Friday, August 23, 2024

Expect Truth From Liars

 Perpetually Hopeful,


  US tells UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire ‘in sight’ ahead of Cairo talks
The US insists, despite evidence to the contrary, that Netanyahu has agreed to a proposal to suspend the war.
  A Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal “now is in sight”, the United States envoy to the United Nations has told the UN Security Council (UNSC) as a new round of talks begins in the Egyptian capital...
..The proposal ostensibly aims to bridge unresolved disputes between Israel and Hamas to end the violence in Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed at least 40,265 Palestinians, wounded more than 93,000 others and created a humanitarian crisis since beginning their offensive in October.
  “Israel has accepted the bridging proposal. Now Hamas must do the same,” she said. “As members of this council, we must speak with one voice, and we must use our leverage to press Hamas to accept the bridging proposal.”
  The remarks by Thomas-Greenfield continued a trend of US officials claiming that Israel has agreed to a deal that Hamas has yet to accept despite indications that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on Israel retaining strips of territory inside Gaza is the primary obstacle to a deal.   
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/22/us-tells-un-security-council-gaza-ceasefire-in-sight-ahead-of-cairo-talks

  Netanyahu at Odds With Israeli Military Over Gaza-Egypt Border
The prime minister insists Israel must hold the border as part of any ceasefire deal, but the military doesn't think it's necessary
  Netanyahu has said Israel must maintain control of the border, which includes the Rafah crossing, to prevent weapons smuggling from Egypt through tunnels. During previous rounds of negotiations, Cairo agreed to build an underground barrier on the border, but then Netanyahu started demanding indefinite control of the Philadelphi Corridor.
  According to The Wall Street Journal, Israeli military leaders think Israel doesn’t need to keep troops on the border and could prevent weapons smuggling by using sensors and launching targeted raids.   
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/21/netanyahu-at-odds-with-israeli-military-over-gaza-egypt-border/

  US lecturing Israel in secret – media
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline statements have reportedly been criticized by diplomats in Washington and his homeland                                                  
  On Tuesday, Netanyahu reportedly told the relatives of Israeli captives in Gaza that he is not ready to withdraw IDF troops from the Netzarim Corridor or the Philadelphi Corridor. The latter runs along the Gaza-Egypt border, a key area that Israel says Hamas uses to smuggle in weapons from Egypt, as well as a major route of humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
  Speaking anonymously, a US official from Blinken’s entourage criticized Netanyahu’s comments on Tuesday, saying that “maximalist statements like this are not constructive to getting a ceasefire deal across the finish line and they certainly risk the ability of implementing level, working level and technical talks,” as cited by the BBC and ArabNews. 
                                                                                                                                                     An unnamed source among Israel’s negotiating team similarly accused Netanyahu of sabotaging the discussions. The statement from the Israeli prime minister “is intended to blow up the negotiations, there’s no other way about it,” the official told national media. During a critical period of negotiations around the Philadelphi and Netzarim Corridors, Netanyahu “knows there is progress – and then he puts out statements that are the opposite of what was agreed upon with the mediators,” they added.   https://www.rt.com/news/602875-us-netanyahus-gaza-stance/

​  Philip Giraldi,  Israel Will Bleed America Dry and Discard It Like an Old Shoe, The United States must disengage from the Israeli Death Grip
​  There are some simple truths surrounding all the nonsense being spewed by Israel’s agents and its cheerleaders in the United States, Canada, Europe as well as elsewhere in the Anglophone world. First of all, Israel is no democracy and never has been one since its foundation over seventy-five years ago.
​  It used massacres of entire villages and other assorted terrorism to drive three quarters of a million indigenous Palestinians from their homes. It then passed laws to forbid any return home by those refugees. Many of those displaced are to this day still living in United Nations (UNRWA) funded settlements, up until recently in Gaza, and also in neighboring countries. Diaspora Jews with no roots in the historical Palestine were by way of comparison allowed to enter and settle freely and were given the stolen Palestinian properties. The Palestinians who did not flee and unfortunately found themselves within the new Israeli borders had only limited rights compared to their Jewish neighbors even though many of them were nominally Israeli citizens.​..
​..Few Americans know about the most egregious killing of their fellow citizens by Israel during the attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, which killed 34 American sailors and wounded 171 more in the two-hour assault, which was clearly intended to destroy the intelligence gathering ship operating legally in international waters collecting information on the ongoing Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The Israelis, whose planes had their Star of David markings covered up, attacked the ship repeatedly from the air and with gun-and torpedo boats from the sea. They sought to sink the ship, blaming Egypt, so the United States would respond by attacking Israel’s Arab enemies.
​  A Liberty survivor Joe Meadors recalls how
​  “No Member of Congress has ever attended our annual memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery on the anniversary of the attack. We are condemned as ‘anti-Semitic’ and ‘bigots’ simply because we have been asking that the attack on the USS Liberty be treated the same as every other attack on a US Navy ship since the end of WWII. All we have is ourselves. Not Congress. Not the Navy. Not the DoD. Just ourselves. We need a place where we are welcome. We need our reunions.”
​..Indeed, the incredible courage and determination of the surviving crew was the only thing that kept the Liberty from sinking. The ship’s commanding officer Captain William McGonagle was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic role in keeping the ship afloat, though a cowardly and venal President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who may have connived with the Israelis to attack the ship, broke with tradition and refused to hold the medal ceremony in the White House, also declining to award it personally...
..The cover-up of the attack began immediately, to include concealing the White House’s actual recall of fighter planes launched by the Sixth Fleet to assist the under-attack Liberty. The Liberty crew was subsequently sworn to secrecy over the incident, as were the Naval dockyard workers in Malta and even the men of the USS Davis, which had assisted the badly damaged Liberty to port. A hastily convened and conducted court of inquiry headed by Admiral John McCain acted under orders from Washington to declare the attack a case of mistaken identity.​ The inquiry’s senior legal counsel Captain Ward Boston, who subsequently declared the attack to be a “deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew,” also described how “President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered him to conclude that the attack was a case of ‘mistaken identity’ despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” The court’s findings were rewritten and sections relating to Israeli war crimes, to include the machine gunning of life rafts, were excised. Following in his father’s footsteps, Senator John McCain of Arizona subsequently used his position on the Senate Armed Services Committee to effectively block any reconvening of a board of inquiry to reexamine the evidence.​..
​..Florida Governor and recent presidential aspirant Ron DeSantis is a former Navy officer who once served as a congressman for a district in Florida where several Liberty survivors were living. They have recounted how repeated attempts to meet with DeSantis to discuss a possible official inquiry were rejected, with the Congressman refusing to meet them. Even the veterans’ organization the American Legion walks in fear of Israel. It has refused to allow the USS Liberty Veterans Association to have a table or booth at its annual convention and has even banned any participation by the group at its meetings in perpetuity!
​  So, the treatment of the USS Liberty and the suppression of fundamental rights for Americans should surprise no one in a country whose governing class has been for decades doing the bidding of the powerful lobby of a tiny client state that operates illegally and has been nothing but trouble and expense for the United States of America.​   
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-bleed-america-dry-discard/5866080

  Withdraw some troops from parts of Gaza?  Israel agrees to withdraw troops from Gaza – Blinken
  Israel has agreed to withdraw its troops from parts of Gaza as part of ongoing attempts to reach a ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian group Hamas, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday, following the latest round of negotiations in Qatar.
  Speaking to reporters in Doha, Blinken was asked to comment on earlier reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had convinced Washington to allow Israel to keep its forces in the Philadelphi Corridor between Egypt and Gaza.
  While he did not share any specific details about the ongoing talks, which are being mediated by the US, Egypt, and Qatar, the secretary of state said that “the United States does not accept any long-term occupation of Gaza by Israel,” and that the current agreement being discussed is “very clear on the schedule and the locations of (Israel Defense Forces) withdrawals from Gaza, and Israel has agreed to that.”
  Blinken added that the latest proposal is “probably the best, possibly the last opportunity” to reach a ceasefire deal in the ten-month conflict, and said that Washington will do “everything possible to get it across the finish line.”   
https://www.rt.com/news/602914-blinken-israel-gaza-withdrawal/

  Lapid demands deal on Israeli captives ‘before they all die’ in Gaza
  Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has renewed his call for an agreement for a Gaza truce and the release of captives in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Lapid expressed concern in a Tuesday posting on X, stating that more captives are being lost as time passes.
  He also pointed the finger at Benjamin Netanyahu. Lapid censured the rhetoric employed by Netanyahu and his ministers, saying they were sabotaging prospects of any deal.  “Enough with the briefings, enough with the tweets, enough with the rhymes in front of cameras,” he wrote on X. “All of Netanyahu’s attempts to sabotage the negotiations should stop. Deal now, before they all die.”
  Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military announced the recovery of the bodies of six captives who had been held since October 7, 2023.
The newspaper Israel Hayom reported that Israel was conducting examinations on the bodies of the six to determine if they were possibly killed by Israeli fire.   
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/08/20/731745/%C2%A0Lapid-Israel

  Clashes erupt as Orthodox Jews protest military draft (VIDEO)   [The police have this down to a physical science, and clearly lift weights, too.]
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled in late June that there was no legal ground for conscription exemptions for the religious community   
https://www.rt.com/news/602888-jerusalem-orthodox-clashes-police-draft/

  Iran can strike Israel from both air and ground — mission to UN   (Only those two? Aren't there more options?)
"The timing, conditions, and manner of Iran's response will be meticulously orchestrated to ensure that it occurs at a moment of maximum surprise; perhaps when their (Israel’s - TASS) eyes are fixed on the skies and their radar screens, they will be taken by surprise from the ground - or perhaps even by a combination of both," the mission told The Wall Street Journal.
  At the same time, the Iranian mission pointed out that Tehran does not intend to disrupt negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army is conducting a military operation against Hamas. The Iranian diplomats said that the response "must be carefully calibrated to avoid any possible adverse impact that could potentially influence a prospective ceasefire."   
https://tass.com/world/1831871

Suezmax Tanker Crew Forced To Abandon Ship After Missile Attack In Red Sea​   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/suezmax-tanker-crew-forced-abandon-ship-after-missile-attack-red-sea

  They welded a container-ship into a drone-platform.   Iran’s First Ever Aircraft Carrier: Shahid Bagheri Promises to Expand Reach of Stealth Drone Fleet
  Iranian media has published the first clear footage of the country’s first aircraft carrier, the Shahid Bagheri, which is set to facilitate forward drone operations by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Referred to as a “forward base ship,” the warship features an angled flight deck and ski jump launch system similar to those on Russian Kuznetsov Class and British Queen Elizabeth Class carriers. Iran has been able to built the carrier on a very low budget by converting a commercial container ship, the Perarin, into a carrier. A second container ship is also expected to be converted into a drone operating platform, which will be designated the Shahid Mahdavi...
..Notable was a reconnaissance operation into Israeli airspace in 2018, where a Saegheh stealth drone’s radar evading capabilities allowed it to evade multiple shootdown attempts by Israeli Patriot air defence systems. If deployed from carriers, the long ranges of these stealth drones could facilitate surprise attacks from unexpected directions and against targets much further afield.    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iran-carrier-shahid-bagheri-drone

Ukraine tried to attack Russian nuclear plant – Putin​, The IAEA has been notified of the attempted strike on the facility in Kursk Region, the president has said​   https://swentr.site/russia/602952-kursk-nuclear-plant-strike-putin/

  Russian air defense forces destroy 45 UAVs overnight, 11 above the Moscow region 
(from 8/21/24)
  Russian air defense forces destroyed 45 Ukrainian drones overnight, 11 of which were shot down over the Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service reported on August 21. The Defense Ministry’s official statement stressed that the air defense forces prevented a terrorist attack by the Kiev regime targeting facilities in different regions of the country.   https://eu.eot.su/2024/08/21/russian-air-defense-forces-destroy-45-uavs-overnight-11-above-the-moscow-region/

  Andrew Korybko,  Kiev’s Plan to Ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Shows How Insecure It Is About National Identity   (What if they really hate churches?)
  Kiev hates that a significant share of the population refuses to conform with the “negative nationalism” that they’ve aggressively enforced upon them since 2014 by continuing to worship at the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches’ sites instead of the government-backed Orthodox Church of Ukraine’s.
  The Rada passed a law earlier this week for banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) by the middle of next year if it doesn’t sever all ties with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).
  Kiev has accused the UOC of being under the ROC’s sway even though the UOC declared full autonomy from the ROC in early 2022. The authorities envisage replacing the UOC with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) that was controversially recognized as autocephalous by the Ecumenical Patriarchy in 2019.    
https://www.globalresearch.ca/kiev-plan-ban-ukrainian-orthodox-church/5865987

  Trump defeats Harris by landslide in Musk’s poll on X
  On Tuesday, Musk posted “Since a lot of people have asked, here goes a super unscientific poll.”
According to the results as of Wednesday, of the 5.8 million votes, almost three quarters of respondents indicated they would vote for Trump in November, while just over a quarter want to see Harris elected.
  Last week Musk interviewed Trump on his X Spaces platform, where they engaged in “unscripted” dialogue with “no limits,” according to Musk; the interview has garnered more than 275 million views to date.
  Trump later told Reuters that he would consider Musk for a role in his administration. “If he would do it, I certainly would. He’s a brilliant guy,” he said.
Musk, replying later on X, wrote that he is “willing to serve.”   
https://swentr.site/news/602925-trump-harris-musk-x-poll/

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. indeed plans to end his independent presidential campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump, NBC news reported citing two sources familiar with the plans. The sources cautioned that talks are ongoing, but there will be clarity by the end of the week. One of the sources said the campaigns are working toward a joint appearance.   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-endorsement-rfk-jr-address-nation-friday-morning

​  RFK Jr. may drop out, but he could still alter a tight presidential race. Trump is banking on it​   (I attended a Kennedy campaign Zoom last evening. No official word.)
​  Kennedy is expected to formally announce Friday that he is suspending his presidential campaign. Speculation has already turned to whether Kennedy might endorse former President Donald Trump, an outcome that as of Thursday appeared likely though not guaranteed. Both candidates are scheduled to appear in Arizona on Friday, and Trump teased a “special guest” at his event.​   https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/politics/robert-kennedy-president-trump/index.html


​Kennedy spends almost 5 minutes talking about Abraham Lincoln's composure and goodwill during the American Civil War, and speaks of the failed Trump assassination:   https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1826407677284811047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1826407677284811047%7Ctwgr%5E3938210b09ef33709751b24b93f9f168fa2f1301%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F08%2Fdebt-rattle-august-23-2024%2F

  Martin Armstrong, RFK for Attorney General
Attorney General is the MOST POWERFUL position in Washington because he would enjoy ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY and could clear the swamp and even indict Pfizer.   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/rfk-for-attorney-general/

  Judge Rules RFK Jr. Can Sue Biden Admin Over Censorship After Supreme Court Rejects Challenge From States
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can continue to pursue his lawsuit against the Biden administration over censorship at the direction of the government.   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-rules-rfk-jr-can-sue-biden-admin-over-censorship-after-supreme-court-rejects

  This is fraught with conflicts. Some of these guys work for the CIA.   JD Vance: Trump Admin. Will Support Death Penalty for Drug Dealers, Protect Police
  Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance said on Tuesday that a potential second Trump administration would support the introduction of the death penalty for drug dealers because they kill way more people than violent criminals.   https://sputnikglobe.com/20240820/jd-vance-trump-admin-will-support-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers-protect-police-1119847364.html

  Charles Hugh Smith, Who Wins and Who Loses When the Housing Bubble Pops?  [Let me add that city taxes will take a huge loss. Defaults will happen.]
This time around, the Fed may not be able to "save" the bubble from a complete round-trip deflation, which history suggests might decline by 50%.   https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/who-wins-and-who-loses-when-the-housing

I really have concluded that there were 2 patsies, and the other one is dead. Where is this guy?  New Footage Shows Trump Shooter Casually Strolling Around PA Rally

  To Avoid DOJ Entrapment, Donald Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Intelligence Briefings
'They come in, they give you a briefing, and then two days later, they leak it, and then they say, "You leaked it"...'   
https://headlineusa.com/to-avoid-doj-entrapment-donald-trump-says-he-doesnt-want-intelligence-briefings/

  Secret Service Agents Placed on Leave After Trump Assassination Attempt   [The deep state failed to kill Trump. How long can they pretend it was just incompetence?]
  Three weeks ago, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe angrily pushed back on senators’ calls to immediately fire or discipline key agents directly responsible for the security failures that led to the assassination attempt against former President Trump at last month’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
  Since that time, Secret Service leaders have placed several members of the Pittsburgh Field Office on administrative leave, according to three sources in the Secret Service community...
..Rowe said he couldn’t understand or defend why the roof where shooter Thomas Crooks fired from wasn’t better secured. He said the Secret Service is investigating whether any employees broke the rules or didn’t follow established protocol to protect obvious vulnerabilities. If so, he said they would be held accountable through the agency’s disciplinary process and face punishment, including termination.
  Yet, Rowe and other senior officials back in Washington headquarters should share the blame, these sources argue. The agency’s top brass were almost certainly involved in declining at least some of the security assets requested for the Butler rally despite a heightened threat level brought on by a specific Iranian assassination plot against Trump.
  Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in late July amid bipartisan outrage over her lack of transparency about the rally security failures.   
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/08/22/secret_service_agents_placed_leave_after_trump_assassination_attempt__151502.html

  Trump stuns critics with praise for ‘nice gentleman’ Obama while predecessor slams him at DNC   (Weird; Trump outclasses the ever-suave Obama.)
After Trump's words, Obama drew applause at the DNC for making a gesture about his successor's 'crowd sizes'
  In comments to CNN, Trump said, "I like him," referring to the Illinois Democrat: "I think he’s a nice gentleman, but he was very weak on trade… I happen to like him. I respect him and I respect his wife," Trump said.   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-stuns-critics-praise-nice-gentleman-obama-before-predecessor-slams-him-dnc

  Joan Rivers made these comments about the Obamas, notably Michelle, shortly before she died unexpectedly from an overdose during a surgical procedure, but the reporter did get a quick clarification of what she meant:  https://twitter.com/i/status/1825899938888220890

‘Back Pay and Apology’: Trump Vows To Rehire Military Members Fired For Refusing COVID Shots  (Did JD Vance have a hand in this?)   https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/back-pay-and-apology-trump-vows-to-rehire-military-members-fired-for-refusing-covid-shots/

  Ben Bartee, Skyline Assassination? Brazil Plane Crash Story Not Adding Up as Strange New Details Emerge
Earlier this month, which you might have seen on Twitter/X, a passenger plane went down over Brazil.
  These things happen from time to time as acts of God, but this case is particularly strange for two reasons: the people who were on board and where they were going, and the fact that there is no plausible theory about what might have gone on offered by the governing authorities...
..“Two children, a lawyer and eight cancer doctors were reportedly among the 61 people killed when a plane crashed in a Brazilian city last week." ...
..The doctors were on their way to an international conference in Sao Paolo where they were set to present their findings that mRNA and the COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the explosion of turbo cancers and autoimmune disease wreaking havoc around the world today.”
  So, what caused the crash? Initial claims have pinned the blame on icing, but those have been disputed...
..“Images recorded by witnesses showed the aircraft in a flat spin and plunging vertically before smashing to the ground inside a gated community, and leaving an obliterated fuselage consumed by fire...
..Brazilian aviation expert Lito Sousa cautioned that meteorological conditions alone might not be enough to explain why the Voepass plane fell in the manner it did Friday.” Marcelo Moura, director of operations for Voepass, told reporters Friday night that while there were forecasts for ice, they were within acceptable levels for the aircraft.
  In an earlier statement, the Brazilian air force's centre for the investigation and prevention of air accidents said the plane's pilots did not call for help or say they were operating under adverse weather conditions.”...  So, what really happened?   
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/skyline-assassination-brazil-plane

​Meryl Nass MD,  The UN's "Pact for the Future": A Planetary Technocracy to Manage Global Crises on Behalf of the Global Corporatocracy (Meeting Soon!)   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-uns-pact-for-the-future-a-planetary

​  Weight Loss Drug Linked To 45% Higher Suicidality; WHO Data Shows,  A new study has linked semaglutide, the active drug ingredient in weight-loss and diabetic drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic, to suicidal ideation.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/weight-loss-drug-linked-45-higher-suicidality-who-data-shows

​  Peter McCullough MD, Ocular Hemorrhage Attributed to COVID-19 Vaccination, Risk Factors Include Diabetes, Prior Eye Surgery, and Ocular Injections but Not Oral Anticoagulants   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/ocular-hemorrhage-attributed-to-covid

  Peter McCullough MD,  Deep Learning Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy on Twitter in 6 High-Income Countries: Longitudinal Observational Study
Confidence in Vaccines Plummets as Safety Data Emerge
​  “On average, the prevalence of intent to accept COVID-19 vaccination decreased from 71.38% of 44,944 tweets in March 2020 to 34.85% of 48,167 tweets in June 2022 with fluctuations. The prevalence of believing COVID-19 vaccines to be unsafe continuously rose by 7.49 times from March 2020 (2.84% of 44,944 tweets) to June 2022 (21.27% of 48,167 tweets).”​   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/deep-learning-analysis-of-covid-19

​  That study: Deep Learning Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Confidence Expressed on Twitter in 6 High-Income Countries: Longitudinal Observational Study   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37930788/

Pfizer & Moderna Plan To Release New Covid Jabs This Month​   https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/pfizer-moderna-plan-to-release-new-covid-jabs-this-month/

​  Meryl Nass MD,  WHO's $Moneypox narrative today: Not a single death yet outside Congo
I told you, if you want to make up deaths, Congo is probably the easiest place in the world to get away with it. WHO is giving out TPOXX though NIH says it does not work against Congo's moneypox​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/whos-moneypox-narrative-today-not

​  Meryl Nass MD on how to rig a vaccine-study: How much is a little $moneypox worth? I also dissect the CDC/NEJM scam supporting the Jynneos vaccine's efficacy
If you can circumvent lawsuits for injuries (since we already know it causes myocarditis) it is worth a lot more.
​  And yet while there should be good data on Jynneos, there is only limited, poor quality data and a bad study design to answer the question of whether and how well the vaccine actually works to prevent monkeypox. Here’s the major flaw I found, in addition to the small number of cases and the case-control method:
​  The controls all had HIV (about 20%) OR were taking drugs to prevent HIV (80%).​ Only 13.5% of the HIV negative cases were taking medication to prevent HIV.
​  Presumably then, the control group considered itself at much higher risk for HIV than the cases, which would reflect a greater number of sexual partners. See how the CDC authors tried to fool us? They chose a “control” group that would be at much higher risk of sexually transmitted monkeypox, in order to make the vaccine appear more effective.​   
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-much-is-a-little-moneypox-worth

​Peter McCullough MD, Antecedent Smallpox Vaccination Partially Protects Against Monkeypox, Salutary Legacy Effect Demonstrated in Meta-Analysis of 37 Studies   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/antecedent-smallpox-vaccination-partially

​Hey, lookee here!  Nipping poxviruses in the bud with nitazoxanide, From the Geballe lab, Human Biology Division, July 16, 2018  [Cheap generic except in the USA]
​  Nitazoxanide (NTZ), a compound approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of diarrhea in patients infected by the Cryptosporidium and Giardia intestinalis species, is used extensively around the world with minimal toxicity.​..
..Remarkably, recent studies report that NTZ also exhibits antiviral activity against both RNA and DNA viruses...
..Although NTZ has been previously shown to inhibit some DNA viruses, including human cytomegalovirus, its effects on poxviruses, one of the largest known animal DNA viruses are unknown. Of the poxviruses that thrive in human hosts, variola virus was notorious as the cause of smallpox.  Although smallpox has been eradicated, the potential for its re-emergence remains.  Vaccinia virus (VACV) played a crucial role in the eradication of smallpox as the active constituent of the smallpox vaccine.  VACV is widely used as the model poxvirus in the laboratory, functioning as a vector to deliver other antigens, as well as infecting and killing tumor cells...​ 
.."We did confirm that it has extraordinarily broad antiviral activity, including against large DNA viruses.  We therefore set out to try to elucidate the mechanism by which the drug inhibits vaccinia virus.”​...
​..This study is the first to demonstrate the ability of NTZ to inhibit a poxvirus, and establishes the potential use of NTZ to control poxviral infections.  Although the exact mechanism of action of the broad antiviral effect of NTZ remains unclear, the authors have uncovered a metabolic impact that will be further explored.​   https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/spotlight/2018/07/hb_hickson_virology.html

​From Virology, May 2018,  Inhibition of vaccinia virus replication by nitazoxanide   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929478/

​  U.S. Govt Report Links Fluoride to Lower IQs in Kids
​  The long-awaited report released Wednesday comes from the National Toxicology Program, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It summarizes a review of studies, conducted in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Mexico, that concludes that drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter is consistently associated with lower IQs in kids.
​  The report did not try to quantify exactly how many IQ points might be lost at different levels of fluoride exposure. But some of the studies reviewed in the report suggested IQ was 2 to 5 points lower in children who’d had higher exposures.​   
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64609

​  A Midwestern Doctor, The FDA's War Against Sleep, Exploring the Critical Importance of Sleep and the Treatments for Insomnia
Story at a Glance:
​  The Power of Sleep: Proper sleep is essential for our health, and disruptions can lead to severe issues like heart attacks, psychiatric illnesses, car accidents, fatigue, diabetes, cognitive impairment, and dementia.
​  A Widespread Epidemic: Poor sleep affects many due to a lack of understanding about its importance and the use of sedative sleeping pills that hinder healthy sleep. For instance, medical training often deprives students of sleep, despite its critical role in learning.
​  The Forgotten Miracle Drug: In 1964, a remarkably effective sleeping medication hit the market, improving conditions like insomnia and overall health. However, its success threatened other drug markets. By 1990, the FDA and media launched a campaign against it, much like the case with ivermectin, resulting in the drug becoming almost unknown and many sleep disorders remaining untreated.
​  What You'll Learn: This abridged article delves into the harms of poor sleep, explores common causes, and uncovers effective treatments for sleeping disorders.​   
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-fdas-war-against-sleep

​  Here Are All The Reasons Why You Should Enjoy Your Cup of Coffee​  (or two, in the morning, not before sleeping)
  With all these benefits, it's not surprising that research suggests that coffee drinkers tend to live longer than non-drinkers. A large study involving over 400,000 people found that coffee consumption over a period of 12 to 13 years was linked to a lower risk of death – with the strongest effect observed at four to five cups per day.   https://www.sciencealert.com/here-are-all-the-reasons-why-you-should-enjoy-your-cup-of-coffee

​Organic Coffeed-Up (pictured on bike at dawn wearing Palestine jersey)


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