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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 05:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - GLOBAL TRIAL BY THE PEOPLE IN PROGRESS NOW - INFORM YOURSELF]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><span style="color: #800000;">CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - GLOBAL TRIAL BY THE PEOPLE IN PROGRESS NOW - INFORM YOURSELF</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="1000"></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: 22px;">Premeditated BIOWEAPON Developed In 60s: FINAL DAYS Reveals WEAPONIZATION Of Nature AGAINST HUMANITY</span></p><p>[player url=&quot;https://rumble.com/v2rgh9g-premeditated-bioweapon-developed-in-60s-final-days-reveals-weaponization-of.html&quot; title=&quot;Premeditated BIOWEAPON Developed In 60s: FINAL DAYS Reveals WEAPONIZATION Of Nature AGAINST HUMANITY&quot; summary=&quot;Covid-19 did not begin three years ago but all the way back in 1965. Dr. David Martin is here to talk about his groundbreaking speech to the European Union Parliament. As a result of telling the truth&quot;]</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="61" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-01-thin-shadow.png" width="880"></p><p>[player url=&quot;https://twitter.com/bambkb/status/1664072157939347457?s=20&quot;]</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="61" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-01-thin-shadow.png" width="880"></p><p>[player url=&quot;https://twitter.com/bambkb/status/1664072157939347457?s=20&quot;]</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="61" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-01-thin-shadow.png" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center;" width="880"></p><p>[player url=&quot;https://rumble.com/v2r01eg-dr.-david-martin-exposing-covid-as-a-biological-warfare-crime.html&quot; title=&quot;Dr. David Martin Exposing COVID as a Biological Warfare Crime&quot; summary=&quot;&quot;Dr. &#39;David Martin&#39; &#39;Cv19&#39; Was Biological Warfare On The Human Race&quot; May 28, 2023. Medical, &amp; Geopolitical News, CV19, AndreCorbeil. Doctor David Martin, COVID, Coronavirus, Dr David Martin - European&quot;]</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="61" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-01-thin-shadow.png" width="880"></p>]]></description>
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	<guid isPermaLink="true">https://spiritualfamily.online/discussion/view/51560/the-canadian-fertilizer-ban</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Canadian Fertilizer Ban]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">The Canadian Fertilizer Ban</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><span dir="auto" style="color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">We talk the Canadian Fertilizer Ban, </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/biofuels" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); color: var(--yt-endpoint-color,var(--yt-spec-call-to-action)); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">#biofuels</a><span dir="auto" style="color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"> , </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/agriculture" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); color: var(--yt-endpoint-color,var(--yt-spec-call-to-action)); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">#agriculture</a><span dir="auto" style="color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"> , </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/farming" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); color: var(--yt-endpoint-color,var(--yt-spec-call-to-action)); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">#farming</a><span dir="auto" style="color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"> , </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/oilandgas" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: var(--yt-endpoint-text-regular-decoration,none); color: var(--yt-endpoint-color,var(--yt-spec-call-to-action)); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">#oilandgas</a><span dir="auto" style="color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"> and much more!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMG4kuEN_kM</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
	<link>https://spiritualfamily.online/discussion/view/42623/political-tyranny-economic-slavery-police-states-medicial-mafia-new-nuremberg-trials</link>
	<title><![CDATA[Political Tyranny - Economic Slavery - Police States - Medicial Mafia - New Nuremberg Trials]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">Political Tyranny - Economic Slavery - Police States - Medical&nbsp;Mafia - New Nuremberg Trials</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/W9k9RD5K84NR/" target="_blank">ARCHBISHOP VIGANO - AGENDA 2030: THE GATES OF HELL</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/RM38mOE2CR8F/">SHERIFF CLAY HIGGINS: &quot;THE OPPRESSORS INTEND FOR YOU TO COMPLY WITH THEIR MANDATES AND COMMANDS&quot;</a></p><p><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/file/view/42622/south-african-physician-dr-shankara-chetty-talks-about-the-bigger-plan" target="_blank">SOUTH AFRICAN PHYSICIAN DR. SHANKARA CHETTY TALKS ABOUT &quot;THE BIGGER PLAN&quot;</a></p><blockquote><p>This episode also demonstrates that Jesus did not look with approval upon the refusal to employ force to protect the majority of any given human group against the unfair and enslaving practices of unjust minorities who may be able to entrench themselves behind political, financial, or ecclesiastical power. Shrewd, wicked, and designing men are not to be permitted to organize themselves for the exploitation and oppression of those who, because of their idealism, are not disposed to resort to force for self-protection or for the furtherance of their laudable life projects.<br />
http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_173.html#173:1.11&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Dr. Andrew Wakefield 1986 THE ACT: WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DON&#039;T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT MANDATORY VACCINES]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><span style="font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Dr. Andrew Wakefield<br />
1986 THE ACT: WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DON&#39;T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 28px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">MANDATORY VACCINES</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><span style="font-size: 28px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 28px;" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><a href="https://londonreal.tv/andrew-wakefield-1986-the-act-what-the-government-dont-want-you-to-know-about-mandatory-vaccines/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 14.4px;" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="525" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/31267/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="700"></a></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;">CLICK THE IMAGE TO WATCH THE VIDEO WITHOUT YOUTUBE</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;">YOU CAN WATCH&nbsp;THE FILM FREE AFTER JULY 8TH 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://1986theact.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 14.4px;" target="_blank">HERE&nbsp;</a></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><a href="https://1986theact.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 14.4px;" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="525" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/31269/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="700"></a></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">Dr. Andrew Wakefield<br />
1986 THE ACT: WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DON&#39;T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT MANDATORY VACCINES</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">Creator Of 1986 The Act<br />
Dr. Andrew Wakefield MB.BS., is an academic gastroenterologist. He received his medical degree from St. Mary&rsquo;s Hospital Medical School, London in 1981.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">He qualified as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and trained as a gastrointestinal surgeon with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Traveling Fellowship to study small-intestinal transplantation in Toronto. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in the U.K. in 2001. Wakefield has published over 140 original scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">In 1995, as an academic physician working in a London teaching hospital, he was contacted by the parent of an autistic child with stomach issues.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">He soon learned from several other parents with autistic behaviors, that their children&rsquo;s regressive behavior immediately followed an MMR vaccine.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">He started investigating a possible role between gastrointestinal issues, the MMR vaccine, and neurological injury in children. In pursuit of this possible link, Dr. Wakefield participated in a study of twelve children with both stomach and developmental issues. The ensuing report, written with twelve other authors would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of Medicine.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="160" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/30585/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="551"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 06:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[MEET BILL GATES]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">FOR UPDATES <a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/blog/view/31369/meet-bill-gates-and-know-what-influence-he-has-had-on-your-life" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;">Meet Bill Gates and know what influence he has had on your Life.</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 28px;" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; 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font-style: normal; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);" width="569"></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/30729/who-controls-the-gates-family" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 28px;" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="525" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/30730/master/" style="font-size: 28px;" width="700"></a></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="160" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/30585/master/" style="font-size: 28px;" width="551"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A Parable from Jesus</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">8</span>&nbsp;&quot;But I also am the true shepherd who is willing even to lay down his life for the sheep. The thief breaks into the fold only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; but I have come that you all may have life and have it more abundantly. He who is a hireling, when danger arises, will flee and allow the sheep to be scattered and destroyed; but the true shepherd will not flee when the wolf comes; he will protect his flock and, if necessary, lay down his life for his sheep. Verily, verily, I say to you, friends and enemies, I am the true shepherd; I know my own and my own know me. I will not flee in the face of danger. I will finish this service of the completion of my Father&#39;s will, and I will not forsake the flock which the Father has intrusted to my keeping.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Have no fear and be of good cheer&nbsp;</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: justify;">Jesus, still standing, then said to the twelve: &quot;You are my chosen ambassadors, but I know that, in the circumstances, you could not entertain this belief&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(That he was the world&#39;s deliverer the Son of the Living God)</span><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span>as a result of mere human knowledge. This is a revelation of the spirit of my Father to your inmost souls. And when, therefore, you make this confession by the insight of the spirit of my Father which dwells within you, I am led to declare that upon this foundation will I build the brotherhood of the kingdom of heaven. Upon this rock of spiritual reality will I build the living temple of spiritual fellowship in the eternal realities of my Father&#39;s kingdom.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">All the forces of evil and the hosts of sin shall not prevail against this human fraternity of the divine spirit.</span>&nbsp;And while my Father&#39;s spirit shall ever be the divine guide and mentor of all who enter the bonds of this spirit fellowship, to you and your successors I now deliver the keys of the outward kingdom -- the authority over things temporal -- the social and economic features of this association of men and women as fellows of the kingdom.&quot;</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" style="font-size: 28px;" width="1000"></span></span></p>]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="24" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="margin: 0px;" width="700"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="90" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/29503/master/" style="margin: 0px;" width="700"></p><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; float: left; color: rgb(54, 47, 45);"><div style="font-size: 12px;">By&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/peter-koenig" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);" title="Posts by Peter Koenig">Peter Koenig</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Global Research, March 24, 2020</div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; float: right; text-align: right; color: rgb(54, 47, 45);"><div style="font-size: inherit;">Region:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/region/asia" rel="tag" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);">Asia</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/region/usa" rel="tag" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);">USA</a></div><div style="font-size: inherit;">Theme:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/science-and-medicine" rel="tag" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(27, 20, 100);">Science and Medicine</a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="8" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-01.gif" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; text-align: center;" width="700"></p><p>.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><em style="font-size: inherit;"><img alt="" height="199" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/29612/master/" style="float: left;" width="300">A few days ago,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">Dr. Tedros,</span>&nbsp;the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) repeated what he said already a few weeks ago, that there are about 20 pharmaceutical laboratories throughout the world that are developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, named COVID-19, also called 2019-nCOV, or SARS-CoV-2. For the layman, it is just a stronger mutation of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, that broke out in 2002 / 2003, also in China. To be sure, a mutation made in a laboratory. In a US high-security biological warfare laboratory. In other words, both SARS and COVID-19 &ndash; among many other bio-war agents &ndash; were made in the US.</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">And now, the chaotic western-style race of private corporations for a vaccine wanting to outdo one another, has begun.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">Who is first to develop a vaccine?</span>&nbsp;&ndash; It&rsquo;s a fierce competition to establish a patent, a monopoly &ndash; for a possibly multi trillion-dollar business. Its western neoliberal capitalism at its very worst &ndash; or best, depending on the angle from where one looks.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">There are no words to describe this chaotic fever for profit over human wellbeing. It has nothing to do with health, with healing sick and suffering, possibly dying people. It&rsquo;s all about money. Hundreds of billions, if not trillion of profit for the pharmaceutical oligarch and their associated research laboratories and enterprises. And even more so, if the WHO-declared &ldquo;pandemic&rdquo; (sic) will prompt a forced vaccination campaign, enhanced by military and police surveillance.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Let&rsquo;s put COVID-19 in context. As of 23 March 2020 (18:33 GMT), and according to WHO statistics, reported worldwide cases are 372,572; deaths 16,313; recovered 101,373 &ndash; a death rate of 4.37%. However, these figures must be considered with caution. In many countries, especially developing economies, accurate testing may be a problem. Test kits are often not available, or not reliable. So, may people who go to the doctor with some flu symptoms are possibly falsely diagnosed as COVID-19 victims, as it serves the publicity hype.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Miscalculations and false reporting may even occur in the United States.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">Mr. Robert Redfield</span>, CEO of the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), testified before Congress that CDC does no longer carry out regular tests, that these were carried out at State-level and only in extreme cases. See also this reference form the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-20/coronavirus-county-doctors-containment-testing" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);">LA Times of California measures and directives</a>.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">By comparison, the US CDC estimates that in the 2019 / 2020 flu season in the US alone, some 38 to 54 million people may catch the common flu, and 23,000 to 59,000 may die from it. The vast majority of these deaths will be elderly people above 70-years of age and many of them with pre-health conditions and /or pre-existing respiratory problems. This is pretty much the same disease and death pattern as with COVID-19. Expanding these common flu figures linearly on a worldwide scale would result in hundreds of thousands of flu deaths. In the particularly strong 2017-2018 US flu season, an estimated 60,000 people died from the flu in the US alone. The reader may himself judge whether WHO was justified declaring COVID-19 a &ldquo;pandemic&rdquo; &mdash; or whether there may have been &ndash; just perhaps &ndash; another agenda behind it?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The vaccine that might eventually be applied to COVID-19, may most likely no longer be valid for the next coronavirus outbreak &ndash; which, also according to Mr. Redfield, CDC, will most probably occur. A later virus may most certainly have mutated. It&rsquo;s quite similar to the common flu virus. In fact, the annually reoccurring common flu virus contains a proportion of 10% to 15% (some times more) of coronaviruses.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The effectiveness of the annual flu vaccines is on average less than 50%, not to mention all the potential harmful side effects, they carry along. COVID-19 is very similar to influenza. Will a corona virus vaccine be equally weak in protecting a potential patient from a future infection?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Cooperation instead of competition, doesn&rsquo;t occur in the west</i></span>. It&rsquo;s all profit-driven. With a number of different vaccines from different pharma giants coming on the market, who will tell the patient which one is the best, most suitable for the patient&rsquo;s condition? It smells like an utter chaotic scam.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">The real question is &ndash; are vaccines &ndash; or&nbsp;<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">a</i>&nbsp;vaccine &ndash; even necessary?</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe &ndash; maybe not. The production of vaccines is pushed for profit motives and for an important political agenda for a New World Order &ndash; that has been planned to change human life as we know it, or thought we knew it. See further explanations below.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Vaccines don&rsquo;t heal, they may prevent the virus from hitting as hard as it might otherwise do, or not at all, depending on the age, physical and health condition of a person. Worldwide statistics show that usually a person up to the age of 40 or 50, who is infected by the COVID-19, has none or only slight symptoms, nothing to worry about.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Should symptoms show up, staying home, resting and using traditional, age-old medicine, the same that might be used for the common flu, might be enough to get rid of the virus. This might resolve the disease within one or two weeks. Then, the person will be naturally &ldquo;vaccinated&rdquo; against this strand of coronavirus. Elderly people above 65 or 70 may be more at risk and special attention may be in order &ndash; separated from crowds, isolation during a two-week quarantine (the incubation period), while the rest of society goes on with life as normal as possible, thereby reducing the huge cost to society.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">China has brought the COVID-19 pandemic under control without a vaccine</span>, but using common sense and traditional, rather inexpensive medication. What are these regular medicines that are effective and have helped to bring COVID-19 under control in China, without a vaccine?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The &ldquo;Children&rsquo;s Health Defense&rdquo; (the Children&rsquo;s Defense Fund &ndash; CDF), an American NGO, founded 1973 by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., depicts the current power struggle in France between health official and the country&rsquo;s leading experts in virology, as representative for the worldwide fight between corporate pharma supported by (bought) governments and international organizations, such as WHO &ndash; and renowned scientists. If laid open, it is an eye-opener. See&nbsp;<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/does-the-coronavirus-pandemic-serve-a-global-agenda/" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);">full CDF study</a>.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">French Professor Didier Raoult, who is one of the world&rsquo;s top 5 scientists on communicable diseases, argued that the approach of&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">mass quarantine is both inefficient and outdated and that large-scale testing and treatment of suspected cases achieves far better results.</i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Early on, Dr. Raoult suggested the use of&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">hydroxychloroquine (Chloroquine or Plaquenil),</i></span>&nbsp;a well-known, simple, and inexpensive drug, also used to fight Malaria, and that has shown efficacy with previous coronaviruses such as SARS. &nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">By mid-February 2020, clinical trials at his institute and in China already confirmed that the drug could reduce the viral load and bring spectacular improvement.&nbsp;</i></span>The Chinese scientists published their first trials on more than 100 patients and announced that the Chinese National Health Commission would recommend Chloroquine in their new guidelines to treat Covid-19.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><img alt="Image result for interferon cuba" height="208" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/29611/master/" style="margin-left: 5px; font-size: inherit; float: right;" width="342"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">In addition, China and Cuba are working together with the use of&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Interferon Alpha 2B</i></span>, a highly efficient anti-viral drug developed in Cuba some 39 years, but little known to the world, because of the US imposed embargo on anything from Cuba. Interferon has also proven to be very effective in fighting COVID-19 and is now produced in a joint-venture in China.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Chinese researchers in cooperation with Cuban scientists are also developing a vaccine which may soon be ready for testing. In contrast to the west, working exclusively on profit-motives, the&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Chinese-Cuban vaccine would be made available at low cost to the entire world.</i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Other simple, but effective remedies include the use of heavy doses of&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Vitamin C</i></span>, as well as&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Vitamin D3</i></span>, or more generally the use of Micronutrients essential to&nbsp;<em style="font-size: inherit;">fight</em>&nbsp;infections, include&nbsp;<em style="font-size: inherit;">vitamins</em><span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;A, B, C,&nbsp;</i><em style="font-size: inherit;">D</em><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">, and E</i></span>.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Another remedy that has been used for thousands of years by ancient Chinese, Romans and Egyptians<span style="font-size: inherit;">,&nbsp;</span>are&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;">Colloidal silver</span>&nbsp;products. They come in forms to be administered as a liquid by mouth, or injected, or applied to the skin. Colloidal silver&nbsp;products are boosting the immune system, fighting bacteria and viruses, and have been used for treating cancer, HIV/AIDS, shingles, herpes, eye ailments, prostatitis &ndash; and COVID-19.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Yet another simple and inexpensive remedy, to be used in combination with others, is&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">menthol-based</i></span>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&ldquo;Mentholatum&rdquo;.</i></span>&nbsp;It&rsquo;s used for common flu and cold symptoms. Rubbed on and around the nose, it acts as a disinfectant and prevents germs to enter the respiratory track.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Northern Italy and New Orleans report that an unusual number of patients had to be hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU) and be put 24&times;7 on a 90% strength respirator, with some of them remaining unresponsive, going into respiratory failure. The reported death rate is about 40%. The condition is called acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS. That means the lungs are filled with fluid. When this description of ARDS episodes applies, Dr. Raoult and other medical colleagues recommend COVID-19 patients<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;to &ldquo;sleep sitting up&rdquo; until they are cured</i></span>. This helps drain the liquid out of the lungs. The method has been known to work successfully since it was first documented during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.</p><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><div style="font-size: inherit;"><div style="font-size: inherit;"><div style="font-size: inherit; text-align: left; float: left;"><div style="font-size: inherit;"><div style="font-size: inherit;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153" rel="nofollow" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(23, 88, 120) !important;" title="The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”">The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is &ldquo;Agenda ID2020&rdquo;</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">As you may expect, if you look up any of these alternative cures on internet &ndash; internet controlled by Google and the Big Corporatocracy, including the pharmaceuticals, will logically advise you against using them. At best they will tell you that these products or methods have not proven effective, and at worst, that they may be harmful. Don&rsquo;t believe it. None of these products or methods are harmful. Remember, some of them have been used as natural remedies for thousands of years. And remember, China has successfully come to grips with COVID-19, using some of these relatively simple and inexpensive medications.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, few doctors are aware of these practical, simple and inexpensive remedies. They are safe and more often than not successful. The media, under pressure from the pharma giants and the compliant government agencies, have been requested to censoring such valuable information. The negligence or failure, to make such easily accessible remedies public knowledge is killing people.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Now, let&rsquo;s cut to the chase, to what&rsquo;s behind it all &ndash; behind the extraordinary monstrous media propaganda hype that is bringing down the entire (western) world&rsquo;s socioeconomic system, creating untold misery, famine, and death. A misery with suffering potentially by orders of magnitude worse than the Big Depression of 1928 / 1929 and the subsequent years.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">If anybody had any doubts up to now, where the virus originated, the truth was dropped surreptitiously, a slip of the tongue or on purpose, by Secretary of State,&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike Pompeo, when he addressed the Nation on 21 March on COVID-19, he said, &ldquo;This is not about retribution, we are in a live exercise here&hellip;&rdquo;, meaning military exercise, or a war game.</i></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">President Trump by Pompeo&rsquo;s side was whispering, &ldquo;you should have let us know&rdquo;. Whatever that means. It&rsquo;s hard to believe that Mr. Trump didn&rsquo;t know. But these are the vagaries of American politics, even on a death-serious subject like the new coronavirus breakout. See&nbsp;<a href="https://ussanews.com/News1/2020/03/21/secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-admits-covid-19-is-a-live-exercise-president-trump-comments-i-wish-you-would-have-told-us/" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);">here with a brief video</a>.&nbsp;See&nbsp;<a href="https://ednews.net/en/news/politics/421822-coronavirus-prepared-at-the-bio-weapons-laboratory-in-the-us." style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);">this also</a>.</p><p>[player url=&quot;https://spiritualfamily.net/file/view/29614/mike-pompeo-calls-coronavirus-pandemic-a-exercise-live-on-cnn&quot; title=&quot;Mike Pompeo calls Coronavirus pandemic a Exercise live on CNN&quot; summary=&quot;Social Networking For The World Wide Spiritual Fellowship Of All Mankind&quot;]</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">This live (military) exercise</i></span>&nbsp;has unimaginable worldwide implications which may completely transform our lives.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">It&rsquo;s economic warfare</span>. Almost every country on this planet is on some kind of a lock-down, a quarantine of sorts for an as of yet undetermined period, with businesses closed, shops and restaurants shot, construction sites halted, people working from home if they can, being in the streets is forbidden, in many countries under police and military surveillance, with cases of people being beaten up and hand-cuffed, if they have no good explanation.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The President Macron-inspired French police is especially known for its uncontrolled brutality fighting the Yellow Vests. They have already demonstrated their same despise for their fellow citizens, when they are in the streets, even food shopping, without a special permit.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Borders are shot, airlines are grounded, tourism comes to a screeching halt, basically from one day to the other, stranded throughout the world. With a few exceptions, Germany and France are rare ones, they organize return flights for their citizens abroad. Otherwise, with uncertain flight departures, over-booked and over-crowded flights, the stranded tourists have hardly a chance to return home soon.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The socioeconomic cost is astronomical. In the multi-quadrillion, or quintillion; numbers with so many zeros they make you dizzy. This calamity can only partly be valued with numbers, and not now, as the world&rsquo;s lock-down continues &ndash; with a social cost that cannot be valued. The dive of the stock market by about 30% &ndash; a typical bonanza for forward speculators and Big Finance, Big Banking, with multi-trillion-dollar losses for the small investors.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Millions, if not hundreds of millions of small and medium size businesses going broke, unemployment going rampant, in the hundreds of millions, throughout the world, and the poorest of the poor, especially in developing countries, who are either unemployed or survive on small hourly or day-to-day jobs &ndash; they have no income, cannot buy the basics for survival &ndash; some of them may die from famine, others may commit suicide, others convert to crime. This is Greece by a factor of thousand, or worse.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Then, there is a moral and societal breakdown from a forced quarantine, for which there is no clear end in sight. This creates fear and anxieties, frustration and anger. &nbsp;For many it&rsquo;s like solitary confinement &ndash; all of which is bad for health, and lowers the immune defense system. Just what those who pull the strings want.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">So, whom does this&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">live (military) exercise</i></span>&nbsp;serve? &ndash; First one would assume its destined to break China&rsquo;s back, as China is the up-and-coming economic power. It is true, China&rsquo;s economy has suffered enormously, with about 60% to 70% of all production stopped for the first two months this year, the time of the COVID-19 outbreak and peak, meaning a significant plunge of China&rsquo;s GDP, maybe as much as 40% for January and February 2020.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">However, China has the corona virus now firmly under control. And China being China, her economy is recovering fast and may soon be back to what it was in December 2019. In fact, despite the significant impact of COVID-19, China&rsquo;s economy may soon overtake that of the self-styled empire, the United States of America. China&rsquo;s currency the yuan, is solidly backed by a strong economy and by gold, and is slated to become the world&rsquo;s chief reserve currency, replacing the US-dollar, which had that role for the last 100 years. When that happens, the US hegemony is doomed.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">It&rsquo;s more. This attack on China is actually backfiring big time.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">China is the supply chain for almost everything for the west.</span>&nbsp;To increase corporate profits, the US and other western countries have outsourced almost everything to low-cost labor China. This concerns not only high technology electronics, but also medication and medical equipment. About 80% and ingredients to produce medication come from China. For antibiotics the proportion is about 90%.<br />
With much of Chinese production halted for almost 2 months, the delivery lag is enormous.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">A plan has been on the drawing board for the last few years, dictated by the obscure clan, or &ldquo;Deep Dark State&rdquo;, and designed by its minions, who expect to be generously rewarded in one way or another. Or, you may put it this way, the absence of punishment and torture is also a form of reward.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">Universal Vaccination</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">First, there is an enormous drive towards universal vaccination, because vaccination will be the cornerstone of all that follows, namely a universally imposed electronic identification of every person on the planet. And what is best suited to force down a vaccination program? &ndash; A pandemic, of course, with people being made more scared every day. The fear factor is key. It is being increased by a time-undetermined quarantine and by a constant drip-by-drip indoctrination of bad news on the COVID-19 front. Every day the pace of increasing numbers of infected people and those who died, accelerates, increasing fear and anxiety.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The time will come, when people will literally scream for help. They want a police and military state to protect them &ndash; from the virus, I guess &ndash; and they want to be vaccinated. They don&rsquo;t care nor ask what is the cocktail that is being injected in their body and what its long-term implications may be. For example, the vaccination cocktail could serve to reduce women and men&rsquo;s fertility, or cause long-term neurological defects that can even be passed on to next generations. &nbsp;People with fear just want to sleep at ease, being vaccinated. They don&rsquo;t care &ndash; nor do they want to know &ndash; that along with the vaccine could be a nano-chip injected that will contain all their personal data, from health records to bank accounts &ndash; and can be electronically remote-controlled.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">It goes without saying, our monetary system is planned to be fully electronic, no more cash &ndash; cash is poison &ndash; or as WHO&rsquo;s Director General recently warned, not&nbsp;<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">verbatim</i>, but with that meaning,&nbsp;<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">cash is dangerous for infections, paper money and coins may carry deadly viruses&nbsp;</i>&ndash; thereby paving the way for full digitization of our monetary system. This has, indeed, already been tested over the past few years, mainly in Scandinavian countries, where entire department stores refuse to accept cash. In response to the WHO DG&rsquo;s recommendation, some shops and restaurants in Germany refuse to accept cash.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The universal vaccination and electronic ID go together and will first be tested in a few developing countries. Bangladesh is one of them. The vaccination program is the platform for the mega-changes the New World Order (NOW), or the One World Order (OWO) wants to bring about. This, in addition to the enormous money-making bonanza.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">An almost unknown agency called Agenda ID2020 is behind all this, monitoring, directing and adjusting the implementation of the various programs &ndash; that are supposed to eventually lead to&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Full Spectrum Dominance</i></span>. For more details, see&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);">also the recent article on the dangers of Agenda ID2020</a>.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">Behind this elaborate and complex network of things, appears time and again, one prominent name: Bill Gates, the Bill and Melinda Gate&rsquo;s Foundation. Bill Gates has been funding vaccination programs in Africa for decades. And Bill Gates and the Rockefellers make no secret that one of their ultimate goal for planet earth is a drastic population reduction.</p><blockquote style="margin-right: 3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">Abstract of Agenda ID2020</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-size: inherit;">Agenda ID2020<span style="font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;</span>&ndash; is an alliance of public-private partners, including UN agencies and civil society. It&rsquo;s an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. The program harnesses existing birth registration and vaccination operations to provide newborns with a portable and persistent biometrically-linked digital identity.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-size: inherit;">GAVI, the&nbsp;<span style="font-style: normal; font-size: inherit;">Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization</span>, identifies itself on its website as a global health partnership of public and private sector organizations dedicated to &ldquo;immunization for all&rdquo;. GAVI is supported by WHO, and needless to say, its main partners and sponsors are the pharma-industry.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-size: inherit;">The ID2020 Alliance at their 2019 Summit, entitled &ldquo;Rising to the Good ID Challenge&rdquo;, in September 2019 in New York, decided to roll out their program in 2020, a decision confirmed by the WEF in January 2020 in Davos. Their&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;">digital identity</span>&nbsp;program will be tested with the government of Bangladesh. GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and &ldquo;partners from academia and humanitarian relief&rdquo; (as they call it), are part of the pioneer party.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-size: inherit;">Is it just a coincidence that ID2020 is being rolled out at the onset of what WHO calls a Pandemic? &ndash; Or is a pandemic needed to &lsquo;roll out&rsquo; the multiple devastating programs of ID2020?</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">How the Vaccination Research and Production is supposed to work.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">How will this elaborate and complex business of creating vaccines and implementing vaccine campaign work? As most official activities that basically are government responsibilities are privatized and outsourced, they become complex, chaotic at times and inefficient. In the case of the west, the US pretends to take the lead, but will also assign responsibilities to European pharma-labs.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">The&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;">National Institute of Health (NIH)</span>&nbsp;has overall responsibility for national health research and program implementation. NIH&rsquo;s Director is Anthony Fauci. The Institute was created in 1955. Under NIH, the&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;">National Institute</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: inherit;">of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Allergy</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;and Infectious Diseases</span>&nbsp;(NIAID), one of 27 institutes, reporting to NIH, is responsible for vaccination programs. NIAD&rsquo;s mission is to conduct basic and applied research to better understand, treat&nbsp;and prevent infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases. NIAD has outsourced the vaccination program to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">CEPI was formed by the WEF (World Economic Forum) in Davos in January 2017. It was founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the London-based Welcome Trust, created in 1936, but including now as members several European countries and the European Union (EU). The BMGF made a first infusion to CEPI of US$ 460 million. CEPI also receives funding from Norway and India and is also heavily supported by the pharma-industry.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">According to CEPI&rsquo;s website, CEPI has appealed for US$ 2 billion to support the development of a vaccine for COVID-19 and to expand the number of vaccine candidates to increase the chances of success and to fund the clinical trials for these candidate vaccines. CEPI&rsquo;s ambition is to have at least three vaccine candidates, which could be submitted to regulatory authorities for licensing for general use/use in outbreaks.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">&ldquo;Governments around the world will need to invest billions of euros more in coronavirus vaccine development, to take forward some promising candidates that are emerging. &nbsp;&ndash; It&rsquo;s a very risky business &ndash; everything is being done in parallel, you&rsquo;re not building on the expertise of others &ndash; but good progress is being made,&rdquo; said Melanie Saville, director of vaccine research and development at CEPI.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">CEPI has already some preselected international pharma corporations to research and work on a COVID-19 vaccine. They include the biotech &ldquo;Moderna&rdquo; in Seattle, not far from the Microsoft Headquarters &ndash; also a Bill Gates creation; the biotech lab Inovio, the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Germans, BioNTech and CureVac.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">From the outset it looks that Moderna, CureVac and BioNTech are best suited to produce fast a vaccine, because according to a&nbsp;<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Health and Science</i>&nbsp;report, published on March 17, 2020, &ldquo;all three of these firms specialize in messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics. These mRNA molecules are used to instruct the body to produce its own immune response to fight a range of different diseases. This type of vaccine can potentially be developed and produced more quickly than traditional vaccines.&rdquo;</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><img alt="image" src="src" style="margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: inherit; float: left; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;">Enters GAVI &ndash; the&nbsp;<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization</i>&nbsp;has also been created by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is a global health partnership of public and private sector organizations, dedicated to &ldquo;immunization for all&rdquo;. GAVI is supported by WHO, and needless to say, its main partners and sponsors are the pharma-industry. GAVI has already announced it needs billions of dollars to support its COVID-19 vaccination program. In June 2020, the UK Government will sponsor a donor conference in support of GAVI&rsquo;s COVID-19 vaccination program, expecting to raise US$ 7.3 billion.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">From this maze of overlapping organizations, activities and unclear responsibilities, the money-flow is likely going to be a crisscross that nobody can follow. Accountability on a large scale will be lost.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">As to the output &ndash; hopefully a vaccine &ndash; or several vaccines. For the layman and potential patient, it will be a matter of luck (or bad luck) what cocktail of biological substances will be injected into his or her body. In any case, the long-term outcome, is unpredictable. Remember, Bill Gates has been pursuing during the last fifteen or twenty years his own very special agenda. It is unlikely he will abandon it now. Rather COVID-19 and the ensuing vaccination program will allow him to enhance it.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Concluding</span>&nbsp;&ndash; it is amply clear that this is a huge money-making and public-rip-off proposition by the pharma industry. What makes this multi-billion-dollar scam even worse, is that it has an official rubber-stamp, by being supported by western governments and international organizations, foremost WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">This may be the last opportunity for the elite, the 0.1%, to shuffle social capital and worker funded assets from the bottom to the top, before we enter an era of total control through electromagnetic fields (EMF), managed by the minions of the 0.1% and with 5G / 6G technology, where we, the remaining humans may have become mere tele-guided robots.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">It is by now a pipe dream to believe that the world may continue as it did until the end of the last decade. It would be too much of a coincidence that Agenda ID2020 started activating its evil programs exactly at the beginning of the decade 2020. Unfortunately, it is also a far-away dream that China and Cuba could lead the way for finding a cure for the most likely recurring coronavirus in one mutation or another &ndash; including but not exclusively, using traditional methods and remedies that have proven successful in the current battle to control COVID-19.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">There are draconian measures on the way, and we may just pray that they fail, or that we, the people, awake in time and in sufficient numbers &ndash; a critical mass &ndash; and find back to our innermost voice and soul &ndash; solidarity for each other that gives us strength to fight this Luciferian monster.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;">*</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45);">Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45);"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: inherit;">Peter Koenig</span>&nbsp;is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world, including in Palestine, in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; Greanville Post; Defend Democracy Press, TeleSUR; The Saker Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other internet sites. He is the author of&nbsp;</i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Implosion-Economic-Environmental-Destruction-Corporate/dp/059545349X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);" target="_blank"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Implosion &ndash; An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed&nbsp;</i></a><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&ndash; fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of&nbsp;</i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/World-Order-Revolution-Essays-Resistance/dp/6027005874" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);" target="_blank"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The World Order and Revolution! &ndash; Essays from the Resistance</i></a><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">. He</i><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.</i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45);"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The original source of this article is Global Research</i></p><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(54, 47, 45); text-align: justify;"><div style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-fight-cure-western-pharma-rip-off/5707360?utm_campaign=magnet&amp;utm_source=article_page&amp;utm_medium=related_articles" target="_blank">The original source of this article is Global Research</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Copyright &copy;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/peter-koenig" style="font-size: inherit; color: rgb(59, 77, 129);" title="Posts by Peter Koenig">Peter Koenig</a>, Global Research, 2020</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;</div><div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Support Global Research</div><div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://store.globalresearch.ca/donate/" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="61" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/7640/master/" width="313"></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png"></div></div><p>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">Assange in Court</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/22/" rel="bookmark" style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(233, 168, 37); font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);" title="08:23">22 Oct, 2019</a><span style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">&nbsp;&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/category/uncategorized/" style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(176, 123, 18); font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);" title="View all posts in Uncategorized">Uncategorized&nbsp;</a><span style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">by&nbsp;<span><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/author/craigm/" rel="author" style="color: rgb(233, 168, 37);" title="View all posts by craig">craig</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><img alt="Craig Murray Historian, Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist" height="285" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/serve-icon/24250/large" style="float: left;" width="200">I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday&rsquo;s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange&rsquo;s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening.</p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian&rsquo;s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian&rsquo;s treatment amounted to torture &ndash;&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768" target="_blank">even of Nils Melzer</a>, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture &ndash; and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">I had been even more sceptical of those who claimed, as a senior member of his legal team did to me on Sunday night, that they were worried that Julian might not live to the end of the extradition process. I now find myself not only believing it, but haunted by the thought. Everybody in that court yesterday saw that one of the greatest journalists and most important dissidents of our times is being tortured to death by the state, before our eyes. To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable. Yet the agents of the state, particularly the callous magistrate Vanessa Baraitser, were not just prepared but eager to be a part of this bloodsport. She actually told him that if he were incapable of following proceedings, then his lawyers could explain what had happened to him later. The question of why a man who, by the very charges against him, was acknowledged to be highly intelligent and competent, had been reduced by the state to somebody incapable of following court proceedings, gave her not a millisecond of concern.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The charge against Julian is very specific; conspiring with Chelsea Manning to publish the Iraq War logs, the Afghanistan war logs and the State Department cables. The charges are nothing to do with Sweden, nothing to do with sex, and nothing to do with the 2016 US election; a simple clarification the mainstream media appears incapable of understanding.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The purpose of yesterday&rsquo;s hearing was case management; to determine the timetable for the extradition proceedings. The key points at issue were that Julian&rsquo;s defence was requesting more time to prepare their evidence; and arguing that political offences were specifically excluded from the extradition treaty. There should, they argued, therefore be a preliminary hearing to determine whether the extradition treaty applied at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The reasons given by Assange&rsquo;s defence team for more time to prepare were both compelling and startling. They had very limited access to their client in jail and had not been permitted to hand him any documents about the case until one week ago. He had also only just been given limited computer access, and all his relevant records and materials had been seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy by the US Government; he had no access to his own materials for the purpose of preparing his defence.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Furthermore, the defence argued, they were in touch with the Spanish courts about a very important and relevant&nbsp;<a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/09/inenglish/1570606428_107946.html" target="_blank">legal case in Madrid</a>&nbsp;which would provide vital evidence. It showed that the CIA had been directly ordering spying on Julian in the Embassy through a Spanish company, UC Global, contracted to provide security there. Crucially this included&nbsp;<a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/09/inenglish/1562663427_224669.html" target="_blank">spying on privileged conversations</a>&nbsp;between Assange and his lawyers discussing his defence against these extradition proceedings, which had been in train in the USA since 2010. In any normal process, that fact would in itself be sufficient to have the extradition proceedings dismissed. Incidentally I learnt on Sunday that the Spanish material produced in court, which had been commissioned by the CIA, specifically includes high resolution video coverage of Julian and I discussing various matters.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The evidence to the Spanish court also included a CIA plot to kidnap Assange, which went to the US authorities&rsquo; attitude to lawfulness in his case and the treatment he might expect in the United States. Julian&rsquo;s team explained that the Spanish legal process was happening now and the evidence from it would be extremely important, but it might not be finished and thus the evidence not fully validated and available in time for the current proposed timetable for the Assange extradition hearings.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">For the prosecution, James Lewis QC stated that the government strongly opposed any delay being given for the defence to prepare, and strongly opposed any separate consideration of the question of whether the charge was a political offence excluded by the extradition treaty. Baraitser took her cue from Lewis and stated categorically that the date for the extradition hearing, 25 February, could not be changed. She was open to changes in dates for submission of evidence and responses before this, and called a ten minute recess for the prosecution and defence to agree these steps.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">What happened next was very instructive. There were five representatives of the US government present (initially three, and two more arrived in the course of the hearing), seated at desks behind the lawyers in court. The prosecution lawyers immediately went into huddle with the US representatives, then went outside the courtroom with them, to decide how to respond on the dates.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">After the recess the defence team stated they could not, in their professional opinion, adequately prepare if the hearing date were kept to February, but within Baraitser&rsquo;s instruction to do so they nevertheless outlined a proposed timetable on delivery of evidence. In responding to this, Lewis&rsquo; junior counsel scurried to the back of the court to consult the Americans again while Lewis actually told the judge he was &ldquo;taking instructions from those behind&rdquo;. It is important to note that as he said this, it was not the UK Attorney-General&rsquo;s office who were being consulted but the US Embassy. Lewis received his American instructions and agreed that the defence might have two months to prepare their evidence (they had said they needed an absolute minimum of three) but the February hearing date may not be moved. Baraitser gave a ruling agreeing everything Lewis had said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">At this stage it was unclear why we were sitting through this farce. The US government was dictating its instructions to Lewis, who was relaying those instructions to Baraitser, who was ruling them as her legal decision. The charade might as well have been cut and the US government simply sat on the bench to control the whole process. Nobody could sit there and believe they were in any part of a genuine legal process or that Baraitser was giving a moment&rsquo;s consideration to the arguments of the defence. Her facial expressions on the few occasions she looked at the defence ranged from contempt through boredom to sarcasm. When she looked at Lewis she was attentive, open and warm.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The extradition is plainly being rushed through in accordance with a Washington dictated timetable. Apart from a desire to pre-empt the Spanish court providing evidence on CIA activity in sabotaging the defence, what makes the February date so important to the USA? I would welcome any thoughts.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Baraitser dismissed the defence&rsquo;s request for a separate prior hearing to consider whether the extradition treaty applied at all, without bothering to give any reason why (possibly she had not properly memorised what Lewis had been instructing her to agree with). Yet this is Article 4 of the&nbsp;<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/243246/7146.pdf" target="_blank">UK/US Extradition Treaty 2007</a>&nbsp;in full:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/" target="_blank">Continue Reading Here</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); text-align: center;">Craig Murray&nbsp;<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px;">Subscriptions to keep this blog going are&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/support-this-website/" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(233, 168, 37); font-size: 17px;">gratefully received</a><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 17px;">.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/support-this-website/" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="61" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/7640/master/" width="313"></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">My Comment</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="float: right; margin-right: 10px; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/comment-page-6/#comment-902681" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding: 2px 10px; font-size: 11.9px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Reply&nbsp;<span>&darr;</span></a></div><p><cite style="font-style: normal; font-size: 23px;"><a href="http://paulkemp.ca/" rel="external nofollow" style="color: rgb(233, 168, 37);">Paul Kemp</a></cite><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/assange-in-court/comment-page-6/#comment-902681" style="color: rgb(233, 168, 37); font-style: italic; font-size: 12px;">October 23, 2019 at 18:16</a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">How far have the UK and US Governments strayed from these ideals. And yet still the good people do nothing.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are:<br />
image</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">2. Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated &mdash; taught to think intelligently and plan wisely &mdash; freedom usually does more harm than good.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">4. Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px;">10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 11px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Biodiversity Report Detailing Mass Extinction Event Now Underway]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<div style="font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><div id="field-wrapper-attribution" style="margin: 10px 0px 5px; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div style="margin: 0px 0.21em 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle;">Published on&nbsp;&nbsp;<span><span>Thursday, May 23, 2019&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span>by&nbsp;<span><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);" target="_blank">Common Dreams</a></span></div><div style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;"><span><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></div><div style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">&#39;What Could Be More Important?&#39;: World Leaders, Media Ignore Biodiversity Report Detailing Mass Extinction Event Now Underway</span></div></div><h1 style="font-size: 2.25rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); margin-bottom: 5px !important;">&nbsp;</h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p>&quot;The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever.&quot;&nbsp;by&nbsp;<span><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/author/julia-conley-staff-writer" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);" target="_blank">Julia Conley, staff writer</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-04-Gold-600px.png" width="600"></p><p>Scientists at the United Nations&#39; intergovernmental body focusing on biodiversity sounded alarms earlier this month with its report on the looming potential extinction of one million species&mdash;but few heard their calls, according to a German newspaper report.</p><p><em>Deutsche Welle</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/as-extinctions-loom-biodiversity-warnings-fail-to-resonate-with-governments-media/a-48819307" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">reported</a>&nbsp;Thursday that partially because the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">report</a>&nbsp;on what it called nature&#39;s &quot;unprecedented&quot; decline on the same day that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had their first child, news reports on the study&#39;s grave implications were few and far between.</p><p><span dir="ltr">While some international and progressive outlets&mdash;including&nbsp;<em>Common Dreams</em>&mdash;published&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/06/ominous-un-report-warns-human-activity-has-pushed-one-million-plant-and-animal" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">high-profile stories on the report</a>&nbsp;when it was released, j</span>ust two of Britain&#39;s national newspapers included any reporting about biodiversity on their front pages on May 7, the day after the royal baby was born to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.</p><blockquote><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; text-align: justify;"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/lisahymas" style="margin-right: 9px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: inherit; color: inherit;"><img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/514907541570994176/StXg7Ybb_normal.jpeg" style="font-size: 16px;"></a></p><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(28, 32, 34);"><div style="font-size: 16px;"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/lisahymas" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(43, 123, 185); background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 16px;" title="Lisa Hymas">Lisa Hymas</span></span></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/lisahymas" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(43, 123, 185); background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;">✔</span></span></span><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(105, 120, 130);" title="@lisahymas">@lisahymas</span></a></p></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 17px; text-align: justify;">ABC, NBC, and MSNBC did not air a single prime-time mention of the major new U.N. biodiversity report warning of ecosystem collapse. The new royal baby got airtime, though. By&nbsp;<a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/theodorejay" style="font-size: 17px;">@theodorejay</a>.&nbsp;<a dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/EQPe2qnNJx" rel="nofollow noopener" style="font-size: 17px;" target="_blank" title="http://mm4a.org/4RF">http://mm4a.org/4RF&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;<a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CoverClimate?src=hash" rel="tag" style="font-size: 17px;">#CoverClimate</a>&nbsp;<a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CoveringClimate?src=hash" rel="tag" style="font-size: 17px;">#CoveringClimate</a>&nbsp;<a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateCoverage?src=hash" rel="tag" style="font-size: 17px;">#ClimateCoverage</a>&nbsp;<a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndClimateSilence?src=hash" rel="tag" style="font-size: 17px;">#EndClimateSilence</a></div></blockquote><div style="margin: auto;">&nbsp;</div><p><em>Deutsche Welle&#39;</em>s report was mirrored by revelations in a Media Matters report published earlier this week which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/05/21/ABC-News-spent-more-time-on-royal-baby-in-one-week-than-on-climate-crisis-in-one-year/223759" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">showed</a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<em>ABC News</em>&nbsp;devoted more time to covering the royal baby&#39;s birth in the week after the child was born than it had to stories about the climate crisis in all of 2018&mdash;even as organizers like 16-year-old Greta Thunberg led worldwide climate strikes.</p><p>&quot;Where [is] the breaking news?&quot; tweeted Thunberg the day after IPBES released its report. &quot;The extra news broadcasts? The front pages? Where are the emergency meetings? The crisis summits? What could be more important?&quot;</p><div style="margin: auto;"><blockquote><div style="color: rgb(28, 32, 34); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; margin-right: 9px;"><img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1103201826449604608/c0t5HuM-_normal.jpg"></a></p><div><div><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 123, 185);"><span style="font-weight: 700;" title="Greta Thunberg"><a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 123, 185);">Greta Thunberg</a>&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 123, 185);"><span><span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;">✔</span></span></span></a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 123, 185);"><span dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(105, 120, 130); font-size: 14px;" title="@GretaThunberg">@GretaThunberg</span></a></p></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto;"><div style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" title="View on Twitter">Where are the breaking news?<br />The extra news broadcasts?<br />The front pages?<br />Where are the emergency meetings?<br />The crisis summits?<br /><br />What could be more important?<br />We are failing but we have not yet failed.<br />We can still fix this.<br />But not if we continue like today.<br />Not a chance.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: auto;">&nbsp;</div><div style="margin: auto;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot"><img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3594607450/ff6fbd42964f9a0def79d8acbfa034bd_bigger.jpeg"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot" style="color: rgb(0, 132, 180); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: rgb(20, 23, 26); font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 132, 180); font-size: 18px;">GeorgeMonbiot</strong>&rlm;</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The biggest and worst news humanity has ever received - the collapse of life on Earth - was revealed by the <a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IPBES?src=hash">#IPBES</a> report yesterday. Only two UK newspapers (Guardian and Independent) carried it on their front pages. As for the rest ... you&#39;ve guessed it. Thread/</div></blockquote><div><p>&nbsp;</p></div></div><div style="margin: auto;">&nbsp;</div><p>IPBES&#39;s report detailed how &quot;The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever,&quot; the panel&#39;s chairman, Sir Robert Watson said in a<a href="https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">&nbsp;statement.</a></p><p>By rapidly expanding livestock and crop production, degrading land, concentrating activity in urban areas at more than double the rate than two decades ago, and increasing pollution by tenfold since 1980, humans are &quot;eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide,&quot; Watson said.</p><p style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); float: right; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify;">&quot;If we continue to lose biodiversity, if we continue to fragment our ecosystems, then human well-being will indeed suffer. This is something the average American should care about.&quot;&nbsp;&mdash;Sir Robert Watson, IPBES</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In addition to the potential loss of one million species, the biodiversity crisis carries substantial risks for world economies, food security, and the spread of disease, scientists warn.</p><p>The report&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">calls on&nbsp;</a>policymakers to take immediate concrete action to protect nature by promoting sustainable agricultural practices, inclusive and equitable water management, renewable energy sources and other reforms.</p><p>On Wednesday, Democrats in the U.S. House attempted to call attention to the ecological crisis which is causing the rapid loss of life among millions of species, with a House Natural Resources Subcommittee holding a&nbsp;<a href="https://naturalresources.house.gov/hearings/wow-oversight-hearing" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">hearing&nbsp;</a>on the issue, including testimony from Watson and other IPBES officials.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Biodiversity, Watson&nbsp;<a href="https://eos.org/articles/congress-hears-biodiversity-warning-during-a-charged-hearing" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">told the subcommittee</a>, &quot;is the substance behind food security, water security, it does control our climate in part, it does control pollination, it does control storm surges. These are things that affect everyday Americans. If we continue to lose biodiversity, if we continue to fragment our ecosystems, then human well-being will indeed suffer.&quot;</p><p>&quot;This is something the average American should care about,&quot; he added.</p><p>But as<em>&nbsp;The Guardian</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/22/republicans-climate-science-deniers-house-congress" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">reported</a>, lawmakers at the hearing also heard from climate science deniers who had been invited to testify by Republican committee members, diluting the urgency of IPBES&#39;s message.</p><p>Scientists have published more than 20,000 articles in 45 languages on the subject of biodiversity loss in recent years,&nbsp;<em>Deutsche Welle</em>&nbsp;reported.</p><p>Without the media reporting on and lawmakers expressing the urgency of the biodiversity crisis, the public has found little reason to become interested in the issue. The same day most news outlets devoted their coverage to the royal baby, Google searches for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle outnumbered those for biodiversity by 14 and 31 to one, respectively.</p><p><em>Deutsche Welle</em>&nbsp;reported that while politicians and the news media have slightly increased the attention they&#39;ve given to the climate crisis recently, under pressure from campaigners, the same consideration has not been given to biodiversity.</p><p>&quot;Nature&#39;s unprecedented decline, which has quietly sped up, is, in isolation, less dramatic than extreme weather events brought by global warming&mdash;such as flash floods and wildfires. Its contributions to humans are also hard to grasp,&quot; reported Ajit Niranjan in the newspaper. &quot;An obscure earthworm may form part of an ecosystem that keeps soil fertile and helps put food on our plates. But its death rarely stirs hearts the way a polar bear on melting ice does.&quot;</p><p>With its latest report, IPBES aimed to change that perception.</p><p>&quot;One of the great things about the report is that it highlights...the different ways we value nature,&quot; environmental scientist Kathryn Williams told the outlet. &quot;Not just tangible ways like food and clear air, but also the ways that we relate on a more emotional level.&quot;</p></div><div id="field-wrapper-copyright-cond" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><div style="text-align: center; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div>Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. 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	<title><![CDATA[The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Power of Tech Giants]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">The Creepy Line: A New Documentary on the Power of Tech Giants</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.thecreepyline.com/"><img alt="" height="1080" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/16383/master/" width="1920"></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.thecreepyline.com/">Watch Now</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></p><p><br />
12/05/2018 Ryan McMaken</p><p><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ryan-mcmaken"><img alt="" height="290" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/16392/master/" style="margin: 4px; float: left;" width="200"></a>The Creepy Line, a new documentary by director M.A. Taylor, is now streaming at Amazon Prime. It provides an interesting and revealing look at how Google and Facebook influence their users&#39; view of the world, and how the users we often presume to be the customers of these companies aren&#39;t really the customers. The users are, in fact, the product being sold to third parties.</p><p>The Creepy Line&nbsp;takes its title from a description of Google once uttered by Google executive Eric Schmidt who said Google&#39;s mission was to &ldquo;get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.&rdquo;</p><p>In truth, though, by pioneering the &quot;<a href="https://promarket.org/10-years-surveillance-business-model-will-made-illegal/">surveillance business model</a>,&quot; Google has arguably been stepping over &quot;the creepy line&quot; for years. Not that this has been much of a problem for the company. Few users seem motivated to stop using Google products.</p><p>It is perhaps in its basic explanations of how this surveillance model works that&nbsp;The Creepy Line&nbsp;is most interesting: the filmmakers explain in simple terms how a small number of companies have come to compile extensive data profiles of many hundreds of millions of human beings, and how that user data is the&nbsp;realproduct being sold by the companies that compile it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-04-Gold-600px.png" width="600"></p><p><span style="color: #6666ff;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>The Surveillance Model</strong></span></span></p><p>There&#39;s a lot of money to be made by helping advertisers target specific potential customers. This can be done if a company can find cheap and easy ways to collect information on the consumers advertisers wish to target. Successful tech giants can offer this data &mdash; and huge amounts of it.</p><p>In order to offer advertisers data on potential customers, though, a company first has to collect it. And in order to collect it, the company must offer some sort of bait for the users to seize upon, thus leaving behind their personal data. Over the past 20 years, Google and Facebook have perfected the art of convincing users to trade online services for their personal data. And the companies&#39; capabilities have expanded with time.</p><p>For example, in the early days, if internet users didn&#39;t use the Google search engine to access a website, Google didn&#39;t know about it. Users had to use Google&#39;s site in order to be tracked. This limited the information Google could collect. Eventually, though, Google &mdash; inspired in part by Apple &mdash; figured out it could track its users more fully by developing its own internet browser, and then developing its own computing devices.</p><p>So, while one could, once upon a time, avoid Google surveillance by going directly to a website, data on&nbsp;everything&nbsp;you do on your Android phone or Chromebook is harvested, analyzed, and processed by Google.</p><p>Facebook, of course, has attempted similar levels of surveillance by using Facebook apps on smartphones to monitor most of what its users do with their phones. But whether or not one uses Facebook on a smart phone, the company collects data on every user&#39;s friends, his posts, his comments, and his instant messages.</p><p>This information is then used to sell highly specific targeted ads to advertisers.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-04-Gold-600px.png" width="600"></p><p><span style="color: #6666ff;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>You Are Not the Customer</strong></span></span></p><p>The Creepy Line&nbsp;thus helps to explain one of the most important and economically significant aspects of the surveillance model in business: Google and Facebook users are not the customers. The&nbsp;real&nbsp;customers are the advertisers who use Facebook and Google for targeted advertising. The users are just the ones who give Google and Facebook something to sell.</p><p>Certainly, the users are an essential part of the equation, just as they are essential to other forms of media, such as broadcast television and radio. In all of these cases, though, the viewers/users are part of the process that produces the final product. They don&#39;t consume the final product. In broadcast television and radio, for example, the television shows and radio broadcasts are only there to keep the viewer around long enough to see the commercials. If the programming is successful, then the &quot;ratings&quot; are high and the content providers can charge more for advertising. In other words, NBC does not exist to create television programming. It exists to make money through ad sales. The TV shows themselves are only something NBC uses to increase ad sales. TV networks would run a blank screen for 22 minutes every half hour if they thought it would bring in more viewers for advertisements.</p><p>Similarly, with social media and search engines, the search results and news feeds are there to make users available to advertisers. From the point of view of the companies, the users aren&#39;t consuming the product. The users are helping&nbsp;create&nbsp;the product.</p><p>It&#39;s true that users get something in return for their personal data. They receive the benefits (in terms of convenience) of using Google and Facebook services. But this doesn&#39;t make the user a customer. It makes the user a&nbsp;supplier, just as a lumber yard is a supplier that makes it possible for a carpenter to sell this wares.</p><p>The film illustrates how, when it comes to companies that run on the surveillance model, our old notions of consumer sovereignty, producer sovereignty, and entrepreneur-client relationships don&#39;t apply the way we think they do. The users aren&#39;t the customers, and the profitability of Google and Facebook doesn&#39;t fundamentally rest on what the users do. What really matters is that Google and Facebook can continue to extract data from enough people so as to sell a product to advertisers. Surely, this will require Facebook and Google to keep up the&nbsp;appearance&nbsp;of wishing to &quot;serve&quot; the people who hand over their personal data. But in a world of such immense amounts of data, many users are expendable. And this is why companies like Google and Facebook have few scruples about banishing even popular users like Alex Jones or other controversial pundits and content creators. Those people aren&#39;t the customers. What really matters is the ad revenue</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-04-Gold-600px.png" width="600"></p><p><span style="color: #6666ff;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Controlling How We View the World</span></span></p><p>In order to keep users coming back to Facebook and Google, of course, these companies have to offer users something. In many cases, the services traded for personal data take the form of search results and the news feeds that many users have come to rely on.</p><p>This then brings us to another way Google and Facebook insinuate their company policies and views into our daily lives. By creating the software behind search results and new feeds, the owners and employees of these companies decide what information users consume.</p><p>This in itself is not especially surprising. After all, publishers throughout history have controlled what information is presented. Book authors, newspaper editors, and television producers control what information the viewers and readers are allowed to see.</p><p>There&#39;s nothing fundamentally different here, except perhaps in the fact that users of Google and Facebook have been especially na&iuml;ve about the degree of power these tech giants have over the flow of information through their platforms.</p><p>After all, have not newspapers always cherry-picked what articles they run? Not even the &quot;letters to the editor&quot; feature has ever been an open forum. The editors choose which letters the readers see.</p><p>What&nbsp;The Creepy Line&nbsp;does, though, is remind us of how truly easy it is to manipulate users by framing and selecting the information they see.</p><p>As the film notes &mdash; and as most marketing consultants will tell you &mdash; fewer than 10 percent of search engine users will ever get beyond the first page of search results. This means that Google has tremendous power in deciding what information is seen by the overwhelming majority of people performing web searches.</p><p>Certainly, there are those hardy souls who do&nbsp;real&nbsp;research by really digging into the information. They refine their searches, look deeply into the search results, and attempt to confirm the data they do find.</p><p>But this is only a tiny percentage of the population.</p><p>Moreover,&nbsp;surveys show&nbsp;that a majority of US adults use social media sites (predominantly Facebook) as a source of news. Many use Facebook as their&nbsp;primary&nbsp;source for news.</p><p>How many of these users cross-reference other sources of news? If the past is any indicator: very few.</p><p>After all, historically, most people have been content to consume whatever the newspapers tell them is the news. They consume whatever is on the evening news &mdash; whatever&#39;s convenient. They believe whatever Walter Cronkite tells them.</p><p>But this has always been an unfortunate reality of the media landscape &mdash; even before social media or Google. Most people will believe the news that can be consumed with the least effort. The novelty of Google and Facebook is that they have taken convenience to a whole new level.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-04-Gold-600px.png" width="600"></p><p><span style="color: #6666ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">Manipulating Ideology, Rigging Elections?</span></strong></span></p><p>This power to control information, of course, could&nbsp;potentially&nbsp;extend to rigging elections by controlling what voters see about candidates.</p><p>Given that they theoretically have to power to do it, do Facebook and Google do this&nbsp;on purpose?</p><p>That has yet to be proven, although&nbsp;The Creepy Line&nbsp;presents this as more or less established fact.</p><p>And that&#39;s where most criticisms of the documentary come in. The fact that the director, M.A. Taylor, also made the anti-Clinton documentary&nbsp;Clinton Cash&nbsp;suggests to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti-google-facebook-conservative-censorship-documentary-review-right-wing">some reviewers</a>&nbsp;that the documentary primarily exists to push a narrative in which tech giants are manipulating the public to support Democratic candidates.</p><p>This aspect of the documentary, however, dominates only the last third of the film &mdash; and I would suggest this is the weakest part of the film. It&#39;s likely that the filmmakers felt the film needed to make a very explicit and forceful political point to be seen as relevant or compelling. In some ways, though, this last section of the film gives the appearance that the filmmakers were trying too hard to &quot;bring it home.&quot;&nbsp;</p><p>Besides, even if Google and Facebook&nbsp;do&nbsp;manipulate their news feeds and search results on purpose, this doesn&#39;t make them fundamentally different from the people who control what we see on CNN or Fox News.</p><p>Far more dangerous is the fact that the consumers of news haven&#39;t learned anything from decades of witnessing obvious bias in the legacy news media. In spite of the fact that the World Wide Web offers an immense variety of sources of news, research, and opinion, most users of media are content to let&nbsp;others&nbsp;be the last word in selecting the news they consume.</p><p>Although&nbsp;The Creepy Line&nbsp;has attempted to portray Google and Facebook as achieving a new level of nefariousness in this regard, the critical ingredient in the manipulation of voters remains&nbsp;the voters.&nbsp;It appears the voters are content to let themselves be manipulated. They&nbsp;could&nbsp;seek out news sources other than CNN or Google News or their Facebook news feed. Many simply choose not to.</p><p><a href="https://mises.org/profile/ryan-mcmaken">Ryan McMaken</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://twitter.com/ryanmcmaken">@ryanmcmaken</a>) is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for&nbsp;Mises Wire&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/search/site/the%20austrian/library/institute-publications-184/library/austrian-541">The Austrian</a>, but&nbsp;read&nbsp;<a href="https://mises.org/blog/article-submission-guidelines-mises-daily">article guidelines</a>&nbsp;first. Ryan&nbsp;has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. <a href="http://store.mises.org/Commie-Cowboys-The-Bourgeoisie-and-the-Nation-State-in-the-Western-Genre-Digital-Book-P10923.aspx">He is the author of&nbsp;Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.</a></p><p>Contact <a href="mailto:rwmcmaken@mises.org?subject=Re%3A%20The%20Creepy%20Line&amp;body=Article%20Inquiry">Ryan McMaken</a></p><p>This Article was sourced from <a href="https://mises.org/wire/creepy-line-new-documentary-power-tech-giants">mises.org</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-04-Gold-600px.png" width="600"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://mises.org/ye2018"><img alt="" height="61" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/7640/master/" width="313"></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(56, 112, 158);">The Mises Institute, a nonprofit organization, exists solely on voluntary contributions. Contributions are tax-deductible as permitted by law.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-04-Gold-600px.png" width="600"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="360" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/16389/master/" width="480"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><p style="text-align: center;">END OF ARTICLE</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-02-Thick-Shadow.png"></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size: 24px;">Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;"></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/7032/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px;"></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="1000"></p><ul style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 14.4px;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px;">Facebook&#39;s first president, Sean Parker, has been sharply critical of the social network, accusing it of exploiting human &quot;vulnerability.&quot;</strong></li>
	<li style="margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 14.4px;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px;">&quot;God only knows what it&#39;s doing to our children&#39;s brains,&quot; he said.</strong></li>
	<li style="margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 14.4px;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px;">His comments are part of a wave of tech figures expressing disillusionment and concern about the products they helped build.</strong></li>
</ul><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px;"><img alt="" height="68" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-06-shadow.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="755"></strong></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, has a disturbing warning about the social network: &quot;God only knows what it&#39;s doing to our children&#39;s brains.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Speaking to the news website Axios, the entrepreneur and executive&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 20px;">talked openly about</a>&nbsp;what he perceives as the dangers of social media and how it exploits human &quot;vulnerability.&quot;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><span style="font-size: 20px;">&quot;The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them ... was all about: &#39;How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?&#39;&quot; said Parker, who joined Facebook in 2004, when it was less than a year old.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-facebook-president-sean-parker-social-network-human-vulnerability-2017-11" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 20px;">READ MORE</a>.....</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 14.4px;" width="560"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 19px;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/7037/master/" style="font-size: 19px;"></a></p><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"><h2 style="margin-bottom: 25px; font-weight: 500; font-size: 27px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" style="font-size: 27px;"></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 19.5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size: 26px;">Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human &quot;vulnerability&quot;</span></span></h2><p style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Sean Parker, the founder of Napster and former president of Facebook, said the thought process behind building the social media giant was: &quot;How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?&quot; Parker&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-2508036343.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 18px;">was interviewed by</a>&nbsp;Axios&#39; Mike Allen Wednesday:</span></p><p style="font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;</p></div><div style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 16px;"><blockquote style="font-size: 16px;"><p style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;That means that we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever ... It&#39;s a social validation feedback loop ... You&#39;re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology ... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 16px;">READMORE</a>&nbsp;....</p><p style="font-size: 16px;"><strong style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" style="font-size: 18px;"></span></strong></p></blockquote></div></div>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2018 02:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The Danger of Vaccines]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">The Danger of Vaccines</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1761228803898748&amp;set=a.170135329674778.32791.100000349373954&amp;type=3&amp;theater%E2%80%8B"><img alt="" height="960" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/13385/master/" width="960"></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p><img alt="" height="167" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/13382/master/" style="float: right;" width="200"><strong>Ashley Everly Cates</strong></p><p><strong>May 16 at </strong><strong>6:06pm</strong></p><p><strong>Dear pro-</strong><strong>vaxxer</strong><strong>,</strong></p><p>As someone who once believed in vaccines, who vaccinated my child, I&rsquo;m asking you to hear me out.</p><p>I know you might think I am either (1) stupid, (2) uneducated, or (3) crazy. I know you think questioning vaccine safety is akin to believing in conspiracy theories. I know you are angered to think that there are people putting children in harm&rsquo;s way because of the increasing rate of vaccine refusal.</p><p><img alt="" height="27" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/4805/master/" width="27">&nbsp;I understand that. I 100% appreciate the fact that you care about children, that you care about health, and that you want the best for your family and for the rest of us.</p><p>I know you find the practice of vaccination to be an incredible scientific advancement that you are deeply thankful for. I know you believe in the benevolence and good will of those in the medical profession. I know you believe that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risk of harm. I know you believe that vaccines save lives, and that with them we have eradicated horrible diseases and made the world a safer place, for everyone.</p><p><img alt="" height="27" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/4805/master/" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;" width="27">&nbsp;HOW truly INSPIRING and absolutely wonderful is that to believe? To believe that humans have changed and can continue to change the course of history, the threat of disease morbidity and mortality, through medical innovation? That is an incredible idea and reality that many of us REALLY WANT to believe...</p><p>How difficult and frustrating would it then be, to have those beliefs challenged? And for medical professionals, to have one of the main tenets of their profession and life purpose be questioned, and attacked?</p><p>It would feel terrible, insulting, and like all that is right in this world, everything you know that exists to protect your children, is being threatened by misguided idiots and those who want to watch the world burn. How could anyone possibly want to see polio return? Measles? Mumps? Whooping cough? To make everyone vulnerable and needlessly put in harm&rsquo;s way, again?</p><p>&mdash;&mdash; I get it. No really, I do. &mdash;&mdash;</p><p>Believe me, it took years of daily research and investigation into this issue before I began to decide that the potential benefits of vaccination do not outweigh the costs. And this was *after* vaccinating my child and watching him suffer neurodevelopmental and cognitive delays. This was after we began to deal with food allergies that gave him constant stomach pain and eczema.</p><p>Let me add, that when I say the words &ldquo;research&rdquo; and &ldquo;investigate&rdquo;, I&rsquo;m not talking about mom blogs or natural news websites with no sources or references for their information. I&rsquo;m talking about published, peer reviewed scientific research from medical journals. I&rsquo;m talking about data and records from the CDC website that you have to dig to find. I&rsquo;m talking about important information about outbreaks and how to treat measles and whooping cough that doesn&rsquo;t make the local or national news. I&rsquo;m talking about historical records and archived articles... A significant amount of this information is behind paywalls. It&rsquo;s not easily found or accessed unless you have come to learn what you need to search for.</p><p><img alt="" height="32" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/4807/master/" width="32">&nbsp;I will also add that I am a scientist. Specifically, a toxicologist - someone who determines the level at which a particular substance is toxic or deadly. (Please don&rsquo;t attempt to remind me that &ldquo;the dose makes the poison&rdquo;. This applies to substances that are not toxic at the lowest levels we can measure.) I know how to read, understand, and interpret scientific research. When it comes to vaccines, I search for proof. For solid scientific evidence. It was and still is, of utmost importance to me, to see the research, and only then, come to an informed decision. And in the end, the overwhelming amount of unbiased historical and scientific evidence - was against vaccines.</p><p><img alt="" height="27" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/4805/master/" style="cursor: default; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" width="27">&nbsp;I do not take this issue lightly. The debate about vaccines is so volatile, simply because we all CARE so much, about children, about our families. People on both sides of this debate - the majority of them are truly GOOD people. The difference between us is that you believe the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks. And after years of research and/or witnessing our children suffer vaccine injury, we do not. There is passion and frustration on both sides, and we are coming from the same place with that frustration. We simply disagree on how to best protect our children.</p><p><img alt="" height="27" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/4805/master/" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;" width="27">&nbsp;What I am hoping for, is that you might just heed our warning, and make an effort to dive deep into the research on this subject. So what, you know what you know, and the entire medical system and all of these great pediatricians KNOW that vaccines are &ldquo;safe and effective&rdquo;. Well what if that&rsquo;s not actually... true?</p><p>What if doctors never actually learn about vaccines, their ingredients, or adverse events, in medical school? What if the medical textbooks are written with an enormous amount of funding from the pharmaceutical industry? What if the CDC owns patents on vaccines? What if the pharmaceutical industry is corrupt and funds studies which conveniently stop monitoring test subjects before adverse effects begin to manifest? What if vaccines contain toxic substances at levels which can cause chronic illness when children are repeatedly injected with them? What if we are trading temporary illness for the development of autoimmune and neurological disease later in life? What if the threat and danger of these &ldquo;preventable&rdquo; diseases has been inflated to push more vaccines? What if these vaccines are not even truly effective as we have been led to believe and we will always need more booster shots to try to make up for that fact? What if there is evidence for all of the above, you just haven&rsquo;t seen it yet?</p><p><img alt="" height="32" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/4807/master/" style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px;" width="32"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><strong>Listen.</strong></span></span></p><p>...If you want to vaccinate, then do so. I hope though that you might keep an open mind and genuinely take time to look into this for yourself, beyond the claims of our government and medical system which ignore or are unaware of the massive amount of evidence that contradicts those claims. Please take caution and know that I don&rsquo;t do this to be popular. I don&rsquo;t do this to make friends.</p><p>The only reason I speak out, is to protect my children and your children, from unnecessary harm. Truly.</p><p>With love.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><p><strong>Unaired interview with local news station + sources:</strong></p><p>https://www.facebook.com/ashleyeverlycates/posts/1517419408279690</p><p><strong>Critical Vaccine Studies:</strong></p><ul><li>https://www.amazon.com/Millers-Review-Critical&hellip;/&hellip;/188121740X</li>
	<li>What doctors learn about vaccines in medical school:</li>
	<li>https://www.facebook.com/ashleyeverlycates/posts/1131196103568691</li>
	<li>Conflicts of interest in medical education:</li>
	<li>https://www.facebook.com/ashleyeverlycates/posts/1161909823830652</li>
	<li>Corruption in scientific research:</li>
	<li>https://www.facebook.com/ashleyeverlycates/posts/1371432082878424</li>
	<li>As drug industry&rsquo;s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias:</li>
	<li>https://www.washingtonpost.com/&hellip;/bb64d596-1264-11e2-be82-c3&hellip;</li>
	<li>Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary:</li>
	<li>https://mobile.nytimes.com/&hellip;/03/03/business/03medschool.html</li>
	<li>The CDC owns patents on vaccines (please check all of the sources in this article linking to the patents):</li>
	<li>http://www.greenmedinfo.com/&hellip;/examining-rfk-jrs-claim-cdc-o&hellip;</li>
</ul><p><strong>Bad science:</strong></p><ul><li>https://www.facebook.com/ashleyeverlycates/posts/1693980977290198</li>
	<li>Cons of vaccinating [read the links contained within this article]:</li>
	<li>https://thinklovehealthy.com/&hellip;/&hellip;/25/the-cons-of-vaccinating/</li>
</ul><p>&ldquo;Research indicates that patients with impaired kidney function, including premature neonates, who receive parenteral levels of aluminum at greater than 4 to 5 [micro]g/kg/day accumulate aluminum at levels associated with central nervous system and bone toxicity. Tissue loading may occur at even lower rates of administration.&rdquo;</p><p>https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/&hellip;/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm&hellip;</p><p>&gt;&gt; And infants are receiving a lot more aluminum than this in their vaccines.</p><p>Nutrition was the biggest factor in the decline of disease mortality, not vaccines:</p><p>http://www.columbia.edu/&hellip;/clie&hellip;/readings/week_2/mckinlay.pdf</p><p>&ldquo;Of the total fall in the standardized death rate between 1900 and 1973, 92.3 percent occurred prior to 1950.&quot;</p><p><strong>Year vaccine was introduced:</strong></p><ul><li>Polio: 1955</li>
	<li>Measles: 1963</li>
	<li>Mumps: 1967</li>
	<li>Rubella: 1969</li>
</ul><p><strong>Measles adverse event rate pre-1960s vs current rate of adverse events from the MMR vaccine:</strong></p><p>https://www.facebook.com/ashleyeverlycates/posts/1756143344407294</p><p><strong>Measles, before the vaccine, and now:</strong></p><p>https://www.facebook.com/jbhandleyjr/videos/1914488961924583/</p><p>[ASIA] Autoimmune (auto-inflammatory) syndrome induced by adjuvants (e.g. Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines). Vaccination triggers rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, thyroid disease, and other autoimmune conditions:</p><p>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23992328/</p><p><strong>Macrophagic </strong><strong>myofasciitis</strong><strong> [MMF]: characterization and pathophysiology:</strong></p><p>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22235051/</p><p>MMF-associated cognitive dysfunction triggered by vaccination. &ldquo;Affected patients usually are middle-aged adults, mainly presenting with diffuse arthromyalgias, chronic fatigue, and marked cognitive deficits&hellip;&rdquo;:</p><p>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25506338/</p><p>MMF has been found to be directly triggered by tetanus, Hep A, or Hep B vaccination. Long-term persistence of aluminum injected intramuscularly via vaccine eventually causes systemic symptoms, which can manifest 3-96 months (8 years) later. Median time to symptoms onset is 11 months post-vaccination:</p><p>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11522584/</p><p>...And there&rsquo;s so much more. This is but a glimpse of all the information out there that we aren&rsquo;t being given.</p><p><strong>Researching Vaccines: Where to Start.</strong></p><p>https://thinklovehealthy.com/&hellip;/researching-vaccines-where-&hellip;/</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://LearnTheRisk.org"><img alt="" height="960" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/13381/master/" width="678"></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">Billionaire ex-Facebook president Sean Parker unloads on Mark Zuckerberg and admits he helped build a monster</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/7032/master/"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong>Facebook&#39;s first president, Sean Parker, has been sharply critical of the social network, accusing it of exploiting human &quot;vulnerability.&quot;</strong></li>
	<li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong>&quot;God only knows what it&#39;s doing to our children&#39;s brains,&quot; he said.</strong></li>
	<li style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong>His comments are part of a wave of tech figures expressing disillusionment and concern about the products they helped build.</strong></li>
</ul><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"><strong><img alt="" height="68" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-06-shadow.png" width="755"></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 20px;">Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, has a disturbing warning about the social network: &quot;God only knows what it&#39;s doing to our children&#39;s brains.&quot;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 20px;">Speaking to the news website Axios, the entrepreneur and executive&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html">talked openly about</a>&nbsp;what he perceives as the dangers of social media and how it exploits human &quot;vulnerability.&quot;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 20px;">&quot;The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them ... was all about: &#39;How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?&#39;&quot; said Parker, who joined Facebook in 2004, when it was less than a year old.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-facebook-president-sean-parker-social-network-human-vulnerability-2017-11">READ MORE</a>.....</span></p><p><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 19px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/7037/master/"></a></p><div style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png"></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><span style="font-size: 26px;">Sean Parker: Facebook was designed to exploit human &quot;vulnerability&quot;</span></span></h2><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Sean Parker, the founder of Napster and former president of Facebook, said the thought process behind building the social media giant was: &quot;How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?&quot; Parker&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-2508036343.html">was interviewed by</a>&nbsp;Axios&#39; Mike Allen Wednesday:</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><blockquote><p>&quot;That means that we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever ... It&#39;s a social validation feedback loop ... You&#39;re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology ... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-facebook-exploits-a-vulnerability-in-humans-2507917325.html">READMORE</a>&nbsp;....</p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png"></span></strong></p></blockquote></div></div>]]></description>
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