prepareforchange--2020-09-24--Benjamin Fulford 9/21/20 Report: As Zionists are purged in Israel, the next target is Switzerland

The autumn offensive begins .
The rogue nation of Israel was put under lockdown at the start of the Jewish New Year to facilitate a purge of Zionists , Pentagon sources say .
MI6 sources say their next target is a mysterious Swiss-based entity known as the Octagon Group .
In a counter-offensive , an estimated one-million Satanists in the U.S. are being mobilized to overthrow the government , multiple intelligence agency sources agree .
The major anti-Zionist offensive was started with the announcement of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg .
Here is how Pentagon sources @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sources add they have jerked Trump ’ s chain to force him to act against the Zionists , and his son-in-law Jared Kushner will face a military tribunal on charges of treason and possible execution .
We are also hearing from MI6 why they are going after the mysterious group in Switzerland known as the “ Octagon , ” whose members are descendants of Pharaonic bloodlines .
Before we go any further into this issue , though , we need to take a deep dive into the secret government power structure that we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was given to me by an envoy of David Rockefeller ( via former Japanese finance minister Heizo Takenaka ) ten years ago .
This document ( 2 dozen pages in all ) was handed to me after Asian secret societies mobilized to target people who were members of all three of the following groups : The Bilderbergers , The Trilateral Commission , and the Council on Foreign Relations .
What this flowchart page allegedly shows is the Zionist power structure .
It has Switzerland at the top .
Underneath is the “ Royal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elizabeth E.C.
” Below that is the City of London , followed by “ properties , ” then the “ Chief Executive of Japan.
” On the left you find France .
Below is the “ Committee of 500 ” ( i.e .
the Fortune 500 ) and “ ILIO 48.
” At the bottom , you see enforcement units including North Korea , Military Police , and the CIA .
At the very bottom is a Chinese assassin designated by the U.S. occupation forces to control Japan .
In the middle you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mexico , Canada , the United States , Africa , Iran , Greece , England , Mongolia , and Russia .
What they do not control is Italy , Germany , India , and China among others .
It was also at this time that Leo Zagami was sent by the P2 Freemasons to Japan to visit me .
When I reciprocated the visit and went to Italy , I was told the P2 ( now P3 ) took orders from “ aliens in Switzerland.
” They claimed to have started and run @ @ @ @ @ @ @ puzzling over this and other information given to me , we can start to connect some dots .
First of all , we have received reports that we are being ruled by descendants of the Egyptian Pharaohs , from many sources like the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi ( whose nephew Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in Turkey ) .
Japanese Royal Family members ( real ones , not the fake Emperor Naruhito ) also claim they are descended from the Pharaohs .
The boss of a large Japanese Ninkyo ( Yakuza ) group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a committee of 8 in Switzerland .
Now MI6 is telling us about the Pharaonic Octagon group in Switzerland .
This is what is portrayed in the James Bond movies as “ Spectre.
” The P3 Freemasons say the Octagon group “ are the masters of humans [ sic ] Earth Life.
” Also , in the past , when I talked to mercenary soldiers involved in resource grabs in Africa , Al Qaeda/Daesh/Antifa , etc .
they said they were paid in Swiss Francs out of Switzerland .
We would also like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mark Rich based in Zug , Switzerland , paying off both Iranian and Israeli government officials to promote war between those countries while manipulating oil futures .
Now let us talk about U.S .
Offense Secretary Mark Esper .
If you watch the clip at the link below : https : //twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1306232167769411584 you can see a man of limited intellect who has been completely pre-programmed .
He refers to fake enemies like Russia and China while promoting AI and the deadly 5G area denial weapons .
The real military brass do not take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
However , they need to follow the trail to the financial controllers who pull his puppet strings .
It is a good bet it will lead to Switzerland .
OK , with this background in mind , let us take a look at the news of the past week as the big autumn anti-Zionist offense goes into full swing .
A necessary precondition to the defeat of the Zionists was taking away their control of the financial system , MI6 , and Pentagon sources agree .
According to MI6 the new financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ visibility with a judge signed warrant so [ criminal ] types of laundering would be impossible.
” Now the news is full of information about a massive sweep targeting high-level criminals all over the world .
Information leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , for example , shows how North Korea laundered money .
North Korea has always been the world ’ s center for the manufacture and distribution of Amphetamines , which together with Afghan Heroin and South American Cocaine , provides trillions of dollars annually to the Khazarian Mafia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ detail about previously hidden international criminals on their website linked below : https : //www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/confidential-clients/ In the U.S. meanwhile , the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project ( ACLED ) documents 12,045 incidents of civil unrest from May 26th , 2020 to Sept. 5th , 2020 .
Furthermore , Black Lives Matter ( only 17 % of whose members are black ) were involved in 95 % of those incidents .
It has been well documented that BLM is funded by “ George Soros ” ( long since dead ) , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Switzerland .
Remember BLM is using communist flags and the P2 run out of Switzerland ( by “ aliens ” ) claim to control communism .
NSA sources say the U.S. Satanic sabotage campaign is being run out of an underground base near Palm Springs , California .
Here is what the Pentagon is saying about their counter-offensive : Also , a 4.8 [ magnitude ] quake near LA on the night of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs ’ death may signal that children are still getting rescued from underground , and military operations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raging in many other countries .
In Japan , military intelligence report preparations are underway for a major campaign against underground bases in Tokyo and Kyoto .
‘ There are 300 underground facilities built during World War II in Japan that have been remodeled from the former Army and Navy bases of the Empire of Japan , ’ Japanese military intelligence sources say .
They say Japan has been forced to provide 16,000 children per year to the Khazarian Mafia .
These children are transported from Tokyo underground bases to the city of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are transported to the Island of Hainan , China , which Japanese military intelligence says is the largest human trafficking hub in Asia .
In nearby Korea , the Zionist campaign to use the issue of “ comfort women , ” to keep Japan and South Korea fighting suffered a setback as a slave politician was busted for accepting ( or embezzling ) “ comfort money.
” http : //www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/09/251_296005.html Back in Israel , according to Pentagon sources : Trump may not win the Nobel Peace Prize unless and until a fair @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Arab peace initiative , and another Nobel for peace with Iran , the sources added .
The Israeli/French nuclear bomb attack on Lebanon is also blowing up in their faces .
The attack was intended to force Lebanon to hand over offshore oil concessions but instead , it has led to a joint Turkish/U.S .
military campaign to cut off Israeli energy exports according to Mossad sources .
In the Zionist colony country of Georgia , meanwhile , whistleblowers have revealed they are actively trying to develop new bio-weapons , in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves by killing us all .
https : //orientalreview.org/2020/09/10/the-us-biological-bomb-in-georgia/ Of course , the Zionists are trying to pin the ongoing scamdemic and bioweapons plus electromagnetic weapons attacks on China or the U.S .
However , only a few remaining brainwashed sheeple actually believe these feeble attempts at misdirection .
The battle is raging in South America too .
There , the cabal ’ s coup d ’ etat aimed at stealing Bolivia ’ s massive lithium deposits is running into huge local opposition .
Note to Elon Musk : the Bolivian lithium theft @ @ @ @ @ @ @ il=0 & utm_source=reddit.com There is also trouble for the Zionists in Germany .
For weeks I have been ignoring the fake story of “ Russian Opposition Politician Alexey Navalny ” being “ poisoned with Novichok , ” because it was such a badly run psy-op .
However , we would like to inform our readers that Maria Pevchiv , a Russian who has worked for MI6 for 10 years , is the person who poisoned him , according to Spanish intelligence sources .
Here is a picture of her : The aim , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to buy expensive oil from the Middle East or the U.S. instead of cheap gas from Russia via the Nordstream II pipeline .
We decided to out her because the world is sick and tired of these sorts of criminal antics by intelligence agencies on behalf of multi-national corporations .
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The autumn offensive begins. The rogue nation of Israel was put under lockdown at the start of the Jewish New Year to facilitate a purge of Zionists, Pentagon sources say. MI6 sources say their next target is a mysterious Swiss-based entity known as the Octagon Group. In a counter-offensive, an estimated one-million Satanists in the U.S. are being mobilized to overthrow the government, multiple intelligence agency sources agree.
The major anti-Zionist offensive was started with the announcement of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Here is how Pentagon sources summed up the situation:
“[U.S. President Donald] Trump announced a list of Supreme Court nominees on September 9th, so the Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) death on Rosh Hashanah sends a New Year message to the Jewish mafia while Israel is forced into another lockdown to round up Zionists.”
The Pentagon sources add they have jerked Trump’s chain to force him to act against the Zionists, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner will face a military tribunal on charges of treason and possible execution.
We are also hearing from MI6 why they are going after the mysterious group in Switzerland known as the “Octagon,” whose members are descendants of Pharaonic bloodlines.
Before we go any further into this issue, though, we need to take a deep dive into the secret government power structure that we are battling. The organizational chart below was given to me by an envoy of David Rockefeller (via former Japanese finance minister Heizo Takenaka) ten years ago.
This document (2 dozen pages in all) was handed to me after Asian secret societies mobilized to target people who were members of all three of the following groups: The Bilderbergers, The Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
What this flowchart page allegedly shows is the Zionist power structure. It has Switzerland at the top. Underneath is the “Royal Bank.” On the left is “Elizabeth E.C.” Below that is the City of London, followed by “properties,” then the “Chief Executive of Japan.” On the left you find France. Below is the “Committee of 500” (i.e. the Fortune 500) and “ILIO 48.”
At the bottom, you see enforcement units including North Korea, Military Police, and the CIA. At the very bottom is a Chinese assassin designated by the U.S. occupation forces to control Japan. In the middle you see they claim to control Japan, Mexico, Canada, the United States, Africa, Iran, Greece, England, Mongolia, and Russia. What they do not control is Italy, Germany, India, and China among others.
It was also at this time that Leo Zagami was sent by the P2 Freemasons to Japan to visit me. When I reciprocated the visit and went to Italy, I was told the P2 (now P3) took orders from “aliens in Switzerland.” They claimed to have started and run Communism.
Now after 10 years of puzzling over this and other information given to me, we can start to connect some dots. First of all, we have received reports that we are being ruled by descendants of the Egyptian Pharaohs, from many sources like the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (whose nephew Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in Turkey).
Japanese Royal Family members (real ones, not the fake Emperor Naruhito) also claim they are descended from the Pharaohs. The boss of a large Japanese Ninkyo (Yakuza) group also said the world was ruled by a committee of 8 in Switzerland. Now MI6 is telling us about the Pharaonic Octagon group in Switzerland. This is what is portrayed in the James Bond movies as “Spectre.” The P3 Freemasons say the Octagon group “are the masters of humans [sic] Earth Life.”
Also, in the past, when I talked to mercenary soldiers involved in resource grabs in Africa, Al Qaeda/Daesh/Antifa, etc. they said they were paid in Swiss Francs out of Switzerland. We would also like to remind you about Glencore Commodities and Mark Rich based in Zug, Switzerland, paying off both Iranian and Israeli government officials to promote war between those countries while manipulating oil futures.
Now let us talk about U.S. Offense Secretary Mark Esper. If you watch the clip at the link below: https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1306232167769411584 you can see a man of limited intellect who has been completely pre-programmed. He refers to fake enemies like Russia and China while promoting AI and the deadly 5G area denial weapons. The real military brass do not take orders from him and nor should they. However, they need to follow the trail to the financial controllers who pull his puppet strings. It is a good bet it will lead to Switzerland.
OK, with this background in mind, let us take a look at the news of the past week as the big autumn anti-Zionist offense goes into full swing.
A necessary precondition to the defeat of the Zionists was taking away their control of the financial system, MI6, and Pentagon sources agree. According to MI6 the new financial system “is designed with…
full forensic visibility with a judge signed warrant so [criminal] types of laundering would be impossible.”
Now the news is full of information about a massive sweep targeting high-level criminals all over the world. Information leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, for example, shows how North Korea laundered money. North Korea has always been the world’s center for the manufacture and distribution of Amphetamines, which together with Afghan Heroin and South American Cocaine, provides trillions of dollars annually to the Khazarian Mafia.
There is a huge amount of detail about previously hidden international criminals on their website linked below: https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/confidential-clients/
In the U.S. meanwhile, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) documents 12,045 incidents of civil unrest from May 26th, 2020 to Sept. 5th, 2020.
Furthermore, Black Lives Matter (only 17% of whose members are black) were involved in 95% of those incidents. It has been well documented that BLM is funded by “George Soros” (long since dead), which is a code name for the Zionists in Switzerland.
Remember BLM is using communist flags and the P2 run out of Switzerland (by “aliens”) claim to control communism. NSA sources say the U.S. Satanic sabotage campaign is being run out of an underground base near Palm Springs, California.
Here is what the Pentagon is saying about their counter-offensive:
“With Supreme Court Terms beginning on October 5th, Trump may appoint Catholic judge Amy Coney Barrett to a Ruthless Supreme Court and the Senate may even confirm her in October so the high court will operate at full strength to stop the Democrats from stealing the election.”
Also, a 4.8 [magnitude] quake near LA on the night of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs’ death may signal that children are still getting rescued from underground, and military operations are underway.
The battle is also raging in many other countries. In Japan, military intelligence report preparations are underway for a major campaign against underground bases in Tokyo and Kyoto. ‘There are 300 underground facilities built during World War II in Japan that have been remodeled from the former Army and Navy bases of the Empire of Japan,’ Japanese military intelligence sources say.
They say Japan has been forced to provide 16,000 children per year to the Khazarian Mafia. These children are transported from Tokyo underground bases to the city of Shima in Kagoshima Prefecture. From there they are transported to the Island of Hainan, China, which Japanese military intelligence says is the largest human trafficking hub in Asia.
In nearby Korea, the Zionist campaign to use the issue of “comfort women,” to keep Japan and South Korea fighting suffered a setback as a slave politician was busted for accepting (or embezzling) “comfort money.” http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/09/251_296005.html
Back in Israel, according to Pentagon sources:
“A weak Bibi [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] facing protests at home and a looming corruption trial was summoned to the White House on September 15th, while the King of Bahrain and mbz [UAE ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed] didn’t even show up for Bahrain and UAE “peace deals.”
Trump may not win the Nobel Peace Prize unless and until a fair peace deal is reached with Palestine per the Arab peace initiative, and another Nobel for peace with Iran, the sources added.
The Israeli/French nuclear bomb attack on Lebanon is also blowing up in their faces. The attack was intended to force Lebanon to hand over offshore oil concessions but instead, it has led to a joint Turkish/U.S. military campaign to cut off Israeli energy exports according to Mossad sources.
In the Zionist colony country of Georgia, meanwhile, whistleblowers have revealed they are actively trying to develop new bio-weapons, in a sign they are still trying to save themselves by killing us all. https://orientalreview.org/2020/09/10/the-us-biological-bomb-in-georgia/
Of course, the Zionists are trying to pin the ongoing scamdemic and bioweapons plus electromagnetic weapons attacks on China or the U.S. However, only a few remaining brainwashed sheeple actually believe these feeble attempts at misdirection.
The battle is raging in South America too. There, the cabal’s coup d’etat aimed at stealing Bolivia’s massive lithium deposits is running into huge local opposition. Note to Elon Musk: the Bolivian lithium theft will fail. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bolivia-election-anez/bolivia-election-race-heats-up-as-field-tightens-idUSKBN269354?il=0&utm_source=reddit.com
There is also trouble for the Zionists in Germany. For weeks I have been ignoring the fake story of “Russian Opposition Politician Alexey Navalny” being “poisoned with Novichok,” because it was such a badly run psy-op. However, we would like to inform our readers that Maria Pevchiv, a Russian who has worked for MI6 for 10 years, is the person who poisoned him, according to Spanish intelligence sources. Here is a picture of her:
The aim, of course, is to force Germany to buy expensive oil from the Middle East or the U.S. instead of cheap gas from Russia via the Nordstream II pipeline. We decided to out her because the world is sick and tired of these sorts of criminal antics by intelligence agencies on behalf of multi-national corporations. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/19/europe/navalny-recovery-staircase-post-intl/index.html
Source: https://benjaminfulford.net/
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prepareforchange--2020-09-25--Africa’s Catastrophic Lockdowns Have Sentenced to Death Far More People Than COVID Ever Could

You have a young population with high levels of cross-immunity , but extremely vulnerable to disruption of income As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year , the warnings about the disease ’ s impact on Africa were terrifying .
The World Health Organisation predicted ten million cases within six months , raising the horrifying prospect of fragile health systems becoming overwhelmed with corpses piled up in hospital corridors .
Other UN experts said there could be 1.2bn cases and 3.3m deaths without emergency interventions , while more optimistic modelling from the influential experts at Imperial College @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Little wonder countries on the continent rushed to follow the lead of rich nations such as Italy and Spain that were visibly struggling to cope with pandemic .
Many closed borders , shut businesses and locked down citizens .
Among the firmest responses was Uganda ’ s , where public transport was suspended , schools shut down , shops closed , curfews imposed and big gatherings banned .
Kampala has conducted more than 350,000 tests , according to official data .
After doom-laden warnings of 68,000 fatalities from the virus if there were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 44 confirmed coronavirus deaths in this east African nation of 43m .
Such actions won praise from global health bodies .
Yet were blunt lockdowns really the right approach in Africa ?
A growing body of doctors , economists and scientists fear these measures will have disastrous consequences .
These experts warn of financial carnage , spiralling epidemics of other diseases , the intensification of gender and wealth inequalities and the battle against poverty being set back by decades .
They point to Africa ’ s youth , with a median age of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Europe , and few people in the highest-risk older categories — which may help explain why a continent of 1.3bn people has seen fewer confirmed virus deaths than the UK .
Almost one in five Britons is aged 65 or over ; in Africa , it is fewer than one in 50 .
Yet the impact of shutting down countries will be far worse than in wealthier developed nations .
David Bell , a malaria specialist who has worked with both Bill Gates and the WHO , is among those concerned that we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continent .
“ It seems global health authorities did not think through the collateral damage , yet we knew by March the age-related fatality levels of this virus .
If you looked at Italy or China , it was old people who were dying .
In developing nations , many people live day to day , so even short disruption can be devastating to lives , while there are already large epidemics of malaria , tuberculosis and HiV that will only get worse if you reduce access and healthcare for a few months.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ closed , the curfew is still in place , and half the citizens are under 16 years old .
On the plus side , there is thought to have been a fall in traffic fatalities as people stayed at home .
But a new study by Bell and five other researchers indicates restrictive measures led to plummeting detection of new HiV and malaria cases , along with treatment of highly-infectious tuberculosis , while maternal mortality instantly surged from 92 deaths in January to 167 fatalities in March .
“ The fear is more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” said Agnes Kiragga , head of statistics at the Infectious Diseases Institute , Kampala , and co-author of the paper .
“ This has been a learning curve .
Governments in Africa must consider not just Covid but other diseases that are more dangerous in a young population.
” One medic said the nation ’ s health budget had been depleted in three months , storing up problems .
Another told me of children missing critical immunisations and a surge in suicides amid economic downturn so fierce the BBC recently showed a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maize on the street .
“ I had to look for a way of surviving , ” said Harriet Agasiu .
“ I was eating my savings , which I finished.
” There is little safety net in such places .
Many people also live in crowded conditions lacking basic services that make social distancing impossible .
And in countries such as Angola , Kenya and Uganda , people have been killed by security officials enforcing lockdown and others beaten and shot , exposing how thugs in uniform may be more dangerous than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ handful of African countries that did not impose such rigid measures after its pandemic response became ensnared in electoral politics .
Human rights activists , fearing the government was using the virus to wriggle out of a re-run presidential contest , won a court battle to stop lockdown on the basis there was not sufficient provision to stop poor people going hungry .
Even big campaign rallies went ahead , although schools and later bars were shut down .
Predictive modelling warned that inaction would lead to 16 million infections , 483,000 hospitalisations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation of 19m people — yet there have been just 176 confirmed deaths to date .
There has been limited testing in Malawi , while doctors admit significant numbers of deaths may be going unrecorded , especially in rural areas .
Yet there have been few coronavirus patients in their hospital emergency units .
“ We ’ ve not seen a lot of cases and the reasons remain unknown , ” said Marah Chibwana , a member of the Viral Immunology Research Group at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme .
She @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that found one in eight health workers has had Covid-19 , highlighting this discrepancy between predicted and actual reported deaths .
“ It is a mystery that despite not going into a lockdown , we have experienced a low number of fatalities.
” The youth of citizenry must be a factor .
But , as Chibwana says , another theory under investigation is that previous exposure to coronaviruses , such as those responsible for common colds , might have built up immunity to Covid-19 .
One leading South African virologist says he can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explain the numbers of completely asymptomatic people seen on the continent .
If this is correct , it would mean the very conditions expected to fuel huge fatalities — cramped homes , crowded urban areas and communal washing spaces — may in fact help to protect poorer places in developing nations .
Although who knows what lies ahead with this unpredictable new virus ?
Some countries are now tweaking their approach to focus more on testing and surveillance , having seen the disadvantages of lockdown .
Lynda Iroulo , a Nigerian research fellow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Area Studies , points to a spike in crime during lockdown in Lagos .
“ African nations made the mistake of mimicking Western measures without considering local conditions .
In Western nations lockdowns were more feasible because the infrastructure is there and social welfare is available .
But in most African nations lockdowns were flouted in search of money and sustenance .
This is not surprising — it is a difficult challenge to overcome because the pandemic only exacerbated existing problems within nations .
So the lockdown did more harm than good.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ show the collateral damage in a continent where countries and families are being pushed to the brink , and where more than eight in ten people are self-employed , many surviving on marginal incomes as street vendors or day labourers .
The UN forecast that Africa could have 30 million more people in poverty .
A study by the International Growth Centre spoke of “ staggering ” implications with 9.1 % of the population descending into extreme poverty as savings are drained , with two-thirds of this due to lockdown .
‘ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people become food deprived , ” said co-author Matthieu Teachout , who fears the crisis could set poverty rates back two decades .
Then there is the wider health impact .
One US charity predicts 2.3m child deaths due to disruption of services in the pandemic ’ s first year .
Births in Zimbabwe ’ s health clinics have fallen more than one-fifth — which , according to a study in the Lancet , if replicated across the developing world might lead to 12,200 more maternal deaths , since women are more likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not in a medical setting .
A WHO analysis projects an extra 200,000 fatalities from TB this year , while the organisation also warns that the blocking of access to anti-retroviral therapies could lead to half a million extra deaths from AIDS-related illnesses .
The Lancet paper in May came from researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , who were instantly concerned by the possible side-effects of the pandemic .
It showed the results of modelling maternal and under-5 deaths resulting from disruption of health systems and decreased food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 253,500 additional child deaths over six months in 118 low- and middle-income countries ; the worst led to 1,157,000 extra child fatalities and 56,700 more maternal deaths .
“ The scenarios were based on assumptions , not empirical data , ” said lead author Timothy Roberton .
“ However , since May we ’ ve seen various data from different countries , and lots of anecdotal reports , that suggest our original scenarios might not be far off the mark — including the higher scenario.
” Malaria , the main cause of death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To put this in perspective , Angola has seen 126 coronavirus deaths compared with 2,500 fatalities from this parasitic disease in just the first quarter of 2020 .
One study warned that suspending the distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and a big drop in the use of drugs across Africa could lead to mortality rates not seen for two decades .
Another paper in Nature Medicine by researchers at Imperial College , London , predicts a doubling of malarial deaths this year : “ In Nigeria alone , reducing case management for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaigns could result in 81,000 additional deaths.
” The tragedy behind such horrifying data , as co-author Thomas Churcher pointed out to me , is that we know how to control malaria though prevention and quick treatment .
This discussion over lockdown in Africa is a microcosm of the wider global debate over how to balance the handling of a deadly new disease with wider health , commercial and social issues .
But it is multiplied many times over since coronavirus fatality rates are so much lower than in developed nations while the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lockdowns are the wrong policy not just for Africa , but for almost all low income countries , ” said Charles Robertson , global chief economist at Renaissance Capital and author of a book on Africa ’ s renaissance .
I fear he is right .
The more you look at the data , the harder it is to avoid the conclusions that the instant panicked response on the continent was a mistake — and one that may have the most hideous long-term consequences .
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You have a young population with high levels of cross-immunity, but extremely vulnerable to disruption of income
As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease’s impact on Africa were terrifying. The World Health Organisation predicted ten million cases within six months, raising the horrifying prospect of fragile health systems becoming overwhelmed with corpses piled up in hospital corridors. Other UN experts said there could be 1.2bn cases and 3.3m deaths without emergency interventions, while more optimistic modelling from the influential experts at Imperial College, London, anticipated 300,000 deaths.
Little wonder countries on the continent rushed to follow the lead of rich nations such as Italy and Spain that were visibly struggling to cope with pandemic. Many closed borders, shut businesses and locked down citizens. Among the firmest responses was Uganda’s, where public transport was suspended, schools shut down, shops closed, curfews imposed and big gatherings banned. Kampala has conducted more than 350,000 tests, according to official data. After doom-laden warnings of 68,000 fatalities from the virus if there were failure to act, there have been 44 confirmed coronavirus deaths in this east African nation of 43m.
Such actions won praise from global health bodies. Yet were blunt lockdowns really the right approach in Africa? A growing body of doctors, economists and scientists fear these measures will have disastrous consequences. These experts warn of financial carnage, spiralling epidemics of other diseases, the intensification of gender and wealth inequalities and the battle against poverty being set back by decades. They point to Africa’s youth, with a median age of 18 years compared with 41 years in Europe, and few people in the highest-risk older categories — which may help explain why a continent of 1.3bn people has seen fewer confirmed virus deaths than the UK.
Almost one in five Britons is aged 65 or over; in Africa, it is fewer than one in 50. Yet the impact of shutting down countries will be far worse than in wealthier developed nations.
David Bell, a malaria specialist who has worked with both Bill Gates and the WHO, is among those concerned that we may be witnessing catastrophe unfolding on the continent. “It seems global health authorities did not think through the collateral damage, yet we knew by March the age-related fatality levels of this virus. If you looked at Italy or China, it was old people who were dying. In developing nations, many people live day to day, so even short disruption can be devastating to lives, while there are already large epidemics of malaria, tuberculosis and HiV that will only get worse if you reduce access and healthcare for a few months.”
Take Uganda, where borders remain closed, the curfew is still in place, and half the citizens are under 16 years old. On the plus side, there is thought to have been a fall in traffic fatalities as people stayed at home.
But a new study by Bell and five other researchers indicates restrictive measures led to plummeting detection of new HiV and malaria cases, along with treatment of highly-infectious tuberculosis, while maternal mortality instantly surged from 92 deaths in January to 167 fatalities in March. “The fear is more people will die from other conditions,” said Agnes Kiragga, head of statistics at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, and co-author of the paper. “This has been a learning curve. Governments in Africa must consider not just Covid but other diseases that are more dangerous in a young population.”
One medic said the nation’s health budget had been depleted in three months, storing up problems. Another told me of children missing critical immunisations and a surge in suicides amid economic downturn so fierce the BBC recently showed a school teacher who lost her job selling maize on the street. “I had to look for a way of surviving,” said Harriet Agasiu. “I was eating my savings, which I finished.” There is little safety net in such places. Many people also live in crowded conditions lacking basic services that make social distancing impossible. And in countries such as Angola, Kenya and Uganda, people have been killed by security officials enforcing lockdown and others beaten and shot, exposing how thugs in uniform may be more dangerous than the disease.
Malawi was among the handful of African countries that did not impose such rigid measures after its pandemic response became ensnared in electoral politics.
Human rights activists, fearing the government was using the virus to wriggle out of a re-run presidential contest, won a court battle to stop lockdown on the basis there was not sufficient provision to stop poor people going hungry. Even big campaign rallies went ahead, although schools and later bars were shut down.
Predictive modelling warned that inaction would lead to 16 million infections, 483,000 hospitalisations and 50,000 fatalities in this southern African nation of 19m people — yet there have been just 176 confirmed deaths to date.
There has been limited testing in Malawi, while doctors admit significant numbers of deaths may be going unrecorded, especially in rural areas. Yet there have been few coronavirus patients in their hospital emergency units. “We’ve not seen a lot of cases and the reasons remain unknown,” said Marah Chibwana, a member of the Viral Immunology Research Group at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme. She has just completed a study in Blantyre that found one in eight health workers has had Covid-19, highlighting this discrepancy between predicted and actual reported deaths. “It is a mystery that despite not going into a lockdown, we have experienced a low number of fatalities.”
The youth of citizenry must be a factor. But, as Chibwana says, another theory under investigation is that previous exposure to coronaviruses, such as those responsible for common colds, might have built up immunity to Covid-19. One leading South African virologist says he cannot think of any other reason to explain the numbers of completely asymptomatic people seen on the continent. If this is correct, it would mean the very conditions expected to fuel huge fatalities — cramped homes, crowded urban areas and communal washing spaces — may in fact help to protect poorer places in developing nations.
Although who knows what lies ahead with this unpredictable new virus?
Some countries are now tweaking their approach to focus more on testing and surveillance, having seen the disadvantages of lockdown. Lynda Iroulo, a Nigerian research fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, points to a spike in crime during lockdown in Lagos. “African nations made the mistake of mimicking Western measures without considering local conditions. In Western nations lockdowns were more feasible because the infrastructure is there and social welfare is available. But in most African nations lockdowns were flouted in search of money and sustenance. This is not surprising — it is a difficult challenge to overcome because the pandemic only exacerbated existing problems within nations. So the lockdown did more harm than good.”
A series of studies is starting to show the collateral damage in a continent where countries and families are being pushed to the brink, and where more than eight in ten people are self-employed, many surviving on marginal incomes as street vendors or day labourers. The UN forecast that Africa could have 30 million more people in poverty. A study by the International Growth Centre spoke of “staggering” implications with 9.1% of the population descending into extreme poverty as savings are drained, with two-thirds of this due to lockdown. ‘The context is very different to Europe because people become food deprived,” said co-author Matthieu Teachout, who fears the crisis could set poverty rates back two decades.
Then there is the wider health impact. One US charity predicts 2.3m child deaths due to disruption of services in the pandemic’s first year. Births in Zimbabwe’s health clinics have fallen more than one-fifth — which, according to a study in the Lancet, if replicated across the developing world might lead to 12,200 more maternal deaths, since women are more likely to die in childbirth from complications if not in a medical setting. A WHO analysis projects an extra 200,000 fatalities from TB this year, while the organisation also warns that the blocking of access to anti-retroviral therapies could lead to half a million extra deaths from AIDS-related illnesses.
The Lancet paper in May came from researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who were instantly concerned by the possible side-effects of the pandemic. It showed the results of modelling maternal and under-5 deaths resulting from disruption of health systems and decreased food access. The best scenario resulted in 253,500 additional child deaths over six months in 118 low- and middle-income countries; the worst led to 1,157,000 extra child fatalities and 56,700 more maternal deaths. “The scenarios were based on assumptions, not empirical data,” said lead author Timothy Roberton. “However, since May we’ve seen various data from different countries, and lots of anecdotal reports, that suggest our original scenarios might not be far off the mark — including the higher scenario.”
Malaria, the main cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa, is another concern. To put this in perspective, Angola has seen 126 coronavirus deaths compared with 2,500 fatalities from this parasitic disease in just the first quarter of 2020.
One study warned that suspending the distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and a big drop in the use of drugs across Africa could lead to mortality rates not seen for two decades. Another paper in Nature Medicine by researchers at Imperial College, London, predicts a doubling of malarial deaths this year: “In Nigeria alone, reducing case management for six months and delaying long-lasting insecticidal net campaigns could result in 81,000 additional deaths.”
The tragedy behind such horrifying data, as co-author Thomas Churcher pointed out to me, is that we know how to control malaria though prevention and quick treatment.
This discussion over lockdown in Africa is a microcosm of the wider global debate over how to balance the handling of a deadly new disease with wider health, commercial and social issues. But it is multiplied many times over since coronavirus fatality rates are so much lower than in developed nations while the impact so much more profound.
“Lockdowns are the wrong policy not just for Africa, but for almost all low income countries,” said Charles Robertson, global chief economist at Renaissance Capital and author of a book on Africa’s renaissance. I fear he is right. The more you look at the data, the harder it is to avoid the conclusions that the instant panicked response on the continent was a mistake — and one that may have the most hideous long-term consequences.
Source: UnHerd
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prepareforchange--2020-09-25--Most Organizations formed to Combat Child Sex Trafficking are Actually Facilitating and Funding It

One of the tragic realities of child sex trafficking is the fact that groups who allegedly advocate for the end of child sex trafficking and the “ protection ” of children , are actually the very groups behind trafficking children .
The most obvious example is the one we have been reporting on for years now here at Health Impact News , which is the government-funded child welfare system commonly referred to as “ Child Protective Services , ” or CPS , which is the main vehicle by which children are kidnapped from their families and trafficked .
Child sex @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the corporate media recently , and every time I am alerted to some of these news stories , especially where rallies or demonstrations are taking place , I always look at the group behind these public demonstrations , and who the leaders are within these groups .
Very often Child Abuse Pediatricians and hospital child abuse clinics are involved , and as we have documented over the years , these doctors make their living solely by finding “ medical abuse ” so they can take custody away from the family and put them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foster care and adoption system .
We need to call this what it really is : Child Trafficking .
These government-funded and privately run groups do not care about the welfare of children at all .
If they did , they would do everything possible to keep children at home with their families , by supporting those families , which in many cases are poor , minority families .
The Christian Church is one of the largest entities guilty of child trafficking , calling it “ Orphan Care.
” The QAnon movement has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent days , and a big part of this movement has been exposing child sex trafficking .
Some of the Q followers , and some of the Q “ droppings ” themselves seem to have revealed true intelligence on the problem of child sex trafficking .
But Satan is the “ father of lies , ” and his most deceptive way of fooling the masses is promoting something that might be 90 % or even 99 % true , but 1 % or 10 % false , and this is the most dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ QAnon phenomenon has exposed real intel on child sex trafficking , the belief that one person , a billionaire Wall Street insider turned politician and currently serving as the President of the United States , is going to clean up this entire mess of child sex trafficking and put everyone behind it in prison , might be one of the greatest deceptions of all time .
Of course this religious-like belief is based on another deception , namely that the President of the United States runs the country .
This is a false @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Wall Street gang of billionaires and Central Bankers , which now includes the Silicon Valley moguls , along with the secretive intelligence agencies like the CIA who control the corporate propaganda media , and at the top of their leadership they are all pedophile Satanists , and most of them are probably addicted to Adrenochrome , which requires a fresh supply of blood from young children .
Anyone who thinks Donald Trump can put away all of these Globalists has been thoroughly deceived .
Reporter Whitney Webb has written an excellent piece @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Thorn ” which supposedly protects children , and its links to Amazon.com ’ s Jeff Bezos , facial recognition software , and the CIA .
A suspect NGO claiming to combat child trafficking by providing surveillance tech to US police has allowed Amazon to continue supplying U.S. law enforcement with facial recognition software despite the tech giant ’ s moratorium on its sale to police .
As calls for dramatic reforms of U.S. police departments have swept the country in recent months , several of Silicon Valley ’ s largest companies have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they will no longer sell their facial recognition software to police departments .
Among these companies is Amazon , which decided to place a one-year pause on the sale of its software “ Rekognition ” to U.S. police departments in early June .
At the time the moratorium was announced , The New York Times noted that “ the announcement was a striking change for Amazon… ” due to the fact that , “ more than other big technology companies , Amazon has resisted calls to slow its deployment.
” Amazon ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of its facial recognition software gained notoriety after a study found that Rekognition falsely tied 28 members of Congress , most of whom were politicians of color , to mugshots , causing critics to accuse Amazon ’ s product of both racial bias and inaccuracy .
However , what The Times and other outlets failed to pick up on , then and now , is the fact that Amazon ’ s Rekognition is still being supplied to U.S. police , despite its official moratorium .
Indeed , U.S. law enforcement agencies are still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ software by a NGO partnered with Amazon that was created by actor Ashton Kutcher , who frequently co-invests with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos .
That NGO , called “ Thorn , ” continues to supply the controversial software to law enforcement agencies around the country under the guise of helping police “ combat child trafficking.
” Thorn ’ s role in supplying such software to law enforcement despite moratoriums is also notable because its founder Ashton Kutcher has publicly and “ tearfully ” supported Black Lives Matter amid the recent protests that provoked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rekognition to police in the first place .
In addition , Kutcher is also a major investor , alongside Amazon ’ s Jeff Bezos , in a company that supplies AI-powered software to law enforcement agencies , further undermining Kutcher ’ s professed support for ending racial inequities in policing .
Yet , further investigation into Thorn casts even greater doubt on its professed altruistic objectives , given the organization ’ s ties to CIA cut-outs , Wall Street banks and another “ anti-child trafficking ” organization that was launched by Hillary Clinton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair .
Thorn was founded in 2012 by actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore with the original goal of “ investing in the innovation phase of potential tech-led approaches to ending online child sexual abuse.
” Kutcher and Moore were allegedly inspired to create Thorn after watching a documentary on child sex trafficking in Cambodia .
Eventually , Thorn ’ s plan to create its own “ tech-led approach ” to combatting online child sex abuse was shelved , with them instead partnering with two tech companies — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ a product to aid in identifying child sex trafficking victims who were sold online.
” Thorn then “ made the decision to develop the product itself and provide it free to law enforcement.
” Thorn ’ s partners , per its website , include many of the largest Silicon Valley tech companies , such as Amazon , Google , Twitter , Facebook , Salesforce , Microsoft , Intel , Dropbox and Adobe , as well as Goldman Sachs and Verizon .
They are also partnered with the NGO Polaris , which operates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ current CEO is a former operative for USAID , a CIA cut-out .
Polaris is also a member organization of the Clinton Global Initiative ( CGI ) , an organization allegedly devised and initially financed by Jeffrey Epstein and also associated with Epstein ’ s top co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell .
Other NGO partners of Thorn include the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ( NCMEC ) , the international branch of which was launched in 1999 by Hillary Clinton and Cherie Blair ; and the McCain Institute for International Leadership , named @ @ @ @ @ @ @ McCain and hosted at Arizona State University ( ASU ) .
The majority of Thorn ’ s work involves providing local and federal law enforcement agencies with a software suite called Spotlight .
Spotlight , under the guise of combatting human trafficking , is a sweeping , AI-powered surveillance tool that , per the tech companies that helped create it , is currently used “ by more than 2,187 law enforcement and intelligence agencies in North America.
” It is provided to U.S. law enforcement free of charge by the Thorn organization , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surveillance systems that they ultimately use for much , more more than combatting sex trafficking .
The software , per Thorn , is also used by the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) .
Spotlight is also supported by Google , another tech company funded into existence by the CIA via In-Q-Tel that is also a major contractor to the U.S. government and intelligence agencies , as well as the McCain Institute , named for late Senator John McCain .
The McCain Institute ’ s involvement is notable given that Sen. McCain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who is a key part of the Institute ’ s “ Combatting Human Trafficking ” initiative , publicly admitted “ We all knew about him [ Epstein ] .
We all knew what he was doing.
” Despite having a well-funded initiative to “ combat human trafficking ” that preceded Epstein ’ s second arrest by several years and admitting to knowing what Epstein was doing to under-age girls , the McCain Institute ’ s initiative never made any effort to combat Epstein ’ s sex trafficking activities .
Instead , long-time Jeffrey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Epstein to Alan Dershowitz and the Clinton family while Bill Clinton was president , Lynn Forester de Rothschild , is a key member of the McCain Institute .
Two other members of the McCain Institute are closely tied to Thorn , Ashton Kutcher – who co-founded Thorn and remains on its board of directors – and Ernie Allen – who is both the McCain Institute ’ s and Thorn ’ s “ Human Trafficking expert.
” Allen is the long-time head of an “ anti-human trafficking ” organization launched by the Clinton and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protect children ” are also furnished by Amazon , all of which is discussed in a subsequent section of this investigation .
For now , it is worth noting that Ashton Kutcher – Thorn ’ s celebrity founder who has received the lionshare of credit in media reports for Thorn ’ s reported successes in combatting child trafficking , is a top investor in a controversial law enforcement technology company and often co-invests alongside Amazon ’ s top executive and world ’ s richest man , Jeff Bezos .
For instance , Kutcher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enforcement software company Mark 43 , which provides AI-powered dispatch system , records management software and data-intelligence platform to more than 70 U.S. police departments .
Other investors alongside Kutcher in Mark43 include former CIA Director David Petraeus , Jeff Bezos , Ray Rothrock – a former partner in the Rockefeller family ’ s venture capital firm , and Goldman Sachs .
Aside from Mark43 , Kutcher and Bezos have publicly co-invested together in several companies , including Airbnb and Fundbox .
Disclaimer : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

By Brian Shilhavy,
One of the tragic realities of child sex trafficking is the fact that groups who allegedly advocate for the end of child sex trafficking and the “protection” of children, are actually the very groups behind trafficking children.
The most obvious example is the one we have been reporting on for years now here at Health Impact News, which is the government-funded child welfare system commonly referred to as “Child Protective Services,” or CPS, which is the main vehicle by which children are kidnapped from their families and trafficked.
Child sex trafficking has been a hot topic in the corporate media recently, and every time I am alerted to some of these news stories, especially where rallies or demonstrations are taking place, I always look at the group behind these public demonstrations, and who the leaders are within these groups.
Very often Child Abuse Pediatricians and hospital child abuse clinics are involved, and as we have documented over the years, these doctors make their living solely by finding “medical abuse” so they can take custody away from the family and put them into the lucrative multi-billion dollar a year foster care and adoption system.
We need to call this what it really is: Child Trafficking.
These government-funded and privately run groups do not care about the welfare of children at all. If they did, they would do everything possible to keep children at home with their families, by supporting those families, which in many cases are poor, minority families.
The Christian Church is one of the largest entities guilty of child trafficking, calling it “Orphan Care.”
The QAnon movement has also been in the media frequently in recent days, and a big part of this movement has been exposing child sex trafficking. Some of the Q followers, and some of the Q “droppings” themselves seem to have revealed true intelligence on the problem of child sex trafficking.
But Satan is the “father of lies,” and his most deceptive way of fooling the masses is promoting something that might be 90% or even 99% true, but 1% or 10% false, and this is the most dangerous deception of all.
So while the QAnon phenomenon has exposed real intel on child sex trafficking, the belief that one person, a billionaire Wall Street insider turned politician and currently serving as the President of the United States, is going to clean up this entire mess of child sex trafficking and put everyone behind it in prison, might be one of the greatest deceptions of all time.
Of course this religious-like belief is based on another deception, namely that the President of the United States runs the country.
This is a false belief. The country is run by the Wall Street gang of billionaires and Central Bankers, which now includes the Silicon Valley moguls, along with the secretive intelligence agencies like the CIA who control the corporate propaganda media, and at the top of their leadership they are all pedophile Satanists, and most of them are probably addicted to Adrenochrome, which requires a fresh supply of blood from young children.
Anyone who thinks Donald Trump can put away all of these Globalists has been thoroughly deceived.
Reporter Whitney Webb has written an excellent piece exposing Ashton Kutcher’s NGO group “Thorn” which supposedly protects children, and its links to Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, facial recognition software, and the CIA.
Ashton Kutcher’s NGO Supplies Police with “Free” CIA-linked Surveillance Tool to “Protect Kids”
A suspect NGO claiming to combat child trafficking by providing surveillance tech to US police has allowed Amazon to continue supplying U.S. law enforcement with facial recognition software despite the tech giant’s moratorium on its sale to police.
by Whitney Webb
Unlimited Hangout
Excerpts:
As calls for dramatic reforms of U.S. police departments have swept the country in recent months, several of Silicon Valley’s largest companies have tried to salvage their image by asserting that they will no longer sell their facial recognition software to police departments. Among these companies is Amazon, which decided to place a one-year pause on the sale of its software “Rekognition” to U.S. police departments in early June.
At the time the moratorium was announced, The New York Times noted that “the announcement was a striking change for Amazon…” due to the fact that, “more than other big technology companies, Amazon has resisted calls to slow its deployment.” Amazon’s efforts to ensure the widespread adoption of its facial recognition software gained notoriety after a study found that Rekognition falsely tied 28 members of Congress, most of whom were politicians of color, to mugshots, causing critics to accuse Amazon’s product of both racial bias and inaccuracy.
However, what The Times and other outlets failed to pick up on, then and now, is the fact that Amazon’s Rekognition is still being supplied to U.S. police, despite its official moratorium. Indeed, U.S. law enforcement agencies are still being offered Amazon’s facial recognition software by a NGO partnered with Amazon that was created by actor Ashton Kutcher, who frequently co-invests with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
That NGO, called “Thorn,” continues to supply the controversial software to law enforcement agencies around the country under the guise of helping police “combat child trafficking.”
Thorn’s role in supplying such software to law enforcement despite moratoriums is also notable because its founder Ashton Kutcher has publicly and “tearfully” supported Black Lives Matter amid the recent protests that provoked Amazon’s moratorium on sales of Rekognition to police in the first place. In addition, Kutcher is also a major investor, alongside Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, in a company that supplies AI-powered software to law enforcement agencies, further undermining Kutcher’s professed support for ending racial inequities in policing.
Yet, further investigation into Thorn casts even greater doubt on its professed altruistic objectives, given the organization’s ties to CIA cut-outs, Wall Street banks and another “anti-child trafficking” organization that was launched by Hillary Clinton and Cherie Blair, the wife of former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The CIA, Wall Street and Thorn’s “Spotlight”
Thorn was founded in 2012 by actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore with the original goal of “investing in the innovation phase of potential tech-led approaches to ending online child sexual abuse.” Kutcher and Moore were allegedly inspired to create Thorn after watching a documentary on child sex trafficking in Cambodia.
Eventually, Thorn’s plan to create its own “tech-led approach” to combatting online child sex abuse was shelved, with them instead partnering with two tech companies — Amazon and Digital Reasoning, to produce “a product to aid in identifying child sex trafficking victims who were sold online.” Thorn then “made the decision to develop the product itself and provide it free to law enforcement.”
Thorn’s partners, per its website, include many of the largest Silicon Valley tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Dropbox and Adobe, as well as Goldman Sachs and Verizon. They are also partnered with the NGO Polaris, which operates the U.S. National Trafficking Hotline and whose current CEO is a former operative for USAID, a CIA cut-out.
Polaris is also a member organization of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an organization allegedly devised and initially financed by Jeffrey Epstein and also associated with Epstein’s top co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. Other NGO partners of Thorn include the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the international branch of which was launched in 1999 by Hillary Clinton and Cherie Blair; and the McCain Institute for International Leadership, named for the late, hawkish Senator John McCain and hosted at Arizona State University (ASU).
The majority of Thorn’s work involves providing local and federal law enforcement agencies with a software suite called Spotlight. Spotlight, under the guise of combatting human trafficking, is a sweeping, AI-powered surveillance tool that, per the tech companies that helped create it, is currently used “by more than 2,187 law enforcement and intelligence agencies in North America.”
It is provided to U.S. law enforcement free of charge by the Thorn organization, allowing law enforcement easy access to controversial surveillance systems that they ultimately use for much, more more than combatting sex trafficking. The software, per Thorn, is also used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Spotlight is also supported by Google, another tech company funded into existence by the CIA via In-Q-Tel that is also a major contractor to the U.S. government and intelligence agencies, as well as the McCain Institute, named for late Senator John McCain. The McCain Institute’s involvement is notable given that Sen. McCain’s widower, Cindy McCain, who is a key part of the Institute’s “Combatting Human Trafficking” initiative, publicly admitted “We all knew about him [Epstein]. We all knew what he was doing.”
Despite having a well-funded initiative to “combat human trafficking” that preceded Epstein’s second arrest by several years and admitting to knowing what Epstein was doing to under-age girls, the McCain Institute’s initiative never made any effort to combat Epstein’s sex trafficking activities. Instead, long-time Jeffrey Epstein associate and the person who connected Epstein to Alan Dershowitz and the Clinton family while Bill Clinton was president, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, is a key member of the McCain Institute.
Two other members of the McCain Institute are closely tied to Thorn, Ashton Kutcher – who co-founded Thorn and remains on its board of directors – and Ernie Allen – who is both the McCain Institute’s and Thorn’s “Human Trafficking expert.” Allen is the long-time head of an “anti-human trafficking” organization launched by the Clinton and Blair families whose software tools “to protect children” are also furnished by Amazon, all of which is discussed in a subsequent section of this investigation.
For now, it is worth noting that Ashton Kutcher – Thorn’s celebrity founder who has received the lionshare of credit in media reports for Thorn’s reported successes in combatting child trafficking, is a top investor in a controversial law enforcement technology company and often co-invests alongside Amazon’s top executive and world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos. For instance, Kutcher is a major investor in the law enforcement software company Mark 43, which provides AI-powered dispatch system, records management software and data-intelligence platform to more than 70 U.S. police departments. Other investors alongside Kutcher in Mark43 include former CIA Director David Petraeus, Jeff Bezos, Ray Rothrock – a former partner in the Rockefeller family’s venture capital firm, and Goldman Sachs.
Aside from Mark43, Kutcher and Bezos have publicly co-invested together in several companies, including Airbnb and Fundbox.
Read the full article at Unlimited Hangout.
Source: https://healthimpactnews.com
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prepareforchange--2020-09-25--We Are Not Alone

We Are Not Alone

Your Tax Free Donations Are Appreciated and Help Fund our Volunteer Website and Orphanage Disclaimer : We at Prepare for @ @ @ @ @ you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem @ @ @ @ @ views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , @ @ @ @ @ by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with @ @ @ @ @ read its content .
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prepareforchange--2020-09-25--HOW THE CIA HELPED FUND GOOGLE

HOW THE CIA HELPED FUND GOOGLE

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prepareforchange--2020-09-25--US Rep: “Food Shortages Are Coming” – Crops Destroyed – UK Limits Purchases

Rep. Scott from Georgia warns that “ food shortages are coming.
” Farms are destroying crops , plowing under fields without the labor to harvest them !
As new laws accelerate the demise of California ’ s agriculture , Washington ’ s governor commits an act of agricultural terrorism , emblematic of the wholesale attack on food production across the world .
UK ’ s Morrisons resumes rationing of pasta and canned goods , and “ Safety Marshalls ” and police are being deployed to ensure social distancing — as Boris Johnson deploys the Army to assist .
The scene @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growing your own today .
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By Ice Age Farmer,
Rep. Scott from Georgia warns that “food shortages are coming.” Farms are destroying crops, plowing under fields without the labor to harvest them!
As new laws accelerate the demise of California’s agriculture, Washington’s governor commits an act of agricultural terrorism, emblematic of the wholesale attack on food production across the world.
UK’s Morrisons resumes rationing of pasta and canned goods, and “Safety Marshalls” and police are being deployed to ensure social distancing — as Boris Johnson deploys the Army to assist.
The scene is set for food shortages. Start growing your own today.
Source: https://www.naturalblaze.com
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prepareforchange--2020-09-25--Cashless Society Coming Soon? The Fed Is Preparing To Deposit “Digital Dollars” Directly To “Each Am

Cashless Society Coming Soon? The Fed Is Preparing To Deposit “Digital Dollars” Directly To “Each American”

In short , ever since the Fed launched QE and NIRP , it has been making the situation it has been trying to “ fix ” even worse while blowing the biggest asset price bubble in history .
And having recently accepted that its preferred stimulus pathway has failed to boost the broader economy , the blame has fallen on how monetary policy is intermediated , specifically the way the Fed creates excess reserves which end up at commercial banks instead of “ tricking down ” all the way to the consumer level .
To be sure , in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fed has tried to short-circuit this process , and in conjunction with the Treasury it has launched “ helicopter money ” which has resulted in a direct transfer of funds to US corporations via PPP loans , as well as to end consumers via the emergency $ 600 weekly unemployment benefits which however are set to expire unless renewed by Congress as explained last week , as Democrats and Republicans feud over which fiscal stimulus will be implemented next .
And yet , the lament is that even as the economy was desperately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the funds created by the Fed and Treasury ( now that the US operates under a quasi-MMT regime ) did not make their way to those who need them the most : end consumers .
Which is why we read with great interest a Bloomberg interview with two former Fed officials : Simon Potter , who led the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ’ s markets group i.e.
, he was the head of the Fed ’ s Plunge Protection Team for years , and Julia Coronado , who spent eight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Board of Governors , who are among the innovators brainstorming solutions to what has emerged as the most crucial and difficult problem facing the Fed : get money swiftly to people who need it most in a crisis .
The response was striking : the two propose creating a monetary tool that they call recession insurance bonds , which draw on some of the advances in digital payments , which will be wired instantly to Americans .
As Coronado explained the details , Congress would grant the Federal Reserve an additional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of GDP [ in a lump sum that would be divided equally and distributed ] to households in a recession .
Recession insurance bonds would be zero-coupon securities , a contingent asset of households that would basically lie in wait .
The trigger could be reaching the zero lower bound on interest rates or , as economist Claudia Sahm has proposed , a 0.5 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate .
The Fed would then activate the securities and deposit the funds digitally in households ’ apps .
As Potter added , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get money to people , and it ’ s too clunky .
We need a separate infrastructure .
The Fed could buy the bonds quickly without going to the private market .
On March 15 they could have said interest rates are now at zero , we ’ re activating X amount of the bonds , and we ’ ll be tracking the unemployment rate—if it increases above this level , we ’ ll buy more .
The bonds will be on the asset side of the Fed ’ s balance sheet ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accounts will be on the liability side.
” Essentially , the Fed is proposing creating a hybrid digital legal tender unlike reserves which are stuck within the financial system , and which it can deposit directly into US consumer accounts .
In short , as we summarized “ The Fed Is Planning To Send Money Directly To Americans In The Next Crisis “ , something we reminded readers of on Monday : So this morning , as if to confirm our speculation of what comes next , Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester delivered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ titled “ Payments and the Pandemic “ , in which after going through the big picture boilerplate , Mester goes straight to the matter at hand .
In the section titled “ Central Bank Digital Currencies ” , the Cleveland Fed president writes that “ the experience with pandemic emergency payments has brought forward an idea that was already gaining increased attention at central banks around the world , that is , central bank digital currency ( CBDC ) .
” And in the shocking punchline , then goes on to reveal that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have an account at the Fed in which digital dollars could be deposited , as liabilities of the Federal Reserve Banks , which could be used for emergency payments .
” But wait it gets better , because in launching digital cash , the Fed would then be able to scrap “ anonymous ” physical currency entirely , and track every single banknote from its “ creation ” all though the various transactions that take place during its lifetime .
And , eventually , the Fed could remotely “ destroy ” said digital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and in the process the Fed would effectively disintermediate commercial banks , as it would both provide loans to US consumers and directly deposit funds into their accounts , effectively making the entire traditional banking system obsolete .
Here are the details : Other proposals would create a new payments instrument , digital cash , which would be just like the physical currency issued by central banks today , but in a digital form and , potentially , without the anonymity of physical currency .
Depending on how these currencies are designed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the need for commercial bank involvement via direct issuance into the end-users ’ digital wallets combined with central-bank-facilitated transfer and redemption services .
The demand for and use of such instruments need further consideration in order to evaluate whether such a central bank digital currency would allow for quicker and more ubiquitous payments in times of emergency and more generally .
In addition , a range of potential risks and policy issues surrounding central bank digital currency need to be better understood , and the costs and benefits evaluated .
The Federal Reserve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bank digital currency for some time .
The Board of Governors has a technology lab that has been building and testing a range of distributed ledger platforms to understand their potential benefits and tradeoffs .
Staff members from several Reserve Banks , including Cleveland Fed software developers , are contributing to this effort .
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is also engaged in a multiyear effort , working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , to experiment with technologies that could be used for a central bank digital currency .
The Federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an innovation center , in partnership with the Bank for International Settlements , to identify and develop in-depth insights into critical trends and financial technology of relevance to central banks .
Experimentation like this is an important ingredient in assessing the benefits and costs of a central bank digital currency , but does not signal any decision by the Federal Reserve to adopt such a currency .
Issues raised by central bank digital currency related to financial stability , market structure , security , privacy , and monetary policy all need to be @ @ @

In short, ever since the Fed launched QE and NIRP, it has been making the situation it has been trying to “fix” even worse while blowing the biggest asset price bubble in history.
And having recently accepted that its preferred stimulus pathway has failed to boost the broader economy, the blame has fallen on how monetary policy is intermediated, specifically the way the Fed creates excess reserves which end up at commercial banks instead of “tricking down” all the way to the consumer level.
To be sure, in the aftermath of the covid pandemic shutdowns the Fed has tried to short-circuit this process, and in conjunction with the Treasury it has launched “helicopter money” which has resulted in a direct transfer of funds to US corporations via PPP loans, as well as to end consumers via the emergency $600 weekly unemployment benefits which however are set to expire unless renewed by Congress as explained last week, as Democrats and Republicans feud over which fiscal stimulus will be implemented next.
And yet, the lament is that even as the economy was desperately in need of a massive liquidity tsunami, the funds created by the Fed and Treasury (now that the US operates under a quasi-MMT regime) did not make their way to those who need them the most: end consumers.
Which is why we read with great interest a Bloomberg interview with two former Fed officials: Simon Potter, who led the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s markets group i.e., he was the head of the Fed’s Plunge Protection Team for years, and Julia Coronado, who spent eight years as an economist for the Fed’s Board of Governors, who are among the innovators brainstorming solutions to what has emerged as the most crucial and difficult problem facing the Fed: get money swiftly to people who need it most in a crisis.
The response was striking: the two propose creating a monetary tool that they call recession insurance bonds, which draw on some of the advances in digital payments, which will be wired instantly to Americans.
As Coronado explained the details, Congress would grant the Federal Reserve an additional tool for providing support—say, a percent of GDP [in a lump sum that would be divided equally and distributed] to households in a recession. Recession insurance bonds would be zero-coupon securities, a contingent asset of households that would basically lie in wait. The trigger could be reaching the zero lower bound on interest rates or, as economist Claudia Sahm has proposed, a 0.5 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate. The Fed would then activate the securities and deposit the funds digitally in households’ apps .
As Potter added, “it took Congress too long to get money to people, and it’s too clunky. We need a separate infrastructure. The Fed could buy the bonds quickly without going to the private market. On March 15 they could have said interest rates are now at zero, we’re activating X amount of the bonds, and we’ll be tracking the unemployment rate—if it increases above this level, we’ll buy more. The bonds will be on the asset side of the Fed’s balance sheet; the digital dollars in people’s accounts will be on the liability side.”
Essentially, the Fed is proposing creating a hybrid digital legal tender unlike reserves which are stuck within the financial system, and which it can deposit directly into US consumer accounts. In short, as we summarized “The Fed Is Planning To Send Money Directly To Americans In The Next Crisis“, something we reminded readers of on Monday:
So this morning, as if to confirm our speculation of what comes next, Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester delivered a speech to the Chicago Payment Symposium titled “Payments and the Pandemic“, in which after going through the big picture boilerplate, Mester goes straight to the matter at hand.
In the section titled “Central Bank Digital Currencies”, the Cleveland Fed president writes that “the experience with pandemic emergency payments has brought forward an idea that was already gaining increased attention at central banks around the world, that is, central bank digital currency (CBDC).”
And in the shocking punchline, then goes on to reveal that “ legislation has proposed that each American have an account at the Fed in which digital dollars could be deposited, as liabilities of the Federal Reserve Banks, which could be used for emergency payments. ”
But wait it gets better, because in launching digital cash, the Fed would then be able to scrap “anonymous” physical currency entirely, and track every single banknote from its “creation” all though the various transactions that take place during its lifetime. And, eventually, the Fed could remotely “destroy” said digital currency when it so decides. Oh, and in the process the Fed would effectively disintermediate commercial banks, as it would both provide loans to US consumers and directly deposit funds into their accounts, effectively making the entire traditional banking system obsolete. Here are the details:


prepareforchange--2020-09-26--Polluted bodies: Researchers find shocking levels of microplastics in CHILDREN

Scientists are still unsure about the health risks that microplastic ingestion poses to human health .
But that ’ s starting to change thanks to recent studies .
In a major breakthrough , researchers from the German Environment Agency ( UBA ) and the Robert Koch Institute ( RKI ) found that 97 percent of the blood and urine samples of some 2,500 children tested , aged three to 17 , had traces of microplastics , or the small pieces of plastic that occur as a consequence of plastic pollution .
These results are troubling , suggesting that children are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the home .
The results also indicate that more and more plastic ingredients are being found inside human bodies in recent times , said Marike Kolossa-Gehring , a toxicologist at UBA and a member of the research team .
Their findings appeared online in the German publication Der Spiegel .
The ocean is abundant in microplastics .
The plastic fibers , often no bigger than a sesame seed , can be detected in different species of fish and shellfish that humans consume .
This alone could be a testament to the degree of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racing to figure out the implications of this pollution for human health .
In this most recent research , German scientists found that humans also face a heightened risk of microplastic exposure from the frequent use of plastic products , certain fabrics , food packaging and cooking utensils .
Some of the chemicals identified pose no apparent health risk , but the researchers expressed the most concern regarding disturbing amounts of perfluorooctanoic acid ( PFOA ) in the blood and urine samples .
This man-made chemical is used around the globe to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clothes and other products .
Numerous studies indicate that exposure to PFOA in certain amounts can result in health issues and complications , including birth defects .
It has also been found to be carcinogenic in animal trials .
The researchers also speculated that children that aren ’ t from rich or middle class areas face the greatest risk of microplastic ingestion .
The long-term damage of this exposure also can not be ruled out .
The group said that these findings should be a clear call for more regulations against the use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the samples .
The European Union ( EU ) is set to ban PFOA sometime in 2020 .
This isn ’ t the first time that researchers studied cases of microplastic ingestion in humans .
In 2018 , scientists from the Medical University of Vienna and the Environment Agency Austria monitored a group of eight participants , each from a different country around the globe .
The scientists detected the presence of up to nine different kinds of microplastics in all of the stool samples .
In addition , based on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the scientists speculated that microplastic ingestion is linked to drinking from plastic bottles or consuming foods that use plastic packaging .
Six of the participants consumed sea fish .
In all , the scientists found 20 microplastic particles per 10 g of stool .
These findings serve to confirm suspicions that plastics have reached the human gut , the group said .
From there , microplastic particles are capable of entering the bloodstream and reaching different organs .
More research is needed to understand the potential effects of microplastic exposure , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the function and production of hormones implicated in important cellular processes , such as immune response to infection and disease .
Bisphenol A ( BPA ) is one such hormone-disrupting chemical .
It is one of the most studied toxic chemicals because of its ubiquitous presence in food packaging .
But this same ubiquitous presence could also be posing a threat to both marine life and humans .
Scientists have reported that the degradation of BPA-containing hard plastics has led to BPA leaking into the ocean at concentrations ranging from .01 to 0.50 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hard-pressed to understand the implications of this plastic pollution consequence for marine and human health .
But one disturbing scenario that scientists are considering is that BPA and degraded , minuscule pieces of plastic could bioaccumulate in the fish and shellfish that end up on our dinner tables .
Read more articles about the health risks that microplastics pose to human health at StopEatingPoison.com .
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From HeavyMetals.news and Divina Ramirez:
Scientists are still unsure about the health risks that microplastic ingestion poses to human health. But that’s starting to change thanks to recent studies.
In a major breakthrough, researchers from the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) found that 97 percent of the blood and urine samples of some 2,500 children tested, aged three to 17, had traces of microplastics, or the small pieces of plastic that occur as a consequence of plastic pollution.
These results are troubling, suggesting that children are exposed to countless sources of microplastics inside the home. The results also indicate that more and more plastic ingredients are being found inside human bodies in recent times, said Marike Kolossa-Gehring, a toxicologist at UBA and a member of the research team.
Their findings appeared online in the German publication Der Spiegel.
Toxic clothes, cooking utensils, food packaging
The ocean is abundant in microplastics. The plastic fibers, often no bigger than a sesame seed, can be detected in different species of fish and shellfish that humans consume.
This alone could be a testament to the degree of global plastic pollution, but scientists are racing to figure out the implications of this pollution for human health.
In this most recent research, German scientists found that humans also face a heightened risk of microplastic exposure from the frequent use of plastic products, certain fabrics, food packaging and cooking utensils.
Some of the chemicals identified pose no apparent health risk, but the researchers expressed the most concern regarding disturbing amounts of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in the blood and urine samples.
This man-made chemical is used around the globe to make non-stick and stainproof coatings for pans, clothes and other products.
Numerous studies indicate that exposure to PFOA in certain amounts can result in health issues and complications, including birth defects. It has also been found to be carcinogenic in animal trials.
The researchers also speculated that children that aren’t from rich or middle class areas face the greatest risk of microplastic ingestion. The long-term damage of this exposure also cannot be ruled out.
The group said that these findings should be a clear call for more regulations against the use of PFOA and the other chemicals found in the samples. The European Union (EU) is set to ban PFOA sometime in 2020.
Microplastics disrupt hormone production
This isn’t the first time that researchers studied cases of microplastic ingestion in humans.
In 2018, scientists from the Medical University of Vienna and the Environment Agency Austria monitored a group of eight participants, each from a different country around the globe.
The scientists detected the presence of up to nine different kinds of microplastics in all of the stool samples.
In addition, based on the entries in the participants’ food diaries, the scientists speculated that microplastic ingestion is linked to drinking from plastic bottles or consuming foods that use plastic packaging. Six of the participants consumed sea fish.
In all, the scientists found 20 microplastic particles per 10 g of stool. These findings serve to confirm suspicions that plastics have reached the human gut, the group said. From there, microplastic particles are capable of entering the bloodstream and reaching different organs.
More research is needed to understand the potential effects of microplastic exposure, but current studies are blaming microplastics for disrupting the function and production of hormones implicated in important cellular processes, such as immune response to infection and disease.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is one such hormone-disrupting chemical. It is one of the most studied toxic chemicals because of its ubiquitous presence in food packaging. But this same ubiquitous presence could also be posing a threat to both marine life and humans.
Scientists have reported that the degradation of BPA-containing hard plastics has led to BPA leaking into the ocean at concentrations ranging from .01 to 0.50 parts per million. Experts are still hard-pressed to understand the implications of this plastic pollution consequence for marine and human health.
But one disturbing scenario that scientists are considering is that BPA and degraded, minuscule pieces of plastic could bioaccumulate in the fish and shellfish that end up on our dinner tables.
Read more articles about the health risks that microplastics pose to human health at StopEatingPoison.com.
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