in northern Texas in 1897 .
It is referred to as the Aurora incident .
Although most investigators dismiss the Aurora airship incident as a hoax , it is still celebrated by some UFO enthusiasts as an early example of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Dallas Morning News , on April 19 , 1897 , an airship was seen in the early morning hours in the small town of Aurora , Texas .
It was cigar-shaped and only moving at about 10 miles ( 16 km ) per hour .
Observers in the town watched the vehicle slowly drift across town until it flew over Judge J.S .
Proctor ’ s property .
This is where catastrophe struck as the airship collided with a windmill , causing an explosion .
After the explosion settled , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pilot .
Then the story gets particularly strange .
The pilot was described as badly disfigured , but recognizably non-human .
Also , the pilot had papers with him that were written in unidentifiable hieroglyphs .
The witnesses reported that the pilot was “ not an inhabitant of this world.
” T.J. Weems , a local signal service officer and a person described as an “ authority on astronomy , ” suggested that the individual might be from the planet Mars .
The next day , the pilot was given a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ placed over the grave .
On the tombstone , a crude drawing of the pilot ’ s vehicle was made .
This tombstone was allegedly stolen in 1973 , so there is no evidence of the tombstone and no information about where the pilot was buried .
In 2008 , the makers of an episode of a show called UFO Hunters found an unmarked grave which the producers thought could be the grave of the pilot .
However , they were not allowed to exhume the grave so there is no way of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remains of any pilot , let alone an alien pilot .
Photo of the Aurora UFO alien grave marker .
( City of Aurora ) Although the Aurora airship incident only became widely known in the late 1960s and early 1970s , the event is considered the original Roswell incident by some within the UFO community .
The problem with this conclusion is that there is scant evidence that the incident in Aurora even took place , let alone that it involved a crashed alien spaceship .
In the 1970s , investigators interviewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time of the incident .
They revealed notable inconsistencies in the narrative .
One example of these inconsistencies is that the airship was supposed to have hit a windmill on Judge J.S .
Proctor ’ s farm .
There was , however , no windmill on his farm at the time that the collision was supposed to have happened .
Furthermore , there is no evidence of personal records related to the event , such as bills for removal of debris material , or any records of the pilot ’ s body being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there are no museums , historical societies , or private individuals that have any examples of the pieces of the debris or the writings they supposedly found on the pilot ’ s person containing alien hieroglyphs .
Additionally , the supposed authority on Astronomy , T.J. Weems , was not a signal service officer but the town blacksmith .
These problems cast doubt on the validity of the story .
The conclusion of journalists and historians investigating the event is that the Aurora airship incident was probably a hoax made up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ town that was dying .
Was the Aurora airship incident a hoax made up to create more publicity and tourism ?
( Facebook/Eric Shirey ) Sceptics say that it is a hoax , while UFO believers are more likely to believe that it happened .
There is , however , a third possibility .
It could be that the story was based on a real event in which an airship with a human pilot crashed near the town and the pilot was so badly disfigured by the crash that they didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Airships and balloons go back much farther in history than other aircraft , such as airplanes .
The earliest example of a functional airship was probably the one used by Jean Pierre Blanchard to cross the English Channel in 1784 .
He was able to control its flight by using a hand-powered propeller .
The first steam-powered airship was made by Henri Gifford in 1852 .
By the 1870s , airships powered by an internal combustion engine had already been developed .
Airships were not new to Western culture by the 1890s , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remote , rural parts of the United States , which described northern Texas at the time , were unfamiliar with airship technology .
It is also possible that an airship being tested in the area could have been mistaken by unaccustomed locals as being of extra-terrestrial origin .
Even if the Aurora airship incident were a complete hoax , the advent of airships would have certainly influenced the development of this narrative .
Another interesting aspect of the story that connects it to the wider culture at the time is the fact that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s “ expert on astronomy ” was that the pilot was from the planet Mars .
At the time , many people , including more scientifically minded individuals , believed that Mars was likely to have life .
In the 18th century , astronomers had confirmed that Mars had seasons .
By the 1860s , this seasonal difference in the appearance of Mars was being attributed to differences in vegetation by astronomers .
This explanation turned out to be erroneous of course .
The visible seasonal differences on Mars have to do with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Martian ice caps , not vegetation .
Another discovery that caused excitement about life on Mars was the discovery made in 1877 of alleged “ canals ” on Mars .
In that year , the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used a then-cutting-edge refracting telescope to look at the surface of Mars and saw what appeared to be a network of grooves or “ trenches.
” Schiaparelli ’ s original language suggested nothing artificial or even specific about what he saw on Mars .
When his report was translated into English however , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grooves or markings , was translated into the English word “ canal ” which implies not just water and life but intelligence and planning .
In 1894 , just three years before the alleged Aurora airship incident , the American businessman Percival Lowell founded the observatory that bears his name in Flagstaff , Arizona specifically to study Mars .
Percival Lowell was convinced that there was an ancient dying civilization on Mars .
He theorized that the Martians had built the canals to bring water from the polar ice caps to arid lower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ books that he wrote .
These ideas about canals on Mars were treated with skepticism by most professional astronomers at the time .
The idea was finally debunked in the 1960s when images from Mariner 4 , the first interplanetary spacecraft to take detailed images of the surface of Mars , showed the planet to be barren and entirely lacking in existing bodies of liquid water on the surface , let alone canals .
In the 1890s , however , the idea of canals on Mars was still popular in some circles and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ culture of the day .
It is little surprise , in light of this , that a disfigured pilot in an uncommonly seen flying machine would be mistaken for a Martian in a small town in Texas in 1897 .
The Aurora airship incident took place , or at least was alleged to have taken place , during a time of optimism regarding progress through science and technology .
By the late 19th century , inventions and discoveries , such as steam-powered locomotives , airships , vaccines , and electric power , had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and technology to create a better future and do ever more impressive things .
The vision of continuous technological and scientific progress was likely further validated by comparison with relatively recent discoveries in the geological and biological sciences .
By the 19th century , geologists , such as James Hutton and Charles Lyell , had shown that natural environments were constantly changing over time through regular geologic processes .
This demonstrated that the world had not always been as it was – and could be very different in the future .
Charles Darwin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change over time to adapt to their environment through natural selection .
Not only did the natural environment change , organisms themselves could change .
While geologists and naturalists were finding evidence of change and evolution in the natural world , economists and social philosophers had started to look at how human societies change over time .
Karl Marx , who wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 , explained history in terms of continuous class conflict .
He believed that , over time , class struggle would lead to the rise of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the next expression of this process would be the overthrow of capitalism , where owners exploited workers , and its replacement with socialism .
Darwinian ideas about biological evolution and Marxist ideas about social and economic progress likely contributed to the idea of technological progress .
If organisms could biologically evolve into higher forms over time , and human societies could become more egalitarian over time through class struggle , why couldn ’ t civilizations evolve technologically to more advanced levels with time ?
The idea of extra-terrestrial civilizations technologically advanced enough to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this framework .
If human civilization was evolving towards increasingly higher levels of technological and social progress , spacefaring extra-terrestrials , who inhabited the same universe and were subject to the same laws of nature , were likely the result of the same Darwinian and Marxist processes .
They were simply a little farther along in the process and their evolution had occurred on a different planet .
The idea of extra-terrestrial civilizations technologically advanced enough to travel between planets could fit easily into people ’ s beliefs .
( Public Domain ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first time in history where the idea of beings travelling between the planets would have been considered scientifically believable .
By the late 19th century , humans had already built some of the first flying machines .
Also , writers , such as Jules Verne , and scientists , such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , had already begun to speculate about realistic scenarios for how people might travel through space .
Flying machines , as well as more realistic science fiction , began to make the idea of humans and other creatures being able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more scientifically believable .
This fact combined with the widespread acceptance of the idea of life on other planets , such as Mars , and created an intellectual and cultural environment where the crash of a spaceship in a farm in Texas would be considered plausible and widely believed in a way that may not have been possible in the past .
Whether the Aurora incident was a deliberate hoax , based on a misidentification of an early airship , or something else entirely , the story fits into the cultural narrative of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not as easily dismissed because it fit the narrative .
It especially fit the idea that there was an advanced civilization on Mars which may have had the technological capabilities of sending voyagers to Earth .
How well the story fits with the cultural narrative of the time casts doubt on its credibility .
If someone from the 19th century was trying to make up a story about a crashed alien spaceship , it has all the features you would expect .
The craft is described as an airship , which was the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time .
The pilot was identified as probably being from Mars , when it was extremely popular to believe that a canal-building civilization existed on the red planet .
It also happened in a remote area where the evidence would have been difficult to verify .
If it was not an outright hoax , it is easy to argue that the observers of the incident misidentified a terrestrial airship .
Because they were unfamiliar with airships , the strangeness of the situation could have led some to believe that a disfigured pilot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other hand , it is true that if it were an actual encounter with an alien spacecraft , they probably would have called it an “ airship ” because of familiarity .
They also would have probably guessed the pilot was Martian , based on cultural perceptions and scientific ideas about extra-terrestrial life at the time .
In conclusion , the evidence is ambiguous – too ambiguous to use as reliable evidence for an extra-terrestrial visitation .
“ Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence , ” as the astronomer Carl Sagan once said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ extraordinary enough .
It is possible , however , that this could have been based on a real event that involved an airship crash in a small town being misidentified as an otherworldly visitation .
Top image : The Aurora airship incident is a supposed example of a UFO crash landing in Texas .
Source : fergregory /Adobe Stock

The most famous early example of a story about a UFO crash landing is the Roswell incident of 1947. This event is known to have helped spark the modern UFO subculture and the idea that Earth is being regularly visited by intelligent beings. A less well-known example is one which happened 50 years earlier in a town in northern Texas in 1897. It is referred to as the Aurora incident. Although most investigators dismiss the Aurora airship incident as a hoax, it is still celebrated by some UFO enthusiasts as an early example of a UFO sighting and crash landing.
The Aurora Airship Incident
According to the Dallas Morning News, on April 19, 1897, an airship was seen in the early morning hours in the small town of Aurora, Texas. It was cigar-shaped and only moving at about 10 miles (16 km) per hour. Observers in the town watched the vehicle slowly drift across town until it flew over Judge J.S. Proctor’s property.
This is where catastrophe struck as the airship collided with a windmill, causing an explosion. After the explosion settled, the townspeople looked through the wreckage and recovered the pilot. Then the story gets particularly strange.
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The pilot was described as badly disfigured, but recognizably non-human. Also, the pilot had papers with him that were written in unidentifiable hieroglyphs. The witnesses reported that the pilot was “not an inhabitant of this world.”
T.J. Weems, a local signal service officer and a person described as an “authority on astronomy,” suggested that the individual might be from the planet Mars. The next day, the pilot was given a “Christian burial” and a tombstone was placed over the grave.
On the tombstone, a crude drawing of the pilot’s vehicle was made. This tombstone was allegedly stolen in 1973, so there is no evidence of the tombstone and no information about where the pilot was buried. In 2008, the makers of an episode of a show called UFO Hunters found an unmarked grave which the producers thought could be the grave of the pilot . However, they were not allowed to exhume the grave so there is no way of knowing if the unmarked grave contained the remains of any pilot, let alone an alien pilot.
Photo of the Aurora UFO alien grave marker. ( City of Aurora )
Plausibility of the Story
Although the Aurora airship incident only became widely known in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the event is considered the original Roswell incident by some within the UFO community. The problem with this conclusion is that there is scant evidence that the incident in Aurora even took place, let alone that it involved a crashed alien spaceship.
In the 1970s, investigators interviewed people who had been alive at the time of the incident. They revealed notable inconsistencies in the narrative. One example of these inconsistencies is that the airship was supposed to have hit a windmill on Judge J.S. Proctor’s farm. There was, however, no windmill on his farm at the time that the collision was supposed to have happened.
Furthermore, there is no evidence of personal records related to the event, such as bills for removal of debris material, or any records of the pilot’s body being placed in the Aurora cemetery. Also, there are no museums, historical societies, or private individuals that have any examples of the pieces of the debris or the writings they supposedly found on the pilot’s person containing alien hieroglyphs.
Additionally, the supposed authority on Astronomy, T.J. Weems, was not a signal service officer but the town blacksmith. These problems cast doubt on the validity of the story. The conclusion of journalists and historians investigating the event is that the Aurora airship incident was probably a hoax made up to create more publicity and tourism for a town that was dying.
Was the Aurora airship incident a hoax made up to create more publicity and tourism? ( Facebook/Eric Shirey )
Alternative Explanations
Sceptics say that it is a hoax, while UFO believers are more likely to believe that it happened. There is, however, a third possibility. It could be that the story was based on a real event in which an airship with a human pilot crashed near the town and the pilot was so badly disfigured by the crash that they didn’t recognize him as a human being .
Airships and balloons go back much farther in history than other aircraft, such as airplanes. The earliest example of a functional airship was probably the one used by Jean Pierre Blanchard to cross the English Channel in 1784. He was able to control its flight by using a hand-powered propeller. The first steam-powered airship was made by Henri Gifford in 1852.
By the 1870s, airships powered by an internal combustion engine had already been developed. Airships were not new to Western culture by the 1890s, but it is possible that people from remote, rural parts of the United States, which described northern Texas at the time, were unfamiliar with airship technology. It is also possible that an airship being tested in the area could have been mistaken by unaccustomed locals as being of extra-terrestrial origin .
S. E. Haydon, “A Windmill Demolishes It,” The Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5. ( Public Domain )
Even if the Aurora airship incident were a complete hoax, the advent of airships would have certainly influenced the development of this narrative.
‘Mars Fever’ and the Aurora Incident
Another interesting aspect of the story that connects it to the wider culture at the time is the fact that the first guess of the account’s “expert on astronomy” was that the pilot was from the planet Mars. At the time, many people, including more scientifically minded individuals, believed that Mars was likely to have life .
In the 18th century, astronomers had confirmed that Mars had seasons. By the 1860s, this seasonal difference in the appearance of Mars was being attributed to differences in vegetation by astronomers. This explanation turned out to be erroneous of course. The visible seasonal differences on Mars have to do with global dust storms and seasonal sublimation of the Martian ice caps, not vegetation.
Another discovery that caused excitement about life on Mars was the discovery made in 1877 of alleged “canals” on Mars. In that year, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used a then-cutting-edge refracting telescope to look at the surface of Mars and saw what appeared to be a network of grooves or “trenches.”
Schiaparelli’s original language suggested nothing artificial or even specific about what he saw on Mars. When his report was translated into English however, his word “canali,” meaning grooves or markings, was translated into the English word “canal” which implies not just water and life but intelligence and planning.
In 1894, just three years before the alleged Aurora airship incident, the American businessman Percival Lowell founded the observatory that bears his name in Flagstaff, Arizona specifically to study Mars. Percival Lowell was convinced that there was an ancient dying civilization on Mars.
He theorized that the Martians had built the canals to bring water from the polar ice caps to arid lower latitudes. He explained this in several books that he wrote. These ideas about canals on Mars were treated with skepticism by most professional astronomers at the time.
Artist impression of a Mars settlement with cutaway view. ( Public Domain )
The idea was finally debunked in the 1960s when images from Mariner 4, the first interplanetary spacecraft to take detailed images of the surface of Mars, showed the planet to be barren and entirely lacking in existing bodies of liquid water on the surface, let alone canals. In the 1890s, however, the idea of canals on Mars was still popular in some circles and likely had an impact on the popular culture of the day. It is little surprise, in light of this, that a disfigured pilot in an uncommonly seen flying machine would be mistaken for a Martian in a small town in Texas in 1897.
Broader Context of the Aurora Airship Incident
The Aurora airship incident took place, or at least was alleged to have taken place, during a time of optimism regarding progress through science and technology. By the late 19th century, inventions and discoveries, such as steam-powered locomotives, airships, vaccines, and electric power, had created confidence that humanity could use science and technology to create a better future and do ever more impressive things. The vision of continuous technological and scientific progress was likely further validated by comparison with relatively recent discoveries in the geological and biological sciences.
By the 19th century, geologists, such as James Hutton and Charles Lyell, had shown that natural environments were constantly changing over time through regular geologic processes. This demonstrated that the world had not always been as it was – and could be very different in the future. Charles Darwin also showed how populations of organisms could change over time to adapt to their environment through natural selection. Not only did the natural environment change, organisms themselves could change.
While geologists and naturalists were finding evidence of change and evolution in the natural world, economists and social philosophers had started to look at how human societies change over time. Karl Marx , who wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, explained history in terms of continuous class conflict. He believed that, over time, class struggle would lead to the rise of a classless egalitarian society. Marx believed that the next expression of this process would be the overthrow of capitalism, where owners exploited workers, and its replacement with socialism.
Darwinian ideas about biological evolution and Marxist ideas about social and economic progress likely contributed to the idea of technological progress. If organisms could biologically evolve into higher forms over time, and human societies could become more egalitarian over time through class struggle, why couldn’t civilizations evolve technologically to more advanced levels with time?
The idea of extra-terrestrial civilizations technologically advanced enough to travel between planets could fit easily into this framework. If human civilization was evolving towards increasingly higher levels of technological and social progress, spacefaring extra-terrestrials, who inhabited the same universe and were subject to the same laws of nature, were likely the result of the same Darwinian and Marxist processes. They were simply a little farther along in the process and their evolution had occurred on a different planet.
The idea of extra-terrestrial civilizations technologically advanced enough to travel between planets could fit easily into people’s beliefs. ( Public Domain )
The late 19th century was probably the first time in history where the idea of beings travelling between the planets would have been considered scientifically believable. By the late 19th century, humans had already built some of the first flying machines. Also, writers, such as Jules Verne, and scientists, such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, had already begun to speculate about realistic scenarios for how people might travel through space.
Flying machines, as well as more realistic science fiction, began to make the idea of humans and other creatures being able to leave Earth’s surface seem more scientifically believable. This fact combined with the widespread acceptance of the idea of life on other planets, such as Mars, and created an intellectual and cultural environment where the crash of a spaceship in a farm in Texas would be considered plausible and widely believed in a way that may not have been possible in the past.
Whether the Aurora incident was a deliberate hoax, based on a misidentification of an early airship, or something else entirely, the story fits into the cultural narrative of the 1890s and likely was believed and not as easily dismissed because it fit the narrative. It especially fit the idea that there was an advanced civilization on Mars which may have had the technological capabilities of sending voyagers to Earth.
The Aurora Incident: Hoax, Misunderstanding, or Extra-Terrestrial Visitation?
How well the story fits with the cultural narrative of the time casts doubt on its credibility. If someone from the 19th century was trying to make up a story about a crashed alien spaceship, it has all the features you would expect. The craft is described as an airship, which was the most common advanced type of aircraft at the time. The pilot was identified as probably being from Mars, when it was extremely popular to believe that a canal-building civilization existed on the red planet.
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It also happened in a remote area where the evidence would have been difficult to verify. If it was not an outright hoax, it is easy to argue that the observers of the incident misidentified a terrestrial airship. Because they were unfamiliar with airships, the strangeness of the situation could have led some to believe that a disfigured pilot was not even human.
On the other hand, it is true that if it were an actual encounter with an alien spacecraft , they probably would have called it an “airship” because of familiarity. They also would have probably guessed the pilot was Martian, based on cultural perceptions and scientific ideas about extra-terrestrial life at the time.
In conclusion, the evidence is ambiguous – too ambiguous to use as reliable evidence for an extra-terrestrial visitation. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” as the astronomer Carl Sagan once said. This evidence does not appear to be extraordinary enough. It is possible, however, that this could have been based on a real event that involved an airship crash in a small town being misidentified as an otherworldly visitation.
Top image: The Aurora airship incident is a supposed example of a UFO crash landing in Texas. Source: fergregory /Adobe Stock
By Caleb Strom


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jewworldorder--2020-08-09--Seven killed in floods after torrential downpours on Greek island

At least seven people including a baby and an elderly couple have died following flash flooding caused by torrential rain on the Greek island of Evia .
Many people had to be airlifted to safety after roads were flooded , and the fire department has received hundreds of calls to pump water from houses and vehicles .
One person is still missing and dozens of others remain trapped in their homes and cars .
“ At night , at around 4 am , we heard this noise of the water coming down , ” said Maria , 85 , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where a river burst through its banks and forced many residents to climb to the rooftops of their homes .
She continued : “ And then the river , the water , everything started to come into the house .
We had to stand up on whatever we could in order not to drown.
” Rainfall began on the island , which is northeast of Athens , on Saturday night accompanied by lightning and was much heavier than expected .
Nikos Hardalis , Greece ’ s deputy minister of civil protection , said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 24 hours — substantially higher than the 63 mm that was forecast .
He said the damage caused by the storm was huge in certain areas of central Evia .
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to visit the region on Monday .
Transport was widely disrupted .
Firefighters said they came upon hundreds of dead sparrows after trees were hit by lightning .
Some locals criticised the authorities for not implementing the 112 emergency evacuation system to send a message to all mobile phone users urging them to leave their homes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we had done this we would have had hundreds of deaths .
“ The 112 emergency messaging system was in place , but when you have a phenomenon like this , you do not ask for any kind of evacuation .
It may have cost hundreds of human lives.
” Extreme weather is not uncommon in Greece , where 24 people were killed when flash floods hit the town of Mandra west of Athens in November 2017 .

At least seven people including a baby and an elderly couple have died following flash flooding caused by torrential rain on the Greek island of Evia.
Many people had to be airlifted to safety after roads were flooded, and the fire department has received hundreds of calls to pump water from houses and vehicles.
One person is still missing and dozens of others remain trapped in their homes and cars.
“At night, at around 4 am, we heard this noise of the water coming down,” said Maria, 85, who lives in the village of Politika, where a river burst through its banks and forced many residents to climb to the rooftops of their homes.
She continued: “And then the river, the water, everything started to come into the house. We had to stand up on whatever we could in order not to drown.”
Rainfall began on the island, which is northeast of Athens, on Saturday night accompanied by lightning and was much heavier than expected.
Nikos Hardalis, Greece’s deputy minister of civil protection, said there had been 350 mm of rain in 24 hours — substantially higher than the 63 mm that was forecast. He said the damage caused by the storm was huge in certain areas of central Evia.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to visit the region on Monday.
Transport was widely disrupted. Firefighters said they came upon hundreds of dead sparrows after trees were hit by lightning.
Some locals criticised the authorities for not implementing the 112 emergency evacuation system to send a message to all mobile phone users urging them to leave their homes.
But Hardalis said: “If we had done this we would have had hundreds of deaths.
“The 112 emergency messaging system was in place, but when you have a phenomenon like this, you do not ask for any kind of evacuation. It may have cost hundreds of human lives.”
Extreme weather is not uncommon in Greece, where 24 people were killed when flash floods hit the town of Mandra west of Athens in November 2017.


jewworldorder--2020-08-09--Classical Music Compilation @ 432 Hz

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I don ’ t know if all the hype surrounding 432 Hz has legitimacy , but it does seem to make some sense .
Generally , this solfeggio frequency has been proven to be a healing frequency since it reduces anxiety , lowers the heart rate , and blood pressure .
It is a frequency that encourages the synchronicity between both brain hemispheres , which increase intuition , insight , and creativity .
This frequency has been found in geometrical arrangements in some of the ancient sites such as Stone Henge and the Great Pyramid .
The frequency is at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Music is made of healing properties due to its frequencies .
Music therapists have been using music frequencies to restore the memory of patients suffering from Alzheimer and improve the basic movement skills in stroke patients .
Evidence from science and nature has been pointing towards 432 Hz being a powerful frequency , which should form the basis of tuning instruments .
For an increased well-being rate , the frequency plays a role in meditation and ensuring that the brain is attuned for the general well-being of a person .
The 432 solfeggio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ listening to the frequencies , which decrease anxiety and stress to its barest minimum .
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I don’t know if all the hype surrounding 432 Hz has legitimacy, but it does seem to make some sense.
Generally, this solfeggio frequency has been proven to be a healing frequency since it reduces anxiety, lowers the heart rate, and blood pressure. It is a frequency that encourages the synchronicity between both brain hemispheres, which increase intuition, insight, and creativity. This frequency has been found in geometrical arrangements in some of the ancient sites such as Stone Henge and the Great Pyramid. The frequency is at times said to be scientific tuning. Music is made of healing properties due to its frequencies. Music therapists have been using music frequencies to restore the memory of patients suffering from Alzheimer and improve the basic movement skills in stroke patients. Evidence from science and nature has been pointing towards 432 Hz being a powerful frequency, which should form the basis of tuning instruments. For an increased well-being rate, the frequency plays a role in meditation and ensuring that the brain is attuned for the general well-being of a person. The 432 solfeggio frequency produces calming effects, with just listening to the frequencies, which decrease anxiety and stress to its barest minimum. (Source)


jewworldorder--2020-08-09--Dentists Call It ‘Mask Mouth’, Warn of Decaying Teeth, Receding Gums and Seriously Bad Breath

People who wear masks all the time are setting themselves up for dental problems as harmful as those suffered by methamphetamine addicts , according to dentists who warn they are now treating patients a nasty set of symptoms , which they have dubbed “ mask mouth.
” The new oral hygiene problems — caused by , you guessed it , wearing a mask all the time to prevent the spread of the coronavirus — is leading to all kinds of dental disasters like decaying teeth , receding gum lines and seriously sour breath .
“ We ’ re seeing inflammation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been healthy forever , and cavities in people who have never had them before , ” says Dr .
Rob Ramondi , a dentist and co-founder of One Manhattan Dental .
“ About 50 % of our patients are being impacted by this , [ so ] we decided to name it ‘ mask mouth ’ — after ‘ meth mouth.
’ ” NYPost report : The term “ meth mouth ” is widely used by dentists to describe the dental problems that arise among methamphetamine users .
Addicts often end up with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the stimulant causes sugar cravings , teeth grinding and jaw clenching .
They also often neglect their oral hygiene .
While mask mouth isn ’ t quite as obvious , if left untreated , the results could be equally harmful .
“ Gum disease — or periodontal disease — will eventually lead to strokes and an increased risk of heart attacks , ” says Dr. Marc Sclafani , another co-founder of One Manhattan Dental .
He says the stinky syndrome is triggered by face coverings , since wearing a mask increases dryness of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad bacteria .
“ People tend to breathe through their mouth instead of through their nose while wearing a mask , ” says Sclafani .
“ The mouth breathing is causing the dry mouth , which leads to a decrease in saliva — and saliva is what fights the bacteria and cleanses your teeth.
” He adds that “ saliva is also what neutralizes acid in the mouth and helps prevent tooth decay and gum disease.
” People ’ s tendency to drink less water while masked up , as well as consume @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have also added to the widespread dehydration he ’ s seeing .
On the bright side , the dentists say that they ’ re packing in breath-conscious patients who might otherwise neglect their dental health during the pandemic .
“ Patients are coming into us like , ‘ Wow , my breath smells , I need a cleaning.
’ [ But ] when you smell the bad breath , you either already have periodontal disease or you have a lot of bacteria that ’ s sitting on your tongue because of dry mouth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not negotiable given the times , Sclafani says there are things wearers can do to avoid their grossest side effect : drink more water , cut down on caffeine , snag a humidifier ( to “ help moisten the air ” ) , use an alcohol-free mouthwash , scrape your tongue and don ’ t smoke .
And If all else fails ?
“ Just breathe through your nose !
”

People who wear masks all the time are setting themselves up for dental problems as harmful as those suffered by methamphetamine addicts, according to dentists who warn they are now treating patients a nasty set of symptoms, which they have dubbed “mask mouth.”
The new oral hygiene problems — caused by, you guessed it, wearing a mask all the time to prevent the spread of the coronavirus — is leading to all kinds of dental disasters like decaying teeth, receding gum lines and seriously sour breath.
“We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before,” says Dr. Rob Ramondi, a dentist and co-founder of One Manhattan Dental. “About 50% of our patients are being impacted by this, [so] we decided to name it ‘mask mouth’ — after ‘meth mouth.’ ”
NYPost report: The term “meth mouth” is widely used by dentists to describe the dental problems that arise among methamphetamine users. Addicts often end up with cracked, black- and brown-stained teeth because the stimulant causes sugar cravings, teeth grinding and jaw clenching. They also often neglect their oral hygiene.
While mask mouth isn’t quite as obvious, if left untreated, the results could be equally harmful.
“Gum disease — or periodontal disease — will eventually lead to strokes and an increased risk of heart attacks,” says Dr. Marc Sclafani, another co-founder of One Manhattan Dental.
He says the stinky syndrome is triggered by face coverings, since wearing a mask increases dryness of the mouth — and a buildup of bad bacteria.
“People tend to breathe through their mouth instead of through their nose while wearing a mask,” says Sclafani. “The mouth breathing is causing the dry mouth, which leads to a decrease in saliva — and saliva is what fights the bacteria and cleanses your teeth.”
He adds that “saliva is also what neutralizes acid in the mouth and helps prevent tooth decay and gum disease.”
People’s tendency to drink less water while masked up, as well as consume more coffee and alcohol during lockdown, have also added to the widespread dehydration he’s seeing.
On the bright side, the dentists say that they’re packing in breath-conscious patients who might otherwise neglect their dental health during the pandemic.
“Patients are coming into us like, ‘Wow, my breath smells, I need a cleaning.’ [But] when you smell the bad breath, you either already have periodontal disease or you have a lot of bacteria that’s sitting on your tongue because of dry mouth,” says Sclafani.
While masks are not negotiable given the times, Sclafani says there are things wearers can do to avoid their grossest side effect: drink more water, cut down on caffeine, snag a humidifier (to “help moisten the air”), use an alcohol-free mouthwash, scrape your tongue and don’t smoke.
And If all else fails? “Just breathe through your nose!”


jewworldorder--2020-08-09--It’s absolutely necessary to expose Bill Gates so that he no longer has a global platform. (Video)

Welcome .
If you ’ re reading these words , then it ’ s likely that you ’ re here because of the # ExposeBillGates global day of action .
Perhaps you ’ re here out of curiosity .
Perhaps you came here to argue with crazy conspiracy theorists .
Perhaps you already know about the # ExposeBillGates movement but just want to learn more .
Whatever your motivations for clicking on this link , I promise you this article is not clickbait .
This is not a put-on or satire or a trendy internet listicle .
The # ExposeBillGates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aims to alert the public to the real dangers of the world that are coming into view : a world of lockdowns and quarantines , masks and vaccines , checkpoints and immunity passports , cashless payments and biometric IDs .
So the first question you might be asking is : why Bill Gates ?
Why are all these people on the internet trying to warn about Bill Gates in the midst of this global pandemic ?
Isn ’ t Gates a philanthropist who ’ s trying to help the world out by donating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was to answer that very question that I created my feature-length documentary on this subject , Who Is Bill Gates ?
If you haven ’ t watched it already , please do so in the player above .
You can also follow this link to access the full transcript and audio/video downloads completely for free .
But if you need a bit more information before you invest your time in watching a two-hour documentary , here are some important issues for you to explore , along with some suggestions for further reading and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up on the reasons that we need to # ExposeBillGates .
When he set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife and his father around the turn of the 21st century , Bill Gates went from villain to superhero in the public imagination seemingly overnight .
No longer a reviled monopolist who built his Microsoft empire on the back of glitchy software and out of a ruthless desire to squash his competition , Gates was suddenly seen as a selfless philanthropist , generously giving away his fortune for the benefit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that Gates ’ philanthropy is hardly selfless .
He “ generously ” donates to causes that directly benefit his family ( like his $ 80 million gift to the prestigious private school that his own children attend ) and his business interests .
His foundation has even provided hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to corporations like Merck , Novartis , GlaxoSmithKline , Vodafone , Sanofi , Ericsson , LG , Medtronic , and Teva in which his foundation trust holds corporate stocks and bonds .
This self-serving “ giving ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , over the past decade of his “ philanthropy , ” Gates ’ net worth has actually doubled , from $ 50 billion to over $ 100 billion .
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has monopolized the global health industry Gates ’ unique brand of philanthropy doesn ’ t simply benefit his family financially .
It also affords him unprecedented power in the field of global public health , where his foundation directs much of its funds .
It is remarkable that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the second-largest donor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , right behind the US government .
In fact , if the US government does withdraw its funding from the WHO next year as it is currently threatening to do , the Gates Foundation will be the single largest funding source for the group .
But Gates ’ influence extends far beyond the WHO .
The Gates Foundation co-founded the Global Fund to Fight AIDS ; the Global Financing Facility for Women , Children and Adolescents ; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations ; Gavi , the Vaccine Alliance ; the Stop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major global health initiative of the past two decades .
To many , the fact that Gates ’ funding is behind all of these initiatives is just another sign that Gates is serious in his pledge to devote his wealth to charitable causes .
But a growing number of people around the world see the outsized influence of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a cause for concern .
By funding individual health initiatives and entire organizations into existence , Gates has garnered the ability to direct research priorities and even to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used to treat various diseases .
As the WHO ’ s own malaria chief , Dr. Arata Kochi warned in an internal memo , Gates ’ influence means that the world ’ s leading malaria scientists are now “ locked up in a ‘ cartel ’ with their own research funding being linked to those of others within the group ” and that the foundation is “ stifling debate on the best ways to treat and combat malaria , prioritizing only those methods that relied on new technology or developing new drugs.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Web Of Dark Money And Influence – Part 1 : Philanthropic Narrative Shaping The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been involved in illegal and unethical research in developing countries The Gates Foundation has been involved in a number of scandals involving illegal and unethical medical research and clinical trials of vaccines and drugs throughout the developing world .
In 2006 , for example , Gates funds were used to help PATH—a global health nonprofit based in Gates ’ hometown of Seattle—embark on a five-year project “ to generate and disseminate evidence for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” In India , this project involved a “ demonstration project ” for GlaxoSmithKline ’ s and Merck ’ s HPV vaccines .
The aim was to get those vaccines included on India ’ s national immunization schedule .
The Hindu noted that this “ shockingly unethical trial ” involved flagrant breaches of basic ethical guidelines , including 2,800 cases of children being enrolled in the program by wardens or headmasters acting as “ guardian.
” The Indian parliament itself wrote a blistering report excoriating the parties involved for their violation of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ participants .
Other shocking examples of Gates participation or funding in questionable or outright unethical trials include : • The Gates-founded and funded Meningitis Vaccine Project , which led to the creation and testing of MenAfriVac , a $ 0.50-per-dose immunization against meningococcal meningitis .
The tests led to reports of between 40 and 500 children suffering seizures and convulsions and eventually becoming paralyzed .
• The 2017 confirmation that the Gates-supported oral polio vaccine was actually responsible for the majority of new polio cases and the 2018 follow-up study showing that 80 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• The 2018 paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , which concluded that over 490,000 people in India developed paralysis as a result of being given the oral polio vaccine between 2000 and 2017 .
Suggested further reading : Accountability of International NGOs : Human Rights Violations in Healthcare Provision in Developing Countries and the Effectiveness of Current Measures The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has practiced philanthropic racism throughout the developing world Critics of the Gates Foundation have noted that its efforts to limit population growth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the highly controversial Depo Provera drug and other forms of injectable birth control ) have centered primarily on nations in Africa and Latin America .
The charge that focusing population control programs on these countries constitutes “ philanthropic racism ” is bolstered by the specter of eugenics .
Indeed , the eugenics philosophy has hung like a dark cloud over the realm of corporate foundation philanthropy ever since these philantropic vehicles were pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation , the Carnegie Foundation and similar organizations at the turn of the 20th century .
Eugenics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ classism that was massively popular in the United States during the Progressive Era of the early 1900s .
It holds that the rich and powerful are fit , by virtue of their superior genes , to rule over the “ infirm ” and “ feebleminded ” and those with “ defective germplasm ” —terms that were used to refer to the handicapped , the poor , ethnic minorities and common criminals .
As a field of study , eugenics was largely funded by the philanthropic foundations that the late-19th-century robber barons had founded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wealth .
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation in particular helped with significant cash infusions into the Eugenics Records Office and other key research facilities in the eugenic movement .
This research led to the passage of involuntary sterilization laws across the US and even the T4 eugenic sterilization program in Nazi Germany .
After the name of eugenics was tarnished in the wake of World War II , many of the eugenics researchers continued their work under different names .
Thus , many members of the American Eugenics Society took up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rockefeller III ’ s Population Council , and Margaret Sanger ’ s Birth Control League—which had boasted prominent members of the American Eugenics Society on its board—morphed into Planned Parenthood , which was led for many years by a director of the American Eugenics Society , Alan Guttmacher .
Bill Gates , Sr. also served on the board of Planned Parenthood , a fact that Gates cited as being influential in his early years as a population control advocate .
The shadow of eugenics and racism still hangs over the field of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the Gates Foundation has openly wrestled with in recent years .
Gates is helping to form a cashless payment and biometric identity grid By now , the general public is used to seeing Gates as the public face of the coronavirus crisis .
Mainstream media outlets have turned time and again to Gates for more information on the response to COVID-19 and the pressing need to vaccinate “ basically the entire world ” against SARS-Cov-2 .
But , while Gates ’ role in funding the global health field is by now well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technologies that will shape the post-COVID world is not .
The Gates Foundation is tied to ID2020 through Gavi , the Vaccine Alliance .
Also known as the “ Digital Identity Alliance ” ID2020 brings Gavi and Gates ’ old company Microsoft and other corporate partners together to create a global digital ID system .
This has led the Gates-tied Gavi alliance to focus increasingly on tying vaccine recipients with governmental digital health records and , ultimately , with biometric ID databases .
Meanwhile , Gates himself has been a vocal advocate of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ambitious project to enroll a billion Indian citizens in the largest biometric database ever constructed .
Gates is also interested in advancing the digitization of the economy .
For example , he has addressed government fora in both India and the US about the benefits of digital payment systems .
Also , the Gates Foundation helped co-found the Better Than Cash Alliance , a consortium of governmental and non-governmental organizations whose members are committed to creating a digital payment infrastructure for development programs and aid for the poor .
This infrastructure , Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governments and aid groups to more effectively target and manage their aid .
But while the fields of global health , biometric identification and digital payments may seem distinct , they have begun to converge as governments and intergovernmental bodies start to imagine the “ Great Reset ” of the post-COVID “ new normal.
” Gates has argued that digital immunity certificates—combining the medical diagnostic field with the biometric identification field—will be necessary if life is to return to normal .
That convergence is already reflected in the World Economic Forum-promoted “ CovidPass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” which would allow people to travel or prevent them from traveling based on their health status and proof of immunity or vaccination .
It does not take a great deal of imagination to see how such a health passport could be tied into the digital payment structure to prevent unvaccinated people from transacting in any number of situations that the authorities might frown upon .
After all , Gates himself has touted the ability of governments to block transactions they disapprove of as a key part of the digital payments systems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Bill Gates Calls for a “ Digital Certificate ” to Identify Who Received COVID-19 Vaccine This agenda does not begin and end with Bill Gates Don ’ t let the hashtag in # ExposeBillGates fool you .
True , you have seen in this article ( and you will see when you watch the complete Who Is Bill Gates ?
documentary ) that Bill Gates has played an integral role in almost every facet of the coronavirus pandemic and , more importantly , in the global response to it .
But the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stop one man , Bill Gates , from enacting this agenda and then to call it a day .
No , Bill Gates is merely the recognizable spider at the center of a web of organizations , institutions , corporations and government bodies that are acting in concert to transform the world as we know it .
But these various bodies are all dedicated to the same vision of The Great Reset and the new normal that Bill Gates is , and they would continue to bring that vision about even if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There are many reasons to be concerned about this agenda and its implications .
But even if we were to trust that Gates himself actually is a selfless philanthropist with the purest of intentions , no one should trust that the heads of the various groups , organizations , bodies , NGOs , foundations and governments who are spearheading this agenda are all similarly trustworthy .
The amount of power that is being centralized in the hands of unaccountable institutions and nongovernmental bodies should be disturbing to anyone who understands the real danger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few hands .
It is for this reason that people around the world are joining the # ExposeBillGates movement .
They are seeking to draw attention to these issues , to work hand-in-hand with one another , and to begin a public discussion that will derail the agenda promoted by Gates and his fellow travelers .
If you share these concerns , please continue to research the information presented under the # ExposeBillGates hashtag and help spread this vital information far and wide .
Together , we can make a difference .

The Corbett Report
Welcome. If you’re reading these words, then it’s likely that you’re here because of the #ExposeBillGates global day of action.
Perhaps you’re here out of curiosity. Perhaps you came here to argue with crazy conspiracy theorists. Perhaps you already know about the #ExposeBillGates movement but just want to learn more.
Whatever your motivations for clicking on this link, I promise you this article is not clickbait. This is not a put-on or satire or a trendy internet listicle. The #ExposeBillGates movement is deadly serious, and it aims to alert the public to the real dangers of the world that are coming into view: a world of lockdowns and quarantines, masks and vaccines, checkpoints and immunity passports, cashless payments and biometric IDs.
So the first question you might be asking is: why Bill Gates? Why are all these people on the internet trying to warn about Bill Gates in the midst of this global pandemic? Isn’t Gates a philanthropist who’s trying to help the world out by donating his fortune to good causes?
It was to answer that very question that I created my feature-length documentary on this subject, Who Is Bill Gates?
If you haven’t watched it already, please do so in the player above. You can also follow this link to access the full transcript and audio/video downloads completely for free.
But if you need a bit more information before you invest your time in watching a two-hour documentary, here are some important issues for you to explore, along with some suggestions for further reading and viewing that will help you get caught up on the reasons that we need to #ExposeBillGates.
Bill Gates is not a selfless philanthropist
When he set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife and his father around the turn of the 21st century, Bill Gates went from villain to superhero in the public imagination seemingly overnight. No longer a reviled monopolist who built his Microsoft empire on the back of glitchy software and out of a ruthless desire to squash his competition, Gates was suddenly seen as a selfless philanthropist, generously giving away his fortune for the benefit of the world.
What few realize is that Gates’ philanthropy is hardly selfless. He “generously” donates to causes that directly benefit his family (like his $80 million gift to the prestigious private school that his own children attend) and his business interests. His foundation has even provided hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to corporations like Merck, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone, Sanofi, Ericsson, LG, Medtronic, and Teva in which his foundation trust holds corporate stocks and bonds.
This self-serving “giving” might account for the striking fact that, over the past decade of his “philanthropy,” Gates’ net worth has actually doubled, from $50 billion to over $100 billion.
Suggested further reading: Bill Gates’s Charity Paradox
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has monopolized the global health industry
Gates’ unique brand of philanthropy doesn’t simply benefit his family financially. It also affords him unprecedented power in the field of global public health, where his foundation directs much of its funds. It is remarkable that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the second-largest donor to the World Health Organization (WHO), right behind the US government. In fact, if the US government does withdraw its funding from the WHO next year as it is currently threatening to do, the Gates Foundation will be the single largest funding source for the group.
But Gates’ influence extends far beyond the WHO. The Gates Foundation co-founded the Global Fund to Fight AIDS; the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Stop TB Partnership; and seemingly every other major global health initiative of the past two decades.
To many, the fact that Gates’ funding is behind all of these initiatives is just another sign that Gates is serious in his pledge to devote his wealth to charitable causes. But a growing number of people around the world see the outsized influence of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a cause for concern. By funding individual health initiatives and entire organizations into existence, Gates has garnered the ability to direct research priorities and even to determine what forms of medical intervention are used to treat various diseases.
As the WHO’s own malaria chief, Dr. Arata Kochi warned in an internal memo, Gates’ influence means that the world’s leading malaria scientists are now “locked up in a ‘cartel’ with their own research funding being linked to those of others within the group” and that the foundation is “stifling debate on the best ways to treat and combat malaria, prioritizing only those methods that relied on new technology or developing new drugs.”
Suggested further reading: Bill Gates’ Web Of Dark Money And Influence – Part 1: Philanthropic Narrative Shaping
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been involved in illegal and unethical research in developing countries
The Gates Foundation has been involved in a number of scandals involving illegal and unethical medical research and clinical trials of vaccines and drugs throughout the developing world.
In 2006, for example, Gates funds were used to help PATH—a global health nonprofit based in Gates’ hometown of Seattle—embark on a five-year project “to generate and disseminate evidence for informed public sector introduction of HPV vaccines.” In India, this project involved a “demonstration project” for GlaxoSmithKline’s and Merck’s HPV vaccines. The aim was to get those vaccines included on India’s national immunization schedule. The Hindu noted that this “shockingly unethical trial” involved flagrant breaches of basic ethical guidelines, including 2,800 cases of children being enrolled in the program by wardens or headmasters acting as “guardian.” The Indian parliament itself wrote a blistering report excoriating the parties involved for their violation of the human rights of the study’s participants.
Other shocking examples of Gates participation or funding in questionable or outright unethical trials include:
The Gates-founded and funded Meningitis Vaccine Project, which led to the creation and testing of MenAfriVac, a $0.50-per-dose immunization against meningococcal meningitis. The tests led to reports of between 40 and 500 children suffering seizures and convulsions and eventually becoming paralyzed.
The 2017 confirmation that the Gates-supported oral polio vaccine was actually responsible for the majority of new polio cases and the 2018 follow-up study showing that 80% of polio cases are now vaccine-derived.
The 2018 paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, which concluded that over 490,000 people in India developed paralysis as a result of being given the oral polio vaccine between 2000 and 2017.
Suggested further reading: Accountability of International NGOs: Human Rights Violations in Healthcare Provision in Developing Countries and the Effectiveness of Current Measures
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has practiced philanthropic racism throughout the developing world
Critics of the Gates Foundation have noted that its efforts to limit population growth (including Melinda Gates’ promotion of the highly controversial Depo Provera drug and other forms of injectable birth control) have centered primarily on nations in Africa and Latin America. The charge that focusing population control programs on these countries constitutes “philanthropic racism” is bolstered by the specter of eugenics. Indeed, the eugenics philosophy has hung like a dark cloud over the realm of corporate foundation philanthropy ever since these philantropic vehicles were pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation and similar organizations at the turn of the 20th century.
Eugenics is a pseudoscientific rationale for racism and classism that was massively popular in the United States during the Progressive Era of the early 1900s. It holds that the rich and powerful are fit, by virtue of their superior genes, to rule over the “infirm” and “feebleminded” and those with “defective germplasm”—terms that were used to refer to the handicapped, the poor, ethnic minorities and common criminals.
As a field of study, eugenics was largely funded by the philanthropic foundations that the late-19th-century robber barons had founded as a tax-free shelter for their enormous wealth. The Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation in particular helped with significant cash infusions into the Eugenics Records Office and other key research facilities in the eugenic movement. This research led to the passage of involuntary sterilization laws across the US and even the T4 eugenic sterilization program in Nazi Germany.
After the name of eugenics was tarnished in the wake of World War II, many of the eugenics researchers continued their work under different names. Thus, many members of the American Eugenics Society took up work in the offices of John D. Rockefeller III’s Population Council, and Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control League—which had boasted prominent members of the American Eugenics Society on its board—morphed into Planned Parenthood, which was led for many years by a director of the American Eugenics Society, Alan Guttmacher. Bill Gates, Sr. also served on the board of Planned Parenthood, a fact that Gates cited as being influential in his early years as a population control advocate.
The shadow of eugenics and racism still hangs over the field of “population control” research, a stigma that the Gates Foundation has openly wrestled with in recent years.
Suggested viewing: Exposing the Gates Agenda in Africa
Gates is helping to form a cashless payment and biometric identity grid
By now, the general public is used to seeing Gates as the public face of the coronavirus crisis. Mainstream media outlets have turned time and again to Gates for more information on the response to COVID-19 and the pressing need to vaccinate “basically the entire world” against SARS-Cov-2.
But, while Gates’ role in funding the global health field is by now well known, his role in funding other technologies that will shape the post-COVID world is not.
The Gates Foundation is tied to ID2020 through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Also known as the “Digital Identity Alliance” ID2020 brings Gavi and Gates’ old company Microsoft and other corporate partners together to create a global digital ID system. This has led the Gates-tied Gavi alliance to focus increasingly on tying vaccine recipients with governmental digital health records and, ultimately, with biometric ID databases. Meanwhile, Gates himself has been a vocal advocate of India’s Aadhaar system, the ambitious project to enroll a billion Indian citizens in the largest biometric database ever constructed.
Gates is also interested in advancing the digitization of the economy. For example, he has addressed government fora in both India and the US about the benefits of digital payment systems. Also, the Gates Foundation helped co-found the Better Than Cash Alliance, a consortium of governmental and non-governmental organizations whose members are committed to creating a digital payment infrastructure for development programs and aid for the poor. This infrastructure, Gates and his cohorts argue, will help governments and aid groups to more effectively target and manage their aid.
But while the fields of global health, biometric identification and digital payments may seem distinct, they have begun to converge as governments and intergovernmental bodies start to imagine the “Great Reset” of the post-COVID “new normal.” Gates has argued that digital immunity certificates—combining the medical diagnostic field with the biometric identification field—will be necessary if life is to return to normal. That convergence is already reflected in the World Economic Forum-promoted “CovidPass” vision of a “health passport,” which would allow people to travel or prevent them from traveling based on their health status and proof of immunity or vaccination.
It does not take a great deal of imagination to see how such a health passport could be tied into the digital payment structure to prevent unvaccinated people from transacting in any number of situations that the authorities might frown upon. After all, Gates himself has touted the ability of governments to block transactions they disapprove of as a key part of the digital payments systems of the future.
Suggested further reading: Bill Gates Calls for a “Digital Certificate” to Identify Who Received COVID-19 Vaccine
This agenda does not begin and end with Bill Gates
Don’t let the hashtag in #ExposeBillGates fool you. True, you have seen in this article (and you will see when you watch the complete Who Is Bill Gates? documentary) that Bill Gates has played an integral role in almost every facet of the coronavirus pandemic and, more importantly, in the global response to it. But the point of #ExposeBillGates is not simply to stop one man, Bill Gates, from enacting this agenda and then to call it a day.
No, Bill Gates is merely the recognizable spider at the center of a web of organizations, institutions, corporations and government bodies that are acting in concert to transform the world as we know it. But these various bodies are all dedicated to the same vision of The Great Reset and the new normal that Bill Gates is, and they would continue to bring that vision about even if Bill Gates himself were somehow stopped.
There are many reasons to be concerned about this agenda and its implications. But even if we were to trust that Gates himself actually is a selfless philanthropist with the purest of intentions, no one should trust that the heads of the various groups, organizations, bodies, NGOs, foundations and governments who are spearheading this agenda are all similarly trustworthy. The amount of power that is being centralized in the hands of unaccountable institutions and nongovernmental bodies should be disturbing to anyone who understands the real danger of putting so much power in so few hands.
It is for this reason that people around the world are joining the #ExposeBillGates movement. They are seeking to draw attention to these issues, to work hand-in-hand with one another, and to begin a public discussion that will derail the agenda promoted by Gates and his fellow travelers.
If you share these concerns, please continue to research the information presented under the #ExposeBillGates hashtag and help spread this vital information far and wide. Together, we can make a difference.
___
https://www.corbettreport.com/exposebillgates/


jewworldorder--2020-08-09--Why did the initially uninformed US Defense Secretary all of a sudden change his tune on the obvious

Why did the initially uninformed US Defense Secretary all of a sudden change his tune on the obvious Beirut bombing?

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper appeared on FOX Saturday evening to explain the discrepancy between official Lebanese government statements that the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion was an accident based on severe “ negligence ” and President Trump ’ s initial statements in the aftermath that it was a “ terrible attack ” .
Trump had raised eyebrows in saying at a White House press conference in the hours after the tragedy that left over 150 dead , while referencing his generals : “ They seem to think it was an attack .
It was a bomb of some kind.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Pentagon tried to walk back the statements , now with Esper in the weekend FOX interview saying that ultimately it was not clear whether the explosion was the result of “ a deliberate attack or an accident ” .
“ The bottom line is that we still don ’ t know .
You know , on the first day , as President Trump said , we thought it might have been an attack .
Some of us expected it might be , for example , a shipment of weapons to Hezbollah @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Esper said .
“ I have said before that it looks like an accident , ” Esper continued .
“ It is unfortunate that some in the media have tried to create divisions within the administration , perhaps between me and the president and others.
” He concluded , “ It is simply not true .
I mean , the truth of the matter , it is a great tragedy .
Under the leadership of the President , we will do our best to help the Lebanese people and do what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since revealed that not only was an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unsecured for over 6 years in a warehouse at the port , but a large quantity of fireworks had been impounded in the same warehouse complex , near the highly explosive substance commonly used in fertilizer and manufactured explosives .
Meanwhile , despite now raging protests in reaction to government negligence which allowed 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate to be “ stored unsafely ” , Lebanese President Michel Aoun has rejected calls for an international investigation as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The goal of calls for an international investigation in the port case is to waste time , ” the President ’ s media office cited him as saying .
It is as yet unclear whether Washington will add pressure on the Lebanese government to allow an international team to head up an official investigation .
Given current media claims that Hezbollah also conducted operations at the port , it is likely the administration will push for an outside , independent investigation into the cause of what ’ s been acknowledged as the largest @ @ @ @ @ @

ZeroHedge.com
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper appeared on FOX Saturday evening to explain the discrepancy between official Lebanese government statements that the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion was an accident based on severe “negligence” and President Trump’s initial statements in the aftermath that it was a “terrible attack”.
Trump had raised eyebrows in saying at a White House press conference in the hours after the tragedy that left over 150 dead, while referencing his generals: “They seem to think it was an attack. It was a bomb of some kind.”
In the days after both Trump and the Pentagon tried to walk back the statements, now with Esper in the weekend FOX interview saying that ultimately it was not clear whether the explosion was the result of “a deliberate attack or an accident”.
“The bottom line is that we still don’t know. You know, on the first day, as President Trump said, we thought it might have been an attack. Some of us expected it might be, for example, a shipment of weapons to Hezbollah that exploded. Maybe a manufacturing facility,” Esper said.
“Some of us speculated it could have been for an example a Hezbollah arms shipment that blew up, maybe a Hezbollah bomb-making facility,” Esper told show host Jeanine Pirro.
“I have said before that it looks like an accident,” Esper continued. “It is unfortunate that some in the media have tried to create divisions within the administration, perhaps between me and the president and others.”
He concluded, “It is simply not true. I mean, the truth of the matter, it is a great tragedy. Under the leadership of the President, we will do our best to help the Lebanese people and do what is right.”
It’s been since revealed that not only was an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unsecured for over 6 years in a warehouse at the port, but a large quantity of fireworks had been impounded in the same warehouse complex, near the highly explosive substance commonly used in fertilizer and manufactured explosives.
Beirut Port blast aftermath: AP file.
Meanwhile, despite now raging protests in reaction to government negligence which allowed 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate to be “stored unsafely”, Lebanese President Michel Aoun has rejected calls for an international investigation as a “waste of time”.
“The goal of calls for an international investigation in the port case is to waste time,” the President’s media office cited him as saying.
NEVER MISS
It is as yet unclear whether Washington will add pressure on the Lebanese government to allow an international team to head up an official investigation.
Given current media claims that Hezbollah also conducted operations at the port, it is likely the administration will push for an outside, independent investigation into the cause of what’s been acknowledged as the largest non-military munitions explosion in history.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-not-clear-if-beirut-port-explosion-was-accident-or-attack-esper-tells-fox


jewworldorder--2020-08-09--Did the Beirut bombing perps know they would do this much damage?! (Video)

NASA has released specialized overhead imagery and analysis in the aftermath of the Aug. 4 massive Beirut port explosion .
The pictures were released by the agency ’ s Rapid Advanced Imaging and Analysis ( ARIA ) team in cooperation with the Earth Observatory in Singapore , and provide satellite-derived synthetic aperture radar data which reveals the extent of the damage in and around the detonation site .
“ On the attached map , the dark red points , such as those in and around the port of Beirut , represent the most severe damage , ” the official press @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clearly damaged , while the yellow areas were likely to have suffered somewhat less damage , and each colored pixel represents an area of 30 meters .
On the map , dark red pixels – like those present at and around the Port of Beirut – represent the most severe damage .
Areas in orange are moderately damaged and areas in yellow are likely to have sustained somewhat less damage .
Each colored pixel represents an area of 30 meters ( 33 yards ) .
Maps like this one can help identify badly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The explosion occurred near the city ’ s port .
It claimed more than 150 lives and is estimated to have caused billions of dollars ’ worth of damage .
Meanwhile , despite now raging protests in reaction to government negligence which allowed 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate to be “ stored unsafely ” , Lebanese President Michel Aoun has rejected calls for an international investigation as a “ waste of time ” .
“ The goal of calls for an international investigation in the port case is to waste time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office cited him as saying .

ZeroHedge.com
NASA has released specialized overhead imagery and analysis in the aftermath of the Aug. 4 massive Beirut port explosion.
The pictures were released by the agency’s Rapid Advanced Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team in cooperation with the Earth Observatory in Singapore, and provide satellite-derived synthetic aperture radar data which reveals the extent of the damage in and around the detonation site.
A @NASAJPL team, in collaboration with @EOS_SG, used satellite-derived data to map the likely extent of damage from the Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut. Maps like this one can help identify badly damaged areas where people may need assistance: https://t.co/osF7y1tOQ3 pic.twitter.com/mamSfRGK4Q — NASA (@NASA) August 8, 2020
“On the attached map, the dark red points, such as those in and around the port of Beirut, represent the most severe damage,” the official press release reads.
The orange areas were clearly damaged, while the yellow areas were likely to have suffered somewhat less damage, and each colored pixel represents an area of 30 meters.
The NASA press readout further details:
On the map, dark red pixels – like those present at and around the Port of Beirut – represent the most severe damage. Areas in orange are moderately damaged and areas in yellow are likely to have sustained somewhat less damage. Each colored pixel represents an area of 30 meters (33 yards). Maps like this one can help identify badly damaged areas where people may need assistance. The explosion occurred near the city’s port. It claimed more than 150 lives and is estimated to have caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage.
Meanwhile, despite now raging protests in reaction to government negligence which allowed 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate to be “stored unsafely”, Lebanese President Michel Aoun has rejected calls for an international investigation as a “waste of time”.
Craziest Beirut explosion angle pic.twitter.com/jTXstVCMB1 — 🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴 (@JoshLekach) August 7, 2020
“The goal of calls for an international investigation in the port case is to waste time,” the President’s media office cited him as saying.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nasa-releases-specialized-aerial-shot-showing-extent-damage-beirut


jewworldorder--2020-08-09--Notice how the MSM cranks up Covid spikes and outbreaks in any state that’s reopening

Angie Franks said both her nephews who attend the school have tested positive for COVID-19 .
One came home from school Monday unable to smell , she said in an interview with the AJC .
His mother took him for testing and the results the next day showed him positive , Franks said .
By then , his brother was exhibiting symptoms and was also tested .
His positive results were returned Wednesday .
The students are quarantining at home , but both went to school Monday .
Franks said the boys ’ father notified the school on Tuesday and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ They sat in class all day long with no masks and not social distancing , ” Franks said .
“ And I have no idea how many kids they came into contact with.
” She said the boys didn ’ t grasp the gravity of the virus and weren ’ t encouraged to wear masks in classrooms or hallways by the school .
Paulding County ’ s school system is not mandating masks for students and staff , though it is supplying them for teachers .
Concerns about Paulding ’ s plans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nurse to resign from the district last month .
Amy Westmoreland told the AJC on Sunday that she left her job as the school nurse at W.C. Abney Elementary School because she felt the policies — including the absence of a mask mandate — put her at risk of catching and spreading the virus within the school .
“ I would never be able to live with myself if I infected somebody , ” Westmoreland said .
“ It didn ’ t seem safe at all.
” She was concerned that remaining in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at risk , in part because the district was not providing nurses with the typical personal protective equipment for COVID-19 used by hospitals , such as N95 masks .
“ This is basic respiratory hygiene , so I would not be in compliance with what I ’ m supposed to be doing as a nurse , ” she said .
She said she knows families with children who have health conditions that raise their risk of consequences from infection ; while the parents kept their high-risk children home to learn online , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 Action News reported there have been 53 cases of COVID-19 , including 23 students reported in Paulding County schools since July 1 .

Angie Franks said both her nephews who attend the school have tested positive for COVID-19. One came home from school Monday unable to smell, she said in an interview with the AJC. His mother took him for testing and the results the next day showed him positive, Franks said. By then, his brother was exhibiting symptoms and was also tested. His positive results were returned Wednesday.
The students are quarantining at home, but both went to school Monday. Franks said the boys’ father notified the school on Tuesday and Wednesday after getting their test results.
“They sat in class all day long with no masks and not social distancing,” Franks said. “And I have no idea how many kids they came into contact with.”
She said the boys didn’t grasp the gravity of the virus and weren’t encouraged to wear masks in classrooms or hallways by the school. Paulding County’s school system is not mandating masks for students and staff, though it is supplying them for teachers.
Concerns about Paulding’s plans for handling the coronavirus led one school nurse to resign from the district last month.
Amy Westmoreland told the AJC on Sunday that she left her job as the school nurse at W.C. Abney Elementary School because she felt the policies — including the absence of a mask mandate — put her at risk of catching and spreading the virus within the school.
“I would never be able to live with myself if I infected somebody,” Westmoreland said. “It didn’t seem safe at all.”
She was concerned that remaining in her job would put her nursing license at risk, in part because the district was not providing nurses with the typical personal protective equipment for COVID-19 used by hospitals, such as N95 masks. “This is basic respiratory hygiene, so I would not be in compliance with what I’m supposed to be doing as a nurse,” she said.
She said she knows families with children who have health conditions that raise their risk of consequences from infection; while the parents kept their high-risk children home to learn online, they sent siblings into the schools.
Channel 2 Action News reported there have been 53 cases of COVID-19, including 23 students reported in Paulding County schools since July 1.
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https://www.ajc.com/education/9-cases-of-covid-19-reported-at-north-paulding-high-school/OWH6MN7DZ5A2XDQMXX337AQEWI/


jewworldorder--2020-08-10--Historic Wine Windows Reopen in Italy, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The bubonic plague , otherwise known as the Black Death , originated in Asia during the late Middle Ages and spread north into Europe through the bacteria Yersinia pestis on infected fleas .
To counter bubonic plague , much like today ’ s situation with coronavirus , 17th-century Italians in Tuscany built ‘ wine windows , or ‘ buchette del vino , ’ which were holes with hatches carved into the concrete walls of urban wine producers who served customers at safe social distances .
The Italian Plague of 1629–1631 AD ( the Great Plague of Milan ) was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ northern and central Italy claiming an estimated million lives , or about 25 % of the population , adding to the one-third of Europe ’ s population that died at the time .
Wine for sale the writing in stone says in Italian from the ancient days when ‘ wine windows ’ first appeared during the bubonic plaque in Florence , Italy ( Buchette Del Vino ) Contactless Historic ‘ Wine Windows ’ Appear Again in Tuscany It wasn ’ t quite clear what these historic ‘ wine windows ’ were originally used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this year .
Consequently , under the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic , Italy ’ s historic ‘ wine windows ’ are open again in Italy for the safe purchase of vino and other things .
The Italian Wine Window Association website says that while the Italian population is currently confined to home as the government permits a gradual COVID-19 reopening “ during this time , some enterprising Florentine Wine Window owners have turned back the clock and are using their Wine Windows to dispense glasses of wine , cups of coffee , drinks , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , contactless !
” A variety of the ‘ wine windows ’ found on the old streets of Florence ( Buchette Del Vino ) Speaking with Insider , Matteo Faglia , the president of the Wine Window Association ( Associazione Buchette del Vino in Italian ) said that within Florence ’ s walled city more than 150 wine windows exist , many of which are permanently filled .
Faglia went on to say that people used to knock on the little wooden shutters and have their wine bottles filled directly from the Antinori @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aristocratic historic Florentine families synonymous with wine in Tuscany who still produce some of Italy ’ s best-known wine today .
Alongside the stone holes in walls many wine holes were lined with wood but most of these were lost in the 1966 flood of the Arno river in Florence which killed 101 people and destroyed countless art masterpieces , rare books and wooden wine windows .
The Wine Window Association has now begun the process of mapping these forgotten and often lost artifacts throughout Italy ’ s wine country , “ marking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ import and authenticity ” to raise awareness of these historic architectural features .
According to the World Health Organization Italy lost 35,000 residents in the first wave of COVID-19 , and a report in the New York Post states that ‘ in spite of this tragedy , the world has witnessed the culture and camaraderie that likely helped the Italy through the medieval epidemic.
’ The article also reports that at the height of their national coronavirus outbreak , ‘ choruses of Italians could be heard singing in solidarity through open windows and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in hand all the while.
’ What Could Go Wrong With 2020 ’ s Historic ‘ Wine Windows ’ ?
It is alarming when reporters around the world celebrate Italian culture for their love of wine without a single mention of how the consumption of alcohol contravenes current COVID-19 medical advice .
A recent Euro advisory paper presents the known facts about the consumption of alcohol and COVID19 stating : ‘ Alcohol use weakens the immune system and thus reduces the ability to cope with infectious diseases , leaving aside the fact it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cancer , alter thoughts , judgements , decision-making and behavior.
’ The world ’ s health experts are telling us to “ avoid alcohol altogether , ” so that you do not undermine your own immune system and risk the health of others .
Perhaps over drinking is one of the factors that contributed to Italy being hit so badly hit by COVID19 .
The alcohol consumption problem got so bad in Italy in April that the countries Health Ministry had to publicly debunk a dangerous social myth that claimed ‘ alcohol is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immune system.
’ And in a statement the Ministry stated , ‘ alcohol consumption increased the risk of infection because alcohol weakens the immune system and therefore reduces the body ’ s ability to cope with infectious diseases.
’ Thus , no matter how “ safe ” receiving wine from a ‘ wine window ’ might be , the population of Tuscany is weakening its resistance to COVID19 with every sip of wine .
And they should be reminded that it was wine producers that told the world a glass a day is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Top image : Florence ’ s historic ‘ wine windows ’ have reopened in response to COVID-19 Source : Buchette Del Vino

The bubonic plague , otherwise known as the Black Death, originated in Asia during the late Middle Ages and spread north into Europe through the bacteria Yersinia pestis on infected fleas. To counter bubonic plague, much like today’s situation with coronavirus, 17th-century Italians in Tuscany built ‘wine windows, or ‘ buchette del vino ,’ which were holes with hatches carved into the concrete walls of urban wine producers who served customers at safe social distances.
The Italian Plague of 1629–1631 AD (the Great Plague of Milan) was a series of bubonic plague outbreaks that ravaged northern and central Italy claiming an estimated million lives, or about 25% of the population, adding to the one-third of Europe’s population that died at the time.
Wine for sale the writing in stone says in Italian from the ancient days when ‘wine windows’ first appeared during the bubonic plaque in Florence, Italy ( Buchette Del Vino )
Contactless Historic ‘Wine Windows’ Appear Again in Tuscany
It wasn’t quite clear what these historic ‘wine windows’ were originally used for until a new one was built this year. Consequently, under the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Italy’s historic ‘wine windows’ are open again in Italy for the safe purchase of vino and other things.
The Italian Wine Window Association website says that while the Italian population is currently confined to home as the government permits a gradual COVID-19 reopening “during this time, some enterprising Florentine Wine Window owners have turned back the clock and are using their Wine Windows to dispense glasses of wine, cups of coffee, drinks, sandwiches and ice cream – all germ-free, contactless!”
A variety of the ‘wine windows’ found on the old streets of Florence ( Buchette Del Vino )
Speaking with Insider, Matteo Faglia, the president of the Wine Window Association (Associazione Buchette del Vino in Italian) said that within Florence’s walled city more than 150 wine windows exist, many of which are permanently filled. Faglia went on to say that people used to knock on the little wooden shutters and have their wine bottles filled directly from the Antinori, Frescobaldi and Ricasoli families: three aristocratic historic Florentine families synonymous with wine in Tuscany who still produce some of Italy ’s best-known wine today.
Historic 1966 Florence Flood Destroyed Many ‘Wine Windows’
Alongside the stone holes in walls many wine holes were lined with wood but most of these were lost in the 1966 flood of the Arno river in Florence which killed 101 people and destroyed countless art masterpieces, rare books and wooden wine windows. The Wine Window Association has now begun the process of mapping these forgotten and often lost artifacts throughout Italy ’s wine country, “marking them with a plaque to designate their import and authenticity” to raise awareness of these historic architectural features.
According to the World Health Organization Italy lost 35,000 residents in the first wave of COVID-19, and a report in the New York Post states that ‘in spite of this tragedy, the world has witnessed the culture and camaraderie that likely helped the Italy through the medieval epidemic.’ The article also reports that at the height of their national coronavirus outbreak, ‘choruses of Italians could be heard singing in solidarity through open windows and on rooftops with a glass of wine in hand all the while.’
What Could Go Wrong With 2020’s Historic ‘Wine Windows’?
It is alarming when reporters around the world celebrate Italian culture for their love of wine without a single mention of how the consumption of alcohol contravenes current COVID-19 medical advice. A recent Euro advisory paper presents the known facts about the consumption of alcohol and COVID19 stating: ‘Alcohol use weakens the immune system and thus reduces the ability to cope with infectious diseases, leaving aside the fact it is known to cause certain types of cancer, alter thoughts, judgements, decision-making and behavior.’
The world’s health experts are telling us to “avoid alcohol altogether,” so that you do not undermine your own immune system and risk the health of others. Perhaps over drinking is one of the factors that contributed to Italy being hit so badly hit by COVID19. The alcohol consumption problem got so bad in Italy in April that the countries Health Ministry had to publicly debunk a dangerous social myth that claimed ‘alcohol is a good a method to boost the immune system.’ And in a statement the Ministry stated, ‘alcohol consumption increased the risk of infection because alcohol weakens the immune system and therefore reduces the body’s ability to cope with infectious diseases.’
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Thus, no matter how “safe” receiving wine from a ‘wine window’ might be, the population of Tuscany is weakening its resistance to COVID19 with every sip of wine. And they should be reminded that it was wine producers that told the world a glass a day is good for you and not doctors.
Top image: Florence’s historic ‘wine windows’ have reopened in response to COVID-19 Source: Buchette Del Vino
By Ashley Cowie